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Name Born Died Information Maal, Baaba more...       Maasalo, Armas 28 Aug. 1885 Rautavaara, Finland 9 Sep. 1960 Helsinki, Finland Finnish composer best known for his sacred vocal music Maasland, Arie more...       Maayani, Ami more...       Mabarak, Carlos Jimenez more...       Macbeth, Allen more... 13 Mar 1856 Greenock, Scotland 25 Aug 1910 Glasgow, Scotland Macbeth is remembered (if at all) nowadays for his light intermezzo Forget Me Not Opus 22, which quickly made a hit with professional and amateur orchestras (the Doncaster Orchestral Society performed it at a concert on 10 March 1891) and remained in their repertoires for generations. It comes as something of a shock to find that the composer of such a Grand Hotel lollipop studied at Leipzig Conservatory with Reinecke and Jadassohn, conducted the Glasgow Choral Union between 1880 and 1887, held organist's positions in Glasgow and Edinburgh and from 1890 directed the Music School of the Glasgow Athenaeum MacColl, Ewan more...       MacCunn, Hamish more...       Macdearmit, Anne more...       MacDermot, Galt more...       MacDonald, Andrew more...       MacDowell, Edward more... 18 Dec. 1860 New York, USA 23 Jan. 1908 New York, USA making his living chiefly as a piano teacher, while giving concerts that include his own works (First Concerto and Indian Suite were premiered in New York), on May 2, 1896, MacDowell was appointed professor of music at Columbia University and the Department of Music was created. The news was received by the musical public and the University with enthusiasm, for MacDowell was thought, at the time, to be the preeminent American composer and pianist. Funds raised to help him and his wife during his final years went to found the MacDowell Colony. The Colony, in Peterborough, New Hampshire, has become a place of retreat for artists: Aaron Copland composed parts of Appalachian Spring at the Colony; Thornton Wilder wrote Our Town; Virgil Thomson worked on Mother of Us All; Leonard Bernstein completed his Mass. Works of art created by artists while in residence are exhibited in galleries and museums around the world Macfarren, George more...       MacFarren, Mrs. John (pseud. Jules Brissac) 1824 London 1895 published several light piano pieces that enjoyed large sales MacGimsey, Robert more...       Macha, Otmar more...       Machado, Celso more...       Machado, Manuel I more...       Machado Pinto, Luis more...       Machajdik, Peter more...       Machaut, Guillaume de more... c.1300 nr. Rheims, France 1377 Rheims, France important Medieval French poet and composer. Guilllaume de Machaut was "the last great poet who was also a composer," in the words of the scholar Daniel Leech-Wilkinson. Well into the 15th century, Machaut's poetry was greatly admired and imitated by other poets including the likes of Geoffrey Chaucer Mache, Francois Bernard more...       Machover, Tod more...       Machy, sieur de more...       Maciejewski, Roman more... 28 Feb. 1910, Berlin, Germany 20 Apr. 1998 Gotteborg, Sweden Polish pianist, conductor and composer who studied with Szymanowski and Nadia Boulanger. His compositions include music for ballets, piano works, a concerto and many transcriptions for two pianos, many Masses, and Macbeth and Caligula by Camus. His Requiem is regarded as his finest work although rarely performed as it requires very large performing forces MacIntyre, David K more...       Mackeben, Theo more...       Mackenzie, Alexander more...       Mackey, Steven more...       MacKillop, Rob more...       Maclean, Quentin more... 1896 1962 London organist (in both church and theatre), whose popular Parade of the Sunbeams was later orchestrated by Herman Finck Mackintosh, Robert more...       MacLean, Sean more...       MacMillan, Ernest more...       MacMillan, James more...       Maconchy, Elizabeth more...       Macque, Giovanni de (ne Jean de Macque) more... 1548/50 Valenciennes Sep. 1614 possibly Naples, Italy a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque, who spent almost his entire life in Italy. He was one of the most famous Neapolitan composers of the late 16th century; some of his experimentation with chromaticism was likely influenced by Gesualdo, who was an associate of his MacRae, Stuart more...       Maddelena, Archduchess fl. early 18th century Germany   composer Maderna, Bruno more... 21 Apr. 1920 Venice, Italy 13 Nov. 1973 Darmstadt, Germany an Italian-German orchestra director and 20th century music composer Madetoja, Leevi (Antti) more... 17 Feb. 1887 Oulu, Finland 6 Oct. 1947 Helsinki, Finland significant Finnish late Romantic symphonic composer. Madetoja's music is often described as very Finnish in its elegiac and melancholy moods yet very French in its elegance and polish. It was at the instigation of composer colleague Toivo Kuula that Madetoja went to Paris to study further in 1910, and later he enjoyed several extensive stays in France. Like Sibelius, Madetoja enacted a sort of internal Classicalization of the Late Romantic style; he never touched upon Neo-Classicism except for the ballet pantomime Okon Fuoko. His opera Pohjalaisia (1924) (The Ostrobothnians) was immensely successful. It was a lightly veiled allegory about the oppression that Finland suffered under the last years of the Russian regime, and its strong national connections served to point the way for other opera composers Madina, Francisco de more...       Madlem, Peter more...       Madre de Deus, Filipe da more...       Madureira, Antonio more...       Mae, Vanessa more...       Maes, Jef more...       Maessen, Antoon more...       Maestro Piero more... before 1300 Italy shortly after 1350 Italy Italian composer of the late medieval era. He was one of the first composers of the trecento who is known by name, and probably one of the oldest. He is mainly known for his madrigals Maeyer, Jan de more...       Maffia, Pedro more...       Magalhaes, Filipe de more...       Maganini, Quinto 30 Nov. 1897 Fairfield, CA, USA 10 Mar. 1974 Greenwich, CT, USA flautist, conductor, composer and arranger. Studied flute with Georges Barrère, professor at the Institute of Musical Art (predecessor of The Juilliard School) and composition with Nadia Boulanger. In 1927 he won a Pulitzer traveling scholarship for his opera The Argonauts. From 1940 to 1967, Magnini was conductor and music director of the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra, presenting the Symphony’s first youth concerts and premiered several new compositions, including his own, successfully developing audience interest in newer music. Guest soloists with the orchestra were drawn both from the local scene, as were artists that were developing their careers including Yo Yo Ma, ltzhak Pearlman and Emanuel Ax Magdic, Josip more...       Mage, Pierre du more...       Magi, Ester more...       Magidenko, Olga more... 9 May 1954 Moscow, Russia   Russian pianist and composer Magle, Frederik more...       Magnard, Alberic more...       Magnante, Charles more... 7 Dec. 1905 New York City, NY, USA 30 Dec. 1986 USA American accordionist, who, at the peak of his career, was doing as many as thirty one radio broadcasts and an average of about eight recording dates in a single week. His audiences ranged from small intimate groups to packed auditoriums of three thousand. At the Civic Stadium in Buffalo, NY, he played for an audience of over forty thousand people. One of Magnante's best known compositions is the novelty solo Accordiana which he composed in exactly twenty minutes. His textbooks, arrangements, and original compositions are numbered by the hundreds and include popular, classical, jazz and boogie-woogie Magne, Michel more...       