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Name	Born	Died	Information
Yagling, Victoria more...	14 May 1946 Russia		composer who studied cello with Rostropovich. She is now based in Finland
Yakymenko, Fedir more...	1876 Ukraine	1945 Paris, France	an early student of Lysenko, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Scriabin, Yakymenko was forced to emigrate to France in the 1920s. There, he would be influenced by the French 'impressionist' composers
Yakushenko, Igor more...	15 Apr. 1932 Moscow, Russia		a composer who has written for jazz band, symphony orchestra, opera, ballet and rock ensemble
Yamada, Kosaku (Kôsçak)	9 JUn. 1886 Tokyo, Japan	29 Dec. 1965 Tokyo, Japan	Japanese composer
Yamada, Kengyo more...	1757 Japan	1817 Japan	Japanese composer who established the Yamada School of Koto music in Tokyo basing his style on the vocal compositions of Edo or old Tokyo
Yamaguchi, Yasuko	1969 Kyoto, Japan		Japanese composer and percussionist
Yamash'ta, Stomu actually: Yamashita, Tsutomo more...	15 Mar. 1947 Japan		virtuoso percussionist and composer of works for percussion
Yamashita, Yosuke more...	26 Feb. 1942 Tokyo, Japan		Japanese free jazz pianist and composer
Yanada, Tadashi more...	1885 Japan	1959 Japan	Japanese composer particularly of kakyoku, classical Japanese songs
Yancey, Jimmy more...	20 Feb. 1898 Chicago, USA	17 Sep. 1951 Chicago, USA	jazz pianist, composer and lyricist
Yang, Bao Zhi	20th century China		Chinese composer
Yang, Yong	1949 Beijing, China		the earliest musical influence on him came from the Peking Opera, folk songs and the folk story tales in northern China. Yang Yong received a Ph.D. in composition from Brandeis University and is a faculty member at the New England Conservatory of Music [birth date supplied by Casey Mongoven]
Yaniewicz, Feliks (see Janiewicz (Yaniewicz), Feliks)
Yannatos, James	13 Mar. 1929 New York, USA		American composer
Yannatou, Savina more...	Athens, Greece		Greek singer and song writer
Yano, Marco Aurélio more...	1963 São Paulo, Brazil	1991	severely handicapped from birth, Yano was quadriplegic and endured many difficulties related to his condition. In spite of his physical limitations, Marco finished his university studies with a major in conducting and composition from the State University of São Paulo (UNESP)
Yanov-Yanovsky, Felix more...	28 May 1934 Tashkent, Uzbekistan		Uzbek violinist and composer of mostly orchestral, chamber, choral and vocal works
Yanov-Yanovsky, Dmitri more...	Apr. 1963 Tashkent, Uzbekistan		son of Felix, Uzbek composer of mostly stage, orchestral, chamber, vocal and electroacoustic works
Yared, Gabriel more...	7 Oct. 1949 Beirut, Lebanon		composer now based in the United States, he won an Oscar for his acclaimed score for the adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel The English Patient in 1996. His scores since then include City of Angels and Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley
Yarnell, Carolyn more...	1961 Los Angeles, CA, USA		American pianist and composer whose music straddles the borders of minimalism, romanticism and the baroque
Yarrow, Peter more...	31 May 1938 USA		American singer who found fame with the 1960s folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary. It was Yarrow who wrote that group's most famous song, Puff the Magic Dragon
Yashiro, Akio more...	1929 Tokyo, Japan	9 Apr. 1976 Tokyo, Japan	little-known in Europe, Yashiro was a French-trained perfectionist, a pupil of Boulanger and Messiaen, who completed only a handful of concert works. The Symphony (1958) and Piano Concerto (1967) show high craftsmanship, fastidious instrumental colouring, and the extraordinary freedom with which Yashiro absorbed elements of Messiaen's writing
Yasuda, Fumio more...	1953 Tokyo, Japan		pianist and composer
Yates, W. more...	fl. 1764		writer of songs for the Vauxhall Gardens, London
Yatsuhashi, Kengyo more...	c.1613 Japan	1685 Japan	Yatsuhashi is considered by some to be the founder of koto music as it is known today. The term Kengyo is a title and rank which was bestowed on blind musicians of great talent
Yazdjian, Haig more...	1959 Aleppo, Syria		Syrian born oud player, singer and composer who lives in Greece
Ycart, Bernhard	second half 15th century		Flemish musician, possibly a composer
Yedidia, Ronn more...	1960 Tel Aviv, Israel		Israeli accordionist, pianist and composer
