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Name	Born	Died	Information
Kääriä, Jani more...	24 Dec. 1969 Finland		Kääriä won the Einojuhani Rautavaara Prize in 1998. Kääriä has written works for a variety of ensembles. His chamber music output includes the Piano Quintet Hohto (Glow, 1995), the String Quartet (1996) and Zen (1996) for chamber ensemble. His first orchestral work was the luscious Your color (1999) for chamber orchestra, followed by Per-Djet (The house of eternity) (2001) for large orchestra. His most extensive work to date is the opera Osiris (2000), commissioned by the Finnish National Opera and premiered at the Musica nova Helsinki festival in 2003
Kaasinen, Sari more...	1967		Finnish singer and member of a folk band called Värttinä
Kabalevsky, Dmitri Borisovich more...	30 Dec. 1904 St. Petersburg, Russia	16 Feb. 1987 Moscow, Russia	Russian pianist, writer, arranger and composer
Kabelac, Miloslav more...	1908	1979	a prominent Czech composer and conductor
Kabelis, Ricardas more...	1957		Lithuanian composer
Kacinskas, Jeronimas more...	17 Apr. 1907 Vidukle, Lithuania	15 Sep. 2005 Boston, Massachusetts, USA	composer, conductor and teacher, whose best known work, the Missa in Honorem Immaculati Cordis Beatae Mariae Virginis for soloists (1951), mixed choir, organ and brass, marries Gregorian chant and medieval organum with the atonality of his own style
Kacsoh, Pongrac more...	1897 Budapest, Hungary	16 Dec. 1923 Budapest, Hungary	composer of Hungary's most popular operetta John the Hero, based on Petofis folk-tale epic of the same title. Entirely unknown abroad, the operetta uses popular Magyar song as its inspiration
Kaczmarek, Jan more...	29 Apr. 1953 Konin, Poland		his first success in the United States came in theatre. After composing striking scores for productions at Chicago's Goodman Theatre and Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, Jan won an Obie and a Drama Desk Award for his music for the New York Shakespeare Festival's 1992 production of John Ford's Tis Pity She's A Whore, directed by JoAnne Akalaitis. In 2005 he won an Oscar for Best Original Score on Marc Forster's highly acclaimed film, Finding Neverland
Kadar, Matthias more...	1977 Paris, France		he studied with Christian Lauba in Bordeaux, France, and later with Theo Loevendie at the Conservatorium in Amsterdam and writes in a wide range of genres
Kadosa, Pál more...	6 Sep. 1903 Léva, Hungary	30 Mar. 1983 Hungary	a leading Hungarian composer of the post-Bartók generation. His early style was influenced by Hungarian folklore while his later works were more toward Hindemith and expressively forceful idoms
Kagel, Mauricio Raúl more...	24 Dec. 1931 Buenos Aires, Argentina	18 Sep. 2008 Cologne, Germany	composer, teacher, film-maker, playwright, Kagel was most famous for his interest in developing the theatrical side of musical performance
Kagenaar, Laurens more...	1975 Haarlem, The Netherlands		from 1994 to 2000, he studied electronic music at the institute for Sonology, graduating with an MA. He produces eclectic electronic pop music, and abstract electronic compositions
Kahn, Erich Itor more...	23 Jul. 1905 Rimbach im Odenwald	5 Mar. 1956 New York, USA	German pianist and an important and original early serial composer
Kahn, Gus more...	6 Nov. 1886 Koblenz, Germany	8 Oct. 1941 Beverly Hills, California, USA	Jewish-German-American musician, songwriter and lyricist of many hit songs including It Had To Be You (1924) and Makin' Whoopie (1928)
Kainz, (Leonard) Joseph more...	1783	1813	German school teacher, organist and composer who, together with Joseph Krottendorfer, provided material to complete the uncompleted requiem of Florian Leopold Gassmann whch remained in the repertory of the Hofburg chapel well into the first half of the 19th century
Kaila, Ilari more...	15 Jan. 1978 Espoo, Finland		studied composition at the Sibelius Academy with Kortekangas and Eero Hämeenniemi (from 1998), with Sheila Silver at State University of New York (from 2004) and Carnatic music at the Bhrdaddhvani institute in Chennai, India, December 2002 through January 2003, with professor K.D. Subramanian, She is curently based in New York
Kaipainen, Jouni more...	24 Nov. 1956 Finland		he has progressed from the spiky Modernism of the 1980s to a clearer, harmonically and sonorously softer language. His musical roots are in a brand of Expressionism going back to Alban Berg; in his early output, his music had rather acerbic tones, paralleling the expression and Post-Serialism of such composers as Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Pierre Boulez and Luciano Berio
Kaiser, Wollie more...	1950s		German multi-instrumentalist and composer, a founding member of the Köln Saxophone Mafia, one of Germany's leading experimental ensemble's for nearly two decades. Consisting of five reed players who double on an extremely wide array of instruments, the Köln Saxophone Mafia uses a unique blend of virtuosic compositions by its own members with an emphasis on improvisation. They have been pioneers in an area of performance that consistently warps the distinctions between avant guard jazz and contemporary "classical" music
Kaiser-Lindemann, Wilhelm more...	21 Mar. 1940 Viersen/NRW Germany		German composer and arranger, with an interest in New Age and World Music. He composes for classical instruments and ensembles. His works include a Bajan Symphony (based on Asian music), a work in honour of Nelson Mandela for cello and percussion, and a work named Symphonic Meditations
Kajanus, Robert more...	2 Dec. 1856 Helsinki, Finland	6 Jun. 1933 Helsinki, Finland	founder of the Helsinki Orchestra Society (now the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra), the latter being the first professional symphony orchestra in a Nordic country. His orchestral works are considered his best works; his chamber music works and most of his piano works are early works from his student days in the 1870s. He continued to write orchestral works later, although with the emergence of Sibelius in the 1890s Kajanus began to focus more on conducting. Kajanus was one of the first 'nationalist' composers. This was apparent in his choices of subject, as in Kullervon surumarssi (Kullervo's Funeral March, 1880) for orchestra, based on a topic from the Kalevala, and in his quoting of Finnish folk tunes as in the two pieces entitled Suomalainen rapsodia (Finnish Rhapsody, 1881, 1886). Kajanus's principal work is the tone poem Aino (1885), where a topic from the Kalevala merges with a Wagnerian chromatic idiom, with a male voice choir added at the end
Kakhidze, Vakhtang more...	1959 Tiblisi, Georgia		Georgian composer whose music exhibits strong emotions as well as gentle, highly aesthetic lyricism. He always seems to find brand-new, attractive combinations of simple, traditional harmonies
Kalabis, Viktor more...	27 Feb. 1923 Czech Republic		between 1953 and 1972 Kalabis worked as Music Director and Editor at the Czechoslovak Radio in Prague, but since 1972 has devoted himself solely to composition
Kalafati (or Kalaforti, Kalafaty), Vasily Pavovlich	10 Feb. 1869 Evpatoriya, Greece	20 Jan. 1942 Leningrad, Russia	Greek-born composer
Kalaniemi, Maria more...	1964 Finland		Finnish accordionist and composer, originally classically trained, but who works mostly as a folk musician, having played this music from childhood, together with her classical music studies, and also at the folk music department of the Sibelius Academy
Kalas, Julius more...	18 Aug. 1902	12 May 1967	Czech composer known for his work on film scores
Kalhor, Kayhan more...	1963 Tehran, Iran		an Iranian kamancheh player of Kurdish descent. In 2004, two of his works were nominated for Grammy Awards. Kalhor consciously pins Persian classical music structures to the rich folk modes and melodies of Northern Khorasan, the cultural heart of historic Persia and a bridge to Central Asia
Kalimulin, Rashid more...	1957 Zeienodonsk, Tartarstan		he graduated from Kazan Conservatory in 1985 where he studied composition with B.Trubin, then completing a postgraduate degree (1987) with Professor V Luppovin. Kalimullin is an International Weber Competition Prize Winner (1987) who since 1989 has been the Chairman of Tatarstan Composer's Union
Kalinnikov, Vasily Sergeyevich more...	13 Jan. 1866 Voina, Oryol, Russia	11 Jan. 1901 Yalta, Russia	Russian composer of two symphonies, several additional orchestral works and numerous songs, all of them imbued with characteristics of folksong. His symphonies, particularly the First, were frequently performed in the early 20th century
Kalinnikov, Viktor more...	1870	1927	brother of Vasily (see above) composer of choral music who taught at the Philharmonic School. Kalinnikov used Russian folksong intonations which might explain the popularity of his pictorial miniatures such as The Lark
Kalischnig, Walter (pseudonym Victor (Vic) Lingo) more...	20th century Slovenia		Dutch-based Czech-born composer particularly of music for brass band
Kalitzke, Johannes more...	1959 Cologne, Germany		German conductor and composer of mostly orchestral, chamber, choral, and vocal works
Kaliviotis, Stathis (see Kalyviotis, Stathis)
Kalkbrenner, Frédéric (Friedrich) (Wilhelm Michael) more...	7 Nov. 1784 Cassel, Germany	10 Jun 1849 Enghien, France	German pianist and prolific composer, author of Méthode pour apprendre le piano-forte à l'aide du guide-mains, op. 108 (1831) and didactic études. As a teacher Kalkbrenner developed a piano playing technique that kept the musician's strength in the fingers and hands, instead of the forearm. This technique was used by his student Camille Stamaty, who taught it to his student, Camille Saint-Saëns
Kalliwoda, Johann Wenzeslaus [Wenzel] more...	21 Feb. 1801 Prague, Czechoslovakia	3 Dec. 1866 Karlsruhe, Germany	prolific composer, violinist and conductor who composed many fine works including seven symphonies and church music
Kallimulin, Rashid (see Kalimulin, Rashid)
Kallstenius, Edvin more...	29 Aug. 1881 Filipstad, Sweden	22 Nov. 1967 Stocksund, Sweden	Swedish composer. He was Music Librarian at the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation 1928-1946, served on the Board of the Society of Swedish Composers 1933-1961, and was its Treasurer 1933-1943. He was on the board of the Swedish Performing Rights Society 1932-1957
Kálmán, Charles Emmerich more...	17 Nov. 1929 Vienna, Austria	22 Feb. 2015 Munich, Germany	son of Emmerich Kalman (see below) and composer of several finely written and enjoyable light pieces and musicals
Kálmán, (Imre) Emmerich more...	24 Oct. 1882 Siófok, Hungary	30 Oct. 1953 Paris, France	among the finest composers of operetta of the early/middle 20th century. His first operetta The Gay Hussars was a hit throughout Europe and the United States and its success in Vienna led Kálmán to make his home in the Austrian capital. Kálmán became an American citizen in 1942
Kalnins, Aldonis	26 Feb. 1928 Ventspils, Latvia		Latvian composer who has collected more than 1000 Latvian folksong melodies and incorporates these into his choral and instrumental works including his oratorio based on ancient Latvian battle songs
Kalnins, Alfred more...	1879	1951	Latvian organist and composer of operas including Banuta and Salinieki (Islanders)
Kalnins, Ed more...			has scored for many motion pictures and television programs. He works with many top film composers to develop scores synthetically, utilizing state-of-the-art electronic music techniques available at his project studio, Beachwood Music. He has worked in musical theatre both as a conductor and as a keyboardist. He also toured and performed extensively with various Broadway productions including Starlight Express, Les Miserables, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Kalnins, Imants more...	26 May 1941 Riga, Latvia		Latvian composer
Kalomiris, Manolis more...	1883 Smyrna	1962 Athens, Greece	an admirer of Richard Wagner, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Kostis Palamas, and Nikos Kazantzakis, he set himself the life goal of establishing a Greek "national school" of music, based on the ideas of the Russian national composers, on western musical achievements and on modern Greek folk music, poetry and myth. He thus founded in 1919 the Hellenic Conservatory and in 1926 the National Conservatoire. He wrote three symphonies and five operas, one piano concerto and one violin concertino, other symphonic works, chamber music and numerous songs and piano works
Kalthum, Uum (alternatively Om Kalthoum, Oum Kalsoum, Oum Kalthum, Omm Kolsoum, Umm Kolthoum, Um Kalthoom) more...	c.4 May 1904 Tamay-az-Zahayra, Egypt	3 Feb. 1975 Cairo, Egypt	Egyptian singer, composer and musician. Along with Fairouz and Asmahan, she is one of the best known and most beloved of all singers in the Arab world, her albums still outsell many others in the Arabic language
Kalyviotis, Stathis more...			composer and multi-instrumentalist, who was born and grew up in Athens
Kamen, Michael more...	15 Apr. 1948 New York, USA	19 Nov. 2003 London, UK	with influences ranging from Beethoven to the Beatles and collaborations with everyone from Bob Dylan to Metallica, there are few musicians that display such remarkable diversity as Oscar-nominated composer and conductor Michael Kamen. His scores for such popular action films as Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, and X-Men set something of a standard for high-octane thrills, but Kamen could also switch gears to provide tender melodies for such movies as Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and Don Juan DeMarco (both of which earned Oscar nods for the longtime composer).