Magomayev (or Mahomayev), Abdul Muslim Magometovic 18 Sep. 1885 Grozny, Chechnya 28 Jul. 1937 Baku, Azerbaijan a contemporary of Uzeyir Hajibeyov and deeply involved in documenting Azerbaijani folksongs throughout the countryside. Muslim is remembered most for two operas Shah Ismayil (1917) and Nargiz (1935) Mahaut, Antoine more...       Mahle, Ernst more...       Mahler, Alma Maria (née Schindler) more... 31 Aug. 1879 Vienna, Austria 11 Dec. 1964 New York, USA composer and painter, was noted in her native Vienna for her beauty and intelligence. She was the wife, successively, of one of the century's leading composers (Gustav Mahler), architects (Walter Gropius), and novelists (Franz Werfel) Mahler, Gustav more... 7 Jul. 1860 Kalischt, Bohemia 18 May 1911 Vienna, Austria a Bohemian-Austrian composer and conductor. Mahler was best known during his own lifetime as one of the leading orchestral and operatic conductors of the day, but he has since come to be acknowledged as among the most important post-romantic composers [Ivor Solomons writes: "Deryck Cooke made a performing version of the 10th Symphony from the sketches"] Mahnkopf, Claus Steffen more...       Mahon, John more...       Mahr, Timothy more... 1956 Reedsburg, Wisconsin, USA   American composer Maichelbeck, Franz Anton more...       Maier, Michael more...       Maier Rontgen, Amanda more...       Maiguashca, Mesias more...       Maikapar (or Majkapar), Samuel 18 Dec. 1867 Kherson, Ukraine 8 May 1938 Leningrad, Russia Ukrainian pianist and composer Maillard, Jean more... c.1515 France after 1570 a French composer of the Renaissance. Maillard is mentioned by Rabelais in Gargantua and Pantagruel, and also by Ronsard in his Livre des Mélanges (1560 and 1572). He was evidently famous during his time, and many of his motets were used as source material for parody masses by composers as distinguished as Palestrina; in addition Lassus reworked some of his music. Claude Goudimel also used a secular chanson of Maillard's as source material for a mass Maillart, Aime more...       Mailly, Alphonse Jean Ernest more...       Mailman, Martin more... 1932 New York City, USA 18 Apr. 2000 Denton, Texas, USA prolific American composer providing works of chamber music, film and television music, band, choral, and orchestral music, an opera, and a requiem Mainardi, Enrico more... 19 May. 1897 Milan, Italy 10 Apr. 1976 Munich, Germany Italian cellist, teacher and composer who studied at the Milan Conservatory, then went to Berlin where he studied with Hugo Becker. He taught in Berlin, Salzburg, Lucerne and Rome Mainerio, Giorgio more...       Maintz, Philipp more...       Maistre (la Baronne), Mme.   1875 France her opera Les Roussalkas was successfully performed at Brussels in 1870 Maistre, Mattheus Le more...       Majer, Joseph Friedrich Bernhardt Kaspar more... 1689 1768 author of an important theoretical publication about the guitar Neu eröffneter theoretischer und praktischer Music-Saal which contains the earliest known reference to a six-string guitar. Its tuning, according to Majer, was D-A-D-F#-A-D Majo, Ernst more...     Makarov, Fiodor more...       Makarov, Nikolay Petrovich 16 Feb. 1810 Chukhloma, Russia 17 Dec. 1890 Funtikovo, Russia Russian guitarist, lexicographer and composer Makarova, Nina Vladimirovna more... 12 Aug (old Style 30 July) 1908 Yurino, Russia 15 Jan. 1976 Moscow, Russia Russian composer who studied under Nikolai Miaskovsky and married Aram Khachaturian in 1933. His nickname for her was "Gayaneh" Makeba, Miriam more...       Maklakiewicz, Jan more... 24 Nov. 1899, Chojnata, Poland 7 Feb. 1954 Warsaw, Poland composer, conductor, teacher, critic and publicist. Paul Dukas was one of his composition teachers. Many of his works make use of Polish folk themes Maladi, R 'Arimah' more...       Malamas, Sokratis more...       Malando more...       Malashkin, Leonid Dmitriyevich 1842 Ryazan, Russia 11 Feb. 1902 Moscow, Russia Russian teacher, composer and folklorist Malats, Joaquin more...       Malawski, Artur more... 4 Jul. 1904 Przemysl, Poland 26 Dec. 1957 Kraków, Poland Polish violinist, conductor and composer. He taught at the State Higher School of Music in Kraków for 12 years and among his pupils included Penderecki and Schaeffer Malbecque, Guillaume more...       Maldeghem, Robert-Julien more... 9 Oct. 1810 Dentergem (Flandre Occidentale) 13 Nov. 1893 Ixelles, Belgium Belgian composer, organist, choral director and musicologist Maldere, Pierre van more... 16 Oct. 1729 Brussels, Belgium 13 Nov. 1893 Ixelles Belgian composer and violinist Malderen, Edward Van more...       Malec, Ivo more...       Malecki, Maciej more...       Malengreau, Paul de more...       Malfeyt, Philippe more...       Malibran, Maria more...       Malibran, Maria Felicitas 1808 Paris 1836 England learned to read music before she read words and made her acting debut at the age of five. By this time she could already speak four languages and had begun to study solfège and piano. At the age of twenty, she had the opera world of Paris at her feet, clamoring for her audacious acting and supple voice. Wherever she appeared, Malibran performed her own songs, accompanying herself on the piano, harp or guitar. Her own compositions were often published wherever she performed Malipiero, Gian Francesco more... 18 Mar. 1882 Venice, Italy 1 Aug. 1973 Asolo Italy Italian composer, musicologist and music editor Maliszewski (or Malishevsky), Witold (or Vitold) Josefovitch 20 Jul. 1873 Podolia, Ukraine 18 Jul. 1939 Zalesie, nr. Warsaw, Poland Ukrainian composer and teacher Malko, Nikolay (Andreyevich) 4 May 1883 Brailov, Romania 22/23 Jun. 1961 Roseville, Sydney, NSW, Australia composer Mallapert, Robin more... fl. 1538-1553   French musician of the Renaissance, probably a composer, who spent most of his life in Rome. He is best known as the teacher of Palestrina Malling, Otto Valdemar more... 1 Jun. 1848 Copenhagen, Denmark 5 Oct. 1915 Copenhagen, Denmark a Danish composer, from 1900 the cathedral organist in Copenhagen and from 1889 professor, then from 1899 Director of the Royal Academy of Music, Copenhagen Mallozzi, Lou more...       Malmfors, Ake more...       Malmstén, Georg 1902 1981 Finnish composer Malotte, Albert Hay more...       Malovec, Jozef more...       Malvezzi, Alberigo more... c.1550 1615 brother of Cristofano, also an organist and composer Malvezzi, Cristofano more... bap. 28 Jun. 1547 Lucca, Italy 22 Jan. 1599 Florence, Italy Italian organist and composer of the late Renaissance. He was one of the most famous composers in the city of Florence during a time of transition to the Baroque style Malz, Heinrich more...       Mammadov, Mammad     Azerbaijan mugam composer Mamiya, Michio more...       Man, Roderik de more...       Manassen, Alex more...       Manassian, Gevord more...       Manca, Gabriele more...       Manchicourt, Pierre de more... c.1510 Béthune 5 Oct. 1564 Madrid, Spain Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. Little is known of his early life other than that he was a choirboy at Arras in 1525; later in life he had a succession of posts in Arras, Tours and Tournai, before going to Spain to be master of the Flemish chapel in the court of Philip II, where he stayed for the remainder of his life Mancina, Mark more... 9 Mar. 1957 Santa Monica, California, USA   a composer, primarily for Hollywood soundtracks Mancinelli, Luigi more...       