100 Notable alumni of
University of Music and Theatre Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig
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The University of Music and Theatre Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig is 469th in the world, 164th in Europe, and 23rd in Germany by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Music and Theatre Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Edvard Grieg
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- composerpianist
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Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the leading Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide. His use of Norwegian folk music in his own compositions brought the music of Norway to fame, as well as helping to develop a national identity, much as Jean Sibelius did in Finland and Bedřich Smetana in Bohemia.
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Tom Wlaschiha
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- film actordub actortelevision actorstage actor
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Thomas Wlaschiha is a German actor. Internationally, he is known for his roles as Jaqen H'ghar in the second, fifth and sixth seasons of the TV series Game of Thrones, as well as Sebastian Berger in the police procedural Crossing Lines. He also appeared in four episodes of Jack Ryan as Max Schenkel. He plays Dmitri Antonov / "Enzo" in the fourth season of Stranger Things.
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Yvonne Catterfeld
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- actorfilm actorsingersongwritervoice actor
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Yvonne Catterfeld is a German singer, actress and television personality. Born and raised in Erfurt, Thuringia, she later moved to Leipzig to pursue her career in music. In 2000, she participated in the debut season of the singing competition series Stimme 2000, where she came in second place. Catterfeld subsequently signed a recording deal with Hansa Records, which released her debut single "Bum" in 2001. The same year, she was propelled to stardom when she was cast in a main role in the German soap opera Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten. In 2003, Catterfeld made her musical breakthrough when her fifth single, "Für dich", became an international number-one hit and produced the equally successful album Meine Welt.
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Ulrich Mühe
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- film actortheatrical directortelevision actorstage actor
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Friedrich Hans Ulrich Mühe was a German film, television and theatre actor. He played the role of Hauptmann (Captain) Gerd Wiesler in the Oscar-winning film Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others, 2006), for which he received the gold award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, at the Deutscher Filmpreis (German Film Awards); and the Best Actor Award at the 2006 European Film Awards.
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Leoš Janáček
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- composerteachermusic educatorlibrettistmusicologist
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Leoš Janáček was a Czech composer, music theorist, folklorist, publicist, and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and other Slavic music, including Eastern European folk music, to create an original, modern musical style.
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Petra Schmidt-Schaller
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- stage actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Petra Schmidt-Schaller is a German actress. She is noted for the roles of Helene in Runaway Horse alongside Ulrich Noethen, Ulrich Tukur and Katja Riemann, and Maud Brewster in The Sea Wolf (2008 ProSieben film) alongside Thomas Kretschmann.
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Isaac Albéniz
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- composerclassical pianistconductorpianistvirtuoso
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Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual was a Spanish virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor. He is one of the foremost composers of the post-romantic era who also had a significant influence on his contemporaries and younger composers. He is best known for his piano works based on Spanish folk music idioms. Isaac Albéniz was close to the Generation of '98.
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Stephanie Stumph
- Enrolled in the University of Music and Theatre Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig
- Studied in 2003-2006
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- stage actorfilm actorchild actor
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Stephanie Stumph is a German actress. She is the daughter of actor Wolfgang Stumph.
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Mirja Boes
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- stage actorsinger
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Mirja Boes, also known under her stage name Möhre (German for "carrot"), is a German comedian, actress, and singer. Boes produces comedic party music, and also has released tracks of spoken comedy. She has released a number of singles and has also recorded with other German musicians, as part of the 'Mallorca All-Stars'. She won the 2007 German Comedy Award as a member of the ensemble of 'Frei Schnauze' (Best Comedy Show), and the 2008 German Comedy Award (Best Comedian).
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Nadja Uhl
- Enrolled in the University of Music and Theatre Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig
- Studied in 1990-1994
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- stage actorfilm actordub actor
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Nadja Uhl is a German actress.
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Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
- Enrolled in the University of Music and Theatre Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig
- Studied in 1901-1902
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- composerpainter
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Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis was a Lithuanian composer, painter, choirmaster, cultural figure, and writer in Polish.
