100 Notable alumni of
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
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The University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna is 213th in the world, 75th in Europe, and 2nd in Austria by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Franz Schubert
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- pianistteachercomposer
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Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a vast oeuvre of thousands of works, including more than 600 Lieder (art songs in German) and other vocal works, seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music, and a large body of piano and chamber music. His major works include the songs "Erlkönig", "Gretchen am Spinnrade", and "Ave Maria"; the Trout Quintet; the Symphony No. 8 in B minor (Unfinished); the Symphony No. 9 in C major (The Great); the String Quartet No. 14 in D minor (Death and the Maiden); the String Quintet in C major; the Impromptus for solo piano; the last three piano sonatas; the Fantasia in F minor for piano four hands; the opera Fierrabras; the incidental music to the play Rosamunde; and the song cycles Die schöne Müllerin, Winterreise, and Schwanengesang.
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Franz Liszt
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- pianistwritercomposerclassical composerconductor
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Franz Liszt was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic period. With a diverse body of work spanning more than six decades, he is considered to be one of the most prolific and influential composers of his era, and his piano works continue to be widely performed and recorded.
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Herbert von Karajan
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- theatrical directorfilm directorconductormusic 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 sold 200 million records.
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Tobias Moretti
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- stage actortelevision actorvoice actoractorfilm actor
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Tobias Moretti is an Austrian actor.
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Anton Bruckner
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- composerteacherorganistuniversity teachermusicologist
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Joseph Anton Bruckner was an Austrian composer and organist best known for his symphonies and sacred music, which includes Masses, Te Deum and motets. The symphonies are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, strongly polyphonic character, and considerable length. Bruckner's compositions helped to define contemporary musical radicalism, owing to their dissonances, unprepared modulations, and roving harmonies.
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Zubin Mehta
- Enrolled in the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
- Studied in 1954-1957
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- double-bassistconductor
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Zubin Mehta is an Indian conductor of Western classical music. He is music director emeritus of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) and conductor emeritus of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
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Khatia Buniatishvili
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- musicianclassical pianist
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Khatia Buniatishvili is a Georgian and French concert pianist.
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Peter Alexander
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- recording artisttelevision presentersingerfilm actor
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Peter Alexander Ferdinand Maximilian Neumayer, commonly known as Peter Alexander, was an Austrian actor, singer and one of the most popular entertainers in the German-language world between the 1950s and his retirement. His fame emerged in the 1950s and 1960s through popular film comedies and successful recordings, predominantly of Schlager and operetta repertory. Later, Alexander established himself as the acclaimed host of television shows. His career as a live singer touring the German language countries lasted until 1991, while he continued his television work until 1996.
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Carl Maria von Weber
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- guitaristconductorcomposerclassical guitaristpianist
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Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was a German composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, guitarist, and critic in the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Best known for his operas, he was a crucial figure in the development of German Romantische Oper (German Romantic opera).
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Aida Garifullina
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- opera singermusician
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Aida Emilevna Garifullina is a Russian lyric soprano of Tatar descent. She was the winner of the 2013 Operalia competition and has featured in a number of productions staged at the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg and the Vienna State Opera. She has a recording contract with Decca Records.
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Claudio Abbado
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- conductorpoliticianpianistcomposermusic director
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Claudio Abbado OMRI was an Italian conductor who was one of the leading conductors of his generation. He served as music director of the La Scala opera house in Milan, principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, principal guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, music director of the Vienna State Opera, founder and director of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, founder and director of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, founding artistic director of the Orchestra Mozart and music director of the European Union Youth Orchestra. He was recipient of the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize and Senator for life in Italy.
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George Enesco
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- composeruniversity teacherpianistvioliniststatesperson
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George Enescu, known in France as Georges Enesco, was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor, teacher and statesman. He is regarded as one of the greatest musicians in Romanian history.
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Alban Berg
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- composerpianistlibrettistmusician
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Alban Maria Johannes Berg was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School. His compositional style combined Romantic lyricism with the twelve-tone technique. Although he left a relatively small oeuvre, he is remembered as one of the most important composers of the 20th century for his expressive style encompassing "entire worlds of emotion and structure".
