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A noite do castelo <=SEP=> A noite do castelo "\The Night of the Castle") is an opera seria in three acts by the Brazilian Romantic era composer, Antônio Carlos Gomes.  The libretto in Brazilian Portuguese by Antônio José Fernandes dos Reis was based on António Feliciano de Castilho's 1830 poem of the same name. The work premiered at the Theatro Lyrico Fluminense in Rio de Janeiro on September 4, 1861.

Alan Silvestri <=SEP=> Alan Anthony Silvestri (born March 26, 1950) is an American composer and conductor who works primarily in film and television. He is best known for his frequent collaboration with director Robert Zemeckis, including composing major hit films such as the Back to the Future trilogy and Forrest Gump, as well as the superhero films Captain America: The First Avenger  and Marvel's The Avengers.

Alexander Spendiaryan <=SEP=> Alexander Afanasyevich Spendiaryan (Spendiarov) (Armenian: Ալեքսանդր Սպենդիարյան, Russian: Александр Афанасьевич Спендиаров, 1 November 1871, Kakhovka, Russian Empire – 7 May 1928, Yerevan, Armenia) was an Armenian music composer, conductor, founder of Armenian national symphonic music and one of the patriarchs of Armenian classical music. His compositions include the Almast (Armenian: Ալմաստ՝ brilliant) opera and the Yerevan Etudes among others.

Alexey Retinsky <=SEP=> Alexey Retinsky ( ukr. Oleksii Retynskii) was born on 14 November 1986 in Simferopol, Crimea. He is a Ukrainian composer and artist.

Alexis Gideon <=SEP=> Alexis Gideon (born December 24, 1980) is a visual artist, director, composer and performer best known for his animated video operas.  In 2013, Manhattan’s New Museum of Contemporary Art paired Gideon with William Kentridge in a joint program.

American Legation, Tangier <=SEP=> The Tangier American Legation is a building in the medina of Tangier, Morocco. The first American public property outside the United States, it commemorates the historic cultural and diplomatic relations between the United States and the Kingdom of Morocco. It is now officially called the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies, and is a cultural center, museum, and a research library, concentrating on Arabic language studies.The legation was listed on the U.S.

Anatoliy Brandukov <=SEP=> Anatoly Andreyevich Brandukov (Russian: Анато́лий Андре́евич Брандуко́в) (January 6 [O.S. December 25, 1858] 1859–February 16, 1930) was a Russian cellist who premiered many cello pieces of prominent composers including Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff. Born as Russian classical music was flourishing in the middle of the 19th century, he worked with many of the important composers and musicians of the day, including performances with Anton Rubinstein and Alexander Siloti.

Ansfelden <=SEP=> Ansfelden is a town in the Austrian state of Upper Austria. The rivers Traun and Krems run  through the municipality.

Antonio Capuzzi <=SEP=> Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi (also Capucci; August 1, 1755 – March 28, 1818) was an Italian violinist and composer.Although popular in his day, most of his music is now forgotten. The most commonly performed piece today is his concerto for double bass. The concerto was found in the British Museum by Philip Catelinet, and was dedicated to Kavalier Marcantonio Montenigo, who is assumed to have performed on that instrument.

Antonio Smareglia <=SEP=> Antonio Smareglia (5 May 1854 – 15 April 1929) was an Italian opera composer.

Antonio Soller <=SEP=> Antonio Soller (10 August 1840, Lisboa; - ?) was a Portuguese pianist and composer.He studied painting and music. Later, he lived in France, Italy and Belgium, and in 1884, he dedicated a march titled Heroism to King Humbert. He composed various triumphal and funeral marches.Autograph letters from Antonio Soller to Charles Malherbe survive from 1902, placing his date of death in the 20th century, but at present his exact date of death is unknown to scholarship

Antonín Dvořák Museum <=SEP=> The Antonín Dvořák Museum in Prague is a museum dedicated to the great Czech composer Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904). It is part of the Czech Museum of Music which in turn is part of the complex of the National Museum. It is housed in a baroque building which was designed by the famous architect Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer at the beginning of the 18th century. Although the house itself has no particular link with the composer the Antonín Dvořák museum has been housed there since 1932.

Arnold Schönberg Center <=SEP=> The Arnold Schönberg Center, established in 1998 in Vienna, is a unique repository of Arnold Schönberg's archival legacy and a cultural center that is open to the public.

Baldassare Galuppi <=SEP=> Baldassare Galuppi (18 October 1706 – 3 January 1785) was an Italian composer, born on the island of Burano in the Venetian Republic. He belonged to a generation of composers, including Christoph Willibald Gluck, Domenico Scarlatti, and CPE Bach, whose works comprised the transition from Baroque to Classical-era music.

Barbara Bloom (artist) <=SEP=> Barbara Bloom (b. Los Angeles, 1951) is a conceptual artist. She works in a wide range of media and is most known for her installation works that have been exhibited internationally. Bloom is loosely connected to a group of artists referred to as The Pictures Generation.For nearly twenty years she lived in Europe, first in Amsterdam then Berlin. She now lives in New York City with her husband, the writer-composer Chris Mann, and their daughter.

Bedřich Smetana Museum <=SEP=> The Bedřich Smetana Museum (Muzeum Bedřicha Smetany) in Prague is a museum which is dedicated to the life and works of famous Czech composer Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884).  It is situated in the centre of Prague in a small block of buildings right next to Charles Bridge on the right bank of the river Vltava in the Old Town (Novotného lávka 1, 110 00 Praha 1).The building, which was formerly owned by Prague Water Company, has housed the Smetana Museum since 1936.

Ben Neill <=SEP=> Ben Neill (b. Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1957) is a composer, trumpeter, producer, and inventor of the "mutantrumpet", a hybrid electro-acoustic instrument. His music has been recorded on the Universal/Verve, Astralwerks, Thirsty Ear, Six Degrees, Ramseur, New Tone and Ear-Rational labels. A former student of La Monte Young, Neill spent seven years as the music curator for The Kitchen in New York. He has collaborated with DJ Spooky, David Wojnarowicz.