Mancini, Francesco more...       Mancini, Henry more... 1924 Cleveland, USA 1994 USA American composer who won 20 Grammy Awards and Academy Awards for the scores for Breakfast at Tiffany's and Victor/Victoria. He was a pioneer in moving film scores from heavy symphonic treatments to simpler arrangements employing jazz motifs Mancuso, Francesca     composer who was published in Naples in 1615 Mandel, Johnny more...       Mandelbaum, Joel more...       Mandolini, Ricardo more...       Mandyczewski, Eusebius more...       Manelli, Francesco more...       Manen, Willem van more...       Manfredini, Francesco Onofrio more...       Mangeant, Jacques more...       Mangeant, (Jean) Sylvain or Silvain more... 4 Aug. 1827 Lectoure, France 18 Aug. 1889 French composer of vaudevilles, cantatas, etc. Mangelsdorff, Albert more...       Mangon, Johannes more...       Mangon, Reichard more...       Maniam, Stephen more...       Manjon, Antonio Gimenez more...       Mann, Arthur Henry more...       Mann, Chris more...       Mann, David more...       Mann, Gottfried more...       Mannee, Jan more... 1962 Barneveld, The Netherlands   Dutch organist and composer. His compositions include, for organ, Passacaglia and Fugue with quotations and on themes of D. Shostakovich; Valerius Suite on Dutch Folksongs, Suite de Noel): for chamber choir a number of Christmas Carols (with chamber orchestra), a Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, two a cappella Masses (Missa Romana and Missa Firenze) and music for liturgical use [information provided by the composer] Manneke, Daan more...       Manns, August more... 1825 Gdansk, Poland 1907 London, UK clarinetist, conductor and composer who began his musical career as a bandmaster in the Prussian army. In 1854, Manns moved to London where he played clarinet in the Crystal Palace military band. Manns and George Grove converted the band to an orchestra which Manns conducted for over 40 years, giving upwards of 12,000 concerts. He also conducted the massive Crystal Palace Handel Festivals, which continued until the building burnt down in 1936 Mano, Mme     composer who published in Paris between 1730-1740 Manojlovic, Kosta 1890 1949 Serbian composer particularly of choral music Manoury, Philippe more...       Mansell, Clint more...       Mansurjan, Tigran [Mansurian] more... 27 Jan. 1939 Beirut, Lebanon   Lebanese-born composer who has lived in Armenia since 1947. Mansurian's early works are serial but increasingly Armenian elements come to dominate his music and modal harmony is a feature in his works Mantler, Michael more...       Mantovani, Bruno more...       Mantovano, Alessandro more...       Mantua, Jacquet de (see Colebault, Jacques)       Mäntyjärvi, Jaakko more... 27 May 1963 Turku, Finland   choral composer; he has been composer-in-residence with the Tapiola Chamber Choir since 2000. He draws on a wide range of influences, describing himself as an "eclectic traditionalist". He writes both secular and sacred music in a free-tonal style. His most popular works are Pseudo-Yoik (1994), a gloss on the traditional Sámi yoik, and El Hambo (1997), a folk dance spoof. His principal work to date is the choral drama Salvat 1701 (2000) for reciters, soloists and choir, which could be described as something between a narrated concert and a church drama Mäntynen, Harri 1963   trombonist and composer who studied at the Jyväskylä Conservatory and now plays in the Turku City Orchestra Manz, Paul more... 1919 Chicago, USA   American organist and composer for choir and organ Manzanero, Armando more... 7 Dec. 1935 Mérida, México   Latin American musician and composer, widely considered the premiere Mexican romantic composer of the postwar era Manzi, Homero (born Homero Nicolás Manzioni Prestera) more... 1 Nov. 1907 Añatuya, Santiago del Estero, Argentina 3 May 1951 Buenos Aires, Argentina Argentine Tango lyricist, author of various famous tangos Mara Ignaz more... c.1721 Deutschbrod, Bohemia 1783 Berlin, Germany in 1742 he went to Berlin, married, and was received , apparently through the recommendation of his countryman, the Concertmaster, Franz Benda, into the Royal band, to which he belonged for more than thirty years. Of his Cello compositions, consisting of Concertos, several solo pieces and Duets, nothing has been printed Mara, Gertrud Elisabeth (Schmeling) 1749 Kassel, Germany Jan. 1833 Revel, Livonia soprano and composer also known also as La Mara. The daughter of a poor musician called Schmeling, she spent her earliest years tied to a chair whenever her father went to work and became permanently disabled, though she managed to become a violin virtuoso at 6 (and was forced to switch to singing at the age of 11 when her English patrons, including the Queen, informed her that the violin was not feminine enough). In 1773 she married Johann Baptiste Mara, son of Ignaz Mara. She was considered one of the finest sopranos of her day, noted particuarly for her rivalry with Luísa Rosa de Aguiar Todi> (1753-1833) a very popular Portuguese opera singer [picture of Gertrud Mara] Mara, Johann Baptiste 20 Jul 1744 1808 Schiedam, The Netherlands Ignaz's son, Johann, was more widely known. This was not due to his artistic endowments only, but to the dissipated wild life into which he fell from middle age in consequence of intemperate habits. Endowed with extraordinary musical talent, under the guidance of his father, he developed, during a proportionately short time, into such an excellent Cellist that Prince Henry of Prussia named him Chamber Musician. As he possessed a talent for mimicry, he had also to assist on the stage at the theatrical representations which took place in the Castle of Rheinsberg, inhabited by the Prince. In 1773 he married the celebrated singer, Elizabeth Schmeling, who, at that time, belonged to the Berlin Opera. He made use of the large sums paid to his wife to gratify his passions, which led to many disasters and to matrimonial disturbances. The Violoncello compositions of Mara, which consist of two Concertos, twelve Solos with Bass accompaniment, a Duet with Violin, and a Sonata with Bass, remained unpublished Maraire, Dumisani more...       Marais, Marin more... 31 May 1656 Paris, France 15 Aug. 1728 Paris, France a pupil of Jean-Baptiste Lully and of the viol player Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe. He was hired as a musician in 1676 to the royal court of Versailles. He did quite well as court musician, and in 1679 was appointed ordinaire de la chambre du roy pour la viole, a title he kept until 1725. He was a master of the viola da gamba, and the leading French composer of viol music Marais, Paul (Emile) Des 23 Jun. 1920 Menominee, Mich., USA   American composer Marais, Roland more...       Marazzoli, Marco more...       Marbe, Myriam more...       Marcabru more... fl.1130-1150   an exception among troubadours. He is described as having been deposited on the door of a rich family, and this cuckoo's egg history is perhaps an apt metaphor for his place among the troubadours. He also had a reputation for being a difficult person Marcailhou, Gatien more...       Marceau, V more...       Marcellino, Raffaele more...       Marcello, Alessandro (often used the pseudonym Eterio Stinfalico) more... 24 Aug. 1669 Venice, Italy 19 Jun. 1747 Padua, Italy Italian nobleman and dilettante who dabbled in various areas, including poetry, philosophy, mathematics and, perhaps most notably, music Marcello, Benedetto more... 31 Jul/1 Aug. 1686 Venice, Italy 24 Jul. 1739 Brescia, Italy Italian composer, writer, advocate, magistrate, and teacher Marcello, Rosanna Scalfi fl. 1723-42   composer Marchand, Louis more...       