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ComposerA Composer is a person who writes music. The term refers particularly to someone who writes music in some type of musical notation, thus allowing others to perform the music. See also the documentation for Songwriter, a composer and/or... more

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Johann Tobias Krebs   Topic  
Johann Tobias Krebs (July 7, 1690 - February 11, 1762), was a German organist and composer. Krebs was born near Weimar, and died in the same area. He is known as student of Johann Gottfried Walther and Johann Sebastian Bach. He is believed to be the composer of the Eight Short Preludes and Fugues previously attributed to J.S. Bach.
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Paolo Agostino   Topic  
Paolo Agostino (or Agostini; Augustinus in Latin; c. 1583-1629) was an Italian composer and organist of the early Baroque era. He was born at Vallerano, near Viterbo. He studied under Giovanni Bernardino Nanino, according to the dedication in the third and fourth books of his masses. Subsequently, he married Nanini's daughter. He held a series of positions as organist and maestro di cappella (choirmaster) between 1607 and 1626, when he succeeded Vincenzo Ugolini as conductor of the pope's...
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Jon Appleton   Topic  
Jon Appleton (born Jon Howard Appleton, 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is a composer, author and the Arthur R. Virgin Professor of Music at Dartmouth College and Visiting Professor of Music at Stanford University. He was educated at Reed College, the University of Oregon and Columbia University. With Homer Keller, he set up the electronic music studio at the University of Oregon. A composer of both instrumental and electro-acoustic music, Appleton is best known in the United States for the...
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David Arkenstone   Composer  
David Arkenstone is a musician in the genre of new age music. Many of his pieces include a map and story in the CD case, almost all of them having a fantasy theme to them. The music itself is primarily instrumental in nature, with some vocalizations by Arkenstone and others. It has recently been described as "Cinematic New Age Rock" by some. Arkenstone cites World Music, New Age, classical music, and rock music as his major influences. Troika is ostensibly a trio of musicians who choose to...
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Francis Edward Bache   Topic  
Francis Edward Bache (September 14, 1833 - August 24, 1858) was an English musician and composer. Born at Birmingham, he studied violin under Alfred Mellon and composition under William Sterndale Bennett, continuing his musical education at Leipzig in 1853. He also played the organ and composed for piano. Considering the early age at which he died, his compositions are fairly numerous, and the best, a trio for piano and strings, was long held in high esteem. Two operetta, a piano concerto and a...
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Johann Joachim Quantz Johann Joachim Quantz Composer  
Johann Joachim Quantz (January 30, 1697–July 12, 1773) was a German flautist, flute maker and composer. He was born in Oberscheden, near Göttingen, Germany, and died in Potsdam. Quantz began his musical studies as a child with his uncle (his father - a blacksmith - died when Quantz was young), later going to Dresden and Vienna. It was during his time as musician to Frederick Augustus II of Poland that he began to concentrate on the flute, performing more and more on the instrument. He...
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Knud Jeppesen   Topic  
Knud Jeppesen (August 15 1892 - June 14 1974) was a Danish composer, musicologist and writer on the history of music. His study of Palestrina is internationally recognized. The Style of Palestrina and the Dissonance. 2nd ed., London, 1946.
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Luigi Rossi   Topic  
Luigi Rossi (ca. 1597 - 20 February 1653) was an Italian Baroque composer. Rossi was born in Torremaggiore, a small town near Foggia, in the ancient kingdom of Naples and at an early age he went to Naples. There he studied music with the Franco-Flemish composer Jean de Macque who was organist of the Santa Casa dell’Annunziata and maestro di cappella to the Spanish viceroy. Rossi later entered the service of the Caetani, dukes of Traetta. Luigi Rossi composed just two operas: Il Palazzo...
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Rob Watson   Topic  
Robert D. Watson is a keyboard player, producer and composer, best known for his work with the rock bands Daniel Amos and The Swirling Eddies (credited as Arthur Fhardy). Watson has also worked with Donna Summer, The Platters, The Surfaris, Tonio K. and others. In 1982, prior to joining Daniel Amos, Watson recorded a solo single, "Something's Going On Here"/"The Graylands", under the name Body & Soul. 800 copies of the single were pressed. These songs feature rare lead vocals by Watson. ...
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Hubert Parry   Composer  
Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Baronet (February 27, 1848 – October 7, 1918) was an English composer, probably best known for the choral song Jerusalem, the coronation anthem I was glad and the hymn tune Repton, which sets the words Dear Lord and Father of Mankind. Born in Bournemouth, Dorset, and brought up at Highnam Court, Gloucestershire, he was the son of artist and collector Thomas Gambier Parry. He was educated at Eton and Exeter College, Oxford. He married Lady Elizabeth Maude...
