55 Notable alumni of
Academy of Music and Performing Arts Munich
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The Academy of Music and Performing Arts Munich is 939th in the world, 326th in Europe, and 41st in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 55 notable alumni from the Academy of Music and Performing Arts Munich sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Carl Orff
- Occupations
- university teachercomposerlibrettistmusic teachermusic theorist
- Biography
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Carl Heinrich Maria Orff was a German composer and music educator, who composed the cantata Carmina Burana (1937). The concepts of his Schulwerk were influential for children's music education.
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Jonas Kaufmann
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Jonas Kaufmann is a German-Austrian tenor opera singer. He is best known for the versatility of his repertoire, performing a variety of opera roles in multiple languages in recital and concert each season. Some of his standout roles include Don José in Carmen, Cavaradossi in Tosca, Maurizio in Adriana Lecouvreur, Don Alvaro in La forza del destino, Siegmund in Die Walküre, and the title roles in Parsifal, Werther, Don Carlos, and Lohengrin. In 2014 The New York Times described Kaufmann as "a box-office draw, and... the most important, versatile tenor of his generation."
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Julia Fischer
- Enrolled in the Academy of Music and Performing Arts Munich
- Studied in 1992
- Occupations
- pianistviolinistacademic musician
- Biography
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Julia Fischer is a German classical violinist and pianist. She teaches at the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts and performs up to 60 times per year.
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Franz Welser-Möst
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- music directorconductor
- Biography
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Franz Leopold Maria Möst, known professionally as Franz Welser-Möst, is an Austrian conductor. He is currently music director of the Cleveland Orchestra.
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Christoph von Dohnányi
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- conductor
- Biography
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Christoph von Dohnányi is a German conductor.
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Josef Rheinberger
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- musicologistuniversity teachercomposer
- Biography
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Josef Gabriel Rheinberger was an organist and composer from Liechtenstein, residing in Bavaria for most of his life. As court conductor in Munich, he was responsible for the music in the royal chapel. He is known for sacred music, works for organ and vocal works, such as masses, a Christmas cantata and the motet Abendlied; he also composed two operas and three singspiele, incidental music, secular choral music, two symphonies and other instrumental works, chamber music, and works for organ.
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Eugen Jochum
- Enrolled in the Academy of Music and Performing Arts Munich
- 1922-1925 studied conducting and music composition
- Occupations
- chapelmasterconductor
- Biography
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Eugen Jochum was a German conductor, best known for his interpretations of the music of Anton Bruckner, Carl Orff, and Johannes Brahms, among others.
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Arabella Steinbacher
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Arabella Miho Steinbacher is a German classical violinist.
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Jörg Widmann
- Enrolled in the Academy of Music and Performing Arts Munich
- 1986-1997 graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- conductorcomposeruniversity teacherclarinetist
- Biography
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Jörg Widmann is a German composer, conductor and clarinetist. In 2023, Widmann was the third most performed living contemporary composer in the world. Formerly a clarinet and composition professor at the University of Music Freiburg, he is composition professor at the Barenboim–Said Akademie. His most important compositions are the opera Babylon, an oratorio Arche, Viola Concerto, Kantate and the concert overture Con brio. Widmann has written musical tributes to Classical and Romantic composers. He was awarded the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art in 2018 and the Bach Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg in 2023. He was Gewandhaus Composer in Leipzig and became Composer in Residence for the Berlin Philharmonic.
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Annette Dasch
- Occupations
- performing artistopera singermusician
- Biography
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Annette Dasch is a German soprano. She performs in operas and concerts.
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Hermann Abendroth
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacherconductormusic teachercomposer
- Biography
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Hermann Paul Maximilian Abendroth was a German conductor.
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Benjamin Appl
- Occupations
- singeropera singer
- Biography
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Benjamin Appl is a German-British lyric baritone, a classical singer who has appeared world-wide in opera houses and concert halls, particularly known as a Lieder singer.
