The Most Influential People Across History

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Gerhard Rosenfeld

#188048
Overall Influence
1931 - 2003 (72 years)
Gerhard Rosenfeld was a German composer. He became known for his film music and opera works, among other things. Life Born in Königsberg, Rosenfeld studied musicology from 1952 to 1954 at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin as well as music theory and musical composition at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" Berlin from 1954 to 57 with Rudolf Wagner-Régeny. From 1958 to 1961 he was master student of Hanns Eisler and Leo Spies at the Akademie der Künste der DDR, from 1961 to 1964 lecturer at the Berlin and lecturer for music theory at the Deutsche Hochschule für Musik Berlin and for film ...
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Paul Melo e Castro

#175771
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Paul Melo e Castro is a British scholar and academic, known for his work on editing and translating particularly Indo-Portuguese literature. His area of work is Lusophone literature, film and visual culture.
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Siegrid Ernst

#190565
Overall Influence
1929 - 2022 (93 years)
Siegrid Ernst was a German pianist, music educator and composer. Biography Siegrid Ernst was born in Ludwigshafen am Rhein and studied piano, violin and music theory as a child. She later studied piano and composition in Heidelberg, Frankfurt and Vienna, at the University of Music and Dramatic Art in Heidelberg and Mannheim and at the University of the Arts Bremen. After completing her studies, she performed contemporary music both solo and in chamber ensembles for concerts and radio productions, and taught piano and composition, music theory and improvisation. She became successful as a com...
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Alberto Caballero

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Overall Influence
Alberto Caballero is a Spanish astronomer and science communicator. He is known for having identified a Sun-like star in the sky region where the Wow! signal came from as one of the possible sources of the radio signal. Caballero is also known for founding and coordinating the Habitable Exoplanet Hunting Project, an international effort consisting of more than 30 observatories searching for nearby potentially habitable exoplanets. Data is collected 24/7 from specific stars by observatories located both in the Northern and Southern hemispheres, and an initial list of exoplanet candidates was ma...
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#12855

Hans Thomalla

#188946
Overall Influence
1975 - Present (51 years)
Hans Thomalla is a German-American composer, who has resided in the United States since 2002. Career Hans Thomalla was born in Bonn, and studied composition at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, Germany, from 1994 to 1999. From 1999 until 2002 he was assistant dramaturg at the Staatsoper Stuttgart . This was followed by graduate studies at Stanford University with Brian Ferneyhough from 2002 until 2007. Since 2007 he is Associate Professor of Composition at Northwestern University in Chicago, where he also directs the Institute for New Music.
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Jacob Cooper

Jacob Cooper
#190978
Overall Influence
1980 - Present (46 years)
Jacob Mauney Cooper is an American composer living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Biography After attending Amherst College for his bachelor's degree in both geology and music, Cooper completed his graduate studies in composition at the Yale School of Music, and later formed the composers’ collective Sleeping Giant with several of his classmates. His works have been performed by the Calder Quartet, JACK Quartet, Eighth Blackbird, Minnesota Orchestra, Albany Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble ACJW, NOW Ensemble, Dither Quartet, Living Earth Show, Carmina Slovenica, Mellissa Hughes, Timo Andres, Theo ...
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Chía Patiño

#188172
Overall Influence
1962 - Present (64 years)
Lucia Patiño, known as Chía is an Ecuadorian composer and arts administrator. Born in Quito, Patiño studied at a number of institutions in Ecuador before attending the University of Louisville, where she took classes in composition and piano. At Indiana University she received a master's degree and a PhD, both in music; at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music she received another master's degree, this in the arts with a specialty in performing arts. She spent nine years working at various theaters in the United States, including the Kennedy Center, the Metropolitan Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the Opera Theatre of St.
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Carlos Duarte

#190235
Overall Influence
1957 - 2003 (46 years)
Carlos Duarte was a Venezuelan composer and pianist. Duarte's first public recital took place at age 11. At 16, he won the National Composition Prize given by the National Institute of Culture, an award he would win for three consecutive years from 1973 to 1975. He composed several pieces for piano and orchestra: "Ludios" , "Sinfonietta La Mar" , and "Concierto de la Canción Triste" . In 1999, he composed a Quintet for the End of the Century and performed the first performances in the same year, with the Arpeggione Quartet and with the European Union Chamber Orchestra . His last work was a...
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Daniel Schmidt