Marchetti, Walter more...       Marchitelli, Pietro more...       Marclay, Christian more...       Marco, Paolo di more...       Marco, Tomas more...       Marcucci, Carlos more...       Marder, Marc more...       Marecos, Carlos more...       Marek, Czeslaw more...       Marenzio, Luca more... c.18 Oct. 1553 Coccaglio, Brescia 22 Aug. 1599 Rome, Italy an Italian composer of the late Renaissance. He was one of the most renowned composers of madrigals, and wrote perhaps the finest examples of the form in its late stage of development, prior to its early Baroque transformation by Monteverdi Mareschall, Samuel more...       Mareuil, Arnaut de more...       Marez-Oyens, Tera de more...       Margaret of Austria (Marguerite d'Autriche) 1480 1530 patroness and composer of love songs Margaret of Scotland   1093 Scotland famous for the ballads she composed and sang for her ladies-in-waiting. The themes dealt with the equality of love between men and women Margola, Franco more...       Marguerite de Turenne (see Maria de Ventadorn)       Maria Antonia, Duchess (Electress of Saxony) 1724 Germany 1782 Germany daughter of Emperor Charles VII, a poet, painter, singer and composer. Two of her operas were published Maria Charlotte Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Gotha 1751 Germany   published songs and wrote a symphony Maria de Ventadorn more... fl. late 12th century c.1222 Her name is variously recorded as Marie de Turenne and Marguerite de Turenne. A patron of troubadour poetry at the end of the 12th century, Maria de Ventadorn is listed as a trobairitz in her own right on the strength of a single tensó or poetic debate (dated c.1197), of which alternate verses were apparently composed by her and by Gui d'Ussel. The question at issue in the debate was this: once a man has succeeded in his plea to be accepted as a lady's lover, does he thereafter become her equal, or does he remain her servant? Maria takes the latter view Maria Paulowna, Grand Duchess of Weimar 1786 Germany 1859 daughter of Emperor Paul I of Russia, she had a remarkable ability to read orchestral scores at first sight. She composed for piano Mariano, Charlie more...       Maric, Ljubica more...       Marie Adelaide of Savoy (Mme la Dauphine) 1685 France 1712 France composer Marie de France more... c. 1160 France 1215 France although scholars do not know the identity of the woman we call today Marie de France, the name being derived from a line in one of her published works: Marie ai nun, si sui de France, which translates as: "My name is Marie, I am from France," several historical women have been suggested as candidates. Among those that have been taken most seriously are Marie, Abbess of Shaftesbury and half-sister to Henry II, King of England; Marie, Abbess of Reading; Marie de Boulogne; and most compelling of all, Marie de Meulan, wife of Hugh Talbot. Twelve of her songs, or lais, are in the British Museum Marie de Turenne (see Maria de Ventadorn)       Marietan, Pierre more...       Marin, Jose more...       Marini, Biagio more...       Marini, Carlo Antonio more...       Marini, Giovanna more...       Marino, Carlo Antonio more...       Marinoni, Girolamo more...       Marinov, Albert more... 1937 Luxembourg   engineer, company executive and composer from Luxembourg Mario, E A more...       Markevich (or Markevitch), Igor 27 Jul. 1912 Kiev, Ukraine 7 Mar. 1983 Antibes, France Ukrainian composer, conductor and pianist Marks, Benjamin more...       Marks, Frank more...       Marks, Johnny more...       Marlow, Richard more...       Marly, Anna (see Betoulinsky, Anna)       Marmontel, Antonin Emil Louis Corbaz more... 24 Apr. 1850 Paris, France 23 Jul. 1907 France a piano teacher at the Conservatoire and composer of many salon pieces. His father Antoine François Marmontel (1816-1898) was a French pianist, teacher and musicographer Maros, Miklos more...       Marpurg, Friedrich Wilhelm more...       Marques y Garcia, Pedro Miguel more...       Marquez, Arturo more...       Marquina, Pascual more...       Marsalis, Branford more...       Marsalis, Ellis more...       Marsalis, Wynton more...       Marschner, Heinrich August more...       Marseille, Folquet de more...       Marsh, John more...       Marsh, Warne more...       Marshall, Christopher more...       Marshall, Ingram more...       Marshall, Jack more... 23 Nov. 1921 El Dorado, Kansas, USA 20 Sep. 1973 Newport Beach, California, USA television and film music composer Marshall, Mrs. Julian 1843 Rome, Italy   student at the Royal Academy in London, conductor of South Hampstead orchestra, biographer of Handel and composer Marshall, Mike more...       Marshall, Nicholas more...       Marshall, Wayne more...       Marszalek, Franz more...       Marta, Istvan more...       Martim (see Martin)       Martin (or Martin) fl. 13th century Spain   Galician trovador whose Codax left us the earliest example of Spanish secular music, a song cycle written in the voice of a woman, called the Cantigas de Amigo Martin, Anne more...       Martin Codax more... fl. 13th/14th century   a medieval Galician troubadour, possibly from Vigo, Spain about whom little is known. The body of literary work attributed to him is limited to seven cantigas de amigo that appear in the lyrics of Portuguese-Galician songbooks and in the Vindel parchment, in which he is listed as the author of the compositions. The discovery of this parchment was by sheer chance: Pedro Vindel found them in his library at the beginning of the 20th century, lining a copy of Cicero's De Officiis Martin, Francois II more...       Martin, Frank more...       Martin, Frederick John Easthope more... 1882 Stourport 1925 studied piano, organ, harmony and composition (with Coleridge-Taylor) at Trinity College London. His Evensong, variously arranged for piano, organ and orchestra, became very popular, but apart from An Old Time Tune> which also appeared in various versions, the posthumously published Souvenirs> for piano and a few other piano solos, the bolero Castanets, for violin and piano, and Two Eastern Dances> for orchestra premiered by Sir Henry Wood at the Proms, his output was primarily for the voice Martin, George II more...       Martin, Hugh more...       Martin, Jennifer more...       Martin, Jorge more...       Martin, Laurent more...       Martin, Lydia more...       Martin, Philip more...       Martin, Ray 11 Oct. 1918 Vienna, Austria 7 Feb. 1988 Johannesburg, South Africa conductor, producer, Artists and Repertoire Manager at EMI’s Columbia label, and composer of light music. Martin studied at the Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Art from 1933 to 1938, then came to Britain in 1938, touring with the famous Jack Hylton band in Band Wagon, and Carroll Levis as a solo violin act in his Discoveries. He wrote arrangements for Mantovani, Geraldo, Stanley Black, Peter Yorke and Billy Ternent, among others. He used his composing skills by contributing several pieces of mood music for Charles Brull’s Harmonic Music Library. In 1947 he was given his first BBC Radio series Reprise, and his many subsequent broadcasts included Fanfare, Waltz Time, Top Town, Morning Music, In the Still of the Night, Mr. Music and Music in the Ray Martin Manner Martin, Richard more...       Martin y Coll, Antonio more...       Martin y Soler, Vicente more...       Martinaitis, Algirdas more...       