Decca Records
Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis (Decca), Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934 by Lewis, Jack Kapp, American Decca's first president, and Milton Rackmil, who later became American ...
is a recording label. A division of
Universal Classics
Decca Gold is a United States-based record label focusing on classical repertoire. It falls under the umbrella of Verve Label Group, owned by Universal Music Group. The label has a new roster of classical artists and partnerships, and was inspired ...
, it is also known as ''Decca Music Group''.
Classical
Vocal artists
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Roberto Alagna
Roberto Alagna (; born 7 June 1963) is a French operatic tenor. He obtained French citizenship in 1981, while also retaining his previous Italian citizenship.
Early years
Alagna was born in Clichy-sous-Bois, outside the city of Paris, in 1963 to ...
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Ada Alsop
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Elly Ameling
Elisabeth Sara "Elly" Ameling (born 8 February 1933) is a retired Dutch soprano, who was particularly known for lieder recitals and for performing works by Johann Sebastian Bach. Performing with distinguished pianists and ensembles around the glo ...
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Arleen Auger
Joyce Arleen Auger (sometimes spelled Augér ; September 13, 1939 – June 10, 1993) was an American soprano, known for her coloratura voice and interpretations of works by Bach, Handel, Haydn, Monteverdi, Mozart, and Schubert. She won a posthum ...
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Janet Baker
Dame Janet Abbott Baker (born 21 August 1933) is an English mezzo-soprano best known as an opera, concert, and lieder singer.Blyth, Alan, "Baker, Dame Janet (Abbott)" in Sadie, Stanley, ed.; John Tyrell; exec. ed. (2001). ''New Grove Dictionar ...
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Cecilia Bartoli
Cecilia Bartoli, Cavaliere OMRI (; born 4 June 1966) is an Italian coloratura mezzo-soprano opera singer and recitalist. She is best known for her interpretations of the music of Bellini, Handel, Mozart, Rossini and Vivaldi, as well as for her ...
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Teresa Berganza
Teresa Berganza Vargas OAXS (16 March 1933 – 13 May 2022) was a Spanish mezzo-soprano. She is most closely associated with roles such as Rossini's Rosina and La Cenerentola, and later Bizet's Carmen, admired for her technical virtuosity, m ...
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Carlo Bergonzi
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Jussi Björling
Johan Jonatan "Jussi" Björling ( , ; 5 February 19119 September 1960) was a Swedish tenor. One of the leading operatic singers of the 20th century, Björling appeared for many years at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City and less frequentl ...
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Barbara Bonney
Barbara Bonney (born April 14, 1956) is an American soprano. She is associated with lyric soprano roles in operas by Mozart and Richard Strauss as well as lieder performances.
Early life
Bonney was born in Montclair, New Jersey. As a child she pr ...
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Jean Borthayre
Jean Borthayre (25 May 1901, Musculdy – 25 April 1984, Montmorency) was a French operatic baritone, particularly associated with the French and Italian repertories.
Career
Mainly self-taught, Borthayre began his career singing as a soloist ...
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Catherine Bott
Catherine Bott (born 11 September 1952) is a British soprano and a Baroque specialist. She has also pursued a broadcasting career.
Following her studies at The King's High School For Girls and Guildhall School of Music and Drama, with Arthur Rec ...
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Roger Bourdin
Roger Bourdin (14 June 1900 in Paris – 14 September 1973 in Paris) was a French baritone, particularly associated with the French repertory. His career was largely based in France. His daughter is Françoise Bourdin.
Life and career
Born in t ...
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James Bowman
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Montserrat Caballé
Montserrat Caballé i Folch or Folc (full name: María de Montserrat Bibiana Concepción Caballé i Folch (, , ; (12 April 1933 – 6 October 2018), known simply as Montserrat Caballé, was a Catalan Spanish operatic soprano. She sang a wide va ...
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Nicole Cabell
Nicole Cabell (born October 17, 1977) is an American opera singer. She is best known as the 2005 winner of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition.
Cabell was born in Panorama City, California. Her grandfather, Luther Lanier, was the fir ...
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Joseph Calleja
Joseph Calleja (born January 22, 1978) is a Maltese operatic tenor.
Early life and career
Calleja was born in Attard, Malta. He began singing at the age of 16, having been discovered by tenor Brian Cefai and continued his studies with Maltese ...
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Giuseppe Campora
Giuseppe Campora (September 30, 1923 – December 5, 2004) was an Italian operatic tenor.
Early life
Giuseppe Campora was born on September 30, 1923, in Tortona, Italy.
Career
Campora was a Giacomo Puccini, Puccinian tenor. In 1954 he was the du ...
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José Carreras
Josep Maria Carreras Coll (; born 5 December 1946), better known as José Carreras (, ), is a Spanish operatic tenor who is particularly known for his performances in the operas of Donizetti, Verdi and Puccini.
Born in Barcelona, he made his de ...
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Carmen Cavallaro and his Orchestra
''Carmen'' () is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the Carmen (novella), novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first perfo ...
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Franco Corelli
Franco Corelli (8 April 1921 – 29 October 2003) was an Italian tenor who had a major international opera career between 1951 and 1976. Associated in particular with the spinto and dramatic tenor roles of the Italian repertory, he was cel ...
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Fernando Corena
Fernando Corena (22 December 1916 – 26 November 1984) was a Swiss bass who had a major international opera career from the late 1940s through the early 1980s. He enjoyed a long and successful career at the Metropolitan Opera between 1954 and 1 ...
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Armand Crabbe
Armand refer to:
People
* Armand (name), list of people with this name
*Armand (photographer) (1901–1963), Armenian photographer
*Armand (singer) (1946–2015), Dutch protest singer
*Sean Armand (born 1991), American basketball player
*Armand, ...
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Régine Crespin
Régine Crespin (23 February 1927 – 5 July 2007) was a French singer who had a major international career in opera and on the concert stage between 1950 and 1989. She started her career singing roles in the dramatic soprano and spinto soprano ...
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Maud Cunitz
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José Cura
José Luis Victor Cura Gómez (born 5 December 1962) is an Argentine operatic tenor, conductor, director, scenographer and photographer known for intense and original interpretations of opera characters, notably ''Otello'' in Verdi’s ''Otello' ...
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Libero de Luca
Libero De Luca (13 March 1913 – 1998) was a Swiss tenor of Italian descent particularly associated with the French repertory.
Life and career
De Luca was born in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland, and studied voice at the Zurich Conservatory with Alfr ...
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Suzanne Danco
Suzanne Danco (22 January 191110 August 2000), was a Belgian international soprano whose career encompassed the opera stages of Europe from Mozart to 20th century roles, recitals, recordings of opera and songs, and later teaching.Shawe-Taylor, D ...
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Mario del Monaco
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Lisa Della Casa
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Alfred Deller
Alfred George Deller, CBE (31 May 1912 – 16 July 1979), was an English singer and one of the main figures in popularising the return of the countertenor voice in Renaissance and Baroque music during the 20th century.
He is sometimes referre ...
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Anton Dermota
Kammersänger Anton Dermota (June 4, 1910 – June 22, 1989) was a Slovene lyric tenor.
Early life
He was born in a poor family in the Upper Carniolan village of Kropa in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire (and is now in Slove ...
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Giuseppe Di Stefano
Giuseppe Di Stefano (24 July 19213 March 2008) was an Italian operatic tenor who sang professionally from the mid-1940s until the early 1990s. Called Pippo by both fans and friends, he was known as the "Golden voice" or "The most beautiful voic ...
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Plácido Domingo
José Plácido Domingo Embil (born 21 January 1941) is a Spanish opera singer, conductor, and arts administrator. He has recorded over a hundred complete operas and is well known for his versatility, regularly performing in Italian, French, ...
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Otto Edelmann
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Margreta Elkins
Margreta Elkins (born Margaret Ann Enid Geater; 16 October 19301 April 2009) was an Australian mezzo-soprano. She sang at The Royal Opera and with Opera Australia and other companies, but turned down offers to sing at the Metropolitan Opera, B ...
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Kathleen Ferrier
Kathleen Mary Ferrier, CBE (22 April 19128 October 1953) was an English contralto singer who achieved an international reputation as a stage, concert and recording artist, with a repertoire extending from folksong and popular ballads to the cl ...
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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (28 May 1925 – 18 May 2012) was a German lyric baritone and conductor of classical music, one of the most famous Lieder (art song) performers of the post-war period, best known as a singer of Franz Schubert's Lieder, ...
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Kirsten Flagstad
Kirsten Malfrid Flagstad (12 July 1895 – 7 December 1962) was a Norwegian opera singer, who was the outstanding Wagnerian soprano of her era. Her triumphant debut in New York on 2 February 1935 is one of the legends of opera. Giulio Gatti-Casaz ...
