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Leonard Cohen, (Leonard Norman Cohen, CC GOQ, 21 September 1934 – 7 November 2016) was a Canadian singer, songwriter, poet and novelist. His work explored religion, politics, isolation, sexuality, and personal relationships. Cohen was inducted into both the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame as well as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour. In 2011, Cohen received one of the Prince of Asturias Awards for literature and the ninth Glenn Gould Prize. Cohen's first album was Songs of Leonard...

Leonard Bernstein, a unique source of creative energy in America’s music throughout his entire adult lifetime, was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, on August 25, 1918. He was given piano lessons as a boy and had his pre-college education at the Garrison and Boston Latin schools. Going on to Harvard University, he worked with Walter Piston, Edward Burlingame Hill, and A. Tillman Merritt, among others. By the time of his graduation, in 1939, he had made an unofficial conducting debut (his own incidental music to The Birds), and directed and performed in Marc Blitzstein’s The Cradle Will Rock. Later, at the...

Christopher Paul Leonard-Morgan (born 1974) is a Scottish composer, particularly known for his work in scoring for television and film. He won a BAFTA award for his first film score, the movie Pineapple. He was also nominated for a BAFTA and an Ivor Novello award for his score to the ITV drama Fallen. He composed the scores for series 5, 6,7 and 8 of the long-running BBC spy drama Spooks. In 2008 he was chosen by the U.S. Olympic Committee to compose a new US Olympic Team anthem. After graduating from the renowned Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama,...

Leonardo Amuedo ( Montevideo , Uruguay , September 20, 1967 ) is a guitarist known for his performances with Ivan Lins. Learned guitar from his brother at age 4 . At 17 he began studying theory musical. Amuedo won four times Grammy Award. Worked with many important musicians from Uruguay, as Julio Frade , Hugo and Osvaldo Fattoruso , Urbano Moraes , Fernando Roasted and Mariana Ingold . Lived and worked in the Netherlands from 1990 to 2002 and during this period played and recorded with Fernando Lameirinhas , Jewel , Laura Fygi , Josee Koning , Trijntje Oosterhuis ,...

Leonardo Vinci (1690 – 27 May 1730) was an Italian musical composer, best known for his operas. He was born at Strongoli (or Naples) and educated at Naples under Gaetano Greco in the Conservatorio dei Poveri di Gesù Cristo. He first became known for his opera buffa in Neapolitan dialect in 1719; he also composed many opera seria. He was received into the Congregation of the Rosary at Formiello in 1728. He died in May of 1730. Vinci is rumoured to have been poisoned in the wake of a ill-advised affair. Vinci's opera buffa, of which Li zite 'ngalera (1722)...