51 Notable alumni of
Mozarteum University Salzburg
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Mozarteum University Salzburg is 882nd in the world, 310th in Europe, and 9th in Austria by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 51 notable alumni from Mozarteum University Salzburg sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Herbert von Karajan
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- conductorfilm directortheatrical directormusic director
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Herbert von Karajan was an Austrian conductor. He was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic for 34 years. During the Nazi era, he debuted at the Salzburg Festival, with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, and during World War II he conducted at the Berlin State Opera. Generally regarded as one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century, he was a controversial but dominant figure in European classical music from the mid-1950s until his death. Part of the reason for this was the large number of recordings he made and their prominence during his lifetime. By one estimate, he was the top-selling classical music recording artist of all time, having sold an estimated 200 million records.
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Daniel Barenboim
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- pianistconductormusicianmusic director
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Daniel Barenboim is an Argentine-born classical pianist and conductor based in Berlin. From 1992 until January 2023, Barenboim was the general music director of the Berlin State Opera and "Staatskapellmeister" of its orchestra, the Staatskapelle Berlin.
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Carl Orff
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- university teachercomposerlibrettistmusic teachermusic theorist
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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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Thomas Bernhard
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- writerscreenwriterpoetlinguistplaywright
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Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet who explored death, social injustice, and human misery in controversial literature that was deeply pessimistic about modern civilization in general and Austrian culture in particular. Bernhard's body of work has been called "the most significant literary achievement since World War II." He is widely considered to be one of the most important German-language authors of the postwar era.
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Alice Sara Ott
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- classical pianist
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Alice Sara Ott is a German-Japanese pianist.
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Igor Levit
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- musicianpianist
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Igor Levit is a Russian-German pianist who focuses on the works of Bach, Beethoven, and Liszt. He is also a professor at the Musikhochschule Hannover. He lives in Berlin.
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Herbert Feuerstein
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- stage actorcomedianfilm actortelevision presentertranslator
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Herbert Feuerstein was a German journalist, comedian and entertainer of Austrian descent. He was known as a publisher of the pardon satire magazine, as the editor of the German version of Mad, and for comedy work on television, especially as partner to Harald Schmidt in shows such as Schmidteinander.
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Karl Merkatz
- Enrolled in Mozarteum University Salzburg
- Studied in 1955
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- writeractorstage actortelevision actormusician
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Karl Merkatz was an Austrian actor.
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Erwin Wurm
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- installation artistphotojournalistuniversity teacherdrawerphotographer
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Erwin Wurm is an Austrian artist. He lives and works in Vienna and Limberg in Austria; Hydra, Greece; and in New York City.
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Irmin Schmidt
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- university teachercomposerconductorfilm score composersongwriter
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Irmin Schmidt is a German keyboardist and composer, best known as a founding member of the band Can.
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Tatjana Kästel
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- film actoractor
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Tatjana Kästel is a German actress who currently plays Rebecca von Lahnstein on the hit German show Verbotene Liebe (Forbidden Love).
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Tabea Zimmermann
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- music teacheruniversity teacherviolist
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Tabea Zimmermann is a German violist who has performed internationally, both as a soloist and a chamber musician. She has been artist in residence of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. In 2004, Zimmermann founded the Arcanto Quartet, a string quartet that performed until 2016. Several composers have written music for her, including György Ligeti (the Viola Sonata), and she has made her own version of Bartók's Viola Concerto from the composer's sketches.
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Camilla Nylund
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- opera singer
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Camilla Nylund is a Finnish operatic soprano. She appears internationally in lyric-dramatic roles such as Beethoven's Leonore, Verdi's Elisabetta, and Wagner's Elisabeth and Sieglinde. She is especially known for portraying leading female characters in operas by Richard Strauss, (e.g. Marschallin, Arabella, Ariadne and Countess Madeleine). She has appeared at international festivals and the openings of the Dresdner Frauenkirche and the Elbphilharmonie.
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Angelika Kirchschlager
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- university teacheropera singer
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Angelika Kirchschlager is an Austrian mezzo-soprano opera and lieder singer.
