Name | Born | Died | Information |
Aa, Michel van der more... | 1970 The Netherlands | | studied composition and music-engineering at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, The Netherlands. He attended composition lessons with Diderik Wagenaar, Gilius van Bergeijk and Louis Andriessen. In 2002 Van der Aa studied film directing at the New York Film Academy.He composed instrumental, orchestral, vocal and electronic pieces as well as music conceived in collaboration with artists in other disciplines. Van der Aa collaborated with choreographers Kazuko Hirabayashi, Philippe Blanchard, Ben Wright and film directors Hal Hartley and Peter Greenaway |
Aaberg, Gustav Øistensen more... | 1978 Fluberg, Norway | | in 1998 he moved to the UK to study the euphonium at the University of Salford under the guidance of Professor David King. Gustav showed an early interest for composition, which he developed further at the University of Salford, and is currently studying composition with Professor Peter Graham. He has had works performed, published and performed both in the United Kingdom and Norway and received the Kirklees Music Award for the work Hymn to the Highway in 2003. Gustav has studied the euphonium with Morgan Griffiths and Glyn Williams; composition with Professor Peter Graham; and arranging with Professor Peter Graham and Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen |
Aaberg, Philip (known as Eddy Yates) more... | 8 Apr. 1949 Montana, USA | | American composer and keyboardist |
Aagaard-Nilsen, Torstein more... | 11 Jan. 1964 Norway | | trained as a brass player, Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen studied at the University of Bergen and the Bergen Conservatory of Music. A staff arranger and composer for the Norwegian Armed Forces Music, he now lives at Radøy, an island to the northwest of Bergen. As a composer Aagaard-Nilsen is mainly self-taught. He has received commissions from, among others, James Clapperton, the Norwegian Broadcasting Company, Bergen Military Band and the Royal Norwegian Navy Band in Horten. Aagaard-Nilsen's works have been featured on the programs of festivals such as Stavanger Speculum, Nordlyd, Music Factory and the Bergen Autunnale. He has also attracted attention in England where his works were presented on BBC 3 [additional information by Willem E. M. Pin] |
Aagesen, Truid (called Theodoricus Sistinus) more... | fl. 1593-1615 | | Danish composer (madrigalist) and organist from the time of Christian IV (1577-1648) |
Aaltoila, Heikki Johannes | 11 Dec. 1905 Hausjärvi, Finland | 12 Jan. 1992 Helsinki, Finland | Finnish music critic, conductor and composer. He created a major career in film music, beginning in the 1940s, writing music for about 75 films, and incidental music for about 150 stage plays [additional information by Willem E. M. Pin] |
Aaltonen, Erkki (Erik Verner) more... | 17 Aug. 1910
8 Mar. 1990 Helsinki, Finland | Finnish violinist, violist, conductor, and composer. His best-known work is the Second Symphony, Hiroshima (1949). He experimented with dodecaphony in his Violin Concerto (1966) | |
Aamodt, Valter Emil | 25 Mar. 1902 | 1989 | Norwegian editor, critic (e.g. music critic of the Bergens Tidende) and composer |
Aaquist Johansen, Svend more... | 7 Dec. 1948 | | Danish composer and conductor (NS) |
Aargaard-Nilsen, Torstein (see Aagaard-Nilsen, Torstein) | | | |
Aarne, Els (pseudonym for Elze Janovna Paëmuru) more... | 30 Mar. 1917 Makeyevka, Ukraine | 14 Jun. 1995 Tallinn, Estonia | Estonian composer, pianist and teacher. Aarne has mainly composed chamber music (her preferred instruments were violoncello and double-bass) and a lot of vocal music.
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Aaron, Pietro more... | c. 1489 Florence, Italy | c. 1545 prob. Bergamo, Italy | composer and theorist, contemporary of Adrian Willaert and Marco Antonio Cavazzoni in Venice, author of De institutione harmonica libri tres. Bononiae, In aedibus Benedicti Hectoris Bibliopolae Bononiensis, 1516 (Reprint Broude Brothers Ltd., New York, 1978. Liber primus, liber secundus, liber tertius.); Toscanello de la musica. Impressa per Bernardino et Mattheo de Uitali, Venezia, 1523, 1529, 1539, 1562 (Reprint Broude Brothers Ltd., New York, 1969. English translation Toscanello in musica by Peter Bergquist, Colorado College Music Press, Colorado Springs, 1970); Trattato della natura et cognitione di tutti gli tuoni di canto figurato. Impressa per Bernardino Vitali, Venezia, 1525, 1531; Lucidario in musica, Impressa per Girolamo Scotto, Venezia, 1545 (Reprint, Broude Brothers Ltd., New York, 1978) |
Aaronson, Irving | 7 Feb. 1895 New York, NY, USA | 10 Mar. 1963 Hollywood, CA, USA | American popular composer, lyricist and conductor. Irving was playing piano for the silent movies at just age 11. He started recording in 1926 with a band known as the 'Crusaders', which was changed to 'Commanders' within a couple of months. During 1928 band included Chummy MacGregor, Tony Pastor, Artie Shaw. Singers Self, Phil Saxe (also on clarinet, tenor sax, violin) and Jack Armstrong, Bob Leitner. A young Claude Thornhill and Gene Krupa also appeared in the band. Bing Crosby used Aaronson's Commanders as the backing band on four songs he recorded from his movie, 'She Loves Me Not' (1934). One of them, "Love In Bloom", became a number one record for Crosby. After disbanding, Aaronson eventually found work as a musical supervisor for MGM motion picture studios, - a job he held until his death [information drawn from American Big Bands Database] |
Aav, Evald more... | 17 Mar. 1900 (22 Feb. Old Style) Tallinn, Estonia | 21 Mar. 1939 Tallinn, Estonia | Estonian composer and choir conductor. His works have a national-romantic sound and rich melodies. Those for chorus and solo songs have a great importance in Estonian culture [additional information by Willem E. M. Pin] |
Aavik, Juhan more... | 29 Jan. 1884 Holstre, Estonia | 26 Nov. 1982 Stockholm, Sweden | Estonian composer and conductor at the Vanemuine Theatre in Tartu (1911-23), and the Estonia Theatre in Tallinn (1925-33). He emigrated to Sweden in 1944. He has written music ranging from songs for children to concertos, symphonies and operas |
Abaco, Evaristo Felice dall' more... | 12 Jul. 1675 Verona, Italy | 12 Jul. 1742 München, Germany | he may have studied with Torelli before going to Modena in 1696 where he performed alongside Vitali, among others. By 1704 he was cellist at the Bavarian court, remaining in the service of Elector Maximilian II Emmanuel as years of war and hardship drove the court to Brussels (1704), Mons (1706), and Compiègne (1709). He thereby acquainted himself with the French style. Upon the court's return to Munich in 1715, dall'Abaco became Konzertmeister and electoral councillor but his influence waned after 1726 under the new elector, Karl Albrecht. He retired in 1740. His extant music, contained in six printed collections issued between about 1708 and 1735, includes chamber and church sonatas along with concertos. An indebtedness to Corelli in the earlier works yields later to both French-derived and galant elements |
Abaco, Joseph (Giuseppe) Marie-Clément (Clemens) Ferdinand dall' alternatively: Joseph-Marie-Clément dall' | 27 Mar. 1710 Brussels | 31 Aug. 1805 Verona, Italy | son of Evaristo (see above); a court cellist in Bonn who wrote nearly 40 cello sonatas, mainly in a conservative, Baroque style |
Abad, Esperanza more... | 1940 Mora, Toledo, Spain | | singer-actress who completed her musical studies at the Conservatorio de Música y Arte Dramático in Madrid, and later devoted her time to musical research. Co-founder of CANON and also of LIM, she specialized in the avantgarde. She is the co-writer of Réquiem escénico en memoria de Agustín Millares Sall (Goodbye that is not a Goodbye; Stage Requiem in Memory of Agustín Millares Sal) together with José Iges and Concha Jerez, as well as Ritual, a composition in three parts written for one of her own performances which combines voice, dramatization and electronics (NS) |
Abatessa, Giovanni Battista (also known as Badessa, Giovanni Battista Bitontino) | unknown | 1651 | Italian composer and guitarist, author of Intessitura / Di Varii Fiori / Overo Intavolatura di Chitarra alla Spagnola. / Dove si mostra il vero modo, che ciascuno da se stesso potrà imparare con facilità il so-/nare, & accordare; con diverse Sonate e Passagagli, con alcune Villanelle, & / Ottave Siciliane esemplari da cantarsi con detta Chitara, pub. Rome and Lucca (1652) (NS) |
Abay (Abai) Kunanbayev (Kunanbaev) | 10 Aug. (Old Style 29 Jul.) 1845 Shyngghys tau, near Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan | 6 Jul (Old Style 23 Jun.) 1904 Shyngghys tau, near Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan | Kazakstani poet and folk composer, he is regarded as the father of modern Kazakh written literature |
Abaza, Arkady Maksimovich (Maximovich) | 1845 or 1848 | 16 (Old Style 3) Jan. 1915 | Russian pianist, pedagogue, and composer, author of more than 20 romances and more than 30 plays |
Abazis, Theo more... | 15 Jul. 1967 Athens, Greece | | studied piano and music theory at the National Conservatory in Athens, composition under Professor Henk Alkema and conducting under David Procelijn and Kenneth Montgomery at the Utrecht Conservatory. An Onassis Foundation scholarship allowed him to continue his composition studies with Professor Tristan Keuris in 1993 |
Abbà Cornaglia, Pietro more... | 20 Mar. 1851 Alessandria, Piedmont | 3 May 1894 Alessandria, Piedmony | Italian opera composer and organist; works include Isabella Spinola (1877), Maria di Werden (1884) and Una partia di scacchi (1893) |
Abbadia, Natale | 11 Mar. 1792 Geno, Italy | 25 Dec. 1861 Milan, Italy | Italian singing teacher and composer of the opera La Giannina di Pontieu ossia La Villanella d'onore (1812) |
Abbado, Marcello more... | 7 Oct. 1926 Milan, Italy | | Italian composer and pianist (son of violinist Michelangelo Abbado, brother of conductor Claudio Abbado), formerly director of the Milan Conservatory and founder of the Symphonic Orchestra Verdi in Milan. He composed for a wide variety of ensembles, including works for violin soloist, orchestra, and percussion ensemble, as well as ballet scores. His compositions include the ballet Hawaii 2000, Concerto and Homage to Debussy for orchestra, and The Bells of Moscow for violin and percussion |
Abbakumov, Stefan Timofeyevich | 5 Dec. (Old Style 23 Nov.) 1870 Ukraine | 1919 | Ukrainian composer, conductor and pedagogue |
Abbananti, Frank more... | 1949 Chicago, Illinois | | American composer of primarily chamber, vocal and piano works that have been performed in Europe and North America; he is also active as a pianist and trombonist.
