| Name |
Born |
Died |
Information |
Zabel, Albert
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1834 |
16 Feb. 1910
St. Petersberg, Russia |
Russian harpist and composer for the instrument |
Zabel, Frank
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1968
Germany |
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German composer, received several international prizes for his compositions, professor of music theory at Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf. Works: solo and chamber music, concertos and orchestral pieces, compositions for voice, music theatre |
Zabelka, Mia
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21 Sep. 1963
Vienna, Austria |
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composer and violinist who combines elements of jazz and electronic music as well as by a high degree of improvisation in her work |
| Zacara da Teramo (see Teramo, Zacara da) | | | |
| Zach, Jan |
1699 |
1773 |
Czech violinist and organist. When he was refused the position as director of the choir in St. Vitus cathedral, he moved abroad. In 1747 he was nominated for the position of conductor for Mainz's archbishop and then from 1756 he wandered through Europe selling his compositions to convents and to the nobility. He had a passionate and vehement personality, of which various aspects can be seen in his exaggerated expression and impassioned Baroque organ, choral and instrumental compositions. His style and early classical form can be seen in his chamber and orchestral works. He composed organ preludes, fugues, many chamber works, 28 symphonies, 14 concertos for various instruments, approximately 30 masses, 3 requiems, a Stabat Mater, and other religious compositions |
| Zachara da Teramo, Antonio |
fl. 1390-1415 |
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an Italian contemporary of Ciconia, the two had some similarities of style, and apparently a professional relationship. It is surmised that some of the elaborate ars subtilior songs attributed to Magister Zacharias are actually by da Teramo |
Zacharias, Helmut
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27 Jan. 1920
Berlin Germany |
28 Feb. 2002
Brissago, Switzerland |
German violinist, band leader and composer |
| Zacharie, Nicolaus |
before 1400
probably Brindisi, Italy |
1466
Ceglie Messapico, Italy |
an Italian composer of the early Renaissance. Until recently he had been confused with the earlier composer Zacara da Teramo, but recent research has established his identity; he was one of a few native Italian composers working in the early 15th century whose work has survived |
Zachau, Friedrich Wilhelm
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1663 |
1712 |
German composer chiefly of organ and church music; teacher of Handel |
| Zache, Joannes | fl. 16th century | | Flemish composer |
| Zacher, Gerd |
1929 |
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German composer and organist; works include Transformations for piano and choral music |
Zadeh, Aziza Mustafa
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19 Dec. 1969
Baku, Azerbailan |
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pianist, vocalist, composer. Aziza sang professionally at age three, studied classical piano, made debut on stage with her father a year before his death |
| Zádor, Jeno (or Zador, Eugene) | 5 Nov. 1894
Bátaszék | 4 Apr. 1977
Los Angeles | Hungarian-born composer |
| Zafred, Mario | 2 Mar. 122
Trieste | | Italian composer |
Zagar, Peter
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21 Dec. 1961
Bratislava, Slovenia |
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Slovakian composer |
| Zagatti, Francesco |
seventeenth-century |
eighteenth-century |
Italian composer particularly of church music including a vocal duet setting of Gloria Patri with baroque flute accompaniment |
Zagaykevych, Alla
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17 Dec. 1966
Khmelnytsky, Ukraine |
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composer of symphonic and chamber music, chamber music theatre and electro-acoustic music |
Zagwijn, Henri
more... |
17 Jul. 1878
Nieuwer-Amstel, The Netherlands |
23 Oct. 1954
The Hague, The Netherlands |
Dutch composer and teacher in Rotterdam who was almost completely self-taught |
| Zahn, Johann Balthasar |
1704
Germany |
1776
Germany |
composer and organist |
Zahn, Johannes Christoph Andreas
more... |
1 Aug. 1817
Eshenbach bei Hersbruck, Germany |
17 Feb. 1895
Neuendettelsau, Germany |
the first attempt to create a melodic index was made, at the best of our present knowledge, by the Benedictine monk Johannes Werlin in 1646. He catalogued several hundred tunes on the basis of their initial three tones, according to the principles of solmization. His was, however, an isolated enterprise which had no follow-up for roughly two hundred years. In more recent times, another attempt to index melodies was made by Johannes Zahn in his Die Melodien des Evangelischen Kirchenliedes (1889-1893). Here the metric features of the tunes are the basis for classification (duple metre, triple metre, either simple or compound). However, in the study of musical folklore, that is, in the study of music living in oral tradition, Zahn's approach is of limited utility. Tunes that are similar in their melodic contour may appear unrelated to each other if classified only according to their metrical and rhythmical pattern |
Zaidel-Rudolph, Jeanne
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1948
Pretoria, South Africa |
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South African composer of orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, and piano works that have been successfully performed in Africa Europe and the USA; she is a pioneering female composer of transcultural music |
Zaimont, Judith Lang
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1945
Memphis, Tennessee |
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she holds degrees from Queens College of the City University of New York and Columbia University. She studied composition with Hugo Weisgall, Otto Luening and Jack Beeson. After receiving her Master's Degree, Zaimont studied orchestration in Paris with André Jolivet on a Debussy Fellowship from the Alliance Française de New York |
| Zaimov, Velisav |
8 May 1951
Sofia, Bulgaria |
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Bulgarian composer |
Zajc, Ivan (also Zaytz, Giovanni von)
more... |
3 Aug. 1832
Rijeka |
16 Dec. 1914
Zagreb |
Croatian composer and conductor, particularly of opera |
Zakrzewska, Barbara (pseudonym Zakrzewska-Nikiporczyk)
more... |
1946
Poznan, Poland |
