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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 ...

Theodore Shaw "Teddy" Wilson (November 24, 1912 – July 31, 1986) was an American jazz pianist from the swing era. His sophisticated ...

Louis Moreau Gottschalk (May 8, 1829 – December 18, 1869) was an American composer and pianist, best known as a virtuoso performer of his own ...

Fats Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) was an African-American jazz pianist, organist, composer, and entertainer. Fats Waller is one ...

strong musical personality of its leader, pianist John Lewis, the extraordinary ... with swing and creativity. Whiteman’s pianist Frank Signorelli and violinist ...

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 ...

Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (March 19, 1873 – May 11, 1916) was an extremely prolific German composer, organist, pianist, and teacher ...

| Occupation = Pianist | Years_active = | Label = Blue ... of bebop, and his virtuosity as a pianist led many to call him "the ...

his Italian–German mother was a pianist, his Italian father, a clarinetist ... 1891 to 1894 where he also toured as a virtuoso pianist. ...

A gifted concert pianist, Adams chose a career in photography after ... He originally trained himself as a pianist, but Yosemite and the camera ...

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 ...

Edvard Hagerup Grieg (June 15, 1843 – September 4, 1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist who composed in the Romantic period. He is best ...

Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton (October 20, 1890 – July 10, 1941) was an American virtuoso jazz pianist, bandleader, and songwriter ...

Arthur Tatum Jr. (October 13, 1909 – November 5, 1956) was an outstanding African-American jazz pianist. Art Tatum is known to the world of ...

for his elegance, was a major African American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer, who played a decisive role in the development of big band ...

Hampton was also an unconventional pianist and a singer. ... he was equally amazing as a two-fingered pianist. The bars on the vibraphone ...

William "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was a prominent American jazz pianist and band leader. Like his contemporary ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Percy Aldridge Grainger (July 8, 1882 – February 20, 1961) was an Australian-born pianist, composer and champion of the saxophone and the Concert ...

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 ...

| Occupation = Pianist | Years_active = 1920-1989 ... 5 November 1989) was an American classical pianist of Ukrainian birth. In his ...

George Otis Winston III (February 11, 1949 – June 4, 2023) was an American pianist who was a popular contemporary instrumental performer. Best ...

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 ...

Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was a jazz pianist and composer. He is known for his unique improvisational style ...

by such an internationally renowned pianist. Barber composed three ... The Piano Concerto was composed for and premiered by pianist John ...

early age by his father, an amateur jazz pianist. Michael and his brother ... After Dreams, Brecker played with his brother in pianist and band ...

Johann Nepomuk Hummel or Jan Nepomuk Hummel (November 14, 1778 – October 17, 1837) was a composer and virtuoso pianist of Austrian origin from ...

Suffolk) was a British composer, conductor, and pianist. ... Britten was also an accomplished pianist, and sometimes performed ...

Béla Viktor János Bartók (March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and collector of Eastern European and Middle ...

provided some musical influence. He was a pianist, dancer, and singer on the ... developing style. In 1937, Parker joined pianist Jay McShann's territory ...

Nehemiah Curtis "Skip" James (June 21, 1902 – October 3, 1969) was an American blues singer, guitarist, pianist, and songwriter. ...

Franz Liszt (Hungarian: Liszt Ferenc) (October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886) was a Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer of the Romantic period ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke (March 10, 1903 – August 6, 1931) was a legendary jazz cornet player, as well as a very gifted pianist. ...

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 ...

Nat King Cole (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), born Nathaniel Adams Coles, was a popular American jazz singer-songwriter and pianist. ...

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 ...

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was the foremost American jazz composer, pianist, and band leader ...

Robert Schumann (June 8, 1810 – July 29, 1856), a German composer and pianist, was one of the most important Romantic composers of the first ...

Joseph-Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875 – December 28, 1937) was a twentieth-century French composer and pianist, known especially for the subtlety ...

Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known as Nina Simone (February 21, 1933 - April 21, 2003), was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil ...

the piano with his mother, a talented pianist. He started the cello at ... *"Mstislav Rostropovich: Conductor, Pianist and Outstanding Cellist ...

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 ...

Still married Verna Arvey, a journalist and concert pianist, in 1939. They remained together until he died of heart failure in Los Angeles, California ...

