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Samuel Barber

Samuel Barber

* 09.03.1910† 24.01.1981
Samuel Barbers Kompositionen - besonders sein Adagio für Streicher - gehören zu den meistaufgeführtesten Musikwerken Amerikas. Als Vertreter der neuromantischen Musik wurde er bekannt und zählt heute zu den wichtigsten Komponisten des 20. Jahrhunderts. Mit vierzehn Jahren begann er 1924 sein Studium (Klavier und Komposition) am Curtis Institute of Music in Philadephia. Nachdem er seine Ausbildung...
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James Barnes

James Barnes

* 09.09.1949
James Barnes was born on 9 September 1949 in Hobart, Oklahoma, United States. After studying composition and music theory at the University of Kansas, he earned a bachelor's degree in music in 1974 and Master of Music in 1975. He later studied orchestra conducting privately with Zuohuang Chen. Since 1977 he has been teaching orchestration, arranging and composing, wind orchestra history and...
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Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland

* 14.11.1900† 02.12.1990
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Don Gillis

* 17.06.1912† 10.01.1978
Donald Eugene Gillis was an American composer, conductor and music teacher. A graduate of Texas Christian University, he was a trombonist and associate leader of the college wind band. He graduated in 1935 and stayed on at the university for a few more years. In 1943 he received his Masters of Music degree from North Texas State University. Don Gillis became the production manager of various...
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Morton Gould

* 10.12.1913† 21.02.1996
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Samuel R. Hazo

* 1966
Samuel R. Hazo resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with his wife and children. In 2003, Mr. Hazo became the first composer in history to be awarded the winner of both composition contests sponsored by the National Band Association. He has composed for the professional, university and public school levels in addition to writing original scores for television, radio and the stage. His original...
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James L. Hosay

* 17.10.1959
James L. Hosay was born in 1959 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, and grew up in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. After high school, he became a trumpeter in the United States Army and completed his education at the Music School of the U.S. Armed Forces. After the first two years of military service, he became a staff arranger and composer for the United States Army Band (Pershing's Own) in Washington, D.C....
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Ed Huckeby

* 09.07.1948
Ed Huckeby is an arts consultant and freelance composer, arranger, conductor and clinician. His career has included roles in higher education and arts administration, most recently serving as President of Southwestern Christian University in Bethany, Oklahoma, until his retirement in 2014. Prior to his appointment at SCU, he was Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Music...
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David Maslanka

* 30.08.1943† 06.08.2017
David Maslanka was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1943. He attended the Oberlin College Conservatory where he studied composition with Joseph Wood. He spent a year at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, and did masters and doctoral study in composition at Michigan State University where his principal teacher was H. Owen Reed. Maslanka’s music for winds has become especially...
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Stephen Leonard Melillo

* 23.12.1957
Stephen Melillo's works range from interactive video scores to three symphonies commissioned by Gerhardt Zimmerman and the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra, a Concerto for Violin & Orchestra composed for Anne Akiko Meyers, and over 14 hours of Music commissioned for Wind & Percussion Ensembles of the 3rd Millennium. His scoring work includes 13 feature films and Music which has...
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Vaclav Nelhybel

* 24.09.1919† 22.03.1996
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Vincent Persichetti

* 06.06.1915† 14.08.1987
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Alfred Reed

* 25.01.1921† 17.09.2005
Alfred Reed ist einer der bedeutendsten Komponisten für die Entwicklung der Blasorchestermusik. Seine Kompositionen gelten als wichtige Standardwerke für diese Besetzung.
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H. Owen Reed

* 17.10.1910† 06.01.2014
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Claude T. Smith

* 1932† 13.12.1987
Claude T. Smith was born in Monroe City, Missouri. He received his undergraduate training at Central Methodist College in Fayette, Missouri and at the University of Kansas. He composed extensively in the areas of instrumental and choral music and his compositions have been performed by leading musical organizations throughout the world. Having over 110 band works, 12 orchestra works and 15 choral...
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Robert W. Smith

* 24.10.1958† 21.09.2023
Robert W. Smith was born in Daleville (Alabama / USA) in 1958. He attended Daleville High School and graduated from Troy State University. There he also attended Paul Yoder's composition class. After working for Troy State University, Robert W. Smith also worked for publishers Warner Bros., Alfred Music and C.L. Barnhouse. In total he published more than 600 works, including three symphonies...
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John Philip Sousa

* 06.11.1854† 06.03.1932
John Philip Sousa wurde am 06. Nov. 1854 in Washington geboren. Sein Vater John Antonio Sousa war als Portugiese aus Spanien in die Vereinigten Staaten gekommen, während seine Mutter Maria Elisabeth Trinkhaus aus Fränkisch Crumbach, in der Nähe von Darmstadt, stammte. Sousa erhielt seine Schulausbildung in Washington, besuchte jedoch gleichzeitig ein privates Konservatorium. Im...
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Jack Stamp

* 05.03.1954
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James Swearingen

* 26.09.1947
James Swearingen is an American composer, music educator, and conductor. He studied at Ohio State University, Bowling Green State University and is Emeritus Professor of Music at Capital University, Columbus, Ohio. James Swearingen taught instrumental music in central Ohio public schools, his first teaching position being in Sunbury, Ohio. He then spent fourteen years as the director of...
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Eric Whitacre

* 02.01.1970
Der amerikanische Komponist und Dirigent Eric Whitacre studierte an der University of Nevada Komposition und Chordirigat und absolvierte seinen Masterabschluss in Komposition an der berühmten Juilliard School In New York. Er komponiert vor allem Musik für Blasorchester oder Chor und erhielt zahlreiche Auszeichnungen für seine kreative Musik.
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Paul Yoder

* 08.10.1908† 04.04.1990
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