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Vibe Ish

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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 south Tel Aviv and grew up without a father. By the age of 17 he was frequenting open mics and free-styling at school. In 2017 he began his musical journey in collaboration with rapper Ron Asael. The two founded the group “Tala Moveb”. That same year they released their first self-titled album. The album was chosen by “The Sponge” magazine as the best rap album of 2017. In 2019, he was a guest on Israeli hip-hop duo Shrek and Tsukush’s album, “In my head”, on the song “Adayin”. In 2020 he released his first solo album, “The Ascent”. The album features guest appearances by Eden Derso, Michael Suisa, Teddy Ngosa and Yasmin Moalem, and was produced by DJ Mash and various producers. Later that year, she released the single “Julie” which samples Abigail Rose cover of the Ofra Haza song, “Oud Mechait La Ehad”, which was included on the Haza tribute album “Kol HaNsema: Ofra Haza Sings”. The song was very successful and even entered the playlist of the Galgalat radio station. In June 2021, he

Vic Legley

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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 (1897–1984). In 1935 he matriculated at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels, and there won awards in the study of viola, fugue, counterpoint and chamber music. In 1941, Legley began studying with Jean Absil, and in 1943 he received the second Belgian Prix de Rome. After World War II he played in the Brussels Opera Orchestra and also in the Déclin Quartet, where he encountered the music of Béla Bartók and of Arnold Schoenberg. At about this time (in 1942) he wrote his first symphony, first of a series of eight (the last of which was written in 1993 and premiered in 1994), and also his first string quartet (first of five, 1941–63, 1990) (Randel, Don Michael (1996).) He was chairman of SABAM (the authors’ rights association) from 1980 to 1992, and from 1986 to 1990 president of the Union of Belgian Composers. His last years saw a turn towards wind-band music; his Symphony No. 7 is scored for this ensemble. His output also includes 3 violin concertos, a viola concerto, and a piano concerto, among othe

Vic Mizzy

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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 The Addams Family. Mizzy also wrote top-20 songs from the 1930s to 1940s. Early life Mizzy was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Jewish immigrants, and attended New York University. As a child, he played accordion and piano, and was largely self-taught as a composer. During World War II, he served in the United States Navy where he wrote some of his hit songs. Songwriting In the late 1930s, while based in New York City, Mizzy began composing a string of popular songs. These included Doris Day’s 1945 hit “My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time”. A soundtrack album was released in 1965 containing all his compositions from The Addams Family entitled Original Music From The Addams Family. The single of the theme reached #25 on Canada’s CHUM Charts. Mizzy rewrote and conducted The Addams Family Theme with a slightly different melody for the 1977 television special Halloween with the New Addams Family, which reunited most of the original cast of the 1964–1966 TV series. He also wrote the sco

Vic Nees

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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 was Staf Nees, a famous Belgian carillonist, composer and organist. Vic Nees was born in Mechelen. His early musical education was intense but informal. He had piano and organ lessons, and after taking a preparatory course of solfège by Paul Gilson he became a member of the cathedral choir of St. Rumbold’s, then conducted by Jules Van Nuffel, who greatly impressed him. Of equal importance in his education were his father’s musical friends and acquaintances; they included Marinus de Jong, Jef van Hoof, and Arthur Meulemans. But until 1956 he was mainly self-taught, using his father’s library of scores and recordings. His interest in classical and romantic music was short-lived; very quickly it turned to the moderns of the day, like Milhaud, Hindemith, Bartók and especially Stravinsky; later also Britten. As a young teenager he already substituted for his father, away on concert tours, at the organ of the Basilica of Our Lady of Hanswijk. His father also drafted him as an accompanist at

Vic Vogel

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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 Montreal. He began playing the piano at the age of five after watching his older brother play. He also taught himself to play trombone (from age 19), tuba, and vibraphone, and to arrange music. At 14, he began working occasionally in Montreal nightclubs, and did a CBC radio broadcast, while repairing cars to earn money. In the mid-1950s he studied piano and music theory with Michel Harvey in Montreal, and took lesson from Lennie Tristano in New York City. Vogel became a full-time professional musician in the late 1950s, and through the 1960s worked as both a sideman and bandleader in nightclubs, and eventually in radio and TV studios. He played in a Montreal big band and later a nonet led by Steve Garrick, and honed his arranging skills by writing for various bands, including Garrick’s and Al Nichols’s. In 1961, he accompanied on piano the Double Six of Paris, for concerts in the province of Quebec, and, in 1966 led a group of Montreal jazz musicians on a tour of Europe organized by Radi

Vicenç Cuyàs

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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 Palma de Mallorca where his family had fled during the Peninsular War. Shortly thereafter, the family returned to Barcelona where Cuyás began studies in medicine, which he soon abandoned. At the age of 17 he began to study music with Ramón Vilanova, one of Barcelona’s most prestigious teachers during the early nineteenth century, who in turn had trained in Milan with abbé Isidore Piantanida. Cuyás’ early works consist of some operatic music which was premiered widely in private salons, but it was at the Teatre de la Santa Creu where almost all of his works were produced. His First Symphony, written in 1835, although it is actually an extensive opera overture in a single movement — but it gained him some notice when it was dedicated to the actress Matilde Díez. although it is sung in Italian. In order to finish La fattuchiera “in record time”, Cuyàs father had also died of tuberculosis during the rehearsals. The opera is based on a novel by the Viscount of Arlincourt which had already been a

Vicente Asencio

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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 exponents. Life Born in Valencia, Asencio began his musical training as a boy with his father. After studying violin in Castellón de la Plana with Emilio Bou, he moved to Barcelona to pursue studies at the Academia Frank Marshall with Frank Marshall and Enric Morera i Viura. He also studied privately in that city with Joaquín Turina and Ernesto Halffter. He also studied conducting in Paris and Milan. Asencio began composing in the early 1920s, and his first major success was the ballet Fuego de Fiesta (1926). His earlier music displays an evident influence of the composer Manuel de Falla. In 1932 he founded the Conservatorio de Música de Castellón de la Plana with violinist Abel Mus. In 1934 he helped formed the Grupo de los Jóvenes, a group of talented young musicians in Valencia whose members also included Vicente Garcés and Ricardo Olmos among others. In 1943 Asencio married one of his pupils, the composer and painter Matilde Salvador. They became one of the most influential artistic c

Vicente Espinel

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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, composed of ten octameters, named espinela in Spanish after him. Biography Espinel was born in Ronda. He studied at the University of Salamanca, where he adopted as his own his father’s second surname, and later on at the universities of Granada and Alcalá. As a latinist, he translated to Spanish Horace’s Epistola ad Pisones. After leaving university, he had an adventurous life as a soldier, serving in Flanders and elsewhere. He was a prisoner of pirates at Argel and a soldier in Italy after being liberated, and returned to Spain about 1584. Afterwards, he moved to Madrid and took holy orders in 1589. Four years later he became chaplain at Ronda, but absented himself from his living. Still, his musical skill obtained for him the post of choirmaster at Plasencia. His (Assorted Rhymes), produced in 1591, showed a caustic wit. Later, in 1618, the printer Juan de la Cuesta published Espinel’s picaresque novel , for which he is best known. This book, with several autobiographical details, was p

Vicente Gómez (composer)

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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 red-light district of Madrid. He worked there until he was 25 when he visited Russia. He was involved in politics and opposed to General Franco. He visited Cuba and Mexico, and he was discovered while making a radio show in Mexico. He worked in New York and toured South America. In 1943, he became a U.S. citizen and served in the American army. In 1950 he performed in the Cary Grant film Crisis as the guitarist Cariago in an uncredited performance. In the 1950s, he signed with American Decca Records, he composed for Hollywood films, and then he retired to compose and teach. Gómez’s students included Ricky Nelson and the wife of Omar Bradley. Musical compositions Original theme for guitar and orchestra, soundtrack of the film Blood and Sand (1941), played by the composer himself. “Verde luna” (Green Moon), rumba Bolero, also featured in Blood and Sand. It was recorded by Alfredo Antonini and his orchestra featuring Victoria Cordova and John Serry Sr. in 1949, and also recorded by the Italia

Vicente Lusitano

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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 time a Catholic priest and taught in several Italian cities, but later converted to Protestantism. He is believed to have been of mixed race. Since the 1980s, he has been described as the first published black composer. Life and career Lusitano, a Portuguese-language term for “Portuguese”, appears to be a descriptive nickname rather than a family name. Little is known of his life. He was born in Olivença, likely around 1520. Lusitano is described as pardo, a Portuguese term indicating he was of mixed European and non-European heritage. By 1561 he had married, converted to Calvinist Protestantism, and traveled to Germany. There is no record of him after 1561. and published as Un tratado de canto de órgano (siglo XVI) in 1913. * Introdvttione facilissima, et novissima, di Canto Fermo, Figvrato, Contrapon to semplice, et in concerto. Con Regole Generali per far fvghe differenti sopra il Canto Fermo, a ii, iii & iiii. voci, & compositioni, proportioni, generi. S. Diatonico, Cromotico, Enarmoni

Vicente Martín y Soler

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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 his own day he was compared favorably with his contemporary and admirer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as a composer of opera buffa. In his time he was called “Martini lo spagnuolo” (“Martini the Spaniard”); in modern times, he has been called “the Valencian Mozart”. He was known primarily for his melodious Italian comic operas and his work with Lorenzo Da Ponte in the late 18th century, as well as the melody from Una cosa rara quoted in the dining scene of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Soon, Martín y Soler was also composing highly successful operas for Joseph II’s imperial theater. After returning to St Petersburg, he wrote his last opera, La festa del villaggio (1798). He also wrote a number of tragic ballets during his residence as Court Composer there, including Didon abandonée (1792), Amour et Psyché (1793, based on Psyché by Molière, Corneille and Philippe Quinault), Tancrède (1799) and Le retour de Poliorcète (1799). Shortly before his 1806 death in Saint Petersburg, he served as inspector fo

Vichaya Vatanasapt

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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 Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, and only had informal training in music. Upon graduation, he joined the band La-Ong-Fong, and went on to pursue a career in music instead of architecture. After La-Ong-Fong, he worked with the band T-Bone, co-founding Hualampong Riddim in 1999 as an indie label to manage the band as well as his own electro-pop project The Photo Sticker Machine. Soon, Hualampong Riddim began producing music for advertising, and then branched into film music, beginning with the 1999 indie film Kon Jorn. Vichaya went on to compose for Yuthlert Sippapak’s 2003 film February, and co-wrote the score for Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s Last Life in the Universe with Jettamon Malayota. He composed several other works for Yuthlert and Pen-ek, and has since produced numerous further output, including works done with film studio GTH/GDH, of which The Teacher’s Diary (2014), Heart Attack (2015), A Gift (2016), and Bad Genius (2017) all won the Suphannahong National Film Award for best origi

Victor Baravalle

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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 musical Show Boat. Baravalle worked as musical director and conductor for several Broadway musicals, including as conductor for the Greenwich Village Follies in 1921. He conducted the Broadway premiere production of Show Boat in 1927, as well as for the original stage productions of nine other Jerome Kern shows, among them The Cat and the Fiddle, Music in the Air, and Roberta. He continued a connection with Jules Bledsoe, the star of Show Boat, and conducted the New York Philharmonic Orchestra for Bledsoe’s concert in 1929. Among the other stage musicals that he conducted was the first American production of The White Horse Inn. In 1929, he was Musical Director for RKO Pictures, at the time known as Radio Pictures, until Max Steiner took over in 1930. He conducted the early film musical Tanned Legs (1929). He became executive head of music for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, then Metro, in 1935. He also conducted the orchestra for the sound prologue for the early sound version of Show Boat (1929), a

Victor Bendix

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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 conservatory of music at Copenhagen, then newly founded, from 1867 to 1869. He studied piano under August Winding and composition under Niels W. Gade. He visited Germany and other countries abroad; his compositions show the influence of modern German romanticism. He was also a friend of Carl Nielsen, who dedicated his Symphonic Suite for piano (1894) to Bendix. In 1879, he married the writer and philanthropist Baroness Rigmor Stampe. Selected works *Symphonies **Symphony no. 1, op. 16, “Fjældstigning” in C major (1882) *Concertante works **Piano Concerto in G minor, op. 17 (1884) *Orchestral works **Dance suite in A, op. 29 (1903) **Piano Sonata in G minor, op. 26 (published 1901) **Intermezzo for piano (published 1916) Further reading * Cornelius, Jens: Victor Bendix – nøglefigur og paria i dansk musikliv, Rambam (2020) * Salmonsen, Store Illustrerede Konversationsleksikon (Kjøbenhavn, Brødrene Salmonsen (J. Salmonsen)) * C. F. Bricka, Dansk Biografisk Lexikon pp 47, 48 Notes References *Sm