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 ...

David Warren "Dave" Brubeck (December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer, considered to be one ...

Marie carried on an affair with virtuoso pianist and composer Franz Liszt ... acquaintance. Sand was living with the pianist and composer Frédéric ...

on the instrument. The Japanese American jazz pianist Glenn Horiuchi played shamisen in his performances and recordings. ==Notes== ...

Paris) was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor, and teacher ... as a performer (violinist, conductor & pianist)(updated July 2005)] ...

1893 – January 29, 1980), was an American singer, pianist, comedian, and actor, whose distinctive gravel delivery, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced ...

Brahms with cellist Emanuel Feuermann and pianist Arthur Rubinstein as well ... Gershwin's Three Preludes with pianist Brooks Smith; and a 1970 ...

her job, but the same injury would totally ruin a pianist. ===Compensation prior to statutory law=== Prior to the statutory scheme of the workers ...

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 ...

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 ...

Parkway label, on a session for Chess backing pianist Eddie Ware, and occasionally played second guitar on early sessions with Muddy Waters. ...

Henry Cowell (March 11, 1897 – December 10, 1965) was an American composer, musical theorist, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario who ...

and did not become well known as a pianist until later in his life ... became acquainted with the composer and pianist Clara, Robert Schumann& ...

an admirer of a band that featured blues pianist Little Brother Montgomery ... the US and Europe, often performing with pianist Memphis Slim. His health ...

and Rosa Kaufman, a popular concert pianist. Pasternak was brought up in a cosmopolitan atmosphere. His father's home was visited by Sergei ...

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, ...

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 ...

to the music. Scott Joplin, the composer/pianist known as the "King ... of ragtime revival in the 1970s. First, pianist Joshua Rifkin brought out ...

(August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American composer, pianist ... West Side Story. Additionally, he was a pianist, an educator, and the music ...

himself the father of the prominent improvising pianist and composer Misha Mengelberg. He studied in the Cologne conservatory, learning piano ...

famous improvised piano recitals by composer/pianist Franz Liszt. Yet, some have managed some very successful attempts in this tradition and genre such ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mezzo-soprano Joan Morris and her pianist-composer husband William Bolcom have recorded an album of "other songs by Leiber and Stoller, ...

with Der Blaue Reiter. Here he met Bavarian pianist Lily Stumpf, whom he married; they had one son, named Felix Paul. ===Der Blaue Reiter=== ...

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 ...

. 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 ...

* Bang Jee Young – Pianist * Han Myung-Sook - Prime Minister of South Korea * Grace Park - LPGA golfer * Yuko Fueki - Japan and Korea-based actress ...

Gabriel Urbain Fauré May 12, 1845 – November 4, 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist, and teacher. He was the foremost French composer ...

Kolářová, who was an outstanding pianist. In addition to music, he ... Women fainted when the Hungarian pianist and composer Liszt played ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

admirers; Joseph von Gahy, an excellent pianist, played his sonatas and ... genuinely “Romantic” composer. As pianist/author Charles Rosen observes ...

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 ...

Schmidt's chamber pieces dedicated to the pianist Paul Wittgenstein (who played with left hand only), although they are almost always performed ...

style of Chet Atkins and backed by pianist Floyd Cramer and the Anita Kerr Singers, Arnold's version became an international hit. ...

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 ...

Stravinsky also achieved fame as a pianist and conductor, often at ... York all hosted successful appearances as pianist and conductor. Most people ...

The pianist Elie-Miriam Delaborde (1839–1913) is generally believed to be Alkan's illegitimate son. He was taught by Alkan in his youth ...

1936, he married Barbara Siggers Franklin, a church pianist, and they had four children: Erma, Cecil, Aretha, and Carolyn. Barbara brought a son, Vaughn ...

and guitarist. He was also a bassist, pianist, saxophonist, and drummer. Mayfield entered the hit music scene as the lead singer of the Impressions ...

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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 ...

players. Sax players Steve Douglas and Jim Horn, pianist Larry Knechtel, and guitarist Al Casey have been heard on hundreds of hit records, becoming ...