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Hans Hotter
- Occupations
- actoropera singer
- Biography
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Hans Hotter was a German operatic bass-baritone. He stood 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) and his appearance was striking. His voice and diction were equally recognisable.
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Christian Gerhaher
- Occupations
- university teacheropera singer
- Biography
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Christian Gerhaher is a German baritone and bass singer in opera and concert, particularly known as a Lieder singer.
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Mine Kawakami
- Occupations
- pianistcomposer
- Biography
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Mine Kawakami is a Japanese pianist and composer.
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Gerhard Oppitz
- Occupations
- university teacherpianist
- Biography
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Gerhard Oppitz is a German classical pianist.
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Valer Barna-Sabadus
- Occupations
- singeropera singer
- Biography
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Valer Barna-Săbăduș, also Valer Sabadus, is a Romanian-German countertenor. He sings in both the alto and soprano range.
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Valentina Babor
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Valentina Babor is a German classical pianist. She began performing before audiences and winning youth competitions as a child. At 12, she was accepted by Karl-Heinz Kämmerling at the Mozarteum, where she became part of the university's "Initiative Hochbegabten-Förderung", a program for highly gifted students. In 2009, barely an adult, she played Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto in C minor in concert. She continues to perform internationally.
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Ludwig Thuille
- Occupations
- music theoristmusic teachercomposermusicologistprofessor
- Biography
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Ludwig Wilhelm Andreas Maria Thuille was an Austrian composer and teacher, numbered for a while among the leading operatic composers of the so-called Munich School of composers, whose most famous representative was Richard Strauss.
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Moritz Eggert
- Occupations
- pianistcomposerconductor
- Biography
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Moritz Eggert is a German composer and pianist.
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Heinrich Sutermeister
- Occupations
- university teachercomposerwriter
- Biography
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Heinrich Sutermeister was a Swiss composer, most famous for his opera Romeo und Julia.
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Marina Chiche
- Occupations
- music teacherviolinistradio personality
- Biography
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Marina Chiche is a French classical violinist.
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Daniel Hoevels
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- actorfilm actorstage actor
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Daniel Hoevels is a Swedish-born German theater actor.
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Kirill Troussov
- Occupations
- violin teacherviolinist
- Biography
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Kirill Troussov is a German violinist and violin teacher based in Munich, Germany.
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Enrique García Asensio
- Occupations
- musicologistconductorfiddlercomposer
- Biography
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Enrique García Asensio is a Spanish orchestral conductor. In 1970, He was made as Professor of Orchestral Conducting at the Madrid Royal Conservatory. Asensio was also the conductor of the Spanish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra (RTVE) from 1966 to 1984 and from 1998 to 2001.
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Felix Chen
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- 1942-2018 (aged 76)
- Occupations
- conductor
- Biography
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Felix Chen or Chen Chiu-sen was a Taiwanese conductor and violinist. He was resident conductor and music director of the Taipei Symphony Orchestra from 1986 until his dismissal in 2003. He taught both Chien Wen-pin, musical director of the Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra from 2001 to 2007; and the same orchestra's current maestro, Lü Shao-chia.
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Jonel Perlea
- Occupations
- conductorcomposer
- Biography
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Ionel Perlea was a Romanian conductor particularly associated with the Italian and German opera repertories.
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Frederick Converse
- Occupations
- university teachercomposer
- Biography
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Frederick Shepherd Converse, was an American composer of classical music, whose works include four operas and five symphonies.
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Lenneke Ruiten
- Occupations
- performing artistopera singer
- Biography
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Lenneke Ruiten is a Dutch soprano. Ruiten studied at the Music Conservatory in Alkmaar and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, and at the Franz Schubert Institut in Baden bei Wien near Vienna.
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Winfried Bönig
- Occupations
- university teacherconductormusic teachermusicianorganist
- Biography
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Winfried Bönig is a German organist.