Yengibarjan, David	1976 Yerevan, Armenia		composer and accordionists who has been living in Hungary since 1995. He has participated in a great number of theatrical and film productions both as a performer (Bertolt Brecht: Jungle of the Cities, Andor Lukáts: Portugal, Joye Sergent: Crime and Punishment) and as a composer (Ferenc Molnár: Liliom, András Szoke: Three, György Farkas: Blood Line, András Fésos: Street Heart Beat)
Yeoh, Nikki more...	1973 London, England		jazz pianist and composer
Yepes, Narciso more...	14 Nov. 1927 Lorca, Spain	3 May 1997 Santander, Spain	virtuoso guitarist who designed created the ten-string guitar and composed film music
Yerkanyan, Yervand more...	5 Nov. 1951 Gyumri, Armenia		a composer who combines the influences of Pierre Boulez, the Polish avantgarde and mediaeval Armenian music
Yevseyev (or Evsejew, Yevseyev), Sergey (or Sergei) Vasilyevich	25 Jan. 1894 Moscow, Russia	16 Mar. 1956 Moscow, Russia	Russian theorist, pianist and composer
Yi, Chen (see Chen, Yi)			&nbps;
Yi, Steven more...	1978 Korea		Korean composer now based in Brooklyn, NY, USA
Yi, Zong-gu	1947 Korea		Korean composer who contributed Parting Ships to the closing ceremony of the 1988 Seoul Olympics
Yin, Cheng-Zong more...	1948 China		Chinese pianist and composer who is particularly noted for collaborating with Liu Zhuang, Chu Wang-Hua and Sheng Lihong to write the piano concerto Yellow River (1971)
Yinon, Israel more...	11 Jan 1956 Kfar Saba, north of Tel Aviv, Israel	29 Jan 2015 Lucerne, Switzerland	composer and conductor based in Germany
Yiu, Raymond more...	1973 Hong Kong		composer and jazz pianist who now lives in London
Yli-Salomäki, Aki more...	28 Jun. 1972 Finland		studied privately with Jouni Kaipainen 1994 and Juhani Nuorvala 1997. He studied composition and orchestration at the Helsinki University with Harri Vuori (1998-1999) and privately (2000-2002)
Yokota, Susumu more...	late 20th century Japan		leading Japanese techno composer who began his international career at Berlin's Love Parade in 1993
Yon, Pietro Alessandro more...	8 Aug. 1886 Settimo Vittone, Italy	22 Nov. 1943 Huntington, NY, USA	at 18, assistant organist at St. Peter's, Rome who settled in New York from 1907 and was a composer mainly of music for organ
Yonge, Nicholas more...	c.1560 Lewes, Sussex, England	bur. 23 Oct. 1619 London, England	English singer and publisher. He is most famous for publishing the Musica transalpina (1588), a collection of Italian madrigals with their words translated into English. This proved to be explosively popular, beginning (or fueling) a vogue for madrigal composing and singing in England which lasted into the first two decades of the 17th century. Indeed, William Heather, founder of the music chair at Oxford University, included the book in his portrait, painted c.1627, confirming the longevity of Musica transalpina's influence and popularity
York, Andrew more...	1958 Virginia, USA		American guitarist and composer, member of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
York, Francis Lodowick	1861	1955	American organist and teacher who lived and worked in Detroit from about 1875. He was the organist of Christ Church in Detroit from 1896. He taught piano, organ and compostion at the Detroit Conservatory of Music and at the Ypsilanti State Normal College. He published A Practical Introduction To Composition, Harmony Simplified in 1926, but his only published organ composition was a Spring Song (Canon) which appeared in 1907
Yorke, Peter more...	4 Dec. 1902 London, England	2 Feb. 1966 England	conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra, arranger and composer
Yoshihide, Otomo more...	1 Aug. 1959 Yokohama, Japan		improvisational guitarist, turntablist and composer
Yoshimatsu, Takashi more...	1953 Tokyo		studied at Keio University (Department of Technology). He taught himself composition, joining a jazz and rock group, although he has also studied with Teizo Matsumura
Yoshizawa, Kengyo more...	1800 Japan	1872 Japan	in the latter years of the Edo Period, a Nagoya musician, Yoshizawa Kengyo created another song style with direct ties to the older kumiuta style. Yoshizawa used waka poetry taken from ancient anthologies as song texts and created a new tuning based on both in and yo scales. This tuning was called kokinjoshi, the name borrowed from the ancient Japanese poetry anthology Kokin Waka Shu
Yossifov, Alexander	12 Aug. 1940 Sofia		Bulgarian composer
Yost (or Jost), Michel more...	c. 1754 Switzerland	1786 Paris, France	Swiss-born clarinetist who spent his playing life in Paris, France. He and his clarinet concertos became immensely popular
Yossifov, Dragomir more...	11 Jun. 1966 Varna, Bulgaria		Bulgarian composer and conductor