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Kurt Masur
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- conductoruniversity teacher
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Kurt Masur was a German conductor. Called "one of the last old-style maestros", he directed many of the principal orchestras of his era. He had a long career as the Kapellmeister of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and also served as music director of the New York Philharmonic for about ten years. He made many recordings of classical music with major orchestras. Masur is also remembered for his actions to support peaceful demonstrations against the East German government in the 1989 demonstrations in Leipzig; those protests were part of the events leading up to the fall of the Berlin wall.
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Ferruccio Busoni
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- recording artistmusic educatorcomposerpianistmusicologist
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Ferruccio Busoni was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and teacher. His international career and reputation led him to work closely with many of the leading musicians, artists and literary figures of his time, and he was a sought-after keyboard instructor and a teacher of composition.
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Mykola Lysenko
- Enrolled in the University of Music and Theatre Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig
- Studied in 1866-1868
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- ethnomusicologistmusic educatorconductorcomposerclassical composer
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Mykola Vitaliiovych Lysenko was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist of the late Romantic period. In his time he was the central figure of Ukrainian music, with an oeuvre that includes operas, art songs, choral works, orchestral and chamber pieces, and a wide variety of solo piano music. He is often credited with founding a national music tradition during the Ukrainian national revival, in the vein of contemporaries such as Grieg in Norway, The Five in Russia as well as Smetana and Dvořák in what is now the Czech Republic.
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Arthur Sullivan
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- composerorganistconductormusic educator
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Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO was an English composer. He is best known for 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado. His works include 24 operas, 11 major orchestral works, ten choral works and oratorios, two ballets, incidental music to several plays, and numerous church pieces, songs, and piano and chamber pieces. His hymns and songs include "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and "The Lost Chord".
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Sebastian Krumbiegel
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- film actoractorsinger
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Sebastian Krumbiegel is a German singer and musician. He is a member of the band Die Prinzen.
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Frederick Delius
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- composer
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Frederick Theodore Albert Delius CH was an English composer. Born in Bradford in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce. He was sent to Florida in the United States in 1884 to manage an orange plantation. He soon neglected his managerial duties, and in 1886 returned to Europe.
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Miklós Rózsa
- Enrolled in the University of Music and Theatre Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig
- Studied in 1929
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- composerconductorpianistfilm score composermusicologist
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Miklós Rózsa was a Hungarian-American composer trained in Germany (1925–1931) and active in France (1931–1935), the United Kingdom (1935–1940), and the United States (1940–1995), with extensive sojourns in Italy from 1953 onward. Best known for his nearly one hundred film scores, he nevertheless maintained a steadfast allegiance to absolute concert music throughout what he called his "double life".
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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 significant violinists of the 19th century.
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Peter Sodann
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- actortheatre managerdirectorproducervoice actor
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Peter Sodann was a German actor, director and politician. He was the Left Party's nominee for the 2009 presidential election, but was not considered a serious candidate by the German media.
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Ethel Smyth
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- suffragettesuffragistnursecomposerwomen's rights activist
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Dame Ethel Mary Smyth DBE was an English composer and a member of the women's suffrage movement. Her compositions include songs, works for piano, chamber music, orchestral works, choral works and operas.
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Gisela Uhlen
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- film actorscreenwriterstage actorfilm directortelevision actor
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Gisela Uhlen was a German film actress and occasional screen writer.
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Tobias Künzel
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- singer
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Tobias Künzel is a German pop artist and composer, best known as one of the lead singers for the group 'Die Prinzen'.
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Carl Reinecke
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- composermusic educatorconductoruniversity teacherpianist
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Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke was a German composer, conductor, and pianist in the mid-Romantic era.
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Wilhelm Backhaus
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- university teachercomposerpianistmusic educator
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Wilhelm Backhaus was a German pianist and pedagogue. He was particularly well known for his interpretations of Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Brahms. He was also much admired as a chamber musician.
