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Composers whose names start with TH.

Early Romantic

Thaddäus Weigl

Thaddäus Weigl (8 April 1776 – 10 February 1844) was an Austrian composer and music publisher. Life He was born in Vienna, son of Joseph Franz Weigl, a cellist in the Vienna Court Theatre, and

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21st Century

Thaman S

Ghantasala Sai Srinivas (born 16 November 1983), professionally credited as Thaman S, is an Indian composer and playback singer known for his works majorly in Telugu and Tamil cinema. He is the

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21st Century

Thanasis Deligiannis

Thanasis Deligiannis (; born 1983) is a Greek transdisciplinary artist, composer, and director based in Amsterdam. His work blends installation and performance, acoustic and electronic music, urban

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Post-War

Thanos Mikroutsikos

Athanasios "Thanos" Mikroutsikos (; 13 April 1947 – 28 December 2019) was a Greek composer and politician. He is considered one of the most important composers of the recent Greek musical scene.

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21st Century

The Audible Doctor

Mark Vincent Woodford (born May 24, 1984), better known by his stage name The Audible Doctor, is a Brooklyn-based American record producer and underground rapper. The Audible Doctor has been credited

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Entry

The Family (songwriters)

The Family is a Swedish songwriting and music production team consisting of the married couple Joy & Linnéa Deb and Anton Hård Af Segerstad. They have worked with artists such as Fifth Harmony, JoJo,

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Entry

The Five (composers)

The Five (), also known as the Mighty Handful or The Mighty Five, were five prominent 19th-century Russian composers who worked together to create a distinct national style of classical music: Mily

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Entry

The Kreep

The Kreep , also recognized by the pseudonym B. R. Kreep, is a Gothic poet, playwright, composer, and lyricist. The creative endeavors attributed to The Kreep are the work of the writer Richard

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Entry

The Songwriter's Network

The Songwriter's Network (SongNet) is a volunteer-run organization that supports the networking of songwriters in the Los Angeles, California area. Founded in October 1998, SongNet has sponsored

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Entry

The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin

The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin (sometimes titled Shostakovich Against Stalin: The War Symphonies) is a 1997 documentary film about Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich. It focuses on

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Post-War

Thea Musgrave

Thea Musgrave CBE (born 27 May 1928) is a Scottish composer of opera and classical music. She has lived in the United States since 1972. Biography Born in Barnton, Edinburgh, Musgrave was educated at

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20th Century

Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Sphere Monk ( October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer. He had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz

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Entry

Thema (Omaggio a Joyce)

Thema (Omaggio a Joyce) is an electroacoustic composition by Luciano Berio, for voice and tape. Composed in 1958 and 1959, it is based on the interpretative reading of the poem "Sirens" from chapter

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21st Century

Theo Bleckmann

Theodor Raoul Bleckmann (born 28 May 1966) is a German singer and composer. Biography Bleckmann was born in Dortmund, West Germany. With guitarist Ben Monder he recorded his first solo album, Origami

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Post-War

Theo Brandmüller

Theo Brandmüller (* 2 February 1948 in Mainz; † 26 November 2012 in Saarbrücken) was a German composer of contemporary music, organist and university Professor. Life Brandmüller studied school and

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Post-War

Theo Bruins

Theo Bruins (25 November 1929, in Arnhem – 8 January 1993, in Haarlem) was a Dutch pianist and composer. Life and career Bruins' earliest piano lessons were with his mother. His professional piano

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Late Romantic

Théo Charlier

Theophile Noel Charlier (17 July 1868 – 9 October 1944), more commonly known as Théo Charlier, was a Belgian trumpeter, composer, and teacher. He was notable for preferring the trumpet during a

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20th Century

Théo De Joncker

Théo De Joncker (11 April 1894, in Brussels – 12 July 1964, in Asse) was a Belgian composer. Biography Théo De Joncker was a student of August de Boeck and Paul Gilson. For years he conducted the

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Post-War

Theo Loevendie

Johan Theodorus Loevendie (born 17 September 1930) is a Dutch composer and clarinet player. Loevendie was born in Amsterdam, and studied composition and clarinet at the music academy (Conservatorium)

