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Name	Born	Died	Information
Maal, Baaba more...	12 Nov. 1953 Podor, Senegal		Senegalese singer and guitarist, who, in addition to acoustic guitar, also plays percussion. He has released several albums, both for independent and major labels. In July 2003, he was made a UNDP Youth Emissary
Maasalo, Armas	28 Aug. 1885 Rautavaara, Finland	9 Sep. 1960 Helsinki, Finland	Finnish composer best known for his sacred vocal music
Maasland, Arie (pseudonym: Malando) more...	26 May 1908 Rotterdam, The Netherlands	22 Nov. 1980 Bussum, The Netherlands	Dutch composer and musician
Maayani, Ami more...	1936 Ramat Gan, Israel		Israeli composer, teacher and writer on musical matters
Mabarak, Carlos Jiménez more...	1916 Tacuba, Mexico	1994 Mexico City, Mexico	composed El paraíso de los ahogados in 1960, considered the first piece involving electroacoustic medias produced by a Mexican composer. He also composed La llorona, ballet music for small orchestra, electronic oscillator, timpani, percussions, piano and strings in 1961, and La portentosa vida de la muerte in 1964
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 (born: James Miller) more...	25 Jan. 1915 Broughton, Lancashire, England	22 Oct. 1989 England	a British folk singer, songwriter, socialist, actor, poet, playwright, and record producer. He was the father of singer Kirsty MacColl
MacColl, Kirsty more...	10 Oct. 1959 Croydon, England	18 Dec. 2000 Cozumel, Mexico	English singer-songwriter, daughter of Ewan MacColl
MacCunn, Hamish more...	22 Mar. 1868 Greenock, Scotland	2 Aug. 1916 London, England	Scottish romantic composer, born the son of a shipowner, who was educated at the Royal College of Music, where his teachers included (Sir) Charles Parry and Charles Villiers Stanford
Macdearmid, Anne more...	20th century		Aberdeen-born Scottish harpist and composer for the harp
MacDermot, (Arthur Terence) Galt more...	18 Dec. 1928 Montreal, Canada		Canadian pianist, composer and writer of musical theatre
MacDiarmid, George (see Brecht, George)
MacDonald, Andrew Paul more...	30 Nov. 1958 Guelph, Ontario, Canada		Canadian composer
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
Macedo Pimentel, Osvaldo Lenine (see Lenine)
Macfarren, (Sir) George Alexander more...	2 Mar. 1813 London, UK	31 Oct. 1887 London, UK	musical author and composer who studied at the Royal Academy and became professor there in 1834
MacFarren, Mrs. John (pseud. Jules Brissac)	1824 London	1895	published several light piano pieces that enjoyed large sales
MacGimsey, Robert	7 Sep. 1898 Pineville, Louisiana, USA	13 Mar. 1979 Phoenix, Arizona, USA	MacGimsey received his musical training at Juilliard. After a brief career as a lawyer, he became a professional whistler, performing on the radio and in recordings. He also pursued a career as a singer and composer. His songs reflected his southern roots, especially the Negro folksongs he heard. His Sweet Little Jesus Boy was published in 1934
Mácha, Otmar more...	2 Oct. 1922 Ostrava, Czech Republic		Czech composer [correction by Terry L. Mueller]
Machado, Celso more...	27 Jan. 1953 Ribeiro Preto, Brazil		Afro-Brazilian composer, guitarist, lyricist and singer.
Machado, Manuel more...	c.1590 Lisbon, Portugual	1646 Madrid, Spain	a Portuguese composer and harpist, who was mostly active in Spain, as he was born when Portugal was under Spanish rule
Machajdik, Peter more...	1 Jun. 1961 Bratislava, Slovakia		Slovak composer who has been based in Germany for many years
Machan, Derek more...	1974 Wisconsin, USA		American composer and music educator
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
Mâche, François Bernard more...	4 Apr. 1935 Clermont-Ferrand, France		French composer of electroacoustic, orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal and piano works
Machover, Tod more...	24 Nov. 1953 Mount Vernon, New York, USA		the son of a pianist and a computer scientist, Machover is a composer and an innovator in the application of technology in music
Machy, Le Sieur de more...	fl. second half 17th century		French viol player, composer, and teacher remembered principally for his Pièces de Violle en Musique et en Tablature (1685), a valuable source of information on the performance practices of his time
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...	1952 Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada		Canadian composer and teacher
Mackeben, Theo more...	5 Jan. 1897 Preußisch Stargard, Germany	10 Jan. 1953 Berlin, Germany	German pianist, conductor and composer
Mackenzie, Alexander more...	22 Aug. 1847 Edinburgh, Scotland	28 Apr. 1935 London, England	Scottish composer best known for his oratorios, violin and piano pieces and works for the stage
Mackey, Steven more...	14 Feb. 1956 Frankfurt, Germany		American composer, guitarist, and music educator
MacKillop, Rob more...	1959 Dundee, Scotland		Scottish composer, lutenist, theorbist, vihuelist, and guitarist
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...	1745 Tullymet, Perthshire, Scotland	1807 London, England	a prolific Scottish composer and well-respected musician and fiddle teacher. He is best remembered for four collections of music containing 357 tunes published by Macintosh from 1783 to 1803
MacLean, Sean more...			American pianist and composer
MacMillan, Ernest more...	18 Aug. 1893 Mimico, Toronto, Canada	6 May 1973 Toronto, Canada	Canadian orchestral conductor, organist, painist and composer
MacMillan, James more...	16 July 1959 Kilwinning, Scotland		Scottish composer
Maconchy, Elizabeth (married name: Maconchy LeFanu) more...	19 Mar. 1907 Broxbourne, England	11 Nov. 1994 Norwich, England	Irish-English composer
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...	12 Aug. 1976 Inverness, Scotland		Scottish composer
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...	29 Jan. 1907 Oñati, Spain	30 Jun. 1972 Oñati, Spain	Spanish composer and priest
Madlem, Peter White more...	15 Jun. 1945 Alameda, California, USA		guitarist and composer
Madre de Deus, Filipe da more...	c. 1630 Lisbon, Portugal	c. 1688 or 1690 Seville, Spain	Portuguese composer
Madureira, Antônio José more...	1949 Brazil		Brazilian composer
Maes, Jef ("Joseph") more...	5 Apr. 1905 Antwerp, Belgium	30 Jun. 1996 Antwerp, Belgium	Belgian composer and violist
Maessen, Antoon more...	4 Aug. 1919 The Hague, Netherlands	12 Oct. tern1997 Waalre, Netherlands	Dutch composer
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...	1949 Bornem, Belgium		Belgian composer, director of the Municipal Conservatory in Mechelen
Maffia, Pedro more...	28 Aug. 1899 Argentina	16 Oct. 1967 Argentina	Argentine tango bandoneonist, bandleader, composer and teacher
Magalhães, Filipe de more...	c.1571 (or 1563) Azeitão (near Évora), Portugal	17 Dec. 1652 Lisbon, Portugal	Portuguese composer of sacred polyphony
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 Symphonys 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
Magdić, Josip more...	19 Mar. 1937 Zagreb, Croatia		Croatian composer
Mage, Pierre du (or Dumage) more...	23 Nov. 1674 Beauvais, France	2 Oct. 1751 France	French Baroque organist and composer, who after falling out with his employers, retired on 30 March 1719, and reputedly never played or composed professionally again
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	27 Nov. 1833 Brussels, Belgium	10 Jan. 1918 Brussels, Belgium	brilliant Belgium organist who studied with Lemmens at the Brussels Conservatory and from 1861 was teacher of piano and organ there [entry prompted by Terry L. Mueller]
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...
