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Vibe Ish

Or Shoshana (Hebrew: אור שושנה; born January 17, 1992) known by the stage name Vibe Ish (Hebrew: וייב איש) is an Israeli singer-songwriter, composer and music producer. Biography Shoshana was born in

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Vic Legley

Victor Legley (18 June 1915 in Hazebrouck – 28 November 1994 in Ostend) was a Belgian violist and composer of classical music, of French birth. He first studied in Ypres with Lionel Blomme

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Vic Mizzy

Victor Mizzy (January 9, 1916 – October 17, 2009) was an American composer for television and movies and musician whose best-known works are the themes to the 1960s television sitcoms Green Acres and

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Vic Nees

Victor Nees () (8 March 1936 – 14 March 2013) was a Belgian (Flemish) composer (mainly of choral music), choral conductor, musicologist, and music educator. Early life and education Vic Nees's father

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Vic Vogel

Victor Stefan Vogel (August 3, 1935 – September 16, 2019) was a Canadian jazz pianist, composer, arranger, trombonist, and conductor. Biography Vogel was born in 1935 to Hungarian parents living in

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Vicenç Cuyàs

Vicente Cuyás () (Palma de Mallorca, 6 February 1816 – Barcelona, 7 March 1839) was a Spanish composer known for his romantic opera La fattucchiera. Vicente Cuyás was born to a Catalan family in

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Vicente Asencio

Vicente Asencio y Ruano (29 October 1908 – 4 April 1979) was a Spanish composer. He is perhaps best known for his works for guitar of which guitarists Andrés Segovia and Narciso Yepes were notable

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Vicente Espinel

Vicente Gómez Martínez-Espinel (; 28 December 15504 February 1624) was a Spanish writer and musician of the Siglo de Oro. He is credited with the creation of the modern poetic form of the décima,

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Vicente Gómez (composer)

Vicente Gómez (8 July 1911 – 23 December 2001) was a Spanish guitarist and composer. Biography Gómez was born in Madrid, where he learned his trade in a tavern owned by his father, located in the

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Vicente Lusitano

Vicente Lusitano (c. 1520) was a Portuguese composer and music theorist of the late Renaissance. Some of his works on musical theory and a small number of compositions survive. Lusitano was for a

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Vicente Martín y Soler

Anastasio Martín Ignacio Vicente Tadeo Francisco Pellegrin Martín y Soler (2 May 175430 January or 10 February 1806) was a Spanish composer of opera and ballet. Although relatively obscure now, in

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Vichaya Vatanasapt

Vichaya Vatanasapt () is a Thai musician, composer and music producer, best known for film scores produced through his studio Hualampong Riddim. Vichaya graduated in architecture from King Mongkut's

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Victor Baravalle

Victor Baravalle (1885–1939) was an Italian-born composer, music director, and conductor, best known for his work on both the stage and film productions of the Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II

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Victor Bendix

Victor Emanuel Bendix (17 May 1851 in Copenhagen – January 1926) was a Danish composer, conductor and pianist, who came from a Jewish family. His teachers included Niels Gade. He studied at the

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Victor Bouchard

Victor Bouchard OC CQ (April 11, 1926 – March 22, 2011) was a Canadian pianist and composer. Bouchard received his first musical training from 1941 to 1946 at the Collège de Lévis with Father

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Victor Bruns

Victor Bruns (; 15 August 1904 – 6 December 1996) was a German composer and bassoonist. He played with the Leningrad Opera, the Volksoper Berlin and the Staatskapelle Berlin. As a composer, he is

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Victor Davies

Victor Albert Davies is a Canadian composer, pianist, and conductor, best known for his opera Transit of Venus and The Mennonite Piano Concerto. Biography Davies was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in

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Victor de Sabata

Victor Alberto de Sabata (10 April 1892 – 11 December 1967) was an Italian conductor and composer. He is widely recognized as one of the most distinguished operatic conductors of the twentieth

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Victor Dolidze (composer)

Victor Isidores dze Dolidze (Georgian: ვიქტორ ისიდორეს ძე დოლიძე, 30 July 1890 – 24 May 1933) was a Georgian classical composer. Practically unknown in the West, in his home country Dolidze is best

