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Roger Nichols (musical scholar) Roger David Edward Nichols (born 6 April 1939) is an English music scholar, critic, translator and author. After an early career as a university lecturer he became a full-time freelance writer in 1980. He is particularly known for his works on French music, including books about Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and the Parisian musical scene of the years after the First World War. Among his translations is the English version of the standard biography of Gabriel Fauré by Jean-Michel Nectoux. Nichols was decorated by the French authorities in 2006 for his contribution to French musical studies.
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Gabriel Fauré Gabriel Urbain Fauré (] ; 12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924) was a French Romantic composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th-century composers. Among his best-known works are his "Pavane", Requiem, nocturnes for piano and the songs "Après un rêve" and "Clair de lune". Although his best-known and most accessible compositions are generally his earlier ones, Fauré composed many of his most highly regarded works in his later years, in a more harmonically and melodically complex style.
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David Matthews (composer) David Matthews (born 9 March 1943) is an English composer of mainly orchestral, chamber, vocal and piano works.
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John Alexander Fuller Maitland John Alexander Fuller Maitland (7 April 1856 – 30 March 1936) was an influential British music critic and scholar from the 1880s to the 1920s. He encouraged the rediscovery of English music of the 16th and 17th centuries, particularly Henry Purcell's music and English virginal music. He also propounded the notion of an English Musical Renaissance in the second half of the 19th century, particularly praising Charles Villiers Stanford and Hubert Parry.
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Arthur Charles Edwards Arthur Charles Edwards FRCO (1869 - 1940) was an organist and composer based in England.
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Christopher Robinson (musician) Christopher John Robinson (born 20 April 1936) is a British conductor and organist.
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Julian Fontana Julian (or Jules) Fontana (31 July 181023 December 1869) was a Polish pianist, composer, lawyer, author, translator, and entrepreneur, best remembered as a close friend and musical executor of Polish-French composer Frédéric Chopin.
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Myers Foggin Myers Foggin (23 December 1908 – 1986) was an English concert pianist and conductor. Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1927-1932. His teachers included the composer York Bowen.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams Ralph Vaughan Williams {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ( 12 October 1872– 26 August 1958) was an English composer. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over nearly fifty years. Strongly influenced by Tudor music and English folk-song, his output marked a decisive break in British music from its German-dominated style of the 19th century.
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Nicolas Hodges Nicolas Hodges (born 1970 in London) is a British pianist living in Germany. He was educated at Christ Church Cathedral School, Oxford, Winchester College, and the University of Cambridge.
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Jean-Michel Sanchez Jean-Michel Sanchez (born 28 June 1969 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône) is a contemporary French art historian, organist, improviser, musicologist and naturopath.
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Sydney Smith (composer) Sydney Smith (also known under the pseudonyms Paul Beaumont and Victor Delacour, July 14, 1839 – March 3, 1889), was a leading English pianist and composer in Victorian England. Sydney Smith grew up in a family of musicians. His father was the head of a music school and often gave concerts with his two sons Sydney and Boyton.
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Jean-Baptiste Faure Jean-Baptiste Faure (] ) (15 January 18309 November 1914) was a celebrated French operatic baritone and an art collector of great significance. He also composed a number of classical songs.
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Rolande Falcinelli Rolande Falcinelli (18 February 1920 – 11 June 2006) was a French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue.
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Anthony Newman (musician) Anthony Newman (born May 12, 1941) is an American classical musician. While mostly known as an organist, Newman is also a harpsichordist, pedal harpsichordist, pianist, fortepianist, composer, conductor, writer, and teacher. A specialist in music of the Baroque period, particularly the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Newman considers himself to have played an important role in the movement towards historically informed performance. He has collaborated with noted musicians such as Kathleen Battle, Julius Baker, Itzhak Perlman, Eugenia Zukerman, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Leonard Bernstein and Wynton Marsalis for whom he arranged and conducted "In Gabriel’s Garden", the most popular classical record of 1996.
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Eustache Du Caurroy Eustache du Caurroy (baptised February 4, 1549 – August 7, 1609) was a French composer of the late Renaissance. He was a prominent composer of both secular and sacred music at the end of the Renaissance, including "musique mesurée", and he was also influential on the foundation of the French school of organ music as exemplified in the work of Jean Titelouze.
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York Bowen Edwin York Bowen (22 February 1884 – 23 November 1961) was an English composer and pianist. Bowen’s musical career spanned more than fifty years during which time he wrote over 160 works. As well as being a pianist and composer, Bowen was a talented conductor, organist, violist and horn player. Despite achieving considerable success during his lifetime, many of the composer’s works remained unpublished and unperformed until after his death in 1961. Bowen’s compositional style is widely considered as ‘Romantic’ and his works are often characterized by their rich harmonic language. He was one of the most notable English composers of piano music of his time.
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Ida Gotkovsky Ida Rose Esther Gotkovsky (born 26 August 1933) is a French composer and pianist. She is currently a professor of music theory at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique in France.
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Francine Faure Francine Faure (6 December 1914 in Oran, Algeria – 24 December 1979) was a French pianist specializing in Bach and a mathematician, She was the second wife of Albert Camus, whom she met in 1937 in Algiers. They were married in Lyon on 3 December 1940. She came from a middle-class French family in Oran, Algeria, which was a French colony at the time. She also taught mathematics, sometimes as a substitute teacher.
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Yves Henry Yves Henry (born 2 April 1959) is a French pianist who specializes in romantic music.
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Domenico Morgante Domenico Morgante (born January 21, 1956) is an Italian musicologist, organist and harpsichordist.
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Cuthbert Girdlestone Cuthbert Morton Girdlestone (born Bovey Tracey, Devon, 17 September 1895; died 10 December 1975) was a British musicologist and literary scholar. He was educated at Cambridge and the Sorbonne, and thereafter took up the chair in French in Armstrong College, later to be King's College in Newcastle in 1926, a position he held until 1960. His most famous publications were his much reprinted study of the Mozart Piano Concertos (1939, published originally in French) and on Jean-Philippe Rameau (1957).