Name | Born | Died | Information |
Yagling, Victoria more... | 14 May 1946 Russia | | composer who studied cello with Rostropovich. She is now based in Finland |
Yakymenko, Fedir more... | 1876 Ukraine | 1945 Paris, France | an early student of Lysenko, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Scriabin, Yakymenko was forced to emigrate to France in the 1920s. There, he would be influenced by the French 'impressionist' composers |
Yakushenko, Igor more... | 15 Apr. 1932 Moscow, Russia | | a composer who has written for jazz band, symphony orchestra, opera, ballet and rock ensemble |
Yamada, Kosaku (Kôsçak) | 9 JUn. 1886 Tokyo, Japan | 29 Dec. 1965 Tokyo, Japan | Japanese composer |
Yamada, Kengyo more... | 1757 Japan | 1817 Japan | Japanese composer who established the Yamada School of Koto music in Tokyo basing his style on the vocal compositions of Edo or old Tokyo |
Yamaguchi, Yasuko | 1969 Kyoto, Japan | | Japanese composer and percussionist |
Yamash'ta, Stomu actually: Yamashita, Tsutomo more... | 15 Mar. 1947 Japan | | virtuoso percussionist and composer of works for percussion |
Yamashita, Yosuke more... | 26 Feb. 1942 Tokyo, Japan | | Japanese free jazz pianist and composer |
Yanada, Tadashi more... | 1885 Japan | 1959 Japan | Japanese composer particularly of kakyoku, classical Japanese songs |
Yancey, Jimmy more... | 20 Feb. 1898 Chicago, USA | 17 Sep. 1951 Chicago, USA | jazz pianist, composer and lyricist |
Yang, Bao Zhi | 20th century China | | Chinese composer |
Yang, Yong | 1949 Beijing, China | | the earliest musical influence on him came from the Peking Opera, folk songs and the folk story tales in northern China. Yang Yong received a Ph.D. in composition from Brandeis University and is a faculty member at the New England Conservatory of Music [birth date supplied by Casey Mongoven] |
Yaniewicz, Feliks (see Janiewicz (Yaniewicz), Feliks) | | | |
Yannatos, James | 13 Mar. 1929 New York, USA | | American composer |
Yannatou, Savina more... | Athens, Greece | | Greek singer and song writer |
Yano, Marco Aurélio more... | 1963 São Paulo, Brazil | 1991 | severely handicapped from birth, Yano was quadriplegic and endured many difficulties related to his condition. In spite of his physical limitations, Marco finished his university studies with a major in conducting and composition from the State University of São Paulo (UNESP) |
Yanov-Yanovsky, Felix more... | 28 May 1934 Tashkent, Uzbekistan | | Uzbek violinist and composer of mostly orchestral, chamber, choral and vocal works |
Yanov-Yanovsky, Dmitri more... | Apr. 1963 Tashkent, Uzbekistan | | son of Felix, Uzbek composer of mostly stage, orchestral, chamber, vocal and electroacoustic works |
Yared, Gabriel more... | 7 Oct. 1949 Beirut, Lebanon | | composer now based in the United States, he won an Oscar for his acclaimed score for the adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel The English Patient in 1996. His scores since then include City of Angels and Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley |
Yarnell, Carolyn more... | 1961 Los Angeles, CA, USA | | American pianist and composer whose music straddles the borders of minimalism, romanticism and the baroque |
Yarrow, Peter more... | 31 May 1938 USA | | American singer who found fame with the 1960s folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary. It was Yarrow who wrote that group's most famous song, Puff the Magic Dragon |
Yashiro, Akio more... | 1929 Tokyo, Japan | 9 Apr. 1976 Tokyo, Japan | little-known in Europe, Yashiro was a French-trained perfectionist, a pupil of Boulanger and Messiaen, who completed only a handful of concert works. The Symphony (1958) and Piano Concerto (1967) show high craftsmanship, fastidious instrumental colouring, and the extraordinary freedom with which Yashiro absorbed elements of Messiaen's writing |
Yasuda, Fumio more... | 1953 Tokyo, Japan | | pianist and composer |
Yates, W. more... | fl. 1764 | | writer of songs for the Vauxhall Gardens, London |
Yatsuhashi, Kengyo more... | c.1613 Japan | 1685 Japan | Yatsuhashi is considered by some to be the founder of
koto music as it is known today. The term Kengyo is a title and rank which was bestowed on blind musicians of great talent |
Yazdjian, Haig more... | 1959 Aleppo, Syria | | Syrian born oud player, singer and composer who lives in Greece |
Ycart, Bernhard | second half 15th century | | Flemish musician, possibly a composer |
Yedidia, Ronn more... | 1960 Tel Aviv, Israel | | Israeli accordionist, pianist and composer |