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Alma Deutscher
- Enrolled in the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
- In 2021 studied conducting
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- composerconductorpianistviolinist
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Alma Elizabeth Deutscher is a British composer, pianist, violinist and conductor. A child prodigy, Deutscher composed her first piano sonata at the age of five; at seven, she completed the short opera, The Sweeper of Dreams, and later wrote a violin concerto at age nine. At the age of ten, she wrote her first full-length opera, Cinderella, which had its European premiere in Vienna in 2016 under the patronage of conductor Zubin Mehta, and its U.S. premiere a year later. Deutscher's piano concerto was premiered when she was 12. She has lived in Vienna, Austria, since 2018. She made her debut at Carnegie Hall in 2019 in a concert dedicated to her own compositions.
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Johanna Wokalek
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- stage actorfilm actor
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Johanna Wokalek is a German stage and film actress. A student of Klaus Maria Brandauer, she received critical recognition and three newcomer awards for her performance in the play Rose Bernd. Wokalek is best known for her award-winning appearances in the German films Hierankl, Barfuss, and The Baader Meinhof Complex. She received the Bambi award for her portrayal of the Red Army Faction member Gudrun Ensslin in 2008. She played the lead role in the film Pope Joan in 2009.
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Mariss Jansons
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- music educatorconductor
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Mariss Ivars Georgs Jansons was a Latvian conductor, best known for his interpretations of Mahler, Strauss, and Russian composers such as Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Shostakovich. During his lifetime he was often cited as among the world's leading conductors; in a 2015 Bachtrack poll, he was ranked by music critics as the world's third best living conductor. Jansons was long associated with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (BRSO; 2003–2019) and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (RCO; 2004–2015) as music director.
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Fritz Kreisler
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- violinistcomposer
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Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler was an Austrian-born American violinist and composer. One of the most noted violin masters of his day, he was known for his sweet tone and expressive phrasing, with marked portamento and rubato. Like many great violinists of his generation, he produced a characteristic sound which was immediately recognizable as his own. Although it derived in many respects from the Franco-Belgian school, his style is nonetheless reminiscent of the gemütlich (cozy) lifestyle of pre-war Vienna.
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Carl Czerny
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- pianistmusic theoristmusicologistcomposermusic educator
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Carl Czerny was an Austrian composer, teacher, and pianist of Czech origin whose music spanned the late Classical and early Romantic eras. His vast musical production amounted to over a thousand works and his books of studies for the piano are still widely used in piano teaching. He was one of Ludwig van Beethoven's best-known pupils and would later on be one of the main teachers of Franz Liszt.
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold
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- librettistfilm score composercomposerclassical composerpianist
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold was an Austrian composer and conductor, who left Europe in the mid-1930s and later adopted US nationality. A child prodigy, he became one of the most important and influential composers in Hollywood history. He was a noted pianist and composer of classical music, along with music for Hollywood films, and the first composer of international stature to write Hollywood scores.
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Alfred Brendel
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- pianistclassical pianistwritercomposerpoet
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Alfred Brendel was a Czech-born Austrian classical pianist, poet, author, composer and lecturer, based in London. He is noted for his performances of music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, and Franz Liszt. He made three recordings of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas and was the first pianist to record Beethoven's complete works for solo piano.
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Nikolaus Harnoncourt
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- actorchoir directorviol playercomposercellist
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Johann Nikolaus Harnoncourt was an Austrian conductor, known for his historically informed performances. He specialized in music of the Baroque period, but later extended his repertoire to include Classical and early Romantic works. Among his best known recordings are those of Bach, whose 193 cantatas he recorded with Gustav Leonhardt.
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Kirill Petrenko
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- conductormusic director
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Kirill Garrievich Petrenko is a Russian-Austrian conductor. He is chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic.
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Johann Nepomuk Hummel
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- conductorpianistcomposermusic educatorconcertmaster
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Johann Nepomuk Hummel was an Austrian composer and pianist. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era. He was a pupil of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonio Salieri, and Joseph Haydn. Hummel significantly influenced later piano music of the nineteenth century, particularly in the works of Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt, and Felix Mendelssohn.
