John Pierre Herman Joubert (/dʒuːˈbɛər/ joo-BAIR;[1][2] 20 March 1927 – 7 January 2019) was a British composer of South African descent, particularly of choral works. He lived in Moseley, a suburb of Birmingham, England, for over 50 years.[3][4] A music academic at the universities of Hull and Birmingham for 36 years, Joubert took early retirement […]
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Alexander Mackenzie, 1898 Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie KCVO (22 August 1847 – 28 April 1935) was a Scottish composer, conductor and teacher best known for his oratorios, violin and piano pieces, Scottish folk music and works for the stage. Mackenzie was a member of a musical family and was sent for his musical education to Germany. He […]
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This is a list of individual opera composers and their major works. The list includes composers’ principal operas and those of historical importance in the development of the art form. It covers the full historical period from the birth of opera in the late 16th century to the present day, and includes all forms of […]
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The British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors (BASCA) is one of the largest professional associations for music writers in Europe and exists to support, protect and campaign for the interests of songwriters, lyricists and composers. It represents music writers in all genres, from song writing to media, contemporary classical to jazz and has approximately […]
Woodrow Wilson Jackson III,[1] known professionally as Woody Jackson, is an American composer and session musician.[2] Jackson is best known for his scores for the video games Red Dead Redemption (with Bill Elm) and Grand Theft Auto V (with Tangerine Dream, The Alcemist and Oh No), and has also worked on the music of The […]
This article is about the musician. For the rabbi, see Samuel Adler (rabbi). Samuel Hans Adler (born March 4, 1928) is an American composer, conductor, author, and professor. During the course of a professional career which ranges over six decades he has served as a faculty member at both the University of Rochester’s Eastman School […]
George Theophilus Walker (June 27, 1922 – August 23, 2018) was an American composer, the first African American to have won the Pulitzer Prize for Music. [1] He received the Pulitzer for his work Lilacs in 1996.[2] Walker was the father of two sons, violinist and composer Gregory T.S. Walker[3] and playwright Ian Walker. Contents […]
Josef Suk Josef Suk (4 January 1874 – 29 May 1935) was a Czech composer and violinist. He studied under Antonín Dvořák, whose daughter he married. Contents 1 Biography 2 Musical style 3 Chronological list of compositions 4 References 5 Sources 6 External links Biography[edit] Josef Suk, early 1900s From a young age, Josef Suk […]
This list provides a guide to opera composers, as determined by their presence on a majority of compiled lists of significant opera composers. (See the “Lists Consulted” section for full details.) The composers run from Jacopo Peri, who wrote the first ever opera in late 16th century Italy, to John Adams, one of the leading […]
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Not to be confused with Quartz Compositor. Quartz Composer is a node-based visual programming language provided as part of the Xcode development environment in macOS for processing and rendering graphical data. Quartz Composer uses OpenGL (including GLSL), OpenCL (only in Mac OS X 10.6 and later), Core Image, Core Video, JavaScript, and other technologies to […]