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20th Century

Václav Dobiáš

Václav Dobiáš (22 September 1909 – 18 May 1978) was a Czech composer. Life Dobiáš was born in Radčice, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary, on 22 September 1909. He studied in Prague with Josef Bohuslav

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Václav Emanuel Horák

Václav (Wenzel) Emanuel Horák (1 January 1800 – 3 September 1871) was a Czech composer and liturgical musician. Life Horák was born on 1 January 1800 in Lobeč, Bohemia. From 1813, he attended the

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Václav Jan Kopřiva

Václav Jan Kopřiva (pseudonym Urtica ) (8 February 1708 – 7 June 1789) was a Bohemian composer and organist. Life Kopřiva was a son of the miller Václav Kopřiva (1672–?), from the neighboring village

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Václav Kaprál

Václav Kaprál (26 March 1889 – 6 April 1947) was a Czech composer, pianist and pedagogue. Life Kaprál was born on 26 March 1889 in Určice. He studied composition with Leoš Janáček in the Brno Organ

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Václav Karel Holan Rovenský

Václav Karel Holan Rovenský (1644 – 27 February 1718) was a Czech baroque composer and organist. Life and work Holan Rovenský was born in 1644 in Rovensko pod Troskami. He had been organist in Turnov

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Václav Nelhýbel

Václav Nelhýbel (September 24, 1919 – March 22, 1996) was a Czech-American composer, mainly of works for student performers. Life and career Nelhýbel was born the youngest of five children in Polanka

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Václav Pichl

Václav Pichl (; 25 September 1741 – 23 January 1805) was a Czech classical composer. He was also a violinist, music director and writer. Life Pichl was born in Bechyně in Bohemia. His first musical

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Václav Riedlbauch

Václav Riedlbauch (1 April 1947 – 3 November 2017) was a Czech composer, pedagogue and manager. He was the Minister of Culture in the caretaker government of Jan Fischer (2009–2010). Musician

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Václav Smetáček

Václav Smetáček (30 September 1906 – 18 February 1986) was a Czech conductor, composer and oboist. Life and career Smetáček was born on 30 September 1906 in Brno. He studied in Prague among others

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Václav Suk

Václav Suk (16 November 186112 January 1933) was an Austrian-born violinist, conductor and composer who operated in the Russian Empire. He was also known as Váša Suk, Vyacheslav Suk, Vyacheslav

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Václav Tomášek

Václav Jan Křtitel Tomášek (; 17 April 17743 April 1850) was an Austrian-Bohemian, by other accounts a Czech composer and music teacher. He was known as the Musical Pope of Prague. In the words of

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Václav Trojan

Václav Trojan (24 April 1907, Plzeň – 5 July 1983) was a Czech composer of classical music best known for his film scores. Trojan studied composition at the Prague Conservatory under Jaroslav Křička

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Václav Vačkář

Václav Vačkář (12 August 1881 – 4 February 1954) was a Czech composer and conductor of the late romantic era. He is well known for his marches, especially for his march "Šohaj". Vačkář is also a very

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Vadim Baykov

Vadim Gennadiyevich Baykov (Baikov; ; born 18 March 1965 in Volgograd, RSFSR, USSR) is a Soviet and Russian composer, singer, songwriter and producer. Biography In 1970, Vadim Baykov and his mother

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Vadim Petrov

Vadim Petrov (24 May 1932 – 7 December 2020) was a Czech composer of Russian descent. Biography Petrov was a pianist and composer of classical and popular music. He stemmed from the family of a

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Vadim Salmanov

Vadim Nikolayevich Salmanov (4 November 1912, in Saint Petersburg – 27 February 1978, in Leningrad) was a Soviet composer and pedagogue. Salmanov learned to play the piano as a child from his father

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Vagn Holmboe

Vagn Gylding Holmboe (; 20 December 1909 – 1 September 1996) was a Danish composer and teacher. Early life and education Vagn Holmboe was born in Horsens, Jutland, into a merchant family of dedicated

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Vaiko Eplik

Vaiko Eplik (born 1 August 1981) He has been part of several collectives: Claire's Birthday, Ruffus and Koer. In 2006, Eplik started his solo project under the name Eliit. He has released eight