Daniel Schmidt
#187487
Overall Influence
1942 - Present (84 years)
Daniel Schmidt is an American composer and builder of American gamelan. He currently teaches gamelan and instrument building at Mills College. He is also a long-time collaborator with composer Paul Dresher.
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Anu Raud

Anu Raud
#192311
Overall Influence
1943 - Present (83 years)
Anu Raud is an Estonian textile artist and author. In 1967, she graduated from State Art Institute. She has been a long-time lecturer at the Estonian Academy of Arts and Viljandi Culture Academy. Since 2009, she is Professor Emeritus of the National Academy of Arts.
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Rainer Schmidt

#189502
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
Rainer Schmidt is a German classical violinist. Life and career Rainer Schmidt studied at the University of Music, Theatre and Media Hanover, where he graduated with a soloist diploma. He also studied at the College Conservatory of the University of Cincinnati with Walter Levin from the LaSalle Quartet. Since 1987, he has been a member of the Hagen Quartet, where he plays the second violin. In 1989, he founded the Ravinia Trio.
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#12862

Iso Camartin

Iso Camartin
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Overall Influence
1944 - Present (82 years)
Iso Camartin is a Swiss author, publicist and anchorman. Selected works Kants Schematismuslehre und ihre Transformation beim frühen Fichte. Zur Ausformung des Identitätsdenkens. Dissertation, Regensburg 1971Nichts als Worte? Ein Plädoyer für Kleinsprachen. Artemis, Zürich 1985Lob der Verführung. Essays über die Nachgiebigkeit. Artemis, Zürich 1987Karambolagen. Geschichten und Glossen. Artemis, Zürich 1990Von Sils-Maria aus betrachtet. Ausblicke vom Dach Europas. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1991Die Bibliothek von Pila. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1994Nelke und Caruso. Über Hunde. Eine Romanze .
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Adina Izarra

#188979
Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
Adina Izarra is a Venezuelan musician, music educator and composer. Biography Adina Izarra was born in Caracas, Venezuela. She studied music under Alfredo del Mónaco in Caracas and received her Ph.D. in composition from York University, England, in 1988, after studying with Vic Hoyland.
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Lynne Williams

#191670
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
Lynette Frances Williams is an Australian educator and musician who held the position of Principal of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama from 2017 to 2021. Prior to taking up her role at Guildhall, she was CEO of Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art and was the director of the Culture, Ceremonies and Education Programme for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
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#12865

Yoonhan

#187876
Overall Influence
1983 - Present (43 years)
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Hugo Steurer

#175102
Overall Influence
1914 - 2004 (90 years)
Hugo Steurer was a German pianist and teacher. Steurer made his debut in 1934. He was considered one of Germany's leading interpreters of Ludwig van Beethoven's piano music. In 1953–58 Hugo Steurer taught at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. Later, he taught at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. Among his pupils were or are Homero Francesch, Gerhard Oppitz, Heinz Rögner, Michael Endres, and Annerose Schmidt.
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#12867

Marcus Weiss

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Overall Influence
1961 - Present (65 years)
Marcus Weiss is a saxophonist and teacher. His repertoire includes all epochs, from the beginnings in impressionistic France to the present. As a soloist, Weiss worked with many European orchestras and ensembles of contemporary music. He has been invited to major festivals in Europe, the US and Asia. As a chamber musician, Weiss is primarily working with his two ensembles, Trio Accanto and Quatuor Xasax in Paris
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#12868

Jō Kondō

#192357
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
Jō Kondō is a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music. Kondo studied composition from 1968 to 1972 with Yoshio Hasegawa and Hiroaki Minami at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. He won the third prize and made his debut in Japan-Germany Contemporary Music Festival in 1969. He serves as Professor of Music at Ochanomizu University in Tokyo and also teaches at Tokyo University of Arts and Elisabeth University of Music in Hiroshima.
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#12869

Igor Malinovsky

#155385
Overall Influence
1977 - Present (49 years)
Igor Malinovsky , was born in Sverdlovsk on 6 November 1977. He is a Russian concert violinist and Professor of violin. Igor Malinovsky received Austrian citizenship as a reward for his artistic services to the country.
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#12870

Alberto Soresina

#185751
Overall Influence
1911 - 2007 (96 years)
Alberto Soresina was an Italian musicologist and composer. Biography Born in Milan in 1911, he studied at the Milan Conservatory and at Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena. He was a professor of singing at the Milan Conservatory and Turin Conservatory , and later composition at the Milan Conservatory.
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#12871