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Zdeněk Fibich
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- choir directorpedagogueconductorcomposerdramaturge
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Zdeněk Fibich was a Czech composer of classical music. Among his compositions are chamber works (including two string quartets, a piano trio, piano quartet and a quintet for piano, strings and winds), symphonic poems, three symphonies, at least seven operas (the most famous probably Šárka and The Bride of Messina), melodramas including the substantial trilogy Hippodamia, liturgical music including a mass – a missa brevis; and a large cycle (a total of 376 pieces, from the 1890s) of piano works called Moods, Impressions, and Reminiscences. The piano cycle served as a diary of sorts of his love for a piano pupil, and one of the pieces formed the basis for the short instrumental work Poème, for which Fibich is best remembered today.
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Otto Goldschmidt
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- university teachercomposerpianistconductor
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Otto Moritz David Goldschmidt was a composer, conductor, pianist and educator, whose works included a piano concerto and other piano pieces, and an oratorio, Ruth, on a biblical theme, written for the Three Choirs Festival. From a prosperous mercantile family in Hamburg, he studied under Felix Mendelssohn at the Leipzig Conservatoire and quickly established himself as a pianist. Among the singers whom he accompanied was "the Swedish Nightingale", the soprano Jenny Lind. They married in 1852, after which she insisted on being billed as "Madame Lind-Goldschmidt".
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Ludwig Güttler
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- trumpeteruniversity teacherconductor
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Ludwig Güttler is an internationally known German virtuoso on the Baroque trumpet, the piccolo trumpet and the corno da caccia. As a conductor, he founded several ensembles including the chamber orchestra Virtuosi Saxoniae. His name is sometimes written in English as Ludwig Guttler.
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Adrian Boult
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- conductorautobiographer
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Sir Adrian Cedric Boult, CH was a British conductor. Brought up in a prosperous mercantile family, he followed musical studies in England and at Leipzig, Germany, with early conducting work in London for the Royal Opera House and Sergei Diaghilev's ballet company. His first prominent post was conductor of the City of Birmingham Orchestra in 1924. When the British Broadcasting Corporation appointed him director of music in 1930, he established the BBC Symphony Orchestra and became its chief conductor. The orchestra set standards of excellence that were rivalled in Britain only by the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO), founded two years later.
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Sergei Bortkiewicz
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- classical composerpianist
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Sergei Eduardovich Bortkiewicz was a Romantic composer and pianist. He moved to Vienna in 1922 and became a naturalized Austrian citizen in 1926.
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Felix Weingartner
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- conductorcomposerwriterclassical composerpianist
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Paul Felix Weingartner, Edler von Münzberg was an Austrian conductor, composer and pianist.
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Christian Sinding
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- academic musiciancomposerclassical composermusicologist
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Christian August Sinding was a Norwegian composer. He is best known for his lyrical work for piano Frühlingsrauschen (Rustle of Spring, 1896). He was often compared to Edvard Grieg and regarded as his successor.
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Götz Friedrich
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- theatrical directorfilm directordirectorproducer
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Götz Friedrich was a German opera and theatre director.
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Simone Kermes
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- opera singer
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Simone Kermes is a German coloratura soprano, especially known for her virtuoso voice, suited to the opera seria genre of the Baroque and early Classical period.
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Klaus Tennstedt
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- conductorconcertmaster
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Klaus Hermann Wilhelm Tennstedt was a German conductor from Merseburg. Known for his interpretation of the Austro-German repertoire, especially his sympathetic approaches towards Gustav Mahler, Tennstedt is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential conductors of the late 20th century. He worked with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Symphony Orchestra, and other highly regarded ensembles such as the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and most notably the London Philharmonic Orchestra, with which he was closely associated and recorded many of his celebrated recordings under the EMI label, including a cycle of Mahler's 10 symphonies.
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Johan Svendsen
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- composerviolinistconductoracademic musicianmusicologist
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Johan Severin Svendsen was a Norwegian composer, conductor and violinist. Born in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway, he lived most of his life in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Georg Christoph Biller
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- composermusic arrangerconductorsingerchoir director
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Georg Christoph Biller was a German choral conductor. He conducted the Thomanerchor as the sixteenth Thomaskantor since Johann Sebastian Bach from 1992 to 2015. He was also a baritone, an academic teacher, and a composer. Active as Thomaskantor after the German reunification, Biller returned the Thomanerchor to its original focus on church music. He was instrumental in the new buildings for the choir's boarding school, the Forum Thomanum, and in the celebration of its 800th anniversary in 2012.