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Victor Dourlen

Victor Charles Paul Dourlen (3 November 1780 – 8 January 1864) was a French composer and music teacher at the Conservatoire de Paris during the first half of the nineteenth century. He is primarily

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Victor Frédéric Verrimst

Victor Frédéric Verrimst (29 November 1825 – 16 January 1893) was a French double-bassist and composer. Biography Of Belgian ancestry, Verrimst was born in Paris and studied double-bass at the

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Victor Hely-Hutchinson

Christian Victor Noel Hope Hely-Hutchinson (26 December 1901 – 11 March 1947) was a British composer, conductor, pianist and music administrator. He is best known for the Carol Symphony and for

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Victor Herbert

Victor August Herbert (February 1, 1859 – May 26, 1924) was an American composer, cellist and conductor of English and Irish ancestry and German training. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers

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Victor Kraft (photographer)

Victor Hugo Etler Kraftsov, known as Victor Kraft (August 8, 1915 – July 2, 1976), was an American professional photographer and lifelong friend and lover of Aaron Copland. Early life Victor Kraft

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Víctor Lavallén

Víctor Luis Lavallén (18 December 1935) is an Argentinian bandoneonist, orchestra conductor, composer, and tango arranger. His professional career started in the 1950s. In November 2024, he was

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Victor Magnien

François Victor Antoine Magnien (21 November 1802 – 8 June 1885) was a French violinist, guitarist, conductor, teacher and composer. Life Magnien was born in Épinal, in the French department of

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Victor Massé

Victor Massé (; born Félix Marie Massé; 7 March 1822 – 5 July 1884) was a French composer. Biography Massé was born in Lorient (Morbihan) and studied at the Paris Conservatoire, winning the Prix de

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Víctor Rasgado

Víctor Rasgado (1959 – 18 January 2023) was a Mexican pianist and classical composer, whose works have been performed in Mexico, the United States, Italy, and the Netherlands. Biography Born in

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Victor Roger

Victor Roger (22 July 1853 – 2 December 1903) was a French composer. He is best known for his operettas, particularly the lighter kind known as the "vaudeville-opérette". His thirty theatre works,

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Victor Rosenbaum

Victor Rosenbaum (born 1941) is an American pianist, teacher, educator and administrator. Early life Rosenbaum was born in Philadelphia, but spent most of his childhood, from age 5, in Indianapolis,

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Victor Sieg

Charles-Victor Sieg (8 August 1837 – 6 April 1899) was a French composer and organist. He won the 1864 Prix de Rome for his setting of the dramatic cantata, Ivanhoé. Life and career Sieg was born on

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Victor Urbancic

Dr. Victor Urbancic or Viktor Ernest Johann von Urbantschitsch (9 August 1903 – 4 April 1958) was an Austrian composer, conductor, teacher and music scholar from Vienna. During his twenty-year exile

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Víctor Varela

Víctor Varela (born 1955) is a Venezuelan-Swedish composer based in Gothenburg. His compositions include works for orchestra, vocal and instrumental chamber music, with electronics and computer

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Victor von Herzfeld

Victor Emmerich Ritter von Herzfeld (October 8, 1856 – February 19, 1919) was a Hungarian violinist and composer. Born in Pressburg (now Bratislava), Herzfeld studied law at the University of Vienna

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Victoria Banks

Victoria Wenonah Banks (born February 8, 1973) is a Nashville-based Canadian singer and songwriter who has penned songs for a variety of artists including Reba McEntire, Sara Evans, Jessica Simpson,

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Victoria Bond

Victoria Ellen Bond (born 6 May 1945) is an American conductor and composer in New York City. Early life Victoria Bond was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of operatic bass and medical

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Victoria Borisova-Ollas

Victoria Borisova-Ollas (born 21 December 1969) is a Russian-Swedish composer who first received international recognition for her symphonic poem Wings of the Wind which won second prize in the 1998

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Victoria Kokhana

Victoria Kokhana Kushch (also known as Toria Tal, born on May 27, 1990, Kyiv) is a Ukrainian musician. Biography Victoria Kokhana was born on 27 May 1990 in Kyiv, into a Ukrainian family. She began

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Victoria Poleva

Victoria Vita Polyova (; born September 11, 1962) is a Ukrainian composer. She was the Shevchenko National Prize laureate of 2018. Early life and education Born on September 11, 1962, in Kyiv,

