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Sean Hickey

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Sean Hickey is an American composer and record label executive, born in 1970 in Detroit, Michigan, and based in Brooklyn, New York for decades. In 2022, after two decades at Naxos, he was appointed managing director of Pentatone. Career From age 12 he took lessons in electric guitar. At Wayne State University, Hickey’s composition teachers included James Hartway and James Lentini. He has been commissioned by a number of musicians and organizations including the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Saint Petersburg Symphony, Michala Petri, Avi Avital, Lara Downes, the Fine Arts Quartet, Philippe Quint, Matthew Cochran and the Whatcom Symphony Orchestra. His first commercial recording, Left at the Fork in the Road, was released in November 2005 on Naxos American Classics. Featuring a selection of his chamber and orchestral works, the album broke the Billboard Top 100 Classical Chart and was praised as “substantive and savvy” by the magazine Gramophone. In May 2013, an album of Hickey’s clarinet and cello concertos was released on Delos. The album features cellist Dmitry Kouzov and clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein, along with the Saint Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra conduc

Sean Hogan

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Sean Hogan is a Canadian country music singer-songwriter. Biography Born in Sarnia, Ontario, Hogan attended Fanshawe College in London, Ontario, studying music. In 2003 he won the Roots Artist of the Year at the Canadian Country Music Awards and he has also won the Independent Male Artist of the Year award in 1997. Hogan engages in charity work and in 2005 the Saskatchewan Country Music Association named him Humanitarian of the Year. Discography Albums Singles 1996–2000 2001–present ;Notes *A^ Featuring Gord Bamford, Duane Steele, Jake Mathews, Diane Chase, Jamie Warren, Brad Johner, Lisa Hewitt, Colin Amey, Val LeRoy and Tracey James. *B^ Featuring Beverley Mahood, Patricia Conroy, Bobby Wills, Amber Marshall, Wildflower, Angela Harris, Shane Yellowbird, Jake Mathews, Jamie Warren, Tenille, Pear and Leonard Bearshirt & Spirit Horse. Guest singles Music videos References External links * Sean Hogan’s Webpage * Sean Hogan’s MySpace Page * Sean Hogan’s YouTube Page * Sean Hogan’s Canadian Country Christmas

Sean Murray (composer)

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Sean Murray is an American composer who has composed for numerous films, television shows and video games, such as God, the Devil and Bob (2000), starring Alan Cumming, James Garner and French Stewart, Art Heist (2004), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997), True Crime: Streets of LA (2003), Call of Duty: World at War (2008), and its record-selling sequel Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010). Biography Sean grew up in Santa Barbara, California, where he attended the Brooks Institute Film School. There he began studying film composing, by contributing music to dozens of student movies. Sean debuted as a composer when he was a teenager for the action film Scorpion. Discography Films 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Television Video games Personal life Sean is the son of actor Don Murray, who was nominated for an Academy Award in the 1956 comedy film Bus Stop. Sean also has two brothers, Christopher and Mick Murray. He lives in Hollywood Hills with his wife and daughter. References External links * * *Featured on Cakewalk website .

Seán Ó Riada

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Seán Ó Riada (; born John Reidy; 1 August 1931 – 3 October 1971) was an Irish composer and arranger of Irish traditional music. Through his incorporation of modern and traditional techniques he became the single most influential figure in the revival of Irish traditional music during the 1960s. Born in Cork City, Ó Riada’s career began as a music director at Radio Éireann from 1954, after which he worked at the Abbey Theatre from 1955 to 1962. He lectured in music at University College Cork from 1963 until his death in 1971. He became a household name in Ireland through his participation in Ceoltóirí Chualann, compositions, writings and broadcasts. His best-known pieces in the classical tradition include Nomos No. 1: Hercules Dux Ferrariae (1957), but he became particularly famous for his film scores Mise Éire (1959) and Saoirse? (1960). He left a lasting influence as founder and director of the ensemble Ceoltóirí Chualann (from 1961). His music still endures: his mass in Irish is still sung to this day in many churches in the Irish-speaking regions of Ireland. Ó Riada died in 1971, aged 40. Early life Ó Riada was born John Reidy in Cork City. He spent his early years in Adare, Cou

Sean O'Boyle

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Sean Michael O’Boyle AM (born 1963) is an Australian composer and conductor. His River Symphony was performed by the Queensland Orchestra and released on ABC Classics in 2007 on a CD that also included Concerto for Didgeridoo composed with and recorded by William Barton. River Symphony was placed 85th in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Classic 100 Symphony, and Concerto for Didgeridoo was placed 87th in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Classic 100 Twentieth Century. O’Boyle became a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2015 Australia Day honours for “significant service to music as a composer, conductor, musician, performer and musical director.” Career O’Boyle has written for, conducted, directed and collaborated with many artists including Evelyn Glennie, Adam Lopez, James Morrison, The Whitlams, Tommy Emmanuel, Kate Ceberano, Yvonne Kenny, Teddy Tahu Rhodes, David Hobson, Riley Lee, David Campbell and Jane Rutter. He has twice received the ABC Golden Manuscript Award for his work as a composer and his projects have received numerous ARIA nominations and awards. In 2002, O’Boyle was featured exclusively at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) whe

Sebastian Aguilera de Heredia

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Sebastian Aguilera de Heredia (August 1561 – 16 December 1627) was a Spanish monk, musician and composer of the Renaissance period. Life Aguilera was the first organist at the cathedral in Huesca from 1585 to 1603. During this time, he assisted in the construction of a new organ. In 1603, Aguilera moved to a more prestigious position as maestro de música at Cathedral of the Savior of Zaragoza in Zaragoza. He remained there until his death in 1627. He published a collection of works in 1618, and eighteen of his keyboard works survive. Aguilera is considered the first major figure of the Aragonese School of music centered on Zaragoza. Music and Influence Aguilera composed both organ and vocal music. His work was written specifically for the church. While Aguilera’s organ works do follow Spanish traditions, they also introduce new innovations. He created different types of tientos, including pieces that explored heavy dissonance, slow tempos, and unusual harmonies. He referred to this type of music as falsas. Aguilera’s monothematic tientos use various contrapuntal and rhythmic techniques in order to develop a single theme. One of the most regarded techniques used in Aguilera’s organ

Sebastian Anton Scherer

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Sebastian Anton Scherer (3 October 1631 – 26 August 1712) was a German composer and organist of the Baroque era. Scherer was born in Ulm, where he resided until his death. On 17 June 1653 he was elected town musician, and it was also around that time that he became assistant to Tobias Eberlin, then organist of the famous Ulm Münster. Sherer probably started studying with Eberlin at the same time, later married his daughter and in 1671 succeeded him as organist of the cathedral. Sources disagree on whether Scherer was later appointed organist or simply organ consultant at St. Thomas (Église Saint-Thomas) in Strasbourg, but it was most probably the latter case, since apparently he remained Ulm’s cathedral organist until his death in 1712. Scherer’s surviving works are few, as is typical for the era. They include a collection of sacred vocal music (motets, mass movements and psalm settings) somewhat notable for its imaginative word-setting in some of the pieces, fourteen trio sonatas published as one volume in 1680, all of considerable quality, and a two-part volume of organ music. This latter publication exhibits Italian influence, particularly that of Frescobaldi, which was typical

Sebastian Bach Mills

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Sebastian Bach Mills (13 March 1839 – 21 December 1898) was an English pianist, composer and piano instructor who made his concert career in the United States and gave the first American performances of many important works. Biography Born in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, Mills received his earliest instruction from his father, who was organist at Gloucester Cathedral. The father was a great admirer of Johann Sebastian Bach, hence the name he gave his firstborn son. In adulthood, Mills simply signed himself “S.B. Mills.” In spite of the name and his father’s vocation, Mills chose piano over the organ. His precocious talent brought him to the attention of the French light music composer Louis-Antoine Jullien, who engaged the “infant prodigy” for his earliest concert performances. Young Mills played at Drury Lane Theatre in London in 1846 at the age of six, performing Czerny’s Rondo Brillant on Themes from Preciosa and gave a command performance before Queen Victoria at age seven. He studied in England with Cipriani Potter and William Sterndale Bennett and at the Leipzig Conservatory with Louis Plaidy, Carl Czerny, Ignaz Moscheles, Julius Rietz and Moritz Hauptmann. At Leipzig, he me

Sebastian Currier

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Sebastian Currier (born March 16, 1959) is an American composer of music for chamber groups and orchestras. He was also a professor of music at Columbia University from 1999 to 2007. Life Currier was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, and was raised in Providence, Rhode Island, in a family of talented musicians, including his brother Nathan Currier, also a noted composer. Sebastian Currier received degrees from the Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music. His compositions include Crossfade, written for two harps, and Microsymph, described as a “30-minute symphony compressed into 10 minutes.” In October 2005, members of the Berlin Philharmonic performed an entire evening of his works, including the premiere of Remix. Currier completed the orchestration of Stephen Albert’s Symphony No. 2, part of which was unfinished at the time of Albert’s death. It was subsequently recorded on Naxos Records along with Albert’s Symphony No. 1 Riverrun, which won a Pulitzer Prize. Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter has recorded Currier’s Aftersong, which the composer dedicated to her. On June 2, 2011, she also premiered his Time Machines (composed in 2007 and reworked by the composer in 2011) with th

Sebastián de Vivanco

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Sebastián de Vivanco (c. 1551 in Ávila – October 26, 1622 in Salamanca) was a Spanish priest and composer of the Renaissance. Life Vivanco was born in Ávila, like Tomás Luis de Victoria; however, the exact date of his birth is unknown. It is hypothesized that he was born a few years after Victoria and that they both knew each other as children and sang together at the chapel of the Cathedral of Ávila. During the time that Vivanco sang in the chorus, the maestri di cappella were Gerónimo de Espinar, Bernardino de Ribera (1559) and Juan Navarro Hispalensis (1563). This last composer had the most profound influence on Vivanco. After 1566, with the change in his voice, Vivanco commenced studies as a priest, as Victoria had done. Around 1576, while still a subdeacon, he was named maestro di cappella at the Cathedral of Lérida, but shortly thereafter, on July 4, 1576, he was dismissed from this position. Upon his return to Castille, in February 1577, he was named maestro di cappella at the Cathedral of Segovia, a position of higher prestige and pay than the previous ones. He moved there with his mother and remained there for the following ten years. During this period he became a deacon