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Wolf Albach-Retty
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- stage actorfilm actor
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Wolf Albach-Retty was an Austrian actor. He was the father of Romy Schneider with the German actress Magda Schneider.
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Hanns Eisler
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- musicianuniversity teacherfilm score composercomposerscreenwriter
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Hanns Eisler was a German-Austrian composer. He is best known for composing the national anthem of East Germany, for his long artistic association with Bertolt Brecht, and for the scores he wrote for films. The Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin is named after him.
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Klaus Löwitsch
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- television actorvoice actorstage actorfilm actor
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Klaus Löwitsch was a German actor, best known in Germany for his starring role in the television detective series Peter Strohm.
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Friedrich Gulda
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- composerpianistjazz musiciansinger
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Friedrich Gulda was an Austrian pianist and composer who worked in both the classical and jazz fields.
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Ciprian Porumbescu
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- composerconductormusicologistviolinist
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Ciprian Porumbescu was a Romanian composer born in Șipotele Sucevei in Bucovina. He was among the most celebrated Romanian composers of his time; his popular works include Crai nou, Song of the Tricolour, Song for Spring, Ballad for violin and piano, and Serenada. In addition, he composed the music for the Romanian patriotic "Song of Unity", also known as "Pe-al nostru steag e scris Unire" ("On our flag is written Unity"), which was Romania's anthem from 1975 to 1977 and is currently used for Albania's national anthem, "Himni i Flamurit". His work spreads over various forms and musical genres, but the majority of his work is choral and operetta.
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Hugo Wolf
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- music criticmusicologistcomposer
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Hugo Philipp Jacob Wolf was an Austrian composer, particularly noted for his art songs, or Lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Romantic music, somewhat related to that of the Second Viennese School in concision but diverging greatly in technique.
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Sophie Rois
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- film actoractormusician
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Sophie Rois is an Austrian actress who lives and works in Berlin. She has appeared in such films as Three, 180°, Enemy at the Gates and television programmes such as Polizeiruf 110 and Die kleine Monsterin (voice).
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Dagmar Koller
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- singeractorfilm actor
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Dagmar Koller is an Austrian actress and singer.
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Ulrich Seidl
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- screenwriterfilm directorcinematographerwriterfilm producer
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Ulrich Maria Seidl is an Austrian film director, writer and producer. Among other awards, his film Dog Days won the Grand Jury Prize at Venice in 2001.
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Franz von Suppè
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- composerconductor
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Franz von Suppé, born Francesco Ezechiele Ermenegildo de Suppé was an Austrian composer of light operas and other theatre music. He came from the Kingdom of Dalmatia, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now part of Croatia). A composer and conductor of the Romantic period, he is notable for his four dozen operettas, including the first operetta to a German libretto. Some of them remain in the repertory, particularly in German-speaking countries, and he composed a substantial quantity of church music, but he is now chiefly known for his overtures, which remain popular in the concert hall and on record. Among the best-known are Poet and Peasant, Light Cavalry, Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna and Pique Dame.
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Joseph Joachim
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- violinistuniversity teachercomposerconductorviolist
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Joseph Joachim was a Hungarian violinist, conductor, composer and teacher who made an international career, based in Hanover and Berlin. A close collaborator of Johannes Brahms, he is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished violinists of the 19th century.
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Alexander von Zemlinsky
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- conductorteacherwriterclassical composercomposer
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Alexander Zemlinsky or Alexander von Zemlinsky was an Austrian composer, conductor, and teacher.
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Émile Jaques-Dalcroze
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- music educatorpedagoguecomposer
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Émile Jaques-Dalcroze was a Swiss composer, musician, and music educator who developed Dalcroze eurhythmics, an approach to learning and experiencing music through movement. Dalcroze eurhythmics influenced Carl Orff's pedagogy, used in music education throughout the United States.
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Wolfgang Sobotka
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- politician
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Wolfgang Sobotka is an Austrian politician of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) who served as the president of the Austrian National Council from 2017 until 2024.
