List of Indonesian composers
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Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
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Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
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- Javanese, Music of JavaMusic of JavaThe Music of Java embraces a wide variety of styles, both traditional and contemporary, reflecting the diversity of the island and its lengthy history...
- Gesang MartohartonoGesang MartohartonoGesang Martohartono was a renowned Indonesian singer-songwriter from central Java, and he is the composer of the song Bengawan Solo, a tune which has become famous throughout Indonesia, Japan, much of Asia, and some other countries in the world. The song is almost synonymous with the kroncong...
- Pak Cokro
- Gesang Martohartono
- BalineseBaliBali is an Indonesian island located in the westernmost end of the Lesser Sunda Islands, lying between Java to the west and Lombok to the east...
, Music of BaliMusic of BaliBali is an Indonesian island that shares in the gamelan and various other Indonesian musical styles. Bali, however, has its own techniques and styles, including kecak, a form of singing that imitates the sound of monkeys...
- I Nyoman Windha
- SundaneseSundanese peopleThe Sundanese are an ethnic group native to the western part of the Indonesian island of Java. They number approximately 31 million, and are the second most populous of all the nation's ethncities. The Sundanese are predominantly Muslim...
- Raden Machjar Angga KoesoemadinataRaden Machjar Angga KoesoemadinataRaden Machjar Angga Koesoemadinata is a Sundanese music composer and an Indonesian Musicologist, specializing in pelog and salendro...
- Raden Machjar Angga Koesoemadinata
- Jahja LingJahja LingJahja Ling is an orchestra conductor. He is of Chinese descent and is now an American citizen. He began to play the piano at age 4 and studied at the Yayasan Pendidikan Musik School of Music. At age 17, he won the Jakarta Piano Competition and, one year later, was awarded a Rockefeller grant to...
- Soe Tjen MarchingSoe Tjen MarchingSoe Tjen Marching is a feminist and a composer of avant-garde music in Indonesia. She studied composition with Slamet Abdul Sjukur in Indonesia and John Cousins at Canterbury University in New Zealand. In 1998, she won national competition for Indonesian Contemporary Composers held by the German...
- K. P. H. NotoprojoK. P. H. NotoprojoK.P.H. Notoprojo, also known as Tjokrowasito, Wasitodipuro, Wasitodiningrat, among other names, was one of the most highly respected performers of Javanese gamelan. He led the Paku Alaman palace gamelan as well as the gamelan for the Radio Republik Indonesia Yogyakarta, and taught gamelan in...
- Slamet Abdul SjukurSlamet Abdul SjukurSlamet A. Sjukur , is the founding father of contemporary Indonesian music. He studied and worked in Paris under Olivier Messiaen and Henri Dutilleux. He was a lecturer at IKJ but because of his unconventional ideas, he finally had to leave. He has been living in Jakarta and Surabaya as a...
- Jaya SupranaJaya SupranaJaya Suprana, born Liauw Kok Tjiang , is an Indonesian composer, pianist, businessman, and television presenter.Suprana was born in Denpasar, Bali and was adopted as a child by Lambang and Lily Suprana; he is of Chinese descent but grew up within Javanese culture. He is married to Julia Suprana but...
- Wage Rudolf SupratmanWage Rudolf SupratmanWage Rudolf Supratman was born on March 9, 1903 in Jakarta and died on August 17, 1938 due to sickness in Surabaya, East Java. He was an Indonesian songwriter...
- Otto SidhartaOtto SidhartaOtto Sidharta is an Indonesian Composer. He is known for his electronic music.Otto Sidharta finished his post-graduate study in composition and electronic music composition at Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam under the guidance of Professor Ton de Leeuw.Sidharta's interest in using...