| Name | Born | Died | Information |
Vaccai (or Vaccaj), Nicola
more... | 17 Mar. 1790
Tolentino, Italy | 5/6 Aug. 1848
Pesaro, Italy | Italian composer of 17 operas, ballets, cantatas and sacred music |
Vacchi, Fabio
more... | 1949
Bologna, Italy | | Italian composer of operas, ballets, orchestral and chamber works |
Vacek, Milos
more... | 20 Jun. 1928
Horní Roven, Czechoslovakia | | composer of operas |
| Vachon (or Vasson, Waschon), Pierre | Jun. 1731
Arles, France | 7 Oct. 1803
Berlin, Germany | French violinist and composer. He studied in Paris, where he appeared at the Concert Spirituel from 1756. He was principal violinist in the orchestra of the Prince of Conti from 1761. In 1772 and around 1775 he visited England; later he settled in Berlin, where he was appointed Konzertmeister to the court in 1786. Along with Baudron (published 1768), Gossec (published 1770 and 1772) and Davaux (published from 1773), he was among the first French composers to write string quartets, producing at least four sets of 6 quartets from about 1772 until 1786. His music was published in London by by William Napier. Vachon's music shows much originality, variety and a real feeling for string texture. At times it could easily be mistaken for that of Haydn at the same period |
Vacs, Daniel
more... | 1972
Argentina | | Argentinean pianist, performer on the bandonéon and composer |
Vadé, Jean-Joseph
more... | 17 Jan. 1719
Ham, Picardie, France | 4 Jul. 1757
Paris, France | prolific composer of operas. Vadé has been termed the 'the La Fontaine of the guinguettes [open-air dance halls] and taverns': he was the inventor of the poissard, popular comic theatre which parodied more elevated literary genres through its use of the common street language and colourful portrayal of the fishwives (poissardes) of the Seine and drunken tarts |
| Vado, Juan del | c.1625 | 1691 | working at the Madrid Royal Chapel, Juan del Vado wrote, in about 1650, a Mass upon Francisco Guerrero's popular motet Ave virgo sanctissima. He was a violinist in the Royal Chapel in 1635, and, subsequently, organist there. In addition to a number of tonos humanos, the surviving corpus of his works includes Masses, a motet, villancicos and some organ pieces |
| Vaelbeke, Lodewyc Van | | begining of 14th century | Flemish musician, possibly composer, from Brabant |
| Veldeke, Hendrik van | 1140-1150 | c.1190 | Minnesänger originally from Limbourg, nr. Maastricht |
Vaet, Jacobus
more... | c.1529
either Kortrijk or Harelbeke | 8 Jan. 1567 | Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. He was a representative of the generation between Josquin and Palestrina, writing smooth polyphony with pervasive imitation, and he was a friend both of Clemens non Papa and Lassus |
Vaggione, Horacio
more... | 1946
Cordoba, Argentina | | composer who has lived in the United States and in Spain where he founded, with de Pablo and Polonio, the group ALEA. Currently, he is professor at the University of Paris VIII St Denis |
Vagner (or Wagner), Genrikh Matusovich (Heinrich Matusowitsch)
more... | 2 Jul. 1922
Zhiradov, Warsaw, Poland | | Polish composer |
Vähi, Peeter
more... | 1955
Estonia | | in his youth he learned to play the accordion, the piano and the double bass. During his studies, the young composer took interest in baroque music, also in oriental and electronic music. In 1980 he graduated from Estonian Academy of Music as composer. Having completed his studies, Peeter Vähi has worked as an author of musical programs for the Estonian Radio, a producer at the State Concert Institute of Estonia and Estonia Record Productions, artistic director of several international festivals (Orient, Arvo Pärt Festival, Glasperlenspiel, Estonian culture festivals in Germany and Japan). He is a member of Estonian Academic Oriental Society, also a member of the boards of Estonian Composers Union and Mahayana Institute, also the president of Estonian Buddhist Society |
Vahle, Fredrik (Fritz)
more... | 1942
Stendal, Altmark, Germany | | composer of children's songs, author and docent of linguistics at the Universität Gießen |
| Vaillant, A. | fl. begini of the 18th century | | composer active in Mons and Valenciennes |
Vaillant, Jehan (Jean) (Johannes)
more... | fl. 1360-1390 | | French composer |
Vainberg, Mieczyslaw Moisei
more... | 8 Dec. 1919
Warsaw, Poland | 26 Feb. 1996
Moscow, Russia | composer of twenty-two symphonies, seven operas, seventeen string quartets, sonatas for various instruments, several concertos, various chamber music works with piano, including a piano quintet many containing elements of Jewish folklore while others use musical idioms closer to Shostakovich or Bartok |
Vainikka, Sakari
more... | 6 Oct. 1945
Finland | | composer whose output includes music for accordion and choral works |
Vainio, Jan Mikael
more... | 27 Jan. 1972
Finland | | studied composition and orchestration with Harri Vuori at the Helsinki University (1993-1997) and completed his music theory studies at the Sibelius Academy in 1999. In 1998 Vainio studied composition with Erkki Jokinen, and since the autumn 1998 he has studied with Olli Kortekangas. Vainio has also participated in composition courses given by Brian Ferneyhough, Alexander Müllenbach, Jouni Kaipainen and Magnus Lindberg |
Vajda, Janos
more... | 8 Oct. 1949
Miskolc, Hungary | | Hungarian composer |
Vakhnyanyn, Anatol'
more... | 1 Oct. 1841
Sin'yava, Galicia | 24 Feb. 1908
L'vov, Russia | Russian composer who studied in Vienna, and was later a member of the Austrian parliament. His first opera, Kupalo, was produced in 1892 |
Vakkilainen, Ari
more... | 29 Mar. 1959
Finland | | pianist and composer of two chamber operas: the 'beer opera' Lätäkkö (Puddle, 1988), which is a mishmash of stylistic elements; and the bright and largely tonal children's opera Punahilkka (Little Red Riding Hood) premiered in 2000 |
| Valach, Jan | 22 Sep. 1925
Hnúsa, Slovakia | | composer, organist and teacher now based in Belgium |
Valderrama Blanca, Juan
more... | 24 Feb. 1916
Torredelcampo, Spain | 12 Apr. 2004
Espartinas, Spain | initially a flamenco singer before turning to more popular songs; composer - his most famous song, El Emigrante ("The Emigrant"), which he composed in 1949, was an ode to millions of Spaniards forced through poverty and oppression to seek a better life far from home. "I wrote it when I saw Spaniards weeping as they fled abroad. I could have called it El Exiliado ('The Exile') but I'd have been shot." The song wrenched hearts in Spanish émigré communities throughout Europe in the 1950s and 1960s. Many therefore considered him Spain's first protest singer - an astonishing achievement in the depths of the dictatorship, and with a song the dictator loved. |
Valderrábano, Enríquez de
more... | c. 1500 | after 1557 | Spanish vihuelist and composer of whose life little is known |
Valdéz (or Valdes), Jesús "Chucho"
more... | 9 Oct. 1941
Quivicán, Havana, Cuba | | son of Bebo, Cuban jazz pianist and composer |
Valdéz (or Valdes), Ramon "Bebo"
more... | 1918
Quivicán, Havana, Cuba | | father of "Chucho", Cuban pianist, musical director at the Tropicana Nightclub and composer who left Cuba in 1960 and spent many years in Sweden before settling in New York City, USA |
Valek, Jiri
more... | 28 May 1923
Prague, Czechoslovakia | 6 Oct. 2005
Prague, Czech Republic | Czech composer |
Valen, Fartein
more... | 25 Aug. 1887
Stavanger, Norway | 14 Dec. 1952
Haugesund, Norway | Norwegian composer music teacher, best known for his original approach to twelve tone music. He spent his childhood from 2 to 7 in Madagascar where his parents were missionaries. Valen considered that the time he spent in Madagascar had a great impact on his approach towards music. He absorbed strong impressions from nature, society, songs, myths and folktales. During this period Fartein Valen lived in Masinandraina (Antsirabe) and Fianarantsoa. His music has been championed by Glenn Gould, who recorded his Piano Variations, and more recently by the pianist Leif Ove Andsnes. Valen's symphonies, songs with orchestra, and tone poems all show a strong, combined influence of Bach, Webern and Schoenberg |
Valente, Antonio
more... | c.1520
Italy | 1581 | active in Naples, blind from a young age, he was the organist at San Angelo a Nilo (1565-1580) and published two collections of keyboard music in 1565 and 1580 |
Valente, Augusto
more... | 1959
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | | Brazilian composer |
Valente, Nicola
more... | 28 Aug. 1881
Naples, Italy | 16 Sep. 1946
Naples, Italy | Italian composer particularly of operas |
Valente, Vincenzo
more... | 21 Feb. 1855
Corigliano Calabro | 6 Sep. 1921
Naples, Italy | Italian teacher and composer particularly of operas |
| Valentine, Ann | fl. 1799 | | composed Ten Sonatas for Harpsichord and Violin' published in England in 1799, and the rondo Monny Musk. She was also a music merchant |
Valentine, Robert
more... | c. 1680 | c.1735 | English composer |
Valentini, Cesare
more... | 3 Feb. 1967
Palermo, Italy | | Italian pianist and composer who lives in Florence |
Valentini, Giovanni
more... | 1583 | 1649 | while little is known of the early life and career of Giovanni Valentini, his later association with Archduke Ferdinand in the Habsburg court, and the remarkable music this service produced, tells us a lot about his skills as a composer. Indeed, Valentini (not to be confused with Giuseppe Valentini, who lived almost exactly 100 years later and whose early life is equally sketchy) spent 35 years composing collections of madrigals and motets, as well as magnificats (including one for seven choirs and trumpets), masses, and other sacred and secular works for Ferdinand and his successor |
Valentini, Giovanni
more... | c.1730
Naples, Italy | | Neapolitan composer, painter and poet, though he is known chiefly as a composer of inventive instrumental music |
Valentini, Giuseppe
more... | 14 Dec. 1681
Florence, Italy | Nov. 1753 | nicknamed Straccioncino (Little Ragamuffin), was an Italian violinist, painter, poet, and composer |
Valentini (or Valentino), Michelangelo (Michele Angelo)
more... | c.1720
Naples, Italy | c.1768 | Italian composer of operas |
Valentini (or Valentino), Pier (Pietro) Francesco (Pierfrancesco)
more... | c.1570
Rome, Italy | 1654
Rome, Italy | Italian composer |
Valeri, Gaetano
more... | 21 Sep. 1760
Padua, Italy | 13 Apr. 1822
Padua, Italy | Italian composer |
Valerius, Adriaan
more... | 1575
Middelburg, The Netherlands | 1625
Veere, The Netherlands | Dutch composer who in 1626 published a setting of Wilhelmus van Nassouwe ben ick van duijtschen bloet a hymn tune (written c. 1570) which became the National Anthem of The Netherlands |
Valkama, Vesa
more... | 30 Apr. 1963
Finland | | composer of several chamber music works and concertos in a Modernist style in the 1980s |
Valledor y la Calle, Jacinto
more... | 1744
Madrid, Spain | c. 1809
Madrid, Spain | Spanish composer, particularly of tonadillas |
Vallerand, Jean
more... | 24 Dec. 1915
Montreal, Canada | | Canadian composer |
Valle-Riestra, José Maria
more... | 9 Nov. 1859
Lima, Peru | 25 Jan. 1925
Lima, Peru | Peruvian composer |
Vallet, Nicolas
more... | 1583
Cocheni, France | c.1642
Amsterdam, The Netherlands | French lutenist, teacher and composer. Vallet left France for Holland early in his career and spent the rest of his life there as a free-lance musician, member of a lute quartet, and instructor at his own dance school. But most importantly for today's players and listeners, he also composed and arranged volumes of lute music, including the two-part collection known as Le Secret des Muses (1615 & 1616) and sets of Psalms, and he was careful to include detail regarding performing technique and fingering |
Valls, Francisco
more... | 1665
Barcelona, Spain | 1747
Barcelona, Spain | not too much is known about his childhood or his early education, but we can assume that he was a student of Juan Barter at the cathedral of Barcelona. In 1696 he held the post of maestro de capilla at Santa María del Mar. The following year he became assistant maestro to Barter at the cathedral of Barcelona, taking over from him shortly after, and held this post until his retirement in 1726. He was one of the most important and prolific composers of the Baroque period, writing a wide range of works as well as being a distinguished musical theorist |
Valls (Gorina) Manuel
more... | 21 Jul. 1920
Badalona, Spain | | Spanish composer |
| Valoix (Valois) (Valoys) (Valoy), Etienne (Stephan) (Stefan) | c.1657
France | 21 Aug. 1715
Darmstadt, Germany | French-born violinist, composer and Kapellmeister at the Hanoverian court |
Valpola, Heikki
more... | 22 Apr. 1946
