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- ) (November 28, 1829 – November 20, 1894) was a Russian pianist ... He began to tour again as a pianist in the late 1850s, before settling ...7 KB (986 words) - 06:51, 31 July 2023
- Theodore Shaw "Teddy" Wilson (November 24, 1912 – July 31, 1986) was an American jazz pianist from the swing era. His sophisticated ...6 KB (859 words) - 04:40, 27 February 2023
- Louis Moreau Gottschalk (May 8, 1829 – December 18, 1869) was an American composer and pianist, best known as a virtuoso performer of his own ...9 KB (1,339 words) - 07:55, 9 March 2023
- Fats Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) was an African-American jazz pianist, organist, composer, and entertainer. Fats Waller is one ...12 KB (1,952 words) - 21:09, 30 April 2023
- strong musical personality of its leader, pianist John Lewis, the extraordinary ... with swing and creativity. Whiteman’s pianist Frank Signorelli and violinist ...8 KB (1,251 words) - 19:25, 9 November 2022
- John Field (July 26, 1782 – January 23, 1837) was an Irish composer and pianist. The Classical era at the time of John Field highlighted the ...5 KB (734 words) - 06:35, 8 April 2024
- Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (March 19, 1873 – May 11, 1916) was an extremely prolific German composer, organist, pianist, and teacher ...5 KB (798 words) - 00:58, 9 November 2022
- | Occupation = Pianist | Years_active = | Label = Blue ... of bebop, and his virtuosity as a pianist led many to call him "the ...14 KB (2,220 words) - 16:53, 22 November 2023
- his Italian–German mother was a pianist, his Italian father, a clarinetist ... 1891 to 1894 where he also toured as a virtuoso pianist. ...12 KB (1,784 words) - 17:28, 26 March 2024
- A gifted concert pianist, Adams chose a career in photography after ... He originally trained himself as a pianist, but Yosemite and the camera ...9 KB (1,266 words) - 05:14, 31 July 2023
- and flowing melody in the fifth finger of the pianist's right hand, over a background of rapid pedaled arpeggios. One of Sergei Lyapunov's ...11 KB (1,668 words) - 06:22, 15 June 2023
- Edvard Hagerup Grieg (June 15, 1843 – September 4, 1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist who composed in the Romantic period. He is best ...11 KB (1,752 words) - 18:19, 12 February 2024
- Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton (October 20, 1890 – July 10, 1941) was an American virtuoso jazz pianist, bandleader, and songwriter ...15 KB (2,337 words) - 18:02, 2 April 2024
- Arthur Tatum Jr. (October 13, 1909 – November 5, 1956) was an outstanding African-American jazz pianist. Art Tatum is known to the world of ...16 KB (2,414 words) - 12:07, 7 November 2021
- for his elegance, was a major African American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer, who played a decisive role in the development of big band ...14 KB (2,137 words) - 17:38, 28 March 2024
- Hampton was also an unconventional pianist and a singer. ... he was equally amazing as a two-fingered pianist. The bars on the vibraphone ...10 KB (1,597 words) - 04:19, 29 October 2022
- William "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was a prominent American jazz pianist and band leader. Like his contemporary ...17 KB (2,747 words) - 08:28, 10 January 2024
- April 27, 1915) was a Russian composer and pianist. Scriabin began composing ... only one year old, his mother, a concert pianist, died of tuberculosis. Scriabin ...13 KB (1,980 words) - 14:39, 18 July 2023
- in life, Rachmaninoff's skill as pianist was well-known and highly ... in silence, but Zverev saw him only as a pianist and severed his links with ...19 KB (2,901 words) - 10:00, 26 January 2023
- baton technician, but as a composer and pianist, he was known for his preparedness ... He began his formal music training as a pianist, studying with Richard Robert ...18 KB (2,787 words) - 21:10, 18 October 2022
- Percy Aldridge Grainger (July 8, 1882 – February 20, 1961) was an Australian-born pianist, composer and champion of the saxophone and the Concert ...9 KB (1,396 words) - 00:35, 24 November 2022
- greatest conductors. Growing up as a pianist and then working in operatic ... making his first public appearance as a pianist when he was nine. However ...16 KB (2,368 words) - 04:44, 22 November 2023
- | Occupation = Pianist | Years_active = 1920-1989 ... 5 November 1989) was an American classical pianist of Ukrainian birth. In his ...22 KB (3,176 words) - 20:45, 3 May 2023
- George Otis Winston III (February 11, 1949 – June 4, 2023) was an American pianist who was a popular contemporary instrumental performer. Best ...27 KB (3,773 words) - 21:17, 29 October 2023
- Francis Poulenc was born in Paris. His mother, an amateur pianist, taught him to play, and music formed a part of family life. An outstanding ...8 KB (1,187 words) - 05:16, 30 September 2022
- Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was a jazz pianist and composer. He is known for his unique improvisational style ...19 KB (2,925 words) - 17:54, 30 April 2023
- by such an internationally renowned pianist. Barber composed three ... The Piano Concerto was composed for and premiered by pianist John ...10 KB (1,559 words) - 02:18, 23 December 2022
- early age by his father, an amateur jazz pianist. Michael and his brother ... After Dreams, Brecker played with his brother in pianist and band ...11 KB (1,729 words) - 16:53, 9 November 2022
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel or Jan Nepomuk Hummel (November 14, 1778 – October 17, 1837) was a composer and virtuoso pianist of Austrian origin from ...12 KB (1,784 words) - 14:45, 1 August 2022
- Suffolk) was a British composer, conductor, and pianist. ... Britten was also an accomplished pianist, and sometimes performed ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 09:18, 27 September 2023
- Béla Viktor János Bartók (March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and collector of Eastern European and Middle ...14 KB (2,253 words) - 08:50, 27 September 2023
- provided some musical influence. He was a pianist, dancer, and singer on the ... developing style. In 1937, Parker joined pianist Jay McShann's territory ...17 KB (2,690 words) - 00:38, 5 December 2023
- Nehemiah Curtis "Skip" James (June 21, 1902 – October 3, 1969) was an American blues singer, guitarist, pianist, and songwriter. ...11 KB (1,632 words) - 22:46, 29 January 2023
- Franz Liszt (Hungarian: Liszt Ferenc) (October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886) was a Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer of the Romantic period ...26 KB (3,891 words) - 09:36, 11 April 2024
- April 22, 1983), was an African-American jazz pianist. Earl Hines is one of jazz music’s most legendary pianists and one of the greatest. His ...12 KB (1,904 words) - 17:33, 12 February 2024
- his own. A notable influence was concert pianist Salvatore Sullo, from whom ... his second wife Gayle Moran, vocalist/pianist who was a member of John ...29 KB (4,117 words) - 21:00, 9 December 2023
- composer, bandleader, and occasional pianist. He was also known for his ... staying true to its roots. When joined by pianist Jaki Byard, they were dubbed ...23 KB (3,414 words) - 22:22, 4 December 2023
- Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke (March 10, 1903 – August 6, 1931) was a legendary jazz cornet player, as well as a very gifted pianist. ...14 KB (2,109 words) - 18:01, 31 October 2023
- in front of the keyboard, so that all the pianist's power came from the ... performers. He was probably the first pianist to publicly perform a cycle ...18 KB (2,898 words) - 18:57, 25 November 2023
- Nat King Cole (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), born Nathaniel Adams Coles, was a popular American jazz singer-songwriter and pianist. ...30 KB (4,453 words) - 01:27, 11 November 2022
- he moved in 1894. There he worked as a pianist in the Maple Leaf and Black ... Ragtime is also recognized as a precursor to jazz, with such as pianist ...20 KB (2,967 words) - 17:29, 25 January 2023
- Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was the foremost American jazz composer, pianist, and band leader ...22 KB (3,452 words) - 17:20, 12 February 2024
- Robert Schumann (June 8, 1810 – July 29, 1856), a German composer and pianist, was one of the most important Romantic composers of the first ...26 KB (4,179 words) - 02:15, 16 December 2022
- Joseph-Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875 – December 28, 1937) was a twentieth-century French composer and pianist, known especially for the subtlety ...15 KB (2,243 words) - 00:46, 9 November 2022
- Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known as Nina Simone (February 21, 1933 - April 21, 2003), was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil ...29 KB (4,661 words) - 09:48, 11 March 2023
- the piano with his mother, a talented pianist. He started the cello at ... *"Mstislav Rostropovich: Conductor, Pianist and Outstanding Cellist ...17 KB (2,362 words) - 01:47, 11 March 2023
- Category:Image wanted Bebop or bop is a style of jazz that evolved in the 1940s and is notable for its extremely quick tempo and improvisation ...8 KB (1,171 words) - 17:08, 18 August 2020
- Still married Verna Arvey, a journalist and concert pianist, in 1939. They remained together until he died of heart failure in Los Angeles, California ...8 KB (1,154 words) - 12:14, 8 May 2023
- lessons from Teresa Carreño, a Venezuelan pianist. His family moved to Paris ... shifted his focus from composer to concert pianist. He was appointed the first ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 23:45, 12 February 2024
- David Warren "Dave" Brubeck (December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer, considered to be one ...37 KB (5,167 words) - 22:26, 25 January 2024