Morten Schuldt-Jensen

#192376
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Morten Schuldt-Jensen is a Danish classical conductor. Biography and career Morten Schuldt-Jensen studied singing, vocal training and conducting at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, and also holds a Master's degree in musicology from the University of Copenhagen.
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#12872

Andrea Reinkemeyer

#190707
Overall Influence
1976 - Present (50 years)
Andrea Reinkemeyer is an American composer from Portland, Oregon. She graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of Oregon and continued her studies in composition at the University of Michigan, graduating with a master's and doctoral degree. She was awarded a 2017 Virginia B. Toulmin Orchestral Commission, 2022-23 Edith Green Distinguished Professor and 2019 Julie Olds and Thomas Hellie Creative Achievement Award for Linfield Faculty; her Smoulder for Wind Ensemble was awarded the 2021 Alex Shapiro Prize in the 40th Annual Search for New Music by the International Alliance of Women in Music and named a 2020 finalist for the National Band Association William D.
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Erik Hansen

#192382
Overall Influence
1931 - 2017 (86 years)
Erik Hansen was a Danish linguist. He was a professor at the University of Copenhagen from 1975 to 2000 and chaired the Danish Language Council from 1985 to 2002. He was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1998.
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Raymond Beegle

#189016
Overall Influence
1942 - Present (84 years)
Raymond Beegle is an American piano accompanist and vocal chamber musician. Early life and education Beegle was born in Los Angeles in 1942, and received a bachelor of arts degree from UCLA. He pursued graduate studies at the University of Southern California and the Vienna Academy of Music, and studied piano with Serge Tarnowsky, Aube Tserko, John Crown, and Kyriena Siloti. Winning first prize in the Los Angeles Bureau of Music's "Artists of the Future" vocal competition in 1962 made it possible for him to study the art of piano accompanying with Gwendolyn Koldofsky in Los Angeles, and Erik ...
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Volker Banfield

#177840
Overall Influence
1944 - Present (82 years)
Volker Banfield is a German classical pianist. He studied at the Nordwestdeutsche Musikakademie in Detmold, beginning at age 14. Afterward he moved to the United States and studied at the Juilliard School and at the University of Texas . He then returned to live in Germany and toured extensively. His repertory emphasized late 19th century and 20th century music featuring works by Bartók, Debussy, Messiaen, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, and Scriabin. The contemporary composers György Ligeti and Detlev Müller-Siemens have dedicated works to him. He has also become identified with the works of Schumann.
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#12876

Jim Knapp

#189855
Overall Influence
1939 - 2021 (82 years)
James Donald Knapp, Jr. was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and educator. He taught at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle for 45 years. Biography Jim Knapp was born on July 28, 1939, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. He studied piano at age six and took up trumpet at age twelve. He studied music composition at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with Kenneth Gaburo and received a Bachelor of Music from the University of Illinois in 1962. Drafted into the US Army, he was stationed in Stuttgart, Germany from 1962 to 1964. He returned to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, st...
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#12877

Sarah Hennies

#190787
Overall Influence
1979 - Present (47 years)
Sarah Hennies is an American composer and percussionist. She is known for her work as an acoustic group composer. She also contributes to improvisation, film, and performance art. She is currently a visiting assistant professor of music at Bard College.
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#12878

Chen Peixun

#192404
Overall Influence
1921 - 2006 (85 years)
Chen Peixun or Chan Pui-fang was a Chinese composer. Born in Hong Kong, he studied piano, organ and composition in HK and Shanghai. His teachers include Tan Xiaolin, a pupil of Paul Hindemith. He taught at the Central Music Conservatory in Beijing after 1949.
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#12879

George Flynn

#192383
Overall Influence
1937 - Present (89 years)
George Flynn is a distinguished American composer and pianist. Born in Montana on January 21, 1937, he grew up in Montana and Washington. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. from, and taught at Columbia University, New York City, and from 1977 to 2001 headed the Department of Composition at DePaul University in Chicago. His works cover a wide range of genres, from symphonies to electronic compositions. His 114-minute piano cycle Trinity was described in Tempo in 2005 as a ‘masterpiece’. It consists of three very large piano pieces, Kanal, Wound and Salvage, each performable on its own. The work has...
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#12880