Martinengo, Giulio Cesare more... 1564 or c.1568 probably Verona, Italy 10 Jul. 1613 Venice, Italy an Italian composer and teacher of the late Renaissance and early Baroque Venetian School. He was the predecessor to Claudio Monteverdi at St. Mark's Martinez (Martines) (von), Marianne 1744 Vienna, Austria 1812 prolific composer, made a member of the Music Academy of Bologna 1773. Joseph Haydn received free room and board in exchange for teaching the highly gifted ten-year-old Martinez. He considered her an adopted daughter. Her portrait may still be seen in his home in Vienna. She was also one of the favourite piano four-hands and duet partners of W. Mozart Martinez, Federico more...       Martinez Burgos, Manuel more...       Martinez Izquierdo, Ernest more...       Martinez Leal, Ricardo more...       Martinez Valls, Rafael more...       Martini, Christiane more...       Martini, Giovanni Battista more... 24 Apr 1706 Bologna, Italy 4 Aug 1784 Bologna, Italy Italian violinist, composer and priest. Padre Martini was a zealous collector of musical literature, and possessed an extensive musical library. Burney estimated it at 17,000 volumes; after Martini's death a portion of it passed to the Imperial library at Vienna, the rest remaining in Bologna, now in the Liceo Rossini Martini, Johannes more... c.1440 Brabant late 1497/early 1498 Ferrara, Italy a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. He is the first composer known to have set psalms for double choir singing antiphonally. This style, which was to become famous in Venice under the direction of Adrian Willaert seventy years later, seems to have had no influence at the time: yet it was a striking innovation Martini, Johann Paul Aegidius more...       Martino, Donald James more...       Martino, Philippo more...       Martinon, Jean more...       Martinov, Vladimir more...       Martinu, Bohuslav more...       Martirano, Salvatore more...       Martirosyan, Armen more... 1963 Yerevan, Armenia   Armenian composer who studied at the Yerevan music school and between 1980 and 1985 at the Department of Composition of the Yerevan State Conservatory. Between 1991 and 1995 he lived and worked in Switzerland, as a pianist, composer and arranger. After that he worked at the Yerevan State Song Theatre, as a producer-musician and an arranger Martland, Steve more...       Marttinen, Tauno more... 27 Sep. 1912 Helsinki, Finland   his early works were particularly harshly received by critics. In 1956, he disowned his entire output up to that date, some 40 works, and declared Kokko, ilman lintu (Eagle, Bird of the Air, 1956) for mezzosoprano and orchestra to be his opus 1. The work opened a new, more modern phase in his output and an extensive series of works based on the Kalevala Martucci, Giuseppe more... 6 Jan. 1856 Capua, Italy 1 Jun. 1909 Naples, Italy an Italian composer, conductor, pianist and teacher. He was a child prodigy, performing on the piano at the age of 10. He was a student at the Naples conervatory, where he subsequently held a professorship, becoming director in 1902 Martusciello, Maurizio more...       Marty, Adolphe more...       Marty, Georges-Eugène (Eugène Georges) more... 16 May 1860 Paris, France 11 Oct. 1908 Paris, France French composer of orchestral works, operas, choruses, etc.; transcriptions of early music (Couperin, Rameau: Platée ballet excerpts) Maruelh, Arnaut de more...       Marvia, Einari more... 21 Nov. 1915 Tuusniemi, Finland 16 Jun. 1997 Helsinki, Finland composer of over 100 solo songs, he was influenced by his teacher Melartin but also incorporated elements of Impressionism and Expressionism into his colourful songs Marx, Joseph more...       Marx, Karl more...       Marxsen, Eduard more... 23 Jul. 1806 Nienstädten bei Altona, Germany 18 Nov. 1887 Altona, Germany a former pupil of Ignaz Seyfried, who was highly regarded in Hamburg both as pianist and composer. He was one of the composition teachers of Johannes Brahms Marylis, Guy (see Bonnal, Joseph-Ermend)       Mary Queen of Scots (Mary Stuart) 1542 1587 England composer of many songs, at least two of which met with success Mascagni, Pietro more... 7 Dec. 1863 Livorno, Italy 2 Aug. 1945 Rome, Italy one of the most important Italian opera composers of the turn of the twentieth century the Italian composer Pietro Mascagni was sitting in his study one day when a street musician stopped outside and began to play one of Mascagni’s pieces on his hand-cranked barrel organ. He was turning the handle too quickly so that the tempo was faster than it should have been. Mascagni put up with it for a few minutes, then he went outside, grabbed the handle, and played the piece at its proper tempo. He then returned to his study. Next day he was amused to see the street musician displaying a sign which read, ‘Pupil of the celebrated Mascagni’! Mascheroni, Angelo more...       Mascitti, Michele more...       Masefield, Jamie more...       Masek, Vaclav Vincenc more...       Masekela, Hugh more...       Mashayekhi, Nader more... 1958 Tehran, Iran   Persian avant-garde composer. From 2006 until July 2007, he was conductor of Tehran Symphony Orchestra Masini, Lorenzo (di Masi) (see Firenze, Lorenzo da)       Maskats, Arturs more... 20 Dec. 1957 Valmiera, Latvia   Latvian composer Maslanka, David more... 30 Aug. 1943 New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA   American composer who writes for a variety of genres, including works for choir, concert band, chamber music, and orchestra Mason, Daniel Gregory more... 20 Nov. 1873 Brookline, Massachusseys, USA 4 Dec. 1953 Greenwich, Conn., USA American professor of music at Columbia University, and composer of symphonies and piano works, grandson of Lowell Mason Mason, George more...       Mason, Lowell more... 8 Jan. 1792 Medfield, Mass., USA 11 Aug. 1872 New Jersey, NY, USA composer (credited with over 1600 religious works), conductor (Handel and Haydn Society), instructor (Boston Academy of Music) and music publisher (Cantica Laudis: The American Book of Church Music, 1850, and others). Well known as a hymn composer, arranger and harmonizer, his tunes include Joy to the World! (Antioch), Nearer, My God, to Thee (Bethany), My Faith Looks Up to Thee (Olivet), and many more Mason, William more... 1829 1908 concert pianist, teacher, author and composer, son of Lowell Mason Masondo, Juan more...       Massaino, Tiburtio more...       Massarenghi, Paola 1565   she flourished sometime about 1585 and was only the second woman to publish a musical composition during her lifetime Massart, Louise Aglae Masson 1827 Paris, France 1887 composer and professor of piano, Paris Conservatoire Masse, Jean Baptiste more...       Masse, Victor more...       Massenet, Jules more... 12 May 1842 Montaud, France 13 Aug. 1912 France French composer. He is best known for his operas, which were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th century; they afterwards fell into oblivion for the most part, but have undergone periodic revivals since the 1980s Masset, (Nicolas) Jean Jacques more... 1811 Liège, Belgium c.1887 probably Paris, France violinist and composer of methods for voice, works for violin, and solo flute works for Dorus Massey, Roy more...       Masson, Askell more...       Masson, Elizabeth 1806 London 1865 singer, composer and voice teacher, founder of the Royal Society of Female Musicians in 1839 Massonneau, Louis more...       Masuch, Daniel more...       Masuka, Dorothy more...       