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Claus Guth
- Occupations
- opera directortheatre managertheatrical director
- Biography
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Claus Guth is a German theatre director, focused on opera. He has directed operas at major houses and festivals, including world premieres such as works of the Munich Biennale, and Berio's Cronaca del luogo at the Salzburg Festival in 1999. Guth is particularly known for his opera productions of the works of Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss. He has received two Faust awards, for Daphne by Richard Strauss in 2010, and for Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, both at the Oper Frankfurt.
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Laura Aikin
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Laura Aikin is an American operatic coloratura soprano. She is noted for her portrayal of the title character in Lulu, which has received very positive reviews in the press. She has also appeared as Mozart's Queen of the Night, Zerbinetta by Richard Strauss and in contemporary opera at international opera houses and festivals.
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Jurgita Dronina
- Occupations
- ballet dancer
- Biography
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Jurgita Dronina is a Russian-Lithuanian ballet dancer. She is a principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada, having previously danced with Royal Swedish Ballet, Dutch National Ballet and English National Ballet.
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Emilios Riadis
- Occupations
- pianistpoetcomposerwriter
- Biography
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Emilios Riadis was a Greek composer.
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Martin Scherber
- Occupations
- composermusic teacher
- Biography
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Martin Scherber was a German composer and the creator of what he described as "metamorphosis symphonies".
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Gabriel Dessauer
- Occupations
- conductoruniversity teacherchoir directorcantor
- Biography
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Gabriel Dessauer is a German cantor, concert organist, and academic teacher. After studies with Diethard Hellmann and Franz Lehrndorfer, he was responsible for the church music at St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden from 1981 to 2021, conducting the Chor von St. Bonifatius until 2018. Besides normal church services, he conducted them in regular masses with soloists and orchestra for Christmas and Easter and a yearly concert. In 1995 he prepared the choir for a memorial concert commemorating the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, performing Britten's War Requiem with choirs from countries involved in the war, and concerts in Wiesbaden and Macon, Georgia. Programs of choral concerts included Hermann Suter's Le Laudi in 1998, the German premiere of Rutter's Mass of the Children in 2004, and the world premiere of Colin Mawby's Bonifatiusmess in 2012 which he had commissioned for the choir's 150th anniversary. The concert of 2008, Vivaldi's Gloria and Haydn's Nelson Mass, was also performed at San Paolo dentro le Mura in Rome.
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Marga Schiml
- Occupations
- university teacheropera singer
- Biography
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Marga Schiml is a German opera singer who sings mezzo-soprano and alto. She has appeared at major European opera houses and festivals, such as the Vienna State Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Hamburg State Opera and La Scala, at the Salzburg Festival and the Bayreuth Festival. She is also an academic voice teacher.
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Christian Brembeck
- Occupations
- pianistharpsichordistconductor
- Biography
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Christian Brembeck is a German conductor, organist and harpsichordist.
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Horst Laubenthal
- Occupations
- singeropera singertenor
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Horst Laubenthal, real name Horst Neumaier, is a German operatic tenor and academic voice teacher. He is known internationally, both as an opera singer especially in Mozart roles such as Belmonte, Don Ottavio and Tamino, and as a concert and recital singer, with a focus on works by Johann Sebastian Bach. He has appeared at major opera houses and festivals, including the Glyndebourne Festival and the Salzburg Festival, and made many recordings, including rarely performed works such as Korngold's Violanta.
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Alexandra Flood
- Years
- 1990-.. (age 34)
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Alexandra Flood is an Australian operatic soprano.
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Günter Jena
- Occupations
- choir directorKirchenmusikdirektorconductor
- Biography
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Günter Jena is a German choral conductor and musicologist. He was the director of church music at St. Michaelis in Hamburg from 1973 to 1997. He founded the festival Bach-Tage Hamburg, and provided music for ballet performances of choreographer John Neumeier at the Hamburg State Opera, including Bach's St Matthew Passion.