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Abbasov, Ashraf Dzhalal ogly | 23 Mar. 1920 | | Azerbaijani composer and musicologist. Director of the A. Zeynalli Music School (1947-48), teacher and professor at the U. Hajibayov State Conservatory of Azerbaijan, Rector of the Conservatory (1953-57), member of Administrative Staff of the 1st Congress of Composers' Union of Azerbaijan from its initiation to his death |
Abbasov, Jalal | 8 May 1957 Azerbailan | | Azerbaijani composer, the son of noted Azeri composer Ashraf Abbasov, he completed his studies at the Baku State Music Academy. In 1990, Jalal Abbasov was awarded the Azerbaijan Youth Union Prize for his musical compostions. He has written a large number of works including works for symphony orchestra, chamber music, music for solo instruments, a children's opera and a great deal of choral works. He was awarded a UNESCO prize in 1998 and recently was the only composer from the Former Soviet Republics to take part in the 2002 Asian Composers' League symposium "Asian Music in the Third Millenium" |
Abbate, Agostino Steffani (see Steffani, Abbate Agostino) | | | |
Abbate, Ernesto | 1882 | 26 Apr. 1934 | Italian composer and band director |
Abbate, Gennaro Maria | 1 Apr. 1874 Italy | 1954 | Italian conductor and composer of the operettas La stella del Canada (1921) and Le Tre Grezie (1925) |
Abbate, Peppe | 8 Mar. 1954 Casavatore, Italy | | pianist and composer, who studied with Antonio Esposito. After several years as a piano-bar and jazz club performer, he moved to Libreville, Gabon. He has written several books on classic and jazz music that are used in the Conservatoire National du Gabon |
Abbati, Achille | 28 Sep. 1857 Italy | 11 Jan. 1914 | Italian composer and conductor |
Abbatini, Antonio Maria more... | 26 Jan. 1595 (or maybe as late as 1610) Città di Castello, Italy | Aug. 1679 Tiferno, Italy | an important composer, pedagogue and member of the choir of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. His surviving works include liturgical music, operas, vocal chamber music, Il pianto di Rodomonte, a lively autobiography (in verse) and a counterpoint tutor. Among his students were the notable composers Giovanni Paolo Colonna, Antonio (Pietro) Cesti, the castrato Domenico Dal Pane and hundreds of other musicians from Rome to Peru (according to his autobiography). Pope Clement IX opened the first public opera house in Rome, and for the Carnival celebrations of 1668, commissioned Abbatini to set to music his free Italian translation of a Spanish religious drama La Baltasara. The production had sets designed by Bernini |
Abbiate, Luigi (Louis) | 1866 | Oct. 1933 | Italian composer |
Abbott, Alain | | | French composer particularly for the accordion |
Abbott, Alan | 1926 Birmingham, England | | studied music at Birmingham and Reading Universities before attending the Royal College of Music to study with Gordon Jacob (orchestration), Richard Austin (conducting) and Frank Probyn (horn). He conducted many operetta and musical productions in London and on tour and composed much incidental music for the theatre. He joined the Royal Ballet as a conductor for the tour of Australia and New Zealand in 1958-9 and then the BBC as Music Producer (Radio), working mainly with the BBC Concert Orchestra. In 1965, he left to take up the position of Musical Director at Turkish State Ballet and in 1971, he became Resident Conductor of Australian Ballet (AB), where he remained for five years. In 1975, Robert Helpmann created a balletic version of The Merry Widow for the AB. Abbott carried out much of the orchestration of the work of the musical arranger John Lanchbery, the company's musical director. After 5 years with the AB, Abbott moved on to become Musical Director of Western Australian Opera and the Western Australian Arts Orchestra. He returned to Britain in 1979 and became a guest conductor for Paris Opera Ballet, the Royal Swedish Ballet and Norwegian National Ballet |
Abbott, Charlie | 11 Jan. 1903 | | American popular composer and scriptwriter |
Abbott, Clifford | 1916 Invercargill, New Zealand | 1994 | studied music and the Classics at Canterbury College, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts Degree and Diploma of Music in 1947. In 1948 he began private studies in composition with Sir Gordon Jacob, Professor of Composition at the Royal College of Music, London, and with Benjamin Frankel. He returned to New Zealand in 1950 and spent 1950 to 1954 studying contemporary technique while working in a factory in Christchurch. His first completed work was Symphony No. 1 (1954) followed by Lento (1955), a tone poem, which was subsequently performed by Nicolai Malko with Australian and New Zealand Orchestras. Further works were performed by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and in 1961-63 he turned his attention to studying atonal methods in the composition of Schoenberg, Rufer and Krenek. Abbott's own music, however, did not pursue this avenue. His 'light orchestral work', Martin Place Midday, was recorded by EMI and this and subsequent Suites by the same name were performed for the ABC, conducted by Stanford Robinson. Important works by Abbot include his Concerto No. 1 for flute and orchestra performed by James Galway and Louis Fremaux with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra; flute and harp works recorded by 2MBS-FM; Decision for orchestra (1972); Elements (1976) for orchestra; Conflict and Resolution (1978) for orchestra - all works combining orchestra with electronic devices (NS) |
Abbott, Eric (Oscar) more... | 4 Aug. 1929 St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada | 9 Feb. 1988 St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada | Canadian bandmaster, cornetist, pianist, organist, composer and arranger. His compositions include the choral fugues Exalt the Lord (Boston Music 1962) and Alleluia (Boston Music 1964), the marches Invitation (1963) and St John's Citadel (1977) published by the Salvation Army, the cornet solo Supplication (1977, Eastern Territory Music Bureau), other brass band works (including one based on Canadian folk songs), three overtures for orchestra, two double fugues for solo violin and string orchestra, a sonatina for violin and piano, and anthems |
Abbott, Frank | | | composer of the popular song Baby's with the angels now (1884) |
Abbott, Gregory more... | 2 Apr. 1954 | | his career as an award-winning singer, composer, producer, and musician began in New York City. While in New York City, his mother taught him to play piano and encouraged him to develop his vocal talents. At the age of eight, he sang in the famed St. Patrick's Cathedral Choir, with whom he recorded an album as well as performing on television. In his college years, he majored in psychology, minored in music and dramatic arts, in which he attained a master's degree. While pursuing undergraduate and graduate studies at Boston University, Berkeley, and Stanford, he helped pay his tuition by creating a band and playing locally. It was here he developed his own personal musical style (NS) |
Abbott, Katy more... | 1971 | | she began composing at the age of 26. Katy completed her Master of Music in Composition with first class honours from University of Melbourne and is currently studying towards a Doctor of Philosophy with Brenton Broadstock. She currently holds an Australian Postgraduate Award. Katy has represented Victoria and Australia in composition programs interstate and overseas including studying with Karen Tanaka (Paris), Simon Bainbridge (UK) and Dinu Ghezzo (USA). Her opera, Milushka, was a winner of The University of Melbournes Opera Project 1999/2000 and has since been performed numerous times including Port Fairy Spring Festival, Macedon Music and by Chamber Made Opera as well broadcast on ABC FMs Young Australia Program |
Abbott, Michael | | | composer of music for Pump Up The Volume (1990) and songs from the Disney movie Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin (1997) |
Abbott, Oliver John | 1872 Lambeth, London, UK | 3 Mar. 1962 Hull, UK | folk singer who learned his vast repertoire of songs from the Irish people he worked with in Ontario and Quebec at the turn of the century. After 1957, he recorded about 120 of them for Edith Fowke (NS) |
Abbott, Patsy more... | | | songwriter |
Abbott, Paul. J. more... | 7 Oct. 1979 | | composer and co-founder and director of Departure Lounge Arts Collective. Paul has cross-disciplinary experience having written for orchestra and also for computers and fixed media. His works include cabaret and pop styled songs to full frontal cutting edge electronic music for the concert work. His visual experience is in theatre and writing for dance |
'Abd al-Quadir (ibn Ghaybi al-Hafiz al-Maraghi) | | 1435 | Arab instrumentalist, singer, composer, and theorist |
Abdel-Gawad, Riad more... | 9 May 1965 Cairo, Egypt | | Egyptian-born American composer of mostly chamber works that have been performed throughout the Americas and in Asia and Europe; he is also active as a researcher and violinist |
Abdel-Rahim (Abd al-Rahim), Gamal more... | 25 Nov. 1924 Egypt | 23 Nov. 1988 | Egyptian composer, born into a musical family his mother sang and played piano in the Oriental style, and his father played the nay (flute), oud (lute) and violin, taught music privately and was appointed as a music supervisor to the Egyptian Ministry of Education. His father also registered the invention of a Boehm flute that was capable of playing the three-quarter tones that are found in characteristic Arabic modes (maqam, maqamat (plural)). Gamal studied composition in Freiburg (1952-1957) with Harald Genzmer, a pupil of Hindemith. He created his own multicultural compositional style that fused Arabic and Western music and earned him the title of Bartok of Egypt. He held this position until 1984, when he became Professor Emeritus, later traveling to the United States in 1987 to teach with his wife for two years at the University of South Florida at Tampa. [additional information by Willem E. M. Pin]
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Abdel-Wahab, Mohammed more... | 1910 Cairo, Egypt | 3 May 1991 Cairo, Egypt | the most prolific Arabic composer of his time, responsible for more than a thousand songs. He personally sang hundreds. For his orchestration of the Egyptian national anthem, Anwar Sadat awarded him the rank of general |
Abdey, Dr. Alfred William more... | 1876 Brentford, England | 1952 | English bandmaster, organist, choirmaster, and composer |
Abdon, Bonifacio more... | 14 May 1876 Sta. Cruz, Manila | 23 Apr. 1944 Manila | Philippine composer, conductor and violinist |
Abdrayev, Mukash | 5 May 1920 | 18 May 1979 | Kirghizstani music teacher and composer |
Abdülaziz more... | 9 Feb. 1830 Istanbul, Turkey | 4 Jun. 1876 Istanbul, Turkey | the 32nd sultan of the Ottoman Empire and reigned between June 25, 1861 and May 30, 1876. He was interested in literature and was also a classical music composer. Some of his compositions have been collected in the album "European Music at the Ottoman Court" by the London Academy of Ottoman Court Music |
Abdul Aziz Al Saud, Abdallah al Faisal ibn | | | son of HM King Faisal (1906-1975), former Saudi Minister of the Interior (1952-1960), former Minister of Health and Viceroy of the Hijaz; Saudi composer and poet |
Abdülhamid II more... | 21 Sep. 1842 Istanbul, Turkey | 10 Feb. 1918 Istanbul, Turkey | the 34nd sultan of the Ottoman Empire, ruling from August 31, 1876 until he was deposed on April 27, 1909. Abdülhamid II was also interested in opera and personally wrote the first-ever Turkish translations of many opera classics. He also composed several opera pieces for the Mizika-i Hümayun which he established, and hosted the famous performers of Europe at the Opera House of Yildiz Palace which was recently restored and featured in the film Harem Suare (1999) of the Turkish-Italian director Ferzan Özpetek, which begins with the scene of Abdülhamid II watching a performance |
