List of female composers by name
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This article provides a list of female composers, sorted alphabetically by surname. For a list of female composers sorted by year of birth, see List of female composers by birth year.
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- Mary Anne à BeckettMary Anne à BeckettMary Anne à Beckett was an English composer, primarily known for opera.-Biography:Mary Anne à Beckett was born in London, the eldest daughter of Joseph Glossop, and sang at private gatherings. She married Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, a writer and magistrate. She composed the opera Agnes Sorrel for...
(1817–1863) - Keiko AbeKeiko Abeis a Japanese composer and marimba player. She has been a primary figure in the development of the marimba, in terms of expanding both technique and repertoire, and through her collaboration with the Yamaha musical instrument company, developed the modern five-octave concert marimba.- Biography...
(born 1937) - Rosalina AbejoRosalina AbejoRosalina Abejo was born in Tagoloan in Misamis Oriental in the Philippines, and died in Fresno, California. She was a composer and conductor, and a nun of the Order of the Virgin Mary...
(1922–1991) - Lora AbornLora Aborn-Biography:Lora Aborn began studying piano, music theory and composition at the Effa Ellis Perfield School of Music in New York City. She continued studying piano and voice in California and played in a jazz band. She attended Oberlin Conservatory where she studied composition under Dr. George W...
(1907–2005) - Harriett AbramsHarriett AbramsHarriett Abrams was an English soprano and composer. Particularly praised for her performances in the repertoire of George Friderich Handel, Abrams enjoyed a successful concert career in London during the 1780s...
(1758–1821) - Ella Adayevskaya (née Schultz) (1846–1926)
- Maria Teresa AgnesiMaria Teresa AgnesiMaria Teresa Agnesi was an Italian composer. Though she was most famous for her compositions, she was also an accomplished harpsichordist and singer, and the majority of her surviving compositions were written for keyboard, the voice, or both. She was born in Milan to Pietro Agnesi, an...
(1720–1795) - Lejla AgolliLejla Agolli-Life:Lejla Agolli was born in Korçë, Albania. She studied composition and orchestration in Tiranassa Tish Daijan. She was winner of the National Civic Song Festival for the song Ah ky mall sung by Frederik Ndoci...
(born 1950) - Graciela AgudelaGraciela Agudela-Life:Graciela Agudela studied piano at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and composition at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música with Héctor Quintanar and Mario Lavista...
(born 1945) - Countess Maria Theresia AhlefeldtMaria Theresia AhlefeldtMaria Theresia Ahlefeldt was a member of the House of Thurn and Taxis and a Princess of Thurn and Taxis...
(1755–1810) - Sieglinde AhrensSieglinde AhrensSieglinde Maria Ahrens is a German organist and composer. She is the daughter of Joseph Ahrens , a German composer and organist. Aherns studied music and composition under her father. After she completed her studies, she was an organist of Salvator-Kirche and professor of organ at Essen...
(born 1936) - Doris AkersDoris AkersDoris Mae Akers was an American Gospel music composer, arranger and singer. Known for her work with the Sky Pilot Choir, she was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2001.-Early life:...
(1923–1995) - Yoshino AokiYoshino Aokiis a Japanese video game music composer. She began her career with video game company Capcom and later became a free-lance composer.-Life and career:...
(born 1971) - Toshiko AkiyoshiToshiko Akiyoshiis a Japanese American jazz pianist, composer/arranger and bandleader. Among a very few successful female instrumentalists of her generation in jazz, she is also recognized as a major figure in jazz composition. She has received 14 Grammy nominations, and she was the first woman to win the Best...
(born 1929) - Alamanda de CastelnauAlamanda de CastelnauAlamanda was a trobairitz whose only surviving work is a tenso with Giraut de Bornelh called S'ie.us qier conseill, bella amia Alamanda. In the past she was usually considered fictitious and the "tenso" was considered a piece of Giraut's writing...
(fl. second half of 12th century) - Eleanor AlbergaEleanor Alberga-Life:Eleanor Alberga was born in Kingston, Jamaica. She decided at the age of five to be a concert pianist and began composing short pieces. She studied music at Jamaican School of Music and in 1970 she won the biennial West Indian Associated Board Scholarship which allowed her to study at the...
(born 1949) - Luna AlcalayLuna AlcalayLuna Alcalay is an Austrian pianist, music educator and composer.-Biography:Luna Alcalay was born in Zagreb, Croatia. She studied piano under Bruno Seidlhofer and composition under Alfred Uhl at the Vienna Academy of Music and received a scholarship in 1958 to continue her studies in Rome...
(born 1928) - Amanda Ira AldridgeAmanda Christina Elizabeth AldridgeAmanda Christina Elizabeth Aldridge , , was a British opera singer, teacher and composer, under the pseudonym of Montague Ring.-Life:...
(1866–1956) - Vittoria AleottiVittoria AleottiVittoria Aleotti , believed to be the same as Raffaella Aleotti was an Italian Augustinian nun, a composer and organist.-Personal Life and Musical Growth:...
(c.1575–after 1620) - Leni AlexanderLeni AlexanderLeni Alexander was a German-Chilean composer.-Biography:Helene Alexander Pollak was born in Breslau, and her family lived in Hamburg and then emigrated to Chile in 1939 to escape the Nazis...
(1924–2005) - Liana AlexandraLiana AlexandraLiana Alexandra was a Romanian music educator and composer.-Biography:Liana Alexandra was born in Bucharest, Romania. From 1965 to 1971, she studied at the University of Music Ciprian Porumbescu, Bucharest. She received the "George Enescu" scholarship and took composition courses in 1974, 1978,...
(born 1947) - Franghiz Ali-ZadehFranghiz Ali-ZadehFranghiz Ali-Zadeh is an Azerbaijani composer and pianist, currently living in Germany. She is best known for her works which combine the musical tradition of the Azerbaijani mugam and 20th century Western compositional techniques, especially those of Arnold Schönberg and Gara Garayev...
(born 1947) - Charlotte Alington BarnardCharlotte Alington BarnardCharlotte Alington Pye Barnard was an English poet and composer of ballads and hymns, who often wrote under the pseudonym Claribel.-Life:...
(1830–1869) - Kristi AllikKristi Allik-Biography:Kristi Allik was born in Canada and received a Bachelor of Music from the University of Toronto, a Master of Fine Arts degree from Princeton University and doctorate from the University of Southern California...
(born 1952) - Frances AllitsenFrances AllitsenMary Frances Allitsen was an English composer. One of her most popular songs is a setting of Psalm 27, The Lord is My Light.Her real name was Mary Bumpus, according to the .-External links:*...
(1849–1912) - Yardena AlotinYardena AlotinYardena Alotin was an Israeli composer and pianist.-Biography:Yardena Alotin studied from 1948 to 1950 at the Music Teachers' College in Tel Aviv and then from 1950 to 1952 at the Israel Music Academy...
(1930–1994) - Birgitte AlstedBirgitte AlstedBirgitte Alsted is a Danish violinist, teacher and composer, educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and in Warsaw....
(born 1942) - Martha AlterMartha AlterMartha Alter was an American pianist and composer. She was born in New Bloomfield, Pennsylvania to parents David Boyd and Daisy Myrl Alter. She graduated from Vassar College and took a position teaching music at Connecticut College...
(1904–1976) - Maria de AlvearMaria de AlvearMaria de Alvear is a Spanish-German composer living in Germany who was born to Spanish father and German mother.-References:*- External links :* * *...
(born 1960) - Berta Alves de SousaBerta Alves de SousaBerta Alves de Sousa was a Portuguese pianist and composer.-Biography:Candida Berta Alves de Sousa was born in Liège, Belgium. She grew up in Oporto, Portugal and studied music under Moreira de Sa, Luis Costa, Lucien Lambert and Claudio Carneyro at the Music Conservatory...
(1906–1997) - Maryanne AmacherMaryanne AmacherMaryanne Amacher was an American composer and installation artist.-Biography:Amacher was born in Kane, Pennsylvania, to an American nurse and a Swiss freight train worker. As the only child, she grew up playing the piano. Amacher left Kane to attend the University of Pennsylvania on a full...
(born 1943) - Amalie, Princess of SaxonyAmalie, Princess of SaxonyAmalie Marie Friederike Auguste , Princess of Saxony, full name Maria Amalia Friederike Augusta Karolina Ludovica Josepha Aloysia Anna Nepomucena Philippina Vincentia Franziska de Paula Franziska de Chantal, was a German composer writing under the pen name A. Serena, and a dramatist under the name...
(1794–1870) - Solange AnconaSolange Ancona-Biography:Solange Ancona was born in Paris and studied at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Paris under Olivier Messiaen and Giacinto Scelsi. She resided at the Villa Medici between 1973 and 1975....
(born 1943) - Laura AndelLaura Andel-Biography:Laura Andel was born in Argentina of Moldovian heritage, and began music lessons in Buenos Aires at the age of five. She played woodwind as a child and began to compose at an early age...
(born 1968) - Gwyneth Van Anden WalkerGwyneth Van Anden WalkerGwyneth Van Anden Walker is an American music educator and composer.-Biography:Gwyneth Van Anden was born in New York of a Quaker family and grew up in New Canaan, Connecticut...
(born 1947) - Avril AndersonAvril AndersonAvril Anderson is an English music educator and composer.-Biography:Avril Anderson was born in Southsea, Hampshire, England. In 1972 she entered the Royal College of Music where she studied with Humphrey Searle and John Lambert...
(born 1953) - Beth AndersonBeth AndersonBeth Anderson is an American neo-romantic composer. She studied with John Cage, Terry Riley, Robert Ashley, and Larry Austin, among others. She was born in Lexington, Kentucky, USA and grew up in Mt. Sterling, Kentucky...
(born 1950) - Laurie AndersonLaurie AndersonLaura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson is an American experimental performance artist, composer and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles. Initially trained as a sculptor, Anderson did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s...
(born 1947) - Ruth Anderson (born 1928)
- Elfrida AndréeElfrida AndréeElfrida Andrée , was a Swedish organist, composer, and conductor.Andrée was born in Visby. She was the pupil of Ludvig Norman and Niels Wilhelm Gade. Her sister was the singer Fredrika Stenhammar. An activist in the Swedish women's movement, she was one of the first female organists to be...
(1841–1929) - Princess Anna Amalia of PrussiaPrincess Anna Amalia of PrussiaPrincess Anna Amalia of Prussia was Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg. She was one of ten surviving children of King Frederick William I of Prussia and Sophia Dorothea of Hanover.-Background:...
(1723–1787) - Lucia Contini AnselmiLucia Contini AnselmiLucia Contini Anselmi was an Italian pianist and composer. She was born in Vercelli and studied piano with Giovanni Sgambati and composition with Alexander Parisotti at the Conservatory in Rome. After completing her studies, she toured as a concert pianist...
(1876–after 1913) - Caroline AnsinkCaroline AnsinkCaroline Ansink is a Dutch musician, music educator and composer.-Biography:Ansink studied music at Utrechts Conservatorium, flute with Abbie de Quant and composition with Joep Straesser...
(born 1959) - Elizabeth Anspach (1750–1828)
- Dina AppeldoornDina AppeldoornChristina Adriana Arendina Koudijs-van Appeldoorn was a Dutch composer and pianist.-Biography:Dina Appeldoorn was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She attended the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, where she studied composition under F.E.A. Koeberg and later with Johan Wagenaar...
(1884–1938) - Adelaide Orsola AppignaniAdelaide Orsola AppignaniAdelaide Orsola Appignani was an Italian singer, conductor, music educator and composer.-Life:Adelaide Orsola Appignani was born in Rome and studied music under Valentino Fioravanti. After completing her studies, she was active as a singer and a conductor in Florence and Rome...
(1807–1884) - Mary Jeanne Van AppledornMary Jeanne van AppledornMary Jeanne van Appledorn is an American composer of contemporary classical music and pianist....
(born 1927) - Izabella ArazovaIzabella Arazova-Biography:Izabella Konstantinovna Arazova was born in Rostov-na-Donu, Russia. She studied music at Melikyan Music College from 1955 to 1958, composition with Orest Yevlakhov at the Leningrad Conservatory from 1961 to 1963, and composition with Edvard Mirzoyan at the Yerevan Conservatory from 1964...
(born 1936) - Violet ArcherViolet ArcherViolet Archer, CM was a Canadian composer, teacher, pianist, organist, and percussionist. Born Violet Balestreri in Montreal, Quebec, her family changed their name to Archer. She died in Ottawa....
(1913–2000) - Isabel AretzIsabel AretzIsabel Aretz was an Argentine-Venezuelan researcher, writer, ethnomusicologist and composer.-Biography:Isabel Aretz-Thiele was born in Buenos Aires. She was educated at the National Conservatory of Music and Performing Arts, studying pedagogy, piano with Rafael González and harmony, counterpoint...
(1913–2005) - Anneli ArhoAnneli ArhoAnneli Arho is a Finnish music educator, writer and composer.-Life:Anneli Arho was born in Helsinki and studied theory and composition at the Sibelius Academy with Jukka Tiensuu. She continued study at Freiburg with Klaus Huber and Brian Ferneyhough, graduating as a Doctor of Music...
(born 1951) - Cecilia AriztiCecilia AriztiCecilia Arizti was a Cuban composer, pianist and music educator.-Biography:Cecilia Arizti was born in La Loma del Angel, Havana, the daughter pianist Fernando Arizti and his wife Teresa Sobrino...
(1856–1930) - Marian ArkwrightMarian Arkwright-Life:Marian Arkwright was born in Norwich, Norfolk, England, and received a doctorate in music. After completing her studies, she worked as an orchestra musician and composer. She received a prize from the The Gentlewoman for an original orchestral work The Winds of the World.-Works:Arkwright was...
(1863–1922) - Elinor ArmerElinor ArmerElinor Armer is an American pianist, music educator and composer.-Biography:Elinor Armer was born in Oakland, California. She studied music under Darius Milhaud and Leon Kirchner for composition and Alexander Libermann for piano...
(born 1939) - Claude ArrieuClaude ArrieuClaude Arrieu was a prolific French composer.-Biography:Claude Arrieu was a classically trained musician from an early age. She became particularly interested in works by Bach and Mozart, and later, Igor Stravinsky...
(born 1903) - Elena AsachiElena AsachiElena Asachi, née Teyber, was a Romanian pianist, singer and composer of Austrian birth. She was the daughter of Austrian composer Anton Teyber and niece of concertmaster Franz Teyber....
(1789–1877) - Caterina AssandraCaterina AssandraCaterina Assandra was an Italian composer and Benedictine nun. She was born in Pavia, Italy. She wrote a number of motets, as well as a number of organ pieces, written in German tablature. She studied counterpoint with the German Catholic exile Benedetto Re, or Reggio, one of the leading teachers...
(1580–1632) - Esmeralda Athanasiu-GardeevEsmeralda Athanasiu-Gardeev-Life:Athanasiu-Gardeev was born in Galaţi, Moldavia, in 1834. She studied music in Bucharest and then piano and composition in Paris with Julius Schulhoff and composition in St. Petersburg with Anton Rubenstein. She married Vasile Hermaziu and then General Gardeev who introduced her to Russian...
(1834–1917) - Marianna von Auenbrugger (1759–1782)
- Lera AuerbachLera AuerbachLera Auerbach is a Russian-born American composer and pianist.-Early life & education:Auerbach was born in Chelyabinsk, a city in the Urals bordering Siberia. She holds degrees in piano and composition from The Juilliard School, where she studied piano with Joseph Kalichstein and composition...
(born 1973) - Josepha Barbara AuernhammerJosepha Barbara AuernhammerJosepha Barbara Auernhammer was an Austrian pianist and composer.She was born in Vienna, the eleventh child of Johann Michael Auernhammer and Elisabeth Timmer....
(1758–1820) - May AufderheideMay AufderheideMay Frances Aufderheide Kaufman was an American composer of ragtime music. She was probably the best known among female ragtime composers...
(1888–1972) - Valborg AulinValborg AulinLaura Valborg Aulin was a Swedish pianist and composer. She was the sister of Tor Aulin and studied music with Benjamin Godard and Niels Wilhelm Gade. Besides many lieder and pieces for solo piano, her compositions included two string quartets and organ music.-External links:...
(1860–1928) - Dorothea AustinDorothea AustinDorothea Austin is an American composer. She is a member of the New York Women Composers Association, and specializes in electronic and computer generated music. An example of her composition is Transformation for Viola, Piano & Tape, ....
(born 1922) - Elizabeth R. AustinElizabeth R. Austin-Life:Elizabeth Austin was born in Baltimore and studied at the Peabody Conservatory Preparatory school. She continued her studies with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, and graduated with a master's degree from the Hartt School, University of Hartford, and a doctorate from the University of...
(born 1938) - Florence Aylward (1862–1950)
- Azalais de PorcairaguesAzalais de PorcairaguesAzalais de Porcairagues or Alasais de Porcaragues was a trobairitz , composing in Occitan in the late 12th century....
(fl. mid-12th century) - Svitlana AzarovaSvitlana Azarovathumb|Svitlana AzarovaSvitlana Azarova is a Ukrainian/Dutch composer of contemporary classical music born January 9, 1976 in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union.-Early years:...
(born 1976) - Albena Petrovic-VratchanskaAlbena Petrovic-VratchanskaAlbena Petrovic-Vratchanska is a composer, pianist and musical pedagogue.In 2007 she received the prestigious commission of the Cultural Year 2007 in Luxembourg and the Greater Region for the composition of "Gladius" for electric guitar and instrumental ensemble.The Cultural Commission and Madam...
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- Heidi Baader-NobsHeidi Baader-NobsHeidi Baader-Nobs is a Swiss composer. She was born in Delémont, and trained as a teacher at the Ecole Normale in Delémont. She later studied composition and music theory with Robert Suter and Jacques Wildberger at the Basle Musik-Akademie....
(born 1940) - Grazyna BacewiczGrazyna BacewiczGrażyna Bacewicz was a Polish composer and violinist. She is only the second Polish female composer to have achieved national and international recognition, the first being Maria Szymanowska in the early 19th century.- Life :Bacewicz was born in Łódź...
(1909–1969) - Maria BachMaria BachEmilie Marie Baroness von Bach was an Austrian pianist, violinist, composer and artist.-Life:Marie Bach was born in Vienna, Austria, the daughter of Robert Bonaventura Michael Wenzel von Bach and his wife Eleonore Josepha Maria Theresia Auguste, Baroness von Bach. When Marie was one year old, the...
(1896–1978) - Carola BauckholtCarola BauckholtCarola Bauckholt is a German composer. She was born in Krefeld, Germany, She worked at the theater at the Marienplatz in Krefeld and studied music with Mauricio Kagel the Cologne Musikhochschule from 1978-84....
(born 1959) - Rosa Giacinta BadallaRosa Giacinta BadallaRosa Giacinta Badalla was an Italian composer and Benedictine nun. The first record of her is in the lists of the monastery of Saint Radegonda in Milan from 1678...
(1660–1710) - Tekla Bądarzewska-BaranowskaTekla Badarzewska-BaranowskaTekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska was a Polish composer.Bądarzewska was born in 1834 in Warsaw. She married Jan Baranowski and they had five children in their nine years of marriage. Bądarzewska-Baranowska died on 29 September 1861 at the age of 27. Her grave in the Powązki Cemetery features a young...
(1834–1861) - Maya BadianMaya BadianMaya Badian is a Romanian-born Canadian composer, musicologist, and professor.-Biography:Badian began to compose at five years of age, and later attended the Bucharest National University of Music in Bucharest, where she studied with Tiberiu Olah, Aurel Stroe, Zeno Vancea and Tudor Ciortea,...
(born 1945) - Vera BaevaVera BaevaVera Baeva is Bulgarian writer and composer. She was born in Bourgas and studied at the Sofia State Academy of Music with Dimiter Nenov, Marin Goleminov and Lubomir Pipkov....
(born 1930) - Judith Margaret BaileyJudith Margaret BaileyJudith Margaret Bailey is an English clarinetist, composer and conductor. She was born in Camborne, Cornwall, and studied at the Royal Academy of Music from 1959-63...
(born 1941) - Ruth BakkeRuth BakkeRuth Bakke is a Norwegian organist and composer. She was born in Bergen, Norway, and studied at the Bergen Music Conservatory and the University of Oslo...
(born 1947) - Giovanna Bruna BaldacciGiovanna Bruna BaldacciGiovanna Bruna Baldacci was an Italian composer, pianist and poet. She was born in Pistoia, Italy, and studied piano and composition at the Istituto Musicale in Florence with Francesco Cilea and Moretti....
(1886–after 1910) - Esther BallouEsther BallouEsther Williamson Ballou was an American music educator, organist and composer. She was born in Elmira, New York, began organ lessons at age 13, and began composing in her twenties. She studied at Bennington College, Mills College and The Juilliard School of Music in 1943.After completing her...
(1915–1973) - Puchi BalseiroPuchi BalseiroPuchi Balseiro, , November 1, 1926 – January 11, 2007 born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, was a "feeling" composer.-Early years:...
(1926–2007) - Barbara of PortugalBarbara of PortugalBarbara of Portugal was an Infanta of Portugal and later Queen of Spain as wife of Ferdinand VI of Spain.-Life in Portugal:...
(1711–1758) - Mansi BarberisMansi BarberisMansi Barberis was a Romanian violinist, music educator, conductor and composer.-Life:Clemensa Barberis was born in Iaşi and began to improvise on the piano at an early age. When an aunt transcribed one of the pieces, composer George Enescu recommended that Barberis take theory lessons...
(1899–1986) - Cacilda Borges BarbosaCacilda Borges BarbosaCacilda Campos Borges Barbosa was a Brazilian pianist, conductor and composer. She was one of the pioneers of electronic music in Brazil.-Life:...
(1914-2010) - Elaine BarkinElaine Barkin-Life:Elaine Radoff was born in The Bronx, New York City, and graduated in 1954 with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queens College, CUNY, where she studied with Karol Rathaus, Saul Novak and Leo Kraft. She graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1954 and a PhD in 1971 from Brandeis...
(born 1932) - Alice BarnettAlice BarnettAlice Barnett was an English singer and actress, best known for her performances in contralto roles of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company....
(1886–1975) - Carol E BarnettCarol E BarnettCarol Edith Barnett is an American composer. She was born in Dubuque, Iowa, and studied at the University of Minnesota with Dominick Argento, Paul Fetler, Bernard Weiser for piano and Emil J. Niosi for flute...
(born 1949) - Ethel BarnsEthel BarnsEthel Barns was an English violinist, pianist and composer. She was born in London and entered the Royal Academy of Music at age 13, where she studied with Emile Sauret for violin, Ebenezer Prout for composition and Frederick Westlake for piano.Barns made her debut as a violinist at The Crystal...
(1874–1948) - Leonora BaroniLeonora BaroniLeonora Baroni was an Italian singer, theorbist, lutenist, viol player, and composer. She was the daughter of Adriana Basile, a virtuosa singer, and Mutio Baroni. Leonora Baroni was born at the Gonzaga court in Mantua. She sang alongside her mother and sister Caterina at court and across Italy,...
(1611–1670) - Carmen BarradasCarmen BarradasMaria del Carmen Perez Jimenez Barradas was a Uruguayan pianist, composer, and choral teacher. She used the stage name Carmen Barradas.-Life:...
(1888–1963) - Elsa BarraineElsa BarraineElsa Jacqueline Barraine was a French composer. Born in Paris, she was the daughter of cellist Alfred Barraine. She studied with Jean Gallon , Abel Estyle , George Caussade , and Paul Dukas at the Conservatoire de Paris...
(1910–1999) - Gisèle BarreauGisèle Barreau-Life:Gisèle Barreau grew up west of Nantes, in Brittany, and studied with Émile Leipp and Michèle Castellengo for musical acoustics at Jussieu University. She continued her studies with Pierre Schaeffer at the Paris Conservatory and later with Oliver Messiaen...
(born 1948) - Françoise BarrièreFrançoise Barrière-Life:Françoise Barrière was born in Paris and studied at the Conservatoire de Versailles and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris. She continued her studies in ethnomusicology at the Ecole Pratique de Hautes Etudes...
(born 1944) - Bebe Barron (born 1927)
- Cecilia Maria BarthélemonCecilia Maria BarthélemonCecilia Maria Barthélemon was an English singer, composer, pianist, and organist. She was the daughter of Maria Barthélemon, née Mary Young, and François-Hippolyte Barthélémon. She published sonatas and occasional music.-References:...
(c. 1769–1840) - Maria BarthélemonPolly YoungPolly Young was an English soprano, composer and keyboard player. She was part of a well-known English family of musicians that included several professional singers and organists during the 17th and 18th centuries...
(1749–1799) - Carin Bartosch Edström (born 1965)
- Adriana BasileAdriana BasileAdriana Basile was an Italian composer and singer, born in Posillipo, and died in Rome. From 1610 she worked for the Gonzagas in Mantua. Members of her family also worked for the court, including her brothers, Giambattista Basile, a poet, Lelio Basile, a composer, and her sisters, Margherita and...
(c. 1580–c. 1640) - Marion BauerMarion BauerMarion Eugénie Bauer was an American composer, teacher, writer, and music critic. A contemporary of Aaron Copland, Bauer played an active role in shaping American musical identity in the early half of the twentieth century....
(1882–1955) - Alison BauldAlison BauldAlison Margaret Bauld is an Australian writer and composer who lives and works in London, England.-Biography:Bauld was born in Sydney and studied piano with Alexander Sverjensky at the Conservatorium of New South Wales...
(born 1944) - Sophie BawrSophie BawrAlexandrine-Sophie Bawr was a French writer, playwright and composer also known as Comtesse de Saint-Simon, Baronne de Bawr and M. Francois.-Life:...
(1773–1860) - Christabel BaxendaleChristabel BaxendaleChristabel Baxendale was an English violinist and composer. She was active in the early 1900s and gave concerts in the London area, sometimes assisted by her sister who was a singer.-Works:Baxendale composed mostly popular songs...
(1886–?) - Marie Emmanuelle Bayon LouisMarie Emmanuelle Bayon LouisMarie-Emmanuelle Bayon Louis was a French composer, pianist, and salonnière. The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers credits her for making the fortepiano popular in France. In 1770 she married the architect Victor Louis....
(1746–1825) - Amy BeachAmy BeachAmy Marcy Cheney Beach was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. Most of her compositions and performances were under the name Mrs. H.H.A. Beach.-Early years:Beach was born Amy Marcy Cheney in Henniker, New Hampshire into...
(1867–1944) - Sally BeamishSally BeamishSally Beamish is a British composer of chamber, vocal, choral and orchestral music. She has also worked in the field of music theatre, film and television, as well as composing for children and for her local community....
(born 1956) - Janet BeatJanet BeatJanet Beat is a Scottish composer, music educator and music writer. She was born in Streetly, Staffordshire, England and studied piano privately and horn at the Birmingham Conservatoire before reading music at Birmingham University, graduating with a Bachelor of Music degree in 1960.After...
(born 1937) - Betty BeathBetty BeathElizabeth Margaret Beath nee Eardley, is married to author/illustrator, David Cox. She is an Australian composer, pianist,and music educator . She was born in Bundaberg, Queensland, and began piano lessons at the age of three. She studied with Frank Hutchens at the Sydney Conservatorium and...
(born 1932) - Marguerite Béclard d'HarcourtMarguerite Béclard d'HarcourtMarguerite Béclard d'Harcourt was a French composer and ethno-musicologist. She was born in Paris and studied composition at the Schola Cantorum with Abel Decaux, Vincent d'Indy and Maurice Emmanuel....
(1884–1964) - Norma BeecroftNorma BeecroftNorma Marian Beecroft is a Canadian composer, producer, broadcaster, and arts administrator. A member of the Canadian League of Composers and an associate of the Canadian Music Centre, she twice won the Canada Council's Lynch-Staunton Award for composition...
(born 1934) - Eve BeglarianEve BeglarianEve Beglarian is a contemporary American composer, performer and audio producer of Armenian descent...
(born 1958) - Anđelka Bego-Šimunić (born 1941)
- Jeanne BehrendJeanne BehrendJeanne Behrend was an American pianist, music educator, musicologist and composer.-Life:Jeanne Behrend was born in Philadelphia and graduated from the Curtis Institute in 1934, where she studied piano with Josef Hofmann and composition with Rosario Scalero.After completing her education, she...
(1912–1988) - Jeanne Beijerman-WalravenJeanne Beijerman-WalravenJeanne Beijerman-Walraven was a Dutch composer. She was born in Semarang, Indonesia, and studied privately with Frits Koeberg in The Hague....
(1878–1969) - Teresa Belloc-GiorgiTeresa Belloc-GiorgiMaria Teresa Belloc-Giorgi was an Italian contralto.-Life:Maria Teresa Trombetta was born in San Benigno Canavese, and made her début in 1801 at Turin...
(1784–1855) - Antonia BemboAntonia BemboAntonia Bembo was an Italian composer and singer. She was born in Venice and died in Paris. She was the daughter of Giacomo Padoani, a doctor, and married Lorenzo Bembo in 1659. She moved to Paris before 1676, possibly to leave a bad marriage. There she sang for Louis XIV...
(c. 1640–1720) - Barbara BenaryBarbara BenaryBarbara Benary is an American composer and ethnomusicologist specializing in Indonesian and Indian music.In 1976 she co-founded Gamelan Son of Lion with Philip Corner and Daniel Goode; she also constructed most of the group's instruments...
(born 1946) - Chiara BenatiChiara BenatiChiara Benati is an Italian composer. She was born in Bologna, Italy, and studied piano, conducting and composition with Paolo Renosto and Cesare Augusto at the Bologna Conservatory....
(born 1956) - Josefina BenedettiJosefina BenedettiJosefina Benedetti is a Venezuelan-American composer, musicologist and choral director.-Biography:Josefina Benedetti was born in New Haven, Connecticut...
(born 1953) - Soledad Bengoecha de CármenaSoledad Bengoecha de CármenaSoledad Bengoecha de Cármena was a Spanish composer. She was born in Madrid, and studied music with Arriola, Jesús Monasterio and Ledesma...
(1849–1893) - Cathy BerberianCathy BerberianCatherine Anahid Berberian was an American soprano and composer. She interpreted contemporary avant-garde music composed, among others, by Luciano Berio, Bruno Maderna, John Cage, Henri Pousseur, Sylvano Bussotti, Darius Milhaud, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati , Igor Stravinsky.She also interpreted...
(1925–1983) - Gertrude van den BerghGertrude van den BerghGertrude van den Bergh was a Netherlands pianist and composer.-Life:Gertrude van den Bergh was baptized in Cologne, the eldest daughter of Dutch farmer Henderik van den Bergh and German Maria Theresia Leydel. Van den Bergh showed talent for music at an early age, took piano lessons at six and...
(1793–1840) - Christine BerlChristine BerlChristine Berl is an American composer. She was born in New York City, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in piano from Mannes College of Music in 1964. She continued her education at Queen's College, graduating with a Master of Arts degree in composition in 1970.After completing her...
(born 1943) - Catalina BerroaCatalina BerroaCatalina Berroa Ojea was a Cuban pianist, music teacher and composer. She was born in Trinidad, Las Villas, and studied with local teachers to master several instruments. She operated a music academy in Trinidad where she taught students including her nephew, pianist and composer Lico Jimenez. She...
(1849–1911) - Louise BertinLouise BertinLouise-Angélique Bertin was a French composer and poet.Louise Bertin lived her entire life in France. Her father, Louis-François Bertin, and also her brother later on, were the editors of Journal des débats, an influential newspaper. As encouraged by her family, Bertin pursued music...
(1805–1877) - Johanna BeyerJohanna BeyerJohanna Magdalena Beyer was a German-American composer and pianist.-Biography:Johanna Beyer was born in Leipzig, Germany, but very little is known about her life prior to her move to the United States in 1923...
(1888–1944) - Lycia de Biase BidartLycia de Biase BidartLycia de Biase Bidart was a Brazilian pianist, violinist, conductor, music educator and composer. She was born in Vitoria, Espirito Santo, and studied in Rio de Janiero...
(1910-1990) - Gillian BibbyGillian BibbyGillian Margaret Bibby is a New Zealand composer, pianist, writer and teacher. She was born in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, and studied at the University of Otago and Victoria University with Douglas Lilburn. She continued her studies in Berlin and Cologne with Aloys Kontarsky, Mauricio Kagel and...
(born 1945) - Marie BigotMarie BigotMarie Bigot was a French piano teacher whose full name was Marie Kiéné Bigot de Morogues. As a composer she is best known for her sonatas and études....
(1786–1820) - Beatriz BilbaoBeatriz BilbaoBeatriz Bilbao is a Venezuelan composer. She was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and studied piano with Judith James and Gerty Haas, composition with Modesta Bor, and conducting with Alberto Grau and Gonzalo Castellanos in Venezuela...
(born 1951) - Elizabeth Weichsell Billington (c.1768–1818)
- Jocelyne BinetJocelyne BinetJocelyne Binet was a Canadian composer, pianist, and music educator. She studied in Montreal and Paris, France, and returned to compose and teach music in Canada.-Biography:...
(1923–1968) - Judith BinghamJudith BinghamJudith Bingham is a British composer and mezzo-soprano singer.Born in Nottingham in 1952 and educated at High Storrs Grammar School for Girls in Sheffield, she attended the Royal Academy of Music , where her teachers were Malcolm MacDonald, Eric Fenby, Alan Bush and John Hall , and Jean...
(born 1952) - Renate BirnsteinRenate BirnsteinRenate Maria Birnstein is a German composer, violinist and pianist. She was born in Hamburg, and studied at the Hochschule fur Musik with Diether de la Motte and Gyorgy Ligeti, receiving her diploma in composition and piano in 1973....
(born 1946) - Roberta BitgoodRoberta BitgoodRoberta Bitgood Wiersma was an American organist, choir director and composer. She was a pioneer of 20th-century American church music and the first woman to serve as national president of the American Guild of Organists....
(1908-2007) - Helen Blackwood (1807–1867)
- Leopoldine BlahetkaLeopoldine BlahetkaMarie Leopoldine Blahetka was an Austrian pianist and composer.- Life :Leopoldine Blahetka was born in Guntramsdorf near Vienna, the child of George and Barbara Joseph Blahetka Sophia, née Traeg. Her father was a history and mathematics teacher and her mother played physharmonica...
(1809–1885) - Blanche of CastileBlanche of CastileBlanche of Castile , was a Queen consort of France as the wife of Louis VIII. She acted as regent twice during the reign of her son, Louis IX....
(1188–1252) - Olga De Blanck MartínOlga De Blanck MartínOlga De Blanck Martín was a Cuban pianist, guitarist and composer. She was born in Havana, the daughter of Hubert de Blanck and Pilar Martín. She studied music in Cuba, and in 1938 in the United States and Mexico....
(1916-1998) - Maria Theresa Bland (c. 1769–1838)
- Carla BleyCarla BleyCarla Bley, née Borg, is an American jazz composer, pianist, organist and band leader. An important figure in the Free Jazz movement of the 1960s, she is perhaps best known for her jazz opera Escalator Over The Hill , as well as a book of compositions that have been performed by many other...
(born 1938) - Patricia Blomfield HoltPatricia Blomfield HoltPatricia Blomfield Holt was a Canadian composer, pianist, and music educator. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Association of Canadian Women Composers, her compositions have been performed by notable musical ensembles throughout North America and Europe...
(1910-2003) - Sonia BoSonia Bo-Life:Sonia Bo was born in Lecco, Italy, and studied with Renato Dionisi and Azio Corghi at the Conservatorio di Milano, where she graduated in 1985. In 1988 she continued her studies with Franco Donatoni at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome....
(born 1960) - Berta BockBerta BockBerta Johanna Amalie Bock née Spech was a Romanian composer. She was born in Hermannstadt, Transylvania and also taught piano and voice. She died in Sibiu.-Works:...
(1857–1945) - Mlle BocquetMlle BocquetMlle Bocquet was a French lutenist and composer. She ran a Salon with a Mlle de Scudéry from 1653–1659. She was in contact with members and founders of the Académie française. Bocquet's compositions explore the chromatic possibilities of the lute, with preludes in every key...
(early 17th century–after 1660) - Sylvie BodorováSylvie BodorováSylvie Bodorová is a Czech composer.-Biography:Bodorová studied composition at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno and as a post-graduate later on at the Music Academy in Prague...
(born 1954) - Josina Anna Petronella van BoetzelaerJosina van AerssenJosina Anna Petronella van Aerssen, as married van Boetzelaer , was a Dutch composer, painter, lady in waiting and noble...