Sebastián Durón

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Sebastián Durón (19 April (baptized) 1660 – 3 August 1716) was a Spanish organist and composer of the Baroque period. Sebastián Durón Picazo was, with Antonio de Literes, the greatest Spanish composer of stage music of his time. Life and career Durón was born in Brihuega, Guadalajara, Spain, and was the eldest child of two younger brothers and three sisters. His father, Sebastián Durón, was the church sacristan of Brihuega. Diego Durón, Durón’s half-brother, was also a composer. Sebastián Durón began his musical training with Andrés de Sola, who was the lead organist at La Seo Cathedral in Zaragoza. In 1679, Durón briefly took on the role of paid assistant to Sola before becoming the second organist at Seville Cathedral. He served in Seville until 1685, composing sacred music and villancicos while taking minor holy orders. Due to financial reasons, Durón moved to Burgo de Osma Cathedral as first organist, where he was given a stipend and a salary. In 1686, he accepted a more profitable position at Palencia Cathedral where he taught and composed for five years. Sebastián served as organist and choirmaster at various cathedrals (Seville, Cuenca, El Burgo de Osma, Plasencia) until in

Sebastian Knüpfer

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Sebastian Knüpfer (6 September 1633 – 10 October 1676) was a German composer, conductor and educator. He was the Thomaskantor, cantor of the Thomanerchor in Leipzig and director of the towns’s church music, from 1657 to 1676. Life Most of the biographical information about Knüpfer comes from a published obituary. He was born in Asch (now Aš, Czech Republic), and was first taught music by his father, a Kantor and organist. He also studied regularly with an unidentified tutor living near Asch, from whom he gained a solid grounding in, and lasting love for, a number of scholastic disciplines. At the age of 13 he entered the Gymnasium Poeticum at Regensburg and remained there for eight years. During this unusually long period he became well versed in the city’s musical traditions (such as the works of Andreas Raselius), studied the organ, perhaps with Augustin Gradenthaler, and mastered a number of humanistic subjects, especially the poetic arts and philology. His gifts as a student were supported by scholarships from the city of Regensburg, and he was commended by influential members of the staff of the Gymnasium and the city council, some of the latter providing him with favourable t

Sebastián Piana

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Sebastián Piana (26 November 1903 – 17 July 1994) was an Argentine musician, composer, orchestra conductor, and pianist, dedicated to tango music. He was the composer of the music, among many other works, of the milongas Milonga del 900, Milonga sentimental, Milonga triste; of the tangos Viejo ciego, El pescante (with lyrics by Homero Manzi), Tinta roja (with lyrics by Cátulo Castillo), Sobre el pucho (with lyrics and musical collaboration by José González Castillo); and of the milonga-candombes Aleluya (from 1940, with lyrics by Cátulo Castillo), Pena mulata (with lyrics by Homero Manzi), among many others, and he was the creator of this genre. And also of pure candombes and street cries from colonial Buenos Aires, with lyrics by the poet Dr. León Benarós: Cara de negro – 12 candombes y pregones de Buenos Aires (from 1790 to 1916). He continued composing milongas accompanied by Manzi’s lyrics, such as Ropa blanca. Piana is also the author of Milonga de los fortines, Milonga de Juan Manuel, Milonga de Puente Alsina, and several pieces in collaboration with the poet León Benarós, such as La Milonga de Arolas. At that time, the milonga was limited to just lyrics, and Piana renewed it

Sebastián Raval

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Sebastián Raval (c. 15501604) was a Spanish composer of vocal and instrumental music. Born in Cartagena, he served as a soldier of the Army of Flanders in Flanders and Sicily. He joined the order of St. John of Jerusalem after being wounded in the siege of Maastricht. He moved to Italy where he served as a musician in the court of Francesco Maria II della Rovere in Urbino, of the viceroy of Sicily, Bernardino de Cárdenas, and of the cardinals Peretti and Colonna in Rome. In Rome, he declared himself the “best musician in the world”, on account of which he was challenged to a musical contest first by Giovanni Maria Nanino and shortly afterwards by Francesco Soriano. Raval was defeated in both cases. On 28 April 1595 he succeeded Luis Ruiz as the last Spanish maestro di cappella of the viceroyal chapel of the Spanish viceroys in Palermo. In Sicily, he again challenged a musician, Achille Falcone, to a contest; it was first decided in Falcone’s favour but, after some appeals, in Raval’s. After Falcone’s death in 1600, Antonio Falcone, father of Achille, published all the process of this musical duel in his Relazione del successo and took Raval and Falcone’s pieces (the object of this

Sebastián Santa María

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Sebastián Santa María Pérez (September 24, 1959 – October 20, 1996) was a Chilean-Swiss musician. He was born in 1959 in Santiago, Chile, but settled in Lausanne, Switzerland at age 17. He played the piano in several clubs in Lausanne until beginning a fertile career as a composer, composing a number of songs including some made for Catherine Lara, Bernard Lavilliers, for Viktor Lazlo’s album My Delicious Poisons and Isabelle Adjani. Besides these composing activities, he also played numerous piano duet jazz concerts with François Lindemann, and a few years later, he founded with Lindemann a unique group of seven Steinways called Piano Seven. He also participated in the reincarnation of British band The Zombies, playing on their 1991 album, New World. As a solo artist, he released a few singles and one full-length album (Latino, 1994). A second album, Corpus, was released posthumously in 1997. Santa María died of adrenoleukodystrophy in 1996 in Lausanne. References External links * Official webpage * Discography * Latino *

Sebastian Westcott

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Sebastian Westcott (also spelt Wescott or Westcote) (c. 1524 – 1582) was an English organist at St. Paul’s Cathedral. He is especially known for staging performances of plays with the Children of Paul’s. Life Westcott was a chorister, under John Redford, at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, and in 1550 became organist and almoner of the cathedral. In 1557 he became master of Children of Paul’s, the boys of that cathedral. He retained his post at St. Paul’s, under Edward VI, Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth I, from 1550 to 1582, notwithstanding the fact that he was an avowed Catholic. Westcott is best known for the many plays and pageants, with music, which he produced for the English Court during a period of 32 years, these plays being performed by the boys of the cathedral school. So celebrated was he in this respect that he was generally referred to as “Master Sebastian”. Under Queen Mary he had the honour of arranging the music for the formal restoration of Catholicism at St. Paul’s, in November 1553. He also composed the Te Deum which was sung on 9 February 1554, on the suppression of Wyatt’s rebellion. He conducted the service for the reception of Cardinal Reginald Pole on the firs

Sebastiano Festa

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Sebastiano Festa (ca. 1490–1495 – 31 July 1524) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance, active mainly in Rome. While his musical output was small, he was one of the earliest composers of madrigals, and was influential on other early composers of madrigals, such as Philippe Verdelot. He may have been related to his more famous contemporary Costanzo Festa, another early madrigal composer. Life He was from Villafranca Sabauda in the Italian province of Piedmont, not far from Turin; his father, named Jacobinus, was a musician resident in Turin in the 1520s. Jacobinus was probably Festa’s teacher. While it is tempting to suggest that he was the younger brother or other relation of the much more famous Costanzo Festa, since they were from the same region, had similar musical acumen and both wrote madrigals, no direct evidence of this has emerged. Sebastiano first appears in the record in a manuscript copied between 1516 and 1519, possibly as the copyist: the document contains motets both by himself and Costanzo. He lived and worked in Rome in the early 1520s, with the Genoese aristocrat Ottobono Fieschi as his patron, and he worked with other musicians connected with Pope Leo X. Cost

Sébastien de Brossard

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Sébastien de Brossard (; 12 September 165510 August 1730) was a French music theorist, composer and collector. Life Brossard was born in Dompierre, Orne. After studying philosophy and theology at Caen, he studied music and established himself in Paris in 1678 and remained there until 1687. He briefly was the private tutor of the young son of Nicolas-Joseph Foucault, a collector and bibliophile. He became a very close friend to Étienne Loulié, one of the musicians who performed the Italianate works that Marc-Antoine Charpentier was composing for Marie de Lorraine, Duchess of Guise, better known as “Mademoiselle de Guise.” While in Paris, he also became close to Samuel Morland, an English inventor and polymath who was working with Joseph Sauveur, a mathematician, on the Machine de Marly. It was during talks about music with Morland that Brossard deduced the role that a major third versus a minor third play in differentiating a major scale from a minor scale. These contacts shaped Brossard’s future preoccupations. He enthusiastically embraced Italian music; he became a collector of musical manuscripts and music treatises; he perfected his knowledge of musical theory; and autodidact th

Sébastien Demar

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Jakob-Ignaz-Sebastian Demar (29 June 1763 – 25 July 1832) (often wrongly called Jean-Sébastien Demar or much more recently Jacques-Sébastien ) was a German pianist, composer, conductor, music teacher and organist. Biography Born in the vicinity of Gauaschach, now part of Hammelburg, district of Bad Kissingen in Lower Franconia, Holy Roman Empire, on 29 June 1763, he died in Orléans, on 25 July 1832. He was the son of music teacher Sebastien Demar and his wife Dorothée Zugis. Born into a family of musicians, he was first trained at the Strasbourg Cathedral by the Kapellmeister and composer Franz Xaver Richter, representative (in the same way as Johann Stamitz) of the Mannheim School. Then he became organist in Wissembourg, (Alsace). He also traveled to Vienna (Austria) to further his studies in the field of composition, with Joseph Haydn. He arrived in Paris in 1788 and settled in Orléans in 1789, shortly before the Revolution. Demar did a lot for music in the city, where he first directed the music of the 88th Regiment (he was in place on 23 December 1791), then of the National Guard. In 1799, he was appointed by the municipality to play the organ as an amateur at Republican festiv