* The Russian-American jazz pianist Simon Nabatov has released a CD of settings of Kharms' texts, entitled A Few Incidences (with singer ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

concertos ever written, dedicated to the pianist Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein ... work for her household trio, including pianist Claude Debussy. At the same ...

Singer and pianist Nina Simone, a close friend of Hansberry's, used the title of her unfinished play to write, together with Weldon Irvine ...

* Another admirer was the rock/jazz group Chicago, whose Pianist/keyboardist Robert Lamm credited Varèse with inspiring him to write many number ...

| occupation = Singer, songwriter, actress, pianist, activist ... Her skills as a pianist were described as "magic" and "inspirational ...

Purgol'd (1848-1919), who was also a pianist and composer. During his first few years at the conservatory, Rimsky-Korsakov assiduously studied ...

role. Robert Schumann, despite being a pianist-composer, wrote a piano concerto in which virtuosity is never allowed to eclipse the essential ...

William Motter Inge ( ˈɪndʒ "inj"; [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Inge Inge at Dictionary.com] Retrieved May 22, 2008. ...

with the pioneering New Orleans jazz pianist Jelly Roll Morton, who had fallen into obscurity in Washington, DC. The interview provided a nearly ...

In 1948 Malraux married Marie-Madeleine Lioux, a concert pianist and the widow of his half-brother, Roland Malraux. They separated in 1966. ...

the premier of his only opera. His brother was pianist and composer Théo Ysaÿe (1865–1918). ==Biography== ===Early years=== Eugène-Auguste ...

was as a "piano pounder" or rehearsal pianist for Remick's, a publishing company on Tin Pan Alley in New York City. He was thus exposed ...

his mother was also an artist and a talented pianist. When Collingwood was two years old, his family moved to Lanehead, on the shore of Coniston ...

* Schmidt is also a talented pianist, and has recorded piano concertos of both Mozart and Bach with the well-known German pianist and conductor ...

Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (Honfleur, May 17, 1866 – Paris, July 1, 1925) was a French composer, pianist, and writer. Dating from his first composition ...

Ex-patriots like the poet Adam Mickiewicz and pianist and composer Frederic Chopin worked to elevate awareness of the Polish cause. By the 1860s ...

of his body to Texas by train, accompanied by pianist Will Ezell. Jefferson was buried at Wortham Negro Cemetery. Far from his grave being kept ...

quot; Murphy, harmonica-player James Cotton, a pianist who went by the name 'Destruction', and drummer Willie Steele. He also performed on ...

screen. In the film, Bergman plays a celebrity pianist who returns to Sweden to visit her neglected daughter, played by Liv Ullman. The film was shot ...

Blyton was a talented pianist, and her parents had hopes that she might play professionally. Instead, Blyton gave up her musical studies to teach ...

Ray Charles, born Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), was a pioneering American pianist, musician and entertainer who ...

* Portrait of Joseph Pembauer, the Pianist and Piano Teacher (1890) * Ancient Greece II (Girl from Tanagra) (1890 - 1891) * Portrait of a Lady ...

Cornetist, composer, and pianist Bix Beiderbecke was a key figure in making instrumental soloing a fixture of Dixieland jazz. Armstrong and others ...

mother, Edna Merkel Simon, was an accomplished pianist and a third generation American. Her family had immigrated from Prague and Cologne, where her ...

maestro, Giacomo Puccini and the Russian pianist/composer Sergei Rachmaninoff ... Gabriela Montera the modern Argentine-born pianist who plays Classical concerts ...

composer. He was also active as a librettist, poet, pianist, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, essayist, travel writer, broadcaster, translator, linguist ...

Pianist Vladimir Horowitz was to be an honoree, but the selection committee withdrew the offer when Horowitz conditioned his acceptance on being ...

a dream come true for Armstrong, but his new wife, pianist Lil Hardin Armstrong, urged him to seek more prominent work. Shortly after leaving the band ...