Tony Curzon Price

#64440
Overall Influence
1967 - Present (59 years)
Tony Curzon Price is an economist, editor, writer, and entrepreneur. Price read PPE at Lincoln College, Oxford, and received a PhD in economics from University College London. From 2007 to 2012, Price served as the editor-in-chief of the British political website openDemocracy. He was the online editor at Intelligence Squared and later worked at the Financial Conduct Authority. Price has written for sites including The Spectator, HuffPost, and the Analysis & Policy Observatory.
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#12881

Barbara Zeisl Schoenberg

#192411
Overall Influence
1940 - Present (86 years)
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#12882

Nobuko Nakano

#50587
Overall Influence
1975 - Present (51 years)
Nobuko Nakano is a Japanese neuroscientist. Biography Nakano graduated from the College of Engineering at the University of Tokyo and in 2004 she completed a master's degree at the university's Graduate School of Medicine. In 2008 she completed a doctoral degree in neurology. From 2008 to 2010, she worked as a researcher at Saclay Nuclear Research Centre in France.
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#12883

Shinuh Lee

#188733
Overall Influence
1969 - Present (57 years)
Shinuh Lee is a South Korean composer of contemporary classical music. Royal Academy of Music recently announced Shinuh Lee as Associate of the Royal Academy of Music . Biography Shinuh Lee started her career as a composer when she took her first composition lessons with Unsuk Chin. Lee studied composition with Kang Sukhi at Seoul National University, and later with Michael Finnissy at the Royal Academy of Music, the University of London, and the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. While she studied in the UK, Lee won a number of prizes from various competitions and music festivals, w...
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Małgorzata Dawidek Gryglicka

Małgorzata Dawidek Gryglicka
#171613
Overall Influence
1976 - Present (50 years)
Małgorzata Dawidek Gryglicka is a Polish visual artist, writer and art historian. She lives in the UK. Dawidek came onto the Polish art scene in the early 2000s. Dawidek combines a wide range of media in her projects – textual objects and installations, painting, animation, photographs, written drawings and hypertexts.
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#12885

Andrew Waggoner

Andrew Waggoner
#187394
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
Andrew Waggoner is an American composer and violinist. Biography Andrew Waggoner grew up in New Orleans, Minneapolis and Atlanta, and studied at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, the Eastman School of Music and Cornell University. His music has been commissioned and performed by the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Saint Louis, Denver, Syracuse, and Winnipeg Symphonies, the Cassatt, Corigliano, Miro, and Villiers Quartets, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the California EAR Unit, pianist Gloria Cheng, violist Melia Watras, ‘cellist Robert Burkh...
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#12886

Klara Min

#185724
Overall Influence
1975 - Present (51 years)
Klara Yu-Kyoung Min is a South Korean-born classical pianist. She has performed in North America, Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy and South Korea in such venues as New York's Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Barge Music, Gasteig Hall in Munich, Berlin Philharmonie Hall, and KBS Broadcast hall in Seoul.
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#12887

Albert Markov

Albert Markov
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Overall Influence
1933 - Present (93 years)
Albert Markov , is a Russian American violinist, composer, conductor, and pedagogue. He is the only concert violinist of the 20th and 21st century who composed major music works which are published, performed and recorded commercially on Sunrise label and published by G. Schirmer. During the time of the Soviet Union he was known as a prominent Soviet classical music artist. Albert Markov began his career as a concert violinist in Russia before immigrating to the United States in 1975.
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#12888

Kate Augestad

#191936
Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Kate Elisabeth Augestad is a Norwegian vocalist known from bands like Johnny Banan Band and Program 81/82, and the mother of mezzo-soprano, vocalist, actress and conductor Tora Augestad . Augestad was born in Bergen. After her singing career, she became Assistant Professor at University of Bergen, Department of Information Science and Media Studies, and "Handelshøyskolen BI" in Bergen. She has also appeared as an actor at Den Nationale Scene in Bergen.
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#12889

Kang Sukhi

#192448
Overall Influence
1934 - 2020 (86 years)
Kang Sukhi was a South Korean composer. Careers Kang graduated Seoul National University 1960 majored in Composition, studied in Germany 1970's, He was a student of Yisang Yoon who was South Korean composer thought in Berlin University of the Arts and Kang studied in Yoon's hospital when he visited South Korean for the political allegations. Kang returned to Korea in 12 years from Germany and taught composition at Seoul National University.
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#12890

