Composer
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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...
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| Johann Tobias Krebs | Person |
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.
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| Paolo Agostino | Person |
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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| Jon Appleton | Person |
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,...
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| David Arkenstone | Musical Artist |
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...
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| Francis Edward Bache | Person |
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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| Johann Joachim Quantz |
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Johann Joachim Quantz (January 30, 1697–July 12, 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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| Knud Jeppesen | Person |
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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| Luigi Rossi | Person |
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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| Rob Watson | Film actor |
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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| Hubert Parry | Musical Artist | Ode to Newfoundland |
Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Baronet (February 27, 1848 – October 7, 1918) was an English composer, 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...
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| Scott Bradley |
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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...
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| Thomas Baltzar | Person |
Thomas Baltzar (c. 1631 – July 24, 1663) was a German violin 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 taught...
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| Robert Simpson | Person |
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...
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| Luciano Caruso | Person |
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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| Charles Tournemire | Person |
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...
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| Billy Mayerl | Person |
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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| Ellen Zwilich | Person |
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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| Mieczysław Karłowicz |
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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.
Karłowicz studied at...
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| Paul Lincke | Person |
Paul Lincke (November 7, 1866 – September 4, 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...
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| Johann Christoph Pepusch |
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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...
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| Michael Arne | Person |
Michael Arne (1740 or 1741 - 14 January 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 | Person |
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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| Ulf Grahn | Person |
Ulf Grahn (born January 17, 1942) is a Swedish born composer living in the United States.
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| Albert Von Tilzer | Person |
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...
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| Chris Smith | Person |
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...
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| Meja |
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Meja (born Meja Anna Pernilla Beckman, Nynäshamn, Stockholm County, 12 February 1969), is a Swedish composer and singer. Among her best known songs are "All 'Bout the Money" and "Private Emotion" (duet with Ricky Martin). Meja tends to sing with an...
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| Maurice Greene |
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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...
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| Louis Grabu | Person |
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....
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| John Stanley |
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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,...
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| John Barry |
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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...
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