1957, Ralph Sharon became Bennett's pianist, arranger, and musical director ... made two well-regarded albums with jazz pianist Bill Evans, The Tony Bennett/Bill ...

colonial critical theorist Edward Said, himself a pianist and music critic, wrote extensively about how literature could be contrapuntal. ...

stated with certainty.) was a German composer and pianist, generally regarded as one of the greatest figures in the history of music. He was the preeminent ...

on film. Chico was an excellent and histrionic pianist, and Groucho played the guitar. [[Image:Early_marx_brothers_with_parents.jpg|thumb|left ...

felt and realized subjectively." Conductor and pianist Christoph Eschenbach called Furtwängler a "formidable magician, a man capable of setting ...

chronic alcoholism. Manuel's position as pianist was filled first by old friend Stan Szelest, then by Richard Bell. The reformed group recorded ...

encouraged Bellow to become a concert pianist. Later Bellow would say that his Jewish heritage was "a gift, a piece of good fortune with ...

In 1999, Said and Israeli conductor/pianist Daniel Barenboim embarked on a cultural project that would become a defining enterprise in the pursuit ...

record, Fitzgerald recorded a series of duets with pianist Ellis Larkins, during her last years with Decca. These duets were released in 1950, as Ella ...

then his Ph.D. in 1942. The same year, he married pianist Mary Oliver Ballou, with whom he had three children (Catherine, Richard, and Kurt). They later ...

was an important Czech musicologist and pianist who served as the head of the Janáček Music Academy in Brno from 1948 to 1961. Milan learned ...

with her life and marriage. She takes a young pianist as her lover, but it is soon clear that he too is insincere in his love and is using her for ...

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Whiteman added another member to the group, pianist and aspiring songwriter Harry Barris. Whiteman dubbed them The Rhythm Boys and they joined the Whiteman ...

Holst's father Adolph Holst, an organist, pianist, and choirmaster, taught piano lessons and gave recitals; and his mother, Clara von Holst, who ...

Walker and first performed in August 1997 by the pianist David Owen Norris. The realization has since been extensively revised. The hit track ...

were composer Pierre Boulez and pianist Yvonne Loriod. Other pupils ... of music for the piano. Although a skilled pianist himself, he was undoubtedly ...

Mikhail Glinka, popularized in Western Europe by pianist Franz Liszt after his tour of the Russian Empire. Throughout his career, Verdi rarely ...

*Friedrich Gulda, pianist and composer *Eduard Haas III, inventor of ... *Joe Zawinul, jazz pianist, keyboard player, and composer ...

in 1978, following the departure of pianist Keith Godchaux. ===Jerry Garcia=== [[Image:Jerry-Garcia.jpg|thumb|200px|Jerry Garcia performing Stella ...

Electronic music is a term for music created using electronic devices. As defined by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ...

with the screenplay written by Ronald Harwood (The Pianist). The film was released in the United States on November 16, 2007. Douglas|2007 ...

who was a classically trained pianist and cellist. At the age of six, he found an acoustic guitar in his grandmother's closet, which he ...

With the addition of pianist David Sancious, the core of what would later become the E Street Band was formed. Sax player Clarence Clemmons would ...

October 17, 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the ... tutor, from 1816 to 1821, was the Czech pianist Wojciech Żywny. His elder ...

trip, Baird had met Margaret Albu, a concert pianist from South Africa. Although there was a 19-year age difference they fell in love and while in ...

or with their sound muted and only audible to the pianist through headphones. This was followed by a Silent Trumpet in 1995, Silent Drums in 1996, the ...

|Occupation = Opera Composer, cellist, pianist |Years_active = |Label = |Associated_acts = |URL = |Notable_instruments ...

In 1940, Camus married Francine Faure, a pianist and mathematician. Although he loved Francine, he argued passionately against the institution ...

banal. The philosopher Theodor Adorno, a skilled pianist and interpreter of Beethoven's music, expressed a sense of the arduousness and also the ...

Higgins, the lineup stabilized in the fall with pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Steve Davis, and drummer Elvin Jones. While still with Miles, Coltrane ...

events, like daughter Clara's wedding to pianist and composer, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, wearing his ceremonial robes (he received an honorary degree ...

science; he was also an accomplished pianist, and constructed his own piano, described as a "large instrument." He moved with his family ...

Borge, a Danish-American humorist, entertainer and pianist, affectionately known as the "Clown Prince of Denmark" and the "Great Dane, ...

desk--he resurrects distant past so eloquently that pianist Claudio Arrau called the piece one of Debussy's greatest preludes: "It's miraculous ...

