Query: living nordic classical composers

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ARASH (composer) <=SEP=> Arash Parsania (Born 4 April 1972), since 1991 known as ARASH, is an Iranian-German composer of electronic, dance and orchestral music.

Akito Watabe <=SEP=> Akito Watabe (渡部 暁斗, Watabe Akito, born May 26, 1988) is a Japanese Nordic combined skier who has been competing since 2005.

Aleksandr Nossov <=SEP=> Aleksandr Nossov was a Soviet nordic combined skier who competed in the 1970s. He finished seventh in the Nordic combined event at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo.

Alex Dea <=SEP=> Alex Dea is an American-born Chinese composer.

Alissa Firsova <=SEP=> Alissa Firsova (Russian: Алисса Фирсова; born 24 July 1986) is a Russian-British classical composer, pianist and conductor.Born in Moscow to the composers Elena Firsova and Dmitri Smirnov, she moved to the UK in 1991.In 2001 she won the BBC/Guardian/Proms Young Composer Competition with her piano piece “Les Pavots”.She graduated from Purcell School as a composer and pianist in 2004, and Royal Academy of Music as a pianist in 2009, where she also developed her conducting studies with Paul Brough.In 2009 she entered the Conducting Postgraduate Course in Royal Academy of Music under the tuition of Colin Metters.Her piano teachers included Tatiana Kantorovich, Valéria Szervánszky, James Gibb, Simon Mulligan, Hamish Milne, Ian Fountain, and Stephen Kovacevich.

Anders Eliasson <=SEP=> Anders Erik Birger Eliasson (born in Borlänge 3 April 1947; died in Stockholm 20 May 2013) was a Swedish composer.

Andrey Kasparov <=SEP=> Andrey Rafailovich Kasparov (Armenian: Անդրեյ Րաֆաիլի Կասպարով, Russian: Андре́й Рафаи́лович Каспа́ров, born 6 April 1966) is an Armenian-American pianist, composer, and professor, who holds both American and Russian citizenship.

Armin Krugel <=SEP=> Armin Krugel is a Swiss nordic combined skier who competed in 1995. He won a bronze medal in the 4 x 5 km team event at the 1995 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Thunder Bay, Ontario.Krugel's only individual victory came earlier that same year in Calgary in the 15 km individual.

Atso Almila <=SEP=> Atso Almila (born in Helsinki on 13 June 19531) is a Finnish orchestral conductor, musical director, composer, trombonist and teacher.He has worked with most Finnish orchestras as a guest conductor or otherwise. Though he primarily operates in Finland he also works heavily in Sweden and Estonia. His composition style may be deemed neo-classical though he has been seen to be sometimes chromatic and expressive (as in his 1985 Flute Concerto and his 1989 Violin Concerto).

Aulis Sallinen <=SEP=> Aulis Sallinen (born April 9, 1935) is a Finnish contemporary classical music composer. His music has been variously described as "remorselessly harsh", a "beautifully crafted amalgam of several 20th-century styles", and "neo-romantic". Sallinen studied at the Sibelius Academy, where his teachers included Joonas Kokkonen.

Axel Borup-Jørgensen <=SEP=> Axel Borup-Jørgensen (22 November 1924 – 15 October 2012) was a Danish composer.Axel Borup-Jørgensen is born in Hjørring in Denmark, but grew up in Sweden. He studied piano as a major at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen and instrumentation with Poul Schierbeck and Jørgen Jersild. He was one of the first Danish composers to go to the Darmstadt School, but he never composed serial music.

Bent Lorentzen <=SEP=> Bent Lorentzen (born 11 February 1935), is a Danish composer.

Bent Sørensen (composer) <=SEP=> Bent Sørensen (born July 18, 1958) is a Danish composer.He studied composition with Ib Nørholm  at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and with Per Nørgård at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus.His mature works create a sense of decay that is emotionally similar to viewing an aging visual artwork. There is a sense of compromised beauty. Sørensen achieves this by treating major/minor tonalities with microtonal inflections and blurring the harmonies with glissandi.

Bernd Blechschmidt <=SEP=> Bernd Blechschmidt is a former East German nordic combined skier who competed during the 1980s. He won a bronze medal in the 3 x 10 km team event at the 1989 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti.Blechschmidt's only individual career victory was in West Germany in 1981.