Abdullayev, Karim Abdullayevich | 12 Feb. 1901 | | Uzbekhistani composer |
Abe, Keiko more... | 18 Apr. 1937 Tokyo, Japan | | Japanese composer and marimba player |
Abe, Komei more... | 1 Sep. 1911 Hiroshima, Japan | 28 Dec. 2006 Tokyo, Japan | Japanese conductor and composer. His output includes over a dozen string quartets (NS) |
A'Bear, David more... | 1952 Kingston-upon-Thames, UK | | living on the Isle of Wight since 1985, a teacher of Mathematics at Ryde School, A'Bear is a member of the Portsmouth & District Composers' Alliance |
Abecassis, Eryck more... | 1956 Algiers, Algeria | | Algerian-born French composer of stage, chamber, vocal, and electroacoustic works that have been performed throughout Europe; he has also composed many film scores |
A'Beckett, Mary Anne | 1817 London, UK | 11 Dec. 1863 London, UK | English composer, wife of author Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett (1811-1856). She provided some of the music for William Bayle Bernard's A Round of Wrong or The Fireside Story performed at London's Theatre Royal, Haymarket in 1846 |
Abeele, Cyriel van den more... | 14 Jan. 1875 | 2 Nov. 1946 Ghent, Belgium | Belgian composer and organist |
Abeille, (Johann Christian) Ludwig more... | 20 Feb. 1761 Bayreuth, Germany | 2 Mar. 1838 Stuttgart, Germany | German pianist and organist, also a composer of songs. Most of his life was associated with the Stuttgart Opera for which he composed Amor und Psyche (1800), Der Hausmeister (1805) and Peter und Aennchen (1809) |
Abeille, Pierre-César | 24 Feb. 1674 | c. 1733 | French composer |
Abejo, Rosalina more... | 13 Jul. 1922 Tagoloan, Oriental Misamison | 5 Jun. 1991 Kentucky, USA | Filipina nun, composer and conductor |
Abel, Clamor Heinrich more... | 1634 Westphalia, Germany | 25 Jul. 1696 | German-born violist, grandfather of Karl Friedrich Abel (see below). Known for a handwritten tablature for organ of Folie d'Espagne (c. 1685) and also for a Battaglia in F |
Abel, Karl (Carl) Friedrich more... | 22 Dec. 1723 Cöthen, Germany | 20 Jun. 1787 London, England | player on the viola da gamba, and composed much music of importance in its day for that instrument. He studied under Johann Sebastian Bach at the Leipzig Thomasschule; played for ten years (1748-1758) under A. Hasse in the band formed at Dresden by the elector of Saxony; and then, going to England, became (in 1759) chamber-musician to Queen Charlotte. He gave a concert of his own compositions in London, performing on various instruments, one of which, the pentachord, was newly invented. In 1762 Johann Christian Bach, the eleventh son of Sebastian, came to London, and the friendship between him and Abel led, in 1764 or 1765, to the establishment of the famous concerts subsequently known as the Bach and Abel concerts. For ten years these were organized by Mrs Comelys, whose enterprises were then the height of fashion. In 1775 the concerts became independent of her, and were continued by Abel unsuccessfully for a year after Bach's death in 1782. At them the works of Haydn were first produced in England. After the failure of his concert undertakings Abel still remained in great request as a player on various instruments new and old, but he took to drink and thereby hastened his death. He was a man of striking presence, of whom several fine portraits, including two by Gainsborough, exist. Mozart copied out Abels Symphony Op. 7 no. 6 for closer study, and through oversight this work was credited for many years as Mozarts K.18 |
Abel, Johann Leopold | 24 Jul. 1795 | 1871 | related to Karl Friedrich, Johann Leopold was a pianist and composer who taught music at German courts and later lived in London |
Abel, Leopold August | 24 Mar. 1718 | 25 Aug. 1794 | elder brother of Karl Friedrich, Leopold August was a German composer and violinist |
Abel, Otto | 24 Oct. 1905 Berlin, Germany | 21 Sep. 1977 Tettnang, Württemberg, Germany | German choir director and composer [additional information by Willem E. M. Pin] |
Abela, Paul | 1 Mar. 1954 Detroit, USA | | Could It Be? written by Paul Abela and Ray Mahoney and sung by Paul Giordimaina was chosen on 23 March 1991 as the song to take Malta back into the Eurovision Song Contest after a 16-year absence [information corrected by Raymond Miceli] |
Abela, Placido | 1814 | 6 Jul. 1876 | Italian organist and composer |
Abelardo, Nicandor more... | 7 Feb. 1893 | 21 Mar. 1934 | Filipino musician and composer |
Abeliovich, Lev Moiseyevich more... | 6 Jan. 1912 (Old Style 24 Dec. 1911) Vilnius, Lithuania | 8 Dec. 1985 Minsk, Russia | Belorusan composer. Although Abeliovich composed extensively, and his vocal music ranks with the best of the 20th century Eastern European repertory, systematic Soviet anti-Semitism prevented him from receiving the critical acclaim and support he deserved. For example, major publications on music in the Soviet Union make no mention of him |
Abell, John | c. 1652/3 Aberdeen, Scotland | 1724 Cambridge, England | Scottish composer, countertenor, and lutenist who published A Collection of Songs in Several Languages [additional information by Willem E. M. Pin] |
Abels, Michael more... | 8 Oct. 1962 Phoenix, AZ, USA | | American composer. His best known work is Global Warming. Other works include the opera Homies and Popz commissioned by the Los Angeles Opera and premiered in 2000 [correction by Willem E. M. Pin] |
Aben, Jot | fl. 12th century | | troubadour in Spain, a native of Valencia |
Abendroth, (Fedor Georg) Walter | 29 May 1896 Hannover, Germany | 30 Sep. 1973 Fischbachau, Germany | German composer and writer on music [additional information by Willem E. M. Pin] |
Abene, Mike (Michael Christian Joseph) | 2 July 1942 | | American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer |
Abentung, Josef | 19 Feb. 1779 | c. 1860 | Tirolean teacher and composer |
Aber, Johann | (fl. 1765-83) | | Italian composer and flautist of German descent |
Abercrombie, Alexander | 1949 London., UK | | British composer and mathematician, founder of the Mozart Singing Competition (with his wife Barbara Dix) (NS) |
Abercrombie, John more... | 16 Dec. 1944 Port Chester, New York, USA | | American jazz guitarist, teacher and composer |
Aberg, Thomas Harald Georg more... | 15 Feb. 1952 | | Swedish composer (NS) |
Abernathy, David Myles | 27 Jun. 1933 | | American popular composer and lyricist |
Abernethy, Frank Nicholson | 1864 | 29 Jan. 1927 | English organist, choirmaster, editor, and composer |
Abert, Johann Joseph more... | 20 Sep. 1832 Kochowitz mit Gastorf/Boehmen, Germany | 1 Apr. 1915 Stuttgart, Germany | German conductor, bass player and composer |
Abeshouse, Warren | 8 May 1952 | | Australian composer |
Abeson, Marion Berland | 13 (not 14, as some sources give) Nov. 1914 | 14 May 1988 | American children's songwriter and playwright (NS) |
Abesser, Edmund | 13 Jan. 1837 | 15 Jul. 1889 | German popular composer |
Abicht, Johann Georg | | 22 Oct. 1809 Angelroda, Germany | Kantor in Angelroda and teacher of Joh. Christian Heinrich Rinck (1777-1846) |
Abingdon, 4th Earl of (Bertie, Willoughby) | 16 Jan. 1740 | 26 Sep. 1799 | English music patron and composer |
Abingdon, Henry (see Abyngdon, Henry) | | | |
Abler, Keith Donald | 14 Oct. 1951 | | American popular composer, lyricist, and singer |
Ables, Richard Louis | 30 Jul. 1911 | 8 Jan. 1997 | American jazz composer (NS) |
Ablesimov, Alexandr Onisimovich | 9 Sep. 1742 | 1783 | Russian librettist and poet (NS) |
Ablinger, Peter more... | 15 Mar. 1959 Schwanenstadt, Austria | | he first studied graphic arts and became enthused with free jazz. He continued to study composition with Gösta Neuwirth and Roman Haubenstock-Ramati in Graz and Vienna. Since 1982 he is living in Berlin, where he initiated and conducted a series of festivals and concerts. In 1988 he founded the Ensemble Zwischentöne. As a visiting professor he taught in 1993 at the University of Music, Graz. He has been a guest conductor of Klangforum Wien, United Berlin and the Ensemble of the Insel Musik. Since 1990 Peter Ablinger has worked as a freelance musician |
Abondante, Giulio (dal Pestrino) | fl. 1546-87 | | Italian lutenist and composer |
Abos, Girolamo (also Abosso, Avos, Avosso) more... | 16 Nov. 1715 La Valletta, Malta | Oct. 1760 Naples, Italy | studied in Naples and never returned to his birthplace. From 1754 he was a teacher at the S. Maria della Pietà dei Turchini, where Paisiello was one of his students. Abos can be regarded as an Italian composer. Being well-travelled, he was well known throughout Europe. He was musical director of the Italian Theatre in London for some years. Abos composed a dozen operas and many sacred works |
Abou-Khalil, Rabih more... | 17 Aug. 1957 | | growing up in the cosmopolitan climate of Beirut in the sixties and seventies, as a child he learned to play the oud, the short-neck lute which in the Arab world enjoys the same overall popularity as guitar and piano together in the West. The civil war in Lebanon forced Abou-Khalil to leave his country in 1978 for Germany. He studied classical flute at the Academy of Music in Munich. This opened his eyes to the possibility of operating simultaneously within different musical worlds and appreciate traditional Arab music from a theoretical perspective, as well as the European classical tradition. His compositions meld the meandering course of oriental music with European and Jazz traditions. He now lives in Munich and has received five German Phono Academy Awards for his musical achievements (NS) |
Aboulker, Isabelle more... | 23 Oct. 1938 Boulogne Billancourt, France | | grand-daughter of French composer Henri Février. Isabelle worked as a repetiteur while following her composition studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. For her work as a composer she has awarded a prix de lAcadémie des Beaux-Arts (1999) and le Prix Musique de la Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques (2000) |
Abrachev, Bojidar jr | 28 Mar 1936 | 6 Nov. 2006 Sofia, Bulgaria | Bulgarian composer (NS) |
Abraham (or Ábráham), Paul (Pál) more... | 2 Nov. 1892 Apatin, Hungary | 2 May 1960 Hamburg, Germany | Hungarian composer of operetta including Victoria und ihr Husar (1930), Die Blume von Hawaii (1931) and Ball im Savoy (1932) |
Abrahams, Maurice (known as Maurie Abrams) more... | 18 Mar. 1883 Russia | 13 Apr. 1931 New York, NY, USA | American popular composer, writer, and publisher |
Abrahamsen, Hans more... | 23 Dec. 1952 Denmark | | studied horn at first and later went on to complete his studies in Music Theory at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. He had among his Composition tutors Per Nørgård and Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen. Abrahamsen was for a time active in Gruppen for alternativ musik (The Group for Alternative Music), a forum for composers and performers who wished new music to be presented in alternative formats. Abrahamsens instrumental music ranges from orchestral and chamber ensemble works to two string quartets. Among his more recent compositions one could mention his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, alongside various shorter compositions, e.g. the works for solo violoncello and a piece for solo violin. Abrahamsen has been Tutor of Composition and Instrumentation at the Royal Danish Academy of Music since 1995 |
Abrahamyan, Ruben more... | 2 Jul. 1981 Yerevan, Armenia | | Armenian composer of mostly chamber and electroacoustic works, many of which have been performed in Europe |
Abram, John | 7 Aug. 1840 | 17 Jan. 1918 | English organist and composer |
Abram, John more... | 1959 England | | he studied in England with Roger Marsh, Peter Dickinson, Vic Hoyland, Bernard Rands and Boguslav Schäffer, before founding the new music ensemble 'George W. Welch'. Since travelling there on a Commonwealth Scholarship, Abram has lived and worked in Canada (NS) |