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Victoria Santa Cruz

Victoria Eugenia Santa Cruz Gamarra (27 October 1922 – August 30, 2014) was an Afro-Peruvian choreographer, composer and activist. Victoria Santa Cruz would go on to be called "the mother of Afro

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Victorin de Joncières

Félix-Ludger Rossignol (12 April 1839 – 26 October 1903), known as Victorin de Joncières (), was a French composer and music critic. Biography Son of a political writer and editor of La Patrie and

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Victorine Farrenc

Victorine Louise Farrenc (23 February 1826 – 3 January 1859) was a French pianist and composer of the Romantic period. Life and career Victorine Louise Farrenc was born in Paris, France on 23

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Viet Cuong (composer)

Viet Cuong (born 1990 in West Hills, California) is a Vietnamese-American composer. Praised as "alluring" by The New York Times and "irresistible" by The San Francisco Chronicle, Cuong's music has

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Viggo Bielefeldt

Viggo Emil Bielefeldt (16 October 1851 – 17 December 1909) was a Danish composer, singer, cantor and music teacher. His father Heinrich Hellmuth Bielefeldt was an immigrant from Mecklenburg, Germany.

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Vijay Anand (composer)

Vijay Anand (born Jude Matthew, 1952 – 6 February 2024) was an Indian music composer who worked in Kannada and Tamil films. Initially a composer for stage plays, he made his film debut with the Tamil

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Viking Dahl

Viking Dahl (8 October 1895 – 5 January 1945) was a Swedish composer, active also as a painter and an author. Biography Frode Viking Samson Dahl was born in Osby in Scania, Sweden. He was the son of

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Vikram Singh (composer)

Vikram Singh (born 23 April 1983) is an Indian producer, director and composer. He works upon singles, films, TV commercials and radio jingles. He is the brother of Gajendra Verma, singer of the

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Viktor Chaika

Viktor Chaika (); real name Viktor Grigorievich Sigal (); (born December 11, 1958, Odessa, USSR) is a Soviet and Russian pop composer, songwriter, singer and musician. Known for dozens of songs for

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Viktor Kalabis

Viktor Kalabis (27 February 1923 – 28 September 2006) was a Czech composer, music editor and musicologist. He was the husband of harpsichordist Zuzana Růžičková. Life Born in Červený Kostelec,

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Viktor Kalinnikov

Viktor Sergeevich Kalinnikov, also Victor (; 2 March 1870 – 23 February 1927), was a Soviet choral composer, conductor and pedagogue. He was the younger brother of the better-known symphonic composer

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Viktor Kosenko

Viktor Stepanovych Kosenko (; 23 November 1896 – 3 October 1938) was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, and educator. He was regarded by his contemporaries as a master of lyricism. Kosenko's life is

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Viktor Nessler

Viktor (or Victor) Ernst Nessler (28 January 1841 – 28 May 1890) was an Alsatian composer who worked mainly in Leipzig. Nessler was born at Baldenheim near Sélestat, Alsace. At Strasbourg he began

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Viktor Pleshak

Viktor Vasilyevich Pleshak (; born 13 November 1946) is a Soviet and Russian composer. He is known for his work in academic and popular music, including symphonic compositions, songs, and musical

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Viktor Suslin

Viktor Yevseyevich Suslin (; 13 June 1942 – 10 July 2012) was a Russian composer. An associate of Sofia Gubaidulina's, together with her and Vyacheslav Artyomov he formed the improvisatory ensemble

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Viktor Ullmann

Viktor Ullmann (1 January 1898 – 18 October 1944) was a Silesia-born Austrian composer, conductor and pianist. Biography Viktor Ullmann was born on 1 January 1898 in Cieszyn (Teschen), which belonged

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Viktor Widqvist

Viktor Widkvist (1881–1952) was a Swedish military musician and composer. Career He was born Viktor Magnus Widkvist in Stockholm in the Jakob och Johannes parish on 27 December 1881. Viktor was the

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Vilém Blodek

Vilém Blodek, born Vilém František Plodek (3 October 1834 – 1 May 1874), was a Czech composer, flautist and pianist. Biography Blodek was born on 3 October 1834 in Prague, Bohemia, Austrian Empire

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Vilém Tauský

Vilém Tauský CBE (20 July 1910 – 16 March 2004) was a Czech conductor and composer. From the advent of the Second World War, he lived and worked in the United Kingdom, and was one of a significant

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Villa Senar

Villa Senar is an estate built in Switzerland by the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff. He purchased the plot of land near Hertenstein on the shores of Lake Lucerne in 1932. The name of the estate

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Vincenc Mašek

Vincenc Václav Mašek (sometimes called Vincent Maschek or Vincenzo Maschek; 5 April 1755 – 15 November 1831) was a Czech composer of classical music, pianist and virtuoso of the glass harmonica.