Bjørn Bolstad Skjelbred <=SEP=> Norwegian composer Bjørn Bolstad Skjelbred (born 1970) is active as a composer, arranger, improviser and teacher, with experience from several genres and musical environments. He is educated from the Norwegian Academy of Music, and his works has been performed throughout the Nordic countries as well as European countries and USA.

Bo Nilsson <=SEP=> Bo Nilsson (born 1 May 1937 in Skellefteå), is a Swedish composer and lyricist.

Carsten Bo Eriksen <=SEP=> Carsten Bo Eriksen alias MBD73 (born 2 October 1973 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish 21st-century composer and artist.

Claes Fellbom <=SEP=> Claes Fellbom (born 29 January 1943) is a Swedish film director, screenwriter, and composer, and a librettist and opera stage director. He is the founder and managing director of Folkoperan.He collaborated with composer Sven-David Sandström on Jeppe: The Cruel Comedy (2001), and made a notorious film of Giuseppe Verdi's Aida, with Folkoperan in 1987, which was performed topless.  He also wrote the libretti for Daniel Börtz's Marie Antoinette (1998) and Svall (2005) and Qu Xiaosong's Oedipus.

Claudio Maldonado (musician) <=SEP=> Claudio Maldonado (born in 1980 in Lanús, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina) is an  Argentinean composer, guitarist and arranger, referent musician from the new generation of classical music contemporary composers from Patagonia .He is the author of  Suite Patagonica, AH!   and Colección   among others; the last one is based on  Georg Miciú's paintings.

Corey Dargel <=SEP=> Corey Dargel (born October 19, 1977 in McAllen, Texas) is a composer, lyricist, and singer of electronic art songs that "smartly and impishly blur the boundaries between contemporary classical idioms and pop" (New York Times). Dargel has also sung music by other living composers, including Eve Beglarian, k. terumi shorb, Phil Kline, Nick Brooke, and Pauline Oliveros.

Craig Leon <=SEP=> Craig Leon (born 7 January 1952) is an American-born record producer, composer and arranger currently living in England. Leon was instrumental in launching the careers of many recording artists including The Ramones and Blondie Active in pop music production from 1974–1998, Leon has focused on classical composition, orchestration, arrangement and recording from 1998 to the present.

Cynthia Cozette Lee <=SEP=> Cynthia Cozette Lee also known as Cynthia Cozette or Nazik Cynthia Cozette (born October 19, 1953, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a contemporary African-American classical music composer and librettist. Cozette was the first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania with a Masters of Arts Degree in music composition .

David Diamond (composer) <=SEP=> David Leo Diamond (July 9, 1915 – June 13, 2005) was an American composer of classical music.

Einojuhani Rautavaara <=SEP=> Einojuhani Rautavaara (About this sound pronunciation ; born 9 October 1928) is a Finnish composer of contemporary classical music, and is one of the most notable Finnish composers after Jean Sibelius.

Erik Bergman <=SEP=> Erik Valdemar Bergman (24 November 1911, Nykarleby – 24 April 2006, Helsinki) was an influential composer of classical music from Finland.Bergman's style ranged widely, from Romanticism in his early works (many of which he later prohibited from being performed) to modernism and primitivism, among other genres.

Erland von Koch <=SEP=> Erland von Koch (26 April 1910 – 31 January 2009) was a Swedish composer.

Fernando Sor <=SEP=> Josep Ferran Sorts i Muntades (baptized 14 February 1778 – died 10 July 1839) was a Spanish classical guitarist and composer. While he is best known for his guitar compositions, he also composed music for a wide range of genres, including opera, orchestra, string quartet, piano, voice, and ballet. His ballet score Cendrillon (Cinderella) received over one hundred performances.

Frederik Magle <=SEP=> Frederik Reesen Magle (Danish pronunciation: [ˈfʁæðˀʁæɡ̊ˈma̝ʊ̯lə]; born 17 April 1977) is a Danish composer, concert organist, and pianist. He writes contemporary classical music as well as fusion of classical music and other genres. His compositions include orchestral works, cantatas, chamber music, and solo works (mainly for organ), including several compositions commissioned by the Danish Royal Family.

Georg Thoma <=SEP=> Georg Thoma (born 20 August 1937 in Hinterzarten) is a former German nordic combined skier. He won two Winter Olympic medals in the Nordic combined with gold in 1960 and bronze in 1964.Thoma also won the gold in the individual event at the 1966 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo.Thoma's strength in the Nordic combined was jumping. He was three times German champion in ski jumping (1960, 1961, and 1963).