Abrams, Harriett | c. 1758 | 8 Mar 1821 | studied with Thomas Arne. Stage debut in October, 1775 in May Day as a little gypsy. She appeared in London concerts, provincial festivals, and a series of Handel Commemoration concerts in 1784. Charles Burney praised "the sweetness and taste of her singing". Composed vocal works. She also wrote two- and three-part songs. Occasionally her sisters sang with her. Haydn presided at the piano for her benefit concerts held in 1792, 1794 and 1795. She organized the Ladies Concerts, held in the private houses of their aristocratic lady directors, in the early 1790s (NS) |
Abrams, Muhal Richard (known as Richard Abrahams) more... | 19 Sep. 1930 | | American jazz pianist, clarinetist, composer and music educator who was a founder of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians |
Abrams, Rita Jane more... | 30 Aug. 1943 | | American popular composer and lyricist (NS) |
Abramsky (or Abramski), Aleksandr (Alexander) Savvat'yevich | 22 (Old Style 10) Oct. 1898 Lutsk | 29 Aug. 1985 | Russian composer and folklorist |
Abramson, Robert Marvin | 23 Aug. 1928 | | American composer, lyricist, and teacher |
Ábrányi, Emil more... | 22 Sep. 1882 Budapest, Hungary | 11 Feb. 1970 Budapest, Hungary | Hungarian opera composer who set many of his father's (also Emil, 1 Jan. 1851- 20 May 1920) texts. He was musical director in Cologne, Hanover and, from 1911, of various theatres in Budapest |
Ábrányi, Kornél | 15 Oct. 1822 Szentgyörgyábrány, Hungary | 20 Dec. 1903 Budapest, Hungary | Hungarian writer on music, composer, and pianist [additional information by Willem E. M. Pin] |
Abratowski, Jerzy | 22 Apr. 1929 Poland | 28 Jan. 1989 Los Angeles, USA | Polish composer and pianist |
Abreu, Antonio | fl. 1700s | | Portuguese guitarist author of Escuela para tocar la guitarra de cinco y seis órdenes |
Abreu, José Antonio | 17 May 1939 | | Venezuelan composer |
Abreu, Paz | 1848 | 1880 | guitarist and composer; works include Tico Tico and Quejas |
Abreu, Zequinha de more... | c. 1880 Sao Paulo, Brazil | 1935 | Brazilian composer famous for the samba dance song Tico Tico no Fube |
Abril, Anton Garcia more... | 19 May 1933 Teruel, Spain | | Spanish composer and conductor |
Abril, Mario more... | | | Cuban guitarist, composer, teacher, transcriber (NS) |
Absenger, Anton | 1 Jun. 1820 | 16 Dec. 1899 | Austrian flugelhornist, director, and composer |
Absil, Jean more... | 23 Oct. 1893 Bon-Secours, Belgium | 2 Feb. 1974 Uccle, Belgium | Belgian organist-composer of 4 symphonies, a Divertimento for 4 saxophones and chamber orchestra, 2 piano concertos and ballets |
Abt, Franz (Wilhelm) more... | 22 Dec. 1819 Eilenburg, Germany | 31 Mar. 1885 Wiesbaden, Germany | composer of opera and choral works as well as songs and part-songs |
Abyngdon (also Abingdon), Henry more... | unknown, c. 1420 | unknown, 1497 | took the very first music degree at Cambridge University; was associated with the Chapel Royal; composer lauded by Sir Thomas More but of whose works none has survived |
Acciaiuoli, Filippo | 1637 Rome, Italy | 8 Feb. 1700 Rome, Italy | Italian composer |
Accolay, Jean-Baptiste more... | 17 Apr. 1833 Brussels, Belgium | 19 Aug. 1900 Bruges, Belgium | violinist, composer and teacher |
Accorimboni (or Accoramboni, Accorimbeni, Accorrimboni), Agostino | 28 Aug. 1739 Rome, Italy | 13 Aug. 1818 Rome, Italy | Italian composer noted particularly for his operas |
Accorinti, Michele | 22 Nov. 1888 Reggio Calabria, Italy | 25 Aug. 1973 Luserna S. Giovanni, Turin, Italy | Italian pianist, voice teacher, and composer Diplomato a pieni voti con lode in canto, canto corale e composizione nel Conservatorio S. Pietro a Majella di Napoli, iniziò, come tenore, la carriera concertistica, condividendo questa fatica artistica con quella dell'insegnamento. Ampliate le conoscenze teoriche e pratiche, come istruttore di cori e come direttore d'orchestra, durante sei anni acquistò una larga esperienza anche in questi due campi. Chiamato da Francesco Cilea, direttore del Conservatorio di S. Pietro a Maiella, come coadiutore di Agostino Roche, che già gli era stato maestro, e che lo aveva, appena diplomato, voluto accanto a sé, il M.° Accorinti assunse la cattedra principale quando il M.° Roche venne a mancare. E questo posto lasciò nel 1931 quando, in seguito a concorso, fu nominato titolare della cattedra di canto all'Istituto musicale municipale Giuseppe Verdi di Torino (trasformatosi nell'omonimo Regio Conservatorio di musica nel 1936). Cattedra che tenne sino al 1963. Il suo più prestigioso allievo è stato il baritono Giuseppe Valdengo (1914-2007) che, dopo la seconda guerra mondiale, cantò per parecchi anni sotto la direzione del M.o Arturo Toscanini al Metropolitan Theater di New York. Ha pubblicato il volume Elementi di tecnica del canto, Napoli 1928, Milano 1952. Nella composizione abbiamo di lui pezzi per pianoforte, liriche, musiche sacre ed un bozzetto melodrammatico per ragazzi. Alcuni manoscritti inediti di Michele Accorinti e del di lui padre, Domenico (Reggio Calabria, 1847-1905), tenore e compositore, si trovano presso la biblioteca del Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi di Torino. [information supplied by Avv. Domenico Accorinti; email: domenico.accorinti@fastwebnet.it] |
Ace, Johnny (real name: Alexander John Marshall, Jr.) | 9 Jun. 1929 | 25 Dec. 1954 | American rhythm-and-blues singer and songwriter |
Acelli, Cesare | fl. late 16th century | | Italian composer |
Acerbi, Domenico | 10 Nov. 1842 | 30 Aug. 1921 | Italian conductor, voice teacher, and composer |
Acevedo Raposo, Remigio | 16 Dec. 1896 | June 1951 | Chilean composer |
Aceves y Lozano, Rafael | 20 Mar. 1837 La Granja de San Ildefonso, Segovia | 21 Feb. 1876 Madrid, Spain | Spanish composer |
Acfield, William | c. 1832 | 15 Oct. 1916 | English composer |
Acheson, Marcus Wilson, III | 4 Jun. 1905 | | American composer, writer, and critic |
Achkinazi Shepherd, Polina more... | Siberia, Russia | | now living in Kazan, Russia, a composer, singer, skilled accompanist and the leading choir conductor of Yiddish song in Russia. Arranger and singer and pianist with Simcha (Russia's first Klezmer band since Perestroika). Specialising in the setting of Yiddish poetry to new compositions, she has worked extensively throughout Russia and Former Soviet Union and the USA with her a cappella vocal quartet Ashkenazim (CDs Jam-da, Di Yiddishe Gas and FunYener Zayt Lid). Choir arrangements of Jewish folk songs and her own compositions for choir and ensembles are sung by Jewish and non-Jewish collectives, both in Former Soviet Union and the U.S. Ms. Achkinazi is also a chorale teacher at Kharkov Klezmer Teg, Klezfest in St. Petersburg, Klezfests in Ukraine, Jewish Festival in Kazan. Lectures on Jewish music at the Centre of History and Culture of Jewish People, Kazan State University. Artistic director of the International Festivals of Jewish Culture held in Kazan (NS) |
Achron (or Akhron), Isidor (Yel'yevich) more... | 12 (Old Style 2) Nov. 1892 Warsaw, Poland | 12 May 1948 New York, USA | composer, conductor and pianist. He studied composition in St. Petersburg with Liadov before immigrating to the United States. From 1922 to 1933 he was accompanist to Jascha Heifetz. Achron performed his Piano Concerto with the New York Philharmonic in 1937 (NS) |
Achron (or Akhron), Joseph (Iosif Yul'yevich) more... | 13 (Old Style 1) May 1866 Lozdzieje, Rus-Lithuania | 29 Apr. 1943 Hollywood, USA | brother of above; composer and violinist (NS) |
Achté, Lorenz Nikolai | 25 May 1835 | 18 Apr. 1900 | Finnish conductor, composer, and singer |
Achterkamp, Jan more... | 1953 The Netherlands | | Dutch organist and composer |
Achtleitner, Herbert (also Hubert von Goisern) more... | | | German-born composer who since the early 1990s has been composing for the German television and film industry (NS) |
Achtleitner, Rudolf | 1 Mar. 1864 | 2 Dec. 1909 | Austrian military conductor and composer |
Acker, Dieter | 3 Nov. 1940 | 27 May 2006 | German composer and teacher (NS) |
Ackere, Jean van | 1828 Anvers, Belgium | 18 Aug. 1881 Rotterdam, The Netherlands | composer, violinist and orchestral conductor |
Ackerman, Alexandre (see Agricola, Alexandre) | | | |
Ackerman, Jan (see Agricola, Johannes) | | | |
Ackerman, William more... | 16 Nov. 1949 West Germany | | American composer, guitarist, and entrepreneur |
Ackermans, Hippolyte | 9 Apr. 1886 | 31 Aug. 1965 | Belgian composer |
Ackers, Andrew Acquarulo | 23 Nov. 1919 | 20 Oct. 1978 | American popular composer and pianist |
Ackley, Alfred H(enry) | 21 Jan. 1887 | 3 Jul. 1960 | American composer, hymnwriter, and violoncellist, brother of Bentley DeForest Ackley |
Ackley, B(entley) D(eForest) more... | 27 Sep. 1872 Spring Hill, Pennsylvania, USA | 3 Sep. 1958 Winona Lake, Indiana, USA | American pianist and composer of gospel hymns and songs |
Ackman, Herman | 27 Mar. 1904 | | American popular composer and lyricist |
Acosta, Paul d' (see Sloten, Karel van der) | | | |
Acosta Restrepo, Rodolfo more... | 2 Nov. 1970 Bogotá, Colombia | | he studied musical theory and composition studies at the University of Los Andes, graduating in September 1995 with further courses and tutorships with Klaus Huber, Brian Ferneyhough, Blás Emilo Atehortúa, Kaija Saariaho and Víctor Rasgado, among others, and at several institutions such as I.M.E.B., Fondation Royaumont, STEIM and Berklee College of Music. In 1994 he received the sole prize of the National Composition Contest in Electroacoustic Music. In 1997 he won the Colombian Cultural Ministry´s National Composition Prize. His music has been played and broadcast in Colombia, Denmark, Venezuela, France and Spain, and works have been commissioned from him in Colombia, Mexico, France and Denmark. Beside his work as a composer, he is active as a private teacher and lecturer/professor at institutions such as the Central University, Javeriana University and the National University of Colombia in Bogotá |
Acqua, Éva dell' | 28 Feb. 1856 Schaerbeek, Belgium | 12 Feb. 1930 Ixelles, Belgium | composed vocal works including Villanelle for soprano, flute and piano (1893) and Chanson Provençale both to texts by Frédéric van der Elst as well as many popular operettas including Bachelette (Bruxelles, 10.03.1896), Les Fiançailles de Pasquin (Paris, 1888), Le Prince noir (Bruxelles, 1882), Quentin Metsys (Bruxelles, 1884), Une Ruse de Pierette (Bruxelles, 1890), Secret de l'Alcade (Paris, 1888), Tambour-Battant (Bruxelles, 01.10.1900), Le Trésor de l'Emir (Bruxelles, 1884) and Zizi (Bruxelles, 02.11.1906) |
Acquaviva, Frédéric more... | 20 Jan. 1967 France | | French composer who specialises in electroacoustic installations |
Acquaviva, Nick (Nicholas Paul) more... | 11 Apr. 1925 USA | 14 Oct. 1998 Rhode Island, USA | American composer, conductor and string instrumentalist. He was founder of the New York "Pops" Symphony Orchestra, a 135-member ensemble that selected and performed melodic new works by young composers |
Actman, Irving more... | 2 Jun. 1907 | | American popular composer, conductor, and arranger |
Acton, Carlo (Charles) | 25 Aug. 1829 Naples, Italy | 2 Feb. 1909 Naples, Italy | Italian composer and pianist |
Acton, John | 1863 | | English composer and singing teacher |
Acuff, Roy (Claxton) | 15 Sep. 1903 | 23 Nov. 1992 | American country-music singer, guitarist, song-writer, and publisher, well known to the fans of the Grand Ole Opry show, and called the 'King of Country Music' |
Acuña, Vicenc | 21 Sep. 1946 | | Catalan composer |
Ada, Seman | 24 Feb. 1953 Turkey | | Turkish composer |
Adair, Frances Jeffords | 16 May 1918 | 27 Oct. 2003 Orangeburg, California, USA | American popular composer and writer (NS) |
Adair, Thomas more... | 15 Jun 1913 Newton, Kansas, USA | 24 May 1988 Honolulu, Hawaii, USA | American songwriter, composer, and screenwriter (NS) |
Adajewska, Ella von (aka Shultz) | 1846 St. Petersburg, Russia | 26 Jul. 1926 Bonn, Germany | composer and pianist |
Adalid y Gurréa, Marcial del | 24 Aug. 1826 La Coruña, Spain | 16 Oct. 1881 Lóngora, nr. La Coruña, Spain | Spanish composer |
Adam de Aróstegui, María de las Mercedes | 24 Sep. 1873 Cuba | 20 October 1957 Spain | Cuban composer resident in Spain |