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Renée Fleming
Renée Lynn Fleming (born February 14, 1959) is an American soprano, known for performances in opera, concerts, recordings, theater, film, and at major public occasions. A recipient of the National Medal of Arts, Fleming has been nominated for 1 ...
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Juan Diego Flórez
Juan Diego Flórez (born Juan Diego Flórez Salom, January 13, 1973) is a Peruvian operatic tenor, particularly known for his roles in bel canto operas. On June 4, 2007, he received his country's highest decoration, the ''Knight Grand Cross in t ...
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Mirella Freni
Mirella Freni, OMRI (, born Mirella Fregni, 27 February 1935 – 9 February 2020) was an Italian operatic soprano who had a career of 50 years and appeared at major international opera houses. She received international attention at the Gly ...
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Angela Gheorghiu
Angela Gheorghiu (; ; born 7 September 1965) is a Romanian soprano, especially known for her performances in the operas of Puccini and Verdi, widely recognised by critics and opera lovers as one of the greatest sopranos of all time.
Embarking h ...
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Nicolai Ghiaurov
Nicolai Ghiaurov (or ''Nikolai Gjaurov'', ''Nikolay Gyaurov'', bg, Николай Гяуров) (September 13, 1929 – June 2, 2004) was a Bulgarian opera singer and one of the most famous basses of the postwar period. He was admired for hi ...
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Matthias Goerne
Matthias Goerne (born 31 March 1967) is a German baritone. He has performed and recorded extensively, both on the opera stage and in Lieder settings. Goerne has been referred to as "Today's leading interpreter of German art songs" by the Chicago ...
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Galina Gorchakova
Galina Vladimirovna Gorchakova (russian: Галина Владимировна Горчакова, born 1 March 1962) is a distinguished Russian lyric soprano.
Beginnings
Gorchakova was born in Novokuznetsk to a musical family. She moved to Novo ...
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Hilde Gueden
Hilde may refer to:
* Hilde (given name)
* ''Hilde'' (film), a 2009 German biopic film
* MV ''Hilde'', a Kriegsmarine coastal tanker
*Tom Hilde (born 1987), Norwegian ski jumper
Characters
* Hilde (Soulcalibur), a character in the ''Soul'' seri ...
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Thomas Hayward
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Judith Hellwig
Judith Hellwig (19 August 1906 – 25 January 1993) was an Austrian operatic soprano.
Career
Born in Neusohl, (today Banská Bystrica in Slovakia), Hellwig made her debut at the opera house in Saarbrücken. In 1938, she created the role of Ur ...
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Roy Henderson
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Wolfgang Holzmair
Wolfgang Holzmair (born 1952 in Vöcklabruck) is an Austrian baritone.
Holzmair studied at the Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He won 2nd prize in the baritone class of the 's-Hertogenbosch International Vocal Competition in 1981, an ...
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Marilyn Horne
Marilyn Horne (born January 16, 1934) is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer. She specialized in roles requiring beauty of tone, excellent breath support, and the ability to execute difficult coloratura passages. She is a recipient of the Natio ...
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Dmitri Hvorostovsky
Dmitri Aleksandrovich Hvorostovsky (russian: Дми́трий Алекса́ндрович Хворосто́вский, ; 16 October 1962 – 22 November 2017) was a Russian operatic baritone. Early life and education
Hvorostovsky was born i ...
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Giovanni Inghilleri
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Jacques Jansen
Jacques Jansen (né Toupin; born Paris, 22 November 1913 – 13 March 2002) was a French ''baryton-martin'' singer, particularly associated with the role of Pelléas in the opera by Debussy, but also active in operetta and on the concert platfor ...
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Sumi Jo
Sumi Jo, OSI (; ; born 22 November 1962) is a South Korean lyric coloratura soprano known for her Grammy award-winning interpretations of the bel canto repertoire.
Life and career Early life and education
Jo was born Jo Su-gyeong in Changw ...
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Louis Jordan
Louis Thomas Jordan (July 8, 1908 – February 4, 1975) was an American saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and bandleader who was popular from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Known as " the King of the Jukebox", he earned his high ...
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Endre Koreh
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Richard Lewis Richard, Rich, Richie, Rick, Ricky or Dick Lewis may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* Richard Field Lewis Jr. (1907–1957), American radio network owner
* Dick "Rocko" Lewis (Richard Henry Lewis III, 1908–1966), American entertainer
* Rich ...
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Wilma Lipp
Wilma Lipp (; 26 April 1925 – 26 January 2019) was an Austrian operatic soprano and academic voice teacher. A long-time member of the Vienna State Opera, she was particularly associated with the role of the Queen of the Night in Mozart's ''Die Z ...
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David Lloyd
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George London
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Emmy Loose
Emmy Loose (22 January 1914 in Chabařovice – 14 October 1987 in Vienna) was an Austrian operatic soprano particularly associated with soubrette roles.
After vocal studies in Prague Conservatory, she made her stage debut in Hanover as Blonche ...
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Christa Ludwig
Christa Ludwig (16 March 1928 – 24 April 2021) was a German mezzo-soprano and occasional dramatic soprano, distinguished for her performances of opera, lieder, oratorio, and other major religious works like masses, passions, and solos in symp ...
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Walther Ludwig
Walther Ludwig (17 March 1902 – 15 May 1981) was a German operatic lyric tenor, particularly associated with Mozart roles and Schubert lieder.
Biography
He was born on 17 March 1902 in Bad Oeynhausen.
He first studied medicine in Freiburg befo ...
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Enzo Mascherini
Enzo Mascherini (6 August 1910, Florence - 29 July 1981, Livorno) was an Italian operatic baritone, one of the leading baritones of his generation.
He studied in Florence with Titta Ruffo and Riccardo Stracciari and made his debut there in 1937, a ...
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Karita Mattila
Karita Marjatta Mattila (born 5 September 1960) is a Finnish operatic soprano.
Mattila appears regularly in the major opera houses worldwide, including the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera House in London, Théâtre du Châtelet, Opéra Bastill ...
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Sylvia McNair
Sylvia McNair (born June 23, 1956) is an American opera singer and classical recitalist who has also achieved notable success in the Broadway and cabaret genres. McNair, a soprano, has made several critically acclaimed recordings and has won tw ...
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Janine Micheau
Janine Micheau (17 April 1914 – 18 October 1976) was a French operatic soprano, one of the leading sopranos of her era in France, particularly associated with lyric soprano and coloratura soprano repertory.
Biography
Janine (or Jeanine) Miche ...
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Sherrill Milnes
Sherrill Milnes (born January 10, 1935) is an American dramatic baritone most famous for his Verdi roles. From 1965 until 1997 he was associated with the Metropolitan Opera. His voice is a high dramatic baritone, combining good legato with an inc ...
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Liza Minnelli
Liza May Minnelli ( ; born March 12, 1946) is an American actress, singer, dancer, and choreographer. Known for her commanding stage presence and powerful alto singing voice, Minnelli is among a rare group of performers awarded an Emmy, Grammy ...
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Martha Mödl
Martha Mödl (22 March 1912, Nuremberg – 17 December 2001, Stuttgart) was a German soprano, and later a mezzo-soprano. She specialized in large dramatic roles such as Isolde, Brünnhilde, and particularly Kundry, and is considered, along with Ast ...
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Birgit Nilsson
Märta Birgit Nilsson (17 May 1918 – 25 December 2005) was a celebrated Swedish dramatic soprano. Although she sang a wide répertoire of operatic and vocal works, Nilsson was best known for her performances in the operas of Richard Wagner a ...
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Magda Olivero
Magda Olivero (née Maria Maddalena Olivero) (25 March 1910 – 8 September 2014), was an Italian operatic soprano. Her career started in 1932 when she was 22, and spanned five decades, establishing her "as an important link between the era of th ...
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Jessye Norman
Jessye Mae Norman (September 15, 1945 – September 30, 2019) was an American opera singer and recitalist. She was able to perform dramatic soprano roles, but refused to be limited to that voice type. A commanding presence on operatic, concert ...
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Julius Patzak
Julius Patzak (9 April 189826 January 1974) was an Austrian tenor distinguished in operatic and concert work. He was particularly noted in Mozart, Beethoven and in early 20th-century German repertoire.
Biography
Julius Patzak was born in Vienn ...
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Luciano Pavarotti
Luciano Pavarotti (, , ; 12 October 19356 September 2007) was an Italian operatic tenor who during the late part of his career crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the most acclaimed tenors of all time. He made numerou ...
