- David B. Harmony
Rear Admiral David Butts Harmony (3 September 1832 - 2 November 1917) was an officer in the United States Navy. A native of Easton, Pennsylvania, he entered the Navy in 1847 and served until the early 1890s. Combat service included many notable Civil War naval actions, including the campaigns at New Orleans and Vicksburg. Later in his career, he served as Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Yards and Docks (1885-1889) and Chairman of the Lighthouse Board (1889-1891). - Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March, 1947) is a five-time Grammy and one-time Academy Award-winning English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist. In his four-decade career, John has been one of the dominant forces in rock and popular music, especially in the 1970s. John has sold more than 250 million albums plus hundreds of millions of singles, making him one of the most successful artists of all time. - Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21 1917 - January 6 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, singer, and composer. He was born in Cheraw, South Carolina. Together with Charlie Parker, he was a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz. In addition to featuring in these epochal moments in jazz, he was instrumental in founding Afro-Cuban jazz, the modern jazz version of the "Spanish Tinge". Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and gifted improviser, … - Elliott Smith
Steven Paul "Elliott" Smith was an Academy Award-nominated American singer-songwriter and musician. His primary instrument was the guitar, but he was also proficient at piano, clarinet, bass, harmonica and drums. Smith had a distinctive vocal style characterized by his "whispery, spiderweb-thin delivery", and use of multi-tracking to create vocal harmonies. Although Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and died in Los Angeles, California, … - Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 - 13 February 1883) was a German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or "music dramas" as they were later called). Unlike most other great opera composers, Wagner always wrote the scenario and libretto for his works himself. Wagner's compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable for their contrapuntal texture, rich chromaticism, harmonies and orchestration, … - Gillian Welch
Gillian Welch (born October 2 1967 in New York City) is a singer-songwriter whose musical style combines elements of bluegrass, neotraditional country, Americana, old time string band music and folk into a rustic style that she dubs "American Primitive". All of her recordings feature the close-harmonies and unconventional guitar work of her musical partner, David Rawlings. Her music is often described as haunting or soothing. - Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann (June 8, 1810 - July 29, 1856) was a German composer and pianist. He was one of the most famous Romantic composers of the nineteenth century, as well as a famous music critic. An intellectual as well as an aesthete, his music reflects the deeply personal nature of Romanticism. Introspective and often whimsical, his early music was an attempt to break with the tradition of classical forms and structure which he thought too restrictive. - Morton Feldman
Morton Feldman was an American composer, born in New York City. A key figure in modern music, Feldman's compositions went through several phases. He was a pioneer of aleatoric music and indeterminate music, and in requiring improvisation. His compositions are characterized by their quietness, slowness, and often by their extreme length, especially in his later music. - Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist. He entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 11, and numbered Paul Dukas, Maurice Emmanuel, Charles-Marie Widor and Marcel Dupré among his teachers. He was appointed organist at the church of La Trinité in Paris in 1931, a post he held until his death. On the fall of France in 1940 Messiaen was made a prisoner of war, … - Wing
Tsang, Wing Han, popularly known simply as Wing, is a New Zealand singer of Hong Kong origin. Having taken up singing as a hobby after emigrating to New Zealand, Wing gained an audience by entertaining patients at nursing homes and hospitals in and around Auckland. This prompted suggestions that she release a CD; the result was a debut entitled "Phantom of the Opera", featuring the title song from the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, … - Greg Graffin
Gregory Walter Graffin, Ph.D. (born November 6, 1964 in Racine, Wisconsin) is the vocalist and co-founder of the punk rock band Bad Religion. In 1980, at the age of 15, Graffin and a few high school classmates formed Bad Religion in Southern California's San Fernando Valley. After making a name for themselves in the Los Angeles punk scene, releasing three EPs and two full-length albums, they disbanded in 1984. - Darius Milhaud
Darius Milhaud (September 4, 1892 - June 22, 1974) was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of "Les Six" - also known as the "Groupe des Six" - and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are particularly noted as being influenced by jazz and for their use of polytonality (music in more than one key at once). - Mark So
Mark So (born June 14, 1978 in Syracuse, NY) is an American composer and also performer (mainly as pianist) of experimental music active in Los Angeles, CA. His works, which number over 300, are strongly influenced by New York School aesthetics, Fluxus, and the Wandelweiser composers collective. Often involving text-based procedures, alternate tunings and indeterminacy, his music pursues unforeseen results within restricted fields of musical decision and action. - David Marks