Rauma. Finland | | composer, theatre conductor, choir leader and folk musician not daunted by even the most varied of musical challenges. In addition to composing a wealth of works for stage and screen and concert hall, he has produced music ranging from pieces fro young beginners to large-scale chamber works, simple songs to choral masterpieces and litlle dance accompaniments to a full-length ballet. All his music is marked by a striving to break down the strict borders between genres in an apprach that has been described as an alliance of neoclassicism, folk and popular music |
Valverde, Joaquin
more... | 27 Feb. 1846
Badajoz, Spain | 17 Mar. 1910
Madrid, Spain | composer particularly of opera |
Valverde, Sanjuán, Quinto (Joaquin)
more... | 2 Jan. 1875
Madrid, Spain | 4 Nov. 1918
Mexico | composer particularly of opera |
| van Assche, Anatole (see Assche, Anatole van) | | | |
| van Avermaete, François-Fidèle (see Avermaete, François-Fidèle van) | | | |
| van Beethoven, Louis (Ludwig) (see Beethoven, Louis (Ludwig) van) | | | |
| van Belle, Jan (see Rijspoort, Jan) | | | |
| van Beveren, Achiel (see Beveren, Achiel van) | | | |
| van Bocxstaele, Jean (see Bocxstaele, Jean van) | | | |
| van Branteghem, Lucien (see Branteghem, Lucien van) | | | |
| van Buggenhout, Émile (see Buggenhout, Émile van) | | | |
| van Campenhout, François (see Campenhout, François van) | | | |
| van Cleemput, Werner (see Cleemput, Werner van) | | | |
| van Crombruggen, Paul (see Crombruggen, Paul van) | | | |
Vancura (or Wanczura, Wanzura, Wanskura), Arnost (Ernest)
more... | c. 1750
Vamberk, Cechoslovakia | c. 1801
St. Peterburg, Russia | composer |
Vandair, Maurice (nee Maurice Vanderhaeghen)
more... | 24 Jun. 1905
Tournan-en-Brie, France | 5 Dec. 1982
Marseille, France | French composer of light songs many of which were recorded by the French singer Maurice Chevalier |
| van de Cauter, Jean (see Cauter, Jean van de) | | | |
Vande Gorne, Annette
more... | 1946
Charleroi, Belgium | | a Belgian professor of electro-acoustic music and composer |
| van den Abeele, Cyriel (see Abeele, Cyriel van den) | | | |
Vandenabeele, Wouter
more... | 1970
Belgium | | Belgian violinist, composer and arranger |
| van den Ackere, Jean (see Ackere, Jean van den) | | | |
| van den Berghe, Frans (see Tiburtius van Brussel) | | | |
| van den Boorn-Coclet, Henriette (see Boorn-Coclet, Henriette van den) | | | |
| Vandenborn, Albert | 15 Aug. 1915
Sint Lambrechts-Herk (Limbourg) | 21 Oct. 1980
Hasselt | Belgian composer, pianist, organist and teacher |
| Vandenborre, Oscar | 2 Jan. 1846
Enghien | 31 Jan. 1904
Charleroi | Belgian composer and teacher |
| Van den Bosch, Pieter Jozef (see Bosch, Pieter Jozef Van den ) | | | |
| Van den Broeck, Henri (see Broeck, Henri Van den) | | | |
| van den Broeck, Leo (see Broeck, Leo van den) | | | |
Vandenbroek, Othon-Joseph
more... | 20 Dec. 1758
Ieper, Belgium | 18 Oct. 1832
Passy, nr. Paris, France | violinist and horn player and composer particularly of operas many of which have been lost. He was appointed professor at the Paris Conservatoire from 1795 to 1800 |
| van den Broek, Piet (see Broek, Piet Van den) | | | |
| van den Dries, Jean (see Dries, Jean van den) | | | |
| Van den Eeden (or Vandeneet), Gilles (see Eeden (Vandeneet), Gilles Van den) | | | |
| van den Eeden, Jan (Jean-Baptiste) (see Eeden, Jan (Jean-Baptiste) van den) | | | |
| Vandeneet, Gilles (see Eeden (Vandeneet), Gilles Van den) | | | |
| van den Gheyn, Matthias (see Gheyn, Matthias van den) | | | |
| van den Hove, Joachim (see Hove, Joachim van den) | | | |
| van den Kerckhoven, Abraham (see Kerckhoven, Abraham van den) | | | |
| Van den Wyngaerde, Antonius (see Wyngaerde, Antonius Van den) | | | |
| Van der Donck, Adrien (see Donck, Adrien Van der) | | | |
| van der Elst, Johannes (Jan) (see Elst, Johannes (Jan) van der) | | | |
| van der Eyken, Ernest (see Eyken, Ernest van der) | | | |
| Van der Ghinste, Pierre (Peter) (see Ghinste, Pierre (Peter) Van der) | | | |
| Van der Hagen, Amand (-Jean-François-Joseph) (see Hagen, Amand (-Jean-François-Joseph) Van der) | | | |
| van der Linden, Dolf (see Linden, Dolf van der) | | | |
| Van der Linden, Cornelis (see Linden, Cornelius van der) | | | |
| van der Linden, Jan (see Linden, Jan van der) | | | |
Vandermark, Ken
more... | 22 Sep. 1964
Warwick, Rhode Island, USA | | an American jazz composer and saxophone and clarinet player |
Van de Vate, Nancy
more... | 30 Dec. 1930
Plainfield, NJ, USA | | born in the United States and now living permanently in Vienna, Austria, Nancy Van de Vate is a composer, teacher and lecturer |
| Vandermaesbrugge, Max | 14 Jun. 1933
Couillet (Hainaut), Belgium | | composer, pianist, teacher and music critic |
| van der Meulen, Jozef (see Meulen, Jozef van der) | | | |
| Vander Phaliesen, Antoine (see Phaliesen, Antoine Vander) | | | |
| Vander Plancken, Corneille (see Plancken, Corneiller Vander) | | | |
| Van der Roost Jan (see Roost, Jan Van der) | | | |
| van der Sloten Karel (see Sloten Karel van der) | | | |
| van der Stucken, Frank (see Stucken, Frank van der) | | | |
Vandervelde, Janika
more... | 26 May 1955
Ripon, Wis., USA | | American composer |
| Van der Velden, Renier (see Velden, Renier Van der) | | | |
| Van der Wielen, Jan Pieterszoon (see Wielen, Jan Pieterszoon Van der) | | | |
| Van der Wilgen (see Gerardus á Salice Frandrus) | | | |
| van Dessel, Lode (see Dessel, Lode van) | | | |
| Van de Wiele, Aimée (see Wiele, Aimée Van de) | | | |
| Van de Woestijne, David (see Woestijne, David Van de) | | | |
Vandevorst, Toon
more... | | | Dutch-born, American-based singer-songwriter and composer of vocal, instrumental and electro-acoustic chamber music |
Vandini, Antonio
more... | c.1690
Bolongna | c.1773-78
Padua | a close friend of Giuseppe Tartini, Vandini was a cellist and composer. He was first violoncellist of the Capella at the basilica of Saint Anthony, Padua, where Tartini was first violinist and concertmaster |
| Van Dooren, Arthur (see Dooren, Arthur Van) | | | |
| Van Dorne, Jean-Baptiste (see Dorne, Jean-Baptiste Van) | | | |
Vandrise, Albert
more... | 19 Aug. 1915
Etterbeck | | Belgian composer, organist, keyboardist, teacher and poet |
| van Durme, Fernand (see Durme, Fernand van) | | | |
| Van Durme, Jef (Josef) (see Durme, Jef (Josef) van) | | | |
| van Durme, Oscar (see Durme, Oscar van) | | | |
| Van Duyse, Florimond (see Duyse, Florimond Van) | | | |
| van Eechaute, Prosper (see Eechaute, Prosper van) | | | |
| Van Eeckhoute, Rogier (see Rogierus de Lignoquercu) | | | |
| van Elewijck, Xavier (see Elewijck, Xavier van) | | | |
| van Etsen, Julius (see Etsen, Julius van) | | | |
| van Frachen, Victor (see Frachen, Victor van) | | | |
| Van Geert, Octaaf (see Geert, Octaaf Van) | | | |
Vangelis (born Papathanassiou, Evangelos Odysseas)
more... | 29 Mar. 1943
Volos, Greece | | a Greek composer of electronic, new age and classical music and musical performer |
| Van Gheluwe, Léon (Leo) (see Gheluwe, Léon (Leo) Van) | | | |
| van Ghizeghem, Hayne (see Ghizeghem, Hayne van) | | | |
Vanhal, Jan Krtitel (Johann Baptist)
more... | 12 May 1739
Nové Nechanice, Bohemia | 20 Aug. 1813
Vienna, Austria | organist and composer who earned his living in Vienna as an accomplished keyboardist, a proficient violinist and cellist, and a highly sought-after teacher and much-published composer. His Viennese publishers included Hoffmeister, Artaria, Sauer, Eder and Kozeluch, and his works were printed by major publishers throughout Europe |
Vanheel, Leon
more... | 1938
Belgium | | a graduate of the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp and Ghent, Leon Vanheel has been director of the Genk Academy of Music, Theatre and Dance since 1974 |
| van Helmont, Charles-Joseph (see Helmont, Charles-Joseph van) | | | |
| van Hemel, Oscar (see Hemel, Oscar van) | | | |
| van Heymissen, Philippe (see Heymissen, Philippe van) | | | |
| van Hoey, Gustaaf (see Hoey, Gustaaf van) | | | |
| Van Hoof, Jean-Baptiste (see Hoof, Jean-Baptiste Van) | | | |
| Van Hoof, Jef (see Hoof, Jef Van) | | | |
| Van Hove, Luc (see Hove, Luc Van) | | | |
| van Hulse, Camil (see Hulse, Camil Van) | | | |
| van Ingelgem, Kristiaan (see Ingelgem, Kristiaan van) | | | |
| van Keulin (see Keulin, Geert van) | | | |
| van Laere, Henri (see Laere, Henri van) | | | |
| Van Landeghem, Jan (see Landeghem, Jan Van) | | | |
van Lijnschooten, Hendrikus Corneli (Henk)
more... | 28 Mar. 1928
The Hague, The Netherlands | | Dutch composer who works under the pseudonym Ted Huggens
[information provided by Alison J Perry] |
| Van Looy, Jos (see Looy, Jos Van) | | | |
| van Maldeghem, Robert-Julien (see Maldeghem, Robert-Julien van) | | | |
| van Maldere, Pierre (see Maldere, Pierre van) | | | |
| Van Meert, C. F. (see Meert, C. F. Van) | | | |
| van Meldert, Léonard (see Meldert, Léonard van) | | | |
| van Messaus, Guillaume (see Messaus, Guillaume van) | | | |
| Van Mol, Jan (see Mol, Jan Van) | | | |
Vann, Stanley
more... | 1910
Leicester, UK | | composer, who was also organist and Master of the Music at Peterborough Cathedral for many years, he was previously organist of Chelmsford Cathedral, and before that worked in Leicester where he assisted Sir Henry Wood as chorus master of the Philharmonic choir |
Vannarelli (or Vanarelli), Francesco Antonio
more... | c. 1615
Rome, Italy | after 1676
Padua, Italy | |
| van Nieuwenhove, Ernest (see Nieuwenhove, Ernest van) | | | |
| van Nieuwkerk, Willem Wander (see Nieuwkerk, Willem Wander van) | | | |
| van Nuffel, Jules (see Nuffel, Jules van) | | | |
| van Onna, Peter (see Onna, Peter van) | | | |
| van Oost, Arthur (see Oost, Arthur van) | | | |
| van Praag, Henri C. (see Praag, Henri C. van) | | | |
| van Pullaer, Louis (see Pullaer, Louis van) | | | |
| van Puyvelde, Omer (see Puyvelde, Omer van) | | | |
| van Rickstal, Jos (see Rickstal, Jos van) | | | |
| van Rossum, Frédéric (Frederik) (see Rossum, Frédéric (Frederik) van) | | | |
| van San, Herman (see San, Herman van) | | | |
| van Schie, Tjako (see Schie, Tjako van) | | | |
| van Schoor, Hendrik (see Schoor, Hendrik van) | | | |
| Van Stappen, Crispin (see Stappen, Crispin Van) | | | |
| Van Steelant, Philippe (see Steelant, Philippe Van) | | | |
| Vanstreels, René | 24 Jan. 1925
Hasselt, Belgium | | Belgian composer, pianist, organist and teacher |
| Van Synghel, Henry-Alexandre (see Synghel, Henry-Alexandre Van) | | | |
| Van Tendeloo, René (Renaat) (see Tendeloo, René (Renaat) Van) | | | |
| Van Ulft, Antoine (see Ulft, Antoine Van) | | | |
| Van Vaelbeke, Lodewyc (see Vaelbeke, Lodewyc Van) | | | |
| van Veldeke, Hendrik (see Veldeke, Hendrik van) | | | |
| van Vlemmeren, Gisleen (see Vlemmeren, Gisleen van) | | | |
| van Wassenhoven, Paul (see Wassenhoven, Paul van) | | | |
| van Weerbeke, Gaspar (see Weerbeke, Gaspar van) | | | |
| van Weerst, Emmanuel (Déodat) (see Weerst, Emmanuel (Déodat) van) | | | |
| Van Wicchel, Philippe (see Wicchel, Philippe Van) | | | |
| van Wilder, Philippe (see Wilder, Philippe van) | | | |
Vanzo, Vittorio Mario
more... | 29 Apr. 1862
Padua, Italy | 13 Dec. 1945
Milan, Italy | Italian composer |
| van Zundert, Renaat (see Zundert, Renaat van) | | | |
Vaquedano, José (de)
more... | c.1642
Northern Spain | 17 Feb. 1711
possibly Santiago de Compostela, Spain | Spanish composer |
Vaqueiras, Raimbaut de
more... | fl. 1180-1205 | | troubadour who came from Vaqueirad near Orange |
Vaqueras, Bertrand
more... | c.1450 | 21 Apr. 1507
Rome, Italy | Flemish humanist, singer and composer |
Varah, Sean
more... | 1968
Madison, Wisconsin, USA | | brought up in Vancouver, Canada, Sean Varah is a composer and cellist |
Varela, Adriana (born Lichinchi, Beatriz Adriana)
more... | 9 May 1952
Avellaneda, Buenos Aires, Argentina | | a female Argentine tango singer, with a successful career that encompasses seven records, as well as minor movie roles |
Varèse, Edgard (Edgar) (Victor Achille Charles)
more... | 22 Dec. 1883
Paris, France | 6 Nov. 1965
New York, USA | French-born composer. Varèse's music features an emphasis on timbre and rhythm. He was the inventor of the term "organized sound", a phrase meaning that certain timbres and rhythms can be grouped together, sublimating into a whole new definition of sound. His use of new instruments and electronic resources led to his being known as the "Father of Electronic Music" while Henry Miller described him as "The stratospheric Colossus of Sound" |
Vargas, Chavela (born Lizano, Isabel Vargas)
more... | 17 Apr. 1919
San Joaquín de Flores, Costa Rica | | a Mexican-Costa Rican singer, who has been an influential interpreter in the Americas and Europe, muse to figures such as Pedro Almodovar, hailed for her haunting performances, and called la voz aspera de la ternura, the bitter voice of tenderness |
Varischino (or Varischini), Giovanni
more... | fl. 1680-1685 | | Italian composer |
Varon, Isak
more... | 1884
Gelibolu, Turkey | 1962
Salonika, Greece | one of a group of Turkish Jewish composers who excelled in classical Ottoman music |
Varoter, Francesco (Ana [Anna], Francesco d [Franciscus Venetus, etc.])