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Rudolf Buchbinder
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- classical pianist
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Rudolf Buchbinder is an Austrian classical pianist.
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Shardad Rohani
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- pianistconductorcomposer
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Shahrdad Rohani, also known as Shardad Rohani, is an Iranian-American composer, violinist/pianist, and conductor. His style is contemporary and he is well known for composing and conducting classical, instrumental, adult contemporary/new age, film soundtrack as well as pop music. He was the principal conductor and music director of the Tehran Symphony Orchestra from 2016 to 2020.
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Anton Karas
- Enrolled in the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
- Studied in 1924-1928
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- composerinnkeeperfilm score composerzitherist
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Anton Karl Karas was an Austrian zither player and composer, best known for his internationally famous 1948 soundtrack to Carol Reed's The Third Man. His association with the film came about as a result of a chance meeting with its director. The success of the film and the enduring popularity of its theme song changed Karas' life.
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Patricija Kopačinskaja
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- violinistcomposer
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Patricia Kopatchinskaja is a Moldovan-Austrian-Swiss violinist.
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Artur Schnabel
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- pianistmusic educatorcomposer
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Artur Schnabel was an Austrian-born classical pianist, composer and pedagogue. Schnabel was known for his intellectual seriousness as a musician, avoiding pure technical bravura. Among the 20th century's most respected and important pianists, his playing displayed marked vitality, profundity and spirituality in the Austro-German classics, particularly the works of Beethoven and Schubert.
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Giuseppe Sinopoli
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- composerconductorcollectormusic educator
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Giuseppe Sinopoli was an Italian conductor and composer.
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Samy Molcho
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- dancerchoreographermime artist
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Samy Molcho is an Israeli mime and an expert in body language communication. He was professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts and at Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna, Austria until 2004.
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Henri Vieuxtemps
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- composerviolinistmusic educatoruniversity teacher
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Henri François Joseph Vieuxtemps was a Belgian composer and violinist. He occupies an important place in the history of the violin as a prominent exponent of the Franco-Belgian violin school during the mid-19th century. He is also known for playing what is now known as the Vieuxtemps Guarneri del Gesù, a violin of superior workmanship.
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George Szell
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- composerconductoruniversity teacherclassical pianist
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George Szell, originally György Széll, György Endre Széll, or Georg Szell, was an Austro-Hungarian-born American conductor, composer and pianist. Considered one of the twentieth century's greatest conductors, he was music director of the Cleveland Orchestra of Cleveland, Ohio, and recorded much of the standard classical repertoire in Cleveland and with other orchestras.
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Oskar Homolka
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- film actoractorstage actor
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Oskar Homolka was an Austrian film and theatre actor, who went on to work in Germany, Britain and the United States. Both his voice and his appearance fitted him for roles as communist spies or Soviet officials, for which he was in regular demand. By the age of 30, he had appeared in more than 400 plays; his film career covered at least 100 films and TV shows.
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Elisabeth Bergner
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- stage actorfilm actor
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Elisabeth Bergner was an Austrian-British actress. Primarily a stage actress, her career flourished in Berlin and Paris before she moved to London to work in films. She played the title role in The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934). Her signature role was Gemma Jones in Escape Me Never, a 1934 play written for her by Margaret Kennedy. She played Gemma, first in London and then in the Broadway debut, and in a 1935 film version for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also starred in the American film Paris Calling (1941). In 1943, Bergner returned to Broadway in the play The Two Mrs. Carrolls, for which she won the Distinguished Performance Medal from the Drama League.
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Andrés Orozco-Estrada
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- violinistconductormusician
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Andrés Orozco-Estrada is a Colombian violinist and conductor, with dual nationality in Colombia and Austria. He is principal conductor of the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Generalmusikdirektor of the Gürzenich Orchester and Cologne Opera, and chief conductor-designate of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He has previously served as music director of the Houston Symphony Orchestra and chief conductor of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony.
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Iván Fischer
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- composerconductor
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Iván Fischer is a Hungarian conductor and composer.
