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Sickotoy

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Alexandru (Alex) Cotoi, known professionally as Sickotoy (stylised in all capitals) is a Romanian sound producer, composer, and DJ. He is widely known for his work with many singers such as Delia, Inna, Irina Rimes and Alexandra Stan; collaborates with the Global Records label. Under the pseudonym Sickotoy, he released the commercially successful songs “Addicted” and “You Don’t Love Me” in 2019 with Minelli and Roxen, respectively, which reached the top three on the Romanian Airplay 100 chart. Early life and career Cotoi wrote his first songs in 2003. In October 2007, he formed the music group Sonichouse with Radu Dumitriu, Răzvan Gorcinski, and Victor Bourosu, having met while being part of and performing alongside Morandi. During his time as a member of Sonichouse, Cotoi adopted the nickname of Kotto. Sonichouse released their only album, titled Supersonic, on 16 April 2011. The group stopped releasing music once Bourosu chose to pursue a solo career. In 2022, he was a jury member on One True Singer, a music competition that was produced by HBO Max in collaboration with Global Records. Personal life Cotoi married his girlfriend in July 2018. The couple has a daughter. !style=“wid

Siddharth Haldipur

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Siddharth Haldipur is an Indian singer and music director. He is a part of the Sangeet-Siddharth music director duo. The duo has given music for prominent Hindi as well as Marathi movies. In their few years of music direction, the duo has composed hit songs for Murder 2, Blood Money, Aatma, Fruit & Nut, Bird Idol and Hum Hai Raahi Car Ke. Siddharth Haldipur made his foray into music with A Band of Boys and is also a trained violinist, pianist, and dancer. He and Sangeet Haldipur are the sons of the famous composer Amar Haldipur, who has also been India’s number one violinist in the past. Career Haldipur started his singing with his first album Yeh Bhi Woh Bhi in 2002 in collaboration with his newly boy band member A Band of Boys. Then, in 2005, his second album Gaane Bhi Do Yaaro was released which marked ABOB’s final album before their disbanded in 2006. In 2009, apart from singing, he also begin to composed with his brother Sangeet Haldipur for their first film Fruit and Nut. Then, they rose to prominence with their top-of-the-line composition “Aa Zara Kareeb Se”, from the movie Murder 2, for which they won the Big Star Young Entertainer Award for Best Music Composer in 2012. Thi

Siddhu Kumar

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Siddhu Kumar is an Indian music director who works predominantly in Tamil cinema. He made his debut as a music director with Sivappu Manjal Pachai. Career In 2019, Siddhu Kumar made his debut with Sivappu Manjal Pachai, which was well-received for its musical arrangements. In 2021, he worked on an independent project for Think Music India. He composed the track Adipoli and directed the music video. In the same year, he composed another two films: Trip and Anandham Vilayadum Veedu. He also scored for G. V. Prakash Kumar’s Bachelor that year as well, in which he did the background score for the film and composed a song, “Maalai Nera Theneer”. In 2023, he composed music for three films: Kannai Nambathey, Theera Kaadhal, and Joe. Filmography Music video References External links *

Sidney Corbett

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Sidney Corbett (born April 26, 1960, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American composer based in Germany. Biography Sidney Corbett was born in Chicago in 1960, the son of a Jewish mother and a Catholic father, but grew up without a religious upbringing. In 1968, he moved with his family to California, where he played as an electric guitarist in various bands in Los Angeles at the age of fifteen and composed his first works from 1977. From 1978 to 1982, he studied philosophy and composition at the University of California, San Diego, with Bernard Rands and Pauline Oliveros, among others. In 1985, Corbett continued his composition studies at Yale University, where he taught as a “Teaching Fellow in Composition” and received his doctorate in 1989 with an analysis of the work Hyperprism by the French composer Edgar Varèse. His teachers at Yale University were Jacob Druckman, whose assistant he was, as well as Martin Bresnick, Frederic Rzewski and Morton Subotnick. Corbett was awarded the BMI Student Composer Award in 1985. From 1985 to 1988, he studied composition with György Ligeti at the Musikhochschule Hamburg and took part in Vladimír Karbusický’s doctoral seminar at the University of H

Sidney Homer

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Sidney Homer Sr. (December 9, 1864 – July 10, 1953) was a classical composer, primarily of songs. Biography Homer was the youngest child born to deaf parents in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 9, 1864 (some sources use 1865). He attended the 1884 class of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, but did not attend college, although he studied composition with George Whitefield Chadwick and with Josef Rheinberger in Munich. He married contralto Louise Dilworth Beatty in 1895. Sidney and Louise had six children, including twin daughters Anne Homer and Kathryn Homer, son Sidney Homer, Jr. (economist and author), and daughter Louise Homer. Sidney Homer died on July 10, 1953, in Winter Park, Florida. Legacy Sidney Homer’s influence included his mentoring and supporting his nephew, the composer Samuel Barber. Scholarship on Homer was a particular focus of musicologist Harry Colin Thorpe. Homer composed many of his songs with the voice of his famous wife in mind. Among his most famous songs are “A Banjo Song” (Weeden), “Requiem” (Stevenson), “Casey at the Bat” (Thayer), and “The House that Jack Built” (“Mother Goose.”) Homer’s memoir, My Wife and I, was published by Macmillan in 193

Sidney Lambert

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Sidney Lambert (c. 18381905) was an African-American pianist, music educator and composer, born before the American Civil War as a free person of color. He and his family were noted for talent in music and gained international acclaim. Life and career Lambert was born in New Orleans, the son of pianist and composer Charles-Richard Lambert and his second wife Creole Coralie Suzanne Orzy. He and his older brother Charles Lucien Lambert studied music with their father. In 1854, Charles, who married a French woman, emigrated with his family from the U.S. to France. Sidney Lambert also lived and worked in France, and served as a pianist in Portugal at the Royal court of King Dom Pedro, along with his nephew Lucien-Léon Guillaume Lambert, where he was recognized for innovation in music in the 1870s. Lambert died in Paris in 1905 . His papers are housed in the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris, including thirty-two works dated 1866 to 1899. He seemed to be the only one of his family who published works in New Orleans. Works Selected works include: *Celebre tarantelle (1890) (arrangement of piece by Louis M. Gottschalk) *Stella (Mon etoile) (1879) References

Sidney Nelson

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Sidney Nelson (1 January 1800 – 7 April 1862) was an English composer, particularly of songs, including the popular “Rose of Allendale” and “Mary of Argyle”. Life Nelson was born in London in 1800, son of Solomon Nelson. Showing musical ability when quite young, he was adopted by a gentleman who gave him a good musical and general education. He was for some time a pupil of Sir George Smart, and eventually became a teacher in London. He was in partnership with Charles Jefferys as a music-seller until 1843, when he was elected an associate of the Philharmonic Society. Subsequently he became a music publisher, but, being unsuccessful, he arranged a musical and dramatic entertainment with members of his family, and went on tour in North America, Canada, and Australia. He married Sarah Moss, and had several children, including actresses and singers: Mrs Eliza Craven, Carrie Nelson, Sarah Nelson, and Maria Nelson, mother of Effie Adelaide Rowlands and Carrie Sidney. He died in Russell Square, London on 7 April 1862, and was buried at West Ham; he left a widow, Sarah, and son Alfred Nelson. Compositions Nelson was a prolific composer, and claimed to have written about eight hundred pieces

Sidney Torch

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Sidney Torch (born Sidney Torchinsky; 5 June 1908 – 16 July 1990) was a British pianist, cinema organist, conductor, orchestral arranger and a composer of light music. Early life Torch was born of Russian Jewish origin to a Ukrainian father, Morris Torchinsky, and an Estonian mother, Annie, at 27 Tottenham Court Road in St Pancras, London. He learned the rudiments of music quickly from his father, an orchestral trombonist, who used to sit next to fellow trombonist Gustav Holst in such places as the old Holborn Empire. Torch studied piano at the Blackheath Conservatoire in south east London. His gift for memory came to his rescue when he entered an examination room and realised that he had left the compulsory music back at his home in Maida Vale. He thus had no choice but to play from memory; he passed with distinction. This came after a disagreement with the BBC: Torch snapped his baton in half at the end of his last concert. Torch had a reputation as a disciplinarian, according to the singers and musicians he conducted. One such performer described the “crackle” which came from starched shirt cuffs on his swift downbeats. It has been said that singers dreaded “the glare of the Tor

Siegfried Alkan

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Siegfried Alkan (30 March 1858 – 24 December 1941) was a German composer from Saarland in the Kingdom of Prussia. He was assaulted and his musical business was looted during the Kristallnacht. Biography Alkan was born in Dillingen, Saarland, within the Kingdom of Prussia to prominent Jewish piano businessman Johannes Alkan and his wife Johanna . His grandfather and two of his nephews were also musicians. He had three siblings. He was a distant relative of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy through his mother’s relationship to the Oppenheim family. and his piano looted by the Nazis. He refused to seek treatment at a Christian hospital, he tried to seek help at his synagogue, unaware it had been set ablaze. * "" (English: “Oh, if only you knew”; Op. 39) * "" (English: “Proto-Great-grandmother”; Op. 80) * "" (English: “The fog rolls through the valley”; Op. 92) References

Siegfried Behrend

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Siegfried Behrend (19 November 1933 – 20 September 1990) was a German classical guitarist and composer. Biography Behrend was born in Berlin. He studied piano, harpsichord, conducting and composition at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin and taught himself classical guitar. In 1953, he gave the first German performance of Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez. At the age of 30 he already was a world-renowned artist with this instrument, playing for the Shah of Persia, the Emperor of Japan and Gamal Abdel Nasser in Cairo. In 1962, he met singer Belina during the making of a TV show and they endeavoured to create some musical projects together. With their chansons, folk songs and Yiddish songs, they became highly respected and well-known representatives of German culture in the aftermath of World War II. They performed in more than 120 countries and were regular guests on German television and talkshows. In these years, they recorded several LP albums. In the 1970s Behrend married the German actress Claudia Brodzinska, also a singer. In performances with her, Behrend focused more on contemporary art music. Behrend was also renowned as a teacher for classical guitar. Martin Ma

Siegfried Bimberg

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Siegfried Bimberg (5 May 1927 – 2 July 2008) was a German composer, conductor and musicologist Life Born in Halle (Saale), After his return from the war and captivity, Bimberg completed his pedagogical studies. After working briefly at a one-grade rural school, he studied psychology, music education and musicology at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. In 1956, Bimberg won his habilitation with a thesis Über das Singen der Großterz aufwärts. Ein Beitrag zur Musikpsychologie und Musikästhetik auf der Grundlage elektro-optischer Untersuchungen. At the same time, Bimberg worked as a publishing editor from 1953 to 1958. In the process, Bimberg held the chair of music education from 1969 until his retirement in 1992. His field, however, included aesthetics of music and music psychology. In 1981 he habilitated again (Kontrast als musikpädagogische Kategorie). Bimberg made a name for himself primarily through numerous youth and children’s songs, choral works and children’s operas and arrangements for choir. His Rodellied (Schneemann bau’n und Schneeballschlacht) was part of the standard repertoire in kindergartens and schools in the GDR and was extremely popular. In 1963, he

