The following is a list of organ composers. It lists the more-important composers of music for the
pipe organ
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Alberto Ginastera
Alberto Evaristo Ginastera (; April 11, 1916June 25, 1983) was an Argentinian composer of classical music. He is considered to be one of the most important 20th-century classical composers of the Americas.
Biography
Ginastera was born in Buen ...
Ernest Truman
Ernest Edwin Philip Truman (29 December 1869 - 6 October 1948) was an Australian organist and a composer of light romantic era classical music.
Early life
Truman was born was in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England. Son of Edwin Philip Truman, ...
Austria and Germany
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Elias Ammerbach
Elias Nikolaus Ammerbach (c. 1530 – January 29, 1597) was a German organist and arranger of organ music of the Renaissance. He published the earliest printed book of organ music in Germany and is grouped among the composers known as the Colo ...
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Christian Erbach
Christian Erbach (ca. 1568 – 14 June 1635) was a German organist and composer.
Erbach was born in Gau-Algesheim, Mainz-Bingen, now in the Rhineland-Palatinate Bundesland, and began to study musical composition at a considerably young age. Aside ...
Jakob Hassler
Jakob Hassler (18 December 1569 – 1 January 1622) was a German Renaissance composer.
Life
He was born in Nuremberg, Germany, the youngest son of Isaak Hassler, and brother of Hans Leo Hassler and Kasper Hassler. The Hasslers were an important ...
Hans Kotter
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Hieronymus Praetorius
Hieronymus Praetorius (10 August 1560 – 27 January 1629) was a Northern German composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque whose polychoral motets in 8 to 20 voices are intricate and vividly expressive. Some of his organ ...
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Arnolt Schlick
Arnolt Schlick (July 18?,Keyl 1989, 110–11. c. 1455–1460 – after 1521) was a German organist, lutenist and composer of the Renaissance. He is grouped among the composers known as the Colorists. He was most probably born in Heidelberg and ...
Nicolaus Bruhns
Nicolaus Bruhns (also ''Nikolaus'', ''Nicholas''; late 1665 – in Husum) was a Danish-German organist, violinist, and composer. He was one of the most prominent organists and composers of his generation.
Biography
Bruhns was born in Schwabste ...
Andreas Düben
Andreas Düben (1597 – 7 July 1662) was a Swedish Baroque composer and organist, and father of Gustaf Düben. He was born near Leipzig and was admitted to Leipzig University in 1609. He studied with the renowned Dutch pedagogue Jan Pieterszoon Sw ...
Daniel Erich
Daniel Erich (19 February 1649 in Lübeck - 30 October 1712 in Güstrow) was a German organist and composer.
Born into a musical family—his father was a lutenist and maker of stringed instruments in Lübeck—Erich studied for many years with Di ...
Christian Geist
Christian Geist (c. 1650 – 27 September 1711) was a German composer and organist, who lived and worked mainly in Scandinavia.
Biography
He was born in Güstrow, where his father, Joachim Geist, was cantor at the cathedral school. From 1665–1 ...
Johann Nikolaus Hanff
Johann Nikolaus Hanff (25 September 1663 – 25 December 1711) was a North German organist and composer. Hanff was born in Wechmar in Thuringia and worked in Eutin, Hamburg and Schleswig.
In 1696 he became organist and conductor to the Bishop ...
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Peter Hasse
Peter (Petrus) Hasse (ca. 1585 – June 1640) was a German organist and composer, and member of the prominent musical Hasse family. The first written record of Hasse dates from his appointment as organist at the Marienkirche in Lübeck, a post ...
Johann Caspar Kerll
Johann Caspar Kerll (9 April 1627 – 13 February 1693) was a German baroque composer and organist. He is also known as Kerl, Gherl, Giovanni Gasparo Cherll and Gaspard Kerle.
Born in Adorf in the Electorate of Saxony as the son of an organist, ...
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Johann Erasmus Kindermann
Johann Erasmus Kindermann (29 March 1616 – 14 April 1655) was a German Baroque organist and composer. He was the most important composer of the Nuremberg school in the first half of the 17th century.
Life
Kindermann was born in Nuremberg and ...
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Andreas Kneller
Andreas Kneller (variants: Kniller, Knöller, Knüller) (23 April 1649 – 24 August 1724) was a German composer and organist of the North German school.
Life
Born in Lübeck, he was the younger brother of portrait painter Sir Godfrey Kneller. ...
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Johann Ludwig Krebs
Johann Ludwig Krebs (baptized 12 October 1713 – 1 January 1780) was a German Baroque musician and composer for the pipe organ, harpsichord, other instruments and orchestras. His output also included chamber music, choral works and concertos.
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Johann Tobias Krebs
Johann Tobias Krebs (7 July 1690 – 11 February 1762) was a German organist and composer, today best remembered as the father of Johann Ludwig Krebs, one of Bach's most accomplished pupils.
Krebs was born in Heichelheim and went to school i ...
Vincent Lübeck
Vincent Lübeck (c. September 1654 – 9 February 1740) was a German composer and organist. He was born in Padingbüttel and worked as organist and composer at Stade's St. Cosmae et Damiani (1675–1702) and Hamburg's famous St. Nikolai (1702–1 ...
Georg Muffat
Georg Muffat (1 June 1653 – 23 February 1704) was a Baroque composer and organist. He is best known for the remarkably articulate and informative performance directions printed along with his collections of string pieces ''Florilegium Primum'' a ...
Johann Pachelbel
Johann Pachelbel (baptised – buried 9 March 1706; also Bachelbel) was a German composer, organist, and teacher who brought the south German organ schools to their peak. He composed a large body of sacred and secularity, secular music, and h ...
Jacob Praetorius
Jacob Praetorius or Schultz (8 February 158621 or 22 October 1651) was a German people, German Baroque composer and organist, and the son of Hieronymus Praetorius. His grandfather, the father of Hieronymus, Jacob Praetorius the Elder (died 1586) w ...
Johann Adam Reincken
Johann Adam Reincken (also ''Jan Adams, Jean Adam'', ''Reinken, Reinkinck, Reincke, Reinicke, Reinike''; Baptism, baptized 10 December 1643 – 24 November 1722) was a Dutch/German organist and composer. He was one of the most important composers ...
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Ferdinand Tobias Richter
Ferdinand Tobias Richter (22 July 1651 – 3 November 1711) was an Austrian Baroque composer and organist.
Richter was born in Würzburg. From 1675 to 1679 he served as organist at Heiligenkreuz Abbey in southern Austria. In 1683 he moved t ...
Heinrich Scheidemann
Heinrich Scheidemann (ca. 1595 – 1663) was a German organist and composer. He was the best-known composer for the organ in north Germany in the early to mid-17th century, and was an important forerunner of Dieterich Buxtehude and J.S. Ba ...
Melchior Schildt
Melchior Schildt (born 1592 or 1593, Hanover – 18 May 1667) was a German composer and organist of the North German Organ School. He came from a long line of church musicians who had served the town of Hanover for over 125 years. He studied with ...
Johann Speth
Johann (''Johannes'') Speth (9 November 1664 – after 1719) was a German organist and composer. He was born in Speinshart, some 150 km from Nuremberg, but spent most of his life in Augsburg, where he worked as cathedral organist for two ...
Johann Ulrich Steigleder
Johann Ulrich Steigleder (22 March 1593 – 10 October 1635) was a German Baroque composer and organist. He was the most celebrated member of the Steigleder family, which also included Adam Steigleder (1561–1633), his father, and Utz Steigleder ...
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Delphin Strungk
Delphin Strungk (or Strunck) (1600 or 1601 – 12 October 1694) was a German composer and organist associated with the North German school.
The first that is known of him is in 1630, when he became organist of the Marienkirche in Wolfenbüttel; ...
Nicolaus Vetter
Andreas Nicolaus Vetter (; October 1666 – 13 June 1734) was a German organist and composer.
Biography
He was born in Herschdorf, in present-day Thuringia. In his ''Zur Geschichte des Orgelspiels'' (1884), August Gottfried Ritter gives 30, Oct. 1 ...
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Johann Gottfried Walther
Johann Gottfried Walther (18 September 1684 – 23 March 1748) was a German music theorist, organist, composer, and lexicographer of the Baroque era.
Walther was born at Erfurt. Not only was his life almost exactly contemporaneous to that ...
Andreas Werckmeister
Andreas Werckmeister (November 30, 1645 – October 26, 1706) was a German organist, music theorist, and composer of the Baroque era. He was amongst the earliest advocates of equal temperament, and through this advocacy was highly influential to t ...
Johann Wilhelm Hertel
Johann Wilhelm Hertel (9 October 1727 – 14 June 1789) was a German composer, harpsichord and violin player.
He was born in Eisenach, into a family of musicians. His father, Johann Christian Hertel (1697–1754) was ''Konzertmeister'' (from 1 ...
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Gottfried August Homilius
Gottfried August Homilius (2 February 1714 – 2 June 1785) was a German composer, cantor and organist.Dennis Shrock ''Choral Repertoire'' 2009 -- Page 303 "1714–1785 Homilius was born near Dresden, where he was educated and where he served ...
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Johann Christian Kittel
Johann Christian Kittel (18 February 1732 – 17 April 1809) was a German organist, composer, and teacher. He was one of the last students of Johann Sebastian Bach. His students included Michael Gotthard Fischer, Karl Gottlieb Umbreit, Johan ...
Simon Sechter
Simon Sechter (11 October 1788 – 10 September 1867) was an Austrian music theorist, teacher, organist, conductor and composer. He was one of the most prolific composers who ever lived, although his music is largely forgotten and he is now mainl ...
Romantic
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Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms (; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid- Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. He is sometimes grouped wit ...
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Anton Bruckner
Josef Anton Bruckner (; 4 September 182411 October 1896) was an Austrian composer, organist, and music theorist best known for his symphonies, masses, Te Deum and motets. The first are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-Germ ...
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Immanuel Faisst
Immanuel Gottlob Friedrich Faisst (13 October 1823 in Esslingen am Neckar – 5 June 1894 in Stuttgart) was a German composer and co-founder of the Stuttgart Music School, whose director he was, until his death. His compositions include works for ...
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Robert Fuchs
Robert Fuchs (15 February 1847 – 19 February 1927) was an Austrian composer and music teacher. As Professor of music theory at the Vienna Conservatory, Fuchs taught many notable composers, while he was himself a highly regarded composer in hi ...
Sigfrid Karg-Elert
Sigfrid Karg-Elert (November 21, 1877April 9, 1933) was a German composer in the early twentieth century, best known for his compositions for pipe organ and reed organ.
Biography
Karg-Elert was born Siegfried Theodor Karg in Oberndorf am Neckar, ...
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Theodor Kirchner
Fürchtegott Theodor Kirchner (10 December 1823 – 18 September 1903) was a German composer and pianist of the Romantic era.
Musical career
Kirchner enjoyed the friendship and admiration of many leading composers of the 19th century yet was un ...
