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Name	Born	Died	Information
Paakkunainen, Seppo (Baron) more...	24 Oct. 1943 Finland		player of reeds and composer. Paakkunainen studied at the Sibelius Academy in the 1960s and then spent time at the Berklee College of Music and with various private tutors. Paakkunainen has written symphonies based on the Lappish yoik tradition, choir pieces based on the Finnish national epic The Kalevala and its companion book The Kanteletar and big band suites and numerous theatre pieces based on Finnish folk music
Paap, Wouter more...	7 May 1908 Utrecht, The Netherlands	8 Oct. 1981 Lage Vuursche, The Netherlands	Dutch composer [entry provided by L B Venema]
Paassen, Marius van more...	1952 The Netherlands		Dutch pianist/composer
Pablo, Luis de more...	28 Jan. 1930 Bilbao, Spain		Spanish composer
Pabst, (Christian George) Paul more...	15 May 1854 Königsberg, Germany	16/17 May 1897 Moscow, Russia	a German/Russian pianist, composer and teacher [information provided by Olga Bobrovnikova]
Pacelli, Asprillo more...	1570 Vasciano	4 May 1623 Warsaw, Poland	director of the Polish royal chapel at Warsaw (1603-1623) and composer of masses and Sacrae cantiones, the latter published in 1608 and the former published postumously in 1629
Pacheco Huergo, Maruja (real name: María Esther Pacheco Huergo) more...	3 Apr. 1916 Buenos Aires, Argentina	2 Sep. 1983 Buenos Aires, Argentina	pianist, singer, actress and author
Pachelbel, Johann more...	1653 Nuremberg, Germany	3, 6 or 7 Mar. 1706 Nuremberg, Germany	Pachelbel, like Buxtehude, represents the German Protestant tradition in 17th-century organ music, but infused with a southern flavor. He had studied with Kerll in Vienna before assuming a number of positions, the last and most important of which was in Nuremberg
Pachelbel, Wilhelm Hieronymus more...	1685 Erfurt nr. Eisenach, Germany Nuremberg, Germany	1764 Germany	son of Johann Pachelbel, organist and composer
Pachernegg, Alois more...	21 Apr. 1892 Irdning, Austria	13 Aug. 1964 Vienna, Austria	Austrian composer and conductor
Pachón, Ricardo more...	1937 Seville, Spain		flamenco guitarist and composer
Pacini, Giovanni more...	2 Feb. 1796 Catania, Sicily, Italy	6 Dec. 1867 Pescia, Tuscany, Italy	Italian composer, best known for his operas
Pacius, Fredrik	1809 Hamburg, Germany	1891	has been given the honorific 'the father of Finnish music', due probably as much to his efforts as an organizer as to his work as a composer. He was born in Hamburg and studied in Kassel; his violin teacher was Louis Spohr. Before coming to Helsinki, he played violin with the Royal Court Orchestra in Stockholm. In Helsinki, he held the post of music teacher at the University from 1835 to 1867, but he also acted as an organizer in all manner of musical events. He organized orchestra concerts, often appearing as violin soloist himself, and great oratorio performances unprecedented in Helsinki. His opera Kung Karls jakt (The Hunt of King Charles) was the first opera composed and produced in Finland. Its premiere in 1852 was a truly gigantic venture, and because the company consisted mostly of enthusiastic amateurs, the production required no fewer than 74 rehearsals. The production was a huge success, however, and it was also well received in Stockholm in 1856. Pacius revised the work for the Stockholm performances, and for later revivals in Helsinki he revised it yet again on two occasions, in 1870 and 1879. Finland's national anthem, Maamme (Our Land), is also by Pacius
Pacolini, Giovanni more...	late 1500s Italy	c.1600	Italian lutenist and composer. His Tabulatura tribus testudinibu (1587) was published in Milan by Simon Tini
Padbrué, Cornelis Thymenszoon more...	c.1592 Haarlem, The Netherlands	1670 Haarlem, The Netherlands	coming from a musical family, Padbrué entered the company of stadsspeelluiden (city musicians) in his native city of Haarlem, but was dismissed from civic service in 1635 as a result of a long-running quarrel. From then on he supported himself as a freelance musician, and little further of his life is known. He was buried in the Sint-Bavokerk in Haarlem
Padding, Martijn more...	24 Apr. 1956 Amsterdam, The Netherlands		Dutch composer
Pade, Steen more...	1956 Denmark		Danish composer
Paderewski, Ignacy Jan more...	6 Nov. 1860 Kurylowka, Poland	29 Jun. 1941 New York, NY, USA	he studied at the Warsaw Musical Institute and with many Eastern European teachers. He became one of Poland's world renowned pianists and composers. Although his own compositions are well known, Paderewski was widely praised for his renditions of Chopin. In addition to delighting Poland and the world with his music for over 50 years, Paderewski also became one of Poland's great statesmen. He was the chief framer of the Polish Constitution of 1919 and served as Poland's delegate to the League of Nations in Geneva. Upon Poland's Independence, in 1918, Paderewski became its Prime Minister and Secretary of Foreign Affairs. After his death he was interred in the Arlington National Cemetery until such time as his body could be returned to a free Poland - 28 Jun. 1992
Padilla, Alfonso	1956 Chile		composer based in Finland who has written choral works inspired by Latin American music
Padilla, José more...	1889 Almeria, Spain	1960 Madrid, Spain	Spanish composer
Padilla, Juan Gutierrez de more...	c.1590 Málaga, Spain	1664 Puebla, Mexico	Spanish-born composer of New Spain (a viceroyalty of Spain that included modern day Mexico, Guatemala, the Philippines and other parts of Central America and the Caribbean) who worked at Puebla de Los Angeles, Mexico
Padova, Bartolino da (Bartolino of Padua) more...	fl. c1365-c.1405		also Magister Frater Bartolinus de Padua, Italian composer representative of the stylistic period known as the trecento, sometimes known as the Italian ars nova, the transitional period between medieval and Renaissance music in Italy
Padova, Marchetto da (Marchettus of Padua) more...	c.1274	fl. 1305 1319	an important Italian music theorist and composer of the late medieval era. His innovations in notation of time-values were fundamental to the music of the Italian ars nova, as was his work on defining the modes and refining tuning. In addition, he was the first music theorist to discuss chromaticism
Padovano, Annibale more...	1527 Padua, Italy	15 Mar. 1575 Graz, Austria	Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance Venetian School. He was one of the earliest developers of the keyboard toccata
Padrós (Montoriol), David more...	22 Mar 1942 Igualada, Spain		Spanish organist and composer
Padua, Bartolino of (see Padova, Bartolino da)
Padua, Marchettus of (see Padova, Marchetto da)
Paëmuru, Elze Janovna (see Aarne, Els)
Paër, Ferdinando more...	1 Jun 1771 Parma, Italy	3 May 1839 Paris, France	Italian composer who, with Domenico Cimarosa and Nicola Antonio Zingarelli, was one of the principal composers of opera buffa of his period
Paganelli, Giuseppe Antonio more...	6 Mar. 1710 Italy	c.1763 probably Madrid, Spain	Italian composer, particularly of operas, instrumental and volcal works
Paganini, Niccolò (or Nicolò) more...	27 Oct. 1782 Genoa, Italy	27 May 1840 Nice, France	Italian violinist, violist, guitarist and composer. He is one of the most famous violin virtuosi, and is considered one of the greatest violinists who ever lived, with perfect intonation and innovative techniques. He is also widely regarded as the first ever virtuoso violinist. He wrote sonatas, caprices, six violin concerti, string quartets, and numerous guitar works
Pagh, Signor (nom-de-plume of Johann Michael Bach (16481694), son of Heinrich Bach (1615-1692))
Pagoli, Bernardo (see Pisano, Bernardo)
Pagh-Paan, Younghi more...	30 Oct. 1945 Cheongju, South Korea		South-Korean pianist and composer now working in Germany
Pahissa, Jaime more...	7 Oct. 1880 Spain	27 Oct. 1969 Buenos Aires, Argentina	Spanish composer
Pahor, Karol more...	6 Jul. 1896 nr. Trieste	25 Nov. 1974 Ljubljana, Yugoslavia	Slovenian composer
Paik, Nam June more...	20 Jul. 1932 Seoul, South Korea	29 Jan. 2009 Miami, Florida, USA	Korean-born American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the first video artist
Paine, John Knowles more...	9 Jan. 1839 Portland, Maine, USA	25 Apr. 1906 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA	the first American-born composer to achieve fame for his large-scale orchestral music
Painparé, Émile more...	23 Apr. 1882 Berchem, Belgium	14 Dec. 1949 Anvers, Belgium	Belgian composer, cellist and music critic
Painparé, Jules more...	31 Jan. 1830 Thuin, Belgium	27 Feb. 1906 Borgerhout, Belgium	Belgian composer and conductor
Paisible (or Peasable), James (originally Jacques) more...	c.1656 France	1721 London, England	French baroque composer and recorder virtuoso who lived and worked in London for about forty years. He married Mary "Moll" Davis (c.1648-1708) a seventeenth-century entertainer and courtesan, singer and actress who became one of the many mistresses of King Charles II of England
Paisiello, Giovanni more...	9 May 1740 Taranto, Italy	5 Jun. 1816 Naples, Italy	Italian composer of the Classical era
Paiva, Heliodoro de more...	fl. 1552 Coimbra, Portugal (although born in Lisbon)		Portuguese composer, philosopher, and theologian
Pajaro, Eliseo	1915	1984	Philippine composer. He started his musical career by playing in town and school bands. He directed zarzuelas in his home province of Ilocos Norte during summers. At the University of the Philippines, he obtained his formal education in the conservatory of music. Later, he was awarded a music scholarship for graduate study at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where he received his master's and doctorate degrees. He composed operas on a popular Ilocano folk epic "Life of Lam-ang" and the life of the national hero Jose Rizal for which he was honored with the Republic Cultural Heritage Award in 1964 and the Presidential Merit Award in 1966. He wrote "Mir-i-nisa," a full length ballet, which was performed at the inauguration of the Cultural Center of the Philipines (CCP) in 1969. source: http://members.aol.com/ATINYROCK/page15.htm
Pakenham, Eileen more...	1914	2009 Harpenden, nr. London, England	English composer
Palacio-Quintin, Cleo more...	1971 Louvain, Belgium		a flautist who specialises in composition, improvisation and performance. Her extended explorations in electroacoustic music led her to develop a new instrument: the hyper-flute. Interfaced to a computer and software by means of electronic sensors, it enables her to compose novel electroacoustic soundscapes of interactive segments
Paladini, Giovanni Paolo more...	fl c.1540-1560)		Italian composer
Palester, Roman more...	28 Dec. 1907 Sniatyn, Poland	25 Aug. 1989 Paris, France	Polish composer
Palestine, Charlemagne more...	15 Aug. 1945 or 1947 Nrooklyn, New York		American minimalist composer, performer, and visual artist
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da more...	c.1526 Palestrina, Italy	2 Feb. 1594 Rome, Italy	Italian singer, organist and composer. He was the most famous sixteenth-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. Palestrina had a vast influence on the development of Roman Catholic church music, and his work can be seen as a summation of Renaissance polyphony
Paliashvili (or Paliaschwili), Zakhary Petrovich	16 Aug. 1871 Kutaisi, Georgia, Russia	6 Oct. 1933 Tibilisi, George, Russia	Georgian composer, teacher and ethnomusicologist
Paliev, Dobri more...	1928 Pernik, Bulgaria	1997 Sofia, Bulgaria	Bulgarian percussionist and composer
Palinckx, Jacques more...	25 Feb. 1959 Tilburg, The Netherlands		Dutch guitarist, free improvisationist and composer
Pallavicino, Benedetto more...	c.1551 Cremona, Italy	26 Nov. 1601 Mantua, Italy	Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance. A prolific composer of madrigals, he was resident at the Gonzaga court of Mantua in the 1590s, where he was a close associate of Giaches de Wert, and a competitor of his considerably more famous contemporary Claudio Monteverdi
Pallavicino, Carlo more...	c.1630 Salò,Lake Garda, Brescia, Italy	29 Jan. 1688 Dresden, Germany	Italian-born organist and composer
Pallemaerts, Edmundo more...	21 Dec. 1867 Malines, Belgium	20 Apr. 1945 Buenos Aires, Argentina	Belgian composer who became a naturalised Argentinean
Palm, Jacobo Jose Maria 'Shon Coco' more...	28 Nov. 1887 Willemstad, Curaçao	1 Jul. 1982 Willemstad, Curaçao	pianist and organist
Palmartz, Gottfried more...	fl. mid 16th century	Mar. 1602 Parme	Flemish organist and composer
Palmer, Cedric King (see King Palmer, Cedric)
Palmer, Geoffrey J. more...	c.1950s		composer and cellist who teaches at the University of Aberdeen
Palmer, Geoffrey Molyneux more...	1882 Staines, Middlesex	1957 Dublin, Ireland	English-born, Irish composer
Palmer, John more...	25 Sep. 1959 England		composer of contemporary music (acoustic and electroacoustic).