Kaminski, Heinrich more...	4 Jul. 1886 Tiengen, Germany	21 Jun. 1946 Ried, Germany	German composer
Kaminski, Joseph more...	17 Nov. 1903 Odessa, Ukraine	14 Oct. 1972 Tel Aviv, Israel	violinist and composer
Kaminsky, Laura more...	28 DSep. 1956 New York City, USA		American composer of mostly chamber and vocal works that have been performed throughout the world; she is also active as a promoter
Kammel, Antonin more...	21 Apr. 1730	1788	Bohemian composer and violinist who worked extensively with Abel and J.C. Bach in London
Kampela, Arthur more...	1960 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil		guitarist and composer
Kancheli, Giya more...	10 Aug. 1935 Tbilisi, Georgia	2 Oct. 2019 Tbilisi, Georgia	composer of seven symphonies, works for chamber orchestra, Bright Sorrow for soloists, chorus and orchestra, vocal music, incidental music and film music
Kandel, Harry more...	1885 Russia	1943 Philadelphia, USA	one of the pioneers of klezmer, the traditional dance music of the European Jews, in the United States. Together with his orchestra, which featured two cornets, four violins, flute, viola, trombone, tuba, piano, xylophone, and himself on clarinet, Kandel recorded numerous hits between 1916 and 1927, including the much-covered Night in the Garden of Eden. A medley, that he recorded in 1926, included a tune that was later recorded by Ziggy Elman as Fralich in Swing and by Benny Goodman as And the Angels Sing
Kander, John more...	18 Mar. 1927 Kansas City, Missouri, USA		American composer of a series of musical theatre successes as part of the songwriting team of Kander and Ebb the longest-running music-and-lyrics partnership in Broadway musical history
Kandirali, Mustafa more...	1934 Turkey		Turkish clarinetist, composer and arranger
Kandov, (Aleksandar) Alexander Lubomirov more...	1949 Bulgaria		Bulgarian composer
Kanengiser, William more...	Orange, New Jersey, USA		recognized as one of Americas finest classical guitarists, William Kanengiser won first prize in the 1987 Concert Artists Guild International Competition, as well as major international guitar competitions in Toronto (1981) and Paris (1983). He has developed a unique repertoire for his instrument, ranging from arrangements of Mozart, Handel and Bartok, to his innovative excursions into the music of Eastern Europe and the Caribbean. He was twice awarded a Solo Recitalist Fellowship Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and his debut recording for the GSP label won an INDIE award for Best Classical Recording. He is also a member of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. He has composed many works and written many transcriptions for the guitar
Kang, Eyvind more...	1971 Corvallis, Oregon, USA		American composer, violinist, and erhu player
Kanga, Skaila more...	India		daughter of the Indian violinist Homi Kanga (1922-2004), who when he joined the London Philharmonic Orchestrawas the first Indian to be a member of a major British orchestra and went on to become the first Indian to give a recital at the Wigmore Hall and the first to play a solo classical recital on BBC radio, Skaila started learning the piano at the age of five. She won a Junior Exhibition to the Royal Academy of Music and later studied there with Vivian Langrish. Her interest in the harp began at 17 years of age when she was given the opportunity to study with Tina Bonifacio, Sir Thomas Beecham's harpist in the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Skaila began her career with the BBC Concert Orchestra and soon went on to freelance with many regional and all the major London orchestras under such eminent conductors as Boult, Kempe, Guilini, Monteux, Haitink, Maazel, Mehta, Barenboim, Previn, Solti, Klemperer, Svetlanov and Rattle. At this time she also worked extensively with Pierre Boulez in the BBC Symphony Orchestra alongside Sidonie Goossens and Maria Korchinska
Kangas, Juho more...	21 Mar. 1976 Finland		Finnish composer
Kangro, Raimo more...	21 Sep. 1949 Tartu, Estonia	4 Feb. 2001 Ruila, Estonia	Estonian pianist and composer
Känkänen, Aimo more...	24 May 1922 Finland		Finnish composer
Kan-no, Shigeru more...	1959 Iino, Fukushima, Japan		Japanese composer and conductor who studied (theory, piano, composition, conducting and musicology) in Fukushima, Tokyo, Vienna, Stuttgart, Ludwigsburg and Frankfurt with Shimazu, Nishimura, Österreicher, Bernstein, Lachenmann, Rilling and Zender. Winner of several composition and conducting prizes, frequently invited to participate in seminars. He lives in Germany
Kantelinen, Tuomas more...	22 Sep. 1969 Finland		composer of orchestral works, chamber music, vocal works and tape works, he has written an opera and a considerable body of music for the stage and for films. He is one of Finland's leading film music composers, best known in this genre for Rukajärven tie (1999) by Olli Saarela, for which he received the Jussi Award, the Oscar of the Finnish film industry
Kanzler, Josephine	1780 Germany		composer of string quartets, piano sonatas and songs
Kapeller (or Capeller), Johann Nepomuk more...	1776 Ingolstadt	c. 1831	flautist, flute maker and composer
Kaper, Bronislaw more...	5 Feb. 1902 Warsaw, Poland	26 Apr. 1983 Beverly Hills, CA, USA	Jewish Polish-born conductor, arranger and composer of popular music. Kaper met Walter Jurmann in Berlin in the late 1920s, and the two decided to work as a team, first in Berlin and then in Paris, France. On being offered a seven-year contract with MGM by Louis B. Mayer, Kaper and Jurmann emigrated to the United States, where they continued their work. Kaper composed for nearly 150 Hollywood movies, and won an Oscar for the musical Lili. He co-write the song San Francisco for the film San Francisco. He was, however, better known for composing the theme music and several scores for the Quinn Martin television series The F.B.I.
Kapi, Gyula more...	1850 Hungary	1923	Hungarian composer
Kapp, Artur more...	28 Feb. 1878 Suure-Jaani	14 Jan. 1952 Suure-Jaani	composer and teacher, he was the most powerful representative of the Kapp family which had a strong influence on the musical life in Suure-Jaani. He got his primary education in music at home with his father Joosep Kapp. He studied organ with L. Homilius at St Petersburg Conservatory and completed his studies in 1898. In 1900 he graduated from the conservatory as composer being a student of N. Rimski-Korsakov. Kapp was one of the very first Estonian professional composers
Kapp, Eugen more...	26 May 1908 Astrakhan, Russia	29 Oct. 1996 Tallinn, Estonia	composer (son of the composer Artur Kapp), Eugen Kapp returned to Estonia with his father in 1920. From 1922 to 1926 E. Kapp was the piano student at Tallinn Conservatory. In 1931, Eugen Kapp graduated the class of composition under his father, Professor Artur Kapp. In 1935, Eugen Kapp started working as a teacher, continuing teaching after the end of the Second World War. Since 1947, Kapp worked at the Tallinn Conservatory as the professor, as the rector of the Conservatory (1952 1964), and as a head of the composition department (1949-1957 and 1964-1966). From 1944 to 1966, Eugen Kapp was the head of the Estonian Union of Composers. Since 1975, he was a Professor-consultant at the Tallinn Conservatory, teaching composition and lecturing music theory
Kapp, Villem more...	7 Sep. 1913 Suure-Jaani	24 Mar. 1964 Tallinn, Estonia	Estonian composer (nephew of the composer Artur Kapp)
Kapr, Jan more...	12 Mar. 1914 Prague	29 Apr. 1988 Prague	music producer of Radio Prague for 7 years, in 1950-52 he was the chief editor of the publishing house Orbis. In 1961-72 as a reader in composition at Janacek Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts he had educated a number of composers of the present middle generation, including Milan Slavicky, Evzen Zamecnik, and others. Jan Kapr is also the author of several outstanding theoretical assays and of the book Constants, giving an indivudual synthesis of contemporary musical trends. The centre of his life-long activity, however, lies in the compositional work. Indded, he was one of the most prolific Czech composers of the second half of the 20th century
Kapsberger, Johann (Hieronymus) more...	1580 Venice	1651 Rome	(also: Giovanni Girolamo or Giovanni Geronimo Kapsperger) German-Italian virtuoso performer and composer of lute, theorbo and chitarrone music during the early Baroque period
Kapustin, Nicolai more...	1937 Gorlovka, Ukraine		his compositional style is a blend of West European classical and post classical art music with the modern idioms of jazz and rock. He has composed three concertos for piano & orchestra (1961, 1974, 1985), a two-movement concerto for orchestra (1980), a concertino for piano & orchestra (1957) and a concert rhapsody for piano & orchestra (1976). More recently his interest has moved towards solo piano music
Karai, Jozsef more...	8 Nov. 1927 Budapest, Hungary		he finished his studies in Budapest, Pécs, and Budapest between 1935 and 1946. He began his musical studies relatively late, at the age of 12. At the end of World War II he was enlisted. After the war he worked as an unskilled worker at the Electricity Works of Budapest. Between 1947 and 1954 he studied composition with János Viski and Ferenc Farkas and conducting with János Ferencsik, András Kórodi and László Somogyi at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music. He married Katalin Kertész in 1951. Between 1948 and 1969 he taught and conducted several choruses in Budapest. This occupation strongly influenced his activities: he composed many works for choruses. Since 1969 he has been active as a free-lance composer, he composed numerous instrumental works, songs, cantatas, etc
Karaindrou, Eleni more...	1946 Teichio, Greece		she studied piano and theory at the Hellenikon Odion. From 1969-74 she studied ethnomusicology in Paris and, on returning to Greece, founded the Laboratory for Traditional Instruments at the ORA Cultural Centre. She has since been an active campaigner on behalf of Greece's musical resources. Karaindrou has a long history of writing for film and theatre; to date, some 18 feature films, 13 plays and 10 television series have featured her music. Although most of her work has been with Greek directors, she has also collaborated with Chris Marker, Jules Dassin and Margarethe von Trotta. Eleni Karaindrou has been associated with Theo Angelopoulos since 1982
Karaev, Faradj (see Garayev, Faraj)
Karaev, Kara (see Garayev, Gara)
Karamanov, Alemdar more...	10 Sep. 1934 Simferopol, Russia		Russian composer particularly of symphonies of which he has written more than twenty and film music
Karas, Anton more...	7 Jul. 1906 Vienna, Austria	9/10 Jan. 1985 Vienna, Austria	Viennese zither player, best known for his soundtrack to Carol Reed's 1949 adaptation of The Third Man
Karasowski, Moritz more...	22 Sep 1823 Warsaw, Poland		he was cello and piano pupil of Valentin Kratzer, at that time director of music in Warsaw, and was, in 1852, a member of the Warsaw Theatre orchestra. In the years 1858 and 1860 he travelled for the sake of study and visited Berlin, Vienna, Dresden, Munich, Cologne, and Paris. In 1864 he joined the Dresden band as a Royal Chamber Musician. Besides some compositions for the voice and Violoncello with piano accompaniment, of which Reverie du soir, a Nocturne, and an Elegy are the most important, he published several books in the Polish language - as, for example: A History of the Polish Opera (1859), Haydn's and Mozart's Life (1860 and 1868), Chopin's Youth (Part I. in 1862, Part II. in 1869), and Biographical Sketches of Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, and Edmund Kretschmer. His most important work in musical literature is Friedrich Chopin: his Life, his Works, and his Letters.. A German translation of the latter appeared in 1877 which went through two revised and enlarged editions
Karayev, Faradj (see Garayev, Faraj)
Karayev, Kara (see Garayev, Gara)
Karchin, Louis more...	1951 Philadelphia, USA		studied at the Eastman School of Music and Harvard University; his principal teachers have included Samuel Adler, Joseph Schwantner, Fred Lerdahl, and Earl Kim. Additional study included two summers as a Leonard Bernstein Fellow in Composition at the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood, an experience which brought Karchin into contact with such composers as Elliott Carter, Jacob Druckman, Gunther Schuller, Bruno Maderna, and Charles Wuorinen. At the conclusion of his first summer at Tanglewood, Karchin was awarded the Center's prestigious Koussevitzky Tanglewood Award. Karchin became Assistant Professor of Music at New York University in 1979, and is now Professor of Music in NYU's Faculty of Arts and Science, teaching in an advanced graduate program in composition, which he organized in 1989
Karetnikov, Nikolai more...	28 Jun. 1930 Moscow, Russia	10 Oct. 1994 Moscow, Russia	influenced by Schönberg, Karetnikov synthesises the rigour of Schönberg with a capacity for sparse, but sonorous orchestral writing in the best Soviet traditions. His music illustrates a highly thematic approach to large-scale form, which probably owes most to Shostakovich, his mentor
Karg-Elert, Sigfrid more...	21 Nov. 1877 Oberndorf am Neckar, Germany	9 Apr. 1933 Leipzig, Germany	German composer of considerable fame in the early twentieth century, best known for his choral lieder, chamber music, and compositions for piano, organ, and harmonium
Karjalainen, Ahti more...	20 Mar. 1907	2 Oct. 1986	retaining a traditional Romantic idiom, his output included three symphonies and six symphonic poems
Karjalainen, Kari	1953 Finland		a trumpeter and composer
Karki, Toivo more...	1915	1992	dance-band pianist, jazz musician, composer (particularly of film and popular music)
Kärkkäinen, Tommi more...	15 Jun. 1969 Savonlinna, Finland		he first attracted attention when he won the young composers' category at the composer rostrum in Paris with his orchestral work Seven Miniatures (1996) in 1998. This work and the sextet Syntymätön (The Unborn, 1997) are both sets of variations in a clear and not overtly Modernist style. Kärkkäinen has later taken up a more expressive approach, as in his orchestral works Sarja I (Suite I, 1997), and Läpi yön (Nocturnal Journey, 1999). Kärkkäinen's output, which focuses on instrumental music, also includes the orchestral works Fontana Obscura (2000) and Somnium Fraude (20022003) and chamber music
Karkoff, Ingvar more...	14 Sep. 1958 Stockholm, Sweden		his music has been performed in Finland, Norway, in the Baltic countries, Russia, former Yougoslavia, Hungary, Austria, France, Portugal, Italy,Spain, Israel and Japan. His orchestral works have been performed by most major orchestras in Sweden; the orchestral piece Fenix was commissioned and world-premiered in Stockholm 1993, by Gennady Rozhdestvensky and the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. The music of Ingvar Karkoff has been broadcasted worldwide. He has represented Sweden both at the Young Nordic Music festivals and at The Nordic Music Days, S:t Petersburg Contemporary Music Festival. He has been awarded The Rosenborg prize, The Swedish Royal Music Academy's travel gran, The City of Stockholm's Cultural Prize, The small Christ Johnson Prize 2000