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Franz Paul Lachner
Franz Paul Lachner (2 April 1803 – 20 January 1890) was a German composer and conductor.
Biography
Lachner was born in Rain am Lech to a musical family (his brothers Ignaz, Theodor and Vinzenz also became musicians). He studied music with Si ...
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Felix Mendelssohn
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include sy ...
Julius Reubke
Friedrich Julius Reubke (23 March 18343 June 1858) was a German composer, pianist and organist. In his short life, he composed the ''Sonata on the 94th Psalm'' in C minor, which is considered to be one of the greatest organ works in the classical ...
August Gottfried Ritter
August Gottfried Ritter (25 August 1811 – 26 August 1885) was a German romantic composer and organist.
Biography
Co-creator, together with Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, of the first example of Romantic Organ Sonata (the first one was composed ...
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann (; 8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career a ...
Max Wagenknecht
Max Otto Arnold Wagenknecht (14 August 1857 – 7 May 1922) was a German composer of organ and piano music.
Biography
He was born in Woldisch Tychow, Pomerania, Free State of Prussia and spent most of his life in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomeran ...
Philipp Wolfrum
Philipp Julius Wolfrum (17 December 1854 – 8 May 1919) was a German conductor, musicologist, composer, organist and academic teacher. He was influential to university education in church music in Heidelberg, and in 1907 became the town's Generalm ...
Modern
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Joseph Ahrens
Joseph Johannes Clemens Ahrens (April 17, 1904 in Sommersell – December 21, 1997 in Berlin) was a German composer and organist.
Ahrens received early training in organ and choral music with Wilhelm Schnippering in Büren and Fritz Volbach i ...
Peter Bares
Peter Bares (16 January 1936 – 2 March 2014) was a German organist and composer. He was best known for his church music. He was born in Essen.
Bares died on 2 March 2014 in Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no ...
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Max Baumann
Max Georg Baumann (20 November 1917, Kronach – 17 July 1999, Berlin) was a German composer.
Biography
He studied conducting, piano, and trombone Berlin Hochschule für Musik with Konrad Friedrich Noetel and Boris Blacher. He spent two years a ...
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Jürg Baur
Jürg Baur (11 November 1918 – 31 January 2010) was a German composer whose works include ''Incontri and Mutazioni.'' Baur studied at the Cologne University of Music and taught there in his later years. Baur was also awarded the Federal Cro ...
Max Drischner Max Drischner (31 January 1891 – 25 April 1971) was a German composer, Kantor, organist, and harpsichordist.
Life and work
Max Drischner was born in Prieborn (now Przeworno), Silesia. After completing his A-levels at the grammar school in Zül ...
Zsolt Gárdonyi
Zsolt Gárdonyi (21 March 1946) is a German-Hungarian composer, organist and music theorist. He is the son of Zoltán Gárdonyi.
Career
Gárdonyi was born in Budapest, Hungary. He studied composition, organ, sacred music and theory. At the ag ...
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Harald Genzmer
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Hermann Grabner Hermann Grabner (12 May 1886 – 3 July 1969) was an Austrian composer and music teacher.
Career
Grabner was born in Graz. He studied law at the University of Graz graduating in 1909. In parallel, he studied music with Leopold Suchsland un ...
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Joseph Haas
Joseph Haas (19 March 1879 – 30 March 1960) was a German late romantic composer and music teacher.
Biography
He was born in Maihingen, near Nördlingen to teacher Alban Haas from his second marriage, being half-brother to the theologian a ...
Anton Heiller
Anton Heiller (15 September 1923 – 25 March 1979) was an Austrian organist, harpsichordist, composer and conductor.
Biography
Born in Vienna, he was first trained in church music by Wilhelm Mück, organist of Vienna's Stephansdom (St. Stephen' ...
Werner Jacob
Werner Jacob (4 March 1938 – 23 May 2006) was a German organist, composer and academic.
Career
Werner Fritz Hermann Herbert Jacob was born in Mengersgereuth, Thuringia. He studied at the Musikhochschule Freiburg to 1961, organ with Walter Kr ...
Heinrich Kaminski
Heinrich Kaminski (4 July 1886 - 21 June 1946) was a German composer.
Life
Kaminski was born in Tiengen in the Schwarzwald, the son of an Old Catholic priest of Jewish parentage. After a short period working in a bank in Offenbach, he moved ...
Wolfgang Mitterer
Wolfgang Mitterer (born 6 June 1958 in Lienz, East Tyrol) is an Austrian composer and musician (organ, keyboard).
Biography
Wolfgang Mitterer studied with Otto Bruckner in Graz in 1977, and then from 1978 to 1983 at the University of Music an ...
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Ernst Pepping
Ernst Pepping (12 September 1901 – 1 February 1981) was a German composer of classical music and academic teacher. He is regarded as an important composer of Protestant sacred music in the 20th century.
Pepping taught at the and the . His musi ...
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Peter Planyavsky
Peter Planyavsky (born 9 May 1947) is an Austrian organist and composer. He attended the Schottengymnasium. After graduating from the Vienna Academy of Music in 1966 he spent a year in an organ workshop, and has been instrumental in organ-buildin ...
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Günter Raphael
Günter Raphael (30 April 1903 – 19 October 1960) was a German composer. Born in Berlin, Raphael was the grandson of composer Albert Becker. His first symphony was premiered by Wilhelm Furtwängler in 1926 in Leipzig. From 1926 to 1934 he tau ...
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Max Reger
Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 187311 May 1916) was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher. He worked as a concert pianist, as a musical director at the Paulinerkirche, Leipzig, Leipzig University ...
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Mathias Rehfeldt
Mathias Rehfeldt (born August 25, 1986 in Tübingen, Germany) is a German composer, music producer and organist.
Mathias Rehfeldt is a Munich-based composer, organist and crossover-artist, his music blurs the lines between classical and modern el ...
Thomas Daniel Schlee
Thomas Daniel Schlee (born October 26, 1957) is an Austrian composer, arts administrator, and organist.
Life and work
Schlee was born in Vienna as the elder of two sons of the Austro-German musicologist, theater scientist and music publisher Alfr ...
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Dieter Schnebel
Dieter Schnebel (14 March 1930 – 20 May 2018) was a German composer, theologian and musicologist. He composed orchestral music, chamber music, vocal music and stage works. From 1976 until his retirement in 1995, Schnebel served as professor of e ...
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Hermann Schroeder
Hermann Schroeder (26 March 1904 – 7 October 1984) was a German composer and a Catholic church musician.
Life
Schroeder was born in Bernkastel and spent the greatest part of his life’s work in the Rheinland. His mother's family had common ...
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Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling
Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling (9 May 1904 in Hannover – 9 December 1985 in Berlin) was a German composer.
The son of a chemical manufacturer, Schwarz-Schilling embarked upon his musical studies in 1922, first in Munich and – interrupted by sev ...
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Johanna Senfter
Johanna Senfter ( 27 November 1879 – 11 August 1961) was a German composer.
Johanna Senfter was born and died in Oppenheim. From 1895 she studied composition under Iwan Knorr, violin under Adolf Rebner, piano under Karl Friedberg and organ a ...
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Gerhard Stäbler
Gerhard Stäbler (born 1949) is a German composer born in Wilhelmsdorf near Ravensburg. He studied with Klaus Huber and came to prominence with the chamber orchestra "acronym" ''Den Müllfahrern von San Francisco'' (The Garbage Truck Drivers o ...
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Wolfgang Stockmeier
Wolfgang Stockmeier (13 December 1931 – 11 December 2015) was a German composer, church musician, concert organist and academic. From 1962, he was professor of music theory, organ playing and organ improvisation at the Musikhochschule Köln, and ...
Heinz Wunderlich
Heinz Wunderlich (25 April 1919 – 10 March 2012) was a German organist, academic, and composer. He was known for playing the organ works of Max Reger. He studied in Leipzig with Karl Straube, a friend of Reger. Wunderlich worked as both a church ...
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Gerd Zacher
Gerd Zacher (6 July 1929 – 9 June 2014) was a German composer, organist, and writer on music. He specialized in contemporary compositions, many of which feature extended techniques, and are written in graphic or verbal scores. He interpreted th ...
Peeter Cornet
Peeter Cornet (''Pierre, Pietro, Peter, Pieter'') (ca. 1570-80 – 27 March 1633) was a Flemish composer and organist of the early Baroque period. Although few of his compositions survive, he is widely considered one of the best keyboard composers ...
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Abraham van den Kerckhoven
Abraham van den Kerckhoven (c. 1618 – c. 1701) was a Flemish organist and composer. He was active in Brussels, working as organist at the local Saint Catherine's Church and as court organist. He was held in high regard by his contemporaries. A si ...
Classical
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Josse-François-Joseph Benaut
Josse-François-Joseph Benaut (c. 1743 in Gullegem – 13 July 1794, Paris) was a Flemish composer, organist, harpsichordist, music educator and priest who had a career in France. Life
His father Charles Benaut was an organist in Wulveringen in ...
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Matthias Vanden Gheyn
Matthias Vanden Gheyn ( nl, Matthijs Vanden Gheÿn or ; 7April 1721 – 22June 1785) was a Flemish musician from the Baroque/Classical transition period. He is a descendant of the famous bell founding family of the same name. During his life, ...
Joseph Callaerts
Joseph Callaerts (11 August 1830 – 3 March 1901) was a Belgian organist, carillonneur, composer and music teacher. He was an important member of the Belgian school of organ playing.
Biography
Joseph Callaerts (sometimes referred to as Jozef) was ...
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Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens Jacques-Nicolas (Jaak-Nicolaas) Lemmens (3 January 1823 – 30 January 1881), was an organist, music teacher, and composer for his instrument.
Biography
Born at Zoerle-Parwijs, near Westerlo, Belgium, Lemmens took lessons from François-Josep ...
Modern
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Bernard Foccroulle
Bernard Charles M. E. T. H. Foccroulle (born 23 November 1953) is a Belgian Organ (music), organist, composer, conductor and opera director.
Biography
He was born in Liège and studied at the Conservatoire de Liège. Initially, he became known ...
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Joseph Jongen
Joseph Marie Alphonse Nicolas Jongen (14 December 1873 – 12 July 1953) was a Belgian organist, composer, and music educator.
Biography
Jongen was born in Liège, where his parents had moved from Flanders. On the strength of an amazing precocity ...
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Paul de Maleingreau
Paul Constant Eugène de Maleingreau (23 November 1887 - 9 January 1956) was a Belgian composer and organist.
Biography
Paul Constant Eugène Malengreau was born in Trélon, Nord, France. He later changed his surname to "de Maleingreau". From ...
Joseph-Arthur Bernier
Joseph-Arthur Bernier (19 March 1877 – 28 April 1944) was a Canadian organist, pianist, composer, and music educator. Born in Lévis, Quebec, he was the senior member of a prominent family of musicians from Quebec City. He is the father of pian ...
