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Composing

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Amancio Jacinto Alcorta

He began composing in 1822 and in 1825, attended a local performance of Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville (its first in Argentina).

Art Greenhaw

In 1997, Greenhaw took the lead in composing and arranging the music and recording the soundtrack for a documentary film about actor Bela Lugosi, LUGOSI: HOLLYWOOD'S DRACULA.

Arya Aziminejad

one of most famous of his works was composing music for Mim Mesle Madar, directed by Rasoul Mollagholipour.

Canadian League of Composers

In 1951, John Weinzweig met with fellow composers Harry Somers and Samuel Dolin to discuss the issue of composing professionally in Canada.

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Danny Elfman (ex Oingo Boingo, currently composing film scores for Tim Burton)

Darkwood Dub

In 2001, the band participated in the project organized by a former Bjesovi vocalist Goran Marić, Pesme iznad istoka i zapada (Songs above the East and West), featuring various Serbian rock bands composing music to the poems and prayers written by Nikolaj Velimirović, with the track "Molitva Blagom Hristu" ("A Prayer to the Mild Christ").

David Satian

Another notable composer in his family is Ashot Satian (1906–1956), the chairman of the Composers Union of Armenia from 1947 to 1952, Laureate of the State Stalin Prize in 1952 (also see: USSR State Prize / in Russian: Государственная Сталинская премия) who is known for his songs and also for composing the first Armenian String Quartet in 1936.

Dennis C. Brown

He is best known for composing the soundtrack to the 1987-1996 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated TV series, along with Chuck Lorre—whom he continued to collaborate ever since.

Descemer Bueno

Bueno soon moved back to Cuba and began producing, arranging, and composing music for many young Cuban musicians including Haydée for Haydée Milanés, La Isla Milagrosa for William Vivanco, and Breathe for Yusa.

Die drei Pintos

Die drei Pintos (The Three Pintos) is a comic opera of which Carl Maria von Weber began composing the music, working on a libretto by Theodor Hell.

Digital Pinball: Necronomicon

John Petrucci, guitarist for Dream Theater, contributed music to the game's score by composing the prologue and epilogue FMV music.

Doug Cotler

Cotler’s musical career includes composing the symphony, “The Golem,” which was performed by Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra, performing country, pop and rock music with such well-known artists as John Denver, Jerry Jeff Walker and Mason Williams, and recording five original Jewish music albums.

Dungal MacDouall

King Robert I of Scotland's invasion of Galloway in 1307, led by his brother Alexander de Brus and Thomas de Brus, Malcolm McQuillan, Lord of Kintyre, two Irish sub kings and Reginald de Crawford, and composing of eighteen galleys, landed at Loch Ryan.

Fáskrúðsfjörður

It has a population of 662 (as of 2011) and constitutes one of the villages composing the municipality of Fjarðabyggð.

Frank Proto

Between 1982 and 1989 Proto was a Synclavier artist, composing works in different genres both with and for the system, the most notable being the Dialogue for Synclavier and Orchestra, commissioned by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and conducted by then music director Michael Gielen.

Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel

Then in 1719 he married, and the next year took up an appointment in Gotha, where he worked until his death for the dukes Frederick II and Frederick III of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, composing a cantata each week.

Harmonic table note layout

This key layout has attracted the attention of numerous professional musicians, including Brian May and Jordan Rudess who find that it gives them a novel view of music, which is reportedly very useful in composing.

Harry South

At that time he was also composing and arranging for Humphrey Lyttelton, Buddy Rich, Sarah Vaughan, and Jimmy Witherspoon.

Hidefumi Kimura

He is a member of gímik, along with Keiji Gotoh and Megumi Kadonosono, and is responsible for composing the scenarios and writing most of the episodic screenplays for their anime, and for writing some of the related manga and light novels.

Ituzaingó Partido

At the same time, the City Council was constituted by Horacio Ramiro González (First City Council president), Marcelo Nadal, Adalberto Montes de Oca, Luis Sosa, and Jose Gonzalez composing Justicialist Party bloc.

Jan Klusák

In the 1960s he occasionally acted in films, such as the 1966 film A Report on the Party and the Guests, in addition to composing the music.

Jon Mostad

In addition to composing, Jon Mostad was teaching arrangement and composition, music and religion at high schools in Fredrikstad and Moss (years 10-12 or 11-13 in the Norwegian school system) until he retired in 2006.

Kevan Frost

He is recognized for his work with the musical Taboo; composing the musical score for the production alongside Boy George.

Kurt Heinecke

Heinecke is currently composing the music for the CGI-remake of Superbook.

Laurence Wright

Wright's early work with theme parks included his composing the music for several of the attractions featured at the General Motors' World of Motion pavilion, one of the original attractions to open in 1982 at the Orlando, Florida Walt Disney World EPCOT theme park.