Victor Bouchard

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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 Alphonse Tardif. Then he studied at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec under Tardif (harmony), Hélène Landry (piano) and Françoise Aubut (theory). In 1950 he married pianist Renée Morisset. From 1950 to 1953 Bouchard studied in Paris, where he was a student of Alfred Cortot and Antoine Reboulot. From 1952 he performed with his wife as a piano duo. They toured Canada, Belgium, Holland and Italy starting in the mid-1950s. After debuting at Carnegie Hall, they made many appearances in the United States between 1965 and 1970. Several composers wrote pieces for the duo. These include Clermont Pépin’s Nombres for two pianos and orchestra (1963), Roger Matton’s Concerto (1964) and a sonata by Jacques Hétu. For a recording of Matton’s concerto, they were awarded the Prix Pierre-Mercure. Bouchard was President of the Jeunesses musicales du Canada from 1957 to 1959 and in 1961 became vice president of the Académie de musique du Québec. From 1967 to 1971 he worked for the Ministry of Education of Que

Victor Bruns

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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 known for his ballets and for bassoon concertos and sonatas. Career Victor Bruns was born to German parents in their summer house in Ollila near St Petersburg, in an area which was, at the time, part of the Russian Empire. External links * * Stomberg, Eric Wolf: The Bassoon Sonatas of Victor Bruns: An Analytical and Performance Perspective (With an Annotated Bibliography of Works for Bassoon) 2004 *

Victor Davies

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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 1939. As a child and teenager, he studied the piano and violin, sang in church choirs, played in jazz and rock bands, and took courses with Ronald Gibson and Peggie Sampson at the University of Manitoba. He studied composition at Indiana University where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in music in 1964. Between 1968 and 1970 he led and composed for a ’third stream’ jazz ensemble and attended Pierre Boulez’s 1969 conducting class in Switzerland. In 1959 he became organist-choirmaster at Wesley United Church, Winnipeg where he served for many years. He became the music director at the Manitoba Theatre Centre in 1964 and from 1966 to 1970 he worked as a composer, arranger, and conductor for CBC Radio and television. In 1970 he began to work as a freelance composer and arranger, and in 1977 he moved to Toronto where he still resides. He was president of the Canadian League of Composers 1979-82 and began to sit on the board of directors of SOCAN in 1997. He was honored with an honorary d

Victor de Sabata

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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 century, especially for his Verdi, Puccini and Wagner. De Sabata was acclaimed for his interpretations of orchestral music. Like his near contemporary Wilhelm Furtwängler, de Sabata regarded composition as more important than conducting but achieved more lasting recognition for his conducting than his compositions. De Sabata has been praised by various authors and critics as a rival to Toscanini for the title of greatest Italian conductor of the twentieth century, and even as “perhaps the greatest conductor in the world”. In 1918, aged 26, de Sabata was appointed conductor of the Monte Carlo Opera, performing a wide variety of late-19th century and contemporary works, and earning acclaim from Maurice Ravel. De Sabata became the music director at La Scala in Milan, a post he would hold for over 20 years. His animated conducting style led one observer to describe his appearance in performance as “a cross between Julius Caesar and Satan.” De Sabata began playing the piano at the age of four, and

Victor Dolidze (composer)

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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 remembered for his opera Keto and Kote, which premiered in 1919 during the First Republic. The composition, which remains popular to this day, follows the story of forbidden love between an impoverished prince and a wealthy commoner’s daughter. Biography Victor Dolidze was born on 30 July 1890 in the city of Ozurgeti, Kutais Governorate, in what is now Georgia, then part of the Russian Empire. He came from a poor peasant family. In 1902 Dolidze’s family moved to Tiflis, where entered a commercial school. In 1910, he won his first prize at a local mandolin contest. Victor Dolidze died on 24 May 1933 in Tiflis and is buried at the Didube Pantheon. See also *Heraclius Djabadary *Zacharia Paliashvili *Dimitri Arakishvili References

Victor Dourlen

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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 known as a theorist on account of his treatises on harmony, based on the methods of Charles Simon Catel, which were widely used as reference works, especially his Traité d’harmonie (c. 1838), the Traité d’accompagnement pratique (c. 1840), and his Méthode élémentaire pour le pianoforte (c. 1820). Biography Victor Dourlen was born in Dunkerque. He entered the Paris Conservatory in 1799 at the age of 19, becoming a pupil of Charles-Simon Catel (harmony), François-Joseph Gossec (counterpoint), and Benoit Mozin (piano). He became a teacher of elementary singing at the institution in 1800. In 1805, he won the Prix de Rome for musical composition with his cantata Cupidon pleurant Psyché. Although he was prevented by war from going to Rome immediately, his opera Philoclès was performed at the Opéra-Comique in October 1806. However, with only four performances, the opera was not successful. Dourlen then went to Rome in 1807, and on July 14 his Te Deum for the Battle of Friedland was performed, f

Victor Frédéric Verrimst

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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 Conservatoire de Paris in Louis François Chaft’s class as well as harmony with Antoine Elwart and counterpoint with Simon Leborne. A winner of the first prizes in these disciplines at the Conservatoire, he became a musician in the orchestra of the Opéra-Comique, then became bass soloist with the orchestra of the Opéra de Paris, at the Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire and played in the personal music of Napoleon III. Verrimst was also maître de chapelle of the église Saint-Thomas-d’Aquin then of the Church of Saint-Bernard de la Chapelle and double-bass professor at the Conservatoire de Paris. In this capacity, he was the author of a textbook for the double bass, which was in use at the Conservatoire, as well as a Solfège du contrebassiste. But Verrimst did not limit himself to writing for the double-bass. He composed several masses and motets, various songs and piano works, a fantasy for trombone as well as an important collection of harmonized rounds and popular songs, p

Victor Hely-Hutchinson

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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 humorous song-settings. Early life Hely-Hutchinson was born in Newlands, Cape Town, Cape Colony (now Cape Town, South Africa). His parents were Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson, Governor of Cape Colony from 1901 to 1910 during and after the Boer War, and May Hely-Hutchinson. He initially lived in Kent, then moved back to South Africa in 1907. He was taught the piano by Dr Thomas Barrow Dowling (1861–1926), the organist of Cape Town cathedral. Victor was a child prodigy, composing many pieces before the age of ten – his parents had a collection of sketches for violin and piano published as A Child’s Thoughts in 1909. In England in 1910, he was taught piano by Donald Tovey and was initially educated at Heatherdown School, near Ascot in Berkshire. In 1914, his father died. Victor was then educated at Eton College, and then read history at Balliol College, Oxford. Music, however, prevailed and after one year at Oxford he was granted permission to study for a Mus. Bac. at the Royal College of Music, wh

Victor Herbert

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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 as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I. He was also prominent among the Tin Pan Alley composers and was later a founder of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). A prolific composer, Herbert produced two operas, a cantata, 43 operettas, incidental music to 10 plays, 31 compositions for orchestra, nine band compositions, nine cello compositions, five violin compositions with piano or orchestra, 22 piano compositions and numerous songs, choral compositions and orchestrations of works by other composers, among other music. In the early 1880s, Herbert began a career as a cellist in Vienna and Stuttgart, during which he began to compose orchestral music. Herbert and his opera singer wife, Therese Förster, moved to the U.S. in 1886 when both were engaged by the Metropolitan Opera. In the U.S., Herbert continued his performing career, while also teaching at t

Victor Kraft (photographer)

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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 was born Victor Hugo Etler on August 8, 1915, in Oneonta, New York, the son of Samuel Etler (born in New York City) and Bella Kraftsov (emigrated from Alexandrovsk, Russia). In 1936, Kraft studied photography at the Santuario de Ocotlan in Tlaxcala and from December 1936 to April 1937 he covered the Spanish Civil War as a photojournalist for Louis Aragon’s Ce Soir. Victor Kraft traveled in Mexico in the 1930s and in Brazil from 1951 to 1953. In 1951, Kraft married Pearl Kazin, writer and sister of Alfred Kazin, a literary critic. The marriage lasted a few months. In 1960 Kraft married Rheba Robinson, a nurse. They moved to Croton-on-Hudson and Kraft found a house for Copland in nearby Cortlandt Manor. Copland was the godfather of Kraft’s only child, Jeremy Aaron, who was mentally handicapped. Kraft did not accept the situation and in 1968 he left his wife and took Jeremy with him, traveling around the world for eight years. Kraft died of a heart attack on July 2, 1976, and Jeremy returned

Víctor Lavallén

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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 declared a “Distinguished Personality for Culture” by the Buenos Aires City Legislature in recognition of his substantial contribution to the development of the genre. Life Early years Lavallén was born on December 18, 1935, in Rosario, into a family of musicians. During his childhood, he studied trumpet, but at the age of eight, his uncle, the bandoneon player Héctor Chera, introduced him to the instrument that would define his career. At fourteen, he moved to Buenos Aires, where he debuted in a group led by Eduardo Serrano at the Picadilly theater. After a brief stint with that orchestra, he continued his training with the bandoneon player Eladio Blanco, a member of Juan D’Arienzo’s orchestra. * Buenosaireando (2008) * Atemporal (2015) * De menor a mayor (2015) * Comme il faut (2019), with Pablo Estigarribia and Horacio Cabarcos. References External links * * Víctor Lavallén at Discogs

Victor Magnien

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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 Vosges. According to Bone (1914/54), but his father’s association with Colonel Augustin Joseph Caron who was executed for conspiracy in 1822 again led to him losing his job and throwing the family into financial difficulties. This caused the young musician to teach violin and guitar in order to support his family, soon gaining the benevolence of influential families in Colmar. After a few years he continued teaching in Mulhouse. From there, he spent three months a year in Paris to continue his own studies in Paris: violin now with Pierre Baillot and Charles Philippe Lafont, the guitar again with Carulli, and composition with François-Joseph Fétis. an orchestra he conducted for 13 years. In 1846, he became the director of the Conservatoire de Lille where he, besides administrative duties, still taught violin and guitar. The date of his retirement is not known. But when he became Chevalier of the Légion d’honneur on 14 August 1869, confirmed in a second document of 29 January 1872, he was stil

Victor Massé

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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 Rome in 1844 for his cantata Le Rénégat de Tanger before turning his attention to opera. While at the Conservatoire, Massé studied with Jaques Halévy. He wrote some twenty operas, including La Chanteuse voilée (1850), followed by the more ambitious Galathée (1852) and Paul et Virginie (1876). His best-known and most successful work was the opéra comique Les Noces de Jeannette (1853). His last work, Une Nuit de Cléopâtre, was performed posthumously in April 1885. Massé died in Paris and is buried in Montmartre Cemetery. in the 9th arrondissement of Paris is named after him. Operas * La Chambre gothique, opéra (1849) * La Chanteuse voilée (1850, text by Eugène Scribe and Adolphe de Leuven) * Galathée (1852, text by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré)) * Les Noces de Jeannette, opéra comique (1853, text by J. Barbier and M. Carré) * La Fiancée du diable (1854, text by Eugène Scribe and H. Romand) * Miss Fauvette (1855, text by J. Barbier and M. Carré) * Les Saisons (1855, text by J. Barbier and

Víctor Rasgado

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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 Mexico City, he studied piano and composition at the Escuela Nacional de Música and the Centro de Investigación y Estudios de la Música in Mexico, the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi (Milan and the Accademia Chigiana (Siena). His opera Anacleto Morones was one of the winners of the Premio Orpheus for new chamber operas and was premiered in Spoleto at the Teatro Caio Melisso on 9 September 1994 in a production by Luca Ronconi. That same year his Revontulet (Fantasia for piano, percussion, and instrumental ensemble) premiered in Siena. Other notable compositions include his 2001 children’s opera, El conejo y el coyote (The Rabbit and the Coyote) and Revuelos (for trumpet, piano, contrabass and percussion), performed in Carnegie Hall during the Sonidos de las Americas festival in 1994. Rasgado died on 18 January 2023, at the age of 63. See also *Paso del Norte (opera) References * Casa Ricordi, Catalogue: Victor Rasgado * Ficher, Miguel, Latin American Classical Composers: A Biographical Dictionar

Victor Roger

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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, composed between 1880 and 1902, also include pantomimes and ballets. His best-known piece, Les vingt-huit jours de Clairette, has remained in the repertory of French companies. Biography Roger was born in Montpellier, in the south of France, the son of a musician. After studying at the École Niedermeyer he began his career composing songs and operettas for the Eldorado music hall. In 1886, he had a success with Joséphine vendue par ses soeurs, a parody of Méhul’s biblical opera, Joseph et ses frères. He followed this with Les vingt-huit jours de Clairette (1892), an operetta on a military theme, in the tradition of the earlier operetta composer Hervé. It ran initially for 236 performances and was revived in 1900, 1901, 1903, 1908, 1914, 1920, 1921 and 1925, Les vingt-huit jours de Clairette was by far Roger’s greatest success, and so it has tended to eclipse his other works, some of which enjoyed considerable popularity initially. L’auberge du Tohu-Bohu, which followed in 1897, was anothe