Healey Willan
James Healey Willan (12 October 1880 – 16 February 1968) was an Anglo-Canadian organist and composer. He composed more than 800 works including operas, symphonies, chamber music, a concerto, and pieces for band, orchestra, organ, and ...
H. Hugh Bancroft
Henry Hugh Bancroft (29 February 1904 – 11 September 1988) was a British organist, choirmaster, and composer who was organist of five cathedrals. He was born in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, and studied music with E. P. Guthrie and J. S. Robinson ...
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Denis Bédard
Denis Bédard (born 1950)L'Orgue'. Vol. Issues 281-284. Librairie Floury; 2008. p. 54. is a Canadians, Canadian composer of pipe organ, organ works (solo, duet, and with other instruments)Organists' Review'. Vol. 91, Issues 257-360. Incorporated ...
Jacobus Kloppers
Jacobus (Kobie) Kloppers (born 1937 in Krugersdorp) is a Canadian composer, musicologist and organist. He has composed many notable pieces, especially for organ (music), organ, and has been the subject of substantial scholarship.
Biography
Bor ...
Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský
Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský (Christened 16 February 1684, Nymburk, Bohemia – 1 July 1742, Graz, Austria) was a Czech composer, organist and teacher of the baroque era. He wrote among other works motets, other choral works (a fugue ''Laud ...
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Václav Jan Kopřiva Václav Jan Kopřiva (pseudonym UrticaLatin translation of his name meaning nettle) (8 February 1708 in Cítoliby – 7 June 1789 in Cítoliby) was a Bohemian composer and organist.
Life
Kopřiva was a son of the miller Václav Kopřiva (1672–?), ...
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Jan Zach
Jan Zach, called in German Johann Zach (baptized 26 November 1713 – 24 May 1773) was a Czech composer, violinist and organist. Although he was a gifted and versatile composer capable of writing both in Baroque and Classical idioms, his eccentr ...
Classical
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František Xaver Brixi
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Karel Blažej Kopřiva
Karel Blažej Kopřiva (or Karl Blasius Kopriva; 9 February 1756 in Cítoliby – 15 May 1785 in Cítoliby) was a Czech organist and composer from a family of musicians.
Life and career
Kopřiva studied first with his father, the composer V ...
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Jan Křtitel Kuchař
Jan Křtitel Kuchař, or also german: Johann Baptist Kucharz (5 March 1751 in Choteč – 18 February 1829 in Prague) was a Czech organist, mandolinist, harpsichordist, music composer, operatic conductor, and teacher.
Life and career
Soon after ...
Romantic
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Josef Klička
Josef Klička (15 December 1855, Klatovy, Kingdom of Bohemia – 28 March 1937, Klatovy) was a Czechs, Czech Organ (music), organist, violinist, composer, Conducting, conductor and pedagogue. He produced several large Organ (music), organ composit ...
Petr Eben
Petr Eben (22 January 1929 – 24 October 2007) was a Czech composer of modern and contemporary classical music, and an organist and choirmaster.
His life
Born in Žamberk in northeastern Bohemia, Eben spent most of his childhood and early ad ...
Miloslav Kabeláč
Miloslav Kabeláč (1 August 1908 – 17 September 1979) was a prominent Czech composer and conductor. Miloslav Kabeláč belongs to the foremost Czech symphonists, whose work is sometimes compared with Antonín Dvořák's and Bohuslav Martin ...
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Zdeněk Pololáník
Zdeněk Pololáník (born 25 October 1935) is a Czech contemporary composer.
Family
His son Petr Pololáník is a conductor and orchestrator at Capellen Music Production.
Career
Zdeněk Pololáník has written nearly 700 compositions of variou ...
Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann
Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann (November 10, 1883 in Ivanovice na Hané, Moravia – November 5, 1951 in Prague) was a Czech organist, composer, and teacher.
He spent his early years in study under Josef Klička and Vítězslav Novák, and taught ...
Gustav Helsted
Gustav Carl Helsted (30 January 1857 - 1 March 1924) was a Danish organist and composer.
Helsted was the son of composer Carl Helsted, brother of painter Viggo Helsted, and nephew of composer Edvard Helsted. He was a student of Gottfred Mat ...
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Edgar Henrichsen
Edgar Henrichsen (19 January 1879 - 24 August 1955) was a Danish composer and organist. He was the brother of Roger Henrichsen, and was a student of Gustav Helsted and Alexandre Guilmant
Félix-Alexandre Guilmant (; 12 March 1837 – 29 ...
Bernhard Christensen
Bernhard Christensen (Copenhagen, 9 March 1906 – 20 March 2004) was a Danish composer and organist.
He studied music at University of Copenhagen from 1926. In 1929 he graduated and was organist until 1945 at Christiansborg Palace Church. ...
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Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen (21 November 1932 – 27 June 2016) was a Danish composer.
Biography
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and was the son of the sculptor Jørgen Gudmundsen-Holmgreen. He studied at the Royal ...
Bernhard Lewkovitch
Bernhard Lewkovitch (born 28 May 1927) is a Danish composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, o ...
Per Nørgård
Per Nørgård (; born 13 July 1932) is a Danish composer and music theorist. Though his style has varied considerably throughout his career, his music has often included repeatedly evolving melodies—such as the infinity series—in the vein o ...
Niels Otto Raasted
Niels Otto Raasted (born in Copenhagen, 26 November 1888; died there on 31 December 1966) was a Danish composer and organist at Copenhagen Cathedral. He was founder and leader of the Danish Bach Association from 1925-1945 and his choral works are ...
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Poul Ruders
Poul Ruders (born 27 March 1949) is a Danish composer.
Life
Born in Ringsted, Ruders trained as an organist, and studied orchestration with Karl Aage Rasmussen. Ruders's first compositions date from the mid-1960s. Ruders regards his own compositi ...
Leif Thybo
Leif Thybo (12 June 1922 – 24 January 2001) was a Danish organist and composer. He studied theory with Vagn Holmboe before entering the Royal Danish Academy of Music where he was taught instrumentation by Poul Schierbeck, organ by Emilius Bang ...
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Finn Viderø
Finn Viderø (born Poulsen) (15 August 1906 – 13 March 1987) was a Danish organist, who was one of the first organists to become known outside the country, primarily due to his recordings of classic organ works.
Viderø was born in Fuglebjerg, ...
Estonia
Romantic
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Rudolf Tobias
Rudolf Tobias ( – 29 October 1918) was the first Estonian professional composer, as well as a professional organist. He studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. His compositions include among others piano works, string quartets and an ...
Modern
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Alfred Karindi
Alfred Karindi (30 May 1901 – 13 April 1969) was an Estonian organist and composer.
Life and work
Alfred Karindi was born on 30 May 1901 in the village of Kõnnu, Illuka Parish. In 1920 he entered the Tartu Higher School of Music where he ...
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Arvo Pärt
Arvo Pärt (; born 11 September 1935) is an Estonian composer of contemporary classical music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs tintinnabuli, a compositional technique he invented. Pärt's music is in pa ...
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Peeter Süda
Peeter Süda ( in Viki, Saare County – 3 August 1920 in Tallinn) was a father of the Estonian organ school, composer and an early collector of Estonian folksongs.
He studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory from 1902 to 1912. His organ ...
Finland
Romantic
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Oskar Merikanto
Oskar Merikanto (; born Frans Oskar Ala-Kanto; 5 August 1868, Helsinki17 February 1924, Hausjärvi-Oitti) was a Finnish composer, music critic, pianist, and organist.
As a composer, Merikanto was primarily a miniaturist, and includes songs an ...
Taneli Kuusisto
Taneli Kuusisto (19 June 1905 – 30 March 1988) was a Finnish composer, Music critics, music critic, teacher and choir leader.
His son is composer Ilkka Kuusisto, and his grandsons composer Jaakko Kuusisto and musician Pekka Kuusisto.
Filmograp ...
Pierre Attaingnant
Pierre Attaingnant (or Attaignant) (c. 1494 – late 1551 or 1552) was a French Music publisher (sheet music), music publisher, active in Paris.
Life
Attaingnant is considered to be first large-scale publisher of single-impression movable type for ...
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Jean Titelouze
Jean (''Jehan'') Titelouze (c. 1562/63 – 24 October 1633) was a French Catholic priest, composer, poet and organist of the early Baroque period. He was a canon and organist at Rouen Cathedral. His style was firmly rooted in the Renaissance vo ...
Baroque (French classical)
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Louis Archimbaud Louis Archimbaud (November 1705 – 13 May 1789) was a Comtadin composer. He was one of the last representatives of the Baroque style of French organ school.
Archimbaud was born in Carpentras and educated there in the Carpentras Cathedral school. ...
Guillaume-Antoine Calvière
Guillaume-Antoine Calvière (1695 - 18 April 1755) was a virtuoso French musician and composer who was for many years organist of the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris.
Early years
Guillaume-Antoine Calvière was born in Paris around 1695, the s ...
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Louis-Nicolas Clérambault
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (19 December 1676 – 26 October 1749) was a French musician, best known as an organist and composer. He was born, and died, in Paris.
Biography
Clérambault came from a musical family (his father and two of his sons w ...
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Gaspard Corrette
Gaspard Corrette (c. 1671before 1733) was a French composer and organist.
He was born around 1671, probably in Rouen, where he was organist for the church of St-Herbland. In approximately 1720 he moved to Paris. The exact date of his death is no ...
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François Couperin
François Couperin (; 10 November 1668 – 11 September 1733) was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was known as ''Couperin le Grand'' ("Couperin the Great") to distinguish him from other members of the musically talented ...
François d'Agincourt
François d'Agincourt (also d'Agincour, Dagincourt, Dagincour) (1684 – 30 April 1758) was a French harpsichordist, organist, and composer. He spent most of his life in Rouen, his native city, where he worked as organist of the Rouen Cathedra ...
Jean-Henri d'Anglebert
Jean-Henri d'Anglebert ( baptized 1 April 1629 – 23 April 1691) was a French composer, harpsichordist and organist. He was one of the foremost keyboard composers of his day.
Life
D'Anglebert's father Claude Henry known as AnglebertJean const ...
Pierre Dumage
Pierre du Mage (also ''Dumage'') ( baptized 23 November 1674 – 2 October 1751) was a French Baroque organist and composer. His first music teacher was most likely his father, organist of Beauvais Cathedral. At some point during his youth Dumag ...
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Dom George Franck
Dom George Franck ( – 1760) in Munster in Alsace, was a French organist and composer.
Biography
Born in Munster, Dom George Franck was a Benedict monk at the (Haut-Rhin),
and parish priest at Munster val St. Gregory in Alsace. All that is ...
Jean-Adam Guilain
Jean-Adam Guilain (real name Johann Adam Wilhelm Freinsberg) (c. 1680 – after 1739) was a German organist and harpsichordist who was mostly active in Paris during the first half of the eighteenth century.
Little is known about his life. He ...