Bertramka <=SEP=> Bertramka (Czech: Muzeum W.A. Mozarta a manželů Duškových) is a villa in Prague notable because of visits by Mozart. Now it is a museum dedicated to the memory of Mozart and to the former owners and Mozart’s hosts: František and Josefina Dušek.  It is little known that Mozart's visits to the Bertramka are actually very scantily documented.

Brook Street <=SEP=> Brook Street is one of the principal streets on the Grosvenor Estate in the exclusive central London district of Mayfair. Named after the Tyburn Brook that formerly ran nearby, it was developed in the first half of the 18th century and runs from Hanover Square to Grosvenor Square. The continuation from Grosvenor Square to Park Lane is called Upper Brook Street. Both sections originally consisted of typical London terraced houses, mostly built to individual designs.

Béla Bartók <=SEP=> Béla Viktor János Bartók (/ˈbɑrtɒk/; Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈbeːlɒ ˈbɒrtoːk]; March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945) was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Liszt are regarded as Hungary's greatest composers (Gillies 2001). Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of comparative musicology, which later became ethnomusicology.

Charlie Morrow <=SEP=> Charlie Morrow (born Charles Morrow, February 9, 1942) is an American sound artist, composer, conceptualist and performer whose work connects leading edge ideas and technologies with archaic and shamanistic practices. His numerous and diverse creative projects have included chanting and healing works, museum and gallery installations, large-scale festival events, radio and TV broadcasts, film soundtracks, commercial sound design and advertising jingles.

Christian Marclay <=SEP=> Christian Ernest Marclay (born January 11, 1955) is a visual artist and composer. He holds both American and Swiss nationality.Marclay's work explores connections between sound, noise, photography, video, and film.

Chronological list of English classical composers <=SEP=> The following is a chronological list of classical music composers living and working in England, or originating from England.

Coat of Many Colors (song) <=SEP=> "Coat of Many Colors" is a song written and recorded by American country music singer Dolly Parton, which has been described on a number of occasions as her favorite song she has written. It was released in October 1971 as the second single and title track from the album Coat of Many Colors. She composed the song in 1969, while traveling with Porter Wagoner on a tour bus.

Composer <=SEP=> A composer (Latin com+ponere, literally "one who puts together") is a person who creates music. The core meaning of the term refers to individuals who have contributed to the tradition of Western classical music through creation of works expressed in written musical notation.

Constantine Koukias <=SEP=> Constantine Koukias (born 14 October 1965) is a Tasmanian composer and opera director of Greek ancestry based in Amsterdam, where he is known by his Greek name of Konstantin Koukias. He is the co-founder and artistic director of IHOS Music Theatre and Opera, which was established in 1990 in Tasmania's capital city, Hobart.Koukias's works range from large-scale music theatre and opera to mobile installation art events.

Croydon Clocktower <=SEP=> Croydon Clocktower is an arts and museum complex located on Katharine Street in Croydon, London.The venue contains the Museum of Croydon, the David Lean Cinema, which offers a regular programme of art house and independent films, a Youth Ambassadors group, aimed at bringing more young people to the Clocktower, and a café and bar.

Czech branch of the House of Thurn and Taxis <=SEP=> The Czech branch of the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis (German: Das Fürstenhaus Thurn und Taxis) is a dynastic branch of a German family that was a key player in the postal services in Europe in the 16th century and is well known as owners of breweries and builders of countless castles.

Daniel Dutton <=SEP=> Daniel Dutton, born 1959 near Somerset, Kentucky, is a contemporary artist, lyricist, composer, artistic director, and amateur filmmaker, whose work combines visual, musical, and narrative arts. He is best known for his first opera, The Stone Man.During the 1980s, Dutton showed visual and video installation art at the  J. B. Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky. The Speed Museum commissioned two video works from Dutton: A Day in the Life of the Artist, and Water; an installed environment.

Daniel Kellogg (composer) <=SEP=> Daniel Kellogg (born 1976 Wilton, Connecticut) is an American composer.Kellogg is Assistant Professor of Music at the College of Music of the University of Colorado at Boulder, teaching music composition, counterpoint and orchestration.

David Ludwig (composer) <=SEP=> David Ludwig (born 1974, Bucks County, Pennsylvania) is an American composer of classical music.

David Sacerdote <=SEP=> David Sacerdote (1550–1625) was a Jewish composer and banker active in Italy.  He is the earliest known Jewish composer of polyphonic music of which any has survived.Details of his life are sketchy.  He was born in Rovere, and is known to have lived in Casale, Acqui, and Cortemilia.  He worked in banking throughout his life, holding concessions as a moneylender.

Eduard Strauss <=SEP=> Eduard Strauss (15 March 1835 – 28 December 1916) was an Austrian composer who, together with brothers Johann Strauss II and Josef Strauss made up the Strauss musical dynasty. He was the son of Johann Strauss I and Maria Anna Streim.  The family dominated the Viennese light music world for decades, creating many waltzes and polkas for many Austrian nobility as well as dance-music enthusiasts around Europe. He was affectionately known in his family as 'Edi'.

Edvard Grieg <=SEP=> Edvard Hagerup Grieg (Norwegian: [ˈɛdʋɑɖ ˈhɑːɡərʉp ˈɡrɪɡ]; 15 June 1843 – 4 September 1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the leading Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide.

Edward Elgar <=SEP=> Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet OM GCVO (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos for violin and cello, and two symphonies. He also composed choral works, including The Dream of Gerontius, chamber music and songs.

Eisenstadt <=SEP=> Eisenstadt (German pronunciation: [ˈaɪ̯zn̩ʃtat]; Hungarian: Kismarton, Croatian: Željezni grad, Željezno, Slovene: Železno) is a city in Austria, the state capital of Burgenland. It has a population of about 13,165 (2012). In the Habsburg monarchy, Kismarton (Eisenstadt) was the seat of the Eszterházy Hungarian noble family. The composer Joseph Haydn lived there as Hofkapellmeister under Esterházy patronage.

