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  • (also named John Field) a professional organist, and later under Tommaso Giordani. He was the eldest son of Robert Field, who was a violinist ...
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  • of Stephen Foster. Ives became a church organist at the age of 14 and wrote ... men. He continued his work as a church organist until as late as 1906. In ...
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  • Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (March 19, 1873 – May 11, 1916) was an extremely prolific German composer, organist, pianist, and teacher ...
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  • tradition, Puccini served as a church organist and choir director until ... Puccini took the position of church organist and choir master, but it ...
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  • from Friedrich Wilhelm Zachau, the organist of the Liebfrauenkirche ... he abandoned law for music, becoming the organist at the Calvinist Cathedral ...
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  • in Newcastle, Leeds, and Halifax (he was organist at the Parish Church of St John the Baptist, Halifax, West Yorkshire), he became organist of ...
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  • He was born in Teuchern (in the Weißenfels district), son of the organist and teacher Gottfried Keiser (born about 1650), and educated by other ...
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  • was an acclaimed German Baroque composer, organist and teacher who brought ... training from Georg Caspar Wecker, organist of the Church of Saint Sebald ...
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  • creative student, became a talented cellist and organist in his time at the school, playing the organ for the church. At the school, the children ...
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  • Johann Michael Haydn (September 14, 1737 – August 10, 1806) was an Austrian composer and organist, the younger brother of (Franz) Joseph Haydn ...
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  • in Europe is in sixteenth century Germany in organist Arnold Schlick's Spiegel der Orgelmacher und Organisten. He called it hültze glechter ...
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  • and from October 1624 to October 1627 he was the organist. In 1628 Carissimi moved north to Assisi, as maestro di cappella (chapel master) at the Cathedral ...
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  • Johann Sebastian Bach (March 21, 1685 – July 28, 1750) was a prolific and versatile German composer and organist of the Baroque era, whose ...
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  • His father was a schoolmaster and organist with whom Anton first studied ... Bruckner was a renowned organist in his time, impressing audiences ...
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  • French composer and organist Jean-Phillipe Rameau (1683-1764) published his Traité de l'harmonie in 1722 in which he posited that there ...
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  • From 1544 to 1551, Palestrina was the organist of the principal church of his native city (St. Agapito), and in the last year became maestro ...
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  • |Occupation = Composer, organist |Years_active = ... as a significant composer. He became the organist at St. Adalbert's Church ...
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  • Alfred Lefébure-Wely at the eminent position of organist at the Église de la Madeleine, which he kept until 1877. His weekly improvisations stunned ...
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  • [[Image:Organist at Lausanne Cathedral.jpg|thumb|300px|Organist at the Lausanne Cathedral]] Liturgical music is a form of music originating as ...
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  • Holst's father Adolph Holst, an organist, pianist, and choirmaster ... Holst's father was the organist at All Saints' Church in ...
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