- Marie carried on an affair with virtuoso pianist and composer Franz Liszt ... acquaintance. Sand was living with the pianist and composer Frédéric ...16 KB (2,413 words) - 08:32, 10 March 2023
- on the instrument. The Japanese American jazz pianist Glenn Horiuchi played shamisen in his performances and recordings. ==Notes== ...9 KB (1,371 words) - 12:23, 27 January 2023
- Paris) was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor, and teacher ... as a performer (violinist, conductor & pianist)(updated July 2005)] ...17 KB (2,378 words) - 12:09, 11 August 2021
- 1893 – January 29, 1980), was an American singer, pianist, comedian, and actor, whose distinctive gravel delivery, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced ...15 KB (2,360 words) - 13:22, 1 August 2022
- Brahms with cellist Emanuel Feuermann and pianist Arthur Rubinstein as well ... Gershwin's Three Preludes with pianist Brooks Smith; and a 1970 ...17 KB (2,485 words) - 09:58, 1 April 2024
- her job, but the same injury would totally ruin a pianist. ===Compensation prior to statutory law=== Prior to the statutory scheme of the workers ...9 KB (1,447 words) - 16:31, 10 October 2020
- from a piano roll without the need for a pianist. Also in the nineteenth ... keys and avoid visual disorientation in a pianist unfamiliar with the extended ...35 KB (5,515 words) - 05:12, 24 November 2022
- Theatre conducted by Adolf Cech with the Czech pianist Karel Slavkovsky as soloist. As Dvořák wrote: "I see I am unable to write a Concerto for ...18 KB (2,917 words) - 12:12, 30 October 2021
- Parkway label, on a session for Chess backing pianist Eddie Ware, and occasionally played second guitar on early sessions with Muddy Waters. ...9 KB (1,411 words) - 07:45, 9 March 2023
- Henry Cowell (March 11, 1897 – December 10, 1965) was an American composer, musical theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario who ...28 KB (4,110 words) - 15:21, 25 January 2023
- and did not become well known as a pianist until later in his life ... became acquainted with the composer and pianist Clara, Robert Schumann& ...19 KB (2,995 words) - 15:01, 1 August 2022
- an admirer of a band that featured blues pianist Little Brother Montgomery ... the US and Europe, often performing with pianist Memphis Slim. His health ...19 KB (2,749 words) - 15:21, 14 May 2023
- and Rosa Kaufman, a popular concert pianist. Pasternak was brought up in a cosmopolitan atmosphere. His father's home was visited by Sergei ...9 KB (1,413 words) - 18:30, 31 March 2023
- father had ambitions for him to become a concert pianist, and he studied at the conservatoire in Liège before going to the Conservatoire de Paris, ...9 KB (1,338 words) - 00:07, 4 December 2023
- composer, music journalist, essayist and pianist. He is best known for the ... the complete set will be recorded by the pianist Fredrik Ullén; the first ...18 KB (2,515 words) - 22:23, 4 October 2022
- to the music. Scott Joplin, the composer/pianist known as the "King ... of ragtime revival in the 1970s. First, pianist Joshua Rifkin brought out ...20 KB (3,149 words) - 00:05, 8 December 2022
- (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American composer, pianist ... West Side Story. Additionally, he was a pianist, an educator, and the music ...27 KB (3,897 words) - 22:15, 20 December 2023
- himself the father of the prominent improvising pianist and composer Misha Mengelberg. He studied in the Cologne conservatory, learning piano ...11 KB (1,649 words) - 15:38, 6 May 2023
- famous improvised piano recitals by composer/pianist Franz Liszt. Yet, some have managed some very successful attempts in this tradition and genre such ...10 KB (1,481 words) - 15:30, 4 February 2023
- Sir Elton John, born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on March 25, 1947, is an English singer, composer, and pianist. John has been one of the dominant ...19 KB (3,014 words) - 17:42, 13 February 2024
- and pantonality. He was an accomplished pianist, capable of improvising ... in the second movement, he instructs the pianist to use a 14 3⁄4 in (37 ...21 KB (3,211 words) - 19:13, 4 December 2023
- Mezzo-soprano Joan Morris and her pianist-composer husband William Bolcom have recorded an album of "other songs by Leiber and Stoller, ...10 KB (1,625 words) - 08:02, 3 April 2024
- with Der Blaue Reiter. Here he met Bavarian pianist Lily Stumpf, whom he married; they had one son, named Felix Paul. ===Der Blaue Reiter=== ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 17:08, 26 March 2023
- learn the violin—she was a capable blues pianist, but kept this hidden from ... was influenced at around this time by pianist Ahmad Jamal, whose sparse ...36 KB (5,661 words) - 15:45, 20 September 2023
- . He was a child prodigy as both a pianist and composer, his talent ... embarked on a dual career as a concert pianist and composer, but his dry ...29 KB (4,378 words) - 16:30, 29 January 2024