Elgar Birthplace Museum <=SEP=> The Elgar Birthplace Museum in Lower Broadheath, Worcestershire, England, is a museum dedicated to the English composer Edward Elgar.  Elgar was born here on 2 June 1857, and lived here until his family moved to Worcester two years later. The museum comprises the birthplace cottage and an associated Elgar Centre, opened in 2000, which houses exhibitions and a function room.

Ellen Fullman <=SEP=> Ellen Fullman (born 1957) is an American composer, instrument builder, and performer. She was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and is currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Known for the 70-foot (21-meter) long string instrument, an instrument tuned in just intonation and played with rosin-coated fingers.

Ellsworth Snyder <=SEP=> Ellsworth Snyder (May 13, 1931 – August 11, 2005) was an American abstract painter, professional pianist, conductor and scholar. He was known as a champion of avant-garde art and music and is associated with composer John Cage and the Fluxus art movement. He preferred that his name be spelled ellsworth snyder, using all lower-case letters.

Erik Satie <=SEP=> Éric Alfred Leslie Satie (French: [eʁik sati]; 17 May 1866 – 1 July 1925) – he signed his name Erik Satie after 1884 – was a French composer and pianist. Satie was a colourful figure in the early 20th century Parisian avant-garde. His work was a precursor to later artistic movements such as minimalism, repetitive music, and the Theatre of the Absurd.An eccentric, Satie was introduced as a "gymnopedist" in 1887, shortly before writing his most famous compositions, the Gymnopédies.

Ernie Althoff <=SEP=> Ernie Althoff is an Australian musician, composer, instrument builder, and visual artist. He was born in Mildura, Victoria in 1950.  He was involved in the Clifton Hill Community Music Centre during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Althoff began exhibiting his music machines instruments in 1981, though his larger installation exhibits began in 1988.

Fitzwilliam Virginal Book <=SEP=> The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book is a primary source of keyboard music from the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods in England, i.e., the late Renaissance and very early Baroque. It takes its name from Viscount Fitzwilliam who bequeathed this manuscript collection to Cambridge University in 1816.

Foundling Museum <=SEP=> The Foundling Museum in London tells the story of the Foundling Hospital, Britain's first home for abandoned children. The museum houses the nationally important Foundling Hospital Art Collection as well as the Gerald Coke Handel Collection, the world's greatest privately amassed collection of Handel memorabilia.

Francisco López (musician) <=SEP=> Francisco López is an avant-garde experimental musician and sound artist.He has released a large amount of sound pieces with record labels from more than fifty countries and realized hundreds of concerts and sound installations worldwide; including some of the main international museums, galleries and festivals, such as: P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (New York City), London Institute of Contemporary Arts, Paris Museum of Modern Art, National Auditorium of Music, Reina Sofia Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Sónar, Darwin Fringe festival, Kitakyūshū city art museum.He made a double sonic intervention created for the Spanish Pavilion of the Expo 2008.In 2006, López won the First Prize for the Sound Art Competition of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León.He has received honorable mention of the Prix Ars Electronica on three occasions(1999, 2002, 2007) and is the recipient of the Qwartz Award 2010 for best sound anthology.He is director and curator of the sound archive SONM.

Frank J. Oteri <=SEP=> Frank J. Oteri born May 12, 1964 is a composer based in New York City. Oteri is also a music journalist, lecturer, and new music advocate.Oteri's musical works have been performed in venues from Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall to the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.

František Vladislav Hek <=SEP=> František Vladislav Hek (April 11, 1769 in Dobruška, Bohemia – September 4, 1847 in Letohrad - until 1950 Kyšperk, in German Geiersberg) was a Czech patriot active in early phases of the Czech National Revival, writer and composer. He has novel F. L. Věk by Alois Jirásek.

Fred Momotenko <=SEP=> Alfred (Fred) Momotenko (born 7 August 1970) is a Russian-born Dutch-nationality composer.

Frédéric Chopin <=SEP=> Frédéric François Chopin (/ˈʃoʊpæn/; French pronunciation: ​[fʁe.de.ʁik fʁɑ̃.swa ʃɔ.pɛ̃]; 22 February or 1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849), born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era, who wrote primarily for the solo piano.

George Enescu <=SEP=> George Enescu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈd͡ʒe̯ord͡ʒe eˈnesku]; known in France as Georges Enesco; 19 August 1881 – 4 May 1955) was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor, and teacher, regarded as Romania's most important musician.

George Frideric Handel <=SEP=> George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (/ˈhændəl/; born Georg Friedrich Händel, German pronunciation: [ˈhɛndəl]; 23 February 1685 (O.S.) [(N.S.) 5 March] – 14 April 1759) was a German-born British Baroque composer who spent the bulk of his career in London, becoming well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, and organ concertos.

George Quincy <=SEP=> George Quincy (born in Oklahoma, United States) is an American composer and conductor of Choctaw heritage. He has composed for theater, dance, music, and television.Quincy holds degrees from the Juilliard School, where he has also taught. He worked with the Martha Graham Dance Company.Quincy has performed at the National Museum of the American Indian. His music has been performed by Timothy Archambault.

Grace Renzi <=SEP=> Grace Renzi (Grace Kantuser) (September 9, 1922, New York City, USA – June 4, 2011, Cachan, France) was an American painter.Renzi graduated from Queens College and from the Cooper Union Art School, New York. In 1953, she relocated to Paris, France where she lived for the rest of her life. Grace Renzi was a painter, and a printmaker.

Grainger Museum <=SEP=> The Grainger Museum is a repository of items documenting the life, career and music of the composer, folklorist, educator and pianist Percy Grainger (b. Melbourne, 1882; d. White Plains, New York, 1961), located in the grounds of the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. In the early 1920s, Grainger began to develop an idea for an autobiographical museum so that "all very intimate letters or notes should be deposited in an Australian Grainger Museum, preferably in birth-town Melbourne".

Gustav Holst <=SEP=> Gustav Theodore Holst (born Gustavus Theodore von Holst; 21 September 1874 – 25 May 1934) was an English composer, arranger and teacher. Best known for his orchestral suite The Planets, he composed a large number of other works across a range of genres, although none achieved comparable success. His distinctive compositional style was the product of many influences, Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss being most crucial early in his development.