Martin Alfsen

In the late eighties and early nineties, Alfsen began composing and producing for Master Music, Norway's leading company in contemporary Christian music.

Michael Been

Been participated in composing and performing the music to Paul Schrader's 1992 film Light Sleeper.

Morteza Barjesteh

Composing the mentioned piece of music, he was accompanied by Dariush, Sattar and some of the other famous Iranian artists, such as Shohreh Aghdashloo, Parviz Sayyad, and some American artists.

Naomi Shemer

Shemer did her own songwriting and composing, set famous poems to music, such as those of the Israeli poet, Rachel, and the American Walt Whitman.

Oleksij Kerekesha

Influenced by Western pop rock music, particularly groups like Pink Floyd, he began composing at an early age, combining Ukrainian lyricism with modern musical influences.

Percy French

He became renowned for composing and singing comic songs and gained considerable distinction with such songs as "Phil the Fluther's Ball", "Slattery's Mounted Foot", and "The Mountains of Mourne".

Piotr Salaber

He polished his composing skills under Karlheinz Stockhausen during master courses in Kuerten, near Cologne (1998–2002), as well as Elżbieta Sikora and Alain Savouret (International Course For Composers, Gdańsk 2000) Since the academic year 2006/2007 he has been giving lectures on film music at the Institute of Audiovisual Arts at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, and since 2010 also at the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz.

Richard G. Mitchell

Aside from composing original scores for Film, Mitchell has scored music for Theatre Productions and Live Events which include the Opening Ceremony for Euro '96 at Wembley Stadium. He was commissioned to write the score for one-man theatre show Ousama with Nadim Sawalha directed by Corin Redgrave at the Brixton Shaw Theatre, and a jazz suite for the Francis Bacon Retrospective Exhibition at the Tate Britain in 2008.

Saifo

When asked about claims of plagiarism, he vehemently refuted the charge and said the accusers are jealous people who didn't have sharp, instantaneous composing skills like he had and therefore are doing all they can to discredit him.

Smugglers' Songs

Following the death of the notorious smuggler Louis Mandrin his old friends walk in his footsteps and make him popular by composing and singing songs about him.

Sushma Shrestha

Sushma did a children’s album called Bal Geet, which had the legendary S.Khale composing the songs and Shanta Shelke penning them.

Tadeusz Nalepa

In 1965, Nalepa formed with Stan Borys band Blackout and started composing music to the lyrics of a poet, Bogdan Loebl.

The American Astronaut

Cory McAbee, the film’s writer, director, and star, who is also the front man for the rock and roll band, The Billy Nayer Show, began writing the script and composing songs for the film about a decade before.

The Drift

Apart from composing the soundtrack to the film Pola X, the album was Walker's first studio album in eleven years and only his third studio album since the final disbanding of The Walker Brothers in 1978.

The Porky Pig Show

Since Warner Bros. had closed their cartoon studio the year before, the opening and closing animation and bumpers were produced in New York by animator Hal Seeger, with Winston Sharples composing the title song.

Thomas Zwijsen

Since 2011, he has been heavily involved with former Iron Maiden and Wolfsbane frontman Blaze Bayley, co-composing Bayley's 2012 album The King of Metal and 2013 released Russian Holiday E.P. He has toured extensively with Blaze, bringing him across Europe and Brazil, and is scheduled to visit Dubai and Australia in late 2013.

Torbjørn Sletta Jacobsen

In addition to composing music for his quintet, he has made pieces for string quintet and percussion as accompaniment to fairy tales by H. C. Andersen (2005), background music for Marguerite Duras' "The Lover" (2005), and was the main composer and bandleader for the jazz quintet Lobster (2002–08).

Tracy W. Bush

He is known for composing music for the popular games Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, World of Warcraft, StarCraft (all of which he also performed voice acting for), and StarCraft: Brood War, and for sound design on Diablo II and Diablo II: Lord of Destruction.

Ulvi Cemal Erkin

It was Alfred Cortot who gave him the idea of composing a piano concerto during his visit to Turkey, after listening to his Quartet.

Vivek Maddala

He is known for composing music scores for independent movies such as Kaboom, Highway, and American Revolutionary, as well as for silent film restorations for Turner Classic Movies.

Werner Thomas

Werner Thomas (born circa 1931) is an accordionist from Switzerland credited with composing a tune popularly known as the "Chicken Dance" or the "Birdie Song" while working as a restaurant musician in Davos during the early 1960s.

Whisper House

The album, Sheik's first in the wake of success from composing music for the Tony award-winning musical Spring Awakening, contains selections from an original stage musical of the same name, with book and additional lyrics by Kyle Jarrow.

Yūmao

Yūmao is a pseudonym she assumed in late 2002, used primarily when writing and composing songs for anime and games, such as Galaxy Angel and D.C.: Da Capo, and voice actresses, such as Mai Nakahara and Ryoko Shintani.


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