Maleingreau, Paul Eugène de more...	23 Nov. 1887 Trélon-sur-Thiérache	9 Jan. 1956 Brussels, Belgium	major organ works: Suite, Op. 14 (1919), Symphonie de noël, Op. 19 (1920), Symphonie de la passion, Op. 20 (1920), Symphonie de l'agneau mystique, Op.24 (1926), Messe du pâques, Op.31 and Suite mariale, Op. 65 (1939) [entry by Terry L. Mueller]
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...	1 Sep. 1974 Irvine, Scotland		Scottish composer of orchestral, chamber and vocal music [information supplied by composer]
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 (grandparents name was Manishevsky) more...	10 May 1919 Cleveland, Ohio, USA		American organist (Minneapolis Mt. Olive Lutheran Church) and composer. Works for organ include: Aria, Variations 'O God, our help in ages past', Still, Still, Still, Partita on 'From heaven above to earth I come' Op.18, and Partita 'St. Anne' [entry by Terry L. Mueller]
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
Marchal, André more...	6 Feb. 1894 Paris, France	27 Aug. 1980 Saint-Jean-de-Luz	a French organist, organ teacher and an unparalled improviser. He was one of the great initiators of organ revival in France
Marchand, Louis more...	2 Feb. 1669 Lyon, France	17 Feb. 1732 Paris, France	virtuoso organist, harpsichordist and composer. At the age of thirty-one, he became Organist to the King. He was known for his flamboyant nature both personally and musically, and took Paris by storm when he arrived there from Lyon. By nature he was said to be a difficult and unreliable person, but he was nevertheless known by many as Marchand le Grand. One surviving anecdote about him states that, while on tour in Dresden, he agreed to a musical competition with Johann Sebastian Bach, but left the city shortly before the competition was set to begin. Many said that he had fled out of fear of being shown up by Bach, but no conclusive proof of this exists. A more reliable account of Marchand does indeed survive, and indicates the boldness of his manner. After Marchand's wife had left him, the king ordered him to pay half of his salary to her. As a result of that, an enraged Marchand broke off in the middle of one of his concerts and, before the entire assembled court, told the king that if his wife was receiving half of his salary she should come and play the rest of the concert. Despite Marchand's success and popularity in his day, only a few airs and cantatas, plus two harpsichord suites (1702) were published. A third book of harpsichord pieces, made of 14 entries (12 in c minor, 2 in C major) and attributed to Louis Marchand for its largest part, has been discovered in France in 2003 [entry provided by Victor Krasovsky]
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...
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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, Cesar Camargo more...	19 Sep. 1943 São Paulo, Brazil		Brazilian pianist, arranger, composer and music producer
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...
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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
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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...	15 Sep. 1890 Geneva, Switzerland	21 Nov. 1974 The Netherlands	Swiss composer, who lived a large part of his life in the Netherlands
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 EMIs 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 Brulls 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...	10 Oct. 10 1959 Liverpool, UK	6 May 2013 London, UK	iconoclastic English composer
Marttinen, Tauno more...	27 Sep. 1912 Helsinki, Finland	18 Jul. 2008 Janakkala, Finland	Finnish composer and conductor. 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...	29 Sep. 1865, France	1942 Paris, France	organist of Paris St-François-St-Xavier. His organ works include: Noël breton, Offertoire pour la fête de l'immaculée conception, Offertoire pour la pentecôte and Pastorale in D major (1892) [entry by Terry L. Mueller]
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
Mascagni, Pietro more...	7 Dec. 1863 Livorno, Italy	2 Aug. 1945 Rome, Italy	the Italian composer Pietro Mascagni was sitting in his study one day when a street musician stopped outside and began to play one of Mascagnis 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 Benayouns 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...	1 Nov. 1934 Whitland, Wales	29 Jul. 1992 Anglesey, Wales	Welsh composer and academic, Mathias was a prolific writer of works for the Anglican choral tradition, most famously the anthem Let the people praise Thee, O God written for the July 1981 royal wedding of the Prince and Princess of Wales. He wrote much for the organ too: Antiphonies, Berceuse, Fantasy, Fenestra, Invocations Op.35 (1967), Partita Op.19 (1963), Variations on a hymn tune 'Braint' Op.20 (1963), Postlude (1963), Processional (1965), Chorale (1967), Toccata giocosa Op.36/2 (1968), Jubilate Op.67/2 (1975), Fantasy Op.78 (1978), Canzonetta Op.78/2 (1979), Concerto for Organ & Orchestra [organ related information by Terry L Mueller]
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, (John) Nicholas more...	5 Nov. 1935 Grantham, England	19 May 2009 Washington, DC, USA	British composer. His music has been described as neo-romantic but also as modernist and non-tonal
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 1934 Manchester, 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 [date of birth corrected by by Terry L. Mueller]
Maxwell Geddes, John more...
May, Frederick more...	1911 Dublin, Ireland	1985	unlike many of his contemporaries, Mays 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. Mayborodas 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...
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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...	21 Apr. 1939 Huyton, UK	13 Feb. 2015 Sittingbourne, UK	English pianist, composer and administrator
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...	23 Sep. 1935 Lexington, Kentucky, USA		soul jazz piano player and vocalist whose biggest successes came as a crossover artist into R&B and soul
McCarthy, Eugene Patrick John more...	20 Nov. 1919 London, England	8 Apr. 2009 London, England	choral conductor, scholar, composer and arranger
McCartney, James Paul more...	18 Jun, 1942 Liverpool, England		a multiple Grammy Award-winning English singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, painter, and animal rights activist. He gained worldwide fame as a member of The Beatles, alongside John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr
McClure, Ron more...	22 Nov. 1941 New Haven, Connecticut, USA		a bassist, has played in hard bop, jazz-rock, and free and bebop sessions and bands
McCullough, Donald more...	16 Aug. 1957		American choral director and composer with degrees in both organ and vocal performance from Stetson University and masters degrees in both sacred music and vocal performance from Southern Methodist University
McDougall, Ian more...	14 Jun. 1938 Calgary, Canada		Canadian trombonist and composer
McDowall, Cecilia more...	1951 London, England		composer specialising in choral and chamber music
McDowell, Mississipi Fred more...	12 Jan. 1904 Rossville, Tennessee, USA	3 Jul. 1972 Mississipi, USA	blues musician and songwriter
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...	1956 South Africa		South African-born composer and musical director who studied and worked for many years in England but since 1994 has returned to Cape Town, South Africa
McLaughlin, John more...	4 Jan. 1942 Doncaster, England		English jazz fusion guitarist and composer
McLean, Barton more...
McLean, Jackie more...
McLennan, Gordon Stewart more...	9 Feb. 1884 Scotland	1 Jun 1929 Aberdeen, Scotland	Scottish piper and composer
McLennan jnr., John Stewart more...	1915	10 Oct 1996 Tyringham, MA, USA	American composer and creator of a notable garden at Ashintully, The Berkshires, USA
McLeod, John more...	1934 Aberdeen, Scotland		Scottish composer and conductor
McLoskey, Lansing more...	21 May 1964 Mountain View, California, USA		American composer
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 (nee Page) more...	20 Mar. 1918 Windsor, England	20 Aug. 2013 Long Island, New York, USA	born Margaret Turner, Marian was a major contributor to the Jazz world as a performer, composer, and writer, and with her popular program 'Piano Jazz', which was 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, organ 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. His major organ works include: 6 Sonatas, Op.65 (1844-5) and 3 Preludes and Fugues, Op.37 (1837) [organ related information by Terry L. Mueller]
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 more...
Merlin, Jose Luis more...
Mernier, Benoit more...
Merrill, William Pierson more...	1867	1954	pastor at Brick Church (Presbyterian) of New York City, author and composer of hymns, including Rise Up, O Men of God
Merritt, Thomas more...
Mertel, Elias more...	c.1561	1626	lutenist and composer of the Renaissance
Mertens, Hardy more...
Mertens, Karl Heinz more...
Mertens, Wim more...
Mertz, Johann Kaspar more...
Mertzig, René more...	1911 Luxembourg	1986 Luxembourg	pianist, violinist and composer from Luxembourg
Merula, Tarquinio more...
Merulo, Claudio [Merlotti] more...	8 Apr. 1533 Correggio, Italy	4 May 1604 Parma, Italy	Italian composer, publisher and organist of the late Renaissance, famous for his innovative keyboard music and his ensemble music in the Venetian polychoral style. His surname was Merlotti: he changed it in "Merulo" (Latin form of "Merlotti", meaning little blackbird) when he became famous in Venetian cultural clubs
Mes, Gherardus more...
Mesa, Manuel de more...
Mesangeau, Rene more...
Mesomedes more...