Georges Lentz <=SEP=> Georges Lentz is a contemporary composer and sound artist, born in Luxembourg in 1965, and is that country's internationally best known composer. Since 1990, he has been living in Sydney. Despite his relatively small output, he is also considered one of Australia's leading composers.

Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson <=SEP=> Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson (born 1982) is an Icelandic composer, performer and a founding member of S.L.Á.T.U.R., an experimental arts organization in Reykjavík. In his compositions he has developed a rhythmic language devoid of regular beat or metre, and he has created a new musical notation to represent his music.

Hafliði Hallgrímsson <=SEP=> Hafliði Hallgrímsson (born 1941 in Akureyri) is an Icelandic composer, currently living in Bath. Hafliði was the Principal Cellist of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, but left that position in 1983 to pursue a full-time career as a composer. In 2008, he became composer-in-residence of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra (through 2010).

Hans Abrahamsen <=SEP=> Hans Abrahamsen (born 23 December 1952) is a Danish  composer. Born in Copenhagen, Abrahamsen first got to know music through playing the French horn at school. He went on to study music theory at the Royal Danish Academy of Music.

Hans Gefors <=SEP=> Hans Gefors (born 8 December 1952 in Stockholm) is a Swedish composer. He has lived in Lund since the mid-1990s.

Hans Kockelmans <=SEP=> Hans Kockelmans is a Dutch composer, teacher, and performer of Early Classical and electronic music.He studied baroque lute with Mijndert Jape, as well as electronic music, and classical guitar at the Maastricht conservatory.In his compositions he is a pioneers of granular synthesis. His electronic music as well as his acoustic work frequently refers to medieval themes.

Harry Burleigh <=SEP=> Henry Thacker "Harry" Burleigh (December 2, 1866 – September 12, 1949), a baritone, was an African-American classical composer, arranger, and professional singer. He was the first black composer to be instrumental in the development of a characteristically American music and he helped to make black music available to classically trained artists both by introducing them to the music and by arranging the music in a more classical form.

Henryk Górecki <=SEP=> Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (Polish: [ˈxɛnrɨk mʲiˈkɔwaj ɡuˈrɛtski]; English pronunciation Go-RET-ski; December 6, 1933 – November 12, 2010) was a Polish composer of contemporary classical music. According to Alex Ross, no recent classical composer has had as much commercial success as Górecki. Górecki became a leading figure of the Polish avant-garde during the post-Stalin cultural thaw.

Herbert H. Ágústsson <=SEP=> Herbert Hriberschek Ágústsson (born 8 August 1926 in Austria) is an Icelandic composer and hornist.After completing his studies in 1944 in Graz with Franz Mixa and Arthur Michl, he played first horn for the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra for seven years. In 1953, he moved to Iceland, where he became principal hornist in the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra.His best known works include the Conc. Breve, op. 19 (1970) and Athvarf (1974).

Hermann Weinbuch <=SEP=> Hermann Weinbuch (born March 22, 1960) is a former West German nordic combined skier who won four medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships during the 1980s.

Ib Nørholm <=SEP=> Ib Nørholm (born January 24, 1931 in Søborg, Gladsaxe Municipality) is a Danish composer and organist.

Ingvar Lidholm <=SEP=> Ingvar Natanael Lidholm (born 24 February 1921) is a Swedish composer.

Jaakko Mäntyjärvi <=SEP=> Jaakko Mäntyjärvi (born 1963 in Turku, Finland) is a Finnish composer of classical music, and a professional translator.

Jacob Cooper (composer) <=SEP=> Jacob Cooper is an American composer living in Brooklyn, NY.

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.

Johan Olsson (skier) <=SEP=> Johan Arne Olsson (born 19 March 1980) is a Swedish cross-country skier and Olympic champion who has raced since 1998. He has 5 individual FIS Cross-Country World Cup victories and 2 additional podium finishes.

Johann Christian Friedrich Hæffner <=SEP=> Johann Christian Friedrich Hæffner (2 March 1759 in Oberschönau – 28 May 1833 in Uppsala) was a German-born Swedish composer.Hæffner received his first musical education with the Schmalkalden organist Johann Gottfried Vierling. He studied in Leipzig from 1776, and then worked as a music conductor in theatres in Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg 1778-1780.