Matalon, Martin more... 1958 Buenos Aires, Argentina   studied composition at the Juilliard School in New York. At Ircam between 1993 and 1995, he worked on the music for the film Metropolis by Fritz Lang, and interactive music to accompany Maurice Benayoun’s images in Le Tunnel sous l'Atlantique. In 1996, the Centro de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona commissioned him to write music for the Luis Buñuel film Un Chien Andalou and in 1997 with Rugged Lines, music for a dance production of Six Memos for the Next Millenium by Italo Calvino Matejka, Vaclav more...       Matelart, Johannes more...       Mateo, H more...       Mathews, Max V more...       Mathews, Peter more...       Mathieu, Rodolphe more...       Mathias, William more...       Maticic, Janez more...       Matielli, Giovanni Antonio more...       Matinier, Jean Louis more...       Matos Rodriguez, Gerardo more...       Matsudaira, Yori-Aki more...       Matsudaira, Yoritsune more...       Matsumoto, Hinoharu more...       Matsushita, Isao more...       Mattei, Beatrice fl. 1743 Italy   composer Matteis, Nicola more...     a brilliant Neapolitain violinist who came to London around 1670. During his early years there he performed very little, allegedly because he was 'inexpugnably proud,' but he was later described as 'stupendious' by Evelyn, and considered a second Corelli by North and Burney. Matter, Bert more...       Mattheson, Johann more...       Matthews, Artie more...       Matthews, Colin more... 13 Feb. 1946 London, UK   English composer of classical music, younger brother of English composer David Matthews Matthews, David more... 4 Mar. 1942   keyboardist, pianist, and arranger born in Sonora, Kentucky Matthews, David more... 9 Mar. 1943 London, UK.   English composer of mainly orchestral, chamber, vocal and piano works, older brother of English composer Colin Matthews Matthews (Wrighten after marriage), Mary Ann c. 1751 1796 soprano and composer of songs Matthus, Siegfried more...       Matthys, Marc more...       Matton, Roger more...       Mattsson, Jack more... 12 Dec. 1954 Åland, Finland   flautist and composer, Mattsson explains that he has remained "separate from everything that the avantgarde and the experimental crowd have to offer". He considers his Piano Trio In Memoriam (to the memory of Einar Englund) his principal work Matuschka-Greiffenclau, count more...       Matuszczak, Bernadetta more... 10 Mar. 1937 Torun, POland   she studied composition with Tadeusz Szeligowski and Kazimierz Sikorski after which she studied under Nadia Boulanger in Paris. Matuszczak's compositions have received numerous performances in Poland and abroad; e.g. her Septem Tubae was played at the 43rd Weltmusikfest in Hamburg in 1969, and her chamber opera Juliet and Romeo at the Internationale Maifestspiele in Wiesbaden in 1972 Matz, Rudolf more...       Mauduit, Jacques more... 16 Sep. 1557 Paris, France 21 Aug. 1627 Paris, France a French composer of the late Renaissance. He was one of the most innovative French composers of the late 16th century, combining voices and instruments in new ways, and importing some of the grand polychoral style of the Venetian School from Italy; he also composed a famous Requiem for the funeral of Pierre de Ronsard Mauersberger, Rudolf more...       Mauleon, Rebeca more...       Maurat, Edmond more...       Maurer, Albrecht more...       Maurice, Paule more... 1910 Paris, France 1967 Paris, France a French composer Maute, Matthias more... 1963 Germany   recorder player and composer Maw, Nicholas more... 1935 Grantham, England   a British composer Mawhinney, Simon more... 1976 Co. Armagh, Ireland   pianist and composer, whose compositions cover the entire range of contemporary music – from electronic music to pieces for symphony orchestra – and are characterised by a characteristic blend of sensuousness and severity, which is frequently combined with dazzling virtuosity Maxson, Frederick 1862 1934 organist of the First Baptist Church and the Central Congregational Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he played the inauguration concert of the Grace Church organ in Lancaster, Pennsylvania on February 11, 1909. Some of his compositions for organ have been published Maxwell Davies, Peter more... 8 Sep 1893 Salford, UK   he took piano lessons and composed from an early age. After education at Leigh Grammar School, he studied at the University of Manchester and at the Royal Manchester College of Music (amalgamated into the Royal Northern College of Music in 1973), where his fellow students included Harrison Birtwistle, Alexander Goehr, Elgar Howarth and John Ogdon. Together they formed New Music Manchester, a group committed to contemporary music. After graduating in 1956, he briefly studied with Goffredo Petrassi in Rome before working as Director of Music at Cirencester Grammar School from 1959 to 1962. After a further period of study on a Harkness Fellowship at Princeton University with Roger Sessions, Milton Babbitt and Earl Kim, Davies moved to Australia, where he was Composer in Residence at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, University of Adelaide from 1965-66. He then returned to the United Kingdom, and moved to the Orkney Islands, initially to Hoy in 1971 and later to Sanday. Orkney (particularly its capital, Kirkwall) hosts the St Magnus Festival, an arts festival founded by Davies in 1977. He frequently uses it to premier new works (often played by the local school orchestra). Davies was Artistic Director of the Dartington Summer School from 1979 to 1984 and has held a number of posts and been awarded a number of honorary doctorates at various institutions since then. He has been President of Making Music (The National Federation of Music Societies) since 1989. From 1992 to 2002 he was associate conductor/composer with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and he has conducted a number of other prominent orchestras, including the Philharmonia, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Davies was made a CBE in 1981 and knighted in 1987. He was appointed Master of the Queen's Music for a ten-year period from March 2004 Maxwell Geddes, John more...       May, Frederick more... 1911 Dublin, Ireland 1985 unlike many of his contemporaries, May’s music is distinctly European in flavour. Although his output was small, his works include the Scherzo for Orchestra (1933), Songs from Prison (1941) for baritone and orchestra and, perhaps his finest work, the String Quartet in C Minor which he wrote on his return to Dublin in 1936. He held the post of Music Director at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, for fifteen years and wrote incidental music for several plays May, Hans more...       May, Simon more... 1944 Devizes, Wilts.   educated at Cambridge University and for some years a teacher of music and languages at Kingston Grammar School, one of May's earlier works was a musical, Smike, after Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby, which used jazz, even pop, idioms. He is credited with a large amount of TV music including the titles for Eastenders, Trainer and Howard's Way May, Theodore more...       May, Will more...       Mayboroda, Hryhoriy more... 1913 Ukraine   a student of Revutsky, Mayboroda graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory in 1941. He was appointed to the faculty in 1952 and has written operas, orchestral works, and numerous vocal pieces. Mayboroda’s style follows the heroic themes of the Soviet school of social realism. His opera, Taras Shevchenko, dates from 1964 Mayer, Charles more...       