Sébastien Izambard

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Sébastien Izambard (; born 7 March 1973) is a French singer, composer and record producer. His vocal range is classified as popular melody or vox populi with a tenor tessitura. He has been a member of the classical crossover group Il Divo since 2004, which has sold over 30 million copies worldwide discs. In 2000, he launched the solo album titled Libre, reaching number No. 1 ranking with the single “Si tu savais” achieving excellent sales ranking in France, Canada and Belgium. Izambard is an active member of the French organization AMTM (Assistance Médicale Toit du Monde) and global ambassador for the Sanfilippo Children’s Foundation. Early life Izambard’s parents divorced and his father left when he was six. He grew up in a poor single-parent household and lived with his mother in a room little bigger than 100sqft on the top floor of a block of apartments in Paris with her great-grandmother. He studied at the Lycée Janson de Sailly in Paris, considered one of the best schools in Europe. As his mother worked, he grew accustomed to solitude and independence. At age 12, he cooked cakes as a gift for her after her workday. He confessed that for him, becoming an adult was more a way to

Seedo

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Seedo (also Sidow) (c. 1700 – c. 1754), also called Mr Seedo, as his forename is unknown, was a German composer who worked primarily in England until 1736 when he became musical director to Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia. Life Seedo was a son of Samuel Peter Sidow, a musician employed by the Elector of Brandenburg. By the mid-1720s, Seedo was working at the Little Theatre in London’s Haymarket. On 27 September 1727 he married the singer Maria Manina, who had small parts in London’s Italian operas beginning in 1711, including Handel’s Teseo. Between 1731 and 1734, Seedo worked on Drury Lane imitations. He wrote several successful stage works, of which his ballad opera The Devil to Pay was the most successful. When the work was first performed on stage it was a failure, but when the composer cut it significantly, from a full opera of 42 airs to an afterpiece of sixteen airs, it became a hit. Apart from The Beggar’s Opera, The Devil to Pay was by far the most popular ballad opera of the 18th century. The work was given regular London performances until well into the 19th century and a translation by C. W. von Borcke made it popular in Austria and the German states as well. Borcke’s tr

Sei Ikeno

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was a Japanese composer who wrote the film scores for directors such as Kōzaburō Yoshimura, Yūzō Kawashima, Yasuzō Masumura and new wave filmmaker Yoshishige Yoshida. Ikeno was born in Sapporo, Hokkaido. In 1950, he entered the Tokyo Music School (now Tokyo University of the Arts) and studied under Tomojirō Ikenouchi and Akira Ifukube. In addition to writing film and other music work, he lectured on composition and orchestration at the Tokyo College of Music and the Tokyo University of the Arts. * 1962: The Temple of the Wild Geese (dir. Yūzō Kawashima) * 1962: Black Test Car (dir. Yasuzō Masumura) * 1962: A Woman’s Life (dir. Yasuzō Masumura) * 1962: The Graceful Brute (dir. Yūzō Kawashima) * 1963: Bamboo Doll of Echizen (dir. Kōzaburō Yoshimura) * 1964: Zatoichi’s Flashing Sword (dir. Kazuo Ikehiro) * 1965: An Innocent Witch (dir. Heinosuke Gosho) * 1966: Woman of the Lake (dir. Yoshishige Yoshida) * 1966: Red Angel (dir. Yasuzō Masumura) * 1967: The Affair (dir. Yoshishige Yoshida) * 1967: Zatoichi the Outlaw (dir. Satsuo Yamamoto) * 1968: Affair in the Snow (dir. Yoshishige Yoshida) References External links * Sei Ikeno music manuscript collection at the Tokyo College of Music

Seiichiro Kuribayashi

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is a former Japanese musical composer, keyboardist, singer-songwriter, bassist and guitarist under Vermillion records label. Biography During high school at the age of 16, he went studying English for 4 years in Los Angeles. In 1987, Kuribayashi had started his career as a composer. Stay in my eyes (from album Summer Dream) music composition was provided to popular Japanese band Tube from 80s. In the same year, he joined to the special unit with Oda Tetsuro and vocalist of Tube, Nagisa no All Stars. In 1989 he made his major solo debut with album La Jolla. In years 1990–1993 he was a member of music group B.B.Queens as a back-vocalist and bassist. In years 1993–1994 he was member of rock band Zyyg. Meanwhile, as soloist and composer, he’d been providing numerous compositions for artist such as Zard, Maki Ohguro, Wands, Deen and Manish. In 1995 he created his solo project under the name Barbier with single Christmas Time. In 1997 he held the first public live Kuribayashi Seiichiro LIVE TOUR ‘97 “No Pose”. Three videoclips from live were included in Music Video DVD footage BEST LIVE & CLIPS released by Being Inc. In 1998 he released his final studio album Frosted Glass. In 1999 he he

Selim Palmgren

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Selim Gustaf Adolf Palmgren (16 February 1878 – 13 December 1951 ) was a Finnish composer, pianist, and conductor. Palmgren was born in Pori, Finland, February 16, 1878. He studied at the Conservatory in Helsinki from 1895 to 1899, then continued his piano studies in Berlin with Conrad Ansorge, Wilhelm Berger and Ferruccio Busoni. He conducted choral and orchestral societies in his own country and made several very successful concert tours as a pianist in the principal cities of Finland and Scandinavia, appearing also as a visiting conductor. In 1921, he went to the United States, where he taught composition at the Eastman School of Music, later returning to Finland, where he died in Helsinki, aged 73. Palmgren was married to the opera singer Maikki Järnefelt, who had been divorced from her first husband, Armas Järnefelt, in 1908, from 1910 to her death in 1929. Works listed by opus number An incomplete works list (elaborated by Joel Valkila): *Op. 1 - Prelude, Illusion, & Etude and Valse-Caprice for Piano (1898?’ Illusion later arranged for orchestra) *Op. 2(a) - Two Songs (reference: T. Tommila) (1898?) *Op. 2(b) - 3 Pieces for Piano (1898?) *Op. 3 - Suite for Piano (1899?) *Op.

Selma Mutal

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Selma Mutal (born in Lima, Peru) is a Franco-Dutch film score composer. She is known for her collaborations with filmmakers Claudia Llosa, Javier Fuentes-León, and Tod Lending. Mutal has also scored films directed by Fabien Gorgeart, Piotr Dumala, Pola Rapaport, and Víctor García León, work for TV, and a Chanel campaign, among other things. Early life Mutal was born in Lima, Peru to Dutch parents. She studied music composition at the National Conservatory of Amsterdam and film scoring at the École Normale de Musique in Paris. Mutal also studied piano improvisation with the jazz pianist and composer Misha Mengelberg. Career Mutal embarked on her career composing for dance, theatre, and television. In 2003, she started working in film. French music publisher Frédéric Leibovitz Editeur produces many of her soundtracks. * The Best Families (Las Mejores Familias) (2020, dir. Javier Fuentes-León) * El Día de mi Suerte, TV miniseries (2019, dir. Daniel Vega Vidal) * Los Europeos (2019, dir. Víctor García León) * Nadia Comaneci: la Gymnaste et le Dictateur (2016, dir. Pola Rapaport) * Ederly (2016, dir. Piotr Dumala) * All the Difference (2015, dir. Tod Lending) * Making-of Behind the Scen

Sem Dresden

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Samuel “Sem” Dresden (April 20, 1881 in Amsterdam – July 30, 1957 at The Hague) was a Dutch conductor, composer, and teacher. Life Dresden was born into a Jewish diamond-broking family and initially studied musical theory with Fred Roeske and composition with Bernard Zweers. He studied violin with Johannes Cornelis Dudok and Felice Togni. On the strength of a promising piano piece, he was sent to study composition and conducting under Hans Pfitzner at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin between 1903–5 and was there encouraged to take an interest in Impressionist music. After returning to the Netherlands, he was until 1914 a choral conductor, as choirmaster at Laren, Amsterdam and Tiel. It was during this period that he married the noted alto Jacoba Dhont, by whom he was to have two sons. Then until 1926 he directed the nine-member Madrigal Society, which earned an international reputation for its painstaking performances of Renaissance, Baroque and contemporary choral music, and afterwards, from 1928 to 1940, a larger chamber choir in Haarlem. To the repertoire of all of these he contributed compositions and arrangements of his own. From 1915 he lectured on musical subjects, both in t

Semen Hulak-Artemovsky

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Semen Stepanovych Hulak-Artemovsky (, also referred to as Semyon Gulak-Artemovsky and Artemovs’kyj) (February 16 1813 – April 17 1873), was an opera composer, baritone, actor, dramatist and pioneer of Ukrainian theatre who worked in Imperial Russia. He is known mainly for his comic opera Zaporozhets za Dunayem (‘A Zaporozhian Beyond the Danube’), as well as for his dramatic talent and his powerful, rich baritone voice. He was the nephew of the poet and a close friend of the Ukrainian poet and artist Taras Shevchenko. Biography Semen Stepanovych Hulak-Artemovsky was born in Gorodishche, Kiev Governorate (today part of Ukraine), the son of a priest. He studied at the Kyiv Theological Seminary from 1835 to 1838. In 1838, at the age of 25, having gained the attention of the Russian composer Mikhail Glinka, Hulak-Artemovsky was brought to the capital St Petersburg. There he received vocal training from Glinka, and entry into the Imperial Chapel Choir. The following year, Hulak-Artemovsky left St Petersburg to continue his studies in Italy. In 1841, towards the end of his stay, he began performing opera in Florence. Upon his return to St. Petersburg the following year, Hulak-Artemovsky b

Seóirse Bodley

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Seóirse Bodley (; 4 April 1933 – 17 November 2023) was an Irish composer and associate professor of music at University College Dublin (UCD). He was the first composer to become a Saoi of Aosdána, in 2008. Bodley is widely regarded as one of the most important composers of twentieth-century art music in Ireland, having been “integral to Irish musical life since the second half of the twentieth century, not just as a composer, but also as a teacher, arranger, accompanist, adjudicator, broadcaster, and conductor”. Biography Bodley was born George Pascal Bodley in Dublin. His father was George James Bodley (1879–1956), an employee of the London Midland & Scottish Railway Company (Dublin office), and later of the Dublin Ports and Docks Board. His mother, Mary (née Gough, 1891–1977), worked for the Guinness brewery. He attended schools in the Dublin suburbs of Phibsboro and Glasnevin before he moved at the age of nine to Coláiste Mhuire at Parnell Square. He later studied at the School of Commerce in Rathmines, where he obtained his Leaving Certificate. Music was encouraged in his parents’ home, and he received initial lessons on the mandolin from his father and on the piano from his mo

