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Artist: George Lloyd
A British composer of operas, symphonies, and concertos. ~ All Music Guide, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: William Mathias
A Welsh composer of choral and chamber music, concertos, and an opera. ~ All Music Guide, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Nicholas Maw
A British composer of comic-opera, chamber, and orchestral music. ~ All Music Guide, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Alonso Mudarra
A Spanish cleric and composer who served at the cathedral in Seville. ~ Mary K. Scanlan, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Neidhart von Rüntal
A Medieval German composer of songs in the Minnesinger tradition. ~ All Music Guide, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Eduard Tubin
An Estonian composer of concertos, dance and ballet suites, and ten symphonies. ~ All Music Guide, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Samuel Wesley
An important British composer of Latin and Anglican church music. ~ Mary K. Scanlan, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Charles Wuorinen
An American composer of instrumental serial music and founder of the Group for Contemporary Music., All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Bert Seager
Progressive pianist in post-modern and modal vein. Excellent composer of ensemble music. ~ Michael G. Nastos, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Supply Belcher
An American composer who wrote a Psalmody during the American religious revivals. ~ Keith Johnson, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Komitas Vartabed
An Armenian composer of sacred and secular vocal music based on folksongs. ~ All Music Guide, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Shanon
Shanon was the new age-inspired alias of Irish film and television composer Honan Hardiman. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Alexander von Zemlinsky
An Austrian composer of opera, orchestral, and chamber music. ~ All Music Guide, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Matthew Alagna
Matthew Alagna was born in 1920 and was a composer, pianist, and trumpeter. He died in 1965. ~ Gary Hill, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Hariprasad Chaurasia
With his virtuousic blowing technique, Hariprasad Chaurasia has turned the Bansuri (bamboo) flute into an instrument of beauty. Blending the musical traditions of India with imagination and innovation, Chaurasia has reached beyond classical music to create a sound of his own. Presented with the national award of the Sangeet Natak Academy in... [+] Read More
Artist: Leonard Rosenman
American composer Leonard Rosenman first studied to be a painter, but after serving with the Air Force in WW II, he became more interested in music, and became the protégé of distinguished avant-garde composer Arnold Schoenberg. Rosenman has won Academy Awards for his adapted scores for Barry Lyndon (1975) and Bound for Glory (1976). In... [+] Read More
Artist: Arcade Fire
Win Butler, Régine Chassagne, Richard Parry, Tim Kingsbury, and Win's kid brother William Butler formed the Arcade Fire in summer 2003. The experimental indie rock quintet, who hail from Montreal, initially began when the elder Butler spotted Chassagne singing jazz standards at a local art exhibit at Concordia University in their hometown. From... [+] Read More
Artist: Jean-Baptiste Lully
A French composer of opera, ballet, and some religious music. Lully established the tragedie lyrique style of opera. ~ All Music Guide, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Kamau Kenyatta
Saxophonist, pianist, and composer using contemporary and modal themes in alliance with inspiration from Black poets and writers. ~ Michael G. Nastos, All Music Guide [+] Read More
Artist: Georg Anton Benda
Georg was the third son of Jan, a composer and violinist in the court of Frederick The Great. He became the Kappellmeister of Fredrich III where he began to compose cantatas. What became his best genre, and the one at which he was most talented, opera, was opposed by the clerics. Georg did compose the Itlian opera "Xindo riconnosciuto" for which... [+] Read More
Artist: Giovanni Battista Martini
Martini was the most important Italian composer of his time. He was not only respected as a composer but as a teacher as well. Martini's students included W.A. Mozart, J.C. Bach, and Jommelli. He composed over 1, 500 works (as this many are extant) including nearly one thousand canons, oratorios, keyboard sonatas, organ pieces, sinfonias,... [+] Read More
Artist: Tiziano Ferro
Italian pop singer/songwriter Tiziano Ferro became involved in music while attending a local conservatory, taking guitar and piano classes in addition to improving his vocal skills. At the age of 16, he joined a gospel chorus, uncovering his passion for Afro-American music. In 1998, Tiziano Ferro began working along with producers Alberto... [+] Read More
Artist: Henry Mancini
If the recognition of one's peers is the true measure of success, then few men are as successful as composer, arranger, and conductor Henry Mancini. In a career that spanned 40 years, writing for film and television, Mancini won four Oscars and twenty Grammys, the all-time record for a pop artist. For 1961's Breakfast at Tiffany's alone, Mancini... [+] Read More
Artist: The Greiss Project
Paul Greiss Artist-Composer-Arranger paulgreiss@hotmail.com Summary Session artist and teacher competent in many musical styles, electric, and acoustic [+] Read More
Artist: Kumar Sanu
One of the most prolific singers ever to work in the Indian film industry, Kumar Sanu's recorded output numbers in the thousands of songs, reaching by his estimation over 8,000 by the turn of the millennium. Sanu broke the Guinness world record for the largest number of songs recorded in a single day, with 28 -- a testament not only to his... [+] Read More