more... | c.1460 | late 1502
Venice, Italy | Venetian organist and composer of frottole |
Varlamov (or Warlamov), Alexander Egorovich
more... | 27 Nov. 1801
Moscow, Russia | 27/28 Oct. 1848
St. Petersburg, Russia | a Russian composer who composed two ballets, incidental music, piano pieces, songs, etc. |
Varlamov, Alexander Vladimirovich
more... | 19 Jun. 1904
Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk) | | Soviet jazz musicians and compser |
Varney, Louis
more... | 30 May 1844
New Orleans, USA | 20 Aug. 1908
Paris, France | prolific composer of operas |
| Vars, Henry (see Warszawski, Henryk) | | | |
Varvoglis, Mario
more... | 22 Dec. 1885
Brussels, Belgium | 30 Jun. 1967
Athens, Greece | Greek composer who started by studying painting, then music in Paris with Xavier Leroux and Caussade from 1904 and with d'Indy from 1913 |
Vasconcellos, Josefina Alys Hermes de
more... | 26 Oct. 1904
England | 20 Jul 2005
England | musician, composer, poet, dancer, inventor and figurative sculptor |
Vasilenko (or Wassilenko, Vassilenko), Sergei Nikiforovich
more... | 30 Mar. 1872
Moscow, Russia | 11 Mar. 1956
Moscow, Russia | his early works reflect his enthusiasm for Russian folk music and old 'believe' song. After 1906, he produced several pieces that show a connection with Russian symbolist poetry, among them the orchestral Sad smerti (The Garden of Death) and the Flight of the Witches and the songs on texts by Blok and Bryusov. Between 1910-1920, he was attracted by eastern exoticism and an interest in oriental folk music, particularly that of Central Asia (Iosif the Beautiful). In 1938 he worked in Tashkent on the first Uzbek opera The Snowstorm |
| Vasilyev-Buglai, Dmitrii Stepanovich | 9 Aug. 1888
Moscow, Russia | 15 Oct. 1956
Moscow, Russia | Russian composer |
Vasks, Peteris
more... | 16 Apr. 1946
Aizpute, Latvia | | among his compositions, orchestral music (Symphonic Poems for orchestra), chamber music (wind quintet, string quartet, sonatas, etc.), piano music (In Memoriam for 2 or 4 pianos (1977), Eine kleine Nachtmusik (1978), Autumn Music (1981), etc.) and vocal music (Tomtis Message for female chorus (1982), Latvia, chamber cantata (1987), Zemgale, cantata for mixed chorus (1989), etc. |
Vasques Dias, Amilcar
more... | 1945
Badim, Portugal | | Portuguese pianist, composer and professor of music at the University of Évora (Portugal) |
Vasquez, Edmundo
more... | 1938
Chile | | Chilean-born composer particularly of music for the guitar |
Vasquez, Juan
more... | c. 1500
Badajoz, Spain | c. 1560
Seville, Spain | Spanish composer and priest who can be considered part of the School of Andalusia group of composers along with Francisco Guerrero, Cristóbal de Morales, Juan Navarro and others |
Vassena, Nadir
more... | 1970
Balerna, Switzerland | | Swiss composer, a co-director of the 'Tage für Neue Musik Zürich' |
Vasseur, Léon (Félix Augustin Joseph)
more... | 28 May 1844
Bapaume, Pas-de-Calais, France | 25 Jul. 1917
Paris, France | French organist and composer particularly of opera who was also leader of the orchestra of the Folies-Bergère |
Vasseur, Pierre
more... | 1953
France | | French tombonist and engineer who has researched computer-based digital techniques at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (G.R.M.) in Paris and worked on film music and the sound/image link with Alain Lacombe, music consultant for the Gaumont Company |
| Vassilenko Sergei Nikiforovitch (see Vasilenko, Sergei Nikiforovich) | | | |
Vassiliev, Artem
more... | 1974
Kazakhstan | | Artem composes in both traditional and electro-acoustic media. As the selections here demonstrate, they range from small chamber works to larger orchestral pieces, as well as choral works |
| Vasson, Pierre (see Vachon, Pierre) | | | |
Vaszy, Viktor
more... | 25 Jul. 1903
Budapest, Hungary | 12 Mart. 1979
Szeged, Hungary | Hungarian composer |
| Vate, Nancy van de (see van der Vate, Nancy) | | | |
Vaubourgoin, Jean-Fernand
more... | 29 Dec. 1880
Bordeaux, France | 25 Nov. 1952
Bordeaux, France | French composer |
Vaubourgoin, Marc
more... | 19 Mar. 1907
France | 1985
France | French composer |
Vaucorbeil, Auguste-Emmanuel
more... | 15 Dec. 1821
Rouen, France | 2 Nov. 1884
Paris, France | French composer |
Vaughan, Mike
more... | c.1960 | | Professor of Music at Keele University, Mike studied at Dartington College of Arts and Nottingham University, and was awarded a Ph.D. in composition in 1989 for composition work based on the use of general compositional algorithms |
Vaughan Williams, Ralph
more... | 12 Oct. 1872
Down Ampney, Gloucs. England | 26 Aug. 1958
London, England | an influential British composer. He was a student at the Royal College of Music and Trinity College, Cambridge and served as a lieutenant in World War I. He wrote nine symphonies between 1910 and 1958 as well as numerous other works including chamber music, opera, choral music and film scores. He was also a collector of British folk music and served as president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS). The Society's Vaughan Williams Memorial Library is named for him |
Vaulquier de Valenciennes
more... | possibly 14th century | | Flemish composer. No works attributable to this composer have survived |
Vaute, Maurice
more... | 27 Apr. 1913
Roisin-Honnelles, Belgium | | Belgian composer, conductor and teacher |
Vauthrot (or Vautherot), Eugène François
more... | 2 Sep. 1825
Paris, France | 18 Apr. 1871
Paris, France | French accompanist and chorus master who prepared the piano reductions of numerous operas |
Vautor, Thomas
more... | 1580/90
England | | English composer who published a volume of five and six part madrigals The First Set: Being Songs of divers Ayres and Natures of Five and Sixe parts: Apt for Vyols and Voyces in 1619. His best-known piece is 'Sweet Suffolk Owl' |
| Vaynberg, Mieczyslaw Moisei (see Vainberg, Mieczyslaw Moisei) | | | |
Veale, John (Douglas Louis)
more... | 15 Jun. 1922
Shortlands, Kent, England | 16 Nov. 2006
Bromley, Kent, England | the son of Sir Douglas Veale, for 30 years Registrar of Oxford University, Veale studied music with Egon Wellesz, while he was an undergraduate at Oxford, and later received encouragement from William Walton. Awarded an American Commonwealth Fellowship, he travelled to America where he studied with the composers Roger Sessions and later Roy Harris. He was suvccessful as a composer of music for films as well as concert material including a number of symphonies |
Vecchi, Orazio (Horatio) (Tiberio)
more... | c. 6 Dec. 1550
Modena, Italy | 19 Feb. 1605
Modena, Italy | composer of one of the earliest operas L'Amfiparnaso (1597) |
Vedel, Artemy
more... | 1767/1770/1772
Kiev, Ukraine | 16/24 July 1808 | Ukrainian composer |
Vedro, Adolf
more... | 1890
Estonia | 1944 | Estonian composer |
Veerhoff, Carlos
more... | 3 Jun. 1926
Buenos Aires, Argentina | 18 Feb. 2011
Murnau, Germany | German-Argentine composer |
Veggio, Claudio
more... | c.1510
Piacenza, Italy | after the 1540s | an Italian composer of the Renaissance, principally of secular music. Veggio was an early composer of madrigals, of which two books have survived, published in Venice in 1540 and 1544, for four and eight voices respectively. He was also a prolific keyboard composer of ricercars which alternate contrapuntal and highly ornamented passages. Of greatest significance to musicologists is a manuscript by Veggio which survived in the archives of Castell'Arquato. It appears to be a rough copy of his draft compositions, containing numerous sketches, strikeouts and revisions; it is one of the earliest such music manuscripts to survive, and provides a rare window into compositional procedures of the time. Many of the compositions are transcriptions for keyboard of vocal compositions, now lost, probably by other composers. |
| Vehviläinen, Arvo | 1901 | 1964 | he worked as a band leader in Lappeenranta and as a conductor of military bands. He composed many pieces for wind band |
Veichtner, Franz Adam
more... | 10 Feb. 1741
Regensburg, Germany | 3 Mar. 1822
Kalnciems, Latvia | German violinist and composer, who was a pupil of Franz Benda (violin) and of Riepel (composition). He was in the service of Count Kaiserling at Königsberg (176364), Konzertmeister to the Duke of Courland in Mitau (176595), and then chamber musician to the Russian court in St. Petersburg until his retirement in 1820 |
Veiga, Joao Mario
more... | fl. 20th century | | fado guitarist and composer |
Vejvanovský, Pavel Josef
more... | c.1633/1639,
Hukvaldy, Moravia | buried 26 Sep. 1693
Kromerí, Moravia | Czech composer and trumpeter |
Velasquez, Glauco
more... | 23 Mar. 1884
Naples, Italy | 21 Jun. 1914
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |
Velasquez, José Francisco "El Viejo"
more... | c.1755
Caracas, Venezuela | 1805
Caracas, Venezuela | Venezuelan composer |
Velázquez, Torres Ortiz Consuelo (popularly known as Consuelito)
more... | 29 Aug. 1916
Ciudad Guzmán, Mexico | 22 Jan. 2005
Mexico City, Mexico | singer, pianist and composer of the intimate Mexican ballad Besame Mucho, among the greatest, and certainly one of the most recorded, songs of the 20th century, with versions by such diverse artists as the Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Dame Vera Lynn and the Grateful Dead |
Veldeke, Hendrik (or Heinrich) van
more... | before 1140 | after 1190 | known today as Hendrik van Veldeke (in Dutch) or Heinrich von Veldeke (in German), Hendrik is the first writer from the Low Countries who is known by name. He wrote in a Middle Dutch Limburgish dialect (also sometimes referred to in German sources as a Middle German dialect). He was an important influence on the German literature of the twelfth century and later because of his excellent technique. He was valued at the noble courts for his lyric poetry, of which about thirty examples survive |
| Velden, Renier Van Der | 14 Jan. 1910
Borgerhout, Belgium | 19 Jan. 1993
Anvers, Belgium | Belgian composer and conductor |
Veldhuis, Jacob ter
more... | 14 Nov. 1951
Westerlee, The Netherlands | | also known as Jacob TV, a Dutch avant-garde composer |
Velez, Glen
more... | 20th century | | American percussionist, vocalist, and composer |
Veliov, Naat
more... | 1957
Kocani, Romania | | Romanian trumpeter, composer, and arranger |
Vella, Joseph
more... | 1942
Gozo, Malta | | one of Malta's leading contemporary composers, he has written for a wide range of musical combinations including solo, chamber, choral and symphonic works. In addition, he has pioneered the revival of old Maltese music which has led to a wider knowledge and appreciation of an important part of the country's national heritage which, up to the late 60s, was almost completely neglected |
Vella, Michel'Angelo
more... | 7 Nov. 1710
Senglea, Malta | 25 Dec. 1792
Cospicua, Malta | Maltese teacher and composer who studied music in Naples where he was ordained. He returned to Malta in 1738 in order to take up a position as a teacher of subjects including music |
Vellère, Lucie
more... | 23 Dec. 1896
Brussels, Belgium | 12 Oct. 1966
Brussels, Belgium | Belgian composer |
Vellones, Pierre (born Pierre Rousseau)
more... | 29 Mar. 1889
Paris, France | 17 Sep. 1939
