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Tobias Hume

Tobias Hume (possibly 1579 – 16 April 1645) was a Scottish composer, viol player and soldier. Little is known of his life. Some have suggested that he was born in 1579 because he was admitted to the

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Tobias Matthay

Tobias Augustus Matthay (19 February 185815 December 1945) was an English pianist, teacher, and composer. Biography Matthay was born in Clapham, Surrey, in 1858 to parents who had come from northern

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Tobias Picker

Tobias Picker (born July 18, 1954) is an American composer and pianist, noted for his orchestral works Old and Lost Rivers, Keys To The City, and The Encantadas, as well as his operas Emmeline,

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Tobin Stokes

Tobin David Stokes (born 1966) is a Canadian composer and theatre creator, notable for his work in opera, theatre, choral music and television. His works have been performed by New York City Opera,

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Tod Dockstader

Tod Dockstader (March 20, 1932 – February 27, 2015) was an American electronic music composer and sound designer. He is regarded as one of the first American musique concrète composers. Biography

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Tod Machover

Tod Machover (born November 24, 1953, in Mount Vernon, New York) is an Emmy-award winning composer, inventor of hyperinstruments and hyperscore software, promoter of music AI and participatory opera,

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Todd Cerney

Todd David Cerney (August 8, 1953 – March 14, 2011) was an American songwriter and musician. He composed "Good Morning Beautiful", a 2002 five-week country number one (Billboard) hit for Steve Holy

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Todd Hunter

Todd Stuart Hunter (born 22 June 1951) is a New Zealand musician and composer known for his involvement in the band Dragon. Their best known songs are "April Sun in Cuba", "Are You Old Enough?",

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Tofig Bakikhanov

Tofig Ahmed-agha oglu Bakikhanov () is a composer. He was awarded the title People's Artiste of the Azerbaijan SSR (1990). Biography Tofig Bakikhanov, a descendant of Baku khans, was born on 8

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Tolib Sodiqov

Tolib Sodiqov (12 March 1907 – 5 September 1957) was among the founders of professional music in Uzbekistan, as well as the composer of musical dramas, quartets, operas, and romances. Sodiqov was

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Tolis Voskopoulos

Apostolos "Tolis" Voskopoulos (; 26 July 1940 – 19 July 2021 ) was a Greek singer. He was renowned for his mastery of laika, a Greek music style. He also starred in many films and played in the

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Tolu Obanro

Tolulope Obanro known professionally as Tolu Obanro is a Nigerian film composer. He created the scores for Gangs of Lagos (2023), Jagun Jagun (2023), and A Tribe Called Judah (2023) which became the

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Tom Cora

Thomas Henry Corra (September 14, 1953 – April 9, 1998), better known as Tom Cora, was an American cellist and composer, best known for his improvisational performances in the field of experimental

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Tom Cothran

Thomas Walter Cothran (1947–1987) was an American musicologist and composer, notable for his professional collaboration and personal relationship with American conductor and composer Leonard

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Tom Dissevelt

Thomas Dissevelt, known as Tom Dissevelt (March 4, 1921 – January 29, 1989) was a Dutch composer, arranger and musician. He is regarded as a pioneer in the merging of electronic music and jazz. He

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Tom Gray (activist)

Tom Gray (born 1 January 1977) is a Mercury Prize-winning British songwriter, composer, and activist. Early He was born on 1 January 1977 in Southport. He became a founding member of the rock band

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Tom Hedden

Tom Hedden is an American score composer, the former music director at NFL Films, and National Football League Director of Music Administration. In 2009, Hedden left the NFL and has since composed

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Tom Hodge

Tom Hodge is a British composer known for his work in film, television and documentary. His credits include The Mauritanian, McMafia, The Ipcress File, Cleaner and Testimony. He won the Ivor Novello

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Tom Johnson (composer)

Thomas Floyd Johnson (November 18, 1939 – December 31, 2024) was an American composer and music critic associated with minimalism. After a religious upbringing in Colorado, he studied at Yale with

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Tom Lemonier

Tom Lemonier (March 29, 1870 — March 14, 1945) was an actor and composer of popular music during the ragtime era, particularly active in Black Vaudeville. Some of his work was published by the