Karkoff, Maurice more...	17 Mar. 1927 Stockholm, Sweden		Swedish composer, father of Ingvar (see above)
Karkowski, Zbigniew more...	1958 Krakow, Poland		he studied composition at the State College of Music in Gothenburg, Sweden, aesthetics of modern music at the University of Gothenburg's Department of Musicology, and computer music at the Chalmers University of Technology. After completing his studies in Sweden, he studied sonology for a year at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Den Haag, Netherlands. During his education, he also attended many summer composition master courses arranged by Centre Acanthes in Avignon and Aix-en-Provence, France, studying with Iannis Xenakis, Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, and Georges Aperghis, among others. He works actively as a composer of both acoustic and electroacoustic music
Karlins, William more...	25 Feb. 1932 New York City, USA		he earned his B.M. and M.M. from the Manhattan School of Music, and went on to earn a Ph.D. from the University of lowa in 1965. Among his principal teachers were Frederick Piket, Philip Bezanson, Richard Hervig, Stefan Wolpe, and Vittorio Giannini. He joined the faculty of Northwestern University in Evanston, IL in 1967 and became a professor there in 1973. He has an extensive compositional catalog which embraces all forms, from large orchestral and chamber works to solo and choral pieces. His saxophone music in particular, which he often combines with other individual instruments and ensembles, is widely performed in the United States and abroad
Karłowicz, Mieczysław more...	11 Dec. 1876 Wiszniewo, Poland	8 Feb. 1909 Tatra Mountains, Poland	Polish composer, conductor, writer, photographer, and mountain climber, Karłowicz died at the young age of 32 on an expedition in the Tatra Mountains when he was buried by a sudden avalanche on February 8, 1909. In his youth, Karłowicz spent some time travelling through Europe (Heilderberg, Prague, Dresden) and in 1887, his family settled in Warsaw where he studied violin with Jan Jankowski and Stanislaw Barcewicz. After a few years, poor health (both mental and physical) forced him to give up the violin, but he quickly began studying composition with Gustaw Roguski in Warsaw (1894) and later with Heinrich Urban in Berlin (1895-1901). His early compositions include short piano pieces, the Serenade op. 2 for string orchestra, Muzyka do bialej golabki (Music to the White Dove) Op.6 for full orchestra, and various songs which were published in two collections as Op. 1 and Op. 3
Karlsen, Kjell Mork more...	31 Mar. 1947 Oslo, Norway		Norwegian organist and composer
Karlsson, Erik Mikael more...	10 Dec. 1967 Nynäshamn, Sweden		a composer of electroacoustic music since 1985. He studied composition at EMS in Stockholm for Tamas Ungvary among others. Erik Mikael Karlsson has been working and lecturing at the major institutions around Europe and he has been awarded a vast number of prestigious international prizes for his music. Commissions have been made from the GMEB, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Swedish Concert Institute, Swedish Broadcasting Corporation, Danish Broadcasting Corporation, The Cullberg Ballet, Sonic Arts Network
Karlsson, Lars more...	24 Jan. 1953 Finland		as a composer, he started off in the early 1970s in a rather traditional Neo-Romantic and expressive style, writing vocal and instrumental works with a strong sense of tonality. In the late 1970s, he turned perhaps inspired by the new rise of Modernism to a more chromatic idiom, though without abandoning his roots. His most significant work in this experimental period was Komposition för orgel och symfonisk blåsorkester (Composition for organ and concert band, 1983). After a transition period of a few years, Karlsson arrived at his current style in the early 1990s. This can be seen as a sort of mature return to his early ideals, beginning with the intensely melodic and technically challenging Violin Concerto (1991/93), whose Romantically tinted Neo-Classicism recalls Prokofiev. The Violin Concerto was also Karlsson's first work in a traditional genre; it was later followed by the powerful Bartók-like String Quartet (1997) and the First Symphony (1999)
Karnovich, Yuri Larovich	23 Dec. 1884 Kaunas, Lithuania	22 Dec. 1941 Kaunas, Lithuania	Lithuanian composer
Karzew (or Kartsev, Karzen, Kartzev), Alexander Alexeyevich	19 Jul. 1883 Moscow, Russia	3 Jul. 1953 Moscow, Russia	Russian composer
Kasatschenko (or Kazatsjenko, Kazatchenko, Kazachenko), Grigorii (or Grigory) Alexeyevich (or Ivanovich) (also Nikolai)	3 May 1858 St. Petersburg, Russia	18 May 1938 Leningrad, Russia	Russian composer and conductor
Kasbergen, Marinus more...	13 Nov. 1936 Krimpen aan de Lek The Netherlands		Dutch composer
Kaschubec, Erich more...	1899	1945	German composer
Käser, Mischa more...	1959 Zurich, Switzerland		studied guitar in Winterthur, lute in Basel and composition both with H. U. Lehmann, Zurich, and R. Moser, Basel and is involved not only in composing and teaching, but also in experimental music theatre
Kashin (or Kaschin, Kasjin, Kachine), Daniil Nikitich	1769 Moscow, Russia	22 Dec. 1841 Moscow, Russia	Russian folksong collector and composer
Kashperov (or Kasjperov, Kachperov, Kaschperoff), Vladimir Nikitich	6 Sep. 1826 Chufarovo, Simbirsk, Russia	26 Jun. 1894 Romantesevo, nr. Moscow, Russia	Russian composer
Kasimov, Alim (see Quasimov, Alim)
Kaski, Heino more...	21 Jun. 1885 Pielisjärvi, Finland	19 Sep. 1957 Helsinki, Finland	composer of piano music, although he also wrote several very popular songs, some chamber music including a Flute Sonata (1937), and, as if out of obligation to the Sibelian era, a Symphony in B minor (1918/19), which, however, is not one of his best works. Kaski was fundamentally a lyrical composer, a melodic writer and a miniaturist. His piano miniatures are not usually technically difficult, and he could be described as a sort of late representative of a national Biedermeier style although hints of Impressionism appear now and then
Kasparov, Andrey more...	1966 Baku, Azerbaijan		Russian pianist, conductor, composer and teacher
Kasparov, Yuri more...	8 Jun. 1955 Moscow, Russia		Russian composer who graduated from the Moscow Power Institute (1978) and the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory (1984). From 1985 to 1989 he worked as musical editor-in-chief at the Russian State Central Studio of Documentary Films. In 1991 he completed the post-graduate course of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory under Edison Denisov
Kassia	early 800s Constantinople	c.867 Constantinople	an abbess and an independent and courageous women who was also a prolific composer of liturgical chants. Her hymn, Fallen Woman, is still sung in the Greek Orthodox Church on Holy Wednesday
Kastalsky, Alexander Dmitriyevich more...	28 Nov. 1856 Moscow, Russia	17 Dec. 1926 Moscow, Russia	leading composer in the field of Russian church music whose work determined the course of its development in that period. An inspiration to composers such as Rachmaninoff and Stravinsky, he became a well-known ethnographer as well during the latter part of his life
Kastner, Jean Georges more...	9 Mar. 1810 Strasbourg, France	19 Dec. 1867 Paris, France	French composer and writer. His Traite général dinstrumentation (1837), an important contribution to instrumentation study, is often overlooked because of its chronological proximity to Berliozs Grand traité dinstrumentation (1843). Kastners complete and concise treatise discusses the standard orchestral instruments and several obscure and ancient instruments. Intended principally for young composers, it provides the most detailed descriptions of the standard wind instruments of his day and discusses recent developments like the ophicleide and valved brass instruments. After the publication of the Traité, Kastner released a supplement including Aldophe Saxs newest innovations, entitled Cours dinstrumentation, which included musical examples of principals discussed in the Traité. Both the Traité and the Cours were accepted by the Academy and adopted by the Paris Conservatoire
Katila, Timo	1956		flute teacher and teacher of music theory at Rauma Music School, he has played in many bands and composes mainly for wind bands and wind chamber groups
Kats-Chernin, Elena more...	4 Nov. 1957 Tashkent, Uzbekistan		Uzbek-born composer of stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, and piano works who emigrated with her family from the Sovient Union to Australia in 1975
Katscher, Robert more...	25 May 1894 Vienna, Austria	23 Feb. 1942 Hollywood, USA	composer, arranger and writer
Katt, Friedemann (pseudonym Frenzel, Franz Xaver) more...	1945 Mittenwalde/Pommern, Austria		organist, composer and teacher
Kattnigg, Rudolf more...	9 Apr. 1895 Töbring-Gemeinde Treffen Austria	2 Sep. 1955 Klagenfurt	Austrian composer, pianist and conductor
Katuar, Georgy (see Catoire, Georgy (Lvovich))
Katzer, Georg more...	1935 Silesia, Germany		founder of the Experimental Music Studio in Berlin, professor in 1980, awarded a masters degree in composition from the Akademie der Kunste. Create works and performs improvisations
Kauchlitz, Johann Andreas more...	1742 Grudim, Bohemia	The Netherlands	(also Colizzi, Giovanni Andrea) Bohemian organist and composer, author of Dissertatio de Sono (1774) a treatise on acoustics
Kauffmann, Georg Friedrich more...	14 Feb. 1679 Ostermondra, Thuringia, Germany	27 Feb. 1735 Merseburg, Germany	German organist and composer who, despite the small extent of his surviving output, ranks among the very best of J.S. Bachs German contemporaries
Kaufman, Christopher more...			American composer of music for a wide variety of medium including orchestra, wind ensemble, dance, chamber groups, theatre and solo works
Kaufman, Seymour (see Coleman, Cy)
Kaufmann, Dieter more...	22 Apr. 1941 Vienna		composer who, in 1975, together with his wife, actress Gunda König, Dieter Kaufmann, founded the K&K Experimentalstudio. This Musical-Theatre-Ensemble has made numerous tours throughout Europe, North and Latin America, Egypt and Taiwan
Kaumann, Tõnis more...	5 Apr. 1971 Tallinn, Estonia		his compositional approach can be classified as post-modern. In 1994 Kaumann won the competition Young European Composer that was held under the aegis of the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields
Kauppi, Emil	1875 Finland	1930	the first Finnish film music was the tango that Emil Kauppi wrote for the thriller Salainen perintömääräys (The Secret Directive, 1914). A National Romantic composer who wrote two operas, incidental music for the stage, operettas and a considerable number of solo songs, his first opera, Päiväkummun pidot (The Feast at Solhaug, 1925), was quite well received. Its successor, Nummisuutarit (The Cobblers on the Heath, 1930), based on the highly popular comedy by national author Aleksis Kivi, did not fare nearly as well. The opera was unanimously panned by the critics, and Kauppi, extremely hard hit by the criticism, disappeared soon after the premiere, most probably having committed suicide
Kauth, Maria Magdalene (Graff)	fl. 1780s Berlin		one of her piano concertos was in Hummels repertoire
Kavanagh, Dale more...	c.1960 Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada		concert classical guitarist and composer. Between 1986 and 1988 Kavanagh was a top prize-winner in Spain's Segovia Competition, Italy's Gargnano Competition, Switzerland's Neuchatel Competition and First and Special Prize winner in Finland's Scandinavian International Guitar Competition. She performs internationally as a soloist and in the Amadeus Guitar Duo with German guitarist (and husband) Thomas Kirchhoff
Kavina, Lydia more...	1967 Moscow, Russia		Lydia Kavina learned theremin from her great uncle Léon Theremin. Since 1981 she has been performing worldwide with, among others, the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Orchestra, the Boston Modern Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra, and the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia. She has played in the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, in the Thalia Theater and the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, with the Danish Royal Ballet in Copenhagen and at the Lincoln Center Festival in New York. She has worked with John Neumeier, Robert Wilson, Howard Shore, and Tom Waits, among others. Lydia Kavina received her degree in composition at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. Today she teaches theremin at the Theremin Center there and gives master classes throughout Europe and in the United States
Kawamoto, Hideko more...	1969 Japan		she studied composition (DMA) with Phil Winsor and piano (MM, BM) with Joseph Banowetz at University of North Texas followed by her post-doctoral study at Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) in Paris. Her international awards include Concorso Internazionale "Luigi Russolo" (1st Prize, Italy), Pierre Schaeffer International Computer Music Competition (2nd Prize, Italy), Bourges International Competition of Electroacoustic & Sonic Art (Mention Award and Honorable Mention, France), Ear 01 International Electroacoustic Music Composing (Honorable Mention, Hungary) and Sonic Circuits International Festival Electronic Music Art (Composition Awards, USA). Her latest commissions include Arizona State University and Dream Zone label (France). She explores her sound imagination in instrumental, electronic, and combined compositions
Kawasaki, Masaru more...	19 Apr. 1924 Tokyo, Japan		Japanese composer and conductor
Kay, Alison more...	1970		studied composition with Tom Wilson and James Macmillan at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, continuing with Simon Bainbridge and Edwin Roxburgh at the Royal College of Music, where she won many of the major composition prizes. She completed a Masters degree at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Robert Saxton and has just completed a doctorate at Sussex University under the supervision of Martin Butler. She has recently been appointed as a professor of composition at the Royal College of Music
Kay, Hershy	1919	1981	in addition to original compositions, Kay arranged compositions by George Gershwin, Noel Coward, Carl Maria von Weber, Joseph Haydn, J.S. Bach, Claude Debussy, and several 15th- and 16th-century composers. Seventeen ballets document Kay's collaboration with choreographers Joe Layton, George Balanchine, and Eliot Feld
Kazandjiev, Vassil more...	1934 Rousse, Bulgaria		Bulgarian conductor and composer
Kazanli, Nikolay Ivanovich	17 Dec. 1869 Tiraspol, Moldova	5 Aug. 1916 St. Petersburg, Russia	Russian composer and conductor
Kazazian, Georges more...	1953 Cairo, Egypt		an oud player grounded in both classical and popular Egyptian instrumental music, Kazazian has been involved in several European productions that are mixing world and ambient artists
Kazenin, Vladislav more...	21 May 1937 Kiev, Russia		Russian composer particularly of opera and musical comedy