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Polish musicologist, libarian and composer whose work has been described as "featuring quasi-modal rhythms" and "inhabiting Bartók's sound world" |
| Zamboni, Giovanni (Romano) |
eighteenth century |
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lutenist and composer for his instrument |
| Zamponi (or Zamboni, Samponi), Gioseffo (Giuseppe) | 1610-20
possibly Rome | Feb. 1662
Brussels | Italian-born composer |
Zander, Benjamin
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9 Mar. 1939
Gerrards Cross, Buckinghampshire, England |
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English cellist and composer based in the US, who studied with Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst |
| Zander, Johann David | 1753 | 21 Feb. 1796
Stockholm, Sweden | Swedish composer |
Zandonai, Riccardo (Antonio Francesco)
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30 May. 1883
Sacco, Trentino, Italy |
5 Jun. 1944
Pesaro, Italy |
Italian opera composer of operas, including Giulietta e Romeo and Francesca da Rimini, a requiem, orchestral works and songs |
| Zanella, Amilcare (Castore) |
26 Sep. 1926
Monticelli d'Ongina, Italy |
9 Feb. 1949
Pesaro, Italy |
Italian composer, pianist and conductor |
Zanelli, Geoff
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28 Sep. 1974
US
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an Emmy winning composer working primarily in the medium of film and television music |
Zanesi, Christian
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1952
France |
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Zanesi studied composition at the Université de Pau with Marie-Françoise Lacaze and Guy Maneveau, after which he studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with Pierre Schaeffer and Guy Reibel. Since 1977, he has been a member of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales at the INA. Of his Constructions Metalliques, Zanesi writes, "The sounds comes from an ancient iron workshop located in the street in which I live, in Saint-Ouen. It is a hundred years old. Bell chimes, welding, sawing. Sparkles, crackles, quietness. The closed-in space of the workshop. Human rhythmics with age old gestures, hammer banging to bend the iron. Loud noise of machines cutting the iron as if it were paper. Regular stroke of the power hammer: precise and accurate drum machine. The giant clock of electronic music. And there are voices, the ironcraftsmen's voices" |
| Zanetti (or Zannetti), Francesco | 28 Mar. 1737
Volterra | 31 Jan. 1788
Perugia | Italian composer |
| Zanetti, Gasparo |
fl. 1625-1645 |
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Italian composer, the author of a violin treatise, and of Il Solaro, a collection of pieces for string band, including notated improvisations on standard dances such as the passamezzo |
| Zangius, Nikolaus |
1570
Brandenburg, Germany |
1620
Berlin, Germany |
the author of two books of chansons issued by the Cologne music publisher Gerhard Grenbruch in 1610. Zangius was one of the principal exponents of the German Lied at this time. Zangius arrived to Prague at the time of Imperial orchestra's greatest fame, was engaged by it on 1 October 1602, and drew the pay of an imperial court servant. His Magnificat is dedicated to Emperor Rudolf II - it was printed by M. Straus in Prague in 1609 in luxurious, late Renaissance make-up. The Magnificat, in its monumental finale, foreshadows the coming Baroque |
| Zangl, Josef Gregor |
12 Mar. 1821
Stainach, Austria |
6 Mar. 1897
Brixen/Bressanone, Austria |
composer and priest, cathedral organist of Brixen/Bressanone |
| Zani, Andrea |
11 Nov. 1696
Casalmaggiore, near Cremona |
28 Sep. 1757
Casalmaggiore, near Cremona |
violinist and composer, he was invited by Antonio Caldara to Vienna, where he became a well-known virtuoso and teacher, although he never held an official position in the imperial establishment. In 1738 he returned to Casalmaggiore, where he remained for the rest of his life apart from occasional performances in neighbouring cities |
Zanon, (Matteo) Sante
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2 Feb. 1899
Fonte Alto, Italy |
29 Jan. 1965
Venice, Italy |
Italian musician and composer |
| Zanotti (Janotus), Camillio |
1545
Cesena |
1591
Prague |
one of the less well known sixteenth-century composers. He worked as a singer. He lived in Prague from 1588, and he drew pay there as magister secundarius. To Rudolf II, Zanotti dedicated a madrigal on a text by Torquato Tasso, dated 30 April 1587. He was celebrated by Czech humanist poet Salamoun Franzellus of Fridental. His Tirsi mirir volea madrigal is based on the text by Batista Guarini of Italy |
| Zanotti, Giovanni (Calisto Andrea) | 14 Oct. 1738
Bologna | 1 Nov. 1817
Bologna | Italian composer |
| Zapater, Rosaria |
1840
Spain |
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a singer of note as well as a poet. Published songs and vocal and piano method instructions |
Zapf, Helmut
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4 Mar. 1956
Rauschengesees, Germany |
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German organist and composer of mostly orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, organ and electroacoustic works |
Zappa, Francesco
more... |
fl. 1763-1788 |
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Italian cellist and composer. This composer's name is the title of an album produced in 1984 in which Frank Zappa (suggesting a family association) performed original music by Francesco Zappa on a synclavier, although on the sleeve, credit is given to the 'Barking Pumpkin Digital Gratification Consort' with Frank Zappa, conductor |
Zappa, Frank (Francis Vincent)
more... |
21 Dec. 1940
Baltimore, Md., U.S. |
4 Dec. 1993
Los Angeles, California |
American composer and rock musician with 'Mothers of Invention' |
| Zarate, Eliodoro Ortiz de | 29 Dec. 1865
Valparaiso | 27 Jun. 1953
Santiago | Chilean composer |
Zardo, Nicolò Redento
more... | 11 Sep. 1866
Crespano, Italy | 8 Aug. 1908
St. Petersburg, Russia | the fifth of six brothers, Nicolò was a pianist and composer who became piano teacher to Grand Duchesses Anastasia, Tatiana and Maria, the daughters of Czar Nicholas II |
| Zarebski, Juliusz |
28 Feb. 1854 |
15 Sep. 1885 |
one of the most prominent Polish musicians of the post-Chopin era, he studied with Liszt in Rome and Weimar and was also involved in the invention of the piano with two reversed keyboards built by the Mangeot brothers. His musical output comprises about 50 items, mainly piano works for two or four hands |
| Zaremba, Nikolay Ivanovich | 15 Jun. 1821
Vitebsk, Belarus | 8 Sep. 1879
St. Petersburg, Russia | Russian composer and teacher |