Palmgren, Selim more...	16 Feb. 1878 Pori, Finland	16 Dec. 1951 Helsinki, Finland	Palmgren is chiefly remembered for his piano music, five Piano Concertos and nearly 350 miniatures that have earned him the honorific 'Chopin of the North' or 'Schumann of the North'. His choice of focus was only natural considering that he created a lengthy career as a concert pianist. Palmgren was the most cosmopolitan Finnish composer of his time. He stayed abroad for long periods of time, for instance in Germany and Italy, and from 1921 to 1926 he was Professor of Music at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester in the USA, a post which Sibelius had turned down. Later (193951), Palmgren was Professor of Composition at the Sibelius Academy (formerly the Helsinki Conservatory)
Palol (Palazol or Palou), Berenguer de more...	fl. 1160-1209		Catalan troubadour from Paillol in the County of Roussillon. Of his total output twelve cansos survive, and a relatively high proportioneightwith melodies
Palomo, Lorenzo more...	10 Mar. 1938 Ciudad Real, Spain		Spanish composer
Pandolfi (Mealli), Giovanni Antonio more...	1630 Italy	1670 Italy	Italian composer and violinist
Panhuysen, Paul more...	21 Aug. 1934 Borgharen, The Netherlands		Dutch composer, visual and sound artist, and was the founder and director of Het Apollohuis, and art space that functioned during the 1980s and 90s
Paniagua, Gregorio more...	1950 Madrid, Spain		Spanish composer and player of the viola da gamba, vihuela, lute and hurdy gurdy
Panin, Piotr more...	1938 Russia		Rusian composer
Panina, Marta			composer who published in Bologna in 1706
Pann, Anton more...	c.1790 Sliven, Rumelia (now in Bulgaria)	2 Nov. 1854 Bucharest, Romania	Ottoman-born Wallachian composer, musicologist, and Romanian-language poet, also noted for his activities as a printer, translator, and schoolteacher. Pann was an influential folklorist and collector of proverbs, as well as a lexicographer and textbook author
Pann, Carter more...	21 Feb. 1972 La Grange, Illinois		American pianist and composer
Panne, Wim van der more...	20th century The Netherlands		Dutch organist, teacher and composer
Pannke, Peter more...	20th century		besides composing, performing, teaching, creating acoustic radio art and sound installatioins, he is a well-known broadcaster, writer, editor and festival organizer
Panseron, Auguste Mathieu more...	26 Apr. 1795 Paris, France	29 Jul. 1859 Paris, France	French tenor and composer of romances, operas and singing methods
Pantillon, Francois more...
Panufnik, Andrzej more...	24 Sep. 1914 Warsaw, Poland	27 Oct. 1991 Twickenham, London, England	Polish pianist, conductor and composer
Panufnik, Roxanna more...			daughter of Andrzej, Panufnik, composer
Panula, Jorma more...	10 Aug. 1930 Finland		composer mainly of folk operas for the Ilmajoki Music Festival. Panula's first opera, Jaakko Ilkka (1978) is a setting of a story with a local character, the 16th-century Ostrobothnian leader of a peasant revolt. It is written in a tonal style and quotes folk music. Panula's later operas include Jokiooppera (River Opera, 1982), Peltomiehen rukous (The Ploughman's Prayer, 1984) and Lalli ja pyhä Henrikki (Lalli and St. Henry, 1987). Panula is not only a composer and conductor; he also created a brilliant career in educating young Finnish conductors as Professor of Conducting at the Sibelius Academy
Paolo di Marco more...
Papa, Jacob Clemens non (see Clemens non Papa, Jacob)
Papadimitriou, Dimitris more...
Papandopulo, Boris	1906	1991	Coratian composer and conductor
Papazoglou, Nikos more...
Pape, Andy more...
Pape, Gerard more...
Papen, Alexandre (Alex) more...	7 May 1882 Ekeren, Belgium	4 Nov. 1965 Boechout, Belgium	Belgian composer, organist and teacher
Papini, Paolo more...
Paplauski, Yauhen (see Poplavsky, Yevgeny)
Papot, Marie Anne	1854 France	1896 France	composer and professor of voice, Paris Conservatoire
Pâque, Désiré more...	12 May 1867 Liège, Belgium	20 Nov. 1939 Bessancourt, Belgium	Belgian composer, pianist, organist, conductor, music theorist and teacher
Paque, Guillaume more...	5 Jul 1824 Brussels, Belgium	3 Mar 1876 London, U.K.	completing his studies at the Conservatoire in Brussels, he entered the orchestra of the Royal Theatre in his native town. After some years, he moved to Paris, with the intention of permanently settling there, but an offer received in 1840, of entering, as solo cellist, the Italian Opera at Barcelona, induced him to leave the French capital. Scarcely had he arrived at Barcelona, when he was appointed a Professor of the Musical School. In 1849 he played before the Queen of Spain in Madrid, and in 1850 he travelled in the South of France giving concerts. In the same year he moved to London, where he gained popularity as a chamber music player. He found his particular sphere of work as solo cellist at the Royal Italian Opera, as well as teacher at the London Academy of Music, until his death on March 3, 1876. Amongst his compositions he published several Fantasias, Variations, and Drawing-room pieces [date of birth taken from Dictionary of Belgian composers]
Paque, Jean	24 May 1829 Brussels, Belgium	1899 Brussels, Belgium	Belgian trombonist, composer and teacher
Parabosco, Girolamo more...	1520/4	1557	Italian organist and composer
Parac, Frano more...
Paradies, Domenico more...
Paradis (or Paradies), Maria Theresia (von)	1759 Vienna	1824	virtuoso pianist even though blind from the age of three. She composed with the aid of a pegboard invented by one of her teachers. Of note is the fact that Mozart, Hayden and Salieri all composed concertos in her honour, the latter when she was just fourteen. In 1783 she went on a three-year concert tour of Europe. Reviews of her performances were filled with superlative descriptions of her playing and singing. In 1808 she founded a music school for girls in Vienna
Paradisi, Domenico more...
Paraiba, Canhoto da more...
Parcham, Andrew more...
Pardon, Félix more...	1 Jun. 1851 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Belgium	7 Jul. 1921 Lombardsijde (Flandre Occidentale), Belgium	Belgian composer, pianist, conductor, teacher and music critic
Paredes, Carlos	16 Feb. 1925 Coimbra, Portugal	23 Jul. 2004 Lisbon, Portugal	Portuguese guitarist and composer who said, about his own music, "My music normally has the structure of a song, a cançoneta. It does not mean that I am a composer of small music. I use the word "small" only to define the music for some musicologists. Aesthetically, it is not inferior music." The Kronos Quartet performed Canção Verdes Anos, Romance e Variações sobre uma Dança Popular by Paredes in Lisbon in 1998
Paredes, Hilda more...
Pareja, Bartolome Ramos de more...
Parent, Armand more...	5 Feb. 1863 Liège, Belgium	19 Jan. 1934 Paris, France	Belgian composer, violonist and teacher
Pari, Claudio more...	1574 Salines (Salins-les-Bains), Burgundy, France	after 1619 possibly Sicily, Italy	a Sicilian composer, of Burgundian birth, of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was a competent madrigalist, well regarded by his peers, as well as a late representative of the musical style/ethos known as musica reservata
Parijs, Annelies van more...
Paris, Guillaume-Alexis (Alexandre) more...	c.1756 Liège, Belgium	30 Jan 1840 St. Petersburg, Russia	Belgian-born composer and conductor
Parish, John more...
Parish Alvars, Elias more...
Parisotti, Alessandro more...
Parke, Maria Hester (Mrs. Beardmore)	1775 London	1822	a well-known singer, pianist and composer
Parke, William Thomas	1761	1847	violinist and composer and songs, younger brother of the oboist John Parke (1745-1829)
Parker, Charlie more...
Parker, Clifton	5 Feb 1905	1989	he was largely self-educated. His films included a number associated especially with the sea - HMS Defiant (1962), Mystery Submarine (1962) and, most famously, Sink the Bismarck (1960) whose stirring march was separately published. But there were many other films of which we may instance The Wooden Horse (1950), a famous early P.O.W. film, The Blue Lagoon, The Man Within (1947), Diamond City (1949), The Gift Horse (1952), The Feminine Touch (1956), The Hellfire Club (1960), Circle of Deception (1960) and The Informers (1963). But his output, too, was varied. He wrote a considerable amount for the theatre: incidental music to Othello, a couple of (unison) songs for As You Like It, the dramatic "fairy tales" The Glass Slipper, delicately scored for single woodwind, two horns, violin, cello and percussion, and The Silver Curlew and the "lyric drama" Aucassin and Nicolette. Orchestral works included a light suite The Land of Nod and a Phantasy Suite, Alla Cabana and a Rumba (for piano and orchestra), both in Latin American mood, the popular seascape Western Approaches and music for a radio feature Crab Village. There were songs, both sacred (If Thou Prepare thy Heart, composed in 1934) and secular (My Father's Close, An Old Song Ended and De Sheepfol'), piano pieces (e.g. the Polka of 1936) and violin pieces (e.g. Iquique)
Parker, Evan more...
Parker, Horatio William more...	15 Sep. 1863 Auburndale, Mass. USA	18 Dec. 1919 Cedarhurst, New York, USA	the first Dean of Yale's School of Music, serving from 1904 until his death, Parker's output as a composer is essentially complete in the Papers lodged at Yale
Parker, Jim more...
Parker, Stephen more...
Parkins, Zeena more...
Parkkari, Martti	1938 Finland		composer who has written music for the stage
Parmegiani, Bernard more...
Parmerud, Ake more...
Parra Sandoval, Violeta del Carmen (known as Violeta Parra) more...	14 Oct. 1917 San Carlos, Ñuble, Chile	5 Feb. 1967	notable Chilean folklorist and visual artist. She set the basis for La Nueva Canción Chilena, a renewal and a reinvention of Chilean folk music which would absorb and extend its influence far beyond Chile
Parratt, Walter more...
Parreiras Neves, Ignacio more...
Parrot de Douai (see Douai, Parrot de)
Parrott, Ian more...	5 Mar. 1916 Streatham, London, England	4 Sep. 2012 Aberystwyth, Wales	prolific Anglo-Welsh composer and writer on music
Parry, Hubert more...
Parry, John Orlando more...	1776	1851	Welsh composer, organist, pianist, harpist and teacher
Parsch, Arnost more...
Parsons, Niamh more...
Parsons, Robert more...
Pärt, Arvo more...	11 Sep. 1935 Paide, Estonia		Estonian composer who found it difficult to gain acceptance in the old Soviet era. He was finally able to leave Estonia with his family in 1980. They never made it to their intended destination of Israel but, with the assistance of his publisher in the West, settled firstly in Vienna, where he took Austrian citizenship. One year later, with a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange, he moved to West Berlin where he still lives
Partch, Harry more...