Kazynski (or Kaschinski, Kazhinsky), Viktor Matveyevich	18 Dec. 1812 Vilnius, Latvia	6 Mar. 1867 St. Petersburg, Russia	Latvian organist, composer and conductor
Keane, Brian more...	1953 Philadelphia, USA		ten time Emmy winning composer and Grammy winning producer
Keane, John E. more...			British film and television composer
Keane, John M. more...	c.1965 USA		John Keane has been involved in music and television since he was only eleven years old, when he and his brother were known as The Keane Brothers and landed a network television show shortly after the release of their debut record. Throughout the 80s he worked as a session drummer for a number of great producers, and can be heard on records from Celine Dion, Chicago, Michael Bolton and more. Beginning in 1991 John Keane has been working behind the scenes writing scores for a number of hit television shows, most notably for the current top program in America for some years running, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Each episode of CSI presents a broad range of emotions, and as chief composer John must have a diverse musical arsenal to respond to the many types of scenes and storylines that play out every season
Keating, John (Johnny) more...	10 Sep. 1927 Edinburgh, Scotland		trombonist, composer and musical arranger who graduated from the back streets of Edinburgh to the neon-lit avenues of Los Angeles, California. Along the way he met and worked with some of the biggest names in show business, including Sammy Davis, Tony Bennett, Bing Crosby, Carmen McRae, Cleo Laine, Anthony Newley, Lita Roza, Mel Tormé and Caterina Valente
Keating, Zoë E. more...			Canadian-born cellist and composer based in San Francisco, California. In her solo performances and recordings (particularly the ongoing project she calls "One Cello x 16"), she uses live electronic sampling and repetition in order to layer the sound of her cello, creating rhythmically dense musical structures
Kechley, David Stevenson more...	16 Mar. 1947 Seatle, USA		Kechley joined the Williams College, USA music faculty in 1986, after teaching at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and the University of Washington. He received his bachelors and masters from the University of Washington and completed a doctorate of musical arts in composition at the Cleveland Institute of Music and Case Western Reserve University in 1979. Since the premiere of his Second Composition for Large Orchestra in 1968, Kechley has produced over 70 major works with more than 1,000 performances around the world. These include performances and commissions from the Boston Pops, Seattle Symphony, Vienna Saxophone Quartet and the United States Military Band
Kedrov, Nikolai jr more...	1905	1981	Russian composer of liturgical music
Kedrov, Nikolai sr more...	1871	1940	Russian composer of liturgical music
Kee, Piet more...	30 Aug. 1927 Zaandam, The Netherlands		city (recital) organist of the St Bavokerk in Haarlem (195689), organist of the St Laurenskerk (Schnitger organ) in Alkmaar (195287), and professor of organ at the Music Lyceum and Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam until 1988. Among his compositions are Music and Space, Confrontation (for 3 barrel organs and church organ) and Bios (1995)
Keetman, Gunild more...	1904	1990	the primary originator, along with Carl Orff, of the approach (not a method!) to teaching music known as Orff Schulwerk. Keetman was responsible for most of the actual teaching that was done in the early stages of the movement, perhaps most prominently as the teacher for the radio and television broadcasts that popularized the Schulwerk throughout Germany in the 1950s. Keetman was a prolific composer, and the five volume "Music for Children" contains many of her pieces. In addition, there are several volumes of music for recorder and percussion
Kef, (Cornelis) Kees	21 Sep. 1894 Zaandam, The Netherlands	30 Nov. 1961 The Netherlands	composer, pianist and chorus director. For the radio he worked as composer-arranger. From 1946 to 1949 he was teacher at the Amsterdam Muzieklyceum and from 1955 he was a music critic
Kehl, Johann Balthasar more...	24 Aug. 1759 Germany	7 Apr. 1764 Germany	organist in Erlangen and Bayreuth. In the years 1759-1764 he printed four books with chorale arrangements (they contain in each case 1 preludes and 14 chorale arrangements)
Keiser, Reinhard more...	9 Jan. 1674 Teuchern, Germany	12 Sep. 1739 Hamburg, Germany	popular German opera composer based in Hamburg. He wrote over a hundred operas, and in 1745 Johann Adolph Scheibe considered him an equal to Johann Kuhnau, George Frideric Handel and Georg Philipp Telemann (also related to the Hamburg Opera), but his work was largely forgotten for many decades
Keizer, Henk more...	3 Jul. 1948 Zwolle, The Netherlands		Dutch composer
Kelemen, Milko more...	1924 Croatia		Croatian composer based in Stuttgart, Germany
Kéler-Béla (Adalbert von Keler) more...	1820 Bartfeld, Hungary	20 Nov. 1882 Wiesbaden, Bavaria, Germany	Hungarian composer and, from 1847, a noted waltz-maker
Kelkel, Manfred more...	15 Jan. 1929 Germany	18 Apr. 1999 France	musicologist, composer and writer
Kellaway, Roger more...	1 Nov. 1939 Waban, Massachusetts, USA		American composer, guitarist, vocalist and teacher
Keller, Derek more...	1971 Philadelphia, USA		American composer and guitarist
Keller, Max more...	19 Mar. 1947 Aarau, Switzerland		Swiss composer of mostly stage, orchestral, chamber, vocal, piano and electroacoustic works
Keller, Wilhelm more...	1920 Wels, Upper Austria	4 Jun. 2008 Salzburg, Austria	Austrian composer who has concentrated on the musical interpretation of verbal, scenic and liturgical material, i.e. on vocal, theatre, film, church and childrens music (the last deriving from his work at the Orff Institute of the University Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria with Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman)
Kellner, David more...	c.1670 Liebertwolkwitz, nr. Leipzig, Germany	6 Apr. 1748 Stockholm, Sweden	David Kellner's fame rests on his thorough-bass treatise Treulicher Unterricht im General-Bass. . . (Hamburg, 1732) and his lute tablature book XVI auserlesene Lauten-Stücke. . . (Hamburg, 1747). The Treulicher Unterricht went through no less than eight German editions from 1732 up to 1796, two Dutch, one Swedish and one Russian. Several copies of the different editions are to be found in libraries around the world indicating the impact Kellner's thorough-bass treatise must once have had. Of his lute book, on the other hand, only two copies seem to be extant. A few of his lute pieces are to be found in manuscript sources. The XVI auserlesene Lauten-Stücke was furthermore one of the last tablature books to be published [extract from http://www.tabulatura.com/KELLNHEM.htm]
Kellner, Johann Christoph more...	15 Aug. 1736 Gräfenroda, Thuringia, Germany	1803 Kassel, Germany	German organist and composer. He was the son of Johann Peter Kellner
Kellner, Johann Peter more...	28 Sep. 1705 Gräfenroda, Thuringia, Germany	19 Apr. 1772 Gräfenroda, Thuringia, Germany	German organist and composer. He was the father of Johann Christoph Kellner
Kelly, Brian more...	16 Mar. 1960 New York City, USA		American composer, pianist, and producer creating music in the jazz fusion, contemporary jazz and New Age genres
Kelly, Bryan (George) more...	3 Jan. 1934 Oxford, England		English composer, much influenced by Latin American music
Kelly (or Kellie), Earl of (see Kelly (or Kellie), Thomas Erskine 6th Earl of)
Kelly, Frederick Septimus more...	29 May 1881 Sydney, Australia	13 Nov. 1916 Beaucourt-sur-Ancre, France	Australian rower, pinaist, composer and soldier
Kelly, Michael more...	25 Dec. 1762 Dublin, Ireland	9 Oct. 1826 Margate, Kent, England	Irish tenor, actor, theatre manager and composer
Kelly, Monty more...	10 Jun 1910 Oakland, California, USA	15 Mar 1971 New York, USA	trumpeter, arranger and bandleader who played with the Paul Whiteman and Skinnay Ennis bands before landing a job with NBC in New York. Cash Box magazine named him most promising orchestra in 1953, but by then the era of popular instrumentals was starting to wane in the USA. His albums continued to do well, and they are still sought by light music fans
Kelly, Thomas C more...	1917	1985	Irish composer known particularly of light orchestral pieces
Kelly (or Kellie), Thomas Erskine 6th Earl of more...	1 Sep. 1732 Kellie Castle, Scotland	9 Oct. 1781 Brussels, Belgium	a composer of some fame in his own time, as well as being an able violinist who directed the concerts in Saint Cecillia's Hall in Niddry's Wynd, Edinburgh in the 1760s
Kellyk, Hugh more...	fl. 15th century		nothing at all is known of Hugh Kellyk, but his five-part Magnificat and his cleverly managed seven-part Gaude flore virginali appear to be among the earlier pieces in the Eton Choirbook
Kelway, Thomas more...	c.1695 Chichester, England	21 May 1749 Chichester, England	English organist and composer
Kemble (married Sartoris), Adelaide	1814 England	1879	a concert and opera singer who composed songs
Kemenade, Paul van more...	1957 Rotterdam, The Netherlands		Dutch alto sax player and composer
Kemp, Bart de more...	1959		Dutch composer
Kempff, Wilhelm more...	25 Nov. 1895 Jüterbog, Germany	23 May 1991 Positano, Italy	German virtuoso pianist and composer
Kempis Jean Florent a'	fl. 17th century		organist of a church (not St Gudule) in Brussels from about 1657 who was certainly the author of a book of Cantiones published at Antwerp in 1657, and possibly wrote the Missae et Motetta and a requiem, the former of which, published at Antwerp in 1650, has been also ascribed to Nicolas a' Kempis
Kempis, Nicolas a'	fl. 17th century		organist of St Gudule, at Brussels, in about 1628 and composer of three books of symphonies (published in Antwerp 1644, 1647 and 1649). A certain Jean Florent a' Kempis was organist of another church in Brussels from about 1657 who was certainly the author of a book of Cantiones published at Antwerp in 1657, and possibly wrote the Missae et Motetta and a requiem, the former of which, published at Antwerp in 1650, has been also ascribed to Nicolas a' Kempis
Kenins, Talivaldis more...	22 Apr. 1919 Liepaja, Latvia	20 Jan. 2008 Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Latvian-born composer and teacher
Kennedy, Jimmy more...	20 Jul 1902 Omagh, Northern Ireland	6 Apr 1984 Cheltenham, UK	he taught for a while in England before embarking on a career in song writing by joining the staff of Bert Feldman a Music Publisher based in London's Tin Pan Alley. In a career spanning more than fifty years he wrote some 2000 songs, of which over 200 became world-wide hits and about 50 are all-time popular classics. Until John Lennon and Paul McCartney, he had more hits in the United States than any other British songwriter
Kennel, Hans more...	20th century Switzerland		founder and chief arranger of Mytha: Contemporary Alphorn Orchestra, and a leading expert on folk tradition, in particular on that of Central Switzerland. His interest, however, does not stem from ethnomusicological hunting and gathering practices but from a living experience with music, both improvised and other kinds
Kennis, Willem (Guillaume) Gommaer (Gommaar, Gommaire) more...	1717 Lierre, Belgium	1789 Louvian, Belgium	composer and violist
Kenny, Dawn more...	20th century Co. Clare, Ireland		singer-songwriter, pianist and composer
Kenny, John more...	1957 Birmingham, England		British trombonist, actor, composer and multi-faceted performer of contemporary solo repertoire, modern jazz and early music
Kenton, Stan more...	15 Dec. 1911 Wichita, Kansas, USA	25 Aug. 1979 Hollywood, California, USA	influential pianist, band-leader, composer and arranger
Ker, Dorothy more...	1965 Carterton, New Zealand		New Zealand-born composer
Kercado (de), Mlle. Le Senechal			her opera La Meprise Volontair was performed in 5 Jun. 1805 at the Opera-Comique, Paris
Kerckhoven (or Kerchoven, Kerckhoven), Abraham van den more...	c.1618 possibly Malines, Belgium	9 Jan. 1702 Brussels, Belgium	Belgian composer and organist
Kerger, Camille more...	1957 Luxembourg		tenor singer and composer from Luxembourg
Kerko, Harri more...	25 Apr. 1968 Pori, Finland		Finnish composer and conductor who won 1st prize in the composition competition of Oulu University Chamber Choir Cassiopeia, January 1998
Kerle, Jacobus de more...	baptised 1531/32 Ieper	1591 Prague	from 1555 he was in Italy, in a church post at Orvieto; from 1562 he served the Archbishop of Augsburg in Rome during the closing stages of the Council of Trent. He was active at Ypres in 1565--7, but then took over the choir of Augsburg cathedral, moving on to a Benedictine abbey in Kempten in 1575. Again he returned to Flanders, as canon of Cambrai in 1579, but he went back to Germany in 1582 as choirmaster to the Elector of Köln; later that year he took up his last post, as an Imperial court chaplain in Prague. His published music included eight volumes of motets and Vespers music and one of Masses. The Preces commissioned by the Cardinal of Augsburg in 1562 are in a lyrical, uncomplicated Palestrinian style and may well have influenced the fathers of the Council of Trent not to abandon polyphony in church music [entry suggested by Robert Bogaerts]
Kerll, Johan Kaspar more...	9 Apr. 1627 Adorf, Germany	13 Feb. 1693 Munich, Germany	a German baroque composer and organist. Although he was one of the most acclaimed composers of his time, known both as a gifted composer and an outstanding teacher, Kerll is virtually forgotten today and his music is rarely played or recorded. His compositions reflect a synthesis of Italian and Germanic styles
Kern, Jerome more...	27 Jan. 1885 New York City, USA	11 Nov. 1945 New York City, USA	American composer of popular music
Kernis, Aaron Jay more...	15 Jan. 1960 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA		American composer
Kerr Jr., Thomas	3 Jan. 1915 Baltimore, Maryland, USA	26 Aug. 1988 Washington, DC, USA	Kerr attended the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester, New York, where he received the Bachelor of Music degree. He joined the faculty at Howard University, Washington, DC, in 1943 and served for 35 years as a piano and composition instructor and organist. He also toured extensively as a concert pianist. Kerr composed primarily for the organ; however, he also wrote piano, choral, and solo vocal works
Kerstens, Huub more...	7 Jun. 1947 Den Haag, The Netherlands	24 Feb. 1999 Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Dutch composer
Kersters, Willem more...	9 Feb. 1929 Antwerp, Belgium	29 Dec. 1998 Antwerp, Belgium	Belgian composer
Kervinen, Jukka-Pekka more...	24. May 1961 Helsinki, Finland		Finnish composer who has worked with electronic music
Kervinen, Mikko more.../a>	14 Nov. 1962 Helsinki, Finland		Finnish composer who writes free-tonal instrumental works
Kes, Willem more...	16 Feb. 1856 Dordrecht, The Netherlands	22 Feb. 1934 Munich, Germany	Dutch-born conductor, violinist and composer who was, from 1905 to 1926, director of a music conservatory in Koblenz
Keskinen, Kari	1956 Finland		Finnish composer who has worked with electronic music