| Zarins, Margers (Margeris) | 24 May 1910
Jaunpiebalga, Latvia | | Latvian composer |
Zarlino, Gioseffo
more... |
31 Jan. or 22 Mar. 1517
Chioggia, Italy |
4 Feb. 1590
Venice, Italy |
Italian music theorist and composer of the Renaissance. He was possibly the most famous music theorist between Aristoxenus and Rameau, and made a large contribution to the theory of counterpoint as well as to musical tuning |
| Zavateri, Lorenzo Gaetano |
6 Aug. 1690
Bologna, Italy |
1764 |
Italian composer |
| Zavertal (or Zavrtal), Ladislao (Ladislas, Ladislaw) (Joseph Philip Paul) (Josef Filip Pavel) | 29 Sep. 1849
Milan, Italy | 29 Jan. 1942
Cadenabbia | Italian composer |
| Zavrtal (or Sawerthal), Josef Rudolf | 5 Nov. 1819
Polepy, nr. Litomerice | 3 May 1893
Litomerice | Czech composer |
| Zavrtal, Václav (Wenceslas, Venceslao, Wenceslaw) Hugo | 31 Aug. 1821
Polepy, nr. Litomerice | 8 Sep. 1899
Litomerice | Czech composer |
Zawadzka (or Zwadzka-Golosz), Anna
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1 Dec. 1955
Krakow, Poland |
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Polish composer whose output comprises a wide diversity of musical genres, with an emphasis on instrumental chamber music and electro-acoustic works |
Zawinul, Joe
more... |
7 Jul. 1932
Vienna, Austria |
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jazz keyboard-player and composer who emigrated to the US in 1959, formed the group "Weather Report", and is considered, by many, the fusion artist of his generation |
Zaza, Paul James
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pianist, bass guitarist who has been scoring Hollywood film scores since 1979. Zaza runs a state-of-the-art post-production facility, Zaza Sound Productions Ltd. in Toronto. To date he has over 160 feature films, television series and specials to his credit, including Porky's, Meatballs III, Prom Night, Derby, Baby Geniuses, The Rage and Grizzly Falls. Zaza is the recipient of Canada's prestigious Genie Award as well as several SOCAN awards. He won a Movie Music UK Award (2003) for his TV score for I'll Remember April |
Zbinden, Julien-Francois
more... |
11 Nov. 1917
Rolle, nr. Geneva, Switzerland |
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Swiss composer |
Ze, Tom
(born Antônio José Santana Martins) |
1936
Bahia, Brazil |
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a Brazilian songwriter and composer who was very influential in the Tropicalia (melange of bossa nova, rock and roll, Bahia folk music, and Portuguese Fado) movement who worked with Caetano Veloso Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, and Maria Bethânia |
| Zech, Frederick, Jr. | 10 May 1858
Philadelphia, USA | 25 Oct. 1926
San Francisco | American composer |
Zechberger, Günther
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1951
Zams, Tyrol, Austria |
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Austrian composer |
Zeches, Michael
more... |
1966
Luxembourg |
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primary school teacher and composer from Luxembourg |
Zechlin, Ruth
more... |
22 Jun. 1926
Grosshartmannsdorf near Frieburg, Germany |
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brought up and educated in the former East Germany, Zechlin nevertheless, trod her own path becoming professor of composition at the Hanns Eisler music academy in East Berlin |
| Zechner, Johann Georg |
9 Apr. 1716
Gleisdorf |
7 Jun. 1778
Stein an der Donau |
German composer |
| Zeckwer, Camille | 26 Jun. 1875
Philadelphia | 7 Aug. 1924
Southampton, N.Y. | American composer |
| Zehm, Friedrich |
22 Jan. 1923
Neusalz an der Oder, Germany |
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he began studying music with Walther Lampe (piano) and Friedrich Frischenschlager (theory) at the Salzburg Mozarteum. Although seriously wounded during the War he was able to return to his studies in 1945 studying privately Detlef Kraus (piano) in Hamburg. Form 1946 to 1948 he taught music at the Landerziehungsheim Unterschondorf at Lake Ammer. From 1948 Zehm continued his studies at the Freiburg Music Academy, with Harald Genzmer (composition) and Edith Picht-Axenfeld (piano) both strong influences on him. From 1953 until 1956 he lived in Freiburg as a private music teacher, pianist and composer. From 1963 to 1985 Zehm worked as reader and editor for the Schott publishing house. During this period he also taught composition at the Department of Music at the University of Mainz (1980-1982) |
Zehm, Norbert
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26 Mar. 1962
Innsbruck, Austria |
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Austrian composer |
| Zeidman, Boris | 10 Feb. 1908
St. Peterburg | 30 Dec. 1981
Tashkent | Russian-born composer |
Zeisel (or Zeisl), Eric(h)
more... |
18 May 1905
Vienna, Austria |
18 Feb. 1959
Los Angeles, USA |
Austrian-born composer who fled to Paris in November 1938, and finally reached the US in September 1939. His work forms part of the tradition of late Romanticism and is based on Biblical themes |
| Zelenka, István | 30 Jul. 1936
Budapest, Hungary | | Hungarian composer |
Zelenka, Jan Dismas
more... |
baptised 16 Oct. 1679
Lounovice |
23 Dec. 1745
Dresden |
Czech composer and double-bass player who became court musical director at Dresden; wrote 21 masses, motets, chamber music and a number of instrumental concertos |
Zelenski, Wladislaw
more... |
6 Jul. 1837
Grodkowice, near Kraków, Poland |
23 Jan. 1921
Kraków, Poland |
Polish composer, particularly of operas |
| Zelibor, Gustav |
10 Jan. 1903
Vienna, Austria |
28 Dec. 1978
Vienna, Austria |
pianist, composer and conductor who was, from 1953, resident composer at the Theater in der Josefstadt, the Kammerspiele and the Kleine Komödie, all in Vienna |
| Zelinka, Jan Evangelista | 13 Jan. 1893
Prague | 30 Jun. 1969
Prague | Czech composer |
Zeljenka, Ilja
more... |
21 Dec. 1932
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia |
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Czech composer |
Zellbell, Ferdinand (ii) den yngre
more... |
3 Sep. 1719
Stockholm, Sweden |
21 Apr. 1780
Stockholm, Sweden |
Swedish organist and composer |
| Zeller, Carl (Johann Adam) |
19 Jul. 1842
St. Peter in der Au, Austria |
17 Aug. 1898
Beden bei Wein, Austria |
Zeller led an unusual double life as a civil service bureaucrat and a successful composer. He wrote eight operettas, including Joconde (1876), Der Vagabund (1886) and the popular Der Vogelhandler (1891) and Der Obersteiger (1894). A perjury charge led to prison and public disgrace. Zeller died soon afterward at age 56 |
Zelter, Carl Friedrich
more... |
11 Dec. 1758
nr. Berlin |
15 May 1832
Berlin |