(1733–1787) - Ana Bofill LeviAna Bofill LeviAnna Bofill Leví is a Catalan Spanish pianist, architect and composer.-Life:Anna Bofill Leví was born in Barcelona, and studied piano and music theory with Jordi Albareda, Xavier Montsalvatge, Josep Cercós and Joseph M. Mestres-Quadreny...
(born 1944) - Michèle BokanowskiMichèle BokanowskiMichèle Bokanowski is a French composer. She was born in Cannes, and was educated in traditional music. She continued her studies in composition in Paris with Michel Puig and in electronic music in 1970 at the Service de la recherche de l’ORTF directed by Pierre Schaeffer...
(born 1943) - Anne BoleynAnne BoleynAnne Boleyn ;c.1501/1507 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of Henry VIII of England and Marquess of Pembroke in her own right. Henry's marriage to Anne, and her subsequent execution, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that was the...
(1507–1536) - Anna Bon di VeneziaAnna BonAnna Bon was an Italian composer and performer. Her parents were both involved in music and traveled internationally; her father was the Bolognese artist Girolamo Bon, a librettist and scenographer, and her mother was the singer Rosa Ruvinetti Bon. Anna was born in Russia...
(born 1738/1739) - Carrie Bond (1862–1946)
- Victoria BondVictoria Bond-Life:Victoria Bond was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of operatic bass Philip Bond and concert pianist Jane Bond. Her grandfather was also a liturgical composer. The family later moved from California to New York, and Bond studied piano at the Mannes School of Music with Nadia...
(born 1945) - Margaret Allison Bonds (1913–1972)
- Andrée BonhommeAndrée Bonhomme-Life:Andrée Bonhomme was born in Maastricht and studied music theory and composition at the Maastricht Gielen Music Lyceum with Henri Hermansat and at The Hague. She received a teaching certificate in 1927 and made her debut as a pianist and composer with the Maastricht Municipal Orchestra in 1928...
(1905–1982) - Mélanie BonisMélanie BonisMélanie Hélène Bonis, known as Mel Bonis was a prolific French classical composer...
(1858–1937) - Henriette van den Boorn-CocletHenriette van den Boorn-CocletHenriette van den Boorn-Coclet was a Belgian composer. She was born in Liege, Belgium and studied at the Liège Conservatory with Jean-Theodore Radoux and Sylvain Dupuis. After completing her education, she took a position teaching harmony at the Conservatory. She won the Prix de Rome in 1895...
(1866–1945) - Modesta BorModesta BorModesta Bor was a Venezuela choir conductor, musicologist, teacher and composer. She was born in Juangriego and studied in Caracas with Elena Arrarte, Juan Bautista Plaza, Antonio Estévez, Maria de Lourdes Rotundo and Vicente Emilio Sojo, graduating with a degree in composition in 1959. She...
(1926–1998) - Johanna Bordewijk-RoepmanJohanna Bordewijk-RoepmanJohanna Bordewijk-Roepman was a Dutch composer. She was born in Rotterdam, and began composing in 1917 without instruction...
(1892–1971) - Teresa Borràs i FornellTeresa Borràs i FornellTeresa Borrás Fornell was a Catalan composer, music teacher and pianist.-Biography:Borrás began her musical studies at age eight at the Liceo Conservatory in Barcelona, where she studied piano, harmony and guitar. Teachers she studied with included Molinari, Agosti and Vito Frazzi...
(1923–2010) - Edith BorroffEdith BorroffEdith Borroff is an American musicologist and composer. She was born in New York City, the daughter of professional musicians Marie Bergerson and Ramon Borroff. The family moved to Chicago in 1941 and Borroff studied at the American Conservatory of Music, graduating with a Bachelor of Music in...
(born 1925) - Maura BoschMaura BoschMarjorie Ann Hess a.k.a. Maura Bosch is an American composer. She was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, and studied at the Hartt College of Music where she received a Bachelor of Music degree in 1978, and at Princeton University where she received a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1982 and a Ph.D. in...
(born 1958) - Henriëtte BosmansHenriëtte BosmansHenriëtte Hilda Bosmans was a Dutch composer.Bosmans was born in Amsterdam, the daughter of Henri Bosmans, principal cellist of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, and the pianist Sara Benedicts, piano teacher at the Amsterdam Conservatory. Her father died when she was 6 months old...
(1895–1952) - Marianna BottiniMarianna BottiniMarianna Bottini née Motroni-Andreozzi was an Italian composer and harp teacher. She was born in Lucca, daughter of the nobleman Sebastiano Motroni-Andreozzi and his wife Eleonora Flekestein....
(1802–1858) - Linda BouchardLinda BouchardLinda Bouchard is a Canadian composer and conductor.-Biography:She was raised in Montreal. She has a BA in music and an MMus in composition . Her teachers were Harvey Sollberger , David Gilbert and Arthur Weisberg , and Henry Brant...
(born 1957) - Lili BoulangerLili BoulangerLili Boulanger was a French composer, the younger sister of the noted composer and composition teacher Nadia Boulanger.-Early years:A Parisian-born child prodigy, who was good at piano...
(1893–1918) - Nadia BoulangerNadia BoulangerNadia Boulanger was a French composer, conductor and teacher who taught many composers and performers of the 20th century.From a musical family, she achieved early honours as a student at the Paris Conservatoire, but believing that her talent as a composer was inferior to that of her younger...
(1887–1979) - Joséphine BoulayJoséphine BoulayJoséphine Pauline Boulay was a French organist and composer. She was born in Paris and studied music at the Paris Conservatoire with César Franck. She was blind and became the first woman to win a first prize in organ at the Conservatoire in 1888. She also won first prize in Faure's competition...
(1869–1925) - Helen BowaterHelen BowaterHelen Bowater is a New Zealand composer. She was born in Wellington into a musical family, and studied piano and violin with Gwyneth Brown. In 1982 she graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree in music history and ethnomusicology from Victoria University of Wellington...
(born 1952) - Anne BoydAnne BoydAnne Elizabeth Boyd AM is an Australian composer and Professor of Music at the University of Sydney.-Early life:Anne Boyd was born in Sydney to James Boyd and Annie Freda Deason Boyd ....
(born 1946) - Ina BoyleIna BoyleIna Boyle was an Irish composer. She was born in Bushey Park near Enniskerry and took violin and cello lessons as a child. She studied counterpoint, harmony and composition with Drs. Kitson and Hewson in Dublin, and by correspondence with her cousin Charles Wood. She also traveled to London...
(1889–1967) - Anne Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt Brillon de JouyAnne Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt Brillon de JouyAnne Louise Brillon de Jouy was a French musician and composer.-Life:...
(1744–1824) - May BraheMay BraheMay Brahe was an Australian composer, best known for her songs and ballads. Her most famous song by far is "Bless This House", recorded by John McCormack, Beniamino Gigli, Lesley Garrett and Bryn Terfel. She was the only Australian woman composer to win local and international recognition before...
(1884–1956) - Gena BranscombeGena BranscombeGena Branscombe was a Canadian pianist, composer, music educator and choir conductor who lived and worked in the United States.-Life:...
(1881–1977) - Josefina BrdlíkováJosefina BrdlíkováJosefina Brdlíková née Mourková was a translator, singer, pianist and composer. She was born in Prague, and studied music in Paris and London. She married the mayor and industrialist Jana Brdlíka, who was a founder of coal tar chemical factories, and lived in Počátky until 1899...
(1843–1910) - Caroline M Breece (born 1977)
- Thérèse BrenetThérèse BrenetThérèse Brenet is a French composer. She studied at the Conservatoire de Reims and the Conservatoire de Paris. Among her teachers were Maurice Duruflé, Henri Dutilleux, Darius Milhaud, and Jean Rivier...
(born 1935) - Bettina Brentano (1785–1859)
- Dora BrightDora BrightDora Estella Bright, later known as Dora Estella Knatchbull, was an English composer and pianist. She composed works for orchestra, keyboard and voice, and music for opera and ballet, including ballets for performance by the dancer Adeline Genée.-Biography:Bright was born in...
(1862–1951) - Radie BritainRadie BritainRadie Britain was an American pianist, writer, music educator and composer.-Life:Radie Britain was born near Silverton, Texas, the daughter of Edgar Charles and Katie Britain...
(1899–1994) - Maria Brizzi GiorgiMaria Brizzi GiorgiMaria Brizzi Giorgi was an Italian organist, composer and pianist noted for her improvisational ability. She was born in Bologna into a musical family, and began to perform in public at an early age. She served as organist and choral director from 1787-89 with the Sisters of St...
(1775–1822) - Roslyn BrogueRoslyn BrogueRoslyn Brogue was an American pianist, violinist, music educator, classics scholar, poet, author and composer...
(1919–1981) - Ingeborg von Bronsart (1840–1913)
- Augusta BrowneAugusta BrowneAugusta Browne was an American composer who became renowned in the 1850s as part of the first wave of female composers in the country. She was the most prolific of that group, and is perhaps best-known for "Wake, Lady Mine", written in 1845....
(1820–1882) - Harriet BrowneHarriet BrowneHarriet Mary Browne Owen was an English writer and composer, the sister of poet Felicia Hemans. Browne was a granddaughter of the Venetian consul in Liverpool, and the family moved from there to Denbighshire in North Wales for her father to pursue his business. She grew up near Abergele and St....
(1790–1858) - Elisabetta BrusaElisabetta BrusaElisabetta Olga Laura Brusa is an Italian composer.Brusa was born in Milan, and as a child wrote 32 piano pieces. At the Milan Conservatory she formally studied composition with Bruno Bettinelli, and Azio Corghi, graduating in 1980...
(born 1954) - Joanna BruzdowiczJoanna BruzdowiczJoanna Bruzdowicz is a Polish composer.-Life:Bruzdowicz studied at the Warsaw Music High School, at the State Higher School of Music ; she earned her M.A. in 1966...
(born 1943) - Filipina Brzezinska-SzymanowskaFilipina Brzezinska-SzymanowskaFilipina Brzezinska-Szymanowska was a Polish pianist and composer. She was born in Warsaw and studied with Leopold Meyer. She died in Warsaw.-Works:Selected works include:*Nocturne*Verlaß uns nicht...
(1800–1886) - Dorothy Quita BuchananDorothy Quita Buchanan-Life:Buchanan was born in Christchurch, the second of six daughters in a musical family, and graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree from Canterbury University in 1967 and a teaching degree from Christchurch Teachers College in 1975....
(born 1945) - Olivia BuckleyOlivia BuckleyOlivia Francisca Buckley née Dussek was an English harpist, organist and composer. She was born in London, the daughter of Czech composer Jan Ladislav Dussek and Scottish composer Sophia Corri. Dussek left his wife, and Olivia was taught harp and piano by her mother, making her debut at the age of...
(born mid-1790s–after 1845) - Margaret BuechnerMargaret BuechnerMargaret Buechner was a German-born American composer.Born in Hanover, she emigrated to the United States in 1951 and became an American citizen in 1961. Her works include the ballets Phantomgreen and Elizabeth, along with tone poems The Old Swedes Church and Erlkönig...
(1922–1998) - Nini BulterijsNini BulterijsNini Bulterijs was a Belgian composer. She was born in Temse, East Flanders, and studied piano with Jozef d'Hooghe and harmony with Yvonne van den Berghe at the Royal Flemish Conservatory of Antwerp...
(1929–1989) - Diana BurrellDiana BurrellDiana Burrell is an English composer.-Life and career:She was born in Norwich and attended Norwich High School for Girls before studying music at Cambridge University. She began her career as a viola player, but soon became well known for her compositions and became a full-time composer.Her first...
(born 1948) - Canary Lee BurtonCanary Lee BurtonCanary Lee Burton is an American keyboardist, composer and writer. She studied music at the University of Idaho at Moscow, Idaho, graduating in the 1970s. After completing her education, she moved to Washington DC and then to Cape Cod, where she equipped a studio.Burton founded and played in...
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- Gayane C'ebotaryanGayane C'ebotaryanGayane C'ebotaryan was an Armenian composer and musicologist. She was born in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, and graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory.-Works:Selected works include:*Piano Trio...
(1918-1998) - Francesca CacciniFrancesca CacciniFrancesca Caccini was an Italian composer, singer, lutenist, poet, and music teacher of the early Baroque era. She was the daughter of Giulio Caccini, and was one of the best-known and most influential female European composers between Hildegard of Bingen in the 12th century and the 19th century...
(1587–1640?) - Settimia CacciniSettimia CacciniSettimia Caccini was an Italian composer and singer. She was the youngest daughter of composer Giulio Caccini and singer Lucia Gagnolanti. Her mother died when she was very young. She was the sister of Francesca Caccini, also a composer and singer, and Pompeo Caccini, a singer...
(1591–1638?) - Geneviève CalameGeneviève CalameGeneviève Calame was a Swiss pianist, music educator and composer.-Life:Geneviève Calame was born in Geneva of Greco-Italian ancestry, and studied the piano in Geneva with Lottie Morel and then in Rome with Guido Agosti. She continued her education in Geneva with Louis Hiltbrand and Jacques Guyonnet...
(1946–1993) - Maria Cattarina CalegariMaria Cattarina CalegariCornelia [Maria Cattarina ] Calegari , was an Italian composer, singer, organist, and nun. She was revered for her singing talents in her home city and became a published composer in 1659, at the age of 15, with the release of her book of motets, Motetti ὰ voce sola.Cornelia was born at Bergamo...
(1644–1675) - Eugenia CalossoEugenia CalossoEugenia Calosso was an Italian conductor and composer. She was born in Turin, Piedmont, and studied composition with Giovanni Cravero. She began her career as a conductor at the Casino Municipale in San Remo and continued concert tours of Europe until 1914.Calosso wrote madrigals, lieder,...
(1878–1914) - Francesca CampanaFrancesca CampanaFrancesca Campana was a Roman singer, spinet player and composer. She was born in Rome, thought to be the daughter of Andrea Campana, wife of the composer Giovan Carlo Rossi and sister-in-law of Luigi Rossi...
(died 1665) - Virginia Mariani CampolietiVirginia Mariani CampolietiVirginia Mariani Campolieti was an Italian pianist, orchestra conductor and composer. She was born in Genoa, Italy, and studied piano at the Liceo Musicale Rossini in Pesaro with Mario Vitale and Luigi Torchi, graduating in 1892. She conducted some of her opera performances.-Works:Campolieti...
(1869–1941) - Marguerite CanalMarguerite CanalMarguerite Canal was a French conductor, music educator and composer. She was born in Toulouse into a musical family, and her father introduced her to music and poetry...
(1890–1978) - Marta CanalesMarta CanalesMarta Canales Pizarro was a Chilean violinist, choral conductor and composer. She was born in Santiago and made her debut as a violinist at age eleven playing Mendelssohn's "Concerto". With her brothers, she founded a chamber ensemble that was active from 1916-1920...
(1893–1986) - Edith Canat de ChizyÉdith Canat de ChizyEdith Canat de Chizy is a French composer. She was born in Lyon, and studied art, archeology and philosophy at the Sorbonne University and then music at the Paris Conservatoire with Maurice Ohana and Ivo Malec...
(born 1950) - Julie Candeille (1767–1834)
- Constança CapdevilleConstança CapdevilleConstança Capdeville was a Portuguese pianist, percussionist, music educator and composer. She was born in Barcelona and lived in the village of Caxias as a child, writing piano compositions at an early age...
(1937–1992) - Matilde CapuisMatilde CapuisMatilde Margherita Mary Capuis is an Italian organist, pianist, music educator and composer. She was born in Naples and studied in Venice with Gabriele Bianchi and at the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory in Florence. After completing her studies, she took a position at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi...
(born 1913) - Wendy CarlosWendy CarlosWendy Carlos is an American composer and electronic musician. Carlos first came to notice in the late 1960s with recordings made on the Moog synthesizer, then a relatively new and unknown instrument; most notable were LPs of synthesized Bach and the soundtrack for Stanley Kubrick's film A...
(born 1939) - Mary Grant CarmichaelMary Grant CarmichaelMary Grant Carmichael was an English composer. She was born in Birkenhead near Liverpool, and may have been of Irish parentage. She was educated in France and Switzerland later studied music in Munich. After completing her education, she worked as a pianist and accompanist and died in...
(1851–1935) - Ann Carr-BoydAnn Carr-BoydAnn Carr–Boyd is an Australian classical composer and musicologist. She is considered an authority on the history of European music in Australia.-Biography:...
(born 1938) - Teresa CarreñoTeresa CarreñoMaría Teresa Carreño García de Sena was a Venezuelan pianist, singer, composer, and conductor.Born into a musical family, she was at first taught by her father, then by Mathias, Louis Moreau Gottschalk and Anton Rubinstein and her talent was recognized at an early age...
(1853–1917) - Dinorá de CarvalhoDinorá de CarvalhoDinorá Gontijo de Carvalho was a Brazilian pianist, conductor, music educator and composer.-Life:Dinorá de Carvalho was born in Uberaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and began her study of piano at the Conservatorio Musical in São Paulo at age six with Maria Lacaz Machado and Carlino Crescenzo...
(1905–1980) - Doreen CarwithenDoreen CarwithenDoreen Mary Carwithen was a British composer of classical and film music. She was also known as Mary Alwyn.-Biography:...
(1922–2003) - Ernestina Lecuona CasadoErnestina Lecuona CasadoErnestina Lecuona y Casado was a Cuban pianist, music educator and composer.-Life:Ernestina Lecuona y Casado was born in Matanzas into a musical family. Her brother was pianist and composer Ernesto Lecuona and Leo Brouwer was her grandson...
(1882–1951) - Luisa CasagemasLuisa CasagemasLuisa Casagemas y Coll was a Spanish violinist, singer and composer. She was born in Barcelona and studied composition with Francisco Gavanch and violin with Agustin Torello...
(1863–after 1894) - Felicita CasellaFelicita CasellaFelicita Casella née Lacombe was an Italian singer and composer of French birth. She was born at Bourges, the sister of Louis Lacombe...
(c. 1820–after 1865) - Lola CastegnaroLola CastegnaroLola Castegnaro was a Costa Rican conductor, composer and music educator. She was born in San José, Costa Rica, and studied music with her father, Italian-born composer Alvise Castegnaro. She continued her studies at the Verdi Conservatory in Milan and the Academia Filarmonica in Bologna...
(1900–1979) - CastellozaCastellozaNa Castelloza was a noblewoman and trobairitz from Auvergne. According to her later vida, she was the wife of Turc de Mairona, probably the lord of Meyronne. Turc's ancestors had participated in a Crusade around 1210 or 1220, which was the origin of his name...
(fl. early 13th century) - Graciela CastilloGraciela CastilloGraciela Castillo is an Argentine electroacoustic composer. She was born in Córdoba, Argentina. In the mid 1960s, she was among a group of composers that created the Experimental Music Center at the National University of Córdoba...
(born 1940) - Eve de Castro-RobinsonEve de Castro-RobinsonEve de Castro-Robinson is a New Zealand composer and graphic designer. She studied at the University of Auckland, where she graduated in 1991 and took a position as Senior Lecturer in Composition at the same university....
(born 1956) - Maddalena CasulanaMaddalena CasulanaMaddalena Casulana was an Italian composer, lutenist and singer of the late Renaissance. She is the first female composer to have music printed and published in the history of western music.-Life and work:...
(c.1540–c.1590) - Amalia CatharinaAmalia CatharinaAmalia Catharina , Countess of Erbach, was a German poet and composer. She was born in Arolsen to Count Philipp Theodor von Waldeck and the Countess of Nassau. In 1664 she married Count Georg Ludwig von Erbach. She published a number of Pietist poems and songs in Hildburghausen in 1692. They were...
(1640–1697) - Eunice Catunda (1915-1991)
- Gabriella CecchiGabriella CecchiGabriella Cecchi is an Italian pianist, music educator and composer. She was born in Ricco del Golfo, La Spezia, and began her study of music at the age of 16. She studied in Lucca, Genoa and composition with Franco Donatoni at the Chigiana Music Academy in Siena.After completing her studies,...
(born 1944) - Monic Cecconi-BotellaMonic Cecconi-BotellaMonic Gabrielle Cecconi-Botella is a French pianist, music educator and composer. She was born in Courbevoie and studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Maurice Durufle, Jean Rivier and Henri Dutilleux...
(born 1936) - Julia CenovaJulia TsenovaJulia Tsenova , born in Sofia, Bulgaria, was an award-winning Bulgarian composer, pianist and musical pedagogue. She died of cancer at the age of 61.-Life and career:...
(1948–2010) - Sulpitia CesisSulpitia CesisSulpitia Cesis was born in 1577 in Modena, Italy. She was an Italian composer as well as a well-regarded lutanist. Her father was Count Annibale Cesis and he gave 300 pieces of gold for her dowry upon entering the Augustian convent in Modena in 1593. She was a nun at the convent of Saint Geminiano...
(fl.FloruitFloruit , abbreviated fl. , is a Latin verb meaning "flourished", denoting the period of time during which something was active...
1619) - Wendy Mae ChambersWendy Mae ChambersWendy Mae Chambers is an American composer, currently living in Harvey Cedars, New Jersey. Chambers studied at Barnard College from 1971 to 1975, where she received her B.A. in music, and where she studied with Kenneth Cooper, Nicholas Roussakis, Jack Beeson and Charles Wuorinen. She earned her M.A...
(born 1953) - Cécile ChaminadeCécile ChaminadeCécile Louise Stéphanie Chaminade was a French composer and pianist.-Biography:Born in Paris, she studied at first with her mother, then with Félix Le Couppey, Marie Gabriel Augustin Savard, Martin Pierre Marsick and Benjamin Godard, but not officially, since her father disapproved of her musical...
(1857–1944) - Nancy Laird ChanceNancy Laird ChanceNancy Laird Chance is an American pianist and composer. She studied at Bryn Mawr College from 1949–50 and Columbia University from 1959-67 with Vladimir Ussachevsky, Otto Luening and Chou Wen-chung....
(born 1931) - Janine CharbonnierJanine CharbonnierJanine Charbonnier is a French pianist, composer and pioneer in composer-generated music. She was born in Paris, and married writer Georges Charbonnier....
(born 1926) - Isabelle de CharrièreIsabelle de CharrièreIsabelle de Charrière , known as Belle van Zuylen in the Netherlands and Madame de Charrière elsewhere, is a Dutch writer of the Enlightenment who lived the latter half of her life in Switzerland. She is now best known for her letters although she also wrote novels, pamphlets, music and plays...
(1740–1805) - Gayane Chebotarian (1918–1998)
- Maria Chefaliady-TabanMaria Chefaliady-TabanMaria Chefaliady-Taban was a Romanian pianist, music educator and composer. She was born in Iaşi and studied at the Iaşi Conservatory with Anetta Boscoff...
(1863–1932) - Yekaterina ChemberdzhiYekaterina ChemberdzhiYekaterina Chemberdzhi is a Russian pianist and composer. She was born in Moscow and began her study of music at age 7...
(born 1960) - Unsuk ChinUnsuk ChinUnsuk Chin , is a South Korean composer of classical music, based in Berlin, Germany. She was awarded the Grawemeyer Award in 2004 and the Arnold Schönberg Prize in 2005.- Biography :...
(born 1961) - Geghuni Hovannesi ChitchianGeghuni Hovannesi ChitchianGeghuni Hovannesi Chitchian is an Armenian composer. She was born in Leninakan and studied at the Tchaikovsky Music School in Yerevan. She continued her studies in composition with Grigor Yeghiazarian at the Komitas Conservatory from 1947–53....
(born 1929) - Hedwige ChrétienHedwige ChrétienHedwige -Chrétien was a French composer. She was appointed a music professor at the Paris Conservatoire in 1889 where she had previously been a student from 1874, studying with Ernest Guiraud. In 1881, she won first prize in harmony, counterpoint and fugue...
(1859–1944) - Tatyana ChudovaTatyana ChudovaTatyana Alexeyevna Chudova is a Russian composer. She was born in Moscow and studied at the Central Music School in Moscow and then at the Moscow Conservatory. After completing her studies, she took a teaching position at the Conservatory. On June 21, 2007, she was awarded the title of...
(born 1944) - Suzanne CianiSuzanne CianiSuzanne Ciani is an Italian American pianist and music composer who found early success with innovative electronic music.-Education:...
(born 1946) - Catherina Cibbini-KozeluchCatherina Cibbini-KozeluchCatherina Maria Leopoldina Cibbini-Kozeluch was an Austrian pianist and composer of Bohemian ancestry. She was born in Vienna, the daughter of prominent pianist and music publisher Jan Antonín Koželuh. She studied music with her father and also with Muzio Clementi...
(1785–1858) - Maya Ciobanu (born 1952)
- Dolores ClamanDolores ClamanDolores Claman is a Canadian composer and pianist. She is best known for composing the theme song, known simply as The Hockey Theme, for Hockey Night in Canada, a song often regarded as Canada's second national anthem, which she composed in 1968, and for "A Place to Stand", the popular tune that...
(born 1927) - Zana ClarkeZana ClarkeZana Clarke is an Australian composer. She studied recorder with Ruth Wilkinson and Hans Dieter Michatz and violin with Anne Martoni and Marco Van Pagge, and began to play in youth orchestras at age 12...
(born 1965) - Laura ClaytonLaura ClaytonLaura Clayton is an American pianist and composer. She was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and studied at the Peabody Conservatory and at Columbia University, New York, with Mario Davidovsky. She began studying composition with Darius Milhaud at the Aspen Music School and graduated with Master of...
(born 1943) - Marie-Elizabeth CléryMarie-Elizabeth CléryMarie-Elizabeth Cléry née Du Verger or Du Verge was a French harpist and composer. She was probably born in Paris and became a harpist in the court of Marie-Antoinette...
(1761–after 1795) - Judith Ann Clingan (born 1945)
- Adrienne ClostreAdrienne ClostreAdrienne Clostre was a French composer. She was born in Thomery, Seine-et-Marne, and studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Yves Nat, Darius Milhaud, Jean Rivier and Oliver Messiaen....
(1921-2006) - Gloria CoatesGloria CoatesGloria Coates is an American composer who has moved to, and has subsequently been living in Munich, Germany since 1969...
(born 1938) - Maria Rosa CocciaMaria Rosa CocciaMaria Rosa Coccia was an Italian harpsichordist and composer.-Life:Maria Rosa Coccia was born in Rome and studied with Sante Pesci. At the age of 13, Coccia composed six sonatas for harpsichord and the oratory Daniello, which was performed the same year in the Oratory S...
(1759–1833) - Rhoda CoghillRhoda CoghillRhoda Coghill was an Irish poet, pianist and composer. She was born in Dublin and studied with Patricia Read in the Leinster School of Music. She continued her studies with Arthur Schnabel in Berlin...
(1903–2000) - Isabella ColbranIsabella ColbranIsabella Colbran was a Spanish opera singer, who was known in her native country as Isabel Colbrandt. Many sources note her as a dramatic coloratura soprano but, some believe that she was a mezzo-soprano with a high extension, a soprano sfogato...
(1785–1845) - Ulric ColeUlric ColeFrances Ulric Cole was an American pianist, editor, music educator and composer. She was born in New York and studied at the Institute of Musical Arts in New York, at Juilliard and in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. After completing her education she worked as a music teacher and as an editor for Time...
(1905–1992) - Ellen ColemanEllen ColemanEllen Coleman was an English conductor and composer.-Works:*Poem*Cloud and Quietude*The Conquered*The Merry-go-round*String Quartet*Harpsichord Sonata*Piano Quartet...
(1886–1973) - Avril Coleridge-TaylorAvril Coleridge-TaylorGwendolyn Avril Coleridge-Taylor was an English pianist, conductor, and composer.-Biography:She was born in South Norwood, London, the daughter of composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. She wrote her first composition, Goodbye Butterfly, at the age of twelve...
(born 1903) - Jeanne Colin-De ClerckJeanne Colin-De ClerckJeanne Albertine Colin-De Clerck is a Belgian composer who also uses the name Jeanne Colin. She was born in Brussels, Belgium, and studied at Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels. After completing her education, she began to compose without formal instruction...
(born 1924) - Comtessa de Dia (more commonly as Beatriz de Dia, fl. late 12th/early 13th centuries)
- Allison Collins (Allison Danielle) (born 1992)
- Graziella ConcasGraziella ConcasGraziella Concas is an Italian pianist and composer.- Biography and career :She started studying piano at the age of five. Later she studied piano under Franca Zinghinì-Spinnicchia at the Catania Musical Institute ‘Vincenzo Bellini’, and composition under Angela Giuffrida...
(born 1970) - Sylvia ConstantinidisSylvia ConstantinidisSylvia Constantinidis is a Venezuelan-American pianist, conductor, writer, music educator and composer.-Life:Sylvia Constantinidis was born in Venezuela of European ancestry and began her study of music at an early age in Caracas, Venezuela...
(born 1962) - Peggy Stuart CoolidgePeggy Stuart CoolidgePeggy Stuart Coolidge was an American composer and conductor. She was one of the first female American composers to have a recording devoted to her symphonic works, and the first American composer to have a concert devoted entirely to her works presented in the Soviet Union...
(1913–1981) - Adriana Cordovez (born 1970)
- Eleanor CoryEleanor CoryEleanor Cory is an American composer.Cory studied at Sarah Lawrence College, Harvard University, New England Conservatory, and Columbia University...
(born 1943) - Monica CosachovMónica CosachovMonica Cosachov is an Argentine harpsichordist, pianist and composer. She also serves as a visiting professor at universities and research centers internationally.-Background:...
(born 1946) - Micheline Coulombe Saint-MarcouxMicheline Coulombe Saint-MarcouxMicheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux was a Canadian composer and music educator who played an important role in the contemporary classical music scene of Canada and France from the late 1960s through the mid 1980s...
(1938–1985) - Jean CoulthardJean CoulthardJean Coulthard, was a Canadian composer and music educator. She was part of a trio of women composers who dominated Western Canadian music in the twentieth century: Coulthard, Barbara Pentland, and Violet Archer. All three died within weeks of each other in 2000...
(1908–2000) - Mildred CouperMildred CouperMildred Couper , prominent American composer and pianist, was one of the first musicians to experiment with quarter-tone music. She was based in Santa Barbara, California, but her music and influence were felt around the world...
(1887–1974) - Chiara Margarita CozzolaniChiara Margarita CozzolaniChiara Margarita Cozzolani , was a composer, singer and Benedictine nun. She spent her adult life cloistered in the convent of Santa Radegonda, Milan, where she became abbess and stopped composing...
(1602–1678) - Anna CramerAnna CramerAnna M. Cramer was a Dutch composer. She was born in Amsterdam and studied at the Conservatory of Music in Amsterdam. After graduating in 1897, she studied composition in Germany with Wilhelm Berger and Max von Schillings. After completing her studies she worked as a composer and had several works...
(1873–1968) - Zulema de la CruzZulema de La CruzMaria Zulema de la Cruz Castillejo is a Spanish pianist and composer.-Life:Zulema de la Cruz was born in Madrid and studied at the Madrid Conservatory for piano and composition and Stanford University in California for composition and computer music, with professors including Carmelo Bernaola and...
(b.1958) - Chaya CzernowinChaya CzernowinChaya Czernowin is an Israeli composer, and Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music at Harvard University....
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- Melanie Ruth DaikenMelanie Ruth DaikenMelanie Ruth Daiken is an English composer and music educator. She was born in London, the daughter of a Russian-Jewish writer from Ireland. She began violin lessons at an early age, and studied piano and composition at the Royal Academy of Music, the University of Ghana and the Paris...
(born 1945) - Nancy DalbergNancy DalbergNancy Dalberg was a Danish composer.Dalberg grew up on the Danish island of Funen where she learned to play the piano. Her father, a well-off industrialist, refused her wish to study at the Royal Conservatory in Copenhagen and in the end she took private composition lessons from Johan Svendsen,...
(1881–1949) - Kathleen Dale (1895–1984)
- Eleanor Joanne DaleyEleanor Joanne DaleyEleanor Joanne Daley is a Canadian composer, organist, and accompanist.Her best known works are The Rose Trilogy, Requiem and In Remembrance. Daley holds a Bachelor Degree in Organ Performance from Queens University in Kingston, and holds multiple diplomas in piano and organ...
(born 1955) - Dame Margot (fl. 13th century) (see: Dames Margot and MaroieDames Margot and MaroieDame Maroie was a trouvères from Arras, in Picardy, France. She debates Dame Margot in a jeu parti, or debate song, "Je vous pri, dame Maroie." This song survives in two manuscripts, which each give separate and unrelated melodies...
) - Dame Maroie (fl. 13th century) (see: Dames Margot and MaroieDames Margot and MaroieDame Maroie was a trouvères from Arras, in Picardy, France. She debates Dame Margot in a jeu parti, or debate song, "Je vous pri, dame Maroie." This song survives in two manuscripts, which each give separate and unrelated melodies...
) - Margarethe DanziMargarethe DanziMargarethe Danzi née Marchand was a German composer and soprano.-Life:Margarethe Marchand was born in Germany. Some sources give her birthplace as Munich and others Mannheim, and it was possible that the family was on tour in Frankfurt on the date of her birth...
(1768–1800) - Tina DavidsonTina Davidson-Background:Davidson was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1952, and was raised in Oneonta, New York and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She received her BA in piano and composition from Bennington College in 1976 where she studied with Henry Brant, Louis Calabro, Vivian Fine and Lionel Nowak.She founded the...
(born 1952) - Katherine K. DavisKatherine K. DavisKatherine Kennicott Davis was a composer, pianist, and author of the famous Christmas tune "The Little Drummer Boy".-Biography:...
(1892–1980) - Miss DavisMiss DavisMiss Davis was a composer who lived and worked in Dublin, Ireland. She wrote and performed her own songs, none of which survive.-References:...
(c. 1726–after 1755) - Mme DelavalMme DelavalMme. Delaval or Madame De La Valle was English harpist, pianist and composer. She was born into the Delaval family of Seaton Delaval, Northumberland, and studied the harp with J.B. Krumpholtz in Paris. She was employed by Johann Peter Salomon at for concerts at Hanover Square in London in 1790 and...
(fl. 1791–1802) - Claire DelbosClaire DelbosClaire Delbos was a French violinist and composer, and first wife of the composer Olivier Messiaen.-Biography:...
(1906–1959) - Carmelina DelfinCarmelina DelfinCarmelina Delfin was a Cuban composer and pianist. Delfin was born in Havana and in the 1920s performed as a soloist with Ernesto Lecuona in his Ernesto Lecuona Symphonic Orchestra...
(c. 1900–after 1948) - Eva Dell'AcquaEva Dell'AcquaEva Dell'Acqua was a Belgian singer and composer of Italian ancestry.-Biography:Eva Dell'Acqua was born in 1856 in Brussels, Belgium, and was the daughter of the Italian painter Cesare Dell'Acqua...
(1856–1930) - Sophia DellaportaSophia DellaportaSophia Dellaporta was a Greek composer. She published a musical titled Recueil in Leipzig in 1877, including eight songs.-References:...
(fl. second half of the 19th century) - Hélène-Louise DemarsHélène-Louise DemarsHélène-Louise Demars was a French composer. Her cantata L'oroscope was dedicated to Mademoiselle de Soubise of the Rohan family and performed in November of 1748. Text of the cantata was printed in the Mercure de France the next year....
(b. c. 1736) - Jeanne DemessieuxJeanne DemessieuxJeanne Marie-Madeleine Demessieux , was a French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue.-Biography:...
(1921–1968) - Beth DenischBeth DenischBeth Denisch is an American composer. She received a Bachelor of Music degree from North Texas State University in Denton, TX, and an MM and a DMA from Boston University, where her teachers in composition were John Harbison and Bernard Rands. She has taught at UMass Dartmouth, and Northeastern...
(b. 1958) - Lady Mary DeringLady Mary DeringLady Mary Dering was an English composer. She was daughter of Daniel Harvey of Combe, Croydon, Surrey, a turkey merchant in London Lady Mary Dering (née Harvey) (bap. 3 September 1629 – 7 February 1704) was an English composer. She was daughter of Daniel Harvey of Combe, Croydon, Surrey, a...
(1629–1704) - Marcelle DeschênesMarcelle DeschênesMarcelle Deschênes-Harvey née Price is a Canadian multi-media artist, music educator and composer.-Life:Marcelle Price was born near Rimouski, Quebec. She graduated with a bachelor's and master's degree from the University of Montreal, studying from 1963-67 with Jean Papineau-Couture and Serge...