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Franco Alfano
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- writercomposerpianistmusic educator
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Franco Alfano was an Italian composer and pianist, best known today for his operas Cyrano de Bergerac (1936), Risurrezione (1904) and for having completed Puccini's opera Turandot in 1926. He had considerable success with several of his own works during his lifetime.
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Hugo Riemann
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- pianistmusic theoristuniversity teacherwritercomposer
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Karl Wilhelm Julius Hugo Riemann was a German musicologist and composer who was among the founders of modern musicology. The leading European music scholar of his time, he was active and influential as both a music theorist and music historian. Many of his contributions are now termed as Riemannian theory, a variety of related ideas on many aspects of music theory.
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Hugo Distler
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- organistchoir directorconductorcomposeruniversity teacher
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August Hugo Distler was a German organist, choral conductor, teacher and composer.
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Cornelius Gurlitt
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- composerpaintermusic theoristmusic educator
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Gustav Cornelius Gurlitt was a German composer. He was a classmate of Carl Reinecke, whose father was head of the Leipzig Conservatory. Gurlitt studied with Reinecke's father for six years. His first public appearance at the age of seventeen was well received, and he decided to go to Copenhagen to continue his studies. There he studied organ, piano, and composition under Curlander and Weyse. While in Copenhagen he became acquainted with the Danish composer Niels Gade, and they remained friends until Gade's death.
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Sigfrid Karg-Elert
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- organistmusic educatorcomposeruniversity teacherpianist
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Sigfrid Karg-Elert was a German composer in the early twentieth century, best known for his compositions for pipe organ and reed organ.
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Hermann Levi
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- composerpianistconductor
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Hermann Levi was a German Jewish orchestral conductor.
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Freya Klier
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- political activisttheatrical directorstage actorfilm directorwriter
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Freya Klier is a German author and film director. Before 1989/90, she was an East German civil rights activist.
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Karl Muck
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- conductorpianist
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Karl Muck was a Hessian-born conductor of classical music. He based his activities principally in Europe and mostly in opera. His American career comprised two stints at the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO). Muck endured a trial by media in 1917, after Providence Journal editor John R. Rathom falsely accused him of knowingly refusing a request to have the BSO play the Star Spangled Banner following American entry into World War I. Although Muck was a citizen of neutral Switzerland, he was arrested based on Rathom's accusation and incarcerated as an enemy alien at Fort Oglethorpe, a German-American internment camp in Georgia from March 1918 until August 1919. Karl Muck and his wife were then deported from the United States. His later career included notable engagements in Hamburg and at the Bayreuth Festival.
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Matthias Goerne
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- opera singer
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Matthias Goerne is a German baritone. He has performed and recorded extensively, both on the opera stage and in Lieder settings. Goerne has been referred to as "Today's leading interpreter of German art songs" by the Chicago Tribune, while the Boston Globe describes him as "one of the greatest singers performing today".
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Guilhermina Suggia
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- cellist
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Guilhermina Augusta Xavier de Medim Suggia Carteado Mena, known as Guilhermina Suggia was a Portuguese cellist. She studied in Paris with Pablo Casals, and built up an international reputation. She spent many years living in the United Kingdom, where she was particularly celebrated. She retired in 1939, but emerged from retirement to give concerts in Britain. Her last was in 1949, the year before her death.
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Othmar Schoeck
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- composerpianistconductor
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Othmar Schoeck was a Swiss Romantic classical composer, opera composer, musician, and conductor.
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Eileen Joyce
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- pianistharpsichordist
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Eileen Alannah Joyce CMG was an Australian pianist whose career spanned more than 30 years. She lived in England in her adult years.