Yengibarjan, David | 1976 Yerevan, Armenia | | composer and accordionists who has been living in Hungary since 1995. He has participated in a great number of theatrical and film productions both as a performer (Bertolt Brecht: Jungle of the Cities, Andor Lukáts: Portugal, Joye Sergent: Crime and Punishment) and as a composer (Ferenc Molnár: Liliom, András Szoke: Three, György Farkas: Blood Line, András Fésos: Street Heart Beat) |
Yeoh, Nikki more... | 1973 London, England | | jazz pianist and composer |
Yepes, Narciso more... | 14 Nov. 1927 Lorca, Spain | 3 May 1997 Santander, Spain | virtuoso guitarist who designed created the ten-string guitar and composed film music |
Yerkanyan, Yervand more... | 5 Nov. 1951 Gyumri, Armenia | | a composer who combines the influences of Pierre Boulez, the Polish avantgarde and mediaeval Armenian music |
Yevseyev (or Evsejew, Yevseyev), Sergey (or Sergei) Vasilyevich | 25 Jan. 1894 Moscow, Russia | 16 Mar. 1956 Moscow, Russia | Russian theorist, pianist and composer |
Yi, Chen (see Chen, Yi) | | | &nbps; |
Yi, Steven more... | 1978 Korea | | Korean composer now based in Brooklyn, NY, USA |
Yi, Zong-gu | 1947 Korea | | Korean composer who contributed Parting Ships to the closing ceremony of the 1988 Seoul Olympics |
Yin, Cheng-Zong more... | 1948 China | | Chinese pianist and composer who is particularly noted for collaborating with Liu Zhuang, Chu Wang-Hua and Sheng Lihong to write the piano concerto Yellow River (1971) |
Yinon, Israel more... | 11 Jan 1956 Kfar Saba, north of Tel Aviv, Israel | 29 Jan 2015 Lucerne, Switzerland | composer and conductor based in Germany |
Yiu, Raymond more... | 1973 Hong Kong | | composer and jazz pianist who now lives in London |
Yli-Salomäki, Aki more... | 28 Jun. 1972 Finland | | studied privately with Jouni Kaipainen 1994 and Juhani Nuorvala 1997. He studied composition and orchestration at the Helsinki University with Harri Vuori (1998-1999) and privately (2000-2002) |
Yokota, Susumu more... | late 20th century Japan | | leading Japanese techno composer who began his international career at Berlin's Love Parade in 1993 |
Yon, Pietro Alessandro more... | 8 Aug. 1886 Settimo Vittone, Italy | 22 Nov. 1943 Huntington, NY, USA | at 18, assistant organist at St. Peter's, Rome who settled in New York from 1907 and was a composer mainly of music for organ |
Yonge, Nicholas more... | c.1560 Lewes, Sussex, England | bur. 23 Oct. 1619 London, England | English singer and publisher. He is most famous for publishing the Musica transalpina (1588), a collection of Italian madrigals with their words translated into English. This proved to be explosively popular, beginning (or fueling) a vogue for madrigal composing and singing in England which lasted into the first two decades of the 17th century. Indeed, William Heather, founder of the music chair at Oxford University, included the book in his portrait, painted c.1627, confirming the longevity of Musica transalpina's influence and popularity |
York, Andrew more... | 1958 Virginia, USA | | American guitarist and composer, member of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet |
York, Francis Lodowick | 1861 | 1955 | American organist and teacher who lived and worked in Detroit from about 1875. He was the organist of Christ Church in Detroit from 1896. He taught piano, organ and compostion at the Detroit Conservatory of Music and at the Ypsilanti State Normal College. He published A Practical Introduction To Composition, Harmony Simplified in 1926, but his only published organ composition was a Spring Song (Canon) which appeared in 1907 |
Yorke, Peter more... | 4 Dec. 1902 London, England | 2 Feb. 1966 England | conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra, arranger and composer |
Yoshihide, Otomo more... | 1 Aug. 1959 Yokohama, Japan | | improvisational guitarist, turntablist and composer |
Yoshimatsu, Takashi more... | 1953 Tokyo | | studied at Keio University (Department of Technology). He taught himself composition, joining a jazz and rock group, although he has also studied with Teizo Matsumura |
Yoshizawa, Kengyo more... | 1800 Japan | 1872 Japan | in the latter years of the Edo Period, a Nagoya musician, Yoshizawa Kengyo created another song style with direct ties to the older kumiuta style. Yoshizawa used waka poetry taken from ancient anthologies as song texts and created a new tuning based on both in and yo scales. This tuning was called kokinjoshi, the name borrowed from the ancient Japanese poetry anthology Kokin Waka Shu |
Yossifov, Alexander | 12 Aug. 1940 Sofia | | Bulgarian composer |
Yost (or Jost), Michel more... | c. 1754 Switzerland | 1786 Paris, France | Swiss-born clarinetist who spent his playing life in Paris, France. He and his clarinet concertos became immensely popular |
Yossifov, Dragomir more... | 11 Jun. 1966 Varna, Bulgaria | | Bulgarian composer and conductor |