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Peter Pears
Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears ( ; 22 June 19103 April 1986) was an English tenor. His career was closely associated with the composer Benjamin Britten, his personal and professional partner for nearly forty years.
Pears' musical career started ...
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Alfred Poell
Alfred Poell (18 March 1900 – 30 January 1968) was an Austrian operatic baritone.
Poell was born in Linz, Austria and studied medicine at the University of Innsbruck and obtained his doctorate there. He practised for a time as a neck specialist ...
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Giacinto Prandelli
Giacinto Prandelli (8 February 1914 – 14 June 2010) was an Italian operatic tenor, particularly associated with the Italian and French repertoires.
Life and career
Born in Lumezzane, Italy, Prandelli sang as a boy in a church choir. He stu ...
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Leontyne Price
Mary Violet Leontyne Price (born February 10, 1927) is an American soprano who was the first African Americans, African American soprano to receive international acclaim. From 1961 she began a long association with the Metropolitan Opera, where s ...
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Margaret Price
Dame Margaret Berenice Price (13 April 194128 January 2011) was a Welsh soprano.
Early years
Price was born in Blackwood, near Caerphilly in South Wales. Born with deformed legs, she underwent surgery at age four and suffered pain in her l ...
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Ruggero Raimondi
Ruggero Raimondi (born 3 October 1941) is an Italian bass-baritone opera singer who has also appeared in motion pictures.
Life and career
Early training and career
Ruggero Raimondi was born in Bologna, Italy, during World War II. His voice matu ...
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Samuel Ramey
Samuel Edward Ramey (born March 28, 1942) is an American operatic bass.
At the height of his career, he was greatly admired for his range and versatility, having possessed a sufficiently accomplished bel canto technique to enable him to sing t ...
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Maria Reining
Maria Reining (August 7, 1903 in Vienna – March 11, 1991 in Deggendorf) was an Austrian soprano, honored with the title Kammersängerin.
At first, Reining worked as in a Viennese bank, and didn't commence her singing career until the age of ...
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Katia Ricciarelli
Catiuscia Maria Stella Ricciarelli (born 16 January 1946), known as Katia Ricciarelli (), is an Italian soprano and actress.
Biography
Born in Rovigo, Veneto, to a very poor family, she struggled during her younger years when she studied music. ...
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Mado Robin
Madeleine Marie Robin (; 29 December 191810 December 1960), generally known as Mado Robin, was a French coloratura soprano. A soprano acuto sfogato, she was noted for her extremely high register.
Early life
Robin was born in Yzeures-sur-Creuse ...
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Helge Rosvaenge
Helge Rosvaenge (born Helge Anton Rosenvinge Hansen, August 29, 1897June 17, 1972) was a Danish-born operatic tenor whose career was centred on Germany and Austria, before, during and after World War II. His last name is sometimes spelled Roswaen ...
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Erna Sack
Erna Dorothea Luise Sack (née Weber; 6 February 18982 March 1972) was a German coloratura soprano, known as the German Nightingale for her high vocal range.
Biography
Erna Weber was born in Spandau, Berlin. As a child, her voice attracted attent ...
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Heinrich Schlusnus
Heinrich Schlusnus (6 August 1888 – 18 June 1952) was Germany's foremost lyric baritone of the period between World War I and World War II. He sang opera and lieder with equal distinction.
Career
A native of Braubach, Schlusnus studied with vo ...
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Paul Schoeffler
Paul Schoeffler (born November 21, 1958) is a Canadian stage, film, television, and voice actor
Voice acting is the art of performing voice-overs to present a character or provide information to an audience. Performers are called voice act ...
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Andreas Scholl
Andreas Scholl (born 10 November 1967) is a German countertenor, a male classical singer in the alto vocal range, specialising in Baroque music.
Born into a family of singers, Scholl was enrolled at the age of seven into the Kiedricher Chorbuben ...
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Renata Scotto
Renata Scotto (born 24 February 1934) is an Italian soprano and opera director.
Recognized for her sense of style, her musicality, and as a remarkable singer-actress, Scotto is considered one of the preeminent singers of her generation.
Since r ...
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Anja Silja
Anja Silja Regina Langwagen (, born 17 April 1940) is a German soprano singer.
Biography
Born in Berlin, Silja began her operatic career at a very early age, with her grandfather, Egon Friedrich Maria Anders van Rijn, as her voice teacher. She ...
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Gérard Souzay
Gérard Souzay (8 December 1918 – 17 August 2004) was a French baritone, regarded as one of the very finest interpreters of mélodie (French art song) in the generation after Charles Panzéra and Pierre Bernac.
Background and education
He wa ...
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Cheryl Studer
Cheryl Studer (born October 24, 1955) is an American dramatic soprano who has sung at many of the world's foremost opera houses. Studer has performed more than eighty roles ranging from the dramatic repertoire to roles more commonly associated ...
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Isabel Suckling
Isabel Suckling (born 24 March 1998) is a British singer who, upon signing a record deal with Decca Records, became the youngest classical recording artist signed by Decca, and the first choirgirl to sign a record contract with a major music la ...
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Joan Sutherland
Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, (7 November 1926 – 10 October 2010) was an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano known for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s through to the 1980s.
She possessed ...
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Kiri Te Kanawa
Dame Kiri Jeanette Claire Te Kanawa , (; born Claire Mary Teresa Rawstron, 6 March 1944) is a retired New Zealand opera singer. She had a full lyric soprano voice, which has been described as "mellow yet vibrant, warm, ample and unforced". Te ...
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Renata Tebaldi
Renata Tebaldi ( , ; 1 February 1922 – 19 December 2004) was an Italian lirico-spinto soprano popular in the post-war period, and especially prominent as one of the stars of La Scala, San Carlo and, especially, the Metropolitan Opera. O ...
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Bryn Terfel
Sir Bryn Terfel Jones, (; born 9 November 1965) (known professionally as Bryn Terfel) is a Welsh bass-baritone opera and concert singer. Terfel was initially associated with the roles of Mozart, particularly '' Figaro'', ''Leporello'' and ''D ...
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Conrad Thibault
Conrad Thibault (November 13, 1903 – August 1, 1987) was an American baritone vocalist who frequently appeared on radio, recordings, and concert tours.
Early years
Thibault was born and raised in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he was involv ...
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Günther Treptow
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Hermann Uhde
Hermann Uhde (July 20, 1914 – October 10, 1965) was a German Wagnerian bass-baritone. He was born in Bremen and died on stage of a heart attack during a performance in Copenhagen.
He studied in his hometown, where he gave his début in 1936. Du ...
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Giuseppe Valdengo
Giuseppe Valdengo (May 24, 1914, Turin – October 3, 2007, Aosta) was an Italian operatic baritone. ''Opera News'' said that, "Although his timbre lacked the innate beauty of some of his baritone contemporaries, Valdengo's performances were i ...
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Arnold van Mill
Arnold may refer to:
People
* Arnold (given name), a masculine given name
* Arnold (surname), a German and English surname
Places Australia
* Arnold, Victoria, a small town in the Australian state of Victoria
Canada
* Arnold, Nova Scotia
Uni ...
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Anne Sofie von Otter
Anne Sofie von Otter (born 9 May 1955) is a Swedish mezzo-soprano. Her repertoire encompasses lieder, operas, oratorios and also rock and pop songs.
Early life
Von Otter was born in Stockholm, Sweden. Her father was Göran von Otter, a Swe ...
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Jennifer Vyvyan
Jennifer Vyvyan (13 March 1925 – 5 April 1974) was a British classical soprano who had an active international career in operas, concerts, and recitals from 1948 up until her death in 1974. She possessed a beautifully clear, steady voice with ...
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Anthony Way
Anthony Way (born 14 December 1982) is an English chorister and classical singer, who rose to fame after appearing as a chorister in a BBC TV series. He has since had success as a recording artist, with gold and platinum discs to his credit.
B ...
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Ludwig Weber
Ludwig Weber (July 29, 1899December 9, 1974) was an Austrian bass.
Ludwig Weber was born in Vienna in 1899. He initially planned to pursue a career as a teacher and artist when he discovered his vocal promise and decided to pursue an opera care ...
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Ljuba Welitsch
Ljuba Welitsch (''Veličkova''; bg, Люба Величкова 10 July 1913 – 1 September 1996) was an operatic soprano. She was born in Borisovo, Bulgaria, studied in Sofia and Vienna, and sang in opera houses in Austria and Germany in ...
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Wolfgang Windgassen
Wolfgang Windgassen (26 June 1914 – 8 September 1974) was a heldentenor internationally known for his performances in Wagner operas.
Life and career
Born in Annemasse, France, he was the son (and pupil) of a well known German Heldentenor, Fritz ...