Adam de Givenchi | fl. 1230-68 | | trouvère |
Adam de la Halle (Adam le Bossu) more... | c. 1240 Arras | c. 1285 Naples | trouvère or minstrel; composer of Play of Robin and Marion (c. 1282), a theatrical work with dialogue and songs set to what were probably popular songs, and motets |
Adam de St. Victor more... | early 12th century | 1177 or 1192 | French composer and Augustinian monk. A cantor at the Abbey of St Victor outside Paris, he was an author of hymn and sequence texts and melodies, who brought to both forms a formal balance and regularity of metre and strophe-length |
Adam von Fulda | c. 1445 | 1505 | German composer and theorist |
Adam, Adolphe(-Charles) more... | 24 Jul. 1803 Paris, France | 3 May 1856 Paris, France | overcame strenuous parental opposition to become a composer of opera, ballets, choral works and church music, the ballet Giselle and the music to Oh Holy Night, originally called Cantique de Noël and, in it's day, denounced for it's "lack of musical taste and total absence of the spirit of religion". He said, of himself, "my only aim is to write music which is transparent, easy to understand, and amusing to the public" |
Adam, Claus | 5 Nov. 1917 | 4 Jul. 1983 | American cellist, teacher, and composer of Indonesian birth and Austrian parentage |
Ádám, Jenö | 12 Dec. 1896 Szigetszentmiklós, Hungary | 15 May 1982 Budapest, Hungary | Hungarian composer, conductor, and teacher |
Adam, Johann | c. 1705 | 13 Nov. 1779 | German composer |
Adam of St. Victor more... | | 1146 France | 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 poetry |
Adam, Stephan more... | 1954 | | German teacher and composer (NS) |
Adam Ferrero, Bernardo more... | 28 Feb. 1942 | | Spanish band director and composer (NS) |
Adamek, Hans Paul | 24 Jan. 1934 | | Yugoslavian architect, civil engineer, conductor, and composer |
Adami, Ernest Daniel | 19 Nov. 1716 | 19 Jun. 1795 | Polish theologian, musician, and composer |
Adami da Bolsena, Andrea "Il Bolsena" | 30 Nov. 1663 | 22 Jul. 1742 | Italian castrato singer, writer, and composer |
Adamia, Marina more... | Tbilisi, Georgia | | moving to the United Kingdom in 1991, Marina settled in Edinburgh where she completed a Ph.D. in composition with Nigel Osborne. She is a part-time lecturer specialising in composition, 20th century music and Georgian folk music at the University of Edinburgh. Her compositions range from solo pieces to those for full orchestra |
Adamic, Bojan more... | 9 Aug. 1912 | 3 Nov. 1995 | Slovenian conductor, arranger, and composer (NS) |
Adamic, Emil more... | 25 Dec. 1877 | 6 Dec. 1936 | Yugoslavian composer (NS) |
Adamis, Michael George more... | 19 May 1929 Piraeus, Greece | | Greek composer whose works include many on biblical themes including Apocalypse (The Sixth Seal) and Genesis (NS) |
Adam le Liégeois (see Rener, Adam) | | | |
Adamo, Mark more... | 1962 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA | | Italian-American composer, critic. His opera Little Women has received more than 20 distinct productions since its world premiere in March 1998 (NS) |
Adamo, Milo Angelo (known as Bobby Adano) | 1 Aug. 1931 | | American popular composer, writer, and singer |
Adamowski, Timothée (Tymoteusz) more... | 24 Mar. 1858 Warsaw, Poland | 18 Apr. 1943 Boston, Mass. USA | Polish-born American violinist, conductor, teacher, and composer |
Adams, Abraham | c 1752 | 1790 | psalmodist of Shoreham, Kent |
Adams, Alton A(augustus) more... | 4 Nov. 1889 Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Danish West Indies | 23 Nov. 1987 Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands | American bandmaster, composer, and educator. He was the first black bandmaster in the United States Navy (beginning 1917). His music was performed by the bands of John Philip Sousa and Edwin Franko Goldman and his march The Governor's Own (1921) appears as the first selection on the bicentennial album Pride of America, released by New World Records |
Adams, Andrew Paul | 3 Mar. 1951 | | American popular composer |
Adams, Anthony Walter | 12 Nov. 1948 | | American composer, writer, and conductor |
Adams, Audri | 22 Jul. 1925 | | American popular songwriter |
Adams, Bryan (Guy) more... | 5 Nov. 1959 | | Canadian singer, songwriter, and guitarist (NS) |
Adams, Byron more... | 9 Mar. 1955 | | American composer and conductor (NS) |
Adams, Chris (fingers) more... | 14 Apr. 1958 | | American popular composer, writer, and producer of Uruguayan birth (NS) |
Adams, Claus | 5 Nov 1917 Indonesia, Sumatra | 4 Jul. 1983 New York, USA | (NS) |
Adams, David | 19 Apr. 1949 | | Australian composer and conductor |
Adams, Derroll more... | 27 Nov. 1925 | 6 Feb 2000 | singer and banjo player who travelled with Jack Elliot in the 1950s, before moving to Europe. He composed the song Portland Town and made a brief appearance in the 1967 Pennebaker documentary about Bob Dylan Don't Look Back (NS) |
Adams, Ernest Henry | 16 Jul. 1886 | 25 Dec. 1959 | American popular composer, pianist, and teacher |
Adams, Frank Ramsey more... | 7 Jul. 1883 | 8 Oct. 1963 | American writer of popular songs and screenplays (NS) |
Adams, Jack | 27 Mar. 1930 | | American popular composer, lyricist, and singer |
Adams, James Blake more... | fl. 1770-1820 | | English composer (NS) |
Adams, John (Coolidge) more... | 15 Feb. 1947 Worcester, Mass. USA | | American composer, Harvard-trained, who taught at San Francisco Conservatory during the 1970s. His music, notably the opera Nixon in China (1987), is of the "minimalist' school, stressing relentless repetition |
Adams, John Luther more... | 23 Jan. 1953 USA | | B.F.A. 1973, California Institute of the Arts; graduate study, Georgia State University. Study with James Tenney, Leonard Stein, Harold Budd, Mel Powell and Morton Subotnik. Received awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, Opera America, the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, the Lila Wallace Fund, the Alaska Humanities Forum and the Alaska State Council |
Adams, (Harrison) Leslie more... | 30 Dec. 1932 Cleveland, OH, USA | | studied at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music (composition with Herbert Elwell and Joseph Wood, voice with Robert Fountain, piano with Emil Danenberg) where he gained a B.M. in 1955, at California State University at Long Beach (Leon Dallin), where he took a M.Mus. in 1967; and at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, (composition with Marshall Barnes) where he gained his Ph.D. in 1973. He has also studied orchestration with Edward Mattila, Eugene O'Brien, and Marcel Dick (1978-83) and composition with Robert Starer (1959) and Vittorio Giannini (1960). Composing and Performing Career: New York, N. Y. served as piano accompanist for various ballet and dance companies, received numerous performances of his compositions by a variety of artists, 1957-62; Karamu House, Cleveland, Ohio associate musical director, 1964-65; Kaleidoscope Players, Ration, N. Mex. musical director, 1967-68; Bellagio, Italy Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation, 1979 (NS) |
Adams, Paul Eugene | 26 Feb. 1922 | 19 Oct 2012 | American popular composer and lyricist (NS) |
Adams, Stanley more... | 14 Aug. 1907 | 27 Jan 1994 | American popular songwriter (NS) |
Adams, Stephen (see Maybrick, Michael) | | | |
Adams, Thomas more... | 5 Sep. 1785 | 15 Sep. 1858 | English organist and composer (NS) |
Adams, Thomas more... | 1857 | 4 Nov. 1918 | English organist and composer (NS) |
Adams, Thomas Julian | 28 Jan. 1824 | 7 May 1887 | English composer and conductor |
Adamski, Leon Stephen (called Lee Adams) | 12 Apr. 1939 | | American teacher, wind conductor, and composer |
Adamson, Barry more... | 11 Jun. 1958 Manchester, England | | film music composer and lyricist. Barry Adamson's work as a bassist for Magazine and Nick Cave's Bad Seeds gave little indication of the complex, cinematic works he has composed as a solo artist. After leaving the Bad Seeds in 1987, Adamson decided to follow the path of film composers like John Barry, Ennio Morricone, and Bernard Herrmann, whose work had intrigued him since childhood (NS) |
Adamson, Harold more... | 10 Dec. 1906 | 17 Aug. 1980 | American popular songwriter (NS) |
Adamus, Henryk | 19 Feb. 1880 | 13 Oct 1950 | Polish composer and violoncellist |
Adamyan, Gurgen Levonovich | 20 (Old Style 7) Dec. 1911 | 28 Sep. 1987 | Armenian cellist and composer |
Adán, Vicente | fl. 1775-87 | | Spanish composer and theorist |
Adashi, Judah E. more... | 1975 USA | | honored with composition awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the ASCAP Foundation, BMI, and the Aspen Music Festival and School, Adashi's music has been heard on Radio Canada, at a National Opera Association convention, at the American Composers Alliance American Music Festival, and at the Aspen, Bowdoin, June in Buffalo, Music03, and Ernest Bloch music festivals. His principal teachers have been Nicholas Maw and John Harbison. He has also worked with Samuel Adler, Chen Yi, and Christopher Rouse |
Adaskin, Murray more... | 28 Mar. 1906 Toronto, Canada | 6 May 2002 | Canadian composer whose works include an opera Grant, Warden of the Plains and Qalala and Nilaula of the North for woodwind, strings and percussion, based on Eskimo tunes [entry corrected by Wayne Toews] |
Adayevskaya, Ella (Elisabeth Georgiyevna) (née Schultz) more... | 22 (Old Style 10) Feb. 1846 | 26 Jul. 1926 | Russian composer, ethnomusicologist, and pianist |
Adcock, James | 29 Jun. 1778 | 30 Apr. 1860 | English composer |
Adcock, John | 31 Aug. 1838 | 12 Jan. 1919 | English choirmaster and composer |
Adderley, Julian Edwin "Cannonball" more... | 15 Sep. 1928 Tampa, Florida, USA | 8 Aug. 1975 Gary, Indiana, USA | African-American alto saxophonist and bandleader, one of the most popular jazz musicians of the 1950s and '60s. The son of a jazz cornetist, Adderley was a high school band director in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., studied at the U.S. Naval School of Music, and led two army bands before moving to New York City in 1955 and in 1956 forming a quintet with his brother Nat, a lyrical cornetist. He was first acclaimed as a stylistic heir to Charlie Parker, though Benny Carter's phrasing and ideas of rhythm-and-blues saxophonists also influenced his music. While with Miles Davis in 1957-59, Adderley became famous and also absorbed some of John Coltrane's exploratory harmonic ideas. The quintet Adderley formed in 1959, again featuring Nat, quickly became popular, largely owing to a hit recording, "This Here" (also called "Dis Here"). A hard-bop group, it featured "soul" and "funky" tunes such as the hits "Work Song," "Jive Samba" (both by Nat), and "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy"; at times a second saxophonist was added to make a sextet. Adderley's highly influential improvisational style featured restless, highly decorated, often florid lines; emphatic blues harmonies; and a full, rich tone |
Adderley, Nat (Nathaniel Sr.) | 25 Nov. 1931 Tampa, Florida, USA | 2 Jan. 2000 Lakeland, Florida, USA | brother of Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley (15 Sep. 1928 - 8 Aug. 1975) jazz saxophonist, Nat was an American jazz cornettist and composer |
Addington, Stephen | 1729 | 1796 | independent minister and psalmodist who started in Market Harborough, Leics. |
Addinsell, Richard more... | 13 Jan. 1904 Oxford, England | 15 Nov. 1977 London, England | studied music in Berlin and Vienna. Composer of The Warsaw Concert, taken from the film Dangerous Moonlight, and other music for film (many listed here). He was also Joyce Grenfell's accompanist |
Addison, John more... | fl. mid-engitheenth century | | known for "Six sonatas or duets for two violins or two German flutes, compos'd by John Addison. Opera prima". Eng. James Johnson, Edinburgh. 1772. James Johnson (c.1753-26 Feb. 1811) was a prolific engraver of music. The composer has not been identified with certitude, but this opus has an Edinburgh engraver, a member of the Scottish peerage (Lord Linton) as dedicatee, and a set of members of Edinburgh society (including Thomas Erskine, Earl of Kelly) on the subscription list. It is probable that the not infrequent attribution to London-born John Addison (c.1766 - 1844) is incorrect. [information from the link given here] |