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Erich Leinsdorf
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- conductor
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Erich Leinsdorf was an Austrian-born American conductor. He performed and recorded with leading orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States and Europe, earning a reputation for exacting standards as well as an acerbic personality. He also published books and essays on musical matters.
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Ingrid Haebler
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- music teacherpianistuniversity teacher
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Ingrid Haebler was an Austrian classical pianist.
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Alice Harnoncourt
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- violinistconcertmasterviola d'amore player
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Alice Harnoncourt was an Austrian classical violinist. She was a pioneer in the movement of historically informed performance, founding with her husband Nikolaus Harnoncourt the Concentus Musicus Wien ensemble playing on period instruments, of which she was principal violinist.
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Christiane Karg
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- performing artistopera singer
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Christiane Karg is a German operatic soprano. The award-winning singer became known for performing Mozart roles at the Salzburg Festival, and made an international career.
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Otmar Suitner
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- pianistmusic directorconductor
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Otmar Suitner was an Austrian conductor who spent most of his professional career in East Germany. He was born in Innsbruck and died in Berlin. He was principal conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden from 1960 to 1964, and then music director at the Berlin State Opera in East Berlin from 1964 to 1990.
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Jean-François Paillard
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- conductorcomposer
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Jean-François Paillard was a French conductor.
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Kerstin Meyer
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- illustratoropera singer
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Kerstin Margareta Meyer, CBE was a Swedish mezzo-soprano who enjoyed an international career in opera and concert. A long-time member of the Royal Swedish Opera and Hamburg State Opera, she appeared regularly at the Royal Opera House in London and international opera houses and festivals, including in world premieres such as Alexander Goehr's Arden Must Die and György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre.
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Valentina Babor
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- pianist
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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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Teresa Präauer
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- painterwriterillustrator
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Teresa Präauer is an Austrian writer and visual artist.
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Giorgi Latsabidze
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- pianistcomposerfilm score composermusic teacher
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Giorgi Latso is a Georgian-American concert pianist, film composer, arranger, adjudicator, improviser and Doctor of Musical Arts. He is listed on the list of famous alumni from USC Thornton School of Music. Latso has won several international piano competitions and awards. He is best known for his interpretations of Chopin and Debussy. His concerts have been broadcast on radio and television in Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
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Wilma Lipp
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- opera singer
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Wilma Lipp was an Austrian operatic soprano and academic voice teacher. A long-time member of the Vienna State Opera, she was particularly associated with the role of the Queen of the Night in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, a role she performed internationally more than 400 times. She was awarded the title Kammersängerin at age 28, and was an honorary member of the Vienna State Opera, among other honours.
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Markus Hinterhäuser
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- performing artistpianistmusician
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Markus Hinterhäuser is an Austrian pianist and the current artistic director of the Salzburg Festival. He studied music at the Vienna Conservatory under Elisabeth Leonskaja and the Mozarteum University of Salzburg under Oleg Maisenberg. As a chamber musician, he has performed with several notable performers, including the Arditti Quartet and singer Brigitte Fassbaender. As a piano soloist he is particularly known for his performances of the works of the Second Viennese School and 20th century works by composers like John Cage, Luigi Nono, Morton Feldman and Galina Ustvolskaya. Since 2006 he has served as the Concert Director of the Salzburg Festival, a post he is scheduled to leave after the 2011 summer festival.
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Antonio Janigro
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- music teachercellistconductor
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Antonio Janigro was an Italian cellist and conductor.
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Sergey Malov
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- violistviolinist
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Sergey Olegovich Malov is a Russian/Hungarian violinist and violist.
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Lana Trotovšek
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- violinist
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Lana Trotovšek is a London-based Slovenian violinist. She is a soloist and chamber musician who has performed around the world. She plays on a violin made by Pietro Antonio dalla Costa from Treviso in 1750.
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Frédéric Chaslin
- Enrolled in Mozarteum University Salzburg
- Studied in 1981
- Occupations
- pianistcomposerconductor
- Biography
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Frédéric Chaslin is a French conductor, composer and pianist. He recently joined the prestigious Music publishing house Universal Edition in Vienna.