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Vincent A. Jockin

Vincent Alexandre Jockin (born 31 May 1976) is a French composer and musician. Biography Beginning with 1995, after obtaining the bachelor's degree of Science (B.S.), Jockin continued his musical

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Vincent Beer-Demander

Vincent Beer-Demander, born in Paris in 1982, is a French mandolinist and composer. He teaches at several music schools and numerous musical events, in France and abroad, in particular the Mandol'in

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Vincent Bueno

Vincent Mendoza Bueno (born 10 December 1985) is an Austrian singer of Filipino descent. On 12 January 2008, he became the winner of the ORF programme, Musical! Die Show (Musical! The Show), an

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Vincent Calianno

Vincent Calianno (born December 1, 1979, in Buffalo, New York) is a New York City and Tucson based composer of contemporary classical music, sound artist, and filmmaker. Biography Calianno began

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Vincent d'Indy

Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy (; 27 March 18512 December 1931) was a French composer and teacher. His influence as a teacher, in particular, was considerable. He was a co-founder of the Schola

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Vincent Frank Safranek

Vincent Frank "V.F." Safranek (March 24, 1867 – September 7, 1955) was a Czech American musician. Safranek emigrated to the United States at an early age. His father John was Chief Musician in the

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Vincent Ho (composer)

Vincent Ho is a Canadian composer. Both his Arctic Symphony and The Shaman: Concerto for Percussion & Orchestra were nominated for Juno Awards. Early life and education Ho was born in Ottawa,

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Vincent Houška

Vincent Houška (; 21 January 1766 – 1840) was a Czech-Austrian composer and musician who played mandolin and cello. He was good enough a musician that he was able to tour Europe and give concerts. He

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Vincent Lübeck

Vincent Lübeck (c. September 1654 – 9 February 1740) was a German composer and organist. He was born in Padingbüttel and worked as organist and composer at Stade's St. Cosmae et Damiani (1675–1702)

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Vincent McDermott

(Joseph) Vincent McDermott (September 5, 1933 – February 10, 2016) was a classically trained American composer and ethnomusicologist. His works show particular influence from the musics of South and

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Vincent Novello

Vincent Novello (6 September 17819 August 1861), was an English musician and music publisher born in London. He was an organist, chorister, conductor and composer, but he is best known for bringing

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Vincent O'Brien (composer)

Vincent O'Brien (9 May 1871 – 21 June 1948) was an Irish organist, music teacher and composer. O'Brien was an important figure in early 20th-century Irish music. For some, he is mainly known as the

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Vincent Persichetti

Vincent Ludwig Persichetti (June 6, 1915 – August 14, 1987) was an American composer, teacher, and pianist. An important musical educator and writer, he was known for his integration of various new

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Vincent Plush

Vincent Plush (born 18 April 1950, Adelaide) is an Australian composer, music critic, teacher, conductor, impresario, and musicologist. Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (2001) describes

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Vincent Royer

Vincent Royer (born 22 January 1961) is a French violist and composer. He gives concerts worldwide as a soloist and chamber musician. He gives master classes, is a member of various ensembles and

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Vincent Scotto

Vincent Scotto (21 April 1874 – 15 November 1952) was a French composer. Biography Early life Vincent Scotto was born on 21 April 1874 in Marseille to Pasquale Scotto d'Aniello and Antonia

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Vincenza Garelli della Morea

Vincenza Garelli della Morea née Valeggio (Countess de Cardenas; 1859 – after 1924) was an Italian pianist and composer. She also used the pseudonym Centa della Morea. She played in a salon with