John Frandsen (composer) <=SEP=> John Frandsen (born 13 March 1956) is a Danish composer, organist and choral conductor, whose work includes operas, chamber music, and religious music. His 1999 Now Flashes the White Light of the Spirit commissioned to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church was performed simultaneously in over 100 Danish churches on the day of the anniversary.

John Simon (composer) <=SEP=> John Simon (born 12 March 1944) is a classical composer and poet living in the United Kingdom.

Jon Mostad <=SEP=> Jon Mostad (born 21 April 1942) is a composer from Fredrikstad, Norway. He received the Norwegian state three-year scholarship for artists from 1982 until 1984.

Jonne Valtonen <=SEP=> Jonne Valtonen (born March 23, 1976) is a Finnish composer, arranger and orchestrator. He is renowned for his contributions in the field of demoscene and tracker music, under the name Purple Motion.

Juhani Komulainen <=SEP=> Juhani Komulainen (born April 22, 1953, in Jämsänkoski, Finland) is a Finnish composer of modern classical music. He lives in Helsinki.

Jukka Tiensuu <=SEP=> Jukka Tiensuu (born 30 August 1948 in Helsinki) is a Finnish contemporary classical composer, harpsichordist, pianist and conductor.His repertoire as musician ranges from baroque music to John Cage and free improvisation and he has given master classes in baroque performance practice and free improvisation.He has written as well electroacoustic music as works for jazz ensemble, baroque music ensemble, large orchestra, ensemble or solo instruments, such as the Finnish instrument kantele.Tiensuu's works have been performed by Arditti Quartet, Kari Kriikku, Ensemble Intercontemporain and Jukka-Pekka Saraste, among others.

Julian Cochran <=SEP=> Julian Cochran (born 14 June 1974) is an English-born Australian composer.Cochran's earlier works show stylistic influences from Impressionist music and his later works are more noticeably influenced by Classical music and folk music of Eastern Europe. Cochran's piano compositions, such as the piano sonatas, demand considerable virtuosity from the performer.

Jörgen Dafgård <=SEP=> Jörgen Dafgård (born 27 November 1964 in Gothenburg) is a Swedish composer. Dafgård has gained some reputation internationally, for example in connection with the last Masterprize competition, in which Veils reached the top ten.

Kaija Saariaho <=SEP=> Kaija Saariaho (Finnish: [ˈkɑi̯jɑ ˈsɑːriɑho]; née Laakkonen, born 14 October 1952) is a Finnish composer based in Paris, France.Saariaho studied composition in Helsinki, Freiburg and Paris, where she has lived since 1982. Her research at the Institute for Research and Coordination Acoustic (IRCAM) marked a turning point in her music away from strict serialism towards spectralism.

Kalevi Aho <=SEP=> Kalevi Ensio Aho (born 9 March 1949) is a Finnish composer.

Kerry Muzzey <=SEP=> Kerry Muzzey (born 1970) is a contemporary classical and film and television composer born and raised in Joliet, Illinois.  In 2007, he was commissioned by director Bill Purple and Iron Ocean Films' executive producers Jessica Biel and Michelle Purple to create the score for Iron Ocean Films' first film, Hole in the Paper Sky.

Klas Torstensson <=SEP=> Klas Torstensson (born 16 January 1951) is an award-winning Swedish-Dutch composer.

Lars Winther <=SEP=> Lars Winther (born February 22, 1983) is a Danish pianist, composer, producer and arranger. He released the debut-album LIVE_2005 with Lars Winther Trio in 2005, followed by the double-disc CD/DVD Nordic By Nature in 2007 — receiving many positive reviews for the latter, as well as distribution throughout Europe and in parts of Asia.  In terms of potential, he has been compared to the Norwegian Tord GustavsenHe has arranged and written for BigBands, a.o.

Leif Segerstam <=SEP=> Leif Selim Segerstam (/ˈleɪf/ LAYF, Swedish pronunciation: [lejf ˈseːɡərstam]) (born 2 March 1944 in Vaasa, Ostrobothnia, Finland) is a Finnish conductor, composer, violinist, violist and pianist, especially known for his 286 symphonies, along with his other works in his extensive œuvre.Segerstam has conducted in a variety of orchestras since 1963, mostly American, Australian and European orchestras.