- * Bang Jee Young – Pianist * Han Myung-Sook - Prime Minister of South Korea * Grace Park - LPGA golfer * Yuko Fueki - Japan and Korea-based actress ...11 KB (1,562 words) - 23:53, 24 March 2024
- Gabriel Urbain Fauré May 12, 1845 – November 4, 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist, and teacher. He was the foremost French composer ...10 KB (1,591 words) - 07:36, 15 April 2024
- Kolářová, who was an outstanding pianist. In addition to music, he ... Women fainted when the Hungarian pianist and composer Liszt played ...28 KB (4,344 words) - 10:22, 26 September 2023
- Weber was a great pianist and conductor. He had a greater knowledge of the orchestra than Schubert or Beethoven, even if, overall, he was a lesser ...10 KB (1,605 words) - 19:20, 26 November 2023
- seemed done, Goodman unexpectedly asked pianist Jesse Stacy to play a solo ... his band, having persuaded him to employ pianist Teddy Wilson. He all but ...22 KB (3,480 words) - 10:10, 28 September 2023
- Richard, was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. A key figure in the transition from rhythm & blues to rock and roll in the 1950s, Penniman ...23 KB (3,362 words) - 00:37, 3 November 2022
- admirers; Joseph von Gahy, an excellent pianist, played his sonatas and ... genuinely “Romantic” composer. As pianist/author Charles Rosen observes ...30 KB (4,803 words) - 09:36, 11 April 2024
- In 1777 an 18-year-old blind female pianist, Maria-Theresa von Paradies ... by Mesmer in his treatment of the blind pianist, seen in hindsight, was ...22 KB (3,362 words) - 16:24, 29 October 2022
- Schmidt's chamber pieces dedicated to the pianist Paul Wittgenstein (who played with left hand only), although they are almost always performed ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 01:15, 4 December 2023
- style of Chet Atkins and backed by pianist Floyd Cramer and the Anita Kerr Singers, Arnold's version became an international hit. ...12 KB (1,788 words) - 18:07, 12 February 2024
- tour of the United States in 1888/1889 with pianist Moriz Rosenthal. After completing his tour of the U.S., Kreisler returned to Austria and applied ...12 KB (1,707 words) - 07:05, 15 April 2024
- Stravinsky also achieved fame as a pianist and conductor, often at ... York all hosted successful appearances as pianist and conductor. Most people ...32 KB (4,790 words) - 16:04, 12 February 2024
- The pianist Elie-Miriam Delaborde (1839–1913) is generally believed to be Alkan's illegitimate son. He was taught by Alkan in his youth ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 00:36, 5 December 2023
- 1936, he married Barbara Siggers Franklin, a church pianist, and they had four children: Erma, Cecil, Aretha, and Carolyn. Barbara brought a son, Vaughn ...13 KB (1,984 words) - 19:15, 24 November 2023
- and guitarist. He was also a bassist, pianist, saxophonist, and drummer. Mayfield entered the hit music scene as the lead singer of the Impressions ...12 KB (1,864 words) - 06:48, 12 January 2024
- |Occupation = Composer, Pianist |Years_active = |Label = |Associated_acts = |URL = |Notable_instruments = ComposerPiano ...13 KB (1,822 words) - 07:14, 13 June 2023
- he was growing up, he was trained as a classical pianist. In 1950, Paik and his family had to flee from their home during the Korean War. His family ...12 KB (1,818 words) - 01:11, 11 November 2022
- players. Sax players Steve Douglas and Jim Horn, pianist Larry Knechtel, and guitarist Al Casey have been heard on hundreds of hit records, becoming ...12 KB (1,822 words) - 21:18, 30 January 2024
- * The Russian-American jazz pianist Simon Nabatov has released a CD of settings of Kharms' texts, entitled A Few Incidences (with singer ...13 KB (1,927 words) - 22:07, 25 January 2024
- 12, 1959) was an American avant-garde composer and pianist who was known for the unusual sounds and instrumentation which he featured in his musical works ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 07:01, 18 April 2024
- of salsa with hip hop music, while the producer and pianist Sergio George helped to revive salsa's commercial success. He created a sound based on ...13 KB (2,004 words) - 01:54, 23 December 2022
- and Benny Goodman and Concerto in F with pianist Oscar Levant, as well as ... him as much as the Ukrainian-American pianist Vladimir Horowitz. They ...28 KB (4,180 words) - 17:43, 16 August 2023
- 18, 1936) was an Italian composer, musicologist, pianist, violist and violinist. He is best known for his Roman trilogy and the three suites of Ancient ...13 KB (1,835 words) - 05:57, 18 November 2022
- concertos ever written, dedicated to the pianist Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein ... work for her household trio, including pianist Claude Debussy. At the same ...33 KB (4,939 words) - 01:34, 24 November 2022
- Singer and pianist Nina Simone, a close friend of Hansberry's, used the title of her unfinished play to write, together with Weldon Irvine ...13 KB (1,987 words) - 02:44, 4 November 2022
