| Name | Born | Died | Information |
Uber, Christian Benjamin
more... | 20 Sep. 1746
Breslau | 1812
Breslau | German composer |
Uber, (Christian Friedrich) Hermann
more... | 22 Apr. 1781
Breslau | 2 Mar. 1822
Dresden | German composer |
Ubieta, Enrique
more... | 1934
Havana, Cuba | | Cuban-born composer, now resident in the US, Ubieta has written original music for seven films; has composed more than 70 works, including chamber, vocal, and symphonic music; and has created various innovations in music |
Uccellini, Marco
more... | c. 1603
Italy | 1680
Parma | Italian composer |
| Ucelli, Carolina | 1810
Italy | 1855 | two of her operas were produced at the Theatre Pergola in Florence in 1832 |
Uchihashi, Kazuhisa
more... | 1959
Osaka, Japan | | Japanese guitarist and composer |
Udbye, Martin Andreas
more... | 18 Jun. 1820
Trondheim | 10 Jan. 1889
Trondheim | Norwegian composer |
Ufki, Ali
more... | c.1610
Lvov, Poland | 1675 | born Wojciech Bobowski in 1610, was a Polish Christian who converted to Islam after his capture by the Ottoman Turks at the age of 30, becoming renowned as a musician and translator in the imperial court. Contemporary accounts say that he was fluent in as many as seventeen languages, including Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic, in addition to Polish and Turkish. He is revered by music specialists as the creator of a unique manuscript - the famous Mecmua-i Saz u Soz of 1650 - which preserved for modern times several hundred classical Ottoman songs and instrumental pieces, the first instance in which western staff notation was applied to Turkish music. However, he is better remembered internationally for a very different legacy: as the translator of the current Turkish version of the Bible (Kitab-i Mukaddes), the equivalent of the King James version (1611) so famous in the English-speaking world |
| Ugarte, Floro M(anuel) | 15 Sep. 1884
Buenos Aires | 11 Jun. 1975
Buenos Aires | Argentinean teacher, composer and director of the famous Colon Theatre in Buenos Aires. His older brother was the Argentinean author Manuel Ugarte (1875-1951) |
Ugolini, Vincenzo
more... | c.1570
Italy | 1638
Rome | Italian composer |
| Uhde, Johann Otto | 12 Jun. 1725
Insterburg | 20 Dec. 1766
Berlin | German composer |
Uhl, Alfred
more... | 5 Jun. 1909
Vienna, Austria | 8 Jun. 1992
Vienna, Austria | Austrian composer who mainly worked with opera. He studied as a student of F. Schmidt, and subsequently taught at the Vienna Hochschule für
Musik. During his career at the school he was awarded the Austrian State Prize, the Vienna Music Prize, and the Viennese Gold Medal of Honour. His most famous educational pieces are the two volumes which comprise the 48 Studies for clarinet |
| Uhl, Edmund | 1853
Prague, Czechoslovakia | 1929
Wiesbaden, Germany | Czech-born composer |
Uijlenhoet, Rene
more... | 1961
The Netherlands | | Dutch composer and organist |
Uitti, Frances-Marie
more... | 1948
USA | | renowned the world over for her interpretations of contemporary music and is famous for her extended technique using two bows simultaneously in one hand as well as her improvisational skills |
| Ujj, Béla | 2 Jul. 1873
Vienna, Austria | 1 Feb. 1942
Vienna, Germany | Austrian composer of Hungarian origin |
| Ulbrich, Siegfried (pseu: Martin, Marvin - Romans, Roman) | 25 May 1922
Dresden, Germany | 30 Oct. 1991
Germany | German composer |
| Ulbrich, Maximilian | c.1741
Vienna, Austria | 14 Sep. 1814
Vienna, Austria | Austrian civil servant and composer |
| Ulft, Antoine Van | 28 Apr. 1900
Liège | 1960
| Belgian composer, pianist and teacher |
Ullinger, Augustin
more... | 27 Mar. 1746
Ranoldsberg, Germany | 30 Jul. 1781
Freising | German composer |
Ullmann, Jakob