Youdin, Mikhail | 29 Sep. 1893 St. Peterburg, Russia | 8 Feb. 1948 Kazan | Russian-born composer |
Youll, Henry more... | end of 16th century | early 17th century | writer of canzonets and balletts |
Youmans, Vincent more... | 1898 New York City, NY, USA | 5 Apr. 1946 Denver, Colorado | American popular composer and Broadway producer. The two hit songs written by Youmans from No, No, Nanette, Tea for Two and I Want to Be Happy are considered standards |
Young, Anthony more... | Australia | | Australian conductor and composer |
Young, Anthony | c. 1685 England | 1747 London, England | English organist and composer. It has been suggested that he might have been the composer of God Save the King, the United Kingdom's National Anthem |
Young, Christopher more... | 28 Apr. 1957 Red Bank, NJ, USA | | American film music composer |
Young, Gordon more... | 15 Oct. 1919 McPherson, Kansas | | American organist and composer |
Young, John more... | 1962 Christchurch, New Zealand | | composer and teacher based in England. His main interest in composition continues to be in acousmatic music, particularly forms based on the distinction between recognisable natural sound sources and computer-based studio transformations |
Young, La Monte more... | 14 Oct. 1935 Bern, Idaho, USA | | pupil of Stockhausen, many of his works incorporating non-musical elements. He is normally listed as one of the 'big four' minimalist composers along with Philip Glass, Steve Reich and Terry Riley |
Young, Larry (né Larry John McCoy) more... | 7 Oct. 1940 Newark, NJ, USA | 30 Mar. 1978 USA | if Jimmy Smith was the Charlie Parker of the organ, Larry Young was its John Coltrane. Larry Young was a fabulous Hammond organist who had a career with Blue Note, but who really came into his own when he moved into the world of 'fusion' with the Tony Williams Lifetime, on John McLaughlin's classic Devotion album and on Santana and McLaughlin's Love, Devotion and Surrender |
Young, Lester Willis (Prez) more... | 27 Aug. 1909 Woodville, Miss., USA | 15 Mar. 1959 New York City, NY, USA | American jazz musician, composer and tenor saxophonist. Singer Billie Holiday called Lester Young the president of tenor saxophonists, and the nickname Prez (or Pres) stuck. In his solos of the 1930s he reinvented the art of playing the saxophone and opened new doors to improvisation. He was a developer of the jazz genre, bebop |
Young, Miriama more... | 1975 Christchurch, New Zealand | | instrumental and electronic music composer |
Young, Percy Marshall | 17 May 1912 Northwich, Cheshire | 9 May 2004 York, England | music scholar, editor, organist, composer and teacher; Director of Music, Stranmillis Teacher Training College, Belfast 1934-37; Musical Adviser, Stoke-on Trent Local Education Authority 1937-44; Director of Music, Wolverhampton College of Technology 1944-66; Honorary Fellow, Selwyn College, Cambridge 1998-2004. Throughout his career, Young was prolific as a composer, though the demands on his time often relegated it to a secondary activity. Essentially a miniaturist, choral motets, solo songs and chamber music dominate his early period. These include Virgin's Slumber Song (1932) and a fine setting of Robert Louis Stevenson's cycle of poems, From A Child's Garden which dates from 1941. Works on a larger canvas range from the 1931 Passacaglia for Violin and Piano through to the Fugal Concerto in G Minor for Two Pianos and String Orchestra some 20 years later. Particularly fine is an Elegy For String Orchestra commissioned for the 1960 Zwickau Festival in Germany |
Young, Victor more... | 1900 Chicago, USA | 1956 Hollywood, CA, USA | American violinist, band leader and composer of film music scores |
Young, William | unknown | 1671/2 England | held a position in the court of Archduke of Austria in Innsbruck (1653); flute player and then violinist in the band of Charles II; anticipated the style of Henry Purcell; wrote sonatas for 2 to 4 violins, viola da gamba and keyboard (there appear to have been at least two William Youngs, both England and both string players) |
Youssef, Dhafer more... | 1967 Teboulba, Tunisia | | composer, singer and oud player who has worked in Vienna, Austria since 1990 |
Yradier (or Iradier), Sebastián more... | 1809 Vitoria, Spain | 1865 Spain | composer of popular songs including La Paloma; the Habanera in Bizet's Carmen is based on a song by Yradier |
Ysaÿe, Eugène(-Auguste) more... | 16 Jul. 1858 Liege, Belgium | 12 May 1931 Brussels, Belgium | virtuoso violinist pupil of Wieniawski and Vieuxtemps; orchestral conductor; composer of 6 concertos for violin and an opera in Walloon (a Belgian dialect of French) |