Kessel, Barney more...	17 Oct. 1923 Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA	6 May 2004 San Diego, California, USA	American jazz guitarist, a member of many prominent jazz groups as well as a "first call" guitarist for studio, film, and television recording sessions. Kessel was a member of the group of session musicians known as The Wrecking Crew
Kessel, Joseph more...	10 Feb. 1898 Clara, Entre Ríos, Argentina	23 Jul. 1979 Avernes, Val-d'Oise, France	novelist and, from 1962 to 1979, a member of the Académie française. In 1943 Kessels and Maurice Druon translated Anna Marly's song Chant des Partisans into French from its original Russian. The song became one of the anthems of the Free French Forces during World War II
Kesselman, Alla more...	1976 Moscow, Russia		Russian composer
Kessler, Thomas more...	25 Sep. 1937 Zurich, Switzerland		after studies in German and Romanic linguistics at the Universities of Zurich and Paris he studied composition with Heinz Friedrich Hartig, Ernst Pepping and Boris Blacher in Berlin where he founded his own electronic studio in 1965. In the following years he was director of the Berlin Electronic Beat Studio and musical director of the Centre Universitaire International de Formation et de Recherche Dramatiques in Nancy. From 1973 until 2000 he taught composition and theory at the Basel Music Academy and created the well-known electronic studio there. Together with Gerard Zinsstag he founded the festival Tage fuer Neue Musik in Zurich and the live-electronic music festival ECHT!ZEIT with Wolfgang Heiniger in Basel. As a composer of numerous instrumental chamber music, orchestral music and live-electronic music compositions, he is interested in the interactions between musicians and electronics. Thomas Kessler lives in Basel and Toronto
Kessner, Daniel more...	1946 Los Angeles, California, USA		American composer
Kesti, Eero more...	1959 Finland		Finnish composer
Kesti, Jouni more...	21 Sep. 1946 Finland		composer, drummer, percussionist, sculptor, painter, conceptual artist and columnist
Kestner, Hermann more...	1810 Hannover, Germany	27 Jun. 1890 Hannover, Germany	German composer who was the grandson of Charlotte Buff-Kestner (1753-1828), wife of the German novelist J.H. Kestner and friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Hermann Kestner was the founder of the Kestner Museum in Hanover
Ketèlbey, Albert William more...	9 Aug. 1875 Birmingham, England	26 Nov. 1959 Cowes, Isle of Wight, England	English composer, conductor and pianist
Ketentzoglou, Vassilis more...	15 Mar. 1979 Athens, Greece		Greek composer, guitarist and musicologist
Ketting, Otto more...	3 Sep. 1935 Amsterdam, The Netherlands		Dutch composer, the son of Piet Ketting
Ketting, Piet more...	29 Nov. 1905 Haarlem, The Netherlands	25 May 1984 Rotterdam, The Netherlands	Dutch composer, pianist and conductor, father of Otto Ketting
Keulen, Geert van more...	11 Oct. 1943 Amsterdam, The Netherlands		Dutch composer, clarinetist, conductor and teacher
Keune, Eckehardt more...	1931 Germany		German teacher and composer noted particularly for his works for percussion
Keuris, Tristan more...	3 Oct. 1946 Amersfoort, The Netherlands	15 Dec. 1996 Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Dutch composer
Khachaturian, Aram Ilich more...	6 Jun. 1903 Tblisi, Armenia	1 May 1978 Moscow, Russia	his music is deeply rooted in the folklore of Armenia (although born in Georgia, he was of Armenian descent), as well as drawing from Georgian, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Turkmenian and Irano-Azerbaijan national melodies. Even so, he has retained musical forms that are strongly western European
Khachaturian, Karen more...	19 Sep. 1920 Moscow, Russia		his earlier works appear conservative although always skilfully written, displaying some expressive depth and a subtlety of taste. His later works, notably the oratorio A Moment of History, dedicated to Lenin's memory, show that he has expanded his technique allowing a greater variety, freshness and sharpness
Khandoshkin (or Handoshkin, Khadooshkin, Khandochkine), Ivan Yevstafyevich	1747 St. Petersburg, Russia	30 Mar. 1804 St. Petersburg, Russia	Russian violinist and composer
Khanendeh, Zakharia	1680	1750 Constantinople	of Greek Orthodox ascent, he lived in Istanbul (Constantinople) and worked there as a singer and composer. Reflecting the cosmopolitan society of his time, his music is a very personal synthesis of Ottoman, Persian, and Byzantine art music. He composed and sang ecclesiastical music as well as classical Ottoman music. Houseyni Agir Semai is one of his masterworks
Kharizna, Vladimir more...	fl. 19-20th century		Russian composer of religious works
Khrennikov, Tikhon (Tichon) Nikolayevich more...	10 Jun. 1913 Yelets, Russia	14 Aug. 2007 Moscow, Russia	Russian composer who composed three symphonies, three piano concertos, two violin concertos, two cello concertos, operas, operettas, ballets, chamber music, incidental music and film music
Khumalo, James Stephen Mzilikazi more...	20 Jun. 1932 KwaNgwelu, Vryheid, Natal, South Africa		Emeritus Professor of the University of the Witwatersrand, Honorary Professional Research Fellow in its School of Music, and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of SAMRO. He played a role in producing an official version of the South African National Anthem, at the request of President Nelson Mandela. Khumalo also serves on the Music Committee of the National Arts Council
Kicken, Hubert more...	14 Jan. 1921 The Netherlands	7 Mar. 1994 Maastricht, The Netherlands	Dutch accordeonist, composer, arranger and musical director
Kiel, August Clemens (or Clemens August) more...	1813 Wiesbaden, Germany	1871 Detmold, Germany
Kiel, Friedrich more...	8 Oct. 1821 Bad Laasphe, Puderback, Germany	14 Sep. 1885 Berlin, Germany	German composer and music teacher
Kienzl, Wilhelm more...	17 Jan. 1857 Waizenkirchen, Austria	19 Oct. 1941 Vienna, Austria	Austrian opera composer
Kiesewetter, Peter more...	1 May 1945 Marktheidenfeld, Germany		German composer
Kilar, Wojciech more...	17 Jul. 1932 Lwów (formerly Poland)	29 Dec. 2013 Katowice, Poland	one of Poland's premier symphonic composers. As a student he studied piano with Wladyslawa Markiewiczówna and composition with Boleslaw Szabelski at the State Higher School of Music in Katowice. After graduation he was awarded a French Government Grant which enabled him to study with Nadia Boulanger in Paris; a city he still considers his second home. Wojciech Kilar has been awarded numerous international prizes for composition, among them are the Lili Boulanger Memorial Fund Award of Boston in 1960, the Jurzykowski Foundation Award of New York in 1983, the State Award Grade I in 1980, the awards of the Minister of Culture in 1967, 1976, and 1975, the prize of the Polish Composers' Union in 1975, and the A.S.C.A.P.Award for his score from Coppola's Dracula in Los Angeles in 1992.
Killigrew, Lady	fl. 17th century England		composer
Killmayer, Wilhelm more...	21 Aug. 1927 Munich, Germany		German composer, student of Carl Orff
Kilpinen, Yrjö (Henrik) more...	4 Feb. 1892 Helsinki, Finland	2 Mar. 1959 Helsinki, Finland	he reached the height of his career in the 1930s; at the time, he was even considered Finland's most significant composer after Sibelius. It did not help his later reputation that he was extremely popular in Nazi Germany; critics there described him as "the greatest lyricist of the age" and "a master of song of the highest calibre" in 1934. He was also highly regarded in Britain, where the Kilpinen Society was founded in 1935
Kilpiö, Lauri more...	8 Mar. 1974 Finland		Finnish composer and pianist
Kim, Earl more...	1920 Dinuba, California, USA	1998 Cambridge, Mass. USA	American composer and teacher
Kim, Suk-Jun more...	1970 Taebaek, Korea		Korean-born composer of both electro acoustic and acoustic media, now based in Florida, USA
Kim, Lyun (Yun) Joon more...	1916 Korea		Korean composer
Kindermann, Johann Erasmus more...	29 Mar. 1616 Nuremberg, Germany	14 Apr. 1655 Nuremberg, Germany	German organist, teacher and composer. His chief work, Harmonia organica in tabulaturam Germanicam composita, etc., first published in 1645 and republished in 1665, is remarkable, as being one of the earlist specimens of German copper-plate engraving, and is also of importance in the history of organ-playing and organ composition
Kineya, Seiho more...	1914 Koto, Japan	1991 Japan	composer of traditional Japanese music
King, Alastair more...	1967 Watford, England		British composer best known for his music for films and television
King, B B (born Riley B. King) more...	16 Sep. 1925 Itta Bena, Mississippi, USA		an American blues guitarist and songwriter. He is widely considered one of the best (and most respected) blues musicians in the world. One of his trademarks is Lucille, a custom guitar he began using in the 1950s
King, Betty Lou Jackson	17 Feb. 1928 Chicago, Illinois, USA	1 Jun. 1994 Wildwood, New Jersery, USA	After completing her education in music composition, she developed a career as an educator, church musician, lecturer, choral director, composer, and music publisher
King, Carole (née Klein) more...	9 Feb. 1942 New York, USA		an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. She was most active as a singer during the first half of the 1970s, but she was a successful songwriter for considerably longer both before and after this period
King, Denis more...	25 Jul 1939 Horchurch, UK		pianist with the 1950s and 60s group "King Brothers" with his older brothers Michael and Anthony, and later a noted composer of music for film and TV. King was heard as a pianist and composer in the Maureen Lipman recreations of Joyce Grenfell heard on BBC Radio 3
King (or King-Gomez), Geoffrey more...	1949 Croydon, England		British composer and teacher who lives in Amsterdam
King, Karl (Lawrence) more...	21 Feb. 1891 Paintersville, Ohio, USA	31 Mar. 1971 Fort Dodge, Iowa, USA	composer of nearly 300 original published works for band and one of the most important composers of circus music. Bandmaster for Buffalo Bill Wild West Show and Sells-Floto Circus, then left the show and became the band director for 50 years at Fort Dodge. Among his most famous compositions, Barnum & Bailey's Favorite; Kentucky Sunrise; Sells-Floto Triumphal; Canton Aero Club; Broadway One-Step; The Viking [information supplied by Charles Conrad]
King, Reginald Claude McMahon more...	5 Oct 1904 Hampstead, London	1991	an accomplished pianist, who performed under the baton of Sir Henry Wood at the Proms soon after he completed his studies at Londons Royal Academy, in 1927 he took an orchestra into Swan & Edgars restaurant at their Piccadilly Circus store, where they remained until 1939. During this period he also started broadcasting regularly, and he made numerous recordings, often featuring his own attractive compositions. He made his last broadcast in 1964, but during a long retirement he continued composing until shortly before his death
King Palmer, Cedric more...	13 Feb 1913 Sussex, England, UK	13 Jul 1999 Twickenham, London	a native of Sussex and educated at Tonbridge School but for a long time resident in London, Palmer had been composer, author, pianist, violinist, cellist, oboist, baritone singer, lecturer and conductor of the King Palmer Light Orchestra on the BBC and of other bodies like the Euphonic Symphony Orchestras, the North London Orchestra, the City Literary Institute Orchestra, the Sevenoaks Music Society and various theatre and film orchestras
Kinkel, Johanna Mockel	1810 Germany	1858	composer whose book Letters on Piano Playing was published in 1852
Kinsella, John more...	1932 Dublin, Ireland		Irish composer
Kinzé Jos more...	1918 Essen, Germany		German-born organist and composer
Kipourgos, Nikos more...
Kiraly, David Zsolt more...
Kiraly, Laszlo more...
Kirbye, George more...	c.1565 England	bur. 6 Oct. 1634 nr. Bury St. Edmunds, England	English composer of the late Tudor period and early Jacobean era. He was one of the members of the English Madrigal School, but also composed sacred music
Kircher, Athanasius more...	2 May 1601/2 Geisa, Fulda, Germany	27/28 Nov. 1680 Rome, Italy	17th century German Jesuit scholar who published around 40 works, most notably in the fields of oriental studies, geology, and medicine. Kircher has been compared to fellow Jesuit Roger Boscovich and to Leonardo da Vinci for his enormous range of interests, and has been honoured with the title "master of a hundred arts"
Kirchner, Leon more...	24 Jan. 1919 Brooklyn, New York, USA		American composer
Kirchner, Theodor more...
Kirchner, Volker David more...
Kirk, Rahsaan Roland more...
Kirkpatrick, William James more...	27 Feb. 1838 Duncannon, Pennsylvania, USA	20 Sep. 1921 Germantown, Pennsylvania, USA	American-born school teacher, string player and writer of hymns [entry prompted by Eglas Leistiko]
Kirnberger, Johann Philipp more...
Kisielewski, Stefan more...	7 Mar. 1911 Warsaw, Poland	1991 Warsaw, Poland	composer, publicist, music writer and critic, writer, journalist, and teacher. In 1927 he entered the State Conservatory of Music in Warsaw, where he received three diplomas: in theory (1934, under Kazimierz Sikorski), in composition (1937, also under K. Sikorski) and in pedagogical piano (1937, under Jerzy Lefeld). He also studied Polish literature and philosophy at Warsaw University and completed his composition studies in Paris, in the years 1938-39.
Kittel, Caspar	1603	1639	a pupil of Heinrich Schütz, Kittel was singing master to the boys' choir at Dresden. He published his only printed collection of music in 1638, the year in which Monteverdis famous Eighth Book of Madrigals appeared. It contains 30 vocal works to German texts for 1, 2, 3, and 4 voices with thorough bass
Kittel, Johann Christian more...
Kittl, Jan Bedrich more...
Kiurkchiiskii, Krassimir (see Kyurkchiyski, Krassimir)
Kjerulf, Halfdan more...
Klabon, Krzysztof more...	c. 1550 Königsberg	in or after 1616	a singer in the Court choir in Cracow who in 1565 was transferred to the group of instrumentalists employed at same court. Although we know him as a composer, lutenist, instrumentalist and singer, it is probably his playing on the lute for which he is most renowned. Indeed, he can be counted among the five to six most important Polish lutenists up to the present day
Kladas, daughter of Ioannes	late 14th century Constantinople		daughter of Ioannes Kladas, composer of Alleluia
Klami, Markku more...	21 Feb. 1979 Turku, Finland		Finnish guitarist and composer
Klami, Uuno more...	20 Sep. 1900 Virolahti, Finland	29 May 1961 Virolahti, Finland	"Russian Modernists such as Prokofiev and Stravinsky, and new Spanish music, shook me up from top to toe. That is where the Karelian Rhapsody came from. It was around that time that I went to the Sorbonne to borrow a copy of the Kalevala." This description by Klamiof the impact of his study trip to Paris in 19241925 shows a composer of fascinating versatility, discussing the most recent Modernist trends and the national tradition embodied in the Kalevala in the same breath. Klami never saw the two as opposites; instead, he like Stravinsky in his Russian period created an appealing synthesis, albeit the national dimension is audible only in a few of his works
Klanac, Petar Kresimir more...
