Howard David Blake OBE FRAM (born 28 October 1938) is an English composer, conductor, and pianist whose career has spanned more than 50 years and produced more than 650 works. Blake's most successful work is his soundtrack for Channel 4’s 1982 film The Snowman, which includes the song "Walking in the Air". He is increasingly recognised for his classical works including concertos, oratorios, ballets, operas and many instrumental pieces.
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Dmitri Smirnov
Russian composer
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Peter Racine Fricker
English composer
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold
American composer of Austro-Hungarian birth
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Jörg Duda
German composer
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Ahmed Adnan Saygun
Turkish composer
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Donald Tovey
British composer
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Jean Absil
Belgian composer, organist, and professor
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Cyril Scott
English composer, writer, and poet
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Uuno Klami
Finnish composer
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Frank Martin
Swiss composer (1890-1974)
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Theo Verbey
Dutch composer
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Ernst Toch
Austrian composer
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Alun Hoddinott
Welsh composer
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Ignaz Brüll
Austrian musician
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Alexander Tcherepnin
American composer
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Ruth Gipps
English composer, oboist, pianist and impresario
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Aulis Sallinen
Finnish composer
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Reinhold Glière
Soviet Ukrainian composer
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Michel van der Aa
Dutch composer
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Ben Weber
composer
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Michael Nyman
English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist
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Lera Auerbach
Soviet-Russian-born American classical composer and pianist
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Tan Dun
Chinese composer
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Samuel Barber
American composer (1910-1981)