Halle (Saale) <=SEP=> Halle (Saale)(German pronunciation: [ˈhalə an dɛɐ̯  ˈzaːlə])  is a city in the southern part of the German state Saxony-Anhalt. Halle is an economic and educational center in eastern Germany. The University of Halle-Wittenberg is the biggest university in Saxony-Anhalt and one of the oldest universities in Germany. Together with Leipzig, Halle is the heart of the Central German Metropolitan Region.

Handel House Museum <=SEP=> The Handel House Museum is a museum in Mayfair, London dedicated to the life and works of the German-born baroque composer George Frideric Handel, who made his home in London in 1712 and eventually became a British citizen in 1727. Handel was the first occupant of 25 Brook Street, which he rented from 1723 until his death there in 1759.

Horodyshche <=SEP=> Horodyshche (Ukrainian: Городище) is a city located in the Cherkasy Oblast (province) in central Ukraine. The city rests on the Vilshanka River and is the administrative center of the Horodysche Raion (district).

House-Museum of Aram Khachaturian <=SEP=> The Aram Khachaturian House-Museum (Armenian:   Արամ Խաչատրյանի Տուն-Թանգարան) opened in Yerevan, Armenia in 1982 and is devoted to the exhibition of the Armenian composer’s personal artifacts, as well as to the research and study of his creative output.Since the idea of the museum came about in the 1970s, Khachaturian himself was actively involved in its design.

House-Museum of Vagif Mustafazadeh <=SEP=> House-museum of Vagif Mustafazadeh (Azerbaijani: Vaqif Mustafazadənin ev muzeyi) – is a memorial museum of an eminent Azerbaijani jazz-pianist and composer Vagif Mustafazadeh and it was established on July 28, 1989. In 1994, it acquired a status of a branch of Azerbaijan State Museum of Musical Culture. From 1989 to 1997, Zivar Agasaf qizi Aliyeva was a director of the museum.There are collected 1214 artifacts in the museum.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski <=SEP=> Ignacy Jan Paderewski, GBE (Polish: [iɡˈnat͡sɨ ˈjan padɛˈrɛfskʲi]; 18 November [O.S. 6 November] 1860 – 29 June 1941) was a Polish pianist and composer, politician, and spokesman for Polish independence. He was a favorite of concert audiences around the globe. His musical fame opened access to diplomacy and the media.  He was the prime minister and foreign minister of Poland in 1919, and represented Poland at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.

Ignaz Pleyel <=SEP=> Ignace Joseph Pleyel (French: [plɛjɛl]; German: [ˈplaɪ̯.l̩]; 18 June 1757 – 14 November 1831) was an Austrian-born French composer and piano builder of the Classical period.

Ischia <=SEP=> Ischia  (Italian pronunciation: [ˈiskja]) is a volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea. It lies at the northern end of the Gulf of Naples, about 30 kilometres (19 miles) from the city of Naples. It is the largest of the Phlegrean Islands. Roughly trapezoidal, it measures approximately 10 km (6 miles) east to west and 7 km (4 miles) north to south and has about 34 km (21 miles) of coastline and a surface area of 46.3 square kilometres (17.9 sq mi).

Ivanovka estate <=SEP=> Ivanovka (Russian: Ивановка) is an estate near Tambov, Russia, which used to be the summer residence of the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff in the period between 1890 and 1917 (until his emigration). It was the family home of his aristocratic relatives, the Satins. Many of Rachmaninoff's earlier masterpieces were created in its bucolic atmosphere. A museum commemorating the life and works of the composer was opened there in 1982.

Janine Charbonnier <=SEP=> Janine Charbonnier (born 8 June 1926) is a French pianist, composer and pioneer in composer-generated music. She was born in Paris, and married writer Georges Charbonnier.With Pierre Barbaud and Roger Blanchard, she co-founded the Groupe de Musique Algorithmique de Paris (GMAP). With the assistance of Bull Centre National Computing Electronics, they produced their first concert of algorithmic music, programming in Fortran, as part of an art festival at the Rodin Museum in Paris in June 1959.

Jean Sibelius <=SEP=> Jean Sibelius (/sɪˈbeɪliəs, -ˈbeɪljəs/; About this sound Swedish pronunciation ), born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius (8 December 1865 – 20 September 1957), was a Finnish violinist and composer of the late Romantic and early-modern periods.

Jodle Birge <=SEP=> Birge Lønquist Hansen (November 6, 1945 – August 27, 2004), better known as Jodle Birge, was a Danish composer and singer. His most famous tracks were "Rigtige Venner" (Real Friends) and "Tre hvide duer" (Three white doves). Jodle Birge sold over two million CDs. From 1992 to 2001 there was a museum for Jodle Birge in Silkeborg in Denmark.A new and bigger museum was opened on July 22, 2005.

Johannes de Limburgia <=SEP=> Johannes de Limburgia (also Johannes de Lymburgia or Johannes Vinandi; fl. 1408–1430) was a Franco-Flemish School composer.

John T. La Barbera <=SEP=> John La Barbera is a musical composer, arranger and plays guitar and mandolin. He has performed at concert halls and music festivals, including the Montreal Jazz Festival, Carnegie Hall, the Felt Forum, Alice Tully Hall, Guggenheim Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institution, UCLA, Field Museum in Chicago, Philadelphia Museum of Art, San Francisco World Music Festival, Central Park Summer Stage and at the Jones Beach Theater.

Jordan Dykstra <=SEP=> Jordan Dykstra (born January 26, 1985) is an American composer and viola player from Sioux City, Iowa, United States.Dykstra studied composition at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, California., Portland State University in Portland, Oregon., and at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. He has worked as a composer on film music for Gus Van Sant and as a session violist and string director for Dirty Projectors.

Josef Strauss <=SEP=> Josef Strauss (August 20, 1827 – July 22, 1870) was an Austrian composer.He was born in Vienna, the son of Johann Strauss I and Maria Anna Streim, and brother of Johann Strauss II and Eduard Strauss. His father wanted him to choose a career in the Austrian Habsburg military. He studied music with Franz Dolleschal and learned to play the violin with Franz Anton Ries.He received training as an engineer, and worked for the city of Vienna as an engineer and designer.