Victor Rosenbaum

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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, Indiana. Showing an early interest in music, he began piano lessons at age 5 with Elizabeth Brock with whom he studied for eight years, later studying with Martin Marks of Butler University’s Jordan College of Music. Rosenbaum also studied with Rosina Lhevinne for two summers at the Aspen Music School. His principal teacher during his college years and beyond was Leonard Shure, who himself had been a student and disciple of Artur Schnabel. Rosenbaum earned his BA degree at Brandeis University and MFA at Princeton University. Career as pianist As a pianist, Rosenbaum has performed in the U.S., Japan, Taiwan, Russia, Israel, Brazil, and in Europe. He was a member of two trios, the Wheaton Trio and the Figaro Trio. His recitals have taken him to Chicago, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, St. Petersburg (Russia), New York, and his long-time home, Boston, among many other places. His chamber music partners have included the Cleveland, Borromeo, and Brentano String Quartets, cellists Leonard Rose, Paul Ka

Victor Sieg

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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 8 August 1839, in Turckheim. His father, Constant Sieg (1807 – 1891), was a composer and the organist of the Church of Saint-Martin in Colmar. Sieg studied first under his father and then at the Conservatoire de Paris under François Benoist (organ) and Ambroise Thomas (composition). He won the conservatory’s First Prize in organ in 1863, and the following year he won the Prix de Rome for the cantata, Ivanhoé set to a French text by Victor Roussy based on Walter Scott’s 1820 novel, Ivanhoe. The cantata premiered on 18 November 1864 at the Paris Opera with Jean Morère in the title role and was well received. Rue Victor Sieg, a street in Turckheim, is named in his honour. Notes References

Victor Urbancic

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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 in Iceland, from 1938 until his death, he made significant contributions to Iceland’s musical culture. Biography Urbancic was born in Vienna and began his musical studies there, studying piano, and later composition with Joseph Marx and conducting with Clemens Krauss and others at the Vienna Conservatory of Music. He also completed a doctorate in musicology at the University of Vienna under Guido Adler, with a dissertation on sonata form in the works of Johannes Brahms. His early career was spent at the Stadttheater Mainz, and he had already obtained a position at the Conservatory there, which was led by his old friend and colleague Hans Gál, when the Nazis took power in 1933 and he was forced to leave Germany. Although Urbancic was born and raised in the Catholic faith, his wife, Melitta, came from a Jewish family. He eventually found a new job at the Graz Conservatory, where he was teacher and director of the opera studio, as well as lecturing in musicology at the University of Graz.

Víctor Varela

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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 devices. Education Varela was born in Caracas where he studied musical composition, electronic music and piano at the National Conservatory of Music Juan José Landaeta, obtaining a degree in composition in 1987. Afterwards, he studied composition at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam (Composition Prize in 1993) and electronic music at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. Among his teachers are Antonio Mastrogiovanni, Eduardo Kusnir, Geert van Keulen, Ton de Leeuw, Louis Andriessen, Theo Loevendie, John Coolidge Adams and Trevor Wishart. Career Varela’s music has been performed at festivals and events in major cities worldwide, including festivals like ISCM World Music Days, San Juan’s Biennial of Contemporary Music, Caracas Latin American Music Festival, Inter American Music and Dance Festival, Green Umbrella Series, Stockholm New Music, and Gothenburg Art Sounds. In Venezuela he received the National Composition Award and the Caracas City Municipal Award. In 1996 his Second String Quartet was

Victor von Herzfeld

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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 and music at the Music Academy of Vienna where he won first prize for both composition and violin playing. In 1884, he was awarded the Beethoven Prize of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde (Society of the Friends of Music). He studied in Berlin with Eduard Grell and in 1886 went to Budapest as professor in the Music Academy. He was second violin in the original Budapest Quartet established by David Popper and Jenő Hubay. Ernst von Dohnányi dedicated his Sonata in C minor for Violin and Piano, Op. 21 (1912) to Herzfeld. While serving as the music critic of the Neue Pester Journal, he wrote a negative review of his friend and colleague Gustav Mahler’s First Symphony. He is the author of a 1915 article on Robert Volkmann. He died in Budapest and was buried there at the Kerepesi Cemetery. Notes References External links * *

Victoria Banks

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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, Lauren Alaina, Carly Pearce and Mickey Guyton. Her songs have earned 2 ASCAP Country Music Awards, a SOCAN International Achievement Award, a Covenant Award, and a Grammy nomination (for co-writing Mickey Guyton’s album Remember Her Name). Banks’ own self-produced debut album When You Can Fly, released on the On Ramp/EMI Canada label in April 2009, earned her a 2010 Canadian Indie Award nomination and six nominations at the 2009 Canadian Country Music Awards (CCMAs) including Album of the Year, Producer of the Year, Single of the Year (“The Wheel”), Songwriter of the Year (“The Wheel”), Female Artist of the Year and Rising Star, making Banks the most nominated female artist of 2009. “The Wheel,” the album’s first single, reached the Top 20 on the Radio & Records Country Singles chart earning her a 2010 Canadian Radio Music Award nomination. Music videos for “The Wheel” and “When You Can Fly” received airplay on CMT Canada. Banks was named both Female Artist of the Year and Songwriter(s)

Victoria Bond

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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 doctor Philip Bond (a vocalist with the New York City Opera) and concert pianist Jane Courtland, who studied with Bela Bartok. Her grandfather was Samuel Epstein, a composer, conductor and double bass player. Bond married Stephan Peskin in 1974. Education Bond attended University of California, Los Angeles and University of Southern California, studying voice with William Vennard and composition with Ingolf Dahl. She received her doctorate at the Juilliard School of Music, where she studied composition with Roger Sessions and conducting with Jean Morel and Sixten Ehrling. She took masterclasses with Herbert von Karajan. She also studied with Herbert Blomstedt at Aspen Music Festival and School. While a student at Juilliard, Bond served as assistant to Pierre Boulez, Mstislav Rostropovitch and Aaron Copland. She was the first woman to be awarded a doctoral degree in Orchestral Conducting from Juilliard in 1977. Awards She is the recipient of the Victor Herbert Award, the American Academy

Victoria Borisova-Ollas

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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 Masterprize International Composition Competition in the UK. She was born in Vladivostok, and studied with Nikolai Korndorf at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow and continued her studies in composition at the Academy of Music in Stockholm and Malmö Music College. In 1997, she studied composition with Jeremy Dale Roberts at the Royal College of Music in London. She has composed two symphonies, Symphony No. 1 “The Triumph of Heaven” and Symphony No. 2 “Labyrinths of Time”. Her opera The Ground Beneath Her Feet, with a libretto written by Edward Kemp, is an adaptation of the novel of that name by Salman Rushdie. The premiere at Bridgewater Hall during the 2007 Manchester International Festival was narrated by Alan Rickman, conducted by Mark Elder, and featured a film component by Mike Figgis. Since 2008 she has been a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Prizes and awards * 1997 - Royal Swedish Academy of Music scholarship to study at the Royal College of Music in London * 19

Victoria Kokhana

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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 studying music at the age of five. She graduated from the Lysenko Music School, later completing the Department of Choral Conducting (class of Professor O. Tymoshenko) and the Department of Composition (class of Professor L. Dychko) at the Petro Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine (Kyiv Conservatory). Career 2006–2013 After graduating from the conservatory, Kokhana devoted herself to the pop music industry. Her experience as a composer and sound producer helped her to gain recognition, and she contributed to the creation of songs and albums for a number of artists. Kokhana was the author of the popular song “Nomer Odin” for the group NuAngels, as well as serving as an arranger on several of their other compositions. The album became a record holder for the number of copies sold in Ukraine, and was honoured with a prestigious “Gold Record” award by the IFPI, one of the oldest music industry associations in Europe. Two songs from the album were selected for the compilation 50 Bes

Victoria Poleva

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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, Ukraine, Victoria Polyova is the daughter of composer Valery Polyovyj. She graduated from Kyiv Conservatory in 1989, then completed post-graduate studies completed there in 1995. Career From 1990–1998, Polyova was a lecturer in the faculty of composition, then from 2000–2005 at the Music Information Technologies Department of the Kyiv Conservatory. Since 2005 she has been a freelance composer. In both 2014 and 2015 she was a member of the jury of the International Composers Competition “Sacrarium” in Italy. In 2006, Polyova was composer-in-residence at the Menhir Chamber Music Festival (Swiss, Graubunden). Since 2006 the Swiss agency “Sordino Ediziuns Musicalas” has been publishing her works. In 2011, Polyova was invited by Gidon Kremer as composer-in-residence at the XXX Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival (Austria). In 2013, Polyova was composer-in-residence at Festival of Contemporary Music Darwin Vargas (Chile, Valparaiso) Awards and honours Polyova is a laureate of the Municipal Prize “Kyi

Victoria Santa Cruz

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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 Peruvian dance and theatre.” Along with her brother, Nicomedes Santa Cruz, she is credited as significant in a revival of Afro-Peruvian culture in the 1960s and 1970s. They both came from a long-line of artists and intellectuals. For her part she is said to have had “Afrocentrism” influences in her view of dance trying to discover “ancestral memory” of African forms. She helped to found the Cumanana company. Early life Santa Cruz was born eighth of ten children in Lima, Peru. Her younger brother Nicomedes Santa Cruz became a famous poet who she often performed with. At an early age, Victoria Santa Cruz was introduced to the fine arts, having come from a household full of black artists and musicians. One of her earliest influences were her parents whom she first learned about Afro-Peruvian dance (marinera and other criollo dances) as well as poetry and music. This early on exposure to the fine arts led Victoria Santa Cruz to create and participate in musicals like Malató, which would later

Victorin de Joncières

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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 Constitutionel, he was born at Paris, and his first musical lessons were from aunts. Leaving the Lycée Bonaparte at 16, he decided to study to be a painter, entering the studio of Picot. However, Joncières kept up his musical interest and had a short opéra comique performed by students of the Conservatoire de Paris, and was advised to abandon art and take up music. He entered the Conservatoire and followed the classes of Simon Leborne in fugue and counterpoint. However, after hearing one of Richard Wagner’s first concerts in the French capital, he had a disagreement with the professors, and in 1860, abandoned his studies to devote himself to composition. His violin concerto was played at the Conservatoire in 1870 by Jules Danbé, and a Symphonie romantique at the Concert national in 1873. ), penning biting criticisms of earlier opéra comique composers and of Berlioz. Although Joncières presented his candidature for the Institut de France he was refused. He died in his native city of Paris.

Victorine Farrenc

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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 February 1826. In 1843, Farrenc enrolled in the Conservatoire de Paris for piano, and won the premier prix in 1844. She performed Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, the “Emperor” in the 1845 Brussels-Paris concerts, where her mother’s Symphony No. 1 premiered. Her stage appearances lessened in 1847 after a serious illness; by 1849 she had ceased performing. She died on 3 January 1859 in Paris. References Further reading * External links *

Viet Cuong (composer)

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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 been performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the Kennedy Center. His music has been commissioned and performed by organizations such as the New York Philharmonic, So Percussion, Albany Symphony Orchestra, PRISM Saxophone Quartet, The Crossing, and Les Délices. Biography The son of Vietnamese immigrants, Cuong was born in West Hills, California, and grew up in Marietta, Georgia, where he graduated from Lassiter High School. He credits his high school band program for helping him find both a love of music and sense of belonging. He studied music composition at the Peabody Institute, Princeton University, and Curtis Institute of Music. His mentors include Kevin Puts, Oscar Bettison, Donnacha Dennehy, Steven Mackey, Jennifer Higdon, David Ludwig, and Richard Danielpour. Cuong serves on the music composition faculty at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and was the Young American Composer-in-Residence of the California Symphony from August 2020 through July 2023. Refere

Viggo Bielefeldt

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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. Life and career Bielefeldt was educated at the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music from 1867 to 1869 in among other things, singing and piano with Carl Helsted and August Winding respectively as teachers. He debuted as a romance singer on 2 March 1872 and was thereafter a well-known and valued singer in this field In addition, he was a singing teacher at Horneman’s music school and from 1883 at the Conservatory of Music. From 1880 he was cantor at Trinitatis Kirke and from 1887 at Holmens Kirke. For a time, shortly after Gade’s death, he was also organist at the same church. In 1900 he was appointed titular professor. In 1892 he became a Knight of the Dannebrog and in 1905 a Dannebrogordenens Hæderstegn. He is buried at Hellerup Kirkegård, with a gravestone made by J. Schannongs Granit-Industri. Works *A Honeymoon (mixed choir) *David’s 8th Psalme (male choir, tenor solo and brass instruments – 1883) *Singing exercises (together with Emil Horneman) *Melodies for the Book of Psalms for C

Vijay Anand (composer)

