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Clara Schumann
Clara Schumann
German musician and composer
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Alexander Scriabin
Alexander Scriabin
Russian pianist and composer
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Josef Hofmann
Josef Hofmann
Polish musician
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Arthur Rubinstein
Arthur Rubinstein
Polish-American classical pianist
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Elmo Hope
Elmo Hope
American musician
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Bertha "Chippie" Hill
Bertha "Chippie" Hill
American blues and vaudeville singer and dancer
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George Gershwin
George Gershwin
American composer and pianist (1898-1937)
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Marian McPartland
Marian McPartland
British pianist, composer, writer and radio host
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Blossom Dearie
Blossom Dearie
American jazz singer and pianist
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Shirley Horn
Shirley Horn
American singer
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Cécile Chaminade
Cécile Chaminade
French composer and pianist
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Lil Hardin Armstrong
Lil Hardin Armstrong
American jazz musician
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Lera Auerbach
Lera Auerbach
Soviet-Russian-born American classical composer and pianist
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Eva Knardahl
Eva Knardahl
Norwegian musician
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Ernesto Lecuona
Ernesto Lecuona
Cuban composer (1896-1963)
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Martha Argerich
Martha Argerich
Argentine/Swiss pianist
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Jane Jarvis
Jane Jarvis
American jazz pianist
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Lennie Hayton
Lennie Hayton
American composer and conductor (1908-1971)
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Walter Gieseking
Walter Gieseking
German pianist
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Enrique Granados
Enrique Granados
Spanish pianist and composer
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Amy Beach
Amy Beach
American composer and pianist
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Katherine Kennicott Davis
Katherine Kennicott Davis
American teacher, classical music composer, pianist
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Vladimir Horowitz
Vladimir Horowitz
American classical pianist and composer
Bee Walker
American composer and pianist

Bee Walker

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American composer and pianist
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Bertha ("Bee") Walker (1898–1987) was an American composer and pianist.

Born as Bertha Wolpa in Indianapolis, Indiana, she became a ragtime pianist, demonstrating tunes in the music section of Woolworths stores, and recorded many piano rolls for the US Music Company of Chicago and occasionally for the Rythmodik Music Corporation of New York, revealing an extremely original style. It was while working for Woolworths that a talent scout discovered her and, eventually, secured her work as accompanist to such vaudeville performers as Bob Hope and Eddie Cantor.

Prior to 1923, she changed her name to Bertha Walker and cut a few rolls for the Ampico reproducing piano system and also the Aeolian Company, both in New York City.

During the 1950s, she toured extensively with ASCAP, entertaining the US troops.

She also composed music during her career, starting with Nutty Blues in 1918, but her most famous composition is "Hey! Jealous Lover", written in collaboration with Sammy Cahn and Kay Twomey in 1956 and made famous by Frank Sinatra.