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Franz Schreker
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- composermusic educatoruniversity teacherwriter
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Franz Schreker was an Austrian composer, conductor, librettist, teacher and administrator. Primarily a composer of operas, Schreker developed a style characterized by aesthetic plurality (a mixture of Romanticism, Naturalism, Symbolism, Impressionism, Expressionism and Neue Sachlichkeit), timbral experimentation, strategies of extended tonality and conception of total music theatre into the narrative of 20th-century music.
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Robert Finster
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- stage actorfilm actor
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Robert Finster is an Austrian actor. He's mostly known for playing Sigmund Freud in Freud.
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Antonio Neumane
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- conductorpianistchoir directormusic teachercomposer
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Antonio Neumane was a composer, pianist, and orchestra director. His most notable work is the music of the Ecuadorian National Anthem "Salve, Oh Patria" with the text written by Juan León Mera.
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Franz Schmidt
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- university teacherpianistcomposermusic educatorcellist
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Franz Schmidt, also Ferenc Schmidt was an Austro-Hungarian composer, cellist and pianist.
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Clemens Krauss
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- librettistconductorwritercomposeruniversity teacher
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Clemens Heinrich Krauss was an Austrian conductor and opera impresario, particularly associated with the music of Richard Strauss, Johann Strauss and Richard Wagner. He founded the New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic and conducted it until 1954.
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Nader Mashayekhi
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- composerconductor
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Nader Mashayekhi is an Iranian composer. From 2006 to July 2007 he was conductor of the Tehran Symphony Orchestra. He is the son of Jamshid Mashayekhi.
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Manfred Honeck
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- conductor
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Manfred Honeck is an Austrian conductor. He is the music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
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Georg Friedrich Haas
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- composerclassical pianistuniversity teacheracademic musician
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Georg Friedrich Haas is an Austrian composer. In a 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000, pieces by Haas received the most votes (49), and his composition in vain (2000) topped the list.
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Theodor Leschetizky
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- university teacherpianistmusicologistcomposermusic educator
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Theodor Leschetizky was a Polish pianist, professor, and composer active in Austria-Hungary. He was born in Łańcut in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, then a crown land of the Habsburg domain. A well-regarded teacher, his many students included Ignaz Friedman, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, and Artur Schnabel.
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Karl Goldmark
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- composerpianistviolinistmusic educator
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Karl Goldmark was a Hungarian-born Viennese composer.
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Heinrich Schenker
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- music theoristaccompanistmusicologistcomposermusic educator
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Heinrich Schenker was an Austrian music theorist whose writings have had a profound influence on subsequent musical analysis. His approach, now termed Schenkerian analysis, was most fully explained in a three-volume series, Neue musikalische Theorien und Phantasien (New Musical Theories and Phantasies), which included Harmony (1906), Counterpoint (1910; 1922), and Free Composition (1935).
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Michael Glawogger
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- writerfilm directorcinematographerscreenwriter
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Michael Glawogger was an Austrian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer, born in Graz.
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Gian Francesco Malipiero
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- musicologistdirectorcomposer
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Gian Francesco Malipiero was an Italian composer, musicologist, music teacher and editor.
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Hans Richter
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- musicologistconductorcomposer
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Johann Baptist Isidor Richter was an Austro-Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor.
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Herbert Berghof
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- film actortheatrical directorstage actor
- Biography
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Herbert Berghof was an American actor, director and acting teacher.
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Christiane Lutz
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Christiane Lutz is a German opera director.
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Ádám Fischer
- Enrolled in the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
- Studied in 1971
- Occupations
- directorconductor
- Biography
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Ádám Fischer is a Hungarian conductor. He is the general music director of the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra, chief conductor of the Danish Chamber Orchestra, and principal conductor of the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra.
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Arthur Nikisch
- Enrolled in the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
- Studied in 1873
- Occupations
- composerpianistconductoruniversity teacher
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Arthur Nikisch was a Hungarian conductor who performed internationally, holding posts in Boston, London, Leipzig and—most importantly—Berlin. He was considered an outstanding interpreter of the music of Bruckner, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Liszt. Johannes Brahms praised Nikisch's performance of his Fourth Symphony as "quite exemplary, it's impossible to hear it any better."