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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 film Oorukku Upadesam (1984), and became more active in Kannada films after working on its remake Indina Ramayana the same year. Career Vijay Anand was born in Madras (now Chennai) to Roman Catholic parents. He developed an interest in music at the age of five due to the musical troupe Thomas and Party being his neighbours. After seeing his interest in music, they took him to their troupe and made him to be part of their concerts. He later started his own troupe in 1972. He was expected to debut in film with Visu’s Naanayam Illatha Naanayam (1984); however Oorukku Upadesam, released the same year, became his film debut. Dwarakish who was impressed with his music in Oorukku Upadesam chose him to compose music for its Kannada remake Indina Ramayana (1984). He also composed the music for a 1992 album titled Asia Classics I. One of his last releases was the Kannada film Mugila Chumbana, which had a delayed release in 2013. Personal life Vijay Anand was married to Amali, and they had a daug

Viking Dahl

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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 Samuel Dahl (1847-1932) and Katarina Lovisa Peterson (1859-1931). He was the grandson of Swedish priest Gustav Leonard Dahl (1801-1877). His elder brother was Swedish-American Lutheran pastor and author K. G. William Dahl (1883-1917). His cousin was Swedish architect Frans Gustaf Abraham Dahl (1835-1927). Dahl studied at the Royal College of Music 1915-1919 in Stockholm and thereafter in Copenhagen and Berlin. During a stay in Paris 1920, he wrote the dance drama Maison de Fous for Ballets Suédois. He developed his own avant-gardism during his studies in Stockholm, and in Paris he met the radical French composers of the time, among them Darius Milhaud and Maurice Ravel. When he returned to Sweden, Dahl worked as a piano and music teacher. He was also an organist and choir director at Varberg in Halland where he lived until his death. References External links Free scores * Miscellaneous *Viking Dahl, biography (in Swedish) *Viking Dahl and the Piano, by Olof Höjer (in Swedish)

Vikram Singh (composer)

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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 viral song “Emptiness – Tune Mere Jaana” and other famous singles like “Ik Kahani”, “Anjaam”, “Mera Jahan,” and the most famous 2018 hit, “Tera Ghata”. Early life Vikram Singh Verma was born in Sirsa, Haryana, India, to Dr. Surender Verma, a poet, writer, teacher and theater personality, and Chand Verma. Vikram’s love for music and his father’s able guidance worked wonders and at the age of three began his homeschooling for music. While still in school he started his vocal training under his guru Prof. Bakshi. By the age of 15, he had completed his Visharad in music and started composing for school and college plays as well. He also performed at several state-level college competitions and won numerous awards for Best Harmonium Player, Best Vocalist, Best Keyboardist, by Kurukshetra University, Haryana. After completing his graduation, along with his family he moved to Jaipur where he finished his master’s degree in music from University of Rajasthan and did initial grades from Trinity Coll

Viktor Chaika

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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 Aleksey Glyzin (Winter Garden, You’re Not an Angel), Tatyana Ovsiyenko (Captain, Beautiful Girl), Irina Allegrova (Transit Passenger, Drafts, Imagined) and many other pop stars. Some time singing solo (Mona Lisa, Where Are You Going Anywhere). He worked as a music producer on the show Boris Moiseev, and the manager of tours of foreign performers. Pesnya Goda Multiple nominee and winner of the festival. He wrote the music for several films. Family The first wife was Irina Borisova. The son is Alexey. The second wife was Tatyana Agurbash (2003-2009). in 2016, his chosen one became Polina Solovyova. In 2023, the second child was born. * 1991 — The Mannequin in Love (composer) * 2010 — Wirth: The Game is Not Childish (composer) * 2010 — The Last Secret of the Master (composer, actor) * 2016 — Svetoforov’s Family (composer, actor) * 2017 — The Tale of Peter and Fevronia (composer) * 2020 — She Abandoned the Bunny… (composer) References External links * Виктор Чайка на сайте Blatata.com * Ви

Viktor Kalabis

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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, Kalabis was interested in music from a young age, but due to the Nazi occupation of Prague during the Second World War, he was unable to study music in Prague. After the end of the war, Kalabis studied at the Prague Conservatory and at the Academy of Music and Charles University. In 1952, Kalabis married Zuzana Růžičková, who became a famous harpsichord player. They both refused to join the Communist Party, which impeded the beginning of their music careers. Eventually, Kalabis got work in the children’s music section at Czechoslovak Radio, where he established the Concertino Praga competition for young musicians. In 1957, Manuel Rosenthal performed Kalabis’ Concert for violoncello op. 8 at the Orchestre de Paris at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, which brought Kalabis new opportunities. His works were commissioned, for example, by the Czech Philharmonic, the Dresden Philharmonic, Camerata Zurich, Josef Suk, The Suk Trio, János Starker, Maurice André, the Prague Spring Festival and others. Hi

Viktor Kalinnikov

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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 Vasily Kalinnikov (1866–1901). He studied at the seminary in Oryol, then at the Moscow Philharmonic School, taking oboe and music theory. He played in various theatre orchestras, and taught singing at schools in Moscow. From 1899 to 1901 he headed the orchestra of the Moscow Art Theatre. Victor attended then taught at the Moscow Synodal School of Russian Orthodox Church music, where he composed 24 sacred choral settings for the Russian Orthodox All-Night Vigil and Divine Liturgy. From 1922 to 1926 he taught at the Moscow Conservatory. His compositions were popular and well received by critics. He died in Saltykovka, a suburb of Balashikha near Moscow. Selected works References External links *

Viktor Kosenko

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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 conclusively divided into three distinct phases, in Warsaw, where he studied with renowned teacher Aleksander Michałowski, in Zhytomyr, where he began teaching piano and music theory at the Music Technicum, later becoming director of the Zhytomyr Music School, and finally in Kyiv, where he devoted more time to symphonic compositions such as his Heroic Overture, which brought him due recognition in the world of Soviet music. Kosenko’s music combines a post-romantic idiom with intonations of Slavic folk songs and Western-European influences. His vocal, chamber and symphonic works are among the most important pieces of that time in USSR. Life and career Early life and education Viktor Stepanovych Kosenko was born on 23 November 1896 in Saint Petersburg, into the large family of a major general, Stepan Kosenko. Viktor’s family moved from Saint Petersburg to Warsaw in 1898, From 1908, he studied under Aleksander Michałowski, a professor at the Warsaw Conservatory. Kosenko continued studying comp

Viktor Nessler

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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 his university career with the study of theology, but he concluded it with the production of a light opera entitled Fleurette (1864). To complete his knowledge of music Nessler went to Leipzig to study with Moritz Hauptmann. In 1870, he was appointed chorus master and later conductor of the Caroltheater, Leipzig. His musically conservative, mock-Gothic, fairy-tale operas, notably Der Rattenfänger von Hameln (The Pied Piper of Hamelin) (1879) and Der Trompeter von Säkkingen (1884), based on the famous poem by Joseph Viktor von Scheffel, were very popular in the 19th century. The great conductor Artur Nikisch composed an orchestral arrangement of material from Der Trompeter von Säkkingen. Besides a number of other operas, Nessler wrote many songs and choral works; but it is with the Trompeter von Säkkingen that his name is most closely associated. In 1895 a monument to him by the sculptor Alfred Marzolff was erected in Strasbourg, the place of his death. Works * Fleurette (1864 Strasbourg)

Viktor Pleshak

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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 works for theatre. Pleshak was awarded the title of in 2004 and has received the Prize of the Government of Saint Petersburg. Biography Pleshak was born in Leningrad on 13 November 1946. He graduated from the in 1964 and later from the Leningrad Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory in 1970, where he studied choral conducting under E. P. Kudryavtseva. He completed further studies in composition in 1981 under professors V. V. Pushkov, A. D. Mnatsakanyan, and Boris Tishchenko. Pleshak has also written numerous popular songs performed by artists. He lives and works in Saint Petersburg. Personal life Pleshak is married to Irina Anatolyevna Pleshak, a concertmaster at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. They have two sons, both of whom are composers. Selected works Oratorio * Leningradki (2020), an oratorio for reader, mezzo-soprano, baritone, children’s and women’s choirs, and piano. Honours and awards * (20 May 2004), for services in the field of the arts. * Medal of the Order “For Merit to the F

Viktor Suslin

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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 ‘Astraea’ in 1975. He emigrated to Germany in 1981. Biography At the age of four (1946) Suslin began to study piano and made his first attempts at composition. From 1950 to 1961 he attended Kharkiv Music High School, and from 1961 to 1962 the Kharkiv Conservatory where he studied composition with Dimitri Klebanov and piano with V. Topilin. From 1962 to 1966 he studied composition with Nikolay Peyko and piano with Anatoly Vedernikov at the Gnessin Institute in Moscow. He worked as an editor at the publishing house Muzyka in Moscow (1966–1980). Suslin became a member of the Union of Soviet Composers in 1967. In 1969 his piano sonata was given an award at the Young Composers Competition. In 1971 his music was performed outside of Russia for the first time at the Festival de Royan, France. Suslin taught instrumentation at the Moscow Conservatory (1972–1975). In 1975 he founded the ‘Astraea’ improvisation ensemble together with Vyacheslav Artyomov and Sofia Gubaidulina. In November 1979 after

Viktor Ullmann

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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 then to Austrian Silesia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Both his parents were from families of Jewish descent, but had converted to Catholicism before Viktor’s birth. As an assimilated Jew, his father, Maximilian, was able to pursue a career as a professional officer in the army of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In World War I he was promoted to colonel and ennobled. One writer has described Ullmann’s milieu in these terms: “Like such other assimilated German-speaking Czech Jews as Kafka and Mahler, Ullmann lived a life of multiple estrangements, cut off from Czech nationalism, German anti-Semitism and Jewish orthodoxy”. Beginning in 1909 Viktor attended a grammar school (Gymnasium) in Vienna. His musical talents and inclinations soon gave him access to Arnold Schoenberg and his circle of pupils. Upon finishing school, he volunteered for military service. After deployment on the Italian Front at Isonzo, he was granted study leave, which he used to start studying law at Vienna University

Viktor Widqvist

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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 son of Johan Viktor Widkvist, a piano maker and tuner for Bergquist & Nilssons Pianofabrik and mother Albertina Dalqvist. As a child he learned to play the violin and the tuba. In 1898 at the age of seventeen Viktor began his military career by enlisting in the Svea Engineer Battalion (Ing 1) band in Stockholm performing on the tuba and flute under music director Adolf Johnsson. He began his study at the Stockholms Musikkonservatorium in 1901 graduating in 1908. His professors included Magnus Ahlbergm (violin) and Ernst Henrik Ellberg (counterpoint). He also studied violin with Sven Kjellström after the violinist’s return to Sweden from Paris in 1909. He was promoted to music sergeant in 1903. Between 1910-1918 while serving in military bands he was also concertmaster in several Stockholm orchestras. He served as bandmaster of the Boden Engineer Regiment (Ing 3) (Third Engineer Regiment) band in Boden from 1918 and the Göta Engineer Regiment (Ing 2) (Second Engineer Regiment) in Karlsbor

Vilém Blodek

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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 into a poor family and was educated at a German Piarist school in Prague. After studying with Alexander Dreyschock (piano) and at the Prague Conservatory (1846–52) with Antonín Eiser (flute) and Johann Friedrich Kittl (composition), he became a music teacher in Lubycza, Galicia (1853–5). On returning to Prague, he worked as a concert pianist and music teacher and, briefly, as second conductor of the Prague Männergesangverein, for which he wrote a number of patriotic choruses. In 1860 he succeeded Anton Eiser as professor of flute at the conservatory, and, as a basis for teaching, he wrote his own flute tutor (1861). He was active as a writer of incidental music for the German and Czech theatres: from 1858 onwards he wrote music for 60 plays and collaborated with Bedřich Smetana on music for the tableaux for the 1864 Shakespeare celebrations. In 1865, Blodek married Marie Doudlebská, whom he had previously taught. In 1870, he became mentally ill, with this being ascribed to overwork, and s

Vilém Tauský

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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 group of émigré composers and musicians who settled there. Life Vilém Tauský was born on 20 July 1910 in Přerov, Moravia, Austria-Hungary. He came from a musical family: his Viennese mother had sung Mozart at the Vienna State Opera under Gustav Mahler, and her cousin was the operetta composer Leo Fall. Tauský studied with Leoš Janáček and later became a repetiteur at the Brno Opera. His other teachers included Vilém Petrzelka (composition) and Zdeněk Chalabala (conducting). At the age of nineteen, he conducted Puccini’s Turandot in Brno on short notice in place of Chalabala, who had become ill. Tauský was of Jewish ancestry, and the rise of the Nazis forced him to move to France. He later volunteered for service with the Free Czech Army. He eventually reached the UK in 1940 after the fall of France, arriving with other soldiers on a Yugoslav coal ship to Newport, Monmouthshire. He served musical functions in the Czechoslovak Army in exile, as a military band conductor in France. Bohuslav