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Vincenzo Albrici

Vincenzo Albrici (26 June 1631 in Rome – 7 September 1687 in Prague) was an Italian composer, brother of Bartolomeo and nephew of Fabio and Alessandro Costantini. Albrici was born as the son of

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Vincenzo Battista

Vincenzo Maria Battista (5 October 1823–14 November 1873) was an Italian composer and conductor. At first his operas were received with enthusiasm by his compatriots. Today none of his works are in

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Vincenzo Bellavere

Vincenzo Bellavere (also Bell'haver, Bell'aver, Belaver) (c.1540-1541 – 29 August 1587) was an Italian composer of the Venetian School. While a fairly minor figure in the Venetian School, he was a

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Vincenzo Bellini

Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini (3 November 1801 – 23 September 1835) was an Italian opera composer famed for his long, graceful melodies and evocative musical settings. A central figure

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Vincenzo Fioravanti

Vincenzo Gioacchino Fioravanti (5 April 1799 – 28 March 1877) was a prolific Italian opera composer active in Naples. He composed 39 operas, of which 34 were performed in his lifetime. Like his

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Vincenzo Galilei

Vincenzo Galilei (3 April 1520 – 2 July 1591) was an Italian lutenist, composer, and music theorist. His children included the astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei and the lute virtuoso and

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Vincenzo Legrenzo Ciampi

Vincenzo Legrenzo Ciampi (2 April 1719 – 30 March 1762) was an Italian composer. He is best known today as the composer of a song that cannot be certainly ascribed to his pen, "Tre giorni son che

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Vincenzo Manfredini

Vincenzo Manfredini (22 October 1737 – 5 or 16 August 1799) was an Italian composer, harpsichordist and a music theorist. Biography Manfredini was born in Pistoia, in Tuscany. He studied music with

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Vincenzo Righini

Vincenzo Maria Righini (22 January 1756 – 19 August 1812) was an Italian composer, singer and kapellmeister. Life and career Righini was born in Bologna and studied singing and composition with Padre

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Vincenzo Ruffo

Vincenzo Ruffo (c. 1508 – 9 February 1587) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the composers most responsive to the musical reforms suggested by the Council of Trent, especially

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Vincenzo Ugolini

Vincenzo Ugolini (Perugia, 1 November 1578 - Rome, 6 May 1638) was an Italian composer of the early Baroque era and of the Roman School. Life Born in Perugia, he was first a puer chori (boy soprano)

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Vinko Globokar

Vinko Globokar (born 7 July 1934) is a French-Slovenian avant-garde composer and trombonist. Globokar's music uses unconventional and extended techniques, places great emphasis on spontaneity and

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Vinko Jelić

Vinko Jelić (1596 - after 22 July 1636) was a Croatian Baroque composer, singer and musician. He is considered among the most prominent European creators of the early Baroque chamber sacred concerto.

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Vinzenz Lachner

Vinzenz Lachner (also spelled Vincenz) (19 July 1811 – 22 January 1893) was a German composer and conductor. Early life Born in Rain am Lech, Vinzenz was the youngest brother of Franz Lachner, also a

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Violet Archer

Violet Archer (24 April 191321 February 2000) was a Canadian composer, teacher, pianist, organist, and percussionist. Education and teaching career Born Violetta Balestreri in Montreal (the family

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Violet Reiser

Violet Reiser (3 July 1905 - 25 February 1981) was an American composer, educator, organist, and pianist. She published over 100 keyboard compositions, recorded commercially, and played organ in

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Violeta Dinescu

Violeta Dinescu (born 13 July 1953) is a Romanian composer, pianist, and academic teacher, living in Germany since 1982. She has been professor of applied composition at the University of Oldenburg

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Virgil Thomson

Virgil Thomson (November 25, 1896 – September 30, 1989) was an American composer and critic. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound" in classical music. He has been described

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Virginia Gabriel

Mary Anne Virginia Gabriel (7 February 1825 – 7 August 1877) was an English singer and composer. She was also known as Mrs. George E. March. Life Virginia Gabriel was born in Banstead, Surrey,

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Vissarion Shebalin

Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin (; 11 June 190229 May 1963) was a Soviet composer and music pedagogue. He was Rector of the Moscow Conservatory (1942-1948) and People's Artist of the RSFSR (1947).