Partos, Odon more...
Parveen, Abida more...
Parys, Georges Van more...
Pasche, William more...	fl. late 15th/early 16th centuries		English composer and church musician. Pasche's works appear in MSS of the late 15th and early 16th centuries; he is represented by a Christus resurgens Mass, written on a Sarum chant, two Magnificats, and a motet, Sancta Maria
Paschenko (or Pachtchenko, Pastschenko, Pasjtsjenko, Pashchenko), Andrey Filippovch	15 Aug. 1885 Rostov-on-Don, Russia	16 Nov. 1972 Moscow, Russia	Russian composer
Pascoal, Hermeto more...	1936 Arapiraca, Brazil		Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist
Pascual, Tomas	c. 1595 Huehuetenango, Guatemala	c. 1635	Guatemalan composer of a villancico found in the Latin American mss. Guatemala (ca. 1570-1635) which consist of 13 bound volumes and two fragments. Pascual was maestro de capilla in northwestern Guatemala
Pasculli, Antonio more...
Pashaloff (or Paschalow, Pashkalow), Viktor Nikandrovich	18 Apr. 1841 Saratov, Russia	28 Feb. 1885 Kasan, Russia	Russian composer
Pashkevich (or Paskevich, Paschkevitsch, Paschkewitsch, Pachkevitch), Vasiliy Alexeyevich	c.1742	20 Mar. 1797 St. Petersburg, Russia	violinist and composer
Pasquini, Bernardo more...	7 Dec. 1637 Massa, Italy	22 Nov. 1710 Rome, Italy	an Italian composer of opera and church music
Passereau, Pierre more...
Pasté, Thierry more...	9 Aug. 1962 Charleroi, Belgium		Belgian composer, pianist and teacher
Pastorius III, (John Francis Anthony) Jaco more...	1 Dec. 1951 Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA	21 Sep. 1987 Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA	American jazz musician and composer widely acknowledged for his skills on the bass guitar, as well as his command of varied musical styles
Paszkiewicz, Andrzej more...	mid-17th century		composer who may be the author of known only as A.P. whose monogram appears on two masses and Cantilena de Passione Domini from 1669
Paszthory, Casimir von more...
Pataky, Hubert more...	16 Feb. 1892 Liège, Belgium	25 Sep. 1953 Berlin, Germany	Belgian composer
Patard, Antonio [Patart] more...	c. 1560 Padova	after 1605 Warsaw, Poland	appointed as a wind player in the Italian chapel at the Warsaw court of Sigismund III (first mentioned in court records in 1598) and conducted his own works performed on the occasion of the wedding of Sigismund to Konstanza, Archduchess of Austria
Patavinus, Antonius more...
Pate, Johnny more...
Paterina, Maria	fl. 1587-1600 Regensburg, Germany		composer
Pathie, Rogier more...	c.1510 probably Cambrai, Flanders	c.1565	Flemish composer and organist
Patterson, Paul more...
Patumi, Daniele more...
Pauels, Heinz more...
Pauer, Jiri more...	22 Feb. 1919 Lubulin, Czechoslovakia		studied first with Otakar Sín, then from 1943 to 1946 at the Prague Conservatory with Alois Hába, and finally with Pavel Boøkovec at the Academy of the Musical Arts. He has composed many operas, symphonies, and further orchestra pieces, a horn concerto and a trumpet concerto, chamber music pieces, and piano piece [information provided by Sergey Camyshan]
Paul, Gene de more...	17 Jun. 1919 New York City, USA	27 Feb. 1988 California, USA	American pianist, composer and songwriter, who was was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song in 1941 for Hellzapoppin and he was one of the composers of the songs and dances for the 1954 musical film Seven Brides for Seven Brothers for which he was nominated for the 1983 Tony Award for Best Original Score
Paulli, Holger Simon more...	22 Feb. 1810 Copenhagen, Denmark	23 Dec. 1891 Copenhagen, Denmark	a Danish conductor and composer
Paumann, Conrad more...	c.1410 Nuremberg, Germany	24 Jan. 1473 Munich, Germany	a German organist, lutenist and composer of the early Renaissance. Even though he was born blind, he was one of the most extraordinarily talented musicians of the 15th century, and his performances created a sensation wherever he went
Pauset, Brice more...
Pauwels, Jan Engelbert more...
Pavia, Heliodoro de more...	c.1500 Lisbon, Portugal	1552 Coimbra	Portuguese monk, organist and composer
Pavlenko, Sergei more...
Pavlov, Evgueni Pavlovich	1894 Moscow, Russia		Russian composer
Pavon, Pastora 'Nina de los Peines' more...
Pauw, Jean-Baptiste de more...	31 Mar. 1852 Brussels, Belgium	10 Jun. 1924 Bussum, The Netherlands	Belgian composer, organist, pianist and teacher
Pauw, Marcel de more...	6 May 1913 Ursel, (Flandre Orientale)	26 Jul. 1963 Gentbrugge, Belgium	Belgian composer and conductor
Pauwels, Jean-Englebert more...	24/26 or 29 Nov. 1768 Brussels, Belgium	3 or 4 Jun. 1804 Brussels, Belgium	Belgian composer, violonist and conductor
Pauwels, Marie-Anne-Jeanne (or Jeanne-Catherine) more...	11 Jul. 1795	18 Jun. 1839	pianist and composer active in Brussels, Belgium
Paxton, William more...			violoncellist and the composer of the well-known glee Breathe soft, ye winds, besides a number of other pieces. Charles Burney praises his "full and Sweet tone, as well as his judicious manner of accompanying the voice." He published amongst his other compositions also six Duos for two Violoncellos (Op. 1), eight Duos for Violin and Violoncello (Op. 2), six solos for Violin (Op. 3), four solos for Violin and two for the Violoncello (Op. 4), twelve easy lessons for Violoncello (Op. 6). and Six solos for Violoncello (Op. 8)., His brother Stephen also composed for the Cello
Paxton, Stephen more...			brother of William Paxton who composed for the Cello
Payen, Nicolas more...	c.1512 Soignies, Belgium	after 24 Apr. 1559 Madrid, Spain	Flemish-born composer
Payne, Anthony more...
Payton, Nicholas more...
Peacock, Gary more...
Pean, Melle	fl. 1770s Paris, France		composer
Pearsall, Robert more...
Pearson, Leslie more...
Pease, F H more...
Peaslee, Richard more...
Peci, Aleksander more...
Peck, Russell		1945 Detroit, USA	a graduate of the University of Michigan, where he also received Master and Doctoral degrees in composition. His orchestral compositions have been performed by hundreds of orchestras in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa, which include the major orchestras of the world. Peck also performs extensively as narrator of his own orchestral works and often appears as a guest artist with orchestras throughout the Unites States. His best known pieces include Harmonic Rhythm, The Glory and the Grandeur, The Thrill of the Orchestra and Signs of Life
Pecorina, Polissena	fl. 1534-1570 Italy		Italian courtesan and composer
Pecou, Thierry more...
Pedersen, Jens Wilhelm more...
Pederson, Mogens more...
Pedrell, Felipe more...	19 Feb. 1841 Tortosa, Spain	19 Aug. 1922 Barcelona, Spain	composer and teacher
Pedrini, Teodorico more...
Pée, Wies (né Aloysius Martinus) more...	13 Jul. 1911 Termonde, Belgium	2 May 1990 Anvers, Belgium	Belgian composer, organist, choral director and teacher
Peebles, David more...	fl. c.1530-1579		Scottish composer and former member of the Augustinian Priory of St Andrews who was commissioned by Lord James Stewart to set the psalm-tunes, "bot he wes not earnest..."
Peebles, Sarah more...
Peel, Gerald Graham more...	1877 Pendelbury, Manchester	1937 Bournemouth	a pupil of Ernest Walker at Oxford, died in Bournemouth where he was in the thirties, an excellent Chairman of the Municipal Choir. He studied at Harrow and Oxford University and was a welfare worker for much of his life. He seems to have been almost exclusively a song composer, of which he produced about a hundred, exclusive of folk song settings, though there were a few piano solos
Peellaert, Augustin-Philippe de (baron) more...	12 Mar. 1793 Bruges, Belgium	10 Apr. 1876 Brussels, Belgium	Belgian composer, painter, designer and soldier
Peerson, Martin more...
Peetermans, Maurits more...	5 Apr. 1903 Anvers, Belgium		Belgian composer, bassoonist and conductor
Peeters Edgard more...	30 Sep. 1906 Bree	23 Sep. 1961 Rakem, Belgium	Belgian composer, choral director and teacher
Peeters, Emiel more...	25 Apt. 1893 Anvers, Belgium	21 May 1974 Buchum, Germany	Belgian composer, violonist and conductor
Peeters, Flor more...	4 Jul. 1903 Tielen, Belgium	4 Jul. 1986 Anvers, Belgium	Belgian composer, organist and teacher, sometimes called the Belgian Dupré or Dupré belge, and considered one of the greatest figures in 20th century Belgian musical life
Peeters, Jozef more...	23 Feb. 1878 Neerpelt, Belgium	30 Dec. 1951 Hasselt, Belgium	Belgian composer, choral director and conductor
Peeters, Marcel more...	18 Sep. 1926 Anvers, Belgium		Belgian arranger and composer
Peeters, René more...	19 Aug. 1909 Neerpelt, Belgium	24 Jul. 1985 Genk, Belgium	Belgian composer, organist, choral director and teacher
Peetrinus, Jacobus (also known as Jacques Pieters) more...	c.1553 Malines, Flanders	c.1591	Flemish composer
Peguilhan, Aimeric de more...
Peiko, Nikolai more...	25 (Old Style 12) Mar. 1916 Moscow, Russia	1 Jul. 1995 Moscow, Russia	Russian compooser whose output included eight symphonies, concerts and many other symphonic pieces
Peirol more...
Peitsalo, Peter	1970) Finland		Finnish composer
Peixinho, Jorge more...
Pejacevic, Dora more...	10 Sep. 1885 Budapest, Hungary	5 Mar. 1923 Munich, Germany	Croatian composer of 58 works
Pekiel, Bartlomiej more...		c. 1670	composer and assistant to Marco Scacchi (Kapellmeister at the Chapel Royal at Warsaw) and succeeded him and held the post from 1649 to 1655
Pelagrini-Celloni, Anna Maria		1835 Italy	singer and vocal teacher who published a Vocal Method in 1810 and several songs
Pelecis, Georgs more...	1947 Riga, Latvia		studied composition with Aram Khachaturian in Moscow before returning to Lativa where he is now a professor of composition at the Latvian Music Academy. Pelecis composes in a very simple but appealing and melodious style, often minimalist or repetitive but still his own style. There is also a clear influence of earlier styles (those from the 14th to 17th centuries) as well as of Latvian folk music
Pelemans, Willem more...	6 Apr. 1901 Anvers, Belgium	28 Oct. 1991 Berchem-Sainte-Agathe	Belgian composer and critic
Pelissier, Victor more...
Pellegrini, Domenico more...
Pellio, Giovanni more...	fl. second half 16th century		composer
Peloponnesios, Petros more...
Peñalosa, Francisco de more...	c. 1470 Talavera de la Reina, Spain	1 Apr. 1528 Seville, Spain	Spanish composer who spent most of his career in Seville, serving as the maestro di capilla, though he also spent time in Burgos, and three years in Rome at the papal chapel (1518-1521)
Penderecki, Krzysztof more...	23 Nov. 1933 Debica, Poland	29 Mar. 2020 Kraków, Poland	Polish conductor, teacher and composer
Penders, Jef more...
Penella, Manuel more...