Messager, André Charles Prosper more...	30 Dec. 1853 Montluçon. France	24 Feb. 1929 Paris, France	French musician. He studied at Paris, and was for some time a pupil of Saint-Saëns at the École Niedermeyer. In 1874 he became organist at St Sulpice. In 1876, he won the gold medal of the Société des Compositeurs with a symphony. In 1880 he was appointed music director at Ste Marie-des-Batignolles. In 1883 he completed Firmin Bernicat's comic opera François des bas bleus; and in 1885 produced his own operettas, La Fauvette du temple and La Béarnaise, the latter being performed in London in 1886. His ballet Les Deux pigeons was produced at the Paris Opera in 1886
Messaus (or Messaulx, Missau), Guillaume (Guilielmus) (van) more...	bap. 2 Jul. 1589 Anvers, Belgium	8 Mar. 1640 Anvers, Belgium	Flemish composer
Messemaeckers, Henri jr more...
Messiaen, Olivier more...	10 Dec. 1908 Avignon, France	27 Apr. 1992 Paris, France	French organist, teacher and composer [entry provided by L B Venema]
Mestdagh, Karel more...
Mestres, Antonio more...
Mestres Quadreny, Josep more...
Metallo, D Grammatio more...
Mettallov (or Mettallos), Vasily Mikhaylovich	13 Mar. 1862 Saratov, Russia	1 Jun. 1926 Moscow, Russia	Russian musicologist and composer
Metcalf, John more...
Metheny, Pat more...
Metra, Olivier more...
Meulemans, Arthur more...
Meulemans, Herman more...
Meulen, Jozef van der more...	24 Mar. 1869 Ghent, Belgium	26 Sep. 1931 Ghent, Belgium	composer, conductor and teacher
Meulen, Henk van der more...
Meulen, Servaes vander more...	1525 Malines or Ghent	c.1592	organist and composer
Mey, Thierry de more...
Meyer, Edgar more...
Meyer, Friedrich more...
Meyer, Ernst Hermann more...
Meyer, Krzyszt more...	11 Aug. 1943 Cracow, Poland		Polish pianist, writer on music and composer who studied composition with Stanislaw Wiechowicz, Krzysztof Penderecki and with Nadia Boulanger in France
Meyerbeer, Giacomo more...	5 Sep 1791 Tasdorf, nr. Berlin, Germany	2 May 1864 Berlin, Germany	born Jacob Liebmann Beer, Meyerbeer was noted German-born opera composer, and the first great exponent of Grand Opera
Meyerovich, Mikhail more...
Meylaers, Stefan more...
Mezzena, Bruno more...
Miaskovsky, Nicolai Yakovlevich more...	20 Apr. 1881 Warsaw, Poland	8 Aug. 1950 Moscow, Russia	Miaskovsky was 25 years old when he applied to enter the Moscow Conservatory. His exams were conducted by Rimsky-Korsakov, Lyadov and Glazunov all of whom who would become his professors
Mica, Frantisek Adam Jan more...
Michael, Daniel more...
Michael, David Moritz more...
Michael, Edouard more...
Michael, Richard more...
Michalowski, Aleksander more...	17 May 1851 Kamieniec Podolski, Poland	1938 Warsaw, Polands	Polish pianist, pedagogue and composer who in addition to his own immense technique, had a profound influence upon the teaching of pianoforte technique, especially in relation to the works of Chopin and J S Bach, and left this legacy among a large number of pupils
Michalsky, Donal more...
Micháns, Carlos more...	1950 Buenos Aires, Argentina		moved to the Netherlands in 1982, becoming a Dutch citizen in 1988. In his native Argentina he studied composition with Susana Oliveto and Roberto García Morillo, one of the countrys leading composers. He also graduated in conducting at the University of Buenos Aires and the Art Institute of the Teatro Colón, South Americas major opera house. In 1982 he was awarded a scholarship from the Dutch Ministry of Culture and Science, which enabled him to undertake postgraduate studies in composition and electronic music with Hans Kox and Ton Bruynèl at the conservatory of Utrecht, where he obtained the Composition Prize in 1988. A new grant from the Ministry of Culture allowed him to continue his training in electronic music for a year. The catalogue of his compositions comprises over seventy titles, most of them published in Holland by Muziek Groep Nederland (Donemus). In 1992 Carlos Micháns was one of the four musicians representing the Netherlands at the famed international workshop for composers and choreographers held at Bretton Hall in West Yorkshire (UK). En 1998 he was invited to the New Music & Art Festival at Bowling Green State University in Ohio (USA), where he attended performances of his own music and lectured on composition to students of the Faculty of Music. Since 1994 and often sponsored by the Gaudeamus Foundation of Amsterdam, he has been a guest at institutes for higher education and music associations in India, Indonesia, Argentina and Central America, where he lectures on western music and his own work. He also travels regularly to different countries with distinguished Dutch musicians to promote the works of contemporary and Dutch composers. Several works by Carlos Micháns have been awarded international prizes: first prize Promociones Musicales (Argentina) for Tema, Toccata y Fuga (organ, 1977), first prize of the city of Gerona (Spain) for Apparitions (piano, 1990), Trinac Prize 1996 (Tribuna Nacional de Compositores, Argentina) for his String Quartet Nr. 2 (1992), Trimarg Prize 1996 (Tribuna Musical Argentina) for Sinfonia Concertante Nr. 2 (violin, cello and orchestra, 1996) and Trinac Prize 2000 for Après Minuit (ensemble, 1998). Since 1995 Carlos Micháns has been in charge of Podium Neerlandés, a programme of Radio Nederland Wereldomroep designed to promote in Latin America the international and Dutch classical repertoire by some of Holland's leading orchestras and ensembles. He is also active in the field of literature, both in Spanish and in Dutch. His works include Rogelio G. (stories), De Ogen van Meenakshi (The Eyes of Meenakshi, Impressions of South India), El Mercader de Pumpuhar (The Merchant of Poompuhar, stories and legends of India), Madurai, Madurai (novel), La Próxima Parada (The Next Stop, short novel), Poemas Terminales (Terminal Poems), Nuevos Abismos (y otros poemas) [New Abysses (and other poems)], all published by *CMP/Utrecht, and a number of unpublished poetry cycles and essays
Micheelsen, Hans Friedrich more...
Michel, Wilfried more...
Micheli, de more...
Micheli, Antonio more...
Michio, Miyagi	1894	1956	famous blind Koto performer and composer who had a tremendous influence on many areas of Japanese music. He combined Japanese and Western instruments (for example, concerto for Koto with orchestra) and for this he is often called the Father of Modern Koto Music. He also extended the Koto by inventing new instruments, using new forms, stretching traditional forms, creating new playing techniques, and restoring popularity to the genre. As a teacher, he influenced many Koto players and taught them his new technique including pizzicato, staccato, and harmonics. He introduced Western forms into Japanese music alongside the traditional Japanese forms of kinutamono and tegotomono. His most famous piece is Haru no Umi, the Spring Sea, which can be heard everywhere in Japan during the New Year's holiday. Other famous pieces include Mizu no Hentai, Ochiba no Odori (Dance of the Falling Leaves), Seoto (Sounds of the Rapids) and Tegoto (Interlude)
Michiyo, Yagi more...
Michna z Otradovic, Adam more...
Michon, Mlle			composer who published in Paris in about 1750
Middelschulte, Wilhelm more...
Middleton, Hubert more...
Mielck, Ernst (Ernest) Leopold, Christian more...	24 Oct. 1877 Viipuri, Finland	22 Oct. 1899 Locarno, Switzerland	one of the most promising talents in the history of Finnish music, he died of tuberculosis at the early age of 21, but not before writing a number of substantial instrumental works demonstrating a solid professional skill and a high degree of innovation; these include the first important Finnish symphony, completed in 1897 two years before Sibelius's First. Instead of studying at the Helsinki Music Institute, he went abroad at the age of fourteen to study at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, studying there from 1891 to 1894. He returned to Berlin on two further occasions, in 189596 and 189798, studying with Max Bruch. Mielck also studied the piano
Mielczewski, Marcin more...		Sep. 1651 Warsaw	a member of the royal orchestra of King Wladislaw IV between 1638 and 1644, from 1645 he became master of the orchestra of Prince Charles Ferdinand, Bishop of Plock. Mielczewski remained in this post until his death. He composed both religious music in the old a cappella style and instrumental canzonas in the Venetian polychoral tradition
Mignard, Aleksandr Konstantinovich (né Scheltobrjacow (or Zheltobryukhov, Scheltobriuchov), Alexander)	13 Aug. 1852 Warsaw, Poland		Polish composer who studied, under Freyer there, then under Saint-Saens at the Paris Conservatory from 1869 to 1871. He afterward studied law, and in 1876 entered the civil service, moving to Moscow in 1893
Mignone, Francisco more...	3 Sep. 1897 Sao Paulo, Brazil	2 Feb. 1986 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	after his studies in Italy, he taught composition and conducting at the Escola National de Musica de Rio, leading an active musical life as a composer, pianist and conductor. He wrote operas, symphonic and chamber works as well as works for solo instruments
Mihajlovic, Milan more...