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Marcel Wittrisch
Marcel Wittrisch (1 October 1901 – 3 June 1955) was a popular German operatic tenor.
Life and career
Wittrisch was born in Antwerp, Belgium to a German family, and subsequently studied in Munich, Leipzig, and Milan. His career began in Hall ...
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Laura Wright
Laura Wright (née Sisk) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Ally Rescott on ''Loving (TV series), Loving'' (1991–1995) and ''The City (1995 TV series), The City'' (1995–1997), Cassie Layne Winslow on ''Guidin ...
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Sophie Wyss
Sophie Adele Wyss (5 July 189725 December 1983) was a Swiss soprano who made her career as a concert singer and broadcaster in the UK. She was noted for her performances of French works, many of them new to Britain, for giving the world premiere ...
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Eugenia Zareska
Conductors
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Otto Ackermann
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Leroy Anderson
Leroy Anderson ( ) (June 29, 1908 – May 18, 1975) was an American composer of short, light concert pieces, many of which were introduced by the Boston Pops Orchestra under the direction of Arthur Fiedler. John Williams described him as ...
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Franz André Franz may refer to:
People
* Franz (given name)
* Franz (surname)
Places
* Franz (crater), a lunar crater
* Franz, Ontario, a railway junction and unorganized town in Canada
* Franz Lake, in the state of Washington, United States – see Fran ...
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Ernest Ansermet
Ernest Alexandre Ansermet (; 11 November 1883 – 20 February 1969)"Ansermet, Ernest" in ''The New Encyclopædia Britannica''. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th edn., 1992, Vol. 1, p. 435. was a Swiss conductor.
Biography
Ansermet ...
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Ataúlfo Argenta
Ataúlfo Exuperio Martín de Argenta Maza (19 November 1913 – 20 January 1958) was a Spanish conductor and pianist.
Biography
Argenta was born in Castro Urdiales, Cantabria, one of the two children, and the only son, of the local stati ...
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Vladimir Ashkenazy
Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy (russian: Влади́мир Дави́дович Ашкена́зи, ''Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazi''; born 6 July 1937) is an internationally recognized solo pianist, chamber music performer, and conductor. He ...
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Krešimir Baranović
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Samuel Barber
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Thomas Beecham
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Sidney Beer
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Eduard van Beinum
Eduard Alexander van Beinum (; 3 September 1900 – 13 April 1959, Amsterdam) was a Dutch conductor.
Biography
Van Beinum was born in Arnhem, Netherlands, where he received his first violin and piano lessons at an early age. He joined the A ...
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Anthony Bernard
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Early life
Anthony Bernard's birth was registered as Alan Charles Butler in West Ham, then classified as Essex, in early 1891. His mother was ...
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Leonard Bernstein
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Harry Blech
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Life
Harry Blech was born in ...
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Leo Blech
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Ernest Bloch
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Herbert Blomstedt
Herbert Thorson Blomstedt (; born 11 July 1927) is a Swedish conductor.
Herbert Blomstedt was born in Massachusetts. Two years after his birth, his Swedish parents moved the family back to their country of origin. He studied at the Stockholm Ro ...
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Karl Böhm
Karl August Leopold Böhm (28 August 1894 – 14 August 1981) was an Austrian conductor. He was best known for his performances of the music of Mozart, Wagner, and Richard Strauss.
Life and career
Education
Karl Böhm was born in Graz. T ...
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Richard Bonynge
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Adrian Boult
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Warwick Braithwaite
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Early life and family
Braithwaite was one of ...
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Benjamin Britten
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Frans Brüggen
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Biography
Born in Amsterdam, Brüggen was the last of the nine children of August Brüggen, a textile ...
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Basil Cameron
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Early career
He was born Basil George Cameron HindenbergW.L. Jacob, "Hindenburg v. Cameron" (Letter to the Editor) (1991). ''The Musical Times'', 132 (1782), p. ...
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Sergiu Celibidache
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Riccardo Chailly
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Albert Coates
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Eric Coates
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Coates was born into a musical family, but, despite his wishes and obvious talent, his pa ...
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Anthony Collins
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Piero Coppola
Piero Coppola (11 October 1888 – 17 March 1971) was an Italian conducting, conductor, piano, pianist and composer.
Life and career
Coppola was born in Milan; his parents were both singers.
He studied at the Milan Conservatory, graduating in pi ...
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Colin Davis
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Robert Denzler
Robert Heinrich Friedrich Denzler (19 March 1892 – 25 August 1972) was a Swiss composer and conductor. He was committed to the music of Richard Wagner and contemporary works.
Life
Denzler was the son of a rope maker. He studied with Fritz Nig ...
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Roger Désormière
Roger Désormière () (13 September 1898 – 25 October 1963) was a French conductor. He was an enthusiastic champion of contemporary composers, but also conducted performances of early eighteenth century French music.
Life and career
Désormièr ...
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Christoph von Dohnányi
Christoph von Dohnányi (; born 8 September 1929) is a German conducting, conductor.
Biography
Youth and World War II
Dohnányi was born in Berlin, Germany to Hans von Dohnanyi, a German jurist of Hungarian ancestry, and Christine von Dohnanyi ...
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Antal Doráti
Antal Doráti (, , ; 9 April 1906 – 13 November 1988) was a Hungarian-born conductor and composer who became a naturalized American citizen in 1943.
Biography
Antal Doráti was born in Budapest, where his father Alexander Doráti was a vi ...
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Charles Dutoit
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Georges Enesco
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Biog ...
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Alberto Erede
Alberto Erede (8 November 190912 April 2001) was an Italian conductor, particularly associated with operatic work.
Born in Genoa, Erede studied there before studying at the Verdi Conservatory in Milan, then with Felix Weingartner at Basle, and ...
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Robert Farnon
Robert Joseph Farnon CM (24 July 191723 April 2005) was a Canadian-born composer, conductor, musical arranger and trumpet player. As well as being a composer of original works (often in the light music genre), he was commissioned by film and ...
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Iván Fischer
Iván Fischer (born 20 January 1951) is a Hungarian conductor and composer.
Born in Budapest into a musical family of Jewish heritage, Fischer initially studied piano, violin, cello and composition in Budapest. His older brother, Ádám Fis ...
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Anatole Fistoulari
Anatole Fistoulari (20 August 1907 – 21 August 1995) was a Ukrainian conductor, who became a British citizen.Obituary – Anatole Fistoulari. ''Opera'', October 1995, Vol.46 No.10, p1172. A child prodigy, he later conducted around Europe and Amer ...
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Grzegorz Fitelberg
Grzegorz Fitelberg (18 October 1879 – 10 June 1953) was a Polish conductor, violinist and composer. He was a member of the Young Poland group, together with artists such as Karol Szymanowski, Ludomir Różycki and Mieczysław Karłowicz.
Life ...
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Øivin Fjeldstad
Øivin Fjeldstad (2 May 1903 – 16 October 1983) was a Norway, Norwegian Conducting, conductor and violinist. Fjeldstad was artistic director and principal conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic from 1962 to 1969.
Biography
A native of Oslo, Øivi ...
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Wilhelm Furtwängler
Gustav Heinrich Ernst Martin Wilhelm Furtwängler ( , , ; 25 January 188630 November 1954) was a German conductor and composer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest symphonic and operatic conductors of the 20th century. He was a major ...
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Pierino Gamba
Piero Gamba (16 September 1936 – 30 January 2022), also known as Pierino Gamba, was an Italian orchestral conductor and pianist.
Biography
Born in Rome, Italy on 16 September 1936, Gamba came to attention as a child prodigy.
He won the Arn ...
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John Eliot Gardiner
Sir John Eliot Gardiner (born 20 April 1943) is an English conductor, particularly known for his performances of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Life and career
Born in Fontmell Magna, Dorset, son of Rolf Gardiner and Marabel Hodgkin, Gard ...
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Valery Gergiev
Valery Abisalovich Gergiev (russian: Вале́рий Абиса́лович Ге́ргиев, ; os, Гергиты Абисалы фырт Валери, Gergity Abisaly fyrt Valeri; born 2 May 1953) is a Russian conductor and opera company d ...
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Walter Goehr
Walter Goehr (; 28 May 19034 December 1960) was a German composer and conductor.
Biography
Goehr was born in Berlin, where he studied with Arnold Schoenberg and embarked on a conducting career, before being forced as a Jew to seek employment outsi ...
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Bernard Haitink
Bernard Johan Herman Haitink (; 4 March 1929 – 21 October 2021) was a Dutch conductor and violinist. He was the principal conductor of several international orchestras, beginning with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in 1961. He moved to Lond ...
