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Tudor Ciortea

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Tudor Ciortea (28 November 1903 – 13 October 1982) was a Romanian composer, musicologist, and music educator. Life and career Ciortea was born in Brașov and began his music studies under in Cluj. He went on to study at the Bucharest Conservatory (now the National University of Music) under Ion Nonna Otescu and in Paris under Nadia Boulanger and Paul Dukas. He lived most of his life in Bucharest where he taught for over thirty years at the Bucharest Conservatory. Amongst his students there were the composers Liana Alexandra, Irina Odagescu, Elise Popovici, Maya Badian, and Carmen Petra Basacopol. His compositions concentrated on chamber music and art song and were influenced by the French chamber music tradition and the traditional folksongs of Transylvania. He was awarded in 1971 the Order of the Star of the Romanian Socialist Republic, 3rd class, He is buried in the graveyard next to the Tocile Church in Șcheii Brașovului. The Tudor Ciortea Memorial House in Brașov contains some of his personal effects and instruments as well as a portrait of his wife, the dancer and choreographer . The music school, Liceul de Muzică “Tudor Ciortea”, in Brașov is named in his honour, as is the cit

Tui St. George Tucker

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Tui St. George Tucker (born Lorraine St. George Tucker; November 25, 1924 – April 21, 2004) was an American modernist composer, conductor, recorder virtuoso and creator of unique musical instruments. Her compositions often feature microtonality and are strongly influenced by jazz, Buddhism, the music of Medieval Europe, and more. She developed special recorders with extra holes, in addition to unique fingerings for modern recorders to allow for the playing of quarter tones, typically in 24-tone equal temperament. Her avant-garde disposition and unique compositional language made her a staple in the 1940s New York scene, being encouraged by musicians such as John Cage and Larry Polansky. After relocating to North Carolina in 1947, however, she fell into obscurity – but continued to write a large number of works for various ensembles. The exact size of her oeuvre is debated, but is believed to comprise around one hundred works, a few being unfinished. Early life Childhood Tucker was born in Fullerton, California, the daughter of an English father and a mother from New Zealand. Her family often referred to her as “Tui”; named for the eponymous bird native to New Zealand, where her mot

Tuomari Nurmio

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Judge Bone, Tuomari Nurmio, is the artist name of Hannu Juhani Nurmio (born 1950 in Helsinki), a Finnish rock singer and songwriter. Work Since his debut album, Nurmio has been regarded one of the most original Finnish singer-songwriters. His lyrics are filled with peculiar and arresting metaphors and expressions, some of which have made their way into the vernacular Finnish language. Especially the first four albums are now seen as classic works. Musically the first albums draw on the traditions of American country, blues and roots music, combining them with new wave quirkiness and energy. The lyrics have romantic, humorous undertones, with occasional glimpses of the dark side of urban life. In the 1990s Nurmio’s sound has moved towards a scratchy, rugged sound somewhat reminiscent of Tom Waits. In the 2000s he has often performed in a duo with a guitar and Markku Hillilä playing drums. In 2005 he collaborated with the Finnish world music band Alamaailman Vasarat. In 2011 Nurmio appeared as a guest singer on Finnish metal band Korpiklaani’s album Ukon Wacka. Background “Tuomari” means a judge in Finnish. Nurmio adopted this nickname, since he has a master’s degree in law and is th

Tuomas Holopainen

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Tuomas Lauri Johannes Holopainen (born 25 December 1976) is a Finnish musician, songwriter, and record producer, best known as the primary songwriter, keyboardist, and founding member of the symphonic metal band Nightwish. He has stated that his songwriting is influenced by harmonic film music. Holopainen has written several songs that have been included in movie soundtracks, including a collaboration with Nightwish bass player and male vocalist Marko Hietala on “While Your Lips Are Still Red”, for the Finnish film Lieksa! in 2007. He also co-wrote the music for Nightwish’s own film, Imaginaerum, released in November 2012. Holopainen released his first solo album Music Inspired by the Life and Times of Scrooge in 2014. Early and personal life Tuomas Holopainen was born in Kitee on Christmas Day 1976. His parents were entrepreneur Pentti Holopainen (1940–2021), and Kirsti Nortia-Holopainen, a former music and English teacher in a small elementary school. He has an older sister named Susanna who works as a surgeon-urologist, and an older brother named Petri who is an autopsy assistant. He and singer Elina Siirala are second cousins. His musicality and skill in text expression showed

Tuomas Turriago

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Tuomas Turriago (born February 18, 1979) is a Finnish composer, pianist and conductor. Since 2004 Turriago has served as senior lecturer in accompaniment at Tampere University of Applied Sciences. He is recognized as the first Finnish composer to record his entire piano oeuvre. Tuomas Turriago studied piano under the tutelage of Carlos Turriago at the Central Finland Conservatory and Erik T. Tawaststjerna at the Sibelius Academy. He was awarded first prize at the Kili Piano Competition in Sweden in 1992. Turriago has performed in Finland as a pianist for the Tampere Philharmonic, TampereRaw, St. Michel Strings and the Jyväskylä Sinfonia. Personal life Turriago’s Latin music proclivities are said to derive ethnically from his father Carlos Turriago, who is Colombian. References External links *Official website