Penet, Hilaire more...	1501 nr. Poitiers, France	probably after 1530	a French composer of the Renaissance, who worked for at least the earlier part of his life in Rome. Penet is most famous as the composer of Descendit angelus Domini, a four-voice motet which was used both by Palestrina and Costanzo Porta as source material for masses. The motet circulated widely in Europe
Pennario, Leonard more...
Penne, Antoine de more...	end 16th century near Valenciennes, Flanders	after 1616	Flemish composer
Pennequin, Jean more...	c.1540 Arras, Belgium	after 1585	Flemish composer
Pennino, Gaetano Errico more...
Penzel, Christian Friedrich more...
Pepock, August more...
Pepper, Art more...
Pepping, Ernst more...
Pepusch, Johann Christoph more...
Perapaskero, Sapo more...
Peraza, Francisco de II	1564	1598	organist and composer. During the last third of the 16th century, a remarkable innovation was introduced that would alter the character of the Iberian organ forever. Builders began to split one or more stops between the bass and treble halves (normally at c'/c#'), allowing for two contrasting registrations on the same keyboard. Perazas Medio registro alto, calling for a divided registration with the more prominent solo in the treble and a softer sound for the accompanying lower voices, is probably the earliest surviving tiento to specify this technique
Perceval, Jules more...	17 Jul. 1903 Brussels, Belgium	7 Sep. 1963 Santiago, Chile	Belgian-born later naturalised Argentinean composer, organist and teacher
Percy, Robert more...
Pereira, Diana more...
Pereira, Heitor Teixeira more...	29 Nov. ???? Brazil		a Brazilian musician who works as a film music composer at Hans Zimmer's studio
Pereira, Clovis more...
Pereira, Jorge more...
Perepelizyn, Polycarp	14 Dec. 1818 Odessa, Ukraine	14 Jun. 1887 St. Petersburg, Russia	violinist and composer
Perez, Davide more...
Perez Arroyo, Rafael more...
Perez Bocanegra, Juan more...
Perez Roldan, Juan more...
Perezzani, Paolo more...
Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista more...	4 Jan. 1710 Jesi, Italy	16 Mar. 1736 Pozzuoli, Italy	Italian composer, violinist and organist
Peri, Jacopo more...	20 Aug. 1561 Rome, Italy	12 Aug. 1633 Italy	Italian composer and singer of the transitional period between the Renaissance and Baroque styles, and is often called the inventor of opera. He wrote the first work to be called an opera today, Dafne (around 1597), and also the first opera to have survived to the present day, Euridice (1600)
Perissone, Cambio more...	c.1520	1558-1569	French or Flemish singer and composer
Perkinson, Coleridge-Taylor more...
Perks, Oscar more...
Perle, George more...
Perlea, Jonel more...
Pernambuco, Joao more...
Pernes, Thomas more...
Perosi, Lorenzo more...
Pérotin more...	fl. c.1200 probably France		European composer, believed to be French, who lived around the end of the twelfth and beginning of the thirteenth century. He was the most famous member of the Notre Dame school of polyphony
Perrone, Marc more...
Perrot de Neele (see Neele, Perrot de)
Perry, Julia	25 Mar. 1924 Lexington, Kentucky, USA	24 Apr. 1979 Akron, Ohio, USA	Perry attended Westminster Choir College, where she studied voice, piano, drama, and conducting, and received her bachelors and masters degrees. She gained international acclaim for her Stabat Mater for contralto and string orchestra. Her compositions included over 50 works for a variety of solo instruments and large and small ensembles, as well as solo vocal and choral works
Perry, Lee more...
Persichetti, Vincent more...	6 Jun. 1915 Philadelphia, USA	14 Aug. 1987 Philadelphia, USA	American composer, teacher, and pianist. An important musical educator and writer, Persichetti, a native of Philadelphia, was known for his integration of various new ideas in musical composition into his own work and teaching. His students at the Juilliard School included Philip Glass, Hall Overton, Thelonious Monk, Karl Korte, Larry Thomas Bell, Richard Danielpour, Jing Jing Luo, and Ronald Caltabiano. He also taught composition to conductor James dePreist at the Philadelphia Conservatory
Persinger, Shawn more...
Persoens, Josquino more...	fl. 16th century		composer possibly Flemish
Persoons, Gust more...	7 Nov. 1905 Anvers, Belgium	16 May 1971 Anvers, Belgium	Belgian composer, conductor, choral direcor and teacher
Perti, Giacomo Antonio more...	6 Jun 1661 Bologna, Italy	10 Apr 1756 Bologna, Italy	an Italian composer of the Baroque era. He was mainly active at Bologna, where he was maestro di cappella for sixty years. He was the teacher of Giuseppe Torelli and Giovanni Battista Martini
Peruchona (Parruchono, Perucona), Maria Xaveria	Novara		an Ursuline nun who in 1675 published a single collection of music, Sacred Concerti and Motets for one, two three and four voices with violins and continuo (Milan)
Perugia, Matteo da more...	fl. 1400-1416		a Medieval composer, presumably from Perugia. From 1402-1407 he was the first magister cappellae of the Milan Cathedral
Perugia, Niccolò (or Nicolò) da more...	fl. second half of 14th century		Italian composer of the trecento, the musical period also known as the "Italian ars nova". He was a contemporary of Francesco Landini, and apparently was most active in Florence
Pervazov, Andrean more...
Pescetti, Giovanni more...
Peschka-Leutner, Minna	1839 Austria	1896	composer of songs and a set of vocal studies
Pesenti, Martino more...
Pesenti, Michele more...
Pesonen, Olavi more...	8 Apr. 1909 Helsinki, Finland	11 Nov. 1993 Helsinki, Finland	composer of orchestral works that are highly chromatic and contrapuntal, for example, the orchestral work Fuga fantastica (1948) and the two Symphonies (1949, 1953), as well as many vocal works
Pessiak-Schmerling, Anna	1834 Vienna, Austria	1896	a teacher at Vienna Conservatory. Her compositions were frequently performed in Vienna
Pessoa, Fernando more...
Pesson, Gerard more...
Peter, Johann Friedrich more...
Peter Georgievich of Oldenburg, Duke more...	26 Aug. 1812 Yaroslavi, Russia	14 May 1881 St. Petersburg, Russia	scholar and philanthropist. He was also noted composer of music. In 1857 he composed the music for Marius Petipa's ballet La Rose, la Violette et le Papillon. The Pas d'Esclave from the ballet Le Corsaire, which is taken from his score for this work, is still heard in theatres all over the world
Peter, Simon more...
Peterburshsky, Jerzy more...
Peters, Olivier more...
Peters, William Cumming more...
Petersen, Atli more...
Petersen, David more...
Petersma, Wim more...
Peterson, Oscar more...
Peterson, Tommy more...
Peterson, Wayne more...
Peterson-Berger, Wilhelm	1867 Sweden	1942	most loved for his folk music-inspired songs and his three collections of Frösöblomster (Flowers from Fröso Island), with their finely sculpted piano pieces permeated with folklore feelings. He also composed great operas, a masterful violin concerto and five splendid symphonies (especially the No. 2 Sunnanfärd and No. 3 Same Ätnam)
Petersson, Per Gunnar more...
Petit, Jean-Claude more...
Petit, Ninot le more...	fl. c.1500-1520		a French composer of the Renaissance, probably associated with the French royal chapel. Although a substantial amount of his music has survived in several sources, his actual name is not known with certainty. Two identifications have been proposed by musicologists in the latter half of the 20th century. The first possibility, suggested by Barton Hudson in 1979, is that Petit may have been Johannes Baltazar alias Petit, since a singer of that name was in the papal chapel between 1488 and 1502, and his name resembles that in the attribution of some "le Petit" motets in a Vatican manuscript. The second possibility is that "le Petit" may be the same as Jean Lepetit, the singing master at Langres Cathedral between 1506 and 1510. Baltazar died in 1502, Lepetit after 1529; stylistically the music of Petit suggests composition in the first two decades of the 16th century
Petit, Pierre II more...
Petitgand, Dominique more...
Petitgand, Laurent more...
Petr, Vyazcheslav Ivanovich	5 Feb. 1845 Bohmen		musicologist and composer
Petrali, Vincenzo more...
Petrassi, Goffredo more...
Petric, Ivo more...
Petridis, Petros more...
Petrini, Franz more...
Petrov, Andrei more...	2 Sep. 1930 Leningrad, Russia		Russian composer of incidental and film music, vocal music, opera, three ballets, violin concerto, piano concerto, symphonic poem, overture and three suites
Petrov, Petar more...
Petrucci, Ottaviano dei more...
Petrucciani, Michel more...
Petrus de Cruce (see Cruce, Petrus de)
Petrus de Picardia (see Picardia, Petrus de)
Petschnikoff (or Petchnikoff, Pechnikov), Alexander	8 Jan. 1873 Jeletz, Russia	3 (0r 26) Nov. 1949 Buenos Aires, Argentina	Russian violinist and composer
Pettersson, Allan more...
Pettiford, Oscar more...
Petuchov (or Petukhov), Michael	1843	4 Oct. 1895 St. Petersburg, Russia	Russian composer
Petyrek, Felix more...
Petzold, Johannes more...
Peudargent, Martin more...	1525-1530, Huy, Belgium	after 1585	Flemish composer
Peuerl, Paul more...
Pevernage, Andreas more...	1542/43 Harelbeke, Flanders	30 Jul. 1591 Antwerp, Belgium	a Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. He was one of the minority of composers from the Low Countries who stayed in his native land throughout the turbulent period of religious conflict in the late 16th century, and was a skilled composer of chansons, motets and madrigals
Pez, Johann Christoph more...
Pezel, Johann Christoph more...
Pfendner, Heinrich more...
Pfitzner, Hans Erich more...
Pfleger, Augustin more...
Pfluger, Andreas more...
Pfluger, Hans Georg more...
Phalese, Pierre more...
Phaliesen, Antoine (Vander) more...		17 Mars. 1485	Flemish organist and composer who was born in Louvain
Phan, Phuc Quang more...
Pheloung, Barrington more...	10 May 1954 Manly, NSW, Australia	1 Aug. 2019 Australia	he has earned accolades for his attractive music for TV, especially that for the long-running Inspector Morse crime features
Phibbs, Joseph more...
Phile, Philip more...
Philharmonica, Mrs. (pseudonym)	fl. 1715		composer
Philidor, Anne Danican more...
Philidor, Francois Andre Danican more...
Philidor, Pierre Danican more...
Philip, Achille	1878	1959	French organist and composer who studied at the Paris Conservatory and founded the 'Quatuor Français'. Philip was organist of the Abbey Chuch of Val-de-Grâce in Paris from 1903 until 1950 and professor of organ and harmony at the Schola Cantorum from 1904 until 1950
Philips, Peter more...	c.1560 England	1628 Brussels, Belgium	eminent English composer, organist, and Catholic priest exiled to Flanders after the start of the Protestant Reformation. He was one of the greatest keyboard virtuosos of his time [entry corrected by François-Emmanuel de Wasseige]
Philipp, Isidor more...	2 Sep. 1863 Budapest, Hungary	20 Feb. 1958 Paris, France	a French pianist, composer, and distinguished pedagogue
Philippe de Fontaines (see Fontaines, Philippe de)
Philippe, André more...	6 Sep. 1943 Sivry, Belgium		Belgian trumpeter and composer
Philippi, Raimund more...
Philippot, Michel more...
Phillips, Dudley more...
Phillips, U. Utah (born Bruce Duncan Phillips more...	15 May. 1935 Cleveland, Ohio, USA	23 May 2008 Nevada City, California, USA	folk singer and songwriter
Philp, Elizabeth	1827 England	1885	singer, teacher and composer who also published How to Sing an English Ballad
Phinot, Dominique more...	c.1510 France	c.1556 Lyon, France	a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance, active in Italy and southern France. He was highly regarded at the time for his motets, which anticipate the style of Palestrina, and in addition he was an early pioneer of polychoral writing.