Louis Marchand
Louis Marchand (2 February 1669 – 17 February 1732) was a French Baroque organist, harpsichordist, and composer. Born into an organist's family, Marchand was a child prodigy and quickly established himself as one of the best known French vi ...
Charles Racquet
Charles Racquet (1597–1664) was a French organist and composer, best known for his monumental organ ''Fantaisie''.
He came from a large family of Parisian organists and himself was appointed organist of Notre Dame de Paris at an early age, in 16 ...
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André Raison
André Raison (c. 1640 – 1719) was a French Baroque composer and organist. During his lifetime he was one of the most famous French organists and an important influence on French organ music. He published two collections of organ works, in 16 ...
Alexandre Pierre François Boëly Alexandre may refer to:
* Alexandre (given name)
* Alexandre (surname)
* Alexandre (film)
See also
* Alexander
Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom o ...
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Jean-Baptiste Charbonnier
Jean Baptiste Charbonnier (23 April 1764 – 22 October 1859) was a French organist and composer.
Life
Born in Châlons-sur-Marne, Charbonnier was successively organist in Châlons, at the Churches of Saint-Nicaise, Notre-Dame en Vaux, Saint- ...
Armand-Louis Couperin
Armand-Louis Couperin (25 February 17272 February 1789) was a French composer, organist, and harpsichordist of the late Baroque and early Classical periods. He was a member of the Couperin family of musicians, of which the most notable were hi ...
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Guillaume Lasceux
Guillaume Lasceux (3 February 1740 - 1831) was a French organist, improviser and composer.
Biography
Born in Poissy, Lasceux began his career as an organist in the parish of St-Martin of Chevreuse in 1758. He moved to Paris in 1762 to study musi ...
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Jean-Nicolas Marrigues
Jean-Nicolas Marrigues (1757 – 15 March 1834) was a French organist.
During the French Revolution period, Marrigues was an organist at the Versailles Cathedral. Later he came to Paris and became an organist at the Clicquot-organ von Saint-Thoma ...
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Jean-Baptiste Nôtre
Jean-Baptiste Nôtre (4 September 1732 – 20 February 1807) was a French composer and organist.
Biography
Born in Toul, Jean-Baptiste Nôtre's father, Jacob Notter, from Mels near Sargans in Switzerland, married in Toul in 1721 and settled th ...
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Louis-Nicolas Séjan
Louis-Nicolas Séjan (10 June 1786 – March or April 1849) was a French organist and composer.
Biography
The son of Nicolas Séjan, he succeeded him on the organ of the Church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris and that of the Hôtel des Invalides
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Nicolas Séjan
Nicolas Séjan (17 March 1745 – 16 March 1819) was a French composer and organist, from a family allied to the Forqueray.
Born in Paris, Séjan was one of the best organists of his time. He was co-titular of the organ of Notre-Dame de Paris a ...
Romantic
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Augustin Barié
Augustin Charles Barié (15 November 1883 – 22 August 1915) was a French composer and organist.
Biography
Barié was born in Paris as the only son of architect Charles-Maximin Henri Barié and Victorine Eugénie Petit and was blind from birth; ...
Erik Satie
Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (, ; ; 17 May 18661 July 1925), who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French composer and pianist. He was the son of a French father and a British mother. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, but was an und ...
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François Benoist
François Benoist (10 September 1794 – 6 May 1878) was a French organist, composer, and pedagogue.
Benoist was born in Nantes. He took his first music lessons under Georges Scheuermann. Benoist studied music at the Conservatoire de Paris and ...
Joseph-Ermend Bonnal
Joseph-Ermend Bonnal (1 July 1880 – 14 August 1944); also ''Ermend-Bonnal'', alias ''Guy Marylis'') was a French composer and organist.
Ermend-Bonnal received initial musical instruction from his father, a violinist. He then studied piano at t ...
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Joseph Boulnois
Joseph Boulnois (28 January 1884 – 20 October 1918) was a French organist and composer.
Biography
Boulnois attended the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied counterpoint with Georges Caussade and organ with Louis Vierne. In 1906, he marr ...
Alexandre Eugène Cellier
Alexandre Eugène Cellier (17 June 1883, in Molières-sur-Cèze – 4 March 1968, in Paris) was a French organist and composer.
Cellier studied organ with Alexandre Guilmant until 1908. In 1908, he won the first prize for organ at the Conservat ...
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Charles-Alexis Chauvet
Charles-Alexis Chauvet (7 June 1837 – 29 January 1871) was a French organist and composer.
Biography
Born in Marines, Charles-Alexis Chauvet made his debut at the organ of St. Remi church in Marines, only 11 years old. He entered the Conserv ...
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Henri Dallier
Henri Édouard Dallier (20 March 1849 – 21 December 1934) was a French organist.
Career
Born in Reims, Dallier studied organ with César Franck at the Conservatoire de Paris
The Conservatoire de Paris (), also known as the Paris Conserv ...
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Léonce de Saint-Martin
Léonce Marie-Joseph, Comte de Saint-Martin-de-Paylha (31 October 1886 - 10 June 1954), shortened to and more well known by Léonce de Saint-Martin, was a French organist and composer.
Biography
He was born in Albi (Tarn). As the successor of ...
Paul Fauchet
Paul Robert Marcel Fauchet (27 June 1881 – 12 November 1937) was a French composer and organist.
Life
Born in Paris, the son of the organist of the same name, he studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Alexandre Guilmant and Paul Vidal and ...
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Félix Fourdrain
Félix Fourdrain (3 February 1880 - 23 October 1923) was a French organist and composer. He is chiefly known for his operas. Many of them were written in collaboration with librettists and poets Arthur Bernède and Paul de Choudens; the best of whi ...
Eugène Gigout
Eugène Gigout (; 23 March 1844 – 9 December 1925) was a French organist and a composer, mostly of music for his own instrument.
Biography
Gigout was born in Nancy, and died in Paris. A pupil of Camille Saint-Saëns, he served as the organi ...
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Alexandre Guilmant
Félix-Alexandre Guilmant (; 12 March 1837 – 29 March 1911) was a French organist and composer. He was the organist of La Trinité from 1871 until 1901. A noted pedagogue, performer, and improviser, Guilmant helped found the Schola Cantor ...
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Charles Koechlin
Charles-Louis-Eugène Koechlin (; 27 November 186731 December 1950), commonly known as Charles Koechlin, was a French composer, teacher and musicologist. He was a political radical all his life and a passionate enthusiast for such diverse things ...
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Maurice Le Boucher
Maurice Georges Eugène Le Boucher (25 May 1882 – 9 September 1964), was a French organist, composer, and pedagogue.
Le Boucher was born in Isigny-sur-Mer. In 1904, he entered the Conservatoire de Paris, where he was a student of Gabriel Fauré ...
Henri Letocart
Victor Jean Félix Henri LetocartArchives of the Hauts-de-Seine online, 7/2/66 act #39, view n°12, without mention of death (6 February 1866 – 1945) was a French organist and composer.
Biography
Born in Courbevoie, Henri Letocard was the son ...
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Clément Loret
Clément Loret (10 October 1833 – 14 February 1909) was an organist, music educator, and composer of Belgian origin, French naturalized.
Biography
Clément Loret was born in Dendermonde (Termonde) in Belgium. His father Hippolyte, organist ( ...
Henri Mulet
Henri Gabriel Mulet (17 October 1878 – 20 September 1967) was a French composer, pipe and reed organist, and cellist.
Biography
Mulet was born on 17 October 1878 in Paris. His father Gabriel Léon Mulet was choirmaster of the Basilica of Sacr ...
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Henri Nibelle
Henri Jules Joseph Nibelle (6 November 1883 – 18 November 1967) was a French organist, choral conductor and composer.
Biography
Born in Briare, son and grandson of organists, Henri Nibelle attended the école Niedermeyer as early as 1898, b ...
Albert Renaud Albert Renaud may refer to:
* Albert Renaud (organist)
Albert Félix Joseph Renaud (1855 – 28 May 1924) was a French organist and composer who served for many years as organist at the parish church of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris.
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Marcel Samuel-Rousseau
Marcel Auguste Louis Samuel-Rousseau (né Rousseau; 18 August 1882 – 11 June 1955) was a French composer, organist, and opera director.
Biography
Born in Paris, he was the son of Samuel Rousseau and later changed his surname to Samuel-Rousseau ...
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Camille Saint-Saëns
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (; 9 October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic music, Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Piano C ...
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Alphonse Schmitt
Alphonse Schmitt (1 December 1875 – 13 February 1912) was a French organist and composer.
Born in Kœtzingue, Alphonse Schmitt was a student of Alexandre Guilmant
Félix-Alexandre Guilmant (; 12 March 1837 – 29 March 1911) was a French ...
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Déodat de Séverac
Marie-Joseph Alexandre Déodat de Séverac (; 20 July 1872 – 24 March 1921) was a French composer.
Life
Séverac was born in Saint-Félix-de-Caraman, Haute-Garonne. He descended from a noble family, profoundly influenced by the musical trad ...
Jacques Berthier
Jacques Berthier (27 June 1923 – 27 June 1994) was a French composer of liturgical music, best known for writing much of the music used at Taizé Community, Taizé.
Biography
Berthier was born in Auxerre, Burgundy (region), Burgundy; both of ...
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 ...
Jean-Louis Florentz
Jean-Louis Florentz (19 December 1947 – 4 July 2004) was a French composer.
Biography
Born in Asnières-sur-Seine, Florentz was a student of Pierre Schaeffer and Olivier Messiaen. In 1978, he won the Lili Boulanger composition prize, followe ...
Raphaël Fumet
Raphaël Marie Paul Fumet (31 May 1898 – 1979) was a 20th-century French composer and organist.
Biography
Born in Juilly (Seine-et-Marne), the son of composer Dynam-Victor Fumet (a student with César Franck, 1867–1949), brother of writer ...
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Jean-Jacques Grunenwald
Jean-Jacques Charles Grunenwald, also known by his pseudonym Jean Dalve (2 February 1911 – 19 December 1982), was a French organist, composer, architect, and pedagogue.
Life and work
Grunenwald was born in 1911 in Cran-Gevrier, Haute-Savoie. ...
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Jean Guillou
Jean Victor Arthur Guillou (18 April 1930 – 26 January 2019) was a French composer, organist, pianist, and pedagogue. Titular Organist at Saint Eustache in Paris, from 1963 to 2015, he was widely known as a composer of instrumental and vocal ...
Jean Langlais
Jean François-Hyacinthe Langlais III (15 February 1907 – 8 May 1991) was a French composer of modern classical music, organist, and improviser. He described himself as "" ("Breton, of Catholic faith").
Biography
Langlais was born in L ...
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Jean-Pierre Leguay
Jean-Pierre Leguay (born 4 July 1939 in Dijon) is a French organist, composer and improviser. He studied with André Marchal, Gaston Litaize, Rolande Falcinelli (organ), Simone Plé-Caussade (counterpoint), and Olivier Messiaen (composition), b ...
Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (, ; ; 10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist who was one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex; harmonically ...
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Guy Morançon
Guy Morançon (born 5 December 1927) is a French composer and organist.
Biography
Born in Marseille, Guy Morançon studied music at the Marseile conservatory, then at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, the Gregorian Institute of Paris and the Co ...
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Thierry Pallesco
Thierry Pallesco is a French organist and composer who was born in Paris in 1956.
Life
He studied the organ with André Isoir, then with Rolande Falcinelli at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris where he was awarded three f ...
Eugène Reuchsel
Stéphane Marie-Eugène Reuchsel (21 July 1900 – 22 September 1988) was a French pianist, a specialist of Chopin and Liszt, organist and composer.
Biography
Born in Lyon, a descendant of an illustrious family of musicians of German origin, ...
Pierre Pincemaille
Pierre-Marie François Pincemaille (8 December 1956 – 12 January 2018) was a French organist, improviser, and pedagogue. He was known for his organ improvisations, both in concert and on CD and for his recordings of Charles-Marie Widor's ...
René Vierne
René Ambroise Jean Eugéne Vierne (11 March 1878 – 29 May 1918) was a French organist and composer. He was the younger brother of Louis Vierne, who was also a composer.Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt, in modern usage ''Liszt Ferenc'' . Liszt's Hungarian passport spelled his given name as "Ferencz". An orthographic reform of the Hungarian language in 1922 (which was 36 years after Liszt's death) changed the letter "cz" to simpl ...
Modern
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Dezső Antalffy-Zsiross
Dezso d'Antalffy (born Dezső Antalffy-Zsiross;Names in Hungarian usually begin with the surname (Antalffy-Zsiross Dezső). To Germans, he was Desider von Antalffy, and Désiré d'Antalffy in France; in the United States he was known as Dez ...
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Zoltán Gárdonyi
Zoltán Gárdonyi (; 25 April 1906 – 27 June 1986) was a Hungarian composer and musicologist. He taught at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music for 26 years.
Life and work
Gárdonyi was born in Budapest. His mother, the pianist Maria Weigl, stud ...
Zsigmond Szathmáry
Zsigmond Szathmáry (born 28 April 1939) is a Hungarian organist, pianist, composer, and conductor.
Life
Szathmáry was born in Hódmezővásárhely, near Szeged. He studied composition with Ferenc Szabó and organ with Ferenc Gergely at t ...
Girolamo Cavazzoni
Girolamo (''Hieronimo'') Cavazzoni (c. 1525 – after 1577) was an Italian organist and composer, son of Marco Antonio Cavazzoni. Little is known about his life except that he worked at Venice and Mantua, and published two collections of organ mu ...
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Marco Antonio Cavazzoni
Marco Antonio Cavazzoni (c. 1490 – c. 1560) was an Italian organist and composer. He was the father of composer Girolamo Cavazzoni.
All of his extant music is contained in the print ''Recerchari, motetti, canzoni ..libro primo'', which was pub ...
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Giovanni de Macque
Giovanni de Macque (Giovanni de Maque, Jean de Macque) (1548/1550 – September 1614) was a Netherlandish composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque, who spent almost his entire life in Italy. He was one of the most famous Neapolitan compo ...
Ascanio Mayone
Ascanio Mayone (ca. 1565 – 1627) was a Neapolitan composer and harpist. He trained as a pupil of Giovanni de Macque in Naples, and worked at Santissima Annunziata Maggiore there as organist from 1593 and ''maestro di cappella'' from 1621; h ...
Annibale Padovano
Annibale Padovano (1527 – March 15, 1575) was an Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance Venetian School. He was one of the earliest developers of the keyboard toccata.
Life
Padovano was born in Padua — hence his na ...
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Girolamo Parabosco
Girolamo Parabosco (c. 1524 – April 21, 1557) was an Italian writer, composer, organist, and poet of the Renaissance.
He was born in Piacenza, the son of a famous organist, Vincenzo Parabosco. Little is known of his childhood, but he went to ...
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Rocco Rodio
Rocco Rodio (c. 1535 – 1607) was an Italian Renaissance composer and theorist, best known for his sacred works and keyboard ricercares.
Biography
He was born in Bari and apparently led a cosmopolitan life, at some point working at the Polis ...
Antonio Valente
Antonio Valente ( fl. 1565–80) was an Italian Renaissance organist and composer. He was blind from childhood and served as organist of Sant'Angelo a Nilo in Naples in 1565–80. During that time he published two collections of keyboar ...
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Claudio Veggio
Claudio Maria Veggio (born c. 1510) was an Italian composer of the Renaissance, principally of secular music.
He was born in Piacenza, and must have spent most of his life there. Little is known about his life except for a brief period during th ...
Tarquinio Merula
Tarquinio Merula (24 November 1595 – 10 December 1665) was an Italian composer, organist, and violinist of the early Baroque era. Although mainly active in Cremona, stylistically he was a member of the Venetian school. He was one of the most ...
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Pietro Domenico Paradisi
Pietro Domenico Paradies (also Pietro Domenico Paradisi) (170725 August 1791) was an Italian composer, harpsichordist and music teacher, most prominently known for a composition popularly entitled "''Toccata in A''", which is, in other sources, the ...
Giovanni Salvatore
Giovanni Salvatore (ca.1620ca.1688) was a Neapolitan composer and organist.
Salvatore was born in Castelvenere. He is thought to have studied under Giovanni Maria Sabino and Erasmo di Bartolo at the Conservatorio della Pietà dei Turchini, Nap ...
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Alessandro Scarlatti
Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti (2 May 1660 – 22 October 1725) was an Italian Baroque composer, known especially for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the most important representative of the Neapolitan school of opera.
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Domenico Scarlatti
Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti, also known as Domingo or Doménico Scarlatti (26 October 1685-23 July 1757), was an Italian composer. He is classified primarily as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the deve ...
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Bernardo Storace
Bernardo Storace ( fl. 1664) was an Italian composer. Almost nothing is known about his life; his only surviving collection of music contains numerous variation sets and represents a transitory stage between the time of Girolamo Frescobaldi and ...
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Giovanni Maria Trabaci
Giovanni Maria Trabaci (ca. 1575 – 31 December 1647) was an Italian composer and organist. He was a prolific composer, with some 300 surviving works preserved in more than 10 publications; he was especially important for his keyboard music.
B ...
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Domenico Zipoli
Domenico Zipoli (1688-1726) was a composer from the Baroque period. He worked and died in Córdoba, Argentina, Córdoba, in the Viceroyalty of Peru, Spanish Empire, (presently in Argentina). He became a Jesuit in order to work in the Reduction ...
Classical
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Padre Davide da Bergamo
Padre Davide Maria da Bergamo, born ''Felice Moretti'' (Zanica, 21 January 1791 – Piacenza, 24 July 1863), was an Italian Augustinian friar, famed for his skills as an organist and composer.
Selected discography
* Padre Davide da Bergamo Vol ...
Fedele Fenaroli
Fedele Fenaroli (25 April 1730, in Lanciano – 1 January 1818, in Naples) was an Italian composer and teacher. Fenaroli entered the Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto, one of the Music conservatories of Naples, becoming a pupil of Francesc ...
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Baldassarre Galuppi
Baldassare Galuppi (18 October 17063 January 1785) was an Italian composer, born on the island of Burano in the Venetian Republic. He belonged to a generation of composers, including Johann Adolph Hasse, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, and C. ...
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Giacomo Insanguine
Giacomo Antonio Francesco Paolo Michele Insanguine (also called ''Giacomo Monopoli'' after his birthplace Monopoli; 22 March 1728 – 1 February 1795) was an Italian composer, organist, and music educator. He was the last director (primo maestro ...
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Niccolò Jommelli
Niccolò Jommelli (; 10 September 1714 – 25 August 1774) was an Italian composer of the Neapolitan School. Along with other composers mainly in the Holy Roman Empire and France, he was responsible for certain operatic reforms including redu ...
Filippo Capocci
Filippo Capocci (11 May 1840 – 25 July 1911) was an Italian organist and composer.
Biography
Born in Rome, Capocci was trained in organ and harmony by his father Gaetano (1811-1898) and in 1861 received a piano diploma from the Accademia di ...
Oreste Ravanello
Oreste Ravanello (25 August 1871 in Venice – 2 July 1938 in Padua) was an Italian composer and organist.
Ravanello studied organ and composition at the Liceo Musicale in Venice before he was appointed organist of the San Marco Cathedral at ...
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Giovanni Tebaldini
Giovanni Tebaldini (7 September 1864 – 11 May 1952) was an Italian composer, organist and musicologist.
Life
He studied with Amilcare Ponchielli at the Conservatory of Milan and later with
Franz Xaver Haberl in Regensburg. He was ''maestr ...
Shigeru Kan-no
(born May 3, 1959) is a Japanese composer and conductor living in Germany.André de Quadros ''The Cambridge Companion to Choral Music'' 2012 1107493390 p.156 "There has been a marked increase in choral compositions since the founding of the JCA ...
Lithuania
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Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis ( pl, Mikołaj Konstanty Czurlanis – ) was a Lithuanian painter, composer and writer.
Čiurlionis contributed to symbolism and art nouveau, and was representative of the fin de siècle epoch. He has been ...
Aivars Kalējs
Aivars Kalējs (April 22, 1951, Riga, Latvian SSR) is a Latvian composer, organist and pianist.
Career
Aivars Kalējs has written more than 100 opuses of symphonic, organ, piano, chamber and choir music. His works have won several composition ...
Miguel Bernal Jiménez
Miguel Bernal Jiménez (16 February 1910 – 26 July 1956) was a Mexican composer, organist, pedagogist and musicologist.
He is widely regarded as the best representative of 20th century Mexican religious music, in addition to his important co ...
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Alfonso de Elías
Alfonso de Elías (1902–1984) was a composer, pianist and pedagogue. He was born and died in Mexico City
Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, ...
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Mario Lavista
Mario Lavista (April 3, 1943 – November 4, 2021) was a Mexican composer, writer and intellectual.
Life and career
Lavista was born in Mexico City. He enrolled the Composition Workshop (Taller de Composición) at the National Conservatory in 19 ...
Netherlands
Renaissance
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Hendrik Speuy
Hendrik (or Henderick) Joosten (or Joostzoon) Speuy (c.1575 – 1 October 1625) was a Dutch renaissance organist and composer, and a contemporary of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.
Speuy was born at Brielle. From 1595 he was organist of the Grot ...
Anthoni van Noordt
Anthoni van Noordt (c. 1619 – 23 March 1675) was a Dutch composer and organist.
Born in Amsterdam, where he lived throughout his life, he was the brother of Jacobus and Jan van Noordt. He became the organist of the Nieuwezijdskapel in 1652, a ...