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Emil von Reznicek
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- composeruniversity teacher
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Emil Nikolaus Joseph, Freiherr von Reznicek was an Austrian composer of Romanian-Czech ancestry.
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Karl Davydov
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- cellistopera singermusic educatorconductorcomposer
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Karl Yulievich Davydov was a Russian cellist, described by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the "czar of cellists". He was also a composer, mainly for the cello. His name also appears in various different spellings: Davydov, Davidoff, Davidov, and more, with his first name sometimes written as Charles or Carl.
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Robert Kajanus
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- composerconductor
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Robert Kajanus was a Finnish conductor, composer, and teacher. In 1882, he founded the Helsinki Orchestral Society, Finland's first professional orchestra. As a conductor, he was also a notable champion and interpreter of the music of Jean Sibelius.
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Franz Konwitschny
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- music directorpoliticianviolistconductor
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Franz Konwitschny was a German conductor and violist of Moravian descent.
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George Whitefield Chadwick
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- composeruniversity teachermusic educator
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George Whitefield Chadwick was an American composer. Along with John Knowles Paine, Horatio Parker, Amy Beach, Arthur Foote, and Edward MacDowell, he was a representative composer of what is called the Second New England School of American composers of the late 19th century. Chadwick's works are influenced by the Realist movement in the arts, characterized by a down-to-earth depiction of people's lives.
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Felix Draeseke
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- composermusic educatoruniversity teacherwritertheorist
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Felix August Bernhard Draeseke was a composer of the "New German School" admiring Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner. He wrote compositions in most forms including eight operas and stage works, four symphonies, and much vocal and chamber music.
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Ignaz Friedman
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- composerpianist
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Ignaz Friedman was a Polish pianist and composer. Critics (e.g. Harold Schonberg) and colleagues (e.g. Sergei Rachmaninoff) alike placed him among the supreme piano virtuosi of his day, alongside Leopold Godowsky, Moriz Rosenthal, Ferruccio Busoni, Josef Hofmann and Josef Lhévinne.
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Aarre Merikanto
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- composerpianist
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Aarre Merikanto was a Finnish composer.
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Balys Dvarionas
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- university teachercomposerpianistconductor
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Balys Dvarionas was a Soviet and Lithuanian composer, pianist, conductor, and educator. Dvarionas first became known as a composer after World War II. His works are in a romantic vein, with roots in folk song.
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Rudolf Mauersberger
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- composerconductorsingerchoir director
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Rudolf Mauersberger was a German choral conductor and composer. His younger brother Erhard was also a conductor and composer.
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Jón Leifs
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- writercomposerpianistconductor
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Jón Leifs was an Icelandic composer, pianist, and conductor.
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Jaromír Weinberger
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- composermusic educatorconductor
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Jaromír Weinberger was a Bohemian-born Jewish subject of the Austrian Empire, who became a naturalized American composer.
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Salomon Jadassohn
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- musicologistmusic educatorcomposermusic theoristuniversity teacher
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Salomon Jadassohn was a German pianist, composer, and teacher at the Leipzig Conservatory.
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Lionel Tertis
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- violistviolinistmusic educatorcomposermusic journalist
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Lionel Tertis, CBE was an English violist. He was one of the first viola players to achieve international fame, and a noted teacher.
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William Batchelder Bradbury
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- composer
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William Batchelder Bradbury was a musician who composed the tune to "Jesus Loves Me" and many other popular hymns.
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Mihail Jora
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- composerprofessorconductor
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Mihail Jora was a Romanian composer, pianist, and conductor. Jora studied in Leipzig with Robert Teichmüller. From 1929 to 1962 he was a professor at the Bucharest Conservatoire. He worked from 1928 to 1933 as a director/conductor of the Bucharest Broadcasting Orchestra. In 1944 he became vice-president of the Society of Romanian Composers: however, he soon came into criticism of the new communist government being accused of formalism (see Zhdanov Doctrine). In 1953, he was rehabilitated and allowed to rejoin the Composers' Union.