David Lee Marks (born August 22, 1948) is a songwriter and musician. Sometimes referred to by Beach Boys historians as the "forgotten" Beach Boy, Marks was part of the group's line-up when they signed to Capitol Records in 1962. David Marks played rhythm guitar and sang harmony vocals. As a child, Marks had lived across the street from the family home of young Brian Wilson in 1956 and began playing music with them. - Anton Bruckner
Anton Bruckner (4 September 1824 - 11 October 1896) was an Austrian composer known primarily for his symphonies, masses, and motets. His symphonies are often considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, complex polyphony, and considerable length. They have gained detractors (especially in English-speaking countries) owing to their large size, repetition, and the fact that Bruckner, … - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, also "Nikolay", "Nicolai", and "Rimsky-Korsakoff", (March 6 (N.S. March 18), 1844 - June 8 (N.S. June 21) 1908) was a Russian composer, one of five Russian composers known as The Five, and was later a teacher of harmony and orchestration. He is particularly noted for a predilection for folk and fairy-tale subjects, and for his extraordinary skill in orchestration, which may have been influenced by his synesthesia. - Gabriel Fauré
Gabriel Urbain Fauré was a French composer, organist, pianist, and teacher. He was the foremost French composer of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers. His harmonic and melodic language affected how harmony was later taught. - William Walton
Sir William Turner Walton, OM (March 29, 1902-March 8, 1983) was a British composer and conductor. His style was influenced by the works of Stravinsky, Sibelius and jazz, and is characterized by rhythmic vitality, bittersweet harmony, sweeping Romantic melody and brilliant orchestration. His output includes orchestral and choral works, chamber music and ceremonial music, as well as notable film scores. - Greg Ginn
Gregory Regis Ginn (born June 8, 1954) is a guitarist, songwriter and singer. He is best known for being the leader of and primary songwriter for the punk rock band Black Flag, which he founded and led from 1976 to 1986. Since breaking up Black Flag, Ginn has recorded a few solo albums, and has performed with the bands HOR, Fastgato, The October Faction, Gone, Confront James, EL BAD, Mojack, and he also played bass with Tom Troccoli's Dog.. - John Gilmore
John Gilmore (28 September or 29 October , 1931 in Summit, Mississippi-19 August or 20 August, 1995 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States) was an American jazz tenor saxophone player best-known for his long tenure as a member of Sun Ra's Arkestra. Aside from his primary instrument of tenor sax, Gilmore occasionally played bass clarinet and percussion. - Heinrich Schenker
Heinrich Schenker was a music theorist, best known for his approach to musical analysis, now usually called Schenkerian analysis. Schenker was born in Wisniowczyki in Galicia in Austria-Hungary. His musical talent was recognized early on, and at the age of 13 he was sent to study with Carl Mikuli, a student of Frédéric Chopin, in Lemberg (now Lwów). He moved to Vienna where he studied music under Anton Bruckner and became known as a pianist, … - Clare Fischer
Clare Fischer (born October 22, 1928 in Durand, Michigan) is an American composer, arranger, and pianist. His parents were of German, French, Irish-Scot, and English backgrounds. In grade school he started his general music study with violin and tuba as his first instruments. At the age of 7 he began to pick out four-part harmony on the piano. After two years of piano lessons the family moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, … - Ted Greene
Theodore ("Ted") Greene (September 26, 1946 - July 23, 2005) was an American fingerstyle jazz guitarist, music columnist, and music educator active in Encino, California. - N. Ravikiran
Chitravina N. Ravikiran (born February 12, 1967 in Mysore, Karnataka, India) is a composer of Indian Carnatic music. He has been called the "Indian Mozart". He is probably most famous for his concept of "melharmony", which is harmony which stays within the melodic rules of an Indian raga (musical mode). Considered a virtuoso chitravina player, he has been described as "probably the greatest slide instrumentalist in the world today" by Radio Australia. - Charles Wood
Charles Wood (June 15 1866-July 12 1926) was an Irish composer and teacher. Born in Armagh, in present-day Northern Ireland, he was the fifth child and third son of Charles Wood Sr. and Jemima Wood. His father was a tenor in the choir of the nearby St. Patrick's Cathedral, and later worked as the Diocesan Registrar of the church. From around 1872 to 1883, Wood received his early education at the Armagh Cathedral Church School, … - Mick Goodrick
Mick Goodrick (b. Sharon, PA, June 9, 1945) is an American post bop jazz guitarist and educator most noteworthy for his work with vibraphonist Gary Burton's band from 1973 to 1976, where for part of that time he was playing alongside guitarist Pat Metheny. Pat has actually cited Goodrick as an influence. Goodrick is a 1967 graduate of Berklee College of Music, where he also was an educator for a few years prior to joining Gary Burton. - Si Kahn
Si Kahn is an American singer-songwriter and activist. Originally from State College, Pennsylvania, Kahn moved to the south as an activist in the Civil Rights Movement, and he now lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. His grandfather Gabriel Kahn, his mother Rosalind Kahn, and his father Benjamin Kahn, a rabbi, taught Si the rudiments of rhythm and harmony as a child. Kahn is the founder and director of Grassroots Leadership, … - Tristan Murail