Romantic
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Johannes Gijsbertus Bastiaans
Johannes Gijsbertus Bastiaans (31 October 1812, Wilp - 16 February 1875, Haarlem) was a Dutch organist, composer and Music theory, music theorist. Bastiaans was educated in organ playing from the age of ten in Deventer. He studied to become a watch ...
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Richard Hol
Richard (or Rijk) Hol (23 July 1825, in Amsterdam – 14 May 1904, in Utrecht (city), Utrecht) was a Dutch composer and conducting, conductor, based for most of his career at Utrecht (city), Utrecht. His conservative music showed the influence o ...
Edouard Silas
Edouard Silas (22 August 18278 February 1909) who was born in Amsterdam and died in London, was a Dutch composer and organist.
He studied in Paris with Friedrich Kalkbrenner, François Benoist and Jacques Fromental Halévy. He lived in London fr ...
Ton de Leeuw
Antonius Wilhelmus Adrianus de Leeuw (Rotterdam, 16 November 1926 - Paris, 31 May 1996) was a Dutch composer. He occasionally experimented with microtonality.
Life and career
Taught by Henk Badings, Olivier Messiaen and others, and in his youth i ...
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Piet Kee
Pieter William Kee (30 August 1927 – 25 May 2018) was a Dutch organist and composer.
Biography
Born in Zaandam, Netherlands, Kee studied organ, piano and composition at the Amsterdam Conservatory, obtaining the Prix d'Excellence, and won first ...
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Daan Manneke
Daan Manneke (born 7 November 1939) is a Dutch composer and organist.
Manneke was born in Kruiningen. He studied organ and composition from 1963 to 1967 at the Brabant Conservatory in Tilburg, under H. Houët and Louis Toebosch (organ) and Jan va ...
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Fred Momotenko
Alfred Momotenko-Levitsky (born 1970), also known as Fred Momotenko, is a Dutch composer.
Education
Alfred Momotenko-Levitsky studied percussion at the Moscow State Art and Cultural University, Russia. In 1990, he was invited to perform in th ...
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Jan Mul
Jan Mul (20 September 1911 – 30 December 1971) was a Dutch composer, mainly of church music. He was born in Haarlem and studied with Sem Dresden at the Amsterdam Conservatory; Mul orchestrated Dresden's opera ''Francois Villon'' after the comp ...
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Herman Strategier
Herman Strategier (1912–1988) was a composer, organist, and conductor from The Netherlands.Hassan Shadily & Redaksi Ensiklopedi Indonesia (Red & Peny)., Ensiklopedi Indonesia Jilid 6 (SHI-VAJ). Jakarta: Ichtiar Baru-van Hoeve, hal. 3308 Strategi ...
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Simeon ten Holt
Simeon ten Holt (24 January 1923 – 25 November 2012) was a Dutch contemporary classical composer.
Ten Holt was born in Bergen, North Holland, and studied with Jakob van Domselaer, eventually developing a highly personal style of minimal ...
Ad Wammes
Ad Wammes (born 1953, Vreeswijk) is a Dutch composer. His notable compositions include pieces "Miroir" ("Mirror", 1989) for organ
Organ may refer to:
Biology
* Organ (biology), a part of an organism
Musical instruments
* Organ (music), a fam ...
Norway
Romantic
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Johannes Haarklou
Johannes Haarklou (May 13, 1847 – November 26, 1925) was a Norwegian composer, organist, conductor, and music critic.
Biography
Haarklou was born in the village of Haukedalen in the parish of Førde in Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. He was ...
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Peter Brynie Lindeman
Peter Brynie Lindeman (February 1, 1858 – January 1, 1930) was a Norwegian organist, cellist, and composer.Grinde, Nils. 1980. Peter Brynie Lindeman. In: Stanley Sadie (ed.), ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', vol. 11, pp. 1 ...
Modern
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Magnar Åm
Magnar Åm (born 9 April 1952) is a Norwegian composer.
Selected works
*Concerto for Accordion "Tropic of Cancer" (available for listening from here )
References
External links
*Composer's Webpag
1952 births
Norwegian composers
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Egil Hovland
Egil Hovland (October 18, 1924 – February 5, 2013) was a Norwegian composer.
Hovland was born in Råde. He studied at the Oslo conservatory with Arild Sandvold and Bjarne Brustad, in Copenhagen with Vagn Holmboe, at Tanglewood with Aaron ...
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Kjell Mørk Karlsen
Kjell Mørk Karlsen (born 31 March 1947) is a Norwegian composer and organist.
Career
Mørk Karlsen was born in Oslo, and at first studied with his father, the composer and organ player Rolf Karlsen. Mørk Karlsen later enrolled at the Oslo Music ...
Knut Nystedt
Knut Nystedt (3 September 1915 – 8 December 2014) was a Norwegian orchestral and choral composer.
Early life
Nystedt was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway, and grew up in a Christian home where hymns and classical music were an important ...
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Arild Sandvold
Arild Edvin Sandvold (June 2, 1895 – August 12, 1984) was a Norwegian organist, composer, and choir conductor.
Sandvold spent most of his career as the cathedral organist and cantor at Oslo Cathedral and as an organ teacher at the Oslo Conser ...
Poland
Renaissance
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Nicolaus Cracoviensis
Nicolaus Cracoviensis (or Mikołaj z Krakowa) was a 16th-century Polish composer.
Not much is known about his life. His name appears in the Kraków University archives as organist at the Kraków court. The biggest part of his compositions is con ...
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Jan of Lublin
Jan z Lublina, or Joannis de Lublin, was a Polish composer and organist who lived in the first half of the 16th century. Not much is known about his life - he was a member of the Order of Canons Regular of the Lateran, circa 1540 he was possibly t ...
Baroque
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Adam of Wągrowiec
Adam of Wągrowiec (also Adam from Wągrowiec) (Polish: Adam z Wągrowca) (died 27 August 1629), was a Polish composer and organist, as well as a Cistercian monk in the Wągrowiec cloister.
He was born in Margonin. He was famous during his life, ...
Classical
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Karol Kurpiński
Karol Kazimierz Kurpiński (March 6, 1785September 18, 1857) was a Polish composer, conductor and pedagogue. He was a representative of late classicism and a member of the Warsaw Society of Friends of Learning (Polish: ''Towarzystwo Warszaws ...
Romantic
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Konstanty Gorski
Konstanty Antoni Gorski () (Lida, 13 June 1859 – 31 May 1924, Poznań) was a Polish composer, violinist, organist and music teacher.Józef Władysław Reiss Najpiękniejsza ze wszystkich jest muzyka polska - 1984 Page 155 "Konstanty Gorsk ...
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August Freyer
August Freyer (15 December 1801 – 28 May 1883) was a Polish musician and composer, specializing in both performance and composition on the organ.
Biography
August was born in Saxony in 1801. He moved to Warsaw and began his musical career t ...
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Stanisław Moniuszko
Stanisław Moniuszko (; May 5, 1819 – June 4, 1872) was a Polish composer, conductor and teacher. He wrote many popular art songs and operas, and his music is filled with patriotic folk themes of the peoples of the former Polish–Lithuania ...
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Feliks Nowowiejski
Feliks Nowowiejski (7 February 1877 – 18 January 1946) was a Polish composer, conductor, concert organist, and music teacher. Nowowiejski was born in Wartenburg (today Barczewo) in Warmia in the Prussian Partition of Poland (then admini ...
Grażyna Bacewicz
Grażyna Bacewicz Biernacka (; 5 February 1909 – 17 January 1969) was a Polish composer and violinist. She is the second Polish female composer to have achieved national and international recognition, the first being Maria Szymanowska in the ...
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Augustyn Bloch
Augustyn Bloch (13 August 1929 in Grudziądz – 6 April 2006 in Warsaw) was a Polish composer and organist
An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ. An organist may play solo organ works, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or ac ...
Marian Sawa
Marian Sawa (January 12, 1937 in Krasnystaw – April 27, 2005 in Warsaw) was a Polish composer, organist, improviser, musicologist, and pedagogue.
Biography
Sawa graduated from the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, Poland in Feliks Rą ...
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Bolesław Szabelski
Bolesław Szabelski (3 December 1896 in Radoryż – 27 August 1979 in Katowice) was a Polish composer of modern classical music. While his style shifted and varied over the course of his life, he is best known for his atonal work composed duri ...
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Aleksander Szeligowski
Aleksander Robert Szeligowski (24 August 1934 – 4 May 1993) was a Polish composer, conductor, organist and pedagogue. He studied in Poznań and Warsaw, later working as assistant conductor for the Poznań Philharmonic. Son of Tadeusz Szeligowski ...
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Alexandre Tansman
Alexander Tansman ( pl, Aleksander Tansman, link=no, French: Alexandre Tansman; 12 June 1897 – 15 November 1986) was a Polish composer, pianist and conductor who became a naturalized French citizen in 1938. One of the earliest representatives of ...
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Elżbieta Sikora
Elżbieta Sikora (born 20 October 1943 in Lviv, other sources write 1944 or 1945) is a Polish composer who has been resident in France since 1981. She has composed stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, and electroacoustic works as well as fil ...
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Paweł Łukaszewski
Paweł Łukaszewski (born 19 September 1968) is a Polish composer of choral music. He has won seven prestigious Fryderyk Awards. According to David Wordsworth, Łukaszewski is the best-known Polish composer of his generation in and out of Pola ...
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Zygmunt Krauze
Zygmunt Krauze (born September 19, 1938) is a Polish composer of contemporary classical music, educator, and pianist.
Biography
Zygmunt Krauze is an important artist of his generation: a respected composer, valued pianist, educator, organiser of ...
Portugal
Renaissance
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António Carreira
António Carreira (Lisbon, ca. 1520-30 - Lisbon, ca. 1597) was a Portuguese composer and organist of the Renaissance.
He held the post of organist at the Royal Chapel in Lisbon. His compositions (Fantasias, Tientos, Chansons) reveal his high contr ...
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Manuel Rodrigues Coelho
Manuel Rodrigues Coelho (ca. 15551635) was a Portuguese organist and composer. He is the first important Iberian keyboard composer since Cabezón.
Coelho was born in Elvas around 1555 and probably received early education at the Elvas Cathedral. ...
João de Sousa Carvalho
João de Sousa Carvalho (22 February 1745c. 1798) was the foremost Portuguese composer of his generation.
Born in Estremoz, he studied music from 1753 at the Colégio dos Santos Reis in Vila Viçosa, then from 1761 at the Conservatório di San ...
Modern
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Luís de Freitas Branco
Luís Maria da Costa de Freitas Branco (12 October 1890 – 27 November 1955) was a Portuguese composer, musicologist, and professor of music who played a pre-eminent part in the development of Portuguese music in the first half of the 20th centur ...
Romania
Modern
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Christian Wilhelm Berger
Christian Wilhelm Berger (born 13 June 1964 in Bucharest) is a Romanian composer, organist, and a lecturer at the Bucharest Academy.
Education
Berger studied piano at George Enescu Music School in Bucharest from 1970 to 1982. He studied composi ...