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Scott Bradley PDVD 001 Topic  
Scott Bradley (November 26, 1891 in Russellville, Arkansas - April 27, 1977 in Chatsworth, California) was an American composer, pianist and conductor. He is most famous for scoring the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) theatrical cartoons, including those starring Tom and Jerry, Droopy Dog, Barney Bear, and the many one-shot works of Tex Avery. Bradley was a conservatory-trained composer and English horn player who studied under Arnold Schoenberg. He first composed cartoon scores in the early 1930...
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Thomas Baltzar   Topic  
Thomas Baltzar (c. 1631 – July 7, 1663 in London), German violin, was born at Lübeck. He visited England in 1656 and made a great impression on John Evelyn and Anthony Wood. In 1661 he was appointed leader of the king's famous band of twenty-four violins, but his intemperate habits cut short his career within two years. Nothing like his violin playing had ever been heard in England before, and in all probability the instrumental music of Henry Purcell owes much to its influence.
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Robert Simpson   Topic  
Robert (Wilfred Levick) Simpson (2 March 1921 – 21 November 1997) was an English composer and long-serving BBC producer and broadcaster. He is best known for his orchestral and chamber music (including 11 symphonies and 15 string quartet), and for his writings on the music of Beethoven, Bruckner, Nielsen and Sibelius. He studied composition under Herbert Howells. Remarkably for a composer who was still alive, a Robert Simpson Society was formed in 1980 by individuals concerned that Simpson's...
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Luciano Caruso   Topic  
Luciano Caruso (b. 1944, in Naples) is an Italian composer and Soprano saxophone performer.
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Charles Tournemire   Topic  
Charles Tournemire (Bordeaux, January 22 1870 – Arcachon, November 3 1939), was a French composer and organist, most famous for his improvisations. While he could play the conventional organ literature expertly, he rarely played anything in his titular post other than his own improvised works. His improvisations were consistently brilliant, and most often rooted in Gregorian thematic material. His output contains many organ works, eight symphonies (one of them choral), and several chamber works...
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Billy Mayerl   Topic  
Billy Joseph Mayerl (May 31, 1902- March 25, 1959), was an English pianist and composer who built a career in music hall and musical theatre and became an acknowledged master of light music. Best known for his syncopated novelty piano solos, he wrote over 300 piano pieces, many of which were named after flowers and trees, including his best known composition, Marigold (1927). He also composed works for piano and orchestra, often in suites with evocative names such as the 'Aquarium Suite' (1937...
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Ellen Zwilich   Topic  
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (born April 30, 1939, in Miami, Florida) is an American composer, the first female composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Her early works are marked by atonal exploration, but by the late 1980s she had matured to a post-modernist, neo-romantic style. She has been called "one of America’s most frequently played and genuinely popular living composers." Zwilich began her studies as a violinist, earning a B.M. from Florida State University in 1960. She moved to New York...
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Mieczysław Karłowicz grafika:mieczyslaw_karlowicz Topic  
Mieczysław Karłowicz (December 11, 1876 – February 8, 1909) was one of most talented Polish composer and conductors. He was born in Vilnius (now capital of Lithuania), and his father Jan was a Polish historian and musician. Karlowicz studied at Warsaw with Prof. Noskowski, Piotr Maszyski, and Gustaw Roguski. He later studied in Berlin with Heinrich Urban. From 1906 to 1907 he studied conducting with Arthur Nikisch. His music is of a late-romantic/fin-de-siècle character, showing some affinity...
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Paul Lincke   Topic  
Paul Lincke (November 7, 1866 – September 4, 1946) was a German composer. His march Berliner Luft is the hymn of Berlin. The march Berliner Luft comes from Lincke's 1899 operetta "Frau Luna" about a trip to the moon in a hot air balloon where an adventurous party of prominent Berliners meet Frau Luna and her court. Other Lincke operettas include "Im Reiche des Indra" and "Lysistrata." The latter includes the song "Glühwürmchen," translated and arranged in the 1940s by Johnny Mercer as "Glow...
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Johann Christoph Pepusch Johann Christoph Pepusch Topic  
Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667- 20 July, 1752) was a German-born composer, who spent most of his working life in England. At age 14, he was appointed to the Prussian court. About 1700, he settled in England where he was one of the founders, in 1710, of The Academy of Vocal Music, which in 1726 was renamed The Academy of Ancient Music. In Doane's Directory, we read about the founding of the Academy, and on page 76 we learn that: Pepusch remained Director of the Academy until his death in 1752,...