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20th Century

Theo Mackeben

Theo Mackeben, born 5 January 1897 in Preußisch Stargard, Westpreußen, died 10 January 1953 in Berlin, was a German pianist, conductor, and composer, particularly of film music. Life and career From

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Late Romantic

Theo Marzials

Théophile-Jules-Henri "Theo" Marzials (20 December 1850 – 2 February 1920) was a British composer, singer and poet. Marzials was described in 1894 as a "poet and eccentric" by parodist Max Beerbohm,

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21st Century

Theo Verbey

Theo Verbey (5 July 1959 – 13 October 2019) was a Dutch composer. His style could be considered to be associated with Postmodern music. Verbey was also orchestrated Alban Berg's Piano Sonata, Op. 1

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Late Romantic

Théo Ysaÿe

Théophile Ysaÿe (; 2 March 1865 – 24 March 1918) was a Belgian composer and pianist, born in Verviers, Belgium. His brother was the violinist and conductor Eugène Ysaÿe. Biography Rather overshadowed

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Early Romantic

Theobald Boehm

Theobald Böhm (or Boehm) (9 April 1794 – 25 November 1881) was a German inventor and musician, who greatly improved the modern Western concert flute and Clarinet and its fingering system (now known

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Late Romantic

Theodor Albin Findeisen

Theodor Albin Findeisen (October 1, 1881, in Zeitz – March 3, 1936, at his country house in Rasberg near Zeitz) was a German double bass player, composer and teacher. Life Little is known about

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Late Romantic

Theodor Blumer

Theodor Anton Blumer (24 March 1881 – 21 September 1964) was a German composer and conductor. Blumer was born in Dresden. He studied composition with Felix Draeseke and W. Brookman at the Dresden

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Romantic

Theodor Kirchner

Fürchtegott Theodor Kirchner (10 December 1823 – 18 September 1903) was a German composer and pianist of the Romantic era. Musical career Kirchner enjoyed the friendship and admiration of many

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Romantic

Theodor Kullak

Theodor Kullak (12 September 1818 – 1 March 1882) was a German pianist, composer and teacher. Background Kullak was born on 12 September 1818, in Krotoszyn. He began his piano studies as a pupil of

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Romantic

Theodor Leschetizky

Theodor Leschetizky (sometimes spelled Leschetitzky; ; 22 June 1830 – 14 November 1915) was a Polish pianist, professor, and composer active in Austria-Hungary. He was born in Łańcut in the Kingdom

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20th Century

Theodor Schaefer

Theodor Schaefer (23 January 1904 – 19 March 1969) was a Czech composer and pedagogue. Life Theodor Schaefer was born in Telč, Moravia, Austria-Hungary on 23 January 1904. During 1922–1926, he

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21st Century

Theodor Schubach

Theodor Schubach (born in 1985) is a German composer. Life Born in Berlin, from 1997 to 2004 Schubach attended the . During his school years he received piano lessons from Gunnar Nauck and Marlies

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Late Romantic

Theodor Szántó

Theodor Szántó, also seen as Tivadar Szántó (3 June 1877 7 January 1934) was a Hungarian Jewish He resided in Paris from 1905, Switzerland from 1914, and Budapest from 1921 until his death there in

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20th Century

Theodor W. Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno (; ; born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; 11 September 1903 – 6 August 1969) was a German philosopher, cultural, and music critic. He was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of

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Late Romantic

Theodora Sturkow-Ryder

Theodora Sturkow-Ryder (August 11, 1876 – August 3, 1958) was an American concert pianist, composer, music critic and piano teacher, based in Chicago. Early life Theodora Sturkow was born in

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20th Century

Theodora Troendle

Theodora R. Troendle (October 19, 1893 – June 12, 1972) was an American composer, pianist, and music educator who composed a piano concerto, then premiered it as the soloist with the Chicago Women's

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Post-War

Theodore Antoniou

Theodore Antoniou (, Theódoros Andoníou; February 10, 1935 – December 26, 2018), was a Greek composer and conductor. His works vary from operas and choral works to chamber music, from film and