Russia
Romantic
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Alexander Glazunov
Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov; ger, Glasunow (, 10 August 1865 – 21 March 1936) was a Russian composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Russian Romantic period. He was director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory between 1905 ...
Fred Momotenko
Alfred Momotenko-Levitsky (born 1970), also known as Fred Momotenko, is a Dutch composer.
Education
Alfred Momotenko-Levitsky studied percussion at the Moscow State Art and Cultural University, Russia. In 1990, he was invited to perform in th ...
(Russian-Dutch composer)
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Mikael Tariverdiev
Mikael Leonovich Tariverdiev (russian: Микаэл Леонович Таривердиев, hy, Միքայել Թարիվերդիև; 15 August 1931 – 25 July 1996) was a prominent Soviet composer of Armenian descent. He headed the Composers' G ...
(born in Georgia)
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Valeri Kikta
Valeri Grigoryevich Kikta (October 22, 1941 in Volodymyrivka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian classical composer, a professor of the Moscow Conservatory.
He was educated at the Moscow Choral College, then at the Moscow Conservatoire ...
Slovakia
Romantic
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Ján Levoslav Bella
Ján Levoslav Bella (German Johann Leopold Bella; 4 September 1843 – 25 May 1936) was a Slovak composer, conductor and music teacher, who wrote in the spirit of the Nationalist Romantic movement of the 19th century. One of the founders ...
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Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský
Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský KSG (24 May 1881, Trnava – 28 May 1958, Bratislava) was a Slovak composer, conductor and pedagogue. He was popular mostly because of his songs, some becoming traditional.
Life
In 1900, he passed his maturit ...
Juraj Beneš
Juraj Beneš (2 March 1940 in Trnava, Slovak State – 11 September 2004 in Bratislava, Slovakia) was a Slovak composer, teacher, and pianist.
He graduated from the university called Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (VŠMU) and was a p ...
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Ilja Zeljenka
Ilja Zeljenka (21 December 1932 – 13 July 2007) was a Slovak composer.
Born in Bratislava, Zeljenka studied music with Ján Cikker from 1951-1956. During the 1970s his more experimental idiom was suppressed by the Communist regime in Czechoslov ...
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Peter Machajdik
Peter may refer to:
People
* List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name
* Peter (given name)
** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church
* Peter (surname), a sur ...
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Marián Varga
Marián Varga (29 January 1947 – 9 August 2017) was a Slovak musician, composer and organist.
Biography
He played the piano from the age of six. He studied piano and composition at the conservatory in Bratislava. He left the conservatory after ...
South Africa
Modern
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Stefans Grové
Stefans Grové (23 July 1922 – 29 May 2014) was a South African composer. Before his death the following assessment was made of him: "He is regarded by many as Africa's greatest living composer, possesses one of the most distinctive composit ...
Spain
Renaissance
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Francisco Correa de Arauxo
Francisco Correa de Araujo (or Arauxo, or Acebedo) (1584–1654) was a Spanish organist, composer, and theorist of the late Renaissance.
Life
Correa de Araujo was born in Seville. Like most Spanish organists from this era, details of his life ...
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Antonio de Cabezón
Antonio de Cabezón (30 March 1510 – 26 March 1566) was a Spanish Renaissance composer and organist. Blind from childhood, he quickly rose to prominence as a performer and was eventually employed by the royal family. He was among the most impo ...
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Sebastian Aguilera de Heredia
Sebastian Aguilera de Heredia (August 1561 – 16 December 1627Robert Cummings, "Sebastián Aguilera de Heredia", aAllMusic.com/ref>) was a Spanish monk, musician and composer.
He was first the organist at the cathedral in Huesca from 1585 to 160 ...
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Tomás de Santa María
Fr. Tomás de Santa María O.P. (also Tomás de Sancta Maria) (ca. 1510 – 1570) was a Spanish music theorist, organist and composer of the Renaissance. He was born in Madrid but the date is highly uncertain; he died in Ribadavia. Little is ...
Juan Cabanilles
Juan Bautista José Cabanilles (also Juan Bautista Josep, Valencian language, Valencian: Joan) (6 September 1644 in Algemesí near Valencia (city in Spain), Valencia – 29 April 1712 in Valencia) was a Spanish organist and composer at Valencia ...
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Antonio Martín y Coll
Antonio is a masculine given name of Etruscan origin deriving from the root name Antonius. It is a common name among Romance language-speaking populations as well as the Balkans and Lusophone Africa. It has been among the top 400 most popular male ...
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José Ximénez José Ximénez, José Jiménez or Jusepe Ximénez (baptized 25 December 1601; died 9 August 1672) was a Spanish organist and the composer of 23 surviving works. Born in Zaragoza, he became the assistant of Sebastian Aguilera de Heredia in 1620 and s ...
Classical
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Pedro Carrera y Lanchares
Fray Pedro Carrera y Lanchares (1760s - c.1815) was a Spanish Carmelite friar, organist and composer. Carrera was pupil of D. Joseph Lidon, organist of the Capilla Real de Madrid
The Royal Palace of Madrid ( es, Palacio Real de Madrid) is the of ...
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José Lidón José Lidón, or Josef Lidón, or José Lidón Blázquez, born in Béjar, Salamanca on June 2, 1748, died in Madrid on February 11, 1827, was a Spanish composer, organist and conductor.
Career
Lidón entered the Royal Chapel of Madrid as an altar b ...
Jesús Guridi
Jesús Guridi Bidaola (25 September 1886 – 7 April 1961) was a Spanish Basque composer who was a key player in 20th-century Spanish and Basque music. His style fits into the late Romantic idiom, directly inherited from Wagner, and with a stron ...
Sweden
Romantic
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Elfrida Andrée
Elfrida Andrée (19 February 1841 – 11 January 1929), was a Swedish organist, composer, and conductor. A 1996 recording on the Caprice label features Andrée's piano quintet, along with a piano sonata, the string quartet in D minor, and vo ...
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Gustaf Hägg
Gustaf Wilhelm Petersson Hägg (November 28, 1867 – February 2, 1925) was a Swedish organist and composer.
Life
Hägg was born in Visby, Gotland. He studied at the Royal Swedish College of Music receiving his organist's degree in 1886 and his h ...
Emil Sjögren
Johan Gustav Emil Sjögren (16 June 1853, Stockholm – 1 March 1918, Knivsta) was a Swedish composer.
Born in Stockholm, Sjögren entered the Stockholm Conservatory at the age of seventeen and later continued his studies at the Berlin Conser ...
Modern
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Olle Elgenmark
Olle Elgenmark (22 February 1936 on Södermalm in Stockholm – 24 December 2016 in Norrköping) was a Sweden, Swedish organist and composer.
Early years
Elgenmark was the son of the Pediatrics, paediatrician, Olof Alfred Elgenmark, M. D. ( ...
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Hans-Ola Ericsson
Hans-Ola Ericsson (born 1958 in Stockholm) is a Swedish organist and composer.
Career
Ericsson studied church music at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, and continued his organ and composition studies at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg ...
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Bengt Hambraeus
Bengt Hambraeus (Stockholm, Sweden, January 29, 1928 – Glen Roy, Ontario, (in Glengarry County), near Montreal, Quebec, Canada, September 21, 2000) was a Swedish-Canadian organist, composer and musicologist.
Biography
Hambreaus studied organ wi ...
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Torsten Nilsson
Harald Torsten Leonard Nilsson (1 April 1905 – 14 December 1997) was a Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Party of Sweden, Social Democratic politician. He served as Minister of Defence (Sweden), Minister of Defence from 1951 to 1957, and as M ...
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Hilding Rosenberg
Hilding Constantin Rosenberg (June 21, 1892 – May 18, 1985)Lyne Peter H. Rosenberg, Hilding (Constantin). In: ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera''. Macmillan, London & New York, 1997. was a Swedish composer and conductor. He is commonly reg ...
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Fredrik Sixten
Sven Fredrik Johannes Sixten (born 21 October 1962) is a Swedish people, Swedish composer, cathedral organist and conducting, conductor. Sixten was born in Skövde, Sweden. He earned his Bachelor of Arts (1986) at the Royal College of Music, Stock ...
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Erland von Koch
Sigurd Christian Jag Erland Vogt von Koch (26 April 1910 – 31 January 2009) was a Swedish composer. He wrote symphonies, ballets, an opera, and other compositions, including music for film.
Life and career
Born in Stockholm as the son of compos ...
Switzerland
Renaissance
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Fridolin Sicher
Fridolin Sicher (March 6, 1490 – June 13, 1546) was a Swiss composer and organist of the Renaissance. He was born in Bischofszell and began his study of the organ at the age of 13 with Martin Vogelmaier, the organist of Konstanz Cathedral. He th ...
Ernest Bloch
Ernest Bloch (July 24, 1880 – July 15, 1959) was a Swiss-born American composer. Bloch was a preeminent artist in his day, and left a lasting legacy. He is recognized as one of the greatest Swiss composers in history. As well as producing music ...
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Guy Bovet
Guy Bovet (born 22 May 1942 in Thun) is a Swiss organist and composer.
Career
Bovet studied under Marie Dufour in Lausanne, Pierre Segond in Geneva and Marie-Claire Alain in Paris. From 1979 to 1999 he taught Spanish organ music at the Univer ...
Willy Burkhard
Willy Burkhard (17 April 1900 – 18 June 1955) was a Swiss composer and academic teacher, influential in both capacities. He taught music theory at the Berne Conservatory and the Zürich Conservatory. His works include an opera, oratorios, cantat ...
Lionel Rogg
Lionel Rogg (born Geneva, April 21 1936) is a Swiss organist, composer and teacher of musical theory. He is best known for performing the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, whose complete organ works he has recorded three times.
At 15, Rogg took cha ...
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Carl Rütti
Carl Rütti (born March 24, 1949 in Fribourg) is a notable Swiss composer, who has written much choral music.
Life
Rütti grew up in Zug, Switzerland. He took his A levels at the monastery school in Engelberg, then studied music at the Zürich ...
William Inglot
William Inglott or Inglot (1553/4buried 31 December 1621) was an English organist and composer of the Elizabethan era, who is mostly associated with the cathedral in the English city of Norwich.
Inglott moved from Norwich to Hereford Cathedr ...
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John Lugge
John Lugge (c.1580 – 1647–55) was an English organist and composer, who spent most of his musical career at Exeter Cathedral.
Early life and family
John Lugge was the son of Joan Downe and Thomas Lugge, a shoemaker. He was baptized on 24 ...
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John Redford
John Redford (c. 1500 - died October or November 1547) was a major English composer, organist, and dramatist of the Tudor period. From about 1525 he was organist at St Paul's Cathedral (succeeding Thomas Hickman). He was choirmaster there from ...
Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell (, rare: September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer.
Purcell's style of Baroque music was uniquely English, although it incorporated Italian and French elements. Generally considered among the greatest E ...