Mihalovici, Marcel more...
Mikheyeva, Tatyana more...	22 Apr. 1962 Talgar, Kazakstan		studied at the Almaata State Conservatory. She graduated from the Moscow State Conservatory and its postgraduate course under N. N. Sidelnikov. She has written for cinema and theatre, used electronics in her work and written jazz-inspired compositions
Miki, Minoru more...
Mikkelborg, Palle more...
Mikkola, Pasi-Heikki	1965		Finnish Army Band conductor, who is also a prolific composer and arranger
Mikolaj z Chrzanowa more..	c. 1485	c. 1560	Polish composer known only by a single motet, Protexisti, and even that only as an organ transcription
Mikolaj z Radomia more..	c. 1400	c. 1450	Polish composer working at the time of a cultural flowering in Poland during the reign of Wladyslaw Jagiello. Only ten works by Poland's greatest 15th century composer have survived but these confirm that they are typical of the late Medieval period
Mikroutsikos, Thanos more...
Milán, Luis [Luys] de more...	c. 1500 Spain	after 1561 Spain	a Spanish Renaissance composer, vihuelist (instrument similar to the guitar), and writer on music. He was the first composer in history to publish music for the vihuela de mano, an instrument employed primarily in the Iberian peninsula and some of the Italian states during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and he was also one of the first musicians to specify verbal tempo indications in his music
Milano, Francesco Canova da (see Canova de Milano, Francesco)
Milchberg, Jorge more...
Mildmay, Lady	fl. 15th century England		composer of songs
Milesi, Piero more...
Miletic, Miroslav			viola player, founder of the Pro Arte string quartet in Zagreb. As a composer he has promoted Croatian folklore and church music (in particular from the island of Hvar). In 1975, accompanied by the Leningrad Philharmonic, he played his Viola concert. He has also collaborated with Karl-Heinz Stockhausen on electronic music
Milhaud, Darius more...	4 Sep. 1892 Aix-en-Provence, France	22 Jun. 1974 Geneva, Switzerland	a French composer and teacher. He was a member of Les Six - also known as the Groupe des Six - and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century
Millar, Marian	Manchester		first woman to obtain the degree of Mus. Bac. from Victoria University, Manchester in 1894
Millard, Harrison more...
Millard, Mrs Phillip		c. 1840 Britain	a composer of many songs, at least two of which were popular
Millault (or Millaut, Millaux), Laurent François Édouard. more...	13 Feb. 1808 Paris, France	13 Apr. 1887 Paris, France	French violinist and composer of orchestral music, chamber music, sacred works
Miller, Bernie more...
Miller, Edward I more...
Miller, George more...	1877	1960	conductor of various military bands during the first four decades or so and most notably that of the Grenadier Guards between 1922 and 1942, whose Grand March Galatea was once popular
Miller, Glen more...	1904 Clarina, Iowa, USA	15 Dec. 1944 English Channel	American clarinetist, composer and bandleader
Miller, Marcus more...
Miller, Paul more...
Millocker, Carl more...
Mills, Richard more...
Milner, Anthony (Francis Dominic) more...	13 May 1925 Bristol, England	22 Oct. 2002 Spain	educated at Douai School and the Royal College of Music, where he studied piano with Herbert Fryer and theory with RO Morris. Composition was studied privately, with Matyas Seiber, whom he soon joined at Morley College in the first of a long series of distinguished teaching posts, which included a Lectureship at Kings College London from 1965 to 1971, a Senior (later Principal) Lectureship at Goldsmiths College from 1971 until 1980, and from 1980 until his retirement in 1989 a Principal Lectureship at the RCM, where he had taught part-time since 1961
Milner, Arthur more...	1894 England	1972 England	Northumbrian organist and composer, based in Newcatle upon Tyne, who taught Wilfred Josphs
Milner, Cecil more...			a respected backroom boy in London music circles, arranging for many top orchestras such as Mantovani, for whom he supplied around 220 scores. He was also an accomplished composer, with his works willingly accepted by background music publishers such as Harmonic, who issued Primrose Dell on one of their mood music 78 discs in 1949. In the cinema he worked on the 1938 film The Lady Vanishes
Milojevic, Miloje	1884	1946	he studied at the Munich Conservatory, in France and in Prague where he took a doctorate in 1924-25. A romanticist with and nationalist tendencies, a Serbian Richard Strauss, he was most expressive in his solos (the collection Before Magnificent Nature) and in his piano compositions (Melodies and Rhythms from the Balkans, the suite, Camaieux). He was the leading music critic in Belgrade and the author of valuable musical texts about Serbian and Yugoslav music
Minafra, Pino more...
Minard, Robin more...
Minezaki, Koto more...	fl. 1780-1800		composer of traditional Japanese music
Mingus, Charles more...
Minkin, Tzenko more...
Minkus, Leon more...
Mintchev, Gheorgui more...
Mintzer, Bob more...	27 Jan. 1953 New Rochelle, New York, USA		American jazz musician and composer
Mira, Rafael Angel more...
Miranda, Ronaldo more...
Miraval, Raimon de more...
Mircovich, Elisabetta de more...
Miró-Charbonnier, Ignacio more...	1962 Madrid, Spain		Spanish guitarist and composer
Miskinis, Vytautas more...
Misraki, Paul more...
Mitcha, Adam more...
Mitchell, Blue more...
Mitchell, Joni (born Roberta Joan Anderson) more...	7 Nov. 1943 Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada		Canadian musician and painter
Mitchell, Roscoe more...
Mitchell-Davidson, Paul more...
Miteran, Alain more...
Miti, Luca more...	1957 Rome, Italy		in his works, Luca Miti tends to put himself in relation to the sound, searching for the interaction between sound and environment, and more important between the capability to produce a sound and to receive it. This includes some theatre music raw excerpts of sparse, subtle electronic sounds (as for example in E non mi resta che tornare solo), the audio component of the sound installation Mens Conclusa a loop with scratching and clicking sounds and mutant voices, and the electronic interaction between two performers (Miti himself and his long time friend Francesco Michi) in the extended Giocattoli (Toys) a sparse sound ambient due to the use of small, low-fi live electronics and anachronistic electronic sounds. The sound flux (again from Michi and Miti) that de-sign the time-space of specific place, in II° Progetto per la regolamentazione e lordinamento dei flussi estetici per la comunità di Topolò 2001. Finally, Miti's soundtrack for another theatrical piece Immaginate la notte is modeled on Massenet and pregnant with a lyrical atmosphere that finally flows in a tonal ending for accordion, an amusing counterpart for a work that well represents, even if in a fragmented way, the sounding universe of the author
Mitropoulos, Dimitri more...
Mitsakis, Yorgos more...
Mival, William more...
Miyagi, Michio more...
Miyake, Jun more...
Miyoshi, Akira more...
Mizangere (de la), Marquise	1693 France		a noted clavichord player and composer
Mizelle, Dary John more...
Mizuma, Hiroaki more...
Mo, Fan more...
Mo, Wuping more...
Mobach, Cees more...
Mobley, Hank more...
Mochizuki, Misato more...
Mocnik, Damijan more...
Moderne, Jacques more...
Modess, Jochen more...
Moe, Eric more...
Moenne-Loccoz, Philippe more...	1953 Annecy, France		studied at the Conservatoire in Geneva between 1979 and 1982. Member of the improvisatory instrumental group Frequence7. Teaches electroacoustic composition at the Ecole Nationale de Musique et de Danse, Annecy, France
Moeran, Ernest John more...