Kurt Rapf

#190708
Overall Influence
1922 - 2007 (85 years)
Kurt Johann Rapf was an Austrian composer, conductor and organist. Life Born in Vienna, Rapf studied conducting, organ, harpsichord, piano and musical composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. After his studies he was engaged as assistant to Hans Knappertsbusch at the Zurich Opera House during the 1948/1949 season. From 1949 to 1953 he was professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Subsequently, he was music director of the city of Innsbruck until 1960 and thus also principal conductor of the . From 1960 Rapf worked as a freelance conductor, organist, composer and piano accompanist.
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Lars Graugaard

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Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Lars Graugaard is a Danish composer of contemporary classical music and a laptop performer of improvised music and experimental techno music. Education Graugaard studied at The Royal Danish Academy of Music between 1977 and 1983. He studied composition with Niels Viggo Bentzon, flute performance with , and supplementary studies with Michel Debost. Graugaard graduated in 1983 with an MA in flute performance. In the early 1980s he briefly sought compositional advice from leading Danish composers before pursuing self-guided studies in composition and other forms of musical creation. He received ...
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#12892

Thomas Müller

#189821
Overall Influence
1939 - Present (87 years)
Alfred Thomas Müller is a German conductor, composer and pianist. He won the 1988 Handel Prize presented by the city of Halle. Works Orchestra and chamber ensemble flares picture for orchestra Spuren Epiphanie Entasis II Scheidt-Adaptionen
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#12893

Ernst Ludwig Leitner

#187554
Overall Influence
1943 - Present (83 years)
Ernst Ludwig Leitner is an Austrian composer, organist and academic teacher. Education Born in Wels, Leitner studied music education, organ and composition at the Mozarteum University Salzburg and finally musicology at the University of Innsbruck from 1963 until 1968.
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#12894

Motoyuki Shitanda

#192451
Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Motoyuki Shitanda is a contemporary Japanese composer, music teacher, musicologist and conductor. Biography Shitanda studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts under Mareo Ishiketa , Toshiro Mayuzumi and Kenjiro Urata graduating in 1979 with a degree in music composition. He is currently professor at Akita University where he teaches composition. Also, he is part-time lecturer at Seirei Women's Junior College in Akita and guest lecturer at Trinity College of Music in London.
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#12895

Dan-Alexandru Voiculescu

#192445
Overall Influence
1940 - 2009 (69 years)
Dan Voiculescu was a Romanian composer, doctor of musicology , professor of counterpoint and composition at the Music Academy in Cluj-Napoca and the National Music University of Bucharest , and a member of the Union of Romanian Composers and Musicologists .
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#12896

Willem Kersters

#188016
Overall Influence
1929 - 1998 (69 years)
Willem Kersters was a Belgian composer, music educator and musician. He is in particular known for his wind music.
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Eberhard Werdin

#173653
Overall Influence
1911 - 1991 (80 years)
Eberhard Werdin was a German composer and writer on music. He studied in Hanover, Bielefeld and Cologne, and then became a schoolteacher. From 1955 to 1969 he was a lecturer at the conservatory in Düsseldorf, and in 1952 he became a professor at the Municipal Music School in Leverkusen.
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#12898

Helmut Bieler

#186857
Overall Influence
1940 - 2019 (79 years)
Helmut Bieler was a German composer and pianist. He studied composition with Franz Xaver Lehner and Fritz Schieri, piano with Friedrich Wührer and Aldo Schoen and learned music at the University for Music and Performing Arts, Munich. From 1967 to 1979 he taught at the Markgräfin-Wilhelmine-Gymnasium, Bayreuth. In 1979 he became a docent and 1988 a professor of music education at the University of Bayreuth. He founded the Ensemble Musica Viva in 1980 and the Bayreuth Days of Contemporary Music in 1988. His music has been performed in Europe , Russia and the USA.
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#12899

Vyacheslav Kuznetsov

#171838
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Kuznetsov is a Belarusian classical music composer. Selected works Diary of a Madman , Opera in 1 act after Nikolai Gogol Capriccio for viola solo Heterophony for oboe, violin and viola
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#12900

Eitan Steinberg

Eitan Steinberg
#192447
Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
Eitan Steinberg is an Israeli composer. He studied under prominent composers and won multiple awards. Biography Steinberg studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, and the University of California, Berkeley. He was the pupil of Mark Kopytman, Richard Felciano, Luciano Berio, Peter Maxwell Davies, and Franco Donatoni. His compositions are performed in Israel, Europe and the United States. He composed over 20 works for his wife, vocalist Etty Ben-Zaken. Steinberg is a full professor at the Music Department of the University of Haifa.
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