Tristan Murail is a French composer associated with the "spectral" technique of composition (along with Jonathan Harvey and the late Gérard Grisey), which involves the use of the fundamental properties of sound as a basis for harmony, as well as the use of spectral analysis, FM, RM, and AM synthesis as a method of deriving polyphony. Following early studies in economics and classical and North African Arabic, … - Ramakrishna
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, born Gadadhar Chattopadhyay (Bangla: গদাধর চট্টোপাধ্যায় "Gôdadhor Chôţţopaddhae"), (February 18 1836-August 16 1886) was a Hindu religious teacher and an influential figure in the Bengal Renaissance of the Nineteenth century. His teachings emphasised God-realisation as the highest goal of life, love and devotion for God, the oneness of existence, and the harmony of religions. - Geminus
Geminus of Rhodes was a Greek astronomer and mathematician. The dates of his birth and death are still under debate, but are generally accepted as approximately 110 - 40 BCE. He was a stoic philosopher and scholar, thought to have studied at the school in Rhodes and then later under Posidonius. During his career he wrote introductory works in mathematics and astronomy, and is typically credited with the construction of the Antikythera mechanism. - Hugo Riemann
Karl Wilhelm Julius Hugo Riemann was a German musicologist. He is sometimes referred to simply as "Riemann" in material on music theory and musicology, but should not be confused with the mathematician Bernhard Riemann, who is more commonly known by that name in other contexts. Riemann was born at Grossmehlra, near Sondershausen. He was educated in law and other subjects at Berlin and Tübingen. - Ed O'Brien
Edward "Ed" John O'Brien (born April 15, 1968, in Oxford, England) is a member of Radiohead. He plays guitar and sings harmony vocals live and on some tracks from the band's first three albums. All vocal parts on their subsequent albums were done by Thom Yorke, although Ed still handles the harmony parts from those songs in concert. - Joseph Jongen
Joseph Jongen was a Belgian organist, composer, and music educator. Jongen was born in Liège. On the strength of an amazing precocity for music, he was admitted to the Liège Conservatoire at the extraordinarily young age of seven, and there he spent the next sixteen years. The admission board was not disappointed. Jongen won a First Prize for Fugue in 1891, an honors diploma in piano the next year, and another for organ in 1896. - Gianluigi Trovesi
Gianluigi Trovesi (born in 1944) is an Italian jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and composer. A native of Nembro, a small town near Bergamo, Lombardy, he studied harmony and counterpoint under Vittorio Fellegara. Since then he has been a major player in the Italian and European (free) jazz scene. He also teaches clarinet and saxophone in Italy. He has won various Italian jazz awards. - Witold Lutosławski
Witold Lutosławski was one of the major European composers of the 20th century. He was possibly the most significant Polish composer after Chopin, and was one of the pre-eminent musicians of his country during the last three decades of the century. During his lifetime he earned a large number of international awards and prizes, including the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest honour. - Arthur Foote
Arthur Foote was an American classical composer, and a member of the "Boston Six." The other five were George Whitefield Chadwick, Amy Beach, Edward MacDowell, John Knowles Paine, and Horatio Parker. The modern tendency is to view Foote’s music as “Romantic” and “European” in light of the later generation of American composers such as Aaron Copland, Roy Harris and William Schuman, all of whom helped to develop a recognizably American sound in classical music. - Tori Sinclair
Tori Sinclair (born 18 February 1964, also known as Lisa Comshaw, Lisa Shaw, Tory Sinclair and Fawna) is a bondage model and actress who started her career in fetish modelling in the 1990s. She has also appeared in a number of mainstream movies of the "erotic thriller" genre. Ms. Sinclair had retired from the industry after the birth of her child. She now works as a realtor in southern California. - Paul Tortelier
Paul Tortelier (March 21, 1914 - December 18, 1990) was a French cellist and composer. Tortelier was born in Paris, the son of a cabinet maker. He was encouraged to play the cello by his father and mother, and at 12 he entered the Paris Conservatoire. He won the first prize in cello at the conservatoire when he was 16, and then he took harmony classes under Jean Gallon. In 1935 Tortelier joined the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, and played with them until 1937. - Jon Schmidt
Jon Schmidt (born 1966) is an American New Age Classical pianist located in Salt Lake City. Born to German immigrants who trained him in the masters, such as Beethoven, Mozart, and Chopin. He began songwriting at age 11. To date, he has released seven albums and seven piano books containing transcriptions of original arrangements. His work is often described as a combination of the magical stylings of Classical and New Age music with pop elements of hook and melody. - Paolo A. Nespoli
Paolo Angelo Nespoli (April 6, 1957) is an Italian astronaut. He is scheduled to fly on STS-120, the Space Shuttle mission which will deliver the " Harmony" module (formerly known as Node 2) to the International Space Station. "Harmony" was built by Thales Alenia Space at its facility in Torino, Italy.
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