Serafino Razzi

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Serafino Razzi (1531–1613), born in Marradi and later residing in Florence, was a notable Italian Dominican friar celebrated for his contributions to music and literature. In 1563, he unveiled a substantial compilation of carnival songs within the lauda genre, titled Libro primo delle laudi spirituale. This collection stands as a vibrant mosaic, showcasing pieces of diverse ages and characters drawn from the rich musical landscape of Florence. Comprising 91 lauda settings for one to four voices, Razzi’s work reflects his extensive travels, meticulously chronicled in his diaries. Razzi’s sister was the sculptor and nun Maria Angelica Razzi. Works (books) * * * * * Works (music) * Libro primo delle laudi spirituali (1563), a large collection of carnival songs in the lauda genre. This collection includes 91 lauda settings for one to four voices. * O dolcezza (date of publication unknown) * O Giesu dolce (date of publication unknown) * O Maria diana stella (date of publication unknown) * O Vergin Santa non m’abbandonare (date of publication unknown) * Stabat mater dolorosa (date of publication unknown) * Razzi’s music was likely much more extensive than what survives today. His collect

Șerban Nichifor

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Șerban Nichifor (born 25 August 1954) is a Romanian composer, cellist and music educator. Biography Șerban Nichifor was born on 25 August 1954 to Ermil Nichifor (1916–1997) and Livia Nichifor, née Balint (1922–2017) in Bucharest, Romania. Both his parents were physicians. His father was also a musician and conductor of the Orchestra of Physicians in Bucharest. Nichifor studied at the National University of Music Bucharest from 1973 to 1977 and took composition courses in 1978, 1980 and 1984 in Darmstadt, Germany. In 1994, he received a Ph.D. in Musicology from National University of Music and from 1990 to 1994, also studied at the Theology Faculty of the University of Bucharest. In 2015, he was awarded a PhD summa cum laude in conducting, and wrote a thesis SHOAH – The Holocaust Reflected in My Musical Creation. He has composed many works dedicated to the victims of The Holocaust. According to musicologist Octavian Cosma, Nichifor’s eclectic style is based on neoromanticism but has included elements of jazz (in his Third and Fourth Symphonies) and the use of tape recordings as in his opera Domnişoara Cristina. In the 1990s, he “developed a simplified style employing themes reminisc

Serge Garant

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Albert Antonio Serge Garant, (September 22, 1929 – November 1, 1986) was a Canadian composer, conductor, music critic, professor of music at the University of Montreal and radio host of Musique de notre siècle on Radio-Canada. In 1966, with Jean Papineau-Couture, Maryvonne Kendergi, Wilfrid Pelletier and Hugh Davidson, he co-founded the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec. In 1979, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. The Prix Serge-Garant award was created in his honor by the Fondation Émile Nelligan. Among his notable pupils were Walter Boudreau, Marcelle Deschênes, Denis Gougeon, Richard Grégoire, Anne Lauber, Michel Longtin, Nicole Rodrigue, and Myke Roy. Early life Serge’s interest in music came from his mother. He attended the Sacred Heart of Jesus Elementary School in Quebec City for three consecutive years (1936–1939). Because of the Great Depression, the Garant family moved from Quebec to L’Ancienne-Lorette in 1940, then to Verdun in 1941, and eventually settled in Sherbrooke in 1941. Continuing his schooling over these relocations, Serge Garant finished his ninth year at St. John the Baptist School in Sherbrooke in 1945. During his studies, Garant develop

Serge Lancen

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Serge Jean Mathieu Lancen (5 November 1922 – 10 July 2005) was a French composer and classical pianist. Life Born in Paris, already in his earliest childhood Lancen developed an extraordinary interest in music. He completed the Conservatoire de Paris in piano with Marguerite Long and Lazare Lévy, harmony, counterpoint and musical composition with Tony Aubin and Noël Gallon. His exams were awarded a first prize. In 1950 he received the 2nd Prix de Rome for his cantata Bettina, the French Radio Composition Prize and other prizes and awards. His oeuvre includes numerous compositions ranging from symphonic music to chamber music, concertos for piano, flute, double bass and harp, as well as two ballets and a chamber opera. Since 1960 he has devoted himself particularly to the creation of works for symphonic wind orchestra. His friend Désiré Dondeyne introduced him to this medium. Lancen died in Paris on 10 July 2005. Works Pieces for Orchestra * 1964 Charlot * 1965 Triptyque * 1968 En route pour Monte-Carlo * 1968 Fifres en fête * 1969 Symphonietta * 1993 Jeunes archets * 1993 Jeux pour musiciens (for wind ensemble) Masses and religious works * 1957 Narcisse profane oratorio * 1975 Poèm

Serge Nigg

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Serge Nigg (6 June 1924 – 12 November 2008) was a French composer, born in Paris. Biography After initial studies with Ginette Martenot, Nigg entered the Paris Conservatory in 1941 and studied harmony with Olivier Messiaen and counterpoint with Simone Plé-Caussade. In 1945, he met René Leibowitz, who introduced him to the twelve-tone technique of composition. Together with other Leibowitz pupils, Antoine Duhamel, André Casanova and Jean Prodromidès, he gave the first performance of Leibowitz’s Explications des Metaphors, Op. 15, in Paris in 1948. After completing a Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments and a Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra (both 1943), and the symphonic poem Timour (1944), he became the first French composer to write a dodecaphonic work when his Variations for Piano and 10 Instruments appeared in 1946. This piece was premiered at the International Festival of Dodecaphonic Music, organized by Leibowitz in 1947. In 1956, Nigg was appointed a member of the Music Committee for French state broadcasting. From 1967 to 1982, he was a member of the music management for the French Ministry of Culture, after which he taught classes in instrumentation and orchestrat

Serge Tcherepnin

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Serge Alexandrovich Tcherepnin (; born 2 February 1941) is a Russian-American composer and electronic-instrument builder of Russian-Chinese parentage. Tcherepnin is noted for creating the Serge Modular synthesizer. Biography Serge Tcherepnin was born in Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris, the son of composer Aleksandr Nikolayevich Tcherepnin and grandson of composer Nikolai Nikolayevich Tcherepnin. His mother was Chinese pianist Lee Hsien Ming. An online biography of Alexander by Phillip Ramey, Vice-President of The Tcherepnin Society, includes a photograph of the family and shows Serge at a young age. Serge had trained in France under Nadia Boulanger and studied at Harvard University with Leon Kirchner and Billy Jim Layton from 1958 to 1963. He became a naturalized American citizen in 1960. In 1961 he studied at the Darmstadt Vacation Courses with Luigi Nono. He studied in Europe with Pierre Boulez, Herbert Eimert, and Karlheinz Stockhausen between 1966 and 1968. From 1968 to 1970 he participated in the Intermedia Program at New York University. As an instructor at CalArts under Morton Subotnick, Serge was exposed to some of the earliest modular synthesizers designed by Don Buchla. T

Sergei Bortkiewicz

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Sergei Eduardovich Bortkiewicz ( – 25 October 1952) was a Romantic composer and pianist. He moved to Vienna in 1922 and became a naturalized Austrian citizen in 1926. Life Early life and origins Sergei Eduardovich Bortkiewicz was born in Kharkov in the Russian Empire (present-day Kharkiv, Ukraine), on 28 February 1877 to parents Edward and Zofia () Bortkiewicz, who were Polish nobility. He spent most of his childhood on the family estate of Artiomovka, near Kharkov. Bortkiewicz received his musical training from Anatoly Lyadov and Karel van Ark at the Imperial Conservatory of Music in Saint Petersburg. In 1900, he left Saint Petersburg and travelled to Leipzig, where he became a student of Alfred Reisenauer and Salomon Jadassohn, both pupils of Franz Liszt. In July 1902, Bortkiewicz completed his studies at the Leipzig Conservatory and was awarded the Schumann Prize on graduation. On his return to the Russian Empire in 1904, he married Elisabeth Geraklitowa, a friend of his sister, and then returned to Germany, where he settled in Berlin. It was there that he started to compose seriously. From 1904 until 1914, Bortkiewicz continued to live in Berlin but spent his summers visiting h

Sergei Lyapunov

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Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov (or Liapunov; , ; 30 November 18598 November 1924) was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor. Life Lyapunov was born in Yaroslavl in 1859. After the death of his father, Mikhail Lyapunov, when he was about eight, Sergei, his mother, and his two brothers (one of them was Aleksandr Lyapunov, later a notable mathematician) went to live in the larger town of Nizhny Novgorod. There he attended the grammar school along with classes of the newly formed local branch of the Russian Musical Society. On the recommendation of Nikolai Rubinstein, the Director of the Moscow Conservatory of Music, he enrolled in that institution in 1878. His main teachers were Karl Klindworth (piano; a former pupil of Franz Liszt), and Sergei Taneyev (composition; a former pupil of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and his successor at the Conservatory). He graduated in 1883, more attracted by the nationalist elements in music of the New Russian School than by the more cosmopolitan approach of Tchaikovsky and Taneyev. He went to St. Petersburg in 1885 to seek Mily Balakirev, becoming the most important member of Balakirev’s latter-day circle. Balakirev, who had himself been born and bred i

Sergei Prokofiev

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Childhood and first compositions#

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was born on 27 April 1891 at a rural estate in Sontsovka, a village then in the Bakhmut uezd of the Yekaterinoslav Governorate of the Russian Empire and now in the Pokrovsk Raion of the Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine. His father, Sergei Alekseyevich Prokofiev, was an agronomist from a mercantile family in Moscow. Prokofiev’s mother, Maria (), came from a Saint Petersburg family of former serfs who had been owned by the Sheremetev family, under whose patronage serf-children were taught theatre and arts from an early age. She was described by Reinhold Glière, Prokofiev’s first composition teacher, as “a tall woman with beautiful, clever eyes … who knew how to create an atmosphere of warmth and simplicity about her.” After their wedding in the summer of 1877, the Prokofievs moved to a small estate in the Smolensk governorate. Eventually, Sergei Alekseyevich found employment as a soil engineer, employed by one of his former fellow-students, Dmitri Sontsov, to whose estate in the Ukrainian steppes the Prokofievs moved. By the time of Prokofiev’s birth, Maria—having previously lost two daughters—had devoted her life to music; during her son’s early childhood, she spent two months a year in Moscow or St Petersburg taking piano lessons. Sergei Prokofiev was inspired by hearing his mother practicing the piano in the evenings, mostly works by Chopin and Beethoven, and wrote his first piano composition at the age of five, an “Indian Gallop”, which was written down by his mother: it was in the F Lydian mode (a major scale with a raised 4th scale degree), as the young Prokofiev felt “reluctance to tackle the black notes”. By seven, he had also learned to play chess. Chess remained a passion of his, and he became acquainted with world chess champions José Raúl Capablanca, whom he beat in a simultaneous exhibition match in 1914, and Mikhail Botvinnik, with whom he played several matches in the 1930s. At the age of nine, he composed his first opera, The Giant, as well as an overture and various other pieces. Opera remained thereafter as the genre Prokofiev was most fond of working in.

Sergei Rachmaninoff

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1873–1885: Ancestry and early years#

Rachmaninoff was born on 1 April 1873 into a family of Russian aristocracy. The family tradition claims descent from a legendary Vasily, nicknamed “Rachman”, a supposed grandson of Stephen III of Moldavia. Rachmaninoff’s family had strong musical and military leanings. His paternal grandfather, Arkady Alexandrovich, was a musician who had taken lessons from Irish composer John Field. His father, Vasily Arkadievich Rachmaninoff (1841–1916), was a retired army officer and amateur pianist who married Lyubov Petrovna Butakova (1853–1929), the daughter of a wealthy army general who gave him five estates as part of her dowry. The couple had three sons: Vladimir, Sergei and Arkady and three daughters; Yelena, Sofia and Barbara; Sergei being their third child. Rachmaninoff was born in the family estate in the village of Semyonovo, near Staraya Russa, Novgorod Governorate. His birth was registered in the Semyonovo church book. After Sergei turned four, the family moved to their estate in Oneg, about 110 mi km north of Semyonovo, where he was raised until the age of nine. He mistakenly cited it as his birthplace in his adult life. Rachmaninoff began piano and music lessons organized by his mother at age four. She noticed his ability to correctly reproduce passages from memory and upon hearing news of the boy’s gift, Arkady suggested she hire Anna Ornatskaya, a piano teacher and recent graduate of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, to live with the family and give the young Sergei formal piano lessons. Rachmaninoff dedicated his famous romance for voice and piano “Spring Waters” from 12 Romances, Op. 14, to Ornatskaya. Rachmaninoff’s father wanted him to be trained by the Page Corps and then join the military, but financial incompetence forced him to sell the family’s five estates to pay off debts and therefore could not afford his expensive military career. His older brother Vladimir was sent to an ordinary military college. The last estate in Oneg was auctioned off in 1882, and the family moved to a small flat in Saint Petersburg. In 1883, Ornatskaya arranged for Rachmaninoff, then 10, to study music at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory under her former teacher, Gustav Kross. Later that year, his sister Sofia died at the age of 13 of diphtheria, and his father, described by Rachmaninoff as a “compulsive gambler, a pathological liar and a skirt chaser”, left the family for Moscow. His maternal grandmother, Sofia Litvikova Butakova, a widow of General Butakov, stepped in to help raise the children, covered household expenses, and, with particular focus on their religious life, regularly took Rachmaninoff to Russian Orthodox Church services, where he first encountered liturgical chants and church bells, two features he would incorporate in his compositions. In 1885, Rachmaninoff suffered a further loss when his sister Yelena died at age 18 of pernicious anaemia. She was an important musical influence on Rachmaninoff and had introduced him to the works of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. As a respite, his grandmother took him to a farm retreat by the Volkhov River. At the Conservatory, however, he had adopted a relaxed attitude, played truant, failed his general education classes and purposely altered his report cards. Rachmaninoff performed at events held at the Moscow Conservatory during this time, including those attended by the Grand Duke Konstantin and other notable figures. However, upon his failing his spring exams, Ornatskaya notified his mother that his admission to further education might be revoked. His mother then sought advice from Alexander Siloti, her nephew, who was an accomplished pianist and a former student of Franz Liszt. He recommended that Rachmaninoff transfer to the Moscow Conservatory to study under his former piano teacher, the stricter Nikolai Zverev, which lasted until 1888.

Sergei Slonimsky

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Sergei Mikhailovich Slonimsky (; 12 August 1932 – 9 February 2020) was a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist and musicologist. Biography He was the son of the Soviet writer Mikhail Slonimsky and nephew of the Russian-American composer Nicolas Slonimsky. He studied at the Musical College in Moscow from 1943 until 1950. From 1950 Slonimsky was at the Leningrad Conservatory. He studied composition under Boris Arapov, Vissarion Shebalin and Orest Yevlakhov, polyphony under Nicolai Uspensky and piano under Anna Artobolevskaya, Samari Savshinsky and Vladimir Nielsen. Slonimsky was a professor at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. While the majority of his students were Russian, Slonimsky taught a large percentage of the international composition students at the Conservatory from countries including: Colombia, Korea, China, Italy, Germany, Israel, Iran and the United States. Among Slonimsky’s notable students is Daniel Kidane. Slonimsky died in Saint Petersburg on 9 February 2020 after a long illness. Music and style Sergei Slonimsky composed more than a hundred pieces: 5 operas, 2 ballets, 34 symphonies and works in all genres of chamber, vocal, choral, theatre and cinema music, including

Sergei Taneyev

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Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev (, ; 25 November 1856 – 19 June 1915) was a Russian composer, pianist, teacher of composition, music theorist and author. Life Taneyev was born in Vladimir, to a cultured and literary family of Russian nobility. A distant cousin, Alexander Taneyev, was also a composer, whose daughter, Anna Vyrubova, was highly influential at court. Alexander was drawn closely to the nationalist school of music exemplified by The Five, while Sergei would gravitate toward a more cosmopolitan outlook, as did Tchaikovsky. He began taking piano lessons at the age of five with a private teacher. His family moved to Moscow in 1865. The following year, the nine-year-old Taneyev entered the Moscow Conservatory. His first piano teacher at the Conservatory was Edward Langer. After a year’s interruption in his studies, Taneyev studied again with Langer. He also joined the theory class of Nikolai Hubert and, most importantly, the composition class of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Taneyev graduated in 1875, the first student in the history of the Conservatory to win the gold medal both for composition and for performing (piano). He was also the first person to be awarded the Conservatory’s G

Sergei Vasilenko

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Sergei Nikiforovich Vasilenko (; 30 March 1872 – 11 March 1956) was a Russian and Soviet composer, conductor and music teacher whose compositions showed a strong tendency towards mysticism. Vasilenko was born in Moscow and originally studied law at Moscow State University, but then changed direction and studied at the Moscow Conservatory from 1896 to 1901 as a pupil of Sergei Taneyev and Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov. From 1903 to 1904 he was the conductor of a private opera house in Moscow. For several years he was the organiser and conductor of the Historic Concerts of the Russian Musical Society. He then became a professor at the Moscow Conservatory, where his students included Aram Khachaturian, Nikolai Roslavets, Nikolai Rakov and Aarre Merikanto. Vasilenko was awarded two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour as well as the title People’s Artist of the RSFSR. In 1947, he was awarded the Stalin Prize. He died in Moscow in 1956. Selected works Opera *Skazaniye o grade velikom Kitezhe i tikhom ozere Svetoyare (Tale of the Great City of Kitezh and the Quiet Lake Svetoyar) (1902; originally a cantata, Op. 5) *Sïn solntsa (The Son of the Sun), Op. 63 (1929) *Khristofor Kolumb (Christopher

Sergei Yuferov

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Sergei Vladimirovich Yuferov (; also Sergei Iuferov, Serge Youferoff, Sergej Wladimirowich Juferow; born 1865 in Odessa) was a Russian (Ukrainian) composer and pianist. Yuferov studied with Alexander Glazunov and Nikolai Klenovsky (Николай Семёнович Кленовский) (1857–1915) in Saint Petersburg, and with Nikolai Hubert (Николай Альбертович Губерт) (1840–1888) and Herman Laroche in Moscow. Yuferov was active in Switzerland in 1906. Yuferov died in 1927 at the age of 61 or 62. Selected works ;Opera * Myrrha (Мирра), Opera in 4 acts, Op. 21 (1891); libretto by the composer * Yolande (Иоланда), Opera in 2 acts, Op. 22 (1893); libretto by Prince Dm. Goletsin * Antoine et Cléopatre (Антоний и Клеопатра), Opera in 4 acts with prologue, Op. 24 (1899–1900); libretto by the composer after the play by William Shakespeare ;Orchestral * Marche funèbre, Op. 7 No. 4; original version for piano solo * Moussia s’amuse, Suite de scènes d’enfant, Op. 18; also for piano solo * Scènes et danses, Op. 27 * Rêverie orientale, Fantaisie, Op. 28 No. 1 (published 1901) * Barcarolle “Sur l’eau”, Op. 28 No. 2 * Symphoniette in C major, Op. 29 (published 1901) * Fantaisie algérienne (Алжирская фантазия), Op. 40;

Sergey Balasanian

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Sergey Artemyevich Balasanian (; 26 August 1902 3 June 1982) was a Soviet Armenian composer. Life and career Sergey Artemyevich Balasanian was born on 26 August 1902 in Ashgabat, Russian Empire. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory (MC) where he graduated with a degree in music history in 1935. One of his teachers at the MC was Dmitry Kabalevsky with whom he studied music composition. (first staged in 1939). It was debuted in Moscow in 1941 as part of a 10-day exhibition of Tajik art. Sergey Balasanian was awarded the Stalin Prize (1949) and five orders. In 1964 he was named an Honored Art Worker of the Russian SFSR, and in 1970 he was decorated as People’s Artist of the Tajik SSR. * The Uprising at Vosse (opera,1939) * Blacksmith Kova (opera, 1941) * Song of Anger (musical drama, 1942) * Armenian Rhapsody (orchestral suite, 1944) * Leyli and Majnun (ballet, 1947) * Bakhtior and Nisso (opera, 1954) * Afghan Pictures (symphonic cycle, 1959) * Four Folk Songs of Africa (song cycle, 1961) * Cello Sonata (1976) * Across Armenia (1978) References

Sergey Kuryokhin

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Sergey Anatolyevich Kuryokhin (16 June 19549 July 1996, nicknamed The Captain) was a Russian composer, pianist, music director, experimental artist, film actor and writer, based in St. Petersburg, Russia. He was an influential figure in the Saint Petersburg music scene of the 1980s and early 1990s. He was the former keyboardist for the rock band Aquarium. Biography Early life Sergey Kuryokhin was born in Murmansk into a military family. He began piano lessons at the age of 4. His school years were spent in Evpatoria, Crimea. His family moved to Leningrad in 1971 following his high-school graduation. He was admitted to the Mussorgsky Music School at the Leningrad Conservatory, but was expelled soon after for chronic absenteeism. Career Kuryokhin began his performing career as a piano and keyboard player with a school band in Leningrad. After playing with professional jazz bands, as well as popular rock musicians, Kuryokhin went through several stages in his career and eventually became one of the most recognisable names and faces in Russia during the 1980s and 1990s. By the end of his life, he had emerged as an avant-garde film composer, performance artist, and film actor. Outside R

Sergey Milnichenko

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Sergei Grigoryevich Milnichenko (; born on July 13, 1966, in Tomsk, Russian SFSR, USSR) is a Russian composer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer. His career began in the Soviet era. Personal life At 15 years of age, Sergey became interested in playing the bass guitar in a band called “Paradox” with a guitarist “Igor Jirinov.” After several years of playing at different venues, his interests shifted into music arrangements. He studied in Tomsk’s music school and finished three courses in Kreml’s institute of art. He worked as an arranger and sound producer in the group “Na-Na”. He was the co-producer of Andrey Gubin, and took part in the recording of Jasmine “Rewrite Love” in 2001. He participated as the producer, lyricist and music arranger of the band “Fantasy”. Since 2005, he has been the producer of the group “Ranetki”, which he brought together by the means of issuing an internet ad that searched for young and talented boys and girls, aged 14–17. He worked with artists such as Vladimir Asmolov, Mihail Mihailov, Philip Kirkorov, Vladimir Kuzmin, Matalia Moskvina, as well as writing music for the television series “Kadetsvo.”, “Ranetki”, “I’m flying”, “The last chord,” an

Sérgio Assad

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Sérgio Assad (born 26 December 1952) is a Brazilian guitarist, composer, and arranger who often performs with his brother, Odair, in the guitar duo Sérgio and Odair Assad, commonly referred to as the Assad Brothers or Duo Assad. Their younger sister Badi is also a guitarist. Assad is the father of composer/singer/pianist Clarice Assad. He is married to Angela Olinto. Biography Born into a musical family in Mococa, São Paulo, Brazil, Assad began creating music for the guitar not long after he began playing the instrument. He learned Brazilian folk melodies from his father. By age 14, he was arranging and writing original compositions for the guitar duo he had formed with his brother, Odair. At the age of 17, he and Odair began their studies under the best known classical guitar teacher in Brazil at the time, Monina Tavora, a former disciple of Andrés Segovia. Sergio later went on to study conducting and composition at the Escola Nacional de Música in Rio de Janeiro, and worked privately with Brazilian composition teacher, Esther Scliar. He is the spouse of the physicist Angela Olinto. Arrangements Over the last twenty years Assad has concentrated most of his efforts on building a re

Sergio Bardotti

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Sergio Bardotti (14 February 1939 – 11 April 2007) was an Italian lyricist, composer and record producer. Life and career Born in Pavia, Bardotti studied piano for seven years and graduated from conservatory with a degree in Theory and Solfeggio. After having performed in nightclubs with the stage name Sergio Dotti, he moved to Rome, employed by RCA for his literary branch. In 1989 Bardotti won a second Sanremo Music Festival with the song “Ti lascerò”, performed by Anna Oxa and Fausto Leali. Since the 1990s he worked mainly as a television writer. References External links * Sergio Bardotti at Discogs *

Sergio Barroso

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Sergio Fernández Barroso (also known as Sergio Barroso) (b. Havana, Cuba, 1946) is a Cuban composer, performer and professor. Academic Background Sergio Barroso studied piano, theory and organ with Alfredo Levi, César Pérez Sentenat, Edgardo Martín, and Alfredo Diez Nieto at the Havana National “Amadeo Roldán” Conservatory, where he received an Honours Diploma in 1966. At a later time he did post-graduate studies in composition and theory with Václav Dobiáš and Karel Jánacek at the Superior Academy of Music (AMJ) in Prague, and obtained a Post-Graduate Certificate at this institution in 1968. He took private classes with Alois Hába in the same city. Barroso also studied Orchestral Conducting with Manuel Duchesne Cuzán and Gonzalo Romeu at the Superior Institute of Arts (ISA), in Havana and computer music with John Chowning and Jean-Claude Risset at CCRMA, Stanford University (USA). Performer As a keyboardist, Barroso has mainly performed his own music and has also specialized in baroque music. He has performed at the National Arts Centre (Ottawa), IRCAM and UNESCO (Paris), South Bank Centre (London, UK), Pollack Hall, Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur (Montréal) and Glenn Gould St

Sérgio Cassiano

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Sérgio Cassiano (born August 1967) is a Brazilian jazz composer, percussionist, writer, producer, and bandleader. Biography Early life and education Born and raised in the state of Pernambuco, Sergio was exposed to a wide variety of music in his youth. His musical influences ranged from local artist such as Luiz Gonzaga to the Beatles. He formalized his music education by studying classical and contemporary instruments at the Federal University of Pernambuco and has also performed with several acclaimed musicians and theater groups. Career For well over two decades, Sergio Cassiano has explored widely divergent musical traditions while continually striving to make a difference in the lives of others by “moving his listener to a higher level through his inspiring lyrics.” As composer, percussionist, writer, producer, and bandleader, he plays traditional North Eastern music of the Pernambuco region known for its soulful harmonic and melodic blends of African, Native and Iberian Brazilian sounds. As a panderio teacher and song writer, Sergio continues to share and document his own life’s transformation through the lyrics he writes while working to preserve the Brazilian folkloric trad

Sergio Cervetti

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Sergio Cervetti Guigou (born 9 November 1940 in Dolores, Soriano) is a Uruguayan composer and teacher domiciled in the United States. His early compositional language reflects the post serialist Uruguayan avant-garde, often employing electronics and complex graphical notation. He gained international prominence in 1966 when he achieved first place with 5 Episodes for Piano Trio in the Inter-American Music Festival in Caracas, Venezuela. His compositions have been widely recorded on labels such as Albany Records, Vienna Modern Masters, and Navona Records, which have been reviewed in Gramophone and The Washington Post. His music has been played by renowned orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra and New York City Opera. Biography Sergio Cervetti was exposed to music at a young age by his parents. His Italian father was a clarinettist and his French mother helped motivate him to learn the piano. His early piano studies were with José María Martino Rodas and Hugo Balzo and later studied counterpoint and harmony at the National Conservatory with Carlos Estrada and Guido Santorsola. In 1962 he left Uruguay to study composition in the United States at the Peabody Conservatory in

Sergio de Karlo

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Sergio de Karlo (December 15, 1911 – January 10, 2010) was a Cuban composer, singer and actor, considered the maestro of the Cuban Bolero. He composed more than 300 rumbas and boleros. De Karlo was named “Artist of the Year” in 1942 by Billboard Magazine. Biography Born in pre-revolutionary Havana, Cecilio Lopez (later changed to Sergio De Karlo) grew up on a large estate outside of central Havana. With his upbringing left largely to the care of his nanny, Sergio’s earliest musical experiences were rooted in the techniques of Afro-Cuban rhythms. These rhythms combined with the traditional music of Spain, constituted the advent of the Cuban Bolero. Immigration to the United States At the age of 14, Sergio became a professional entertainer with a role as a chorus boy in a musical created by Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona. Shortly thereafter, Sergio ventured out on his own, forming “Arittola,” one of the first jazz bands in Cuba. Forced to flee from his homeland because of a complicated romance, Sergio went to New York City. Sergio found a job as a dancer at a Chinese restaurant. During this time, Sergio toured Hawaii with the King Sisters, Edgar Bergen and Martha Raye on behalf of th

Sergio Luque

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Sergio Luque is a composer of vocal, instrumental and electroacoustic music. His work often involves computer-aided algorithmic composition and stochastic processes. His music has been performed by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Les Jeunes Solistes, Garth Knox, the Nieuw Ensemble and the Schönberg Ensemble, among others, and has been presented in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, the United States, Mexico, Cuba, El Salvador, Chile, Argentina, Japan and Australia. He has a PhD in Musical Composition from the University of Birmingham, where he studied with Jonty Harrison and Scott Wilson, and was a member of BEAST (Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre). During his PhD, he worked on the development of stochastic synthesis, a synthesis technique invented by Iannis Xenakis. In 2006, he received a master’s degree with Distinction in Sonology from the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, studying with Paul Berg and Kees Tazelaar. In 2004, he received a master’s degree in Composition from the Conservatory of Rotterdam, studying with Klaas de Vries and René Uijlenhoet. He has a bachelor’s degree in Compo

Sergio Maltagliati

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Sergio Maltagliati (born 1960 in Pescia, Italy) is an Italian Internet-based artist, composer, and visual-digital artist. His first musical experience with the Gialdino Gialdini Musical Band was in the early 70s. Biography On 04/10/2023 he was elected Honorary Academician of the Accademia delle arti del disegno in Florence. Historical Academy founded in Florence in 1563 by Cosimo I de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany at the suggestion of Giorgio Vasari, as a leading exponent of the Florentine artistic current known as Musica d’Arte (Visual Music and Fluxus). Sergio Maltagliati an artist from Florence Italy; studied music at the Florence Conservatory, then he began to paint. Thus creating a new method of writing music where the score becomes a visual composition. The relation between the sound and color creates a living feeling that art is not dead. It does not stop at the artist’s last attempt at the canvas, but goes beyond to the viewer. It is the relationship between artist and viewer, one is no different from the other. Now the viewer can take the step that the artist may dare not to across. It is the point of translation a fear to most artist that want to create and let their wor

Sérgio Mendes

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Sérgio Santos Mendes (; 11 February 1941 – 5 September 2024) was a Brazilian musician. His career took off with worldwide hits by his band Brasil ‘66. He released 35 albums and was known for playing bossa nova, often mixed with funk. He was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Song in 2012 as a co-writer of “Real in Rio” from the animated film Rio. Mendes was primarily known in the United States, where his albums were recorded and where most of his touring took place. He was married to Gracinha Leporace, who performed with him from the early 1970s. Mendes collaborated with many artists, including Black Eyed Peas, with whom he re-recorded in 2006 a remake of his 1966 version of the song “Mas que nada”, which was a breakthrough hit for him. Biography Early career Mendes was born in Niterói, east across Guanabara Bay from Rio de Janeiro, on 11 February 1941. As he related in In the Key of Joy, a biopic about his career, he had to wear a cast for three years because he had osteomyelitis. His father was a doctor, and he was one of the first people in Brazil to be given penicillin. Sergio studied classical music at the local conservatory with hopes of becoming a classical pianist. As

Sergio Rendine

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Sergio Rendine (7 September 1954 – 21 April 2023) was an Italian composer of operas, ballets, symphonies, cantatas and chamber music. He worked as a lecturer at the Conservatorio Alfredo Casella, for the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and for SIAE. He was artistic director of the Teatro Marrucino in Chieti from 1997 to 2007. He received awards for Alice, a “radiophonic opera”. His opera Un segreto d’importanza was premiered by the Opéra de Monte-Carlo. His Missa de beatificatione in onore di Padre Pio da Pietrelcina, a mass written for the beatification of Pio of Pietrelcina, was premiered in 1999 in Vatican City, with José Carreras as a soloist. His oratorio Passio et Ressurrectio was recorded live and broadcast from the cathedral in Chieti premiere, and his two symphonies were recorded by Chandos Records. Life and career Rendine was born in Naples on 7 September 1954, External links * * Rendine, Sergio in the Enciclopedia Treccani * * * Sergio Rendine (1954) Naxos Records * Sergio Rendine hitparade.ch

Sergiu Natra

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Sergiu Natra (; 12 April 1924 – 23 February 2021) was an Israeli composer of classical music. Life and work Natra was born in Romania as Sergiu Nadler in April 1924 into a Jewish family of Austrian, German and Czech origin. As a child he studied piano and took up music studies in 1932. He continued to study at the Jewish conservatory until 1942, and graduated from the Music Academy of Bucharest in 1954. In 1961, Natra and his wife, Sonia, a sculptor and multidisciplinary artist, emigrated to Israel. He died in February 2021 at the age of 96. Main works Most of the composers scores were published by Natra Publications, some by IMI in Tel Aviv and some by Harposphere in Paris. Part of the composers scores, the respective recordings, books and articles are found also in libraries, such as Beit Ariela Public Library and Cultural Center (Israel), the National Library of Israel, the Library of Congress (USA) and the Harold B. Lee Library (USA). The main source of the list is the composer’s documentation and archive. Additional references are found in: References External links * Official website

Serifatu Oladunni Oduguwa

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Serifatu Oladunni Oduguwa (1949 – 1978), popularly known by her stagename Queen Oladunni Decency or Queen Mummy Juju, was a Nigerian singer and guitarist who specialized in the Jùjú genre of music. Regarded as the first female guitarist in Nigeria, she was the founder and leader of a Jùjú band called “Her Majesty Queen Oladunni Decency and Her Unity Orchestra”. She recorded many hit songs until her death at the age of 28. References External links * *

Serouj Kradjian

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Serouj Kradjian (born in 1973) is a Canadian Grammy-nominated and Juno-winning pianist and composer. Early life and education Born in 1973, at fourteen earned a scholarship to study in Vienna, and was gaining accolades by the age of seven. He later studied with Marietta Orlov at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Piano Performance in 1994. He studied with Einar Steen-Nökleberg at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hanover, Germany, receiving a Solo Performance degree in 2001. Performances Kradjian has appeared with the Toronto, Vancouver and Edmonton Symphonies, Göttingen Symphony, Russian National Orchestra, the Armenian Philharmonic and the Thailand Philharmonic under the baton of conductors such as Bramwell Tovey, Peter Oundjian, Stéphane Denève, Eduard Topchjan, Gudni Emilsson and Raffi Armenian. Solo recitals, chamber music concerts and premieres of his compositions have taken Mr. Kradjian from all major Canadian cities, via the U.S – New York (Carnegie Hall), Boston (Jordan Hall), San Francisco, Miami, Chicago and Los Angeles – to European concert halls in London (Wigmore Hall), Paris (Salle Cortot), Munich, Salzb

Serra Miyeun Hwang

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Serra Miyeun Hwang (born 1962) is an American composer. Her work uses elements of Korean folk music. She is also a percussionist, playing Korean drums. Biography Hwang was born in Seoul, South Korea and emigrated to the United States as a teen. In 1988, she was the composer who won the University of Michigan’s Concerto Competition. Hwang was also the winner of the 1992 Search for New Music Competition sponsored by the International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM). Hwang did her undergraduate work at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1993, she earned her PhD in Musical Arts in Musical Composition, along with a minor in ethnomusicology from the University of Michigan. After finishing her degrees, she spent time in London and in Jeonju as an adjunct professor at Jeonju University. Work Hwang’s work incorporates both drums and folk music from Korea in her compositions. Her work on Beckoning (2012) “augments solo cello with Korean drums to evoke memories of her childhood in Seoul, Korea.” Her piece, Sojourn (2004), uses traditional Korean drum rhythms and the piano. Chan E. Park in The World of Music, describes Hwang’s compositions as “liberating” both Western-style mus

Servaes de Koninck

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Servaes de Koninck, or Servaes de Konink, Servaas de Koninck or Servaas de Konink, or Servaes de Coninck (1653/54 – c.1701) was a Flemish baroque composer of motets, Dutch songs, chamber and incidental music, French airs and Italian cantatas. After training and starting his career in Flanders he moved to Amsterdam in the Dutch Republic, where he was active in circles connected to the Amsterdam Theatre. Life and work Youth and education in the Southern Low Countries De Koninck (Coninck) was born at Dendermonde (Flanders) in 1653. From 1663 to 1665, he was a boy chorister at St. James Church in Ghent. In 1675, he became a student at the University of Leuven. Around 1680, he lived in Brussels. Career in the Republic About 1685, he took up residence in Amsterdam in the Dutch Republic, where he had been preceded by another composer from the Southern Netherlands, Carolus Hacquart. He operated in circles connected to the Amsterdam Theatre and he probably worked later on as an independent musician in Amsterdam. He was a music teacher at the Lucie Quarter’s French girls’ school. Between 1696 and 1699, he issued seven opus numbers, published by Estienne Roger in Amsterdam: two volumes of son

Seth Bisen-Hersh

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Seth Bisen-Hersh is an American author, performer, composer/lyricist, producer, and crossword puzzle constructor. Early life and education Bisen-Hersh grew up in East Brunswick, New Jersey. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with two bachelor’s degrees (in Computer Science and Music) in 2001, then earned a master’s degree in Music Technology from New York University in 2003. Career Bisen-Hersh’s interest in musical theater started young, and he grew up performing in children’s theater productions during summers, as well as performing with local performing arts groups. He started producing and writing shows during his undergraduate studies at MIT, and became serious about pursuing a career in musical theatre during his time at graduate school in New York. His first professional musical theater production was Meaningless Sex which premiered at the 2003 New York International Fringe Festival, where it won the Audience Favorite Award. The following year he won the NYC Fringe Festival’s Audience Favorite Award for a second time, with his new musical The Spickner Spin. He has written the score (music and lyrics) for numerous musical theatre productions, including

Seth Weeks

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Silas Seth Weeks (September 8, 1868 – December 1953) was an American composer who played mandolin, violin, banjo and guitar. Although he played many instruments he concentrated professionally on the mandolin. A review of his music by Lyon and Healy of Chicago indicated success, saying that he had included harmony with the melody in most of his arrangements. Recordings which have survived include: (Record companies and dates come from a list of lost music published by the Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Board, and not from the Black Europe compact disk set.) * Poet And Peasant * Concert Polka (Pioneer/Columbia/Edison) (1901/1903/1904) * Handicap March (Pioneer/Edison Bell/Pathe) (1901/1903/1904) * Georgia Camp Meeting (Pioneer/Columbia) (1901/1903) * Hungarian Dance (Pathe) (1904) * Poet And Peasant * Soldiers In The Park (Pioneer) (1903), (Pathe) (1904) List by the Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Board of recordings feared lost: * Allegro (Pioneer/Columbia/Edison) (1901/1903) * The Charlatan March (Berliner) (1900) * Donauwellen (Pioneer) (1903) * Jeunesse Doree (Nicole) (1904) * Laburnum Gavotte (Pioneer/Columbia) (1903) * Lumbrin’ Luke (Col

Sethus Calvisius

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Sethus Calvisius or Setho Calvisio, originally Seth Kalwitz (21 February 1556 – 24 November 1615), was a German music theorist, composer, chronologer, astronomer, and teacher of the late Renaissance. Biography He was born into a peasant family at Gorsleben in present-day Thuringia. By the exercise of his musical talents he earned money enough for the start, at Helmstedt, of a university career, which the aid of a wealthy patron enabled him to continue at Leipzig. He became director of the music-school at Pforta in 1572. In 1594 he was transferred to Leipzig in the same post, including directing the Thomanerchor at the Thomaskirche. He retained this post until his death in Leipzig, despite the offers successively made to him of mathematical professorships at Frankfurt and Wittenberg. Calvisius was also a significant astronomer: in his Opus Chronologicum (Leipzig, 1605, 7th ed. 1685) he expounded a system based on the records of nearly 300 eclipses. An ingenious, though ineffective, proposal for the reform of the calendar was put forward in his Elenchus Calendarii Gregoriani (Frankfurt, 1612); and he published a book on music, Melodiae condendae ratio (Erfurt, 1592). He composed chor