Addison, John more... | c.1766 | 30 Jan. 1844 | English composer, flautist, bassoonist and string player (including the violin, cello and double bass), who became a professional musician only after his marriage in 1793, to a singer, Miss Williams. Although much of his work was pasticcio where two or three composers collaborated, he wrote many fine songs and glees |
Addison, John (Mervyn) more... | 16 Mar. 1920 West Chobham, England | 7 Dec. 1998 Bennington, Vermont, USA | composer of music for film, including 1963 Oscar-winning score to the film version of Tom Jones, and stage, including the ballet Carte Blanche. Other films scored by Addison are listed here |
Addison, Robert Brydges | 1854 Dorchester on Thames, Oxford, UK | | English composer and teacher |
Addy, Obo | 1936 Ghana | | Obo Addy, the son of a Wonche medicine man in Ghana, was designated a "master drummer" at the age of six. Surrounded by his enormous family (his father had about 50 children by 10 wives) and thoroughly immersed in the core musical traditions of his people, Addy embodied the skills and deep values of Ga music as few could. During his teenage years and after World War II, he absorbed the international pop music which had seeped into his home town of Accra. He later gravitated to Highlife, the new blend of African rhythms and European instrumentation. In 1969, he has employed by the Arts Council of Ghana as a scholar and master of the national music. In 1972, he and his brothers performed at the Olympic Games in Munich and embarked on an international tour. In 1978, Addy moved to the United States and settled in Portland, Oregon, where he launched Homowo (harvest time), a not-for-profit organization which holds an annual festival which has introduced thousands of people to the music of Ghana. He's a richly skilled teacher who conducts numerous in-school residencies and workshops. He also leads two ensembles which tour nationally -- Okropong, dedicated to traditional tribal music of Ghana, and Kukrudu, which performs an original type of music much like African Highlife. Addy's numerous recordings include two recent works entitled Let Me Play My Drums and Okropong |
Adelaide, Princess | | | the wife of the Bavarian elector Ferdinand Maria, a collection of her music has some examples of early strummed guitar music. She was responsible for the first opera production in Munich |
Adelberg, Simon van | 14 Aug. 1853 | 6 Jul. 1938 | Dutch violinist and composer |
Adelbold more... | fl. first half 11th century | | music theorist and composer |
Adelburg, August Ritter von | 1 Nov. 1830 Pera, Turkey | 20 Oct. 1873 Vienna | violinist and composer of Croatian and Italian descent |
Adelson, Leonard Gary | 25 Jun. 1924 | Sep. 1972 | American popular songwriter |
Adelstein, Milton (called Milt Rogers) | 21 Aug. 1925 | | American popular composer, arranger, and pianist |
Adenarde more... | fl. second half 14th century | | ménestrel |
Adenet (or Adènes, Adenés, Adenez), Adam | c. 1230 | 1305 | Brabantine minstrel or trouvère, also known as Roi Adam, Li Rois Adenes, Adan le Menestrel, Adam Rex Menestrallus and Adenet le Roi |
Ades, Hawley more... | 25 Jun. 1908 | 26 Mar. 2008 | American arranger, composer, and teacher (NS) |
Adès, Thomas more... | 31 Mar. 1971 London, England | | among his most well known works are Asyla (which won the 2000 Grawemeyer Prize), Living Toys, Arcadiana, and the opera Powder Her Face, televised by Channel Four and also recorded for EMI Classics, one of six EMI CDs devoted to his music on which the composer features as pianist and conductor |
Adhèmar, Abel (Count) | 1812 | 1851 | French composer |
Adigezalov, Vasif Zul'fugar ogly | 28 Jul. 1935 | | Azerbaijani composer |
Adigozal, Vasif | 1935 | | Azerbaijani composer who writes music for piano, symphony and chorus |
Adkinson, Harvey E. (Gene) | 28 Feb. 1934 | | American popular composer |
Adler, Christopher more... | 1972 USA | | composer, improviser and performer living in San Diego, California. His compositions draw upon over a decade of research into the traditional musics of Thailand and Laos and a background in mathematics and computer modeling. As a pianist and conductor, he has performed with many of the West coast's finest improvisors, he performs contemporary solo and ensemble repertoire and is the pianist for the San Diego New Music resident ensemble NOISE. |
Adler, György | 1789 | 1867 | Hungarian composer |
Adler, James more... | 19 Nov. 1950 Chicago, Illinois, USA | | American composer and pianist, Adler is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music with Bachelor in Piano Performance, 1973; Master of Composition, 1976 |
Adler, Larry (Lawrence Cecil) more... | 10 Feb. 1914 Baltimore, MD, USA | 7 Aug. 2001 London, UK | mouth organist, composer. Studied piano; discovered harmonica and was a vaudeville trouper while still a teenager. He preferred the term 'mouth organ' and played a chromatic as opposed to the blues harpist's diatonic instrument. Played Ravel's Bolero, Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue; appeared in Ziegfeld's Smiles '31, St Martin's Lane '38, Music For Millions '44 etc. He appeared in film Many Happy Returns '34 playing with Duke Ellington (on the soundtrack only, because Guy Lombardo starred in the film). Big hit in London '34, made first records there (e.g. 'Smoke Gets In Your Eyes'/'The Continental'); played, broadcast with Ambrose, Henry Hall; henceforth better known in the British Empire than in the USA. Recorded in UK '35--8, in Paris with Django Reinhardt '38. Adler supported Progressive candidate Henry Wallace for President '48, was blacklisted by witch-hunters, thereafter lived mostly in London. He entertained US troops during WWII with Jack Benny; after blacklisting played for British troops instead; touring Israel with Draper after a visit to South Korea he was picketed by the Israeli Communist Party. On TV USA with Dizzy Gillespie '59; has also played duets with Sonny Terry, Lord Mountbatten, Malcolm MacDonald (Australian Commissioner- General) etc. Also journalist from '41, writing dispatches for the Chicago Post from Africa; later replaced Humphrey Lyttelton as restaurant critic for Harpers And Queen until the magazine was involved in a libel suit, in London's What's On until it folded. His remark on radio that 'having a vasectomy means never having to say you're sorry' got into Penguin Book Of Quotations. He tried to establish the mouth organ as a serious instrument; music especially composed for him '36 by Cyril Scott, then Arthur Benjamin, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Darius Milhaud, Malcolm Arnold etc. His own film scores incl. Genevieve '53 (he took a percentage because he liked the script and made more than the actors, the score was nominated for an Oscar with someone else's name on it), High Wind In Jamaica and King And Country '64, The Great Chase (anthology of film comedy). Grand Prix du Disque for Le Grisbi, tune from French film Touchez pas au Grisbi. LPs in USA on London and Audio Fidelity labels; also Discovery '67 on RCA with Morton Gould (first recordings of obscure songs by Gershwin, Cole Porter etc). Published Jokes And How To Tell Them '63; autobiography It Ain't Necessarily So '84 packed with good stories. Live At The Ballroom '86 had him with pianists Ellis Larkins, Vincent Youmans, George Gershwin and Sergei Rachmaninoff (the last three by means of a Knabe/Ampico reproducing piano); he played on Glory Of Gershwin tribute album '94 on Mercury, the oldest artist ever to appear in UK pop charts |
Adler, Marvin S. | 25 Feb. 1938 | | American composer, author, and educator |
Adler, Richard | 23 Aug. 1921 New York City, USA | 21 Jun. 2012 | composer, lyricist, producer/director. Met Jerry Ross (1950); they signed with Frank Loesser's music publishing company; 'Rags to Riches' a big hit for Tony Bennett (1953); that year wrote most of the songs for revue John Murray Anderson's Almanac, with Hermione Gingold, Billy DeWolfe, Harry Belafonte. On Loesser's recommendation George Abbott hired them to write score for The Pajama Game (1954): hit songs incl. 'I'm Not At All In Love', 'Steam Heat', 'Hernando's Hideaway', 'Hey There' (no. 1 hit record by Rosemary Clooney). Damn Yankees (1955) was another hit ('Heart', 'Whatever Lola Wants'). Each show ran more than 1,000 performances on Broadway, won Tonys and was transferred to London; both were filmed (1957 and 1958 respectively; Yankees was called What Lola Wants in UK). After Ross's death Adler wrote music and lyrics for Kwamina (1961), A Mother's Kisses (1968), also TV adverts; produced and staged galas for Democratic Party (1962-5), dir. Sammy Cahn one-man show (1974). After the failure of Music Is (1976) despite critical praise, Adler attempted to start a new base for musical shows in South Carolina. George Abbott was the most celebrated producer in the history of Broadway. His shows won 40 Tony awards, and he was still working when he was over 100 years old. (NS) |
Adler, Samuel Hans more... | 4 Mar. 1928 Mannheim, Germany | | Samuel Adler came to the United States in 1939. He holds a B.M. from Boston University, an M.A. from Harvard University, a Doctor of Music (honorary) from Southern Methodist University, a Doctor of Fine Arts (honorary) from St. Mary's College (Indiana), and a Doctor of Music (honorary) from the St. Louis Conservatory. During his tenure in the U.S. Army, he founded and conducted the Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra, and because of the orchestra's great psychological and musical impact on the European cultural scene, he was awarded the Army's Medal of Honor |
Adler, Vincent | 3 Apr. 1826 | 4 Jan. 1871 | Hungarian pianist and composer |
Adlgasser, Anton Cajetan | 1 Oct. 1729 Inzell, Oberbayern | 22 Dec. 1777 Salzburg, Austria | German composer and organist |
Adlung, Jacob | 14 Jan 1699 Bindersleben, Germany | 5 Jul. 1762 Erfurt, Germany | German organist and theorist; author of Musica Mechanica Organoedi (1758), Musikalisches Siebengestirn and Anleitung zur musikalischen Gelahrtheit |
Admoni (or Admoni-Krasny), Iogann Grigor'yevich | 17 (Old Style 4) Jul. 1906 | 5 Sep. 1979 | Kazakstani composer |
Adolfati, Andrea | 1721 or 1722 Venice, Italy | 28 Oct. 1760 Padua, Italy | Italian composer particularly of opera |
Adolfson (see Sonnenfeld) | | | |
Adolphe, Bruce more... | 31 May 1955 | | American composer and music scholar, the author of several books on music, and pianist |
Adolphus, (Irving) Milton more... | 27 Jan. 1913 Bronx, New York, USA | 16 Aug. 1988 Harwich, Mass. USA | American composer |
Adomián, Lan | 29 Apr. 1905 nr. Mogilev, Russia | 9 May 1979 Mexico | Mexican composer of Russian birth |
Adorno, Theodor W(iesengrund) more... | 11 Sep. 1903 Frankfurt, Germany | 6 Aug. 1969 Frankfurt, Germany | a German sociologist, philosopher, musicologist, and composer. He was a member of the Frankfurt School along with Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Jürgen Habermas, and others. He was also the Music Director of the Radio Project. Already as a young music critic and amateur sociologist, Theodor W. Adorno was primarily a philosophical thinker. The label social philosopher emphasizes the socially critical aspect of his philosophical thinking, which from 1945 onwards took an intellectually prominent position in the critical theory of the Frankfurt School |
Adriaansz, Peter Stewart more... | 1966 Seattle, USA | | he studied composition at the conservatories of The Hague and Rotterdam with, among others, Louis Andriessen, Brian Ferneyhough, Peter-Jan Wagemans and Klaas de Vries. He completed his studies with distinction in 1994. His works, mostly chamber and vocal music, are regularly performed. Commissions include works for the Volharding, the Nieuw Ensemble and the Doelen Ensemble |