Klatzow, Peter more...	1945 Springs, Tranvaal, South Africa		one of South Africa's most distinguished international composers. His specialities include choral music, and writing for piano and for marimba. He has composed concertos for organ (2), marimba, marimba and flute, and clarinet. Peter Klatzow is professor of composition at the University of Cape Town [information supplied by the composer]
Klaveren, Wijnand van more...
Klebe, Giselher more...
Kleber, Leonhard more...	c.1495 Göppingen, Germany	4 Mar. 1556 Pforzheim, Germany	a German organist, and probably composer, of the Renaissance. In 1524 Kleber produced his most famous work, a huge tablature containing 112 separate compositions, mostly by other composers. It was compiled between 1521 and 1524, and contains 332 pages; several hands are identifiable in the manuscript, though none have been identified . None of the music is attributed to its composer, although most has been identified; some of the anonymous pieces may be by Kleber himself. This huge early Reformation-era collection is one of the earliest large collections of organ music, and is unusual both for its size and inclusiveness, containing both sacred and secular music in arrangement
Kleijn, Johannes Carel more...
Klein, Georg more...
Klein, Jacob more...
Klein, Gideon more...
Klein, Joseph II more...
Klein, Juliane more...
Kleinknecht, Jakob Friedrich more...
Klemetti, Heikki more...	14 Feb. 1876 Kuortane, Finland	26 Aug. 1953 Helsinki, Finland	choral composer who was also a revered Finnish choral conductor. Although his output as a composer consists largely of choral works, he also wrote a sizable body of solo songs
Klemola, Sami more...	7 Dec. 1973 Finland		Finnish guitarist and composer
Klemperer, Otto more...
Klenau, Paul von more...
Klengel, August more...	1783 Dresden	1852 Dresden	German composer, piano student of Clementi, organist at the Dresden Hofkapelle from some time after 1817. His students banded together to publish two volumes of 24 Canons and Fugues after his death. Moritz Hauptmann (1792-1868) was the main person responsible for that publication, and signed the preface; but he makes it clear that he was not working alone
Klenovski, Nikolay Semyonovich	1853 Odessa, Ukraine	6 Jun. 1915 St. Petersburg, Russia	Russian conductor and composer
Kleophas, Michael, Count Oginski more...	25 Sep 1765 Gurow, nr Warsaw, Poland	31 Oct 1833 Florence, Italy	the Polish Count Oginski, (Michael Kleophas, Count Oginski who was High Treasurer of Lithuania.) was formerly much noted as a composer of Polonaises
Kleppe, Joost more...
Klerk, Albert de more...
Kletzki, Paul more...
Kleynjans, Francis more...	15 Apr. 1951 Paris, France		guitarist, composer and performer who studied with Alexandre Lagoya at the Conservatoire National de Musique de Paris and later, with the renowned Venezuelan guitarist Alirio Diaz. He was awarded First Prize at the 22nd Paris Guitar Competition for his piece entitled À l'aube du dernier jour. He has produced more than 600 pieces for guitar: solos, duets, trios, quartets, concertos as well as film music. He had been influenced strongly by the music and rhythms of South America
Klicka, Josef more...
Klobucar, Andjelko more...	1931		organ player and church music composer, played throughout Europe, including the church of Notre Dame in Paris, Westminster Abbey in London, Basilica of St. Maria degli Angeli in Assisi
Klop, Henk more...
Klosé, Hyacinthe Eléonore more...	11 Oct. 1808 Corfu	29 Aug. 1880	a pioneer, with Buffet, of the ring-key mechanism for the clarinet; author of Grande Méthode pour la clarinette à anneaux mobiles (1844) and methods for the saxophones and a composer of many works for clarinet
Klucevsek, Guy more...
Klughardt, August more...
Knaifel, Alexander more...	28 Nov. 1943 Tashkent, Uzbekistan		Russian composer who studied violoncello under Fischmann in Leningrad and from 1961 until 1963 under Rostropovich in Moscow. Due to a neural disorder in both his arms he had to stop playing the cello. He then studied composition from 1964 until 1967 under Boris Arapov in Leningrad
Knecht, Justin Heinrich more...
Kneller, Andreas more...
Knezek, Jan Vaclav more...
Knieper, Jurgen more...
Knigge, Adolph von more...
Knight, Gerald more...
Knipper, Lev Konstantinovich more...	3 Dec. (Old Style 21 Nov.) 1898 Tbilisi, Georgia	30 Jul. 1974 Moscow, Russia	he was influenced by western avant-garde styles in the 1920s. From the 1930s Knipper modified his style more in line with political dictates. He devoted his time to folk music research notating folk songs of Turkmenia, Kirgizia and other regions
Knittel, Krzysztof more...	1 May 1947 Warsaw, Poland		studied sound engineering and composition with Tadeusz Baird, Andrzej Dobrowolski and Wlodzimierz Kotonski at the Academy of Music in Warsaw. Since 1973 he has collaborated with the Experimental Studio of the Polish Radio. In 1974-75 he studied computer programming in the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He also took part in the new music courses in Darmstadt (1974, 1976). Knittel is a co-founder of several live electronic and intuitive music groups: KEW Composers' Group (with Elzbieta Sikora and Wojciech Michniewski, 1973-76), Cytula Tyfun da Bamba Orkiester (1981), Independent Electroacoustic Music Studio (1982-84), Light from Poland (1985-87), and the European Improvisation Orchestra (1996)
Knopfler, Mark more...
Knupfer, Sebastian more...
Knussen, Oliver more...
Kobayashi, Akira more...
Kobrich, Johann Anton more...
Koch, Erland Sigurd Christian Jag Vogt von more...	26 Apr. 1910 Stockholm, Sweden	31 Jan. 2009 Stockholm, Sweden	composer of orchestral works, often with folkloric elements but equally as often with a tight, unequivocal tone language
Koch, Jesper more...
Koch, Jobst Hermann more...
Koch, Johannes more...
Koch, Sigurd von more...	28 Jun. 1879	16 Mar. 1919	Swedish Romantic composer, father of Erland von Koch
Kochan, Gunther more...
Kocher, Conrad more...
Kochetov, Vadim Nikolayevich	22 Nov. 1898 Moscow, Russia	31 Jul. 1951 Moscow, Russia	Russian composer
Kochurov, Yuri Vladimirovich	12 Jun. 1907 Saratov, Russia	22 May 1952 Leningrad, Russia	Russian composer
Kocken (or Cokken), Jean François Barthélemy more...	23 Jan. 1801 Paris, France	13 Feb. 1875 Paris, France	French bassoonist, composer of works for bassoon and author of a bassoon method
Kocsar, Miklos more...
Kocsis, Zoltán more...	30 May. 1930 Budapest, Hungary		a Hungarian pianist, conductor, and composer
Koczwara, Frantisek more...
Kodály, Zoltán more...	16 Dec. 1882 Kecskemét, Hungary	6 Mar. 1967 Budapest, Hungary	Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, educator, linguist and philosopher
Koechlin, Charles more...
Koehne, Graeme more...
Koenig, Gottfried Michael more...
Koennemann, Miloslav more...
Koepf, Siegfried more...
Koessiakov, more...
Koessler, Hans more...
Koetsier, Jan more...
Koglmann, Franz more...
Kohaut, Carl more...
Kohlenberg, Oliver more...	24 Jan. 1957 Aachen, Germany		a free twelve-tone composer, whose music has been compared to Alban Berg and Hans Werner Henze. He has written several extensive, unusually long works; for example, his Second Piano Sonata Umanak (1983) lasts about 50 minutes; his Second String Quartet (1997), dedicated to Henze, is almost as long; and his Third Symphony (1998) lasts an hour. Kohlenberg's principal works also include the operas Sina ja kookospuu (Sina and the Coconut Tree, 1987), Sipirjan lapsi (The Child of Siberia, 1998) and Magdalena (2000)
Kohler, Ernesto more...	4 Dec. 1849 Modena, Italy	17 Mar. 1907 St. Petersburg, Russia	flautist and composer writing more than 100 pieces for the flute, mainly etudes. His earliest lessons were with his father but in 1869 he was appointed first flautist of the Reichs orchestra in St Petersburg, Russia [information supplied by Samantha Smith]
Kohler, (Christian) Louis (Heinrich) more...	5 Sep. 1820 Brunswick, Germany	16 Feb. 1886 Königsberg, Germany	German pianist, conductor, teacher and composer, who studied with Franz Liszt, Louis Kohler moved to Vienna in 1839. From 1843 Kohler was a conductor in Marienburg and Elbing until he finally settled in Königsberg in 1847. Here Kohler composed operas and ballets. Today, Kohler is primarily remembered for his educational piano compositions and collections. The Grand duo polonais pour violon et piano concertant (1852) written by the brothers Henryk and Joseph Wieniawski is dedicated to Louis Kohler
Kohler, Gottlieb Heinrich more...	1765	1833	composer
Kohlermann, Angelika more...
Kokai, Rezso more...
Kokkonen, Joonas more...	13 Nov. 1921 Iisalmi, Finland	2 Oct. 1996 Järvenpää, Finland	his output as a whole and his works individually display a remarkably high degree of coherence and an immediately identifiable voice. Kokkonen often quoted his friend architect Alvar Aalto saying that creative work is governed by a "passion for quality". Kokkonen was a self critical composer whose work was controlled by a strong sense of self discipline, conciseness and removal of everything that was superfluous. His output never grew very large, partly also because of his distinguished career as an influential figure in Finnish music, Professor of Composition, Academician and holder of many elected posts
Kolar, Margo more...
Kolatschewski, Michail Nikolajew		2 Oct. 1851	Russian composer
Kolb, Barbara more...
Kolb, Karlmann more...
Kolb, Simon more...
Kolberg, Kare more...
Kolessa, Mykola more...	6 Dec. 1903 Ukraine		graduating from the Prague State Conservatory in the class of eminent composer Vitëzslav Novák (student of Antonin Dvorák), he himself the task to integrate the folk idioms of the Ukraine mountains into 20th western musical forms
Kollo, Walter more...
Kollo, Willi more...
Köln (von), Anna	c. 1480	1530	known for her monophonic songs from about 1525
Kolodner, Ken more...
Komarova, Tatyana more...
Komitas, Sogomon more...	1869	1935	ethnomusicologist, monk, and choir master was one of Armenia's greatest composers
Komma, Karl Michael more...
Komorous, Rudolf more...
Komorowski, Ignaz more...	24 Feb 1824 Warsaw, Poland	14 Oct 1857	he belonged for many years to the theatre orchestra in Warsaw, after which he benefited by the instruction of Adam Hermann senior. As a composer be attained great popularity in his native land by his charming songs, full of poetical sentiment
Komter, Jan Maarten more...
Komulainen, Juhani more...	22 Apr. 1953 Finland		studied composition at the University of Miami in the US, and with Einojuhani Rautavaara in Finland. He gained a reputation in the 1990s through his successful participation in several Finnish and international competitions. His choral music combines a melodic propensity, a lyrical basic mood, a soft brand of free tonality and a style-independent freedom of expression.
Komzak, Karel jr more...
Kon, Severyn more...
Kondo, Jo more...
Koninck, Servaes de more...
Koningshofer, Franz more...
Konitopoulos, Yorgos more...
Konitopoulou, Irini more...
Konitz, Lee more...
Konjovic, Petar	1883	1970	composer, writer about music and musical organiser, Konjovic was the director of the Zagreb opera, the manager of the Osijek opera, and one of the founders of the Academy of Music and the Institute of Musicology in Belgrade. He composed operas inspired by folk music, stylistically close to the work of Leos Janacek. His operas The Prince of Zeta (1929) and Kostana (1931; performed in Brno in 1932 and in Prague in 1935) were really musical dramas, while his chansons were often closely based on traditional folk melodies
Konyus (or Conus, Konjus, Konius), Georgy Eduardovich	30 Sep. 1862 Moscow, Russia	29 Aug. 1933 Moscow, Russia	Russian musicologist and composer
Konyus (or Conus, Konjus), Julius Eduardvich	30 Jan. 1869 Moscow, Russia	12 Mar. 1942 Malenki, France	violinist, teacher and composer
Koolmees, Hans more...
Koomans, Dick more...
Kopelent, Marek more...
Koper, Karl Heinz more...
Kopilov (r Kopylov, Kopylof, Kopuilov), Alexander Alexandrovich	14 Jul. 1854 St. Petersburg, Russia	20 Feb. 18911 Strelna, nr. St. Petersburg, Russia	Russian violinist, teacher and composer
Kopitz, Klaus Martin more...
Koppel, Anders more...	17 Jul. 1947 Copenhagen, Denmark		Danish composer and musician, son of composer Herman D. Koppel. He co-founded the rock group Savage Rose. Koppel has twice received the Robert for best film score (1994 and 1996). Composer of over 100 works of score music - solo pieces, chamber music, orchestral and vocal works, 20 concertos and an opera. Among his concertos, which form the main body of his orchestral work, are four concertos for marimba
Koppel, David Herman more...	1 Oct. 1908 Copenhagen, Denmark	14 Jul. 1998 Denmark	Danish composer and pianist who wrote 13 symphonies, numerous concertos, and 20 string quartets
Koppel, Thomas Herman II more...	27 Apr. 1944 Sweden	25 Feb. 2006 Puerto Rico	versatile Danish classical music and avant-garde popular composer and musician. Co-founder, with his brothers Anders, of the rock group Savage Rose. He wrote string quartets, a piano concerto, operas, cantatas, a ballet, symphonies and other orchestral works. At age 18 he completed his first opera The Story of a Mother, based on a tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Koppel composed the score in 1971 for the ballet Dødens Triumf (Triumph of Death) which was danced naked at the Royal Danish Theatre
Koppoolse, David more...