German composer mainly of vocal music including settings of Goethe which the poet admired; one of the establishers of German Lied, teacher of Mendelssohn and champion of J.S. Bach when this was considered unfashionable |
| Zelwecker, Franz |
8 Jan. 1911
Vienna, Austria |
16 Aug. 1998
Vienna, Austria |
conductor, composer who worked in broadcasting in Austria from 1934, was musical director at the court of the Emperor in Addis Ababa from (May/June 1950—January 1957) and founded the Ethiopian National Theatre and an association of music lovers in Addis Ababa |
Zelwer, Jean Marc
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1960
Paris, France |
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Kumpania Zelwer is the brainchild of composer and multi-instrumentalist Jean-Marc Zelwer. Zelwer plays everything from nyckelharpa to santur to glass xylophone. His eight-piece band plays everything from washboard to toy piano to singing saw. This eclectic assortment of household appliances yields a colorful pastiche of sound. Zelwer and his company also use accordion, cello, trumpet, violin and tuba to create a sound that mixes elements of klezmer, cabaret, and street theatre, with touches of gypsy and Breton music for good measure |
Zemlinsky, Alexander von
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14 Oct. 1871
Vienna, Austria |
15 Mar. 1942
Larchmont, NY, USA |
noted conductor and composer of 6 operas, symphonies and chamber music who was brother-in-law to Arnold Schönberg |
Zemzaris, Imants
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14 Apr. 1951
Riga, Latvia |
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studied composition with Adolfs Skulte at Latvian Music Academy and now teaches composition at Emils Darzins music school. His favourite genre is instrumental chamber music and music for theatre. He also makes frequent contributions to music criticism and writes essays |
Zenamon, Jaime Mirtenbaum
more... |
1953
La Paz, Bolivia |
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guitarist and composer who studied in Israel and Europe but now lives in Curitiba, Brazil |
Zender, (Johannes Wolfgang) Hans
more... |
22 Nov. 1936
Wiesbaden |
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German composer and conductor |
| Zenger, Max |
2 Feb. 1837
Munich, Bavaria |
18 Nov. 1911
Munich, Bavaria |
German-Bavarian conductor and composer |
| Zepler, Bogumil | 6 May 1858
Wroclaw | 17 Aug. 1918
Krummhübel im Riesengebirge | Polish-born composer |
| Zeugherr (or Zeugherr, Herrmann), Jakob | 20 Jul. 1803
Zurich | 15 Jun. 1865
Liverpool, England | Swiss-born composer |
| Zhang, Xiaofu | 1954 | | after studying in France, he founded China's first
Centre for Electro-Acoustic Music at the Central Conservatory in Beijing |
| Zhao, Jiping |
1945
Gansu Province, China |
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Chinese composer, particularly of the film scores for about 40 films, among which 13 have won a variety of major awards both in China and abroad. His soundtrack for Five Girls and a piece of String won the prize for the best music at Nantes Film Festival held in France. The Red Sorghum won the Golden Bear Award at the International Film Festival held in Berlin. Farewell My Concubine won the Golden Palm at Ghana International Film Festival and The Lawsuit of Qiuju won the Golden Lion Award at Venice International Film Festival. He also wrote the score to Farewell My Concubine. Many of his works combine a Western orchestra with traditional Chinese instruments such as the erh-hu (a two-string bowed fiddle), also called a Chinese violin, p'i-p'a (a lute played vertically) and the banhu (a Chinese string instrument) |
| Zhelobinsky (or Zjelobinsky, Zjelobinskij, Jelobensky, Jelobinski), Valery (Viktorovich) | 27 Jan. 1913
Tambov, Russia | 13 Aug. 1946
Leningrad
Russia | Russian composer |
| Zhiganov, Nazib Gayazovich | 15 Jan. 1911
Uralsk, Kazakhstan | 2 Jun. 1988
Kazan, Kazakhstan | Kazakhstan-born composer |
| Zhitomirsky, Alexander | 1881
Cherson, Russia | 16 Dec. 1937
Leningrad, Russia | Russian composer |
| Zhivotov, Alexey Semyonovich | 14 Nov. 1904
Kazan, Kazakhstan | 27 Aug. 1964
Leningrad, Russia | Kazakhstan-born composer |
Zhou, Long
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8 Jul. 1953
Beijing, China |
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Chinese-born American composer of orchestral, chamber and vocal works. He emigrated to the USA in 1985 and is now an American citizen |
| Zhu, Jian'Er |
1922
China |
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resident composer of the Shanghai Symphony since 1975, Zhu has long supported young composers and contemporary music. Although his own compositions are heavily influenced by folk music of Yunnan, Tibet and Guizhou, he tirelessly explores new ideas and techniques. Politics prevented him from writing his first symphony until 1986, when he was 64; he has since added nine more |
Zhukov, Sergei
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30 Aug. 1951
Zhitomir, Ukraine |
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studying at the musical college in Zhitomir until 1973, he graduated from the Department of Composition of Moscow State Conservatory in 1978. In 1980 he finished a postgraduate course |
| Zhukovsky, German Leont'yevich | 13 Nov. 1913
Radzivilovo, Volhynia | 15 Mar. 1976
Kiev | Russian composer |
Zhurbin, Alexander
more... |
7 Aug. 1945
Tashkent, Uzbekistan |
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Russian composer, particularly noted for his film scores, operas, ballets and musicals |
Zhurbin, Lev (Ljova)
more... |
1978
Moscow, Russia |
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Russian-born violist and composer, Ljova Zhurbin is son of the composer Alexander Zhurbin and the poet Irena Ginzburg. In 1990, Ljova's family moved to New York, where he currently lives |
| Ziani, Marc'Antonio (Marco Antonio) |
c.1653
Venice, Italy |
22 Jan. 1715
Vienna, Austria |
taught by his uncle, Pietro Andrea Ziani, by 1686 he had been appointed maestro di capella at Santa Barbara in Mantua, where Antonio Caldara was one of his pupils. After some years he moved back to Venice. At the end of the seventeenth-century he was famous and considered the leading opera composer in Venice. In 1700 he became vice-maestro di capella at the imperial court in Vienna; in 1712 he was promoted to maestro di capella |
| Ziani, Pietro Andrea |
before 21 Dec. 1616
Venice, Italy |
12 Feb. 1684
Naples, Italy |