Joseph Haydn <=SEP=> (Franz) Joseph Haydn (/ˈdʒoʊzəf ˈhaɪdən/; German: [ˈjoːzɛf ˈhaɪdən]; 31 March 1732 – 31 May 1809) was a prominent and prolific Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the piano trio and his contributions to musical form have earned him the epithets "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet".Haydn spent much of his career as a court musician for the wealthy Esterházy family at their remote estate.

Joseph Parry <=SEP=> Joseph Parry (21 May 1841 – 17 February 1903) was a Welsh composer and musician. Born in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, he is best known as the composer of Myfanwy and Aberystwyth (a hymn tune) used in Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika the National anthem of South Africa. The cottage at 4 Chapel Row, Merthyr Tydfil, where Parry was born, is now open to the public as a museum.

Ján Cikker <=SEP=> Ján Cikker (29 July 1911 – 21 December 1989) was a Slovak composer, a leading exponent of modern Slovak classical music. He was awarded the title National Artist in Slovakia, the Herder Prize (1966) and the IMC-UNESCO International Music Prize (1979).

Kerry Andrew <=SEP=> Kerry Andrew (born 5 April 1978, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire) is an English composer, performer, writer and educator.From age 3 to age 6, Andrew lived in Canada with her family.  The family subsequently returned to the UK and settled in the Buckinghamshire area. Andrew earned a BA in Music, MA and PhD in Composition, all from the University of York.

Laura Rossi <=SEP=> Laura Rossi is a British composer of film and concert works. Originally from Devon, she graduated with a Masters Degree from The London College of Music, having previously studied at the University of Liverpool.Her credits include scores for films such as Paul Andrew Williams' London to Brighton and The Cottage, as well as being commissioned by the Imperial War Museum to write an orchestral score for the 1916 film The Battle of the Somme.

Laurence Wright <=SEP=> Laurence Wright is a music composer who has composed film scores for award-winning short films as well as attractions for museums, heritage attractions, World's Fairs and theme parks.

Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum <=SEP=> The Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum is notable as the first virtual museum completely metaphor after a real-world museum. It even has a live cyber graffiti wall and a search engine. This online art museum website was originally established by the IT Inventor, digital artist, poet and composer Lin Hsin Hsin from Singapore in 1994 during the initial expansion of the World Wide Web.

List of 20th-century classical composers <=SEP=> This is a list of composers of 20th-century classical music, sortable by name, year of birth, year of death, nationality, notable works, and remarks. It includes only composers of significant fame and importance. The style of the composer's music is given where possible, bearing in mind that some defy simple classification. Names are listed first by year of birth, then in alphabetical order within each year.

List of American composers <=SEP=> This is a list of American composers, alphabetically sorted by surname, then by other names. It is by no means complete. It is not limited by classifications such as genre or time period—however, it includes only music composers of significant fame, notability or importance. Some further composers are included in Category:American composers.

List of Australian composers <=SEP=> This is a list of Australian composers of classical music, contemporary music and/or film soundtracks.These names are largely drawn from the following: Music Australia an online service developed by the National Library of Australia (NLA) and the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA); Australian Music Centre's (AMC) list of "Represented artists"; lists entitled "Australian Composers" and "Australian Repertoire" published by Australian Choral Conductors Education and Training (ACCET); the "Catalogue of Australian Organ Compositions 1866–2002" published by the Organ Historical Trust of Australia (OHTA); the "Australian Composers" list;and various other websites and media sources.Wherever possible, dates of birth and death are shown.The pseudonyms used by some composers are listed along with a reference back to their legal name.Personal websites are listed when possible, and entries are cross-referenced to one or more sources to provide further information.

List of British classical composers <=SEP=> The following is a list of people born in Britain or of British citizenship who have worked or currently work in the classical music tradition.

List of Canadian composers <=SEP=> This is a list of composers who are either native to the country of Canada, are a citizen of that nation, or have spent a major portion of their career living and working in Canada. The list is arranged in alphabetical order:

List of English Renaissance composers <=SEP=> This is a list of English composers of the Renaissance period in alphabetical order.Richard Alison (c. 1560/1570–before 1610)John Amner (1579–1641)Hugh Aston (c. 1485–1558)Thomas Ashwell (c. 1478–after 1513)John Baldwin (before 1560–1615)John Baxter (fl. 1609)John Bedingham (died c.1459/1460)John Benet (fl. 1420–1450) ([1])John Bennet (c. 1575–after 1614)William Brade (1560–1630)John Browne (fl. c. 1490)John Bull (1562–1628)William Byrd (c. 1540–1623)Thomas Campion (1567–1620)J.

List of Jewish American composers <=SEP=> This is a list of Jewish American composers.  For listings of Jewish American songwriters, musicals writers, and film composers, see List of Jewish American musicians, which shares some names with this list. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.

List of Renaissance composers <=SEP=> This is a list of composers active during the Renaissance period of European history. Since the 14th century is not usually considered by music historians to be part of the musical Renaissance, but part of the Middle Ages, composers active during that time can be found in the List of Medieval composers. Composers on this list had some period of significant activity after 1400, before 1600, or in a few cases they wrote music in a Renaissance idiom in the several decades after 1600.

List of Romanian composers <=SEP=> Costică Andrei (1928-), composer of Romanian carols and other choral music Corneliu Cezar (1937-1997), postmodernist, electro-acoustic, isonic spectral music initiator.

List of alumni of the Courtauld Institute of Art <=SEP=> The following is a list of alumni of the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Pamela Askew, historian of Baroque art Reyner Banham, critic Emily Barr, writer Graham W. J.

List of compositions by Franz Krommer <=SEP=> This is a list of compositions by Franz Krommer.

List of museums <=SEP=> This is a list of museums. According to the Museums of the World, there are about 55,000 museums in 202 countries.

List of museums in Alabama <=SEP=> The list of museums in Alabama contains museums in the U.S. state of Alabama.  A number of public and private institutions and organizations around the state make their collections available for public viewing.  These museums contain artifacts and exhibits related to art and art history, broadcasting, children, civil and political rights, culture, industry, law, medicine, military history, music, natural history, local and regional history, science, sports and transportation.