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Late Romantic

Theodore Bendix

Theodore Bendix or Theo. Bendix (July 25, 1862 – January 15, 1935) was an American composer, classical violinist, musical director, and opera conductor. He became a professional musician at the age

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20th Century

Theodore Chanler

Theodore Ward Chanler (April 29, 1902 – July 27, 1961) was an American composer. Early life Chanler was born on April 29, 1902, in Newport, Rhode Island. He was a son of Major Winthrop Astor Chanler

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Entry

Theodore Christman

Theodore Christman is an American composer of classical music. He is most noted for his operas and other vocal music. His first operas, A Special Secret Someone and The Dreamer, were premiered in

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Romantic

Théodore Dubois

Clément François Théodore Dubois (; 24 August 1837 – 11 June 1924) was a French Romantic composer, organist and pedagogue. After study at the Paris Conservatoire, Dubois won France's premier musical

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Romantic

Théodore Gouvy

Louis Théodore Gouvy (3 July 1819 – 21 April 1898) was a French/German composer. Biography Gouvy was born into a French-speaking family in Goffontaine, now of Saarbrücken-Schafbrücke, Germany. The

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Late Romantic

Theodore Holland

Theodore Samuel Holland, OBE (25 April 1878 – 29 October 1947), was a British composer and academic. Born in Wimbledon, Holland attended Westminster School and then the Royal College of Music, where

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Early Romantic

Théodore Labarre

Théodore François Joseph Berry Labarre (23 March 1805 – 9 March 1870) was a French harpist and composer. He lived in Paris and in London and was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1823 as well as the Légion

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Romantic

Théodore Lack

Théodore Lack (3 September 1846 – 25 November 1921) was a French pianist and composer. Life Born in Quimper, he studied under Antoine François Marmontel (pianoforte), Lefébure-Wély (composition) and

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Romantic

Théodore Lajarte

Théodore Lajarte (10 July 1826 – 20 June 1890) was a French musicologist, librarian, and composer. Early years and education Lajarte was born in Bordeaux. His full name has been given as Théodore

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Romantic

Theodore Oesten

Theodore Oesten (also Theodor in German) (December 31, 1813 – March 16, 1870) was a German composer, musician, and music teacher. Oesten was born in Berlin. He learned to play wind and string

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Romantic

Théodore Salomé

Théodore-César Salomé (20 January 1834 – 26 July 1896) was a French organist and composer. Biography Théodore Salomé was born in Paris. He completed all of his musical studies at the Conservatoire de

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21st Century

Theodore Shapiro

Theodore Michael Shapiro ( ; born September 29, 1971) is an American composer known for his film scores. He is a frequent collaborator of directors Ben Stiller, Paul Feig, Jay Roach, Karyn Kusama,

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21st Century

Therese Birkelund Ulvo

Therese Birkelund Ulvo (born 24 November 1982) is a Norwegian composer and producer. Birkelund Ulvo studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music from 2002 to 2008 and at the Guildhall School of Music in

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Entry

Therese Emilie Henriette Winkel

Therese Emilie Henriette Winkel (20 December 1784 – 7 March 1867) was a German artist, author, composer, and harpist. She also published under the pseudonyms Comala and Theorosa. Winkel was born in

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Romantic

Thérèse Wartel

Atala Thérèse Annette Wartel, née Adrien (2 July 1814 – 6 November 1865), was a French pianist, music educator, composer and critic. Biography Born in Paris, Thérèse Wartel was the daughter of the

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21st Century

Thierry Blondeau

Thierry Blondeau (born 1961) is a French composer. Life Born in Vincennes, Blondeau studied music and literature in Paris and Berlin (First Prize for musical composition at the Conservatoire de Paris

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21st Century

Thierry Deleruyelle

Thierry Deleruyelle (born August 9, 1983, in Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France) is a French composer, conductor and percussionist, known for his work in concert and brass band music. His compositions have

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21st Century

Thierry Escaich

Thierry Joseph-Louis Escaich (born 8 May 1965) is a French organist and composer. Life Born in Nogent-sur-Marne, Escaich studied organ, improvisation and composition at the Conservatoire de Paris

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21st Century

Thierry Huillet

Thierry Huillet (born 21 July 1965) is a French pianist and composer of classical and contemporary classical music. As pianist Born in Toulouse, Huillet won first prize at the Conservatoire de Paris

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Post-War

Thierry Lancino

Thierry Lancino (born 27 March 1954) is a French composer. Thierry Lancino was born in Civray, Vienne. He was appointed Pensionnaire of the French Academy in Rome (1988–90) at the Villa Medici.