Youdin, Mikhail	29 Sep. 1893 St. Peterburg, Russia	8 Feb. 1948 Kazan	Russian-born composer
Youll, Henry more...	end of 16th century	early 17th century	writer of canzonets and balletts
Youmans, Vincent more...	1898 New York City, NY, USA	5 Apr. 1946 Denver, Colorado	American popular composer and Broadway producer. The two hit songs written by Youmans from No, No, Nanette, Tea for Two and I Want to Be Happy are considered standards
Young, Anthony more...	Australia		Australian conductor and composer
Young, Anthony	c. 1685 England	1747 London, England	English organist and composer. It has been suggested that he might have been the composer of God Save the King, the United Kingdom's National Anthem
Young, Christopher more...	28 Apr. 1957 Red Bank, NJ, USA		American film music composer
Young, Gordon more...	15 Oct. 1919 McPherson, Kansas		American organist and composer
Young, John more...	1962 Christchurch, New Zealand		composer and teacher based in England. His main interest in composition continues to be in acousmatic music, particularly forms based on the distinction between recognisable natural sound sources and computer-based studio transformations
Young, La Monte more...	14 Oct. 1935 Bern, Idaho, USA		pupil of Stockhausen, many of his works incorporating non-musical elements. He is normally listed as one of the 'big four' minimalist composers along with Philip Glass, Steve Reich and Terry Riley
Young, Larry (né Larry John McCoy) more...	7 Oct. 1940 Newark, NJ, USA	30 Mar. 1978 USA	if Jimmy Smith was the Charlie Parker of the organ, Larry Young was its John Coltrane. Larry Young was a fabulous Hammond organist who had a career with Blue Note, but who really came into his own when he moved into the world of 'fusion' with the Tony Williams Lifetime, on John McLaughlin's classic Devotion album and on Santana and McLaughlin's Love, Devotion and Surrender
Young, Lester Willis (Prez) more...	27 Aug. 1909 Woodville, Miss., USA	15 Mar. 1959 New York City, NY, USA	American jazz musician, composer and tenor saxophonist. Singer Billie Holiday called Lester Young the president of tenor saxophonists, and the nickname Prez (or Pres) stuck. In his solos of the 1930s he reinvented the art of playing the saxophone and opened new doors to improvisation. He was a developer of the jazz genre, bebop
Young, Miriama more...	1975 Christchurch, New Zealand		instrumental and electronic music composer
Young, Percy Marshall	17 May 1912 Northwich, Cheshire	9 May 2004 York, England	music scholar, editor, organist, composer and teacher; Director of Music, Stranmillis Teacher Training College, Belfast 1934-37; Musical Adviser, Stoke-on Trent Local Education Authority 1937-44; Director of Music, Wolverhampton College of Technology 1944-66; Honorary Fellow, Selwyn College, Cambridge 1998-2004. Throughout his career, Young was prolific as a composer, though the demands on his time often relegated it to a secondary activity. Essentially a miniaturist, choral motets, solo songs and chamber music dominate his early period. These include Virgin's Slumber Song (1932) and a fine setting of Robert Louis Stevenson's cycle of poems, From A Child's Garden which dates from 1941. Works on a larger canvas range from the 1931 Passacaglia for Violin and Piano through to the Fugal Concerto in G Minor for Two Pianos and String Orchestra some 20 years later. Particularly fine is an Elegy For String Orchestra commissioned for the 1960 Zwickau Festival in Germany
Young, Victor more...	1900 Chicago, USA	1956 Hollywood, CA, USA	American violinist, band leader and composer of film music scores
Young, William	unknown	1671/2 England	held a position in the court of Archduke of Austria in Innsbruck (1653); flute player and then violinist in the band of Charles II; anticipated the style of Henry Purcell; wrote sonatas for 2 to 4 violins, viola da gamba and keyboard (there appear to have been at least two William Youngs, both England and both string players)
Youssef, Dhafer more...	1967 Teboulba, Tunisia		composer, singer and oud player who has worked in Vienna, Austria since 1990
Yradier (or Iradier), Sebastián more...	1809 Vitoria, Spain	1865 Spain	composer of popular songs including La Paloma; the Habanera in Bizet's Carmen is based on a song by Yradier
Ysaÿe, Eugène(-Auguste) more...	16 Jul. 1858 Liege, Belgium	12 May 1931 Brussels, Belgium	virtuoso violinist pupil of Wieniawski and Vieuxtemps; orchestral conductor; composer of 6 concertos for violin and an opera in Walloon (a Belgian dialect of French)