Villa Senar

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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 originated from the names of Rachmaninoff and his wife: Sergei and Natalia, by combining the first two letters of each given name and the first of their surname. The architects of the very modern design were the Swiss architects Alfred Möri and Karl Friedrich Krebs. The villa was designed to remind Rachmaninoff of the estate of Ivanovka the family had in southern Russia before the October Revolution and their migration to Western Europe in 1918. A park and a magnificent rose garden were laid at Senar. The Rachmaninoffs spent every summer at Senar until their final migration to the United States in 1939 at the outbreak of World War II. Two of Rachmaninoff’s major compositions were written at Senar: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini completed in 1934 and the Third symphony completed in 1936. The villa hosted famous Russian immigrants, including Ivan Bunin and Vladimir Horowitz. Rachmaninoff left Senar for the last time on 16 August 1939, going to Paris and preparing to move to New York Cit

Vincenc Mašek

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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. Mašek composed two Czech operas, symphonies, piano concertos, chamber music, masses, propers, cantatas, piano sonatas, works for the glass harmonica, and songs. Life Mašek was born on 5 April 1755 in Zvíkovec, Kingdom of Bohemia. He was introduced to music by his father, , and later studied composition and fortepiano with František Xaver Dušek, and harmony and counterpoint with Josef Seger in Prague. Under the name Vincenc Mašek, he then toured Germany as a pianist, performing in Berlin, Dresden, Halle, Leipzig, and Hamburg, as well as in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 1794, Mašek became Kapellmeister at St. Nicholas Church in Prague-Malá Strana, a position he held until his death in 1831. His brother , his sons Albín and Gašpar Mašek, and his grandchildren Friederike Proch Benesch and Heinrich Proch were also composers. Works Vincenc Mašek composed two operas, lieder, masses, cantatas, piano concertos, piano sonatas, works for glass harmonica, chamber music and symphonies. References Further read

Vincent A. Jockin

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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 studies at the university of Toulouse, then at Conservatory when he studied Harmony and Writing (counterpoint) with Paul Badens. His first album of compositions was released in 2012: Works, Volume 1, recorded and produced at F.A.M.E.’S. Project Studio (MRT Center, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia), and performed by the Macedonian Radio Symphonic Orchestra conducted by Oleg Kondratenko. Excerpts of this album have been broadcast on France Musique and other European radio channels. His work has had premieres in Spain, Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Australia, USA and France. He has collaborated with Thibaut Garcia, a French guitarist, to compose several works for solo guitar. Discography * Works, Volume 1 (2012) Compositions (selection) Orchestral works * Polegnala E Todora, Op. 18, No. 1 (2005) * Nos âmes mortes (Our Losts Spirits), Op. 22, No. 1 (2007) * La marche des petits soldats de bois (The March Of The Small Wooden Soldiers), Op. 22, No. 2 (2008) Chamber music * Sonata, Opus 21, for piano

Vincent Beer-Demander

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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 Ariège festival, of which he was one of the main creators and organizers. His compositions are available from several music publishers. Biography Formation Born in Paris, Beer-Demander began his musical education in 1990 at the Toulouse Mandolin School, which had just been created by Francis Morello, one of the oldest musicians of the Toulouse Plectrum Ensemble. In 2000, he continued this formation at the national music school of Argenteuil where he benefited from the experience of Florentino Calvo. There he obtained a diploma in musical studies and a state diploma in ancient instruments which were crowned with a first prize in chamber music and musical training as well as a first prize in mandolin. Beer-Demander then worked for a year with Ugo Orlandi, at the Music Conservatory of Padua. Then he prepared a chamber music concert license at the École normale de musique de Paris, in the class of Alberto Ponce and as part of the Duo Chitarronne. He obtained it with the unanimous congratula

Vincent Bueno

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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 Austrian television musical contest. He also served as a support act for Filipino singer Sarah Geronimo’s concert in Vienna. On 18 January 2008, Bueno told the Philippine media of his plans to debut in the Philippines. He then made his first performance in Philippine Television on ASAP XV on 29 August 2010. He also signed a contract under Star Records, an ABS-CBN Entertainment Group Company, to pursue his music career in the Philippines. He was supposed to represent Austria at the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands with the song, “Alive”. However, on 18 March 2020, the event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, he represented the country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 with the song “Amen”, however it did not qualify for the final. Career Early education Bueno started dancing at the age of 4. He later graduated in music and performing arts at the Vienna Conservatory of Music. Bueno is also a composer of R&B music, having taken special courses in ac

Vincent Calianno

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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 writing music at age 11, beginning his composition studies with Livingston Gearhart at the University of New York at Buffalo. He formally studied composition at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the Eastman School of Music, and New York University studying with John Luther Adams, Lewis Nielson, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, David Liptak, Zack Browning, and Mark Suozzo. His music has been commissioned and performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble, Alarm Will Sound, JACK Quartet, the Thalea String Quartet, Nouveau Classical Project, Ensemble Mise-en, Rocket City New Music, Jennifer Koh, John Pickford Richards, Kivie Cahn-Lipman, the American Composers Orchestra, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, the Bruges Philharmonia, Artifact Dance Project, and others. Selected works Orchestra *Monument (2024) *Missed Connections Despite (2017) *The Facts and Dreams of the World According to Michael Jackson (2014) *Against Colorado (2011) Concertante *Eating Filumena Lionheart fo

Vincent d'Indy

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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 Cantorum de Paris and also taught at the Paris Conservatoire. His students included Albéric Magnard, Albert Roussel, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Yvonne Rokseth, and Erik Satie, as well as Cole Porter. D’Indy studied under composer César Franck, and was strongly influenced by Franck’s admiration for German music. At a time when nationalist feelings were high in both countries (circa the Franco-Prussian War of 1871), this brought Franck into conflict with other musicians who wished to separate French music from German influence. Life Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d’Indy was born in Paris into an aristocratic family of royalist and Catholic persuasion. His great-grandfather was the politician . He had piano lessons from an early age from his paternal grandmother, who passed him on to Antoine François Marmontel and Louis Diémer. From the age of 14 d’Indy studied harmony with Albert Lavignac. When he was 16 an uncle introduced him to Berlioz’s treatise on orchestration, which inspired him

Vincent Frank Safranek

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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 34th Infantry in 1899. Safranek studied at the Conservatory of Music in Prague. After graduation he applied for a bandmaster position and was selected for training and sent to the 25th Infantry band at Fort Missoula, Montana. Safranek served in the Spanish American War and World War I. He developed ideas on the concept of the military band and added such instruments as alto and bass clarinets, oboes, French horns and flugelhorns to his band. Previously, many military band arrangements had been designed for brass bands with extra reed parts added in without regard for the ensemble. As a result of his work combining and balancing the instrumentation of the military band, Safranek became the chief band arranger for the Carl Fischer publishing house. He made contributions to the band repertoires including marches, overtures and novelty numbers. He composed two popular suites for band, the Atlantis (1913) and Don Quixote (1914) suites. In 1916 he published a book on military music, Complete In

Vincent Ho (composer)

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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, Ontario, and grew up in Calgary, Alberta. He studied at The Royal Conservatory of Music, and later at the University of Calgary, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in composition. He earned a Master of Music Degree (M.Mus.) from the University of Toronto, then later earned his Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) in composition from the University of Southern California. * Sandman’s Castle (solo tam-tam) - 2015 * Kickin’ It 2.0 (violin, cello, piano, and drum set) - 2017. This work was nominated for a Juno Award, for Classical Composition of the Year, in 2020. In 2017 Ho brought together a group of Canadian composers to create True North: Symphonic Ballet, commissioned by the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra to celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday. Ho composed Arctic Symphony, which was performed at the True North Festival in Calgary. References

Vincent Houška

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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 was a friend and associate with Ludwig van Beethoven. Life and career Houška was born on 21 January 1766 in Mies, Bohemia (now Stříbro, Czech Republic). He was a son of the schoolmaster of Mies, and when eight years of age moved with his parents to Prague, where his father had been appointed to a school. Houška studied music in this city, and took up the mandolin as his first instrument. He also entered the cathedral as a chorister and later received systematic instruction from Josef Seeger and Ferdinand Laube, “the father of the violin virtuoso.” Houška devoted himself to the cello and mandolin and made remarkable progress on both, and a few years afterwards continued the cello studies under Christ, one of the most celebrated Bohemian virtuosi. At sixteen years of age he entered the orchestra of the Count of Thun and remained in his service till the death of the Count two years later, when the orchestra was disbanded. He then made a concert tour through Austria and Germany, visiting K

Vincent Lübeck

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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) and Hamburg’s famous St. Nikolai (1702–1740), where he played one of the largest contemporary organs. He enjoyed a remarkably high reputation in his lifetime, and had numerous pupils, among whom were two of his sons. Despite Lübeck’s longevity and fame, very few compositions by him survive: a handful of organ praeludia and chorales in the North German style, a few cantatas and several pieces for harpsichord, some of which were published during the composer’s lifetime. Of his works, the organ pieces are the most important: influenced by Dieterich Buxtehude and Johann Adam Reincken, Lübeck composed technically and artistically sophisticated works, with frequent virtuosic passages for pedal, five-voice polyphony, and other devices rarely used by most of the composers of the period. Life Lübeck was born in Padingbüttel, a small town some 70 km north of Bremen. His father, also named Vincent, worked as organist first at Glückstadt and then, from 1647, at the Marienkirche in Flensburg, where h

Vincent McDermott

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(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 Southeast Asia, particularly the gamelan music of Java. He was among the second generation of American composers to create and promote new compositions for gamelan. Early life and education McDermott was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He received a B.F.A. in music composition from the University of Pennsylvania (1959), an M.A. in music history from the University of California, Berkeley (1961), and a Ph.D. in music history, theory, and composition from the University of Pennsylvania (1966). His composition instructors included Constant Vauclain, George Rochberg, Darius Milhaud, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. McDermott first encountered gamelan circa 1965 in Amsterdam. He later studied Javanese gamelan in Indonesia at the Akademi Seni Karawitan Indonesia (now Sekolah Tinggi Seni Indonesia Surakarta) in Central Java (1971, 1978, and 1984). He studied or worked in Surakarta with Sumarsam and Rahayu Supanggah, and later, in the United States, with Pak Cokro and Midiyanto. Career McDermott t

Vincent Novello

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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 to England many works now considered standards, and with his son he created a major music publishing house. Life Vincent, born at 240 Oxford Street, was the son of Giuseppe Novello, an Italian confectioner who moved to London in 1771. As a boy Vincent was a chorister at the Sardinian Embassy Chapel in Duke Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, where he learnt the organ from Samuel Webbe; and from 1796 to 1822 he became in succession organist of the Sardinian, Spanish (in Manchester Square) and Portuguese (at the Portuguese Embassy chapel off Grosvenor Square), and from 1840 to 1843 of St Mary Moorfields. He taught music privately throughout his career. One of his most notable pupils was musicologist and music critic Edward Holmes. He was an original member of the Philharmonic Society, of the Classical Harmonists and of the Choral Harmonists, officiating frequently as conductor, and was a conductor/accompanist at the King’s Theatre. Musical activities Many of Novello’s original compositions were

Vincent O'Brien (composer)

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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 first teacher of singers such as John McCormack, Margaret Burke-Sheridan and the writer James Joyce. Life O’Brien was born in Dublin, the eldest child of Roman Catholic church musician Richard Vincent O’Brien. In 1885, he first appeared in a public piano recital, and later in the year became the organist of Rathmines parish church (until 1888). He held another organist’s position at the Dublin Carmelite church (1897–99), but was chiefly known as organist and choir director of Dublin’s largest Roman Catholic Church, St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, between 1903 and 1946. He was the founder (in 1898) and first director of the Palestrina Choir, originally all-male, which is still active, and which was financed for many years by Edward Martyn. O’Brien studied with Robert Prescott Stewart at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, where he was the first winner of the Coulson Scholarship (1888–90) and frequently performed as both tenor singer, piano accompanist, and organist in many public concerts during t

Vincent Persichetti

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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 ideas in musical composition into his own work and teaching, as well as for training many noted composers in composition at the Juilliard School. His students at Juilliard included Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Larry Thomas Bell, Bruce Adolphe, Louis Calabro, Moshe Cotel, Michael Jeffrey Shapiro, Laurie Spiegel, Kenneth Fuchs, Richard Danielpour, Lawrence Dillon, Peter Schickele, Lowell Liebermann, Robert Witt, Elena Ruehr, William Schimmel, Leonardo Balada, Gitta Steiner, Hank Beebe, Roland Wiggins, Thomas Pasatieri, Randell Croley and Leo Brouwer. He also taught composition to Joseph Willcox Jenkins and conductor James DePreist at the Philadelphia Conservatory. Life Persichetti was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1915. Though neither of his parents was a musician, his musical education began early. Persichetti enrolled in the Combs College of Music at the age of five, where he studied piano, organ, double bass and later music theory and composition with Russel King Miller, whom he