Paris, France | French composer and a medical doctor, possibly the first composer to write for the Ondes Martenot |
Veloso, Caetano (Emanuel Viana Teles)
more... | 7 Aug. 1942
Santo Amaro da Purificação, Bahia, Brazil | | composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist, Veloso is best known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s, at the beginning of the Brazilian military dictatorship |
| Veltheim, Charlotte | 1803
Germany | 1873 | a fine singer lauded by Moscheles. She composed songs and variations for the piano |
Velut, Gilet
more... | fl early 15th century | | Franco-Flemish composer, possibly from Liège. He was in Cyprus in 1411, and may have entered the Papal choir in 1421 |
Venantius, Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus
more... | c.530/540
Duplavis, nr Treviso, Italy | c.600/609
Poitiers, France | Latin poet and hymnodist in the Merovingian Court, and a Bishop of the early Catholic Church. He was never canonised but was venerated as Saint Venantius Fortunatus during the Middle Ages |
Venegas de Henestrosa, Luys
more... | c.1510 | 1570 | Spanish composer of the 16th century active during the Spanish Golden Age |
Venetsanou, Nena
more... | 1955
Athens, Greece | | Greek singer and composer |
| Venezia, Anna Bon (Boni) (di) | 1738
Venice | | at the age of four she was admitted to the music school (coro) of the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice. Music by her was published in Venice in about 1760 |
Veneziano (or Veneziani), Gaetano
more... | 1656
Bisceglie, Bari, Italy | 15 Jul. 1716
Naples, Italy | Italian composer |
Veneziano, Giovanni
more... | 11 Mar. 1683
Naples, Italy | 13 Apr. 1742
Naples, Italy | Italian composer |
| Venosa, Carlo Gesualdo da (see Gesualdo da Venosa, Carlo) | | | |
Venosta, Giovanni
more... | 1961
Udine, Italy | | Italian composer who specializes in collages of samples (mainly ethnic music), found sounds and live improvisation |
Vent, Jan Nepomuk (also Johann Wendt, Wenth, Went or Wend)
more... | 27 Jun. 1745
Divice, nr Louny, Bohemia | 3 Jul. 1801
Vienna, Austria | Czech composer and oboeist |
| Ventadorn (de), Maria | 1165 | 1221 | composer |
Ventadour (Ventadorn), Bernart de
more... | c.1125
Ventadorn, France | 1195 | a troubadour who was in the service of Eleanor of Aquitaine (wife of Louis VII of France and later Henry II of England). Few other troubadours left so many melodies which have survived; there are eighteen, and many of them became well known all over medieval Europe, some being given German texts by Minnesingers such as Friedrich von Hûsen and Dietmar von Aist. Some of his songs, including the especially famous Quan vei l'aloete, show the melodic influence of Gregorian chant |
Ventas, Adolf
more... | 1919
Amposta, Spain | | Spanish saxophonist, composer and arranger |
Vento, Mattia (Matthias)
more... | 1735
Naples, Italy | 22 Nov. 1776
London, England | Italian composer of opera |
Ventura, Charlie
more... | 2 Dec. 1916
Philadelphia, USA | 17 Jan. 1992
Pleasantville, USA | tenor saxophonist, composer, arranger and bandleader |
Venturelli, Giuseppe
more... | 1711
Rubiera, c. Modena, Italy | 31 May 1775
Modena, Italy | Italian composer |
Venturi del Nibbio, Stefano
more... | fl. 1600 | | composer with Caccini and others of the early opera Il rapimento di Cefalo performed in Florence on 9 Oct. 1600 |
Venturini, Francesco
more... | | | |
Venua, Frederic Marc Antonie
more... | 1786 | 1872 | composer |
Vény (or Vinit), Louis Auguste
more... | 30 Sep. 1801
Méru, France | | French oboist who composed works for oboe and piano |
Venzano, Luigi
more... | 1814
Genoa, Italy | 26 Jan. 1878
Genoa | |
| Veprik (or Weprik), Alexander Moiseyevich | 23 Jun 1899
Balta, Odessa, Ukraine | 13 Oct. 1958
Moscow, Russia | Ukrainian composer and musicologist |
Veracini, Francesco Maria
more... | 1 Feb 1690
Florence, Italy | 31 Oct 1768
Florence, Italy | Italian composer and violinist, perhaps best known for his violin sonatas and concerti |
| Verbeek, Frans (see Beck, Randy) | | | |
Verbeek, Margriet
more... | 1957
Leiderdorp, The Netherlands | | Margriet studied guitar in The Netherlands before moving to Cedar Falls, Iowa where she continued her studies under the American guitarist and painter Frje Echeverria. On her return to Eindhoven she followed classes at the music school of Jan-Anton van Hoek for a short period and then went on to study under the Uruguayan guitarist Baltazar Benitez at the Brabant Conservatory. In 1985 she finished her studies but she continued to study composition under Jan van Dijk (in Tilburg), while at the same time teaching classical guitar in Maasland, near Rotterdam. Margriet has, up to now, published eighteen books of compositions and two books with adaptations. Naturally the guitar plays a major role in Margriet's music, although she also has composed a great deal for other instruments |
Verbesselt, August
more... | 22 Oct. 1919
Klein-Willebroek, Belgium | | Belgian composer, flautist and teacher |
Verbey, Theo
more... | 5 Jul. 1959
Delft, The Netherlands | | Dutch composer and teacher |
Verbiest, Rony
more... | | | |
| Verbonnet, Jean (Johannes) (see Ghiselin, Jean (Johannes)) | | | |
Verbugt, Eric
more... | | | |
Verbytsky, Mykhaylo
more... | 1815
Ulyuchi, Galicia | 31 Dec. 1870
Mlyny, Russia | |
| Verchen de Vreuschmen, Léon (see Vreuschmen, Léon Verchen de) | | | |
Verdelot, Philippe
more... | 1480/1485
Les Loges, France | c.1530/1532
possibly Venice | French composer of the Renaissance, who spent most of his life in Italy. He is commonly considered to be the father of the Italian madrigal, and certainly was one of its earliest and most prolific composers; in addition he was prominent in the musical life of Florence during the period after the recapture of the city by the Medici from the followers of Girolamo Savonarola. Verdelot, along with Costanzo Festa, is considered to be the father of the madrigal, an a cappella vocal form which emerged in the late 1520s from a convergence of several previous musical streams (including the frottola, the canzone, the laude, and also including some influence from the more serious style of the motet) |
Verdery, Benjamin
more... | | | |
Verdi, Giuseppe (Fortunino Francesco)
more... | 10 Oct. 1813
Le Roncole, nr. Busseto, Italy | 27 Jan. 1901
Milan, Italy | probably the finest composer of Italian opera |
Verdickt, Benoît
more... | 27 Sep. 1884
Steenhuffel, Belgium | 28 Apr. 1970
Saint-Laurent (Montréal) | Belgian composer, organist, choral director and teacher |
Verdin, Hilmer
more... | 7 Mar. 1921
Bruges, Belgium | | Belgian composer, choral director, organist and teacher |
Verdin, Joris
more... | 21 Jan. 1952
Anderlecht, Belgium | | Belgian composer, organist and teacher |
Verdonck, Cornelis
more... | 1563
Turhhout, Flanders | 5 Jul. 1625
Anvers, The Netherlands | a Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. He was one of the last members of the Franco-Flemish school of polyphony, and was a notable composer of madrigals in a style that blended both Italian and native Netherlandish idioms |
Verdonck, Jean (Jan)
more... | c.1546
Anvers, Belgium | | Flemish composer and singer |
Verdone, Signor
more... | | | |
Verdu, Jose Sanchez
more... | | | |
Veremans, Renaat
more... | 2 Mar. 1894
Lierre, Belgium | 5 Jun. 1969
Antwerp, Belgium | |
Veress, Sándor
more... | 1 Feb. 1907
Cluj-Napoca, Hungary | | |
Veretti, Antonio
more... | 20 Feb. 1900
Verona, Italy | 13 Jul. 1978
Rome, Italy | |
Vergauwen, André
more... | 23 Jul. 1930
Sint-Gillis-Waas, Belgium | | Belgian composer |
| Verger (du), Virginie Morel | 1799
France | 1870 | composer and pianist |
Verheyden, Edward
more... | 8 Oct. 1878
Antwerp, Belgium | 10 Apr. 1959
Antwerp, Belgium | |
Verhaegen, Augustinus Jules
more... | 19 Aug. 1886
Kapellen-op-den-Bos, Belgium | 12 Oct. 1965
Alost, Belgium | Belgian composer, organist and choral director |
Verhaegen, Marc
more... | 25 Feb. 1943
Anvers, Belgium | | Belgian composer, pianist and teacher |
Verhey, Theodoor
more... | | | |
Verheyden, Edward
more... | 8 Oct. 1878
Anvers, Belgium | 10 Apr. 1959
Anvers, Belgium | Belgian composer, violinist and teacher |
Verheyen, Pierre-Emmanuel
more... | c. 1750
Ghent, Belgium | 11 Jan. 1819
Ghent, Belgium | Belgian composer, organist and singer |
Verhoeven, Arthur
more... | | | |
Verhulst, Johannes
more... | | | |
Verikivsky (or Verikovsky), Mykhaylo (Mikhail Ivanovich)
more... | 20 Nov. 1896
Kremenets, Tarnopol, Russia | 14 Jun. 1962
Kiev, Russia | composer of 7 operas |
Verius
more... | fl. 16th century | | Flemish composer |
Verkaeren, Philippe
more... | 25 Oct. 1950
Vilvorde, Belgium | | Belgian composer, organist and teacher |
Verlit (or Verlith), Gaspar de
more... | c.1625
Mons, Belgium | c.1673 | Flemish composer |
Verloge Hilaire (also known as Alarius)
more... | 1685
Ghent, Belgium | 1734
Ghent, Belgium | Flemish viol player, violinist and composer. Francois Couperin's Concerts royaux were performed for Louis XIV at Versailles on selected Sundays in 1714 and 1715. In the published edition (1722) Couperin supplied the names of his musicians for these petits concerts de chambre: Francois Duval (violin), Andre Danican Philidor (oboe and bassoon), Hilaire Verloge (viol), Dubois (oboe and bassoon) and himself (harpsichord) |
Vermandere Joseph (frère Placide)
more... | 18 Jan. 1901
Heule, Belgium | 23 Apr. 1971
Montréal | Belgian composer, organist, poet, teacher and music critic |
Vermandere, Willem
more... | 9 Feb. 1940
Lauwe, Belgium | | a Belgian sculptor, musician, storyteller and folk singer |
Vermeeren, Anthonius (Antoine)
more... | bap. 11 Feb. 1618
Wilrijk, Belgium | c.1668
Anvers, Belgium | Belgian composer |
Vermeeren, Coen
more... | 4 Nov. 1962
Breda, The Netherlands | | composer of religious music |
Vermeersch, Peter
more... | 25 Sep. 1959
Waregem (Flandre Occidentale), Belgium | | Belgian composer, clarinetist and architect |
Vermeiren, Jef
more... | 13 Jun. 1904
Anvers | 1999 | Belgian composer, pianist and conductor |
Vermeulen, Arthur
more... | 3 Feb. 1871
Poperinge, Belgium | 21 Jan. 1938
Courtrai, Belgium | Belgian composer, organist, pianist and carillonneur |
Vermeulen, Matthijs
more... | | | |
Vermont, Pierre II
more... | | | |
Vermote, Petra
more... | | | |
Vernaelde (or Vernaëlde), Albert (Charles Hermann)
more... | 3 Apr. 1859
Antwerp, Belgium (of French parents) | Feb. 1928 | bass singer who was the author of Le Solfège raisonné, ouvrage théorique et pratique (Paris, 1898, 2nd edn. 1926) and Précis de l'art du chant, traité théorique et pratique (Paris, 1923, 2nd edn. 1929) |
Vernier, Jean Aimé fils
more... | 16 Aug. 1769
Paris, France | after 1838 | |
Vernizzi (or Vernici, Invernizzi, Invernici), Ottavio
more... | 27 Nov. 1569
Bologna, Italy | 28 Sep. 1649
Bologna, Italy | |
Verocai, Giovanni
more... | c. 1700
Venice, Italy | c. 13 Dec. 1745
Braunschweig, Germany | |
Verrall, John (Weedon)
more... | 17 Jun. 1908
Britt, Iowa, USA | | |
Verrijt, Jan Baptist
more... | | | |
Verrimst, Victor Frédéric
more... | 29 Nov. 1825
Paris, France | 16 Jan. 1893
Houilles, France | French doublebassist and composer of sacred music, military music, music for Orphéon. Acad. 1881 |