Piacenza, Domenico da more...
Piaf, Edith more...
Piana, Sebastian more...
Piatigorsky (or Pjatigorskij, Pyatigorski, Piatigorsky), Gregor more...	17 Apr. 1903 Ekaterinoslav, Russia	6/8 Aug 1976 Los Angeles, California, USA	Russian-born cellist, teacher and composer
Piatti, Alfredo more...
Piazza, Gaetano Felice more...	c.1725 Milan, Italy	after 1775	Italian organist and composer whose dates of birth and death are uncertain. Piazza worked in Milan in the second half of the eighteenth century. In 1775 he was an organist in the churches of Santa Maria in Aracoeli, San Francesco Fuori Porta, and San Damiano. We know he wrote for the organ, for the theatre (Demetrius, Pavia 1750 and The Chinese Hero, Milan 1757) as well as a number of concertos for solo instruments and strings
Piazzolla, Ástor Pantaleón more...	11 Mar. 1921 Mar del Plata, Argentina	4 Jul. 1992 Buenos Aires, Argentina	Argentine tango composer and bandoneón player. His oeuvre revolutionised the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music. He is therefore widely considered the most important tango composer of the latter half of the twentieth century
Pic, Karel Frantisek more...
Picchi, Giovanni more...
Piccinini, Alessandro more...	1566 Bologna, Italy	1638 Italy	Piccinini was taught to play the lute by his father, Leonardo Maria Piccinini. He held appointments at the Este court in Ferrara and with Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini. Piccinini is best known for his two volumes of lute music: Intavolatura di Liuto et di Chitarrone, libro primo (Bologna, 1632) and Intavolaturo di Liuto (Bologna, 1639), the latter published posthumusly by his son Leonardo Maria Piccinini
Piccinni, Niccolo more...	16 Jan. 1728 Bari, Italy	7 May 1800 Passy, France	Italian composer of classical music
Piccioni, Piero more...	6 Dec. 1921 Turin, Italy	23 Jul. 2004 Rome, Italy	a prolific Italian film composer in dazzling styles ranging from lounge to avant-garde. His father, Attilio, a Christian Democrat MP, encouraged Piero to follow family tradition and practise law. But ,while studying, he taught himself music, organised jazz concerts and played piano for the radio, eventually dropping law to become musical director of a radio orchestra. His versatility and speed in scoring radio plays led Alberto Lattuada to suggest film work, though it was Gianni Franciolini who commissioned him for Il mondo le condanna (The World Condemns Them, 1952). Initially Piccioni used the improbable moniker Piero Morgan to distance himself from a drugs and sex scandal involving his father, dropping it in 1957 when the case collapsed, though he further anglicised it to Peter Morgan for Qualcuno ha tradito (Every Man is My Enemy, 1967)
Piccolo, Anthony more...
Piccone, Francesco more...
Picforth more...
Piche, Jean more...
Pichl, Vaclav more...
Pickard, John more...
Pichart, Adrien (see Adrien Thiebault, Adrien)
Picker, Tobias more...
Pickering (Pickeringe), Jane	fl. early 1600s		the Jane Pickering Lute Book is a major source of English lute music from the golden age (1580-1620)
Piefke, Gottfried more...
Pieltain, Dieudonné-Pascal (known as laîné) more...	4 Mar. 1754 Liège, Belgium	10 Dec. 1833 Liège, Belgium	Belgian composer and violinist
Pieper, Rene more...
Pieranunzi, Enrico more...
Piere, Robert de la		1258	Flemish ménestrel
Pireloz, Alexis more...	18 Jan. 1853 Hasselt, Belgium	29 May 1919 Hasselt, Belgium	Belgian composer, conductor and teacher
Pierné, Gabriel more...	16 Aug. 1863 Metz, France	17 Jul. 1937 Ploujean, Finistère, France	organist, educator and prolific composer, a winner of the Prix de Rome
Pierné, Gabriel more...	16 Aug. 1863 Metz, France	17 Jul. 1937 Ploujean, Finistère, France	French composer, conductor, and organist
Pierné, Paul more...	30 Jun. 1874 Metz, France	24 Mar. 1952 Paris, France	French composer and organist who was a cousin of composer and organist Gabriel Pierné
Pierpont, Marie (de)		1896 France	an organist and composer whose works include an opera
Pierquin Beurse (see Beurse, Pierquin)
Pierquin de Thérache (see Thérache, Pierrequin de)
Pierre, Alain more...
Pierre de la Croix (see Cruce, Petrus de)
Pierre de la Rue (see Rue, Pierre de)
Pierrequin de Thérache (see Thérache, Pierrequin de)
Piersanti, Franco more...
Pierson, Martin more...
Pieta (della), (married, Fuggita), Lavinia	fl. 1670s Pieta, Venice		the four Venetian ospedali were orphanages which specialized in music instruction for girls (the boys were not trained in music) from about 1500 until the end of the 18th century. Many works were written specifically for performance by Ospedali girls' choirs and instrumental ensembles, and a number of women who were trained in these schools continued on as teachers, and some including Lavinia composed too
Pieta, Santa Della	fl c. 1725-c.1750		composer
Pieters, Jacques (see Peetrinus, Jacobus)
Pietkin, Lambert more...			composer and organist
Pietri, Giuseppe more...
Pietrobono (real name could be Pierre Boone)	fl. 15th century	1497	instrumentalist, possibly a composer
Pietsch, Edna Frida	1894 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA	1982 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA	received her musical training in Chicago, studying piano with Ida Schroeder and composition with Wilhelm Middelschulte. She studied composition at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music with Carl Eppert, Rudolph Kopp, and Bernard Dieter, in addition to violin and viola with Pearl Brice. She later became a member of the faculty at the Conservatory, where she taught piano and theory to children of all ages and abilities
Pijper, Willem more...
Pike, Jeremy more...
Pilas, Karl more...
Pilati, Mario more...
Pilkington, Francis more...
Pillays (or Pilloys), Johannes (see Pullois, Johannes)
Pillney, Karl Hermann more...
Pilss, Karl more...
Pimentel, Osvaldo Lenine Macedo (see Lenine)
Pinarol, Jean more...	second half 15th century		composer
Pinchik, Pinchas more...
Pinck, Christian Heinrich more...
Pindar more...	c.522 BC Cynoscephalae, Boeotia	443 BC Argos, Greece	the greatest Greek lyric poet, brought choral poetry to perfection. Unlike the personal lyrics of his predecessors, his works were meant to be recited by choruses of young men and women and accompanied by music
Pinel, Julie	fl. c. 1737 Paris, France		composer
Pingoud, Ernest more...	14 Oct. 1887 St. Petersburg, Russia	1 Jun. 1942 Helsinki, Finland	Pingoud never really found a niche for himself in Finnish music. His nonconformist, colourful Modernism and cosmopolitan personality simply did not fit the mould that the newly independent nation had conceived for its great public figures. His few foreign successes included a well-received composition concert in Berlin in 1923 and a handful of performances abroad, most notably the performance of "Le prophète" conducted by Leopold Stokowski in Philadelphia in 1926. Pingoud was above all an orchestral composer. His major works are tone poems, whose titles provide a dazzling vista into the composer's expansive imagination: La dernière aventure de Pierrot (1916), Hymnen an die Nacht (1917), Danse macabre (1918/33), Mysterium (1919), Le prophète (1921) and Le chant de l'espace (1931/38). He also wrote three Symphonies (1920, 1921, 192327) and three Piano Concertos (1917, 1921, 1922), but these are not in his most characteristic idiom
Pinho Vargas, Antonio more...
Pinkard, Maceo more...
Pinkham, Daniel more...
Pinto, Antonio more...
Pinto, George Frederick (born Sanders or Saunders) more...	25 Sep. 1785 Lambeth, London, England	23 Mar. 1806 Chelsea, London, England	English composer and keyboard virtuoso who performed using the surname of his mother's father, the violinist Thomas Pinto
Pintscher, Matthias more...
Piovani, Nicola more...
Pipelare, Matthaeus more...	c.1450 Louvain, Belgium	c.1515 Belgium	a Franco-Flemish composer, choir director, and possibly wind instrument player of the Renaissance. He wrote 11 complete masses which have survived to modern times (although many of the manuscripts were destroyed in the Second World War), as well as 10 motets, and 8 chansons; the chansons are both in French and Dutch
Pipkov, Lyubomir more...
Pirchner, Werner more...
Pirck, Wenzel Raimund Johann more...
Pirenne, Maurice more...
Pironkov, Simeon sr more...
Pisan (or Pizan) (de), Christine	1363	1431	composer
Pisador, Diego more...	c. 1509 Spain	after 1557	Spanish vihuelist and composer
Pisano (or Pagoli), Bernardo more...	12 Oct. 1490 Florence, Italy	23 Jan. 1548 Rome, Italy	an Italian composer, priest, singer, and scholar of the Renaissance. He was one of the first madrigalists, and the first composer anywhere to have a printed collection of secular music devoted entirely to himself
Pisendel, Johann Georg more...	26 Dec 1687 Cadolzburg, nr. Nuremberg	25 Nov 1755 Dresden, Germany	a German Baroque musician, violinist and composer who for many years led the Court Orchestra in Dresden, then the finest instrumental ensemble in Europe. However slight the number of his own compositions, the influence of Johann Georg Pisdendel on music was great. The likes of Tomaso Albinoni, Antonio Vivaldi and Georg Philipp Telemann all dedicated violin concertos to him.
Piskacek, Rudolf more...
Pistocchi ("Pistocchino"), (Francesco Antonio Massimiliano) more...	1659 Palermo, Italy	13 May 1726 Bologna, Italy	for a century, Pistocchi was thought to be the greatest musical prodigy there had ever been; a published composer by the time he was eight, a contralto castrato in the cathedral choir of Bologna in his early teens, and an opera singer of repute for more than twenty years. He wrote at least five full-length operas, though very little of them survives. His great contribution, however, was to found his own school for singers in Bologna. Among those he taught were the castrato Gaetano Berenstadt, who would sing for Handel in London, and one of the very few tenors to make an impact on the eighteenth century, Annibale Pio Fabri. But his greatest pupil was Antonio Maria Bernacchi, a castrato blessed with amazing technique and the ability to perform vocal acrobatics like no other. Pistocchi was not particularly amused by this: "My sadness is that I taught you to sing and you want to play"
Pistoleta more...
Piston, Walter more...
Pitfield, Thomas more...
Pitoni, Giuseppe Ottavio (or Joseph) more...	18 Mar. 1657 Rieti, Italy	1 Feb. 1743 Rome, Italy	Italian musician and composer. He was buried in the church of San Marco, where he had been choirmaster, in the Pitoni family vault. His biography, by his pupil Girolamo Chiti, is in the library of the Corsini palace. At five years he began to study music at Rome. Not yet sixteen, he composed pieces which were sung in the church of the Holy Apostles. At that age he was in charge of the choir at Monte Rotondo; at seventeen at the Cathedral of Assisi. At twenty (1677) he returned to Rome, and was maestro di cappella in many churches; in 1708 he was appointed director of St. John Lateran. In 1719 he became choirmaster of St. Peter's, and remained in that office for twenty-four years. In the Accademia di S. Cecilia he was one of the four esaminatori dei maestri. Pitoni acquired such a marvellous facility, that for his compositions, which were of great musical value, he could write every part separately, without making a score. The number of his compositions, says Chiti, is infinite. Many of them are written for three and four choirs. He also began a Mass for twelve choirs; but his advanced age did not allow him to finish it. He left a work Notizie dei maestri di Cappella si di Roma che oltramontani [information provided by E. M. Wohlbold]
Pitsch, Karl Franz more...
Pittaluga, Gustavo more...
Pittar, Fanny Krumpholtz	1785	1815	daughter of composer Anne-Marie Krumpholtz, Pittar was an English harpist and composer. Her manuscript, published in 1812, displays a wide range of compositional skills
Pixinguinha more...