Ysaÿe, Théophile | 1865 Verviers, Belgium | 1918 Nice, France | pianist, brother of the above; composed orchestral music |
Yu-Chung, Tseng | 1960 Taiwan | | completed his Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of North Texas (1998) in USA. His music, written for both acoustic and electronic media, has been recognized with awards from the R.O.C National Culture Planning Council, University of North Texas, and Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition (Honourable Mention Award 1998, 1999). His works have also received many performances at festivals and conferences from organizations including Korean EA Music Society (SICMF 2002, 2003), Taiwanese Computer Music Association (TCMA 99, 2000), International Computer Music Association (ICMC 98, 99, 2001, 2003), Society for Electroacoustic Music in United States (Net Concert 1997, SEAMUS 1998), Texas Computer Musician's Network (TCMN 96, 97, 98). He is a member of ICMA, and a funding member of TCMA. Currently, he is a full-time assistant professor of music at National Taipei Teachers College in Taiwan |
Yuasa, Joji more... | 12 Aug. 1929 Koriyama, Japan | | Yuasa made the acquaintance of Toru Takemitsu (composer), Kuniharu Akiyama (musicologist) and others while a pre-medical student at Keio University in Tokyo. He joined them in forming the `Jikken-kobo' (Experimental Workshop) in 1952, and turned to devote himself to music. Since then, Yuasa has been actively engaged in a wide range of musical composition, including orchestral, choral and chamber music, music for theatre, and intermedia, electronic and computer music |
Yudin, Mikail Aleksandrovich | 1893 St. Petersburg, Russia | | Russian composer |
Yudo, Luiz Henrique more... | 1962 Brazil | | studied architecture at the University of Sao Paulo. In 1985 he had had composition lessons with the Brazilian composer Damiano Cozzella at the University of Sao Paulo University, but is mostly self-taught. After visiting Amsterdam for the first time in 1986 he went on to study at the Nederlandse Film & Televisie Academie |
Yuferov (or Youferoff, Juferow), Sergei W. | 1865 Odessa, Ukraine | | Ukrainian composer active in 1906 in Switzerland |
Yulchieva, Munadjat more... | 1960 nr. Andijan, Ukbekistan | | one of the most popular performers in the Fergana- Tashkent style (four maqams). This school differs from the Bukharan style, it is strongly linked to the Uzbek language (as opposed to Tajik) and is sometimes referred to as 'free maqam'. For such a celebrity, Munadjat has taken an unconventional route to success. She was born in a small village near Andijan, and worked the feilds with the rest of her family. The story goes that she applied to the Higher Conservatoire of Music, vocal arts department, not realising that they trained opera singers. She was turned down for singing 'out of tune' but was heard from outside the door of the audition room by one of Uzbekistan's most famous composers, Shavkat Mirzaev |
Yun, Isang more... | 17 Sep. 1917 Tongyong, South Korea | 3 Nov. 1995 Berlin, Germany | trained in Paris and Berlin, a pupil of Blächer; composer of operas, orchestral and chamber works |
Yupanqui, Atahualpa (né Hector Roberto Chavero) more... | 22 Jan. 1908 Pergamino, Argentina | 23 May 1992 Paris, France | Argentine singer, songwriter, guitarist and writer regarded as the greatest interpreter of Argentinean folklore |
Yurina, Ludmilla more... | 16 Jan. 1962 Uzin, Ukraine | | graduating from Kiev Music College in 1981 (piano) and from Kiev State P. Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 1990 (composition), she completed her postgraduate studies at the Kiev State P. Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 1998 (class of composition of professor E. Stankovich (1998) |
Yurovsky, Vladimir Mikhailovich | 1915 Tarastcha, Uzbekistan | | Uzbeck composer |
Yuste, Miguel | 1870 | 1947 | Spanish clarinetist and composer |
Yusupova, Iraida more... | 20 Feb. 1962 Ashgabat, Turkmenistan | | graduating from Moscow State Conservatory as a composer in 1987, she is a member of the Composers' Union of Russia (Moscow organization) and the Filmmakers' Union of Russia, member of the Association of Contemporary Music (ACM) and has been a member of the Theremin Centre since 1994 |
Yusupov, Benjamin more... | 22 Nov. 1962 Dushanbe, Tajikistan | | Tajik-born Israeli composer |
Yusupov, Nikolay Borisovich | 1827 St. Petersburg, Russia | 31 Jul.-3 Aug. Baden-Baden, Germany | Russian violinist, composer and writer on music |
Yuyama, Akira more... | 1932 Japan | | Japanese composer |
Yvain, Maurice more... | 12 Feb. 1891 Paris, France | 28 Jul. Suresnes, France | French operetta composer |
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