Tuotilo

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Tuotilo or Tutilo OSB (died 915) was a Frankish monk at the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Gall. He was a composer, and according to Ekkehard IV a century later, also a poet, musician, painter and sculptor. Various trope melodies can be assigned to Tuotilo, but works of other mediums are attributed with less certainty. He was a student of and friends with the fellow monk Notker the Stammerer. Life and career Born in Alemannic Germany, he is said to have been a large and powerfully built man, and an excellent boxer. Always cheerful and in excellent spirits, he was a general favorite. He received his education at St. Gall’s, from and the Irishman Moengall, teachers in the monastic school. He was the friend of Notker of St. Gall, with whom he studied music under Moengal. Educated at the Abbey of St. Gall, he remained to become a monk there. Tuotilo was a composer, poet, musician, painter and sculptor. According to the British librarian John W Bradley, Tuotilo was said to be “a good speaker, had a fine musical voice, was a capital carver in wood, and an accomplished illuminator. Like most of the earlier monks of St. Gall, he was a clever musician, equally skillful with the trumpet and the

Tupper Saussy

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Frederick Tupper Saussy III (July 3, 1936 – March 16, 2007) was an American composer, musician, author, artist, tax protester and conspiracy theorist. He was a self-styled theologian, restaurant owner, ghostwriter of James Earl Ray’s purported autobiography, King assassination conspiracy theorist, anti-government pamphleteer, and radical opponent of the federal government’s taxation and monetary authority. He was born in Statesboro, Georgia; grew up in Tampa, Florida; and graduated from the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee, in 1958. His jazz combo there put out a university-subsidized album, Jazz at Sewanee, which included several original compositions. Thereafter Saussy taught English at Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville, Tennessee, co-founded an advertising agency, McDonald and Saussy, and kept his musical career alive with recording dates and club sessions. With the Nashville Symphony, he composed a work called The Beast with Five Heads (1965/66), based on “The Bremen Town Musicians”, designed to replace Peter and the Wolf as a work to teach schoolchildren about the instruments of the orchestra, which continued to be used for the next fifteen years. For its 1968/

Ture Rangström

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Anders Johan Ture Rangström (30 November 1884 – 11 May 1947) belonged to a new generation of Swedish composers who, in the first decade of the 20th century, introduced modernism to their compositions. In addition to composing, Rangström was also a musical critic and conductor. Biography Rangström was born in Stockholm, where in his late teens he started to write songs. His music teacher suggested that he should “vary the harmonies a bit more, make it a bit wilder!” He followed this advice and soon gained the nickname among his colleagues of “Sturm-und-Drangström”. He travelled to Berlin where he studied under Hans Pfitzner for a while in 1905–6, and also studied singing with the Wagnerian Julius Hey, with whom he later went to Munich for further studies. He founded the Swedish Society of Composers in 1918, and he was employed to promote the works of the Royal Swedish Opera from 1931 to 1936. After this he worked freelance and spent the summers on the island of Törnsholmen which he had been given by the people of Sweden who raised the money to celebrate his fiftieth birthday. Ett midsommarstycke (A midsummer piece) and En höstsång (An autumn song). Following the success of these poe

Turgay Erdener

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Turgay Erdener (Gümüşhane, 15 June 1957) is a contemporary Turkish composer of classical music. He first studied mandolin then entered into the piano department at Ankara State Conservatory (ADK). He has taught composition at the conservatory since 1979. He is married to the Ankara State Opera and Ballet soloist soprano Selva Erdener who has premiered his song cycle Sen sen sen (You you you) and Afife a ballet with songs based on the life of actress Afife Jale. Selected works * Mi’den Dört Bölüm.Four Movements on E, string orchestra, 1985 * İstanbulname operetta, libretto by Ferdi Merter, 1993 * Komik komik şeyler oluyor musical, libretto by Murat Göksu, 1993 * Various works for guitar. ;Film music; * Likya’nın sönmeyen ateşi – “Eternal Flames of Lycia”, 1977 Süha Arın * Mimar Sinan’ın Anıları – based on the life of Sinan the Architect, 1989 Süha Arın Recordings #Üç türk melodisi, Ahmet Kanneci, guitar (Boyut Yayıncılık/BMG, 1997) #Teo - adagio for Orchestra. Düsseldorfer Symphoniker dir. Rengim Gökmen (Deutsche Welle Classics: A-511673, 1997) #Sen Sen Sen - song cycle. Selva Erdener, soprano; Ekrem Öztan, klarinet; Tahir Öğüt, trompet; Ahmet Kanneci, guitar; Tahir Aydoğdu, kanun;

Turlough O'Carolan

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Turlough O’Carolan ( ; 1670 – 25 March 1738) was a blind Celtic harper, composer and singer in Ireland whose great fame is due to his gift for melodic composition. Although not a composer in the classical sense, Carolan is considered by some to be Ireland’s national composer. Harpers in the old Irish tradition were still living as late as 1792, and ten, including Arthur O’Neill, Patrick Quin and Donnchadh Ó hÁmsaigh, attended the Belfast Harp Festival. Ó hÁmsaigh played some of Carolan’s music, but disliked it for being too modern. Some of Carolan’s own compositions show influences of the style of continental classical music, whereas others such as Farewell to Music reflect a much older style of “Gaelic Harping”. Biography Carolan was born in 1670 in Nobber, County Meath, where his father was a blacksmith. The family, who were said to be a branch of the Mac Brádaigh sept of County Cavan (Carolan’s great-grandfather, Shane Grana O’Carrolan, was chieftain of his sept in 1607 ), forfeited their estates during the civil wars and moved from Meath in 1684 to Ballyfarnon, County Roscommon, on the invitation of the family of MacDermot Roe of Alderford House. In Roscommon, his father took a