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Karl-Heinz Kämmerling
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- pianistuniversity teachermusic educator
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Karl-Heinz Kämmerling was a notable German academic teacher of classical pianists, who trained pianists at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover for careers as performers and academic teachers, particularly in the early training of highly gifted students.
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Adolph L'Arronge
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- writeractorscreenwriter
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Adolphe L'Arronge was a German playwright and theatre director. His best known work is the 1873 comedy play My Leopold which has been adapted into numerous films.
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Hans Huber
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- composerpianist
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Hans Huber was a Swiss composer. Between 1894 and 1918, he composed five operas. He also wrote a set of 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 100, for piano four-hands in all major and minor keys.
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Friedrich Gernsheim
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- composerconductorpianistmusic educator
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Friedrich Gernsheim was a German composer, conductor and pianist.
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Georg Schumann
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- composerconductor
- Biography
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Georg Alfred Schumann was a German composer and director of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin.
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Wilhelm Kienzl
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- composerbiographerconductorpianistmusicologist
- Biography
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Wilhelm Kienzl was an Austrian composer.
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Günther Ramin
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- composerorganistconductoruniversity teacherchoir director
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Günther Werner Hans Ramin was an influential German organist, conductor, composer and pedagogue in the first half of the 20th century.
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Woldemar Bargiel
- Enrolled in the University of Music and Theatre Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig
- Studied in 1846-1849
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- composeruniversity teachermusic educator
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Woldemar Bargiel was a German composer and conductor of the Romantic period.
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Matthias Eisenberg
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- organistharpsichordistcantor
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Matthias Eisenberg is a German concert organist and harpsichordist, and a cantor. The award-winning player is known for performing concerts with clarinetist Giora Feidman. He has performed and conducted master classes internationally. He recorded, including the complete organ works by J. S. Bach and improvisations, and has conducted Bach cantatas from the harpsichord in collaboration with the Thomanerchor.
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Anton Seidl
- Enrolled in the University of Music and Theatre Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig
- Studied in 1870-1872
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- conductorchapelmaster
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Anton Seidl was a Hungarian conductor, best known for his collaboration with Richard Wagner and conducting his operas, and for his association with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City and the New York Philharmonic.
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Albert Coates
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- composerconductor
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Albert Coates was an English conductor and composer. Born in Saint Petersburg, where his English father was a successful businessman, he studied in Russia, England and Germany, before beginning his career as a conductor in a series of German opera houses. He was a success in England conducting Wagner at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 1914, and in 1919 was appointed chief conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra.
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Louis Persinger
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- musicianviolinistmusic educatorconductoruniversity teacher
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Louis Persinger was an American violinist, pianist and professor of violin. Persinger had early lessons in Colorado, appearing in public by the age of 12. His main studies were at the Leipzig Conservatory where he studied violin with Hans Becker, piano with Carl Beving, conducting with Arthur Nikisch before finishing with Eugène Ysaÿe in Brussels and then studying with Jacques Thibaud in France for two summers. Arthur Nikisch described him as "one of the most talented pupils the Leipzig Conservatory ever had."
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Hans Sitt
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- concertmastermusic educatorcomposerviolistuniversity teacher
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Hans Sitt, was a Bohemian violinist, violist, teacher, and composer. During his lifetime, he was regarded as one of the foremost teachers of violin. Most of the orchestras and conservatories of Europe and North America then sported personnel who numbered among his students.
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Karol Hubert Rostworowski
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- musicianjournalistpoet
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Karol Hubert Rostworowski was a Polish playwright, poet and musician, born to a family of local gentry. He is remembered for his opposition to totalitarianism and for fatalistic works inspired by Catholic morality.
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Joseph Haas
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- composeruniversity teachermusic educator
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Joseph Haas was a German late romantic composer and music teacher.
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Émile Sauret
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- composerviolinistmusic educator
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Émile Sauret was a French violinist and composer. Sauret wrote over 100 violin pieces, including a famous cadenza for the first movement of Niccolò Paganini's First Violin Concerto, and the "Gradus ad Parnassum" (1894).
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Alfred Hill
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- composerclassical composerconductormusic educator
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Alfred Francis Hill CMG OBE was an Australian-New Zealand composer, conductor and teacher.