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Tom Roberts (pianist)

Tom Roberts (born 1962) is an American pianist, composer, and arranger, a specialist in the stride piano style, and an expert on early jazz piano and jazz recordings. Tom is a master of all early

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Tom Scott (composer)

Thomas Jefferson Scott (May 28, 1912 – August 12, 1961) was an American composer and singer. Biography Scott studied music at the University of Kentucky, after which he moved to New York City when he

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Tom Third

Tom Third is a Canadian film and television composer. He is most noted as a two-time Gemini Award and Canadian Screen Award recipient, winning Best Original Music Score for a Dramatic Program,

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Tomás Bretón

Tomás Bretón y Hernández (29 December 1850 – 2 December 1923) was a Spanish conductor and composer. Biography Tomás Bretón was born in Salamanca. He completed his musical studies at the School of

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Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco

Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco Sánchez (23 December 1644 – 23 April 1728) was a Spanish composer, musician and organist based in Peru, associated with the American Baroque. Life Torrejón y Velasco was

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Tomás Garbizu

Tomás Garbizu Salaberria (12 September 1901 – 27 November 1989) was a Basque composer. He was the youngest and last of the Basque nationalist music movement composers. Early life and education

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Tomás Luis de Victoria

Tomás Luis de Victoria (sometimes Italianised as da Vittoria; c. 1548) was the most famous Spanish composer of the Renaissance. He stands with Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Orlande de Lassus

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Tomás Marco

Tomás Marco Aragón (born 12 September 1942) is a Spanish composer and writer on music. Life and work Marco was born in Madrid where he later studied violin and composition, while at the same time

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Tomáš Svoboda (composer)

Tomáš Svoboda (December 6, 1939 – November 17, 2022) was a French-born Czech-American contemporary classical composer and pianist, whose debut took place in Prague, Czechoslovakia on September 7,

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Tomaso Albinoni

Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (8 June 1671 – 17 January 1751) was an Italian composer of the Baroque era. His output includes operas, concertos, sonatas for one to six instruments, sinfonias, and solo

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Tomaso Antonio Vitali

Tomaso Antonio Vitali (7 March 1663 – 9 May 1745) was an Italian composer and violinist of the mid to late Baroque era. The eldest son of Giovanni Battista Vitali, he is chiefly known for a Chaconne

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Tomaso Benvenuti

Tomaso Benvenuti (also spelled Tommasso and Tommaso; 4 February 1838 – 26 February 1906) was a nineteenth-century Italian composer of opera. He was born in Cavarzere in the Veneto (at the time part

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Tomasz Golka

Tomasz Golka (born 1975) is a Polish-American conductor, composer and violinist. Golka is the son of pianist Anna Karczewska-Golka and trombonist George Golka. He is the great-grandson of Max Stern.

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Tomasz Lipiński

Tomasz “Frantz” Lipinski is a Polish rock guitarist, lyricist, composer and singer. Born on 21 August 1955 in Warsaw, Lipinski is the founder of Tilt, one of the first punk rock bands in Poland, and

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Tomasz Sikorski

Tomasz Sikorski (19 May 1939 – 12 November 1988) was a Polish composer and pianist. The son of the composer Kazimierz Sikorski, he studied at the Warsaw Conservatory with Zbigniew Drzewiecki. Later,

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Tomasz Stańko

Tomasz Ludwik Stańko (; 11 July 1942 – 29 July 2018) was a Polish trumpeter and composer associated with free jazz and the avant-garde. In 1962, Tomasz Stańko formed his first band, the Jazz Darings,

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Tomer Biran

Tomer Biran (born July 10, 1976) is an Israeli music producer, arranger, composer, and singer. Biography Biran was born in Ofakim under the name Tomer Biton, to David and Yaffa Biton. Biran has a

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Tomi Räisänen

Tomi Räisänen (; born 2 June 1976) is a Finnish composer. Biography Räisänen was born in Helsinki. He studied composition from 2000 to 2006 at the Sibelius Academy under Erkki Jokinen graduating as a

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Tomislav Zografski

Tomislav Zografski (, 29 March 193414 January 2000) was a Macedonian composer and music pedagogue who also wrote music for film and television. His neoclassical language played a key part in the