(born 1939) - Yvonne DesportesYvonne DesportesYvonne Desportes was a French writer and composer. She was born in Coburg, Germany, and studied with Noel and Jean Galton, Maurice Emmanuel, Paul Dukas and Marcel Dupre at the Paris Conservatory. She won the Prix de Rome in 1932 and lived in Rome from 1933-37. In 1943 she returned to Paris where...
(1907–1993) - Jeanne-Hippolyte DevismesJeanne-Hippolyte DevismesJeanne-Hippolyte Devismes was a French composer. She studied the piano with Daniel Steibelt and married the director of the Académie Royale de Musique , Anne-Pierre-Jacques Devismes du Valgay...
(1765-?1834) - Jody DiamondJody DiamondJody Diamond is an American composer, performer, writer, publisher, editor, and educator. She specializes in traditional and new music for Indonesian gamelan and is active internationally as a scholar, performer, and publisher.-Biography:She received a B.A. from the University of California,...
(born 1953) - Hilda DiandaHilda DiandaHilda Fanny Dianda is an Argentine composer, musicologist, music educator, conductor and music writer.-Life:Hilda Dianda was born in Córdoba, Argentina. She began her musical studies with Honorio Siccardi in Buenos Aires and continued with Gian Francesco Malipiero in Venice...
(born 1925) - Ellen DicksonEllen DicksonEllen Dickson was an English composer who also used the pseudonym Dolores Dickson. She was born in Woolwich, England and died in Lyndhurst, England.-Works:Dickson composed mainly parlor music...
(1819–1878) - Emma Lou DiemerEmma Lou DiemerEmma Lou Diemer is an American composer. Diemer has written many works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, keyboard, voice, chorus , and electronic media...
(born 1927) - Consuelo DíezConsuelo Díez-Life:Consuelo Díez was born in Madrid, Spain, and studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid with Anton Garcia Abril and Roman Alis. She also studied art history at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and graduated with a Master of Arts from Hartt School of Music and a Doctorate in...
(born 1958) - Fannie Charles DillonFannie Charles DillonFannie Charles Dillon was an American pianist, music educator and composer.-Life:she was born in Denver, Colorado...
(1881–1974) - Violeta DinescuVioleta DinescuVioleta Dinescu is a Romanian composer, pianist and professor, living in Germany since 1982.-Romania:Violeta Dinescu began her studies of music in 1972 at the conservatory Ciprian Porumbescu in Bucharest, composition with Myriam Marbe. In 1978 she received her master's degree, with distinction...
(born 1953) - Lucia DlugoszewskiLucia DlugoszewskiLucia Dlugoszewski was a Polish-American composer, performer and inventor. She created over a hundred musical instruments, including the timbre piano, a sort of prepared piano in which hammers and keys were replaced with bows and plectra.-Background and early years:The daughter of Polish...
(1931–2000) - Felicia DonceanuFelicia Donceanu-Life:Donceanu was born in Bacău. She originally planned to be a stage director, but became interested in music and studied composition at the Ciprian Porumbescu Conservatory in Bucharest with Mihail Jora. After completing her studies in 1956, she worked as an editor for ESPLA until 1958, and then...
(born 1931) - Dora DraganovaDora Draganova-Life:Dora Draganova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, the daughter of composer Illya Draganov. She studied composition at the State Academy of Music with Parashkev Hadjiev and Vesselin Stoyanov. After graduating in 1972, she taught piano at the Lyubomir Pipkov National Music High School and harmony at...
(born 1946) - Madeleine DringMadeleine DringMadeleine Winefride Isabelle Dring was an English composer and actress.-Life:Madeleine Dring was born into a musical family. Growing up in Raleigh Road, Harringay, she showed talent at an early age and took lessons in the junior division of the Royal College of Music beginning on her tenth birthday...
(1923–1977) - Annette von Droste-HülshoffAnnette von Droste-HülshoffAnna Elisabeth von Droste-Hülshoff, known as Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , was a 19th century German author, and one of the most important German poets.-Biography:...
(1797–1848) - Leonora DuarteLeonora DuarteLeonora Duarte was a Flemish composer and musician, born in Antwerp. She belonged to a wealthy Portuguese-Jewish family. They were marrano, meaning they outwardly acted as Catholics while secretly maintaining their Jewish faith and practices...
(1610–1678) - María Enma Botet DuboisMaría Enma Botet DuboisMaría Enma Botet Dubois was a Cuban pianist, composer and music educator. She was born in Matanzas and studied music with Hubert de Blanck and Joaquin Nin. After completing her studies, she taught music at the Hubert de Blanck Conservatory and the Amadeo Roldan Conservatory in Havana...
(1903-?) - Pauline DuchambgePauline DuchambgePauline Duchambge née de Montet was a French pianist and composer. Antoinette-Pauline de Montet was born into a wealthy family in Martinique, West Indies. She lived for a while in a convent but left in 1792 and married the Baron Duchambge in 1796. Both her parents died in 1798...
(1778–1858) - Sophie Elisabeth, Duchess of Brunswick-LüneburgSophie Elisabeth, Duchess of Brunswick-LüneburgElisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg was a German poet and composer. She began studying music at the court of her father, Duke Johann Albrecht of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, where there was an orchestra known for its use of fine English musicians, such as William Brade...
(1613–1676) - Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1739–1807)
- Anne DudleyAnne DudleyAnne Dudley is an English composer and pop musician, and was the first BBC Concert Orchestra's Composer in Association in 2001. She has worked in both the classical and pop genres. She is perhaps best known, however, as one of the core members of the synthpop band Art of Noise and also as a film...
(born 1956) - Katerina Veronika Anna DusíkovaKaterina Veronika Anna DusíkovaKaterina Veronika Anna Dusíkova was a Bohemian singer, harpist, pianist and composer. She was also known as Veronika Rosalia Dusik , Veronika Elisabeta Dusikova and Veronica Cianchettini. She was born in Caslav, Bohemia, and began her studies in music with her organist father Jan Josef Dusik...
(1769–1833) - Sophia Corri Dussek (1775–1847)
- Mlle DuvalMlle DuvalMlle. Duval was a French composer who composed her first opera at age eighteen. Her first name is unknown. A letter to the Journal des nouvelles de Paris in 1736 reported she was known by the name La Légende because she was an illegitimate child, possibly indicating that Duval was a stage name,...
(1718–after 1775) - Judith DvorkinJudith DvorkinJudith Dvorkin is an American composer and librettist. She also uses the pseudonym Judy Spencer. Dvorkin was born in New York and studied music at Barnard College with Otto Luening and at Columbia University with Luening and Elliot Carter...
(born c. 1927) - Lesya Dychko (born 1939)
- Maria DziewulskaMaria DziewulskaMaria Amelia Dziewulska was a Polish composer, music theoretician and music educator. She was born in Warsaw and studied music theory at the State Conservatoire in Warsaw from 1928 to 1933 with Kazimierz Sikorski. She studied special effects for radio, film and recording in London and worked as a...
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- Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté (1901–1974)
- Clara EdwardsClara Edwards (composer)Clara Edwards was an American singer, pianist, and composer of art songs. She also used the pseudonym Bernard Haigh.-Biography:...
(1880–1974) - Fredrikke EgebergFredrikke EgebergFredrikke Egeberg was a Norwegian pianist and composer.Annichen Fredrikke Sophie Egeberg was born in Christiania of parents Westye Egeberg and Anna Sophie Muus . Her family was wealthy through her father's lumber company, and Egeberg was the youngest of nine children and the only daughter...
(1815–1861) - Katharine Emily EggarKatharine Emily EggarKatharine Emily Eggar was an English pianist and composer. Eggar was born and died in London, England, the daughter of Thomas Eggar and Katherine MacDonald. With singer Gertrude Eaton and musicologist Marion M. Scott, she founded the Society of Women Musicians in London in 1911...
(1874–1961) - Margriet EhlenMargriet EhlenMargriet Ehlen is a Dutch poet and a composer, conductor and educator of classical music.-Life and career:She has composed for a large variety of instruments, yet is particularly active in composition for voice. These works extend from solo vocalists to choir music. Many of her compositions for...
(born 1943) - Jean Eichelberger IveyJean Eichelberger IveyJean Eichelberger Ivey was an American composer who produced an extensive and diverse catalog of works in virtually every medium, including solo, chamber, vocal, orchestral, in addition to being a, "respected electronic composer." Her music has been frequently represented on the programs of major...
(born 1923) - Adelheid Maria EichnerAdelheid Maria EichnerAdelheid Maria Eichner was a German composer. She was the daughter and only child of the bassoonist and composer Ernst Eichner and his wife Maria Magdalena Ritter.-References:...
(1762–1787) - Maija EinfeldeMaija Einfelde-Biography:Maija Einfelde was born in Valmiera, Latvia, and began her music studies with her mother who was a church organist. She continued her education at Alfreds Kalnins Music School in Cēsis, at Jazeps Medins Music College in Riga, and then entered the Conservatoire of Latvia in 1966, studying...
(born 1939) - Karólína EiríksdóttirKarólína EiríksdóttirKarólína Eiríksdóttir is an Icelandic composer.-Biography:Karólína was born in Reykjavík, Iceland, and studied piano as a child. She later studied composition at the Reykjavik College of Music with Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson and at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor with George Wilson, Leslie...
(born 1951) - Michelle EkizianMichelle EkizianMichelle Ekizian is an American composer of Armenian heritage.-Life:Michelle Ekizian was born in Bronxville, New York. She graduated with a bachelor's degree from the Manhattan School of Music and a master's degree from Columbia University, having studied with Chou Wen-chung, Mario Davidovsky,...
(born 1956) - Eleonora EksanishviliEleonora EksanishviliEleonora Grigor'yevna Eksanishvili is a Georgian pianist, music educator and composer. Examples of her compositions are two children's opera, a Concerto for piano and orchestra, and a Piano Quintet...
(born 1919) - Irina ElchevaIrina ElchevaIrina Mikhaylovna Elcheva is a Russian composer. She completed the opera Spartak in 1962.-References:...
(born 1926) - Rosalind Frances Ellicott (1857–1924)
- Dilys Elwyn-EdwardsDilys Elwyn-EdwardsDilys Elwyn-Edwards [nee Roberts]. Contemporary composer, lecturer and accompanist, born in Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales, United Kingdom.- Biography :...
(born 1918) - Katerina EmingerováKateřina EmingerováCatherine Emingerová was a Czech composer, pianist, and music educator. She was also a prolific music writer and journalist, producing numerous books, essays, reviews and articles on music.-Biography:...
(1856–1934) - Heimo ErbseHeimo ErbseHeimo Erbse was a German composer from Rudolstadt.Erbse studied in Weimar, and then worked from 1947-1950 in the theater before studying under Blacher in 1950. He lived most of his life in Austria.- Works :...
(born 1924) - Susanne Erding-SwiridoffSusanne Erding-Swiridoff-Biography:Susanne Erding was born in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany. She studied composition and music education with Milko Kelemen at the State Academy of Music in Stuttgart. In 1977 she graduated in British and American studies and drama theory from the University of Stuttgart, and in 1981 in...
(born 1955) - Siegrid ErnstSiegrid ErnstSiegrid Ernst is a German pianist, music educator and composer.-Biography:Siegrid Ernst was born in Ludwigshafen am Rhein and studied piano, violin and music theory as a child...
(born 1929) - Pozzi EscotPozzi EscotPozzi Escot is an American composer and faculty member at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts....
(born 1933) - María EscribanoMaría EscribanoMaría Escribano was a Spanish composer.-Biography:María Escribano was born in Madrid, Spain. She studied piano and composition at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid with Antón García Abril and Roman Alis...
(1954-2002) - Reena EsmailReena EsmailReena Esmail is an American pianist and composer.-Biography:Esmail was born in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated with a bachelor's degree from The Juilliard School, studying composition with Susan Botti, Christopher Rouse and Samuel Adler...
(born 1983) - Margaret EssexMargaret EssexMargaret Essex was an English composer of chamber and vocal music. Timothy Essex was her brother.An example of her compositions is "The Butterfly", published in The first solos: songs by women composers. Volume I: high voice. from Bryn Mawr, PA: Hildegard Publishing Company, c2000.-References:...
(1775–1807) - Florence Maude EwartFlorence Maude EwartFlorence Maude Ewart was an English violinist, music educator and composer who lived and worked in Australia.-Biography:...
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- Rolande FalcinelliRolande FalcinelliRolande Falcinelli was a French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue.-Biography:Rolande Falcinelli entered the Paris Conservatory in 1932, where her teachers were noted pianist and pedagogue Isidor Philipp and Abel Estyle , Marcel Samuel-Rousseau , Simone Plé Caussade , Henri Büsser , and...
(1920–2006) - Evelyn FaltisEvelyn Faltis-Life:Evelyn Faltis was born in Trautenau, Bohemia, in 1887, the second of three daughters of Carl Johann and Maria Anna Cecilia Magdalena Faltis who were Viennese bourgeoisie...
(1887–1937) - Eibhlis FarrellEibhlis Farrell-Life:Eibhlis Farrell was born in Rostrevor in County Down, Northern Ireland. She began writing music at an early age and studied at Queen's University, Belfast, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Music, and with Raymond Warren at Bristol University, graduating with a Masters in composition...
(born 1953) - Louise FarrencLouise FarrencLouise Farrenc was a French composer, virtuosa pianist and teacher. Born Jeanne-Louise Dumont in Paris, she was the daughter of Jacques-Edme Dumont, a successful sculptor, and sister to Auguste Dumont.-Biography:...
(1804–1875) - Zanetta FarussiZanetta FarussiZanetta Farussi, or Maria Giovanna Farussi , was an Italian actress, opera singer and composer. She was the mother of Giacomo Casanova....
(1707-1776) - Hélène-Frédérique de Faye-JozinHélène-Frédérique de Faye-JozinHélène-Frédérique de Faye-Jozin was a French composer. She was born in Saint Brieuc and died in Côtes-d'Armor.-Works:Selected works include:*1906 Cantilène, Opus 30, duo*1922 Suite Sylvestre, suite...
(1871–1942) (name often abbreviated as Fréd. de Faye-Jozin) - Sarah FeiginSarah FeiginSarah Feigin is a Latvian music educator and composer who lives and works in Israel.She was born in Latvia, and studied piano and composition at the Riga Conservatory of Music, graduating with bachelor's and master's degrees. She moved to Israel in 1972 and founded a Conservatory of Music in Holon...
(born 1928) - Johanne Amalie FengerJohanne Amalie FengerJohanne Amalie Fenger was a Danish composer. She was born in Lynge, the daughter of a clergyman, and died in Copenhagen.-Works:Selected works include:*Digte of Helene*Fem Sange of M. Rosing...
(1836–1913) - Amber FerenzAmber FerenzAmber Ferenz is an American musician, music educator and composer.-Life:Amber Ferenz graduated with a bachelor’s degree in bassoon performance from the North Carolina School of the Arts, and a Master of Fine Arts in orchestral performance from the California Institute of the Arts, and she studied...
(born 1972) - Maria Helena Rosas FernandesMaria Helena Rosas FernandesMaria Helena Rosas Fernandes is a Brazilian composer, pianist, musicologist, conductor and music educator. She was born in Brazos and graduated in piano from the Brazilian Conservatory of Music of Guanabara State in piano and from the Superior School of Music Santa Marcelina in composition and...
(born 1933) - Carlotta FerrariCarlotta FerrariCarlotta Ferrari was an Italian composer noted for opera.-Life:Carlotta Ferrari was born in Lodi, Italy, and studied singing and piano a the Milan Conservatory with Giuseppina Strepponi. Ferrari wrote her first opera Ugo at the age of twenty...
(1837–1907) - Gabrielle FerrariGabrielle FerrariGabrielle Ferrari was French-Italian pianist and composer noted for opera. She was born and died in Paris and studied with Charles Gounod and Théodore Dubois. Her opera Le Cobzar premiered in Monte Carlo.-Works:...
(1851–1921) - Beatriz FerreyraBeatriz Ferreyra-Life:Beatriz Ferreyra was born in Cordoba, Argentina, and studied piano with Celia Bronstein in Buenos Aires. She continued her study of music with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, and Edgardo Canton, Earle Brown and Gyorgy Ligeti in Germany....
(born 1937) - Sylvia FineSylvia FineSylvia Fine was an American lyricist, composer, producer and the wife of the comedian Danny Kaye...
(1913-1991) - Vivian FineVivian FineVivian Fine was an American composer.Over her 70 year career, Vivian Fine became one of America’s most important composers. She wrote virtually without a break for 68 years, producing over 140 works...
(1913–2000) - Mary FinstererMary Finsterer-Life:Mary Finsterer was born in Canberra, Australia, and graduated in 1987 with a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Melbourne. A recipient of the Royal Netherlands Government Award in 1993, she continued her studies in Amsterdam with Louis Andriessen, then returned to Australia and...
(born 1962) - Graciane FinziGraciane Finzi-Life:Graciane Finzi was born in Casablanca, Morocco, and studied music at the Casablanca Conservatory then managed by Georges Friboulet, where her parents were teachers. She entered the Paris Conservatory at age ten, where she studied piano with Joseph Benvenuti and developed an interest in...
(born 1945) - Elena FirsovaElena FirsovaElena Olegovna Firsova is a Russian composer.-Life:She was born in Leningrad into the family of physicists Oleg Firsov and Viktoria Lichko. She studied music in Moscow with Alexander Pirumov, Yuri Kholopov, Edison Denisov and Philip Herschkowitz...
(born 1950) - Helen FisherHelen Fisher (composer)-Life:Helen Fisher grew up in Mapua, Nelson, and attended secondary school in Wellington, New Zealand. She graduated from Canterbury University in 1964 with a degree in English and taught English, music and French in New Zealand and Canadian secondary schools...
(born 1942) - Tsippi FleischerTsippi Fleischer-Life:Tsippi Fleischer was born in Haifa, Israel, of Polish-born parents, and grew up in a mixed Jewish-Arab environment. She studied piano and theory at the Rubin Conservatory of Music and graduated from the Haifa Reali School, later pursuing degrees in music, Hebrew language, Middle Eastern...
(born 1946) - Hélène Fleury-RoyHélène Fleury-RoyHélène Fleury-Gabrielle-Roy was a French composer and the first woman to win the prize for the Prix de Rome composition competition.-Background:...
(b. 1876 d. unknown) - Eliza FlowerEliza FlowerEliza Flower was a British musician and composer. In addition to her own work, Flower became known for her friendships including those with William Johnson Fox, Robert Browning, John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor.-Biography:...
(1803–1846) - Eugénie-Emilie Juliette FolvilleEugénie-Emilie Juliette FolvilleEugénie-Emilie Juliette Folville was a Belgian pianist, violinist, music educator, conductor and composer.-Life:...
(1870–1946) - Jacqueline FontynJacqueline FontynJacqueline Fontyn is a contemporary Belgian composer, pianist and music educator. She was born in Antwerp, and has received the title of baroness from the King of Belgium in recognition of her many artistic contributions.-Background:...
(born 1930) - Annie Fortescue HarrisonAnnie Fortescue HarrisonAnnie Fortescue Harrison was an English composer of songs and piano pieces.In 1877 she married and became known as Lady Arthur Hill.Two of her piano instrumentals are:*The Elfin Waltzes*Our Favourite Galop...
(1851–1944) - Jennifer FowlerJennifer FowlerJennifer Fowler is a British composer of Australian birth. She was born in Bunbury, Australia, and graduated with degrees in music from the University of Western Australia in 1960 and 1967. She spent a year working at the Electronic Music Studios of the University of Utrecht in 1968. In 1969 she...
(born 1939) - Erika FoxErika FoxErika Fox is a British music educator and composer. She was born in Vienna and emigrated to England as a refugee in 1939. She grew up in an Orthodox Jewish home, and studied composition at the Royal Conservatory of Music with Bernard Stevens, Jeremy Dale Roberts and Harrison...
(born 1936) - Kalitha Dorothy FoxKalitha Dorothy FoxKalitha Dorothy Fox was an English composer. Little is known about her, except that she had a viola sonata broadcast from Bournemouth. Selected works include:*Sonata for viola and piano, Op. 7...
(1894–1934) - Ludmila FrajtLudmila FrajtLudmila Frajt is a Serbian composer of Czech descent. She was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and studied music with Miloje Milojevic and Josep Slavenski at the Belgrade Music Academy...
(born 1919) - Dorothea Anne FranchiDorothea Anne FranchiDorothea Anne Franchi was a New Zealand pianist, harpist, music educator and composer. She was born in Auckland, New Zealand, the daughter of Peter Rudolph Franchi, and studied at the University of Auckland and the Royal College of Music in London...
(1920–2003) - Hedy Frank-AutheriedHedy Frank-AutheriedHedy Frank-Autheried was an Austrian composer. She studied music at the Vienna Academy, but was unable to further her education at that time. She married Ferdinand Frank and later studied composition with Camillo Horn. After completing her studies, she worked as a composer. She died in...
(1902–1979) - Joan Franks WilliamsJoan Franks WilliamsJoan Franks Williams was an American composer.-Life:Joan Franks was born in Brooklyn, New York, and studied at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree in 1952...
(born 1930) - Shena FraserShena FraserShena Eleanor Fraser was a Scottish composer who also composed under her married name of Shena Neame and the pseudonym Sebastian Scott...
(1910-1993) - Isadore FreedIsadore FreedIsadore Freed was a Jewish composer of Belarusian birth.-Biography:Born in Brest-Litovsk, now Brest, Belarus, Freed's family emigrated to the United States when Freed was three years old and settled in Philadelphia, where his father owned a music store...
(1900–1960) - Eleanor Everest FreerEleanor Everest FreerEleanor Everest Freer was an American composer and philanthropist.-Life:Eleanor Everest was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of Cornelius Everest and Ellen Amelia Everest, and studied singing in Paris with Mathilde Marchesi and composition with Benjamin Godard...
(1864–1942) - Narcisa FreixasNarcisa FreixasNarcisa Freixas was a Catalan sculptor, painter and composer. She was born in Sabadell, Barcelona, the daughter of Pere Freixas Sabater, and first studied painting and sculpture with Modest Urgell i de Torcuato Tasso. However, she developed an interest in music and began the study of piano with...
(1859–1926) - Ilse Fromm-MichaelsIlse Fromm-MichaelsIlse Fromm-Michaels was a German pianist and composer.-Life:Ilse Fromm-Michaels was born in Hamburg and showed musical talent at an early age. She studied music in Berlin, first at the Hochschule fur Musik with Heinrich van Eyken for composition and with Marie Bender for piano...
(1888–1986) - Susan FrykbergSusan FrykbergSusan Frykberg is a New Zealand music educator and electroacoustic composer.-Life:Susan Frykberg was born in Hastings, New Zealand, and studied at the University of Canterbury...
(born 1954) - Lillian FuchsLillian FuchsLillian Fuchs , an American violist, teacher and composer, is considered to be among the finest instrumentalists of her time. She hailed from a musically talented family: her brothers, Joseph Fuchs, a violinist, and Harry Fuchs, a cellist, performed with her on numerous commercial recordings...
(1901–1995) - Keiko FujiieKeiko FujiieKeiko Fujiie is a Japanese composer born in Kyoto, Japan. She is the daughter of a professor of mathematics in the University of Kyoto and completed postgraduate studies at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Fujiie won the Otaka Prize in 1995 and in 2000 for best symphonic piece of...
(born 1963) - Ellen FullmanEllen FullmanEllen Fullman is a composer, instrument builder, and performer. She was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and is currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area...
(born 1957) - Biancamaria FurgeriBiancamaria FurgeriBiancamaria Furgeri is an Italian organist, music educator and composer.-Life:Biancamaria Fugeri was born in Rovigo, Italy, and studied at the Conservatorio di Padova and in Milan and Venice with Wolfgango Dalla Vecchia, Bruno Coltro, Bruno Bettinelli, Giuseppe Piccioli and Giorgio Federico...
(born 1935) - Jessie FurzeJessie FurzeJessie Lillian Furze was an English composer and pianist. She was born in Wallington, Surrey, and studied at the Royal Academy of Music where she won the Cuthbert Nunn prize for composition. After completing her studies she worked as a music teacher. She married Willem L.F...
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- Virginia GabrielVirginia GabrielMary Anne Virginia Gabriel was an Irish composer. She was also known as Mrs. George E. March.-Life:Virginia Gabriel was born in Banstead, Surrey, England, into an Irish military family. She studied piano with Johann Peter Pixis, Theodor Dohler, Sigismond Thalberg and Bernhard Molique and...
(1825–1877) - Sophie GailSophie GailEdmee Sophie Gail née Garre was a French singer and composer.-Life:Sophie Garre was born in Paris in the parish of Saint Sulpice, the daughter of Marie-Louise Adelaide Colloz and surgeon Claude-Francois Garre . She studied piano as a child and published her first composition, a romance, at the age...
(1775–1819) - Diamanda GalásDiamanda GalásDiamanda Galás is an American avant-garde composer, vocalist, pianist, organist, performance artist and painter.Galás has been described as "capable of the most unnerving vocal terror", with her three and a half octave vocal range. She often screams, hisses and growls...
(born 1955) - Margherita GaleottiMargherita GaleottiMargherita Galeotti was an Italian pianist and composer. She was born in Mauern, Bavaria, and studied piano and composition with Giuseppe Buonamici in Florence and Giuseppe Martucci in Bologna. After completing her studies, she performed as a concert pianist in Europe.-Works:Galeotti composed...
(1867–after 1912) - Rachel GalinneRachel GalinneRachel Galinne is an Israeli composer born in Stockholm, Sweden. She graduated from Uppsala University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974 and then studied composition with Leon Schidlowsky at the Rubin Academy at Tel-Aviv University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree in 1984...
(born 1949) - Elisabetta de GambariniElisabetta de GambariniElisabetta de Gambarini was an English composer, singer, organist and harpsichordist of the 18th century born in London of an Italian father, Charles Gambarini.She took part as a soprano in Handel's oratorio Judas Maccabaeus at 1 April 1747...
(1731–1765) - Kay GardnerKay Gardner (composer)Kay Gardner was a musician, composer, author, and musical producer involved in using music for creative and healing purposes. Her compositions include works for chamber orchestra, symphony orchestra, choir, flute, voice and piano...
(1941–2002) - Garsenda de Proensa (fl. early 13th century)
- Lucija GarutaLūcija GarūtaLūcija Garūta was a Latvian pianist, poet and composer who studied with Jāzeps Vītols and worked as a concert pianist...
(1902–1977) - Marianne Gary-SchaffhauserMarianne Gary-SchaffhauserMarianne Gary-Schaffhauser was an Austrian composer. She was born in Vienna and studied voice and piano at the Vienna Academy, and composition with Alfred Uhl. Later she studied at Vienna University and graduated with a PhD...
(1903-?) - Koharik GazarossianKoharik GazarossianKoharik Gazarossian was an Armenian composer and pianist. She was born in Constantinople and studied at the Paris Conservatory with Dukas and Levy. She died in Paris.-Works:...
(1907–1967) - Roberta Geddes-HarveyRoberta Geddes-HarveyAnne Catherine Roberta Geddes-Harvey was a Canadian organist, choirmaster and composer. Roberta Geddes was born in Hamilton, Ontario, and studied music with Arthur E. Fisher, Humfrey Anger and Edward Fisher, graduating with a Bachelor of Music degree from Trinity College, Toronto, in 1899...
(1849–1930) - Gerda GeertensGerda GeertensGerda Geertens is a Dutch composer. She was born in Wildervank, and studied music and philosophy in Groningen. In 1981 she began the study of composition with Klaas de Vries.-Works:...
(born 1955) - Gertrude of DagsburgGertrude of DagsburgGertrude of Dagsburg was the daughter and heiress of Albert II, count of Metz and Dagsburg . She was a trouvère, and was married three times....
(1205–1225) - Ada GentileAda Gentile-Life:Ada Gentile was born in Avezzano and attended the Conservatorio di St. Cecilia in Rome, graduating in piano and composition. She then completed a graduate degree at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia with Goffredo Petrassi...
(born 1947) - Abbie Gerrish-JonesAbbie Gerrish-JonesAbbie Gerrish-Jones was an American composer, librettist and music writer.-Life:Abbie Gerrish-Jones was born in Vallejo, California, and grew up in Sacramento. She began playing piano and composing at an early age and studied with Charles Winter...
(1863–1929) - Maura Ghoneim (born 1955)
- Miriam GideonMiriam GideonMiriam Gideon was an American composer.-Life:She studied organ with her uncle Henry Gideon and piano with Felix Fox. She also studied with Martin Bernstein, Marion Bauer, Charles Haubiel, and Jacques Pillois...
(1906–1996) - Helen GiffordHelen Gifford-Life:Helen Gifford was born in Melbourne, Australia, of Scots and Cornish heritage. She attended Tintern Junior School and Melbourne Girls Grammar, and then the University of Melbourne Conservatorium on a Commonwealth Scholarship. She studied with Roy Shepherd and Dorian Le Gallienne, graduating...
(born 1935) - Teodora Ginés (c. 1530–after 1598)
- Ruth GippsRuth GippsRuth Gipps was a British composer, oboist and pianist.-Biography:Ruth Gipps was born in Bexhill-on-Sea, England in 1921. She was something of a child prodigy, winning performance competitions in which she was considerably younger than the rest of the field -- and female, to boot...
(1921–1999) - Suzanne GiraudSuzanne GiraudSuzanne Giraud is a French music educator and composer of contemporary music.-Biography:Suzanne Giraud was born in Metz and grew up in Strasbourg, where she began to study music for piano, violin, viola and music theory before entering the Paris Conservatoire. There she studied harmony,...
(born 1958) - Janice GiteckJanice Giteck-Biography:Giteck grew up in Hicksville, Long Island and moved to Arizona when she was twelve years old. She attended Mills College, completing her Master's in 1969 and studying under Darius Milhaud. She later studied under Olivier Messiaen, and following this she studied percussion with Daniel...
(born 1946) - Barbara GiurannaBarbara GiurannaElena Barbara Giuranna was an Italian pianist and composer.-Life:Barbara Giuranna was born in Palermo, Italy, and studied piano at the Palermo Conservatory with Guido Alberto Fano and composition at the Naples Conservatory with Camillo De Nardis and Antonio Savasta...
(1898–1998) - Peggy Glanville-HicksPeggy Glanville-HicksPeggy Glanville-Hicks was an Australian composer.- Biography :Peggy Glanville-Hicks was born Melbourne in 1912. At age 15 she began studying composition with Fritz Hart in Melbourne...
(1912–1990) - Helen GlatzHelen GlatzHelen Sinclair Glatz née Hunter was an English composer.-Life:Helen Sinclair Hunter was born in the English border country of Scottish ancestry and grew up in a musical home...
(1908-1996) - Evelyn GlennieEvelyn GlennieDame Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie, DBE is a Scottish virtuoso percussionist. She was the first full-time solo percussionist in 20th-century western society.-Early life:Glennie was born and raised in Aberdeenshire...
(born 1965) - Julia Gomelskaya (born 1964)
- Chiquinha GonzagaChiquinha GonzagaFrancisca Edwiges Neves Gonzaga was a Brazilian composer, pianist and conductor....
(1847–1935) - Florence Everilda GoodeveFlorence Everilda GoodeveFlorence Everilda Goodeve was an English composer and lyricist. Born Florence Everilda in Heysham, Lanes, she married Louis-Arthur Goodeve on 23 November 1869. Louis Goodeve was a High Court advocate in Calcutta, where his wife accompanied him. She was widowed in 1888 and died in London.-References:...
(1861–1915) - Annette Vande GorneAnnette Vande GorneAnnette Vande Gorne is a Belgian electroacoustic music composer currently living in Ohain, Belgium.-Biography:Annette Vande Gorne was born in Charleroi, Belgium. She initially studied music at the conservatories of Mons and Brussels, and privately with Jean Absil...
(born 1946) - Annie GosfieldAnnie GosfieldAnnie Gosfield is a New York composer who specializes in using detuned or out of tune samples and industrial noises. Her work often contains improvisation and frequently uses extended techniques and/or altered musical instruments...
(born 1960) - Ida GotkovskyIda GotkovskyIda Rose Esther Gotkovsky is a French composer and pianist. She is currently a professor of music theory at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique in France....
(born 1933) - Luise Adelgunda GottschedLuise GottschedLuise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched [born Kulmus] was a German poet, playwright, essayist, and translator, and is often considered one of the founders of modern German theatrical comedy.-Biography:...
(1713–1762) - Dorothy GowDorothy GowDorothy Gow was an English composer. She was born in London, the youngest of six children from a Scottish family. The Music Society performed her works as early as 1922, and after this initial success, Down began studying at the Royal College of Music when she was in her thirties...
(1893–1982) - Janet GrahamJanet GrahamJanet Christine Graham is an English composer, music educator and music therapist. She was born in Consett, County Durham, and studied organ at the Royal Academy of Music from 1966–70 with Arnold Richardson...
(born 1948) - Shirley Graham Du BoisShirley Graham Du BoisShirley Graham Du Bois was an American-born author, playwright, composer, and activist for African-American and other causes, as well as spouse of noted African-American thinker, writer, and activist W. E. B...
(1896–1977) - Clémence de GrandvalClémence de GrandvalClémence de Grandval , born as Marie Félicie Clémence de Reiset and also known as Vicomtesse de Grandval and Marie Grandval, was a French composer of the Romantic era. She was a person and composer of stature during her life, although less remembered subsequently...
(1828–1907) - Micki GrantMicki GrantMicki Grant is an American singer actress, writer and composer. She performed in Having Our Say , Tambourines to Glory and Jericho-Jim Crow, The Gingham Dog, Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope and has received three Tony Award nominations for her writing...
(born 1941) - Caterina Benedicta GrazianiniCaterina Benedicta GrazianiniCaterina Benedicta Grazianini was an Italian composer of oratorios in Vienna. She was among the female composers of oratorios in Vienna who, according to Wellesz, were regular canonesses, rather than employed at the court. This group included Maria de Raschenau, Maria Margherita Grimani, and...
(fl. early 18th century) - Gisella Delle GrazieGisella Delle GrazieGisella Delle Grazie was an Italian composer born in Trieste. Grazie composed two opera, Atala , premiered at the Teatro Balbo in Turin in 1894, and La trecciaiuola di Firenze, premiered at the Teatro Filodrammatico in Trieste in 1895.-References:...
(born 1868, fl. 1894–95) - Lucile GrétryLucile GrétryLucile-Angélique-Dorothée-Louise Grétry was a French composer.The second daughter of the famous composer André Grétry and the painter Jeanne-Marie Grandon, Lucile was trained by her father who introduced her to the court of Versailles where she made the acquaintance of Marie-Antoinette...
(1772–1790) - María GreverMaría GreverMaría Grever was the first Mexican female musician to become a successful composer.Maria Joaquina de la Portilla Torres was born to a Spanish father and Mexican mother in Mexico. After spending much of her childhood in Spain, she returned with her parents to Mexico at the age of 12. She studied...
(1885–1951) - Beverly GrigsbyBeverly GrigsbyBeverly Grigsby née Pinsky is an American composer, musicologist and electronic/computer music pioneer.-Life:Beverly Pinsky was born in Chicago, Illinois, and studied music as a child. She moved to California with her family at the age of 13 and graduated from Fairfax High School...
(born 1928) - Maria Margherita GrimaniMaria Margherita GrimaniIt is not certain when she was born, but it was somewhere around the late 16 hundreds. She Married Giovanni Andrea Grimani, her maiden name was Vitalina....
(fl. early 18th century) - Agathe Backer GrøndahlAgathe Backer GrøndahlAgathe Backer-Grøndahl was a Norwegian pianist and composer.She was born in Holmestrand, but in 1857 moved with her family to Oslo, where she studied with Otto Winther-Hjelm, Halfdan Kjerulf and Ludvig Mathias Lindeman. From 1865 she studied in Berlin, where she won fame with her interpretation of...
(1847–1907) - Sofia GubaidulinaSofia GubaidulinaSofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina, is a Russian composer of half Russian, half Tatar ethnicity.Gubaidulina's music is marked by the use of unusual instrumental combinations...
(born 1931) - Emilia GubitosiEmilia GubitosiEmilia Gubitosi was an Italian pianist and composer.-Life:Emilia Gubitosi was born in Naples and studied music with Beniamino Cesi, Costantino Palumbo, Fromesco Simonetti, C...
(1887–1972) - Mlle Guédon de PreslesMlle Guédon de PreslesMlle Guédon de Presles was a French singer, composer and actress. She performed for the first time in court before the queen, and published a collection of airs in the 1740s.-References:...