Ysaÿe, Théophile	1865 Verviers, Belgium	1918 Nice, France	pianist, brother of the above; composed orchestral music
Yu-Chung, Tseng	1960 Taiwan		completed his Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of North Texas (1998) in USA. His music, written for both acoustic and electronic media, has been recognized with awards from the R.O.C National Culture Planning Council, University of North Texas, and Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition (Honourable Mention Award 1998, 1999). His works have also received many performances at festivals and conferences from organizations including Korean EA Music Society (SICMF 2002, 2003), Taiwanese Computer Music Association (TCMA 99, 2000), International Computer Music Association (ICMC 98, 99, 2001, 2003), Society for Electroacoustic Music in United States (Net Concert 1997, SEAMUS 1998), Texas Computer Musician's Network (TCMN 96, 97, 98). He is a member of ICMA, and a funding member of TCMA. Currently, he is a full-time assistant professor of music at National Taipei Teachers College in Taiwan
Yuasa, Joji more...	12 Aug. 1929 Koriyama, Japan		Yuasa made the acquaintance of Toru Takemitsu (composer), Kuniharu Akiyama (musicologist) and others while a pre-medical student at Keio University in Tokyo. He joined them in forming the `Jikken-kobo' (Experimental Workshop) in 1952, and turned to devote himself to music. Since then, Yuasa has been actively engaged in a wide range of musical composition, including orchestral, choral and chamber music, music for theatre, and intermedia, electronic and computer music
Yudin, Mikail Aleksandrovich	1893 St. Petersburg, Russia		Russian composer
Yudo, Luiz Henrique more...	1962 Brazil		studied architecture at the University of Sao Paulo. In 1985 he had had composition lessons with the Brazilian composer Damiano Cozzella at the University of Sao Paulo University, but is mostly self-taught. After visiting Amsterdam for the first time in 1986 he went on to study at the Nederlandse Film & Televisie Academie
Yuferov (or Youferoff, Juferow), Sergei W.	1865 Odessa, Ukraine		Ukrainian composer active in 1906 in Switzerland
Yulchieva, Munadjat more...	1960 nr. Andijan, Ukbekistan		one of the most popular performers in the Fergana- Tashkent style (four maqams). This school differs from the Bukharan style, it is strongly linked to the Uzbek language (as opposed to Tajik) and is sometimes referred to as 'free maqam'. For such a celebrity, Munadjat has taken an unconventional route to success. She was born in a small village near Andijan, and worked the feilds with the rest of her family. The story goes that she applied to the Higher Conservatoire of Music, vocal arts department, not realising that they trained opera singers. She was turned down for singing 'out of tune' but was heard from outside the door of the audition room by one of Uzbekistan's most famous composers, Shavkat Mirzaev
Yun, Isang more...	17 Sep. 1917 Tongyong, South Korea	3 Nov. 1995 Berlin, Germany	trained in Paris and Berlin, a pupil of Blächer; composer of operas, orchestral and chamber works
Yupanqui, Atahualpa (né Hector Roberto Chavero) more...	22 Jan. 1908 Pergamino, Argentina	23 May 1992 Paris, France	Argentine singer, songwriter, guitarist and writer regarded as the greatest interpreter of Argentinean folklore
Yurina, Ludmilla more...	16 Jan. 1962 Uzin, Ukraine		graduating from Kiev Music College in 1981 (piano) and from Kiev State P. Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 1990 (composition), she completed her postgraduate studies at the Kiev State P. Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 1998 (class of composition of professor E. Stankovich (1998)
Yurovsky, Vladimir Mikhailovich	1915 Tarastcha, Uzbekistan		Uzbeck composer
Yuste, Miguel	1870	1947	Spanish clarinetist and composer
Yusupova, Iraida more...	20 Feb. 1962 Ashgabat, Turkmenistan		graduating from Moscow State Conservatory as a composer in 1987, she is a member of the Composers' Union of Russia (Moscow organization) and the Filmmakers' Union of Russia, member of the Association of Contemporary Music (ACM) and has been a member of the Theremin Centre since 1994
Yusupov, Benjamin more...	22 Nov. 1962 Dushanbe, Tajikistan		Tajik-born Israeli composer
Yusupov, Nikolay Borisovich	1827 St. Petersburg, Russia	31 Jul.-3 Aug. Baden-Baden, Germany	Russian violinist, composer and writer on music
Yuyama, Akira more...	1932 Japan		Japanese composer
Yvain, Maurice more...	12 Feb. 1891 Paris, France	28 Jul. Suresnes, France	French operetta composer