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Väinö Raitio

Väinö Eerikki Raitio (15 April 1891 – 10 September 1945) was part of the small group of composers who appeared in the Finnish art music scene in the 1920s with a new cosmopolitan music style, very

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Vakhtang Kakhidze

Vakhtang (Vato) Kakhidze (; ; born 23 March 1959 in Tbilisi) is a Georgian composer and conductor. He is the son of conductor Jansug Kakhidze. He graduated and postgraduated from the Moscow State

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Vakhtang Machavariani

Vakhtang Machavariani (19 February 1951 – 6 May 2025) was a Georgian, Soviet and Russian conductor and composer. The chief conductor of the Georgian Philharmonic Orchestra from 1996, he worked with

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Valborg Aulin

Laura Valborg Aulin (9 January 1860 – 13 March 1928) was a Swedish pianist and composer. Aulin's String Quartet in E minor, Op. 17 and String Quartet in F minor are the most important Swedish music

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Valdemar Tofte

Lars Valdemar Tofte (21 October 1832 – 28 May 1907) was a Danish violinist who taught for a half century and trained over 300 of Denmark's violinists. Biography Tofte was born on 21 October 1832 in

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Valentin de Bournonville

Valentin de Bournonville (c. 1610 – 18 March 1684) was a French Baroque composer and music master active in the middle of the 17th century. Biography Valentin de Bournonville was the son of Jean de

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Valentin Haussmann

Valentin Haussmann (c. 1560 – c. 1613–14) was a German composer, music editor and poet, known from the publications of his compositions, derived from Italian and Polish models. Life Little is known

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Valentin Rathgeber

Johann Valentin Rathgeber (3 April 1682 – 2 June 1750) was a German composer, organist and choirmaster of the Baroque Era. Life Rathgeber was born in Oberelsbach. His father, an organist, gave him

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Valentin Zubiaurre

Valentin Zubiaurre Urionabarrenechea (13 February 1837 – 13 January 1914) was a Spanish composer who was a professor at the Madrid Royal Conservatory and worked at the Chapel Royal. Life Zubiaurre

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Valentina Crespi

Valentina Crespi (March 14, 1892 – after 1959 ) was an Italian-American violinist and composer, based in New York City in the 1910s and 1920s. Early life and education Crespi was described as being

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Valentina Ramm

Valentina Yosifovna Mandelstam Ramm (22 October 1888 - 3 July 1968) was a Ukrainian author, composer, coloratura soprano, translator and violinist. She composed over 100 songs and several string

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Valentina Serova (composer)

Valentina Semyonova Serova (maiden name Bergman) (1846 – June 26, 1924) was a Russian composer of Jewish descent. Her family had converted to Reformed Protestantism before she was born. Early life

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Valentyn Silvestrov

Valentin Vasylyovych Silvestrov (; born 30 September 1937) is a Ukrainian composer and pianist who plays and writes contemporary classical music. He is a laureate of Shevchenko National Prize.

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Valerie Rodway

Valerie Muriel Rodway (February 12, 1919 – August 1970) was a Guyanese composer of cultural and patriotic songs, inspired by the events leading up to Guyana's independence in 1966. She is best known

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Valéry Aubertin

Valéry Aubertin (born 3 June 1970) is a contemporary French organist, composer and choir conductor. Biography Born in Lagny-sur-Marne, Aubertin was a student in the organ class of Michèle Guyard at

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Valery Zhelobinsky

Valery Viktorovich Zhelobinsky (; November 9, 1913, Tambov – August 13, 1946, Leningrad) was a Soviet and Russian composer, pianist and pedagogue. Life and works Zhelobinsky studied music firstly at

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Vally Weigl

Vally Weigl (11 September 1894 – 25 December 1982) was an Austrian-American composer and music therapist. Biography Valerie Weigl (née Pick) was born in Vienna, Austria. She was the first daughter of

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Vanessa Corish

Vanessa Corish is an Australian-born singer-songwriter and record producer. She has written songs for artists including Olivia Newton-John, Tina Arena, Wynonna Judd, Human Nature, Donny Osmond and