Siegfried Borris

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Siegfried Borris (born Siegfried Jakob Boris Zuckermann; His dissertation was Kirnbergers Leben und Werk und seine Bedeutung im Berliner Musikkreis um 1750, about the life and influence of Johann Kirnberger. His works and personal documents are held by the Academy of Arts, Berlin. 1947/48 Halle 1950 * Grundlagen einer musikalischen Umweltkunde. Wolfenbüttel, Zürich: Möseler 1975 * Kulturgut Musik als Massenware. Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel 1978 Notes and references Notes References External links * * Siegfried Borris Archive at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin * *

Siegfried Fietz

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Siegfried Fietz (; born 25 May 1946) is a German singer-songwriter, composer, music producer and sculptor. He is known for songs of the genre Neues Geistliches Lied, particularly his setting of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s poem “Von guten Mächten”. Career Born in Berleburg, Fietz grew up in Hilchenbach. He began to play on his father’s violin at age five, and learned to play the guitar a little later. He began voice training at age 15, and piano lessons at age 17. A year later, he took an exam as a church musician and organist. They have published around 250 productions with him as a performer, and others, to a total of 320 recordings. He has collaborated with Ivan Rebroff, Clemens Bittlinger, Dieter Falk, Literature * Jan Vering: Siegfried Fietz – Von guten Mächten und bewegten Zeiten. Biographie, Gerth, Asslar 2011, . * Siegfried Fietz: Aufbruch wagen. Kunst Broschüre, Abakus Musik, Greifenstein 2012, . * Siegfried Fietz: Skulpturen Bilder. Kunst Broschüre, Abakus Musik, Greifenstein 2011. References External links * * * Abakus Musik * * Siegfried Fietz, list of songs, liederdatenbank.de * * Kunst und Skulpturen von Siegfried Fietz skulpturenpark.info

Siegfried Fink

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Siegfried Fink (born 8 February 1928 in Zerbst/Germany, died 3 May 2006 in Würzburg/Germany) was a German percussionist, composer and professor. He is recognized as an important figure in the development of the professional percussion scene in Germany after World War II. Life From 1948 to 1951, Fink studied timpanis and percussion in the class of Alfred Wagner at the University of Music in Weimar (Germany). He also studied composition in the class of Helmut Riethmüller at the same institution. After several orchestral and teaching positions in Weimar, Magdeburg, Lübeck and Hannover, he attained a permanent teaching position for timpanis and percussion at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg. In the year 1974, he was promoted to a full professor and became head of the Studio für Perkussion in Würzburg. He held this position until his retirement in 1993. Work Under the guidance of Fink, the Studio für Perkussion in Würzburg became one of the world’s most renowned schools for percussion. He educated more than 100 students and claimed, that he developed new teaching methods and new ways of playing percussion instruments, especially concerning contemporary art music. Unfortunately there ar

Siegfried Geißler

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Siegfried Rudolf Geißler (26 March 1929 – 10 July 2014) was a German composer, conductor, hornist and politician. He founded the Thüringen Philharmonie Suhl in 1979. After the Wende, he was a member of the New Forum who was elected to the first Landtag of Thuringia in 1990. As its senior, he was its Father of the House and opened the inaugural session. Career Composer, conductor and hornist Born in Dresden, Geißler was born the son of a working-class family in Dresden, attended elementary school from 1935 to 1943 and then studied piano and horn at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden until 1946. Already at this time he made some minor appearances as hornist with the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Semperoper and the Dresden Philharmonic. He then worked as principal hornist at the municipal theatre of Cottbus. In 1947, he escaped to the West and became principal hornist in the symphony orchestra of Speyer. During this time he first appeared as a conductor. After his return to the DDR in 1951 he became solo hornist of the Kreiskulturorchester of Sonneberg. From 1953 he was conductor of the Erzgebirgsphilharmonic of Aue, in 1956 of the Thüringisches Kreiskulturorchester Mü

Siegfried Kurz

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Siegfried Kurz (18 July 1930 – 8 January 2023) was a German conductor, composer and academic. He influenced the musical scene of Dresden, as the conductor of the Semperoper for three decades, and a professor of conducting at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber. He conducted the world premiere of Udo Zimmermann’s . Life Born on 18 July 1930 in Dresden, From 1945, he studied composition (with Fidelio F. Finke), and orchestral conducting and trumpet at the Academy of Music and Theatre in his home town. Already in 1949, a year before completing his studies, he was given the direction of the drama music at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden. From 1984, he was Kapellmeister at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. Kurz, who lived in Niederlößnitz, part of Radebeul, was awarded the in 2001. after a long illness. Orchestral works * Symphony No. 1, Op. 28 (1958) * Symphony No. 2, Op. 29 (1960) * Sinfonia piccola, Op. 24 (1953) * Heiteres Vorspiel for orchestra (1952) * Konzertante Musik for orchestra (1953) * Tänzerische Suite, Op. 25 (1955) * Orchestermusik, Op. 30 (1960) * Orchestervariationen, Op. 33 (1965) * Sonatine für Orchester, Op. 34 (1967) * Musik für Blechbläser, Pauken und Streic

Siegfried Matthus

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Siegfried Matthus (13 April 1934 – 27 August 2021) was a German composer, conductor, and festival founder and manager. Some of his operas, such as Judith, were premiered at the Komische Oper Berlin in East Berlin. In 1991, he founded the chamber opera festival Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg and directed it until 2018. In 2005, he composed a Te Deum for the reopening of the Dresden Frauenkirche. Matthus is considered one of Germany’s most often performed contemporary composers. Biography Matthus was born in (now in Ozyorsky District), East Prussia. His father made sure that the son received piano lessons. Matthus attended secondary school in Rheinsberg, followed by studies at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. After graduating, he continued his studies in composition with Rudolf Wagner-Régeny and Hanns Eisler, and was shortly thereafter made the youngest composer in residence in the history of the Komische Oper Berlin by Walter Felsenstein. Stage works Matthus composed more than a dozen stage works. The opera Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke (Cornet Christoph Rilke’s song of love and death ) after Rainer Maria Rilke was completed in 1983, first pe

Siegfried Ochs

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Siegfried Ochs (19 April 1858 – 6 February 1929) was a German choral conductor and composer. Life Born in Frankfurt, Ochs first studied medicine and chemistry at the Polytechnikum Darmstadt (today the Technische Universität Darmstadt) and at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg. He later devoted himself entirely to music, studying at the Königliche Hochschule für Musik, Berlin, under Schultze and Ernst Rudorff, and later privately under Friedrich Kiel and Heinrich Urban. In 1882, Ochs founded the Philharmonischer Chor Berlin (Philharmonic Choral Society of Berlin), which he would lead until 1920. At first an obscure organization, it became prominent through numerous performances given by Hans von Bülow, an intimate friend of Ochs. It arguably became the greatest choral society in Berlin and was distinguished for its helpful patronage of young musicians, whose compositions were performed for the first time. The choral society continues operations to present day. Ochs died in Berlin. Works Ochs was noted for humorous or parodic compositions. He wrote both the libretto and music of the three-act comic opera Im Namen des Gesetzes (Hamburg, 1888), two operettas, duets for soprano

Siegfried Saloman

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Siegfried Saloman (2 October 1816 – 22 July 1899) was a Danish violinist and composer. A contemporary of Franz Liszt, he was a pupil of Johannes Frederik Fröhlich, Holger Simon Paulli, Frederik Thorkildsen Wexschall and Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, from whom he received violin-playing lessons. He toured extensively throughout Europe with the Swedish opera singer Henriette Nissen, to whom he was married in 1850. In 1842, his nine booklets of romances and songs were published in Hamburg. Life Siegfried Saloman, born Solomon, was born in Tønder, the son of the merchant Isaac Solomon (1782-1848) and Veilchen Geskel (1787-1836). He was the brother of the artist and the founder of the Gothenburg Museum of Art, Geskel Saloman (1821-1902), and Nota Saloman (1823–85), who was a chief medical officer for the Danish army. Since his father’s business was no longer doing so well, the family moved to Copenhagen in 1829. As early as a 12-year-old Siegfried Saloman already played the violin, so he continued his studies in Copenhagen under the guidance of J. P. E. Hartmann, among others. In 1838 he received a 3-year scholarship which he used to stay in Dessau, where he studied music theory and com

Siegfried Translateur

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NOTOC Salo Siegfried Translateur, or Siegfried “Salo” Translateur, (19 June 1875 – 1 March 1944) was a German conductor and composer of waltzes, marches, and other light dance music. Today he is most famous for his waltz, which became popular as Sportpalastwalzer in 1920s Berlin. Biography Siegfried Translateur was born in Carlsruhe in Upper Silesia, in the Province of Silesia, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (Pokój in Poland), the natural son of Rosaline Translateur (1858 in Lublin, Lublin Governorate, Congress Poland, Russian Empire 1934, Moravský Krumlov) and an unknown father, and adopted child of her later husband, the ḥazzān Salomon Lagodzinsky (1857, ? 1915). He started his music studies in Breslau, Vienna, and Leipzig, and also learned from a French composer of dance music, Émile Waldteufel. Translateur’s entertainment music became increasingly popular; his orchestra played on international tours and even in the presence of Emperor Wilhelm II. In 1911, he founded the “Lyra” music publishing company in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. It mostly published his own works, but also compositions by José Armándola, Marc Roland, Franz von Blon and Paul Lincke, among others. Translateur’s

Siegfried Wagner

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Siegfried Helferich Richard Wagner (6 June 18694 August 1930) was a German composer and conductor, the son of Richard Wagner. He was an opera composer and the artistic director of the Bayreuth Festival from 1908 to 1930. Life Siegfried Wagner was born in 1869 to Richard Wagner and his future wife Cosima (née Liszt), at Tribschen on Lake Lucerne in Switzerland. Through his mother, he was a grandson of Franz Liszt, from whom he received some instruction in harmony. Some youthful compositions date from about 1882. After he completed his secondary education in 1889, he studied with Wagner’s assistant Engelbert Humperdinck, but was more strongly drawn to a career as an architect and studied architecture in Berlin and Karlsruhe. In 1892 he undertook a trip to Asia with a friend, the English composer Clement Harris. During the voyage he decided to abandon architecture and commit himself to music. Reputedly, it was also Harris who first aroused his homoerotic impulses. While on board, he sketched his first official work, the symphonic poem Sehnsucht, inspired by the poem of the same name by Friedrich Schiller. This piece was not completed until just before the concert in which Wagner condu