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21st Century

Thierry Malet

Thierry Malet, is a French composer of film music. He is also the designer of the very first MIDI guitars and a new 3D spatialization system for feature film music. Life and career Thierry Malet

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21st Century

Thierry Plas

Thierry Patrick Plas (born 1959) is a Belgian guitarist, first known as lead guitarist and co-songwriter for the Belgian rock group Machiavel. Since 1992, Plas composes and produces also soundtracks

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21st Century

Thierry Tidrow

Thierry Tidrow (born 29 September 1986) is a Franco-Ontarian composer. He currently lives in Berlin, Germany. In 2014, he was awarded the Jules-Léger Prize for New Chamber Music, for his work, Au

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21st Century

Thom Russo

Thomas Russo is an American record producer, composer, mixing engineer, and songwriter. His work spans Anglo-American pop rock and alternative rock, as well as Latin music. He studied composition,

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Post-War

Thomas Åberg

Thomas Åberg (born 1952, Stockholm) is a Swedish composer and organist known for performing his own music. He has spent his career based in Stockholm and is recognized for a distinctive approach that

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21st Century

Thomas Adès

Thomas Joseph Edmund Adès (born 1 March 1971) is a British composer, pianist and conductor. Five compositions by Adès received votes in the 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music

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21st Century

Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen

Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen (born December 3, 1969) is a Danish composer and cellist. Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen studied cello at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus from 1991 to 1998, and composition with

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Post-War

Thomas Albert (composer)

Thomas Albert (born December 14, 1948) is an American composer and educator. He attended the public schools of Lebanon, Pennsylvania and Wilson, North Carolina. In 1970, he received the degree A.B.

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Classical

Thomas Arne

Thomas Augustine Arne (; 12 March 17105 March 1778) was an English composer of the late Baroque and early Classical periods. He is known for his patriotic song "Rule, Britannia!" and the song

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Renaissance

Thomas Ashwell

Thomas Ashwell or Ashewell (c. 1478 – after 1513 (possibly 1527?)) was an English composer of the Renaissance. He was a skilled composer of polyphony, and may have been the teacher of John Taverner.

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Classical

Thomas Attwood (composer)

Thomas Attwood (23 November 176524 March 1838) was an English composer and organist. Attwood studied under Mozart and he was friendly with Felix Mendelssohn. Early life The son of a musician in the

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Early Romantic

Thomas Augustine Geary

Thomas Augustine Geary (Timothy Geary) (1775 – November 1801) was an Irish composer, pianist and organist, with a precocious talent particularly in vocal and piano writing. Biography Geary's original

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Entry

Thomas Baker (musician)

Thomas Baker (c. 1820 – 1888) was an English composer, music arranger, conductor, violinist, and musical producer who was primarily active in New York City. He is best known for composing the music

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Baroque

Thomas Baltzar

Thomas Baltzar (c. 1630 – 24 July 1663) was a German violinist and composer. He was born in Lübeck to a musical family; his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were all musicians. Sources

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21st Century

Thomas Bangalter

Thomas Bangalter (; born 3 January 1975) is a French musician, record producer, DJ, and composer. He is best known as one-half of former French house music duo Daft Punk, alongside Guy-Manuel de

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21st Century

Thomas Beimel

Thomas Beimel (30 May 1967 – 29 June 2016) was a German composer, violist and musicologist. Born in Essen, Beimel studied at the Folkwang Hochschule in his hometown, composition with Konrad Grahe and

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21st Century

Thomas Bergersen

Thomas Jacob Bergersen (born 4 July 1980, Trondheim, Norway) is a Norwegian composer, multi-instrumentalist, and the co-founder of the production music company Two Steps From Hell. He is among the

