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Soe Tjen Marching

Soe Tjen Marching (born April 23, 1971, in Surabaya, Indonesia) is a writer, academician, activist, and a composer of avant-garde music from Indonesia. In 1998, she won the national competition for

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Sofía Cancino de Cuevas

Sofía Cancino de Cuevas (July 29, 1897 – December 16, 1982) was a Mexican composer, pianist, opera promoter, singer, and her country's first woman symphonic conductor. Biography Sofía Cancino de

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Sofia Gubaidulina

Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina (24 October 1931 – 13 March 2025) was a Soviet and Russian composer of modernist sacred music. She was highly prolific, producing numerous chamber, orchestral and choral

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Sofia Levkovskaya

Sofia Sergeevna Levkovskaya (, 25 November 1965 – 20 June 2011) was a Russian composer. She has worked with several conductors, including Alexander Titov, Fedor Lednev, Anatoly Rybalko, and ;

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Sofie Rohnstock

Sofie Rohnstock (25 December 1875 – 26 December 1964) was an Austrian composer who is best remembered for her String Trio in G Major (for violin, viola and cello), apparently the only one of her

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Sol Berkowitz

Sol Berkowitz (27 April 1922 – 29 July 2006) was an American composer and music educator. Life Sol Berkowitz was born in Warren, Ohio, and lived in New York from 1925. He received music degrees from

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Sol Kaplan

Sol Kaplan (April 19, 1919 – November 14, 1990) was an American film and television music composer. Life and career Kaplan was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and he graduated from the Curtis

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Solage

Solage (; or Soulage), possibly Jean , was a French composer, and probably also a poet. He composed the most pieces in the Chantilly Codex, the principal source of music of the ars subtilior, the

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Solange Ancona

Solange Ancona (born 14 August 1943 in Paris – November 29, 2019) was a French composer. Biography Ancona studied at the Conservatoire national supérieur de Paris under Olivier Messiaen and Giacinto

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Solhi al-Wadi

Solhi al-Wadi (, ) (1934–2007) was an Iraqi-born musician, conductor, composer, educator and director, who lived most of his life in Damascus, Syria. Life Solhi al-Wadi was born in Baghdad on 12

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Solomon Eccles

Solomon Eccles (1618–1683), also known as Solomon Eagle, was an English composer. However, he later became an active Quaker and distanced himself from church music. Life Solomon Eagle was mentioned

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Solon Michaelides

Solon Michaelides (12 November 190510 September 1979) was a Cypriot Greek composer, teacher and musicologist. He taught himself the guitar as a schoolkid. He was appointed guitar teacher in the

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Solveig Sørbø

Solveig Sørbø (born 1986) is a Norwegian composer, music producer, performing artist and former librarian and radio journalist. Music Solveig Sørbø scored the music for the 2021 documentary film Hans

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Somei Satoh

is a Japanese composer of contemporary music. Style Satoh’s compositions mix Japanese court music with European romanticism and electronic music. Career His musical career began with an experimental,

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Song Kwang-sik

Song Kwang-sik (born March 22, 1966) is a South Korean pianist, working both as a recording and studio artist signed under the label of SM Entertainment. He has released two solo albums and have

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Songs of Emmanuel Chabrier

The French composer Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–94) wrote music in many genres, including opera and operetta, piano, orchestral music, and songs with piano accompaniment. The songs of Chabrier cover most

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Songwriter

A songwriter is a person who creates musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a composer, although this term tends to be used mainly

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Sonia Bo

Sonia Bo (born 27 March 1960) is an Italian pianist, conductor and composer. Her works have been performed at a number of festivals, including She has won a number of awards, including first prizes

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Sonia Paço-Rocchia

Sonia Paço-Rocchia (/so.ˈnja ˈpa.so ˈrɔ.kja/), born in 1982 in Montreal, is a composer, multidisciplinary artist, improviser, bassoonist and creative coder. Biography After graduating in mixed music

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Sonya Belousova

Sonya Belousova (born February 4, 1990) is a Russian-American composer, music producer, songwriter, and artist whose viral hit Toss A Coin To Your Witcher reached #1 on the Billboard charts. Based in

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Sophia Dashing

Sophia Dashing is an American pop singer-songwriter and dancer from Atlanta, Georgia known for her advocacy for the feminist movement and the LGBTQ community. Career In 2021, Dashing released her

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Sophia Dussek

Sophia Giustina Dussek (née Corri; later Moralt; 1 May 1775 in Edinburgh – c. 1831 in London) was a Scottish singer, pianist, harpist, and composer of Italian descent. In 1792, Dussek married the

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Sophia Maria Westenholz

Sophia Maria Westenholz (née Elenore Sophia Maria Fritscher; 10 July 1759 - 4 October 1838) was a German composer, musician, singer and music educator. Born in Neubrandenburg, she was raised in a

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Sophie Bawr

Baroness Sophie de Bawr (8 October 1773 – 31 December 1860), born Alexandrine-Sophie Goury de Champgrand, was a French writer, playwright and composer, also known as "Comtesse de Saint-Simon",

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Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté

Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté (; in Moscow, Russia – 2 December 1974 in Stuttgart, Germany) was a Russian-born Canadian composer, virtuoso pianist, and violinist. Biography Early life She was born

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Sophie Dedekam

Sophie Dedekam (1 April 18201 June 1894) was a Norwegian composer and diarist, one of the most significant Norwegian women composers of the 19th century, and principally remembered today for a hymn

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Sophie Gail

Edmee Sophie Gail née Garre (28 August 1775 – 24 July 1819) was a French singer and composer, famous for writing romances (a French song genre) and opéra comique. Life Sophie Garre was born in Paris

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Sophie Lacaze

Sophie Lacaze (born 9 September 1963) is a French composer. Life Lacaze was born in Lourdes. She studied music at the Conservatoire de Toulouse, and continued at the Ecole Normale de Musique de

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Sophie Viney

Sophie Viney (born 1974) is an English composer and arranger. Her compositions have been performed at significant venues such as the Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall and St. Martin-in-the-Fields and

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Sören Sieg

Sören Sieg (born 1 November 1966) is a German tenor, songwriter, composer, arranger, satirist, columnist and writer. He is a co-founder of the a cappella group , in which he sang as a tenor and

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Sorrel Hays

Sorrel Hays (August 6, 1941 – February 9, 2020) was an American pianist, composer, filmmaker and artist. Life Hays was born Doris Ernestine Hays in Memphis, Tennessee, and in 1985 adopted her

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Soundpainting

Soundpainting is a universal multi-disciplinary live-composing sign language for every kind of artist (musicians, actors, dancers, visual artists), and is still evolving since its creation in 1974 by

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