Kopriva, Karel Blazej more...
Kopriva, Vaclav Jan more...
Koptjajew (or Koptiaiev), Alexander (or Alex) Petrovich	10 Dec. 1868 St. Petersburg, Russia	27 Jan. 1941 Leningrad, Russia	Russian composer
Kopylov, Alexander more...
Korchmaryov (or Korchmarev, Kortschmarew, Kortchmariov, Kortchmaref), Klimenty (or Clemens, Klementi) Arkad'yevich	3 Jul. 1899 Verkhne-Dneprovsk, Russia	7 Apr. 1958 Moscow, Russia	Russian pianist and composer
Kord, Mira (see Vorlova, Slava)
Koreschtschenko (or Koreshchenko, Koresjtsjenko, Koresjtjenko, Korestchenko), Arseni Nikolajewitsch	18 Dec. 1870 Moscow, Russia	6 Jan 1921 Kharkov, Ukraine	Russian pianist and composer
Korganov (or Korganoff), Genary (or Gennadi, Gannari, Yanuary) Osipovich	12 May 1858 Kvareli, Georgia, Russia	12 Apr. 1890 Rostov-on-Don, Russia	Russian pianist and composer
Korndorf, Nikolai more...	23 Jan. 1947 Moscow, Russia	30 May 2001 Vancouver, Canada	Russian conductor and compoer who became a Canadian citizen in 1991
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang more...	29 May 1897 Brno, Czech Republic	29 Nov. 1957 Los Angeles, USA	a 20th century neoromantic composer who was a prolific writer of film scores
Kornowicz, Jerzy more...
Korte, Oldrich more...
Kortekangas, Olli more...	16 May 1955 Turku, Finland		a composer who focuses on the combination and interaction of music and text. For him, the content of a text is an essential component of a piece of music, not just phonetic material for the singers. Vocal works and operas form the majority of his output, although he has also written a considerable body of instrumental music
Kos Anatolsky, Anatoly more...
Koshits (or Koshetz), Alexander (or Oleksandr) Antonovich	12 Sep. 1875 Romashki, Cherkass, Russia	21 Sep. 1944 Winnipeg, Canada	Russian-born choir conductor, musicologist and composer
Koshkin, Nikita more...
Kosk, Patrik	20 Mar. 1951 Helsinki, Finland		Finnish composer who has worked at the electronic music studio at the University of Helsinki
Koskelin, Olli more...	16 Apr. 1955 Finland		he emerged as a Modernist in the early 1980s, but even some of his early works already show his attraction to traditional values of beauty. His music has since progressed towards a soft nuanced idiom sometimes described as Neo-Impressionism, with spectral harmonies and overtone series playing an important part. In addition to writing instrumental and vocal works, Koskelin has shown an interest in crossdiscipline projects. He has written several dance works such as Kylmäntähti (Coldstar, 1992), Yönvartija (The Nightwatchman, 1992), Minä olen ruumiini (I Am My Body, 1994) and Puutarhuri (The Gardener, 1995); film music, for example for Jaakko Pyhälä's Armon aika (Time for Mercy, 1999); music for the stage, for example for Juha Siltanen's Strip-tease (1991); and the radiophonic work To whom it may concern (1990)
Koskinen, Juha T. more...	26 Oct. 1972 Helsinki, Finland		a composer pursuing a Modernist style, his approach is highlighted by his use of harsh and severe tones that can be deliberately rough and defiant at times
Koskinen, Jukka more...	4 Mar. 1965 Helsinki, Finland		a composer who has remained strictly within the confines of an uncompromising Modernist aesthetic. He polishes his works with care, and although his output is limited, his profile is clear and logical
Koskinen, Jyrki	1964		head master of the military music school in Lahti, central Finland. Many of his arrangements and compositions have become very popular, including the arrangement of En voi sua unhoittaa poies, a Finnish folk tune
Kosma, Joseph more...
Kosmas de melode more...
Kostenko, Valentin	1895 Uriadev, Ukraine		composer
Kostiainen, Pekka more...	16 Mar. 1944 Jyväskylä, Finland		primarily known for his choral works, he is a successful choir conductor and is well grounded in both the potential and the limitations of various types of choirs. Kostiainen's music is usually free-tonal, but his idiom extends further both ways, both towards pure tonality and towards more contemporary vocal techniques. For example, in one of his best-known works, Jaakobin pojat (Jacob's Sons, 1976), the Biblical list of names is presented using Sprechgesang, whispers, glissandos, highest and lowest possible notes of undetermined pitch, and a spatial element
Kostelanetz, Andre more...	23 Dec 1901 St. Petersburg, Russia	13 Jan 1980 Port-au-Prince, Haiti	was one of the biggest names in American light orchestral music in the middle of the 20th century. During a period of 20 years from around 1940 onwards he conducted a series of recordings that stand as fine examples of the art of the orchestral arranger; sadly his later records were not so well received by his fans, who believed that his record company forced him to bow to commercial pressures
Koszewski, Andrzej more...	26 Jul. 1922 Poznan, Poland		composer, musicologist, music publicist and teacher. He completed his music studies in several areas: music theory (1948) and composition (1953) under Stefan B. Poradowski at the State College of Music in Poznan, post-graduate music studies under Tadeusz Szeligowski at the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw (now the F. Chopin Academy of Music), and musicology under Adolf Chybinski at the Poznan University (1950). Since 1957 Koszewski has been teaching composition at the State College of Music in Poznan (as professor since 1978)
Kothen, Axel von	1871 Finland	1927	National Romantic composer focusing on solo songs
Kotik, Petr more...
Kotilainen, Esa
Kotilainen, Otto	1868 Finland	1936	National Romantic composer focusing on solo songs
Kotonski, Wlodzimierz more...	23 Jul 1925 Warsaw, Poland		studied with Piotr Rytel and Tadeusz Szeligowski at the Warsaw Higher School of Music. In 1957-61 he attended the International Courses of New Music in Darmstadt. One of the regular collaborators the Polish Radio Experimental Studio, he also worked at the electronic music studios of Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne (1966-67) and Groupe de Recherchers Musicales ORTF in Paris (1970). In 1970-71 he was in West Berlin as fellow of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. Since 1983 he has lectured composition and directed the Electronic Music Studios at the F. Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw. Since 1983 he has been professor of this school. Among his numerous pupils there are such composers as Pawel Szymanski, Hanna Kulenty, Stanislaw Kurpowicz, Tadeusz Wielecki, Edward Sielicki, Jacek Grudzien
Kotschetow (or Kotsjetov, Kochetov, Kotchotov), Nikolai Razumnikovich	26 Jun. 1864 Oranienbaum, Russia	3 Jan. 1925 Moscow, Russia	Russian composer, conductor and critic
Kotter, Johannes more...
Kottke, Leo more...
Kotzwara, Franz more...
Koukouzelis, Ioannis more...
Koumans, Rudolf more...
Kourliandsky, Dmitry more...
Koussevitzky (or Kussewitzky, Kussevitzky, Koesevitski, Kusevitsky), Sergei (Sergey) Alexandrovich	14 Jul. 1874 Vishny-Volotchok, Russia	4 Jun. 1951 Boston, Mass. USA	Russia born conductor, double bass player and composer
Kouyate, Kandia more...
Kovac, Boris more...
Koval, Marian Viktorovich	17 Aug. 1907 Pristan Vozneseniya, Russia	15 Feb. 1971 Moscow, Russia	Russian composer
Kovarovic, Karel more...
Kovats, Barna more...
Koven, (Henry Louis) Reginald De more...	3 Apr. 1859 Middletown, Conn., USA	16 Jan. 1920 Chicago, USA	American composer
Kowalski, Michael more...
Kox, Hans more...
Kozeluch, Jan Antonin Thomas more...
Kozeluch, Leopold more...
Kozlov, Sergei more...
Kozlowski (or Kozlovsky, Koszlovski, Kozlowski), Jozef (or Osip, Iosif, Jozef, Yuzef) Antonovich	c. 1757 Warsaw, Poland	27 Feb. 1831 St. Petersburg, Russia	Polish-born composer and conductor
Kraehenbuehl, David	1923	1997	he studied at the University of Illinois, the Yale School of Music (under Paul Hindemith), and the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland. In addition to his work as a composer, from 1950 to 1960 Kraehenbuehl held faculty positions at Colorado College and at Yale. He was a founder and the first editor of the Journal of Music Theory. Kraehenbuehl left academia in 1960 and devoted the rest of his life to raising the standards of piano pedagogy in the United States. He was also instrumental in composing and editing sacred music for Roman Catholic services following the dictates of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965)
Krafft, Franz Jozef more...
Kraft, Anton more...
Kraft, Edwin Arthur	8 Jan. 1883	15 Jul. 1962 Cleveland, Ohio, USA	Edwin Kraft studied in Paris with Guilmant and Widor. He was municipal organist of the city of Atlanta. Later he became organist of Trinity Cathedral in Cleveland, Ohio. He did not compose many works, but published a number of organ transcriptions. His only organ composition is a Polish Lullaby [supplementary details supplied by Terry L. Mueller]
Krahmer, Caroline	1794 Germany		a clarinet virtuoso whose compositions were published
Krajci, Mirko more...
Kramar, Frantisek Vincenc more...
Kramer, Jonathan more...
Kramer, Leo more...
Kramer, Otto more...
Kramer, Thomas more...
Krasa, Hans more...
Krasotov, Oleksandr more...	5 May 1936 Odessa, Ukraine		Russian composer who graduated from the Odessa State A.V.Nezhdanova Conservatoire (1959), where he studied composition and musicology, going on then to take a doctorate at Moscow State Conservatory
Kraus, Joseph Martin more...	1756	1792	composer
Kraus, Marco more...	1955 Luxembourg		pianist and composer from Luxembourg
Krause, Christian Gottfried more...
Krauze, Zygmunt more...	1938 Warsaw, Poland		Polish pianist and composer. He studied piano and composition at the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, then in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. In 1957 he was awarded First Prize at the All-Polish Contemporary Competition in Lódz, in 1966 - first Prize at the International Competition of Gaudeamus Foundation in Holland.
Krcek, Jaroslav more...
Krcha, Bartlomiej more...
Krebs, Joachim more...
Krebs, Johann Ludwig more...
Krebs, Johann Tobias more...
Kreek, Cyrillus more...
Krehl, Stephan more...
Krein (or Krejn, Kreyn), Alexander Abramovich	20 Oct. 1883 Nishi Novgorod	21 Apr. 1951 Moscow, Russia	Russian cellist and composer
Krein (or Krejn, Kreyn), Grigori	18 Mar. 1879 Nishi Novgorod	6 Jan. 1955 nr. Leningrad, Russia	Russian violinist and composer
Krein (or Krejn, Kreyn), Julian	5 Mar. 1913 Moscow, Russia		Russian composer and musicologist
Kreiser, Edward	1869	1917	composer and organist of the Independance Boulevard Church in Kansas City
Kreisler, Fritz	1875	1962	Austrian-born American violinist, a student of his father, Dont, Hellmesberger, Jr., and Massart. His initial tours of the US (1889-90) were only moderately successful, and he returned to Europe, abandoning music to study medicine. He resumed his concert career in 1899, and his 2nd US tour (1900-01) took his audiences by storm. He was one of the most popular violinists of all time. He wrote many fine works for the violin
Kreisler, Georg more...
Krek, Uros more...
Kremberg, Jakob more...	1650		Polish musician, composer
Krenek, Ernst more...	23 Aug. 1900 Vienna, Austria	22 Dec. 1991 Palm Springs, USA	Austrian composer
Krenn, Franz more...	26 Feb. 1816 Droß, Austria	18 Jun. 1897 St. Andrä, Austria	Austrian composer and composition teacher
Krenz, Jan more...
Kretenzer, Georgis de more...
Kreuder, Peter Paul more...
Kreutzer, Auguste more...
Kreutzer, Conradin more...
Kreutzer, Joseph (oroginially Jean Nicolas Auguste) more...	1778 Versailles, France	1832 Paris, France	French composer
Kreutzer, Leonid	13 Mar. 1884 St. Petersburg, Russia	30 Oct. 1953 Tokyo, Japan	Russian pianist, musical director and composer
Kreutzer, Rodolphe more...	16 Nov. 1766 Versailles, France	6 Jan. 1831 Geneva, Switzerland	French violinist, teacher, composer and conductor
Krezma, Franjo	1862 Osijek, Croatia	1881	an authentic violin virtuoso, and concert master in the Royal orchestra in Berlin (today's Berliner Philharmonie) at the age of 17, he had been admired throughout Europe from the age of 13. He enroled at the Conservatory of Vienna at the age of 9 as the youngest student ever and completed his studies four years later. Many musicians, among them Giuseppe Verdi, Franz Liszt and Henry Vieuxtemps, considered him Paganini's successor but he died young at the age of 19. About 100 of his pieces have been recently discovered in Zagreb
Krieg, Hans more...
Krieger, Adam more...
Krieger, Edino more...
Kriéger, Georges	1885	1916	Kriéger was a pupil of Gigout and Vierne, but also studied organ with Guilmant. He was appointed to be choir organist of the church of La Madeleine in Paris. He composed a Toccata (in E minor) for organ. Kriéger died in action in 1916
Krieger, Johann more...
Krieger, Johann Philipp more...
Kroesen, Jill more...
Krohn, Ilimari	1867 Finland	1960	composer of vocal music, mainly sacred. He wrote several extensive works such as cantatas, oratorios and the Biblical opera Tuhotulva (The Flood, 1918/29)
Krol, Bernhard more...
Kroll, Georg more...
