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Paul Valdemar 

Born: ? 

Melody  1913 (Presser)

Valse Caprice  (Presser)

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Ivan Valenta  Slovenian pianist and composer

Born: Bratislava, 28.11.1940

Valente began his musical career from 1954 to 1959 by playing the accordion at the Higher School of Music for Education of Music School Teachers in Bratislava (later the pedagogical branch of the Conservatory) and performed from 1957 as an accordion player, art manager and the Bratislava accordion trio, assistant to a conductor, répétiteur and soloist of the Railway Art Ensemble, at the same time, a district methodist of amateur ensembles and schoolmaster.
From 1959 to 1969 he taught at various schools (Bratislava, Žiar nad Hronom, Nové Mesto nad Váhom, Stará Turá) and was schoolmaster and choirmaster of amateur choir. In the followig years he acted as musical teacher especially of the accordion at the Bratislava Conservatory.
From  1969 to 1974 he was active as a teacher of theory at the Academy of Music and Drama in Bratislava and from 1979 he was an editor of the Publishing House of the Music Fund. Since 1990 he was appointed an external pedagogue at the Bratislava Conservatory (theoretical subjects) and the Academy of Music and Drama in Bratislava (theoretical subjects, sacral music)

Klavírne variácie pre l’avú ruku (Piano variations for the left hand).  (2004) (Hudobný fond Bratislava)

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Grace Vamos  American

Born: ?

A Memory  1986 (Grace Vamos Publication)

Robert Vandall  American composer and pianist

Born: ? 

Vandall was born in Akron, Ohio and his early education includes a B.M. in Piano Performance from Baldwin-Wallace College and a M.M. in Piano Performance from the University of Illinois. Today he enjoys living on the edge of the dairy farm where his wife Karen grew up. Before moving to New Philadelphia in 1977 and starting over as an independent piano teacher, he taught group piano, music theory, music literature and listening, and directed the choral ensembles at Lincoln Land Community College in Springfield, Illinois for seven years. 
Vandall had also taught music at Mineral Area College in Flat River, Missouri. He is in demand as a clinician as he and his wife have presented workshops in 30 states and the District of Columbia.
His list of works now contain nearly 400 titles and his compositions are on many piano teacher organizations required lists. 
He has written many commissioned piano pieces for various piano teacher organizations around the country. He is a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music, as certified by the Music Teachers National Association, a State Certified Member of the Ohio Music Teachers Association, an active member of his local piano teachers association, and president of the Fortnightly Music Club, affiliated with the National Federation of Music Clubs.

Left's Turn Only  (Myklas Music Press)

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Sidney Vantyn 

1868 -1937

Vantyn was a teacher of the Conservatoire du Liège and wrote La technique moderne du piano. (1914) (Bruxelles,  Bower &Hawkes), 

12 Etudes op. 15  1895 (Liège: Muraille)
Mentioned in Adolf Ruthardt: Wegweiser durch die Klavierliteratur, p. 67

Finger Exercices op. 16 nr. 1 & Caprices op. 16 nr. 2  1894 (Schlesinger)
mentioned in Hofmeisters Handbuch der Klavierlitteratur 1892-1897, p. 894 

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Giuseppe (Fortunino Francesco) Verdi  Italian composer

Le Roncole nr. Busseto, 10.10.1813 - Milan, 27.01.1901

(Chorus O Signore del tetto natio from I Lombardi) See Fumagalli

(Ah, che la morte ognora from Il Trovatore)  See A. Knoth

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Ranieri Vilanova  

Born: ?

Romanza nell'opera Mignon dell Maestro Ambroise Thomas  1877 (Vilanova)

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Antha Minerva Virgil  American pianist and teacher

Elmira, NT, ? - New York, 1945

In the Gloaming op. 91  1922 (Virgil)

The Wandering Fiddler op. 98  1922 (Virgil)

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Sotireos Vlahopoulos  American composer 

Born St. Louis, Missouri, 1926 

He received his bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in composition and theory from the American Conservatory of Music. He went on to peruse his doctoral studies at both Indiana University and State University of New York. His primary composition teachers were Roy Harris and Virgil Thomson.
Vlahopoulos has served as Composer-in-Residence at Daemon College, Adjunct Professor of Music at New School for the Performing Arts and Chairman of composition and theory at Washington Conservatory of Music. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and commissions and his music has been recorded and performed by orchestras, ensembles and recitalists from around the world. He is presently devoting his time to composition and private teaching.

Petite Sonatine: 1. Rondo, 2. Serenade, 3. Fuge  1986
The Sonatine was written for the pianist George Kelver who was invalidated by a stroke

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Charles [Carl] Voss  German pianist and composer

Schmarsow nr. Demmin, 20.09.1815 - Verona, 29.08.1882 

Voss was educated in Berlin but in 1846 he settled in Paris working as piano teacher and a very popular and prolific composer of salon pieces. He experimented with improving piano construction and tried to introduce the piano as an instrument of the orchestra. 
Mendelssohn had great admiration for his Concert Piece in F minor op. 52 and his total output reaches a total of 335 numbers among these Morceau de Salon, for piano, No. 2, Variations on Balfe's When Other Lips from The Bohemian Girl, Op. 107/2 and a transcription of the Star Spangled banner. 

Kriegerbraut (Warrior's bride), Impromptu for the left hand alone op. 38  (Whistling)

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