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Tommaso Bai

Tommaso Bai, or Tommaso Baj, was born in Crevalcore around 1650 and died in Rome on 22 December 1714. He was an Italian conductor, composer, and tenor at the Vatican. He is most well known for his

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Tommaso Giordani

Tommaso Giordani (c. 1730 to 1733 – before 24 February 1806) was an Italian composer active in England and particularly in Ireland. Life Giordani was born in Naples between 1730 and 1733 and came

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Tommaso Traetta

Tommaso Michele Francesco Saverio Traetta (30 March 1727 – 6 April 1779), was an Italian composer of the Neapolitan School. Along with other composers mainly in the Holy Roman Empire and France, he

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Tommie Haglund

Tommie Haglund (born 15 January 1959) is a Swedish composer. He has composed chamber, choral, and orchestral music. His awards include the Christ Johnson Prize and H. M. The King's Medal. Biography

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Tommy Banks (musician)

Thomas Benjamin Banks (December 17, 1936 – January 25, 2018) was a Canadian pianist, conductor, composer, television personality, and senator. He was appointed to the Senate of Canada on the advice

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Tommy Seebach

Tommy Seebach (14 September 1949 – 31 March 2003), born Tommy Seebach Mortensen in Copenhagen, Denmark, was a popular Danish singer, composer, organist, pianist and producer. He is best known as

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Tomosuke Funaki

is a Japanese composer who has contributed to the Bemani series of music video games. He has produced songs for Beatmania, Beatmania IIDX, Pop'n Music, Dance Maniax, Guitar Freaks, DrumMania, Mambo a

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Tomoyasu Hotei

, also known simply as Hotei ( ), is a Japanese musician, singer-songwriter, composer, record producer and actor. With a career spanning more than 40 years, Hotei claims record sales of over 40

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Ton de Leeuw

Antonius Wilhelmus Adrianus de Leeuw (Rotterdam, 16 November 1926 - Paris, 31 May 1996) was a Dutch composer. He occasionally experimented with microtonality. Life and career Taught by Henk Badings,

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Ton Hartsuiker

Antoni Fredrik "Ton" Hartsuiker (12 May 1933 in Zwolle – 8 May 2015 in Utrecht) was a Dutch classical pianist, best known as a performer of 20th-century classical music, composer, music school

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Tôn-Thất Tiết

Tôn-Thất Tiết (born 1933 in Huê) is a Vietnamese-born French music composer. His double-character family name is Tôn Thất, his given name Tiết (尊室節). Biography Born in Huê in central Vietnam in 1933,

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Tona Scherchen

Tona Scherchen, also Tona Scherchen-Hsiao (Simplified Chinese: 萧桐; born 12 March 1938), is one of the first composers who brought Chinese elements into European avant-garde art music. Life Tona

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Tone Stith

Antonio "Tone" Stith (born July 26, 1995) is an American R&B singer and songwriter signed to MNRK Records. Early life Stith was born and raised in New Jersey and raised in a musical family. He began

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Toni Beaulieu

Leone Florence Perry (8 May 1905 – 28 March 1994), known professionally as Toni Beaulieu, was an American composer of classical, semi-classical, and popular music. She later used the names Leone

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Toni Castells

Toni Castells (born in Berga, Spain) is a Spanish composer based in London. His work combines elements of classical music, opera, electronic music, and contemporary sound art, often drawing on genres

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Tonin Harapi

Tonin Harapi (9 June 1926 – 30 July 1992) was an Albanian composer, pianist and teacher. He was one of the major figures of twentieth-century Albanian classical music and was associated with the

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Tõnu Kõrvits

Tõnu Kõrvits (born 9 April 1969) is an Estonian composer. Kõrvits was born in Tallinn. In 1994 he graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre with specialty in composition. * 2019: "You

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Tony Aubin

Tony Louis Alexandre Aubin (; 8 December 1907 – 21 September 1981) was a French composer. Life and career Aubin was born in Paris on 8 December 1907. From 1925 to 1930, he studied at the Paris