Verroust, Louis Stanislas (David) Xavier (called Verroust aîné)
more... | 10 May 1814
Hazebrouck | 9 or 11 Apr. 1863
Hazebrouck | oboist and composer of works for oboe, brother of the bassoonist Charles (André Joseph) Verroust (1826-1887) (called Verroust jeune) |
Verschraegen, Gabriel
more... | 11 Aug. 1919
Eksaarde, Belgium | 13 Nov. 1981
Ghent, Belgium | student of Flor Peeters, later organ professor at Ghent Conservatory and cathedral organist in Ghent, his compositions are inspired by Gregorian chant as in the chorale prelude on the All Saints Vespers hymn |
Verschueren, Bert
more... | | | |
Verso, Antonio il
more... | c.1550 | 1621 | Italian composer, an infant prodigy, who it is reported composed a 2-part ricercare at the age of ten. He was a pupil of Pietro Vinci and spent most of his working life in Palermo, though he may have visited Venice c.1600-3 |
Verstockt, Serge
more... | 28 Feb. 1957
Brasschaat, Belgium | | Belgian composer |
| Verstovsky (or Werstowski), Alexey Nikolayevich | 1 Mar. 1799
Seliverstovo, Tambov | 17 Nov. 1862
Moscow, Russia | Russian composer |
Vert, Juan
more... | | | |
Verweire, John Livin
more... | 3 Nov. 1869
Ghent, Belgium | 10 Feb. 1949
Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA | Belgian-born American composer |
| Vesque von Püttlingen, Johann Vesque von (see Hoven, Johann) | | | |
| Vets, Lodewijk (Lode) | 2 Sep. 1899
Anvers, Belgium | 26 Jul. 1970
Anvers, Belgium | Belgian composer, viola player and teacher |
Vetter, Michael
more... | 18 Sep. 1943
Oberstdorf, Allgäu | | composer of the opera Der Dichter und die Mädchen (1966) |
| Veysberg (or Weissberg) (Rimskaya-Korsakova), Yuliya Lazarevna | 6 Jan. 1880
Orenburg, Russia | 1 Mar. 1942
Leningrad, Russia | Russian composer |
Vézina, Joseph
more... | 9 Jun. 1849
Quebec, Canada | 5 Oct. 1924
Quebec, Canada | Canadian composer who wrote three operas |
| Vezzana, Lucrezia Orsina | fl. 17th century
Italy | | a nun whose works were published in Venice in 1623 |
Viadana, Lodovico Grossi da
more... | c.1560
Viadana, Italy | 2 May 1627
Gualtieri, Italy | Italian composer, teacher, and Franciscan friar of the Order of Minor Observants. He was the first significant figure to make use of the newly developed technique of figured bass, one of the musical devices which was to define the end of the Renaissance and beginning of Baroque eras in music |
Viana, Andersen
more... | 1962
Belo Horizonte, Brazil | | Brazilian composer, arranger, conductor and music producer. His father Sebastian Viana was assistant to the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos |
Vianna, Alfredo
more... | | | |
Vianna da Motta, Jose
more... | | | |
Viardot (or Viardot-García), (Michelle Ferdinande) Pauline (née García)
more... | 18 Jul. 1821
Paris, France | 18 May 1910
Paris, France | composer of the opera Cendrillon (1904) |
Vicente, Josep
more... | | | |
Vicenti, Giovanni
more... | | | |
Vicentino, Nicola
more... | 1511
Vicenza, Italy | 1575/76
Milan, Italy | Italian music theorist and composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the most visionary musicians of the age, inventing, among other things, a microtonal keyboard, and devising a practical system of chromatic writing two hundred years before the rise of equal temperament |
Victoria, Tomás Luis de
more... | 1548
Ávila, Spain | 20 Aug. 1611
Madrid, Spain | a gifted Spanish organist and composer of the late Renaissance. He was the most famous composer of the 16th-century in Spain, and is considered by many to be second only to Palestrina as a composer of sacred polyphony at the time |
| Victors, Karel (see Albert, Karel) | | | |
Victory, Gerard (also Loraine, Alan)
more... | 24 Dec. 1921
Dublin, Ireland | | Irish composer who has written 7 operas |
| Vidakovic, Albe | 1914
Subotica, Yugoslavia | 1964 | an important composer of Croatian church music. He also collected Croatian musical folklore. The Insitute for Church Music in Zagreb is named after him |
Vidal, Joseph Bernard
more... | 15 Nov. 1859
Toulouse, France | 18 Dec. 1924
Paris, France | |
Vidal, Paul (Antoine)
more... | 16 Jun. 1863
Toulouse, France | 9 Apr. 1931
Paris, France | French composer and teacher |
Vidal, Peire
more... | fl. 1180-1206 | | Provençal troubadour who served Boniface II, Marquis of Monferrat |
Vidales, Francisco de
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Vide, Jacobus (Jacques)
more... | fl. 1405-1433 | | Franco-Flemish composer of the transitional period between the medieval period and early Renaissance. He was an early member of the Burgundian School, during the reigns of John the Fearless and Philip the Good. The group, which included Guillaume Dufay, Gilles Binchois, Pierre Fontaine and Nicolas Grenon, went on to become the leading musicians of their time and, as well as their duties in churches and cathedrals, they often directed court music too |
| Vidovszky, Laszlo | 1944
Bekescsaba, Hungary | | Hungarian conductor, pianist and composer |
Vidjeskog, Patrik
more... | 16 Oct. 1964
Jakobstad, Finland | | he works more purely in a traditional framework. His music is clearly free-tonal and based on thematic processing. He himself has named melody, harmony and counterpoint as the main elements of his music. His rather limited output focuses on chamber music; significant works we may mention are the vivacious and lucid Assa (1997) for 11-member chamber ensemble and Sonata in modo classico (1999) for heckelphone and piano, recalling Hindemith |
| Vidue, Ettor | fl. 16th century | | Flemish composer |
| Vierdanck, Johann | c. 1605
Germany | 1646
Dresden, Germany | German organist and composer. The trio sonata was developed by Paul Peuerl (d. c.1650), Johann Vierdanck and Johann Rosenmüller, the last of whom amplified the form by adding a slow introduction or sinfonia. All these men composed sonatas for four, five and six instruments which maintained the slow-quick alternation of their Italian models while writing in a considerably more contrapuntal style |
Vierk, Lois V
more... | Aug. 1951
Lansing, Indiana, USA | | American composer much influenced by gagaku, Japanese court music |
Vierling, Johann Gottfried
more... | 25 Jan. 1750
Metzels, Germany | 22 Nov. 1813
Schmalkalden, Germany | German composer and organist |
Vierne, Louis
more... | 8 Oct. 1870, Poitiers, France | 2 Jun. 1937
Notre-Dame-de-Paris, France | French organist and composer. He was also a fine teacher whose students were the nucleus of the modern French organ school. His pupils included Marcel Dupre, Joseph Bonnet, Nadia Boulanger, Olivier Messiaen, Maurice Durufle, Gaston Litaize and Jean Langlais. He taught at the Paris Conservatory as Widor's assistant in 1894-96; then became the colleague and assistant there of fellow composer Alexander Guilmant (1837-1911), whose organ sonatas also have symphonic dimensions and influenced Vierne's style almost as much as Widor's symphonies did |
| Vierne, René | 11 Mar. 1878
Lille, France | 29 May 1918
missing in action | French organist and composer, brother of Louis Vierne, René had organ lessons with his brother, and later at the Paris Conservatory with Guilmant. He won the Premier Prix d'Orgue et Improvisation in 1906. In 1902 he was appointed Organist de Choeur of the church of Notre-Dame-des-Champs in Paris, and from 1904 he was the Organist Titulair of this church |
Vieru, Anatol
more... | 8 Jun. 1926
Iasy, Romania | | |
| Vietinghoff-Scheel (or Fitingov-Shell), Baron Anatol | 29 Mar. 1899
Pushkin, Russia | 15 Nov. 1933
Graz, Austria | Russian pianist, organist, choral direcotr and composer |
| Vietinghoff-Scheel (or Fitingov-Shell), Baron Boris Aleksandrovich | 1829
Kurland | 24-26 Sep. 1901
St. Petersburg | amateur composer of 5 operas, two of which were never performed |
Vieuxtemps, Henri
more... | 17 Feb. 1820
Verviers, Belgium | 6 Jun. 1881
Mustapha, Algeria | Belgian violinist and composer particularly for the violin |
Viganò, Salvatore
more... | 25 Mar. 1769
Naples, Italy | 10 Aug. 1821
Milan, Italy | |
Vignati, Giuseppe
more... | probably born in Bologna | 1768
Milan, Italy | composer of 7 operas all of which have been lost |
Vigneron-Ramackers, Josée
more... | 25 Jan. 1914
Leopoldsburg (Limbourg), Belgium | | Belgian composer, conductor and teacher |
| Vignery, Jane (Emilie Virginie) | 1913
Ghent, Belgium | 1974
Luttre, Belgium | she came from a musical family; both her mother and grandfather composed. Her early studies were at the Royal Music Conservatory in Ghent, and she graduated in music theory (1925), harmony (1927), counterpoint and fugue (1929) quite young. She later studied violin at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris and harmony with Nadia Boulanger and Jacques de la Presle, as well as musical analysis with Paul Dukas. An incurable weakness in her muscles forced her to give up the violin and devote herself completely to composition. In 1942 she received the Emile Mathieu prize for her Sonata for Horn and Piano and in 1945 she was appointed lecturer in harmony at the Royal Music Conservatory in Ghent, a post she held until her tragic death in a train crash in 1974. Her small output includes works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, orchestra with chorus, and songs |
Vignola, Giuseppe
more... | 5 Feb. 1662
Naples, Italy | Nov. 1712
Naples, Italy | composer of 3 operas |
Vihmand, Mari
more... | 1967
Tartu, Estonia | | Estonian composer |
| Viitala, Mauri | 1948
Finland | | Finnish composer |
Viitanen, Harri
more... | 27 Dec. 1954
Finland | | church organist and composer. He has written over 100 organ chorales for practical everyday use. In his principal works, however, he has explored more modern sounds. His major work to date is the organ concerto Firmamentum (19851988). His solo organ work Images d'oiseaux (1992) is based on a deep analysis of recorded birdsong |
Viitasaari, Jukka
more... | 1961 | | a Finnish classroom teacher with a musical background (including studies in music theory, rock, jazz, and low brass instruments.) His instruments are the tuba and the guitar and he has composed dozens of pieces for windbands of various forms of which about 50+ have been published in Finland and several other by the Dutch publisher Bronsheim Muziekuitguiverij. The most popular of them are written for younger bands |
| Viitasaari, Markku | 1966 | | music teacher and composer, the head master of music school. He also conducts several bands and composes mainly for windband |
| Vila, Juan d'Autras | 1900
Barcelona, Spain | 1978
Barcelona, Spain | Spanish composer noted for his zarzuelas |
Vilar, José Teodor
more... | 10 Aug. 1836
Barcelona, Spain | 21 Oct. 1905
Barcelona, Spain | composer of 9 operas |
Vilbac (or Vilback), (Alphonse Charles) Renaud de
more... | 3 Jun. 1829
Montpellier, France | 19 Mar. 1884
Ixelles, nr. Brussels, Belgium | French organist and composer whose works include two operettas Au clair de la lune (1857) and Don Almanzor (1858) |
| Vilboa (or Villebois), Konstantin Petrowitsch | 29 May 1817
St Petersburg, Russia | 12 (or 2) Jul. 1882
Warsaw, Poland | Russian composer |
Vilén, Asko
more... | 21 May 1946
Tyrvää, Finland | | composer of orchestral and wind band music and songs. He has been musical director of STM-musiikki for many years and was the artistic director of STM summer music camp |