Italian organist and composer, who, in common with many Italian musicians of the period, worked outside Italy. Ziani made his way from Venice to Bergamo, and thence to Innsbruck, Vienna, Kromeritz, Dresden before returning once again to Venice. He moved finally to Naples where he was appointed maestro della Cappella Reale. His works reflect on some occasions the conservative taste of his northern patrons while on others, an altogether lighter vein which he, a master of the opera buffa, exhibited in his stage works |
| Zich, Otakar |
25 Mar. 1879
Králové Mestec, Czechoslovakia |
9 Jul. 1934
Oubenice, nr. Bemesov |
composer of operas, choral music and songs as well as a student of Czech folk music |
| Zichy, Géza, Count Vasony-Keö |
23 Jul. 1849
Sztára, Hungary |
15 Jan. 1924
Budapest, Hungary |
Jungarian lawyer who studied piano with Liszt; lost his right-hand while still a boy and became a noted performer using only his left hand; wrote a left-hand concerto and several operas |
Ziegler, Matthias
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Swiss flautist and composer, an exponent of the Kingma quarter-tone system flute and larger bass and contra-bass flutes |
Ziehrer, C(arl) M(ichael)
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2 May 1843
Vienna, Austria |
14 Nov. 1922
Vienna, Austria |
a gifted pianist, he first earned his living playing in a dancing school. At the age of 27, he was appointed bandmaster of an Austrian army unit and, eight years later, he formed an orchestra in Vienna, attracting many of the finest musicians from the orchestra of the Strauss family. The resulting feud with them added nothing to his reputation. Even so, and allowing for the fact that many of his earlier compositions have not survived, he composed 24 operettas, over 400 works for the ballroom, and more than 70 marches. The last to hold the position of Director of Music for the Imperial-Royal Court Balls by royal decree, he was the only non-Strauss to achieve this. He died penniless, the last survivor of the so called composers of the Golden era, but his music remains popular today |
Zielinska, Lidia
more... |
9 Oct. 1953
Poznan, Poland |
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Polish violinist and composer. In the 1995/96 season she was the composer-in-residence at the EMS (Electronic Music Studio) in Stockholm, and for a piece produced there, Like These White Mice, she was awarded a prize at the International Competition of Electroacoustic Music in Bourges |
Zielenski, Mikolaj
more... |
c.1550
Poland |
1615 |
one of Poland's leading early baroque composers who from 1608 to 1615 worked in the service of the Archbishop of Gniezno, who at the King's instigation sent him to study in Venice with Gabrieli. Venetian influence is present in his volume of Offertory settings, all for two 4-part choirs (except for a Magnificat for three choirs with eight trombones, which was performed at the Chopin centenary celebrations at Lwow in 1910). His Communion settings are more varied, including polyphonic pieces in three to seven parts, and solos and duets, with and without instruments; the volume also contains the earliest known Polish instrumental fantasias |
| Zielinski, Maciej |
1734 |
1821 |
a Polish composer of Slovak origin, he wrote eight operas, including Poland's first opera performed in a public theatre |
| Zielinski, Maciej |
1971
Warsaw, Poland |
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winner of the Alan Bush Composition Prize in 1999 for his work Lutoslawski in Memoriam for oboe and piano |
Zieritz, Grete von
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10 Mar. 1899
Vienna, Austria |
26 Nov. 2001
Berlin, Germany |
she joined Franz Schreker's composition class in 1926. By 1928, she had already been honoured with the Mendelssohn State Prize. In 1979, she received the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the GEMA Honorary Medal in 1982. Her musical oeuvre included about 300 compositions |
| Zilberts, Zavel (or Savelii) | 1881
Karlin, nr. Pinsk, Russia | 25 Apr. 1949
New York, USA | Russian composer, conductor and cantor |
| Zilcher, Hermann (Karl Josef) |
18 Aug. 1881
Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany |
17 Jan. 1948
Würzburg, Germany |
German composer and pianist; works include symphonies, concertos, chamber music, piano music, songs and an oratorio |
| Zillig, Winfried (Petrus Ignatius) |
1 Apr. 1905
b-Würzburg, Germany |
17 Dec. 1963
Hamburg, Germany |
German opera composer, writer and conductor. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau speaking of Zillig’s opera Troilus und Cressida commented that 'the composer was very angry because his music was considered too beautiful. You see, Zillig was Schönberg’s student; it was expected that a student of Schönberg write atonal music. Zillig, however, did not.' Zillig completed his teacher's oratorio Die Jakobsleiter (Jacob's Ladder) |
| Zimbalist, Efrem (Alexandrovich) |
21 Apr. 1889
Rostov-on-Don, Russia |
22 Feb. 1985
Reno, Nevada, USA |
studied violin with Auer; settled in the US; his compositions include a violin concerto; called 'senior' to ditinguish him from his actor son Efraim Zimbalist Jr. |
Zimmer, Hans (Florian)
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12 Sep. 1957
Frankfurt, Germany |
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Hans Zimmer is a pioneer in the use of digital synthesizers, advanced computer technology, electronic keyboards and their successful integration with the traditional orchestra in music for film and television. He has written over 100 film score |
| Zimmer, Ján | 16 May 1926
Ruzomberok | | Slovakian composer |
Zimmerli, Patrick
more... | 21 Jul 1968
Bronxville, NY, USA | | New York-based composer Patrick Zimmerli has been active in jazz and classical music since 1986. In fall 2005, Zimmerli presented a biweekly concert series at Triad on New York's Upper West Side. Entitled Emergence, the series featured his nine-piece ensemble of string quartet, jazz quartet, and electronics
[entry prompted by Kirsten Taylor] |
| Zimmerman, Charles A. |
1861 |
1916 |
composer of military marches and popular music |
| Zimmermann, Anton | c.1741 | 16 Oct. 1781
Bratislava | Slovakian composer |
| Zimmermann, Bernd (Bernhard) Alois |
20 Mar. 1918
Bliesheim, nr. Köln |
10 Aug. 1970
Königsdorf, nr. Köln |
German composer who was a pupil of Jarnach, Fortner and Leibowitz; prolific writer of symphonies, concerti for strings as well as Requiem for a young poet for speaking and singing choruses, solo singers, jazz group, organ, orchestra and electronics |
Zimmermann, Bruce
