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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 the...
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| x Paolo Agostino |
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Paolo Agostino (or Agostini; Augustinus in Latin; c. 1583 – 1629) was an Italian composer and organist of the early Baroque era. He was born perhaps at Vallerano, near Viterbo. He studied under Giovanni Bernardino Nanino, according to the dedication...
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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. He has three children—Quillon, Dashiell and Valinor—with his first wife, Julie....
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| x Francis Edward Bache |
Francis Edward Bache (September 14, 1833 – August 24, 1858) was an English organist and composer.
Born at Birmingham as the eldest of seven children of Samuel Bache, a well-known Unitarian minister, he studied with James Stimpson, Birmingham City...
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| x Johann Joachim Quantz |
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Johann Joachim Quantz (ndash; 12 July 1773) was a German flutist, 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's son-in-law (his...
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| x Knud Jeppesen |
Knud Jeppesen (15 August 1892 in Copenhagen – 14 June 1974 in Risskov) was a Danish musicologist, composer, and writer on the history of music.
Jeppeson demonstrated early musical talent at age 10 when he was first encouraged by Hakon Andersen and...
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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 "Rob" 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,...
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| x Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry |
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Ode to Newfoundland |
Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Baronet (27 February 1848 – 7 October 1918) was an English composer, teacher and historian of music.
Parry's first major works appeared in 1880. As a composer he is best known for the choral song "Jerusalem",...
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| x Scott Bradley |
Scott Bradley (November 26, 1891 - April 27, 1977) was an American composer, pianist and conductor.
Bradley is best remembered for scoring the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) theatrical cartoons, including those starring Tom and Jerry (Hanna-Barbera Years...
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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 (22 January 1870 – 3 or 4 November 1939) was a French composer and organist, notable partly for his improvisations, which were often rooted in the music of Gregorian chant. His compositions include eight symphonies (one of them...
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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 |
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 shifted 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) into a noble family being part of the Clan of Ostoja. His father Jan was a Polish linguist, lexicographer,...
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| x Paul Lincke |
Carl Emil Paul Lincke (7 November 1866 – 3 September 1946) was a German composer and theater conductor. He is considered the "father" of the Berlin opera and holds the same significance for Berlin as does Johann Strauss for Vienna and Jacques...
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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.
Pepusch was born in Berlin. At the age of 14, he was appointed to the...
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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 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 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 | Albion and Albanius |
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.
John Stanley was born in London on 17 January 1712. At about the age of two, he had the misfortune to fall on a marble hearth with a china basin in his hand,...
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| x John Barry | Wine With Stacey (A View to a Kill) |
John Barry Prendergast, OBE (3 November 1933 – 30 January 2011) was an English conductor and composer of film music. He is best known for composing the soundtracks for 12 of the James Bond films between 1962 and 1987. He wrote the scores to the...
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| x Elmer Diktonius |
Elmer Rafael Diktonius (20 January 1896, Helsinki – 23 September 1961, Kauniainen) was a Finnish poet and composer, who wrote in both Swedish and in 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 Reti (Serbian: Рудолф Рети, Rudolf Reti) (November 27, 1885 – February 7, 1957), was a musical analyst, composer and pianist. He was the older brother of the great chess master Richard Réti (but, unlike his brother, he did not write his...
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| x Alfred Bryan | Round on the End and High in the Middle |
Alfred Bryan (September 15, 1871 Brantford – April 1, 1958 Gladstone) was a Canadian lyricist.
Bryan worked as an arranger in New York and wrote lyrics for many Broadway shows in the late 1910s and early 1920s. In the 1920s he moved to Hollywood to...
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| Brown Eyes, Why Are You Blue | |||
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| x Leonardo Vinci |
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Li zite 'ngalera |
Leonardo Vinci (1690 – 27 May 1730) was an Italian 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 his...
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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.
Smyth was born in Woking, Surrey. J. H. Smyth, her father, was a Major-General in the Royal Artillery. She was one of...
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| x Thomas and Olga de Hartmann |
Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann (Russian: Фома́ Александро́вич Га́ртман) September 21, 1885 – March 28, 1956 was a Russian composer and prominent student and collaborator of George Gurdjieff.
Thomas de Hartmann was born in Khoruzhivka, Poltava...
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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 [?], baptized 5 September 1782 – 23 January 1837) was an Irish pianist, composer, and teacher. He was born in Dublin into a musical family, and received his early education there. The Fields soon moved to London, where Field...
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| x Anne Caldwell |
Anne Caldwell (August 30, 1867 – October 22, 1936), also known as Anne Caldwell O'Dea, was a prolific playwright and lyricist. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She wrote both pop songs and Broadway shows, sometimes working with composer Jerome...
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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 to German literary publishers Helen and Kurt Wolff, who had published works by Franz Kafka, Robert Musil, and Walter...
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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 for the Luxembourgian national anthem, Ons Hémécht.
Zinnen was born in Amsterdam, in the Prussian Rhineland, close to the border with Luxembourg. When he was...
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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 |
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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.
He 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.
Brown...
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| x Adam of St. Victor |
Adam of Saint Victor (died 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 Cambridge and...
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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 than 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 Paul Peuerl |
Paul Peuerl (also Bäurl, Beuerlin, Bäwerl, Agricola, Peyerl; 13 June 1570 (baptised), Stuttgard – after 1625) was a German organist, organ builder, renovator and repairer, and composer of instrumental music.
From November 1601 he was organist in...
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| x Lois V Vierk |
Lois V Vierk (born August 4, 1951, Hammond, Indiana) is a "post-minimalist" or "totalist" composer who lives in New York City.
She received a B.A. degree in piano and ethnomusicology from UCLA in 1974. She then attended Cal Arts, studying...
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| x Clarence Barlow |
Clarence Barlow (born December 27, 1945) is a composer of classical and electroacoustic works.
Barlow was born in Calcutta, a member of the anglophone minority, of British and Portuguese descent. He studied at the Calcutta University, at the Trinity...
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| x William Duckworth |
William Duckworth (born 13 January 1943) is an American composer who also is an author, educator and Internet pioneer. He has written more than 200 pieces of music and is credited with the composition of the first postminimal piece of music, The...
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| x Carlisle Floyd |
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Of Mice and Men |
Carlisle Floyd (born June 11, 1926, in Latta, South Carolina) is an American opera composer. The son of a Methodist minister, he based many of his works on themes from the South. His best known opera, Susannah (1955), is based on a story from the...
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| x Samuel A. Ward |
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America the Beautiful |
Samuel Augustus Ward (December 28, 1847 – September 28, 1903) was an American organist and composer. Born in Newark, New Jersey, Ward studied music in New York and became an organist at Grace Episcopal Church in Newark in 1880. He is remembered for...
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| x Robert Taylor |
Robert Taylor (born 1931) is an American composer. For several years, his output has comprised works perhaps best characterized as avant-garde computer-music. Previously, he had composed music for an array of acoustic media, including solo voice,...
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