Pixis, Johann Peter more...
Pizan (de), Christine (see Pisan (de), Christine)
Pizzetti, Ildebrando more...
Pla, Joan Baptista more...
Pla, Josep I more...
Placker, Christiaan de more...	19 Jun. 1613 Poperinge, Flanders	20 Jan. 1691 Anvers, Belgium	Flemish poet and composer
Plaja, Francisco Alonso de more...
Plakidis, Peteris more...	4 Mar. 1947 Riga, Latvia		studying at the E. Darzins special music school with composer and teacher Gederts Ramans, in 1970 he graduated from Prof. V. Utkins's composition class at the Jazeps Vitols State Conservatory. His postgraduate studies were completed in 1975, the composer himself playing the solo part in his Concerto for orchestra and piano for the examination
Plancken Corneille Vander more...	25 Oct. 1772 Brussels, Belgium	9 Feb. 1849 Brussels, Belgium	Belgian violinist, conductor and composer
Planquette, Jean Robert more...
Plantade, Charles-Henri more...	1764	1839	French composer
Plantade, Charles (François) more...	14 Apr. 1787 Paris, France	26 May 1870 Paris, France	French tenor and composer of romances and chansons
Plante, Jacques more...
Planyavsky, Peter more...
Platel, Nicolas-Joseph more...	1777 Versailles, France	25 Aug. 1835 Brussels, Belgium	French-born later naturalised Belgian cellist, composer and teacher considered the founder of the school of Belgian violoncello playing
Platel, Raymond more...	2 Oct. 1906 Ghent, Belgium		Belgian composer, singer, conductor and teacher
Platti, Giovanni more...
Platz, Robert HP more...
Plautzius, Gabriel more...
Plaw (or Placy, Placw, Blan, Blau), Henri (de) more...		1611-1613	singer and composer originally from the Netherlands in the region of Tongres-Maastricht but active in Flanders
Playford, John I more...	1623 Norwich, England	1686 London, England	Londons foremost music publisher during the 17th century and also a prominent royalist [information provided by Tom Murray]
Plaza, Juan Bautista more...	19 Jun. 1898 Caracas, Venzuela	1965 Caraca, Venezuela	a classical composer, he began studies in medicine at the Central University of Venezuela but, after a short period, left in order to dedicate himself to music. His first teacher was Jesus Maria Suárez. He studied in Rome from 1920 and 1923 and obtained the title of professor in sagrada composition. After his return to Venezuela he was named Master of Chapel of the Caracas Cathedral and carried out this position until year 1948. In the Caracas Superior Music School he taught music history and appreciation to composer Antonio Lauro and singer Morella Muñoz
Pleyel, Ignaz Josef more...
Pleyel, Marie-Felicite Denise Moke	1811 France	1875	teacher at Brussels Conservatory 1848-1872. Received the praises of Liszt, Mendelsohn and Chopin and published piano pieces
Plitt, Agathe	1831 Germany		her musical education was financed by Queen Elizabeth of Prussia. She wrote cantatas, motets and psalms
Plog, Anthony more...
Pluister, Simon more...
Plum, Jean-Marie more...	30 Jun. 1899 Liège, Belgium	28 Mar. 1944 Brussels, Belgium	Belgian composer, and organist
Plummer (or Plomer, Polumier), John more...	c.1410	c.1484	English composer. Member of the Chapel Royal 1437-6(7). Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal 1444-1455(?), and a verger and member of the Choir of St George's, Windsor, probably 1458-1484
Pocksteiner, Markus more...
Podbielski, Jan more...
Podgorodetzky, Vladimir (see Pogoreloff, Vladimir)
Poenitz, Franz	17 Aug. 1850 Bischofswerder/Westpreussen, Germany	19 Mar. 1912 Berlin, Germany	at the age of six years Poenitz played harp concertos to ovations in Sweden. A year later he played in Berlin. In the 1860s he was a member of the Court Orchestra in Berlin, and Royal Chamber Musician from 1891. The Nordische Ballade in E-Minor op.33 is perhaps his best-known solo. He published many instrumental works, including Elegie for Violine, Violoncell und Harfe op. 20, Capriccio Op. 73 for clarinet and harp, Vineta op. 74 for harp and orchestra (first performance under R. Strauss), Spukhafte Gavotte op. 75 for two harps, Maskenscherz op. 78 harp solo and Wikingerfahrt op. 80 for two harps. Alfred Holýs Elegie op. 17 was composed in 1911 as a tribute to Franz Poenitz who had been Holýs colleague at the Royal Orchestra in Berlin [information provided by Franz Poenitz' grandson, Andreas Fischer who says that Poenitz died in 1912, not 1913]
Poglietti, Alessandro more...
Pogoreloff, Vladimir	11 ug. 1884 Nikolayev, Ukraine	12 Sep. 1951 Lodz, Poland	Ukrainian composer who used the pseudonyms Podgorodetzky and Porell
Pohjannoro, Hannu more...	4 Jul. 1963 Savonlinna, Finland		in the programme notes for his composition concert in 2000, he said: "My music is usually atonal, with complex rhythms and 'modern' playing techniques. I like to use abstract models in planning a new work."
Pohjola, Seppo more...	4 May 1965 Finland		he favours up-tempo music and rapidly shifting events, and has also managed to cover a variety of styles in the course of his career. He has, as it were, come full circle from the strict Modernism of his early works through a more traditional idiom back to Modernism, albeit in a more relaxed and pluralist vein than in his early period. His works of the early 2000s show a new turn towards more traditional forms of expression
Pohjonen, Kimmo more...
Pohl, Richard more...	12 Sep. 1826 Leipzig, Germany	17 Dec. 1896 Baden-Baden, Germany	a German music critic, writer, poet, and amateur composer. He figured prominently in the mid-century War of the Romantics, taking the side opposite Eduard Hanslick, and championing the "Music of the Future" (the progressive Romantic style of Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner)
Pohl, Vladimir Ivanovich more...	17 Jan 1880 (or 1875) Kiev, Russia	1962 (?)	composer and pianist, educated first in Kiev and later at The Moscow Conservatory. From 1905 he served five years as director of the Moscow section of the Russian Music Society after which in 1911 he succeeded Rachmaninoff as the director of the Empress Maria Music Institute in Moscow. After the revolution he fled Russia and settled in Paris where he was on the Council of The Belaïeff Editions and professor of composition at the Russian Conservatory. Pohl was associated with the circle around George Ivanovich Gurdjieff showing interest in orient literature and Sufi music. He married the singer Ian-Rouban composer and pianist
Pohle, David more...
Poitiers, Guillaume de more...
Pokorny, Frantisek Xaver more...
Pokrass, Dmitry more...
Pokrovsky, Dmitri more...
Polak, Jakub (see Jakub Reys)
Poldini, Ede more...
Poledouris, Basilis more...	21 Aug. 1945 Kansas City, USA	8 Nov. 2006 Los Angeles, USA	film composer
Poleva, Victoria more...	11 Sep. 1962 Kiev, Ukraine		In 1989 she graduated from Kiev State P. Tchaikovsky Conservatory after studying composition with Prof. Ivan Karabyts. She completed her post-graduate studies there in 1995 under Prof. Levko Kolodub
Poliart, Jean-Louis more...	6 Jan 1954 Jemappes, Belgium		Belgian composer and teacher
Poliziano, Angelo more...
Polko, Elise Vogel	1822 Germany	1899	a mezzo soprano who composed songs and piano works. She wrote many books on music and musicians
Pollarolo, Carlo Francesco more...
Pollet, Marie Nicole Simonin	1787 Paris, France		harpist who introduced her compositions on concert tours and wrote a method for the harp
Pollini, Francesco Giuseppe more...
Pollio, Pierre-Louis more...	15 Jun. 1724 Dijon, France	7 Dec. 1796 Soignies, Belgium	French-born composer
Pollmann, Ulrich more...
Polonio, Eduardo more...	1941 Madrid, Spain		founder, together with Luis de Pablo and Horacio Vaggione, of the group ALEA in the 70s and today is one of the main figures in Spanish electroacoustic music
Polovinkin (or Polovinkine), Leonid Alexyevich	13 Aug. 1894 Kurgan, Russia	2/8 Feb. 1949 Moscow, Russia	Russian composer and teacher
Pomanski (or Pomasanski), Ivan Alexandrovitch	11 Apr. 1848 Kiev, Ukraine		Ukrainian composer, harpist and conductor
Pomarico, Emilio more...
Ponc, Miroslav more...
Ponce, Juan more...
Ponce, Manuel Maria more...	8 Dec. 1882 Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico	24 Apr. 1948 Meico City, Mexico	Mexican composer noted particularly for his works for orchestra, guitar, piano and cello [information provided by America Bermudez]
Ponchielli, Amilcare more...	31 Aug. 1834 Paderno Fasolaro, nr Cremona, Italy	16 Jan. 1886 Milan, Italy	Italian composer and teacher
Pongracz, Zoltan more...
Ponomarenko, Igor more...
Pons, Jose more...
Ponse, Luctor more...
Pöntinen, Roland more...	1963 Sweden		Swedish pianist who is also an active composer. In 1998 his Blue Winter had its World Première in Philadelphia and in Carnegie Hall, New York with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Wolfgang Sawallisch
Pöntinen, Stefan more...	Sweden		Swedish composer, violinist and violin teacher. Winner of the TRIADE competition 2002 (Ahrenshoop, Germany) for his piece Kärna
Ponty, Jean Luc more...
Pook, Jocelyn more...
Pool, Philippus more...	1709 Hildburghaus, Germany	25-30 May 1795 Leiden, The Netherlands	in 1734, he became a student in Leyden, Holland. Composer, organ player in the (Walonian) Onze Lieve Vrouwe Church in Leiden. On 8 Jul. 1736 he married Maria Gonoalt [information provided by Jantien Buisman]
Poore, Melvyn more...
Poorten, Arved more...	1835 Riga		he was Kummer's pupil in Dresden, and afterwards attended the Brussels Conservatoire. When he had played during tours in Russia, Belgium, and Holland, he became a member of the Russian Imperial band and teacher at the St. Petersburg Conservatoire. Among his compositions are Six Morceaux caracteristiques for cello
Poos, Heinrich more...
Poot, Marcel more...	7 May 1901 Vilvorde, Belgium	12 Jun. 1988 Brussels, Belgium	Belgian composer, teacher and writer on music
Popescu Branesti, Gheorghe more...
Poplavsky, Yevgeny (Paplauski, Yauhen) more...	1959 Grodno region, Belarus		Belorussian composer of mostly orchestral, choral and vocal works. He co-founded with Sergey Beltiukov, Galina Gorelova, Vyacheslav Kuznetsov, Dmitry Lybin, and others the Belorussian Society for Contemporary Music in 1990 and co-organized the Festival of Modern Chamber Music in Minsk from 1991-95. He has worked with the performance organization Belorussian Capella since 1992, for which he has researched ancient Belorussian music
Popma van Oevering, Rynoldus more...
Popov (or Popow), Gavril Nikolayevitch more...	12 Sep. 1904 Novocherkassk, Russia	17 Feb. 1972 Repino, nr. St. Petersburg, Russia	he studied from 1922 until 1930 at the Leningrad Conservatory with Nikolayev, Shcherbachov and Steinberg
Popp, Andre more...
Popp, Wilhelm more...
Poppe, Enno more...
Poppe, Ferdinand de more...	22 Jul. 1933 Ghent, Belgium	21 Mar. 1998 Zellik, Belgium	Belgian composer, percussionist, choral director and teacher
Popper, David more...
Poppy, Andrew more...
Popy, Francis more...
Porcairages (de), Azalais more...	c. 1140 possibly Portiragnes, nr. Béziers, France		she was said to have loved Gui Guerrejat, the brother of William VII of Montpellier, which suggests that she moved in courtly society. Only one of her works is extant, a poem of 52 lines; no music is attached to it
Porcelijn, David more...