Moeschinger, Albert more...
Mogensen, Michael A. more...	1973 Hagerstown, Maryland, USA		American French horn player, composer, adjudicator, clinician, instructor, and conductor
Mohr, Jean Baptiste more...
Mohrhardt, Peter more...
Mohrheim, Friedrich Christian more...
Mokranjac, Stevan Stojanovic	1856	1914	studied in Munich, Rome and Leipzig before becoming director of the Belgrade Choral Society, a group he truend into into an exceptional performing ensemble. Mokranjac's "Fifteen Song Collections" (1883-1909), an a cappella choral composition, was based on the folk melodies of Serbia and Old Serbia, and on that of Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia and Bosnia. Mokranjac's church pieces include a Requiem in F-sharp minor. He was among the first Serbian ethnomusicologists
Molchanov, Kirill more...
Moleiro, Moises more...	1904 Zaraza, Venezuela	1979 Caracas, , Venezuela	Venezuelan pianist and composer
Molina Jimenez, Manuel more...
Molinaro, Simone more...
Molinet, Jean more...	1435 Devres, France	23 Aug. 1507 Valenciennes France	French poet, chronicler, and composer. He is best remembered for his prose translation of Roman de la rose
Molineux, Allen more...
Molino, Andrea more...
Molino, Francesco more...
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Molique, Wilhelm Bernhard more...
Molitor, Simon more...
Molitor, Valentin more...
Molique, Bernhard	1802	1869	German violinist who studied with Rovelli and for a short time with Spohr. He was professor of composition at the Royal College of Music in London
Molleda, José Muñoz more...	10 Feb. 1905 Cadiz, Spain	26 May 1988 Madrid, Spain	Spanish composer
Moller, Peter more...
Mollier (de), Louise	c. 1615	1688	French patroness and composer
Molloy, James Lynam more...
Moloney, Mick more...
Molter, Johann Melchior more...
Molvaer, Nils Petter more...
Molza Porrina, Tarquinia more...	1 Nov. 1542 Italy	1617 Modena	a musician at the Este court at Ferrara, singer, violinist and composer for lute, viol and harp, she also led a womens orchestra. Her performance style was seminal to the creation of the concerto delle donne, and she is said to have acted as instructor and conductor to her fellow musicians. She is one of the few women known to have been an active, named member of a humanist academy, Parma's Innominati; indeed, her scholarship was so respected that in 1610 the Roman Senate voted Roman citizenship to her, giving her the title L'Unica. In 1589 Molza was dismissed from her position as lady-in-waiting for Duchess Margherita Gonzaga d'Este because of her affair with Mantuan composer Giaches de Wert, and returned to Mantua. The issue was apparently more one of class than of sexual peccadillos - a member of the minor nobility (as the handmaids of the duchess were considered) were not supposed to be involved with members of the servant class, as minor composers such as Wert were considered
Mompou, Federico more...
Moncayo, Pablo more...
Monckton, Lionel more...
Mondejar, Alonso de more...
Mondonville, Jean-Joseph Cassanea de more...
Mongoven, Casey more...	30 Apr. 1979 La Jolla, California, USA		composer of works characterized by Fibonacci numbers and the golden ratio. Studied under Alan Fletcher at New England Conservatory [information supplied by Casey Mongoven]
Moniot d'Arras more...	fl. 12131239		French composer of the trouvère tradition. He was a monk who served in the Abbey of Arras in northern France and composed monophonic songs, both secular and sacred
Moniuszko, Stanislaw more...	5 May 1819 nr. Minsk, Russia	4 Jun. 1872 Warsaw, Poland	often called 'The Father of Polish Opera', he was an organist and composer of Polish-themed operas, sacred music and secular cantatas. His collection of songs entitled Spiewnik Domowy (Songbook for Home Use) had wide appeal among the Polish public
Monk, Meredith more...
Monk, Theolonious more...
Monk, William Henry more...
Monn, Matthias more...
Monnet, Marc more...
Monnikendam, Marius more...
Mononen, Sakari more...	27 Jul. 1928 Finland	7 Jun. 1997 Finland	a church musician and organist, who had a dodecaphonic period in the early 1960s, writing mainly organ works. In the late 1960s, he expanded his output towards chamber music and orchestral music, combining clusters and field technique with dodecaphony. After the mid-1970s, he turned to a free-tonal, somehow Neo-Baroque style
Mononen, Unto more...	1930 Somero, Finland	1968 Somero, Finland	a semi-professional bandleader from Somero, Mononen is remembered by his friends as an independent soul who would startle the residents of this quiet rural town by wearing a beret and dark glasses on autumn nights. Mononen made his living by playing in rural dance halls. In the fifties he had published a number of songs, including Satumaa, which had been recorded in 1955 with moderate success. In 1962 Reijo Taipale recorded Satumaa again, and by the beginning of 1963 it was the best selling record in Finland. Every company was now eager to record the tangos of Unto Mononen. Within a few years' time, dozens of his songs were recorded, and many of them became extremely popular. After a downturn in his career, Mononen committed suicide in 1968
Monreal, Genaro more...
Monster, Kors more...
Montague, Stephen more...
Montaine, John la more...
Montalbano, Bartolomeo more...
Montana, Gentil more...
Montand, Yves more...
Monte, Lambertus de more...
Monte, Philippe (Philippus, Philip) de (also Filippo di Monte or Filips van den Berghe) more...	1521 Mechelen	4 Jul. 1603 Prague	a key personality in l6th century music, the leader of the Prague imperial orchestra, he was much admired and revered in his time. De Monte made Prague his real home, end he asked in his testament to be buried in Prague's St. James' Church. His numerous works reflect high creative spirit in all genres and forms (madrigals in the then modern musica reservata style, and motets of 1575 reminiscent of Palestrina)
Monteclair, Michel Pignolet de more...
Montemezzi, Italo more...
Monterose, J R more...
Montesano, Gustavo more...
Monte-Varchi (de), Anna Cerrini	1833 Switzerland		pupil of Chopin 1821-1873, she composed for piano
Monteux, Pierre more...
Monteverdi, Claudio more...	bap. 15 May 1567 Cremona, Italy	29 Nov. 1643 Venice, Italy	his work marks the transition from Renaissance to Baroque music. During his long life he produced work that can be classified in both categories, and he was one of the most significant revolutionaries that brought about the change in style. Monteverdi wrote the earliest dramatically viable opera, Orfeo, and was fortunate enough to enjoy fame during his lifetime.
Montgeroult, Helene de Nervode	1767 France	1836	a teacher at the Paris Conservatoire, pianist and published composer who exerted an important influence on early French piano pedagogy
Montgomerie, Alexander more...
Montgomery, Wes more...
Monti, Vittorio more...
Montoya, Lole more...
Montoya, Ramon more...
Montrose, Jack more...
Montsalvatge, Xavier more...
Monza, Carlo II more...
Moody, Ivan more...	1964 London, England		composer, writer, editor, conductor, and teacher, he studied music and theology at the Universities of London (winning the Royal Holloway Prize in 1984 for his Three Poems of Anna Akhmatova), Joensuu (Finland) and York, his composition teachers being Brian Dennis, Sir John Tavener and William Brooks. He lives at present in Estoril, Portugal
Moody, James I more...
Moody, James II more...
Moondog (see Hardin, Louis T.)
Moore, Brew more...
Moore, Douglas Stuart more...	10 Aug. 1893 Cutchogue, New York, USA	25 Jul. 1969 Greenport, New York, USA	American composer, educator and writer most famous for two operas The Devil and Daniel Webster (1938) and The Ballad of Baby Doe (1956)
Moore, Glen more...
Moore, John Arlington more...	5 Oct. 1938 Kingston, Jamaica	16 Aug. 2008 Kingston, Jamaica	trumpeter, composer and arranger
Moore, Lloyd more...
Moore, Michael more...
Moore, Sir Patrick more...	4 Mar. 1923 Pinner, Middlesex		astronomer, author and self-taught musician and talented composer, he has displayed his xylophone-playing skills at a Royal Variety Performance and once accompanied the physicist Albert Einstein on the piano as he played Saint-Saëns' Swan on the violin
Moore, Philip more...