List of museums in Central Texas <=SEP=> The list of museums in Texas encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are non-profit art galleries and exhibit spaces.

List of museums in China <=SEP=> As of 2013, there are 3,589 museums in China, including 3,054 state-owned museums (museums run by national and local government or universities) and 535 private museums. With a collection of over 20 million items, these museums hold more than 8,000 exhibitions every year and 160 million people visits. Some museums of cultural relics, such as the Museum of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Xi'an, have become internationally known tourist attractions.

List of museums in Pennsylvania <=SEP=> This list of museums in Pennsylvania encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Also included are university and non-profit art galleries.

List of museums in Tokyo <=SEP=> The following is a list of museums and art galleries in Tokyo.  To use the sortable table, click on the icons at the top of each column to sort that column in alphabetical order; click again for reverse alphabetical order.

Lists of composers <=SEP=> This is a list of Lists of composers grouped by various criteria.

Louis Spohr <=SEP=> Louis Spohr (5 April 1784 – 22 October 1859), born Ludwig Spohr, was a German composer, violinist and conductor. Highly regarded during his lifetime, Spohr composed ten symphonies, ten operas, eighteen violin concerti, four clarinet concerti, four oratorios and various works for small ensemble, chamber music and art songs.  Spohr was the inventor of both the violin chinrest and the orchestral rehearsal mark.

Ludwig van Beethoven <=SEP=> Ludwig van Beethoven (/ˈlʊdvɪɡ væn ˈbeɪˌtoʊvən/; German: [ˈluːtvɪç fan ˈbeːtˌhoˑfn̩]; baptised 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. His best-known compositions include 9 symphonies, 5 concertos for piano, 1 violin concerto, 32 piano sonatas, and 16 string quartets.

Manabu Namiki <=SEP=> Manabu Namiki (並木 学, Namiki Manabu, born September 13, 1971) is a Japanese video game composer who is primarily known for his work in shoot 'em up games. He has worked with game companies such as Allumer, NMK, Raizing and Cave. In October 2002, Namiki, Hitoshi Sakimoto, and Masaharu Iwata founded Basiscape.

Mari El <=SEP=> The Mari El Republic (Russian: Респу́блика Мари́й Эл, Respublika Mariy El; Meadow Mari: Марий Эл Республик; Hill Mari: Мары Эл Республик) is a federal subject of Russia (a republic). Its capital is the city of Yoshkar-Ola. As of the 2010 Census, the population of the Mari El Republic was 696,459.

Maritime museum <=SEP=> A maritime museum (sometimes nautical museum) is a museum specializing in the display of objects relating to ships and travel on large bodies of water.

Mark Bowden (composer) <=SEP=> Mark Bowden (born 1979, South Wales) is a British composer of classical music.Bowden studied composition with Richard Steinitz at the University of Huddersfield before completing a Masters degree at the Royal College of Music where he studied with Julian Anderson. He has received commissions from the BBC Symphony Orchestra,  the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Ulster Orchestra, amongst others and his music has been broadcast by BBC Radio 3.

Matthew Aucoin <=SEP=> Matthew Aucoin (born 1990) is an American composer, conductor, pianist, and writer best known for his operas.  Aucoin has received commissions from such institutions as Carnegie Hall, Lyric Opera of Chicago, the American Repertory Theater, the Peabody Essex Museum, Harvard University, NPR's This American Life, and the Metropolitan Opera.  As a young musical virtuoso, Aucoin has been compared to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Wagner, and Leonard Bernstein.

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis <=SEP=> Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (Polish: Mikołaj Konstanty Czurlanis; 22 September [O.S. 10 September] 1875 –10 April [O.S. 28 March] 1911) was a Lithuanian painter,  composer and writer.Čiurlionis contributed to symbolism and art nouveau and was representative of the fin de siècle epoch. He has been considered one of the pioneers of abstract art in Europe. During his short life he composed about 400 pieces of music and created about 300 paintings,  as well as many literary works and poems.

Milan Kymlicka <=SEP=> Milan Kymlicka (Czech: Milan Kymlička) (15 May 1936 – 9 October 2008) was a Czechoslovakian and Canadian arranger, composer and conductor. He was best known for his composition of film and television scores, including those for the animated television series Rupert and Babar and the live-action television series Lassie and Little Men.

Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky <=SEP=> Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Моде́ст Ильи́ч Чайко́вский; 13 May [O.S. 1 May] 1850–15 January [O.S. 2 January] 1916) was a Russian dramatist, opera librettist and translator.

Museum <=SEP=> A museum (/mjuˈziːəm/; myoo-zee-um) is an institution that cares for (conserves) a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities throughout the world and more local ones exist in smaller cities, towns and even the countryside.

Museum of Croydon <=SEP=> The Museum of Croydon (formerly Croydon Lifetimes Museum) is a museum located inside the Croydon Clocktower arts facility. It is in Central Croydon, London Borough of Croydon, England. The museum is stated to be a lifetime museum, which showcases historical and stylish artefacts which were derived from the borough. The Museum is part of Croydon Council.The museum opened on the second floor of the Croydon Clocktower in 2006 and entrance to the galleries is free.

Music of Lombardy <=SEP=> This article is about the Music of Lombardy outside of the city and province of Milan. For that, see the Music of Milan.Besides Milan, the region of Lombardy has 10 other provinces, each named for the largest city and capital of the respective province: Bergamo, Brescia, Como, Cremona, Lecco, Lodi, Mantova, Pavia, Sondrio, and Varese.

Music of Tuscany <=SEP=> (This article is about the Music of Tuscany  outside of the city and province of Florence. For that, see Music of Florence.)

Musée-Placard d'Erik Satie <=SEP=> The Musée-Placard d'Erik Satie (Cupboard Museum of Erik Satie) is a small museum dedicated to composer Erik Satie (1866–1925). It is located in the 18th arrondissement of Paris at 6, rue Cortot, Paris, France. The "cupboard" museum consists of a tiny room that Satie occupied from 1890-1898, during which time he wrote pieces including Gnossiennes and Pièces froides.