Vincent Plush

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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 Plush as a “remarkable Australian composer”. He writes about classical music for The Australian newspaper and has contributed to Limelight magazine. In 2013 he returned to the University of Adelaide to undertake doctoral studies and received the PhD in music in 2018. His thesis, “Music in the Life and Work of Patrick White”, is in preparation for publication in book form as “Patrick White and Music.” Awards Classical Music Award The 2005 Classical Music Awards (now Art Music Awards) were presented by APRA and the Australian Music Centre, at Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, on 18 July 2005. Plush won in the category Most Distinguished Contribution to the Presentation of Australian Music by an Individual for the ‘Voices’ program in the 2004 Brisbane Writers Festival. Selected works Dramatic *Australian Folksongs, musical theatre piece for Baritone and Ensemble (Sydney, July 19, 1977) *The Maitland and Morpeth String Quartet for Narrator and String Quartet (Sydney, April 1,

Vincent Royer

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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 teaches as professor for chamber music at the Royal Conservatory of Liège. Life Born in Strasbourg, Royer first studied piano with the concert pianist and Schumann interpreter Hélène Boschi. At the age of 13 he switched to the viola and received lessons from Claude Ducroqc. As a scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture in Paris, he passed the State Music Teacher Examination in 1987 and received his degree in the main subject viola at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. He obtained his diploma in 1989 at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, also majoring in viola. He studied with Ulrich Koch in Freiburg, Rainer Moog in Cologne and Serge Collot in Paris. After his studies he founded together with the Brazilian pianist Paulo Álvares the group ALEA - an ensemble for collective musical composition and Improvisation. In 1991 he was awarded the ‘Prix Xenakis de Paris’ as part of the ‘Lucero Festivals’. In 1995 he received a scholarship from the French Ministry of Culture as Artist in Resid

Vincent Scotto

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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 Intartaglia, from the island of Procida, north of the Gulf of Naples. Career He started his career in Marseille in 1906 and later moved to Paris. Over the course of a lifetime, he wrote 4,000 songs as well as 60 operettas. He was friends with Marcel Pagnol and wrote music for his films. Over time, he wrote music for about fifty films in the 1940s and 1950s, and he sometimes appeared in them as an actor. In 1973, a biographical TV film was broadcast, La Vie rêvée de Vincent Scotto. Death He died on 15 November 1952 in Paris. Legacy *A bust of Vincent Scotto by sculptor André Arbus (1903-1969) can be found facing the Vieux Port in Place aux Huiles, Marseille. *The Square Vincent Scotto in Aix-en-Provence is named for him. Selected filmography * The Sweetness of Loving (1930) * The Adventurer of Tunis (1931) * Kiss Me (1932) * To the Polls, Citizens (1932) * Clochard (1932) * Bach the Millionaire (1933) * The Agony of the Eagles (1933) * Three Sailors (1934) * In the Land of the Sun (1934) * Merluss

Vincenza Garelli della Morea

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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 notable composers such as Arrigo Boito, Franco Faccio and Gaetano Coronaro. Her compositions include three pantomimes, operettas, orchestral works and a string quartet, as well as songs and piano pieces. An Ave Maria written by Della Morea at a young age was performed at the Carignano Theatre in Turin, and then again later in Catania and Rome in 1888. Biography Vincenza Garelli della Morea was born in Valeggio, in the province of Pavia, in 1859. She married the Count de Cardenas and lived in Milan. Della Morea wrote an Ave Maria for four voices and an orchestra when she was very young, which was performed at the Carignano Theatre in Turin, and then again later in Catania and Rome in 1888. In Rome she became acquainted with writers Gabriele D’Annunzio and Matilde Serao. Her songs were performed at other salons. Works Della Morea composed three pantomimes, an opera, Le nozze di Leporello, operettas, orchestral works, a string quartet and a number of songs and piano pieces. Selected compositio

Vincenzo Albrici

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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 singer who settled from Marche in Rome. In 1641 he became a student at the Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum under Giacomo Carissimi. In 1647 he was paid as an organist in the Santa Maria in Vallicella. Albrici was one of several musicians and composers residing in the court of Christina of Sweden in the first half of the seventeenth century and arrived to the court of Charles II of England in the 1660s. Then Albrici became joint vice-kapellmeister with Giovanni Andrea Bontempi under Heinrich Schütz in Dresden (1659). Vincenzo’s brother Bartolomeo Albrici, took up the position of organist. Vincenzo and his sister Leonora, also a singer, went to England and became part of the King’s Italian Musicke. Bartolomeo joined them in 1666 and remained in England when Vincenzo returned to Dresden. In 1681 he gained the post of organist at the Thomaskirche, a position which required conversion to Protestantism. A few months later, he moved to the Augustine church of St. Thomas, in Mala Strana, Prague f

Vincenzo Battista

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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 the repertoire of any opera companies, despite the fact that in his lifetime they were performed in the most important theatres in Italy. Life Vincenzo (he preferred Vincenzio) with the soprano Fanny Goldberg, the tenor Gaetano Fraschini and the baritone Filippo Coletti. The Milan based bi-weekly magazine Il Pirata in its review praised each song and each singer and documented how many times Battista was called out by the enthusiastic audience. However, a long and detailed article in Museo di Scienze e Letteratura was less enthusiastic, claiming that Battista was being inspired by the wrong role models, a possible reference to Verdi. By now his fame was spreading, and his next work, Rosvina de la Forest (1845), was commissioned by La Scala in Milan. His opera Eleonora Dori (1847) had a book by the leading librettist Salvadore Cammarano. Marietta Brambilla created the title role in his opera Irene (1847), while the soprano Balbina Steffenone sang in the première of his Giovanna di Castigl

Vincenzo Bellavere

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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 competent composer of madrigals and wrote a few works in the grand Venetian polychoral style. Biography Nothing is known about him prior to his appearance in Padua in 1567 as an organist at Crosieri Cathedral. That same year he tried to gain the prestigious job as first organist of the cathedral there. In 1568 he acquired the position of primary organist at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, a Venetian establishment almost as prestigious as St. Mark’s; he held this post until 1584 at which time he returned to Padua to take the post at the cathedral that he at first failed to win. In December 1585 he was fired from his job in Padua, probably because of an unexcused absence, but he returned to Venice to become organist of yet another Venetian church, Santo Stefano. In 1586 he became first organist at St. Mark’s, the position just vacated by Andrea Gabrieli; thus he was first organist alongside Giovanni Gabrieli, who was second organist. Unfortunately Bellavere died after only holding this post

Vincenzo Bellini

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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 of the era, he was admired not only by the public but also by many composers who were influenced by his work. His songs balanced florid embellishment with a deceptively simple approach to lyric setting. Born to a musical family in Sicily, he distinguished himself early and earned a scholarship to study under several noted musicians at Naples’ Real Collegio di Musica. There he absorbed elements of the Neapolitan School’s style and was inspired by performances of Donizetti’s and Rossini’s operas, among others, in more modern idioms. He wrote his first opera, Adelson e Salvini (1825), for the conservatory, and his next, Bianca e Fernando (1826), on a Teatro di San Carlo-affiliated commission for promising students. He also became close friends with his peer and first biographer, Francesco Florimo. Bellini then went to Milan to compose for La Scala, where the success of Il pirata (1827) established his short but significant career. He wrote many celebrated operas, ascending to triumphal he

Vincenzo Fioravanti

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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 father, Valentino Fioravanti, he specialised in the opera buffa genre, but he also composed sacred music including two oratorios during his time as maestro di cappella of Lanciano Cathedral (1839–1843). Life and career Fioravanti was born in Rome to Angiola (née Aromatari) and Valentino Fioravanti. Despite his own success as a composer, Valentino wanted his son to study medicine. Valentino was living in Naples while Vincenzo was supposedly studying medicine in Rome. Unbeknownst to him, the young Vincenzo was secretly studying composition with his father’s old teacher Giuseppe Jannacconi. In 1816 Vincenzo arrived in Naples and confessed to his father that he had been studying music. Valentino relented and gave his son further lessons in composition. He made his debut as composer at the Teatro San Carlino in Naples in 1819 with the premiere of La Pulcinella molinaro, spaventato dalla fata Serafinetta, an opera buffa set to a libretto by Filippo Cammarano. The following year, he returned to Rom

Vincenzo Galilei

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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 composer Michelagnolo Galilei. Vincenzo was a figure in the musical life of the late Renaissance and contributed significantly to the musical revolution that demarcates the beginning of the Baroque era. In his study of pitch and string tension, Galilei produced perhaps the first non-linear mathematical description of a natural phenomenon known to history. Some credit him with directing the activity of his son away from pure, abstract mathematics and towards experimentation using mathematical quantitative description of the results, a direction of importance for the history of physics and natural science. With fellows of the Florentine Camerata, he laid the foundations for opera. Biography He was born in 1520 in Santa Maria a Monte, near Pisa, Republic of Florence, and began studying the lute at an early age. His mother was from San Vincenzo near Livorno. Sometime before 1562 he moved to Pisa, where on 5 July he married Giulia Ammannati of a noble family. Galileo Galilei was the oldest of six

Vincenzo Legrenzo Ciampi

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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 Nina in letto senesta”, formerly long attributed to Pergolesi and better known simply as “Nina”. Education and early career in Italy Ciampi was born in Piacenza and studied at the Naples Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini with Francesco Durante and Leonardo Leo. His first known success was the comic opera Da un disordine nasce un ordine, performed at the Teatro dei Fiorentini in Naples in 1737, when he was only eighteen. Five more of his comic operas were produced in Naples up to 1745, and his opera seria Ataserse was performed there in 1747. That same year, he was engaged at the Ospedale degli Incurabili in Venice as an assistant to the maestro di coro G. B. Runcher, whom he had succeeded by 1748. London Ciampi was one of the first music directors of the Ospedale to be given extended leave, and by the autumn of 1748, he was in London. His replacement at the Ospedale was Gioacchino Cocchi. In London, Ciampi was the composer and director of music for a company of Italian singers under G

Vincenzo Manfredini

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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 his father, Francesco Onofrio Manfredini. Then he studied with Perti in Bologna and Fioroni in Milan. In 1758, his older brother Giuseppe, a castrato, went to Moscow with Locatelli’s opera troupe, and Vincenzo went with him, possibly as one of the troupe. Moving to St. Petersburg, he became maestro di cappella to Peter Fedorovich, who on becoming Emperor in 1762 made him maestro of the court’s Italian opera company. Confirmed in this post by Catherine II, he composed operas and occasional works, but on Galuppi’s arrival in 1765, he was relegated to composing the ballets performed with Galuppi’s operas and to serving as harpsichord teacher to Pavel Petrovich, heir to the throne. In 1769, he returned with a pension to Bologna. He would meet Mozart along with his father a year later in 1770. After two attempts at opera, Manfredini devoted himself mainly to writing and teaching, also publishing a set of symphonies (1776) and string quartets (?1781). When Pavel Petrovich became Emperor in 179

Vincenzo Righini

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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 Martini in his hometown. Initially, he performed as a singer in Florence (1769) and Rome (1770), however, according to Fétis, he made his debut as a tenor in Parma in 1775. His opera buffa La vedova scaltra, considered his first contribution to musical theatre, was performed in 1774 at the Prague Divadlo v Kotcích. From 1774 to 1777, Righini worked in Prague, as a member of the theatre ensemble of Giuseppe Bustelli. He composed and staged operas to the libretti of Nunziato Porta. At the end of 1777, he moved to Vienna, where he was engaged as a music teacher and composer. His comic operas were often performed in the Burgtheater. In 1787, he replaced Antonio Salieri as the court kapellmeister for a brief period when Salieri was staying in Paris. In 1787, Righini also moved to Mainz, where he became a court kapellmeister of the Electoral orchestra for the elector Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal. In March 1793, he was appointed the Royal Prussian court kapellmeister and he led the operat

Vincenzo Ruffo

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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 in his composition of masses, and as such was an influential member of the Counter-Reformation. Vincenzo Ruffo was born at Verona, and became a priest there in 1531. Most likely he studied with Biagio Rossetti, the organist at the cathedral in Verona. Ruffo published his first book of music in 1542. Also in 1542 he became maestro di cappella at the cathedral in Savona, but he only held this position for a year; the cathedral was destroyed in 1543 by the Genoese, and Ruffo fled. In either 1543 or 1544 he went to Milan to work for Alfonso d’Avalos, who was the governor of Milan at this time. When d’Avalos was called back to Madrid in 1546, Ruffo went back to in Verona, where he was the music director at the Accademia Filarmonica in 1551-1552, superseding Jan Nasco; in 1554 he became the choirmaster at the cathedral of Verona. While there he probably taught Gian Matteo Asola and Marc’ Antonio Ingegneri, the teacher of Monteverdi; it is possible, though not proven, that he taught Andrea Ga