Moore, Thomas more...
Moore, Undine Smith	25 Aug. 1904 Jarrett, Virginia, USA	6 Feb. 1989 Petersberg, Virginia, USA	Moores career as an educator included a 45-year tenure at Virginia State College. She shared her interest in the music of Black America through workshops and lectures across the United States. She composed choral works, chamber and orchestral music, and solo works for the voice and for various solo instruments
Moorer, Pim more...
Moraes, Vinicius de more...	19 Oct. 1913 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	9 Jul. 1980 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	born Marcus Vinicius da Cruz de Mello Moraes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, son of Lydia Cruz de Moraes and Clodoaldo Pereira da Silva Moraes. Vinicius was a seminal figure in the contemporary Brazilian music. As a poet, he wrote lyrics for a great number of songs that became all-time classics. He was also a composer of bossa nova, a playwright, a diplomat and, as an interpreter of his own songs, he left several important albums
Moraeus, Kalle more...
Moraeus, Pereric more...
Morago, Estavao Lopes more...
Morales, Cristóbal de more...	c. 1500 Seville, Spain	7 Oct. 1553 Marchena, Spain	a Spanish composer of the Renaissance. He is generally considered to be the most influential Spanish composer before Victoria
Moran, Robert more...
Morandi, Giovanni	1777 Pergola, Italy	1856 Senigallia, Italy	the son of Pietro Morandi (1739-1815, organist and former pupil of the great Padre Martini), Giovanni studied with his father, who then held a post at Senigallia cathedral, and soon helped him out both in the church and at the singing school. He married one of his father's pupils, Rosa Morolli, who became a famous singer and whom he accompanied on tour. On her death (1824) he returned to Senigallia to become maestro di cappella and to teach singing, composition and organ. His sacred music is almost exclusively written in the operatic vein. He also published collections of sonatas in a lively and brilliant style reminiscent of Mozart
Morata, Gines de more...
Moratelli, Sebastiano more...
Morawetz, Oscar more...	17 Jan. 1917 Svetlá nad Sázavou, Austro-Hungarian Empire	13 Jun. 2007 Toronto, Canada	composer, pianist and teacher
Moree, Louis de more...
Moreira, Airto more...
Moreira, Antonio Leal more...
Morel, Jacques more...
Morel, Jorge more...
Morelenbaum, Jacques more...	1954 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil		Brazilian cellist and composer best known internationally for his score (with Antonio Pinto) for Walter Salless acclaimed drama Central do Brasil (Central Station), which won the top prize at the 1998 Berlin Film Festival and an Oscar nomination as Best Foreign-Language Film. With Caetano Veloso, he also created the music for Fábio Barretos O Quatrilho (1995), also an Oscar nominee for Best Foreign-Language Film, and Cacá Diegues' Orfeu do Carnaval
Moreno, Francisco Javier more...
Moreno Buendia, Manuel more...
Moreno Torroba, Federico more...
Morente, Enrique more...
Morera, Enric more...
Mores, Mariano more...
Moretti, Felice more...
Moretti, Niccolo more...
Moretti, Raoul more...	1893 Marseille, France	1954 Marseille, France	best remembered nowadays for his operetta and film works. He enjoyed popularity from his first success En Chemyse (1924), to 1932, with the movie Il est charmant. However, his biggest hit has been the operetta Comte Obligado in 1927. A classically trained pianist and owning his own music publishing house in Marseille, he liked to write songs that would be featured later in the repertoire of the "vaudeville" stars
Morgan, Caleb more...
Morgan, David more...
Morgan, Frank more...
Morgan, Justin more...
Morgan, Lady (nee Sydney Owenson)	c. 1783 England	1859	composer of the well-known operetta The First Attempt (1807)
Morgan, Lee more...
Morgan, Thomas more...	fl. 1690s		English/Irish music and composer particularly of music for the stage (London)
Mori, Ikue more...
Morin, Jean-Baptiste more...
Morisina, Marieta Prioli	fl. 1665		composer
Moritz, Edvard more...
Morks, Jan I more...
Morlacchi, Francesco more...	14 Jun 1784 Perugia, Italy	28 Oct 1841 Innsbruck, Austria	Italian composer of over 20 operas who worked for many years in Dresden
Morlaye, Guillaume more...	c.1510	c.1558	an instrumentalist as well as a music publisher and composer
Morley, Angela more...	10 Mar 1924 Leeds, Yorkshire, UK	14 Jan. 2009 Scottsdale, Arizona, USA	composer and orchestrator, widely regarded as one of the finest English arrangers and film composers, although her early career (when she was known as Wally Stott) really took off when she provided the music for numerous Goon Show broadcasts on BBC Radio in the 1950s
Morley, Thomas more...	1557/58 Norwich, England	Oct. 1602 London, England	an English composer, theorist, editor and organist of the Renaissance, and the foremost member of the English Madrigal School. He was the most famous composer of secular music in Elizabethan England, and the composer of the only surviving contemporary settings of verse by Shakespeare
Morison, Christina W.	1840 Ireland		composer of the opera The Uhlans, also piano pieces and songs
Morlock, Jocelyn more...
Mormile, Carlo more...
Mornington, 1st Earl of (see Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington)
Moroder, Giorgio more...	26 Apr. 1940 Urtijëi (Ortisei), Italy		three-time Oscar winning Italian record producer, songwriter and performer. His work with synthesizers during the 1970s and 1980s had a significant influence on new wave, house, techno and electronic music in general
Moroi, Makoto more...
Moross, Jerome more...
Morricone, Ennio more...	10 Nov. 1928 Rome, Italy	6 July 2020 Rome, Italy	composer of iconic film scores and pop songs
Morris, John more...
Morris, Robert Leigh	22 Apr. 1941 Chicago, Illinois, USA		Morris received his bachelors degree from DePaul University in Chicago, with graduate studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, and The University of Iowa, Iowa City. He served as choral director at Hampton University, Virginia, Winston-Salem State University, North Carolina, and at Jackson State University in Mississippi before accepting his current post as Director of Choral Activities for Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota. Choral arranger for Edward Duke Ellington and founder of the Leigh Morris Chorale, Morris has also composed numerous works for mixed chorus, most of which use Afrocentric folk themes
Morrison, Jim more...
Morrow, Charlie more...
Mortari, Virgilio more...
Mortelmans, Lodewijk more...	1868	1952	a pupil of Benoit and Blockx, he succeeded them as the director of the Royal Flemish Conservatory. He held that post from 1924 to 1933 and like his predecessors he was an enthusiastic promoter of Belgian music. He served as the president of the Society of Flemish Composers and founded Nieuwe Concerten (New Concerts) which enriched the musical life of Antwerp. He spent much of the earlier part of his career writing symphonic works, such as The Myth of Spring. After a decade working on opera and overcoming the tragic deaths of his wife and two of his children, he returned to symphonic music in 1917 with two beautiful elegies
Mortensen, Finn more...
Morton, Ferdinand (Jelly Roll) more...	20 Oct. 1890 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA	10 Jul. 1941 Los Angeles, California, USA	an American virtuoso pianist, a bandleader, and a composer who some call the first true composer of jazz music. Morton was a colorful character who liked to generate publicity for himself by bragging. His business card referred to him as the "Originator of Jazz"
Morton, Robert more...	c.1430 England	after Mar. 1479	English composer of the early Renaissance, mostly active at the Burgundian court. He was highly regarded at the time. Only secular vocal music, all rondeaux for three voices, survive
Morungen, Heinrich von more...	fl. c.1200-1217		an important German Minnesinger
Mosalini, Juan Jose more...
Mosca, Luca more...
Moscheles, Ignaz more...	23 May 1794 Prague	10 Mar 1870 Leipzig, Germany	Bohemian piano virtuoso, composer and teacher, who taught Mendelssohn. In 1826 Moscheles chose to live in England. In 1837 and 1838 he conducted Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with great success at the Philharmonic Society's concerts
Mosolov, Alexander more...	11 Aug. (Old Style 27 Jul.) 1900 Kiev, Russia	11 Jul. 1973 Moscow, Russia	Russian composer
Mosonyi, Mihály more...	1815	1870	Liszts contemporary and friend, pianist and composer. His early works adhered to German musical traditions but from 1856 he embraced Hungarian Romanticism which incorporated Hungarian folk tunes
Moss, David more...