(early 18th century–1754) - Mlle GuerinMlle GuerinMlle Guerin was a French composer. She composed an opera at age 16, titled Daphnis et Amalthée which was performed in Amiens in 1755. An anonymous writer reporting the event in the Mercure de France described her as coming from the "provinces" and having a good education.- References :...
(born c. 1739, fl. 1755) - Jane Mary GuestJane Mary GuestJane Mary Guest, also known as Jenny Guest and later as Jane Mary Miles, was an English composer and pianist. A pupil of Johann Christian Bach, and initially composing in the galante style, she composed keyboard sonatas, other keyboard works and vocal works with keyboard...
(1762–1846) - Lynn GumertLynn Gumert-Life:Lynn Gumert studied at Indiana University, Bloomington, with Claude Baker, Eugene O'Brien, and Donald Freund, graduating with Masters of Music and Doctorate of Music degrees...
(born 1961) - Rosa GuraiebRosa GuraiebRosa Guraieb Kuri is a Mexican pianist, music educator and composer of Lebanese ancestry. She was born in Matias Romero, Oaxaca, Mexico, and studied in Beirut with Michel Cheskinoff at the National Conservatory...
(born 1931) - Nazife GüranNazife GüranNazife Güran was a Turkish composer born in Vienna of a diplomat father. She studied music as a child with her mother and completed primary education in Ankara and high school in Istanbul. She continued her music education at the Berlin Hochschule Music Academy, studying with Rudolph Schmidt for...
(1921–1993) - Elizabeth GyringElizabeth GyringElizabeth Gyring was an American composer born in Vienna, the daughter of laryngologist Leopold Rethy. She studied with Joseph Marx and Ludwig Gzaczkes at the Vienna Academy of Music and had successful premieres as a composer in Berlin and Vienna. She married Otto Geiringer, and in 1939 the couple...
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- Louise Haenel de CronenthallLouise Haenel de CronenthallLouise Augusta Marie Julia Haenel de Cronenthall was an Austrian composer who lived and worked in France.-Life:Louise Haenel de Cronenthall was born in Graz, Austria, the daughter of piano maker Julius Franz Hänel, and moved to Paris to study at the Conservatoire at age 17...
(1839–c. 1876) - Helen Eugenia HaganHelen Eugenia HaganHelen Eugenia Hagan was an American pianist, music educator and composer of African descent.-Life:Helen Eugenia Hagan was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the daughter of John A. and Mary Estella Neal Hagan. She studied piano from her mother and then in the public schools of New Haven, Connecticut...
(1893–1964) - Elizabeth Joanetta Catherine von HagenElizabeth Joanetta Catherine von HagenElizabeth Joanetta Catherine von Hagen was a Dutch pianist, music educator and composer who lived and worked in the United States. She was born in Amsterdam and married Rotterdam composer, violinist and organist Peter Albrecht von Hagen...
(1750–1809/10) - Júlia HajdúJúlia HajdúJúlia Hajdú was a Hungarian composer and pianist. She was born into a Jewish family in Budapest, and died in the same city.-Works:Hajdú was the composer of 14 operettas and/or musicals...
(1915–1987) - Pauline HallPauline Hall (composer)Pauline Margrete Hall was a Norwegian writer, music critic, organizer and composer. She was born in Hamar and began her study of music in Oslo, continuing in Paris from 1912-13, After completing her studies, she worked as a composer and music critic for the Oslo daily newspaper Dagbladet.Hall was...
(1890–1969) - Minako Hamano (born 1969)
- Emilie HammarskjöldEmilie HammarskjöldEmilie Augusta Kristina Hammarskjöld, née Holmberg, was a Swedish composer, singer, pianist, music teacher and organist. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.-Background:...
(1821–1854) - Ann-Elise HannikainenAnn-Elise HannikainenAnn-Elise Hannikainen is a Finnish composer. She was born in Hanko, Finland, the daughter of Heikki and Marianne Hannikainen...
(born 1946) - Olga HansOlga Hans-Background:Olga Hans was born in Pabianice and studied at the Academy of Music in Lodz receiving diplomas with distinction in 1995 and 1997. She studied music theory with Francis Wesolowski and composition with George Bauer...
(born 1971) - Kazuko HaraKazuko Harais a prolific Japanese opera composer.She studied at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music under Tomojiro Ikenouchi, graduating in 1957. She subsequently went to France where she studied with Henri Dutilleux and Alexander Tcherepnin...
(born 1935) - Guy d'HardelotGuy d'HardelotGuy d'Hardelot was the pen name of Helen Rhodes , a French composer, pianist, and teacher.- Biography :...
(1858–1936) - Halina HarelavaHalina HarelavaHalina Harelava Kanstantsinawna, also known as Galina Gorelova , is a Belarusian contemporary composer. She was born in Minsk, Belarus, and studied music at the National Conservatory in Minsk with Dmitry Smolsky, graduating in 1977. After completing her studies, she took at position teaching theory...
(born 1951) - Miina HärmaMiina HärmaMiina Härma was a widely-recognised Estonian composer. She was the second Estonian second musician with higher education....
(1864–1941) - Ethel R. HarradenEthel R. HarradenEthel Rosalie Harraden was an English pianist, composer and music critic. She was born in Islington, Middlesex, England, in 1857, the daughter of Samuel Harraden, a London/Calcutta agent, and studied at the Royal Academy of Music. After completing her studies, she worked as a pianist and composer...
(1857-1917) - Regina Harris BaiocchiRegina Harris BaiocchiRegina A. Harris Baiocchi is an American musician, music educator, composer and writer of short stories and poetry.-Life:Regina Harris was the third of eight children born in Chicago, Illinois, to parents Elgie Harris Jr., and Lanzie Mozelle Belmont Harris. She was exposed to the arts from an...
(born 1956) - Pamela HarrisonPamela HarrisonPamela Harrison is an American poet and educator. She is the author of five poetry collections, most recently, Out of Silence...
(1915–1990) - Susie Frances HarrisonSusie Frances HarrisonSusan Frances Harrison née Riley was a Canadian poet, novelist, music critic and music composer who lived and worked in Ottawa and Toronto.-Life:...
(1859–1935) - Emma HartmannEmma HartmannEmma Hartmann née Zinn was a Danish composer who used the pseudonym Frederick H. Palmer to publish music. She was born in Copenhagen, the daughter of J.Fr. Zinn, and studied singing and piano with composer Andreas Peter Berggreen. She married composer J.P.E. Hartmann in 1829 and became the mother...
(1807–1851) - Irina HasnasIrina HasnaşIrina Olga Hasnaş is a Romanian composer. She was born in Bucharest, Romania, and studied at the Ciprian Porumbescu Academy of Music with Ştefan Niculescu, Aurel Stroe, Alexandru Paşcanu and Nicolae Beloiu. She continued her studies with composer Theodor Grigoriu, and in 2000 received a doctorate...
(born 1954) - Faustina Hasse HodgesFaustina Hasse HodgesFaustina Hasse Hodges was an English-American organist and composer. She was born in Malmesbury, England, the daughter of organist and composer Edward Hodges, who brought his family from England to America in 1838...
(1822–1895) - Elisabeth de HaulteterreElisabeth de HaulteterreElisabeth de Haulteterre was a French composer and violinist. She was known as a concert violinist, playing Jean-Marie Leclair's sonatas at the Concert Spirituel in 1737. Her married name was Levésque.-Works:...
(fl. 1737–1768) - Birgit HavensteinBirgit HavensteinBirgit Havenstein is a German flautist and composer. She was born in Berlin, and studied music and music education at the Stadtisches Konservatorium...
(born 1954) - Hanna Havrylets'Hanna Havrylets'Hanna Oleksiïvna Havrylets is a Ukraine composer. She was born in Ternopil, Ukraine , and graduated from the Lviv State Conservatoire where she studied with V. Flys. She continued her studies at the Kiev Conservatoire with Myroslav Skoryk.After completing her education, Havrylets' worked as a...
(born 1958) - Elizabeth Hayden PizerElizabeth Hayden PizerElizabeth Faw Hayden Pizer is an American composer, music journalist, archivist and broadcast producer. She was born in Watertown, New York, and studied at the Boston Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Hayden married musician and composer Charles Pizer...
(born 1954) - Sorrel HaysSorrel Hays-Life:Doris Ernestine Hays was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and in 1985 adopted her grandmother's family name of Sorrel. She studied music with Harold Cadek at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, graduating in 1963. She continued her education for three years studying with Friedrich Wührer...
(born 1941) - Åse HedstrømÅse HedstrømÅse Hedstrøm is a Norwegian composer based in Stockholm, Sweden. She studied music at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht, and composition at the Norwegian State Academy of Music...
(born 1950) - Rebecca Helferich ClarkeRebecca Helferich ClarkeRebecca Clarke was an English classical composer and violist best known for her chamber music featuring the viola. She was born in Harrow and studied at the Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music in London, later becoming one of the first female professional orchestral players...
(1886–1979) - Barbara HellerBarbara HellerBarbara Heller is a German composer and pianist. She lives in Darmstadt, in the Odenwald and at times on the Canary Island of La Gomera.-Biography:...
(born 1936) - Mara Margaret HelmuthMara Margaret HelmuthMargaret Mara Helmuth is an American composer. She studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and then continued her studies at Columbia University, graduating with a doctorate in music....
(born 1957) - Moya HendersonMoya HendersonMoya Henderson is an Australian composer.A graduate of the University of Queensland, Henderson also studied in Germany with Karlheinz Stockhausen after which she became a lecturer at the University of Sydney...
(born 1941) - Ig HennemanIg HennemanIg Henneman is a Dutch composer and bandleader. She was born in Haarlem, Netherlands, and took music lessons as a child. She studied viola and violin in Amsterdam and Tilburg, and composition with Robert Heppener....
(born 1945) - Louise Héritte-ViardotLouise Héritte-ViardotLouise Héritte-Viardot was a French singer, pianist and composer. She was born in Paris, the daughter of Pauline Viardot-Garcia and Louis Viardot, niece of Maria Malibran and sister to composer and conductor Paul Viardot....
(1841–1918) - Gisela HernándezGisela HernándezGisela Hernández Gonzalo was a Cuban composer. Aware of political necessity, she established ties with the Castro government in return for recognition of her activities as a music teacher and composer...
(1912–1971) - Teresa Tanco Cordovez de HerreraTeresa Tanco Cordovez de HerreraTeresa Tanco Cordovez de Herrera was a Colombian pianist and composer. She traveled to Europe with her sister in 1882 and made her Paris debut at Salle Pleyel Saint-Saens to favorable reviews. She composed for voice, sacred pieces and a zarzuela Simila similibus. She died in Bogota.-References:...
(1859–1946) - Ethel Glenn HierEthel Glenn HierEthel Glenn Hier was an American composer, teacher and pianist of Scottish ancestry.-Life:Ethel Glenn Hier was born in Madisonville, a neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. She studied at Ohio Wesleyan University and the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, where she graduated in piano in 1908...
(1889–1971) - Jennifer HigdonJennifer HigdonJennifer Higdon is an American composer of classical music. Higdon has received many awards, including the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Music for her Violin Concerto and the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her Percussion Concerto.-Biography:Higdon was born in Brooklyn,...
(born 1962) - Hildegard of BingenHildegard of BingenBlessed Hildegard of Bingen , also known as Saint Hildegard, and Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, Benedictine abbess, visionary, and polymath. Elected a magistra by her fellow nuns in 1136, she founded the monasteries of Rupertsberg in 1150 and...
(1098–1179) - Mirrie HillMirrie Hill-Life:Mirrie Irrna Solomon was born in Sydney, and showed an early talent for music and pitch. She studied piano with an aunt, and at age 13 with Josef Kretschmann and later with Laurence Godfrey-Smith...
(1892–1986) - Margriet HoenderdosMargriet HoenderdosMargriet Hoenderdos was a Dutch composer. She was born in Santpoort, Netherlands, and studied piano with Thom Bollen at the Zwolle Conservatory. She continued her studies in composition at the Amsterdam Conservatory with Ton de Leeuw, and worked in the electronic studio at the Conservatory...
(1952-2010) - Dulcie Sybil Holland (1913-2000)
- Augusta HolmèsAugusta HolmèsAugusta Mary Anne Holmès was a French composer of Irish descent. At first she published under the pseudonym Hermann Zenta. In 1871, Holmès became a French citizen and added the accent to her last name...
(1847–1903) - Borghild HolmsenBorghild HolmsenBorghild Holmsen was a Norwegian pianist, music critic and composer. She studied piano with Agathe Backer-Grøndahl and Otto Winter Hjelm, and continued her studies with Carl Reinecke and Salomon Jadassohn in Leipzig and Albert Becker in Berlin...
(1865–1938) - Imogen HolstImogen HolstImogen Clare Holst, CBE was a British composer and conductor, and sole child of composer Gustav Holst.Imogen Holst was brought up in west London and educated at St Paul's Girls' School, where her father was director of music...
(1907–1984) - Adriana HölszkyAdriana HölszkyAdriana Hölszky is an Romanian-born German music educator, composer and pianist who has been living in Germany since 1976.-Biography:...
(born 1953) - Helen Francis HoodHelen Francis HoodHelen Francis Hood was an American pianist, composer and teacher. She was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, and studied music in Boston with Benjamin Johnson Lang, J.C.D. Parker, John Knowles Paine, and George Chadwick. She continued her studies in Berlin with Moritz Moszkowski and Philipp Scharwenka...
(1863–1949) - Katherine HooverKatherine HooverKatherine Hoover is an American flautist, conductor and composer. She was born in Elkins, West Virginia, and graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree and performer's certificate from the Eastman School of Music in 1959. She continued her studies at the Manhattan School of Music graduating with...
(born 1937) - Helen HopekirkHelen HopekirkHelen Hopekirk was Scottish-American pianist and composer who lived and worked in Boston. She was born near Edinburgh, Scotland, and studied with G. Lichtenstein and Scottish composer Alexander Mackenzie. She later studied composition with Carl Reinecke in Leipzig and Theodor Leschetizky in Vienna...
(1856–1945) - Sarah HopkinsSarah HopkinsSarah Hopkins is an Australian criminal lawyer and novelist married to celebrity chef Matt Moran. Sarah Hopkins has worked in the area of social justice and prisoner rights for 15 years. She is currently working as a lawyer with the Aboriginal Legal Service in Sydney. She and Moran have two...
(born 1958) - Sarah HorickSarah HorickSarah Horick is a composer of contemporary concert music. She received her Bachelor of Music degree in Music Theory and Composition from Furman University in 2006 where she studied with Mark Kilstofte. She earned a Master of Music in Composition and a Master of Arts in Music Theory at Florida...
(born 1984) - Amy Elsie HorrocksAmy Elsie HorrocksAmy Elsie Horrocks was an English music educator, composer and pianist. She was born to English parents in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and in 1882 studied piano and composition at the Royal Academy of Music with Adolf Schlösser and F.W. Davenport. She won the Potter Exhibition prize in 1888 and the...
(1867–after 1915) - Eleanor HovdaEleanor HovdaEleanor Hovda was a composer and dancer from the United States of America. She was born in Duluth, Minnesota and died in Springdale, Arkansas....
(born 1940) - Joyce Howard BarrellJoyce Howard BarrellJoyce Howard Barrell, née Gedye , was an English composer. She was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, and was educated at Leicester University, studying with Benjamin Burrows and Harold Craxton for piano and Grace Burrows for violin. After completing her studies, Barrell worked as composer and...
(1917–1989) - Mary HoweMary Howe-Biography:She was born Mary Carlisle in Richmond, Virginia, at the home of her maternal grandparents. She would live most of her life in the Washington, DC. Her family was quite wealthy; her father, Calderon Carlisle, was a well known and successful lawyer. This privilege helped her get piano...
(1882–1964) - Dorothy HowellDorothy HowellDorothy Gertrude Howell was an English composer and pianist.Howell grew up in Handsworth, and received a convent education...
(1898–1982) - Zhun Huang (born 1926)
- Elaine Hugh-JonesElaine Hugh-JonesElaine Hugh-Jones is a Welsh pianist, music educator and composer. She was born in London and studied piano with Harold Craxton, Julian Isserlis and with Lennox Berkeley. After completing her studies, she took a position as an accompanist with the BBC where she worked for 37 years...
(born 1927) - Fanny HünerwadelFanny HünerwadelFanny Hünerwadel was a Swiss pianist, singer and composer born in Lenzburg.-Biography:Fanny Hünerwadel was a native of Lenzburg and came from a long-established family of the city. She was the oldest child of the physician Johann Friedrich Hünerwadel and Speerli Regula, who were both avid music...
(1826–1854) - Brenda HutchinsonBrenda HutchinsonBrenda Hutchinson is a composer and sound artist who has created a body of work she calls "collaborating with strangers." Hutchinson encourages her participants to experiment with sound, share stories, and make music...
(born 1954) - Miriam Beatrice Hyde (1913–2005)
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- Regina IrmanRegina IrmanRegina Irman is a Swiss musician, music educator and composer.-Early life:Regina Irman was born in Winterthur, Switzerland. In 1976 she studied music at the Winterthur Conservatory, and in 1982 received her teacher's diploma with guitar as principal instrument...
(born 1957) - Madeleine IsakssonMadeleine Isaksson-Biography:Madeleine Isaksson studied at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm from 1979 to 1987. She received a diploma as a piano and ensemble teacher after studying under Gunnar Hallhagen, and then studied composition under teachers including Gunnar Bucht and Sven-David Sandström , Pär...
(born 1956) - Adina IzarraAdina IzarraAdina Izarra is a Venezuelan musician, music educator and composer.-Biography:Adina Izarra was born in Caracas, Venezuela. She studied music under Alfredo del Mónaco in Caracas and received her Ph. D...
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- Najla JaborNajla JaborMaia de Carvalho Najla Jabor was a Brazilian conductor and composer. She composed concerti and symphonic works, but is best known for sacred songs. She was born and died in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.-Works:...
(born 1915) - Marie JaëllMarie JaëllMarie Jaëll was a French pianist, composer, and music teacher.She was born Marie Trautmann in Steinseltz, Bas-Rhin, and studied under Camille Saint-Saëns and César Franck. In 1862 she won first prize at the Paris Conservatory, where she was a student...
(1846–1925) - Dorothy JamesDorothy JamesDorothy James was an American music educator and composer.-Biography:Dorothy James was born in Chicago, Illinois, and graduated from the Chicago Musical College and the American Conservatory, where she studied with Louis Gruenberg for composition and Adolph Weidig for counterpoint...
(1901–1982) - Viera JanárcekováViera Janárceková-Biography:Viera Janárceková was born in Svit, Slovakia. She studied harpsichord and piano the State Conservatory in Bratislava and continued her studies at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. She also studied with Rudolf Firkušný in Lucerne. After completing her education in 1967 she taught...
(born 1941) - Natalia JanothaNatalia JanothaNatalia Janotha was a Polish pianist and composer.-Biography:Natalia Janotha was born in Warsaw, Poland, the daughter of Julius Janothy who was a composer and teacher at the Institute of Music in Warsaw...
(1856–1932) - Kerstin JeppssonKerstin Jeppsson-Biography:Kerstin Jeppsson was born in Nyköping, Sweden, and graduated from the State Academy of Music in Stockholm, where she studied composition with Maurice Karkoff. She received a fellowship to continue her studies at the Cracow Conservatory, where she studied with Krzysztof Meyer and...
(born 1948) - Hilda JereaHilda JereaHilda Jerea was a Romanian pianist and composer. Born in Iaşi, she began her education at the Conservatory of Music in Iaşi and finished it in Bucharest where her teachers were Mihail Jora, Florica Musicescu and Dimitrie Cuclin. After graduation she pursued further studies in Paris and Budapest...
(1919–1980) - Ludmila Jeske-Choinska-MikorskaLudmila Jeske-Choińska-MikorskaLudmila Jeske-Choińska-Mikorska was a Polish singer and composer. She was born in Małachowo, near Poznan, and studied singing in Vienna with Mathilde Marchesi and in Milan with F. Lampertiego and composition in Warsaw with Gustaw Roguski and Zygmunt Noskowski. Her symphonic poem Rusalka won an...
(1849–1898) - Eva JessyeEva JessyeEva Jessye was an African American who was the first black woman to receive international distinction as a professional choral conductor. She is notable as a choral conductor during the Harlem Renaissance, who created her own choral group featured widely in performance. Her professional influence...
(1885–1992) - Marta JiráčkováMarta Jiráčková-Biography:Marta Jiráčková was born in Kladno. She studied with Emil Hlobil at the Prague Conservatory of Music, and after graduating in 1959, took a job in Czechoslovak Radio as a music editor. She studied harmony and composition with Alois Hába from 1962–64, and took a break from composition when...
(born 1932) - Sally Johnston ReidSally Johnston ReidSally Johnston Reid is an American music educator and composer.-Biography:Sally Reid was born in East Liverpool, Ohio, and graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Texas in Austin. She took a position as music teacher and became department chair at at Abilene Christian University in Abilene,...
(born 1948) - Betsy JolasBetsy JolasBetsy Jolas is a French composer.Betsy Jolas was born in Paris. Resident in the United States from 1940 until 1946, she studied composition with Paul Boepple and piano with Helen Schnabel. On her return to France she continued her studies with Simone Plé-Caussade, Darius Milhaud and Olivier...
(born 1926) - Victoria JordanovaVictoria JordanovaVictoria Jordanova, born Viktorija Pop Jordanova in Serbia in 1952, is a composer/performer and media artist. She is the creative director, curator, producer and the sound editor for label she founded in 2003....
(born 1952) - Jane M. JosephJane M. JosephJane Marian Joseph was an English composer. She also used the pseudonym "James M. Joseph".-Biography:Jane Joseph was born in Notting Hill, West London, into a Jewish family. She learned double bass as a child, and also played piano. She graduated from St...
(1894–1929) - Patricia JüngerPatricia JüngerPatricia Jünger is a Swiss-Austrian multi-media artist, conductor, sound director and composer.-Biography:Patricia Jünger was born in during an airplane trip from Dublin to Vienna, at a stop in Frankfurt am Main and has Swiss and Austrian citizenship. Jünger studied piano, organ, composition and...
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- Clotilde KainerstorferClotilde KainerstorferClotilde Kainerstorfer was a German composer born in Swabia, Bavaria. She composed sacred works and published ten pieces for piano and organ in Augsburg in 1878 as her first known compositions.-Works:Selected works include:...
(fl. second half 19th century) - Yuki KajiuraYuki Kajiura, born August 6, 1965 in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese composer and music producer. She has provided the music for several popular anime series, such as one of the Kimagure Orange Road movies, Noir, .hack//SIGN, Aquarian Age, Madlax, My-HiME, My-Otome, .hack//Roots, Pandora Hearts, Puella Magi...
(born 1965) - Trisutji KamalTrisutji KamalTrisutji Djuliati Kamal is an Indonesian composer. She was born in Jakarta and grew up in the Sultanate of Langkat in Binjai, Sumatra. She studied piano and composition with Henk Badings at the Amsterdam Conservatory, and continued her studies at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris and the Santa...
(born 1936) - Laura KaminskyLaura KaminskyLaura Kaminsky is an American music promoter, music educator and composer. She was born in New York City and studied with Joseph Wood at Oberlin College and Mario Davidovsky at City College of New York. She graduated from City College with a Master of Arts degree in composition in 1980.After...
(born 1956) - Kikuko KanaiKikuko Kanaiwas a Japanese composer.-Life:Kikuko Kawahira was born on the Ryukyu island of Miyako-jima, Okinawa, and studied voice at the Nihon Music School and composition at the Tokyo Academy of Music with Kanichi Shimofusa and Kishio Hirao...
(1911–1986) - Yoko KannoYoko Kannois a composer, arranger and musician best known for her work on the soundtracks for many games, anime films, TV series, live-action movies, and advertisements...
(born 1964) - Laura KarpmanLaura KarpmanLaura Karpman is an American composer, whose work has included scoring for film, television, video games, theater, and concert. She has won four Emmy Awards for her work...
- Vítězslava KaprálováVítezslava KaprálováVítězslava Kaprálová was a Czech composer and conductor. Among her teachers were some of the best European composers and conductors of the time - Bohuslav Martinů, Václav Talich, and Charles Münch.-Life:She was a daughter of composer Václav Kaprál...
(1915–1940) - Janice Kapp-PerryJanice Kapp PerryJanice Kapp Perry is a well-known Latter-day Saint songwriter whose contributions have resulted in roughly 50 albums and songs in the LDS Church hymnal, Children's Songbook, and 70 Favorite Children's Songs.- Biography :...
- Sirvart Karamanuk (born 1912)
- Helene KarastoyanovaHelene Karastoyanova-Life:Helene Karastoyanova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, the daughter of composer Assen Karastoyanov, and studied at the State Academy of Music with her father and Alexander Raychev. After completing her studies, she taught music in Sofia at the National Music High School and the Institute for...
(born 1933) - Lyudmila Karpawna ShlehLyudmila Karpawna ShlehLyudmila Karpawna Shleh is a Belarusian composer. She was born in Baranovichi and studied with Mikalay Il'ich Aladaw and Dmitry Smolsky at the Conservatory of Belarus, graduating in 1972. She joined the Belarusian Composers’ Union in 1974 and continued her education with Sergey Slonimsky while...
(born 1948) - Lucrecia Roces KasilagLucrecia Roces Kasilag-Life:Lucrecia Roces Kasilag was born in San Fernando, La Union, Philippines, of parents Marcial Kasilag and Asuncion Roces Kasilag. She grew up in Paco, Manila, and studied at the Philippine Women's University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in English. She also studied music at St....
(born 1918) - KassiaKassiaKassia was a Byzantine abbess, poet, composer, and hymnographer. She is one of the first medieval composers whose scores are both extant and able to be interpreted by modern scholars and musicians...
(c.810–before 867) - Elena Kats-CherninElena Kats-CherninElena Kats-Chernin is an Australian composer.Elena Kats-Chernin was born in Tashkent , and migrated to Australia in 1975.-Europe:...
(born 1957) - Eunice KatundaEunice KatundaEunice do Monte Lima Katunda was a Brazilian pianist, music educator and composer.-Life:Katunda was born in Rio de Janeiro and studied piano with Oscar Guanabarino and Marieta Lion, composition with Furio Franceschini, Camargo Guarnieri and Hans-Joachim Koellreutter, and conducting with Hermann...
(1915–1991) - Hiba KawasHiba KawasHiba Al Kawas is a Lebanese operatic soprano, composer and academic.-Biography and career:...
(born 1972) - Minna KealMinna Keal-External links:** 16 November 1999...
(1909–1999) - Denise KellyDenise KellyDenise Kelly is an Irish harpist and composer. She was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and was educated at the Royal Irish Academy and at Trinity College, Dublin, where she graduated with a Master of Music degree...
(born 1954) - Hope Anne Keng-Wai LeeHope Anne Keng-Wai LeeHope Anne Keng-Wei Lee is a Canadian musician, music educator and composer of Chinese birth.-Life:Hope Lee was born in Taipei, Taiwan, of parents from mainland China, and began studying piano at the age of five...
(born 1953) - Le Sénéchal de KerkadoLe Sénéchal de KerkadoLe Sénéchal de Kerkado was a French composer.She had her first opera performed at the age of nineteen; La méprise volontaire ou La double leçon , with libretto by Alexandre Duval, was produced at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on June 5, 1805.-References:...
(c. 1786–after 1805) - Frida KernFrida KernFrida Kern née Seitz was an Austrian composer. She was born in Vienna and grew up in Linz, studying piano with Anna Zappa, and later at the Linz Music Academy with August Göllerich....
(1891–1988) - Usha KhannaUsha KhannaUsha Khanna is an Indian music director. Regarded as the first established female music director in the Indian film industry, she remained active for more than 3 decades from 1960s to 1980s. She is still active making some music for some movies and television-serials, more than 40 years after her...
(born 1942) - Hi Kyung KimHi Kyung Kim-Life:Hi Kyung Kim was born in South Korea. She graduated from Seoul National University with a BA and the University of California, Berkeley, with an MA and PhD, where she studied composition with Andrew Imbrie, Olly Wilson, Gérald Grisey, and Sung-Jae Lee. As a benefit of the U.C. Berkeley’s...
(born 1954) - Johanna KinkelJohanna KinkelJohanna Kinkel was a German composer, writer, and revolutionary.Kinkel was born in Bonn. In 1840, after five months of unhappy marriage, she was divorced from the Cologne bookseller Matthieux. Her second marriage, in 1843, was to the German poet Gottfried Kinkel. They had four children...
(1810–1858) - Makiko KinoshitaMakiko Kinoshitais a Japanese composer. She was born in Tokyo, and studied composition at Tokyo University of the Arts.-Honors and awards:*First prize, Music Competition of Japan*Outstanding Composition Award, Japan Symphony Foundation...
(born 1956) - Antoinette KirkwoodAntoinette KirkwoodAntoinette Kirkwood is an English composer born in London. She studied piano and composition and accompanied her mother, who was a lieder singer.-Works:Selected works include:*Symphony No. 1 op. 8...
(born 1930) - Melinda KistétényiMelinda KistétényiMelinda Kistétényi was a Hungarian composer known for improvisations. She was born in Hungary and worked as a professor of music at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music of Budapest for 53 years. Her students include Andras Schiff, Zoltán Kocsis, Ivan Fischer, Dezső Ránki, Sylvia Sass and Veronika...
(1926-1999) - Anna Maria KlechniowskaAnna Maria KlechniowskaAnna Maria Klechniowska was a Polish music educator and composer. She was born in Borowka, Ukraine, and studied at the Warsaw and Lemberg Conservatories, and then in Leipzig and Paris...
(1888–1973) - Judy KleinJudy KleinJudy Klein is an American pianist, music educator and composer.-Life:Judy Klein was born in Chicago, Illinois, and later moved with her family to Los Angeles, California. She studied music at the University of California, Berkeley, and continued her studies at the Conservatory of Music in Basel,...
(born 1943) - Meri von KleinSmidMeri von KleinSmidMeri von KleinSmid is an American musician, artist and composer.-Life:Meri von KleinSmid was born in Los Angeles, California, and studied choral music, piano, violin and flute as a child. She was educated at the University of Washington and Columbia College Chicago, where she studied music history...
(born 1974) - Zhivka KlinkovaZhivka KlinkovaZhivka Klinkova is a Bulgarian composer, pianist and conductor. She was born in Samokov, Bulgaria, and graduated from the Sofia Academy of Music in 1951, after studying with Parashkev Hadjiev for composition and Dimiter Nenov for piano. She continued her studies with Rudolf Wagner-Régeny and Boris...
(born 1924) - Mary Knight WoodMary Knight WoodMary Knight Wood Mason was an American pianist, music educator and composer. She was born in Easthampton, Massachusetts, the daughter of Lieutenant-governor, manufacturer and philanthropist Horatio G. Knight and Mary Ann Huntoon Knight...
(1857–1944) - Wilhelmina KochWilhelmina KochWilhelmina Amalie Koch was a German composer of sacred and secular song melodies, biblical motets and choral and instrumental music. She is one of only two women that have had compositions included in the Protestant hymnal.-Biography:Mina Koch was born in Waldböckelheim...
(1845–1924) - Barbara KolbBarbara KolbBarbara Kolb is an American composer. Her music uses sound masses and often creates vertical structures through simultaneous rhythmic or melodic units . She was the first American woman composer to win the Prix de Rome. She received her B.M. and M.M...
(born 1939) - Nagako KonishiNagako KonishiNagako Konishi is a Japanese composer. She was born in Agematsu, Nagano, and graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1971. She continued her education at the University of California at Berkeley and served as head of the Japan Federation of Women Composers...
(born 1945) - Yelena Sergeyevna Konshina (born 1950)
- Yüksel KoptagelYüksel KoptagelYüksel Koptagel is a Turkish composer and pianist. She was born in Istanbul, Turkey, granddaughter of General Osman Nuri Koptagel, a commander in the Turkish War of Independence. She studied music with the composer and conductor Cemal Resit and later with Alexander Tansman, José Cubiles, Tony...
(born 1931) - Clara Anna KornClara Anna KornClara Anna Korn was an American pianist, composer and music writer. She was born in Germany, but her family moved to the United States and she grew up in New Jersey. She studied at the National Conservatory of Music in New York City with B.O...
(1866–1941) - Mathilde KralikMathilde KralikMathilde Aloisia Kralik von Meyrswalden was an Austrian composer.-Early years:Mathilde Kralik was the daughter of Bohemian glass industrialist Wilhelm Kralik von Meyrswalden from Eleonorenhain. After the death of his first wife Anna Maria Pinhak , he married Louise Lobmeyr on 28 May 1851...
von Mayerswalden (1857–1944) - Neva KrastevaNeva KrastevaNeva Krasteva is a Bulgarian organist, musicologist and composer. She was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, and graduated from Moscow State Music Academy in Music Studies and Organ...
(born 1946) - Anne-Marie KrumpholtzAnne-Marie KrumpholtzAnne-Marie Krumpholtz née Steckler was a French harpist and composer.-Life:Anne-Marie Steckler was the daughter of Christian Steckler, an instrument maker frequented by harpist and composer Johann Baptist Krumpholtz in Metz, France. She studied harp with Krumpholtz and made her debut in 1779,...
(1766–1813) - Grazyna KrzanowskaGrażyna KrzanowskaGrażyna Krzanowska is a Polish composer. She was born in Legnica, Poland, and studied composition with Tadeusz Natanson at the State High School of Music in Wroclaw, where she graduated in 1976. After completing her studies, she took a teaching position at the Bielsko-Biala Music School...
(born 1952) - Halina KrzyzanowskaHalina KrzyżanowskaHalina Krzyżanowska, by marriage Héléne Comtesse de Dyhrn was an internationally renowned Polish-French pianist and composer.- Life :...
(1860–1937) - Christina KubischChristina KubischChristina Kubisch is a German composer and sound-installation artist. She was born in Bremen and studied flute and music composition at the Hochschule fur Musik in Bremen and at the Jazz Academy in Graz, Austria...
(born 1948) - Mayako KuboMayako KuboMayako Kubo is a Japanese pianist and composer.-Life:Mayako Kubo was born in Kobe, Japan, and studied piano at Osaka College of Music. In 1972 she continued her studies in composition with Roman Haubenstock-Ramati and Erich Urbanner in Vienna, where she composed her first pieces of tape music at...
(born 1947) - Felicitas KukuckFelicitas KukuckFelicitas Kukuck was a German music educator and composer of opera and other works.-Biography:Felicitas Kukuck was born in Hamburg in 1914. Her parents encouraged their daughter's artistic development from childhood and enabled her to attend good music schools...
(1914–2001) - Hanna KulentyHanna KulentyHanna Kulenty is a Polish composer of contemporary classical music. Since 1992, she has worked and lived both in Warsaw and in Arnhem .- Musical education :...
(born 1961) - Izabella KuliffayIzabella KuliffayIzabella Kuliffay was a Hungarian pianist and composer. She was born in Pest, and studied music at the National Conservatory in Budapest from 1877-9, and the Budapest Academy of Music from 1879–83, with teachers including Kornel Abranyi and Gyula Erkel.After completing her studies, Kuliffay taught...
(1863–1945) - Renata KunkelRenata KunkelRenata Kunkel is a Polish composer. She was born in Gdańsk, and studied composition with Marian Borkowski and conducting with Ryszard Dudek and Elisabeth Kuyper at the Academy of Music in Warsaw.-Works:Selected works include:...
(born 1954) - Elisabeth KuyperElisabeth Kuyper-Life:Elisabeth Kuyper was born in Amsterdam and began the study of music at age twelve with Antoon Averkamp, Louis Coenen and Heinrich Barth. She began composing at an early age and produced a one-act opera which was performed in Amsterdam...
(1877–1953) - Iryna KyrylinaIryna KyrylinaIryna Kyrylina is a Ukrainian composer. She was born in Dresden, Germany, and studied with R.I. Vereschagin at the Kiev Musical College, and with M.V. Dremlyuga at the Kiev Conservatory, graduating in 1977. After completing her studies, she taught at a Kiev Music School and directed children’s...
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- Joan La BarbaraJoan La BarbaraJoan La Barbara is an American vocalist and composer associated with contemporary music. She is a former student of Helen Boatwright...
(born 1947) - Zulema de La CruzZulema de La CruzMaria Zulema de la Cruz Castillejo is a Spanish pianist and composer.-Life:Zulema de la Cruz was born in Madrid and studied at the Madrid Conservatory for piano and composition and Stanford University in California for composition and computer music, with professors including Carmelo Bernaola and...