Adriaenssen, Emanuel (Hadrianus) | c. 1554 Anvers, Flanders | bur. 27 Feb. 1604 | Flemish type-setter, who published three books of music in tablature for lute (1584, 1592 and 1600) containing original works and transcriptions. The first book includes polyphonic music for voice with lute accompaniment, as well as works for three and four lutes. Pratum musicum, published in Antwerp by Phalèse in 1600, includes works by other musicians from Northern Europe including Roland de Lassus and Philippe de Monte, together with material by the Italian madrigalists Giovanni Ferretti, Alfonso Ferrabosco I and Alessandro Striggio, and Flemish musicians based in Italy including Cyprien de Rore and Jacquet de Wert |
Adriani, Francesco | 1539 | 16 Aug. 1575 | Italian composer |
Adrien (or Andrien), Martin-Joseph (also called 'Adrien l'aîné' or 'La Neuville' more... | 26 May 1767 Liège, Belgium | 19 Nov. 1822 Paris, France | singer, teacher and composer |
Adrien (or Andrien), J. more... | 1768 Liège, Belgium | c.1824 Liège, Belgium | singer and composer, brother of Martin-Joseph |
Adrien (or Andrien), Ferdinand more... | c.1770 probably Liège, Belgium | c.1830 | singer and composer |
Adson, John | c. 1586 | 29 Jun. 1640 London, England | English composer and instrumentalist. Known to have been in the service of the Duke of Lorraine in 1604-8, from 1625 he held various posts as recorder and cornett player and as music teacher at the English court. His Courtly Masquing Ayres for 'violins, consorts and cornetts' were published in 1621 |
Advis, Luis Vitaglich more... | 10 Feb. 1935 | 9 Sep. 2004 | Chilean professor of philosophy, and a noted composer of traditional and New Chilean music. He was officially recognized as a Fundamental Figure of Chilean Music in 2003 (NS) |
Adzhemyan, Aleksandr Vartanovich | 25 Aug. 1925 | 10 Oct. 1987 | Armenian composer |
Aeby, Georges | 13 Aug 1902 | 26 Jan. 1953 | Swiss organist, choir director, conductor, teacher, and composer |
Aegler, Gottfried | 10 May 1932 | | Swiss teacher, publisher, and composer |
Aerts, Égide more... | 1 Mar. 1822 Boom, Belgium | 9 Jun. 1853 Brussels, Belgium | composer and flautist |
Aeschbacher, Carl | 31 Mar. 1886 | 29 Jan. 1944 | Swiss choir director and choral composer |
Aeschbacher, Niklaus more... | 30 Apr. 1917 Trogen, Appenzell | 30 Nov 1995 | Swiss conductor, pianist, and composer (NS) |
Aeschbacher, Walther (Gottlieb) | 2 Oct. 1901 | 6 Dec. 1969 | Swiss conductor and composer |
Afanas'yev, Leonid Viktorovich | 20 Aug. 1921 | 5 Oct. 1995 | Russian composer |
Afanas'yev, Nikolay Yakovlevich more... | 12 Jan. 1821 (Old Style 31 Dec. 1820) Tobol'sk, Russia | 3 Jun. (Old Style 22 May) 1898 St. Petersburg, Russia | Russian violinist and composer |
Afat | fl. ca. 1440 | | composer, possibly Italian |
Afferni, Ugo | 1 Jan. 1871 | 9 Oct. 1931 | Italian composer, pianist and conductor |
Afossi, Pasquale (see Anfossi) | | | |
Afromyeyev, Alexei M. | 8 Feb. 1868 Tyumeny, Tobolsk, Russia | 1920 Tyumeny, Tobolsk, Russia | Russian guitarist and composer |
Agababov, Sergey Artom'yevich | 25 Oct. 1926 | 23 Oct. 1959 | Russian composer |
Agapkin, Vasily Ivanovich more... | 3 Feb. 1884 Tambov, Russia | 29 Oct. 1964 Russia | Soviet Russian military orchestra conductor, composer, and author of the well-known march Farewell of Slavianka (written 1912) |
Agatea, Mario | between 1623 and 1628 | before 28 Jan. 1699 | Italian singer, composer, and instrument maker |
Agazhanov, Artyom (Artyomovich) more... | 3 Feb. 1958 Moscow, Russia | | Russian composer of mostly stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, and piano works that have been performed in Europe and elsewhere; he is also active as a pianist |
Agazzari, Agostino more... | 2 Dec. 1578 Sienna, Italy | 10 Apr. 1640 Sienna, Italy | Italian composer. In 1602-6 he directed music at the German College in Rome, and then returned to his native Siena as member of a cultural academy and from 1630 as choirmaster at the cathedral. He wrote four Masses, many motets, sacred concertos and madrigals, and the pastoral drama Eumelio (1606). His reputation, however, rests largely on his treatise Del sonare sopra il basso of 1607, one of the earliest and most important sources on continuo playing. Eumelio is noted for its early examples of melodic variation over a strophic repeated bass, while Agazzari's sacred concertos represent the first Roman publication of small-scale concertato church music with continuo in the manner of Viadana (though their style is relatively conventional) |
Ager, Andrew more... | 12 Feb. 1962 Ottawa, Canada | | Canadian composer (NS) |
Ager, Klaus more... | 10 May 1946 Salzburg, Austria | | composer and teacher at the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria |
Ager, Mrs | | | she had works published in London in about 1750 |
Ager, Milton more... | 6 Oct. 1893 Chicago, IL, USA | 6 May 1979 Los Angeles, CA, USA | American song composer who had hits from the 1918 through to 1938; hits included Nobody's Baby (1921), Mama Goes Where Papa Goes (1922), Happy Days Are Here Again (1929) and Happy Feet (1930) |
Aggházy, Károly (Carolus) | 30 Oct. 1855 Pest, HUngary | 8 Oct. 1918 Budapest, Hungary | Hungarian pianist, composer and teacher, who studied in Budapest (1867-70), and in Vienna (1870-73). He was a student of Franz Liszt (piano), A. Bruckner and R. Volkmann. Between 1878-81, he accompanied the violinist Jenö Hubay. From 1881-83 he was professor of piano at the National Conservatory in Budapest, from 1883-89 professor of piano at the Kullakschen Konservatorium in Berlin, and from 1889-1918 he returned to the National Conservatory in Budapest |
Aghemo, Pietro Carlo | 16 Jul. 1889 | | Italian band director and composer |
Agincourt, Francois d' | 1684 | 30 Apr. 1758 | French organist and composer of church music |
Agliati, Luigi more... | fl. 19th century | | very probably from Milan, for it is in this city in Lombardy that he pursued his activity as guitarist and composer for the guitar in the first years of the 1800s. Some of his works were published by Ricordi in the first decades of the century |
Aglié, Count Filippo d' | 1604 | 19 Jul. 1667 | Italian diplomat, courtier, poet, choreographer, and composer |
Aglione, Alessandro | fl. 1599-1621 | | Italian composer |
Agneletti, Giovanni Battista | fl. 1656-73 | | Italian composer |
Agnelli, Lorenzo | 25 Mar. 1610 | 1674 | Italian composer |
Agnelli (or Agnello), Salvatore more... | 1817 Palermo, Italy | 1874 Marseilles, France | Italian composer |
Agnesi(-Pinottini), Maria Teresa d' more... | 17 Oct. 1720 Milan, Italy | 19 Jan. 1795 Milan, Italy | (pseudonym: Francesco Mainini) Maria Teresa d'Agnesi was a composer, harpsichordist, singer and librettist. Her older sister Maria Gaetana Agnesi was a noted mathematician for whom the curve, The Witch of Agnesi, is named. The girls' father was a mathematics professor. While still a teenager, she would perform in her home while her older sister lectured and debated in Latin. Her first theatrical work, Il ristoro d'Arcadia, was successfully presented in Milan in 1747. She wrote seven operas of which three were based on her own librettos. The Empress Maria Theresia was known to sing from a collection of arias that Maria Teresa d'Agnesi had composed for her. In 1752 she married Pier Antonio Pinottini but had no children. Her portrait hangs today in the theatre museum of La Scala |
Agnew, Elaine more... | 1967 Kilwaughter, Co. Antrim., Ireland | | studied music at Queens University, Belfast and composition at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama with James MacMillan. She has led composer-in-residence schemes with the Irish and Scottish Chamber Orchestras, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, the National Deaf Childrens Society, Opera Theatre Company, the Ulster Orchestra and Sligo County Council. Her education work has also taken her to Iceland, Indonesia and America. She won the 1996 RTÉ Musician of the Future Composers Prize for Philips Peace (1994). Works include four compositions for orchestra, nine works for chamber orchestra, and three works for vocal and choral performance |
Agnew, Roy E. (aka Ewing) more... | 23 Aug. 1891 Sydney, N.S.W., Australia | 12 Nov. 1944 Sydney, N.S.W., Australia | pianist and composer of piano music, chamber and orchestral music and songs |
Agniez, Émile more... | 3 Jun. 1859 Brussels, Belgium | 29 May 1909 Brussels, Belgium | violonist, conductor, composer and teacher |
Agniez, Louis (also called Luigi Agnesi) more... | 17 Jul. 1833 Erpent, Belgium | 2 Feb. 1875 London, England | composer and singer |
Agnost, Frank Peter | 15 Jun. 1918 | 2 Feb. 2008 | American popular composer, author, violinist, and choir director |
Agobet, Jean-Louis more... | 1968 France | | French composer who studied in at Conservatoire de Nice (composition et analysis), at lENM dAix-en-Provence (electroacoustics) and than at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon (composition and analysis) |
Agolli, Lejla | 4 Oct. 1950 | | Albanian composer |
Agopov, Vladimir more... | 23 Nov. 1953 Armenia | | settled in Finland in 1978, and has experimented both with traditional melodic atonality as in his Clarinet Sonata (1981) and Second String Quartet (1988) and with an idiom depending on tonal colour and textures as in his First String Quartet (1982/89) and his best-known work, the Cello Concerto Tres viae (1984) |
Agosti, Guido | 11 Aug. 1901 | 2 Jun. 1989 | Italian pianist and composer |
Agostini, Agostino | | 20 Sep. 1569 | Italian composer and singer |
Agostini, Giuseppe more... | 20 May 1890 Fano, Italy | 9 Dec. 1971 Montreal, Canada | Canadian conductor, arranger, and composer of Italian birth |
Agostini, Lodovico more... | 1534 Ferrara, Italy | 20 Sep. 1590 Ferrara, Italy | Ferrarese cleric and the illegitimate son of the singer and composer Agostino Agostini, Lodovico Agostini was a capellano (chapel singer) at the court of Duke Alfonso II d'Este. Agostini's music reflects many aspects of Ferrarese musical and cultural life, from recreational pieces to stylish encomia |
Agostini, Lucio more... | 30 Dec. 1913 Fano, Italy | 15 Feb. 1996 Toronto, Canada | Canadian conductor, composer (particularly of music for film) and arranger, son of Giuseppe Agostini |
Agostini, Mezio | 12 Aug. 1875 Fano, Italy | 22 Apr. 1944 Fano, Italy | Italian composer |
Agostini, Paolo | c. 1583 | 3 Oct. 1629 | Italian composer and organist |
Agostini (or Augustini), Pietro Simone (Piersimone) | c. 1635 Forli, Italy | 1 Oct. 1680 Parma, Italy | Italian composer |
Agrell, Jeffrey more... | 1948 Minneapolis, MN, USA | | associate professor of horn at the University of Iowa (UI); performer with the Iowa Brass Quintet. He teaches horn, directs the UI Horn Choir, performs with IBQ, and teaches "Improvisation for Classical Musicians." He holds degrees from St. Olaf College and University of Wisconsin-Madison. 1975-2000 associate principal horn of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra. Has won awards as a writer (90+ articles) and composer, with many compositions published, recorded and performed worldwide. Author of Improvisation Games for Classical Musicians. CDs include Repercussions (horn & piano), Mosaic (horn, cello, piano), and Side Show Tim (tuba, horn, trumpet). Member of the Advisory Council of the International Horn Society and faculty member of the prestigious Kendall Betts Horn Camp |
Agrell, Johan(n) Joachim (also Giovanni Agrelli) | 1 Feb. 1701 | 19 Jan. 1765 | Swedish violinist and composer in the service of the Court at Kassel |
Agrenev Slavyanski, Kiril Dimitriyevich (or d'Agreneff, Cyrille Slavlansky) | 1885 | | Russian conductor and composer |
Agresta, Agostino | c. 1575-85 | after 1617 | Italian composer |
