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Adorno studied composition with Alban Berg but chose a career in philosophy After being expelled by the Nazis from his job as Privatdozent in Frankfurt, he moved to Oxford and then to New York, following Max Horkheimer’s exiled Institut fr Sozialforschung
Antoniou studied at the National Conservatory in Athens, the Hellenic Conservatory and at The Munich Musikhochschule He has received numerous commissions, grants and awards, including a US National Endowment for the Arts grant in 1970
Chanler studied at the New York Institute of Musical Art, with Bloch at the Cleveland Institute, at Oxford University and with Boulanger in Paris He was a critic for the Boston Herald and taught at the Peabody Conservatory and at the Longy School in Cambridge, MA
A French organist/composer of church music like the oratorio “Les Sept Paroles du Christ” (1867) ~ All Music Guide, All Music Guide
Labarre was the foster-brother of Napoleon III who studied the harp with Bochsa, Cousineau and Nadermann During the course of his musical studies he also learned harmony from Dourlens, composition from Boieldieu and counterpoint from Eler and Fetis
This author and clergyman, Thoinot Arbeau, wrote three important books in reference to dance: “Metode et teorie en forme de discours et tablature pour apprende a dancer,” “Kalendrier des bergers,” and “Compot et manuel kalendrier
An organist who composed a plethora of music for his instrument Adams was praised highly for his improptu abilities ~ Keith Johnson, All Music Guide
Illustrator Thomas B Allen created a series of painterly, impressionistic album covers spotlighting icons of country, bluegrass, and jazz He was born January 28, 1928, in Nashville, earning a scholarship to Vanderbilt University on the strength of his football prowess; he soon transferred to the Art Institute of Chicago, studying alongside future notables including Leon Golub, Robert Weaver, and Robert Andrew Parker
Thomas Attwood was a composer and organist who enjoyed royal patronage from the time he was a young boy He showed promising abilities in the art of composition and was a student under Mozart
This English organist and composer studied with his godfather, Thomas Attwood who had studied with Mozart Though he studied at Cambridge, receiving his Bachelors, Masters and Doctorate, the musical program at Cambridge was not a particularly keen choice as very few students, and fewer faculty went to Cambridge for this purpose