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Tony Britten

Tony Britten is a British musical director, composer and film maker, also known for adapting the music and writing the text of the UEFA Champions League Anthem. Education and early career Britten was

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Tony Cucchiara

Salvatore Cucchiara (30 October 1937 – 2 May 2018), known under the stage name Tony Cucchiara, was an Italian folk singer-songwriter, playwright and composer. Life and career Born in Agrigento,

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Tony Haynes (English composer)

Tony Haynes (10 July 1941 – 17 September 2024) was an English composer and bandleader best known for his work with Grand Union Orchestra since 1982. He played piano and trombone. Early life Tony

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Tony Muréna

Tony Muréna (1917 – 1970) was an Italian-born Musette accordionist and jazz composer who lived and worked in France. Life and career Antonio Muréna was born in Borgo Val di Taro, Italy. His family

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Tony Russell (musician)

Keith Anthony Caesar Russell (24 May 1929 – 20 July 1970), known as Tony Russell, was an English jazz musician and composer, pianist and trombonist. Notably, he worked extensively with Johnny

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Tonye Garrick

Tonye Garrick (born 27 August 1982), simply known as Tonye is a British-born Nigerian singer and songwriter. Her a cappella song titled "What About Us?" was used at the Nigerian Youth Presidential

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Tor Aulin

Tor Aulin (10 September 1866 – 1 March 1914) was a Swedish violinist and a conductor and a composer. Biography Aulin studied music at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm (1877-1883) under and

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Tore Johansson

Tore Johansson (born 6 November 1959) is a Swedish record producer, composer and musician based in Malmö, Sweden. Biography In an interview with HitQuarters, Johansson claimed that the main impetus

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Tori Freestone

Victoria "Tori" Freestone is a British saxophonist, flautist, violinist and composer. She has performed British jazz since 2009 as a band leader and sidewoman, known for her robust tenor sound and

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Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen

Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen (born 11 January 1964) is a Norwegian contemporary composer. Life Aagaard-Nilsen was born in Oslo and grew up in Kabelvåg on Lofoten in northern Norway. From 1986 to 1990, he

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Torsten Rasch

Torsten Rasch (born 1965 in Dresden) is a German composer of contemporary classical music. He lives in Berlin, but has found success in the UK. Biography Torsten Rasch was born in Dresden in 1965 and

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Tōru Takemitsu

was a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music and writer on music. Largely self-taught, Takemitsu was admired for his subtle manipulation of instrumental and orchestral timbre. He is known

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Toshi Ichiyanagi

was a Japanese avant-garde composer and pianist. One of the leading composers in Japan during the postwar era, Ichiyanagi worked in a range of genres, composing Western-style operas and orchestral

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Toshio Hosokawa

is a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music. He studied in Germany but returned to Japan, finding a personal style inspired by classical Japanese music and culture. He has composed operas,

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Toshio Iwai

is a Japanese interactive media and installation artist who has also created a number of commercial video games. In addition he has worked in television, music performance, museum design and digital

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Toshio Masuda (composer)

is a Japanese composer. He has composed and synthesized scores for several Japanese television shows and animated series. Masuda is perhaps best known as the composer of the 2002 hit anime series

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Toshiro Mayuzumi

was a Japanese composer. He was known for his implementation of avant-garde instrumentation alongside traditional Japanese musical techniques. His works drew inspiration from a variety of sources

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Totò Savio

Gaetano "Totò" Savio (18 November 1937 – 25 July 2004) was an Italian composer, lyricist, producer, guitarist and occasional singer. Early life Born in Naples, Savio started playing the guitar at six

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Tots Tolentino

Tots Tolentino (born on July 2, 1959) is a jazz musician from the Philippines. Biography Tots Tolentino's interest in jazz began at age 16 upon hearing recordings by Charlie Parker. In 1977, he

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Tove Lo

Ebba Tove Elsa Nilsson (; born 29 October 1987), known professionally as Tove Lo ( ; ), is a Swedish singer-songwriter. She is known for her raw, grunge-influenced take on pop music. Referring to her

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Toyoko Takami

Toyoko Braun Takami (born January 1, 1945) is a Japanese composer and music educator who teaches music in Germany. Takami was born in Shimane, Japan, to a family which included a music teacher and a

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