Moss, Piotr more...
Mossi, Giovanni more...
Mossmayr, Johann Baptist more...
Mossolov, Alexander more...
Mosto, Giovanni Battista more...
Moszkowski, Moritz more...
Moszumanska-Nazar, Krystyna more...	5 Sep. 1924 Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine)		about her compositions she has says, "There are two types of chords that I have favored in all of my music: one of them is a juxtaposition of two minor thirds, the second is built from two superimposed fourths, a perfect fourth and a tritone. I like shifting these harmonies around, but do not write them out in tables or pre-compositional systems. [...] In creating, one has to be an egoist, one has to express oneself." [Moszumanska-Nazar, unpublished interview with Trochimczyk, (1995)]
Motian, Paul more...
Motiekaitis, Ramunas more...
Motovunjanin, Andrija	c. 1470 Motovun, Istria	unknown	early Croatian composer
Mottl, Felix more...
Moulaert, Raymond (Auguste Marie) more...	4 Feb. 1875 Brussels, Belgium	18 Jan. 1962 Uccle, Belgium	Belgian composer, pianist and teacher who wrote one of the earliest surviving saxophone quartets
Moulinie, Etienne more...
Moulu, Pierre more...	c.1484	c.1550	a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance who was active in France, probably in Paris
Mounsey, Ann Shepard (Mrs. Bartholomew)	1811 London	1891	friend of Mendelssohn and spoken of as a child prodigy
Mouquet, Jules more...	10 Jul. 1867 Paris, France	25 Oct. 1946 Paris, France	student of harmony and composition at the Paris Conservatoire. In 1896 he was awarded the Grand Prix de Rome for his cantata Melusine, the Prix Tremont in 1905 and the Prix Chautier in 1907 for Chamber Music. He was appointed Professor of Harmony at the Paris Conservatoire in 1913. He wrote a Cours complementaire d'harmonie, oratorios, symphonic poems, and various pieces for wind instruments, including a septet and works for flute, oboe, clarinet, and saxophone. Today he is best known for La Flute de Pan. During the sonata's three movements, the cloven-hoofed Pan, the Greek god of shepherds and their flocks, is heard playing his flute in armorous serenades and lively peasant dances [entry provided by Samantha Smith]
Mouret, Jean-Joseph more...
Moussorgsky, Modeste (see Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich)
Mouton, Charles more...	1617	c.1699	French lutenist and composer
Mouton, Jean [Jehan] more...	c. 1459 nr. Boulogne-sur-Mer	30 Oct. 1522 St. Quentin, France	Franco-Flemish singer composer of the Renaissance, who was most likely in charge of the musical production on the occasion of a spectacular meeting that took place from June 7 to June 24, 1520, between King Henry VIII of England and King Francis I of France known as the Field of Cloth of Gold (in French Le Camp de Drap d'Or). The French royal chapel had one of the finest choirs in Europe, and contemporary accounts indicated that they "delighted their hearers". Mouton was famous both for his motets, which are among the most refined of the time, and for being the teacher of Adrian Willaert, one of the founders of the Venetian School
Mower, Mike more...
Moyreau, Christophe more...
Moyse, Marcel (Joseph) more...	17 May 1889 St. Amour, Jura	1 Nov. 1984 Brattleboro, Vermont, USA	flautist and composer of études and other works for flute; author of manuals for flute. Co-founder of the Marlboro School and Music Festival
Moyzes, Alexander more...
Mozart, Maria Anna 'Nannerl' [Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia Filia Legitima] more...	bap. 30 Jul. 1751 Salzburg, Austria	29 Oct. 1829 Salzburg, Austria	seen as the musical equivalent of Wolfgang, half of a sister-brother act that toured the capitals of Europe. As late as 1765 in London, she received top billing in concert advertisements written by her father. That soon changed, however, as the children grew older. Because he was the younger of the two, and because he performed his own compositions, Wolfgang became the star and Nannerl the supporting player. It is known that she wrote music but none of her compositions has survived
Mozart, Franz Xaver more...	26 July 1791 Vienna, Austria	29 Jul. 1844 Karlsbad, Germany	son of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He received excellent music instruction, his teachers included Antonio Salieri and Johann Nepomuk Hummel. In the 1820s, Mozart was one of 50 composers to write a Variation on a theme of Antonio Diabelli. He never married or had children
Mozart, Leopold more...	14 Nov. 1719 Augsburg, Germany	28 May 1787 Salzburg Austria	besides being the teacher and promoter of his famous son, was a capable composer and author of Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule (1756; tr. 1951), of interest today as a record of 18th-century musical practice
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus more...	27 Jan. 1756 Salzburg, Austria	5 Dec. 1791 Vienna, Austria	baptized as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart he was a child progedy both as a performer and composer who during his relatively short life composing over 40 symphonies, many operas, sacred music and concertos and chamber music. It has been said that while Haydn showed Mozart how to write string quartets, Mozart showed his teacher how string quartets should be written
Mozetich, Marjan more...	7 Jan 1948 Gorizia, Italy		born of Yugoslav parents and now a naturalized Canadian, he works as a composer and teacher
Mtchedelov, Mikhail Pavlovic more...	1903 Russia	1974	Russian harpist and composer
Muczynski, Robert more...	19 Mar, 1929 Chicago, USA		contemporary composer and pianist. His father's parents' emigrated from Warsaw, Poland to Chicago; his mother was of Slovak descent, moving to the U.S. in 1910. He studied piano with Walter Knupfer and composition with Alexander Tcherepnin at DePaul University in Chicago, where he received the Bachelor of Music degree (1950) and the Master of Music degree (1952). Both degrees were in Piano Performance. At his Carnegie Hall debut in 1958 he presented a program of his own piano works
Mudarra, Alonso more...	c. 1508 Spain	1 Apr. 1580 Seville, Spain	a Spanish composer and vihuelist of the Renaissance. He was an innovative composer of instrumental music as well as songs, and was the composer of the earliest surviving music for the four-course guitar, which was then a relatively new instrument
Mudd, John more...
Mudd, Thomas I more...
Mudd, Thomas II more...
Mudde, Willem more...
Mudge, Richard more...
Muffat, Georg more...
Muffat, Gottlieb more...
Mukarno, Philemon more...
Mul, Jan more...
Mulder, Herman more...
Muldowney, Dominic more...	1952 Southampton, UK		Dominic Muldowney studied at Southampton University with Jonathan Harvey, at York University with Bernard Rands and David Blake, and privately with Sir Harrison Birtwistle, who invited him to be his Assistant Music Director at the Royal National Theatre, London. He succeeded Birtwistle as Director in 1981 and remained there until 1997 and was also Composer in Residence to Southern Arts Association (1974-76) and more recently, between 1996-98 was Composer in Association to the Orchestra of St Johns Smith Square.
Mule, Giuseppe more...
Mulet, Henri more...
Mulgan, Lucy more...
Mullenbach, Alexander more...	1949 Luxembourg		pianist, chamber musician and composer from Luxembourg
Muller, Adolf more...
Muller, Iwan more...
Muller, Johann Christian Samuel more...
Muller, Joseph more...
Müller, Wenzel more...	26 Sep. 1767 Trnava, Austria	3 Aug. 1835 Baden	Austrian composer and conductor
Muller, Wim Statius more...
Muller Siemens, Detlev more...
Mulligan, Gerry more...
Mullinar, Michael more...	1895	1973	English composer of songs and music for children
Mulvey, Gráinne more...	10 Mar. 1966 Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin		studied with Eric Sweeney, Hormoz Farhat, Agustín Fernández and gained a DPhil in Composition at the University of York under Nicola LeFanu. In 1994 she won the Composers Class of the RTÉ Musician of the Future Competition and in 1998 was awarded the Macaulay Fellowship. Scorched Earth, for orchestra, represented Ireland at the 2006 International Rostrum of Composers in Paris, and went on to receive broadcasts across the globe. She is currently Head of Composition at Dublin Institute of Technology while pursuing post-doctoral research into electro-acoustic and computer music with Dr Victor Lazzarini at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth [entry provided by Joe O'Farrell]
Mumma, Gordon more...