more... | 1958
Freiberg/Sachsen | | German composer |
Ullmann, Viktor
more... | 1 Jan 1898
Teschen | 18 Oct. 1944
Auschwitz | an Austrian composer, conductor and pianist |
Ulmer, James Blood
more... | 2 Feb. 1942
St. Matthews, South Carolina, USA | | an American jazz and blues guitarist and singer |
Umebayashi, Shigeru
more... | 19 Feb. 1951
Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan | | a Japanese composer |
Umiliani, Piero
more... | 17 Jul. 1926
Florence, Italy | 14 Feb. 2001
Roe, Italy | Italian composer |
Umlauf [Umlauff], Ignaz
more... | 1746
Vienna, Austria | 8 Jun. 1796
Meidling, nr. Vienna, Austria | Austrian composer |
Umlauf, Michael
more... | 9 Aug. 1781
Vienna, Austria | 20 Jun. 1842
Baden, nr. Vienna, Austria | Austrian composer |
Underhill, Owen
more... | 26 Jan. 1954
Regina, Canada | | Canadian composer, conductor, teacher, flutist |
Ung, Chinary
more... | 1942
Takeo, Cambodia | | Cambodian composer |
| Unger (or Ungher) (-Sabatier), Caroline | 28 Oct. 1803
Stuhlweissenburg, Hungary | 23 Mar. 1877
Florence, Italy | Austro-Hungarian mezzo-soprano/contralto who studied in Vienna and was chosen by Beethoven. She composed an album of 46 songs |
Unger, (Gustav) Hermann
more... | 26 Oct. 1886
Kamenz, Sachsen | 31 Dec. 1958
Köln, Germany | German composer |
| Unico Wilhelm Graf van Wassenaer (see Wassenaer, Unico Wilhelm Graf van) | | | |
| Urb, Tarmo | 1969
Tatu, Estonia | | Estonian-born singer, guitarist and composer now working in the USA |
| Urbach, Otto | 6 Feb. 1871
Eisenach | 14 Dec. 1927
Dresden | German composer who studied the piano with Miillerhartung and Liszt's pupil Bemhard Stavenhagen. He taught at the Dresden Conservatory from 1898 to 1920 |
| Urbani, Peter | 1749
Milan, Italy | 1816
Dublin, Ireland | Italian singer who settled in Edinburgh in 1784, after making appearances in Glasgow singing Scots songs. He published six volumes of Scots songs and included original songs of his own composition. Robert Burns's A Red, Red Rose was first published in 1794 in A Selection of Scots Songs edited by Peter Urbani. He set up a music shop and publishing house with Edward Liston at 10 Princes Street, North Side, Edinburgh (1796-1806). After losing much money as an impressario, he died in Dublin, penniless |
Urbaitis, Mindaugas
more... | 1952
Lithuania | | Lithuanian composer |
Urbaniak, Michal
more... | 1943
Warsaw, Poland | | a Polish jazz musician and composer, playing mainly the violin and saxophone |
Urbanner, Erich
more... | 26 Mar. 1936
Innsbruck, Austria | | Austrian composer |
Urbina, Guadalupe
more... | | | singer-songwriter from Costa Rica |
Urfey, Thomas d' (Tom Durfey)
more... | 1653 | 26 Feb. 1723
London, England | an English writer and wit. He composed plays, songs, poetry, and jokes |
Urhan, (or Auerhahn), Chrétien
more... | 16 Feb. 1790
Montjoie, nr Aix-la-Chapelle, France | 2 Nov. 1845
Belleville, nr Paris, France | French violinist and performer on the viola d'amour. The solo in Les Hugenots by Berlioz was composed for him, and he premiered Berlioz' Harold en Italie. He was a composer of chamber works |
Uribe Holguín, Guillermo
more... | 17 Mar. 1880
Bogotá, Colombia | 26 Jun. 1971
Bogotá, Colombia | Colombian composer |
Urich, Jean
more... | 9 Sep. 1849
Trinidad | 14 Dec. 1939
London, England | opera composer. The Urichs, from Hessen-Darmstadt, cousins of Christian and Anselm Gerold who ran a ship chandlery and hardware business in Trinidad, came out to Trinidad to work of the firm of C & A Gerold. Other cousins, the Wuppermanns would establish J.N. Harriman and Company which become the agents for J.G.B. Siegert & Sons product Angostura Bitters |