Vincenzo Ugolini

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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) at San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome under Giovanni Bernardino Nanino; then he was engaged as a contralto until July 1594 and as a bass from the beginning of May 1600 until the end of 1601. In 1603 he was mastro di capella of Santa Maria Maggiore, in Rome. After an illness in 1606, he left this work in 1609 and became maestro at the Duomo of Benevento. This position he held until 1615, with a hiatus in 1614 where he worked for Cardinal Arrigoni in Rome. From 2 July 1616 he turned to San Luigi dei Francesi holding the same positions, and in 1620 he succeeded Francesco Soriano as maestro of the Cappella Giulia at San Pietro. During this time he also tutored the mezzo-soprano singer Marc’Antonio Pasqualini. In 1629 he was deponent for the testament of the composer Domenico Allegri, brother of Gregorio Allegri. From May 1631 he was again maestro of San Luigi, and held the post until his death in 1638. His successor was his pupil Orazio Benevoli. Works *Sacrae cantiones, lib. 1, 8vv, bc (Roma,

Vinko Globokar

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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 creativity, and often relies on improvisation. His extensive output is largely unknown outside of experimental music circles. As a trombonist, he has premiered works by Luciano Berio, Mauricio Kagel, René Leibowitz, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Toru Takemitsu, as well as his own compositions. Biography Globokar was born in Anderny, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. In 1947 he moved to Yugoslavia, where he attended DIC in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Here, he played jazz trombone until 1955, at which point he moved to Paris to study at the Conservatoire de Paris. At the Conservatoire, he studied composition with René Leibowitz (a disciple of Arnold Schoenberg) and trombone with André Lafosse. In 1965, he moved to Berlin and began composition lessons with Luciano Berio, whose Sequenza V he later premiered at Carnegie Recital Hall in 1966. He has conducted his compositions with Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, RTV Slovenia Symphony Orch

Vinko Jelić

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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. He is also considered as the most prolific Croatian Baroque composer, along with Ivan Lukačić. A total of 69 of Jelić’s vocal (soloist and choral) and 12 instrumental works have been preserved; several compositions with lost tenor lines were supplemented by Lovro Županović, the editor of Jelić’s works. Life He was born in Rijeka in 1596. From 1606, with his older brother Petar (d. 1609), he was a choirboy singer in the court chapel of Archduke Ferdinand in Graz, where his teacher was the Italian Matthias Ferrabosco, then deputy music director. After a one-year stay in Rijeka in 1609, he returned to Graz in 1610 and, becoming a pupil of the Ferdinandeum, attended grammar school and participated in church music as a discantist. He then studied at the Jesuit University in Graz and graduated from theology in 1617; at the same time, he was an instrumentalist in the court chapel from 1615. In 1618, he entered the service of Ferdinand’s brother, Archduke Leopold, administrator of the dioceses

Vinzenz Lachner

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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 composer and conductor. The elder Lachner was known as a close friend of composer Franz Schubert. As a composer Vinzenz was essentially self-taught. He was first educated by his father Anton Lachner, the municipal organist. After Anton’s death, Vinzenz was schooled in Augsburg. Career Vinzenz scratched out a living by teaching music in Augsburg until his brother Franz arranged for him to become conductor and house musician for Earl Mycielski of Coscevitz in the Grand Duchy of Posen. In 1831 he moved to Vienna to continue his musical training, becoming assistant conductor at the Court Opera and organist at a Protestant church (though he himself was Catholic). In 1836 he became court conductor at Mannheim in succession to Franz, where he was so highly valued that his contract was renewed and extended whenever he received offers from other musical centres. In all he remained there for 37 years, during which Mannheim had the reputation of performing the largest repertoire of operas of any

Violet Archer

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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 changed its name to Archer in 1940), Archer earned a Licentiate in music from McGill University in 1934, and a Bachelor of Music from McGill in 1936; she studied composition with Claude Champagne and Douglas Clarke. From 1953-61, she taught at the University of Oklahoma. Returning to Canada in 1961 as a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto, she set her studies aside when, in 1962, she joined the Faculty of Music at the University of Alberta, where she taught until her retirement in 1978; during this time she was chair of the theory and composition department. Her notable students included Larry Austin, Jan Randall, Allan Gilliland, and Allan Gordon Bell. Musical career Archer built a career as a musician and composer in addition to teaching. She played percussion in the Montreal Women’s Symphony Orchestra from 1940-47 during the era when women had no access to positions in major professional orchestras. In addition to percussion, Archer played clarinet and strings, and worked i

Violet Reiser

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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 theatres and on the radio. Reiser was born to Esther and Henry Reiser in New York City, where she lived most of her life. Reiser was the youngest organist to play in Loews Theatres. She performed at other New York City venues, such as the Rialto Theatre, and was the solo organist at the Pythian Temple for several years. Sam Fox, Southern Music, Sterling Music, Summy-Birchard, and Theodore Presser, References External links *Listen to New Dawn Fantasy by Violet Reiser

Violeta Dinescu

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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 from 1986. Romania Born in Bucharest on 13 July 1953, Dinescu began her studies of music in 1972 at the Ciprian Porumbescu Conservatory in Bucharest, composition with Myriam Marbe. In 1978 she received her master’s degree with distinction. She also received diplomas in the fields of Composition, Piano and Pedagogics. She started teaching at the George Enescu Music School in Bucharest, conducting courses in Music history, Aesthetics, Counterpoint, Harmony and Piano. In 1980 she joined the Romanian Composers Union. Germany, operas In 1982, she moved to West Germany. Her first opera, Hunger und Durst after Eugène Ionesco, was premiered in Freiburg in 1986. Der 35. Mai (The 35th of May, or Conrad’s Ride to the South Seas), a children’s opera after Erich Kästner was composed in 1986, The operas have been performed at leading opera houses, as Der 35. Mai at the Staatsoper Hamburg in 2004. She worked for the Austrian theatre ARBOS on two music theatre projects, “The Singing of The Fools About E

Virgil Thomson

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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 as a modernist, a neoromantic, a neoclassicist, and a composer of “an Olympian blend of humanity and detachment” whose “expressive voice was always carefully muted” until his late opera Lord Byron which, in contrast to all his previous work, exhibited an emotional content that rises to “moments of real passion”. Biography Early years Thomson was born in Kansas City, Missouri. As a child he befriended Alice Smith, great-granddaughter of Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter-day Saint movement. During his youth he often played the organ in Grace Church (now Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral), as his piano teacher was the church’s organist. After World War I, he entered Harvard University thanks to a loan from Dr. Fred M. Smith, the president of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and father of Alice Smith. His tours of Europe with the Harvard Glee Club helped nurture his desire to return there. At Harvard, Thomson focused his studies on the piano work of Erik Satie. H

Virginia Gabriel

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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, England, the daughter of Major-general “Archangel” Gabriel. She studied piano with Johann Peter Pixis, Theodor Dohler, Sigismond Thalberg and Bernhard Molique and composition with opera composer Saverio Mercadante. In 1870 Gabriel went for an extended stay at Glamis Castle in the Scottish Lowlands, and was reportedly responsible, among others, for later accounts of the castle’s “secret” having to do with a mysterious occupant, the Monster of Glamis. Gabriel wrote popular ballads which established her reputation as a songwriter and composer. Although women songwriters were well accepted in the 19th century, and she had no problems in getting her songs published, she struggled to get publishers for her more serious compositions. For example, she had to pay for self-publication of her cantata Dreamland. Although her songwriting style was Romantic, her songs always reflected ability and inventiveness because of her strength as a serious composer. Gabriel married her librettist George March in 187

Vissarion Shebalin

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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). Biography Shebalin was born in Omsk, where his parents were school teachers. He studied in the musical college in Omsk, and was also enrolled in the Institute of Agriculture. He was 20 years old when, following the advice of his professor, he went to Moscow to show his first compositions to Reinhold Glière and Nikolai Myaskovsky. Both composers thought very highly of his compositions. Shebalin graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1928. His diploma work was the 1st Symphony, which the author dedicated to his professor Nikolai Myaskovsky. Many years later his fifth and last symphony was dedicated to Myaskovsky’s memory. In the 1920s Shebalin was a member of the Association for Contemporary Music (ACM); he was a participant of the informal circle of Moscow musicians known as “Lamm’s group”, which gathered in the apartment of Pavel Lamm, a professor from the Moscow Conservatory. After graduating from Moscow Conservatory, he worked there as a professor, and in 1935 became also a head of th

Vitaliy Kyreiko

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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 completed his postgraduate studies (1952). His other accomplishments include: 1949-88 - Lecturer, Associate Professor (1961), Professor (1978) of the Kyiv Conservatory, and Candidate of Art History (1953). Selected works Operas: *The Forest Song, an adaptation of the play by Lesia Ukrainka (1957), *On Sunday Morning She Gathered Herbs, an adaptation of the novelette by Olha Kobylianska (1966), *Marko in Hell (1966) *The Boyar Woman (2003) Ballets: *Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, an adaptation of the novella by Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky (1960), *The Witch (1967), *The Orgy (1977), based on the play by Lesia Ukrainka Further reading * * * * *. Notes References External links *Kyreiko, Vitaliy, Internet encyclopedia of Ukraine *Kyreiko, Vitaliy, encyclopedia of Ukrainian history in Ukrainian

Vítězslav Novák

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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 his music is considered an important example of Czech modernism. He worked towards a strong Czech identity in culture after the country became independent in 1918. His compositions include operas and orchestral works. Biography Early years Novák (baptized Viktor Novák) was born in Kamenice nad Lipou, a small town in Southern Bohemia. In 1872 the family moved to Počátky, where Novák first studied the violin with Antonín Šilhan and the piano with Marie Krejčová. After the death of his father in 1882, the family moved to Jindřichův Hradec, where Novák continued his studies at grammar school . An elementary school in the town is named after Novák today. In his late teens, he moved to Prague to study at the Prague Conservatory, changing his name to Vítězslav to identify more closely with his Czech identity, as many of those of his generation had already done. At the conservatory, he studied piano and attended Antonín Dvořák’s masterclasses in composition where his fellow students included Jose

Vítězslava Kaprálová

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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, Austria-Hungary (now the Czech Republic), a daughter of composer Václav Kaprál and singer Vítězslava Kaprálová (née Viktorie Uhlířová). From 1930 to 1935 she studied composition with Vilém Petrželka and conducting with Zdeněk Chalabala at the Brno Conservatory. She continued her musical education with Vítězslav Novák (1935–37) and Václav Talich (1935–36) in Prague and with Bohuslav Martinů, Charles Munch (1937–39) and, according to some unverified accounts, with Nadia Boulanger (1940) in Paris. In 1937 she conducted the Czech Philharmonic and a year later the BBC Orchestra in her composition Military Sinfonietta. Her husband was the Czech writer Jiří Mucha, whom she married two months before she died. Despite her untimely death, which may have been caused by typhoid fever, in Montpellier, France at the age of 25, Kaprálová created an impressive body of work. Her music was admired by Rafael Kubelík, who premiered her orchestral song Waving Farewell and also conducted her other orchestral works. Amo

Vito Frazzi

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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 Alberto Fano. Further reading * Paolo Fragapane (1932–3). “Le scale alternate di Vito Frazzi”. Rassegna dorica IV: 65–71 * Luigi Dallapiccola (1937). “Musicisti del nostro tempo: Vito Frazzi”. RaM X: 220–27 * Bruno Cicognani (1952). Il Don Chisciotte di Vito Frazzi. XV Maggio musicale fiorentino. p. 8–10 * Annibale Gianuario (1974). “L’alternato di Vito Frazzi”. Rassegna di studi musicali, Abano Terme. I/3: 70–90 * Carlo Prosperi (1975). “La scomparsa di Vito Frazzi”. Rassegna di studi musicali II: 119–29 * (1977). “Vito Frazzi e il Re Lear”. Chigiana, new series XIV: 333–60 * s.n. (1991). Omaggio a Vito Frazzi: 1888–1988. Florence: Centro dell’Arte Vito Frazzi. * Giorgio Sanguinetti (1993). “Il primo studio teorico sulle scale octatoniche: le ‘scale alternate’ di Vito Frazzi”. Studi musicali XXII: 411–6

Vito Palumbo

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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 National Symphony Orchestra. Biography Having been writing music from an early age, Palumbo was awarded a place at the prestigious Accademia Chigiana in Siena to study composition. Following this, he undertook a postgraduate degree at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, studying with the acclaimed composer Azio Corghi and graduating with Honours. Palumbo also attained a special scholarship, which was awarded personally by Luciano Berio. In 2005, he was awarded the G. Petrassi prize (established by the President of the Italian Republic in the Quirinale, Rome) for his work in composition. A winner of several national and international composition contests, including the Prokofiev Competition, Palumbo has received commissions worldwide from institutions and ensembles such as: the Philharmonia Quartett Berlin, Academie de France, ‘Parco della Musica’, the Contemporary Music Festival Parade in Beijing, the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, the ‘M. Botin’ Foundation, Santander, Found