(born 1958) - Élisabeth Jacquet de La GuerreÉlisabeth Jacquet de La GuerreÉlisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre was a French musician, harpsichordist and composer.-Life and works:...
(1665–1729) - Nicole LachartreNicole LachartreNicole Marie Lachartre was a French music writer and composer. She was born in Paris and studied at the Paris Conservatorie with Jean Rivier, Darius Milhaud and Andre Jolivet. She founded the Association pour la Collaboration des Interpretes et des Compositeurs to facilitate mixed electro-acoustic...
(1934–1992) - Susan Cohn LackmanSusan Cohn LackmanSusan Cohn Lackman is an American composer of contemporary classical music. She is a professor of music theory and composition at Rollins College, in Winter Park, Florida, where she has taught classes in harmony, counterpoint, Jewish music, music business, arts administration, Russian music, music...
(born 1948) - Lila LalauniLila LalauniLila Lalauni was a Greek pianist and composer. She was born in Athens, the granddaughter of composer Timotheos Xanthopoulos. She studied piano at the Vienna Academy and then composition with Robert Konta. She made her debut as a concert pianist in Vienna in about 1930, and graduated from the...
(1910–1996) - Bun-Ching LamBun-Ching LamLam Bun-Ching is a composer, pianist, and conductor.She holds a B.A. degree in piano performance from the Chinese University of Hong Kong . She obtained a scholarship from the University of California at San Diego, where she studied composition with Bernard Rands, Robert Erickson, Roger Reynolds,...
(born 1954) - Marta LambertiniMarta LambertiniMarta Lambertini is an Argentine composer. She was born in San Isidro, Buenos Aires, and studied at the Universidad Catolica Argentina with Roberto Caamano, Luis Gianneo and Gerardo Gandini, graduating in 1972...
(born 1937) - Eleni LambiriEleni LambiriEleni Lambiri was a Greek conductor and composer. She was born in Athens, the daughter of composer Gorgios Lambiris and niece of poet Andreas Laskaratos...
(c. 1882-8–1960) - Wanda LandowskaWanda LandowskaWanda Landowska was a Polish harpsichordist whose performances, teaching, recordings and writings played a large role in reviving the popularity of the harpsichord in the early 20th century...
(1879–1959) - Josephine LangJosephine LangJosephine Lang was a German composer. Fortunate enough to be born into a family rich with musical talent, Josephine Lang was the daughter of Theodor Lang, a violinist, and Regina Hitzelberger, opera singer...
(1815–1880) - Margaret Ruthven LangMargaret Ruthven LangMargaret Ruthven Lang was an American composer, affiliated with the Second New England School. Lang was also the first woman composer to have a composition performed by a major American symphony orchestra.-Life:...
(1867–1972) - Judith Lang ZaimontJudith Lang ZaimontJudith Lang Zaimont is an American music educator, music writer and composer.-Life:Judith Ann Lang was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and grew up in Bellerose, Queens, New York. She began studying piano at age five, and performed on The Lawrence Welk Show at age eleven...
(born 1945) - Vanessa LannVanessa LannVanessa Lann has been a composer and pianist since the age of five. She studied at the Tanglewood Institutewith Ruth Schonthal. She also attended the Westchester Conservatory of Musicat Harvard University, where her main teachers were Earl Kim, Peter Lieberson, and Leon Kirchner...
(born 1968) - Ana LaraAna Lara-Life:Ana Lara was born in Mexico City and studied at the National Conservatory of Music with Mario Lavista and Daniel Catán and later with Fredrico Ibarra. She continued her studies at the Warsaw Academy of Music with Zbigniew Rudzinski and Wlodzimierz Kotonski...
(born 1959) - Libby LarsenLibby LarsenLibby Larsen is one of America’s most performed living composers. She has created a catalogue of over 400 works spanning virtually every genre from intimate vocal and chamber music to massive orchestral works and over fifteen operas...
(born 1950) - Joan Mary LastJoan Mary LastJoan Mary Last was an English music educator, author and composer born in Littlehampton, Sussex, England. She studied piano with Mathilde Verne and made her debut as a pianist at the Aeolian Hall in London in 1926. After an injury to her hand ended her performing career, Last turned to teaching...
(born 1908) - Anne LauberAnne LauberAnne Lauber is a Canadian composer, conductor, and music educator of Swiss birth. A member of the Canadian League of Composers and an associate of the Canadian Music Centre, she has been commissioned to write works by the Quebec Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Canadian...
(born 1943) - Elodie LautenElodie LautenElodie Lauten is a composer described as postminimalist or a microtonalist.-Biography:Born in Paris, France, Lauten was classically trained as a pianist since age 7. She received a Master's in composition from New York University where she studied Western composition with Dinu Ghezzo and Indian...
(born 1950) - Luise Adolpha Le BeauLuise Adolpha Le BeauLuise Adolpha Le Beau was a German composer of classical music.-External links:*...
(1850–1927) - Louise Geneviève de Le HyeLouise Geneviève de Le HyeLouise Geneviève de Le Hye née Rousseau was a French pianist, organist and composer, who sometimes used the pseudonym M. Leon Saint-Amons. She was born in Charenton, France, daughter of Charles-Louis Rousseau and grand niece of philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau...
(1810–1838) - Constance Faunt Le Roy RuncieConstance Faunt Le Roy RuncieConstance Faunt Le Roy Runcie was an American pianist, author and composer. She was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the granddaughter of Welsh industrial reformer Robert Owen...
(1836–1911) - Anne LeBaronAnne LeBaronAlice Anne LeBaron is an United States composer and harpist.-Biography:Anne LeBaron holds a B.A. in music from the University of Alabama , an M.A. in music from the State University of New York at Stony Brook , and a D.M.A. from Columbia University...
(born 1953) - Francesca LebrunFrancesca LebrunFrancesca Lebrun, née Danzi , was a noted 18th-century German singer and composer.She was born Franziska Dorothea Danzi in Mannheim, Germany. Her father was the Italian-born cellist Innocenz Danzi and her younger brother was the composer and cellist Franz Danzi...
(1756–1791) - Sophie LebrunSophie LebrunSophie Lebrun Dulken was a German pianist and composer, the daughter of Munich court oboist Ludwig August Lebrun and singer and composer Francesca Lebrun . Sophie Lebrun was born in London while her mother was on tour...
(1781–1863) - Chan-Hae Lee (born 1945)
- Young-ja Lee (composer)Young-ja Lee (composer)Young-ja Lee is a South Korean music educator and composer. Born in Wonju, she studied at Ewha Womans University, the Conservatoire de Paris, and the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. She continued her education at the Manhattan School of Music...
(born 1931/36) - Nicola LeFanuNicola LeFanuNicola LeFanu is a British composer, academic, lecturer and director.-Life:Nicola LeFanu was born in England to William LeFanu and Elizabeth Maconchy . She studied at St Hilda's College, Oxford, before taking up a Harkness Fellowship at Harvard. In 1972 she won the Mendelssohn Scholarship...
(born 1947) - Ethel LeginskaEthel LeginskaEthel Leginska née Liggins was an English-American pianist, music teacher, composer and conductor. She was a pioneer of women's opportunity in music performance and conducting.-Life:...
(1886–1970) - Liza LehmannLiza LehmannLiza Lehmann was an English operatic soprano and composer, known for her vocal compositions.-Biography:She was born Elisabetha Nina Mary Frederica Lehmann in London. Her father was the German painter Rudolf Lehmann and her mother was Amelia Chambers, a music teacher, composer and arranger...
(1862–1918) - Clarisse LeiteClarisse LeiteClarisse Leite was a Brazilian composer, pianist and music educator. She was born in São Paulo and studied in São Paulo and France...
(1917-2003) - Vânia Dantas LeiteVânia Dantas LeiteVânia Dantas Leite is a Brazilian pianist, conductor, music educator and composer.-Life:Vânia Dantas Leite was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and studied composition with Frederico Egger and piano with Zila de M. Brito at the Escola Nacional de Musica. In 1974 she began to study electronic music...
(born 1945) - Helvi LeiviskäHelvi LeiviskäHelvi Leiviskä was a Finnish composer, writer, music educator and librarian at the Sibelius Academy.-Life:...
(1902–1982) - Edith LejetÉdith LejetÉdith Lejet is a French composer and music educator.-Biography:Lejet studied with Marcel Beaufils , Henri Challan , Marcel Bitsch , Jean Rivier and Andre Jolivet at the Paris Conservatory. She lived at the Casa Velasquez in Madrid from 1968 to 1970...
(born 1941) - Jeanne LeleuJeanne LeleuJeanne Leleu was a French pianist and composer. She was born in Saint-Mihiel and entered the Conservatoire de Paris at the age of nine, where she studied with Marguerite Long, Georges Caussade, Alfred Cortot and Charles-Marie Widor. With Geneviève Durony, Leleu gave the premiere performance of...
(1898–1979) - Laura LemonLaura LemonLaura Gertrude Lemon was a Canadian composer and songwriter who lived and worked in England. She also used the pseudonyms Austin Fleming and Ian Macdonald. Lemon was born in Guelph, Ontario, and grew up in Winnipeg...
(1866–1924) - Tania LeónTania LeonTania León is a Cuban composer and conductor who has been recognized as an educator and advisor to arts organizations.-León's Music:...
(born 1943) - Patricia K. Leonard (born 1969)
- Isabella LeonardaIsabella LeonardaIsabella Leonarda was an Italian composer from Novara. At the age of 16, she entered the Collegio di Sant'Orsola, an Ursuline convent, where she stayed for the remainder of her life...
(1620–1704) - Louísa Leonarda (1859–1926)
- Marina LeonardiMarina LeonardiMarina Leonardi is an Italian pianist and composer. Leonardi was born in Catania, Italy and studied piano with Oria Dell’Angelo, and composition with Alexander Mullenbach, Giovanni Ferrauto, Alessandro Solbiati and Eliodoro Sollima. After completing her studies, Leonardi took a position as...
(born 1970) - Zara LevinaZara LevinaZara Aleksandrovna Levina , February 5, 1906 – Moscow, June 27, 1976) was a pianist and composer. She was from a Jewish family. Zara Levina studied piano in the Odessa Conservatory, which she passed with a gold metal...
(1906–1976) - Claire LiddellClaire LiddellElizabeth Claire Liddell is a Scottish pianist and composer. She was born in Glasgow and studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music in Glasgow and the Royal College of Music in London with Lloyd Webber.-Works:...
(born in the 20th Century) - Helene LiebmannHelene LiebmannHélène Liebmann née Riese was a German pianist and composer. She was born in Berlin and studied music with Franz Lauska and Ferdinand Ries. A child prodigy, she made her debut before age 13 and published her Piano Sonata when she was 15. She married around 1814 and may have moved with her husband...
(1796–1835) - Nanna Magdalene Liebmann (1849–1935)
- Ekaterina LikoshinEkaterina LikoshinEkaterina Likoshin was a Russian pianist and composer who published short works for keyboard in St. Petersburg through publisher F.A. Dittmar. She is thought to have been employed by Count Uvarov.-Works:Selected works include:...
(fl. 1800–1810) - Lili'uokalani (1838–1917)
- Liza LimLiza LimLiza Lim is an Australian composer.Lim writes concert music as well as music theatre and has collaborated with artists on a number of installation and video projects...
(born 1966) - Maria LindsayMaria LindsayMaria Lindsay Bliss was an English composer and songwriter. She was born in Wimbledon and married the Reverend John Worthington Bliss in 1858. She was one of the first women to achieve commercial success as an English songwriter in the 19th century, obtaining an exclusive contract with publisher...
(1827–1898) - Hannah Linklater (born 1984)
- Anne LinnetAnne LinnetAnne Linnet Anne Linnet Anne Linnet (born 30 July 1953 in Århus, Denmark, is a Danish singer, musician and composer. She has released a number of solo albums and has also been a member of several bands, such as Shit & Chanel, Anne Linnet Band, and Marquis de Sade. Anne Linnet is one of a small...
(born 1953) - Mary LinwoodMary LinwoodMary Linwood was a needle woman who exhibited her worsted embroidery or crewel embroidery in Leicester and London, and was the school mistress of a private school later known as Mary Linwood Comprehensive School...
(1755/6–1845) - Zhuang LiuZhuang LiuZhuang Liu was a Chinese composer. She was born in Shanghai, and studied piano with her father as a child in Hongzhou. She graduated in composition from the Shanghai Conservatory, where she studied with Ding Shande, Sing Tong and Den Erjin...
(born 1932) - Beatriz LockhartBeatriz LockhartBeatriz Lockhart is a Uruguayan pianist, music educator and composer. She was born in Montevideo and studied composition at the Montevideo Conservatory and the Latin-American Center for Musical Studies of the Instituto Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires from 1969-70 with Carlos Estrada and Héctor...
(born 1944) - Kathleen Lockhart ManningKathleen Lockhart ManningKathleen Lockhart Manning was an American composer. She was born on a ranch in Hollywood, California, and studied piano and composition in Paris with Moritz Moszkowski, and later with Elizabeth Jordan Eichelberger and de Sales. She sang during the 1911-1912 season with the Hammerstein Opera...
(1890–1951) - Annea LockwoodAnnea LockwoodAnnea Lockwood is a New Zealand born American composer. She taught electronic music at Vassar College. Her work often involves recordings of natural found sounds...
(born 1939) - Kate LoderKate LoderKate Fanny Loder, later Lady Thompson, was an English composer and pianist.-Biography:Kate Loder was born in Bath, where the Loder family were prominent musicians. Her father was the flautist George Loder. Her mother, a piano teacher born Fanny Philpot, was the sister of the pianist Lucy Anderson...
(1825–1904) - Emma LomaxEmma LomaxLouise Emily Lomax was an English composer and pianist. She was born in Brighton, daughter of the curator of Brighton Free Library and Museum, and studied at the Brighton School of Music and the Royal Academy of Music in London...
(1873–1963) - Ruth LomonRuth LomonA native of Montreal, Canada, Ruth Lomon attended le Conservatoire de Quebec and McGill University. She continued her studies with Francis Judd Cooke at the New England Conservatory of Music and later with Witold Lutosławski at Dartington College in England.Since 1998, Ms...
(born 1930) - Celeste de Longpré HeckscherCeleste de Longpré HeckscherCeleste de Longpré Heckscher née Massey was an American composer.-Life:Celeste de Longpré Massey was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Robert Valentine Massey Jr. and Julia Whitney Pratt Massey. She began composing at the age of ten but her parents objected to her study of music...
(1860–1928) - Silvana Di LottiSilvana Di LottiSilvana Di Lotti is an Italian composer. She was born in Aglie Canavese, Turin, and studied in Turin and Salzburg with Roberto Goitre and Amalia Pierangeli Mussato, and in Siena with Luciano Berio and Pierre Boulez...
(born 1942) - Ivana LoudováIvana LoudováIvana Loudová is a Czech composer.Loudová was born at Chlumec nad Cidlinou. She studied at the Prague Conservatory and the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts under Miloslav Kabeláč and Emil Hlobil...
(born 1941) - Alexina LouieAlexina LouieAlexina Louie, OC, FRSC is a Canadian composer of Chinese descent who has written many pieces for orchestra, as well as pieces for solo piano.-Biography:Alexina Louie was born in Vancouver and received an...
(born 1949) - Maria de Lourdes MartinsMaria de Lourdes MartinsMaria de Lourdes Martins is a Portuguese pianist and composer.-Life:Maria de Lourdes Martins was born in Lisbon, Portugal, the daughter of Lisbon Conservatory teacher Maria Helena Martins. Martins studied at the Lisbon Conservatory with Abreu Mota, Macário Santiago Kastner and Marcos Garin...
(born 1926) - Mary LucasMary LucasMary Anderson Lucas née Juler was an English composer. She studied in Dresden and at the Royal Conservatory of Music with Herbert Howells and R.O. Morris. She married entrepreneur and inventor Ralph Lucas in 1903 and her son Colin became a noted architect...
(1882–1952) - Nada Ludvig-PecarNada Ludvig-PecarNada Ludvig-Pečar is a Croatian composer. She was a student of Miroslav Špiler and Lucijan Marija Škerjanc. Starting in 1969 she taught music theory at the Sarajevo Music Academy. She was also author of several music text books...
(1929–2008) - Maria Teresa LuengoMaria Teresa Luengo-Life:Maria Teresa Luengo was born in Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina in Buenos Aires in 1969, where she studied with Alberto Ginastera, Luis Gianneo, Juan Francisco Giacobbe, Roberto Caamaño and Gerardo Gandini...
(born 1940) - Enid LuffEnid LuffEnid Luff is a Welsh musician, music educator and composer.-Biography: Luff was born in Ebbw Vale, Wales, and trained as a pianist. She was educated at the University of Wales and Cambridge and graduated with a Master of Arts degree. She took time out from her career for a fimily, and then studied...
(born 1935) - Gudrun LundGudrun LundGudrun Lund is a Danish composer. She was born in Copenhagen and studied music, German and English at the Copenhagen Conservatory. After graduating, she took a position teaching at the The Copenhagen Day and Evening College of Education .Lund began composing in 1975 at the age of 45. At that time...
(born 1930) - Signe Lund (1868–1950)
- Deborah LurieDeborah LurieDeborah Lurie is an American composer, string arranger, and producer from Palto Alto, CA best known for her scores in the films Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, Dear John, and 9. Most recently, Lurie was honored with an ASCAP Film and Television Music Award in June 2011 for a Top Box Office Film...
(born 1972) - Elisabeth LutyensElisabeth LutyensElisabeth Lutyens, CBE was a significant English composer.- Early life and education :She was one of the five children of architect Sir Edwin Lutyens and his wife Emily, who was profoundly involved in the Theosophical Movement...
(1906–1983) - Lyudmila LyadovaLyudmila LyadovaLyudmila Lyadova is a Russian composer who lives and works in Moscow.-Life:Lyudmila Lyadova was born in Sverdlovsk into a family of professional musicians. Her father was Alexei Ivanovich Lyadov, a tenor soloist and violinist of the Sverdlovsk Opera Theatre, and her mother was Julia P. Lyadov who...
(born 1925) - Monica LynnMonica LynnMonica Lynn is an American composer who lives and works in the San Francisco Bay area. She graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Texas at Austin, where she studied with Stefan Kostka, David Neumeyer and Forrest Pierce...
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- Emma Maria MacfarrenEmma Maria MacfarrenEmma Maria Macfarren was an English pianist and composer who used the pseudonym Jules Brissac. She was born in London, and in 1846 married John Macfarren, brother of composer George Macfarren...
(1824–1895) - Marianella MachadoMarianella Machado-Life:Marianella Machado was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and studied at the Conservatorio de Musica Jose Angel Lamas. She later continued her studies in composition with William Banch, and in 1981 she attended Indiana University in Bloomington on a Venezuenlan government scholarship, graduating...
(born 1959) - Clara Angela MacironeClara Angela MacironeClara Angela Macirone was an Clara Angela Macirone was an Clara Angela Macirone was an [[English pianist and composer who published her music as C. A. Macirone. She was born in [[London]] and studied at the [[Royal Academy of Music]]...
(1821–1895) - Carmela MackennaCarmela MackennaCarmela Mackenna Subercaseaux was a Chilean pianist and composer. She was born in Santiago, Chile, the granddaughter of Chilean hero Juan Mackenna, and aunt of composer Alfonso Leng...
(1879–1962) - Elizabeth MaconchyElizabeth MaconchyDame Elizabeth Violet Maconchy Le Fanu DBE was an English composer, most noted for her cycle of thirteen string quartets.-Biography:...
(1907–1994) - Adela MaddisonAdela MaddisonKatharine Mary Adela Maddison, née Tindal , usually known as Adela Maddison, was a British composer of operas, ballets, instrumental music and songs. She was also a concert producer...
(1862/63–1929) - Mary MageauMary MageauMary Jane Mageau is an American born writer, harpsichordist and composer who lives and works in Australia. She was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and studied at DePaul University, Chicago, and the University of Michigan where she studied with Leon Stein, Leslie Bassett and Ross Lee Finney,...
(born 1934) - Ester MägiEster MägiEster Mägi is an Estonian composer, widely regarded as the First Lady of Estonian Music.Much of her work consists of choral and chamber music, but her few symphonic pieces are also highly regarded. She trained initially under Mart Saar at the Tallinn Conservatory, then from 1951-54 at the Moscow...
(born 1922) - Alma MahlerAlma MahlerAlma Maria Mahler Gropius Werfel was a Viennese-born socialite well known in her youth for her beauty and vivacity. She became the wife, successively, of composer Gustav Mahler, architect Walter Gropius, and novelist Franz Werfel, as well as the consort of several other prominent men...
(1879–1964) - Katerina MaierKaterina MaierKaterina Maier-Schiatti was a Russian composer, the daughter of violinist and composer Luigi Schiatti who lived in Russia from 1760 and played in the court orchestra. She published a set of three piano sonatas dedicated to Count Platon Zubov in St. Petersburg and a piano concerto in London around...
(fl. c. 1800) - Baronne Almaury de MaistreBaronne Almaury de MaistreBaronne Almaury de Maistre née Henriette-Marie de Sainte-Marie was a French composer. In 1831 she married Baron Charles-Augustin Almaury de Maistre. She was the cousin of Joseph de Maistre by marriage and maintained a popular salon. She composed etudes and an opera Roussalka which was presented in...
(1809–1875) - Maria MalibranMaria MalibranThe mezzo-soprano Maria Malibran , was one of the most famous opera singers of the 19th century. Malibran was known for her stormy personality and dramatic intensity, becoming a legendary figure after her death at age 28...
(1808–1836) - Florentina MalláFlorentina MalláFlorentina Mallá was a Czech composer and pianist. She studied piano with Josef Jiranek at the Prague Conservatory, graduating in 1913 and later studied composition privately with Vitezslav Novak. She suspended her work as a composer during the Communist years...
(1891–1973) - Carin Malmlöf-ForsslingCarin Malmlöf-ForsslingCarin Malmlöf-Forssling was a Swedish organist, choir director and composer. She was born in Gävle, Sweden, and completed her early studies in organ and directing in Uppsala in 1937. She continued her studies in composition with Melcher Melchers from 1941-1943 at the Royal Academy of Music in...
(1916-2005) - Maria Dolores MalumbresMaria Dolores MalumbresMaria Dolores Malumbres Carranza is a Spanish pianist, music educator and composer.-Life:Maria Dolores Malumbres was born in Alfaro, La Rioja. She first studied music with her violinist father Jose Luis Malumbres and in Cordoba in 1948...
(born 1931) - Ursula MamlokUrsula MamlokUrsula Mamlok is a German-born, American composer and teacher.-Education and influences:Mamlok was born as Ursula Meyer in Berlin, Germany and studied piano and composition with Professor Gustav Ernest and Emily Weissgerber until her family fled Nazi Germany following the nationwide pogrom in 1938...
(born 1923) - Anna Maria Manalo (born 1966)
- Lam ManyeeLam ManyeeLam Manyee or Lin Minyi is a Chinese composer and music producer. She was born in Hong Kong and graduated from the University of Hong Kong in psychology and sociology. Later she studied piano at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome from 1973-76 with Franco Evangelisti and composition at the...
(born 1950) - Marcelle de ManziarlyMarcelle de ManziarlyMarcelle de Manziarly was a French pianist, music educator, conductor and composer. She was born in Kharkiv, studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and at the age of 23 had already composed two mature works...
(1899–1989) - 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...
(born 1971) - Myriam MarbeMyriam MarbeMyriam Marbe was a Romanian composer and pianist.Marbe received her first piano lessons from her mother, who was a pianist. She studied at the Bucharest Conservatory from 1944 to 1954, where she took classes in piano with Florica Musicescu and Silvia Capăţână, as well as in composition with Leon...
(1931–1997) - Rosanna Scalfi MarcelloRosanna Scalfi Marcello-Life:Rosanna Scalfi was a gondola singer of Venetian arie di battello, and was taken as a singing student by Italian nobleman, magistrate, writer and composer Benedetto Marcello about 1723. The two were secretly wed in a religious ceremony on 20 May 1728, but his marriage to a commoner was...
(fl. 1723–1742) - Bunita MarcusBunita MarcusBunita Marcus, born May 5, 1952 in Madison, Wisconsin, began studying composition at the age of sixteen and worked in both electronic and instrumental mediums while at the University of Wisconsin. In 1981 she received a Ph.D...
(born 1952) - Tera de Marez OyensTera de Marez OyensTera de Marez Oyens was a Dutch composer.De Marez Oyens was born as Woltera Gerharda Wansink. She studied at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with a major in piano. Here, her talent for composition was discovered as she wrote her first pieces. These included chamber music and song cycles...
(1932–1996) - Catya MaréCatya MaréCatya Maré is a composer, music producer and classical crossover violinist from Denmark, now located in Los Angeles, CA. She has performed as a classical violinist since her early childhood, and has done numerous performances at concert halls and major museums, such as National Galerie Berlin,...
(composer and violinist) - Maria de Raschenau (fl. 1690s–1703)
- Maria de VentadornMaria de VentadornMaria de Ventadorn was a patron of troubadour poetry at the end of the 12th century.Maria was one of las tres de Torena, "the three of Turenne", the three daughters of viscount Raymond II of Turenne and of Elise de Séverac. These three, according to Bertran de Born, possessed tota beltat terrena,...
(fl. late 12th century) - Ljubica MaricLjubica MaricLjubica Marić was considered to be one of the most original composers to emerge from Yugoslavia. She was a pupil of Josip Štolcer-Slavenski. She was known for being inspired by Byzantine Orthodox church music...
(1909–2003) - Marie de FranceMarie de FranceMarie de France was a medieval poet who was probably born in France and lived in England during the late 12th century. She lived and wrote at an undisclosed court, but was almost certainly at least known about at the royal court of King Henry II of England...
(c. 1160–1215) - Maroie de Dregnau de Lille (fl. 13th century)
- Florence Ashton MarshallFlorence Ashton MarshallFlorence Ashton Marshall née Thomas was an English writer, composer and conductor. She was born on March 30, 1843 in Rome, Italy, the daughter of Vicar Canon Thomas of All Hallows Barking by the Tower, and studied music at the Royal Academy of Music with William Sterndale Bennett, John Goss and G.A...
(1843–after 1911) - Pamela J. MarshallPamela J. MarshallPamela J. Marshall is an American horn player and composer. She was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, and studied horn, electronic music and conducting at the Eastman and Yale Schools of Music. After completing her education, she settled in Lexington, Massachusetts...
(born 1954) - Roberta MartinRoberta MartinRoberta Martin was an American gospel composer, singer, pianist, arranger and choral organizer, helped launch the careers of many other gospel artists through her group, The Roberta Martin Singers.-Early years:...
(1907–1969) - Odaline de la MartinezOdaline de la MartinezOdaline de la Martinez is a Cuban-American composer and conductor, currently residing in the UK. She is the artistic director of , a London-based contemporary music ensemble which she co-founded in 1976 with New Zealander flautist , and was the first woman to conduct at the BBC Promenade Concerts ...
(born 1949) - Marianne von MartínezMarianne von MartinezMarianna [Marianne] von Martines [Martinez] , was a singer, pianist and composer of the classical period.-Background:...
(1744–1812) - Paola MassarenghiPaola MassarenghiPaola Massarenghi was an Italian composer. Only one of her works survives, Quando spiega l'insegn'al sommo padre, a spiritual madrigal. It was printed in Arcangelo Gherardini's Primo libro de madrigali a cinque voci...
(fl. 1565–1585) - Elizabeth MassonElizabeth MassonElizabeth Masson was an English mezzo-soprano singer and composer. She was born in Scotland and studied singing with Mrs. Henry Smart and Giuditta Pasta in Italy. She made her debut at Ella's Second Subscription concert in 1831, and sang regularly at Philharmonic Society Concerts...
(1806–1865) - Kikuko MasumotoKikuko Masumotois a Japanese pianist, music educator, composer, and ethno-musicologist. She was born in Japan and studied music at the Toho Gakuen School of Music and the University of Tokyo. After completing her education, she took a position teaching music at Toho Gakuen....
(born 1937) - Celeste Jaguaribe de Matos FariaCeleste Jaguaribe de Matos FariaCeleste Jaguaribe de Matos Faria was a Brazilian composer, poet, singer and teacher who used the pseudonym Stella Bomilcar. She was born in Rio de Janeiro, daughter of João Paulo Gomes de Mattos and Joana de Alencar Jaguaribe Gomes de Mattos. She first studied piano in Fortaleza and later at the...
(1873–1938) - Bernadetta MatuszczakBernadetta MatuszczakBernadetta Matuszczak is a Polish composer. She was born in Toruń, Poland, and studied with Zygmunt Sitowski for music theory and with Irena Kurpisz-Stefanowa for piano at the State Higher School of Music in Pozna. Later she studied with Tadeusz Szeligowski and Kazimierz Sikorski for composition...
(born 1937) - Emilie MayerEmilie MayerEmilie Mayer was a German composer of Romantic music. She was a pupil of Carl Loewe....
(1812–1883) - Eta Mayseyewna Tïrmand (1917-?))
- Marilyn MazurMarilyn MazurMarilyn Mazur is a percussionist, drummer, composer, vocalist, pianist, dancer and bandleader. She was born in New York and has lived in Denmark from age six. She is of Polish and African-American descent. Since 1975, she has worked as a percussionist with various groups, among them Six Winds with...
(born 1955) - Mona McBurneyMona McBurneyMona Margaret McBurney was a British pianist, teacher and composer who lived and worked in Australia.-Life:Mona McBurney was born in Douglas, Isle of Man, the youngest of six children of teacher and scholar Isaiah McBurney and art and music teacher Margaret McBurney...
(1862–1932) - Cecilia McDowallCecilia McDowallCecilia McDowall has been described by the International Record Review as having ‘a communicative gift that is very rare in modern music’ and Gramophone has said of her that ‘she has an instinctive understanding of the medium allied to the ability to speak directly to the listener wholly without...
(born 1951) - Susan McFarland ParkhurstSusan McFarland ParkhurstSusan McFarland Parkhurst was an American writer and composer.-Life:Susan McFarland was born in Leicester, Massachusetts, and composed popular songs and parlour piano solos during the 1860s. She was first recorded as an accompanist and soloist at a Methodist concert in New York in 1860.She married...
(1836–1918) - Diana McIntoshDiana McIntoshDiana McIntosh is a contemporary Canadian composer and pianist who is currently based in Winnipeg, Manitoba...
(born 1937) - Priscilla McLeanPriscilla McLean-Life:Priscilla Taylor was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, the daughter of business manager Conrad and Grace Taylor, and studied at University of Massachusetts Lowell with Hugo Norden, graduating in 1965...
(born 1942) - Jenny Helen McLeod (born 1941)
- Cindy McTeeCindy McTeeCindy McTee is an American composer and educator.-Education:Cindy McTee studied at Pacific Lutheran University, the Academy of Music in Kraków, Yale University, and the University of Iowa...
(born 1953) - Joyce MekeelJoyce MekeelJoyce Mekeel was a composer and harpsichordist. She was a member of Sigma Alpha Iota.Mekeel studied at the Paris Conservatory and Yale, her teachers including Nadia Boulanger and Earl Kim. Later she studied anthropology and begun sculpting. She taught at the New England Conservatory and Boston...
(1931–1997) - Fanny MendelssohnFanny MendelssohnFanny Cäcilie Mendelssohn , later Fanny Hensel, was a German pianist and composer, the sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn and granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn...
(1805–1847) - Sophie MenterSophie MenterSophie Menter was a German pianist and composer who became the favorite female student of Franz Liszt. She was called l'incarnation de Liszt in Paris because of her robust, electrifying playing style and was considered one of the greatest piano virtuosos of her time.Sophie Menter was born in...
(1846–1918) - María de las Mercedes Adam de ArósteguiMaría de las Mercedes Adam de ArósteguiMaría Emma de las Mercedes Adam de Aróstegui was a Cuban pianist and composer who lived and worked in Spain. She was born in Camagüey, Cuba, and moved to Spain with her family when she was nine years old. She studied with Joaquin Zuazagoitia in Santiago de Compostela and continued her studies in...
(1873–1957) - Zhanneta Lazarevna Metallidi (born 1934)
- Elisabeth MeyerElisabeth Meyer (composer)Katharina Elisabeth Meyer née Tuxen was a Danish composer. She was born in Svendborg, Denmark, sister of singer Marie English. She studied music with her mother and possibly composers Hans Jørgen Malling and Ludwig Birkedal Barford. She married and had four children, and died in...
(1859–1927) - Teresa MilanolloTeresa MilanolloTeresa Milanollo was an Italian violinist and composer. She performed as a duo with her sister Maria-Margherita, who was two years younger and also a violinist.-Biography:...
(1827–1904) - Silvina MilsteinSilvina MilsteinSilvina Milstein is an Argentine composer and scholar of twentieth century music, living in the United Kingdom and teaching at King's College London...
(born 1956) - Zarrina MirshakarZarrina MirshakarZarrina Mirshakar is a Tajik composer. She was born in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, into the family of the national poet Mirsaid Mirshakar...
(born 1947) - Haruna MiyakeHaruna Miyakeis a Japanese pianist and composer who also uses the name Haruna Shibata. She was born in Tokyo and studied music there, making her debut as a pianist at age 14 playing Mozart with the Tokyo Symphony orchestra. She continued her studies at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City, and...
(born 1942) - Ida Georgina MobergIda Georgina MobergIda Georgina Moberg was a Finnish composer and conductor. She was born in Helsinki, and took piano and singing lessons as a child. She studied at the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra School with Richard Faltin and Jean Sibelius, and at the St. Petersburg Conservatory...
(1859–1947) - Benna MoeBenna MoeBenna Olufine Charlotte Moe was a Danish composer and musician.She was an organ soloist, but also a pianist and singer. She composed music for orchestra, chamber music and organ music. Most known among her works is the ballet Hybris, première in Copenhagen 1930...
(1897–1983) - Meredith MonkMeredith MonkMeredith Jane Monk is an American composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer. Since the 1960s, Monk has created multi-disciplinary works which combine music, theatre, and dance, recording extensively for ECM Records.-Life and work:Meredith Monk is primarily known for her...
(born 1942) - Helene de MontgeroultHelene de MontgeroultHélène de Nervo de Montgeroult was a French pianist and composer. She was born into an aristocratic family and studied piano with Nicolas Joseph Hüllmandel and Jan Ladislav Dussek...
(1764–1836) - Dorothy Rudd MooreDorothy Rudd Moore-Life:Dorothy Rudd was born in New Castle, Delaware, and took piano lessons as a child. She graduated from Howard University in 1963 where she studied with Mark Fax, and continued her studies with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in 1963 and Chou Wen-Chung in New York in 1965.Rudd worked as a private music...
(born 1940) - Mary Carr MooreMary Carr MooreMary Carr Moore was an American composer, conductor, vocalist, and music educator of the twentieth century. She is best remembered today for her association with the musical life of the West Coast.-Early life:...
(1873–1957) - Charlotte MoormanCharlotte MoormanMadeline Charlotte Moorman Garside was an American cellist and performance artist.She was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. She studied cello from age ten and won a scholarship to Centenary College where she took her B.A. in music in 1955. She received her M.A...
(1933–1991) - Vincenza Garelli della MoreaVincenza Garelli della MoreaVincenza Garelli della Morea née Valeggio was an Italian pianist and composer. She also used the pseudonym Centa della Morea.-Biography:...
(1859–after 1924) - Virginie Morel-du VergerVirginie Morel-du VergerVirginie Morel du Verger was a French pianist, music teacher and composer. Virginie Morel was born in Metz, and studied with Louis Adam at the Paris Conservatoire in 1814 where she received first prize in piano. She later continued her studies with Ferdinand Hummel and became pianist to the...
(1799–1869) - Nelly MorettoNelly MorettoNelly Moretto was an Argentine composer and pianist.She was born in Rosario, Argentina, and studied at the National Conservatory and the Torcuato di Tella Institute in Buenos Aires, and at the University of Illinois. She worked for a time at the electronic studio Estudio de Fonología Musical at...
(1925–1978) - Junko Mori (born 1948)
- Angela MorleyAngela MorleyAngela Morley was an English composer and conductor. Morley was born in Leeds, Yorkshire in 1924, and played saxophone in a number of dance bands, and in 1944 became a member of Geraldo's band....
(born 1924) - Susan Morton BlausteinSusan Morton BlausteinSusan Morton Blaustein is an American pianist and composer. She was born in Palo Alto, California, and studied piano and composition at Pomona College with Karl Kohn, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1975. She continued her studies in composition at the Liege Conservatory in Belgium...