Porpora, Nicola Antonio more...	17 Aug. 1686 Naples, Italy	before 3 Mar. 1768 Naples, Italy	in a career that spanned almost seventy years Porpora worked mainly in Naples, Rome, Venice, London, Dresden and Vienna. He was a maestro at three of the Conservatorii in Naples, maestro di coro at the three main Venetian Ospedale, formed an opera company to rival Handel in London, became Ober-Kapellmeister to the Electoress of Saxony and was internationally celebrated. He numbered among his students Metastasio, Farinelli, Caffarelli, Antonio Uberti (known as "Porporino"), the soprano Regina Mingotti and the composer Franz Joseph Haydn. His output was large, mostly vocal music including more than 40 operas, 12 serenatas, 4 pasticcios, 14 sacred operas or oratorios, around 135 secular cantatas, 40 sacred choral works, 7 masses, 9 solo motets, 13 Marian antiphons as well as various lamentations and duets. His instrumental output was small, most notably a G major cello concerto, F major cello sonata and his opus 2 Sinfonie da camera (London 1736). Despite his success and international fame during his lifetime, Porpora's life ended in poverty
Porell, Vladimir (see Pogoreloff, Vladimir)
Porret, Julien more...	1896 Paris, France	1979 Pessac, France	French cornet player and composer
Porta, Costanzo more...	1528/9	19 May 1601 Padua, Italy	Italian composer of the Renaissance, and a representative of what is known today as the Venetian School. He was born in Cremona and died in Padua. He was highly praised throughout his life both as a composer and a teacher
Porta, John La more...
Portal, Michel more...			multi-instrumentalist (clarinets, saxophones, bandoneon, etc.) and composer who is considered the father figure of the French modern jazz movement. An accomplished classical musician, Portal initiated the free jazz movement in France in the early 1960s
Porter, Cole (Albert) more...	9 Jun. 1891 Peru, Indiana, USA	15 Oct. 1964 Santa Monica, California, USA	outstanding American composer and lyricist
Porter, Quincy	1897	1966	he was involved with the American Composers Alliance, the National Institute of Arts & Letters, the American Music Center, and the Yado festivals in addition to his professorships at the Cleveland Institute, Vassar College, the New England Conservatory, and Yale University (1946-66). He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for musical composition in 1954
Portillo de la Luz, Cesar more...
Portman, Rachel more...
Porto, Pedro do (see Escobar, Pedro de)
Portokaloglou, Nikos more...
Portugal, Marcos more...
Porumbescu, Ciprian more...
Posch, Isaac more...
Poser, Hans more...
Posford, George more...
Posman, Lucien more...	22 Mar. 1952 Maldeem (Flandre Orientale)		Belgian composer, singer, teacher and writer on music
Posse, Wilhelm more...
Possinger, Franz Alexander more...
Post, Martin more...
Post, Peter more...
Poston, Elizabeth more...
Pototsky, Seguei Ivanovich	1883 Russia	1958	Russian composer
Pott, Francis (Dolben) more...	1957 United Kingdom		chorister, New College, Oxford; Music Scholar, Winchester College and Magdalene College, Cambridge. John Bennett Lecturer in Music, St Hilda's College, Oxford, 1992-2001. Administrative Head of Music, London College of Music & Media (Arts Faculty of Thames Valley University), 2001-2002; Head of Composition and Head of Research Development Faculty-wide for Music, Media, Creative Technologies and Art & Design, 2002-. 1st prize, four national composition awards and S.S. Prokofiev International Composing Competition, Moscow, 1997. Works performed in around 20 countries worldwide; represented in print by UMP, OUP, G.Ricordi [London] and Novello & Co; on CD by Signum, Guild and Golomb/CBC [Canada] [email: postbox53@btinternet.com]
Potter, Archibald James more...	22 Sep. 1918 Belfast, NI	5 Jul 1980 Greystones, Co. Wicklow, Ireland	Irish composer and teacher, who wrote hundreds of works including operas, a mass, and four ballets, as well as orchestral and chamber music
Potter, (Philip) Cipriani (Hambly) more...	3 Oct. 1792 London, England	26 Sep. 1871 England	British composer, pianist and educator
Potter, John	c.1734	1813	employed at Vauxhall (c.1764-1777) and composer of songs performed there between 1765 and 1772
Potter, Sally more...	19 Sep. 1949 London, UK		English fim director, screenwriter, performance artist, singer-songwriter and composer
Pottier, Matthias (Mathieu) more...	c.1553	4 Dec. 1629 Bruges, Belgium	Flemish composer
Potulov, Nikolai	1810 Russia	1873 Russia	collector of Orthodox Church music
Poturlian, Artin Bedros more...	4 May 1943 Harmanly, Bulgaria		Bulgarian composer and teacher whose musical studies took place in Sofia and Yerevan. Artin Poturlian has written an opera, two symphonies, Music in memory of Evariste Galois, Mosaics, Elegy, Bagatelles, Poem for organ and symphony orchestra, Concerto for violin and symphony orchestra, Fantasy for piano and symphony orchestra. The composers wife is the concert pianist Anaida Akopian
Poulain, Simon more...	13 Jan. 1906 Louvière, Belgium	3 Mar. 2004	Belgian composer, arranger and bandmaster
Poulenc, Francis more...	7 Jan. 1899 Paris, France	30 Jan 1963 Paris, France	a French composer and a member of the French group Les Six. He composed music in all major genres, including art song, chamber music, oratorio, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music
Poulton, George R. more...	1828 England	1867 Rochester, NY, USA	English-born composer noted for his song Aura Lee, to words by William Whiteman Fosdick (1825-1862), written in 1861
Pound, Ezra Loomis more...	30 Oct. 1885 Hailey, USA	1 Nov. 1972 Venice, Italy	American expatriate poet, composer, critic and intellectual who was a major figure of the Modernist movement in early-to-mid 20th century poetry. Pound was the driving force behind several Modernist movements, notably Imagism and Vorticism. Between 1920 and 1933, Pound, known for his revelatory work concerning the music of language, turned as well to the language of music. Composing two complete operas and several pieces for solo violin, all in a very personal language which drew from sources as diverse as troubadour music and Igor Stravinsky, Pound set texts by Guido Cavalcanti and François Villon which he felt resisted translation, in order to share his appreciation of these poets with his contemporaries. The result is a body of music, still unknown to many, which is of surpassing beauty and casts new light on the practice of prosody, the elusive craft of setting texts to music
Pousseur, Henri more...	23 Jun. 1929 Malmedy, Belgium	6 Mar. 2009 Brussels, Belgium	Belgian composer, author and teacher
Poveda, Miguel more...
Powell, Baden more...	6 Aug. 1937 Varre-e-Sai, Brazil	26 Sep 2000	Baden Powell took guitar lessons as a child. As a teenager, he met samba musicians and started to work on the radio. In the 50s, his attention turned towards jazz, while he performed as a back up musician for singers in Copacabana nightclubs. By then, he had already written songs like Samba Triste, with Billy Blanco. Powell met Vinícius de Moraes in 1962, and the partnership resulted in such pearls as Berimbau, Samba em Prelúdio, Samba da Bênção and the African-samba series, which included Canto de Xangô, Canto de Ossanha and Bocoxê. His peculiar way of playing the guitar - mixing in the classical virtuoso technique with pop harmonies and swing was a radical way of exploring the instrument to its limits, and helped transform him into one true international Brazilian star. Powell established his name in Europe from the 60s, especially in France and Germany, where he lived for four years
Powell, Bud Earl more...
Powell, John more...	18 Sep. 1963 England		a British film score composer
Powell, Jonathan more...
Powell, Mel	1923 New York City, USA		Mel Powell has had remarkable careers in both jazz and classical music, the latter highlighted by a Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for his Duplicates. Forty-two of his arrangements are in the Benny Goodman Papers at Yale
Powell, Richie more...
Powell, Thomas more...	1776 London, U.K.		early devoted himself to music, and studied, besides Violoncello playing, the piano and the harp. In 1805 he appeared with success in his native town as solo cellist, in a Concerto which he had composed. He then established himself in Dublin as a teacher of music He devoted his leisure to composition and earnest study of his instrument. His contemporaries con- sidered him equal to Romberg, though this was probably going Somewhat too far, as Powell's name was scarcely known out of England, while Romberg, by his performances, acquired a world-wide renown. After several years' residence in Dublin, Powell took up his permanent abode in Edinburgh. His published compositions- amongst which is a "Grand Duo" for Violin and Violoncello- belong for the most part to the sphere of chamber music
Powell, Thomas James ("T.J.") more...	1897 Tredegar, South Wales	1965	early experience with Tredegar Town and Salvation Army Bands was followed by Great War service in the Royal Marines Band at Portsmouth. In 1920 he became conductor of the Melingriffith Band (also South Wales) and remained with them until his death, though he trained many Welsh and West Country Bands. His most ambitious composition was Snowdon Fantasy which was for brass like most, if not, all his works
Power, Leonel more...	1370/1385	5 Jun. 1445	English composer of the late Medieval and early Renaissance eras. Along with John Dunstaple (or John Dunstable), he was one of the major figures in English music in the early 15th century
Powers, Anthony more...
Praag, Henri C van more...	1894	1968	Dutch composer [information provided by Alejandro Giardini]
Prac, Ivan more...
Pradal, Vicente more...
Prado, Almeida more...
Praetorius, Bartholomaus more...
Praetorius, Christoph more...		died 1609	German composer who was the uncle of Michael
Praetorius, Hieronymus more...	10 Aug. 1560 Hamburg, Germany	27 Jan. 1629 Hamburg, Germany	a north German composer and organist of the late Renaissance and very early Baroque eras. It is not known if he was related to the much more famous Michael Praetorius; however, the Praetorius family had many distinguished musicians throughout the 16th and 17th centuries
Praetorius, Jacob more...	c.1530	1586	German composer and organist who was the father of Hieronymus
Praetorius, Jacob more...	1586	1651	a German Baroque composer and organist, a pupil of the Dutch organist and composer Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621), and the son of Hieronymus Praetorius. His grandfather, the father of Hieronymus, was also named Jacob, and was also a composer
Praetorius, Michael more...	c. Feb. 1571 Creuzburg, Germany	15 Feb. 1621 Germany	German composer, organist, and writer on music, son of Michael Schultze (Praetorius being a Latinization of the name). He was one of the most prolific and versatile composers of his time, and was particularly significant in the development of musical forms based on Protestant hymns
Prange, Matthijs more...
Pranzer, Joseph more...
Pratella, Francesco Balilla more...
Pratsch, Johann Gottfried more...
Pratt, Silas Gamaliel more...
Pratten, Mrs. Sidney	c. 1840 England		a guitarist who wrote 250 works and several methods for guitar. She also wrote an instruction booklet for the gigliera, an instrument made of wood and straw
Prèbostel, Perrinet more...	fl. first half 15th century		Flemish mjsician, possibly a composer
Preckher, Jean more...	4 Feb. 1866 Forest, Belgium	9 Jan. 1939 Brussels, Belgium	Belgian composer
Preisner, Zbigniew more...
Prentes (or Prentyce), Henry more...		1514	like Edmond Turges, Prentes is represented by one work in the Caius Choirbook, a Magnificat that is actually a reworking of Cornysh's setting in the same collection. Prentes joined the Chapel Royal by 1509, when he is listed last among the singingmen at the coronation of Henry VIII on June 24 (he was not present at the funeral of Henry VII in the previous month). He next appears at the funeral of Prince Henry on February 27, 1511
Pres, Josquin des (see Desprez, Josquin)
Presles (de), Mlle Guedon		c. 1754	a French composer who published between 1731-1748 and lived in Paris
Presley, Elvis more...
Preston, Simon more...
Preston, Thomas II more...