Vito Ricci

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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 Memory, which later became the namesake for the Dutch reissue label of the same name. Selections from the album, along with unreleased material, was reissued in 2015 by the aforementioned label, on the compilation album I Was Crossing a Bridge. He wrote Partitas (1988) for the Kronos Quartet. Works * Guilty (1977, voice, collaboration with Ann Rover) * 12 Tone Violin (1978, violin) * Dada Mama (1978, voice, collaboration with Ann Rover) * French Customs (1979, voice, collaboration with Ann Rover) * Kickin (1979, voice, collaboration with Ann Rover) * Love Crazy (Why Are All the People I) (1979, voice, collaboration with Ann Rover) * Love Makes You Vicious (1979, voice, collaboration with Ann Rover) * Made in Japan (1979, voice, collaboration with Ann Rover) * Rock ’n Roll Mythology (1979, voice, collaboration with Bob Holman) * Modern Love (1980, voice and piano, collaboration with Ann Rover) * Placebo (1981, voice, collaboration with Ann Rover) * Bad News Lullaby (1982, voice, collaborati

Vittoria Aleotti

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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 Renaissance and early Baroque periods. She is recognized as one of the earliest known female composers to have works published, contributing to the development of sacred and secular vocal music. Aleotti was a nun at the Convent of San Vito in Ferrara, where she composed and performed music. Her published works include madrigals and sacred motets, notably appearing in the 1593 collection Il giardino de’ musici di Donne. Some scholars believe she may also have been the composer known as Raffaella Aleotti, who published a collection of sacred motets in 1593. Her contributions to music were significant in an era when female composers were rare, and her works remain a subject of interest in studies of women in Renaissance music. Early life She was born in Ferrara to the prominent architect Giovanni Battista Aleotti, and was mentioned in his will, written in 1631. According to her father, Vittoria became interested in music after listening to her older sister being taught music. Within a year, Vit

Vittorio Cosma

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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 under Patrizio Fariselli and Franco D’Andrea. He made his professional debut as keyboardist in the bands Volpini Volanti and Premiata Forneria Marconi, with whom he made four tours and recorded Miss Baker. His activities as composer, arranger, and producer began in the late 1980s for Eugenio Finardi’s album Il vento di Elora. He also curated several compilation albums of jazz and fusion music, and composed scores for films, TV series, and commercials. References External links * * *

Vittorio Giannini

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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, who was of Italian heritage, was born in Philadelphia on October 19, 1903. His father, Ferruccio, was born in Ponte d’Arbia, Tuscany, and his mother, Antonietta (née Briglia), was born in Marsicovetere, Basilicata; both immigrated to the U.S. in the 1880s. He began as a violinist under the tutelage of his mother; he would go on to study violin and composition at the Milan Conservatory on scholarship, and then to take his graduate degree at the Juilliard School. He returned to Juilliard to teach, moving on to the Manhattan School of Music, the Juilliard School of Music, and the Curtis Institute of Music. His students included Herbie Hancock, Nicolas Flagello, David Amram, Mark Bucci, Alfred Reed, Anthony Iannaccone, M. William Karlins, Irwin Swack, John Corigliano, Adolphus Hailstork, Rolande Maxwell Young, Thomas Pasatieri, Avraham Sternklar, Mary Lynn Twombly, Michele Levin, and Nancy Bloomer Deussen. Giannini was the founder and first president of the North Carolina School of the Arts

Vittorio Gnecchi

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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 take private lessons, and had among his teachers Michele Saladino (who was also the teacher of Pietro Mascagni and Victor de Sabata), Tullio Serafin, Gaetano Coronaro and Carlo Gatti. As soon as he was nineteen years old, he achieved success with the pastoral action Virtù d’amore, which allowed him to publish his work with the prestigious publisher Ricordi. The next work was the opera Cassandra, whose libretto, taken from Oresteia by Aeschylus, was first set by Gnecchi himself, then entrusted to the librettist Luigi Illica. Cassandra was completed in 1903 and premiered on 5 December 1905 at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna under the direction of Arturo Toscanini with Solomiya Krushelnytska and Giuseppe Borgatti. Shortly after the first performance of Elektra by Richard Strauss (25 January 1909), an article appeared in Italy by musicologist Giovanni Tebaldini, entitled “Telepatia Musicale”. In this article, Cassandra and Elektra were compared, and the author concluded that Strauss must ha

Vittorio Gui

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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 also studied composition at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia; his principal composition teachers were the noted composers Giacomo Setaccioli and Stanislao Falchi. His style was “impressionistic with characteristic Italian traits”. Gui’s opera David premiered in Rome in 1907; later that year, he made his professional conducting debut at the Teatro Adriano in Rome, leading Ponchielli’s La Gioconda as a substitute. This led to invitations to conduct in Naples and Turin (he met Claude Debussy in Turin in 1911). In 1923, Arturo Toscanini invited him to conduct Salome by Richard Strauss as the season opener at La Scala in Milan. He conducted the Teatro Regio in Turin from 1925 to 1927; in his last year in Turin, he premiered his fairy-tale opera Fata Malerba there. (Other notable compositions included the cantata Cantico dei cantici (“Song of Songs”) from 1921, and the symphonic poem Giulietta e Romeo (with voices, from 1902).) In 1928, Gui founded and conducted the Orchestra Stabile; he

Vittorio Monti

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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 career Monti was born in Naples, where he studied violin and composition at the Conservatorio di San Pietro a Majella. Around 1900 he received an assignment as the conductor for the Lamoureux Orchestra in Paris, where he wrote several ballets and operettas, for example, Noël de Pierrot. He also wrote a method for mandolin Petite Méthode pour Mandoline, 98049, in which he included some of his works, Perle Brillante, Dans Una Gondola, and Au Petit Jour. There were also works by F. Paolo Tosti. In Paris, Monti was a significant figure in the Mandolin community, he created the La Stella, a group based around mandolin and guitar works and compositions. This group (under the name of “V. Monti”) written several pieces and techniques for mandolin students, and started performances in 1908 to 1910. In 1910, Monti created a music journal called Le Mediator, the journal gave news and instructional guidance to help new mandolin and guitar players. However, this journal dissolved in 1913. He died in

Vittorio Negri

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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 Salzburg Mozarteum, where he became assistant conductor under Bernhard Paumgartner in 1952. He initially worked on critical editions for I Musici, but took a position with Philips in the late 1950s as a record producer. He became a prolific producer for Philips’s classical music department and recorded copiously for them as conductor of the Berlin Chamber Orchestra and the Dresden Staatskapelle. He devoted much of his recording energies to Vivaldi, while continuing to work on musicological projects; he surfaced a lost work of Cimarosa’s, the Requiem in G Minor, and subsequently performed and recorded it. In the 1980s he led a chamber orchestra in Perugia, having primarily given up producing. He was the founder of the Italian Society of Musicology. His significant studies and publishing of critical editions, especially in the Baroque repertoire, led to him gaining a large reputation. His edition of Corelli’s Concerti grossi, Op. 6 was revised and recorded by I Musici and received critical a

Vittorio Rieti

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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 Milan to study economics. Subsequently, he studied music in Rome with Ottorino Respighi and Alfredo Casella, and lived there until 1940. In 1925, he temporarily moved to Paris and composed music for George Balanchine’s ballet for Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, Barabau. He met his wife in Alexandria. He was a cousin of actor Vittorio Rietti. He emigrated to the United States in 1940, becoming a naturalized American citizen on 1 June 1944. He taught at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore (1948–49), Chicago Musical College (1950–54), Queens College, New York (1958–60), and New York College of Music (1960–64). He died in New York on 19 February 1994. * Suite champêtre for 2 pianos (1948) * Medieval Variations (1962) * Chorale, variazioni e finale for 2 pianos (1969) ;Film music * Your Money or Your Life, directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia (1933) * Ritorno alla terra, directed by Mario Franchini (1934) * Amore, directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia (1935) * The Happy Road (La rou

Vivek Kar

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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 where he composed four original songs. Kar composed the songs for the film Meeruthiya Gangsters in 2015, One Night Stand in 2016, Gun & Goal in 2015, Care of Footpath 2 in 2015, Saansein , Direct Ishq in 2016. The movie Care of Footpath 2, in which Vivek Kar was a music director, was a lateral entry to Oscars as well. Films as Music Composer Songs References External links * * Vivek Kar at Apple Music

Vivian Fine

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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 awarded a scholarship at the Chicago Musical College. At age eleven she became a student of Scriabin disciple Djane Lavoie-Herz. Fine composed her first piece at thirteen while studying harmony with Ruth Crawford, who considered Fine her protégée. Through Madame Herz and Crawford, Fine met Henry Cowell, Imre Weisshaus, and Dane Rudhyar, who were supporters of her talent . Professional career Fine made her professional debut as a composer at age sixteen with performances in Chicago, New York (Solo for Oboe, at a Pan-American Association of Composers’ concert) and Dessau (Four Pieces for Two Flutes, at an International Society of Contemporary composers’ concert). In 1931, the 18-year-old Fine moved to New York to further her studies. She was a member of Aaron Copland’s Young Composers Group, and a participant at the first Yaddo Festival in 1932 . In 1937 she helped found the American Composers Alliance and served as its vice-president from 1961 to 1965 . In addition to her career as a co

Vivian Fung

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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 education Fung was born in Edmonton, Alberta. She wrote her first compositions at age 7. She began studies with Violet Archer and later studied with Narcis Bonet in Paris. She received her bachelor’s degree, masters, and doctorate from The Juilliard School in New York City in 1996, 1997, and 2002, respectively. Her composition mentors included David Diamond and Robert Beaser, piano mentors included György Sándor and Ernesto Lejano, and conducting mentor was Miguel Harth-Beyoda. Career NPR calls Fung “one of today’s most eclectic composers,” and The Philadelphia Inquirer said she has a “stunningly original compositional voice” through her use of blending Western musical forms with musical ideas from many cultures, including Balinese and Javanese gamelan, and folk songs from minority regions of China. Fung travels often, exploring the diverse cultures of North Vietnam, Spain, and Bali, Indonesia. In 2012, Fung traveled to Southwest China for ethno-musicological research to study minority mu

Viviana Guzmán

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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 The New York Times as “an imaginative artist”. It has also been said of her that “Guzmán may be the first flutist since her teacher Jean-Pierre Rampal, to be able to establish a sustaining solo career.” She coaches for the Peninsula Youth Orchestra and teaches at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Early life and education Born in Concepcion, Chile, Guzmán came to the United States as a child in order to get medical treatment for displaced hips, and now lives near San Francisco, California. By the age of 15, she played as a soloist with orchestra, studied with Jean-Pierre Rampal and was featured on NBC’s nationally televised John Denver music special. Guzmán has also studied with Albert Tipton, James Galway, and Julius Baker. Guzmán attended Rice University on fellowship, first with an emphasis on medicine; subsequently, she chose music as her career path and attended the Juilliard School on scholarship. Guzmán gave her New York recital debut at the Carnegie Hall Recital Hall. A win

Vivien Lalu

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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 progressive rock project, Lalu. His distinctive signature as a Keyboardist is his inventive use of keyboard layers, which frequently combine New-age music elements with retro, progressive rock textures. Rock Hard praised Lalu for his “endlessly imaginative keyboard arrangements”. When it comes to Musical composition, The Prog Space highlighted Lalu’s decision to move away from his early melodic prog metal sounds toward a “modernised” progressive rock style. Citing Yes as a major inspiration, almost religious to him, Lalu declared while promoting his latest effort, Paint the Sky: “There is only one Yes, and no one will ever be able to replace them! But I aim to bring their kind of music to a new generation”. Early life Vivien Lalu was born on 2 December 1978 in Paris, France, to Michel Lalu, the guitarist and vocalist of French progressive rock band Polène, and Noëlle Lalu, its keyboardist. According to Lalu, his love for progressive rock may have been prenatal; it may have originated when h

Vivienne Olive

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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 in London. After 1968, she continued her education at the University of York, where she graduated in composition in 1975. Her teachers included the composers Bernard Rands (York 1971–1972), Franco Donatoni (Milan, 1972–1974), Roman Haubenstock-Ramati (Vienna, 1974–1975) and Klaus Huber (University of Music Freiburg 1975–1978, where she also studied harpsichord with Stanislav Heller). She received her Ph.D. in composition from the University of York in 1975. She was awarded composition grants from the Department of Education and Science (1971–1974) and the German Academic Exchange Service (1975–1978). In 1979, Olive became a lecturer in music theory and composition at the Nuremberg Meistersinger Conservatory (now the College of Music Nuremberg). In 1980 she co-founded the Days of New Music in Nuremberg. In 1995, she became a board member of the International Working Women and Music. From 1993 until 1995 she taught at the University of Ballarat and the James Cook University in Australia