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Vanessa Lann

Vanessa Lann (born April 6, 1968, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American-Dutch composer living in the Netherlands. and toy piano. recorded on compact discs, and performed in music festivals in Europe

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Vangelis

Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (, ; 29 March 1943 – 17 May 2022), mainly known professionally as Vangelis ( ; , ; also credited as Vangelis Papathanassiou), was a Greek composer, arranger,

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Vano Muradeli

Vano Muradeli (; ; 6 April 1908 – 14 August 1970), was a Soviet Georgian composer. Biography He was born in Gori, Georgia (then part of Imperial Russia) to Georgian -Armenian parents. He graduated

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Vartan Adjemian

Vartan Adjemian (, , ; born 27 April 1956) is an Armenian composer of orchestral, operatic, and chamber music whose works have been performed worldwide. Career Adjemian studied composition with

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Varvara Adrianovna Gaigerova

Varvara Adrianovna Gaigerova (; 17 October 1903 in Orekhovo-Zuyevo, Russian Empire – 6 April 1944 in Moscow) was a Soviet composer and pianist. Life Gaigerova studied composition under Georgy Catoire

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Vasil Tole

Vasil S. Tole (born 22 November 1963) is an Albanian composer, ethnomusicologist, and cultural administrator. A proponent of European classical music, his compositions encompass opera, chamber music,

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Vasile Șirli

Vasile Șirli (born 25 September 1948) is a Romanian musical composer and producer. A pianist, Șirli specialises in easy listening, film, incidental and classical music. He studied at the National

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Vasilije Mokranjac

Vasilije Mokranjac (Belgrade, 11 September 1923 – Belgrade, 27 May 1984) was a Serbian composer, professor of composition at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade and a member of the Serbian Academy of

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Vasily Kalinnikov

Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov (; 13 January 1866 – 11 January 1901 ) was a Russian composer. His body of work consists of two symphonies, several additional orchestral works, and numerous songs, all

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Vasily Lobanov

Vasily Pavlovich Lobanov (Васи́лий Па́влович Лоба́нов, born 2 January 1947) is a Russian composer and pianist. He has been a Duo-Partner of Sviatoslav Richter. Biography Vasily Pavlovich Lobanov was

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Vasily Pashkevich

Vasily Alexeyevich Pashkevich, also Paskevich (; c. 1742, probably Ukraine – March 20, 1797 in St. Petersburg) was a Russian composer, singer, violinist and teacher of Ukrainian origin and according

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Vasily Polikarpovich Titov

Vasily Polikarpovich Titov (; c. 1650 – c. 1715) was a Russian composer, one of the foremost exponents of the so-called Moscow Baroque. Although Titov's works are not widely known today, he was

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Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy

Vasily Pavlovich Solovyov-Sedoy (; 25 April 1907 – 2 December 1979) was a Soviet classical composer and songwriter who was born and died in Leningrad. Originally named Solovyov, when he entered the

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Vasily Zolotarev

Vasily Andreyevich Zolotarev, also romanized as Zolotaryov (; February 24, 1872 in Taganrog – May 25, 1964 in Moscow), was a Russian (Soviet) composer and music teacher of Greek ancestry. Biography

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Vassilis Tsabropoulos

Vassilis Tsabropoulos (in Greek: Βασίλης Τσαμπρόπουλος) is a Greek pianist, conductor, and composer. Career Tsabropoulos's initial training was in classical piano. As a child prodigy, he won the

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Vassily Brandt

Karl Wilhelm (Vasily Georgievich) Brandt (Willy Brandt) (1869 – 2 February 1923) was a German-Russian trumpeter, pedagogue, and composer. He is the founder of the Russian trumpet school. Life Karl

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Vatroslav Lisinski

Vatroslav Lisinski (, 8 July 1819 – 31 May 1854) was a Croatian composer. Biography Lisinski was born Ignatius Fuchs to a German Jewish family. He would later change his name to Vatroslav Lisinski,

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Vaughan Williams and English folk music

The composer Ralph Vaughan Williams was one of the musicians who participated in the first English Folk Song revival, as well as using folk song tunes in his compositions. He collected his first

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