(born 1953) - Gladys Smuckler MoskowitzGladys Smuckler MoskowitzGladys Smuckler Moskowitz née Young is an American singer, composer and teacher. She graduated from Brooklyn College with bachelor and masters degrees, and worked as a teacher, choir director and composer. She performed in the United States and Europe as a folk singer. In 2003 her chamber opera...
(born 1928) - Nadežka MosusovaNadežka MosusovaNadežka Mosusova is a Serbian composer and musicologist. She was born in Subotica, Serbia, and studied composition with Predrag Milosevic at the Belgrade Academy of Music. She continued her studies at the Salzburg Seminar on Contemporary American Music and received her Doctorate in Musicology in...
(born 1928) - Krystyna Moszumanska-NazarKrystyna Moszumanska-NazarKrystyna Moszumańska-Nazar was a Ukraine pianist, music educator and composer who lived and worked in Poland. She was born in Lwów, Ukraine, and after World War II studied at the Kraków Conservatory with Stanisław Wiechowicz for composition and Jan Hoffman for piano...
(1924-2009) - Ann MounseyAnn MounseyAnn Shepard Mounsey Bartholomew was an English pianist, organist and composer. She was born in London and studied with J.B. Longier. After 1828 she became the organist at various London churches, serving at St. Verdast's on Foster Lane for nearly fifty years...
(1811–1891) - Gabriela MoyseowiczGabriela MoyseowiczGabriela Maria Moyseowicz is a Polish composer and pianist.- Biography :Gabriela Moyseowicz played piano skillfully at the age of three. She was recognized as a musical prodigy at music schools in Gdańsk, Bytom and Gliwice. At the age of 13, Gabriela composed a 25-minute concerto for two pianos...
(born 1944) - Maria Anna MozartMaria Anna MozartMaria Anna Walburga Ignatia Mozart , nicknamed "Nannerl", was a musician, the older sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and daughter of Leopold and Anna Maria Mozart.-Childhood:...
(1751–1829) - Geraldine MuchaGeraldine MuchaGeraldine Mucha née Thomsen is a Scottish composer of Orcadian descent. She was born in London and studied music with her father. Later she studied composition with Benjamin Dale and Allan Bush at the Royal Academy of Music. She married Czech writer Jiri Mucha and had a son in 1948...
(born 1917) - Johanna Müller-HermannJohanna Müller-HermannJohanna Müller-Hermann was an Austrian composer and pedagogue. She studied under Alexander von Zemlinsky, and was one of the foremost European female composers of orchestral and chamber music in her day...
(1878–1941) - Gráinne MulveyGráinne MulveyGráinne Mulvey is an Irish composer.-Biography:She studied with Eric Sweeney at Waterford Regional Technical College, Hormoz Farhat at Trinity College Dublin and Agustín Fernández at Queen's University, Belfast. In 1999 she gained a DPhil in Composition at the University of York under Nicola LeFanu...
(born 1966) - Isabel MundryIsabel Mundry-Biography:Isabel Mundry was born in Schlüchtern in 1963 and studied composition at the Hochschule der Künste and electronic music, musicology and history at the Berlin Technische Universität. From 1991 to 1994 she taught at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin and furthered her studies in Frankfurt...
(born 1963) - Helena MunktellHelena MunktellHelena Mathilda Munktell was a Swedish composer. She was born in Grycksbo, Dalarna, into a wealthy family, the youngest of nine children of Henry and Augusta Munktell...
(1852–1919) - Catherine Murphy UrnerCatherine Murphy UrnerCatherine Murphy Urner Shatto was an American composer.-Life:Catherine Murphy Urner was born in Mitchell, Indiana, the third of seven children of Southern Illinois Normal College principal Edward Everett Urner and writer Jessie Robertson Urner...
(1891–1942) - Thea MusgraveThea MusgraveThea Musgrave CBE is a Scottish composer of opera and classical music.-Biography:Born in Barnton, Edinburgh, Thea Musgrave studied at the University of Edinburgh and in Paris as a pupil of Nadia Boulanger...
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- Maria Francesca NascinbeniMaria Francesca NascinbeniMaria Francesca Nascinbeni was an Italian composer. She studied in Ancona, Italy, with Augustinian monk Scipio Lazzarini. At age sixteen she published two volumes of music including songs, canzonas, madrigals and motets for organ and one, two and three voices. All that is known of her life is...
(c. 1640–1680) - Alicia Adélaide NeedhamAlicia Adélaide NeedhamAlicia Adélaide Needham was an Irish composer of songs and ballads. She was born in Ireland, studied at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music, and wrote songs and ballads in an Irish traditional style. About two hundred of her songs exist and some have been issued on recordings...
(1872–1945) - Sheila Mary Nelson (born 1936)
- Susanna NerantziSusanna NerantziSusanna Nerantzi was a Greek pianist and composer. It is thought that Susanna Nerantzi was born in Zakynthos, Greece. She is the earliest recorded modern Greek woman composer...
(fl. 1830–1840) - Vojna NešicVojna NešicOlivera Vojna Nešić is a Serbian composer and professor at the University of Pristina Faculty of Arts, in North Kosovo.-Education:...
(born 1947) - Laura Constance NetzelLaura Constance NetzelLaura Constance Netzel, née Pistolekors, was born in Rantasalmi, Finland. She was a Swedish composer, pianist, conductor and concert organizer and sometimes used the pseudonym Lago. She married professor Wilhelm Netzel, and died in Stockholm.-Reference:...
(1839–1927) - Amy X NeuburgAmy X NeuburgAmy X Neuburg is an American composer, vocalist, and electronic musician.She holds a B.M. degree in voice from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, a B.A. in linguistics from Oberlin College, and an M.F.A...
(living; born in the 20th Century) - Olga NeuwirthOlga NeuwirthOlga Neuwirth is an Austrian composer.As a child at the age of seven, Neuwirth began lessons on trumpet. She later studied composition in Vienna at the Vienna Academy of Music and Performing Arts under Erich Urbanner, while studying at the Electroacoustic Institute...
(born 1968) - Dika NewlinDika NewlinDika Newlin was a pianist, professor, musicologist, composer and punk rock singer. She received a Ph.D from Columbia University at the age of 22. She was one of the last living students of Arnold Schoenberg, a Schoenberg scholar and a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond from...
(born 1923) - Alberta NicholsAlberta NicholsAlberta Nichols was a popular songwriter of the 1930s and 40s. Together with her husband, lyricist Mann Holiner, they composed over 100 songs, of which their most famous were "Until the Real Thing Comes Along" and "A Love Like Ours".-Biography :Nichols was born in Lincoln, Illinois on December 3,...
(1898–1957) - Julia Niewiarowska-BrzozowskaJulia Niewiarowska-BrzozowskaJulia Niewiarowska-Brzozowska was a Polish Romantic era composer. She was born in Warsaw.-References:...
(1827–1891) - Tatyana Nikolayeva (1924–1993)
- Ilza NogueiraIlza NogueiraIlza Nogueira is a Brazilian composer, music educator and musicologist.-Biography:Ilza Nogueira was born in Salvador, Bahia. She studied composition under Ernst Widmer in 1969 at the School of Music and Performing Arts at the Federal University of Bahia...
(born 1948) - Gladys NordenstromGladys Nordenstrom-Life:Gladys Nordenstrom was born in Mora, Minnesota. She studied music at the Institute of Fine Arts at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where she received Bachelors and Masters degrees. She studied under and then married Austrian composer Ernst Krenek there in 1950...
(born 1924) - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah NortonCaroline Elizabeth Sarah NortonCaroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton was a famous British society beauty, feminist, social reformer, and author of the early and mid nineteenth century.-Youth and Marriage:...
(1808–1877) - Jacqueline NovaJacqueline NovaJacqueline Nova Sondag was a Colombian musician, author and composer.-Biography:Jacqueline Nova Sondag was born 6 January 1935, in Ghent, Belgium. Her family later moved to Bucaramanga, Colombia, and then in 1955 to Bogotá. Nova began studying piano as a child and in 1958 was admitted to the...
(1935–1975) - Maude NugentMaude NugentMaude Nugent Nugent, [Jerome], Maude . American singer and composer. She began her career in vaudeville, achieving tremendous success in 1896 with her song Sweet Rosie O’Grady, which became the archetypal waltz ballad of the 1890’s...
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- Ai OtsukaAi Otsukais a Japanese pop singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and actress from Suminoe-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. She is a popular artist on the Avex Trax label and is best known for her 2003 hit "Sakuranbo," which stayed in the Top 200 Oricon Weekly Singles Chart for 103 weeks.A piano...
(born 1982) - Jane O'LearyJane O'LearyJane O'Leary in an American musician and composer who lives and composes in Ireland.-Biography:Jane O'Leary was born in Hartford, Connecticut. She graduated from Vassar College and studied with Milton Babbitt at Princeton University where she received a PhD in composition...
(born 1946) - Jana ObrovskáJana Obrovská-Biography:Jana Obrovská was born in Prague, the daughter of painter and sculptor Jakub Obrovský. Her early studies were piano with B. Kabeláčová-Rixová and theory with Jaroslav Řídký. At the Prague Conservatory she studied with M. Krejčí and Emil Hlobil from 1949-55. She won a prize in the 1972...
(1930–1987) - Amado Santos Ocampo (born 1925)
- Irina OdagescuIrina OdagescuIrina Odăgescu-Ţuţuianu is a Romanian music educator and composer.-Biography:Irina Odăgescu was born in Bucharest, and studied at the Bucharest Music Conservatoire with Tudor Ciortea and Andrei Vieru. She also took summer courses with Iannis Xenakis, György Ligeti and Karlheinz Stockhausen...
(born 1937) - Sook-Ja OhSook-Ja OhSook-Ja Oh is a Korean composer. She was born in Seoul, South Korea and studied at Kyung Hee University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in 1971 and a Master of Arts in 1973...
(born 1941) - Marguerite OlagnierMarguerite OlagnierMarguerite Olagnier was a French singer and composer who sang at the Théâtre des Variétés in Paris and became director of the Théâtre de l'Oratorio. Olagnier composed Le Saïs an "exotic opera" which was staged in Paris in December 1881. She also wrote two other operas which were never performed...
(1844–1906) - Elisabeth OlinElisabeth OlinElisabeth Olin was a Swedish opera singer and a music composer. She is referred to as the first Swedish Opera prima donna. She was a court-singer . She was the first female member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music...
(1740–1828) - Vivienne OliveVivienne OliveVivienne Olive is a British-Australian composer and music educator.-Life:Vivienne Olive studied piano, harpsichord, organ and music theory at Trinity College of Music in London. After 1968, she continued her education at the University of York, where she graduated in composition in 1975...
(born 1950) - Jocy de OliveiraJocy de OliveiraJocy de Oliveira is a Brazilian pianist, multimedia artist and composer.-Biography:Jocy de Oliveira was born in Curitiba and grew up in São Paulo, Brazil. She studied in São Paulo with Joseph Kliass, in Paris with Marguerite Long, and in St. Louis with Robert Wykes. She received a Master of Arts...
(born 1936) - Betty OliveroBetty Olivero-Biography:Olivero was born in Tel Aviv, Israel to parents Dora Kapon and Eli Olivero. She graduated with a Bachelor in Music from the Rubin Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University in 1978, where she studied with Ilona Vincze-Kraus for piano and Yizhak Sadai and Leon Schidlowsky for composition...
(born 1954) - Pauline OliverosPauline OliverosPauline Oliveros is an American accordionist and composer who is a central figure in the development of post-war electronic art music....
(born 1932) - Cornélie van OosterzeeCornélie van OosterzeeCornélie van Oosterzee was a Dutch pianist and composer.-Biography:Cornelie van Oosterzee was born in Batavia, now Jakarta. She began piano lessons at the age of 16 and later studied music theory with Willem Nicolaï...
(1863–1943) - Daphne OramDaphne OramDaphne Oram was a British composer and electronic musician. She was the creator of the "Oramics" technique for creating electronic sounds....
(1925–2003) - Cecilie OreCecilie Ore-Biography:Cecilie Ore was born in Oslo, Norway, and studied piano at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. She also studied piano in Paris, and composition at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht, and with Ton de Leeuw at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam...
(born 1954) - Caroline Orger (1818–1892)
- Gabriela OrtizGabriela Ortiz-Biography:Gabriela Ortiz Torres was born in Mexico City of parents who were folk musicians. She learned folk music at home, and then studied in Paris at the Ecole Normale de Musique. She returned to Mexico City due to the illness of her mother, and studied composition there with Mario Lavista at...
(born 1964) - Michiru OshimaMichiru Oshima, is a Japanese composer who has worked on several video game, movie, and television titles. Her works include composition for the video games Genghis Khan II: Clan of the Gray Wolf for Super Nintendo, Ico for PlayStation 2, Legend of Legaia for the PlayStation , is a Japanese composer who has...
(born 1961) - Reine Colaço Osorio-SwaabReine Colaço Osorio-SwaabReine Colaço Osorio-Swaab was a Dutch composer.-Biography:Reine Colaço Osorio-Swaab was born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She developed an interest in composing music after her children were grown and her husband dead, and studied with Ernest W. Mulder for composition and Henk Badings for melody...
(1881–1971) - Rebecca Oswald (born 20th Century)
- Anna Caroline OuryAnna Caroline OuryAnna Caroline Oury was a German pianist and composer of French ancestry. Anna Caroline de Belleville-Oury was born in Landshut, Bavaria, Germany. She was the daughter of a French aristocrat who was the director of the national Court Opera in Mannheim...
(1808–1880) - Halyna OvcharenkoHalyna OvcharenkoDr. Halyna Ovcharenko is an SPNM-shortlisted composer. Born in Lugansk in Ukraine, Halyna Ovcharenko was given a scholarship at the age of eleven to the Musical College of the Kiev State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, a specialist school for talented children. After graduating in Music from the...
(born 1963) - Morfydd Owen (1891–1918)
- Terry Winter OwensTerry Winter OwensTerry Winter Owens was an American composer and music educator.-Biography:Terry Winter Owens was born in New York, and began composing at age ten. She took music lessons as a child and won a scholarship to study with Lisa Szylagi Grad. Later she studied composition with Ralph Shapey and Mark...
(1941–2007) - María Luisa OzaitaMaría Luisa OzaitaMaria Luisa Ozaita is a Spanish pianist, harpsichorist, musicologist, conductor and composer.-Biography:Maria Luisa Ozaita Marquis was born in Barakaldo, Vizcaya, in Spain. She studied with Fernando Remacha, and continued her studies in in Copenhagen with Leif Thybo and K.J. Isaksen through a MFA...
(born 1939) - Anne-Marie ØrbeckAnne-Marie ØrbeckAnne-Marie Ørbeck was a Norwegian pianist and composer.-Biography:Anne-Marie Ørbeck was born in Oslo in 1911 of parents Anton Ørbeck and Inga Louise Larsen . She studied piano in Oslo and in Berlin with Sandra Drouker...
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- Albena Petrovic-VratchanskaAlbena Petrovic-VratchanskaAlbena Petrovic-Vratchanska is a composer, pianist and musical pedagogue.In 2007 she received the prestigious commission of the Cultural Year 2007 in Luxembourg and the Greater Region for the composition of "Gladius" for electric guitar and instrumental ensemble.The Cultural Commission and Madam...
(born 1965) - Else Marie PadeElse Marie PadeElse Marie Pade is a Danish composer.An educated composer, Pade pioneered electronic music and concrete music in Denmark...
(born 1924) - Younghi Pagh-PaanYounghi Pagh-Paan-Life:Pagh‑Paan was born in Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea. She studied music at the Seoul National University from 1965-71. In 1974 she received a DAAD scholarship to study in Germany and entered the Freiburg Musikhochschule, where she studied composition with Klaus Huber, analysis with...
(born 1945) - Priti PaintalPriti PaintalPriti Paintal is an East Indian composer, performer, music producer and promoter who lives and works in England.-Life:Priti Paintal was born in New Delhi, India, and is the daughter of the distinguished Indian scientist Prof Autar Singh Paintal. She trained in both Indian and Western music...
(born 1960) - Aleksandra PakhmutovaAleksandra PakhmutovaAleksandra "Alya" Nikolayevna Pakhmutova has remained one of the best known figures in Soviet and later Russian popular music since she first achieved fame in her homeland in the 1960s....
(born 1929) - Juliet PalmerJuliet PalmerJuliet Palmer is a contemporary composer living in Toronto, Canada-Career:Juliet Kiri Palmer was born in New Zealand in 1967, where she completed graduate studies in composition, clarinet and time-based art at the University of Auckland. She moved to New York City in 1990 to work with...
(born 1969) - Roxanna PanufnikRoxanna PanufnikRoxanna Panufnik is a British composer of Polish heritage. She is the daughter of the composer and conductor Sir Andrzej Panufnik....
(born 1968) - Mme PapavoineMme PapavoineMme. Papavoine née Pellecier was a French composer. She married violinist Papavoine some time before 1755.-Works:...
(born c. 1735, fl. 1755-61) - Maria Theresa von ParadisMaria Theresa von ParadisMaria Theresia Paradis , was an Austrian music performer and composer who lost her sight at an early age, and for whom Mozart may have written his Piano Concerto No...
(1759–1824) - Graciela ParaskevaidisGraciela ParaskevaidisGraciela Paraskevaidis is an Argentine writer and composer of Greek ancestry who lives and works in Uruguay.-Life:Graciela Paraskevaidis was born in Buenos Aires...
(born 1940) - Hilda ParedesHilda ParedesHilda Paredes is one of Mexico's leading contemporary composers, and has received many prestigious awards for her work...
(born 1959) - Maria Hester ParkMaria Hester ParkMaria Hester Park was a British composer, pianist, and singer. She was also a noted piano teacher who taught many students in the nobility, including the Duchess of Devonshire and her daughters....
(1760–1813) - Dorothy ParkeDorothy ParkeDorothy Parke was a composer from Ireland, noted for children's works. She was born in County Londonderry, Ireland, and studied piano with Ambrose Coviello and composition with Paul Corder at the Royal Academy of Music in London. After completing her studies, she settled in Belfast and married...
(1904–1990) - Maria Frances ParkeMaria Frances ParkeMaria Frances Parke was an English soprano, pianist and composer of keyboard works.-Biography:Parke was born in London. Her father was the oboist John Parke, while her uncle was the oboist and composer William Thomas Parke....
(1772–1822) - Alice ParkerAlice ParkerAlice Parker is an American composer, arranger and conductor. Many of her arrangements were done in cooperation with Robert Shaw....
(born 1925) - Annie PattersonAnnie PattersonAnnie Wilson Patterson was an Irish organist, music educator, writer and composer.-Life:Annie Patterson was born in Lurgan, County Armagh, Ireland, and was related through her mother's family to Lord Macaulay...
(1868–1934) - Marcela PaviaMarcela Pavia-Life:Marcela Pavia was born in Argentina of Italian descent, and also maintains Italian citizenship. She studied composition at the National University of Rosario in Argentina with Dante Grela, Francisco Franco and Donatoni Kröpfl, and also in Milan, Biella and Academy Chigi of Siena, studying...
(born 1957) - Maggi PayneMaggi PayneMaggi Payne is a composer, flutist, video artist, recording engineer/editor, and historical remastering engineer who creates electroacoustic, instrumental, and vocal works, and works involving visuals ....
(born 1945) - Sarah PeeblesSarah PeeblesSarah Peebles is an American-Canadian composer, improviser, and installation artist. She is one of the few non-Japanese performers of the shō, a traditional mouth organ used in gagaku, Japan's imperial court music...
(born 1964) - Dora PejacevicDora PejacevicDora Pejačević was a Croatian composer, a member of Pejačević noble family.-Biography:Dora Pejačević was born in Budapest, a daughter of Croatian ban Teodor Pejačević and Hungarian Countess Lilla Vay de Vaya, herself a fine pianist. Her mother gave her first piano lessons...
(1885–1923) - Maria Teresa Pelegrí i MarimónMaria Teresa Pelegrí i MarimónMaria Teresa Pelegrí i Marimón was a Spanish composer. She was born in Barcelona and studied piano as a child. When she married, she gave up her musical activities, but after twenty years renewed her interest. She studied piano with Gibert Camins and Carlos Pellicer, counterpoint and fugue with...
(1907-1995) - Barbara PentlandBarbara PentlandBarbara Pentland was one of the pre-eminent members of the generation of Canadian composers who came to artistic maturity in the years following World War Two.-Life and career:...
(1912–2000) - Diana Pereira HayDiana Pereira HayDiana Pereira Hay is a Danish pianist and composer. Hay was born in Sri Lanka of an Australian father and mother of Irish descent. She studied music at the Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium in Copenhagen from 1953–60, learning piano, theory, music history, composition and orchestration...
(born 1932) - Nydia Pereyra-LizasoNydia Pereyra-LizasoNydia Pereyra-Lizaso is a Uruguayan composer, pianist, and music educator.-Life:Nydia was born in Rocha, Uruguay. She studied music with Dolores Bell and Carmen Barrera at the Conservatory of Teresiano in Rocha, and in Montevideo with Wilhelm Kolisch for piano, Tomás Mujica for counterpoint and...
(born 1916) - Lourdes PerezLourdes PérezLourdes Pérez is a prolific Puerto Rican contemporary recording artist, songwriter, composer, arranger, poet, contralto vocalist and guitarist. She is also one of few female décimistas...
(born 1961) - Anaïs Perrière-PilteAnaïs Perrière-PilteComtesse Anaïs Perrière-Pilte was a French composer noted for theatrical works who often used the pseudonym "Anais Marcelli." She usually wrote her own libretto, and had a theatre built in her home to produce opera...
(1836–1878) - Julia PerryJulia PerryJulia Amanda Perry was an African-American composer of classical music.Born in Lexington, Kentucky, Perry studied voice, piano and composition at the Westminster Choir College 1943-48 and came to prominence as a result of a scholarship to the Berkshire Music Center where she was a student of Luigi...
(1924–1979) - Anna Pessiak-SchmerlingAnna Pessiak-SchmerlingAnna Pessiak-Schmerling was an Austrian composer born in Vienna. She was the grand-daughter of Giannatasio del Rio, and studied with Madame Marchesi. She worked as a professor of voice at the Conservatory in Vienna. She composed piano work and songs, and was noted for her masses and other sacred...
(1834–1896) - Rosica PetkovaRosica PetkovaRosica Petkova is a Bulgarian composer. She was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and studied composition at the Prague Academy of Music with Emil Hlobil and at the Sofia State Academy with Alexander Raichev.-References:...
(born 1947) - Carmen Petra-BasacopolCarmen Petra-BasacopolCarmen Petra-Basacopol is a Romanian harpist, writer, music educator and composer.-Life:Petra-Basacopol was born in Sibiu. She studied composition at the Bucharest Conservatory of Music from 1949-56 with Mihail Jora, Paul Constantinescu and Tudor Ciortea, and philosophy at the University of...
(born 1926) - Mara PetrovaMara PetrovaMara Petrova was a Bulgarian pianist, writer and composer born in Sliven, Bulgaria. She studied composition at the State Academy of Music with Vesselin Stoyanov, piano with Pancho Vladigerov, and choral conducting with Marin Goleminov. After completing her studies, she took a position teaching at...
(1921–1997) - Elena PetrováElena PetrováElena Petrová, née Krupková was a Czech composer. She was born in Modrý Kameň, and studied piano with Karel Hoffmeister and composition with Jan Kapr and Miloslav Istvan at the Janáček Academy of Music...
(born 1929) - Mrs PhilarmonicaMrs PhilarmonicaMrs Philarmonica was the pseudonym of an English Baroque composer. She published a collection of 12 trio sonatas for two violins with Richard Meares in London about 1715. Her actual identity is unknown.-Works:Selected works include:...
(fl. 1715) - Liz PhillipsLiz PhillipsLiz Phillips is an American artist specializing in sound art and interactive art. She was one of the first artists to make interactive sound sculpture. Her installations create sounds in relation to live forms. Phillips has exhibited her work at numerous art museums, alternative spaces, festivals,...
(born 1951) - Elizabeth PhilpElizabeth PhilpElizabeth Philp was an English singer, music educator and composer. She was born in Falmouth, the eldest daughter of geographer James Philp. She published a collection How to Sing an English Ballad including sixty songs. Philp died in London.-Works:Philp composed songs and song cycles...
(1827–1885) - Maria Antonietta PicconiMaria Antonietta PicconiMaria Antonietta Picconi was an Italian composer and pianist born in Rome, Italy. She studied piano at the St. Cecilia Conservatory in Rome with Giovanni Sgambati and composition with Eugenio Terziani. She performed as a concert pianist from 1886–1896, and then worked as a piano and voice teacher...
(1869–1926) - Agata Della PietàAgata della PietàAgata della Pietà was an Italian composer, singer, and teacher of music.A foundling admitted in infancy to the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice, she received thorough musical training from her childhood in the coro, or music school, of the convent; she later became a soprano soloist, singing...
(fl. c. 1800) - Michielina Della PietàMichielina della PietàMichielina della Pietà was an Italian composer, violinist, organist, and teacher of music....
(fl. c. 1701–1744) - Santa Della PietàSanta della PietàSanta della Pietà was an Italian singer, composer, and violinist....
(fl. c. 1725–1750, d. after 1774) - Julie PinelJulie PinelJulie Pinel was a French composer and harpsichord teacher, born into the Pinel family of court musicians. Very little is known of her life, but she dedicated her published collection of songs to the "Prince of Soubize", thought to be Charles de Rohan, the patron of her family.-Works:Pinel...
(fl. 1710–1737) - Lina Pires de CamposLina Pires de CamposLina Pires de Campos née Del Vecchio was a Brazilian pianist, music educator and composer of both classical and popular music.-Life:...
(1918-2003) - Piera PistonoPiera PistonoPiera Pistono is an Italian pianist and composer. She was born in Bangkok, Thailand, and studied music in Rome, graduating in piano, choral music and choral conducting...
(born 1938) - Fanny Krumpholtz PittarFanny Krumpholtz PittarFanny Krumpholtz Pittar was a Bohemian harpist and composer. She was the daughter of composer Johann Baptist Krumpholtz and his wife Anne-Marie Krumpholtz. She married diamond merchant Isaac Pittar and also published as Mrs. Pittar.-References:...
(1785–1815) - Zhanna Vasil'yevna PliyevaZhanna Vasil'yevna Pliyeva-Life:Zhanna Vasil'yevna Pliyeva was born in Tskhinvali, Southern Ossetia. She studied music at the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory, Leningrad, with D. Svetozarov for piano and with Orest Yevlakhov and A. Mnatsakanian for composition...
(born 1949) - PoldowskiPoldowskiPoldowski was the professional pseudonym of a Belgian-born British composer and pianist born Régine Wieniawski , the daughter of the Polish violinist and composer Henryk Wieniawski. Some of her early works were published under the name Irène Wieniawska. She married Sir Aubrey Dean Paul, 5th...
(1879–1932) - Victoria PolevaVictoria PolevaVictoria Poleva is a Ukrainian composer.-Biography:Born on September 11, 1962 in Kiev, Ukraine, daughter of composer Valery Polevoy . Graduate of Kiev State P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatoire 1989. Post-graduate studies completed there in 1995 under Prof. Levko Kolodub...
(born 1962) - Armande de PolignacArmande de PolignacArmande de Polignac, Comtesse de Chabannes was a French composer, the niece of Prince Edmond de Polignac and Princess Winnaretta de Polignac, the patron of Ravel, Stravinsky and Milhaud...
(1876–1962) - Claire PolinClaire PolinClaire Polin was an American composer of contemporary classical music, musicologist, and flutist....
(1926–1995) - Gail Leven PollockGail Leven Pollock-Life:Gail Leven Pollock studied at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, and Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville, Georgia. She continued her studies at Westminster Choir College in voice and conducting...
(born 1947) - Vincenta Da PonteVincenta Da PonteVincenta da Ponte was an Italian composer, singer and instrumentalist. She was a member of the coro, or music school, of Venice's Ospedale della Pietà during the tenure of Bonaventura Furlanetto as music director...
(fl. second half 18th century) - Jeanne PoolJeanne PoolJeanne Pool is an American composer, author and music producer.-Life:Jeanne Pool was born in Paris, Illinois, and studied music in New York City at Hunter College of the City University of New York, where she received a bachelor's degree in music. She received a masters degree from California...
(born 1951) - Chris Poole (born 1952)
- Rachel PortmanRachel PortmanRachel Mary Berkeley Portman, OBE is a British composer, best known for her film work. She was the first female composer to win an Academy Award in the category of Best Original Score...
(born 1960) - Elizabeth PostonElizabeth PostonElizabeth Poston was an English composer, pianist, and writer. She studied at Queen Margaret's School, York and then the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she was encouraged by both Peter Warlock and Ralph Vaughan Williams. She won a prize from RAM for her violin sonata, which was...
(1905–1987) - Genevieve Poston (born 1990)
- Rosephanye PowellRosephanye Powell-Life:Rosephanye Dunn was born in Lanett, Alabama, and studied piano and sang in choirs as a child. She graduated from Alabama State University with a Bachelor of Music degree, from Westminster Choir College with a Master's degree and from The Florida State University with a Doctor of Music...
(born 20th Century) - Mary Ann Pownall (1751–1796)
- Oliveria Louisa PrescottOliveria Louisa PrescottOliveria Louisa Prescott was an English writer and composer. She was born in London, the daughter of Frederick Joseph Prescott and Elizabeth Oliveria Russell. She studied with Lindsay Sloper and at the Royal Academy of Music with professors G.A. Mcfarren, Jewson, Folkes and Ralph...
(1843–1919) - Florence Beatrice PriceFlorence Price- Career :Florence Price is considered the first black woman in the United States to be recognized as a symphonic composer. Even though her training was steeped in European tradition, Price’s music consists of mostly the American idiom and reveals her Southern roots...
(1887–1953) - María Teresa PrietoMaría Teresa PrietoMaría Teresa Prieto was a Spanish composer who lived and worked in Mexico.-Life:María Teresa Prieto was born in Oviedo in 1896 to a middle-class Asturian family. She studied with pianist and composer Saturnino del Fresno in Asturias and Benito de la Parra at the Conservatory of Madrid...
(1896–1982) - Marieta Morosina PriuliMarieta Morosina PriuliMarieta Morosina Priuli was an Italian composer. She was born in Venice into the Morosina family. Priuli published a collection of works in 1667 dedicated to the Habsburg Dowager Empress Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg entitled Balletti e correnti, including five sets of pieces for three string...
(fl. 1665) - Teresa ProcacciniTeresa ProcacciniTeresa Procaccini is an Italian composer and music educator.-Biography:Teresa Procaccini studied organ with Fernando Germaniin and composition with Virgilio Mortari. Between 1971 and 1972, she directed the Conservatory of Foggia, and until 2001 taught composition at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia...
(born 1934) - Marie ProkschMarie ProkschMarie Proksch was a Czech pianist, music educator and composer.-Biography:Marie Proksch was the daughter of blind pianist Josef Proksch who taught music at Bedrich Smetana. Proksch was born in Prague, where she studied music under her father...
(1836–1900) - Grazyna Pstrokonska-NawratilGrazyna Pstrokonska-NawratilGrazyna Pstrokonska-Nawratil is a Polish composer and music educator.-Life:Grazyna Pstrokonska-Nawratil was born in Wroclaw, Poland. She studied composition at the State School of Music in Wrocław with Stefan Poradowski and Tadeusz Natanson, and in France under Pierre Boulez and Olivier Messiaen...
(born 1947) - Marta PtaszynskaMarta PtaszynskaMarta Ptaszyńska is a composer, percussionist and professor of music at the University of Chicago. She has been described as "one of the best known Polish woman composers" as well as "a virtuoso percussionist specializing in performances of contemporary music."-Orchestral music:-Vocal and...
(born 1943) - Loïsa PugetLoïsa Puget-Life:Loïsa Puget's mother was a singer, and saw that her daughter received a musical education including study at the same school as George Sand. Puget composed and performed her own music in salons and married her lyricist Gustave Lemoine. She was most productive from 1830 to 1845, and composed...
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- Erika RadermacherErika RadermacherErika Radermacher is a German pianist, soprano and composer.-Biography:Erika Radermacher was born in Eschweiler, near Aachen. She studied music with Else Schmitz-Gohr in Cologne, Bruno Seidlhofer in Vienna and voice with Sylvia Gähwiller in Zurich...
(born 1936) - Eliane RadigueEliane RadigueEliane Radigue is a French electronic music composer. She started her work in the 1950s and her first creations were presented in the late 1960s. Until 2000 her work was almost exclusively created on a single synthesizer, the ARP 2500 modular system and tape...
(born 1932) - Priaulx RainierPriaulx RainierIvy Priaulx Rainier was a South African-British composer. Although she lived most of her life in England and died in France, her compositional style was strongly influenced by the African music remembered from her childhood. She never adopted 12-tone or serial techniques, but her music shows a...
(1903–1986) - Teresa RampazziTeresa RampazziTeresa Rampazzi was an Italian pianist and composer who was a pioneer of electronic and computer generated music.-Biography:...
(1914-2001 - Shulamit RanShulamit RanShulamit Ran is an Israeli-American composer. She moved from Israel to New York at 14, as a scholarship student at the Mannes College of Music. Her Symphony won her the Pulitzer Prize...
(born 1949) - Elizabeth RaumElizabeth RaumElizabeth Raum is a Canadian composer. She earned her Bachelor of Music in oboe performance from the Eastman School of Music, her Master of Music in composition from the University of Regina, and in May 2004, she was awarded an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from Mount St. Vincent University...
(born 1945) - Irma RavinaleIrma Ravinale-Biography:Irma Ravinale was born in Naples, Italy. She studied composition at the Rome Conservatory of Santa Cecilia with Goffredo Petrassi, and continued her studies with Nadia Boulanger in Paris and Karlheinz Stockhausen in Cologne, also studying piano, conducting and choral music...
(born 1937) - Mme Ravissa (fl. late 18th century)
- Giulia RecliGiulia RecliGiulia Recli was an Italian composer and essayist.Born in Milan, Recli was a student under Ildebrando Pizzetti and Victor de Sabata, learning piano, composition and singing. She was awarded first and second prizes at New York musical competitions. Recli's works were introduced to American...
(1890–1970) - Karin RehnqvistKarin RehnqvistKarin Rehnqvist is a Swedish composer.With regular performances throughout Europe, USA and Scandinavia, her range extends to chamber, orchestral, stage, and vocal music. Above all, she enjoys working with unusual, cross-genre forms and ensembles. One strong characteristic feature of her work is...
(born 1957) - Juliane ReichardtJuliane ReichardtJuliane Reichardt was a Bohemian pianist, singer and composer.-Biography:Juliane Reichardt was born in Potsdam, the youngest of the six children of violinist and composer Franz Benda , who was concert master at the court of Frederick the Great, and his first wife Carolina née Step Hein...
(1752–1783) - Louise ReichardtLouise ReichardtLouise Reichardt was a German songwriter and composer.-Biography:Louise Reichardt was born in Berlin. She was the daughter of composers Juliane Reichardt and Johann Friedrich Reichardt and granddaughter of Franz Benda , concert master at the court of Frederick the Great...
(1779–1826) - Caroline ReinagleCaroline ReinagleCaroline Reinagle was an English composer, pianist, and writer. Only a few of her works have survived.-Biography:Caroline Reinagle was born in London in 1818...
(1818–1892) - Andrea ReinkemeyerAndrea ReinkemeyerAndrea Reinkemeyer is an American composer. She was born in Portland, Oregon, and graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of Oregon. She continued her studies in composition at the University of Michigan, graduating with a doctorate degree. As an undergraduate, she won the...
(born 1976) - Julie ReisserováJulie ReisserováJulie Reisserová née Kühnlova was a Czech poet, conductor, composer and music critic.-Biography:...
(1888–1938) - Claire RenardClaire Renard-Biography:Claire Renard studied at the Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France and graduated from the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris in 1973...
(born 1944) - Henriette ReniéHenriette ReniéHenriette Renié was a French harpist and composer, a deeply religious woman who lived in poverty for much of her life, but who was independent and successful in a time when fame was socially unacceptable for women...
(1875–1956) - Catherine RennesCatherine RennesCatherine van Rennes was a Dutch music educator and composer. Rennes was born in the Netherlands and was known for vocal compositions...
(1858–1940) - Elsa RespighiElsa RespighiElsa Respighi was an Italian composer. She was the wife and former pupil of Ottorino Respighi....