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Frieda Hempel
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- opera singer
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Frieda Hempel was a German lyric coloratura soprano singer in operatic and concert work who had an international career in Europe and the United States.
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Jonel Perlea
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- composerconductor
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Ionel Perlea was a Romanian conductor particularly associated with the Italian and German opera repertories.
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Cornelis Dopper
- Enrolled in the University of Music and Theatre Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig
- Studied in 1888-1890
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- composermusic educatorconductor
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Cornelis 'Kees' Dopper was a Dutch composer, conductor and teacher.
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Ernst Rudorff
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- composermusic educatoruniversity teacherpianistenvironmentalist
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Ernst Friedrich Karl Rudorff was a German composer and music teacher, also a founder of nature protection movement.
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Walter Bache
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- pianistmusic educatorconductor
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Walter Bache was an English pianist and conductor noted for his championing the music of Franz Liszt and other music of the New German School in England. He studied privately with Liszt in Italy from 1863 to 1865, one of the few students allowed to do so, and continued to attend Liszt's master classes in Weimar, Germany regularly until 1885, even after embarking on a solo career. This period of study was unparalleled by any other student of Liszt and led to a particularly close bond between Bache and Liszt. After initial hesitation on the part of English music critics because he was a Liszt pupil, Bache was publicly embraced for his keyboard prowess, even as parts of his repertoire were questioned.
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Eyvind Alnæs
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- composerconductorpianistchoir directoracademic musician
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Eyvind Alnæs was a Norwegian composer, pianist, organist and choir director.
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Ludvig Norman
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- composerchapelmasterconductoruniversity teacherpianist
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Ludvig Norman was a Swedish composer, conductor, pianist, and music teacher. Together with Franz Berwald and Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, he ranks among the most important Swedish symphonists of the 19th century.
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Frederic Hymen Cowen
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- composerpianistconductor
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Sir Frederic Hymen Cowen, was an English composer, conductor and pianist.
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Xiao Youmei
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- music educatorcomposer
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Xiao Youmei was a noted Chinese music educator and composer.
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Erhard Mauersberger
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- music educatorcomposerorganistuniversity teachermusicologist
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Erhard Mauersberger was a German choral conductor who conducted the Thomanerchor as the 14th Thomaskantor since Johann Sebastian Bach. He was also an academic teacher and composer.
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Felix Otto Dessoff
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- composermusic educatorconductor
- Biography
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Felix Otto Dessoff was a German conductor and composer.
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Marie-Elisabeth Hecker
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- cellist
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Marie-Elisabeth Hecker is a German cellist. In 2005 she was one of the youngest participants to win first prize at the Concours de violoncelle Rostropovitch, the most important cello competition held every four years in Paris.
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Steffen Schleiermacher
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- composerpianist
- Biography
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Steffen Schleiermacher is a German composer, pianist, and conductor.
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Mitja Nikisch
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- composerconductorpianistjazz musician
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Mitja Nikisch was a classical pianist and dance band leader, born in Leipzig, Germany on 21 May 1899 and died in Venice, Italy on 5 August 1936.
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Conrad Ansorge
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- composerpianist
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Conrad Eduard Reinhold Ansorge was a German pianist, teacher and composer.
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Ottokar Nováček
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- composerviolistmusicologistviolinist
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Ottokar Eugen Nováček was an Austro-Hungarian violinist, violist and composer of Czech descent. He is perhaps best known for his work Perpetuum Mobile (Perpetual Motion), written in 1895.
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Max Fiedler
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- composerpianistconductor
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August Max Fiedler was a German conductor and composer, He was noted as an interpreter of Brahms.
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Alexander Ritter
- Enrolled in the University of Music and Theatre Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig
- Studied in 1849-1859
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- composerconductorviolinistlibrettist
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Alexander Sascha Ritter was a German composer and violinist. He wrote two operas - Der faule Hans and Wem die Krone?, a few songs, a symphonic waltz and two symphonic fantasias. Ritter died in Munich.