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Late Romantic

Thomas Bidgood

Thomas Bidgood (7 October 1858 – 1 March 1925) was an English conductor, composer and arranger. Life Thomas Bidgood was born in Woolwich, Kent. His father was William John Bidgood, a master plumber,

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21st Century

Thomas Blug

Thomas Blug, born in Saarbrücken in 1966, is a German musician, guitarist, musical electronic engineer and composer. He also formed his own band Thomas Blug Band with whom he released three albums

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21st Century

Thomas Buchholz

Thomas Walter Buchholz (born 27 August 1961) is a German composer and music educator. Life Buchholz was born in 1961 in Eisenach as the son of the oratorio singer and vocal pedagogue Kurt Wichmann

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Classical

Thomas Busby (composer)

Thomas Busby (26 December 1755 – 28 May 1838) was an English composer. Early life Busby was the son of a coach-painter. He was born at Westminster, London, in December 1755. His father was musical,

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Renaissance

Thomas Campion

Thomas Campion (sometimes spelled Campian; 12 February 1567 – 1 March 1620 He later entered Gray's Inn to study law in 1586. However, he left in 1595 without having been called to the bar. On 10

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20th Century

Thomas Canning

Thomas Canning (December 12, 1911 – October 4, 1989) was an American composer and music educator, serving as a professor of composition and music theory at the Eastman school and as

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Classical

Thomas Carter (composer)

Thomas Carter (May 1769 – 8 November 1800) was an Irish composer resident in London during the most creative years of his short life. Life Carter probably belonged to an extended family of Dublin

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Renaissance

Thomas Causton

Thomas Causton or Caustun (died 1569) was an English composer. Causton was a gentleman of the chapel royal under Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I. Nothing is known of his parentage, but it is

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Baroque

Thomas Chilcot

Thomas Chilcot (1707?1766), was an English organist and composer. Life Thomas Chilcot of Bath, Somerset was born in the West of England (probably Bath) in or about 1707. He was the son of John

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21st Century

Thomas Christoph Heyde

Thomas Christoph Heyde (born 12 November 1973) is a German composer, media artist and curator. He is chairman of the Forum Zeitgenössischer Musik Leipzig. Life Heyde was born in Leipzig in 1973 as

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Early Romantic

Thomas Clark (composer)

Thomas Clark (1775–1859) was a Canterbury shoemaker (cordwainer) and a prolific composer of West Gallery music, especially for the Nonconformist churches of the South East of England. Sally Drage,

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Baroque

Thomas Clayton (composer)

Thomas Clayton (16731725) was an English violinist and composer, and a member of The King's Musick at the court of William III. His is said to be the first to acclimatise legitimate opera in England.

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Early Romantic

Thomas Coates (musician)

Thomas P. Coates (1803 – October 11, 1895) was a 19th-century American musician who achieved initial prominence in Pennsylvania for his performances on the cornet and French horn. The director of

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Renaissance

Thomas Crecquillon

Thomas Crecquillon or Créquillon (c. 1505 – probably early 1557) was a Franco-Flemish school composer of the Renaissance. While his place of birth is unknown, it was probably within the region

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21st Century

Thomas Daniel Schlee

Thomas Daniel Schlee (26 October 1957 – 10 November 2025) was an Austrian composer, arts administrator and organist. He directed the Brucknerhaus in Linz and was artistic director of the Brucknerfest

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20th Century

Thomas de Hartmann

Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann (; October 3 O.S.: September 21 , 1884 March 28, 1956) was a Ukrainian-born composer, pianist and professor of composition. Life De Hartmann was born on his father's

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Late Romantic

Thomas Dunhill

Thomas Frederick Dunhill (1 February 187713 March 1946) was a prolific English composer in many genres, though he is best known today for his light music and educational piano works. His compositions

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Renaissance

Thomas Elsbeth

Thomas Elsbeth (? – after 1624) was a German composer. Details of Elsbeth's life are few and vague. Elsbeth was born in Neustadt, Franconia; his birth date is totally unknown, although he did refer