Mayer, Emilie 1812 Germany 1883 her compositions include over 150 songs and dances, 14 string quartets, 11 piano trios, 12 violin sonatas, 12 overtures, 7 symphonies and an operetta. Winner of the Gold Medal of Art Mayerl, Billy Joseph more... 31 May 1902 London, UK 25 Mar 1959 a pianist and composer who built a career in music hall and music theatre and became an acknowledged master of light music. He wrote over 300 piano pieces, many of which were named after flowers, including his best known composition, Marigold (1927) Mayone, Ascanio more... 1565 1627 Italian composer who was a pupil of Macque in Naples, and worked at SS. Annunziata, as organist from 1593 and maestro di cappella from 1621. He was also organist at the royal chapel from 1602 Mayr, Johann Simon more... 14 Jun 1763 Mendorf, Bavaria 2 Dec. 1845 Bergamo, Italy also known as Giovanni Simone Mayr or Simone Mayr, also spelled Majer, Mayer, Maier, a German composer whose works, which include almost 70 operas, are infrequently performed today Mayr, Rupert Ignaz more...       Mays, Lyle more...       Mayuzumi, Toshiro more...       Mazijk, Rutger van more...       Mazulis, Rytis more...       Mazur, Marilyn more...       Mazurek, Rob more...       MazzaCane Connors, Loren more...       Mazzaferrata, Giovanni Battista more...       Mazzocchi, Domenico more...       Mazzocchi, Virgilio more...       Mazzuoli, Giovanni (see Florentia, Jovannes de)       McAleer, Peter more...       McBeth, W. Francis more... Mar. 1933 Lubbock, Texas, USA   American composer McCabe, John more...       McCall, J.P. (pseudonym of Peter Dawson) more... 31 Jan 1882 Australia 27 Sep 1961 Peter Dawson was a famous Australian bass/baritone singer, but under the pseudonym J.P. McCall he wrote many songs including the ballad Boots (with lyrics by Rudyard Kipling), said to have been inspired by the rhythm of a railway train McCann, Les more...       McCartney, Paul more...       McClure, Ron more...       McCullough, Donald more... 16 Aug. 1957   American choral director and composer with degrees in both organ and vocal performance from Stetson University and master’s degrees in both sacred music and vocal performance from Southern Methodist University McDougall, Ian more...       McDowall, Cecilia more...       McDowell, Fred more...       McEwen, John more...       McGibbon, William more...       McGinty, Anne more... 1945 Findlay, Ohio, USA   composer, flute instructor, guest conductor, and clinician, she also co-owns Queenwood Publications with her husband, John Edmondson McGlynn, Michael more...       McGriff, Jimmy more...       McGuire, Edward more...       McGuire, John more...       McHugh, Jimmy more...       McIntosh, Tom more...       McKay, George Frederick more...       McKenna, Dave more...       McKennitt, Loreena more...       McKevitt, Donna more...       McKie, William more...       McKinley, Elliott more...       McKinley, William Thomas more...       McKinnon, Dugal more...       McLachlan, Grant more...       McLaughlin, John more...       McLean, Barton more...       McLean, Jackie more...       McLennan, John Stewart more...       McLeod, John more...       McLoskey, Lansing more...       McMichael, Catherine more... 1954   American pianist, composer, performer, arranger, and teacher. McNabb, Michael more...       McNeely, Jim more...       McNeely, Joel more...       McNemar, Richard more...       McPartland, Marian 1920 England   a major contributor to the Jazz world as a performer, composer, and writer, and with her popular program 'Piano Jazz', which has been a feature of National Public Radio for over fifteen years. She married the trumpeter Jimmy McPartland during World War II and immigrated to the United States in 1946. In New York City she had long stays at the Embers Club and the Hickory House McPhee, Colin more...       McPhee, Joe more...       McPherson, Gordon more...       McQueen, Ian more...       McTell, Ralph more...       Mdivani, Andrey more...       Meadowcroft, Thomas more...       Meale, Richard more...       Meaux, Etienne de more...       Meda, Bianca Maria fl. 1691 Pavia   composer Medaglia, Julio more...       Medek, Tilo more...       Meder, Johann Gabriel more...       Meder, Johann Valentin more...       Medici x (de'), Isabella 1542 Florence 1576 Florence composer Medici, Lorenzo de more...       Medina, Pedro more...       Medins, Janis more...       Medtner (or Metner), Nikolai Karlovich more... 5 Jan. 1880 Moscow, Russia 13 Nov. 1951 London, England Russian composer and pianist Meert, C.F. van more... fl. 18th century   Belgian organist and composer active in Saint-Trond Meester, Louis de more...       Mefano, Paul more...       Meglio, Vincenzo de more...       Méhul, Étienne Nicolas more... 24 Jun. 1763 Givet, France 18 Oct. 1817 Paris, France French composer Mehldau, Brad more...       Meifred, Joseph ([Jean-Pierre] Émile) more... 13 Nov. 1791 Colmar, France 28 Aug. 1867 Paris, France French horn player, author of De l'Étendue, de l'emploi et des ressources du cor (Paris, 1829); Méthode pour le cor chromatique ou à pistons (Paris 1840, rev. edn. 1849; dedicated to Habeneck); poetry (catalogued by Bourquelot), and memoirs. He was also a critic for La Mélomanie and La Critique musicale Meij, Johan de more...       Meijering, Chiel more...       Meisel, Will more...       Meissen, Heinrich von (Henry of) more...     the name refers to two medieval German poets from Meissen - Heinrich Frauenlob (c.1250-1318), Middle High German poet and Henry III, Margrave of Meissen (1215-1288), noble and minnesinger Meitus (or Meytus), Yuly (or Yuliy) Sergeyevich more... 15 Jan. 1903 Korovograd, Ukraine 2 Apr. 1997 Korovograd, Ukraine Ukrainian composer Melachrino, George (born George Militiades) more... 1 May 1909 London, UK 18 Jun. 1965 London, UK musician, movie composer, and musical director who was English born of Greek and Italian descent. He was an accomplished player of the violin, viola, oboe, clarinet and saxophone Melani, Alessandro more... 1639 1703 Itaslian composer who was member of a musical family in Pistoia who directed the music at San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome for 26 years Melartin, Erkki more... 7 Feb. 1875 Kakisalmi, Finland 14 Feb. 1937 Pukinmaki, Finland he was the most versatile of all Finnish Late Romantics. Although the bulk of his extensive output falls within the conventional nationally tinted Romanticism of his age, he also approached more modern means of expression such as Impressionism and even Expressionism in the 1920s. Melartin's output centers on his six Symphonies. He was also the first in Finland after Pacius to write a substantial opera, and the first in Finland to write a full-length ballet. Another aspect of his persona as a composer may be found in his popular miniatures, many written in an accessible salon style. Melartin was also employed as Rector of the Helsinki Music Institute (the Helsinki Conservatory from 1924) from 1911 to 1936 Melchor, Enrique de more...       Meldert, Léonhard van more... c.1535 Liège, Belgium c.1594 Flemish composer Meldert Fiamengo, Leonardo more...       Mele, Giovanni Battista more...       Melgunov (or Melgunov, Melgounoff, Melgounov), Julius (or Yuly) Nikolayevich 11 Sep. 1846 Vetluga, Russia 31 Mar. 1893 Moscow, Russia Russian pianist and composer Melikov, Arif more... 13 Sep. 1933 Baku, Azerbailan   Azerbaijanian traditional music is the basis of Melikov's compositions Melillo, Stephen more...       Melin, Sten more...       Melis, Laszlo more...       