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Sir Hamilton Harty
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Christopher Hogwood
Christopher Jarvis Haley Hogwood (10 September 194124 September 2014) was an English conductor, harpsichordist, writer, and musicologist. Founder of the early music ensemble the Academy of Ancient Music, he was an authority on historically info ...
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Heinrich Hollreiser
Heinrich Hollreiser (24 June 191324 July 2006) was a German conductor.
Born in Munich, he attended the State Academy of Music there and went on to serve as the conductor at the opera houses in Wiesbaden, Darmstadt, Mannheim, and Duisburg. From ...
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Robert Irving
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Herbert von Karajan
Herbert von Karajan (; born Heribert Ritter von Karajan; 5 April 1908 – 16 July 1989) was an Austrian conductor. He was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic for 34 years. During the Nazi era, he debuted at the Salzburg Festival, wit ...
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Reginald Jacques
Thomas Reginald Jacques (13 January 1894 – 2 June 1969) was an English choral and orchestral conductor. His legacy includes various choral music arrangements, but he is not primarily remembered as a composer.
Jacques was born in Ashby-de-l ...
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Thomas Jensen
Thomas Jensen (Copenhagen, 25 October 1898 – Frederiksberg, 13 November 1963) was a Danish orchestra conductor.
Life and career
Born into a working class household, he studied at the Danish Conservatory of Music.Cane, A. Thomas Jensen ...
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Enrique Jordá
Enrique Jordá (March 24, 1911 – March 18, 1996) was a Spanish-American conductor. Born in San Sebastián (Guipúzcoa, Spain), later on he was a naturalized US citizen.
After conducting in Madrid, Cape Town and Antwerp, he was music direc ...
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István Kertész
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Royalton Kisch
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Erich Kleiber
Erich Kleiber (5 August 1890 – 27 January 1956) was an Austrian, later Argentine, conductor, known for his interpretations of the classics and as an advocate of new music.
Kleiber was born in Vienna, and after studying at the Prague Conservato ...
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Hans Knappertsbusch
Hans Knappertsbusch (12 March 1888 – 25 October 1965) was a German conductor, best known for his performances of the music of Wagner, Bruckner and Richard Strauss.
Knappertsbusch followed the traditional route for an aspiring conductor in Germ ...
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Clemens Krauss
Clemens Heinrich Krauss (31 March 189316 May 1954) was an Austrian conductor and opera impresario, particularly associated with the music of Richard Strauss, Johann Strauss and Richard Wagner.
Krauss was born in Vienna to Clementine Krauss, the ...
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Josef Krips
Josef Alois Krips (8 April 1902 – 13 October 1974) was an Austrian conductor and violinist.
Life and career
Krips was born in Vienna. His father was Josef Jakob Krips, a medical doctor and amateur singer, and his mother was Aloisia, née Seit ...
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Rafael Kubelík
Rafael Jeroným Kubelík, KBE (29 June 1914 – 11 August 1996) was a Czech conductor and composer.
Son of a well-known violinist, Jan Kubelík, he was trained in Prague, and made his debut with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 1 ...
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Franz Lehár
Franz Lehár ( ; hu, Lehár Ferenc ; 30 April 1870 – 24 October 1948) was an Austro-Hungarian composer. He is mainly known for his operettas, of which the most successful and best known is ''The Merry Widow'' (''Die lustige Witwe'').
Life ...
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Erich Leinsdorf
Erich Leinsdorf (born Erich Landauer; February 4, 1912 – September 11, 1993) was an Austrian-born American conductor. He performed and recorded with leading orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States and Europe, earning a ...
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Edouard Lindenberg
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Peter Maag
Ernst Peter Johannes Maag (10 May 1919 – 16 April 2001) was a Swiss conductor.
Early life
Peter Maag was born on 10 May 1919 in St. Gallen, Switzerland and died on 16 April 2001 in Verona, Italy.
His father, Otto, was a Lutheran minister, a ...
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Lorin Maazel
Lorin Varencove Maazel (, March 6, 1930 – July 13, 2014) was an American conductor, violinist and composer. He began conducting at the age of eight and by 1953 had decided to pursue a career in music. He had established a reputation in th ...
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Charles Mackerras
Mackerras in 2005
Sir Alan Charles MacLaurin Mackerras (; 1925 2010) was an Australian conductor. He was an authority on the operas of Janáček and Mozart, and the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan. He was long associated with the Eng ...
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Nikolai Malko
Nicolai Andreyevich Malko (russian: Никола́й Андре́евич Малько́, ua, Микола Андрійович Малько; 4 May 188323 June 1961) was a Russian-born American symphonic conductor.
Biography
Malko was born in ...
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Neville Marriner
Sir Neville Marriner, (15 April 1924 – 2 October 2016) was an English violinist and "one of the world's greatest conductors". Gramophone lists Marriner as one of the 50 greatest conductors and another compilation ranks Marriner #14 of th ...
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Jean Martinon
Jean Francisque-Étienne Martinon (usually known simply as Jean Martinon (); 10 January 19101 March 1976) was a French conductor and composer.
Biography
Martinon was born in Lyon, where he began his education, going on to the Conservatoire ...
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Zubin Mehta
Zubin Mehta (born 29 April 1936) is an Indian conductor of Western classical music. He is music director emeritus of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) and conductor emeritus of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Mehta's father was the foun ...
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Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (born 4 July 1911 Bologna; died 8 August 1996 Bologna) was a prominent Italian opera conductor. He studied piano and composition at Bologna, and graduated from the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome in 1938. He made h ...
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Rudolf Moralt
Rudolf Moralt (26 February 1902 – 16 December 1958) was a German conductor, particularly associated with Mozart and the German repertory.
Born in Munich, he studied there with Walter Courvoisier and August Schmid-Lindner, and was engaged as a ...
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Charles Munch
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Karl Münchinger
Karl Münchinger (29 May 1915 – 13 March 1990) was a German conductor of European classical music. He helped to revive the now-ubiquitous Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel, through recording it with his Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra in 1960. (Jean- ...
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Riccardo Muti
Riccardo Muti, (; born 28 July 1941) is an Italian conductor. He currently holds two music directorships, at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and at the Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini. Muti has previously held posts at the Maggio Musicale ...
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Boyd Neel
Louis Boyd Neel O.C. (19 July 190530 September 1981) was an English, and later Canadian conductor and academic. He was Dean of the Royal Conservatory of Music at the University of Toronto. Neel founded and conducted chamber orchestras, and cont ...
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Victor Olof
Victor Olof (12 July 1898 – 3 November 1974) was an English musician, known first as a violinist and conductor and later as a record producer for Decca Records and subsequently for HMV Records.
Among the artists whose recordings Olof supervise ...
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Seiji Ozawa
Seiji (written: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , or in hiragana) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
*, Japanese ski jumper
*, Japanese racing driver
*, Japanese politician
*, Japanese film directo ...
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Philip Pickett
Philip Pickett (born 17 November 1950) is an English musician. Pickett was director of early music ensembles including the New London Consort, and taught at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He played recorders, shawms and similar inst ...
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André Previn
André George Previn (; born Andreas Ludwig Priwin; April 6, 1929 – February 28, 2019) was a German-American pianist, composer, and conductor. His career had three major genres: Hollywood films, jazz, and classical music. In each he achieved ...
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Fernando Previtali
Fernando Previtali (16 February 1907 Adria, Italy – 1 August 1985, Rome, Italy) was an Italian conductor, particularly associated with the Italian repertory, especially Verdi operas.
He studied at the Giuseppe Verdi Music Conservatory in Tu ...
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Karl Rankl
Karl Rankl (1 October 1898 – 6 September 1968) was a British conductor and composer who was of Austrian birth. A pupil of the composers Schoenberg and Webern, he conducted at opera houses in Austria, Germany and Czechoslovakia until fleeing f ...
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Victor Reinshagen
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Christophe Rousset
Christophe Rousset (; born 12 April 1961) is a French harpsichordist and conductor, who specializes in the performance of Baroque music on period instruments. He is also a musicologist, particularly of opera and European music of the 17th and 18 ...
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Paul Sacher
Paul Sacher (28 April 190626 May 1999) was a Swiss conductor, patron and billionaire businessperson. At the time of his death Sacher was majority shareholder of pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-La Roche and was considered the third richest person i ...
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Malcolm Sargent
Sir Harold Malcolm Watts Sargent (29 April 1895 – 3 October 1967) was an English conductor, organist and composer widely regarded as Britain's leading conductor of choral works. The musical ensembles with which he was associated include ...
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Hermann Scherchen
Hermann Scherchen (21 June 1891 – 12 June 1966) was a German conductor.