Lukas Klapfer <=SEP=> Lukas Klapfer (born 25 December 1985) is an Austrian Nordic combined skier who has been competing since 2002. His best World Cup finish was second in the normal hill Gundersen event in Austria in February 2009.At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec, Klapfer was scheduled to compete in the 10 km normal hill mass start event, but did not start.

Magnus Lindberg <=SEP=> Magnus Lindberg (born 27 June 1958) is a Finnish composer and pianist. He was the New York Philharmonic's composer-in-residence from 2009 to 2012 and is the London Philharmonic Orchestra's composer-in-residence from the beginning of the 2014/15 season.

Marco Betta <=SEP=> Marco Betta (born July 25, 1964) is an Italian composer.

Maria Kalaniemi <=SEP=> Maria Kalaniemi (born May 27, 1964) is a Finnish accordionist. She was originally classically trained, but has become mostly as folk musician having played this music from childhood, besides her classical music studies, and also at the folk music department of the Sibelius Academy.

Martin Lohse <=SEP=> Martin Lohse (born May 29, 1971 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish 21st century classical composer and visual artist.

Maxime Laheurte <=SEP=> Maxime Laheurte (born 20 May 1985) is a French nordic combined athlete who has competed since 2002. At the 2010 Winter Olympics, he finished fourth in the 4 x 5 km team and 38th in the 10 km individual large hill event.Laheurte's best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was fourth in the 4 x 5 km team event at Liberec in 2009 while his best individual finish was sixth in the 7.5 km sprint at Sapporo two tears earlier.His best World Cup finish was third twice, both earned in 2006.

Mikko Heiniö <=SEP=> Mikko Kyösti Heiniö (born 18 May 1948) is a Finnish composer and musicologist.

Natasha Barrett (composer) <=SEP=> Natasha Barrett (born 9 March 1972 in Norwich, England) is a British composer and performer of electroacoustic art music. Her compositional aesthetics are derived from acousmatic issues, but in addition to acousmatic composition she composes for instruments and live electronics, sound installations, multi-media works and computer music improvisation.

Nordic Classicism <=SEP=> Nordic Classicism was a style of architecture that briefly blossomed in the Nordic countries (Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland) between 1910 and 1930.Until a resurgence of interest for the period during the 1980s (marked by several scholarly studies and public exhibitions), Nordic Classicism was regarded as a mere interlude between two far more well-known architectural movements, National Romanticism or Jugendstil (often seen as equivalent or parallel to Art Nouveau) and Functionalism (aka Modernism).

Nordic Council Music Prize <=SEP=> The Nordic Council Music Prize is awarded annually by NOMUS, the Nordic Music Committee. Every two years it is awarded for a work by a living composer. In the intervening years it is awarded to a performing musician or ensemble.

Nordic Music Days <=SEP=> Nordic Music Days is the oldest ongoing collaboration among the Nordic countries: a festival for new Nordic music that was founded in 1888 and had its origins in existing musical collaboration. It is one of the oldest and best respected festivals for contemporary classical music in the world.

Nordic Student Singers' Summit <=SEP=> Nordic Students Singers' Summit – NSSS (Swedish: Nordisk Studentsångarstämma) is a choral festival arranged every third year in a Nordic or Baltic country.

Olav Anton Thommessen <=SEP=> Olav Anton Thommessen (born 16 May 1946) is a Norwegian composer. He trained in the United States, earning degrees from Westminster Choir College and Indiana University. He is a former professor of composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music, where he was employed in 1972. He won the Nordic Council Music Prize in 1990 for his composition "Gjennom Prisme" for cello, organ and orchestra. Thommessen's compositions include numerous symphonic works, chamber music pieces, and vocal music works.

Ole Buck <=SEP=> Ole Buck (born 1 February 1945 in Copenhagen) is a Danish composer.Buck studied the piano from the age of twelve. He also made many early attempts at orchestral composition, eventually achieving a breakthrough at the age of 20 with Calligraphy for soprano and chamber orchestra. He later studied in Aarhus, producing such works as Fioriture (1965) for flute and piano and Punctuations (1968) for orchestra.

Olli Kortekangas <=SEP=> Olli Paavo Antero Kortekangas (born May 16, 1955 in Turku, Finland) is a Finnish composer.His early career in music began in Espoon Musiikkiopisto (Espoo Music Institute) and the youth choir Candomino. His academic studies in music began at the Sibelius Academy as a pupil of Eero Hämeenniemi and Einojuhani Rautavaara from 1974 to 1981.

