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| x Johann Tobias Krebs |
Johann Tobias Krebs (7 July 1690 – 11 February 1762), was a German organist and composer.
Krebs was born near Weimar, and died in the same area. He is known as a student of Johann Gottfried Walther and Johann Sebastian Bach.
He is believed to be...
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| x Paolo Agostino |
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...
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| x Jon Appleton |
Jon Howard Appleton (born January 4, 1939) is an American composer and teacher who was a pioneer in electro-acoustic music. His earliest compositions in the medium, e.g. Chef d’Oeuvre and Newark Airport Rock attracted attention because they...
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| x David Arkenstone |
David Arkenstone is an American New Age musician. His music is primarily instrumental, with occasional vocalizations. He was born in Chicago, Illinois on July 1, 1952 and is married to Diane Arkenstone, who is also a musician. They have three...
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| x Francis Edward Bache |
Francis Edward Bache (September 14, 1833 – August 24, 1858) was an English musician and composer.
Born at Birmingham as the eldest of seven children of Samuel Bache, a well-known Unitarian minister, he studied with James Stimpson, city organist of...
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| x Johann Joachim Quantz |
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Johann Joachim Quantz (30 January 1697 – 12 July 1773) was a German flautist, flute maker and composer.
Quantz was born in Oberscheden, near Göttingen, Germany, and died in Potsdam.
He began his musical studies as a child with his uncle (his...
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| x Knud Jeppesen |
Knud Jeppesen (15 August 1892 – 14 June 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. His 1930...
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| x Luigi Rossi | Orfeo |
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...
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| x Rob Watson |
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....
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| x Hubert Parry |
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Ode to Newfoundland |
Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (27 February 1848 – 7 October 1918) was an English composer, teacher and historian of music. He was knighted in 1898.
Parry's first major works appeared in 1880. As a composer he is best known for the choral song ...
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| x Scott Bradley |
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Scott Bradley (November 26, 1891 - April 27, 1977) was an American composer, pianist and conductor.
Bradley is most famous for scoring the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) theatrical cartoons, including those starring Tom and Jerry (Hanna-Barbera Years...
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| x Thomas Baltzar |
Thomas Baltzar (c. 1631 – July 24, 1663) was a German violinist and composer. He was born in Lübeck to a musical family; his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were all musicians. Sources suggest an array of music teachers who may have...
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| x Robert Simpson |
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Symphony No. 1 |
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 quartets), and for...
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| x Luciano Caruso |
Luciano Caruso (b. July 19, 1957 in Turin, Italy) is an Italian Jazz composer and Soprano saxophone performer.
In 1973, he moved to Vittorio Veneto to attend the music institute "Toti Dal Monte" in Pieve di Soligo and afterwards the school "Dizzy...
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| x Charles Tournemire |
Charles Tournemire (Bordeaux, 22 January 1870 – Arcachon, 3 or 4 November 1939) was a French composer and organist, most famous for his improvisations. His improvisations were often rooted in the music of Gregorian chant. His compositions include...
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| x Billy Mayerl |
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...
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| x Ellen Zwilich |
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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...
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| x Mieczysław Karłowicz |
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Mieczysław Karłowicz (11 December 1876 – 8 February 1909) was a Polish composer and conductor. He was born in Vishneva (present-day Belarus), and his father Jan was a Polish historian and musician. As a child he studied the violin, for which...
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| x Paul Lincke |
Paul Lincke (7 November 1866 – 3 September 1946) was a German composer. His march Berliner Luft ("Berlin Air") 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,...
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| x Johann Christoph Pepusch |
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Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667 – 20 July 1752) also known as John Christopher Pepusch and Dr Pepusch 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...
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| x Michael Arne |
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Michael Arne (1740 or 1741 - 14 January 1786) was an English composer, harpsichordist, organist, singer, and actor. He was the son of composer Thomas Arne and lauded soprano Cecilia Young, the latter of which belonged to the famous Young family of...
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| x David Burge |
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,...
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| x Ulf Grahn |
Ulf Grahn (born January 17, 1942) is a Swedish born composer living in the United States.
Grahn, UlfGrahn, UlfGrahn, Ulf
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| x Albert Von Tilzer |
Albert Von Tilzer (March 29, 1878 - October 1, 1956) was an American songwriter, the younger brother of fellow songwriter Harry Von Tilzer. He wrote the music to many hit songs, including, most notably, "Take Me Out To The Ball Game".
He was born...