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Jörg Demus
- Enrolled in the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
- Studied in 1940-1945
- Occupations
- composerpianist
- Biography
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Jörg Wolfgang Demus was an Austrian classical pianist who appeared internationally and made many recordings. He was also a composer and a lecturer at music academies. In composition and playing, he focused on chamber music and lieder. He played with singers such as Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, as a piano duo with Paul Badura-Skoda, and with string players such as Josef Suk and Antonio Janigro. Demus was instrumental in bringing the historic fortepiano to concert podiums. He was a member of the Legion of Honour, among many awards. He is regarded as one of the leading Austrian pianists of the immediate post-World War II era.
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Angelika Kirchschlager
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- opera singeruniversity teacher
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Angelika Kirchschlager is an Austrian mezzo-soprano opera and lieder singer.
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Thomas Gansch
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- jazz musiciantrumpeter
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Thomas Gansch is a well-known Vienna-based Austrian trumpet player. He began his studies at Vienna music school at the age of 15.
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Karl Farkas
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- television presenterfilm actorcomedianstage actortelevision actor
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Karl Farkas was an Austrian actor and cabaret performer.
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Michael Spyres
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- opera singer
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Michael Spyres is an American operatic tenor. He is particularly associated with the bel canto repertoire, especially the works of Rossini, and heroic roles in French grand opera.
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Edith Mathis
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- opera singeruniversity teacher
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Edith Mathis was a Swiss soprano known for her roles in Mozart's operas. Early in her career, Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro was her signature role that she performed at debuts at several opera houses and festivals in Europe. Later, she portrayed Susanna in the same opera, Zerlina in Don Giovanni and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte. She took part in premieres of operas, Henze's Der junge Lord and works by Gottfried von Einem, Menotti and Heinrich Sutermeister. Based at Deutsche Oper Berlin from 1963 to 1971, she was in demand internationally, also as a singer of Lied and in concert.
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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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Jesús López Cobos
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- conductormusic director
- Biography
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Jesús López Cobos was a Spanish conductor.
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Carl Michael Ziehrer
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- composerconductor
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Carl Michael Ziehrer was an Austrian composer. In his lifetime, he was one of the fiercest rivals of the Strauss family; most notably Johann Strauss II and Eduard Strauss.
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James Allen Gähres
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- conductormusic director
- Biography
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James Allen Gähres is an American conductor with an international career, based in Germany.
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Ingrid Haebler
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- pianistmusic educatoruniversity teacher
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Ingrid Haebler was an Austrian classical pianist.
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Marie Kreutzer
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- film directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Marie Kreutzer is an Austrian film director and screenwriter.
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Friedrich Cerha
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- composerconductorinstrumentalistmusic educator
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Friedrich Cerha was an Austrian composer, conductor, and academic teacher. His ensemble die reihe in Vienna was instrumental in spreading contemporary music in Austria. Cerha composed three literary operas, beginning with Baal, based on Brecht's play, which was premiered at the Salzburg Festival in 1981. He is best known for completing Alban Berg's opera Lulu by orchestrating its unfinished third act, which premiered in Paris in 1979.
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Lili Kraus
- Enrolled in the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
- Studied in 1923
- Occupations
- composerclassical pianist
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Lili Kraus was a Hungarian-born pianist.
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Erkki Melartin
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- exlibristconductorcomposer
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Erkki Gustaf Melartin was a Finnish composer, conductor, and teacher of the late-Romantic and early-modern periods. Melartin is generally considered to be one of Finland's most significant national Romantic composers, although his music—then and now—largely has been overshadowed by that of his contemporary, Jean Sibelius, the country's most famous composer. The core of Melartin's oeuvre consists of a set of six (completed) symphonies, as well as is his opera, Aino, based on a story from the Kalevala, Finland's national epic, but nevertheless in the style of Richard Wagner.
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Hans Swarowsky
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- university teachermusic educatorconductor
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Hans Swarowsky was an Austrian conductor of Hungarian birth.
