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2. Ambrose, Saint
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... been particulary noted for his involvement in the development of Ambrosian or Milanese chant. A regards Ambrose's hymn composition, it is virtually certain that he wrote at least four, probabily six, ...

3. Bach, Johann Sebastian
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Composer Bach, Johann Sebastian Image Life Johann Sebastian Bach   (father of Carl Philip Emanuel, Johann Christian and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach) was the most significant member of the Bach ...

4. Bingen, Hildegard von
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... treatises, plays, and "abstract" music. The latter is monophonic, in the style of Gregorian chant, making use of the primary forms of the time: sequence, hymn, etc. Her melodic contours are consistently ...

5. Galliard, John Ernst
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Composer Galliard, John Ernst (ca 1680 - 1749) Life Galliard was primarily the composer of many operas and pantomimes: his operas were not overly successful but people flocked to the pantomimes. ...

6. Grainger, Percy
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...  Harvest Hymn appears in various chamber or orchestral arrangements, while Walking Tune remains in its original wind quintet form. Folk-song arrangements for various groups of instruments, sometimes idiosyncratically ...

7. Grigny, Nicolas de
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Composer Grigny, Nicolas de (1672 - 1703) Life French organist and composer, Grigny composed only one work, for organ, a mass and five hymns, to be performed in the standard style of alternation ...

8. Holst, Gustav
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Composer Holst, Gustav (1874 - 1934) Life English composer of Swedish origin, Holst studied the piano with his father and was admitted to the Royal College of Music in London in 1893. He went on ...

9. Howells, Herbert
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Composer Howells, Herbert (1892 - 1983) Life Herbert Howells started his musical career as a cathedral organist. He succeeded Gustav Holst as director of music at St Paul's Girls' School in London ...

10. Ives, Charles
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... of hymns and Gospel songs, and his so-called First Orchestral Set, otherwise known as New England Symphony, which depicts three places in New England. He wrote a number of psalm settings, part-songs and ...

11. Kabalewsky, Dmitri
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... for his songs and hymns of patriotism, his chamber music and operas. His orchestral music has won greater favour abroad than his dramatic and vocal Works His opera "Colas Breugnon" received wide ...

12. Lassus, Orlando de
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Composer Lassus, Orlando de (1532-1594) Image Life He was born at Mons, on 1530 or 1532, and he died at Munich on 14 June 1594. He served Ferrante Gonzaga of Mantua from circa 1544, accompanying ...

13. Lotti, Antonio
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... hymns, Psalms, and 17 operas. His music was admired by Hasse as well as his pupils Zelenka and A. Marcello.  ...

14. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix (1809 - 1847) Image Life Felix Mendelssohn was born into a wealthy cultured family. His father was a prominent Jewish banker who added Bartholdy to the ...

15. Stockausen, Karl
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Composer Stockausen, Karl (1928 - 2007) Image Life He studied with Martin at the Cologne Musikhochschule (1947-51), but the decisive stimulus came from his encounter with Messiaen's Mode de ...

16. Vaughan-Williams, Ralph
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... and edited "The English Hymnal". He was a teacher at the Royal College of Music and a conductor. In 1935 he was awarded the Order of Merit. Works Vaughan Williams’ works include nine symphonies, ...

17. Victoria, Tomás Luis de
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... quantity of choral church music. Works Victoria left some twenty settings of the Mass, in addition to a number of Magnificats, Lamentations, responsories, anthems, psalms, motets and hymns.  ...

18. Williamson, Malcolm
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Williamson, Malcolm (1931 - 2003) Life Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson, composer of The Happy Prince, was born in 1931 in Sydney, Australia. He entered the Sydney Conservatory ...

19. Tallis, Thomas
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Composer Tallis, Thomas (1505 - 1585) Image Life Thomas Tallis, b. c.1505, d. Nov. 23, 1585, was an English organist and composer whose career spanned the reigns of four monarchs and a long ...

20. Thomson, Virgil
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... are the 5 Songs from William Blake, the beautiful Feast of Love for baritone and chamber ensemble, 4 Southern Hymns (a choral classic), the sinewy cello concerto, the Symphony on a Hymn Tune, Acadian Songs ...