Olli Mustonen <=SEP=> Olli Mustonen (born 7 June 1967 in Vantaa, Finland) is a Finnish pianist, conductor and composer.

Osmo Tapio Räihälä <=SEP=> Osmo Tapio Everton Räihälä (born January 15, 1964 in Suomussalmi, Finland, name sometimes spelled without umlauts) is a Finnish composer of contemporary music. He has mainly written instrumental music for various chamber music line-ups, five concertos (one for mallet instruments, a viola concerto, an oboe, a cello, and a French horn concerto) as well as for symphony orchestra.

Pavel Chesnokov <=SEP=> Pavel Grigorievich Chesnokov (Russian: Павел Григорьевич Чесноков) (24 October 1877, Voskresensk, Zvenigorod uyezd, Moscow Governorate – 14 March 1944, Moscow), also transliterated Tschesnokoff, Tchesnokov, Tchesnokoff, and Chesnokoff, was a Russian Empire and Soviet composer, choral conductor and teacher.  He composed over five hundred choral works, over four hundred of which are sacred.

Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen <=SEP=> Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen (born 21 November 1932) is a Danish composer.

Per-Olov Kindgren <=SEP=> Per-Olov Kindgren (born June 10, 1956 in Bogotá, Colombia) is a Swedish classical guitarist, composer and music teacher known for his classical guitar playing, ranging from Bach to The Beatles.

Per Nørgård <=SEP=> Per Nørgård (pronounced [ˈpʰeɐ̯ ˈnɶɐ̯ɡ̊ɒːˀ]; born July 13, 1932) is a Danish composer.

Pertti Jalava <=SEP=> Pertti Jalava (born 1960 in Turku, Finland) composed numerous works for various chamber ensembles choral groups and orchestra, including four symphonies and a piano concerto. He wrote music for jazz and big band line-ups. Stylistically he keeps these genres separate, he does allow influences to travel between the two.

Peter Bruun <=SEP=> Peter Bruun (born 1968) is a Danish composer.  He is a native of Aarhus, and studied philosophy at Aarhus University before turning to composition.He won the Nordic Council Music Prize in 2008 for his composition Miki Alone.

Peter Cornelius <=SEP=> Carl August Peter Cornelius (24 December 1824 – 26 October 1874) was a German composer, writer about music, poet and translator.

Peter Hänsel <=SEP=> Peter Hänsel (born 29 November 1770 in Leppe, Silesia Province; d. 18 September 1831 in Vienna) was a German-Austrian violinist and classical composer of almost exclusively chamber music.

Poul Ruders <=SEP=> Poul Ruders (pronounced [pʰɔʊ̯l ˈʁuːdəʂ]) (born 27 March 1949 in Ringsted) is a Danish composer.

Robert Makara <=SEP=> Robert Makara was a Soviet nordic combined skier who competed in the late 1960s. At the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, he finished seventh in the Nordic combined event.

Roger Bellon <=SEP=> Roger Bellon is a French film, television, theatre, opera and dance composer, conductor, orchestrator and producer.

Roland Dyens <=SEP=> Roland Dyens (born October 19, 1955, Tunis, Tunisia) is a French classical guitarist, composer, and arranger.

Rolf Wallin <=SEP=> Rolf Wallin (born 7 September 1957 in Oslo) is a Norwegian composer, trumpeter and avant-garde performance artist.Rolf Wallin has established a reputation as one of the leading Scandinavian composers of his generation. He studied in Oslo with Finn Mortensen and Olav Anton Thommessen and later at the University of California where his teachers included Roger Reynolds and Vinko Globokar.

Simon Steen-Andersen <=SEP=> Simon Steen-Andersen (born 1976) is a Danish composer and installation artist.

Sunleif Rasmussen <=SEP=> Sunleif Rasmussen (born March 19, 1961 in Sandur in the Faroe Islands) is the foremost Faroese composer of classical music.

Sven-David Sandström <=SEP=> Sven-David Sandström (born October 30, 1942, Motala) is a Swedish classical composer of operas, oratorios, ballets, and choral works, as well as orchestral works.Sandström studied art history and musicology at Stockholm University.

