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Name	Born	Died	Information
Aiblinger, Johann Kaspar more...	23 Feb. 1779 Wasserburg, Germany	6 May 1867 Munich, Germany	studied in Munich and as a pupil of Simon Mayer in Bergamo, Italy. After posts in Vicenza, Venice and Milan he moved to Munich in 1819 as Kapellmeister of the Italian Opera as well as holding a number of posts in charge of music at various Munich churches
Aichinger, Gregor more...	c. 1565 Ratisbon (Regensburg), Germany	21 Jan. 1628 Augsburg, Germany	German composer, organist and priest. He studied in Ingolstadt and served the Fugger family there and in Augsburg. Between 1584-7 he studied with Giovanni Gabrieli, in Venice, and in Rome. At the time of his death he was singer and canon at St Gertrude in Augsburg. His music shows the influence of Lassus and of the contemporary Roman school. He cultivated the Venetian style, was one of the first Germans to imitate Viadana, and also wrote some purely instrumental music
Aigner, Engelbert	3 Feb. 1798	27 Aug. 1866	Austrian composer
Aikman, James (Whitton) more...	1959 Indianapolis, Indiana, USA		American composer [provided by James Aikman]
Ailbout, Hans	2 Jul. 1879	1957	[used pseudonyms E. Becker, Bell, E. Born, Jean Boutail, E. Brandt, F. Eilenburg, Hans Ernesti, H. Faneau, Jose‚ Ferrin, F.K. Huber, Konrad ö”sen, H. Lange, Torelli], German teacher, conductor, and composer
Aim, Vojtech Borivoj	13 Apr. 1886	10 Sep. 1972	Czech composer and choirmaster [entry corrected by Mats Hedelius]
Aimeric de Peguilhan more...	c.1170	1230	Provencal troubadour. His first patron was Raimon V of Toulouse, and in the course of a wandering life he came to know all the greatest musical patrons of the time. Of his work there survive fifty-four poems and six melodies
Aimon, Esprit	1754	1828	French violoncellist and composer
Aimon, (Pamphile Léopold) François	4 Oct. 1779 L'Isle, nr. Avignon, France	2 Feb. 1866 Paris, France	French cellist, conductor, and composer
Ainger, Geoffrey	28 Oct. 1925		English minister, teacher, and composer
Ainley, William Clark	13 Jul. 1834	1910	English organist, choirmaster, teacher, and composer (NS)
Ainscough, Juliana Mary	25 Apr. 1957		English teacher, organist, and composer
Ainslie, John	1942		English editor and composer
Aiolle (Aiolli), Francesco dell' (see Layolle, Francesco de)
Airaksinen, Arvo	bur. 4 May 1910	14 Jul. 1993	Finnish composer, organist and conducter of the Pori String orchestra
Aist, Dietmar von more...	fl. 1150-1170		Dietmar of Aist, a minnesinger in upper Austria; the earliest reference to him dates from 1139 (namely to a Ditmarus de Agasta who died around 1171) but there is doubt that this refers to our Dietmar von Aist who is considered the author of the first German Tageliedes (Trennung der Liebenden am Morgen)
Aitken, Hugh more...	7 Sep. 1924 New York, USA		American composer and teacher (NS)
Aitken, Robert more...	28 Aug. 1939 Kentville, Nova Scotia		began formal composition studies with Barbara Pentland while principal flutist of the Vancouver Symphony (1958-59) and then at the University of Toronto with John Weinzweig for both his Bachelor (1959-61) and Master's degrees (1961-64). As the first composition student admitted to the Electronic Music Studio of the University of Toronto, he became familiar with the latest developments in electronic music and composed a number of prominent electronic works. The first work which established him as a composer in the eyes of the concert public was his Concerto for 12 Soloists and Orchestra
Aiuola, Francesco dell' (see Layolle, Francesco de)