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Irena Yebuah Tiran
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- music teachersingeropera singer
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Irena Yebuah Tiran is a Slovenian mezzo-soprano opera singer of Ghanaian descent.
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Marjon Lambriks
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- singer
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Marjon Lambriks is a Dutch soprano who made an international career, especially in Austria. Her focus became operetta, whether performed on stage, for the radio, or in recordings. She recorded the role of Annina in Verdi's La traviata alongside Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti.
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Gerhard Wimberger
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- university teachercomposerconductor
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Gerhard Wimberger was an Austrian composer and conductor.
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Piero Bellugi
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- conductor
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Piero Bellugi was an Italian orchestral conductor.
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Marios Joannou Elia
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- composer
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Marios Joannou Elia, is a Cypriot composer and artistic director. He was the youngest director in the history of the European Capital of Culture (2013–15). He is ambassador in tourism of the Republic of Cyprus. Since 2016 he has been the director of the large-scale project "Sound of Vladivostok", on behalf of Zarya Foundation, in Russia; from January 2018, director of "Sound of Kyoto", on behalf of Kyoto City and Kyoto Arts and Culture Foundation after an invitation of the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan.
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Charles Ansbacher
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- conductor
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Charles Ansbacher was an American conductor. After undergraduate and graduate work at Brown University ('65) and the University of Cincinnati (M.M. 1968, D.M.A. 1979), he studied conducting at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. Ansbacher was the conductor and musical director of the Colorado Springs Symphony Orchestra from 1970 to 1989, and, in 2000, founded the Boston Landmarks Orchestra, which gives free classical music concerts at various locations in the Boston area. On September 1, 2010, he was named Conductor Laureate of the Boston Landmarks Orchestra.
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Helena Adler
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- novelistwriterpedagoguepaintervisual artist
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Helena Este Adler was an Austrian writer and visual artist.
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György Fischer
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- pianistconductor
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György Fischer was a Hungarian pianist and conductor.
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Luz Leskowitz
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- violinist
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Luz Leskowitz is an Austrian violinist, founder of the Salzburg Soloists music ensemble. He is an owner of the ex-Prihoda Stradivarius violin made in 1707.
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Iñigo Pírfano
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- conductorcomposerwriterlecturer
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Íñigo Pírfano is a Spanish conductor, born in Bilbao, Spain, in 1973.
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Klaus Ager
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- university teachercomposerconductor
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Klaus Ager is an Austrian composer and conductor.
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Luca Pianca
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- lutenist
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Luca Pianca is a Swiss musician-lutenist whose specialty is archlute. In 1985 he co - founded Il Giardino Armonico., a pioneering Italian early-music ensemble based in Milan. He has premiered works by the contemporary lutenist-composer Roman Turovsky-Savchuk at international festivals, and received numerous international awards for his recordings.
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Lea Birringer
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- musicianviolinist
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Lea Birringer is a German classical violinist.
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Karola Obermueller
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- university teachercomposer
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Karola Obermueller is a German composer and teacher.
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Patrick Fournillier
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- musicianconductor
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Patrick Fournillier is a French conductor, particularly associated with opera and with the works of Jules Massenet.
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Irina Kulikova
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- classical guitarist
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Irina Kulikova is a Russian classical guitarist.
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Herbert Willi
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- composer
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Herbert Willi is an Austrian composer of classical music, whose orchestral works, concertos and chamber music have been performed internationally and also recorded. Willi composed an opera, Schlafes Bruder, for the Opernhaus Zürich.
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Henri Arends
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- conductorviolinist
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Henri Arends was a Dutch conductor.
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Achim Holub
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- conductor
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Achim Holub is an Austrian conductor.
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Kate Buchdahl
- Years
- 1964-1992 (aged 28)
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- musician
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Kate Buchdahl was a classically trained Australian violinist.
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Thomas Stumpf
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- conductorpianistcomposermusic teacher
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Thomas Stumpf is a classical pianist in the Boston area. He is also a conductor, composer, author, and teacher.