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Alois Hába
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- music theoristpedagoguenon-fiction writeruniversity teachercomposer
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Alois Hába was a Czech composer, music theorist and teacher. He belongs to the important discoverers in modern classical music, and to the major composers of microtonal music, especially using the quarter-tone scale, though he used others such as sixth-tones (e.g., in the 5th, 10th and 11th String Quartets), fifth-tones (Sixteenth String Quartet), and twelfth-tones. From the other microtonal conceptions, he discussed a "three-quarter tone" system (see three-quarter tone flat and the neutral second) in his theoretical works but he used scales in this tuning in sections of some of his compositions. In his prolific career, Hába composed three operas, an enormous collection of chamber music including 16 string quartets, piano, organ and choral pieces, some orchestral works and songs. He also had special keyboard and woodwind instruments constructed that were capable of playing quarter-tone scales.
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Luise Ullrich
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- film actorwriterstage actor
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Luise Ullrich was an Austrian actress.
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Ahmad Pejman
- Occupations
- classical composer
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Ahmad Pejman, also spelled as Ahmad Pezhman, was an Iranian contemporary classical composer who resided in the United States. Pejman was notable for his works in opera, symphonies and music for film.
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Maria Andergast
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- stage actorfilm actor
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Maria Andergast was a German actress. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1934 and 1974.
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Alice Harnoncourt
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- violinistviola d'amore playerconcertmaster
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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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Lovro von Matačić
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- composerconductor
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Lovro von Matačić was a Croatian conductor and composer.
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Rainer Küchl
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- classical violinistuniversity teacher
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Rainer Küchl is an Austrian violinist who was born in Waidhofen an der Ybbs, Austria, 25 August 1950.
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Ali Rahbari
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- composerconductor
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Ali Rahbari (Persian: علی (الکساندر) رهبری; also Romanized as "Alī Rahbarī", Persian pronunciation: [æˈliː ɾæhbæˈɾiː]; born 1948) is an Iranian composer and conductor who has worked with more than 120 European orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic and the Mariinsky Opera.
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Robert Fuchs
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- music educatorconductorcomposer
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Robert Fuchs was an Austrian composer and music teacher. As Professor of music theory at the Vienna Conservatory, Fuchs taught many notable composers, while he was himself a highly regarded composer in his lifetime.
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Marcel Prawy
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- music criticauthordramaturgeuniversity teacher
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Marcel Prawy was an Austrian dramaturg, opera connoisseur and opera critic. He was born into a Jewish Austro-Hungarian noble family and studied law, but his life belonged to the opera. He became secretary of the tenor Jan Kiepura and they both emigrated to the United States when persecution of the Austrian Jews became unbearable in the late 1930s.
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Leo Fall
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- bandleaderconductorcomposer
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Leopold Fall was an Austrian Kapellmeister and composer of operettas.
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Nobu Kōda
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- violinistpianistcomposer
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Nobu Kōda 幸田延 was a Japanese composer, violinist, and music teacher. She was one of the first Japanese women to study music overseas. She studied at the New England Conservatory. She later studied in Europe. She was the sister of Kōda Rohan.
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Michiko Tanaka
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- film actorsingerstage actor
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Michiko Tanaka was a Japanese singer and actress.
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Milka Ternina
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- university teachervocalistopera singer
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Milka Trnina was a Croatian dramatic soprano who enjoyed a high reputation in major American and European opera houses. Praised by audiences and music critics alike for the electrifying force of her acting and the excellence of her singing in both German and Italian works, her career was curtailed at its peak in 1906 by a medical condition which paralyzed a nerve in her face.
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Heinrich von Herzogenberg
- Enrolled in the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
- Studied in 1862-1864
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- composition teacherconductormusicographercomposer
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Heinrich Picot de Peccaduc, Freiherr von Herzogenberg was an Austrian composer and conductor descended from a French aristocratic family.
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Carl Millöcker
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- composerchapelmasterconductorflautist
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Carl Joseph Millöcker ((1842-04-29)29 April 1842 – (1899-12-31)31 December 1899), was an Austrian composer of operettas and a conductor.