Siegmund von Hausegger

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Siegmund von Hausegger (16 August 1872 – 10 October 1948) was an Austrian composer and conductor. Early life Siegmund was born in Graz, the son of Friedrich von Hausegger (1837-1899), a lawyer and writer on music. According to Siegmund’s own account, Friedrich was “one of the first in Austria to recognize the greatness of Richard Wagner and to exert himself to the utmost in propagating his music and his ideas”. According to one account, the young von Hausegger may have been made the vehicle of his critic-father’s ideals. Siegmund studied music initially under his father, and a strong Wagnerian tinge is found in his own compositions, which included masses, operas and symphonic poems as well as many choruses and songs. At the age of nineteen, von Hausegger composed a Mass for chorus and orchestra that he described as “my first serious composition”. Conducting career Hausegger conducted orchestras in many German and Austrian cities including Graz; Munich, where he shared the conductorship of the Kaim Orchestra with Felix Weingartner; Frankfurt (1904-6); Berlin (Blüthner Orchestra, 1910–15); and Hamburg (1910-20). After the First World War he served as conductor of the Scottish Orchest

Siegrid Ernst

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Siegrid Ernst (3 March 1929 – 20 March 2022) was a German pianist, music educator and composer. Biography Siegrid Ernst was born in Ludwigshafen am Rhein and studied piano, violin and music theory as a child. She later studied piano and composition in Heidelberg, Frankfurt and Vienna, at the University of Music and Dramatic Art in Heidelberg and Mannheim and at the University of the Arts Bremen. After completing her studies, she performed contemporary music both solo and in chamber ensembles for concerts and radio productions, and taught piano and composition, music theory and improvisation. She became successful as a composer, and her works have been performed in Europe, the United States, Mexico and Japan. Since 1998 she has been chair of the jury of the Bremer composers competition. She has worked with the German Music Council and has chaired the “Women and Music” International Working Group Association. She was co-founder of the International Congress of Women in Music. Honors and awards *Grant from the Federal Republic of Germany for the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, 1981. *Honorary professor of the Inter American University of Humanistic Studies, Florida, 1989. Her w

Sigfrid Karg-Elert

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Sigfrid Theodor Karg-Elert (né Karg; 21 November 18779 April 1933) was a German composer and organist who wrote prolifically for pipe and reed organs. Biography Karg-Elert was born Siegfried Theodor Karg in Oberndorf am Neckar, Germany, the youngest of the twelve children of Johann Jacob Karg, a book dealer, and his wife Marie Auguste Karg, born Ehlert (sic). According to another account, however, his father was a newspaper editor and publisher . The family finally settled in Leipzig in 1882, where Siegfried received his first musical training and private piano instruction. At a gathering of composers in Leipzig, he presented his first attempts at composition to the composer Emil von Reznicek, who arranged a three-year tuition-free scholarship at the Leipzig Conservatory. This enabled the young man to study with Salomon Jadassohn, Carl Reinecke, Alfred Reisenauer and Robert Teichmüller. From August 1901 to September 1902 he worked as a piano teacher in Magdeburg. It was during this period that he changed his name to Sigfrid Karg-Elert, adding a variant of his mother’s maiden name to his surname, and adopting the Swedish spelling of his first name. Having returned to Leipzig, he sta

Sigfús Einarsson

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Sigfús Einarsson (30 January 1877 – 10 May 1939) was an Icelandic composer, organist, and music critic. He was a pioneer in Icelandic music in the early twentieth century and is particularly well known for his songs, many of which remain highly popular. Career Sigfús Einarsson was born at Skúmsstaðir in Eyrarbakki in Southern Iceland. The son of a merchant, he was raised in a musical household and at age 12 was already a member of the Báran choir, one of Iceland’s earliest mixed choirs. At age 15, he went to Reykjavík to study at the local Latin School (Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík), where he also founded and established a student choir. He went to Copenhagen to study law, but quit his studies to focus on music, which would be his main profession in life. In Copenhagen, he studied composition and music theory with August Enna, and met his future wife, the Danish singer and pianist Valborg Hellemann (later Valborg Einarsson). Sigfús and his wife moved back to Iceland in 1906 and would become instrumental in Reykjavík’s growing musical life for the next decades. He taught singing in several schools, and in 1911 he established the choral society Söngfélagið 17. júní, which he conducted f

Sigismond Thalberg

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Sigismond Thalberg (8 January 1812 – 27 April 1871) was an Austrian composer and one of the most distinguished virtuoso pianists of the 19th century. Family Thalberg was born in Pâquis near Geneva on 8 January 1812. Thalberg asserted that he was the illegitimate son of Moritz, Prince of Dietrichstein and Maria Julia Bydeskuty von Ipp, from a Hungarian family of lower nobility. In 1820, Julia married Baron Alexander Ludwig (from an ennobled Jewish Viennese family ). According to Thalberg’s birth certificate, he was the son of Joseph Thalberg and Fortunée Stein, both from Frankfurt-am-Main. Early life Little is known about Thalberg’s childhood and early youth. It is possible that his mother had brought him to Vienna at the age of 10 (the same year in which the 10-year-old Franz Liszt arrived there with his parents). According to Thalberg’s own account, he attended the first performance of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony on 7 May 1824, in the Kärntnerthortheater. There is no evidence as to Thalberg’s early teachers. Baroness von Wetzlar, his putative mother, who, according to Wurzbach, was occupied with his education during his childhood and early youth, was a brilliant amateur pianist. It m

Sigismondo d'India

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Sigismondo d’India (c. 1582 – before 19 April 1629) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was one of the most accomplished contemporaries of Monteverdi, and wrote music in many of the same forms as the more famous composer. Life d’India was probably born in Palermo, Sicily in 1582, though details of his life are lacking until around 1600. During the first decade of the 17th century he probably traveled widely in Italy, meeting composers, acquiring patrons at various aristocratic courts, and absorbing the musical styles at each locale. This was a time of transition in music history, as the polyphonic style of the late Renaissance was giving way to the widely diverse practices of the early Baroque, and d’India seems to have acquired an unusually broad grasp of the total stylistic practice in Italy: the expressive madrigal style of Marenzio, the grand polychoral work of the Venetian School, the conservative polyphonic tradition of the Roman School, the attempts to recover the music of the ancient world in monody and its larger vehicle, the newly developing opera, as well as the mannered, emotionally intense chromatic style of Carlo Gesualdo in Napl

Sigismund Bachrich

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Sigismund Bachrich (23 January 1841 – 16 July 1913), aka Sigmund Bachrich or Siegmund Bachrich, was a Hungarian composer, violinist, and violist of Jewish origin. He was born in Žabokreky in 1841. He studied violin at the Vienna Conservatoire from 1851 to 1857 with Joseph Böhm. He was Kapellmeister at the Paris Théâtre Lyrique from 1866 to 1869, when he returned to Vienna. He joined the Vienna Philharmonic as violist, remaining until 1899. He was a professor at the Vienna Conservatory until 1894. He played the viola with the Hellmesberger Quartet from 1869, then joined the Rosé Quartet in 1890. He died in Austria, either in Grimmenstein or Vienna. He composed for the opera, including Muzzedin (1883), Heini von Steier (1884), and Der Fuchs-Major (1889). His memoirs were published posthumously, in 1914, under the title Aus verklungenen Zeiten; Erinnerungen eines alten Musikers. Selected works ;Stage * Muzzedin, Opera (1883) * Heini von Steier, Opera in 1 act (1884); libretto by Hugo Wittmann * Sakuntala, Ballet (1884) * Der Fuchs-Major, Operetta (1889) * Des Herdes und der Liebe Flammen, Operetta * Mahomeds Paradies, Operetta ;Chamber music * Impromptu for violin and piano (1862) * I

Sigismund von Neukomm

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Sigismund Neukomm or Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm after ennoblement as a knight (10 July 1778 – 3 April 1858) was an Austrian composer, conductor and pianist. He was a transitional figure between the Classical and Romantic periods of music. In 1814 Neukomm was responsible for erecting a tombstone to the memory of Haydn over his first grave in the Hundsturm cemetery in Vienna. The inscription included a puzzle canon composed by Neukomm himself. He was in regular contact with the composer in the last months of his life, visiting him every day between mid-November 1808 and February 1809. In 1816 he travelled to Rio de Janeiro with the Duke of Luxemburg and stayed there as court music director to John VI of Portugal until the revolution forced his return to Lisbon in 1821. He maintained his connection to Talleyrand until 1826 and then embarked on an extended trip to Italy, visiting Genoa, Florence, Rome, Naples, Bologna, Venice and Milan. In England his Symphony in E♭ was put on by the Philharmonic Society (on March 21, 1831) and his oratorios gained popularity. Mount Sinai received repeated performances in London, Worcester, Derby and elsewhere, and David was composed especially for t

Signe Lund

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Signe Lund-Skabo (15 April 1868 – 6 April 1950) was a Norwegian composer and music teacher. Biography Signe Lund was born in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway. She was the daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Henrik Louis Bull Lund (1838–1891), and pianist Birgitte Theodora Carlsen (1843–1913), and was the sister of the artist Henrik Lund (1879–1935) and the aunt of the sculptor Knut Henrik Lund (1909-1991). She studied with Erika Nilsson, Per Winge and Iver Holter at the Oslo Conservatory of Music (Musikkonservatoriet i Oslo). After encouragement and praise from Edvard Grieg, she studied in Berlin with Wilhelm Berger and also in Copenhagen and Paris. After completing her studies she worked as a teacher in Norway. She married Jørgen Skabo and later French architect George Robards. Lund emigrated to the United States about 1900 and took a position teaching at Mayville State Normal School in Mayville, North Dakota. She became active in the North Dakota Socialist party and Nonpartisan League and circulated petitions for the release of anti-war activist Kate Richards O’Hare from state prison in Missouri, which led to her dismissal from the Mayville teaching position. She later worked in New Yor

Sigurd Islandsmoen

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Sigurd Islandsmoen (August 27, 1881 – July 1, 1964) was a Norwegian composer. Sigurd Islandsmoen made significant contributions to the music of the Church of Norway. In all he wrote some 70 opuses, among these five feature-length works for orchestra, choir and soloists. He is perhaps best known for his composition Requiem written between 1935 and 1936 and first premiered in 1943. Background Sigurd Islandsmoen was born in Bagn (Sør-Aurdal Municipality), in Oppland county, Norway. He grew up on the family farm, the youngest of nine siblings. He was the brother of Norwegian educator and politician, Olaus Islandsmoen. He studied at the music academy of Oslo, later as well in Leipzig, where amongst others Max Reger was his teacher. The time in Leipzig is believed to have had a great influence on his musical development, and especially the organist Karl Straube (1873–1950) and conductor Arthur Nikisch (1855–1922). He took an exam at Elverum Teacher Academy in 1904 and worked as a teacher from 1904 to 1916. First he worked as a teacher and organist for some years in his home village of Bagn, and later he worked for the six years as music teacher in Gjøvik. From 1916 to 1961 he was church

Sigurd Jansen

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Sigurd Jansen (born 4 March 1932) is a Norwegian composer, pianist and conductor. Biography Sigurd Alf Jansen was born in Horten, in Vestfold county, Norway. He studied classical music at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. He was a teacher of piano from 1957 to 1962. Jansen has worked as an orchestra leader at Chat Noir, and as jazz pianist, orchestra leader and arranger on a number of recordings. Since 1957 he has worked in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation where he is responsible for the music of a variety of TV programs and movies. His main occupation is to compose, arrange, conduct and play piano. Sigurd Jansen is also a composer and has won several awards for his compositions. In 1964 Jansen won the Norwegian final of the Eurovision Song Contest with Spiral, with text by Egil Hagen (1912- 2004), performed by Arne Bendiksen. He has composed music for several movies. Jansen was also consultant for the Norwegian pavilion in EPCOT Center at Walt Disney World. Conductor Internationally, he has served as conductor for his own compositions and arrangements with, among others, the following: * Malmö Symphony Orchestra * Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra * BBC Symphony Orchestra

Sigvaldi Kaldalóns

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Sigvaldi Kaldalóns (Stefánsson) (13 January 1881 – 28 July 1946) * * * * * * * *

Silvana Di Lotti

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Silvana Di Lotti (born 29 November 1942) is an Italian pianist, lecturer and composer. She was born in Agliè, Turin, and studied in Turin and Salzburg with Roberto Goitre, Amalia Pierangeli Mussato and Giorgio Ferrari, and in Siena with Luciano Berio and Pierre Boulez. After completing her studies, she took a position teaching at the Turin Conservatory. She won the Alfano Prize at the Turin Conservatory, and the Ancona Prize for woodwind composition. Life Silvana Di Lotti was born in Agliè Canavese in Turin on 29 November 1942. She studied piano in Turin with Amalia Pierangeli Mussato and composition with Giorgio Ferrari. She then studied in the summer school in Salzburg with Kurt Leimer, and then at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena with Luciano Berio, Franco Evangelisti, Luis de Pablo, Pierre Boulez. and Roberto Goitre. She also won the Ancona Prize in the Tenth International Competition for woodwind instruments in 1980, with a piece for oboe and piano. That work was then performed in Pavia and in the former Soviet Union in Leningrad and Riga. She has also taught at the A. Vivaldi Conservatory in Alessandria. Di Lotti’s compositions have been performed at major music festi

Silvestre Revueltas

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Silvestre Revueltas Sánchez (December 31, 1899 – October 5, 1940) was a Mexican classical music composer, a violinist, and conductor. Life Revueltas was born in Santiago Papasquiaro in Durango, and studied at the National Conservatory in Mexico City, St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas, and the Chicago College of Music. He gave violin recitals and in 1929 was invited by Carlos Chávez to become assistant conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, a post he held until 1935. He and Chávez did much to promote contemporary Mexican music. It was around this time that Revueltas began to compose in earnest. He began his first film score, Redes, in 1934, a commission which resulted in Revueltas and Chávez falling out. Chávez had originally expected to write the score, but political changes led to him losing his job in the Ministry of Education, which was behind the film project. Revueltas left Chávez’s orchestra in 1935 to be the principal conductor of a newly created and short-lived rival orchestra, the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional. He was a member of the Revueltas Sánchez family, a number of whom were also famous and recognized in Mexico: his brother Fermín (1901–1935) an

Silvina Milstein

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Silvina Milstein (born 12 February 1956, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine composer and scholar of twentieth-century music, living in the United Kingdom and teaching at King’s College London. Her music has been described as “turbulent and hesitantly ecstatic”, as well as “highly poetic”, “rich and dense”. In 2018 her piece shan shui was nominated for the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Chamber-Scale Composition. Background and education Milstein emigrated to Britain after the Argentinian military coup of 1976. Her early musical education had taken place at the Collegium Musicum of Buenos Aires and the Escuela de Bellas Artes of the University of La Plata. At Glasgow University her main composition teachers were Judith Weir and Lyell Cresswell. She was awarded a prize as the most distinguished female graduate in the Faculty of Arts. Later she studied under Alexander Goehr, with whom she has also carried out extensive research into the music of Arnold Schoenberg. In the late 1980s she held a Research Fellowship at Jesus College followed by a combined research and teaching Fellowship at King’s College, Cambridge. She is now a professor of music at King’s College London

Silvio Amato

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Silvio Amato (born April 10, 1961, in Catania, Italy), is a composer of classical, contemporary and popular music, and film soundtracks. Currently, he resides in Marina del Rey, CA with his family. He previously resided in Boston, Massachusetts and maintains a studio in Milan, Italy Early life Amato is son of a distributor of children’s clothing and a mother who did not care much for classical music. The used piano his father brought home to “fill space” in the family’s living room soon became an obsession for young Silvio who learned the instrument on his own despite his mother’s constant pleas “I beg you Silvio, please, please, please stop playing.” Eventually, he studied classical piano with a master teacher. Moving north to Milan as a young man, he established himself as a composer and arranger, working with a variety of popular and light classical artists as well as composing for television and motion pictures. It has been said that “his approachable music captures the vibrancy and romanticism of contemporary Italian culture, appealing to devotees of popular and classical genres alike.” Works In 2008, shortly after his oldest daughter left home to study at Boston University in

Silvio Barbato

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Silvio Sergio Bonaccorsi Barbato (11 May 19591 June 2009) was an Italian-Brazilian opera conductor and composer. He died on board Air France Flight 447. Life and career Maestro Barbato was born in Italy, the son of Daniele Barbato and Rosalba Bonaccorsi, daughter of Silvio and Alvara Bonaccorsi and granddaughter of Celestino and Luigi Bonaccorsi, descendants of the Bonaccorsi brothers, originally from Fornaci di Barga, (Italy), who emigrated to Brazil at the end of the 19th century. His grandparents were both doctors in Candeias (Minas Gerais), (Brazil). His father died in Brasília, of a heart attack, in the 1990s, when at the time he was a professor at the university of the capital. He graduated in “conducting” at the University of Brasília; he studied conducting and composition first with Cláudio Santoro and then he moved to Milan where he continued with Azio Corghi at “Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi”. In 1984 he received his merit degree at the “Accademia Musicale Chigiana” of Siena, and one year later he graduated from the “Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi”, also receiving the gold medal in High Conducting, the first Brazilian to receive of this honour since Carlos Gomes. His conduct

Sílvio Ferraz

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Sílvio Ferraz (born 1959 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian contemporary composer. His works have been performed in Brazil and abroad. In 1993 he received two commissions from the British Council when he had the opportunity to work with the Nash Ensemble and the Smith Quartet. In 1994 two works are performed by Ensemble Contrechamps. His works have also been played by Arditti String Quartet, Champs d’Action, Iktus Ensemble and Taller de Musica Contemporanea de Chile. Among those ensembles that played his pieces are the Brazilian Grupo Novo Horizonte, Duo Diálogos, Camerata Aberta, Orquestra Municipal de São Paulo, Coral do Estado de São Paulo. Professional Background In 1977 he entered the composition course at the University of São Paulo (USP), where he studied with Gilberto Mendes and Willy Corrêa de Oliveira. After his university studies he followed composition courses with Brian Ferneyhough and James Dillon (1994 at Royaumont Abbey, France) and Gerard Grisey and Jonathan Harvey (at the IRCAM’s “Académie d’été” in 1998). In 1997 he concluded his doctorate in Music Semiotics at the Pontifical Catholic University of S. Paulo (PUC-SP) with a thesis about the concept of difference and rep

Silvio Hein

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Silvio Hein (March 15, 1879 – December 19, 1928) was an American composer, songwriter, conductor, and theatrical producer. He was a songwriter for Tin Pan Alley and composed the scores to fourteen Broadway musicals. Early life and education Born in New York City, Silvio Hein was the son of immigrant parents. His father was from Hungary and his mother from Italy. Sources vary over his music education background, with some claiming he studied music in Trieste and Vienna, or that he had piano instruction from his mother but no other formal training. Hein himself did not describe his training in either of these manners. In a 1927 interview in The Musical Observer, he named several teachers he studied under in Boston, New York, and Italy. These included a Professor Cosmo in Trieste, brass player and conductor John M. Flockton and New York music critic and piano teacher James Huneker. It was created as a starring vehicle for Marie Cahill, and the production later toured nationally under the new title Molly Moonshine after the Broadway run ended in January 1906. With the lyricist Matt Woodward he wrote the song “I Want to be a Drummer Boy” which was used as the Act I finale in Florenz Zie

Silvius Leopold Weiss

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Silvius Leopold Weiss (12 October 1687 – 16 October 1750) was a German composer and lutenist. He was born in Silesia (in present-day Poland) to the lutenist Johann Jacob Weiss, who taught the lute to his children. Weiss was a child prodigy and played for Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor . He was employed by nobility including Charles III Philip of Palatinate-Neuburg and Alexander Sobieski, travelling with them to various courts and cities in Europe. From 1718, Weiss was a musician at the Dresden court of Augustus the Strong, the Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. He played the lute and the theorbo on many occasions. He was acquainted with Johann Sebastian Bach, who frequently visited Dresden, and on occasion they played music together, reportedly competing in playing fantasias and fugues. Bach’s trio in A major for violin and harpsichord BWV 1025 is based on a sonata by Weiss. At the time of his death, Weiss was the highest-paid instrumentalist at the Dresden court. He left the largest known corpus of music for lute and is recognised as one of the greatest lutenists of all time. Early life and travels Silvius Leopold Weiss was born on 12 October 1687. His birthplace was probably Gr

Sima Bina

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Sima Bina (, Simā Binā, born 4 January 1945) is an Iranian traditional musician, composer, researcher, painter and teacher, described by Radio WDR Germany as the “grand lady of Iranian folk music”. Bina’s performing arts career has spanned more than five decades. Bina has gathered and revived a collection of nearly forgotten Iranian folk songs and melodies. She has done extensive research on their origin, which included collecting, recording, writing and re-interpreting popular regional music. Her works cover the entire spectrum of Iranian folk music, including Mazandarani music, Kurdish music, Turkmen music, Baloch music, Lur music, Shirazi music, Bakhtiari music, and the music of North and South Khorasan. Early life and career Born in Birjand, Khorasan, in the heart of the popular tradition, she started her career on Iranian radio at the age of nine, under the guidance of her father, Ahmad Bina – a master of Iranian classical music and poet who wrote many of her early songs. Bina studied the radif repertoire and avaz vocal technique with great masters such as Maaroufi and Zarrin Panjeh. She acquired her own solo program, Golhaye Sahraii (Flowers of the Desert), presenting a colle

Simeon G. Murafa

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Simeon Gheorghevici Murafa (also spelled Simion or Semion Murafa; May 24, 1887 – August 20, 1917) was a Bessarabian politician in the Russian Empire, also known as a publicist and composer. A trained classical singer and a graduate of Saint Vladimir (Shevchenko) University, he was one of the leading activists supporting ethnic Romanian emancipation in Bessarabia and beyond. By 1914, he associated with the revolutionary core of the Romanian nationalist movement, which he represented as director of Cuvânt Moldovenesc newspaper. An officer of the Imperial Russian Army during World War I, Murafa mainly used his position to advance Romanian nationalism. In early 1917, he helped establish the Moldavian National Party, helping to organize its cells in Bessarabia and Odessa. He was murdered while attending a friend’s party, after a group of revolutionary soldiers identified him as a political enemy. His legacy is honored in both Romania and Moldova. Biography Early activities A native of Cotiujenii Mari, at the time part of Russia’s Bessarabia Governorate, Simeon G. Murafa was from a family of Moldavian yeomen. He was the nephew of another nationalist activist, the Bessarabian Orthodox pri

Simeon ten Holt

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Simeon ten Holt (24 January 1923 – 25 November 2012) was a Dutch contemporary classical composer. Ten Holt was born in Bergen, North Holland, and studied with Jakob van Domselaer, eventually developing a highly personal style of minimal composition. Van Domselaer’s influence on ten Holt’s musical philosophy was considerable, with the younger composer picking up van Domselaer’s interests in the links between music and visual art, in music’s relationship with mathematics, and in the use of the piano as a principal instrument in his compositions. Ten Holt generally used consonant, tonal materials and his works are organized in numerous cells, made up of a few measures each, which are repeated ad libitum according to the player’s preference. Many of his works are for piano or ensembles of multiple pianos. His most famous work is Canto Ostinato, which he wrote in 1976 and is considered one of the most famous works in contemporary classical Dutch music history. Ten Holt died 25 November 2012 in Alkmaar, the Netherlands, aged 89. Works Piano *Kompositie I, II, III, IV (1942–1945) *Sonate (1953) *20 Bagatellen (1954) *Allegro ex machina (1955) *Diagonaalsuite (1957) *Muziek voor Pieter, 7

Simi (singer)

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Simisola Bolatito Kosoko ( ; née Ogunleye; born April 19, 1988), better known as Simi, is a Nigerian singer, songwriter, and actress. She began her career as a gospel singer and released her debut studio album, Ogaju, in 2008. Simi gained public recognition in 2014 after releasing “Tiff”, a song that was nominated for Best Alternative Song at The Headies 2015. She signed a record deal with X3M Music in 2014, but left the label in May 2019 following the expiration of her contract. She released her second studio album, Simisola, on September 8, 2017. Her third studio album, Omo Charlie Champagne, Vol. 1, was released to coincide with her thirty-first birthday on April 19, 2019. She was a judge on season 7 of Nigerian Idol in 2022. Life and career Early life and education Simi was born on 19 April 1988 in Ojuelegba, a suburb of Surulere, Lagos State, as the last of four children. In an interview with Juliet Ebirim of Vanguard newspaper, Simi revealed that her parents separated when she was 9 years old. She also revealed that she grew up as a tomboy. Simi attended Stars International College, a secondary school in Ikorodu, Lagos State. She is an alumna of Covenant University, where she

Simon Bainbridge

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Simon Bainbridge (30 August 1952 – 2 April 2021) was a British composer. He was also a professor and head of composition at the Royal Academy of Music, London, and visiting professor at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, in the United States. Biography Bainbridge was born in London. He had his first major break with Spirogyra, written in 1970 while he was still a student. This work displays a passion for intricate and sensuous textures that remained the hallmark of Bainbridge’s style. He was educated at Highgate School and the Royal College of Music. After graduating from the Royal College of Music, he studied with Gunther Schuller at Tanglewood; his fondness for American culture was occasionally portrayed in works such as Concerto in Moto Perpetuo (1983), which contains echoes of American minimalism, and the be-bop inspired For Miles (1994). In the 1990s, his work took on a new expressive dimension such as in Ad Ora Incerta (1994) which earned him the Grawemeyer Award in 1997. Bainbridge was head of composition at the Royal Academy of Music from 1999 to 2007, and was one of the first four professors to be appointed in 2000 with the Academy’s status as a constituent college of

Simon Bar Jona Madelka

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Simon Bar Jona Madelka or Šimon Bariona Oppollensis (before 1550 in Opole – c. 1598 in Plzeň) was a Czech composer. In addition to being a composer, he was also a member of the butcher’s guild in the Plzeň. Madelka published two music collections. Biography Madelka may have come from Opole, as suggested by the cognomen Oppolensis, preserved in the collection of his music. The surname Madelka was also quite common both in Silesia and Opole. He came to Western Bohemia probably in consequence of culmination of the reformation wave in Opole Region in the middle of the 16th century. Madelka was a Catholic, and his religion may have been the main reason for his changing residences. In 1575 he was entered to the register of the butcher’s guild in Plzeň, and in 1580 became a master butcher. In 1585 he became the member of the guild’s board of elders. He died probably during the epidemic of a plague that killed 1300 to 1600 citizens of Plzeň in 1598. His name appears in the manuscripts exclusively as Šimon Bariona; the other variants of his name, Bar Jona and Madelka figure only in his printed music. He is mentioned in various musical sources with other European composers such as Clemens no

Simon Boyleau

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Simon Boyleau (fl. 1544–1586) was a French composer of the Renaissance, active in northern Italy. A prolific composer of madrigals as well as sacred music, he was closely connected with the court of Marguerite of Savoy. He was also the earliest documented choirmaster at the church of Santa Maria presso San Celso in Milan. Biography Nothing is known of his early life. A French origin is indicated by three bits of evidence: his name, a dedication he left in a manuscript book of madrigals, in which he said he was of French nationality, and a comment by the Paduan publisher of his 1546 collection of madrigals for four voices that he was French. During this period many musicians from France and the Low Countries came to Italy after receiving their early musical training in the north; employment and patronage prospects were greater in Italy throughout most of the 16th century. Although the exact events are not documented, scholars have inferred that Boyleau probably spent his first Italian years in Venice, due to musical influences seen in his work as well as their publication history. In 1551 he became maestro di cappella (choirmaster) at Milan Cathedral, his earliest documented post; h

Šimon Brixi

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Šimon Brixi (28 October 1693 – 2 November 1735) was a Czech composer and organist. He was the father of composer František Brixi. Life Brixi was born on 28 October 1693 in Vlkava, Bohemia. From 1711 to 1717, he studied at the Jesuit college in Jičín. In 1724, he married Ludmila Barbora Fialková. Their son, František Brixi, also became a composer. In 1720, Brixi began studying law in Prague but did not complete his studies, choosing instead to devote himself to music. His artistic activity was closely linked with the musical life in Prague. In 1725, he was dismissed from the Servite Order and became a burgher of the Old Town of Prague. In 1727, Brixi took up the position of teacher, organist and choirmaster at Church of St. Martin in the Wall in the Old Town of Prague, where he worked until his death. He died in Prague on 2 November 1735, aged 42. He is buried at the Church of St. Martin in the Wall. Style and work Brixi is one of the most prominent representatives of the Czech Baroque music. References

Simon Bucharoff

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Simon Bucharoff (April 20, 1881 – November 24, 1955, born Simon Buchhalter) was an American pianist, composer and educator. Bucharoff was born in Berdychiv, Russian Empire. His father was a cantor. His brother Isadore Buchhalter was also a pianist and educator who settled in Chicago. His family emigrated to New York when he was 11, where he began his piano studies with Paolo Gallico and Leopold Kramer. He returned to Europe and graduated from the Vienna Conservatory in 1902, having studied piano with Julius Epstein and Emil Sauer and composition with Stephen Stocker and Robert Fuchs. He married Jennie G. Bluestone in 1902, and became a US citizen in 1904. He joined the Wichita College of Music in 1907, and in 1911 moved to Chicago and began focusing on composition. future US Vice President Charles Dawes was a patron, In 1919, he changed his last name from Buchhalter to Bucharoff and moved to Europe in an attempt to further his composition career. After failing to produce an opera based on André Geiger’s La Reine amoureuse with Pierre Maudru, he moved to Germany and succeeded in producing his next opera Sakhara in 1924. Upon returning to America in the 1920s, his works received promine

Simón Díaz

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Simón Narciso Díaz Márquez (August 8, 1928 – February 19, 2014), also known as tío Simón, was a Venezuelan singer, actor, TV host, comedian, and Grammy Award-winning composer of Venezuelan music. Some of his most popular songs include Caballo viejo, Tonada de luna llena and La vaca Mariposa. Díaz endeavored to recover the folklore and musical traditions of the Venezuelan Llanos (plains). This style of music has since been performed by artists such as Argentina’s Mercedes Sosa, Brazil’s Caetano Veloso, Spain’s Joan Manuel Serrat, Peru’s Susana Baca, Puerto Rico’s Danny Rivera, and Venezuelans Franco De Vita, Soledad Bravo, Juan Carlos Salazar, Carlos Baute and José Luis Rodríguez, among others. Many of Díaz’s works have been adapted by symphonies and choral ensembles throughout Venezuela, Artists from other disciplines have also utilized Díaz’s work. For example, German choreographer Pina Bausch included some of Díaz’s songs in her work Nur Du. Film director Pedro Almodóvar included Díaz’s song “Tonada de luna llena” as part of the soundtrack for his film The Flower of My Secret, sung by the Brazilian artist Caetano Veloso. After his father’s death in 1940, his family relocated to S

Simon Emmerson (composer)

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Simon Emmerson is an electroacoustic music composer working mostly with live electronics. He was born in Wolverhampton, UK, on 15 September 1950. Simon Emmerson studied at Cambridge and at City University, London where he founded the electroacoustic music studio in 1975, remaining until 2004 when he joined De Montfort University, Leicester as Professor in Music, Technology and Innovation, and where he is now Emeritus Professor at the Institute for Sonic Creativity. He has been a composer and writer on electroacoustic music since the early 1970s. He was a Fellow of the Digswell Arts Trust, Welwyn Garden City 1972-77. Commissions include: Intermodulation, Singcircle, Lontano, Jane Manning, Philip Mead, Jane Chapman, GRM (Paris), IMEB (Bourges), Inventionen (Berlin), Sond-Arte Ensemble (Lisbon), and more recently for BEAST (Birmingham) and for soloists Darragh Morgan (violin), Carla Rees (flute) and Heather Roche (clarinet). He was a first prize winner at the Bourges Electroacoustic Awards in 1985 for his work Time Past IV (soprano and tape, commissioned by Jane Manning). Writings include: The Language of Electroacoustic Music (1986), Music, Electronic Media and Culture (2000), Living

Simon Gjoni

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Simon Gjoni (Shkodër, 1925–1991) was an Albanian conductor, and composer of many popular pieces for piano and orchestra. Life Simon Gjoni was born on October 28, 1925, in the city of Shkodër, Albania. He was educated in a rank and file urban family and graduated from the “Illyricum” High School of the city. Very soon he learned to play guitar, trombone, the piano and devoted himself with enthusiasm and passion to the art of music. In the years of his youth, he composed over 200 original songs, which were immediately sung in the city of Shkodër and were spread all over Albania, such as “Lule Bore” (Snowflower), “Syte e tu si drite” (English: Your Eyes Like Light), “Weaving girl”. Ispecially the song “Lulebore” became really famous in Albania with a continuous success for over 60 years and is the first albanian song to achieve international success after it was performed in Russia, China, Vietnam, Chekoslovakia, Italy, USA etc. He completed his studies over the years 1952–1958 in the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (Czechoslovakia). During the years 1956-1958 in the city of Prague, he conducted: Franz Schubert’s Rosamunde, Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt, Jiří Antonín Benda’s Pygmalion

Simon Holt

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Simon Holt (born 21 February 1958) is an English composer. Biography Simon Holt was born in Bolton, Lancashire on 21 February 1958. Educated at Bolton School, Holt immersed himself in organ, piano and visual art during his sixth form years. In 1976, he attended Bolton College of Art for a year where he fulfilled a foundation course in all areas of visual representation. Shortly before achieving a diploma in composition from the Royal Northern College of Music, where he studied with Anthony Gilbert for four years from 1978 to 1982, he received a commission from the London Sinfonietta, which became Kites (1983). He was soon firmly established with a series of commissions and fruitful collaborations including not only with the Sinfonietta, but also the Nash Ensemble and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, resulting in pieces such as eco-pavan (1998), Sparrow Night (1989) and Lilith (1990) respectively. Inspired by Messiaen, Xenakis and Feldman as well as visual artists such as Goya, Alberto Giacometti and Brâncuși, his music is innately dramatic and impulsive in nature. His output comprises chamber music, concertos, songs, opera, orchestral and piano music. From 2000 onwards, Hol

Simon Le Duc

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Simon Le Duc, more commonly Leduc (Paris, 15 January 1742 – 22 January 1777), was a French violinist, soloist at the Concert Spirituel, music publisher and composer. His younger brother, Pierre Le Duc (1755–1818), was also a violinist. Leduc was a pupil of the famous violinist and professor at the Paris Conservatoire, Pierre Gaviniès. He later became director of the Concerts Spirituel, with Gaviniès and François-Joseph Gossec During the child prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s first tour of Europe in 1763–64, Wolfgang and his father Leopold Mozart had a chance to hear Leduc play. Leopold, an authority on violin performance who had published a treatise on violin playing in 1756 which is still read today, praised Leduc in his travel diary: “He plays well.” Leduc also composed many pieces for violin, including at least two sets of violin sonatas (published as opuses 1 and 4), three violin concertos, and some chamber music. In his survey of music of the galant period, Robert Gjerdingen notes strong similarities between Leduc’s style and that of his Neapolitan contemporaries, especially Cimarosa. Gjerdingen writes, “Leduc wrote highly refined music for small aristocratic gatherings in ch

Simon Lohet

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Simon Lohet (Loxhay) (born before c. 1550 – buried 5 July 1611) was a Flemish composer and organist of the late Renaissance, active in Germany. He is best known as one of the earliest exponents of the keyboard fugue. Life Lohet’s father was a certain Jean de Liège, so the family originates from Liège and Simon was probably born in the area. Loxhay is the Walloon version of his surname. He was appointed organist of the Württemberg court at Stuttgart on 14 September 1571, assisting Utz Steigleder and H.F. Fries until both went into retirement. Lohet then assumed full responsibility for the chapel services. He was also somewhat active as a teacher, his pupils included his own son Ludwig (who became his father’s assistant in 1594) and, most importantly, Adam Steigleder (father of Johann Ulrich Steigleder). Lohet made several trips to the Low Countries in the 1570s and to Venice in 1581 to buy instruments and music. In 1601 he retired from his post. He remained in Stuttgart until his death in summer 1611. Works Johann Woltz’s Nova musices organicae tabulatura (Basel, 1617) contains all of Lohet’s known works (six also survive in another manuscript, D-Mbs Mus.ms.1581). The bulk of his sm

Simon Mayr

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Johann(es) Simon Mayr (also spelled Majer, Mayer, Maier), also known in Italian as Giovanni Simone Mayr or Simone Mayr (14 June 1763 – 2 December 1845), was a German composer. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era. In 1805 he founded the Bergamo Conservatory. He was an early inspiration to Rossini and Meyerbeer and taught and advocated for Donizetti. Life He was born in Mendorf near Altmannstein, Landkreis Eichstätt, Bavaria, and studied theology at the University of Ingolstadt, continuing his studies in Italy from 1787. He was closely associated with the Illuminati of Adam Weishaupt while a student in Ingolstadt, and the ideals of the French Enlightenment were a strong influence on his philosophy as a musician as corroborated by his famed Zibaldone or “Notebooks” compiled toward the end of his career. Shortly thereafter, he took music lessons with Carlo Lenzi, and later with Ferdinando Bertoni. He moved to Bergamo in 1802 and was appointed maestro di cappella at the Cathedral of Bergamo, succeeding his old teacher Lenzi. He held the post until his death, and became a central figure in the city’s musical life, organizing concerts and intro

Simon Molitor

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(Alois Franz) Simon (Joseph) Molitor (3 November 1766 – 21 February 1848) was a German-born Austrian composer, guitarist, violinist and music historian – an influential figure both in early 19th-century guitar music and in the development of music history as a subdiscipline of musicology. Life and music Simon Molitor was born in Neckarsulm, southern Germany. According to Zuth (1920), he was to follow his father’s wish and become a school teacher, but as an 18-year-old student he secretly left university and began the life of an itinerant violinist, until during 1796–7 he became the conductor of an orchestra in Venice, Republic of Venice. In 1798, he became a civil servant in the Austrian Commissariat of War in Vienna where, from 1802, he took a career in catering there until his retirement in 1831. From that time on, Molitor concentrated exclusively on music. Between 1832 and 1842 he organised regular ‘academies’ in his house – semi-public musical performances and lectures, mainly devoted to historic music of the 16th to 18th centuries (in particular focusing on Bach, Corelli, Kirnberger, Monteverdi and Palestrina). Molitor possessed one of the largest musical libraries of his time

Simon Petrén

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Simon Petrén (born 14 March 1986) is a Swedish music producer, songwriter, mix engineer and mastering engineer. He holds a Diploma in Piano Music Performance at the Royal Schools of Music in London and a Bachelor degree in Film Scoring and Music Production at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Simon Petrén lives in Seoul, South Korea, consulting for different entertainment companies as songwriter/producer/mix&mastering engineer. Simon Petrén is the producer as well as mix/mastering engineer for the YouTube phenomena Dirty Loops. Their debut album was released by David Foster and Verve Records/Universal Music, USA/Japan (May 19, 2014). As of 2019 they are managed by Quincy Jones. Simon Petrén is credited with Arranging, Production, Mixing, Mastering as well as the video production of the 2016 version of “Over the Horizon”, the Samsung Galaxy brand sound, coming pre-loaded as mp3 & default ringtone on all of the Galaxy devices. Notable writing and production credits References External links

Simon Power (composer)

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Simon Power (born 14 February 1958) is an English composer & sound designer, best known for his work on the BBC’s Classic Novelisation range of Doctor Who audiobooks. Career Between the late 1980s and mid-1990s, Power produced a number of tracks and remixes under a variety of names including Atomix, Marine Boy, Angel Deluxe. He had chart success as Powerhouse when On the Floor (Champion Records) reached no.80 in the official UK charts. The E.P. La Monde Marine (1990) became a much sought after cult release and the tracks ‘Laura, Laura’ and ‘La Monde Marine’ gained airplay on The John Peel Show and Kiss FM. During the mid-1990s he worked with Future Publishing’s Future Music magazine, producing a series of cover mounted sample CDs called Bite Size Beats ’n’ Samples and The Ultimate Sample Collection. From the mid 1990s to 2004, Power worked as an engineer and senior audio editor at BBC Audiobooks where he contributed to a number of BBC Audio releases including Father Ted, The Mighty Boosh and Little Britain. As well as post production on a variety of Sci-Fi and fantasy audio releases (Doctor Who, Sarah Jane Adventures and Big Finish’s Pathfinder Legends and Blake’s 7 productions), P

Simon Preston

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Simon John Preston (4 August 1938 – 13 May 2022) was an English organist, conductor and composer who was admired as one of the most important English church musicians of his generation. Family and education Preston was born in Bournemouth, Dorset, to John Preston, an architectural draughtsman, and Doreen Lane, and was introduced to music at an early age. His uncle played the organ at the church that his family attended, and he was inspired to take up the instrument at the age of 5 after hearing a recording of George Thalben-Ball. He later studied under Caleb Henry Trevor at the Royal Academy of Music before returning to King’s College as organ scholar under David Willcocks. He first came to attention when he accompanied the college choir at the service of Nine Lessons and Carols on Christmas Eve in 1958. Admired as “one of the most important English church musicians of his generation”, he died on 13 May 2022 at the age of 83. Compositions and recordings From the 1960s onwards, Preston composed a number of works for the organ, the best-known of which is probably his Alleluyas, written in 1965 in the style of Olivier Messiaen. Recordings of his organ works originally made in the 1960

Simon Ravn

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Simon Ravn (born 25 January 1974 ) is a Danish composer who composes orchestral music for film, television and video games. Ravn was born in Copenhagen. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he wrote music in the MOD format under the pseudonym “Melomaniac”, and scored music for the Amiga game, Foundation. Prominent works Video games *Genetic Species (Amiga) *1999 Foundation (Amiga) *2009 Empire: Total War *2010 Napoleon: Total War *2019 Total War: Three Kingdoms Feature film *2005 Ainoa *2005 Bølle-Bob og Smukke Sally *2006 The Crumbs: A Very Crumby Christmas *2007 Anja & Viktor: Flaming Love - also known as Anja og Viktor - Brændende Kærlighed *2008 Anja & Viktor: In Sickness and in Health - also known as Anja & Viktor: I Medgang og Modgang *2010 Bølle Bob - Alle Tiders Helt *2012 Hvidsten Gruppen *2017 In Search of Peter Pan: På sporet af Peter Pan (documentary) Television *2007 Milosevic on Trial *2008 The Cloud Mystery *2014 Hero Factory Episode 11: Invasion from Below Trailers *2006 We Shall Overcome - also known as Drømmen *2005 Murk - also known as Mørke *2005 Dear Wendy *2004 Brothers References External links *Simon Ravn’s official website * *Gallery feature about Simon Ravn

Simon Russell (composer)

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Simon Russell is a British composer for TV and film. He has worked on many documentaries and films including James Bluemel’s Exodus; Our Journey to Europe, Once Upon a Time in Iraq and Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland Havana Marking’s Afghan Star, Baroque! From St Peter’s to St Paul’s, Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer and Lottie Bearshout animation. He composed 52 episodes of the South Korean kids animation series Canimals. Awards *2023: RTS Craft & Design Award winner Original Score - non-scripted for Once Upon A Time In Northern Ireland *2024: Emmy Award winner in Outstanding Music & Sound category for the Pussy Riot score Filmography Feature films * Weak At Denise (Guerilla Films; directed by Julian Nott, 2002) * Vampire Diary (Bard/Sterling; directed by Mark James, 2007) * Afghan Star (Roast Beef; directed by Havana Marking -2009) * Vote Afghanistan (Roast Beef/More 4, 2010) * 66 Months (Moving Target; directed by James Bluemel, 2011) * Silencing The Song (HBO/Roast Beef, 2011) * The Do Gooders (Roast Beef, 2013) * A Whole Lott More (Flying V/Roast Beef, 2013) * Smash And Grab (Roast Beef/BBC Storyville, 2012) * Pussy Riot (Roast Beef/BBC Storyville/HBO, 2013) * We Are Many (2014

Simon Sargon

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Simon Arthur Sargon (April 6, 1938 – December 25, 2022) was a composer, pianist, conductor, music educator, and major creative figure in contemporary American Jewish music. His compositions include liturgical and secular pieces; opera and musical theatre; works for youth ensemble; choral and art song; and chamber ensemble and symphonic works. Early life Sargon was born April 6, 1938 in Mumbai, India. His mother was of Ashkenazi (Russian) descent and his father was a Sephardic Jew whose family had settled in Mumbai. Sargon was brought to America at an early age and grew up in Winthrop, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts. Education Beginning his studies at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Sargon went on to graduate magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brandeis University with a B. A. in Music. He later attended the Juilliard School to obtain an M. S. in Composition in 1962. He also attended the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music School in Blue Hill, Maine; the Aspen Music Festival and School; and the Tanglewood Institute. His major teachers included Darius Milhaud, Irving Fine, Vincent Persichetti, Miecyslaw Horszowski, and Sergius Kagen. In 1974, Sargon was appointed

Simon Sechter

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Simon Sechter (11 October 1788 – 10 September 1867) was an Austrian music theorist, composer, conductor, and organist. He is best known as a strict music teacher, whose many students included Anton Bruckner, Sigismond Thalberg, and Henri Vieuxtemps. In 1851, he was professor of composition at the Vienna Conservatory; after Sechter’s death, his student Bruckner would succeed him and continue teaching his approach to harmony and counterpoint. A highly prolific composer, his total output numbers more than 8000 compositions, particularly since he sought to write a fugue every day. compiled and adapted Sechter’s Die richtige Folge der Grundharmonien as The Correct Order of Fundamental Harmonies: A Treatise on Fundamental Basses, and their Inversions and Substitutes (Wm. A. Pond, 1871; G. Schirmer, 1898). Biography Sechter was born in Friedberg (Frymburk), Bohemia, then part of the Austrian Empire, and moved to Vienna in 1804, succeeding Jan Václav Voříšek as court organist there in 1824. In 1810 he began teaching piano and voice at an academy for blind students. In 1828 the ailing Franz Schubert had one counterpoint lesson with him. In 1851 Sechter was appointed professor of composition

Simon Simon

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Simon Simon (born in either in 1720 or 1735, near Rambouillet; died after 1788 in Dreux) was a French harpsichordist and composer. Biography Most of the accounts of his life derive from the recollections of Jean-Benjamin de La Borde, in his . Youth At the age of seven, he was entrusted to his uncle Butet, organist at an abbey near Caen. It is remarked that “the mediocrity of the master’s talents spread to the progress of the pupil”. At age thirteen, his harpsichord skills were noticed by the Marquise de la Mézangère, a pupil of François Couperin. In 1747 she decided to take him in at her Paris to teach him the harpsichord while the violinist Saint-Saire taught him music. He later went on to study composition with Antoine Dauvergne. Career Louis XV gave Simon Simon the role of harpsichord teacher to the heirs to the throne, and later also the Queen Marie Leszczyńska and the Countess of Artois. He married a Mademoiselle Tardif, pupil of Le Tourneur, who became his assistant. Throughout the reign of Louis XVI he remained at Versailles. He survived the French Revolution, and retired to Montfort-l’Amaury and then to Dreux. Works Simon Simon published three books of harpsichord pieces, b

Simon Söfelde

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Simon Söfelde (born 23 November 1988 in Gothenburg) is a Swedish composer. and musician, active in both art music and popular music genres. Biography Söfelde pursued his studies in composition at the Gotland School of Music Composition and the Malmö Academy of Music, where he was mentored by composers such as Luca Francesconi, Bent Sørensen, Rolf Martinsson, and Hans Gefors. He furthered his education at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, studying under Detlev Müller-Siemens. Career Söfelde’s compositional work includes a diverse range of genres, from chamber music to film scores. His compositions have been performed internationally by orchestras and ensembles such as the Brussels Philharmonic, the Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble mise-en (US), CHROMA (UK), the Béla Quartet (FR), the Kreutzer Quartet and the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra. The Royal Swedish Academy of Music awarded him the Carin Malmlöf-Forsslings Composers Prize 2026, as well as the Christ Johnson Prize 2025 presented by His Majesty the King for the orchestral work Fugato. Additionally, he has a substantial background as an arranger, producer, and musical director, collaborating with artists l

Simon Steen-Andersen

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Simon Steen-Andersen (born 1976) is a Danish composer, performer, director and media artist. Biography Steen-Andersen studied composition with Karl Aage Rasmussen, Mathias Spahlinger, Gabriel Valverde, and Bent Sørensen in Aarhus, Freiburg, Buenos Aires and Copenhagen between 1998 and 2006. Since 2008 he has taught composition at The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, and since 2018 he has held been a professor in the Composition and Music Theatre department at University of the Arts Bern. In 2016 he became a member of the German Academy of the Arts, and in 2018 he was appointed as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. He currently lives in Berlin. Well known for his original and uncompromising compositions, which often exist in a grey area between artforms, he has achieved international recognition. His works have been performed and broadcast all over the world and he has received commissions from, among others, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Recherche, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Percussion de Strasbourg, Jack Quartet, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, SWR Symphonieorchester, Staatsoper Berlin, Opéra national du Rhin and Munich Biennale. His output ra

Simon Stockhausen

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Simon Stockhausen (born 5 June 1967) is a German composer. His parents are the artist Mary Bauermeister and the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen; the musician Markus Stockhausen is his half-brother. Life Born in Bergisch Gladbach, Stockhausen received his musical education from his father and various private teachers. He wrote his first compositions as a child and in 1980, he appeared publicly as a synthesizer player in the performance of his father’s composition Sternklang. In 1981, he performed as soprano saxophonist at the Teatro alla Scala in the opera Donnerstag aus Licht. After graduating from the in 1986, Stockhausen gave concerts worldwide with his father’s ensemble and was involved in the production and composition of electronic music for two operas from the cycle Licht. In 1996 he ended the collaboration with his father. Since 1982, he has also worked in various ensembles (including Kairos, Aparis and Possible Worlds) with his half-brother Markus Stockhausen. Together with Jo Thönes, they formed the jazz trio Aparis, which gave international concerts and published two CDs at ECM. In 1991, Simon and Markus together composed the piece Köln Music Fantasy for the fifth annivers

Simon Viklund

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Simon Viklund (born Simon Wiklund, December 1, 1979) is a Swedish freelance video game composer, music producer, sound designer and game designer, who was first known for his work on the 2008 game Bionic Commando Rearmed, in which he was a creative director and composer. He is also known for his work on the Payday series as a composer and the voice of the character Bain. In 2000, Viklund joined his friend Ulf Andersson’s company, Grin, and worked on most of the company’s games, which included Bionic Commando: Rearmed. Grin went bankrupt in 2009, leading Viklund, Ulf Andersson and his brother Bo to found Overkill Software. Viklund left Overkill in 2015 to become a freelancer. In 2016, he joined 10 Chambers Collective, another company founded by Ulf Andersson, while continuing his freelance projects. Early life Simon Wiklund was born in Stockholm on December 1, 1979. He began learning music through the violin as a child, and later received classical piano lessons for about seven years. As a teenager he sang in the local church choir, and was briefly a singer in a band established by his friends in high school. None of his music was released at the time, because he was personally unsa

Simon Waley

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Simon Waley Waley (23 August 182730 December 1875) was one of the leading members of Anglo-Jewry in the 19th century. Waley was born in Stockwell, London. He was a leading broker on the London Stock Exchange and a prominent amateur musician. He was a leading figure in the Jewish community during the period of the emancipation of the Jews from civil disabilities. He contributed many letters to The Times under the signature W. London. His letters on A tour in Auvergne, published in the Daily News in 1858, were incorporated into John Murray’s Handbook for Travellers in France. Waley was a highly gifted musician. He began to compose as a child. His first published work, L’arpeggio (for piano), was published in 1848. He had piano lessons from Ignaz Moscheles, William Sterndale Bennett and George Alexander Osborne, and lessons in theory and composition from William Horsley and Bernhard Molique. As well as being a brilliant pianist (he performed regularly at concerts of the Amateur Musical Society conducted by Henry Leslie), Waley was a prolific composer. His published compositions include a piano concerto (op. 16), two piano trios (in B flat and G minor, op. 15 and op. 20), marches and c

Simon Wallace

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Simon Wallace (born 1957) is a British composer and pianist. Simon Wallace was born in Newport, South Wales. He studied music at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and University College, Oxford, where he ran the Oxford University Jazz Club and played with The Oxcentrics, a Dixieland jazz band. He also studied with jazz pianists in London and New York. Wallace collaborated with the film and television composer Simon Brint In 1982 they scored A Shocking Accident which won 1983 Oscar for ‘best live action short From 1990 to 1993, Wallace toured internationally as a member of The Lindsay Kemp Company devising and performing music with composer percussionist Joji Hirota for the show Onnagata and the film Travelling Light. Theatre shows based on Landesman/Wallace songs include There’s Something Irresistible in Down (1996) produced at the Young Vic by members of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Forbidden Games (1997) at the Ustinov Theatre Bath, the Pleasance Theatre Edinburgh and the Gdansk Shakespeare Festival and Queen of the Bohemian Dream (2007) produced at the Source Theatre in Washington, D.C. From 2003 to 2006, Wallace was musical director for jazz singer Clare Teal. He arran

Simon-Joseph Pellegrin

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The abbé Simon-Joseph Pellegrin (1663 – 5 September 1745) was a French poet and playwright, a librettist who collaborated with Jean-Philippe Rameau and other composers. Biography He was born at Marseille, Province of Provence, the son of a conseiller to the Siège Présidial of the city. He was at first designated for an ecclesiastical career, from which he retained the courtesy title abbé. Though he was for a time a novice of the Servites at Moustiers-Sainte-Marie, he soon embarked on a career as a ship’s bursar. Returning to France in 1703, he settled in Paris and composed his earliest poems, among them an Epître à Louis XIV, praising the Sun King’s military successes, which gained the king’s attention and the Académie française prize in 1704. Probably thanks to Madame de Maintenon, Pellegrin succeeded in escaping the urging of his superiors that he become more fully integrated with his order; instead a papal dispensation enabled him to enter the Cluniac order, whereupon he was at the service of various schools, such as Saint-Cyr, for which he provided numerous pious cantiques spirituelles, in which he translated psalms and canticles and set them to familiar tunes from the opera, a

Simone Cilio

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Simone Antonio Cilio (born 4 September 1992) is an Italian film composer best known for his film scores. Life and career Simone Cilio was born in Niscemi, Italy. In his early career, he worked on the feature film Badsville; his score was nominated as Best Original Score at the Maverick Movie Awards. Filmography 2013 * Next To Me (short film) – directed by Sara Mignogna * How to kill my boyfriend (short film) – directed by Alfonso Perugini * Avenge my eyes (short film) – directed by Alex Kaplan * Cinema Cafe (web series) – directed by Paolo Brancati * La Grande Festa – Capurso (documentary) – directed by Antony Pepe 2014 * L’Evento – directed by Lorenzo D’Amelio * Nella tasca del cappotto (short film) – directed by Marco Di Gerlando * The War at Home (short film) – August Dannehl * One Night Only (short film) – directed by Brendan Elmore * Wrong Way (web series) – directed by Ninni Palma * La proposta (short film) – directed by Mirko Salciarini * Bastard! (short film) – directed by John Gallegos * Punctum (short film) – directed by Michael Gaddini 2015 * Censurado, Ode to love – directed by Mauro Russo Rouge * Il ricordo di una lacrima – directed by Mario Santocchio * The Last One –