Life
Scherchen was born in Berlin. Originally a violist, he played among the violas of the Bluthner Orchestra of Berlin while still in his teens. He conducted in Riga ...
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Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt (5 May 190028 May 1973) was a German conductor and composer. After studying at several music academies, he worked in German opera houses between 1923 and 1945, first as a répétiteur and then in increasingly senior conduct ...
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Carl Schuricht
Carl Adolph Schuricht (; 3 July 18807 January 1967) was a German conductor.
Life and career
Schuricht was born in Danzig (Gdańsk), German Empire; his father's family had been respected organ-builders. His mother, Amanda Wusinowska, a widow soo ...
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Georges Sébastien
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Ivan Semenoff
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Sir Georg Solti
Sir Georg Solti ( , ; born György Stern; 21 October 1912 – 5 September 1997) was a Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor, known for his appearances with opera companies in Munich, Frankfurt and London, and as a long-servin ...
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Fritz Stiedry
Fritz Stiedry (11 October 18838 August 1968) was an Austrian conductor and composer.
Biography
Fritz Stiedry was born in Vienna in 1883. While still a law student at the University of Vienna, Stiedry's talent for music was noticed by Gustav Mahl ...
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Robert Stolz
Robert Elisabeth Stolz (25 August 188027 June 1975) was an Austrian songwriter
A songwriter is a musician who professionally composes musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be call ...
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Oscar Straus
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George Szell
George Szell (; June 7, 1897 – July 30, 1970), originally György Széll, György Endre Szél, or Georg Szell, was a Hungarian-born American conductor and composer. He is widely considered one of the twentieth century's greatest condu ...
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Stig Westerberg
Stig Evald Börje Westerberg (26 November 1918 – 1 July 1999) was a Swedish conductor and pianist, whose career was based mostly in his home country.Karlsson H. "Stig Westerberg". In: ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', 2nd edit ...
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Mogens Wöldike
Mogens Wöldike (5 July 1897, Copenhagen – 20 October 1988, Copenhagen) was a Danish conductor, choirmaster, organist, and scholar known for his interpretation of music from the Baroque and Classical periods. His son-in-law was the Haydn s ...
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Albert Wolff
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Eric Tuxen
Instrumentalists
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Valentina Lisitsa
Valentina Lisitsa, ; russian: Валентина Евгеньевна Лисица, translit=Valentina Evgen'evna Lisica, ) (born 25 March 1970) is a Ukrainian-American pianist.
Lisitsa independently launched her career on social media, without ...
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Salvatore Accardo
Salvatore Accardo (; Knight Grand Cross born 26 September 1941 in Turin, northern Italy) is an Italian violinist and conductor, who is known for his interpretations of the works of Niccolò Paganini.
Accardo owns one Stradivarius violin, the "Ha ...
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Martha Argerich
Martha Argerich (; Eastern Catalan: ɾʒəˈɾik born 5 June 1941) is an Argentine classical concert pianist. She is widely considered to be one of the greatest pianists of all time.
Early life and education
Argerich was born in Buenos Ai ...
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Claudio Arrau
Claudio Arrau León (; February 6, 1903June 9, 1991) was a Chilean pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Bra ...
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Vladimir Ashkenazy
Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy (russian: Влади́мир Дави́дович Ашкена́зи, ''Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazi''; born 6 July 1937) is an internationally recognized solo pianist, chamber music performer, and conductor. He ...
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Wilhelm Backhaus
Wilhelm Backhaus ('Bachaus' on some record labels) (26 March 1884 – 5 July 1969) was a German pianist and pedagogue. He was particularly well known for his interpretations of Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Brahms. He was also much ...
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Ellen Ballon
Ellen Ballon (October 6, 1898 – December 21, 1969) was a Canadian pianist.
The daughter of Jewish Lithuanian immigrants, she was born in Montreal, Quebec. A child prodigy, she gave her first concert at the age of five and began studying m ...
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Pierre Barbizet
Pierre Barbizet (20 September 1922 – 19 January 1990) was a 20th-century French pianist.
Barbizet was born in Arica, Chile, and died in Marseille.
1922 births
1990 deaths
20th-century French male classical pianists
Chevaliers of the L ...
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Antoine de Bavier
Antoine-Pierre de Bavier, also known as Antoine de Bavier and Anton von Bavier was a twentieth-century Swiss clarinettist and orchestral conductor.
De Bavier was a pupil of the clarinetist Luigi Amodio and of Wilhelm Furtwängler. His earlier ...
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Joshua Bell
Joshua David Bell (born December 9, 1967) is an American violinist and conductor. He plays the Gibson Stradivarius.
Early life and education
Bell was born in Bloomington, Indiana, to Shirley Bell, a therapist, and Alan P. Bell, a psychologis ...
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Yvonne Blanc
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Jacqueline Blancard
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Felicja Blumental
Felicja Blumental (28 December 1908 – 31 December 1991) was a Polish pianist and composer. "She was one of the relatively few women born in the first quarter of the twentieth century to have achieved an important career as a concert pianist ...
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Jorge Bolet
Jorge Bolet (November 15, 1914October 16, 1990) was a Cuban-born American virtuoso pianist and teacher. Among his teachers were Leopold Godowsky, and Moriz Rosenthal – the latter an outstanding pupil of Franz Liszt.
Life
Bolet was born in Havan ...
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Julian Bream
Julian Alexander Bream (15 July 193314 August 2020) was an English classical guitarist and lutenist. Regarded as one of the most distinguished classical guitarists of the 20th century, he played a significant role in improving the public per ...
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Alfred Brendel
Alfred Brendel KBE (born 5 January 1931) is an Austrian classical pianist, poet, author, composer, and lecturer who is known particularly for his performances of Mozart, Schubert, Schoenberg, and Beethoven.Stephen Plaistow"Brendel, Alfred" ''G ...
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Benjamin Britten
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other ...
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Alfredo Campoli
Alfredo Campoli (20 October 1906 – 27 March 1991) was an Italian-born British violinist, often known simply as Campoli. He was noted for the beauty of the tone he produced from the violin. Campoli spent his childhood and much of his career in E ...
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Kyung Wha Chung
Kyung Wha Chung (born 26 March 1948) is a South Korean violinist.
Early years and education
Kyung Wha Chung was born in Seoul as the middle of the seven children in her family. Her father was an exporter, and her mother ran a restaurant.
She b ...
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Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland (, ; November 14, 1900December 2, 1990) was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later a conductor of his own and other American music. Copland was referred to by his peers and critics as "the Dean of American Com ...
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Clifford Curzon
Sir Clifford Michael Curzon CBE (né Siegenberg; 18 May 19071 September 1982) was an English classical pianist.
Curzon studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and subsequently with Artur Schnabel in Berlin and Wanda Landowska and Nad ...
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Alicia de Larrocha
Alicia de Larrocha y de la Calle (23 May 192325 September 2009) was a Spanish pianist and composer. She was considered one of the great piano legends of the 20th century. Reuters called her "the greatest Spanish pianist in history", ''Time'' "o ...
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Jeanne Demessieux
Jeanne Marie-Madeleine Demessieux (13 February 1921 – 11 November 1968) was a French organist, pianist, composer, and teacher. She was the chief organist at Saint-Esprit for 29 years and at La Madeleine in Paris starting in 1962. She perfo ...
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Marcel Dupré
Marcel Jean-Jules Dupré () (3 May 1886 – 30 May 1971) was a French organist, composer, and pedagogue.
Biography
Born in Rouen into a wealthy musical family, Marcel Dupré was a child prodigy. His father Aimable Albert Dupré was titular o ...
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Ludovico Einaudi
Ludovico Maria Enrico Einaudi OMRI (; born 23 November 1955) is an Italian pianist and composer. Trained at the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan, Einaudi began his career as a classical composer, later incorporating other styles and genres such as ...
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Osian Ellis Osian or Osiyan may refer to:
* Osian art fund, an arts fund started in Mumbai (2010).
*Osian, Jodhpur, a city in Rajasthan, India
* Osiyan, Unnao, a village in Unnao district, Uttar Pradesh, India
* Osian (name), a name common in Wales, derived f ...
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Mischa Elman
Mischa (Mikhail Saulovich) Elman (russian: Михаил Саулович Эльман; January 20, 1891April 5, 1967) was a Russian-born American violinist famed for his passionate style, beautiful tone, and impeccable artistry and musicality.
E ...
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Christian Ferras
Christian Ferras (17 June 1933 – 14 September 1982) was a French violinist.
Early years
Ferras was born at Le Touquet in 1933. He began studying the violin with his father. He entered the Conservatoire de Nice as a student of Charles Bistesi i ...
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Julia Fischer
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Pierre Fournier
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He was born in Paris, the son of a French Army gen ...