Natural History Museum, London <=SEP=> The Natural History Museum in London is a museum exhibiting a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Nicola Gomirato <=SEP=> Nicola Gomirato (born in Venice in 1963) is an Italian artist involved in music, history and literature. He is an eclectic musician who plays more than 56 musical instruments and writes, creates, and performs musical shows combining words, music, history, instruments and poetry.

Noriyuki Iwadare <=SEP=> Noriyuki Iwadare (岩垂 徳行, Iwadare Noriyuki, born on April 28, 1964) is a Japanese video game composer.

Oley Speaks <=SEP=> Oley Speaks (June 28, 1874 – August 7, 1948) was an accomplished composer and songwriter who was born in Canal Winchester, Franklin County, Ohio.  The Canal Winchester Area Historical Society Museum has exhibits about the life of Oley Speaks, including original sheet music written by him.

Pancho Vladigerov <=SEP=> Pancho Haralanov Vladigerov [ˈpantʃo xaraˈɫaŋov vɫadiˈɡɛr̩ov] (or Wladigeroff, or Wladigerow, or Vladiguerov, or Vladigueroff; Bulgarian: Панчо Хараланов Владигеров; 13 March 1899 – 8 September 1978) was a Bulgarian composer, pedagogue, and pianist.Vladigerov is arguably the most influential Bulgarian composer of all time. He was one of the first to successfully combine idioms of Bulgarian folk music and the classical music.

Patrick Zimmerli <=SEP=> Patrick Zimmerli is an American composer, arranger, producer and saxophonist currently living and working in Paris and New York City.His work has been performed at Carnegie Hall  and Town Hall  in New York, Wigmore Hall in London  and Salle Pleyel in Paris, as well as at the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art.

Percy Grainger <=SEP=> Percy Aldridge Grainger (8 July 1882 – 20 February 1961) was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist. In the course of a long and innovative career he played a prominent role in the revival of interest in British folk music in the early years of the 20th century. He also made many adaptations of other composers' works.

Pesaro <=SEP=> Pesaro (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpeːzaro] or [ˈpeːsaro]) is a town and comune in the Italian region of the Marche, capital of the Pesaro e Urbino province, on the Adriatic. According to the 2011 census, its population was 95,011, making it the second most populous city in the Marche, after Ancona.Fishery, furniture industry and tourism are the main strengths of the local economy.

Pitch Perfect (soundtrack) <=SEP=> Pitch Perfect: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the official music for the 2012 film Pitch Perfect. The soundtrack was released digitally on September 25, 2012, and physically on October 2, 2012.

René de Clercq <=SEP=> René De Clercq, born René Desiderius Declercq (Deerlijk, Belgium, 14 November 1877 – Maartensdijk, Netherlands, 12 June 1932),  was a Flemish-Dutch political activist, writer, poet, and composer.

Richard Farber <=SEP=> Richard Michael Farber (born December 4, 1945), is an American-born Israeli composer and librettist whose career spans over more than four decades. Farber began his work as a theater and ballet composer from which he moved to large scale stage works and, recently, orchestral and vocal music; to date, Farber has penned eight operas, three of which had been premiered on stage and four on the radio in Germany (see below). Farber is the 2005 recipient of the Composers’ Prime Minister Award.

Richard Johnston (composer) <=SEP=> Richard Johnston (7 May 1917 – 16 August 1997) was a Canadian composer, conductor, editor, folklorist, music critic, music educator, music producer, and university administrator of American birth. He became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1957. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre, he was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in February 1997.

Richard Wagner <=SEP=> Wilhelm Richard Wagner (/ˈvɑːɡnər/; German: [ˈʁiçaʁt ˈvaːɡnɐ]; 22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is primarily known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works.

Salix Säydäş <=SEP=> Säydäşev Salix Camaletdin ulı (pronounced [sæɪˈdæʃəf sæˈlʲix ʑʌmɑletˌdinuˈlɯ] aka Salix Säydäş, also spelled Salikh Saydash(ev) [sæˈlʲix sæɪˈdæʃ(əf)] (Tatar Cyrillic: Сәйдәш(ев) Салих Җамалетдин улы; Russian: Сайда́шев Сали́х Замалетди́нович, Saydashev Salikh Zamaletdinovich; 1900 – December 16, 1954) was a Tatar composer and conductor. People's Artist of Tatar ASSR (1951), Honoured Worker of Culture (1939).

Sergei Taneyev <=SEP=> Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev (Russian: Серге́й Ива́нович Тане́ев, Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev, pronounced [sʲɪˈrɡej ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ tɐˈnʲejɪf]; November 25 [O.S. November 13] 1856 – June 19 [O.S. June 6] 1915) was a Russian composer, pianist, teacher of composition, music theorist and author.

Silvestre Vargas <=SEP=> Silvestre Vargas (died Guadalajara, October 7, 1985) was a Mexican mariachi musician. In 1928, he became the leader of Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán, an ensemble from Jalisco begun by his father in 1898. In the 1930s the group moved to Mexico City, and Vargas, along with Rubén Fuentes, became pivotal composers in the evolution of the genre. Silvestre and the Mariachi Vargas made dozens of recordings and starred in many films through the 1960s.

Stephen Endelman <=SEP=> Stephen Endelman is a British born classical composer and conductor. He is best known for his soundtracks including Redbelt, Evelyn, Home of the Brave, Finding Graceland and The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain. He wrote the Grammy nominated score for De-Lovely  and the incidental music for the Rose Center for Earth and Space at The American Museum of Natural History.

Stephen Foster <=SEP=> Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826 – January 13, 1864 ), known as "the father of American music", was an American songwriter primarily known for his parlor and minstrel music. Foster wrote over 200 songs; among his best-known are "Oh! Susanna", "Camptown Races", "Old Folks at Home", "My Old Kentucky Home", "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair", "Old Black Joe", and "Beautiful Dreamer". Many of his compositions remain popular more than 150 years after he wrote them.