Mun, Emma	1858 England	1896	a cellist and student of the Royal Academy who made her first public appearance at nine
Munch, Andreas more...
Mundry, Isabel more...
Mundy, John more...
Mundy, William more...	c.1529 England	c.1591 England	English composer
Munro, Alexander more...			his 'Collection of the Best Scots Tunes Fited [sic] to the German Flute With Several Divisions, & Variation' appeared in Paris in 1732. The publication contains twelve well-known tunes, each with a group of variations and set to a figured bass. 'Fy gar rub her over wi' strae' is one of the longer examples, featuring a group of divisions on the original melody followed by several versions of the tune in different metres, tempos and dance forms. The text of the original song extols the virtues of making hay while the sun shines, "afore auld age your vitals nip,"and in a highly politically incorrect fashion. 'Fy gar' seems to be an Aberdeen colloquialism for 'get a move on'
Muntzberger, Joseph more...	1769 Brussels	Jan 1844 France	his German father, Wenzeslaus Muntzberger, was chamber musician in the service of Prince Charles of Lorraine, Governor of the Netherlands. Although Fetis writes that the young six-year old Muntzberger played a Concerto before the Prince, on a tenor viol, handled somewhat like the Violoncello and on account of this performance he was induced to have the boy instructed by the violinist, Van Maldere, this account must be erroneous, for Van Maldere died on November 3, 1768, a year before Muntzberger's birth. In 1790, following his studies in Paris, he accepted a place in the orchestra of the Theatre Lyrique et Comique, but after a time gave it up and entered the orchestra of the Theatre Feydeau, of which he became first cellist after Cardon's resignation. Besides this, he was a member of Napoleon the First's band, as well as, later, of the King's. Muntzberger composed a good deal for the Violoncello - namely, five Concertos, a Symphonie Concertante, Trios, in which, besides the Cello obbligato, the violin and bass take part; a great number of Duets, Fantasias, and Variations; two books of Sonatas, with bass; three of Etudes and Caprices, as well as a Nouvelle Methode pour le Violoncelle. The latter work in all probability appeared before 1800, as in it, as in Boccherini's compositions, besides the bass and tenor and violin clefs, the alto and soprano clefs are used, which do not occur in French books of instruction after this date
Müntzer (Muentzer, Muntzer), Thomas more...	c. 1488 Stolberg, Thuringia, Germany	27 May 1525 Muehlhausen, Thuringia, Germany	an early Reformation-era German Anabaptist who was a rebel leader during the Peasants' War, writer of hymns
Munz, Harald more...	1965 Württemberg, Germany		avant-garde German composer
Muradeli, Vano Ilich more...	6 Apr. (Old Style 24 Mar.) 1908 Gori, Georgia	14 Aug. 1970 Tomsk	Russian composer who wrote strongly patriotic works
Murail, Tristan more...	1947 Le Havre, France		having completed his university studies (degrees in Economics, Political Science, Classical and Dialectic Arabic), he entered Olivier Messiaens class at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he was awarded first prize in composition in 1971. Between 1971 and 1973, when he lived at the Villa Médicis, he met Giacinto Scelsi, before co-founding the Ensemble Itinéraire and developing various styles of keyboard, such as ondes Martenot, electronic organs, synthesizers. A regular contributor to Ircams activities, he created two works there, Désintégrations for ensemble and band (1983) and LEsprit des dunes for ensemble and electronics (1994). He has taught musical computing at the Conservatoire de Paris and at Ircam. Murail now lives in New York, where he teaches at Columbia University
Muratori, Angiola Teresa	fl. 1689-1696 Bologna		composer
Murcia, Santiago de more...		after 1732	a Spanish guitarist and composer of whose life little is known
Mureau (or Mureue), Gilles more...	c.1450	Jul 1512 nr. Chartes, France	a French composer and singer of the Renaissance. He was active in central France, mainly Chartres, and was one of the composers listed by Eloy d'Amerval in his long 1508 poem Le livre de la deablerie as one of the great composers of the age, resident in Paradise even though he was still alive. While he was probably wrote a substantial number of works, only four secular compositions survive
Muro, Juan Antonio more...	18 Jun. 1945 Sabadell, Spain		composer now based in Finland who specializes in guitar music
Murphy, Gerry more...
Murphy, Lyle "Spud" (see Stephanovic, Miko)
Murray, David more...
Murray, James R more...
Murrill, Herbert more...
Murschhauser, Franz Xaver Anton more...
Murto, Matti more...	12 Jul. 1947 Finland		composer who has written pedagogical works, chamber music and concertos
Muset, Colin more...	fl. 1200		French trouvère, poet, musician and a native of Lorraine
Musgrave, Thea more...
Mussi, Giulio more...
Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich more...	21 Mar. 1839 Karevo, Russia	28 Mar. 1881 St. Petersburg, Russia	one of the Russian composers known as the Five, was an innovator of Russian music. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music. Many of his major works were inspired by Russian history, Russian folklore, and other nationalist themes, including the opera Boris Godunov, the orchestral tone poem Night on the Bare Mountain, and the piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition. For many years Mussorgsky's works were mainly known in versions revised or completed by other composers. Many of his most important compositions have recently come into their own in their original forms, and some of the original scores are now also available
Mustapha-Zadeh, Vagif more...	16 Mar. 1940 Baku, Azerbaijan	17 Dec. 1979 Tashkent	invented a fusion of jazz and mugam, a rhythmically complex folk form; he led groups, made an impressive appearance at a jazz festival in Estonia '67, won a prize for his composition Expecting Aziza in Monaco '79; his albums incl. Jazz Compositions and In Kiev on Soviet labels
Mustonen, Olli more...	7 Jun. 1967 Helsinki, Finland		pianist and composer. Mustonen's predilection for contrapuntally interwoven compositions and works of the 20th century which take up ideas from the 17th and 18th centuries (e.g. the Bach arrangements by Ferruccio Busoni and the cycles of preludes and fugues by Paul Hindemith or Shostakovich), is reflected in his own works as well. His style is often referred to as neo-baroque or neo-classical. It is characterized by simple rhythms, scaled down instrumentation (strings and a few wind instruments), and the use of genre names as work titles, e.g. Gavotte, Toccata or Petite Suite
Muthel, Johann Gottfried more...
Muti, Giovanni II Battista more...
Myaskovsky (or Miaskovsky), Nikolai Yakovlevich more...	20 Apr. 1881 Novogeorgiyevsk nr. Warsaw, Poland	8 Aug. 1950 Moscow, Russia	Russian composer, sometimes referred to as the "father of the Soviet symphony"
Mycielski, Zygmunt more...
Myddleton, W.H.			a name well known to orchestras and bands earlier in the century, primarily for classical arrangements and his potpourris, of Welsh melodies, entitled The Leek (1920), or English melodies The Rose, or American melodies By the Swanee River and, in cake-walk rhythm, Down South. All these were published in piano, orchestral and band versions, Down South even for mixed voice chorus. He was more than just an arranger, as his output included several original pieces for piano like Eventide ("Le declin du jour") Opus 7 and songs, of which Lorna Doone achieved some popularity
Myers, Sherman (see Ewing, Montague )
Myers, Stanley more...	6 Oct. 1930 Birmingham, England	9 Nov. 1993 England	prolific British film composer who scored over sixty films
Mylius, Johann Daniel more...
Myrow, Joseph more...
Myslivecek, Josef more...	9 Mar. 1737 Horní árka , Bohemia	4 Feb. 1781 Rome, Italy	J. Myslivecek promoted himself in Italy, where generally only national composers could succeed. He won over the Italian audience with his first opera, Bellerofonte, and at once ranked among the top Italian composers of opera seria. He was also popular in Bohemia, where operas were accompanied by new religious texts in order that they could be sung even in church. He was labelled Il divino Boemo Venatorino by the Italian public. His success is based on inexhaustible melodic invention, connected with Italian technique and colouration. He also impressed W. A. Mozart, with whom he had been friends since 1770. Apart from 28 operas, he also wrote 10 oratorios and cantatas, numerous chamber music scores, and orchestral and concert music