Vilhar, Franz
more... | 5 Jan. 1852
Senozece | 4 Mar. 1928
Zagreb | |
Villa, Ricardo
more... | 23 Oct. 1873
Madrid, Spain | 10 Apr. 1935
Madrid, Spain | |
| Villain, Florentius | fl. 16th century | | composer, probably Flemish |
Villa-Lobos, Heitor
more... | 5 May 1887
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 17 Nov. 1959
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | South American composer who in his works combined the folk music of Brazil and classical musical forms as well as having a profound influence on music education in Brazil through his organisation and direction of SEMA, Superintendency of Artistic and Musical Education, which introduced the study of music and choral singing into the school curriculum |
| Villa Rojo, Jesus | 1940
Brihuega, Spain | | composer and director of the Madrid Laboratorio de interpretacion musical |
| Villalpando, Alberto | 1942
La Paz, Bolivia | | considered one of the main driving forces of contemporary music in Bolivia |
Villani Cortes, Edmundo
more... | 8 Nov. 1930
Minas Gerias, Brazil | | Brazilian musical director, pianist and compose |
Villani Gabriele
more... | c.1555
Piacenza, Italy | 1625
Piacenza, Italy | Italian composer of the Renaissance, brother of Gasparo, son of Giuseppe |
Villani Gasparo
more... | mid 16th-century
Piacenza, Italy | | Italian composer of the Renaissance, brother of Gabriele, son of Giuseppe |
Villani Giuseppe
more... | 1519
Piacenza, Italy | c. 1591
Piacenza, Italy | Italian maestro di cappella and composer of the Renaissance, father of Gabriele and Gasparo |
| Villard de Beaumesnil, Henriette Adélaïde (married name Cauvy) | 31 Aug. 1758
Paris, France | 15 Jul. 1813
Paris, France | a fine singer who became one of the foremost artists of the Paris Opera. She was the second woman to have her compositions performed at the Opéra, Paris and the only woman known to have composed an oratorio, Les Israëlites poursuivis par Paharaon for performance at the Concert spirituel in 1784 and 1785. Some sources give her birth as being in 1748 or even as early as 1738 |
Villate, Gaspar
more... | 1851
Havana, Cuba | 9 Oct. 1891
Paris, France | |
| Villeblanche (de), Mme | before 1758 | before 1782 | composer, who died aged 24, known for four Sonatas for Piano and Harpsichord published c. 1789 by her husband after her death |
| Villebois, Konstantin (see Vilboa, Konstantin) | | | |
| Villeroye, Jehan de (see Briquet) | | | |
| Villette, Pierre | 1926<
Duclair, France/td> | 1998
Aix en Provence, France | might be considered a part-time composer, as most of his life has been spent in music education, most notably as director of the Conservatoire in Besancon and later at its counterpart in Aix-en-Provence. He has found time to write a succession of sensuous motets which set Latin texts familiar from the Catholic liturgy often emplying his very personal synthesis of the Catholic choral tradition and the harmonies of jazz |
| Villico (see Dillen, Guillaume) | | | |
| Villoing, Vassili | 28 Oct. 1850
Moscow, Russia | 15 Sep. 1922
Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia | Russian composer, music educator and author |
Villoldo, Angel Gregorio
more... | 16 Feb. 1861
Barracas, Argentina | 14 Oct. 1919
Buenos Aires, Argentina | author of the celebrated tango El Choclo |
| Vilm (de), Mlle | fl. 1699 | | composer who was published in Paris in 1699 |
Viña (Manteola), Facundo de la
more... | 21 Feb. 1876
Gijon, Spain | 19 Nov. 1952
Madrid, Spain | |
Vinaccesi (or Vinacesi, Vinacese), Benedetto
more... | c. 1670
Brescia, Italy | c. 1719
Venice, Italy | composer of four operas |
Viñao, Alejandro
more... | 4 Sep. 1951
Buenos Aires, Argentina | | studied composition with the Russian composer Jacobo Ficher in Buenos Aires. In 1975 he moved to Britain where he continued his studies at the Royal College of Music and the City University in London. He has been resident in Britain since then. In 1988 he was awarded a PhD. in composition at the City University |
Vincent (or Winzenhörlein), Heinrich Joseph
more... | 23 Feb. 1819
Teilheim, nr. Würzburg, Germany | 19 May 1901
Vienna, Austria | |
Vincent, John
more... | 17 May 1902
Birmingham, Ala., USA | 21 Jan. 1977
Santa Monica, USA | |
Vinci, Leonardo
more... | c. 1690
Strongoli, Naples, Italy | 27 May 1730
Naples, Italy | Neapolitan opera composer who composed well over 30 operas |
| Vinderhout, Petrus | fl 1318-82
Flanders | | also known as Petrus de Brugis, composer and singer Petrus Vinderhout worked at St. Donatian, Bruges from 1381-82 and may have been the composer of Comes Flandrie |
| Vinders, Hieronimus (Hieronymous) | fl. 1325-1526 | | Flemish composer, one of those composers who wrote a musical epitaph on the death of Josquin des Pres. Vinders' Lamentatio super mortem Josquin combines the words O mors inevitabilis with sections of text and chant from the Requiem Mass in a sonorous seven-part texture |
Vine, Carl
more... | 1954
Perth, Western Australia | | Australian pianist, director, adminstrator and composer particularly for dance, film and theatre |
Vine, Ian
more... | 3 Jan. 1974
United Kingdom | | British composer who combines Near and Far East modalities with formal elements taken from Western music |
| Vinea, Antoine de (see Wyngaerde, Antonius van den) | | | |
Vinier (d'Arras), Gilles le
more... | 1190
Arras, France | 1252
France | trouvère, brother of Guillaume |
Vinier (d'Arras), Guillaume le
more... | c. 1190
Arras, France | 1245
France | trouvère, brother of Gilles |
| Vinit, Louis Auguste (Vény, Louis Auguste) | | | |
Vinitsky, Alexander
more... | 1950
Omsk, Russia | | Russian virtuoso guitarist, arranger and composer |
| Vinogradova, Vera | fl. 20th century | | Russian pianist and composer who was born in Leningrad |
Vinson, Eddie 'Cleanhead'
more... | 18 Dec. 1917
Houston, Texas, USA | 2 Jul 1988 | alto saxophone player, blues singer and bandleader |
Vinter, Gilbert
more... | 1909
Lincoln, England | 1969
Tintagel, England | English composer, conductor and bassoonist. During the 1960s Gilbert Vinter single-handedly revolutionised the British brass band repertoire: dissonance became more widely accepted, percussion became integral and rhythm became as important as melody |
Vintule, Ruta Evaldovna
more... | 1944
Riga, Latvia | | Latvian composer and pianist who accompanies the State Choir Latvija which was founded in 1942 |
| Viola, Anselm | 1738
Teruel, Spain | 1798
Montserrat, Spain | Catalan harpsichordist and organist |
Viotti, Giovanni Battista
more... | 12 May 1755
Fontanetto da Po, Piedmont | 3 Mar. 1824
London, England | Italian violinist and composer |
Viozzi (or Weutz), Giulio
more... | 5 Jul. 1912
Trieste, Italy | | |
Viret, Jean Philippe
more... | 1959
St. Quentin, France | | French jazz double bass player and composer who trained over a five year period at the National Convervatory of Music in Versailles. He studied bass with Hack Cazauron and harmony, counterpart and orchestration with Julien Falk. In 1980 he became co-leader of Orchestra de Contrabasses. As a jazz performer he was influenced by the Bill Evans Trio, with Scott Laforo on bass, and also the great bass player Paul Chambers |
Virtaperko, Olli
more... | 29 Dec. 1973
Espoo, Finland | | Finnish cellist, composer and sometime singer in the rock group Ultra Bra (1995-2001). |
Visée, Robert de
more... | c. 1655
France | c. 1732 | singer, lutenist, guitarist and violist in the service of Louis XIV |
Visetti, Alberto Antonio
more... | 13 May 1846
Salona, Italy | 10 Jul. 1928
London, England | composer of an opera entitled Les Trois mousquetaires which was performed sometime after 1872 but has since been lost |
| Vishnegradsky (or Vyshnegradsky, Vysjnegradsky, Vysjnegradskij, Wischnegradsky, Wyschnegradsky), Ivan Alexandrovich | 16 May 1893
St. Petersburg, Russia | 29 Sep. 1979
Paris, France | Russian-born French composer, a practitioner of microtones and quartertones, who wrote Manual of Quartertone Harmony (1933), originally in French, who also used the pseudonym Ivan Alexandrovich Volney |
| Viski, János | 10 Jun. 1906
Kolozsvar, Hungary | 16 Jan. 1961
Budapest, Hungary | Hungarian teacher and composer |
Visman, Bart
more... | 21 Oct. 1962
Naarden, The Netherlands | | Dutch composer |
Vismarri, Filippo
more... | after 1635 | c. 1706
Vienna, Austria | |
| Visotsky (or Wyssotzky, Vyssotzky, Vysocki), Mikhail (or Michael) Timofeyevich | 1791
Moscow, Russia | 16-28 December 1837
Moscow, Russia | Russian guitarist and composer |
Visser, Dick
more... | 1926
The Netherlands | | Dutch guitarist, teacher and composer |
Visser, Peter
more... | The Netherlands | | Dutch guitarist and composer |
| Visser, Yme G | 1911
Friesland, The Netherlands | | Dutch organist and composer |
Vitali, Giovanni Battista
more... | 18 Feb. 1632
Cremona, Italy | 12 Oct. 1692
Modena, Italy | Italian singer, cellist and composer |
Vitali, Filippo
more... | c. 1590
Florence, Italyafter 1 Apr. 1653
Flornece, Italy | |
Vitali (or Vitalino), Tommaso (Tomaso) Antonio
more... | 7 Mar. 1663
Bologna, Italy | 9 May 1745
Modena, Italy | son of Giovanni Battista, violinist and composer |
Vitalis, George
more... | 9 Jan. 1895
Athens, Greece | 27 Apr. 1959
Athens, Greece | George vitalis worked with Santini. He was conductor of the Khedivial Opera House (Royal Opera House), Cairo. He also worked with Saint-Saens and Ravel in Paris, and with Richard Strauss and Furtwangler in Berlin. He went to the USA in 1946
[information provided by Dennis Kirton, husband of George Vitalis' daughter Miranda Niove Kirton] |
Vitiello, Stephen
more... | 1964
New York, USA | | a sound and media artist, who in his work, is particularly interested in the physical aspect of sound and its potential to define the form and atmosphere of a spatial environment. Since 1988 collaboration with artists, musicians and choreographers, including Dara Birnbaum, Jem Cohen, John Jasperse/White Oak Dance Project featuring Mikhail Baryshnikov, Joan Jonas, Pauline Oliveros, Tony Oursler and Constance De Jong, Nam June Paik, Eder Santos, Scanner, Yasunao Tone, Frances-Marie Uitti |
Vito-Delvaux, Berthe di
more... | 17 May 1915
Angleur, Belgium | | Belgian composer and teacher |
Vitols (or Wihtol), Jazeps (Joseph)
more... | 26 Jul. 1863
Valmiera, Latvia | 24 Apr. 1948
Lübeck, Germany | Latvian teacher, critic and composer |
Vittadini, Franco
more... | 9 Apr. 1884
Pavia, Italy | 30 Nov. 1948
Pavia, Italy | |
Vittori (or Vittorij, Rovitti, Victorius), Loreto (Lauretus, Olerto)
more... | c. 5 Sep. 1600
Spoleto, Italy | 23 Apr. 1670
Rome, Italy | |
| Vittoria, Tomás (see Victoria, Tomás (Tomaso) Luis de) | | | |
Vitry, Philippe de
more... | 31 Oct. 1291
Paris, France | 9 Jun. 1361
Meaux, France | French composer, music theorist and poet. He was the defining music theorist of the early Ars Nova, as well as an accomplished, innovative, and influential composer |
Vitzthumb (or Fiston, Fitzthumb, Witzthumb), Ignaz (Ignace)
more... | 14 Sep. 1724
Baden, nr. Vienna, Austria | 23 Mar. 1816
Brussels, Belgium | Austrian-born composer and conductor |
Vivaldi, Antonio (Lucio)
more... | 4 Mar. 1678
Venice, Italy | 27 or 28 Jul. 1741