Melkich (or Melkikh), Dmitri Micheyevich 31 Jan. 1885 Moscow, Russia 22 Feb. 1943 Moscow, Russia Russian composer Melkikh, Aleksandr 1889   Russian composer Mellers, Wilfrid Howard more... 26 Apr. 1914 Leamington Spa, Warks, UK 16 May 2008 Scrayingham, N. Yorks, UK English writer, teacher and composer Melli (or Meli, Melij, Mely), Pietro Paolo more... 15 Jul. 1579 Reggio nell'Emilia, Italy after 1623 Italian lutenist and composer, active in Austria Melode, Kosmas de (see Cosmas de melode)       Mena (de Texerana), Gabriel (Graviel, ‘el músico’) more... before 1496 3 Sep. 1528 Medina de Rioseco, Spain Spanish singer and composer Menasce, Jacques de more... 19 Aug. 1905 Bad Ischl, Austria 28 Jan. 1960 Gstaad, Switzerland composer and pianist Menault, Pierre more... 1642 Beaune, France 1694 Dijon, France French composer Mence, Selga more... 1953 Liepaja, Latvia   Latvian composer Mendelssohn, Arnold Ludwig more...       Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix more... 3 Feb. 1809 Hamburg, Germany 4 Nov. 1847 Leipzig, Germany a German composer and conductor of Jewish parentage of the early Romantic period. His work includes symphonies, concertos, oratorios, piano and chamber music. After a long period of relative denigration due to changing musical tastes in the late 19th century, his creative originality is now being recognised and re-evaluated, and he is now amongst the most popular composers of the Romantic era Mendelssohn-Hensel, Fanny more... 14 Nov. 1805 Hamburg, Germany 14 May 1847 Berlin, Germany a German pianist and composer who was the sister of Felix Mendelssohn Mendes, Gilberto more...       Mendes, Manuel more... c.1547 Lisbon, Portugal 24 Sep. 1605 Évora, Portugal a Portuguese composer and teacher of the Renaissance. While his music remains obscure, he was important as the teacher of several of the composers of the golden age of Portuguese polyphony, including Duarte Lobo and Manuel Cardoso Mendoza, Emilio more...       Menescal, Roberto more... 25 Oct. 1937 Vitória, Brazil   Menescal studied piano, the accordion, harmonica and guitar, specializing finally in the latter. Menescal had harmony, arrangement and composition lessons with conductors Guerra-Peixe and Moacir Santos. Menescal settled in Rio de Janeiro, where he and Carlos Lyra founded a guitar academy. There, Menescal gave lessons, including to the bossa nova muse Nara Leão. In 1958 and 1959, he wrote his first songs and recorded tracks on the album Os Garotos da Bossa Nova. Menescal made friends with Ronaldo Bôscoli, with whom he wrote one of his greatest hits, bossa nova anthem O Barquinho, in 1961 Menetou (de), Mlle (Francoise Charlotte de Senneterre) 1680   composer Mengal, Martin Joseph more...     successful horn player, conductor and composer, trained at the Paris Conservatoire, who later became director of the Ghent Conservatory (1835). His brother Jean-Baptiste Mengal (1792-1878) was also a horn player Mengelberg, Karel more...       Mengelberg, Misha more...       Mengelberg, Rudolf more...       Menken, Alan more...       Mennin, Peter more... 1923 Erie, Pennsylvania, USA   besides his six symphonies, American composer Mennin has composed concertos, string quartets, sonatas, and choral works Menon, Tugdual (also in sources Tuttvalle, Tugdualo, Tudual, Tuttuale, Tuduuale, Jugdulus) more... before 1502 Britain 1566/68 Ferrara, Italy French composer believed to be the teacher of the great organist Claudio Merulo Menotti, Gian-Carlo more...       Mensi, Franz more... 27 Mar 1753 Bistra, Bohemia after 1808 Pher his father was tutor to Count Hohenems. The son early occupied himself with music, and when his parents went to Prague he became Joseph Reicha's pupil for Violoncello playing while Cajetan Vogel instructed him in theory. Mensi also played the Violin. On both instruments he was considered clever, and not less so in composition. Some of his works, which consist of church music, Symphonies, and Quartets, are said to be preserved in the convent at Strahow. In the year 1808, Mensi was still living and working as Roman Catholic priest at Pher Meola, Al di more...       Meragi, Hace Abdülkadir more... c. 1350 Meraga, Azerbaijan 1435 Herat, Turkey Turkish/Azerbaijani composer who sung in the Timurid courts. He is considered the last of the greatest theorists of the pre-Ottoman Islamic tradition who dedicated his celebrated book Makasidu'l-Elhan to Ottoman Sultan Murad II. His son, Abdulaziz, was active as a composer, performer, and a writer on music during the reign of Mehmed II (1451-1481) while his grandson, Mahmud, was still active in the court of Suleyman I (1520-1566) Mercadante, Saverio more...       Mercer, Johnny more...       Mercken, Sophie-Marguerite 1776 Paris 1821 daughter of Johann Kilian Mercken, considered to have been the first maker of pianos in Paris. Her set of Six Romances for voice and accompaniment is her only known publication Mercker, Mathias more...       Mercure, Pierre more...       Mercy, Louis more...       Mergner, Friedrich more...       Meridan Skipp, Lisa more...       Merikanto, Aarre more... 29 Jun. 1893 Finland 29 Sep. 1958 Finland student of Max Reger and son of Oskar, Aarre was the most earthy and florid of the Finnish Modernists, both as a composer and as a personality. He combined Finnish national elements such as folk dance rhythms with his Modernism, and even his principal work, the opera Juha, is set in a Finnish wilderness despite the universal applicability of its love-triangle story. Merikanto's core output includes orchestral works, concertos, chamber music, two orchestral songs and an opera Merikanto, Oskar more... 5 Aug. 1868 Helsinki, Finland 17 Feb. 1924 Oitti, Finland Oskar Merikanto was born of Swedish parents, his father, originally Frank Mattsson, changing the family name to be more Finnish. Merikanto built bridges between concert music and the public at large. To this end, he undertook extensive concert tours in Finland as an organist, a concert pianist and an accompanist. His life's work covered an exceptionally broad span in Finnish music; in addition to everything else, he was a church organ inspector, a conductor, an educator and a music critic. Merikanto had a naturally flowing melodic vein, and he is best remembered for his solo songs and piano pieces, over 100 of each. It is indicative of just how popular he was and is that many of his songs are erroneously held to be folk songs. The first opera written in the Finnish language was written by Oskar Merikanto. Composed in a popular Romantic style, Pohjan neiti (The Bothnian Maid) was completed in 1899 and first produced in Helsinki in 1908 Merilainen, Usko more... 27 Jan. 1930 Tampere, Finland 12 Nov. 2004 Tampere, Finland like many composers of his generation, he was influenced by Stravinsky; hearing Sacre was a particularly formative experience for the young Meriläinen. The Stravinsky influences are at their most audible in Partita for Brass (1954) but can also be detected in the First Symphony (1955) and the First Piano Concerto (1955). Meriläinen's early Neo-Classical period culminated in the Concerto for Orchestra (1956), whose idiom is so chromatic as to lie on the threshold of dodecaphony. Meriläinen went through a brief row-technique period lasting only a few years. Despite its brevity, this period injected a new enthusiasm into his work. His dodecaphonic period began with the First Piano Sonata (1960) and ended with the First String Quartet (1965) Merit, Jacky more...       Merkel, Gustav Adolf more...       Merkelys, Remigijus more...       Merlet, Michel