Ernest Alexandre Ansermet was a Swiss conductor.
Ivan Alexandrovich Wyschnegradsky, was a Russian composer primarily known for his microtonal compositions, including the quarter tone scale utilized in his pieces for two pianos in quarter tones. He also used scales of up to 72 divisions. For most of his life, from 1920 onwards, Wyschnegradsky lived in Paris.
Marcel Aymar is a Canadian musician, composer, writer and actor. He moved to Sudbury, Ontario in 1972 as a teen and was a founding member of the popular Franco-Ontarian group CANO, playing guitar. During this time, he was also active in the Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario.
Victor Segalen was a French naval doctor, ethnographer, archeologist, writer, poet, explorer, art-theorist, linguist and literary critic.
Mylène Demongeot was a French film, television and theatre actress and author with a career spanning seven decades and more than 100 credits in French, Italian, English and Japanese speaking productions.
Claudine Luypaerts, better known as Maurane, was a Francophone Belgian singer and actress.
François Bayle is a composer of Electronic Music, Musique concrète. He coined the term Acousmatic Music.
Dominique Regef is a French improvisor, composer, and musician specializing in stringed instruments: the cello, the rebec, the vièle à archet, and the Rajasthan dilruba. Dominique Regef is recognized as an exceptional soloist on the hurdy-gurdy; he is known for surprising and moving audiences with his sound on the instrument. His concerts, be it a solo recital or a small group performance, shock listeners from all over the world with their originality and their strength. He has performed in several well-known music festivals, including the International Baroque Music Festival, the Jazz à Luz festival and the Grenoble Jazz Festival. He is cited as one of the best examples of modern hurdy-gurdy playing.
Jean-Baptiste Morin was a French composer and the Ordinaire de la Musique to Philippe, Duke of Orléans before and perhaps during his regency. From 1719 to 1731 Morin was Maître de musique of Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans, daughter of the Duke, at the royal abbey of Chelles, near Paris.
2018 in continental European music in geographical order.
David Jalbert is a Canadian concert pianist and professor at the University of Ottawa. He is considered by the CBC one of Canada's top 15 classical pianists "this country has ever produced".
Jean-Baptiste Favory is a French sound artist and composer of musique concrète, electronic and instrumental music.
Philippe Blay is a French musicologist.
This article lists major events that happened in 2019 in France.
Mohamed Cherak was an Algerian journalist and editor-in-chief.
Márta Grabócz is a Franco-Hungarian musicologist, professor at the University of Strasbourg and senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France...
Daniel Bédard is a Canadian musician, composer, arranger, record producer, and audio engineer.
Pierre Redon is a French avant-garde music composer and transdisciplinary artist. He is also an author, musician, producer, photographer, filmmaker, known for Marche Sonore and founder of the multimedia studio Les Soeurs Grées.
Anousha Nazari is an Iranian mezzo-soprano classical singer born on January 6, 1990 in Sari, Iran.