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Sonja Korkeala
- Occupations
- musicianuniversity teacherartistic directorviolinist
- Biography
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Sonja Korkeala is a Finnish violinist and professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich.
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Jason Barry-Smith
- Occupations
- vocal coachopera singer
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Jason Barry-Smith is an Australian operatic baritone, vocal coach, composer, and arranger. He works with organisations such as Opera Queensland, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Seven Network, and the Queensland Youth Choir.
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Herbert Blendinger
- Occupations
- university teachercomposer
- Biography
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Herbert Blendinger was an Austrian composer and viola player of German origin.
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Anush Nikogosyan
- Occupations
- violinist
- Biography
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Anush Nikogosyan is an Armenian classical violinist.
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David Dalton
- Occupations
- violistviolinist
- Biography
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David Johnson Dalton was an American violist, author, and professor emeritus at Brigham Young University (BYU). He graduated from Eastman School of Music in 1961 and received his doctorate in viola performance in 1970 at Indiana University School of Music under William Primrose. As a faculty member at BYU, Dalton's main contribution was the establishment of the Primrose International Viola Archive, one of the largest viola archives in the world. Dalton's other significant positions include editor of the Journal of the American Viola Society, president of the American Viola Society, and president of the International Viola Society.
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Nina Šenk
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Nina Šenk is a classical Slovenian composer. In 2004, while still studying at the University of Ljubljana, she won first prize at the Young Euro Classic Festival in Berlin for her Violin Concerto No. 1. Her works have been performed at many music festivals and with various orchestras and ensembles around the world.
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Benno Walter
- Occupations
- composermusic teacher
- Biography
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Benno Walter was a German violinist and teacher, who had associations with Richard Strauss and his family, to whom he was closely related, and also with Richard Wagner.
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Gerhard Merkl
- Occupations
- choir directormusicianconductor
- Biography
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Gerhard Merkl was the Domkapellmeister at the St. Stephen's Cathedral in Passau from 2000 until 2016.
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Giuseppe Buonamici
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- music teacherpianistcomposer
- Biography
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Giuseppe Buonamici was an Italian composer, pianist and musicologist.
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Arthur Whiting
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- pianistcomposer
- Biography
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Arthur Batelle Whiting was an American teacher, pianist, composer, and writer on music, known for his conservative compositional style, espousal of early music, and his long-running university lecture-recital series.
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Dimitrios Lalas
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Dimitrios Stergios Lalas or Lallas was a significant Greek composer and musician.
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Stanko Prek
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- 1915-1999 (aged 84)
- Occupations
- classical guitaristcomposermusic teacherguitarist
- Biography
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Stanko Prek was a classical guitarist and composer from Slovenia.
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Hugo Walter Voigtlander
- Years
- 1859-1933 (aged 74)
- Occupations
- viola d'amore playerviolinist
- Biography
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Hugo Walter Voigtlander was a German-American musician who played violin, viola, and viola d'amore. He was also an instrument maker, and a collector and arranger of viola d'amore music. As a youth he studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Leipzig and played violin and viola in several professional orchestras in Germany. He emigrated to the United States in 1885 where he spent ten years playing viola and viola d'amore with various professional chamber groups in and around Detroit, Michigan. He then spent two years in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania playing in the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and in 1897 moved to New York City, where he played in a number of professional orchestras. In addition to playing viola d'amore, Walter Voigtlander taught viola d'amore, and made and collected numerous arrangements for the instrument.
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Georgios Nazos
- Years
- 1862-1934 (aged 72)
- Occupations
- music teacher
- Biography
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George Nazos was a Greek music teacher and director of the Athens Conservatoire. He was from a well-known family from Tinos Island. He was recognized for his musical talent at a young age. In 1881 he went to Munich, German Empire to study piano and advanced theory, returning to Greece in 1886.