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Nelson Freire
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Walther Frey
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Maurice Gendron
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Max Gilbert
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Arnold Goldsbrough
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Vicente Gómez
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Isador Goodman
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Frederick Grinke
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Arthur Grumiaux
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Friedrich Gulda
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Born in Vienna the son of a teacher, Gulda began learning to play the piano ...
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Monique Haas
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Born in Paris, she studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Joseph Morpain and Lazare Lévy, taking a ''Premier Prix'' in 1927. She went on to study with Rudolf Serkin and Rob ...
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Ida Haendel
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Early career
Born in 1928 to a Polish Jewish fami ...
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Håkan Hardenberger
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Clara Haskil
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Heinz Holliger
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Florence Hooton
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Peter Hurford
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Life
Hurford was born in Minehead, Somerset, to Gladys Hurford (née James) and Hubert Hurford, a solicitor. He was educated at Blundell's School ...
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Nobuko Imai
, is a Japanese classical violist with an extensive career as soloist and chamber musician. Since 1988 she has played a 1690 Andrea Guarneri instrument.
Biography
Imai began her musical training at the age of six. She began studying at Tokyo's ...
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Janine Jansen
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Early life and education
Jansen was born in Soest in the Netherlands and came from a musical family. Her father plays organ, harpsichord and piano; from 1987 to mid-2011 he ...
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Leila Josefowicz
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Biography
Josefowicz was born in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. When she was a young child her family moved to Los Angeles, California, where she sta ...
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Anton Karas
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Julius Katchen
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Katchen was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and debuted at age ...
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Peter Katin
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Biography
Katin was born in London; his father was sign-painter Jerrold Katin (who was born in Lithuania) and mother Gertrude. Katin was educated ...
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Wilhelm Kempff
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Zoltán Kocsis
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Biography
Studies
Born in Budapest, he began his musical studies at the age of five and continued them at the Béla Bartók Conservatory in 19 ...
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Gidon Kremer
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Gidon Kremer was born in Riga. His father was Jewish and had survived the Holoc ...
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Georg Kulenkampff
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Kule ...
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Charlie Kunz
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Katia and Marielle Labèque
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Katia and Marielle were both born in Bayonne, on the southwest coast ...
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Alexandre Lagoya
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Chad Lawson
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Kathleen Long
Kathleen (Ida) Long CBE (7 July 189620 March 1968) was an English pianist and teacher.
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Long was born in Brentford, a suburb of London in the UK. McVeagh, Diana"Long, Kathleen"''Grove Music Online'', Oxford Music Online, accessed ...
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Radu Lupu
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Born in Galați, Romania, Lupu began studying piano at the age of six. Two of his major piano teach ...
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Moura Lympany
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She was born as Mary Gertrude Johnstone at Saltash, Cornwall. Her father was an army officer who had served in World War I and her mother original ...
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Nikita Magaloff
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He was born in Saint Petersburg to a Georgian noble family named Maghalashvili. Magaloff and his family left Russia in 1918 for Finland. Hi ...
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Enrico Mainardi
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At the age of thirteen, in 1910, Mainardi had already begun his career as a cello virtuoso who toured the concert halls of Europ ...
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George Malcolm
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Stephan Moccio
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Viktoria Mullova
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Kaori Muraji
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Zara Nelsova
Zara Nelsova (December 23, 1918October 10, 2002) was a prominent cellist.
Biography
Nelsova was born as Sara Katznelson in Winnipeg, Canada, to parents of Jewish-Russian descent. Nelsova first performed at the age of five in Winnipeg. She eventu ...
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David Oistrakh
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Oistrakh collaborated with major orchestras and musicians from many parts of the world and was the dedicatee of numerous violin w ...
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Franz Osborn Franz may refer to:
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Walter Panhoffer
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Itzhak Perlman
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Anthony Pini
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André Previn
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Ossy Renardy Ossy Renardy (26 April 19203 December 1953) was an Austrian classical violinist, who made a major impression in Europe before migrating to the United States at age 17. There he made the first complete recording of any version of the 24 Paganini Ca ...
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Ruggiero Ricci
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Biography
He was born in San Bruno, California, the son of Italian immigrants who first ...
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Sviatoslav Richter
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Pascal Rogé
Pascal Rogé (born 6 April 1951) is a French pianist.
His playing includes the works of compatriot composers Saint-Saëns, Fauré, Debussy, Ravel, Satie, and Poulenc, among others. However, his repertoire also covers the German and Austrian ...
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Pepe Romero
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Biography
Early life
Pepe Romero was born in Spain, the second son of celebrated guitarist and composer Celedonio Romero, who was his only guitar te ...
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Max Rostal
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Biography
Max Rostal was born in Cieszyn to a Jewish merchant family. As a child prodigy, he started studyin ...
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Mstislav Rostropovich
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Christophe Rousset
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Joseph Saxby
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András Schiff
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Heinrich Schiff
Heinrich Schiff (18 November 1951 – 23 December 2016) was an Austrian cellist and conductor.
Early life
Heinrich Schiff was born on 18 November 1951 in Gmunden, Austria. His parents, Helga (née Riemann) and Helmut Schiff, were composers. He ...
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Andrés Segovia
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Segovia's contribution to the m ...
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Guilhermina Suggia
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Akiko Suwanai
is a Japanese classical violinist.
At the age of 18, she became the youngest winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1990. In addition, she was awarded second prize in the Paganini Competition in 1988 and Queen Elisabeth Competit ...
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Henryk Szeryng
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Early years
He was born in Warsaw, Poland on 22 September 1918 into a wealthy Jewish family. The surname "Szeryng" is a Polish ...
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Jean-Yves Thibaudet
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Early life and studies
Jean-Yves Thibaudet was born in Lyon, France, to non-professional musical parents. His father played the violin, and his mother, ...
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Frederick Thurston
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Career
From the age of 7 he was taught by his father and he won an open scholarship to the Royal College of Music, becoming a pupil of Charles Drap ...
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Mitsuko Uchida
is a classical pianist and conductor, born in Japan and naturalised in Britain, particularly noted for her interpretations of Mozart and Schubert.
She has appeared with many notable orchestras, recorded a wide repertory with several labels, w ...
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Andrea Vanzo
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Julian Lloyd Webber
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Mary O'Hara
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Amadeus Quartet
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Noted for its smooth, sophisticated style, its seamless ensemble playing, and its sensitive interpretat ...
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Amsterdam Quartet
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Beaux Arts Trio
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Boskovsky Quartet
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Carmirelli Quartet
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Griller Quartet The Griller String Quartet was a British musical ensemble particularly active from 1931 to c.1961 or 1963, when it was disbanded. The quartet was in residence at the University of California at Berkeley from 1949 to 1961. It performed a wide repert ...
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Grimethorpe Colliery Band
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Koppel Quartet
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I Musici
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Musica Vitalis Quartet
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New Italian Quartet
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Orford String Quartet The Orford String Quartet was a Canadian string quartet active from 1965 through 1991. They came to be the leading string quartet in Canada, and were well-known internationally.
Founding
In 1951, Gilles Lefebvre launched a summer music camp for L ...
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Quartetto Italiano
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Quintetto Chigiano
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Takács Quartet The Takács Quartet is a string quartet founded in Budapest, Hungary, and now based in Boulder, Colorado, United States.
History
In 1975, four students at the Music Academy in Budapest, Gábor Takács-Nagy (first violin), Károly Schranz (seco ...
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Trio di Trieste
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Vegh Quartet
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Vienna Octet
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Polteau Instrumental Ensemble
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D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
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Choir of King's College, Cambridge
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The Purcell Singers
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Belgrade National Opera Orchestra
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Boyd Neel
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Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra
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Hamburg Radio Symphony Orchestra
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Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra
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Kingsway Symphony Orchestra
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London Chamber Orchestra
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London Mozart Orchestra
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London Philharmonic Orchestra
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London Symphony Orchestra
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London Theatre Orchestra
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Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra
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New Symphony Orchestra
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The New Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1991 in Sofia, Bulgaria by the music critic Julia Hristova as an alternative to the existing Bulgarian musical instituti ...
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Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
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Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
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Radio Orchestra, Beromünster
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Radio Symphony Orchestra, Copenhagen
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Santa Cecilia Orchestra
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Stockholm Radio Orchestra
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Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
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Karl Münchinger founded the orchestra in 1945, and served as its ...
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Tonhalle Orchester Zurich Tonhalle is a German word meaning "tone hall", a concert hall. It may refer to:
*Tonhalle Düsseldorf
*Tonhalle Orchester Zürich
*Tonhalle, Zürich
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Turin Symphony Orchestra
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Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
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The Vienna Philharmonic is based at the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria. Its ...