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| x Chris Smith |
Chris Smith (October 12, 1879 – October 4, 1949) was an American 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...
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| x Meja |
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Meja (born Anna Pernilla Beckman, Nynäshamn, Stockholm County, 12 February 1969), is a Swedish composer and singer. Among her best known songs are "I'm Missing You","All 'Bout the Money" and "Private Emotion" (duet with Ricky Martin). She also...
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| x Maurice Greene |
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Hearken Unto Me Ye Holy Children |
Maurice Greene (12 August 1696 – 1 December 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...
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| x Louis Grabu |
Louis Grabu, Grabut, Grabue, or Grebus (fl. 1665 – 1690, died after 1693) was a Catalan-born, French-trained composer and violinist who was mainly active in England.
While he was probably born in Catalonia – he was later referred to as 'Lodovicus...
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| x John Stanley |
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Charles John Stanley (17 January 1712 – 19 May 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...
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| x John Barry |
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Bond Meets Stacey (A View to a Kill) |
John Barry, OBE (born John Barry Prendergast on 3 November 1933 in York, England) is an English film score composer. He is best known for composing 11 James Bond soundtracks and was hugely influential on the 007 series' distinctive style.
Barry was...
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| x Elmer Diktonius |
Elmer Rafael Diktonius (1896 – 23 September 1961) was a Finnish poet and composer, who wrote in both Swedish and Finnish.
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| x Karl-Birger Blomdahl | Aniara |
Karl-Birger Blomdahl (19 October 1916 – 14 June 1968) was a Swedish composer and conductor born in Växjö. He was educated in biochemistry, but was primarily active in music and by his experimental compositions he became one of the big names in...
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| x Rudolph Réti |
Rudolph Réti (Serbian: Рудолф Рети, Rudolf Reti) (November 27, 1885 – February 7, 1957, in Montclair, New Jersey) was a musical analyst, composer and pianist. He was the older brother of the great chess master Richard Réti.
Réti was born in Užice in...
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| x Alfred Bryan |
Alfred Bryan (September 15, 1871 – April 1, 1958) was a United States songwriter and pacifist.
His hits included
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| x Leonardo Vinci |
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Li zite 'ngalera |
Leonardo Vinci (1690 – 27 May 1730) was an Italian musical composer, best known for his operas.
He was born at Strongoli (or Naples) and educated at Naples under Gaetano Greco in the Conservatorio dei Poveri di Gesù Cristo. He first became known for...
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| x Ethel Smyth |
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The Wreckers |
Dame Ethel Mary Smyth, DBE (23 April 1858 – 8 May 1944) was an English composer and a leader of the women's suffrage movement.
She was born in London. J H Smyth, her father, was a Major-General in the Royal Artillery. She was one of eight siblings...
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| x Thomas and Olga de Hartmann |
Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann (September 21, 1885 – March 28, 1956) was a Russian composer and prominent student and collaborator of George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff.
Thomas de Hartmann was born in Khoruzhivka, east of Kiev, Ukraine. At the age of 18...
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| x Johan Halvorsen |
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Johan Halvorsen (15 March 1864 – 4 December 1935) was a Norwegian composer, conductor and violinist.
Born in Drammen, Norway he was an accomplished violinist from a very early age and became a prominent figure in Norwegian musical life. He received...
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| x Estienne du Tertre |
Estienne du Tertre (fl. mid-16th century) was a French composer. He spent most of his life in Paris and worked as an editor for the publisher Attaingnant. Many of his chansons were published.
Du Tertre published suyttes de bransles in 1557, giving...
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| x Luca Miti |
Luca Miti (born 1957) is an Italian composer and pianist.
He studied jazz piano, extended vocal techniques and baroque flute a bec. From 1980 he's working as a composer and performer of contemporary music. His work is centered on a deep research on,...
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| x Barbara Buczek |
Barbara Buczek (9 January 1940 – 17 January 1993) was a composer born in Kraków, Poland.
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| x John Field |
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Piano Concerto No. 2 in A flat |
John Field (26 July 1782, Dublin – 23 January 1837, Moscow) was an Irish composer and pianist. He is best known for being the first composer to write nocturnes in the modern sense of the term.
Field was born in Golden gate, Dublin in 1782 the eldest...
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| x Anne Caldwell |
Anne Caldwell (August 30, 1867 – October 22, 1936), also known as Anne Caldwell O'Dea, was a librettist and lyricist. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She wrote both pop songs and Broadway shows including working with Jerome Kern.