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Zimmerman began his career over 14 years ago, after attaining a Doctorate of Music from the Hartt School of Music in West Hartford, Connecticut in 1986. Zimmerman composes music for film, documentary, corporate, commercial, multimedia and children's projects. He has scored over 500 programs for clients such as AT&T, IBM, PBS, Connecticut Public Television, FOX Network, The Learning Channel, MasterCard, Pratt and Whitney, Random House, Sony Kids Music, Simon & Schuster, McGraw Hill and Warner Brothers. Zimmerman works with both MIDI, high end samples and acoustic instrumentation. He often conducts his own scores and works extremely well with other musicians. Zimmerman is comfortable in most genres of music including jazz, classical, ethnic/world music, children's music and most contemporary styles. Zimmerman has won three Emmy Awards for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Original Music Composition for his work in Public Television
[taken from his web site] |
| Zimmermann, Louis |
19 Jul. 1873 |
6 Mar. 1954 |
violinist and composer |
| Zimmermann (or Zimmerman), Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume |
19 Mar. 1785
Paris, France |
29 Oct. 1853
Paris, France |
father-in-law of composer Charles Gounod. Piano teacher at the Paris Conservatoire and composer whose works included the opera Nausicaa and l'Enlèvement |
| Zimmermann, Udo |
6 Oct. 1943
Dresden, German |
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German composer and music director |
Zimmermann, Walter
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15 Apr. 1949
Schwabach, Franconia |
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early studies on oboe, violin, piano; first composition at age of 12. Composition studies with Werner Heider in Nuremberg , and pianist in Heider's ars nova ensemble, 1968-70. Briefly attended Mauricio Kagel's New Music Courses in Cologne. Studied simultaneously at the Institute for Sonology (Utrecht) and the Jaap-Kunst Ethnology Centre (Amsterdam) 1970-73. Computer studies in Hamilton USA, 1974; ethnological research, gathering folk music, especially from American Indian reservations, 1975-6. Founded Beginner Studio in Cologne 1977; organised concert series there till 1984. From 1982, composition teacher at the Liège Conservatoire, taught at Darmstadt Summer Courses 1982-84, teaching post at Royal Conservatoire den Haag 1988, from 1990 composition teacher in Karlsruhe, visiting professor at Folkwangshochschule 1992-93, from 1993 Professor of Composition at Berlin Academy of the Arts; he now lives in Berlin and Seidmar (Franconia). Awarded City of Cologne Förderpreis 1980, 'Ensemblia' first prize 1981, Villa Massimo stipendium (Rome) 1987, Schneider-Schott Prize 1989, Prix Italia 1990 for Die Blinden |
| Zinck (or Zink), Hardenack (Hartnack, Harnack) Otto Conrad | 2 Jul. 1746 Husum, Holstein | 15 Feb. 1832
Copenhagen, Denmark | Danish composer |
| Zingarelli, Niccolò (Nicola) Antonio |
4 Apr. 1752
Naples, Italy |
5 May 1837
Torre del Greco, nr. Naples, Italy |
Italian composer of over 30 operas and sacred music; teacher of Bellini, Mercadante and Costa |
| Zingoni (or Singoni, Zingone) Giovanni Battista | fl. 1762 | | composer of two operas performed in Dublin in 1762 |
| Zinnen, Jean-Antoine | 25 Apr. 1827
Neuenbourg | 16 May 1898
Neuilly-sur-Seine |
French composer |
| Zinzadze, Sulkhan |
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Georgian composer |
Zipoli, Domenico
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16 Oct. 1668
Prato, Italy |
2 Jan. 1726
Córdoba, Argentina |
Italian organist and composer, began his musical training in Naples. He moved to Tome in 1696 and became organist at a Jesuit church. After joining the Jesuit order at Seville in 1716, Zipoli moved to Argentina, where he continued to play the organ for the Jesuit church until his death |
Ziporyn, Evan
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1959
Chicago, US |
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composer, clarinetist and Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Music Evan Ziporyn contributes to a broad variety of musical forms. His compositions, performed by the Kronos Quartet, master pipa virtuoso Wu Man, pianist Sarah Cahill and others, are featured on many recordings, including Shadow Bang (2003), written with Wayan Wija (a Balinese puppeteer), and this is not a clarinet (2001). Since taking his Fulbright Fellowship in Indonesia in 1987, he has been involved with Balinese gamelan (Asian percussion orchestral music); in 1993 he founded Gamelan Galak Tika at MIT. He has collaborated as a composer and soloist with Bang On A Can since 1987 and as a performer with Paul Simon and Steve Reich, among others. He arrived at MIT as assistant professor in 1990 and became head of the Music & Theatre Arts Section earlier this year. He has taught also at University of California, Berkeley (1988–1990) and the Yale School of Music (1997–99) |
| Zirra, Alexandru | 14 Jul. 1883
Roman, Romania | 23 Mar. 1946
Sibiu | Romanian composer |
| Zitek, Otakar | 5 Nov. 1892
Prague | 28 Apr. 1955
Bratislava | Czech-born composer |
| Zito, Torrie |
1933
New York, USA |
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pianist, conductor, arranger |
| Ziv, Mikhail | 25 May 1921
Moscow | | Russian composer |
Zivkovic, Nebojsa Jovan
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1962
Yugoslavia (?) |
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Zivkovic completed his master's degrees in composition, music theory and percussion in Germany |
| Zoeller, Carli (Karl) | 26 Mar. 1840
Berlin | 13 Jul. 1889
London, England | German-born composer of operettas, sometime bandmaster of the 7th Hussars |
Zografski, Tomislav
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1934 |
2000 |
Macedonian composer, who took his degree in theory and composition at the Music Academy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1961. Many of his works combine neoclassicism and serial techniques |
Zohrabyan, Ashot
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29 Jan. 1945
Yerevan, Armenia |
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studied at the Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan studying composition with Grigori Yeghiazaryan, where he was later appointed a teacher himself |
| Zöhrer, Eduard |
7 Apr. 1810
Sarleinsbach, Austria |
15 May 1885
Lambrechten, Austria |
composer and author of vernacular literature |
Zoilo, Annibale
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c.1537
Rome, Italy |
1592
Loreto, Italy |
Italian composer and singer of the late Renaissance Roman School. He was a contemporary of Palestrina, writing music in a closely related style, and was a prominent composer and choir director in Rome in the late 16th century. In addition to his sacred music, he published two books of madrigals. One of his madrigals, Chi per voi non sospira acquired considerable fame, being reprinted in many collections; in addition it was used by Vincenzo Galilei in his Fronimo: dialogo ... sopra l'arte del bene intavolare in a lute intabulation |