Agricola, Alexander (born Sander Ackerman) more... | 1445/6 Ghent, Netherlands | late August 1506 Valladolid, Spain | Franco-Flemish composer, who like many of his compatriots went to Italy, serving at the Sforza court in Milan in 1471-4 and then divided his time between Italy (Florence and the Aragonese court in Naples) and the north, where he was a choirman at Cambrai, a musician at the French court, and finally a singer at the Burgundian court of Philip the Handsome. He died while accompanying the Duke on a visit to Spain. Eight Masses, twenty-five motets and other sacred music of Agricola's survive, but he was notable as a composer of secular music--nearly 100 chansons and pieces with Italian and Dutch texts, His carnival songs are brilliant examples of chordal Italianate writing, and manv of his secular pieces were published by Petrucci, he could also write elegantly complex melodic lines, and was especially adept at arranging chansons by his contemporaries |
Agricola, Georg Ludwig | 25 Oct. 1643 | 20 Feb. 1676 Gotha, Germany | German composer and writer |
Agricola, Johann Friedrich more... | 4 Jan. 1720 Dobitschen bei Altenburg, Germany | 2 Dec. 1774 Berlin, Germany | a pupil of J.S. Bach, organist at the court of Frederick the Great, writer on music and composer |
Agricola, Johann Paul | 1638 or 1639 Hilpoltstein, nr. Nürnberg | bur. 3 May 1697 Neuburg an der Donau, Germany | German composer, organist, and musician |
Agricola, Johannes | c. 1560-70 Nürnburg | after 1601 | German composer who taught in the Erfurter Ratsgymnasium (1608-11) |
Agricola, Martin (also Martin Sore or Sohr) more... | 6 Jan. 1486 Schwiebus, Lower Silesia | 10 Jun. 1556 Magdeburg, Germany | German musical theorist, teacher and composer |
Agricola, Rudolphus (originally Roelof Huysman) more... | 17 Feb. 1444 Baflo, The Netherlands | 27 Oct. 1485 Heidelberg, Germany | a Dutch scholar, humanist, and musician, he is best known to us as the author of De inventione dialectica, the father of northern European humanism and a zealous anti-scholastic in the late fifteenth century |
Agricola, Wolfgang Christoph | 1600-10 | c. 1659 | German composer, organist, and public official |
Agsteribbe, Frank more... | 14 Sep. 1968 Ghent, Belgium | | Belgian composer of chamber, choral, vocal, and piano works that have been performed across Europe very successfully; he is also active as a harpsichordist and organist |
Agthe, Albrecht Wilhelm Johann | 13 Jul. 1790 | 8 Oct. 1873 | German pianist, teacher, and composer |
Agthe, Karl (Carl) Christian | 16 Jan. 1762 Hettsstadt, Germany | 27 Nov. 1797 Ballenstedt, Germany | German kapellmeister, organist und composer of songs. From 1776 he was music director of the Hündelbergerschen Truppe in Reval (Tallinn) and from 1782 principal organist of the Fürsten von Bernburg in Ballenstedt |
Aguado y Garcia, Dionysio more... | 8 Apr. 1784 Madrid, Spain | 29 Dec. 1849 Madrid, Spain | Spanish guitarist, he perfected his technique in Spain before establishing himself as a performer and teacher in Paris (1825-38). There his popular guitar method was translated into French and he gave many concerts with Sor |
Agudela, Graciela | 7 Dec. 1945 | | Mexican pianist and composer |
Aguero (de), Abbess Maria Gonzalez | | 1325 | commissioned the copying [by the nuns] of a huge manuscript called the Las Huelgas Codex used by the sisters since the convent's founding. It is one of the few manuscripts from this time to remain in its place of origin |
Agüero y Barreras, Gaspar | 15 Feb. 1873 | 18 May 1951 | Cuban musicologist, pedagogue, and composer |
Aguiar, Renato de more... | 1956 Brazil | | Brazilian composer who has been based in Fribourg (Switzerland) since 1982 |
Aguila, Miguel del more... | 1957 Montevideo, Uruguay | | American-based composer, pianist and conductor who has written over 75 works for all forms of media (including film, dance and theatre). He has worked as a composer and pianist with several orchestras, soloists and chamber ensembles worldwide as well as guest conducting many chamber choirs and ensembles in Austria and the US |
Aguilar-Ahumada, Miguel | 12 Apr. 1931 | | Chilean composer |
Aguilera de Heredia, Sebastián | c. 1565 | 16 Dec. 1627 Saragossa, Spain | Spanish organist, one of the masters of the Catalan-Aragonese school of organists, who travelled to Flanders in the suite of Isabella, daughter of Philip II. He was organist at the cathedral of Huesca (Aragon) from 1585 until 1603, when he moved to Saragossa. His fine and austere Magnificats à 4 - 8, published in 1618, remained long in use, and his tientos in various styles are among the best Spanish organ music of the period. He was one of the Spanish composers whose music was exported to Mexico |
Aguirre, Jaime Moran | 26 Apr. 1931 | | American popular composer, author, and singern of Mexican birth |
Aguirre, Juan Guillermo (Santiago) | 22 Dec. 1950 | | American popular composer, author, and singer |
Aguirre, Julián | 28 Jan. 1868 Buenos Aires, Argentina | 13 Aug. 1924 Buenos Aires, Argentina | he studied in the Conservatory of Madrid (1886), with Emilio Arrieta and others, specializing in piano. In 1916 he founded Buenos Aires la Escuela Argentina de Música, and later the musical section of the Comité Nacional de Bellas Artes. He was the first Argentine composer to be inspired by the popular music of his country, turning away from the technical forms imposed by Italian and German composers and particularly eschewing the romantic influence of Spain. His inspiration came from Albéniz and Granados |
Aguirre, Sebastián de more... | | c. 1720 | composer who wrote for the Mexican cittern |
Agus, Giuseppe | c. 1725 | c. 1800 | Italian composer |
Agus, Joseph | 1749 | 1798 | Italian violinist and composer active in England and France |
Agutter, Benjamin | 2 Apr. 1844 | 7 Jun. 1913 | English organist, choirmaster, and composer |
Ágústsson, Herbert H. | 8 Aug. 1926 Austria | | Icelandic hornist, teacher, and composer |
Aharonián, Coriún more... | 4 Aug. 1940 Montevideo, Uruguay | | composer of electronic and instrumental music, essayist, conductor, and educator. His music is deeply Latin American and explores native wind instruments with particular attention to their expressive context and suggestive dynamics. Aharonián has traveled widely, teaching, conducting, attending performances of his music in Uruguay, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Venezuela, Spain ... He has been artist-in-residence in Berlin, Bourges, and Stockholm, and received commissions from festivals in Warsaw, Freiburg, Donaueschingen and many others. He has served as executive secretary of the Latin American Courses for Contemporary Music. He currently lives in Montevideo, Uruguay, and actively composes, teaches, and travels |
Ahbez, Eden more... | 15 Apr. 1908 Brooklyn, New York, USA | 4 Mar. 1995 Los Angeles, USA | American song writer audio tracks |
Ahern, David (Anthony) | 2 Nov. 1947 | 30 Jan. 1988 | Australian composer |
Ahl, Fred Arthur (known as Fred Hall) more... | 10 Apr. 1897 | 1954 | American popular composer and lyricist (NS) |
Ahlberg, Gunnar | 29 Mar. 1942 | | Swedish composer |
Ahlberg, Harry | 4 Jun. 1912 | 11 Apr. 2000 | American popular composer, arranger, and teacher (NS) |
Ahlberg, Tor more... | 6 May 1913 Stockholm, Sweden | 2 Mar. 2008 | he studied the piano at the then Stockholm Conservatory with Olof Wibergh and Algot Haquinius as his teachers. Haquinius also taught Ahlberg counterpoint and composition. Ahlberg's début as a pianist came in 1938. In addition to studying music he also took a law degree which became the basis for his administrative career in the State Medical and Social Boards. Ahlberg's knowledge of the piano has been utilised in several compositions. For example, he has written a piano concerto and two piano sonatas. His piano suite (1969) has also been performed internationally. He himself divides his career into two periods, the first of which came during the forties and fifties, while the other began in the 1970s. In addition to works including the piano, Ahlberg has composed two string quartets. His music is often rhythmical and dance-like in character, elegantly melodious and sometimes strictly contrapuntal (NS) |
Ahle, Johann Georg | 12 Jun. 1651 Mühlhausen, Thüringia | 2 Dec. 1706 Mühlhausen, Thüringa | son of Johann Rudolf Ahle, German composer, theorist, organist and poet |
Ahle, Johann Rudolf more... | 24 Dec. 1625 Mühlhausen, Thüringia | 9 Jul. 1673 Mühlhausen, Thüringia | German organist, poet, writer on music and composer |
Ahlefeldt, Gräfin Maria Theresia (Elizabeth) more... | 28 Feb. 1755 Regensburg, Germany | 4 Nov. 1823 Prague, Czech Republic | Danish composer and pianist of German birth, who produced the ballet Telemach and Calypso in 1794 |
Ahlers, Friedrich | 1882 | 1945 | German military conductor and composer |
Ahlert, Fred E. more... | 19 Sep. 1892 New York, NY, USA | 20 Oct. 1953 New York, NY, USA | American popular composer and arranger |
Ahlert, Richard | 4 Sep. 1921 | 9 Aug. 1985 | American popular composer, author, and publisher; hits included My Mammy's Arms (1920), Faithful In My Fashion (1929), Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day (1931) and I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter (1936) (NS) |
Ahlin, Sven Åke | 6 Apr. 1951 | | Swedish composer |
Ahlstrom, David | 22 Feb. 1927 Lancaster, NY, USA | 23 Aug. 1992 | American composer |
Ahlström, Jacob Niclas | 5 Jun. 1805 Visby, Sweden | 14 May 1857 Stockholm, Sweden | Swedish composer, conductor, and organist |
Åhlström, Olof | 14 Aug. 1756 Åletorp, Värdinge | 11 Aug. 1835 Stockholm, Sweden | Swedish composer and music publisher |
Ahmad, Zakariyya more... | 1896 Egypt | 1961 Egypt | Arabic musician and composer who was born and lived in Egypt. He composed many pieces in a traditional Arabic style, more specifically Egyptian. His works included solo pieces and film scores |
Ahmas, Harri more... | 25 Apr. 1957 Finland | | he has progressed from free-tonality towards a more chromatic style. He is a musician as well as a composer, playing principal bassoon with the Sinfonia Lahti. Winds, particularly the bassoon, occupy an important role in his output, which consists mostly of chamber music. He has, however, also written concertos for the trombone (1987), the tuba (1995) and the baritone horn (2001). His principal vocal works are the melodrama-like Becket (1993) for mezzosoprano, cello and piano, and the chamber opera Sydänvirrat (Heartstreams, 19961999) |
Ahne, Alfred | 25 Nov. 1936 | | German director and composer |
Ahnell, Emil Gustave | 6 Apr. 1925 | | American composer |
Ahninger, Hans | 14 Oct. 1906 | | Austrian band director and composer |
Aho, Kalevi more... | 9 Mar. 1949 Forssa, Finland | | Finnish composer who underlines the capacity of music for communicating: "Music, great music at least, is for me a manifestation of movements of the mind and of emotions. In music, I hear a person speaking to another his joy, his sorrow, his happiness, his despair. And in the overall shape of his composition I hear his attitude towards life, his ideology, his view of the world his message." |
Ahrendt, Karl Fredrick Julius more... | 7 Mar. 1904 Toledo, Ohio, USA | 2 Jan. 1993 Athens, Ohio, USA | director of the Ohio University School of Music, Athens, Ohio (1950-1967); composer, violinist and conductor. Among his 60 or more compositions are works for orchestra, band, solo instruments with piano accompaniment and chorus. Ahrendt won numerous awards, including the Philadelphia Arts Alliance Award for Composition (1944), The University of Illinois Contemporary Festival Competition (1950), the First Prize, Ohio Music Teachers Association (1972), and the Baker Award at Ohio University (1969). He was a resident at the MacDowell Colony nine times during the 1950 and 1960s |
Ahrens, Joseph (Johannes Clemens) | 17 Apr. 1904 | 21 Dec. 1997 | German composer and organist |
Ahrens, Sieglinde | 19 Feb. 1936 | | German composer and organist |
Ahrold, Frank A. | 12 Dec. 1931 USA | 15 Apr. 1989 | American composer, author and teacher (NS) |
Ahvenlahti, Olli more... | 6 Aug. 1949 Finland | | Finnish jazz musician, pianist, conductor, composer and arranger (NS) |