Preud'homme, Armand more...	21 Feb. 1904 Peer, Belgium	7 Feb. 1986 Braschaat, Belgium	Belgian composer, organist and teacher
Previn, André (born: Priwin, Andreas Ludwig)more...	6 Apr. 1929 Berlin, Germany	28 Feb. 2019 Manhattan, New York, USA	German-born, American composer, conductor and pianist, who won 4 Oscars for his film scores
Previte, Bobby more...
Prevorsek, Uros more...
Prevost, Andre more...
Prevost, Arthur more...	9 Jul. 1888 Tournai, Belgium	10 Jun. 1967 Brussels, Belgium	Belgian composer, arranger and conductor
Price, Florence Beatrice Smith	9 Apr. 1888 Little Rock, Arkansas, USA	3 Jun. 1953 Chicago, Illinois, USA	Music was an important part of her life from an early age, as evidenced by her public performance at the age of four. Price was a teacher and composer, especially of works for the piano. With many of her compositions, she drew upon her exposure to Negro folk music
Price, Richard Maldwyn more...	1890 Welshpool	1952	Welsh-born, he studied at the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth and was the first student to be awarded the degree of D.Mus (Wales). An organist and choirmaster in Welshpool, and a schoolmaster at Redhill and Malvern, he produced sacred choral works, string quartets and some music for brass band
Prigozhin, Luzian more...
Prima, Louis more...
Primavera, Giovanni Leonardo more...	1540 Barletta (Bari), Italy	1585 Naples, Italy	Italian composer of the Renaissance
Primus, Vermont more...
Prin, Yves more...
Pring, Joseph more...
Prins, Gert-Jan more...
Prioris, Johannes more...	c.1460 possibly Brabant, Belgium	cd.1514 France	a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the first composers to write a polyphonic setting of the Requiem mass
Pritchard, Alwynne more...
Pritchard, Roland more...
Priuli, Giovanni more...
Priuli, Marieta Morosina more...
Proctor, Charles more...
Proença, Garsenda de more...			trobairitz
Profes, Anton more...
Prokoviev, Sergei Sergeyevich more...	23 (Old Style 11) Apr. 1891 Sontsovka, Ukraine	4/5 Mar. 1953 Moscow, Russia	considered one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century. He was also an accomplished pianist and conductor. He attended the St. Petersburg Conservatory from 1904 to 1914, winning the Anton Rubinstein prize for best student pianist when he graduated. Like other great composers he mastered a wide range of musical genres, including symphonies, concerti, film music, operas, ballets, and program pieces. At the time, his works were considered both ultra-modern and innovative. He traveled widely, spending many years in London and Paris, and toured the United States five times. He gained wide notoriety and his music was both reviled and triumphed by the musical press of the time. He returned to his homeland permanently in 1936
Prooyen, Anton van more...
Propper, Theodor more...
Proselyte, Obadiah the more...
Proto, Frank more...
Protopopov, Sergei Vladimirovich	21 Mar. 1893 Moscow, Russia	14 Dec. 1954 Moscow, Russia	Russian composer
Protopsalti, Alkistis more...
Protopsaltis, Iakovos more...
Prout, Ebenezer more...
Provenzale, Francesco more...	1624 Naples, Italy	6 Sep. 1704 Naples, Italy	an Italian Baroque composer and teacher who worked in Naples and is regarded as one of the founders of the Neapolitan opera school
Provins, Guiot de more...
Provost, Heinz more...
Provost, Mlle			composer who published in Paris in 1732
Prudencio, Cergio more...
Prume, François more...	3 Jun. 1816 Stavelot Belgium	14 Jul. 1849 Liège, Belgium	Belgian violonist, composer and teacher
Pryor, Arthur more...
Psarantonis more...
Ptaszynska, Marta more...	1943 Warsaw, Poland		Polish composer, percussionist and professor of music. She studied composition in Paris with Nadia Boulanger, attended the classes of Olivier Messian at the Conservatoire National and worked at Groupe des Recherches Musicales (GRM) at l'ORTF. She has lived and worked in the United States since 1972.
Puccini, Giacomo sr more...
Puccini, Giacomo jr more...
Puccini, Michele more...
Puchtler, Wilhelm Maria more...
Puente, Juan Manuel de la more...
Puente, Ernest Anthony "Tito" more...	20 Apr. 1923 New York City, USA	31 May 2000 New York City, USA	bandleader, composer, arranger, percussionist, and mentor. Popularly known as the El Rey del Timbal and the King of Mambo, he recorded more than 100 albums, published more than 400 compositions, and won five Grammy awards. Although he played and recorded jazz and salsa, Puente is one of only a handful of musicians who deserve the title 'legendary', primarily for his mastery of the mambo
Puerto, David del more...
Puget, Louise (Loisa)	1810 France	1889	her piece Mon Pays sold thousands of copies
Pugliese, Osvaldo more...
Pugnani, Gaetano more...	1731 Turin, Italy	1798 Turin, Italy	violinist, violin teacher and composer
Pugni, Cesare more...	c.31 May 1802 Genoa, Italy	26 Jan. 1870 St. Petersburg, Russia	historians are not certain of the exact year of his birth, as it has been given as both 1802, and 1805. Likewise the place of his birth is not know for certain either, as both Milan and Genoa have been given. The most authoritative facts concerning the composer's birth appear to be Genoa, Italy on May 31, 1802. His father, Carlo Pugni, was a well-known clockmaker with a successful shop in the Pallazzo del Duomo, near Milan's cathedral. Pugni is most noted for the ballets he scored while serving as Ballet Composer to Her Majesty's Theatre in London, and First Imperial Ballet Composer to the Romanov's Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg, collaborating with such distinguished choreographers as Jules Perrot, Arthur Saint-Léon, Paul Taglioni, and Marius Petipa. Pugni is the most prolific composer of the genre of ballet music that has ever lived - by the end of his life he had scored 312 original ballets, and a gargantuan amount of various Pas and incidental dances, such as divertessments, variations, and additional music for interpolation into already exsisting works, as well as adapting and revising scores for ballets by other composers [entry prompted by D.K. Bottley]
Puilloys Johannes (see Pullois, Johannes)
Pujol, Maximo Diego more...
Pujol Vilarrubi, Emilio more...
Puliti, Gabriello	1580	1643	an Italian priest, Puliti was an important composer for lute and organ in various Croatian towns of Istria
Pujol Vilarrubi, Emilio more...
Pulkkinen, Risto T. T. more...	26 Jul. 1954 Finland		Finnish percussionist and composer. As a composer Pulkkinen has especially concentrated on chamber music. Combinations of instruments have varied, but a group of percussion instruments have always featured. Pulkkinen has mainly produced pulsating music based on harmonious and strong melodies, which is a natural characteristic of percussion instruments
Pulkkis, Uljas more...	22 Jul. 1975 Helsinki, Finland		he established his credentials with prizes in composition competitions, beginning with the 2nd prize won by his Octet (1997) in the first Uussävel competition organized by the Association of Finnish Composers in 1997. Tears for Ludovico (1999) for piano and orchestra won 1st prize in the Queen Elisabeth competition in Brussels in 1999, and Duett für eine (1999) for contralto and chamber orchestra received 3rd prize in the Gustav Mahler competition in Klagenfurt in the same year
Pullaer, Louis van more...	c.1475 Cambrai	21 Sep. 1528 Cambrai	Flemish composer
Pullen, Don more...
Pullois, Johannes (Pillays, Pilloys, Pylois, Pyloys, Pyllois, Puilloys, Puylloys, Puyllois) more...	c.1420 Pulle, nr. Antwerp, Belgium	23 Aug. 1478 Antwerp, Belgium	a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance, active in both the Low Countries and Italy. He was one of the early generation of composers to carry the Franco-Flemish polyphonic style from its home region in the Netherlands to Italy
Puntin, Claudio more...
Punto, Giovanni more...
Purcell, Daniel more...	1664 London, England	26 Nov. 1717 London, England	English composer, the younger brother of Henry Purcell
Purcell, Henry more...	10 Sep. 1659 London, England	21 Nov. 1695 London, England	Baroque composer, is generally considered to be one of England's greatest composers indeed, he has often been called England's finest native composer. Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements but devised a peculiarly English style of Baroque music
Purday, Charles more...
Purim, Flora more...
Pusiex, Egidius de more...
Puskunigis, Giedrius more...
Püttlingen, Johann Vesque von (see Hoven, Johann)
Pütz, Marco more...	1958 Luxembourg		saxophonist and composer from Luxembourg
Puumala, Veli- Matti more...	18 Jul. 1965 Finland		Finnish composer who made his breakthrough as a composer with his composition concert at the Helsinki Biennale in 1993, showcasing the work of a composer firmly committed to the Modernism of the previous decade. Although he has since expanded his palette, he has not abandoned his Modernist roots; instead, the narrow confines of his early works have broadened into a more substantial and expansive dramaturgical approach
Puyllois (or Puylloys), Johannes (see Pullois, Johannes)
Puysseleyr, Peter Frans de more...	11 Jan. 1893 Nieuwkerken-Waas (Flandre Orientale)	28 Dec. 1961 Wilrijk, Belgium	Belgian composer, viola player pianist, conductor, teacher and writer on music
Puyvelde, Omer van	20 Nov. 1912 Wachtebeke (Flandre Orientale)	25 Nov. 1980 Ghent	Belgian composer, organist, choral cirector and teacher
Pyamour, John I more...
Pye, Charlotte Alington [pseudonym: Claribel] more...	23 Dec. 1830 Louth, Lincolnshire	30 Jan. 1869 Dover, England	daughter of solicitor Henry Alington Pye and Charlotte Yerburgh, Charlotte became one of the most successful and prolific ballad composers of the 19th century. After attending a Vocal and Miscellaneous Entertainment at the Mansion House in Louth in 1838, she declared that she would become a poet and writer. And, a little over a year later when her father, the Warden of Louth, carried out the old custom of distributing cloth to poor women, Charlotte wrote a 20-verse poem to commemorate the occasion. By 1847, she was well enough known that when the new railway station was built at Louth, she was asked to lay the cornerstone. Charlotte married Charles Barnard in 1854, and they lived at The Firs in Westgate, though Charles was parson of St. Olaves in Ruckland. Following Charlottes presentation at court in 1856, the couple moved to Pimlico in London. Among their neighbours was Michael Costa, conductor at Covent Garden, where Charlotte often attended
Pye, David more...			Australian composer, percussionist and conductor working principally in dance, theatre, and music for youth and amateurs. In 1983 he founded Nova to perform the classical music of the twentieth century. From 1988 to 1996, David was Musical Director of the West Australian Mandolin Orchestra. David took up composition in 1989 with commissions since for Nova, Chrissie Parrott Dance Company, Festival of Perth, Independent New Choreographers, 2-Dance Plus, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, WA Academy of the Performing Arts School of Dance, Graduate College of Dance, Myth Maker Films, Mostly Baroque and the W.A Mandolin Orchestra
Pye, Kellow John	1812 Exeter, England	1901 Exmouth, England	English organist and church composer
Pykini more...	fl. 1370		French composer, whose name may be a corruption of Picquigny, a town near Amiens. If so then he may be Robert de Picquigny, chamberlain to Charles II of Navarre. His attractive Plasanche or tost is a spring song which makes much use of imitation and has ironic text suggesting that it may have been written in Avignon for a pope
Pylois (or Pyllois, Pyloys), Johannes (see Pullois, Johannes)
Pylkkänen, Tauno more...	22 Mar. 1918 Helsinki, Finland	13 Mar. 1980 Helsinki, Finland	he was the only Finnish composer of his generation to work almost exclusively in opera. His ten operas show a vibrant Late Romantic composer often dubbed the 'Nordic Puccini'. Pylkkänen was artistic director of the Finnish National Opera from 1960 to 1969
Pyysalo, Severi more...	18 Dec. 1967 Finland		Finnish player of the vibraphone and composer

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