| Zoller, Franz Karl |
4 Sep. 1748
Klagenfurt, Austria |
18 Nov. 1829
Innsbruck, Austria |
writer of dialect poetry who also wrote songs (some of them in dialect), for example the Spingeser Schlachtlied (Kriegslied eines Tyrolers im Landsturm, 1797) during Tyrol's fight for freedom against the French and the Bavarians |
| Zollitsch, Robert |
1966
Munich, Germany |
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Robert chose the Bavarian zither (a 42 string instrument with a five octave range) as his instrument early in his childhood. His studies in music theory, both in Munich and Berlin, strengthened his abilities to create. He made a quick decision to abandon the traditional ways of playing his zither, deciding instead to develop a new style of performance on an instrument steeped in the tradition of his cultural heritage. Robert Zollitsch has adapted this new style to a wide variety of music. His compositions and improvisations have been performed on classical stages, as well as folk and world music festivals and jazz clubs |
| Zöllner, Heinrich | 5 May 1792
Öls, Schlesien | 2 Jul. 1836
Wandsbeck, nr. Hamburg | German composer |
| Zöllner, Heinrich | 4 Jul. 1854
Leipzig | 4 May 1941
Freiburg im Breisgau | German composer |
| Zolotaryov (or Zolotaryoff, Zolotariov), Vasily Andreyevich | 7 Mar. 1872
Taganrog | 25 May 1964
Moscow, Russia | Russian composer |
| Zolotaryov (or Zolotarev), Vasily (Andreyevich) | 7 Mar. 1942
Taganrog | 25 May 1975
Moscow, Russia | graduated from the class of N.A. Lesnoi (button accordion) at the Magadan Secondary School of Music in 1968. Thereupon, he studied composition under R. K. Schedrin (by way of consultation, 1968-69) and under T.N. Khrennikov (at the Moscow Conservatoire, 1971-72). Among his many works are an oratorio (Monument to the Revolution); compositions for symphony orchestra and for chamber orchestra; string quartets; vocal music. His bayan (accordion) works are justly considered exceptionally important repertoire for the multi-timbre fixed-and-freebass button-key accordion |
| Zoltowski, Maciej |
1971 |
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Polish composer who specialises in electro-acoustic music |
| Zonca (or Zonka, Zonga), Giovanni Battista | 1728
Brescia | 1809
Gámbara, nr. Brescia | Italian composer |
| Zonca (or Zonka, Zonga), Giuseppe (Joseph) | 1715
Brescia | 4 Jan. 1772
Munich, Germany | Italian composer |
| Zopff, Hermann | 1 Jun. 1826
Glogów | 12 Jul. 1883
Leipzig | Polish-born composer |
| Zoppis, Francesco | c.1715
Venice | after 1781
possibly Venice | Italian composer |
| Zoras, Leonidas | 8 Mar. 1905
Sparta | 22 Dec. 1987
Athens | Greek composer |
Zorn, John
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2 Sep. 1953
New York, USA |
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composer and saxophone player who lives and performs primarily in New York City. About his work Zorn writes, "My musical world is like a little prism. You look through it and it goes off in a million different directions. Since every genre is the same, all musicians should be equally respected. It doesn't matter if it's jazz, blues, or classical. They're all the same." |
| Zouhar, Zdenek | 8 Feb. 1927
Kotvrdovice | | Czech composer |
| Zubiaurre (y Unionbarrenechea), Valentí | 13 Feb. 1837
Villa de Garay, Vizcaya, Spain | 13 Jan. 1914
Madrid | Spanish composer |
| Zuelli, Guglielmo | 20 Oct. 1859
Reggio Emilia | 8 Oct. 1941
Milano | Italian composer |
Zuidam, Rob
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23 Sep. 1964
Gouda, The Netherlands |
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Dutch composer and music-essayist, in particular for the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad. Since 2001 he is a board member of the Fonds voor de Scheppende Toonkunst, Amsterdam. Furthermore he is chairman of stichting M97, a foundation dedicated to rediscovering works by the old tone poets which were considered lost |
Zulfikarpasic, Bojan
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1968
Belgrade, Yugoslavia |
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Serbian born pianist, Bojan Zulfikarpasic has proved himself a stunning improviser and dynamic composer, capable of harnessing a colourful array of Balkan, North African and Asian folk rhythms to the first principles of small group jazz. The result is an exhilarating and lyrical amalgam, eclectic without being derivative, dramatic but never histrionic |
| Zumaya (or Sumaya), Manuel de |
c. 1678
Mexico |
12 Mar./6 May 1756
Oaxaca |
Mexican composer of the Baroque period |
| Zumpe, Herman | 9 Apr. 1850
Oppach | 4 Sep. 1903
Munich, Germany | German composer |
| Zumsteeg, Emilie |
1796
Germany |
1857 |
a noted pianist and composer whose sight-reading ability was astounding |
| Zumsteeg (or Zum Steeg), Johann Rudolf |
10 Jan. 1760
Baden, Germany |
27 Jan. 1802
Stuttgart, Germany |
pioneer of narrative and dramatic ballad later developed by Schubert; also a composer of operas |
| Zundert, Renaat van | 6 Aug. 1898
Anvers, Belgium | 14 Jun. 1981
Anvers, Belgium | Belgian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher |
| Zupan (or Suppan), Jakob | 27 Jul. 1734
Schrötten, nr. Hengsberg | 11 Apr. 1810
Kamnik | Austrian composer |
| Zurfluh, August |
nineteenth century
Switzerland |
early twentieth century
Paris, France |
Swiss-born guitarist and composer for his instrument |
Zurstrassen, Pirly
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15 Apr. 1958
Belgium |
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studied piano at the Verviers Conservatory from 1977 and later joined the improvisation class at the Liège Royal Conservatory, with Karl Berger, Garrett List, and the Liège jazz seminars in the same institution |
| Zurzolo, Marco |
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Marco Zurzolo is a saxophonist/composer hailing from Naples, Italy |
| Zuylen (van), Belle (Madame de Charrière) |
1740
France |
1805 |
wrote novels, pamphlets, poetry, libretti, and many letters. She also painted striking miniature portraits. Moreover, she was a composer who played the harpsichord, pianoforte and the harp, and she performed as a singer. Music was one of her favorite pastimes and she mentioned in her correspondence with contemporaries that included Mozart, Sarti, Rameau, Rousseau, Handel, Cimarosa, Salieri and Gluck |
| Zvonar, Josef Leopold | 22 Jan. 1824
Kublov, nr. Prague | 23 Nov. 1865
Prague | Czech composer |
| Zwaap, Alexander (see Delden, Lex van) | | | |
Zwart, Jan
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20 Aug. 1877