Teacup Travels <=SEP=> Teacup Travels is a British children’s TV series. The show was created and produced for CBeebies by Plum Films with support from Creative Scotland. It began transmission on 9 February 2015 for a run of 25x15 minute episodes.The concept of the series is historical fiction for young children, incorporating genuine historical artefacts into dramatic adventure stories. At the time of filming, all the artefacts featured in the series were held in museum collections around the UK.

The Crossing (choral ensemble) <=SEP=> The Crossing is a professional chamber choir conducted by Donald Nally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. They focus on new music, commission and premiere works, and collaborate with various venues and instrumental ensembles.Consistently recognized in critical reviews, The Crossing has been hailed as “ardently angelic” (Los Angeles Times, 4/14) and “something of a miracle” (The Philadelphia Inquirer, 7/14).

Theodore Mook <=SEP=> Theodore Mook (born February 26, 1953, Mount Kisco, New York) is an American cellist who has played in more than 1,000 Broadway performances in New York City, produced records, played on motion picture soundtracks and, along with Ezra Sims, invented computer fonts used in microtonal music composition. He is best known for his interest and contributions to microtonality music.Mook began his music career in Boston, Massachusetts after graduating Boston University.

Tikhon Khrennikov <=SEP=> Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov (Russian: Ти́хон Никола́евич Хре́нников; 10 June [O.S. May 28] 1913 – 14 August 2007) was a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist, leader of the Union of Soviet Composers, who was also known for his political activities.

Toshiro Yabuki <=SEP=> Toshirō Yabuki (矢吹 俊郎, Yabuki Toshirō), born on December 22, 1961 is a Japanese music composer, record producer, keyboardist and guitarist. He is also the director of music production company P.M CREATORS.

Tribschen <=SEP=> Tribschen (also seen as Triebschen) is a district of the city of Lucerne, in the Canton of Lucerne in central Switzerland.Tribschen is best known today as the home of the German composer Richard Wagner from 30 March 1866 to 22 April 1872. When Wagner was obliged to leave Munich in March 1866, he moved to a spacious villa in Tribschen on a headland projecting into Lake Lucerne.

Troldhaugen <=SEP=> Troldhaugen is the former home of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg and his wife Nina Grieg. Troldhaugen  is located in Bergen, Norway and consists of the Edvard Grieg Museum, Grieg’s villa, the hut where he composed music, and his and his wife's gravesite.

University of Toronto, Faculty of Music <=SEP=> The Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto is one of several professional faculties at the University of Toronto. The Faculty of Music is located at the Edward Johnson Building, just south of the Royal Ontario Museum and north of Queen's Park, west of Museum Subway Station. MacMillan Theatre and Walter Hall are located in the Edward Johnson Building.

Veisiejai <=SEP=> Veisiejai (About this sound pronunciation ) (Polish: Wiejsieje) is a city in the Lazdijai district municipality, Lithuania. It is located 18 km (11 mi) south-east of Lazdijai. The Esperanto language was created in Veisiejai where L. L. Zamenhof started his practice as an ophtalmologist in 1885. There is a church dedicated to St.

Villa Atma <=SEP=> The Villa Atma (Polish Willa Atma) in Zakopane, Poland, is a historic chalet housing the Karol Szymanowski Museum, department of the National Museum in Kraków. It was built in late-19th-century as a guest house in a popular Zakopane Style and expanded in 1926 to include seven rooms. The name 'Atma' (added in the 1920s), is derived from the Sanskrit word for 'soul'. The house was rented by Szymanowski for six years between 1930 and 1936 as his main residence before his death in 1937.

Volodymyr Ivasyuk <=SEP=> Volodymyr Mykhailovych Ivasyuk or Volodymyr Ivasiuk (Ukrainian: Володи́мир Миха́йлович Івасю́к) (4 March 1949 – 18 May 1979) was a very popular  Ukrainian songwriter, composer and poet. He is the author and composer of the widely popular song "Chervona Ruta" popularized by Sofia Rotaru in 1971, and later covered by other singers.

Votkinsk <=SEP=> Votkinsk (Russian: Во́ткинск; Udmurt: Вотка, Votka) is an industrial town in the Udmurt Republic, Russia. Population: 99,022 (2010 Census); 99,441 (2002 Census); 103,509 (1989 Census).

Wagon Train <=SEP=> Wagon Train is an American Western series that ran on NBC 1957–62 and then on ABC 1962–65, although the network also aired daytime repeats, as Major Adams, Trailmaster and Trailmaster (post-1961 episodes without original series lead Ward Bond), from January 1963 to September 1965. The show debuted at #15 in the Nielsen ratings, rose to #2 in the next three seasons, and peaked at #1 in the 1961–62 television season.

Weiden in der Oberpfalz <=SEP=> Weiden in der Oberpfalz (official name: Weiden i.d.OPf.) is a district-free city in Bavaria, Germany. It is located 100 km east of Nuremberg and 35 km west of the Czech border. A branch of the German Army is located here.

Westerville, Ohio <=SEP=> Westerville is a city in Delaware and Franklin counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. It is a northeastern suburb of Columbus. The population was 36,120 at the 2010 census.Westerville was once known as "The Dry Capital of the World" for its strict laws prohibiting sales of alcohol.

William P. Perry <=SEP=> William P. Perry is an American composer and television producer.

Zakaria Paliashvili <=SEP=> Zakaria Paliashvili (Georgian: ზაქარია ფალიაშვილი) (1871–1933) was a Georgian composer. He is regarded as a founder of Georgian classical music.As a boy, he sang in a choir and learned to play the organ in the St. Mary Catholic Church of Kutaisi. His first tutor was his brother Ivan, who later became a conductor.  Paliashvili moved to Tbilisi in 1887 as a chorister in the St.

Zakopane <=SEP=> Zakopane (pronounced [zakɔˈpanɛ]) is a town in the extreme south of Poland. It lies in the southern part of the Podhale region at the foot of the Tatra Mountains. From 1975 to 1998 it was in Nowy Sącz Province, but since 1999 it has been in Lesser Poland Province. It had a population of about 28,000 as of 2004. Zakopane is a center of Góral culture and is known informally as "the winter capital of Poland".