Kroll, William more...	1901 New York City, NY, USA	1980 Boston, Mass. USA	an American composer and violinist - his most famous composition is Banjo and Fiddle for violin and piano
Krommer, Franz Vinzenz more...	27 Nov. 1759 Moravia	8 Jan 1831	a Moravian composer of classical music, whose seventy-year life began the year of the death of George Frideric Handel and ended a few years after that of Ludwig van Beethoven
Kromolicki, Joseph more...	1882	1961	he was a Berlin-based Pole working primarily as a church musician in the first half of the 20th century, writing very much in a lyrical late-romantic aesthetic
Kropfgans, Johann more...	1708	c.1770	noted writer for the lute
Krôpfl, Francisco	1931 Hungary		moved to Argentina in 1932 where he was an electroacoustic music pioneer and in 1958 founded the first studio (the Musical Phonology studio of Buenos Aires). Directed the Instituto di Tella, the CICMAT and the LIPM and presently director of the Arts National Foundation in Argentina
Krotkov (or Krotkow), Nikolay (or Nikolai) Sergeyevich	29 Apr. 1849		Russian composer
Krouse, Ian more...	1956 Olney, Maryland, USA		American composer and academic
Krstic, Petar	1877	1957	a Serbian opera composer
Krufft, Baron Nikolaus Freiherr von more...	1 Feb. 1779 Vienna, Austria	16 Apr. 1818 Vienna, Austria	Austrian court official, pianist and composer
Krüger, Jules more...	1899 Luxembourg	1976 Luxembourg	violinist and composer from Luxembourg
Kruisbrink, Annette more...
Kruisselbrink, Astrid more...
Krumlovsky, Claus more...	1930 Luxembourg		pianist and composer from Luxembourg
Krumpholtz, Anne-Marie (Steckler) more...	1755	1813	daughter of the harp maker Christian Steckler, she arrived in Paris in 1777 with Johann-Baptiste Krumpholtz. After the death of Krumpholtz's first wife (Marguérite Gilbert) Anne-Marie and Johann-Baptiste married. The Krumpholtzes had three children one Fanny Krumpholtz Pittar also becoming a celebrated harpist. But by 1788 Anne-Marie had fallen for the pianist J.L. Dussek. She ran off with him to London in 1788. Anne-Marie became a popular soloist in London, often playing Dussek's duos concertantes for harp and piano. But he left her and married another harpist (and also singer and pianist), Sophia Corri, in 1792. By the end of the century, he had abandoned her and their daughter. Anne-Marie composed many sonatas, although she published mostly fashionable harp arrangements of well known tunes and themes and variations which found a market with young women desiring "domestic music"
Krumpholtz, Johann-Baptist more...	1742 Czechoslovakia	1790 Paris, France	French composer and harpist. He learned music from his father while growing up in Paris; in 1773 he played a successful harp concerto in the Burgtheater in Vienna. After serving three years in Count Esterrházy's court orchestra (1773 - 1776) during which he is said to have taken counterpoint lessons with Joseph Haydn, he embarked on a successful concert tour of Europe. In Paris and Metz he worked with manufacturers towards improving the construction of the harp. He composed concertos and sonatas for harp and chamber music. He drowned himself in the Seine after his wife, Anne-Marie Krumpholtz, also a virtuoso harpist, eloped to London with the pianist Jan Ladislav Dussek
Krupa, Gene more...
Krupowicz, Stanislaw more...
Kruse, Bjorn more...
Kruyf, Ton de more...
Krylov (or Kriloff,Krylow, Krilov), Pavel (or Paul) Dmitriyevich	3 Mar. 1885 Kalinin, Russia	21 Apr. 1935 Moscow, Russia	Russian composer
Kryukov (or Kriukov, Krjukov, Krjoekov, Krioukov), Vladimir Nikolayevich	9 Jul. 1902 Moscow, Russia	14 Jun. 1960 Staraya Ruza, nr. Moscow, Russia	Russian composer
Kubatschek, Hermann more...
Kubelik, Rafael more...
Kubiczek, Walter more...
Kubik, Ladislav more...
Kubisch, Christina more...
Kubizek, Augustin more...
Kuchar, Jan Krtitel more...
Kuchynka, Vojta more...
Kufferath, Johann Hermann more...
Küffner, Joseph more...	1776 Wurzburg, Germany	1856 Wurzburg, Germany	a prolific composer and arranger for guitar, and writer of large amounts of chamber music. His Quintet in B flat, Op. 32 was previously attributed to Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
Kuhlau, (Daniel Rudolf) Friedrich more...	11 Sep. 1786 Germany	12 Mar. 1832 12 Mar. 1832 Denmark	German-Danish composer during the Classical and Romantic periods [entry prompted by Victor Krasovsky]
Kuhn, Rolf more...
Kuhn, Siegfried more...
Kuhn, Steve more...
Kuhnau, Johann more...	6 Apr. 1660 Geising, Germany	5 Jun. 1722 Leipzig, Germany	German composer, organist and harpsichordist who preceded Bach as the cantor of the Thomaskirche (St Thomas Church) in Leipzig
Kuhnel, August more...
Kuhr, Gerd more...
Kuiler, Kor more...
Kuitunen, Kimmo	1968 Finland		Finnish composer
Kuivalatar, Mateli more...
Kuivila, Ronald more...
Kukal, Ondrej more...
Kukuck, Felicitas more...
Kukuzel, Yoan more...
Kulenty, Hannah more...	18 Mar. 1961 Bialystok, Poland		began her music education as a pianist in the G. Bacewicz Elementary Music School in Warsaw. From 1980 to 1986 she studied composition with Wlodzimierz Kotonski at the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw. From 1986-1988 she did her post-graduate work in composition with Louis Andriessen, at the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague. She participated in the International Courses for Young Composers organized by the Polish Section of the ISCM, and the International Summer Courses of New Music at Darmstadt. The year 1985 was very important for her career: her composition for symphony orchestra, Ad Unum, received second prize at the European Young Composers' Competition, organized in Amsterdam by the European Cultural Foundation to celebrate the continent's unity. The theme of her work, a dissonant, dramatic and well-crafted study of convergence towards musical unity, was eminently suitable for this occasion. The same piece by the 24-year old composer, performed at the Warsaw Autumn Festival, elicited an enthusiastic response from Jan Weber, a very powerful music critic who warned Kulenty's male colleagues: "Gentlemen, hear and tremble!"
Kulikovich, Nikolay more...
Kuljeric, Igor more...
Kull, Raimund more...
Kullak, Theodor more...
Kulthum, Umm more...
Kummer, Friedrich August more...	5 Aug 1797 Meiningen, Germany	22 Aug 1879 Dresden, Germany	Friedrich August Kummer made his name in violoncello history as a talented performer, teacher and author of many teaching compositions for the cello
Kummer, Kaspar more...
Kunileid, Aleksander more...
Kunneke, Eduard more...
Kunst, Jos more...
Kunzen, Friedrich more...
Kuokkala, Kimmo more...	23 May 1973 Vihti, Finland		Finnish guitarist and composer
Kuosmanen, Kari	1946 Finland		composer whose output includes music for accordion and choral works
Kupkovic, Ladislav more...
Kupper, Leo more...
Kupsch, Thomas more...
Kurakina, Natalia more...
Kürenberger, Der von more...	fl. 1160		it is possible that Der von Kürenberg is the first poet of the "Golden Age" of Middle High German poetry. He is an Austrian nobleman possibly from the area around Linz. Some of the 14 stanzas that appear in Minnesangsfrühling group themselves into poems
Kurenniemi, Erkki	1941 Finland		Kurenniemi began to construct Finland's first purpose-designed electronic music studio at the Department of Musicology at the University of Helsinki in 1962
Kuri-Aldana, Mario (see Kuri, Mario Aldana)
Kurka, Robert more...
Kuronen, Jouni more...	25 Mar. 1958 Kuopio, Finland		Finnish pianist and composer
Kurpinski, Karol Kazimierz more...	6 Mar. 1785 Wloszakowice, Poland	18 Sep. 1857 Warsaw, Poland	one of the most talented Polish composers before Chopin and helped to lay the foundations of a national style and prepared the ground for Polish music of the Romantic period. Gifted with exceptional creative originality, he contributed to the development of Polish opera, introducing new musical devices and achieving an intensified dramatic expression. Operas and polonaises form the largest part of his output. His operas were successful at the time and some, for instance The Castle of Czorsztyn, have not lost their appeal. Of his 24 stage works, nine survive complete and eight in part, while the rest have been lost. Although brought up on the Viennese Classics, Kurpinski followed the spirit of his times, combining the new achievements of European music with the folklore of his own country
Kurtag, Gyorgy more...	19 Feb. 1926 Lugoj, Romania		a Hungarian composer of contemporary music
Kuryokhin, Sergey (also Sergei Kuriokhin, Sergueï Kouriokhine, Sergey Kuriokhin) more...	16 Jun. 1954 Murmansk, Russia	9 Jul. 1996 St. Petersburg, Russia	Russian film actor, film composer, pianist, music director, experimental artist and writer based in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Kurzbock (von), Magdalene	fl. late 18th century Austria		composer who was also a talented amateur pianist; Haydn dedicated a sonata to her
Kusser (or Cousser), Johann Sigismund more...	23 Feb. 1660 Preßburg, Germany	Nov. 1727 Dublin, Ireland	German conductor and composer. He was a pupil of Lully in Paris, where he lived 1674-82, one of the directors of the Hamburg Opera 1694-96, and Kapellmeister at Stuttgart 1700-04. He went to London in 1705, and later to Dublin, where he became director of music to the viceroy
Kutavicius, Bronius more...	13 Sep. 1932 Molainiai, Lithuania		Lithuanian composer
Kuula, Toivo more...	7 Jul. 1883 Finland	18 May 1918	popular composer of vocal music. He is frequently described as the 'tragic Romantic in Finnish music', chiefly because of his violent death in a shooting incident at the early age of 35. Kuula went on study trips to Italy, Germany and France and developed an interest in the Impressionism of Debussy. There are fleeting touches of Impressionism in his music, for example in the orchestral pieces Metsässä sataa (Raining in the Forest, 1912) and Hiidet virvoja viritti (The Will-o'-wisp, 1912), but for the most part his style is a flowing, nationally tinted brand of Romanticism. Kuula was also an active collector of folk music and occasionally used folk tunes in his works. Kuula made his breakthrough with two extensive and tempestuous chamber music works, the Violin Sonata in E minor (1907) and the Piano Trio in A major (1908). Earlier, he had written a few solo songs Syystunnelma (Autumn Mood, 1904) and Aamulaulu (Morning song, 1905) that have since become classics
Kuular, Oleg more...	1958 Iskra, Tuva		the first Tuvan musician to perform throat-singing in the United States
Kuusisto, Ilkka more...	26 Apr. 1933 Helsinki, Finland		son of composer Taneli Kuusisto and the most active opera composer in Finland today, actually began his opera career before the opera boom with Muumiooppera (Moomin Opera, 1974), based on the beloved characters created by Tove Jansson. He has since continued to write for children in the opera Pierrot ja yön salaisuudet (Pierrot and the Secrets of the Night, 1991) and in four musicals, including the jazzy Kiljusten Kalevala (Kalevala After the Kiljunen Family, 1999)
Kuusisto, Jaakko more...	17 Jan. 1974 Helsinki, Finland		his chamber music output includes two String Quartets (1992, 1997), the Fantasia (1995) for flute, clarinet and piano, Play (1998) for clarinet and piano trio, and Loisto (2000) for violin and piano, commissioned as a compulsory piece for the Sibelius Violin Competition in 2000
Kuusisto, Taneli more...	19 Jan. 1905 Helsinki, Finland	30 Mar. 1988 Helsinki, Finland	composer, church organist, choir conductor, holder of several elected posts and Rector of the Sibelius Academy from 1959 to 1971
Kuwahara, Yasuo more...	1946 Kobe, Japan	6 Dec. 2003 Japan	Japanese virtuoso mandolin player, composer, teacher and luthier. His two mandolin concertos are amongst the most virtuoso works for mandolin
Kuznetsov (or Kusnetzow), Konstantin Alexeyevich	9 Sep. 1883 St. Petersburg, Russia	25 May 1953 Moscow, Russia	Russian musicologist who also used the pseudonym A. K. Smis
Kuznetsov, Vyacheslav more...	1955 Vienna, Austria		Austrian-born Belorussian composer of mostly stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, and vocal works. He co-founded with Sergey Beltiukov, Galina Gorelova, Dmitry Lybin, Yevgeny Poplavsky, and others the Belorussian Society for Contemporary Music in 1990 and served as its chairman from 1995-2001. He has taught as a professor of music at the Belorussian Academy of Music in Minsk since 1987 and has been chair of the instrumentation and score-reading department since 1998
Kvandal, Johan more...	8 Sep. 1919 Oslo, Norway	16 Feb. 1999 Bærum, Norway	composer, conductor, music critic and archivist, son of the composer David Monrad Johansen, Kvandal is among Norway's most frequently performed composers, his music is annually present on the repertory of the large orchestras. He graduated as an organist and conductor from the Music Conservatory in Oslo. In addition he studied composition with Per Steenberg, Arild Sandvold and Geirr Tveitt. He continued his composition studies with Joseph Marx in Vienna, and Nadia Boulanger in Paris
Kverno, Trond more...	20 Oct. 1945 Oslo, Norway		contemporary Norwegian composer well known for his liturgical music
Kyburz, Hanspeter more...	1960 Lagos, Nigera		born to Swiss parents, Kyburg is a contemporary Swiss composer of chamber music, known for applying electronic music techniques to his productions
Kyllönen, Timo-Juhani more...	1 Dec. 1955 Saloinen, Finland		unusually for a Finnish composer, he completed his composition studies in Moscow, where he had initially gone to study the accordion. His music has a Russian flavour, particularly of Shostakovich; whether this is actually due to his studying in Moscow is another matter. That flavour is at its most apparent in his slow movements, which tend to be elegiac meditations. Kyllönen spices his fast movements with ostinatos and occasionally with unsymmetrical metres
Kyriakides, Yannis more...	1969 Limassol, Cyprus		Cypriot-born composer and musicologist, Kyriakides emigrated to Britain in 1975 whiere he began his studies but later moved to The Netherlands and now lives and works in Amsterdam
Kytasty, Julian more...	1958 Detroit, Michigan, USA		Ukrainian-American composer, singer, kobzar, bandurist and flute player
Kyurkchiyski (or Kiurkchiiskii), Krassimir more...	1936		Bulgarian composer who has written in all genres: ballets, cantatas, instrumental concerti and symphonic works [entry prompted by Mike Edwards]