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Classical

Thomas Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie

Thomas Alexander Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie (1 September 1732 – 9 October 1781), styled Viscount Fentoun and Lord Pittenweem until 1756, was a Scottish musician and composer whose considerable

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Early Romantic

Thomas Forbes Walmisley

Thomas Forbes Walmisley (22 May 1783 – 10 July 1866) was an organist, and a composer of church music and of glees. Life Walmisley was born in Westminster, London in 1783, the third son of William

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Renaissance

Thomas Ford (composer)

Thomas Ford (c. 1580buried 17 November 1648) was an English composer, lutenist, viol player and poet. Life Ford was attached to the court of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, son of James I, who died

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Post-War

Thomas Fortmann

Thomas Fortmann (born 1951) is a Swiss composer and founder of the "Accademia Amiata, Toscana delle Culture", and "ClaZZ Festival". Youth and pop career Born in Gerzensee Fortmann, also known as

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21st Century

Thomas G:son

Thomas Gustafsson (born 25 February 1968), known professionally as Thomas G:son ( ) is a Swedish composer and musician. He is best known for the 117 songs he has written for the national selections

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21st Century

Thomas Gabriel (composer)

Thomas Gabriel (born 25 August 1957) is a German church musician, composer and arranger. Career Born in Essen, Gabriel studied Catholic church music at the , organ with Sieglinde Ahrens and Josef

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Early Romantic

Thomas Hastings (composer)

Thomas Hastings (15 October 1784 – 15 May 1872) was an American composer, primarily an author of hymn tunes of which the best known is "Toplady" for the hymn Rock of Ages. He was born to Dr. Seth and

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Early Romantic

Thomas Haynes Bayly

Thomas Haynes Bayly (13 October 1797 – 22 April 1839) was an English poet, songwriter, dramatist and writer. Life Bayly was born in Bath on 13 October 1797, the only child of Nathaniel Bayly, an

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20th Century

Thomas Henderson Kerr Jr.

Thomas Henderson Kerr Jr. (January 3, 1915 – August 26, 1988) was an American classical pianist, organist, music teacher, and composer whose compositions and arrangements for piano, organ, voice,

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Early Romantic

Thomas Hudson (songwriter)

Thomas Hudson (April 1791 – June 1844) was an English writer and performer of comic songs who was one of the earliest credited songwriters in the music hall tradition. Biography Tom Hudson was born

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Post-War

Thomas Jennefelt

Thomas Jennefelt is a Swedish composer born on April 24, 1954. His music has a strong vocal profile, from opera to choir music. Jennefelt is known as one of the most important choral composers of his

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Late Romantic

Thomas King Ekundayo Phillips

Thomas King Ekundayo Phillips (1884 – 10 July 1969) was a Nigerian organist, conductor, composer and teacher who has been described as the "father of Nigerian church music" Life Thomas Ekundayo

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Baroque

Thomas Kingo

Thomas Hansen Kingo (15 December 1634 – 14 October 1703) was a Danish bishop, poet and hymnwriter born in Slangerup, near Copenhagen. His work marked the high point of Danish baroque poetry. Early

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Post-War

Thomas Koppel

Thomas Koppel (27 April 1944 – 25 February 2006) was a Danish classical music and avant-garde popular composer and musician. His father, Herman David Koppel (1908-1998), a composer and pianist of

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Late Romantic

Thomas Laub

Thomas Linnemann Laub (5 December 1852 – 4 February 1927) was a Danish organist and composer. He was associated with the 20th century revival of religious music in the country. Biography Thomas Laub

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Renaissance

Thomas Lupo the elder

Thomas Lupo (baptised 7 August 1571 – probably December 1627) was an English composer and viol player of the late Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. Along with Orlando Gibbons, John Coprario, and Alfonso

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Baroque

Thomas Mace

Thomas Mace (1612 or 1613 – c. 1706) was an English lutenist, viol player, singer, composer and musical theorist of the Baroque era. His book Musick's Monument (1676) provides a valuable description

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20th Century

Thomas Mervyn Horder, 2nd Baron Horder

(Thomas) Mervyn Horder, 2nd Baron Horder (8 December 1910 – 3 July 1997) was an English hereditary peer, publisher, and a composer of songs. Life Horder was born in London on 8 December 1910. He was

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Early Romantic

Thomas Molleson Mudie

Thomas Molleson Mudie (30 November 1809 – 24 July 1876) was a British composer and teacher, highly regarded during his early career, but composing little in later years. Life Mudie, of Scottish

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Renaissance

Thomas Morley

Thomas Morley (1557 – early October 1602) was an English composer, theorist, singer and organist of late Renaissance music. He was one of the foremost members of the English Madrigal School.