(1894–1996) - Michèle ReverdyMichèle ReverdyMichèle Reverdy is a French composer.-Biography:Michèle Reverdy was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and began piano lessons at age six...
(born 1943) - Sylvia RexachSylvia RexachSylvia Rexach , was a comedy scriptwriter, poet, singer and composer of boleros .-Early years:Rexach was born and raised in Santurce, Puerto Rico. There she attended public school and received her primary education...
(1922–1961) - Marisa RezendeMarisa Rezende- Personal background :Marisa Rezende was born in Rio de Janeiro, the daughter of a doctor and his wife of Portuguese ancestry. She began playing piano at four without instruction, and began lessons at age five. She studied piano at Escola de Musica in Rio, but her studies were interrupted by...
(born 1944) - Janice Tucker Rhoda (born 1955)
- Cesarina Ricci de TingoliCesarina Ricci de TingoliCesarina Ricci de Tingoli was an Italian composer. She was related to the family of Cardinal Giovanni Ricci by birth, and the noble family of Tingoli by marriage. Her only known publication is Il Primo libro de madrigali a cinque voci, con un dialogo a otto novamente composti & dati in luce...
(born c. 1573, fl. 1597) - Kathleen RichardsKathleen RichardsKathleen Dale née Richards was an English translator, musicologist, composer and pianist.-Biography:Kathleen Richards was born in England and studied with York Bowen and Fanny Davies. She became Kathleen Dale by marriage to the pianist, composer and teacher Benjamin Dale in 1921. She taught music...
(1895–1984) - Marga RichterMarga Richter-Biography:Marga Richter was born in Reedsburg, Wisconsin, the daughter of soprano Inez Chandler-Richter . She studied piano at the MacPhail School of Music in Minneapolis with Irene Hellner and with Helena Morsztyn in New York...
(born 1926) - Teresa Clotilde del Riego (1876–1968)
- Nadezhda Rimskaya-KorsakovaNadezhda Rimskaya-KorsakovaNadezhda Nikolayevna Rimskaya-Korsakova , 1848May 24, 1919) was a Russian pianist and composer as well as the wife of composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. She was also the mother of Russian musicologist Andrey Rimsky-Korsakov.-Early years:...
(1848–1919) - Shoshana RisemanShoshana RisemanShoshana Riseman is an Israeli music educator, stage director and composer.-Biography:Riseman was born in Cyprus while her parents were traveling, and graduated from the Tel Aviv Academy of Music in 1970...
(born 1948) - Julie Rivé-KingJulie Rivé-KingJulie Rivé-King was an American pianist and composer.-Biography:Julie Rivé-King was born on an uncertain date in Cincinnati, Ohio, of parents Caroline Staub Rivé and Léon Rivé. Her mother was a singer, teacher and composer who studied with Manuel Garcia in France, and her father was an artist and...
(1854–1937) - Angela Ro RoAngela Ro RoÂngela Maria Diniz Gonçalves , best known by the stage name Ângela Rô Rô, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter influenced by her idols Ella Fitzgerald, Maysa Matarazzo and Jacques Brel...
(born 1949) - Fanny Arthur RobinsonFanny Arthur RobinsonFanny Arthur Robinson was an English pianist, music educator and composer.-Biography:Fanny Arthur moved to Dublin in 1849 and married Joseph Robinson, conductor, composer and chorister at St. Patrick's Cathedral. She appeared as a pianist in London and Paris, and in 1856 made her performing debut...
(1831–1879) - Maria RodrigoMaria RodrigoMaria Rodrigo was a Spanish pianist and composer. She was the daughter of Pantaleon Rodrigo, and studied music at the Madrid Conservatorium under Jose Trago for piano, Valentin Arin for harmony and Emilio Serrano for composition....
(1888–1967) - Marcela RodríguezMarcela Rodríguez (composer)-Biography:Marcela Rodríguez was born in Mexico City.] Leo Brouwer of Cuba. She studied for a while in London, and then returned to Mexico City to study with Julio Estrada . Rodríguez works have been performed internationally, including the USA, Venezuela, Spain, and Greece...
(born 1951) - Betty RoeBetty RoeBetty Roe is an English composer, singer, vocal coach, and conductor.-Biography:Betty Roe was born in North Kensington, London, England. Her father was a fishmonger at the Shepherd's Bush Market, and her mother was a bookkeeper...
(born 1930) - Esther RofeEsther Rofe-Biography:Esther Rofe was born in Australia. She studied piano and violin with Alberto Zelman, Jr., Fritz Hart and A.E. Floyd and appeared with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra at age 13. She entered the Royal College of Music in London and studied with Gordon Jacob, Ralph Vaughan Williams and R.O...
(1904–2000) - Clara Kathleen RogersClara Kathleen RogersClara Kathleen Rogers , was an American composer, singer, writer and music educator.-Biography:Clara Kathleen Barnett Rogers was born into a musical family...
(1844–1931) - Caro RomaCaro RomaCaro Roma was the stage name of Carrie Northey, an American singer and composer known for Tin Pan Alley era songs.-Biography:...
(1869–1937) - Elena Romero (1923-1996)
- Ann RonellAnn RonellAnn Rosenblatt, known as Ann Ronell was an American composer and lyricist best known for the jazz standard "Willow Weep for Me" .- Biography :...
(1906 or 1908–1933) - Amanda Röntgen-MaierAmanda Röntgen-MaierAmanda Röntgen-Maier was a Swedish violinist and composer. She was the first female graduate in music direction from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm in 1869.-Biography:...
(1853–1894) - Clotilde RosaClotilde RosaClotilde Rosa is a Portuguese harpist, music educator and composer.-Biography:Clotilde Rosa was born in Queluz, Portugal, and began piano lessons at age ten with Ivone Santos. She also began harp lessons at the age of twelve under Cecilia Borba at the Lisbon Conservatory...
(born 1930) - Lily Barmor Rose (born 1969)
- Camilla de RossiCamilla de RossiCamilla de Rossi was an Italian composer. Several women are known to have composed music in Northern Italy and Austria during the period 1670-1725. Of those women, though there is no remaining biographical information, Camilla de Rossi by far has the most surviving works. The only known...
(fl. 1707–1710) - Doina RotaruDoina RotaruDoina Rotaru is a Romanian composer of mostly orchestral and chamber works that have been performed throughout the world. Rotaru studied at the National University of Music and is currently a professor of composition at the same institution.-External links:* * at The Living Composers Project....
(born 1951) - Anna RubinAnna RubinAnna Rubin is an American composer of electroacoustic and instrumental music.-Biography:Anna Rubin studied with composers Mel Powell, Earle Brown, Pauline Oliveros, and Paul Lansky, and graduated with a doctorate in composition from Princeton University. After completing her studies, she taught...
(born 1946) - Vivian Adelberg RudowVivian Adelberg Rudow*Vivian Adelberg Rudow is an American composer, performance artist, conductor and concert producer. She composes in the genres of acoustic and electroacoustic music with works ranging from solo to full orchestra...
(born 1936) - Jeanine RueffJeanine RueffJeanine Rueff was a French composer and music educator.-Biography:Rueff was born in Paris and studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Tony Aubin, Henri Challan, Jean and Noël Gallon and Henri Busser...
(1922–1999) - Magaly Ruiz LastresMagaly RuizDoris Magaly Ruiz Lastres is a Cuban musician and composer. Her compositions have been performed at a number of international music festivals.-Life:Magaly Ruiz was born in Santa Clara, Cuba, in 1941...
(born 1941) - Claudia RuscaClaudia RuscaClaudia Rusca was an Italian female composer, singer, and organist. She was a nun at the Umiliate monastery of St. Caterina in Brera. She learned music at home, before she professed her final vows at the convent. She probably wrote her Sacri concerti à 1–5 con salmi e canzoni francesi for use in...
(1593–1676) - Gilda RutaGilda Ruta-Biography:Countess Gilda Ruta Cagnazzi was born in Naples and studied music with her father and with the opera composer Saverio Mercadante. She became a noted pianist, played before Queen Margherita of Italy at the Constanzi Theater in Rome and won a gold medal at the International Exposition in...
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- Kaija SaariahoKaija SaariahoKaija Saariaho is a Finnish composer.Kaija Saariaho studied composition in Helsinki, Freiburg and Paris, where she has lived since 1982. Her studies and research at IRCAM have had a major influence on her music and her characteristically luxuriant and mysterious textures are often created by...
(born 1952) - Martha von SabininMartha von SabininMartha von Sabinin was a Russian composer and pianist.-Biography:Marfa Stepanova Sabinina was the daughter of the Russian provost in Weimar in Saxony. She studied music with Georg and Clara Schumann, Peter Cornelius, and Franz Liszt, and worked as a music teacher at Weimar from 1854 to 1860...
(1831–1892) - SahakduxtSahakduxtSahakduxt was an Armenian composer of hymns, poet, and pedagogue who lived in the 8th century. An ascetic, she lived in a cave in the Garni Valley, near present-day Yerevan; there she produced ecclesiastical poems as well as liturgical chants. Of these, the only one to survive is Srbuhi Mariam ,...
(fl. early 8th century) - Charlotte Sainton-Dolby (1821–1885)
- Matilde Salvador (born 1918)
- Alice SamterAlice SamterAlice Samter was a German music educator and composer.-Biography:Alice Samter was born in Berlin to a middle-class family. She trained and worked as an accountant while studying piano, improvisation, choral work and school music at Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory and the Academy of Music in...
(1908-2004) - Rhian SamuelRhian SamuelRhian Samuel, born in Aberdare, Wales in 1944, is a Welsh composer.She was educated in Britain and the United States, and joined the teaching staff of City University, London in 1995 becoming Professor of Music in 1999...
(born 1944) - Marie SamuelssonMarie Samuelsson-Biography:Marie Samuelsson was born in Stockholm, Sweden. She studied piano and improvisation at Birkagården College from 1979–81, musicology at the University of Stockholm from 1982–83 and composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm from 1987-95 with Sven-David Sandström, Daniel Börtz...
(born 1956) - Rocio SanzRocio SanzRocío Sanz Quirós was a Costa Rican composer. She was born in Costa Rica and completed her music education in California and at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. She lived in worked in Mexico after 1953.-Works:...
(1933–1993) - SapphoSapphoSappho was an Ancient Greek poet, born on the island of Lesbos. Later Greeks included her in the list of nine lyric poets. Her birth was sometime between 630 and 612 BC, and it is said that she died around 570 BC, but little is known for certain about her life...
(born c. 612 BCE) - Kimi SatoKimi SatoKimi Sato is a Japanese composer. She studied with Olivier Messiaen and is a recipient of the Prix de Rome.-References:...
(born 1949) - Rebecca SaundersRebecca Saunders-Biography:Saunders studied violin and composition at the University of Edinburgh. This was followed by a scholarship from the DAAD from 1991 to 1994 to study composition at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe with Wolfgang Rihm, and in 1997 a doctorate in composition with Nigel Osborne.She has...
(born 1967) - Rachel Sauvé (born 1985)
- Jane SavageJane SavageJane Savage was an English harpsichordist and composer. She was the daughter of English musician and composer William Savage and his wife Mary Bolt Savage...
(1752/3–1824) - Carla ScalettiCarla ScalettiCarla Scaletti is an American harpist, composer and music technologist.-Biography:Carla Scaletti was born in Ithaca, New York. She graduated from the public schools in Albuquerque, New Mexico, then completed a bachelor's of music from the University of New Mexico, a masters of music from Texas...
(born 1956) - Angiola Teresa Moratori ScanabecchiAngiola Teresa Moratori ScanabecchiAngiola Teresa Moratori Scanabecchi was an Italian composer and painter.-Biography:Angiola Moratori was born in Bologna, the daughter of a Bolognese physician, and married Tomaso Scanabecchi Monetta. She studied instrumental performance, singing and painting and composed oratorios, the scores of...
(1662–1708) - Ethel ScarboroughEthel ScarboroughEthel Scarborough was an English pianist, composer and politician. She was born in Crouch End, London and died in Graffham, Sussex. She conducted her own works at the Promenade Concerts.-Works:Selected works include:...
(1880–1956) - Claire SchapiraClaire SchapiraClaire Schapira is a French harpsichordist, pianist and composer.-Biography:Claire Schapira studied piano, harpsichord, musical theater and composition, graduating from the Schola Cantorum. She was a resident at the Villa Médicis in Rome and served an internship at Ircam. She received a grant from...
(born 1946) - Delphine von SchaurothDelphine von SchaurothDelphine von Schauroth was a German pianist and composer.-Biography:Delphine von Schauroth was born in Magdeburg, the daughter of Louise von Teltz. She began piano studies at an early age with Friedrich Kalkbrenner in Paris, and in 1822 made her debut in Frankfurt am Main at a concert organized...
(1814–1887) - Tona ScherchenTona ScherchenTona Scherchen, also Tona Scherchen-Hsiao , is one of the first composers who brought Chinese elements into European avant-garde art music....
(born 1938) - Mon SchjelderupMon SchjelderupMon Schjelderup was a Norwegian composer and pianist.-Biography:Maria Gustava Schjelderup was born in Fredrikshald , Østfold, of parents Captain Christian Bernhard Koren Schjelderup and Anne Sofie Preus Berg...
(1870–1934) - Annette SchlünzAnnette Schlünz-Biography:Annette Schlünz was born in Dessau, Germany. She studied music at the Dresden Music School from 1983 to 1987 with Udo Zimmermann and at the Academy of Arts in Berlin from 1988 to 1991 with Paul-Heinz Dittrich...
(born 1964) - Maria SchneiderMaria Schneider (musician)Maria Schneider is an American arranger, composer, and big-band leader who has won multiple awards. In 2005, her album Concert in the Garden won a Grammy for "Best Large Ensemble Album"...
(1960) - Ruth SchonthalRuth SchonthalRuth Schönthal was a pianist and contemporary composer.-Early years:...
(1924–2006) - Eva SchorrEva Schorr-Biography:Eva Weiler was born in Crailsheim, Württemberg. Her father was a music and art teacher and gave her lessons in both. At the age of eight she began composing, and at the age of 15 won prizes for composition and organ. She studied music in Stuttgart with Johann Nepomuk David and Anton...
(born 1927) - Corona Elisabeth Wilhelmine Schröter (1751–1802)
- Clara SchumannClara SchumannClara Schumann was a German musician and composer, considered one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era...
(1819–1896) - Phillipa Duke Schuyler (1931–1967)
- Laura SchwendingerLaura SchwendingerLaura Elise Schwendinger was the first composer to win the prestigious American Academy in Berlin, Berlin Prize.-Biography:...
(born 1962) - Esther ScliarEsther ScliarEsther Scliar was a Brazilian pianist and composer.-Biography:Esther Scliar was born in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, of parents Isaac and Rosa Scliar...
(1926–1978) - Alicia Ann Scott (1810–1900)
- Amy ScurriaAmy Scurria-Biography:Amy Scurria was born into a military family and showed an early interest in music, memorizing the piano assignments of her sister Jackie. At age 11 she took lessons under the Suzuki method and began composing....
(born 1973) - Laura Sedgwick CollinsLaura Sedgwick CollinsLaura Sedgwick Collins was an American musician, composer and actress.-Biography:Laura Sedgwick was born in Poughkeepsie, New York. She graduated from the Lyceum School of Acting in New York City and performed in theaters in New York and Brooklyn...
(1859–1927) - Ruth Crawford SeegerRuth Crawford SeegerRuth Crawford Seeger , born Ruth Porter Crawford, was a modernist composer and an American folk music specialist.-Life:...
(1901–1953) - Hilda SehestedHilda Sehested-Biography:Hilda Sehested was born in Funen, Denmark, of parents Niels Frederik Bernhard Sehested , an archeologist, and Charlotte Christine Linde . She studied music with C.F.E. Hornemann in Copenhagen and later with Louise Aglaé Massart in Paris...
(1858–1936) - Ilona SekaczIlona SekaczIlona Sekacz is a British composer of concert, film, television and theatre music.- About :Sekacz was born to a Polish mother and an English father. She studied violin and was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain...
(born 1948) - Blanche SelvaBlanche SelvaBlanche Selva was a French pianist, music educator, writer and composer of Catalan origin.-Biography:Blanche Selva was born in Brive-la-Gaillarde in Corrèze. As a child she studied piano with a number of teachers, took preparatory classes with Sophie Chen, and was admitted to the Paris...
(1884–1942) - Daria SemegenDaria SemegenDaria Semegen is an important contemporary American composer of classical music. While she has composed pieces for traditional instruments — her Jeux des quatres , for example, is scored for clarinet, trombone, cello, and piano — she is best known as a "respected electronic composer."...
(born 1946) - Johanna SenfterJohanna SenfterJohanna Senfter was a German composer.Johanna Senfter was born and died in Oppenheim. From 1885 she studied composition under Knorr, violin under Rebner, piano under Friedberg and organ at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main. This gave her a considerable amount of musical training when in...
(1879–1961) - Françoise-Charlotte de Senneterre MénétouFrançoise-Charlotte de Senneterre MénétouFrançoise-Charlotte de Senneterre Ménétou was a French harpsichordist and composer.-Biography:Françoise-Charlotte Ménétou was born into an aristocratic family in 1679 of parents Henri François de Saint-Nectaire, Duc de La Ferte-Sennecterre , and Isabelle Gabrielle Marie Angélique de La...
(1679-1745) - María Luisa SepúlvedaMaría Luisa SepúlvedaMaira María Luisa Sepúlveda was a Chilean composer and music educator.-Biography:María Luisa Sepúlveda was born in Chillán, the daughter of Bernardo Sepúlveda, professor of philosophy and languages at the Lyceum, and poet Maira Mercedes. She graduated from secondary studies at the Lyceum for Girls...
(1896–1958) - Tat'yana SergeyevaTat'yana Sergeyeva-Biography:Tat'yana Pavlovna Sergeyeva was born in Tver, Russia. She studied music at the Moscow Conservatory and completed post-graduate work in composition, piano, and organ. Sergeyeva won the Shostakovich Composers' Prize in 1987 and became an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation in 1995...
(born 1951) - Valentina SerovaValentina Serova (composer)Valentina Semyonova Serova was a Russian composer of German-Jewish decent. She studied briefly at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, but left due to a conflict with Anton Rubinstein. She began to study with Alexander Serov who at that time was only known for his writings...
(1846–1924) - Claudia SessaClaudia SessaClaudia Sessa was an Italian composer. A Milanese nun at the convent of S. Maria Annunciata, she composed two sacred works published in 1613...
(c. 1570–between 1613 and 1619) - Kilza SettiKilza SettiKilza Setti de Castro Lima is a Brazilian ethnomusicologist, composer, and pianist.-Biography:Kilza Setti was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil...
(born 1932) - Charlotta SeuerlingCharlotta SeuerlingCharlotta Seuerling or Charlotte Seuerling , was a blind Swedish concert singer, harpsichordist, composer and poet, known as "The Blind Song-Maiden". She was active in Sweden, Finland and Russia. Her last name is also spelled as Seijerling and Seyerling...
(1782–1828) - Marielli SfakianakiMarielli SfakianakiMarielli Sfakianaki-Manolidou is a Greek writer, singer and composer.-Biography:Marielli Sfakianaki was born in Athens, Greece, the daughter of Cretan pianist, composer and musicologist Kostas Sfakianakis. She studied vocal music and graduated from the Athens Conservatory in 1971...
(born 1945) - Masguda ShamsutdinovaMasguda Shamsutdinova-Biography:Masguda Shamsutdinova was born in Bashkortostan. She studied music in Kazakhstan and graduated from Kazan State Conservatoire in the Republic of Tatarstan. She continued her studies at the Tatar History Institute and St. Petersburg State University and received a Ph.D in 2002...
(born 1955) - Alex ShapiroAlex ShapiroAlex Shapiro composes acoustic and electroacoustic music favoring combinations of modal harmonies with chromatic ones, and often emphasizing strong pulse and rhythm...
(born 1962) - Judith ShatinJudith ShatinJudith Shatin is an American composer. Currently, she is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor at the University of Virginia.She also founded and is Director of the Virginia Center for Computer Music.-References:...
(born 1949) - Naomi ShemerNaomi ShemerNaomi Shemer was a leading Israeli songwriter hailed as the "first lady of Israeli song and poetry."-Biography:Naomi Sapir was born on Kvutzat Kinneret, a kibbutz her parents had helped found, on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. In the 1950s she served in the Israeli Defense Force's Nahal...
(1930–2004) - Alice ShieldsAlice ShieldsAlice Shields is an American composer. She is a respected electronic composer particularly known for her work in opera....
(born 1943) - Chen Shi-huiChen Shi-huiShih-Hui Chen is a Taiwanese composer who lives and works in the United States.-Biography:Chen Shih-hui was born in Taipei, Taiwan, and came to the United States in 1982 to study for a master's degree from Northern Illinois University and a doctoral degree from Boston University...
(born 1962) - Pan ShijiPan ShijiPan Shiji or Chew Shyh-Ji is a Taiwanese composer, writer and music educator.-Biography:Pan Shiji was born in Taibei, and her family emigrated to Canada in 1974. She took piano lessons and studied composition with Hsu Tsang-houei in Taiwan...
(born 1957) - Yoko ShimomuraYoko Shimomurais a Japanese video game composer. She has been described as "the most famous female video game music composer in the world". She has worked in the video game music industry since graduating from Osaka College of Music in 1988...
(born 1967) - Mieko ShiomiMieko Shiomi (composer)-Biography:Mieko Shiomi was born in Okayama, Japan. She began music lessons as a child and studied music at the State University of the Arts in Tokyo in 1957. In 1960 she founded the group Ongaku with Takehisa Kosugi to explore improvisation and action. The group hosted performances by artists...
(born 1938) - Verdina ShlonskyVerdina ShlonskyVerdina Shlonsky was an Israeli composer, pianist, and piano teacher, often described as the leading female Israeli composer of her time....
(1905–1990) - Clare ShoreClare ShoreClare Shore is an American composer, music educator mezzo-soprano, and conductor.-Biography:Clare Shore studied composition with Annette LeSiege, voice with Donald Hoirup, and oboe and saxophone with Davidson Burgess, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wake Forest University in 1976...
(born 1954) - Marilyn ShrudeMarilyn ShrudeMarilyn Shrude is an American composer of contemporary classical music and pianist, and Distinguished Artist Professor of composition at Bowling Green State University, since 1977.-Life:...
(born 1946) - Marie SieglingMarie SieglingMarie Regina Siegling was an American composer. She was born in Charleston, South Carolina, the daughter of Prussian immigrant John Siegling, founder of music publisher and music hall the Siegling Music House , and his wife Mary Schnierle....
(1824–1919) - Arlene SierraArlene SierraArlene Sierra is an American composer working in the United Kingdom.She studied at Oberlin College, Yale University and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, receiving a DMA in 1999; among her principal teachers were Martin Bresnick, Michael Daugherty and Jacob Druckman...
(born 1970) - Elzbieta Sikora (born 1943)
- Adelaide Pereira da SilvaAdelaide Pereira da SilvaAdelaide Pereira da Silva is a Brazilian painter and composer.-Biography:Adelaide Pereira da Silva was born in Sao Paulo. She studied piano with her mother from an early age, then studied piano and composition with Osvaldo Lacerda and Camargo Guarnieri. She began working as a music teacher and...
(born 1928) - Sheila SilverSheila SilverSheila Silver is an American composer.She was born in Seattle, Washington in 1946,she started her piano studies at the age of five. In 1968 she received Bachelor of Arts degree from University of California at Berkeley, and had her Ph.D from Brandeis University, Mass. in 1976. She is an important...
(born 1946) - Faye-Ellen SilvermanFaye-Ellen SilvermanFaye-Ellen Silverman is an American composer of contemporary classical music. She is also an author and an educator.-Life and education:...
(born 1947) - Mitzuki Simon (1822–1917)
- Netty SimonsNetty SimonsNetty Simons was an American pianist, music editor, music educator and composer.-Biography:Netty Simons was born in New York City and studied music at Third Street Music School...
(1913–1994) - Yekaterina SinyavinaYekaterina SinyavinaYekaterina Alexeyevna Sinyavina was a Russian composer and pianist. A cembalo concerto by Giovanni Paisiello was probably first performed at the court of Catherine II in 1781 with Sinyavina as soloist. She served as a lady-in-waiting and composer at the court, married Count Simon Romanovich...
(died 1784) - Maddalena Laura SirmenMaddalena Laura SirmenMaddalena Sirmen was an Italian composer, violinist, and later unsuccessful singer.-Biography:Sirmen was born in Venice to poverty-stricken parents, noble by birth...
(1745–1818) - Synne SkouenSynne Skouen-Biography:Synne Skouen was born in Oslo. She studied at the Vienna Academy of Music with Alfred Uhl and Erwin Ratz for composition and Dieter Kaufmann and Friedrich Cerha for electronic music...
(born 1950) - Bettina SkrzypczakBettina Skrzypczak-Biography:Bettina Skrzypczak was born in Poznań, Poland. She studied piano at Bydgoszcz and music at the Academy of Music in Poznan. In 1985 she graduated with a degree in music theory, and in 1988 with a degree in composition, studying with Andrzej Koszewski...
(born 1962) - Jane SlomanJane SlomanJane Sloman was an English pianist, singer and composer who spent most of her life in the United States. She was a concert pianist who made her American debut at Niblo's Gardens in New York in 1841. She also made appearances in Boston and Philadelphia and apparently ended her concert career in...
(1824–after 1850) - Pril SmileyPril SmileyPril Smiley is an American composer and pioneer of electronic music.-Biography:Pril Smiley was born in Mohonk Lake, New York. She worked at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in the 1960s and 1970s with Milton Babbitt, Otto Luening, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Mario Davidovsky and Alice...
(born 1943) - Alice Mary SmithAlice Mary SmithAlice Mary Smith, married name Alice Mary Meadows White was an English composer.Smith was born in London, the third child of a relatively well-to-do family. She showed aptitude for music from her early years and took lessons privately from William Sterndale Bennett and George Macfarren, publishing...
(1839–1884) - Julia SmithJulia Smith (composer)Julia Frances Smith, PhD , was an American composer, pianist, and author on musicology.-Life and career:...
(1911–1989) - Linda Catlin SmithLinda Catlin SmithLinda Catlin Smith is an American composer based out of Toronto, Canada. In 2005 she became the second woman to win the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music....
(born 1957) - Undine Smith MooreUndine Smith MooreUndine Smith Moore was a notable and prolific female African-American composers of the 20th century.She began studying piano at age seven, and at the age of 20 became the first graduate of Fisk University to receive a scholarship to Juilliard...
(1904–1989) - Ethel SmythEthel SmythDame Ethel Mary Smyth, DBE was an English composer and a leader of the women's suffrage movement.- Early career :...
(1858–1944) - Jitka SnížkováJitka SnížkováJitka Snížková was a Czech composer, music educator and musicologist. As the President of the Mozart Society, which owned Bertramka, she was pressured into donating the property to the National Committee of Prague in 1986. Bertramka was the villa where Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived while he was in...
(1924–1989) - Joanídia SodréJoanídia SodréJoanídia Núñez Sodré was a Brazilian music educator, pianist, conductor and composer.-Biography:Joanídia Sodré was born in Porto Alegre. When she was four years old, her family moved to Rio de Janeiro where she studied piano with Alberto Nepomuceno...
(1903–1975) - Silvia SommerSilvia SommerSilvia Sommer is an Austrian composer, pianist and music producer.-Biography:Silvia Sommer was born in Vienna, Austria, and studied piano with Marianne Lauda at the music academy in Vienna. She began composing at the age of eleven. After completing her studies she worked as a pianist and composer...
(born 1944) - Brunhilde SonntagBrunhilde SonntagBrunhilde Sonntag was a German composer, musicologist and music teacher.-Biography:Brunhilde Sonntag was born in Kassel, Germany. She studied organ at the School of Church Music in Schlüchtern and education at the Pedagogical Institute Jugenheim...
(1936-2002) - Ann SouthamAnn SouthamAnn Southam, CM was a Canadian composer.She was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2010. She died, aged 73, on 25 November 2010...
(born 1937) - Isabel SoveralIsabel SoveralIsabel M. M. Abranches de Soveral is a Portuguese composer. She studied at the Portuguese National Conservatoire with the composers Jorge Peixinho and Joly Braga Santos with a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation...
(born 1961) - Maj SønstevoldMaj SønstevoldMaj Sønstevold was a Swedish composer who lived and worked in Norway.-Biography:Maj Sønstevold was born in Sollefteå, Sweden. She studied piano in Stockholm and with Billy Mayerl in London. She married Norwegian composer Gunnar Sønstevold and in 1945 moved to Norway where she worked as a composer...
(1917-1996) - Bernadette SpeachBernadette SpeachBernadette Speach is an American avant-garde composer.-Biography: was a nun at St Joseph of Corondelet from 1966 to 1977, teaching music in parochial schools during that time. She studied with Nicholas Roussakis at Columbia University and with Franco Donatoni at Siena in 1976. After 1977 she left...
(born 1948) - Laurie SpiegelLaurie SpiegelLaurie Spiegel is an American composer. She has worked at Bell Laboratories, in computer graphics, and is known primarily for her electronic-music compositions and her algorithmic composition software Music Mouse...
(born 1945) - Cristina SpineiCristina Spinei-Biography:Cristina Spinei was born in Connecticut and graduated with bachelor's and master's degrees from the Juilliard School where she studied with Christopher Rouse. She has been called “one of the most talented young composers in America” by Grammy award winning composer/conductor José...
(born 1984) - Georgia SpiropoulosGeorgia SpiropoulosGeorgia Spiropoulos is a composer, who studied piano, harmony, counterpoint and fugue in Athens. At the same time she studied jazz piano and worked as an instrumentalist and arranger of Hellenic traditional music of oral transmission for ten years.Since 1996 she has lived in Paris and studied...
(born 1965) - Tui St. George TuckerTui St. George TuckerTui St. George Tucker was an American composer and recorder player....
(1924–2004) - Pamela St. JohnPamela St. JohnPamela St. John is an American composer of classical music. She studied at Indiana at Bloomington and has studied under Robert Ward. She has served as President of the North Carolina Composers' Alliance...
(born 1950) - Patty StairPatty StairPatty Stair was an American organist and composer.-Biography:Patty Stair was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the niece of tenor Edwin Stair. She studied with music teachers including Franklin Bassett and at Hathaway Brown school for girls...
(1869–1926) - Ivana StefanovicIvana Stefanovic-Biography:Ivana Stefanovic was born in Belgrade. She studied violin and composition, graduating from the Faculty of Music Arts in Belgrade. She continued her studies at the Institute for Research and Coordination Acoustics/Music IRCAM in Paris...
(born 1948) - Carolyn SteinbergCarolyn Steinberg-Biography:Carolyn Steinberg graduated from North Texas State University with a Bachelor of Music degree in music theory in 1978. She went on to study composition with Lumila Ulehla at the Manhattan School of Music where she received a masters degree, and with and Bernard Rands at Juilliard where...
(born 1956) - Emma Roberto SteinerEmma Roberto SteinerEmma Roberto Steiner was an American composer and conductor. She was one of the first women in the United States to make a living from conducting, and did so at more than 6,000 performances during her lifetime. Her career spanned nearly five decades, from the 1870s, when she first began conducting...
(1850–1928) - Gitta SteinerGitta SteinerGitta Steiner was an American composer.Steiner attended the Juilliard School of Music and Tanglewood, and was best known for her works for percussion instruments. She lived in Douglaston, Queens, New York....
(1932–1990) - Elizabeth StirlingElizabeth StirlingElizabeth Stirling was an English composer. She was born in Greenwich, London, and studied music at the Royal Academy of Music with Edward Homes, W.B. Wilson, J.A. Hamilton and Sir George Macfarren. In 1837 she performed a recital at St. Katherine's Church, Regent's Park, which was reviewed by The...
(1819–1895) - Stella StockerStella StockerStella Prince Stocker was an American composer and choral conductor.-Biography:Stella Prince was born in Jacksonville, Illinois to parents Dr. David and Lucy Manning Chandler Prince. She graduated from the Conservatory of Music in Jacksonville and the University of Michigan in 1880 with a B.A....
(1858–1925) - Lily StricklandLily Strickland-Biography:Lily Strickland was born in Anderson, South Carolina, of parents Charlton Hines Strickland and his wife Teresa Hammond Reed. When her father died, the family moved into the home of her grandparents, Judge and Mr. J. Pinckney Reed. Strickland began studying piano at age six and began...
(1887–1958) - Barbara StrozziBarbara StrozziBarbara Strozzi was an Italian Baroque singer and composer.-Life:...
(1619–1677) - Maria Anna StubenbergMaria Anna StubenbergMaria Anna Stubenberg was a German composer.-Biography:Maria Anna Herrin und Gräfin von Stubenberg was the daughter of Gustav Adolf Josef Christian Felix Herr und Graf von Stubenberg and Maria Franciszka Freiin Staudach. She married Johann Remekhazy von Gurahoncz on 15 February 1840, and Friedrich...
(1821–1912) - Dana SuesseDana SuesseDana Suesse , full name Nadine Dana Suesse, was an American musician, composer and lyricist.-Biography:While still a child, Suesse toured the Midwest vaudeville circuits with an act centered on dancing and piano playing. During the recital, she would ask the audience for a theme, and then proceed...
(1909–1987) - Kyungsun SuhKyungsun Suh-Biography:Kyungsun Suh was born in Seoul, Korea. She studied composition and theory at the Seoul National University, graduating with bachelor's and master's degrees, and at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. After completing her studies she took a position teaching at Hanyang University...
(born 1942) - Marion Dix SullivanMarion Dix SullivanMarion Dix Sullivan was an American composer. She was born in New Hampshire, sister of General John A. Dix, of New York, and of philanthropist Dorothy L. Dix...
(fl. 1840–50) - Margaret SutherlandMargaret SutherlandMargaret Sutherland was an Australian composer, probably the best-known female composer her country has produced....
(1897–1984) - Natela SvanidzeNatela Svanidze-Biography:Natela Svanidze was born in Akhaltsikhe, Georgia. She studied composition at Tbilisi State Conservatoire with A. Balanchivadze, graduating in 1951. She was awarded the title of Honored Artist of Georgia in 1981.-Works:...
(born 1926) - Elizabeth SwadosElizabeth SwadosElizabeth Swados is an American writer, composer, musician, and theatre director. While some of her subject matter is humorous, such as her satirical look at Ronald Reagan, Rap Master Ronnie, and Doonesbury - both collaborations with Garry Trudeau - much of her work deals with dark issues such as...
(born 1951) - Freda SwainFreda Swain-Biography:Freda Swain was born at Portsmouth, England. She studied with Dora Matthay and at the Royal Academy of Music with Stanford and Arthur Alexander. She earned awards including the Sullivan Prize in 1921....
(1902–1985) - Edith SwepstoneEdith SwepstoneEdith Swepstone was an English composer and music teacher. She wrote orchestral music that was performed at Bournemouth and chamber music performed at the South Palace Concerts.-Works:...
(fl. 1885–1930) - Kay SwiftKay SwiftKay Swift was an American composer of popular and classical music, the first woman to score a complete musical. Written in 1930, Fine and Dandy includes some of her best known songs; the title song has become a jazz standard. "Can't We Be Friends?" was another important hit...
(1897–1993) - Gloria Wilson SwisherGloria Wilson Swisher-Biography:Gloria Wilson Swisher was born in Seattle, Washington. She graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle where she received a Bachelor of Music, summa cum laude, Mills College in Oakland, California, where she earned a Master of Music in composition and the Eastman School of...
(born 1935) - Jadwiga Szajna-LewandowskaJadwiga Szajna-LewandowskaJadwiga Szajna-Lewandowska was a Polish pianist, music educator and composer.-Biography:Jadwiga Szajna-Lewandowska was born in Brody and studied piano with Marii Sołtysowej at the Conservatory of Music in Lvov, graduating in 1931...
(1912–1994) - Iris SzeghyIris Szeghy-Biography:Iris Szeghy was born in Prešov, Slovakia. She studied piano and composition at the Conservatory in Košice and composition at the Music Academy in Bratislava. She continued her studies in Budapest, Warsaw, the University of California in San Diego, and at the STEIM Studio in Amsterdam...
(born 1956) - Erzsébet Szőnyi (born 1924)
- Maria Agata SzymanowskaMaria Agata SzymanowskaMaria Szymanowska was a Polish composer and one of the first professional virtuoso pianists of the 19th century. She toured extensively throughout Europe, especially in the 1820s, before settling permanently in St. Petersburg...