Vienna, Austria | Italian priest, teacher, violinist and composer. over the course of his career he composed over five hundred concertos, both for solo instruments (principally violin) and for combinations of instruments. Although Vivaldi wrote a great deal of music in other genres, including more than fifty operas, it is his concertos that helped define this form in the Baroque and into the Classical era. These normally comprised three movements (fast, slow, fast); the fast movement regularly employed a ritornello form. In this form, an orchestral melody alternates with the freer sections that feature the soloist or soloists. The repetition of the ritornello provides a point of reference for the listener, allowing the soloist to stand out. It also allows the composer a greater degree of freedom in how the soloist's material is treated |
Vivanco, Sebastian de
more... | c. 1551 | 1622 | Spanish priest and composer contemporary of Tomas Luis de Victoria |
Vivancos, Bernat
more... | 1973
Barcelona, Spain | | pianist, violinist and composer |
Vives, Amadeo
more... | 18 Nov. 1871
Collbató, near Montserrat, Spain | 1 Dec. 1932
Madrid, Spain | composer of song, orchestral works and zarzuela and one of those who helped found influential Orféo Catalá (1891), a key element in Catalunya's musical renaissance |
Viviani, Giovanni Buonaventura
more... | 15 Jul. 1638
Florence, Italy | after Nov. 1692
Florence or Pistoia, Italy | Italian violinist and composer who was for a time Kapellmeister to the Innsbruck court of Emperor Leopold I |
Vivier, Claude
more... | 14 Apr. 1948
Montreal, Canada | 12 Mar. 1983
Paris, France | Canadian composer who trained and worked in Europe until 1974. In 1979 he undertook an extended stay on the island of Bali |
| Vivier, Joseph | 15 Dec. 1816
Huy, Belgium | 3 Jan. 1903
Brussels, Belgium | Belgian composer, music theorist and inventor
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Vizzana (or Vizana), Lucrezia Orsina
more... | 1590
Bologna, Italy | 1662
Bologna, Italy | published in Venice, her collected works, Componimenti musicali (1623) are made up mostly of solos or duets with continuo. Her music is characterised by virtuoistic ornamentation. In sixteenth- and early-seventeenth-century Bologna, approximately one-seventh of the entire female population lived behind convent walls. Santa Cristina became home for a number of gifted women musicians, many from among the upper classes, who sought "respectable" musical careers. Lucrezia Vizzana was Bologna's only published nun composer. She entered the convent at the age of eight |
Vlachopoulos, Yannis
more... | 8 Mar. 1939
Piraeus, Greece | | |
Vlad, Alessio
more... | | | son of composer, pianist and musicologist Roman Vlad (formerly the artistic director of La Scala in Milan), Alessio followed in his father's footsteps, eventually becoming artistic director of the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa. He is a conductor, arranger and composer of film scores such as Tea with Mussolini, Jane Eyre and Callas Forever |
Vlad, Roman
more... | 29 Dec. 1919
Cernauti, Romania | | composer, pianist and musicologist formerly the artistic director of La Scala in Milan who became an Italian citizen in 1941 |
Vlad, Ulpiu
more... | 27 Jan 1945
Zarnesti, Romania | | Romanian oboist and composer of orchestral, chamber, choral and vocal works |
Vladigerov, Alexander
more... | 4 Aug. 1933
Sofia, Bulgaria | | |
Vladigerov, Pancho
more... | 25 (Old Style 13) March 1899
Zurich, Switzerland | 8 Sep. 1978
Sofia, Bulgaria | Swiss-born composer one of the founding members of the Bulgarian Contemporary Music Society (1933) |
Vlak, Kees
more... | 1938
Amsterdam, The Netherlands | | Dutch composer |
Vlasov, Vladimir (Alexandrovich)
more... | 7 Jan 1903 (Old Style 25 Dec. 1902)
Moscow, Russia | 7 Sep. 1986
Moscow, Russia | composer of many 'patriotic' operas, music for films, plays, operattas, etc. |
| Vleeshouwer, Albert de | 8 Jun. 1863
Anvers, Belgium | 19 Jun. 1913
Anvers, Belgium | Belgian composer |
Vleggaar, Giel
more... | 1974
Amsterdam, The Netherlands | | graduating in composition (with Theo Verbey and Daan Manneke) from the Conservatory of Amsterdam in 2001, he flirted with jazz and pop music (leading to jazz arranging and composition studies with Jurre Haanstra at the Conservatory of Hilversum), took a trip to visit the Wolof tribe in the Gambia in 1998, and followed studies in Karnatic music (with Rafael Reina). His musical influences and tastes remain wide-ranging |
| Vlemmeren, Gisleen van | 23 Aug. 1844
Saint-Nicolas (Flandre Orientale) | 22 Jul. 1915
Saint-Nicolas (Flandre Orientale) | Belgian composer, choral director and teacher |
Vlieger, Henk de
more... | 1953
Schiedam, The Netherlands | | Dutch percussionist and composer |
Vliet, Don van
more... | 1941
USA | | poet, singer and composer, known as Captain Beefheart, he championed avant-garde music with his eccentric fusion of influences and innovative compositions for the next two decades. Then, inexplicably, at the zenith of his career, he stopped making music and began to pursue painting full time |
Vliex, Leon
more... | 1968
Heerlen, The Netherlands | | Dutch musical director and composer |
Vlijmen, Jan van
more... | 11 Oct. 1935
Rotterdam, The Netherlands | 24 Dec. 2004
Réveillon, France | Dutch pianist and composer |
Vocht, Lodewijk de
more... | 21 Sep. 1887
Antwerp, Belgium | 27 Mar. 1977
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Belgium | a pupil of Mortelmans who played as violinist in his Nieuwe Concerten. Apart from being a prolific composer, he spent much of his time conducting various groups in Belgium, including the Klassieke Concerten, the Antwerp Cathedral Choir, the Nieuwe Concerten, the Conservatory Concerts and most importantly, the Chorale Caecilia, which he co-founded in 1916 |
Vodenitcharov, Yassen
more... | 19 May 1964
Burga, Bulgaria | | Bulgarian pianist and composer who studied electroacoustic music at the GRM (Groupe de recherches musicales) at Radio France |
| Vodopivec, Vinko | 1878
nr. Kanal, Slovenia | 1952
Kromberk, nr. Gorica, Solvenia | Slovenian priest and composer of church music, one of a number who responded to a ban, placed by Italian occupiers, on the use of the Slovenian language in secular music by developing and extending church songs sung in the native language. The collection Boji spevi (Divine Songs, 1929), which he edited during the great Fascist repression, contains church songs of Slovenian composers including his own. Soon followed another collection called Gospodov dan (Lord's Day, 1930). Then, Zdrava Marija (Ave Maria, 1933) was published and some years later also Svete pesmice (Sacred Ditties, 1940). The collection from 1929 contains also his song Boje milostno srce... (God's merciful heart...) which has remained popular even to the present time |
Vogel, Charles-Louis-Adolphe
more... | 17 May 1808
Lille, France | 11 Sep. 1892
Paris, France | French composer particularly of operas |
Vogel, Jaroslav
more... | 11 Jan. 1894
Plzen | 2 Feb. 1970
Prague, Czechoslovakia | |
Vogel (or Fogel), Johann Christoph
more... | c. 18 Mar. 1756
Nuremberg, Germany | 27 Jun. 1788
Paris, France | French horn player and composer particularly of two operas Das goldene Vlies (1786) and Demophon (1788) |
Vogel, Tjitze (Anne)
more... | | | studied music in Utrecht in 1976 where he met the bassist John Clayton and became his student. In the early 1980s he attended the conservatory in The Hague. Vogel received several composition assignments from the Creative Music Fund. His compositions and arrangements have been performed by the Frank Grasso Big Band, Herman Brood and the Robert Jan Vermeulen Trio. He has played with Earl Cross, Charlie Rouse, Charlie Green, Chet Baker, Toots Thielemans, Gijs Hendriks and Mathilde Santing, among others. In 1999, Vogel and his quartet made South of No Border, which included musicians from India and Iraq. On this celebrated disc, jazz and modern classical music are combined with non-western scales and rhythms |
Vogel, Willem
more... | 2 May 1920
Amsterdam, The Netherlands | | Dutch organist and composer |
Vogelweide, Walther von der
more... | c. 1170
Bayern, Austria | c.1230
Würzburg, Germany | the most celebrated of the Middle High German lyric poets |
Vogl, Adolf
more... | 18 Dec. 1873
Munich, Germany | 2 Feb. 1961
Munich, Germany | |
Vogl, Heinrich
more... | 15 Jan. 1845
Munich, Germany | 21 Apr. 1900
Munich, Germany | |
Vogler, Carl
more... | 26 Feb. 1874
Oberrohrdorf, Aargau, Switzerland | 17 Jun. 1951
Zurich, Switzerland | |
Vogler, Abbé (Abt) Georg Joseph
more... | 15 Jun. 1749
Pleichach, Würzburg, Germany | 6 May 1814
Darmstadt, Germany | German organist and composer particularly of operas. He was the teacher of Meyerbeer and Weber. Robert Browning idealized him in his poem Abt Vogler |
| Vogler, Johann Caspar | 1696
Hausen, Germany | 1763
Weimar, Germany | German organist and composer, a pupil and admirer of J.S.Bach. He was an organist at the court of Weimar before being named Burgomaster in 1735 |
Vogrich, Max (Wilhelm Karl)
more... | 24 Jan. 1852
Hermannstadt, Transylvania | 10 Jun. 1916
New York, USA | |
| Vogt, (Auguste Georges) Gustave | 18 Mar. 1781
Strasbourg
France | 30 May or 1 June 1870
Paris, France | he played in the Opéra-Comique orchestra from 1803, and joined the Opéra orchestra in 1812. Vogt was appointed assistant professor at the Paris Conservatoire in 1814 and senior profiessor from 1816 to 1853. He received the Légion dhonneur award in 1829. Vogt shared with his teacher Sallantin a preference for a four-keyed oboe which added F Sharp and low B Natural keys to the traditionally used E Flat and low C keys. As it turned out, several of Vogts students, including Henri Brod, Apollon-Marie-Rose Barret, and Charles-Louis Triébert, were to play significant roles in designing the mechanical additions and refinements which resulted in the Conservatoire System oboe of Gillets era. Following his retirement, the succeeding four oboe professors were all former-Vogt students, and his legacy also includes method books, Méthode pour le hautbois (1816-25), and a rich repertoire of oboe works. He outlived three of his successors |
Vogt, Hans
more... | 14 May 1911
Gdansk, Poland | | |
| Vogt, Jacques | 1810
Fribourg, Switzerland | 1869 | Swiss organist and composer |
Voigtlander (or Voigtländer), Gabriel
more... | c. 1596
Reideburg, Germany | 1643
Nykobing, Denmark | composer |
| Voigtlander, Lothar | 1943
Leisnig, Germany | | German composer |
Vojácek (or Voyachek), Hynek (Ignác Frantisek) (Ignaty Kasparovich)
more... | 4 Dec. 1825
Zlin | 9 Feb. 1916
Tsarskoe selo | |
Volanek (or Wolanek, Wollaneck, Wollanek), Antonín (Anton) (Josef Alois)
more... | 1 Nov. 1761
Jaromer | 16 Jan. 1817
Prague, Czechoslovakia | |
Volans, Kevin
more... | 26 Jul. 1949
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa | | South-African born composer who from 1973 until 1981 lived in Cologne where he was a pupil of Karlheinz Stockhausen at the Musikhochschule and later his teaching assistant (1975-76). He also studied with Mauricio Kagel (music theatre), Aloys Kontarsky (piano), and electronic music (1976-1980). He is now resident in Dublin, Ireland |