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Post-War

Thomas Müller (composer)

Alfred Thomas Müller (born 12 January 1939 in Leipzig) is a German conductor, composer and pianist. He won the 1988 Handel Prize presented by the city of Halle. Works Orchestra and chamber ensemble *

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21st Century

Thomas Newman

Thomas Montgomery Newman (born October 20, 1955) is an American composer, conductor, and orchestrator. He is best known for his film scores, earning accolades of six Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, two

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Late Romantic

Thomas O'Brien Butler

Thomas O'Brien Butler (3 November 1861 – 7 May 1915; lost on the Lusitania), was an Irish composer who wrote the Irish-language opera Muirgheis (1903). Biography O'Brien Butler, as he was generally

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Post-War

Thomas Oboe Lee

Thomas Oboe Lee (born September 5, 1945) is a Chinese American composer. Life Lee was born in Beijing, China. His family left Communist China in 1949 and lived in Hong Kong until 1959, when he moved

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Post-War

Thomas Pasatieri

Thomas Pasatieri (born October 20, 1945) is an American opera composer. Life and career Pasatieri was born in New York City, United States. He began composing at age 10 and, as a teenager, studied

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21st Century

Thomas Pernes

Thomas Pernes (25 February 1956 – 26 February 2018) was an Austrian avant-garde composer and performance artist who lived and worked in Vienna. He studied piano with Bruno Seidlhofer and composition

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20th Century

Thomas Pitfield

Thomas Baron Pitfield (5 April 190311 November 1999) was a British polymath, primarily remembered as a composer, but also a poet, artist, engraver, calligrapher, master craftsman, furniture builder

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Post-War

Thomas Rajna

Thomas Rajna (21 December 1928 – 16 July 2021) was a British pianist and composer of Hungarian birth. He had been domiciled in Cape Town in South Africa since 1970. Biography Rajna was born in

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Renaissance

Thomas Ravenscroft

Thomas Ravenscroft (c. 1588 – 1635) was an English musician, theorist and editor, notable as a composer of rounds and catches, and especially for compiling collections of English folk music.

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Renaissance

Thomas Robinson (composer)

Thomas Robinson (c. 1560) was an English Renaissance composer and music teacher, who flourished around 1600. He taught and wrote music for lute, cittern, orpharion, bandora, viol, and voice.

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Baroque

Thomas Roseingrave

Thomas Roseingrave (1690 or 1691 – 23 June 1766), like his father Daniel Roseingrave, was an English-born Irish composer and organist. Early years He was born at Winchester, where his father Daniel

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Post-War

Thomas Schmidt-Kowalski

Thomas Schmidt-Kowalski (21 June 1949 – 5 January 2013) was a German composer. Schmidt-Kowalski was born at Oldenburg in 1949. He studied composition at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in

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Post-War

Thomas Scott Cadden

Thomas Scott Cadden (December 2, 1923 – November 2, 2007) was an American television commercial producer, director, writer, and songwriter during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. He is known for

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Renaissance

Thomas Selle

Thomas Selle (23 March 1599 – 2 July 1663) was a German baroque composer. Life There is practically no reliable information about the early years of Thomas Selle. Between his birth in 1599 and his

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Classical

Thomas Shaw (composer)

Thomas Shaw, also known as Thomas Shaw Jun(ior), was an English violinist, violist, clarinettist and composer who was born c.1752, probably in Bath, and who probably died in Paris on 28 June 1827

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21st Century

Thomas Simaku

Thomas Simaku (born 18 April 1958, in Kavajë) is an Albanian-born British composer. Education Simaku studied composition between the years 1978–1982 at the Academy of Music and Arts of Albania under