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Vienna Symphony Orchestra
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Zurich Collegium Musicum
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John Barry
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Jerry Goldsmith
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James Horner
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Michael Kamen
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Michael Arnold Kamen was born in ...
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Michael Nyman
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Alan Silvestri
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John Williams
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Hans Zimmer
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Jazz and popular artists released on Decca Records (US) label
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The Andrews Sisters
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Toni Arden Antoinette Ardizzone (February 15, 1924 – May 29, 2012), known professionally as Toni Arden, was an American traditional pop music singer.
Family
Arden was born in New York City. Her father, Phillip Ardizzone, was a singer with the Metropolit ...
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Louis Armstrong
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Banana Splits
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Len Barry
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Life and career
Born on June 12, 1942 and raised in Philadelphia, ...
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Vincent Bell
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Life and career
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Elmer Bernstein
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Owen Bradley
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Quintet
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Bob Braun
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Erskine Butterfield and his Blue Boys
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Don Cherry
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Rosemary Clooney
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Deborah Cox
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Jacob Collier
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Crazy Otto
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Bing Crosby
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The Cuff Links
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Bobby Darin
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He started his car ...
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Sammy Davis Jr.
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Lenny Dee (organist)
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Jimmy Dorsey
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Tommy Dorsey
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The Dream Weavers
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Deanna Durbin
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Yvonne Elliman
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Duke Ellington
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Paul Evans
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Eddie Fontaine
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Biography
Born Edward Reardon in Springfield, Massachusetts, Fontaine signed as a vocalist with RCA in 19 ...
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The Four Aces
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The Free Movement
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Judy Garland
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Jimmie Gordon
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Teddy Grace
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Earl Grant
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Grant was born in Idabel, Oklahoma. Though he would be known later for his keyboards and vocals, Grant also p ...
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Dobie Gray
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Glen Gray
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Casa Loma Orchestra
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Keith Green
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Bill Haley & His Comets
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Adelaide Hall
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Glass Harp
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Bobby Helms
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Woody Herman
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Milt Herth
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Trio
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Al Hibbler
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Billie Holiday
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Burl Ives
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Al Jolson
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Bert Kaempfert
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The Kalin Twins
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Kitty Kallen
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Georgie Shaw
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Shaw recorded a song called " Let Me Go, Devil", written in 1953, which was about alcoholism. It was ...
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Sammy Kaye
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The Kingston Trio
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Peggy Lee
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Jerry Lewis
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Guy Lombardo
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Matthew's Southern Comfort
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Robert Maxwell
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Barrelhouse Buck McFarland
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Glenn Miller
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The Mills Brothers
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Domenico Modugno
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Russ Morgan
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Maurice Rocco
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Rick Nelson & the Stone Canyon Band
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Les Paul and His Trio
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The Peppermint Rainbow The Peppermint Rainbow was an American sunshine pop group from Baltimore, Maryland. They formed in 1967 under the name "New York Times" playing to local gigs in the mid-Atlantic states. They were signed to Decca Records in 1968 at the behest of ta ...
* Artie Shaw
* Ethel Smith (organist), Ethel Smith
* The Spokesmen
* Morris Stoloff/Columbia Pictures Orchestra
* The Surfaris
* Sylvia Syms
* Debbie Taylor
* The Tyrones
* The Weavers
* The Who
* Wishbone Ash
* Victor Young & His Orchestra
* Helmut Zacharias (Germany)
Artists under the Decca Nashville label
* Gary Allan
* Rhett Akins
* Bill Anderson (singer), Bill Anderson
* Jan Howard
* Jeannie Seely
* Jack Greene
* Mark Chesnutt
* Patsy Cline
* Helen Darling (singer), Helen Darling
* Roy Drusky
* Red Foley
* Rebecca Lynn Howard
* Chris Knight (musician), Chris Knight
* Brenda Lee
* Ronnie Dove
* Danni Leigh
* Loretta Lynn
* Grady Martin
* Moon Mullican
* One Flew South
* Dolly Parton
* Frazier River
* Webb Pierce
* Dawn Sears
* Shane Stockton
* Conway Twitty
* Kitty Wells
* Lee Ann Womack
Pop/rock artists who had more than one hit on Decca Records (UK)
* The Smurfs music, Father Abraham and The Smurfs (Netherlands)
* Chris Andrews (singer), Chris Andrews
* The Animals (formerly on Columbia Graphophone Company, Columbia)
* The Applejacks (British band), The Applejacks
* Arrival (band), Arrival (1971 to Columbia Records, CBS)
* Winifred Atwell
* The Bachelors (Republic of Ireland, Ireland)
* Dave Berry (musician), Dave Berry
* The Beverley Sisters
* The Big Three (English band), The Big Three
* Los Bravos (Spain)
* Max Bygraves
* The Casuals
* Frank Chacksfield
* Jess Conrad
* Lyn Cornell
* Billy Cotton and his Band (first on Rex Records (1933), Rex)
* Dana Rosemary Scallon, Dana (on Rex Records (1933), Rex)
* Billie Davis
* Terry Dene
* Jackie Dennis
* The Dennisons
* Karl Denver
* Ken Dodd (later on Columbia Graphophone Company, Columbia)
* Val Doonican (later on Pye Records, Pye, Philips Records, Philips)
* East of Eden (band), East of Eden
* Bern Elliott and the Fenmen
* Marianne Faithfull (later on Island Records, Island)
* The Fortunes (later on Capitol Records, Capitol)
* Billy Fury (later on Polydor Records, Polydor)
* The Goons
* Jet Harris & Tony Meehan
* Ted Heath (bandleader), Ted Heath
* Heinz Burt, Heinz (later on Columbia Graphophone Company, Columbia)
* Engelbert Humperdinck (singer), Engelbert Humperdinck
* The Johnston Brothers
* Tom Jones (singer), Tom Jones (later on Epic Records, Epic)
* Eden Kane (later on Fontana Records, Fontana)
* Jonathan King (later formed UK Records)
* Kathy Kirby
* Lee Lawrence
* Michael Preston, Mike Preston
* Alan Price (several other labels)
* P.J. Proby (later on Liberty Records, Liberty)
* The Redskins
* Joan Regan (later on Pye Records, Pye)
* Neil Reid
* Paddy Roberts (songwriter), Paddy Roberts
* Lord Rockingham's XI
* The Rolling Stones (formed Rolling Stones Records in 1970)
* Lita Roza
* Paul Ryan (singer), Paul & Barry Ryan (singer), Barry Ryan
* Crispian St. Peters
* Doug Sheldon
* Peter Skellern
* The Small Faces (to Immediate Records, Immediate in 1967)
* Cyril Stapleton
* The Stargazers (1940s–1950s group), The Stargazers
* The Sundowners (band)
* Thin Lizzy (to Phonogram Records, Phonogram in 1974)
* Tommy Steele
* Them (band), Them (to Tower Records (record label), Tower Records in 1967)
* The Tornados
* Twinkle (singer), Twinkle
* Unit 4 + 2
* Dickie Valentine (later on Pye Records, Pye Nixa)
* The Vernons Girls
* The Warriors (British band), The Warriors
* David Whitfield
* Mark Wynter (later on Pye Records, Pye)
* Jimmy Young (broadcaster), Jimmy Young (formerly Polygon Records, Polygon, later Columbia Graphophone Company, Columbia)
* The Zombies (Columbia Records, CBS from 1967)
Pop/crossover artists
* AURORA
* Tori Amos
* Alexandra Burke
* Kerry Ellis
* Clay Aiken
* Bond (band), Bond
* Boyz II Men
* Jodie Brooke Wilson
* Amy MacDonald (singer), Amy MacDonald
* Delta Goodrem
* The Love Willows
* Boz Scaggs
* David Sanborn
* Charlie Haden
* Brendan James
* Sonya Kitchell
* Najofondo
* Paula Cole
* Duel
* Matt Dusk
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Ludovico Einaudi
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* Debrah Scarlett, Red Moon
* Rick Guard
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Louis Jordan
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* Ute Lemper
* Annie Lennox
* Ashley MacIsaac
* Dominic Miller
* Morrissey
* Aziza Mustafa Zadeh
* Kristyna Myles
* Donny Osmond
* Ana Salazar
* Eimear Quinn
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Andrea Vanzo
* Vocal Sampling
* Russell Watson
* Hayley Westenra
* Imelda May
* Joe McElderry
* Kimberley Walsh
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See also
* List of one-hit wonders on the UK Singles Chart
External links
Decca Records Web PageDecca Classics Web PageDecca Broadway Web PageUniversal Music Classical Web Page
Lists of recording artists by label, Decca Records