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Michael Arne   Topic  
Michael Arne (1740 or 1741 - January 14, 1786) was the son of the composer Thomas Arne and was himself a composer. His best-known work is the song Lass with the Delicate Air, which appeared in 1762.
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David Burge   Topic  
David Burge (born March 25, 1930 in Evanston, Illinois) is an American pianist, conductor and composer. As a performer, he is noted for championing contemporary pieces. He studied at the Eastman School of Music and the Cherubini Conservatory, Florence as a Fulbright scholar. He first gained recognition in the 1960s, and in the early 1970s George Crumb wrote his books of piano pieces Makrokosmos for him. He recorded the work, and received a Grammy nomination. In early 2002, Burge and Crumb...
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Ulf Grahn   Topic  
Ulf Grahn (born January 17, 1942) is a Swedish born composer living in the United States. Grahn, UlfGrahn, UlfGrahn, Ulf
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Albert Von Tilzer   Topic  
Albert Von Tilzer (March 29, 1878 - October 1, 1956) was an American songwriter, the younger brother of Harry Von Tilzer. Albert Von Tilzer was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and was given the name Albert Gumm (which had been shortened by his parents from Gumbinski (or possibly Guminski). As a young man he worked briefly at his older brother Harry Von Tilzer's publishing company, and Albert's earliest songs were published by Harry. Within a very few years Albert formed his own firm, The York...
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Chris Smith   Topic  
Chris Smith (October 12, 1879 – October 4, 1949) was a United States composer and performer. Smith was born in Charleston, South Carolina; he started traveling with Medicine Shows when young and went into Vaudeville where he performed in an acts with Elmer Bowman and Jimmie Durante. He also wrote music for Bert Williams. Smith composed many tunes, including such hits as Ballin' The Jack, Down In Honky Tonk Town, Good Morning, Carie, The Camel Walk, and Junk Man Rag.
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Meja Album cover for Seven Sisters Topic  
Meja (born Meja Anna Pernilla Beckman, Nynäshamn, Stockholms län, 12 February 1969), is a Swedish composer and singer. Among her best known songs are "All About the Money" and "Private Emotion" (duet with Ricky Martin). Meja tends to sing with an American accent. She gained more widespread popularity after her single "How Crazy are You?" was used as the main theme music for the Xbox video game Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball. Prior to her solo career, Meja sang leads on several singles...
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Maurice Greene Maurice Greene Topic  
Maurice Greene (August 12, 1696 - December 1, 1755) was an English composer and organist. Born in London, the son of a clergyman, Greene became a choirboy at St Paul's Cathedral under Jeremiah Clarke and Charles King. He studied the organ under Richard Brind, and after Brind died, Greene became organist at St Paul's. With the death of William Croft in 1727, Greene became organist at the Chapel Royal, and in 1730 he became professor of music at Cambridge University. In 1735 he was appointed...
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Louis Grabu   Topic  
Louis Grabu, Grabut, Grabue, or Grebus (fl. 1665 – 1690, died after 1693) was a Catalan-born, French-trained composer and violin who was mainly active in England. While he was probably born in Catalonia, details of his early life are lacking. Sometime in his youth he moved to Paris, where he was most likely trained by Lully. At the time of the Restoration he went to England, where French music, especially opera, was much in vogue. Charles II of England appointed him as a composer for his own...
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John Stanley John Stanley Composer  
Charles John Stanley (January 17, 1712 – May 19, 1786) was an English composer and organist. Stanley, who was blind from an early age, studied music with Maurice Greene and held a number of organist appointments in London, such as St Andrew's, Holborn from 1726. He was a friend of George Frideric Handel, and following Handel's death, Stanley joined first with John Christopher Smith and later with Thomas Linley to continue the series of oratorio concerts Handel had established, and succeeded...
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John Barry John Barry Film music contributor Bond Meets Stacey (A View to a Kill)
John Barry, OBE (born John Barry Prendergast on 3 November 1933 in York, England) is a renowned Golden Globe and five-time Academy Award-winning English film score composer. Barry was educated at St Peter's School, York, and also received composition lessons from Francis Jackson, Organist of York Minster. Living in his native England until the mid 1970s, Barry spent some time in Spain (for tax reasons) but has since lived in the United States, mainly in Oyster Bay outside New York. Barry...
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