Stones founders Brian Jones, and pianist Ian Stewart were active in the London R&B scene fostered by Cyril Davies and Alexis Korner. Jagger ...

until the career as a professional pianist to which he aspired was no longer an option. In 1913, his 14-year-old brother Renato died suddenly ...

|Occupation = Opera Composer, violinist, pianist |Years_active = |Label = |Associated_acts = |URL = |Notable_instruments ...

tones, based on the career of a failed concert pianist (played by Charles Aznavour). At the time audiences and critics did not understand it, but today ...

possible. Fanny became a well-known pianist and amateur composer; originally Abraham had thought that she might be the more musical one. However ...

Union to invite Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky, and the pianist Alexander Borovsky to return to Russia. Stravinsky and Borovsky rejected the offer, but Prokofiev ...

Nerval traveled to Vienna, where he met the pianist Marie Pleyel at the French embassy. ===Nervous breakdowns=== Back in France in March 1840 ...

Yellow River Piano Concerto was performed by the pianist Yin Chengzong, and is still performed today on global stages. During the height of the Cultural ...

Bestanddeelnr 913-5228.jpg|thumb|200px|Pianist Arthur Rubinstein in 1962]] Late Romantic nationalism spilled over into British and American music ...

alluded to in Riders On The Storm. Composer/pianist Fred Myrow selected the eclectic songs for the film's soundtrack. The film shows the influence ...

metal. An example of this influence is the jazz pianist Chick Corea, who has performed piano concertos of Mozart and was inspired by them to write ...

beyond all others." He was an accomplished pianist and appeared once on Marian McPartland's National Public Radio show "Piano Jazz." ...

famous classical musicians, such as the Hungarian pianist Georges Cziffra, are Roma, as are many prominent performers of manele. The distinctive ...

Zemlinsky's sister Mathilde, a sophisticated woman and pianist, became Schönberg's wife in 1901. In the summer of 1908, she left him ...

used to describe fan reaction to the concerts of pianist Franz Liszt. Andi Lothian, a former Scottish music promoter, laid claim to the term in ...

and also toured Europe with the experimental pianist David Tudor, his other closest collaborator during this period. After it was introduced ...

Johnny Costa Pittsburgh's Legendary Jazz Pianist. Retrieved December 15, 2018. Each episode had recurring motifs: * Mister Rogers is seen ...

Zander, Antoni Wit, Daniele Gatti, even jazz pianist Uri Caine with his own takes on some of the symphonies and Lieder. ==Works== ===Symphonies=== ...

he began studying to be a concert pianist, but developed a love for theatre at an early age, and began acting while he was attending the High ...

features artists such as violinist Cho-Liang Lin, pianist Ching-Yun Hu, and the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society Artist Director Wu Han. Karaoke, ...

is an internationally known concert pianist. ===Sports=== Since independence Croatia has been a fairly successful sporting country. The most popular ...

Minnie was famous for her virtuoso guitar style. Pianist Memphis Slim began his career in Memphis, but his quite distinct style was smoother and contained ...

was not until January 1919, when the world-famous pianist and composer Ignacy Paderewski became prime minister and foreign minister of a new government ...

wealthy inventor, and Beatrice Ives, a concert pianist and suffragette. He was born on the day that Babe Ruth hit his first home run. At eighteen months ...

Song Festival, percussionist Hani Naser, the pianist, and composer Khalid Asad. A new age group called Rum, led by Tareq Al Nasser has been gaining ...

went on to become a world-famous concert pianist, even after losing his right arm in World War I—after that he had music composed specially ...

Franz Liszt (1811–1886) was a Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer ... (1881–1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and collector of Eastern ...

around 1974, Cohen's collaboration with pianist and arranger John Lissauer created a live sound praised by the critics. They toured together in ...

Pianist and conductor Dinu Lipatt and Georges Enesco, a violinist and composer, whose work was influenced by traditional folk songs, have achieved ...

the journalist John Graudenz and the pianist Helmut Roloff. It thus conformed to the general pattern of German resistance groups of being drawn ...

was an influential German composer and pianist.]] In the field of music, Germany claims some of the most renowned classic composers including ...

was founded in 1862 by the Russian pianist and composer Anton Rubinstein. The school alumni have included such notable composers as Pyotr Tchaikovsky ...