Classical
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William Boyce William Boyce may refer to:
*William Boyce (composer) (1711–1779), English-born composer and Master of the King's Musick
* William Binnington Boyce (1804–1889), English-born philologist and clergyman, active in Australia
*William Waters Boyce ( ...
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Benjamin Cooke
Benjamin Cooke (1734 – 14 September 1793) was an English composer, organist and teacher.
Cooke was born in London and named after his father, also Benjamin Cooke (1695/1705 – 1743), a music publisher based in Covent Garden (active from 1 ...
Edward Bairstow
Sir Edward Cuthbert Bairstow (22 August 18741 May 1946) was an English organist and composer in the Anglican church music tradition.
Life and career
Bairstow was born in Trinity Street, Huddersfield in 1874. His grandfather Oates Bairstow was ...
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Herbert Brewer
Sir Alfred Herbert Brewer (21 June 18651 March 1928) was an English composer and organist. As organist of Gloucester Cathedral from 1896 until his death, he contributed a good deal to the Three Choirs Festival for 30 years.Edwards, F.G. 'Brew ...
Edward Elgar
Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, (; 2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestr ...
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Basil Harwood
Basil Harwood (11 April 1859 – 3 April 1949) was an organist and composer in the English church music tradition, best known today for his liturgical works, particularly his anthem ''O How Glorious is the Kingdom'' (1898) and his ''Service in ...
Ronald Richardson Potter
Ronald Richardson Potter MA ARCO (12 July 1879 - 4 May 1911) was a Scottish organist and composer based in England.
Life
He was born on 12 July 1879 in Bothwell, Lanarkshire, the son of John Alexander Potter and Christina Gladstone Richardson. ...
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John Stainer
Sir John Stainer (6 June 1840 – 31 March 1901) was an English composer and organist whose music, though seldom performed today (with the exception of ''The Crucifixion'', still heard at Passiontide in some churches of the Anglican Communi ...
Lennox Berkeley
Sir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley (12 May 190326 December 1989) was an English composer.
Biography
Berkeley was born on 12 May 1903 in Oxford, England, the younger child and only son of Aline Carla (1863–1935), daughter of Sir James Char ...
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Jonathan Bielby
Jonathan Leonard Bielby (born 23 November 1944) is an English cathedral organist and composer of organ music. In 2010 he retired from Wakefield Cathedral after an exceptionally long incumbency, which had lasted more than forty years.
Life
Son of ...
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Judith Bingham
Judith Bingham (born 21 June 1952) is an English composer and mezzo-soprano singer. Life
Bingham was born on 21 June 1952, in Nottingham. Her parents are Jack Bingham and Peggy Bingham (née McGowan). She was educated at High Storrs Grammar ...
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Hugh Blair
Hugh Blair FRSE (7 April 1718 – 27 December 1800) was a Scottish minister of religion, author and rhetorician, considered one of the first great theorists of written discourse.
As a minister of the Church of Scotland, and occupant of the Ch ...
James Francis Brown
James Francis Brown (born 7 December 1969) is an English composer. He studied composition with the Viennese émigré Hans Heimler (a pupil of Alban Berg) and then at the Royal Academy of Music, London.
Career
Francis Brown's significant ch ...
Harold Darke
Harold Edwin Darke (29 October 1888 – 28 November 1976) was an English composer and organist. He is particularly known for his choral compositions, which are an established part of the respertoire of Anglican church music. Darke had a fifty-y ...
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David Gwerfyl Davies
David Gwerfyl Davies (1 February 1913 – 1977) was a Welsh organist and composer.
Background
He was born on 1 February 1913. He was a pupil at Merthyr Tydfil County Grammar School and then University College, Cardiff. He was awarded his BA in mu ...
Michael Finnissy
Michael Peter Finnissy (born 17 March 1946) is an English composer, pianist, and pedagogue. An immensely prolific composer, his music is "notable for its dramatic urgency and expressive immediacy".
Although he rejects the label, he is often r ...
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Graham Fitkin
Graham Fitkin (born 19 April 1963) is a British composer, pianist and conductor. His compositions fall broadly into the minimalist and postminimalist genres. Described by ''The Independent'' in 1998 as "one of the most important of our younger co ...
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Percy Fletcher
Percy Eastman Fletcher (12 December 1879 – 10 September 1932) was a British composer of classical music best known today for his brass and military band music. He also worked as a highly successful musical director at London theatres.
Lif ...
William Henry Harris
Sir William Henry Harris (28 March 1883 – 6 September 1973) was an English organist, choral trainer and composer.
Early life and education
Harris was born in Fulham, London and became a chorister at Holy Trinity, Tulse Hill. At the age o ...
Alfred Hollins
Alfred Hollins (11 September 1865 – 17 May 1942) was an English organist, composer and teacher, who was noted as a recitalist in Scotland.
Biography
Hollins was born in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, and was blind from birth. His ...
Peter Hurford
Peter John Hurford OBE (22 November 1930 – 3 March 2019) was a British organist and composer.
Life
Hurford was born in Minehead, Somerset, to Gladys Hurford (née James) and Hubert Hurford, a solicitor. He was educated at Blundell's School ...
Gabriel Jackson Gabriel Jackson may refer to:
* Gabriel Jackson (composer)
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Craig Sellar Lang
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Education
Born in Hastings, New Zealand, CS Lang (known to his friends as "Robin") was educated at Clifton College, and was ...
William Mathias
William James Mathias CBE (1 November 1934 – 29 July 1992) was a Welsh composer noted for choral works.
Biography
Mathias was born in Whitland, Carmarthenshire. A child prodigy, he started playing the piano at the age of three and began co ...
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Peter McGarr
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Biography
McGarr was born in Openshaw, Manchester, and attended ...
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Herbert Murrill
Herbert Henry John Murrill (11 May 1909 – 25 July 1952) was an English musician, composer, and organist.
Education and early career
Herbert Henry John (later just Herbert) Murrill was born in London, at 19, Fircroft Road in Upper Tooting, th ...
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Harrison Oxley
Thomas Frederick Harrison Oxley (known professionally as Harrison Oxley and socially as Fred Oxley) (3 April 1933 – 6 April 2009) was a British organist, who was appointed Organist of St Edmundsbury Cathedral aged 24. At the time, he was ...
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Ian Parrott
Ian Parrott (5 March 1916 – 4 September 2012) was a prolific Anglo-Welsh composer and writer on music. His distinctions included the first prize of the Royal Philharmonic Society for his symphonic poem ''Luxor'', and commissions by the BBC a ...
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Paul Patterson Paul Patterson may refer to:
*Paul Patterson (neuroscientist) (1943–2014), American neuroscientist
*Paul L. Patterson (1900–1956), American politician
*Paul Patterson (footballer) (born 1965), Australian rules footballer
*Paul Patterson (compos ...
Alan Ridout
Alan Ridout (9 December 1934 – 19 March 1996) was a British composer and teacher.
Life
Born in West Wickham, Kent, England, Alan Ridout studied briefly at the Guildhall School of Music before commencing four years of study at the Royal C ...
George Thalben-Ball
Sir George Thomas Thalben-Ball (18 June 1896 – 18 January 1987) was an Australian organist and composer who spent almost all his life in England.
Early life
George Thomas Ball (he later took the additional name of "Thalben") was born in Sydn ...
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams, (; 12 October 1872– 26 August 1958) was an English composer. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over ...
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Percy Whitlock
Percy William Whitlock (1 June 1903 in Chatham, Medway, Chatham, Kent – 1 May 1946 in Bournemouth), was an English organist and Post-romanticism, post-romantic composer.
Percy Whitlock studied at London's Royal College of Music with Charles ...
Dudley Buck
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Charles Ives
Charles Edward Ives (; October 20, 1874May 19, 1954) was an American modernist composer, one of the first American composers of international renown. His music was largely ignored during his early career, and many of his works went unperformed f ...
Horatio Parker
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Whitney Eugene Thayer
Whitney Eugene Thayer (December 11, 1838, Mendon, Massachusetts – June 27, 1889, Burlington, Vermont) was an American organist and composer.
Thayer gave his first concert just after the installation of the new organ in the Boston Music Hall ...
Miguel del Aguila
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Places
*Pedro Miguel, a parish in the municipality of Horta and the island of Faial in the Azores Islands
*São Miguel (disambi ...
George C. Baker
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Biography
Baker received his first musical instruction at age four. In 1961, he began to take organ lessons with Phil Baker ...
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Samuel Barber
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Edward Shippen Barnes
Edward Shippen Barnes (September 14, 1887 in Seabright, New Jersey – February 14, 1958, in Idyllwild, California) was an American organist.
Life and career
He was a graduate of Yale University, where he studied with Horatio Parker and Harry Je ...
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Herman Berlinski
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Life Family background; early upbringing
Before he was born, Herman Berlinski's parents, Boris an ...
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Seth Bingham
Seth Daniels Bingham (April 16, 1882 – June 21, 1972) was an American organist and prolific composer.
Biography
Bingham was born in Bloomfield, New Jersey, the youngest of four siblings in a farming family that soon relocated to Naugatuck, Con ...
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Roberta Bitgood
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John Cage
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Clay Christiansen
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Joseph W. Clokey
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A student of Edgar ...
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Carson Cooman
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Cooman was first given piano lessons as a three-year-old and began studying organ under Bruce Klanderman at age ten. He graduated from Allendale Colu ...
Emma Lou Diemer
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Diemer has written many works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, keyboard, voice, chorus, and electronic media. Diemer is a keyboard performer and over ...
Philip Glass
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Calvin Hampton
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Hampton was born in Kittanning, Pennsylvania and raised in Ravenna, Ohio. He graduated from Oberlin Conservatory in 19 ...
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David N. Johnson
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He studied organ and composition at Curtis Institute of Music (1940 ...
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Paul Manz
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Daniel Pinkham
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Early life and education
Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, into a prominent family engaged in the manufacture of patent medicines ( ...
Richard Purvis
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Steve Reich
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John Serry Sr.
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Leo Sowerby
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Biography
L ...
Charles Wuorinen
Charles Peter Wuorinen (; June 9, 1938 – March 11, 2020) was an American composer of contemporary classical music based in New York City. He performed his works and other 20th-century music as pianist and conductor.
He composed more than ...
* A Directory of Composers for Organ by Dr. John Henderson, Hon. Librarian to the Royal School of Church Music, 2005, 3rd edition.
* Eleanor Selfridge-Field, ''Venetian Instrumental Music, from Gabrieli to Vivaldi.'' New York, Dover Publications, 1994.
* Christopher S. Anderson (Ed.), ''Twentieth-Century Organ Music.'' New York, Routledge, 2012, {{ISBN, 0-415-87566-8
Organ
Organ may refer to:
Biology
* Organ (biology), a part of an organism
Musical instruments
* Organ (music), a family of keyboard musical instruments characterized by sustained tone
** Electronic organ, an electronic keyboard instrument
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