Volbach, Fritz
more... | 17 Dec. 1861
Wipperfürth, nr. Köln, Germany | 30 Nov. 1940
Wiesbaden, Germany | |
| Volckerick, Joannes Franciscus | 14 Apr. 1815
Anvers, Belgium | 21 Feb. 1897 | Belgian composer and carillonneur |
| Volckmar, Theophile Andreas | 1686
Stettin, Germany | 1768
Danzig, Germany | German organist and composer |
Volkert, Franz (Joseph)
more... | 2 Feb. 1767
Vienna, Austria | 22 Mar. 1845
Vienna, Austria | |
Volkmann, Robert
more... | 6 Apr. 1815
Saxony, Germany | 30 Oct. 1883
Budapest, Hungary
| German organist, pianist, teacher and composer |
Volkov, Feodor (Grigorievich)
more... | 19 Feb. 1729
Kostroma | 14 Apr. 1763
St Petersburg, Russia | |
| Volleman, Alfons | 21 Jun. 1907
Ghent, Belgium | 22 Jul. 1986
Watermael-Boitsfort, Belgium | Belgian composer, viola player and teacher |
Vollenweider, Andreas
more... | 1953
Zurich, Switzerland | | son of Hans Vollenweider, one of Europe's leading organists, he is a harpist and a versatile instrumentalist, composer, arranger and producer |
Vollerthun, Georg
more... | 29 Sep. 1876
Fürstenau, Germany | 15 Sep. 1945
Strausberg, nr. Berlin, Germany | |
Vollinger, William
more... | 1945
New Jersey, USA | | American composer |
| Vollstedt, Robert (né Roberti, Robert) | 1854
Germany | 1919 | Germany composer of light music, whose The Jolly Brothers was the theme adopted by the comedian Albert Whelan |
| Volney, Ivan Alexandrovich (see Vishnegradsky, Ivan Alexandrovich) | | | |
Voloshinov, Victor
more... | 17 Oct. 1905
Kiev, Russia | 22 Oct. 1960
Leningrad, Russia | |
Volpe (or Rovettino, Roveta, Ruettino), Giovanni Battista
more... | c. 1620
Venice, Italy | 1691
Venice, Italy | |
Volpi, Adamo
more... | 1911
Italy | 1980
Italy | organist and maestro di cappella at the Basilica of the Holy House, Loreto, and composer of many works for the accordion |
Volpiano, Guglielmo da
more... | c. 962
San Giulio lago d'Orta, Italy | 1031
Fecamp, Normandy, France | Bendictine monk and composer who founded the Abbey of Fruittuaria (1003). He was the nephew of Arduin, Marquis of Ivrea (955-1015) whose anti-imperial rebellion, in 1002, led to Arduin being crowned King of Italy in Pavia. He was in constant conflict with the German emperors. In 1004, Arduin and his followers took shelter in the castle of Sparone, where they successfully withstood the siege of emperor Henry II's army. In 1014, Arduin abdicated and became a monk in the abbey of Fruttuaria at San Benigno, where he died in 1015 |
Volumier (or Woulmyer), Jean Baptiste
more... | c. 1670
Spain | 7 Oct. 1728
Dresden, Germany | Belgian violinist and composer |
Vomácka, Boleslav
more... | 28 Jun. 1887
Mladá Boleslav, Czechoslovakia | 1 Mar. 1965
Prague, Czechoslovakia | |
| Von Blon, Franz (see Blon, Franz Von) | | | |
| von Bruck, Arnold (see Bruck, Arnold von) | | | |
| von Koch, Erland (see Koch, Erland von) | | | |
| von Raschenau, Maria Anna (see Raschenau, Maria Anna von) | | | |
Voormolen, Alexander (Alex) (Nicolaas)
more... | 3 Mar. 1895
Rotterdam, The Netherlands | 12 Nov. 1980
Leidschendam, The Netherlands | Dutch composer |
Voorn, (Josephus) Joop (Hermanus Maria)
more... | 16 Oct. 1932
The Hague, The Netherlands | | Dutch composer |
Voorvelt, Martijn
more... | 20 Dec. 1967
Amsterdam, The Netherlands | | Dutch singer-song-writer, guitarist and composer |
Vorel, Josef
more... | 13 Nov. 1801
Opocno, Czech. | 19 Dec. 1874
Zdice, Czech. | Czech patriot, pastor, composer of famous songs and Czech revival activist |
Vorisek (or Worzischek), Jan Vaclav (Hugo)
more... | 11 May 1791
Vamberk, Bohemia | 19 Nov. 1825
Vienna, Austria | organist, pianist and composer |
Vorlová, Sláva (né Miroslava Johnová) (pseudonym Mira Kord)
more... | 15 Mar. 1894
Máchod, Czechoslovakia | 24 Aug. 1973
Prague, Czechoslovakia | Czech composer who wrote 4 operas in the 1950s |
| Vorotnikov, Pavel Maksimovich | 1804
Revel, Estonia | 1876
Moscow, Russia | composer particularly of sacred music including Razboynika blagorazumnago (The Wise Thief) |
| Vorwerk, Henrietta | 1843
Hungary | | a composer of songs and piano pieces that were well received by the public |
| Vos, Eduard de | 19 Jan. 1833
Ghent, Belgium | 1890
Ghent, Belgium | Belgian composer, singer, choral director and teacher |
| Vos, Isidore de | 23 Oct. 1850
Ghent, Belgium | 30 Mar. 1876
Ghent, Belgium | Belgian composer and pianist |
| Vos, Laurent de | 1533
Anvers, Belgium | Jan. 1580
Cambrai, Belgium | Flemish composer |
| Vos, Wim | 1958
The Hague, The Netherlands | | marimba player, percussionist ,teacher and composer who trained at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague with Frans van der Kraan and followed courses given by Mike Rosen, Bob Becker and others. He was co-founder of the Slagwerkgroep Den Haag of which he was a member for fifteen years. He has been a senior professor at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague since 1986 and a member of Anumadutchi since its inception, for whom he regularly composes works |
Vosganian (or Stanculescu-Vosganian), Mihaela
more... | 7 May 1961
Ploiesti, Romania | | Romanian composer |
| Voskanian (or Voskanyan), Arnas | 1946
nr. Dilidjan, Armenia | | Armenian singer, cellist and composer who has written operas, cantatas, concertos, string quartets, sonatas, song cycles and works for choir |
Vostrák, Zbynek
more... | 10 Jun 1920
Prague, Czechoslovakia | 4 Aug. 1985
Strakonice, Czechoslovakia | conductor and composer |
| Vouillemin, Sylvain | 21 Mar. 1910
Charleroi, Belgium | 12 May 1995
Liège, Belgium | Belgian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher |
| Vrancken, Jean | fl. mid-16th century | before 13 Apr. 1609 | Flemish composer |
| Vranicky (or Wranitzky), Anton (Antonin) | 13 Jun. 1761
Nová Ríse, Moravia | 6 Aug. 1820
Vienna, Austria | studied philosophy, law and music at Brno and the violin with his older brother Paul. Later studies in Vienna with Mozart, Albrechtsberger and Haydn, combined with his considerable skill as a violinist, made him much in demand as a teacher and performer. By 1797 Anton Wranitzky was Kapellmeister of the private orchestra of Prince Lobkowitz. In 1807 he was appointed director of the Imperial Court Orchestra and in 1814 became principal conductor at the Theater an der Wien. He also became assistant to Haydn and made an approved arrangement of The Creation for string quartet. Among his numerous compositions are fifteen symphonies, fifteen violin concertos, string trios, quartets and quintets |
Vranicky (or Wranitzky, Wraniczky. Wranizky), Paul (Pavel)
more... | 30 Dec. 1756
Nová Rise, Moravia | 26 Sep. 1808
Vienna, Austria | musical director and composer who worked at the imperial court of Leopold II. and Franz II. He composed a coronation symphony for Franz II. (1792) and music for the private use of the empress Marie-Therese. Both as a man and a musician he was highly esteemed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven. He was Mozart's Brother in the Freemasons lodge Zur Gekrönten Hoffnung - To the Coronated Hope and composed for the lodge, his masonic songs of 1785 are assumed to be lost. In December, 1797 he succeeded in Josef Haydns admission to the Tonkünstler-Sozietät. As concert master he conducted the premiere performances of Haydns oratorio Die Schöpfung - The Creation and of Beethovens first symphony |
| Vrebalov, Aleksandra | 1970
Yugoslavia | | received her Bachelor of Music in Music Composition from Novi Sad University, Yugoslavia (1992), a Master in Music Composition from San Francisco Conservatory (1996) and a Doctor of Arts in Music Composition from the University of Michigan (2002). Ms. Vrebalov completed additional composition studies in Kazimierz Dolny, Poland (1990) and Sombathely, Hungary (1992) in collaboration with IRCAM, Belgrade University (1993-1994), New York University Summer Composition Workshop (1996), Prague Academy of Music (1997), Apeldoorn Young Composer's Meeting, Holland (1998), Tanglewood Music Center (1999) and Darmstadt International Music Courses, Germany (2000). Her teachers include Evan Chambers, Michael Daugherty, Andrew Mead, George Benjamin, Osvaldo Golijov, Ivana Loudova, Justin Dello Joio, Elinor Armer, Conrad Susa, Zoran Eric, Miroslav Statkic, and Slavko Suklar. She is based in the United States |
| Vredeman, Sebastian | c.1542
Malines, Belgium | end of 16th century
Leiden | Belgian composer and carillonneur |
| Vreeze, J. de (see Timor (de Vreeze), J. de) | | | |
Vreuls, Victor (Jean Léonard)
more... | 4 Feb. 1876
Verviers, Belgium | 26/27 Jul. 1944
St Josse-ten-Noode, Brussels, Belgium | Belgian composer, violinist, conductor and teacher |
| Vreuschmen, Léon Verchen de | 15 Oct. 1928
Liège, Belgium | | Belgian composer and music critic |
Vriend, Jan
more... | 1938
Sijbekarspel, The Netherlands | | conductor, violinist and composer |
Vrienten, Henny
more... | 27 Jul. 1948
The Netherlands | | bassist, singer (in Doe Marr) and composer |
Vries, Klaas de
more... | 1944
Terneuzen, The Netherlands | | Dutch composer |
Vriezen, Samuel
more... | 1973
Groningen, The Netherlands | | pianist and composer |
Vrijens, Guibert
more... | 1943
Kanne, Belgium | | double-bass player and composer |
Vrolijk, Renske
more... | 1965
Haarlem, The Netherlands | | Dutch singer and composer |
Vuataz, Roger
more... | 4 Jan. 1898
Geneva, Switzerland | 2 Aug. 1988
Chêne-Bougeries | |
Vucelja, Ivica
more... | 20th century
Vojvodina, Yugoslavia | | Serbian composer and accordionist |
Vuillemin, Louis
more... | 19 Dec. 1879
Nantes, France | 2 Apr. 1929
Paris, France | French composer and ctitic |
Vuillermoz, Emile (Jean-Joseph)
more... | 23 May 1878
Lyon, France | 2 Mar. 1960
Paris, France | French composer and critic |
Vulpius, Melchior
more... | c. 1570
Wasungen, Germany | 7 Aug. 1615
Weimar, Germany | German composer, schoolmaster and cantor |
| Vuorenjuuri, Martti | 1932
Finland | | the history of Finnish electronic music began in 1958 with the concrete-material 'acoustic composition' based on Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World created by Vuorenjuuri, a music critic and an active promoter of Modernism |
Vuori, Harri
more... | 10 Jan. 1957
Lahti, Finland | | studied at the Sibelius Academy (19781989) before discovering his own style in the late 1980s. His music is characterized by carefully shaped details, rich tonal colours and textures, and harmonies derived from the overtone series as in French spectral music. He has also written orchestral music, chamber music, solo instrumental music, vocal music and tape music. He is a careful composer who spends much time polishing his works, giving time to the creative process, and as a result his output is not very extensive |
Vustin, Alexander Kusmisch
more... | 24 Apr. 1943
Moscow, Russia | | Russian composer |
Vuursteen, Frans
more... | 1954
Delfzijl, The Netherlands | | Dutch accordionist and composer |
| Vyshnegradsky,Ivan Alexandrovich (see Vishnegradsky, Ivan Alexandrovich) | | | |
| Vyverman, Jules | 6 Jan. 1900
Malines, Belgium | 15 Dec. 1989
Anvers, Belgium | Belgian composer, choral direcotr and teacher |
| Vyzeto, Jo. de | early sixteenth century | | French composer of the three-voice chanson Coment peult avoir joye |