(1789–1831) - Joan SzymkoJoan SzymkoJoan Szymko is an American choral conductor, music educator and composer. She was born in Chicago and studied choral conducting and music education at the University of Illinois at Urbana, graduating in 1978...
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- Dobrinka TabakovaDobrinka TabakovaDobrinka Tabakova is a British/Bulgarian composer.-Life:Dobrinka Tabakova was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. She won the Jean-Frederic Perrenoud Prize of the 4th International Competition of Music in Vienna when she was 14 years old...
(born 1980) - Germaine TailleferreGermaine TailleferreGermaine Tailleferre was a French composer and the only female member of the famous composers' group Les Six.-Biography:...
(1892–1983) - Louise TalmaLouise TalmaLouise Talma was a composer. She was raised in New York City and studied at the Institute of Musical Arts , 1922–1930, and received her bachelor of music degree from New York University and masters of arts degree from Columbia University...
(1906–1996) - Karen TanakaKaren Tanaka-Biography:Karen Tanaka was born in Tokyo, Japan where she started piano and composition lessons as a child. After studying composition with Akira Miyoshi and piano with Nobuko Amada at Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, she moved to Paris in 1986 with the aid of a French Government Scholarship...
(born 1961) - Hilary TannHilary TannHilary Tann is a Welsh composer now based in the United States.Tann holds a degree in music composition from the University of Wales, Cardiff. Her overture, With the Heather and Small Birds, commissioned by the 1994 Cardiff Festival, is her tribute to the land of her birth...
(born 1947) - Phyllis TatePhyllis TatePhyllis Tate was an English composer known for forming unusual instrumentations in her compositions. Her musical style has been called avant-garde and she is recognized for appealing to amateur performers and children....
(1911–1987) - Erna TauroErna TauroErna Tauro, née Pergament, was a Finnish-Swedish pianist and composer.-Biography:Erna Tauro was born in Viborg, daughter of Isak Pergament and Rifka née Rosenthal, and niece of Moses Pergament and Simon Parmet. The family moved to Berlin in 1921 and later to Helsinki...
(1916–1993) - Cornelia TautuCornelia TautuCornelia Tăutu is a Romanian composer best known for film soundtracks.-Works:Tăutu has written works including:*Divertisment folcloric*Coralia for children's chorus and orchestra*Rota for chamber ensemble...
(born 1938) - Alice TegnérAlice TegnérAlice Charlotta Tegnér was a Swedish music teacher, poet and composer. She was recognized as a foremost composer of Swedish children's songs during the first half of the 20th century.-Background:...
(1864–1943) - Nancy TelferNancy TelferNancy Telfer is a Canadian choral conductor, music educator and composer.-Biography:Nancy Ellen Telfer was born in Brampton, Ontario. She began piano lessons at age six and later played French horn in bands, orchestras and chamber ensembles...
(born 1950) - Hope TempleHope TempleHope Temple, née Dotie Davis was an Irish songwriter and composer. She was also known as Mrs. André Charles Prosper Messager and Dottie Davis.Alice Davis was born in Dublin, Ireland and was known professionally as Hope Temple...
(1859–1938) - Alicia TerzianAlicia TerzianAlicia Terzian is an Argentine conductor, musicologist and composer of Armenian descent.-Biography:Alicia Terzian was born in Córdoba. She studied at the National Conservatory of Buenos Aires under Alberto Ginastera, Gilardo Gilardi, Roberto García Morillo and Floro Ugarte...
(born 1934) - Rose Thisse-DerouetteRose Thisse-DerouetteRose Thisse-Derouette was a Belgian composer, conductor, musicologist, folklorist and teacher. She was born in Liège, Belgium, and won the Prix de Rome for composition....
(1902–1989) - Augusta Read ThomasAugusta Read ThomasAugusta Read Thomas is an American composer.Augusta Read Thomas was born in Glen Cove, New York. She attended The Green Vale School and later moved on to St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and then studied composition with Jacob Druckman at Yale University and at the Royal Academy of...
(born 1964) - Diane ThomeDiane Thome-Biography:Thome studied piano with Dorothy Taubman and composition with Robert Strassburg, Roy Harris, Darius Milhaud, A.U. Boscovich, and Milton Babbitt. She graduated with undergraduate degrees from Eastman School of Music, a Master of Arts in theory and composition from the University of...
(born 1942) - Shirley ThompsonShirley Thompson (composer)-Biography:Shirley Thompson was born in London, England, of Jamaican parents. She graduated in music from Liverpool University and in composition from Goldsmith's College after studying with Professor Stanley Glasser...
(b. ?) - Pauline-Marie-Elisa ThysPauline-Marie-Elisa ThysPauline-Marie-Elisa Thys was a French composer and librettist. She was the daughter of the opera comique composer Alphonse Thys, and composed operettas, opéra comiques, and opera. Selected works include:...
(c. 1836–1909) - Tibors (fl. mid-12th century)
- Zdenka TicharichZdenka TicharichZdenka Ticharich was a Hungarian pianist, music educator and composer.-Biography:Zdenka Ticharich was born in Budapest, Hungary...
(1900–1979) - Serena TidemanSerena TidemanSerena Tideman is a US born composer and classical and improvisational cellist who resides in Port Townsend,Washington.-Career:Serena Tideman is considered minimalist and New Wave, and also composes melodramatic popular songs. She has toured with múm, an experimental Icelandic music group...
- Katia TiutiunnikKatia TiutiunnikKatia Tiutiunnik is an Australian violist, scholar and composer. She is of Russian, Ukrainian and Irish descent.-Education:...
(1967) - Zlata TkachZlata TkachZlata Moiseyevna Tkach was a Moldovan composer and music educator. She was the first woman to become a professional composer in Moldova.-Biography:...
(1928–2006) - Helen Tobias-DuesbergHelen Tobias-DuesbergHelen Tobias-Duesberg was an Estonian-American composer.Helen Tobias was born in New York City on June 11, 1919. Tobias was the youngest daughter of Estonian composer, Rudolf Tobias. She studied music composition at the Tallinn Conservatoire, which is now known as the Estonian Academy of Music...
(1919–2010) - Denise TolkowskyDenise TolkowskyDenise Tolkowsky was an English-born pianist and composer.-Biography:Denise Tolkowsky was born in Brighton, England, the daughter of a Russian father and Flemish singer and actress Anna Kennes. She studied music at the Royal Flemish Conservatory in Antwerp, with E...
(1918–1991) - Joan TowerJoan TowerJoan Tower is a Grammy-winning contemporary American composer, concert pianist and conductor. Lauded by the New Yorker as "one of the most successful woman composers of all time", her bold and energetic compositions have been performed in concert halls around the world...
(born 1938) - Joan TrimbleJoan TrimbleJoan Trimble was an Irish composer and pianist.- Education and career :She studied at the Trinity College, Dublin, the Royal Irish Academy of Music, and the Royal College of Music....
(1915–2000) - Alba TrissinaAlba TrissinaAlba Trissina was an Italian composer. She was a nun at the monastery of Araceli in Venice, and studied with Leone Eloni. Four motets for alto voice in Leoni's Sacri fiori: quarto libro de motettia are all of her compositions that survive. Her most noted work is Vulnerasti cor meum.-References:...
(fl. 1622) - Josephine TroupJosephine TroupEmily Josephine Troup was an English composer of songs and works for piano and violin. A scholarship was established in her name at the Royal Academy of Music, in London.-Works:Troup was noted for children's songs...
(died 1912) - Julia TsenovaJulia TsenovaJulia Tsenova , born in Sofia, Bulgaria, was an award-winning Bulgarian composer, pianist and musical pedagogue. She died of cancer at the age of 61.-Life and career:...
(1948–2010) - Karmella TsepkolenkoKarmella Tsepkolenko-Biography:Karmella Tsepkolenko was born in Odessa, Ukraine. She studied composition from 1973-79 at the Pyotr Stoliarsky Special Music School in Odessa under Aleksandr Kogan and piano under Grigory Buchynsky and Yelena Pannikova. She continued her studies at the Odessa State A.V. Nezhdanova Music...
(born 1955) - Calliope TsoupakiCalliope Tsoupaki-Biography:Calliope Tsoupaki was born in Piraeus, Greece. She studied piano and music theory at the Hellinicon Conservatory in Athens and composition with Yannis Ioannithis. She continued her studies with Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, and graduated in 1992.After ending...
(born 1963) - Yuka TsujiyokoYuka TsujiyokoYuka Tsujiyoko is a Japanese video game music composer for Nintendo. She is the music composer for the Fire Emblem video game franchise, which was not released outside Japan until 2003, and several other Intelligent Systems developed games. She also scored the Super Scope games Battle Clash and...
(born in the 20th Century) - Mary Elizabeth Turner SalterMary Elizabeth Turner SalterMary Elizabeth Turner Salter was an American soprano and composer. She was born in Peoria, Illinois, the daughter of Jonathan and Mary E. Hinds Turner. Turner graduated from Burlington High School in Burlington, Iowa, and the Boston College of Music, and then worked as a voice teacher at Wellesley...
(1856–1938) - Agnes TyrrellAgnes TyrrellAgnes Tyrrell was a Czech-born pianist and composer.-Biography:Agnes Tyrrell was born in Brno, Moravia. She was the daughter of English teacher Henry Tyrrell and his wife Josefine Kotulan. She performed in her first recital at age nine, and attended the Conservatory in Vienna at age sixteen...
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- Carolina UccelliCarolina Uccelli-Biography:Carolina Uccelli was born in Florence and made her debut as a composer with the performance of the sacred opera Saul at the Teatro della Pergola on 21 June 1830. Uccelli wrote both libretto and music for the opera. A two-act melodrama Anna di Resburo with libretto by Gaetano Rossi was...
(1810–1885) - Ludmila UlehlaLudmila UlehlaLudmila Ulehla was an American composer and music educator.-Biography:Ludmila Ulehla was born in Flushing, Queens, New York. She began the study of piano and violin very early and wrote short compositions at the age of five. Later she studied composition under Vittorio Giannini at the Manhattan...
(1923–2009) - Alicia UrretaAlicia UrretaAlicia Urreta was a Mexican pianist, music educator and composer.-Biography:Alicia Urreta was born in Veracruz, Veracruz. In 1952 she entered the Conservatorio National de Musica in Mexico City, studying harmony with Rodolfo Halffter, and other topics under Hernandez Moncada...
(1933–1987) - Irma UrteagaIrma Urteaga-Biography:Irma Urteaga was born in San Nicholas, Buenos Aires. She began her studies in Paraná and continued in Buenos Aires with Lucrecia María Madariaga Gilardi, Josefa Hernandorena and Jorge Fanelli for piano and Beatriz Gilardo Henandorena y Gilardi for harmony. She graduated in piano in...
(born 1929) - Julia UsherJulia UsherJulia Usher is an English musician, project animateur and composer, and is known for musical theater. Besides composing, she also works as a music therapist.-Biography:...
(born 1945) - Galina UstvolskayaGalina UstvolskayaGalina Ivanovna Ustvolskaya, also Ustwolskaja or Oustvolskaia was a Russian composer of classical music.-Early years:From 1937 to 1947 she studied at the college attached to the Leningrad Conservatory . She subsequently became a postgraduate student and taught composition at the college...
(born 1919) - Yolande UyttenhoveYolande UyttenhoveYolande Uyttenhove was a Belgian composer and pianist.A native of Leuze, Uyttenhove studied music at the Brussels Conservatory, and gained in addition a licentiate diploma from the Royal Academy of Music in London. She received numerous international awards for piano and composition, and placed...
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- Ann ValentineAnn ValentineAnn Valentine was an English organist and composer.-Life:Ann Valentine was born on 11 January 1762 in Leicester and christened on 15 March. Her father was the composer John Valentine II. Ann Valentine lived in Belgrave Gate and worked as organist at St Margaret's Church, Leicester until 1834...
(1762–1842) - Janika VanderveldeJanika VanderveldeJanika Vandervelde is an American composer, pianist, and music educator.-Biography:Janika Vandervelde was born in Ripon, Wisconsin, and grew up in nearby Green Lake, playing horn and piano. She began composing in her teens...
(born 1955) - Nancy Van de VateNancy Van de VateNancy Van de Vate is an American-born composer living in Austria.-Life and career:She was born in Plainfield, New Jersey and studied piano at Eastman School of Music and composition at the University of Mississippi and Florida State University. She later pursued further studies in electronic music...
(born 1930) - Alida VázquezAlida VázquezAlida Vázquez is a Mexican composer who lives and works in the United States. Vázquez was born in Mexico City, and from 1941-47 attended the Conservatorio Nacional de Música. She studied piano with Esperanza Cruz de Vasconcelos and music theory with Julián Carrillo...
(born 1931) - Albena Petrovic-VratchanskaAlbena Petrovic-VratchanskaAlbena Petrovic-Vratchanska is a composer, pianist and musical pedagogue.In 2007 she received the prestigious commission of the Cultural Year 2007 in Luxembourg and the Greater Region for the composition of "Gladius" for electric guitar and instrumental ensemble.The Cultural Commission and Madam...
(born 1965) - Hana VejvodováHana VejvodováHana Vejvodová was a Czech pianist and composer. She studied piano with Jaromir Kriz and composition with Ilja Hurnik, Svatopluk Havelka and Franco Donatoni.-Works:Vejvodova composed 40 works for orchestra, voice and solo instruments...
(1963–1994) - Consuelo VelázquezConsuelo VelázquezConsuelo Velázquez was a Mexican concert pianist, songwriter and recording artist.According to her obituary, she was 88 years old when she died...
(1924–2005) - Esther Elizabeth VelkiersEsther Elizabeth Velkiers-Biography:Esther Velkiers was born in Geneva, Switzerland. She was nearly blind from an accident with an oven when she was a baby, and was taught letters by her father using wooden blocks. She learned Latin, German, Italian and French, and then studied philosophy, mathematics, theology and...
(born 1640) - Lucie VellèreLucie Vellère-Biography:Lucie Vellère was born in Brussels, and began piano lessons with her father at the age of six. She studied with Emile Chaumont for violin, Paul Miry for harmony, and Joseph Jongen for composition. She was awarded the 1957 "Prix du Brabant" and received an award from the American Section...
(1896–1966) - Elizabeth Walton VercoeElizabeth Walton VercoeElizabeth Vercoe is an American musician, music educator and composer.-Biography:Born in Washington, D.C., Elizabeth Vercoe grew up in a musical family and studied piano and violin while attending the National Cathedral School. From 1958 to 1962, she studied music theory at Wellesley College where...
(born 1941) - Yuliya VeysbergYuliya VeysbergYuliya Veysberg was a Russian composer. She married Andrey Rimsky-Korsakov, musicologist and son of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and served on the editorial board of the first Russian music magazine, Muzïkal'nïy sovremennik, which he founded.Veysberg's compositions included vocal works, a symphony, a...
(1878/1880–1942) - Pauline Viardot (1821–1910)
- Jórunn ViðarJórunn Viðar-Biography:Jórunn Viðar was born and grew up in Reykjavík, Iceland. In 1937 she graduated from Reykjavík Grammar School, and in 1937 traveled to Germany to study at the Music Academy in Berlin for two years. She returned to Iceland and married Lárus Fjeldsted...
(born 1918) - Lois V VierkLois V VierkLois V Vierk is a "post-minimalist" or "totalist" composer who lives in New York City.She received a B.A. degree in piano and ethnomusicology from UCLA in 1974. She then attended Cal Arts, studying composition with Mel Powell, Leonard Stein, and Morton Subotnick, receiving her M.F.A. in 1978...
(born 1951) - Jane VieuJane VieuJane Vieu was a French composer who also published works under the pseudonym Pierre Valette. Vieu published orchestral, chamber, piano, and operatic works and forty-five songs...
(1871–1955) - Josée Vigneron-RamackersJosée Vigneron-RamackersJosée Vigneron-Ramackers is a Belgian music educator, conductor and composer. Josée Vigneron-Ramackers was born in Leopoldsburg , Belgium. She studied harmony and counterpoint at the Limburgsche.-References:...
(born 1914) - Mariana VillanuevaMariana VillanuevaMariana Villanueva is a Mexican music educator and composer.-Biography:Mariana Villanueva. Music as highly spiritual activity is the core of Mariana Villanueva´s music, through which she tries to reach de very depths of her inner world in search of an ancestral knowledge of a universal nature...
(born 1964) - Henriette Adélaïde Villard BeaumesnilHenriette Adélaïde Villard BeaumesnilHenriette Adélaïde Villard Beaumesnil was a French actress, opera singer and composer-Biography:Henriette Villard Beaumesnil was an actress and singer at the Paris Opera. She began working in minor roles at the age of seven and debuted as a soloist in 1766...
(1748–1813) - Berthe di Vito-DelvauxBerthe di Vito-Delvaux-Biography:Berthe di Vito-Delvaux was born in Angleur, Belgium. She studied theory with Désiré Duysens, harmony with Louis Lavoye and piano with Jeanne House at the Royal Academy of Music of Liège, and composition under Léon Jongen at the Brussels Royal Academy of Music.She married at eighteen, but...
(1915–2005) - Ida VivadoIda Vivado-Biography:Ida Vivado was born in Tacna, Peru. She graduated from the National Conservatory of Music in Chile with a degree in Interpretation in 1941 and took a position on the faculty at the National Conservatory. She continued her studies in composition with Domingo Santa Cruz and Free Focke...
(1908–1989) - Lucrezia Orsina VizzanaLucrezia Orsina VizzanaLucrezia Orsina Vizzana was an Italian singer, organist, and composer. She entered a Camaldolese convent in Bologna in 1598. She was taught by her aunt, Camilla Bombacci, who was the convent organist, and by Ottavio Vernizzi who was the unofficial music master...
(1590–1662) - Marina Marta VladMarina Marta Vlad-Biography:Marina Marta Vlad was born in Bucharest. She studied violin with Cecilia Geanta at the Music High School in Bucharest, and graduated from the National University of Music in Bucharest in 1973. She was awarded a composition prize from the university. After completing her studies, she took...
(born 1949) - Sláva VorlováSláva VorlováSláva Vorlová was a Czech composer. She also used the pseudonym Mira Kord.-Biography:Slava Vorlova, née Miroslava Johnová, was born in Náchod...
(1894–1973) - Tat'yana Voronina (born 1933)
- Anne van SchothorstAnne van SchothorstAnne van Schothorst is a Dutch harpist and composer.She plays the pedal harp, celtic harp and historical harps as well; an antique Erard harp and a Schwieso Grosjean ....
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- Ho Wai-OnHo Wai-On-Biography:Ann-Kay Lin was born and grew up in Hong Kong, and studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London on a John Swire Scholarship. She studied singing and composition, and piano with Max Pirani...
(born 1946) - Shirley WalkerShirley WalkerShirley Walker was an American television and film composer and conductor. She was one of the few female film score composers working in Hollywood...
(born 1935) - Joelle WallachJoelle WallachJoelle Wallach is an American composer. As a girl she lived for a few years in Morocco before returning to the United States to attend the Juilliard School's pre-college program where she studied the piano, singing, theory and composition. She attended Sarah Lawrence College where she earned a...
(born 1946) - Errollyn WallenErrollyn WallenErrollyn Wallen is a Belize born, British composer. She was the first black woman to have a work performed at The Proms She studied composition at Goldsmith's College and at Kings College, London University...
(born 1958) - Maria Antonia Walpurgis of BavariaMaria Antonia Walpurgis of BavariaMaria Antonia, Princess of Bavaria , Electress of Saxony, was a German composer, singer, harpsichordist and patron, known particularly for her operas Il trionfo della fedeltà and Talestri, regina delle amazoni . She was also the Regent of Saxony in 1763-1768...
(1724–1780) - Jennifer WalsheJennifer WalsheJennifer Walshe is an Irish composer, vocalist and artist.-Biography:Jennifer Walshe was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1974. She studied composition with John Maxwell Geddes at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Kevin Volans in Dublin and graduated from Northwestern University with a...
(born 1974) - Tekla Griebel Wandall (1866–1940)
- Hsiao-Lan Wang (born 1976)
- Qiang WangQiang Wang-Biography:Wang Qiang began her study of composition at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 1955. As a third-year student she won first prize in the 1959 World Youth Music Composition Competition with the choral piece River of Fortune. After graduating in 1960, she took a position teaching...
(born 1935) - Elinor Remick WarrenElinor Remick WarrenElinor Remick Warren was an American composer of contemporary classical music and pianist. She composed in a predominantly neo-Romantic style....
(1900–1991) - Thérèse WartelThérèse WartelAtala Thérèse Annette Wartel, née Adrien, was a French pianist, music educator, composer and critic.-Biography:...
(1814–1865) - Ruth Watson HendersonRuth Watson HendersonRuth Louise Watson Henderson is a Canadian composer, pianist, and music educator. She has been the accompanist for the Toronto Children's Chorus since its inception in 1978 and is currently on the faculty of The Royal Conservatory of Music where she has taught for many years...
(born 1932) - Julie von WebenauJulie von WebenauJulie von Webenau née Baroni-Cavalcabò, , was a German-Austrian composer. She was a student of Mozart's son Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart. In 1839 Robert Schumann dedicated his piece Humoreske Op. 20 to her...
née Baroni-Cavalcabo (1813–1874) - Vilma von WebenauVilma von WebenauVilma von Webenau, , composer, first student of Arnold Schönberg, granddaughter of Julie von Webenau, daughter of Arthur Weber Edler von Webenau, k. & k. counsellor in Constantinople...
(1875–1953) - Bertha Frensel WegenerBertha Frensel WegenerBertha Frensel Wegener-Kloopman was a Dutch composer and music educator.-Biography:Bertha Wegener was born in Bloemendaal, the Netherlands. She studied composition and piano at the Conservatory in Amsterdam and continued studying with composer Bernard Zweers and vocal pedagogue Hugo Bellwidt in...
(1874–1953) - Emmy WegenerEmmy WegenerEmmy Heil Frensel-Wegener was a Dutch violinist, pianist, poet and composer, the daughter of composer Bertha Frensel Wegener-Kloopman and Jolen Frensel-Wegener...
(1901–1973) - Vally WeiglVally WeiglVally Weigl was an Austrian-American composer and music therapist.-Biography:Valerie Weigl was born in Vienna, Austria. She took piano lessons in childhood, and studied musicology at Vienna University...
(1889–1982) - Judith WeirJudith WeirJudith Weir CBE, is a British composer.-Biography:Her music has been appreciated by audiences and critics alike. She trained with John Tavener while still at school and subsequently with Robin Holloway at King's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1976...
(born 1954) - Georgina WeldonGeorgina WeldonGeorgina Weldon was a British campaigner against the lunacy laws, a celebrated litigant and noted amateur soprano of the Victorian era.-Early years:...
(1837–1914) - Sara Wennerberg-ReuterSara Wennerberg-ReuterSara Wennerberg-Reuter was a Swedish organist and composer. She was the niece of the composer Gunnar Wennerberg ....
(1875–1959) - Rosy WertheimRosy WertheimRosy Wertheim was a Dutch pianist, music educator and composer.-Biography:Rosalie Marie Wertheim was born in Amsterdam to parents John and Adriana Rosa Gustaaf Wertheim Enthoven. Her father was a banker and Rosalie attended a French boarding school in Neuilly where she took piano lessons...
(1888–1949) - Sophia Maria WestenholzSophia Maria WestenholzSophia Maria Westenholz, née Fritscher was a German composer, musician, singer and music educator. She was born into a privileged family and spent most of her life in the courts of Schwerin and Ludwigslust, capitals of the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. She studied music with Konzertmeister J. W...
(1759–1838) - Hildegard WesterkampHildegard WesterkampHildegard Westerkamp is a German and Canadian composer of electroacoustic music.Many of her compositions deal with the acoustic environment. Particular themes include soundscapes of urban or rural areas, including voices, noise, silence, music and media, and so on...
(born 1946) - Mabel Wheeler DanielsMabel Wheeler DanielsMabel Wheeler Daniels was an American composer, conductor, and teacher. She attended Radcliffe College and studied with George Whitefield Chadwick before traveling to Germany for further study with Ludwig Thuille in Munich...
(1877–1971) - Maude Valérie WhiteMaude Valerie WhiteMaude Valérie White was a French-born English composer who became one of the most successful songwriters of the Victorian period.-Early years:...
(1855–1937) - Ruth WhiteRuth White (composer)Ruth White is an American composer known for electronic music compositions. While most of her career was dedicated to educational recordings she is perhaps most famous for being an electronic music pioneer, most notably for her early explorations of sound using the moog synthesizer...
(born 1925) - Gillian WhiteheadGillian WhiteheadDame Gillian Karawe Whitehead, DNZM is a New Zealand composer.She studied at the University of Auckland from 1959–62, and Victoria University of Wellington in 1963, graduating BMus Hons in 1964. She then studied composition at the University of Sydney with Peter Sculthorpe from...
(born 1941) - Dorothy Whitson FreedDorothy Whitson FreedDorothy Whitson Freed was an author, composer and music historian. She was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, and was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to music in 1998...
(1919–2000) - Caroline WichernCaroline Wichern-Biography:Caroline Wichern was the eldest daughter of the Protestant theologian and social reformer Johann Hinrich Wichern. She wrote and published songs including a collection of Christmas songs, and was associated with Brahms. She worked until 1895 as a music teacher at Ellerslie College in...
(1836–1906) - Inger WikströmInger WikströmInger Wikstrom is a Swedish pianist, composer and conductor.-Biography:Inger Wikstrom began studying piano in Stockholm at the age of six, and at sixteen played as soloist with the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. She made successful debuts as a concert pianist in Stockholm, Berlin, London and...
(born 1939) - Wilhelmine of BayreuthWilhelmine of BayreuthPrincess Wilhelmine of Prussia was a German noblewoman and composer. She was the eldest daughter of Frederick William I of Prussia and Sophia Dorothea of Hanover. In 1731, she married Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth...
(1709–1758) - Margaret Lucy WilkinsMargaret Lucy WilkinsLucy Wilkins is an English music educator and composer known for opera.-Biography:Margaret Lucy Wilkins was born in Kingston-upon-Thames, England, and began composing at age twelve. She studied composition at Trinity College of Music in London with Gladdys Puttick and continued her education at...
(born 1939) - Grace WilliamsGrace Williams-Biography:Williams was born in Barry, near Cardiff, Wales.She was educated at Barry County School, and won a scholarship to Cardiff University . She then went to the Royal College of Music, London, where she was taught by Ralph Vaughan Williams...
(1906–1977) - Joan Franks WilliamsJoan Franks WilliamsJoan Franks Williams was an American composer.-Life:Joan Franks was born in Brooklyn, New York, and studied at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree in 1952...
(1930-2003) - Mary Lou WilliamsMary Lou WilliamsMary Lou Williams was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. Williams wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements, and recorded more than one hundred records...
(1910–1981) - Debbie WisemanDebbie WisemanDebbie Wiseman MBE is a composer for film and television. She studied at Trinity College of Music Junior Department, and then piano and composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama....
(born 1963) - Maria Carolina WolfMaria Carolina WolfMaria Carolina Wolf, née Benda, was a German pianist, singer and composer.Maria Carolina Wolfs' father was Franz Benda, first violinist and composer at the court of Frederick II, her aunt Anna Franziska Hattasch was a chamber singer and her uncle Georg Benda was conductor, both with appointments...
(1742–1820) - Julia WolfeJulia WolfeJulia Wolfe is an American composer. She was born in Philadelphia, holds degrees from the University of Michigan, Princeton and Yale, and currently works in New York. Wolfe's music is rhythmically vigorous and often clangorously dissonant...
(born 1958) - Erna WollErna WollErna Woll was a German composer, church musician and author.-Biography:Erna Woll was born in St. Ingbert in the Saar. She studied music from 1936 to 1938 at the Evangelical Church with Wolfgang Fortner in Heidelberg and studied composition from 1940 to 1944 with Joseph Haas and Gustav Geierhaas at...
(1917–2005) - Mary Knight WoodMary Knight WoodMary Knight Wood Mason was an American pianist, music educator and composer. She was born in Easthampton, Massachusetts, the daughter of Lieutenant-governor, manufacturer and philanthropist Horatio G. Knight and Mary Ann Huntoon Knight...
(1857–1944) - Amy Woodforde-FindenAmy Woodforde-FindenAmy Woodforde-Finden was a composer who is best known for writing the music to "Kashmiri Song" from Four Indian Love Lyrics by Laurence Hope....
(1860–1919) - Barbara WoofBarbara WoofBarbara Woof is an Australian-Dutch composer and music educator.-Biography:Barbara Woof was born in Sydney, Australia. She studied composition at the University of Sydney with Peter Sculthorpe and graduated in 1980 cum laude with a Bachelor of Music diploma...
(born 1958) - Julia WoolfJulia WoolfSophia Julia Woolf was an English composer known for songs and opera.-Life and works:Julia Woolf composed piano pieces and songs for theatrical productions.A review of her opera Carina in the New York times described the work as:...
(1831–1893) - Ellen Riley WrightEllen Riley WrightEllen Riley Wright was an English composer of music for popular songs.-Biography:Ellen Riley was born in London, the daughter of American engineer George Riley and married an attorney. She began to compose with no instruction and published her first songs in 1981...
(1859-1904) - Mary Ann WrightenMary Ann WrightenMary Ann Wrighten Pownall, née Mary Matthews, was an English singer, actress and composer.-Life:Mary Ann Matthews was born in England of a jeweler father and shop-keeper mother. She was apprenticed to organist Charley Griffith where she learned music, and made her debut on the stage at about age 15...
(1751–1796) - Caroline WuietCaroline WuietCaroline Wuiet Auffdiener, Caroline Vuyet or Caroline Vuïet was a French journalist, novelist and composer, best known for opera.-Life:...
(1766–1835) - Sinta WullurSinta WullurSinta Wullur is an Indonesian-Dutch gamelan musician and composer.-Biography:Sinta Wullur was born in Bandung, Indonesia, and emigrated to Holland in 1968. Wullur studied music at the Sweelinck Conservatory with Willem Brons and received a degree in piano...
(born 1958) - Mary J. A. WurmMary J. A. Wurm-Biography:Mary Wurm was born in England, the sister of Adela Verne, and studied music in Germany. She studied composition with Charles Villiers Stanford...
(1860–1938) - Stephanie Wurmbrand-StuppachStephanie Wurmbrand-StuppachCountess Stephanie von Wurmbrand-Stuppach was a Hungarian pianist and composer. She was also known as Stephanie Brand-Vrabely.-Biography:...
(1849–1919) - Ruth Shaw WylieRuth Shaw WylieRuth Shaw Wylie was a U.S.-born composer and music educator. She described herself as “a fairly typical Midwestern composer,” pursuing musical and aesthetic excellence but not attracting much national attention: “All good and worthy creative acts do not take place in New York City,” she wrote in...
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- Shuxian Xiao (1905–1991)
- Huguang Xin (born 1933)
- Qu Xixian (born 1919)
- XosroviduxtXosroviduxtKhosrovidukht was an hymnographer and poet who lived during the 8th century. One of the earliest known women musicians, she is recorded as having been a member of the royal family, but here accounts differ as to her historical importance...
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- Michiru YamaneMichiru Yamaneis a Japanese video game composer and musician. She is known primarily for her work on the Castlevania series and other Konami games, including Suikoden. Her debut composition was Twinbee...
(born 1963) - Kinuyo YamashitaKinuyo Yamashitais a Japanese video game music composer and sound producer. Her best known soundtrack is Konami's Castlevania, which was also her debut work. She was credited under the pseudonym James Banana for her work on the Nintendo Entertainment System version of the game....
(living; born in the 20th Century} - Irina Yel'cheva (born 1926)
- Chen YiChen Yi (composer)Chen Yi is a Chinese composer of contemporary classical music. She was the first Chinese woman to receive a Master of Arts in music composition from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. She is also a violinist....
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- Jeanne Zaidel-RudolphJeanne Zaidel-RudolphJeanne Zaidel-Rudolph is a South African composer, pianist and teacher. She was the first woman in South Africa to obtain a doctorate in composition.-Education:...
(born 1948) - Arlene ZallmanArlene ZallmanArelene Zallman was an American composer and music educator.-Life:Arlene Zallman was born in Philadelphia and graduated from the Juilliard School of Music. She received a Master’s Degree from the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied composition with Vincent Persichetti and George Crumb...
(1934–2006) - Ruth ZechlinRuth ZechlinRuth Zechlin née Oschatz was a German composer.-Life:Ruth Zechlin was born Ruth Oschatz in Grosshartmannsdorf, Germany. She began piano lessons at five years old, and wrote her first composition at the age of seven...
(born 1926) - Isidora ZegersIsidora ZegersIsidora Zegers Montenegro was a Spanish artist and composer. She is known for her contributions to Chilean culture during the nineteenth century.-Biography:...
(1803–1869) - Dafina Zeqiri (composer)Dafina Zeqiri (composer)Dafina Zeqiri is a Kosovar composer of mostly chamber music and choral music that has been performed in Europe and elsewhere....
(born 1984) - Gaziza ZhubanovaGaziza Zhubanova-Life:Gaziza Zhubanova was born in a village in the Jurun District, Aktyubinsk. Gaziza Zhubanova attended school in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, and graduated with honors. She was the daughter of Akhmet Zhubanov, a university educated musician, and grew up in a musical environment.In 1945 Gaziza Zhubanova...
(born 1927) - Lidia ZielinskaLidia ZielińskaLidia Zielińska is a Polish composer and music educator.-Biography:Lidia Zielińska was born in Poznań, Poland. She graduated from the State Higher School of Music in Poznań in 1979 after studying composition under Andrzej Koszewski. She also studied composition and electronic music in Poland and...
(born 1953) - Grete von ZieritzGrete von ZieritzGrete von Zieritz was an Austrian-German composer and pianist.-Life:Grete von Zieritz was born in Vienna, Austria, the daughter of peerage, and grew up in Vienna, Innsbruck and Graz. She received her first piano lessons at the age of six, and later studied with Hugo Kroemer and Roderick Mojsisovics...
(1899–2001) - Marilyn J ZiffrinMarilyn J ZiffrinMarilyn Jane Ziffrin is an American composer and music educator.-Biography:Marilyn Ziffrin was born in Moline, Illinois, to parents Betty S. and Harry B. Ziffrin, Marilyn Jane Ziffrin (born 7 August 1926) is an American composer and music educator.-Biography:Marilyn Ziffrin was born in Moline,...
(born 1926) - Agnes ZimmermannAgnes ZimmermannAgnes Zimmermann was a German concert pianist and composer who lived in England.-Biography:Agnes Marie Jacobina Zimmermann was born in Cologne, Germany. Her family moved to England, and she was enrolled at the Royal Academy of Music at the age of nine, where her teachers were Reginald Steggall and...
(1847–1925) - Margrit ZimmermannMargrit ZimmermannMargrit Zimmermann is a Swiss pianist, conductor, music educator and composer.-Biography:Margrit Zimmermann was born in Bern, Switzerland. She studied piano there under Jeanne Bovet and composition under Walter Furrer. Later she studied under Denise Bidal and Alfred Cortot in Lausanne...
(born 1927) - Mirjana ŽivkovicMirjana ŽivkovicMirjana Živković is a Serbian musicologist and composer. She is a member of the Serbian Composers' Association, and her compositions include Summer Night...
(born 1935) - Emiliana de ZubeldiaEmiliana de ZubeldiaEmiliana de Zubeldia Inda was a Spanish pianist and composer. She is known for guitar compositions.-Biography:Emiliana de Zubeldia was born in Salinas De Oro, Navarre, in Southern Spain, and emigrated to Latin America during the time of the Spanish Civil War...
(1888–1987) - Marija Zubova (1749–1799)
- Mana ZuccaMana ZuccaMana-Zucca was an American actress, singer, pianist and composer born in New York City.-Life:Mana-Zucca was born Augusta Zuckerman in New York City on December 25, 1885. She was a child prodigy who began composing at an early age. At the age of eight, she performed as piano soloist in the...
(1885–1981) - Emilie ZumsteegEmilie ZumsteegEmilie Zumsteeg was a German choir conductor, songwriter, composer, and pianist.She was born and died in Stuttgart. Her father was composer Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg. Her father died when she was six, but her mother ran a music store which maintained her interest...
(1796–1857) - Ellen ZwilichEllen ZwilichEllen Taaffe Zwilich is an American composer, the first female composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Her early works are marked by atonal exploration, but by the late 1980s she had shifted to a post-modernist, neo-romantic style...
(born 1939)