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Vitaliy Kyreiko

Vitaliy Dmytrovych Kyreyko (23 December 192619 October 2016) was a Ukrainian composer. He graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory with a degree in composition from L. Revutsky (1944-1949), where he also

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Vítězslav Novák

Vítězslav Augustín Rudolf Novák (5 December 1870 – 18 July 1949) was a Czech composer and academic teacher at the Prague Conservatory. Stylistically, he was part of the neo-romantic tradition, and

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Vítězslava Kaprálová

Vítězslava Kaprálová (; 24 January 1915 – 16 June 1940) was a Czech composer and conductor of 20th-century classical music. Life and career Vítězslava Kaprálová was born in Brno, Moravia,

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Vito Frazzi

Vito Frazzi (1 August 1888 – 7 July 1975) was an Italian neo-romantic composer. He was born in San Secondo Parmense, and studied at the Parma Conservatory, where he learnt composition from Guido

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Vito Palumbo

Vito Palumbo (born 1972) is an Italian composer. He has had pieces performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, the Gävle Symphony Orchestra, the Athenäum-Quartett Berliner Philharmoniker and the RAI

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Vito Ricci

Vito Ricci (born 1947) is a Canadian-born American composer. Early life Ricci was born in Canada and adopted by Italian-American parents. In 1985, Ricci self-released the ambient album Music from

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Vittoria Aleotti

Vittoria Aleotti (c. 1575 – after 1620), believed by some scholars to be the same as Raffaella Aleotta (c. 1570 – after 1646) was an Italian Augustinian nun, a composer and organist of the late

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Vittorio Cosma

Vittorio Cosma (born 11 March 1965) is an Italian pianist, record producer, conductor, and arranger. Life and career Born in Varese, Cosma studied piano at the Milan Conservatory and later jazz piano

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Vittorio Giannini

Vittorio Giannini (October 19, 1903 – November 28, 1966) was an American neoromantic composer of operas, songs, symphonies, and band works, and member of the Giannini family. Life and work Giannini,

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Vittorio Gnecchi

Vittorio Gnecchi (17 July 1876 – 5 February 1954) was an Italian composer. Life Vittorio Gnecchi Ruscone was the son of a wealthy industrialist. Thanks to his solid financial position, he was able to

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Vittorio Gui

Vittorio Gui (14 September 188516 October 1975) was an Italian conductor, composer, musicologist and critic. Gui was born in Rome in 1885. He graduated in humanities at the University of Rome and

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Vittorio Monti

Vittorio Monti (Naples, Italy, 6 January 1868 Naples, 20 June 1922) was an Italian composer, violinist, mandolinist and conductor. His most famous work is his Csárdás, written around 1904. Life and

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Vittorio Negri

Vittorio Negri (October 16, 1923 - April 9, 1998) was an Italian conductor, record producer, and musicologist. Negri was born in Milan. He initially studied at the Milan Conservatory, then at the

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Vittorio Rieti

Vittorio Rieti (28 January 1898 – 19 February 1994) was an Italian and American composer. Biography Rieti was born to a family of Jewish descent in Alexandria, Kingdom of Egypt. He later moved to

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Vivek Kar

Vivek Kar is an Indian bollywood film music director score composer and producer. Career Working as a music composer, Kar made his debut as a film composer in Bollywood in the film Zindagi 50-50

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Vivian Fine

Vivian Fine (28 September 1913 – 20 March 2000) was an American composer. Life Fine was born in Chicago to David and Rose Fine. A piano prodigy, she became at age five the youngest student ever to be

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Vivian Fung

Vivian Fung (born 1975) is a JUNO Award-winning Canadian composer who writes music for orchestras, operas, quartets, and piano. Her compositions have been performed internationally. Early life and

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Viviana Guzmán

Viviana Guzmán (born August 20, 1964) is a Chilean professional flutist, composer, dancer and poet, who performs over 80 concerts a year, and has played in 122 countries. She has been described by

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Vivien Lalu

Vivien Lalu (born 2 December 1978 in Paris, France) is a French composer, record producer, sound designer and keyboardist who plays in the melodic / progressive metal band A-Z as well as his own

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Vivienne Olive

Vivienne Olive (born 31 May 1950) is a British-German composer and music educator. Career Born in London, Vivienne Olive studied piano, harpsichord, organ and music theory at Trinity College of Music

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