| Urrede (or Urreda), Juan de (also Johannes de Wreede) | fl. 1451-c.1482 | | Flemish composer born in Bruges who worked in Spain in the service of the duke of Alba and King Ferdinand. His works appear in the Colombina Song Book (1460-1490) |
Urreta, Alicia
more... | 12 Oct. 1935
Veracruz | 20 Dec. 1986
Mexico | Mexican award-winning pianist and composer |
Usandizaga, José Maria
more... | 31 Mar. 1887
San Sebastián | 5 Oct. 1915
San Sebastián | Basque composer |
Ursino, Gennaro
more... | 1650
Roio del Sangro, nr. Chieti | after 1714
Naples, Italy | Italian composer |
Urspruch, Anton
more... | 17 Feb. 1850
Frankfurt am Main | 7 Jan. 1907
Frankfurt | German composer |
Usiglio, Emilio
more... | 8 Jan. 1841
Parma, Italy | 9 Jul. 1910
Milan, Italy | Italian composer and conductor. He conducted operas by Boito, Thomas and Bizet, but in 1874 had to abandon a performance of Verdi's Aïda when he became too drunk to continue |
Usmanbas, Ilhan
more... | 28 Sep. 1921 | | Turkish composer |
| Uspensky, Viktor Aleksandrovich | 31 (Old Style 19) Aug. 1879
Kaluga, Russia | 9 Oct. 1949
Tashkent, Uzbekistan | Uzbek composer and ethnomusicologist |
Uspensky, Vladislav Aleksandrovich
more... | 7 Sep. 1937
Omsk | 2004
| Russian composer who was most famous for his songs, musicals and film music. He was one of Shostakovich's very few students, he was the dean of theory and composition at the former Leningrad State Conservatory when he was very young, and he held the position of vice president of the powerful Saint Petersburg Composers Union from 1972 |
Usper, Francesco (ne Sponga or Spongia)
more... | 1561
Rovinj/Rovigno, Istria, Croatia | 1641
Venice, Italy | Istrian composer and priest, a pupil of Andrea Gabrieli, who worked as organist at S. Salvador in Venice from 1614, and in 1622-3 was appointed deputy organist at St Mark's. In 1627 he became director of the Scuola di S. Giovanni Evangelista. He published madrigals, church music, and instrumental music in up to eight parts, including a fine sinfonia for two violins, four viole, recorder and chitarrone which has brilliant concertino passages
[entry amended by Graham McMaster] |
Ussachevsky, Vladimir
more... | 3 Nov. 1911
Hailar, Manchuria | 2 Jan. 1990
New York, NY, USA | a composer particularly known for his work in electronic music |
Ustvolskaya, Galina Ivanovna
more... | 17 Jun. 1919
St Petersburg, Russia | | a pupil of Georgy Rimsky-Korsakov and Shostakovich, she has written twenty-one works, including five symphonies, six piano sonatas, and a number of works for chamber groupings. Under the influence of her intense and enigmatic relationship with her teacher Shostakovich, she started producing avant-garde works at the height of the Stalinist Terror and is believed to have in turn been the source of inspiration for Shostakovich's own experiments with atonality |
Uten, Eugeen
more... | 21 Sep. 1919
Diest, Belgium | 14 May 2001 | Belgian composer, carillonneur and organist |
Utendal (or Uetendal, Utenthal, Uttendal), Alexander
more... | c.1544
possibly Ghent, Belgium | 7 May 1581
Innsbruck, Austria | a Franco-Flemish composer who for most of his life worked for the Habsburg family |
| Utenhove Jean | fl. 16th century | | Flemish composer who originated from Ghent |
Uttini, Francesco Antonio Baldassare
more... | 1723
Bologna, Italy | 25 Oct. 1795
Stockholm, Sweden | Italian composer and maestro di cappella |
Uy, Paul (ne Uyttebrouck)
... | 1932
Belgium | | Belgian oboist, orchestrator and composer |
| Uyttenhove, (Pieter) Franz | 7 Feb. 1874
Ghent, Belgium | 22 Dec. 1923
Ghent, Belgium | Belgian pianist, organist and composer |
Uyttenhove, Yolande
more... | 25 Jul. 1925
Leuze, Belgium | 2 Feb. 2000 | Belgian pianist and composer |
| Uzes, Pons Fabre d' | fl 1270 | | French troubadour |