Zaandam
The Netherlands |
13 Jul. 1937 |
Dutch organist and composer |
Zwedberg, Tommy
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1946
Sweden |
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Swedish composer |
| Zweers, Bernard |
18 May 1854
Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
9 Dec. 1924
Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
Dutch composer and teacher, also known as Gisbertus of Ämstel |
Zweig, Stefan
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28 Nov. 1881
Vienna, Austria |
22 Feb. 1942
Petropolis, Brazil |
an Austrian writer in the 1930s and 1940s of novels and short stories, but also biography, of which his most famous is probably that about Mary, Queen of Scots. He was famously defended by the composer Richard Strauss who refused to remove Zweig's name (as librettist) from the posters for the premiere, in Dresden, of his opera Die schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman). This led to Hitler refusing to come to the premiere as planned; the opera was banned after three performances. Zweig then lived in England (in Bath and London), before moving to the USA then in 1941 Brazil, where he and his wife Lotte died in a joint suicide in Petropolis, despairing at the future of Europe and its culture |
Zweter, Reinmar von
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Ubstadt-Weiher, Germany | after 1248 | Middle High German poet of Spruchdichtung, presumably of knighted ancestry who appears to have spent most of his life in Austria |
Zwilich, Ellen Taaffe
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30 Apr. 1939
Miami, Florda, USA |
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she was trained as a violinist, studying with Ivan Galamian (1903–81). She studied composition with Elliott Carter and Roger Sessions at Juilliard. Her straightforward and expressive music won wide recognition; her Symphony No. 1 (1983) was the first composition by a woman to win a Pulitzer Prize. Her orchestral work Symbolon premiered in Russia in 1988 |
Zwingli, Huldrych
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1484
Wildhaus, Switzerland |
1531
Cappel
Switzerland |
Away with the mumbling of your songs, and neither do I want to hear the sound of your lyre - these words of the Zurich Reformer Huldrych Zwingli signalled a sea-change in the music life of his city. He wrote them in 1523; a year later, all pictures were ripped from the walls of the Zurich churches and the playing of the organ was banned. In 1525, the singing of hymns in church was forbidden too. Just a few years earlier, the city’s two main churches, the Grossmünster and the Fraumünster, had vied with each other to see who could build the most splendid, most expensive organ. But on 9 December 1527, all organs in the city’s churches were torn down. They were not replaced until the 19th century. In the Middle Ages, high feast days such as the anniversary of the death of the city’s patron saints had been celebrated with much pomp and elaborate music, with travelling pilgrims praising the ‘wonderful’ masses that were sung. But the Reformation brought this to an end. Almost all sources of the city’s earlier musical life were either lost or intentionally destroyed. In recent years, it has been suggested that Zwingli regarded the elaborate pre-Reformation church music as no more than a ‘good work’ with which Man tried to attain salvation, and thus should be done away with. Be that as it may, it is certainly ironic that music should have been banned by a man who was himself a great music-lover. He had enjoyed a solid musical education and, according to the chronicler Bernhard Wyss, he played eleven instruments. Zwingli also composed, though only three songs have been handed down that we can be certain are by him, and no autograph survives (of course, none of the songs was intended for use in church). The most famous is Herr, nun heb den Wagen selb (‘Lord, now lift the wagon yourself’), the so-called Kappel Song that Zwingli is supposed to have written for the soldiers at Kappel in 1529. According to Zwingli’s friend and successor Heinrich Bullinger, Zwingli himself set the song in four parts, though only his melody has survived today. When the musicologist Eduard Bernoulli discovered an organ tablature in the Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Zurich Central Library) in 1919 containing two keyboard arrangements of Zwingli’s Herr, nun heb, he first thought that he had discovered Zwingli’s original setting. However, the scribe was in fact one Clemens Hör, a school teacher and musician from St Gall, and the date of his manuscript was probably 1535-40. Besides these two anonymous Zwingli settings, the manuscript contains over forty short pieces set for organ, some of which have only survived in this source. Among the composers represented are Ludwig Senfl, Paul Hofhaimer and Heinrich Isaac. The manuscript was probably not written in Zurich, but it can serve as a good example of the kind of music being practised at home by the educated classes in Eastern Switzerland. The connection to Zurich is assured by Hör’s close friendship with Johannes Fries (1505-1565), who attended the Zurich Grossmünster School from 1527 to 1531, studied philology and music for two years in Paris, and then returned to Zurich to teach at his old school from 1537 onwards. Part-books of vocal music have survived in the Zentralbibliothek Zürich that Hör himself copied and dedicated to Fries
[taken from notes to Zurich Arise!] |
Zwyssig, Father Alberich (or Alberik) (originally Zwyssig, Johann Josef Maria)
more... | 17 Nov. 1808
Bauen, Switzerland | 18 Nov. 1854
Vorarlberg, Bregenz, Austria | a Cistercian monk who composed in 1841 the Swiss Psalm, the present Swiss national anthem |
Zyka, Joseph
more... | c.1730 | c.1791
Berlin, Germany | it is likely that his birth must have been earlier than 1730, for according to Furstenau's account (History of Music and the Theatre at the Electoral Court of Saxony), he had been appointed to the Dresden band in 1743, though Fetis erroneously makes him a member only in 1756. He received his education as Violoncellist at Prague, and belonged, from 1743-1764, to the Electoral band in Dresden. He then went with his son Friederich, who was likewise a good cellist, as chamber musician to Berlin, where, according to Fetis, in 1791, he died; but, according to Furstenau, at the beginning of our century. He is said to have left behind him, in manuscript, several Concertos |
Zykan, Otto M
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29 Apr. 1935
Vienna, Austria |
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Austrian composer and pianist |