Simone Molinaro

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Simone Molinaro (c. 1570 – May 1636) was a composer of the late Renaissance in Italy. He was especially renowned for his lute music. Life and career Molinaro was born in Genoa. He studied music with his uncle, Giovanni Battista Dalla Gostena, who was maestro di cappella at Genoa Cathedral. In 1593, Gostena was murdered, and Molinaro succeeded him in his post at the Cathedral in 1599. The same year he published Intavolatura di liuto, containing lute works both by himself and by Gostena. In addition to his lute works, Molinaro composed a large number of sacred choral music, most of which does not survive completely because of missing partbooks. However, some five-voice motets have been preserved in the collections of Hassler and Schadaeus. Molinaro died in May 1636 in Genoa. Assessment In his dances for lute, according to Eitner, Molinaro “despises all counterpoint, and shows himself as a pure melodist and harmonist, but both in so simple and pretty a way, that they all have something uncommonly attractive”. Molinaro wrote at the time when, according to Paul Henry Lang, lute music was reaching its apogee. Along with Giovanni Terzi, Molinaro’s lute music introduces “a finished, gracef

Sinan Savaskan

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Sinan Carter Savaşkan (born 11 August 1954 ) is a Turkish-born, British composer of contemporary classical music. He works and lives in London, England, where he is the Composer in Residence for the Octandre Ensemble and an executive committee member of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. Savaskan’s music has been programmed widely by organisations and ensembles such as the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts) in London — in particular, its MusICA series run for many years by Adrian Jack—the BBC, Lontano, the Balanescu Quartet, the Smith Quartet, the S.E.M. Ensemble of New York, and such conductors as Martyn Brabbins, Zsolt Nagy and Petr Kotik. Music career Savaşkan’s music employs highly personal pitch-time structuring methods, derived from notions of spatial perspective and architecture. This pitch-time technique was first displayed in his chamber works Many Stares Through Semi-Nocturnal Zeiss Blink (1979) and Antedonia (1980). The basis of the technique is the gradual circular rotation of pitch classes moving at different speeds simultaneously; this rotation can be effected chromatically, micro-chromatically, through glissandi, or any combination of these.

Singer-songwriter

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A singer-songwriter is a musician who writes, composes, and performs their own musical material, including lyrics and melodies. In the United States, the category is built on the folk-acoustic tradition with a guitar, although this role has transmuted through different eras of popular music. Traditionally, these musicians would write and sing songs personal to them. Singer-songwriters often provide the sole musical accompaniment to an entire song. The piano is also an instrument of choice. Biography The label “singer-songwriter” (or “song-writer/singer” ) is used by record labels and critics to define popular music artists who write and perform their own material, which is often self-accompanied – generally on acoustic guitar or piano. Such an artist performs the roles of composer, lyricist, vocalist, sometimes instrumentalist, and often self-manager. According to AllMusic, singer-songwriters’ lyrics are often personal but veiled by elaborate metaphors and vague imagery, and their creative concern is to place emphasis on the song rather than on their performance of it. Most records by such artists have a similarly straightforward and spare sound that places emphasis on the song its

Sinne Eeg

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Sinne Eeg (born 1 September 1977) is a Danish jazz vocalist and composer. Eeg has received a number of recognitions and positive reviews both nationally and internationally, and is considered among the best female jazz vocalists currently in Scandinavia. She has composed many of her own songs, and although she usually sings in English, she has also performed and recorded songs in Danish. Eeg has won the Danish Music Awards prize in the category Best Danish Vocal Jazz Album of the Year four times: in 2007, 2010, 2014 and 2015, for her albums Waiting for Dawn, Don’t Be So Blue, Face the Music, and Eeg - Fonnesbæk. She also received the Ben Webster Prize in 2014. The Webster Foundation describes her as “a true jazz singer, who both shows sensitivity, improvisational skills, maturity, broad range and timing in her singing.” Background Eeg was admitted at the Academy of Music in Esbjerg in 1997; she graduated in 2003. As part of her musical studies she has studied with American singer Janet Lawson in New York City. Eeg has toured Europe, Japan, China and the United States. On 26 January 2012 she sang in Brussels accompanied by the Danish Radio Big Band at the celebration for the beginni

Sinta Wullur

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Sinta Wullur (born 16 November 1958) is an Indonesian-Dutch gamelan musician, pianist, singer, and classical composer. Biography Sinta Wullur was born in Bandung, Indonesia, and emigrated to the Netherlands in 1968. Wullur studied music at the Sweelinck Conservatory with Willem Brons and received a degree in piano. She also studied composition with Ton de Leeuw at the same conservatory, and continued her studies in 1988 at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with the composers Theo Loevendie and Louis Andriessen. She studied electronic music with Gilius van Bergeijk and Jan Boerman, and gamelan and singing with several teachers in Bali and Java. She received her degree in composition in 1991. Wullur founded several gamelan groups in the Netherlands, including Tirta and Irama, and since 1992 has worked with the gamelan ensemble Widosari as a Javanese singer. She uses chromatically tuned gamelan instruments in her compositions and with her own gamelan ensemble Multifoon. Wullur has issued recordings on CD, including most recently Gong and Strings. Works Wullur integrates Eastern and Western music in her compositions. Selected works include: *Dreams and Fairy Tales *Khayal, for piano

Sinyan Shen

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Sinyan Shen (; born November 12, 1949 - died November 7, 2016) was a Singaporean physicist and classical composer. Life Born in Singapore to the parents of Shanghai background, Sinyan Shen studied music at a very early age and mastered the vertical fiddle family of instruments. His dual career in music and physics culminated in the development of cultural acoustics, a discipline addressing scientifically the cultural molding of our ears and brain to music. Shen’s life work centered on the essence of music. Shen, who lived in Illinois, taught cultural acoustics at Northwestern University and Harvard University. He was a music director of the Silk and Bamboo Ensemble and the Chinese Classical Orchestra. Both ensembles toured internationally under the auspices of the Chinese Music Society of North America, but have not performed publicly since 2006. Shen was an editor of the international journal Chinese Music, music authority for the Encyclopædia Britannica, and a Fulbright Scholar. He served as a technical advisor for the Shanghai Musical Instrument Factory. He died in Palo Alto, California at the age of 67, several years after suffering a debilitating stroke.Works Shen’s works incl

Siobhán Cleary

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Siobhán Cleary (born 10 May 1970) is an Irish composer. She has also worked as a film composer, and is a member of Aosdána. Early life and education Born in Dublin, Cleary started to compose from an early age, often writing pieces while she was supposed to be practising at the piano. When she began to study music at Maynooth University, she was initially inspired by Luciano Berio’s Sinfonia, and soon afterwards by the works of the Irish composer Gerald Barry, the French Olivier Messiaen and the Hungarian György Ligeti. Composition Inspired by the alchemists’ Opus Alchymicum which describes how cheaper metals are transmuted into gold, Cleary’s orchestral work Alchemy (2001) is, like the stages in the Opus, presented in four parts: it evolves from the slow nigrendo, the moderate albedo, the strong citronatus, and the burning rubedo. The work was performed by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in January 2002. Her tone poem Cokaygne (2009), which, like Alchemy, was commissioned by RTÉ for the National Symphony Orchestra, is based on a poem and old sources which evoke a land of extreme luxury and contentment. The elaborately orchestrated piece was performed by the RTÉ National Symphon

Sir John Clerk, 2nd Baronet

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Sir John Clerk, 2nd Baronet (c. 1676 – 4 October 1755) was a Scottish politician, lawyer, judge and composer. He was vice-president of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, the pre-eminent learned society of the Scottish Enlightenment. Clerk was also the father of George Clerk-Maxwell and John Clerk of Eldin, and the great-great-grandfather of the famous physicist James Clerk Maxwell. Early life John Clerk was son of Sir John Clerk, 1st Baronet by his first wife Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Henderson of Elvington. He had a legal education first at University of Glasgow and then at Leiden University. During 1697 and 1698 he went on a Grand Tour. In 1699 he composed a cantata entitled Leo Scotiae Irratus (The Scottish Lion Angered), with Latin lyrics by his Dutch friend Herman Boerhaave, to celebrate the establishment of the Scottish trading colony at Darien by the Company of Scotland. In 1700 was admitted to the Scottish Bar. Between 1700 and 1730 he planted 300,000 trees on the grounds of the family estate at Penicuik House. Parliament He was a member of the Parliament of Scotland for Whithorn from 1702 to 1707, and a commissioner for the Union of Parliaments for the Whig Party:

Sirvart Kalpakyan Karamanuk

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Sirvart Kalpakyan Karamanuk (; 1 December 1912 – 20 October 2008) was an Armenian composer, pianist and teacher, living in Istanbul. Early life Karamanuk was born in the Üsküdar district of Constantinople, Ottoman Empire. She began studying the piano at the age of five with Stepan Papelyan, and later graduated from the Istanbul Municipal Conservatory (now Istanbul University State Conservatory) in 1939, where her principal teacher was Ferdi Statzer. She also took classes with Cemal Reşit Rey, Ahmet Adnan Saygun and Licco Amar in music theory, history and chamber music. Subsequently, Karamanuk took private lessons in piano with Lazare Lévy and composition with Jean Roger-Ducasse for a short period. Career Karamanuk composed numerous songs, choral works, large-scale compositions for chorus and orchestra (Akhtamar and The Song of Bedros Tourian), a children’s operetta (Tomorrow’s Artists), children’s songs, piano compositions, and arrangements of liturgical chants. Her works have been performed in several countries and recorded by distinguished soloists and ensembles. Concerts devoted entirely to her compositions have been organised in Yerevan’s Aram Khachaturian House-Museum and Aram

Sixto María Durán Cárdenas

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Sixto María Durán Cárdenas (August 6, 1875 – January 13, 1947) was an Ecuadorian pianist, composer, and lawyer. He served as a judge, composed more than one hundred musical works, and was director of the National Conservatory of Music on three occasions. He also composed hymns for various institutions and military marches. Personal life and death Durán Cárdenas was born in Quito on August 6, 1875, the same day when the President Gabriel García Moreno was murdered. His parents were Domingo Durán, aide-de-camp of President Gabriel García Moreno, and Emperatriz Cárdenas, his first music teacher, a singer and notable harpist. After completing his elementary education and having lost his father, he entered the San Luis Minor Seminary in Quito. Julio Troncoso, director of the publication El año ecuatoriano, indicates that at the Seminary, Durán had a great music teacher in the priest Ditte, a Dutch Lazarist; however, another brief biography, unpublished and without a signature of responsibility, indicates that it was with the German priest Jausen, with whom he carried out his musical studies. At this time, the young artist had to teach mathematics privately to finance his studies. He ear