Anonymous
The majority of compositions written through the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance are by people long forgotten, and attribution often remains a problem. In fact, it is not known who was responsible for the foundation works of Western classical music. Also unknown are the composers of many later songs, dance tunes, and marches that were integral to daily life and now also count as "classical." Early sacred music represented the official doctrine and aesthetics of the church; a composer's personal expression simply didn't count once the music was adopted for liturgical use, and, in many cases, it would have seemed presumptuous for an individual to take credit for a piece of sacred music. So although a very few specific medieval church composers, such as Hildegard of Bingen, are known, most early sacred music is the work of intentionally anonymous musician employed by the Catholic Church. In the realm of early secular music, a village musician might piece together a dance tune that became popular. Taken up by other players, the tune would pass by ear from village to village, and from generation to generation. The dance's origin would become obscure, even within the composer's lifetime. The rise of music publishing and commercial sale of scores in the Renaissance, and especially the Baroque era, began linking composers' names to their music. Yet some pieces were deliberately published anonymously for political or personal reasons, and many unscrupulous publishers simply neglected to name their composers, thereby avoiding the nuisance of paying them for their work. The survival of records from the Renaissance on has made it easier for musicologists to connect names to scores of debatable authorship written in the past four centuries or so. Yet scholars have sometimes been too quick to link a famous composer to an obscure composition and their attributions have often been dead wrong. Haydn's "Toy" symphony and Beethoven's "Jena" symphony, for example, turned out to be written by other composers. In some cases, crediting a score to "Anonymous" would remain the safest practice. Since the early twentieth century, the refinement of copyright laws, the availability of royalties, the rise of composer-advocacy groups, and cultural emphasis on individual achievement have all made it unlikely that any new work will appear without a solid attribution.
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L'académie du massacre
French Music - Released by Les Productions Serge on 11 Nov 2003
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Carmina Burana
Ensemble Oni Wytars, Ensemble Unicorn
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Naxos on 12 Sep 2002
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Trombett - Undt Musikalischer Taffeldienst
Classical - Released by Fra Bernardo on 30 Apr 2013
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Musique barbare
French Music - Released by Les Productions Serge on 18 Nov 2008
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John Philip Sousa's Greatest Hits
The President's Own United States Marine Band
Classical - Released by American Patriotic Classics on 6 Nov 2012
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Pferdegeschichten (Zwölf Kindergeschichten rund um das Thema Pferde)
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by Schwager & Steinlein Verlag on 1 Oct 2013
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La parc La Vérendrye
French Music - Released by Les Productions Serge on 1 Feb 2010
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Klemperer Rarities: Amsterdam, Vol. 2 (1951)
Classical - Released by Archiphon on 5 Jun 2012
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Das (Hör-)buch ohne Namen - Bourbon Kid, Teil 1 (Gekürzt)
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by Lübbe Audio on 14 Jul 2009
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Weihnachten: Die schönsten Märchen aus aller Welt (Geschichten zur Heiligen Nacht aus Europa, Skandinavien und Russland)
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by BÄNG Management & Verlag on 4 Nov 2022
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Otto Klemperer conducts The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra (1937-1938) (na Not Applicable - Hector Berlioz - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Classical - Released by Symposium on 18 Feb 1997
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Warnung aus dem Weißen Haus - Ein hochrangiger Trump-Mitarbeiter packt aus (Ungekürzt)
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by Lübbe Audio on 12 Dec 2019
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Sagen und Helden des Mittelalters (Die große Hörbuch Box)
Gottfried Von Strassburg, Konrad von Fußesbrunnen, Wolfram Von Eschenbach, Anonymous, Tim Eriksson
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by BÄNG Management & Verlag on 16 Sep 2022
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Chapter Chaos Begins (Anonymus)
Rock - Released by Galy Records - Earhertz on 27 Feb 2007
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The Golden Era of the German Dance Orchestra: Juan Llossas und sein internationals deutsch-spanisches Tango-Orchester (1929-1940)
Pop - Released by Jube on 7 May 2013
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Les fêtes en enfer
French Music - Released by Les Productions Serge on 15 Nov 2016
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L'homme qui faisait reculer la musique
French Music - Released by Les Productions Serge on 18 Sep 2009
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The Mix … Speed Garage
Pop/Rock - Released by The Mix on 1 May 2012
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Canto Gregoriano
Slovenski Madrigalisti, Janez Bole
Classical - Released by AV360 Music on 24 Apr 2023
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Klemperer Rarities: Amsterdam, Vol. 10 (1956)
Classical - Released by Archiphon on 5 Jun 2012
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