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| x Angela Morley |
Angela Morley (born Wally Stott, 10 March 1924 – 14 January 2009) was an English composer and conductor.
Morley was born in Leeds, Yorkshire on 10 March 1924. She attributed her entry into successful composing and arranging largely to the influence...
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| x Shulamit Ran |
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Shulamit Ran (Hebrew: שולמית רן; born October 21, 1949 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an Israeli-American composer. She moved from Israel to New York at 14, as a scholarship student at the Mannes College of Music. Her Symphony (1990) won her the Pulitzer...
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| x Christian Wolff |
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Christian G. Wolff (born March 8, 1934) is an American composer of experimental classical music.
Wolff was born in Nice in France of German parentage. His family moved to the United States in 1941, and he became an American citizen in 1946. He...
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| x Abe Holzmann |
Abe Holzmann (19 August 1874 – 16 January 1939) was a German/American composer, who is most famous today for his march Blaze-Away!
Abraham Holzmann was born in New York City. His parents were Jacob Holzmann, a Hungarian (some sources say German)...
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| x Jean Antoine Zinnen |
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Ons Hémécht |
Jean Antoine Zinnen (25 April 1827 – 16 May 1898) was a Luxembourgian composer, best known as the composer of the Luxembourgian national anthem, Ons Hémécht.
Zinnen was born in Neuerburg, in the Prussian Rhineland, close to the border with...
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| x Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach |
Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach (May 11, 1715–May 27, 1739) was the fourth child to reach adulthood of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach. Born in Weimar, he attended the Thomasschule in Leipzig, his father providing for his musical...
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| x Johann Simon Hermstedt |
Johann Simon Hermstedt (29 December 1778 – 10 August 1846) was one of the most famous clarinettists of the 19th century. A German, he served as court clarinettist to Duke Günther I of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, and taught the Duke to play the...
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| x Keith Paulson-Thorp |
Keith Paulson-Thorp is an American composer, organist and keyboardist.
He received his doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition to being the former director of music at the Mission Santa Barbara, a position he held...
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| x John Ireland | Piano Concerto |
John Nicholson Ireland (13 August 1879 – 12 June 1962) was an English composer.
John Ireland was born in Bowdon, near Altrincham, Manchester, into a family of Scottish descent and some cultural distinction. His father, Alexander Ireland, a publisher...
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| x Steve Brown |
Steve Brown is a British composer.
Brown wrote the book and lyrics (with Justin Greene) and composed the score for Spend Spend Spend, which chronicled Viv Nicholson's rise and fall after winning a fortune in the football pools in the early 1960s....
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| x Adam of St. Victor |
Adam of Saint Victor (d. 1146) was a prolific poet and composer of Latin hymns and sequences. He is believed to have sparked the expansion of the poetic and musical repertoire in the Notre Dame school with his strongly rhythmic and imagery-filled...
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| x Orlando Gibbons |
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Orlando Gibbons (baptised 25 December 1583 – 5 June 1625) was an English composer, virginalist and organist of the late Tudor and early Jacobean periods. He was a leading composer in the England of his day.
Gibbons was born in Oxford. Between 1596...
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| x Nicu Covaci |
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Nicolae (Nicu) Covaci (born 19 April 1947 in Timişoara, Romania) is a Romanian painter, music composer, best known as the leader of Romanian Rock and cult band Phoenix, for which he is vocalist and guitar player, with more that 40 years of activity.
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| x Michel Gelbart |
Michel Gelbart (1899 - 1966) was a prolific American composer of Yiddish songs. His music reflected a very American Yiddish motif, and was integral to the curricula of the Arbeter Ring (Workmen's Circle) schools and camps.
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| x Brian Irvine |
Brian Irvine, MBE (born 1965) is a composer from Northern Ireland. He has written several film scores and his piece Interrupting Cutler, partly based on the work of Ivor Cutler, was a winner in the 2003 BBC Jazz Awards. Irvine was appointed Member...
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| x Jerry Hunt |
Jerry Hunt (November 30, 1943 in Waco, Texas - November 27, 1993 in Canton, Texas) was an American composer who created works using live electronics partly controlled by his ritualistic performance techniques, influenced by his interest in the...
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| x Paul Peuerl |
Paul Peuerl (baptised 13 June 1570, died after 1625) was a German organist, organ builder, renovator and repairer, and composer of instrumental music.
Peuerl's 4-part Newen Padovanen ... (1611) was the first German ensemble publication to group...
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