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Early Romantic

Thomas Simpson Cooke

Thomas Simpson Cooke (July 1782 – 26 February 1848) was an Irish composer, conductor, singer, theatre musician and music director – an influential figure in early 19th-century opera in London. Life

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Renaissance

Thomas Stoltzer

Thomas Stoltzer, also Stolczer, Scholczer (c.1480–1526) was a German composer of the Renaissance. Life Nothing is known of Stoltzer's early life, though he is thought to have come from the same

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Early Romantic

Thomas Täglichsbeck

Thomas Täglichsbeck (31 December 1799 – 5 October 1867) was a German violinist and composer. Täglichsbeck was born in Ansbach. His family settled in the region of the Vogtland between Bavaria,

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Renaissance

Thomas Tallis

Thomas Tallis (; also Tallys or Talles; c. 150523 November 1585) was an English composer of High Renaissance music. His compositions are primarily vocal, and he occupies a primary place in

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Romantic

Thomas Tellefsen

Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen (26 November 1823 – 6 October 1874) was a Norwegian pianist, composer, and teacher. As a composer, Tellefsen wrote 44 opuses, including solo piano works, two piano

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Renaissance

Thomas Tomkins

Thomas Tomkins (1572 – 9 June 1656) was a Welsh-born composer of the late Tudor and early Stuart period. In addition to being one of the prominent members of the English Madrigal School, he was a

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20th Century

Thomas Vincent Cator

Thomas Vincent Cator (23 March 1888 – 9 April 1931) was an American composer. His most significant achievement was the discovery and use of what he called the aura-modal scale. a lawyer and

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21st Century

Thomas Wade (singer)

Thomas Wade (born May 9, 1961) is a Canadian country artist. He was the lead singer of the group Thomas Wade & Wayward, who released their eponymous debut album in 1996. The album produced seven

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Renaissance

Thomas Weelkes

Thomas Weelkes (1576 (?) – November 1623) was an English composer and organist. He became organist of Winchester College in 1598, moving to Chichester Cathedral. His works are chiefly vocal, and

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Post-War

Thomas Wells (composer)

Thomas H. Wells (born January 8, 1945, in Austin, Texas) is an American composer, pianist, organist, and arts-organization administrator. Biography Thomas Wells began his formal composition studies

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Early Romantic

Thomas Welsh (composer)

Thomas Welsh (c. 1780 - 24 or 31 January 1848) was an English composer and operatic bass. Welsh spent most of his life in London and is now particularly remembered for his light-hearted stage works.

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Renaissance

Thomas Whythorne

Thomas Whythorne (1528–1595) was an English composer who wrote what some consider to be the earliest known surviving autobiography in English. Early life and education Born in Somerset (Whythorne was

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Post-War

Thomas Wilbrandt

Thomas Wilbrandt (born in 1952) is a German composer and conductor. He is known for Natural Born Killers (1994), Vaters Land (1986), and Perlasca (1993). Education Wilbrandt studied with Franco

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Post-War

Thomas Wilson (composer)

Thomas Wilson CBE FRSE (10 October 1927 – 12 June 2001) was an American-born Scottish composer, a key figure in the revival of interest in Scottish classical music after the second world war. Early

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Post-War

Thor Baldursson

Thor Baldursson (born Þórir Baldursson in 1944) is an Icelandic composer, organist, arranger and producer. He is best known for his work with Giorgio Moroder, and records with Donna Summer, Grace

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21st Century

Thorsten Quaeschning

Thorsten Quaeschning (born 23 February 1977) is a German musician. He is the bandleader of the electronic music group Tangerine Dream which he joined in 2005. He was chosen to continue as leader of

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Post-War

Thüring Bräm

Thüring Bräm (born 10 April 1944) is a Swiss composer and conductor. Bräm graduated from a high school in Basel. He then studied piano, conducting and composition in Basel and musicology at the

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Late Romantic

Thurlow Lieurance

Thurlow Weed Lieurance (March 21, 1878 – October 9, 1963) was an American composer, known primarily for his song "By the Waters of Minnetonka". He is frequently categorized with a number of his

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