Settimia Caccini

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Settimia Caccini (6 October 1591 – c. 1638, Italy) was a well-known Italian soprano and composer during the 1600s, being one of the first women to have a successful career in music. Caccini was highly regarded for her artistic and technical work with music. She came from a family of well-known composers and singers, with her father being Giulio Caccini and her sister Francesca Caccini. Settimia Caccini was less well known as a composer because she never published her own collection of works. Instead, nine works are attributed to her in two manuscripts of secular songs. Settimia was known much more for her talent as a singer, and she performed for nobility with the Caccini family consort and as a soloist. Coming from a musical family, she was able to lead herself to her own fame and success. Life Settimia Caccini was born on 6 October 1591, in Florence, Italy. Her father was a famous and popular composer and a pioneer in monodic music. At a young age her father taught her about music and composition. Her mother, Lucia Gagnolanti, was a singer as well, but died when Caccini was young. Caccini was the youngest child of three. Her sister Francesca also became quite a renowned composer,

Seung-Won Oh

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Seung-Won Oh (; born 1969), also known as Seung-Ah Oh, She obtained her BA and MM from Ewha Womans University, as well as another MM from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. The Plain Dealer said that her 2001 piece So-Ri I, during its premiere at the Aki Festival of New Music in Cleveland, “brought an Asian sensibility to meditative music made from the natural harmonics of the guitar … in dialogue with the flute. She was awarded two MacDowell Colony Fellowships, each in 2003 and 2009, as well as a 2007 Goddard Lieberson Fellowship in Music. She won the first-place and audience prizes at the 2005 Seoul International Competition for Composers, as well as the 2010 award for best contemporary music. Regarding Lege Wieg/Boş Beşik, her 2010 co-production with Cilia Hogerzeil, Pieter Verstraete said that with Oh’s use of a small musical ensemble and even with her use of some Turkish makam elements, “the end result is stripped of any particular Turkish musical characteristics” In 2010, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her work was performed by the Uzbekistan-based Omnibus Ensemble in 2011. Her 2008 piece “Canonic Phase” was performed at the 2014 Tanglewood Music Festival; The B

Seven Solos for Orchestra

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Seven Solos for Orchestra is an orchestral cycle written by the French composer Pascal Dusapin between 1992 and 2009. As the title suggests, it consists of seven pieces that can be played independently, although they were from the start conceived as a whole. Some of these pieces have been championed by major conductors and orchestras like Simon Rattle (with the Berlin Philharmonic), Mstislav Rostropovich (with the Juilliard School Orchestra), and Myung-whun Chung (with the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France). Pascal Rophé has recorded the whole cycle with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège. Origin Seven Solos for Orchestra stems from Dusapin’s ambition to write a large-scale piece at a time when he lacked a commission to realize it. His solution was to write seven independent but interrelated works over a period of 17 years, a process that calls to mind Wolfgang Rihm’s Jagden und Formen. In Dusapin’s own words: Structure * Solo No.1 Go (1992) * Solo No.2 Extenso (1993/1994) * Solo No.3 Apex (1995) * Solo No.4 Clam (1998) * Solo No.5 Exeo (2002) * Solo No.6 Reverso (2005/2006) * Solo No.7 Uncut (2008/2009) Overview The first solo, Go, is predominantly violent and furious al

Severo De Luca

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Severo De Luca (fl. 1684–1734) was an Italian composer of the Baroque period. Life It is believed that Severo De Luca was Neapolitan. After moving to Rome in 1688, De Luca worked for Spanish ambassadors, although he is not listed among musicians employed by other Roman patrons. There is a possibility that Gioseppe De Luca might have been related to Severo as his name was present in some of these lists. He later joined the Congregazione di S Cecilia as a chapel master in 1708. Due to accusations of neglect and a dispute with his assistant, Giuseppe Valentini, De Luca was fired from his post in 1734. In 1696, De Luca’s serenata for two voices was printed, becoming one of the few serenata’s printed in Rome during that time. Four of his serenatas were commissioned by Spanish ambassadors, similarly to his final opera. De Luca’s last collaborative opera was La clemenza d’Augusto in 1697. List of works Operas * L’Epaminonda, 1684 * La costanza nell’amor divino, overo La Santa Rosalia, 1696 * La clemenza d’Augusto, 1697 Serenatas * Cantata per musica, 1688 * La nova gara delle dee, 1694 * Serenata, 2 voices, 1696 * Applausi delle virtù, 1701 Cantatas * Ah che tante sventure * Amo Clori * A

Severo Muguerza

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Severo Muguerza (1883–1952) was a composer of Spanish, Basque, and Neapolitan zarzuelas and operettas. He was born in San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, País Vasco, Spain, and lived his later years in Cuba, Venezuela, and Mexico. Career In 1911 Severo Muguerza and his orchestra accompanied the great Mexican soprano diva and actress, Esperanza Iris (1884–1962), known as the “Queen of Operetta” of zarzuelas and operettas, on one of the earliest phonographic recordings in the twentieth century, Aires De Primavera. Muguerza’s orchestra played La Cuarta Plana (1911), La Poupe (1911), Aires de Primavera (1911), Los Tres Deseos (1911), La Princesa del Dólar (1911), Vals de Amor (1911), Cura de Amor (1911), Maniobras de Otoño (1911), La Princesa de los Balkanes (1911), and La Hija del Príncipe (1911). Iris later built the Teatro Esperanza Iris in 1918, now called Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris, and is one of Mexico City’s oldest public venues for cultural events. At Madrid’s Teatro de la Latina in 1921, Severo Muguerza conducted the music for the one-act comic play La melindrosa (lyrics by Enrique F. Gutiérrez-Roig and Luis Gabaldón and music by Severo Muguerza) on April 15 and Noche de ronda,

Sevil Aliyeva

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Sevil Aliyeva (born 12 October 1955) is an Azerbaijani composer and the founder of Space TV. She is the daughter to the former President of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev, and the elder sister to the incumbent president Ilham Aliyev. Early life Born in Baku in 1955 to Heydar Aliyev and Zarifa Aliyeva, Sevil started to learn music when she was 6 years old. Sevil, who advocated for freedom of people, was not in favour of her father’s ruling style. In 2009, several newspapers reported that Sevil was trying to join politics, in opposition to her brother. She, however, denied the rumour. References External links * Sevil Aliyeva on Instagram

Sevish

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Sean Archibald (born 1988), also known as Sevish, is a British electronic music composer from London. Described by Aaron Krister Johnson as “a well-known creative force in the world of online microtonal music”, he is most known for his compositions which combine aspects of electronic dance music with microtonality. As a child, Archibald was inspired by music in video games such as Chrono Trigger, Streets of Rage, and Sonic the Hedgehog. He would then go on to discover microtonality as a teenager by listening to gamelan music and Aphex Twin. At age 16 he began officially releasing music online and released his first solo album at age 20. He first gained notoriety in the microtonal music scene with his 2010 release Golden Hour. Sevish’s 2011 xenharmonic dance album, Subversio, created in collaboration with Tony Dubshot and Jacky Ligon, was described by Andrew Hugill as “dub meets microtonal tunings”. Since most instruments in the West are built to play the 12-tone equal tempered scale, Archibald turned to less common instruments and methods of composing microtonal music. He now uses an AXiS-49 hexagonal MIDI controller to play his microtonal music, along with various DAWs such as Abl

Sexuality of Frederick the Great

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Most modern scholars agree that Prussian King Frederick the Great (1712–1786) was primarily homosexual. However, the nature of his actual relationships remains a source of speculation. For instance, there is no consensus on the actual number of Frederick’s male lovers. Some researchers believe that he may have only lived out his same-sex love platonically. This latter point is contradicted by some statements by the king himself and by his contemporaries, Voltaire and Casanova (see below). Though he had an arranged marriage, Frederick produced no children and was succeeded by his nephew. His favoured courtiers were exclusively male, and his art collection celebrated homoeroticism. Persistent rumours connecting the king with homosexual activity circulated around Europe during his lifetime, but there is less surviving definitive evidence of any sexual relationships of his, homosexual or otherwise. However, in July 1750, the Prussian king teasingly wrote to his gay secretary and reader, Claude Étienne Darget: (‘My hemorrhoids affectionately greet your penis’), which strongly suggests that he was sexually involved with men. Furthermore, at an advanced age, the king advised his nephew in

Seymour Barab

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Seymour Barab (January 9, 1921 – June 28, 2014) was an American composer of opera, songs and instrumental and chamber music, as well as a cellist, organist and pianist. He was best known for his fairy tale operas for young audiences, such as Chanticleer and Little Red Riding Hood. He was a longtime member of the Philip Glass Ensemble. Early life Barab was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Samuel Barab and Leah Yablunky. Both of Barab’s parents were Polish immigrants, who emigrated separately and met in the United States. His older brother, Abraham (b. 1913), later changed his name to Oscar. Barab’s father also changed his name in later years to Leo. The family had little money, but Barab’s parents considered culture important, and he was given piano lessons, from an early age, at first with his aunt, Gertrude Yablunky. When Barab was thirteen, he started his first musical job as an organist for a church of spiritual healing that his aunt attended. Barab began to study the cello when he entered Lane Tech High School in Chicago in 1935. Lane Tech offered a four-year music program and required each student to study an orchestral instrument. He later said of his choice: “They happened to n

Seymour Furth

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Seymour Furth (1876, New York City − May 22, 1932, Boston) was an American songwriter, composer, and librettist active from the late 1890s until his death in 1932. He wrote popular songs for Broadway musicals, vaudeville, tin pan alley, and minstrel shows; notably creating the opening musical number for the first Ziegfeld Follies in 1907. He most frequently worked as a composer with another collaborator serving as his lyricist, but sometimes he created both music and lyrics, and at other times just words with other composers. He composed piano works in popular styles of his day, including ragtime. His best known songs were comedic, including “Nothing Like That in Our Family” (1906) and “No Wedding Bells For Me” (1907). He began his career writing songs for vaudeville and minstrel shows in the late 1890s; often with a humorous character. He published two ragtime compositions for piano, That Spanish Rag and Pinochle Rag (1911, Joseph Morris publisher). Furth contributed music to The Follies of 1907, the first Ziegfeld Follies. Concurrently, Furth contributed the music to the song “Dixie Dan” for the Broadway show The Gay White Way (1907); a song which became a hit for singer Blanche