Swedish Society of Composers <=SEP=> Swedish Society of Composers ('Föreningen Svenska Tonsättare', 'FST') is a professional organization based in Stockholm, Sweden, representing Swedish composers of contemporary classical music. It was founded in 1918 and today has 370 members, of which 347 are composers. President is Martin Q Larsson since 2010.FST is represented in national boards and institutions within the Swedish art music field.

Søren Nils Eichberg <=SEP=> Søren Nils Eichberg (born 1973) is a German/Danish composer. In 2010 he was announced as the first composer-in-residence of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in the orchestra's history.He studied piano, composition and orchestra conducting in Copenhagen and Cologne.After winning the Queen Elisabeth Competition for Composers in Brussels in 2001, he mostly concentrated on composition.

Taihei Kato <=SEP=> Taihei Kato (加藤大平, Katō Taihei) (born July 30, 1984) is a Japanese Nordic combined skier who has been competing since 2003.

Tapani Puranen <=SEP=> Tapani Puranen (born 1 October 1957 in Juva, Finland) is a  composer,  arranger, orchestra conductor,    recording engineer and producer. Lives in Lempäälä, Finland.

Teppo Hauta-aho <=SEP=> Teppo Hauta-Aho (born May 27, 1941) is a Finnish double bassist and composer.One of the most prominent jazz and classical double bassist in the Finland area, he resides in Helsinki. One of his most famous pieces, Kadenza, has been played at many music festivals worldwide, and for many competitions. He uses non-standard playing techniques in his pieces.Teppo Hauta-aho (b. 1941) is a veteran of Finnish jazz, but still tightly involved in the field of Finnish free jazz.

Theodora Cormontan <=SEP=> Theodora Cormontan (9 June 1840 – 26 October 1922) was a Norwegian American pianist, music publisher and composer, one of the first Norwegian women  to have her classical compositions published and widely performed, and the first woman to start a music publishing business in Norway.Cormontan began her musical education with the town musician in Arendal, where her father served as a Lutheran pastor.  She moved to Copenhagen in 1863 to continue her education and pursue a musical career.

Therese Johaug <=SEP=> Therese Johaug (born 25 June 1988) is a Norwegian cross-country skier who has competed for the clubs Tynset IF and IL Nansen. She is a three-time Olympic medallist.

Timo Alakotila <=SEP=> Timo Alakotila is a Finnish composer, arranger, and musician born July 15, 1959.Timo Alakotila's range of music styles stretches from Finnish folk music of the pelimanni  style over some jazz influences to more or less Finnish style Tango (music)tangos, and with some extensions to classical music. He is one of the founding members of the well-known Finnish folk fiddler group JPP of the Kaustinen tradition, where he plays harmonium, and in the similar group Troka.

Tison Street <=SEP=> Tison C. Street (b. Boston, Massachusetts, May 20, 1943) is an American composer of contemporary classical music and violinist.He studied violin with Einar Hansen (the concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra) from 1951 to 1959. He later studied composition at Harvard University with Leon Kirchner and David Del Tredici, receiving B.A. and M.A. degrees.

Tróndur Bogason <=SEP=> Tróndur Bogason (born 5 April 1976 as Tróndur Bogason Hansen) is a Faroese composer and musician. He composes classical works, but he also arranges music for pop, rock and folk artists. He is married to the Faroese singer Eivør Pálsdóttir with whom he also co-works with, together they arranged her album Room. Bogason is educated from the Royal Danish Academy of Music.

Vladimír Hirsch <=SEP=> Vladimír Hirsch (born July 3, 1954) is a Czech composer, instrumentalist, and sound experimenter, integrating industrial and dark ambient music with modern classical composition with a genre overlap conception. His compositional style is characterized by polymodal architectonics, polymictrotonality and the usage of digital technique to enhance sonic means of expression, where modern classical elements fuse within  experimental soundscapes.

Wilhelm Denifl <=SEP=> Wilhelm Denifl (born November 10, 1980) is an Austrian nordic combined skier who has competed since 2000. He won a gold medal in the 4 x 5 km team event at the 2003 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme and finished 8th in the 15 km individual event at those same championships.Denifil's has earned three individual career victories so far in his career with one in 2001 and two in 2002.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart <=SEP=> Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (German: [ˈvɔlfɡaŋ amaˈdeːʊs ˈmoːtsaʁt], English see fn.; 27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era.Born in Salzburg, Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty.