The Most Influential People Across History
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#10951
Teresa Kubiak
#181063
Overall Influence
1937 - Present (89 years)
Teresa Kubiak is a Polish operatic soprano. Born in Ldzań in the Łódź Voivodeship, she studied at the Academy of Music in Łódź. Kubiak is best known for her recording of the role of Tatyana in Georg Solti's recording of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, which was used for Petr Weigl's 1988 film of the opera. She was also known for her performances of Liza in Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame.
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Charles Williams
#178649
Overall Influence
1932 - Present (94 years)
Charles Isaac Williams is an alto saxophonist based in New York City. Biography Williams was born in Halls, Tennessee and moved to Alton, Illinois at the age of eight where he later played in the junior high school band, majored in music education at Lincoln University, in Jefferson City, Missouri and taught orchestral music in St. Albans, Queens. He released three albums on the Mainstream label in the early 1970s. Williams also played with Clark Terry, Frank Foster, and singer Ruth Brown. In 1995 Hamiett Bluiett approached record producer Pierre Sprey's Mapleshade label and convinced them to...
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Nate Smith
#150726
Overall Influence
1974 - Present (52 years)
Ira Nathaniel Smith is an American drummer, songwriter, producer, and three-time Grammy nominee. Life and career Smith was born in Chesapeake, Virginia, and started playing drums at age 11, initially influenced by rock and funk music. At 16, he developed an interest in jazz after listening to Album of the Year by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. Smith studied media art and design at James Madison University. While at James Madison, he performed at the Conference of the International Association for Jazz Education in Atlanta, where he met Betty Carter, who invited him to joint performances at the Blue Note in New York City.
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Pyotr Todorovsky
#177896
Overall Influence
1925 - 2013 (88 years)
Pyotr Yefimovich Todorovsky was a Russian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer of Jewish origin. His son Valery Todorovsky is also a film director. Career Todorovsky joined the Red Army during World War II and drew on his war experiences for a number of films, including Rio-Rita . In the 1950s, he worked as a cinematographer for Marlen Khutsiev. He liked to play guitar and composed songs for some of his films.
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Nicholas St. John
#182881
Overall Influence
1973 - Present (53 years)
Nicodemo Oliverio, better known as Nicholas St. John, is an American screenwriter. He has collaborated with film director Abel Ferrara in nine films together including The Driller Killer , Body Snatchers and The Addiction , as well as Ms. 45 and King of New York . For his work in the film The Funeral , St. John was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay.
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Marianne Elser Crowder
#181502
Overall Influence
1906 - 2010 (104 years)
Marianne Elser Crowder was, until her death, the oldest living Girl Scout in the United States. She joined the Wagon Wheel Council Troop 4 in 1918 and got her Golden Eaglet, then the GSUSA highest award. She later operated her own dance studio in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and headed the dance department at Colorado College before moving to Menlo Park, California, in 1939 where she continued to teach dance until she was in her mid-90s. In 2007, the Wagon Wheel Council named Crowder the nation's oldest Girl Scout after it conducted a nationwide search and sifted through council archives.
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Nicholas Vines
#187560
Overall Influence
1976 - Present (50 years)
Nicholas Vines , is an Australian composer currently based in Sydney. He is particularly active at home and in the United States. Interpreters of Vines’ work range from specialist new music ensembles to high school students. He has received prizes from the US, UK and Poland, as well as Australian honours such as APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards. His compositions are published by Faber Music, Wirripang and the Australian Music Centre. Three albums of his music are available commercially: Torrid Nature Scenes , Loose, Wet, Perforated and Hipster Zombies From Mars .
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Gloria Contreras Roeniger
#171333
Overall Influence
1934 - 2015 (81 years)
María Gloria Contreras Roeniger, better known as Gloria Contreras was a Mexican dancer and choreographer. Biography Contreras was born in Mexico City. She studied dancing under Nelsy Dambré in Mexico from 1946 to 1954, and, after joining the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, visited the School of American Ballet in New York from 1956 to 1964, where she was taught by Pierre Vladimirov, Felia Doubrovska, Anatole Oboukhoff, Muriel Stuart and George Balanchine. From 1958 to 1965 she was also taught by Carola Trier.
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Andy Carlson
#111098
Overall Influence
Andrew Carlson is a violinist from the United States. He began learning traditional fiddle music from his grandfather when he was five. He has won numerous fiddle contests including being named Georgia State Champion Fiddler twice and being named the 2000 Ohio Grand Champion fiddler. His book entitled A Guide to American Fiddling was released by Mel Bay Publishers. As a studio musician and string arranger he has recorded for Warner Bros., Atlantic, Elektra, Geffen, Polydor, and Capricorn and with artists including R.E.M., Nanci Griffith, Billy Bragg, and the Cowboy Junkies. As a soloist, Carl...
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Vytautas Miškinis
#160016
Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Vytautas Miškinis is a Lithuanian composer, choral conductor and academic teacher. He is artistic director of Ąžuoliukas, a boys' and youth choir and music school, and of other ensembles, performing internationally. He has taught choral conducting at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre from 1985. His groups have won prizes at international competitions, where he also served as member of the jury. His compositions are part of international standard choral repertoire.
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Nenad Puhovski
#141368
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
Nenad Puhovski is a Croatian film director and producer. Early years Puhovski was born 29 April 1949 in Zagreb, Croatia where he attended elementary and high school. He studied sociology and philosophy at the University of Zagreb, and graduated in film directing at the Zagreb Academy of Dramatic Art.
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Debra Marquart
#177112
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Debra Marquart is an American poet and musician from the small town of Napoleon, North Dakota. Since 1992 she has been performing as singer-songwriter with the band The Bone People. After graduating with master's degrees from Moorhead State University and Iowa State University , she became an English professor at ISU, directing an MFA program in "creative writing and environment". In 2014, she taught writers' workshops in Bakken oil field communities most affected by hydraulic fracking, where "many people ... are despairing – feeling that they have been declared an energy sacrifice zone." She is the Poet Laureate of Iowa since 2019.
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Mark Baker
#176828
Overall Influence
1946 - 2018 (72 years)
Mark Fredric Baker was an American actor. He was best known for the title role in Harold Prince's revival of Candide, for which he received a Tony Award nomination, and his portrayal of Otto Kringelein in the international tour of Grand Hotel.
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Ana Cecilia Blum
#95501
Overall Influence
1972 - Present (54 years)
Ana Cecilia Blum is an Ecuadorian writer and journalist. She studied Political and Social Sciences at the Vicente Rocafuerte Lay University of Guayaquil. She worked for several media and investigating about literature at the Catholic University of Guayaquil, Andean University of Quito and the FACSO University of Guayaquil. She currently lives between Ecuador and the United States.
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Bernadette O'Rourke
#181456
Overall Influence
Bernadette O'Rourke is an Irish linguist from County Clare. She is currently Professor of Sociolinguistics and Hispanic Studies at the University of Glasgow and is a specialist in the construction of difference through language and social inequalities. Her research focuses on "neophones" or new speakers of minority languages such as Irish Gaelic and Galician. She has also published and commented on the assumptions of monolinguism in Great Britain, particularly in the context of Brexit, public policy related to minority languages in Ireland, the UK, and Europe.
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Judith Shatin
#169795
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
Judith Shatin is an American composer. Currently, she is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor at the University of Virginia. She also founded and is Director of the Virginia Center for Computer Music. She holds degrees from Douglass College, the Juilliard School, and Princeton University, at which institution she was a pupil of Milton Babbitt.
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Robert Manookin
#187632
Overall Influence
1918 - 1997 (79 years)
Robert P. Manookin was a Latter-day Saint composer. Manookin studied under Frank W. Asper, Alexander Schreiner, B. Cecil Gates and J. Spencer Cornwall. Manookin holds a master's degree from the University of Illinois and a doctorate from the University of Utah. He first moved to Utah County in 1952.
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Rawinia Higgins
#125085
Overall Influence
Rawinia Ruth Higgins is a New Zealand academic whose research focuses on Māori language and culture. Research Higgins' Master's thesis at the University of Otago was on the nature of transmission of oral histories, while her 2004 PhD thesis, , was on the identity politics of female chin tattoos. She was the Head of School at Te Kawa a Māui, School of Maori Studies at Victoria University and was appointed Deputy Vice Chancellor Māori at Victoria University of Wellington in 2016.
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Helen Kwalwasser
#175155
Overall Influence
1927 - 2017 (90 years)
Helen Kwalwasser, born October 11, 1927, died May 22, 2017, was a professor of violin at the Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University. Helen Kwalwasser was a world-renowned violin soloist and violin teacher. In addition to spending nearly 50 years as a faculty member at the Boyer College, she had performed as a soloist and chamber musician with the New York Chamber Soloists and her music has been recorded for Odyssey Records, Vanguard, Westminster Records, Delos Records and Columbia Records. Her own accomplishments have been recognized at Temple with the Creative Achievement Awar...
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Mordecai Seter
#187135
Overall Influence
1916 - 1994 (78 years)
Mordecai Seter , was a Russian-born Israeli composer. Early life Seter was born Marc Starominsky in Novorossiysk, Russia, in 1916 and emigrated with his family to Mandate Palestine in 1926. Seter learned to play the piano from the age of seven in Russia, and continued with his lessons and studies in Tel Aviv. In 1932, he went to Paris, France, where he studied composition at the Ecole Normale de Musique with Paul Dukas and Nadia Boulanger. He also had some lessons with Stravinsky. With Boulanger, Seter mastered Renaissance polyphony and contemporary French style, but in 1937, frustrated by the extent of her devotion to Stravinskian neoclassicism, he returned to Palestine.
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Oliver Fartach-Naini
#186713
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
Oliver Fartach-Naini is a German guitarist living in Australia where he teaches at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, University of Adelaide. He is regularly involved in organising festivals and performing classical guitar for the public.
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Georg Knepler
#169683
Overall Influence
1906 - 2003 (97 years)
Georg Knepler was an Austrian pianist, conductor and musicologist. Life Born in Vienna, Knepler was a son of the composer and librettist and nephew of the music publisher and impresario . He studied piano with Eduard Steuermann from 1926, conducting with Hans Gál and musicology with Guido Adler, Wilhelm Fischer, Egon Wellesz, Rudolf von Ficker and Robert Lach at the University of Vienna. In 1931 he received his doctorate with the dissertation Die Form in den Instrumentalwerken Johannes Brahms as Dr. phil. At the same time he accompanied Karl Kraus at the piano from 1928 to 1931, who performed Jacques Offenbach's operettas in Vienna, Berlin, Prague, Munich and other cities.
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Bernard Gilmore
#178631
Overall Influence
1937 - 2013 (76 years)
Bernard Howard Gilmore was an American composer, conductor, French horn player, and Professor Emeritus of music at the University of California, Irvine. He is best known for his compositions, including Five Folk Songs for Soprano and Band which has become a reputable work in contemporary band music repertoire.
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Lidija Horvat-Dunjko
#185882
Overall Influence
1967 - Present (59 years)
Lidija Horvat-Dunjko is a Croatian soprano vocalist and a Docent at the Zagreb Academy of Music. She was awarded the highest Croatian national decoration for her achievement in culture, the Order of Danica Hrvatska with the image of Marko Marulić. Her opera roles include The Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute and Gilda in Rigoletto. Along with Magazin, she finished sixth at the Eurovision Song Contest 1995, performing the song "Nostalgija", which achieved success in the country at the time.
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John Bailey
#143622
Overall Influence
1947 - 1994 (47 years)
John Anthony Bailey , also known as Jack Baker, was an American actor. Life John Anthony Bailey was born on June 4, 1947, in Ohio, U.S. Bailey lived in San Francisco, California, during the early 1970s, where he attended Merritt College in Oakland and performed in numerous stage and film productions. His performances included Richard Wesley's The Black Terror, for John Cochran's Black Repertory West, J. E. Franklin's Black Girl with Adilah Barnes, work with the improvisational theatre group, The Pitschel Players, and appearances with other San Francisco Bay Area theater companies. Bailey also...
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Brent Rowan
#97479
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Brent Rowan is an American session musician and record producer who works primarily in country music. Active since the 1970s, Rowan began working with John Conlee through the recommendation of record producer Bud Logan. Rowan first played on Conlee's "Friday Night Blues", and later became the only guitarist for Conlee's recordings.
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Eli "Paperboy" Reed
#142639
Overall Influence
1983 - Present (43 years)
Eli "Paperboy" Reed is an American singer and songwriter. After graduating from Brookline High School in 2002, he moved to Clarksdale, Mississippi. After spending a year in Clarksdale, he enrolled at The University of Chicago to study sociology. While in Chicago, he hosted a radio show called "We Got More Soul" on WHPK and played organ and piano in the South Side Chicago church of Mitty Collier. After one year of study in Chicago, he returned home to Boston to focus on music, recording his first album Sings "Walkin' and Talkin' for My Baby" and Other Smash Hits!
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Michael Ballam
#123204
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Michael Lynn Ballam is an American opera singer, educator, and arts administrator. He is the founding general director of Utah Festival Opera and a professor of music at Utah State University. He has served on the faculty of the Music Academy of the West, where he also studied, and as a guest lecturer at Stanford, Yale, Catholic University and Manhattan School of Music.
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Friedrich Heinrich Kern
#183358
Overall Influence
1980 - Present (46 years)
Friedrich Heinrich Kern is a German composer, pianist, and glass harmonica player. Kern began his studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim where he graduated with a Diplom in Music Composition and Piano. His principal teachers included Ulrich Leyendecker and Rudolf Meister. Additionally, he spent one year studying traditional Korean music at Seoul National University. In 2007, he was a visiting composer at Wesleyan University. From 2008, Kern studied in New York with Matthias Pintscher and Louis Karchin. He received a MacCracken Research Fellowship and now teaches at New York University.
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Ted Dunbar
#177926
Overall Influence
1937 - 1998 (61 years)
Earl Theodore Dunbar was an American jazz guitarist, composer, and educator. Career Born in Port Arthur, Texas, Dunbar trained as a pharmacist at Texas Southern University, but by the 1970s he only did pharmacy work part-time. He was also a trained numerologist and studied other aspects of mysticism. He became interested in jazz at the age of seven. During the 1950s, he joined several groups while studying pharmacy at Texas Southern University.
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Thomas Tyra
#168040
Overall Influence
1933 - 1995 (62 years)
Thomas Tyra was an American composer, arranger, bandmaster, and music educator. Early life and education Born and raised in Cicero, Illinois, Tyra was the only child of first-generation Polish-American parents who were employed by Western Electric's nearby Hawthorne Works. He graduated from Morton High School in Cicero , Northwestern University and the United States Navy School of Music where he would refine his composition and arranging skills while fulfilling his military service obligations. In 1971, Tyra earned his Ph.D in Music Education from the University of Michigan under the auspi...
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Lee Scrivner
#177028
Overall Influence
1975 - Present (51 years)
Lee Scrivner is an American writer and cultural theorist known for his book Becoming Insomniac and for his satirical avant-garde art manifestos. He writes on the literature, history, and culture of the Victorian and Modernist periods, as well as on contemporary issues.
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Guy Jonson
#187344
Overall Influence
1913 - 2009 (96 years)
Guy Jonson was an English classical Pianist and distinguished music teacher. He was born Stanley Guy Johnson at Finchley, north London, the son of an auctioneer. Though neither of his parents were musical, his prodigious talent at the piano was recognized from an early age and he became a pupil of Betty Humby, wife of the distinguished conductor Sir Thomas Beecham. He gave his first piano recital in Eastbourne at the age of 13. He attended Highgate School in north London but left at 14 to continue his piano studies with Tobias Matthay . In 1930, at the age of 16, he won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in London.
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Arn Chorn-Pond
#149281
Overall Influence
1966 - Present (60 years)
Arn Chorn-Pond is a Cambodian musician, human rights activist, and a survivor of the Khmer Rouge regime. He is an advocate for the healing and transformative power of the arts, and especially music.
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Gus Williams
#178521
Overall Influence
1937 - 2010 (73 years)
Kasper Gus Ntjalka Williams , known as Gus Williams, was an Aboriginal Australian country music singer who lived in Central Australia. He was known not only for his work in Aboriginal country music, but also as a leader of his people. He created the first electric country band in the Northern Territory, the Warrabri Country Bluegrass Band.
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Thierry Pallesco
#187566
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Thierry Pallesco is a French organist and composer who was born in Paris in 1956. Life He studied the organ with André Isoir, then with Rolande Falcinelli at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris where he was awarded three first prizes in harmony, counterpoint and fugue , then his prize in organ . His organ works have been published in France and Germany.
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Michael Zev Gordon
#177196
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
Michael Zev Gordon is a British composer of Jewish descent. A past oboe player, Gordon studied composition at King's College, Cambridge with Robin Holloway, and subsequently with Oliver Knussen and John Woolrich, and in Italy with Franco Donatoni. He was a composition pupil of Louis Andriessen from 1989 to 1990. His work has often involved a deep engagement with the subject of memory, with the use of quotation of, or allusion to, other music, sometimes explicit, sometimes more buried. He has himself also spoken of his work in terms of 'turbulence seeking serenity'. Stylistically, this could ...
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Kyle Horch
#183854
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
Kyle Horch is a classical saxophonist. Biography Horch studied at Northwestern University in Chicago, U.S. with Frederick Hemke. He then won a BP North America Scholarship to pursue post-graduate study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Stephen Trier.
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Richard Garfield
#145591
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
Richard Channing Garfield is an American mathematician, inventor and game designer. Garfield created Magic: The Gathering, which is considered to be the first collectible card game . Magic debuted in 1993 and its success spawned many imitations. Garfield oversaw the successful growth of Magic and followed it with other game designs. Included in these are Keyforge, Netrunner, BattleTech, Vampire: The Eternal Struggle, Star Wars Trading Card Game, The Great Dalmuti, Artifact and the board game RoboRally. He also created a variation of the card game Hearts called Complex Hearts. Garfield first b...
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Anthony Wong
#170634
Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
Anthony Wong Chau-sang is a Hong Kong film actor and singer. He has worked with many significant directors of Hong Kong cinema since his debut in 1985, including John Woo, Andrew Lau, Ringo Lam and Johnnie To, and is known for his intense portrayals of often-amoral characters. He has won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor three times: for The Untold Story , Beast Cops and Still Human .
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Jeanne Bamberger
#130219
Overall Influence
1925 - Present (101 years)
Jeanne Bamberger is the American Professor Emerita of Music and Urban Education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Adjunct Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include music cognitive development, music theory and performance, teacher development, and the design of text and software materials that foster these areas of development.
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Hans Ulrich Engelmann
#176134
Overall Influence
1921 - 2011 (90 years)
Hans Ulrich Engelmann was a German composer. Biography Engelmann studied composition with Hermann Heiss and Wolfgang Fortner. He was a regular attendee of the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music, and he was particularly affected by the twelve-tone classes of René Leibowitz and Ernst Krenek , which helped him move from free atonality to serialism. Eventually, he would publish a history of the courses. In 1947, he began studying musicology with Gennrich Friedrich and Helmut Osthoff, earning a Ph.D in 1952. He also studied philosophy with Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Hans-Ge...
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Ida Carroll
#173711
Overall Influence
1905 - 1995 (90 years)
Ida Gertrude Carroll was a British music educator, university administrator, double bassist, and composer. From 1956 through 1972 she was President of the Northern School of Music, and she played a central role in overseeing the merger of that school with the Royal Manchester College of Music to found the Royal Northern College of Music in 1973. She was the first Dean of Management of the RNCM from 1973 through 1976. As a composer she wrote several works for the double bass which have become a part of the standard repertoire for that instrument. In 1964 she was awarded an OBE.
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Thomas Albert
#172409
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Thomas Albert is an American composer and educator. He attended the public schools of Lebanon, Pennsylvania and Wilson, North Carolina. In 1970, he received the degree A.B. from Atlantic Christian College . He received the M.Mus. and D.M.A. in composition from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Bruno Giuranna
#183402
Overall Influence
1933 - Present (93 years)
Bruno Giuranna is an Italian violist. Born in Milan, to composer Barbara Giuranna, Bruno Giuranna completed his musical studies at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome. He founded the italian chamber orchestra "I Musici" with a group of young musician friends in 1951.
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Dave Askren
#187720
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
Dave Askren is an American jazz guitarist and educator. Musical career Askren was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but he grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Dayton, Ohio, son of a church organist/piano teacher. He learned about jazz from local musicians whose interests went beyond rock and blues. Askren started on clarinet and saxophone, but switched to guitar when he was fourteen. In his early teens he belonged to professional bands that played rock, blues, and R&B at local venues. From 1976–1980, he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston and taught there during the 1980s, while playing gigs around Boston.
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Amparo Hurtado Albir
#63766
Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Amparo Hurtado Albir is a Spanish professor, translator and researcher. She has studied modern Philology at the University of Valencia. She is currently a professor of Traductology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and is considered an essential reference for Translation Theory and for the academic formation of professionals of Language. Hurtado Albir is also the principal researcher in PACTE research group.
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Ira Wohl
#174829
Overall Influence
1944 - Present (82 years)
Ira Wohl is an American documentary filmmaker. He is most noted for his 1979 film Best Boy, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 52nd Academy Awards. Born and raised in New York City, Wohl attended Forest Hills High School. He had his first job in film working as an apprentice editor on Orson Welles's unfinished film Don Quixote in Madrid, Spain He then made a number of short films, worked on the television series Big Blue Marble, worked with John Lennon on a music video, then made Best Boy.
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Arnulf Herrmann
#177883
Overall Influence
1968 - Present (58 years)
Arnulf Herrmann is a German composer. After studying piano with Gernot Sieber at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich he enrolled at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber, where he studied composition with Wilfried Krätzschmar and piano with Arkadi Zenzipér. In 1995/96 he was a pupil of Gérard Grisey and Emmanuel Nunes at the Conservatoire de Paris , after which he completed his training with Hartmut Fladt and Jörg Mainka and with Friedrich Goldmann, Gösta Neuwirth, and Hanspeter Kyburz at the Universität der Künste Berlin. In 1999/2000 he attended a post-graduate course in com...
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Andrew Morris
#183072
Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