Aivazyan (or Aivazian), Artemy Sergeyevich	9 Jul. (Old Style 26 Jun.) 1902 Baku, Armenia	1975	Armenian composer, cellist, and conductor [entry corrected by Vramshapuh Jihanian]
Aizberg, Il'ya Semyonovich	26 (Old Style 14) Jan. 1868	7 Jul. 1942	Georgian pianist, pedagogue, and composer
Ajdinovic, Jacek Wiktor more...	1 Mar. 1985 Kraków, Poland		Polish composer and cellist who lived in live in Kraków from 2001 to 2004. He studied with the composer, Professor Marek Stachowski. His music was performed at the International Contemporary Music Festival, Warsaw in the Autumn of 2004. He is a member of the Board of Youth Circle of Polish Composers' Union [information provided by Jacek Wiktor Ajdinovic]
Ajlec, Rafael more...	29 Aug. 1915 Mokronog, Slovenia	11 Dec. 1977 Ljubljana, Solvenia	Slovenian composer and teacher (NS)
Ajolle, Francesco dell' (see Layolle, Francesco de)
A Kempis, Nicolaus (alternatively à Kempis)	c.1600	bur. 11 Aug. 1676	Flemish composer of instrumental works including a number of Symphonia (or Symphonies) published in Antwerp in the 1640s
A Kempis, Joannes Florentius (Jean-Florent)	bap. 1 Aug. 1635	after 1711	Flemish organist and composer
a Kempis, Thomas (Petrus) (see Kempis, Thomas (Petrus) a)
Akbarov, Ikram Il'khamovich	1 Mar. 1921		Kazakstani composer
Åkerberg, (Carl) Erik (Emanuel)	19 Jan. 1860 Stockholm, Sweden	20 Jan. 1938 Stockholm, Sweden	Swedish composer, organist, and conductor
Akerman, Richard Frank Martin	1871 Reading, England	1938 Windsor, England	English organist, teacher, editor, and composer (NS)
Akeroyd, Arthur Thomas	10 Mar. 1862	18 Jul. 1943 Knaresborough, England	English organist, choirmaster, teacher, conductor, and composer (NS)
Akeroyde, Samuel	fl. 1684-1706		English violinist and composer
Akers, Doris (Mae) more...	21 May 1924 Brookfield, Missouri, USA	26 Jul. 1995 Minneapolis, USA	American gospel singer, pianist, and composer (NS)
Akers, Howard Estabrook [pseudonym: Archie Masters]	17 Jul. 1913	1 Oct. 1984	American band director, conductor, editor, and composer
Akhinyan, Grigor Mushegovich	20 Apr. 1926		Armenian composer
Akhmetov, Fasil' Akhmetgaliyevich	23 May 1935		Russian (Kazakstani?) composer
Akhmetov, Khusain Faizullovich	6 Jan. 1914 (Old Style 24 Dec. 1913)		Russian composer
Akhron (see Achron)
Akhundov, Vahid			tar-player and mugam composer from Azerbaijan
Akimenko (or Yakimenko), Feodor (Fyodor) Stepanovich	20 (Old Style 8) Feb. 1876 Khar'kov, Russia	3 Jan. 1945 Paris, France	pupil of Balakiref and Rimsky-Korsakof, teacher of Stravinsky; composer of piano and chamber music and opera
Akimov, Pietari	1876	1944	Russian composer
Akiyama, Kuniharu more...	22 May 1929 Tokyo, Japan	17 Aug. 1996 Japan	pupil of Cage and Xenakis; associated with music using objects like bottles and stones (NS)
Akiyoshi, Toshiko more...	12 Dec. 1929 Liaoyang, Manchuria, China		jazz pianist, arranger and a major figure in jazz composition. She grew up in China, and only discovered jazz in her late teens after her family moved back to Japan. There she led her own band from 1952, and in due course moved to the USA to attend Berklee College of Music from 1956. She made a reputation as a fiery bebop pianist, and played in a quartet with saxophonist Charlie Mariano, whom she married. She also worked with Charles Mingus, before spending the mid-1960s back in Japan. After returning to the USA she led a trio, which grew to a quartet with the addition of tenorist and flautist Lew Tabackin, who became her second husband. By this time she was writing material of great originality and flair, and in 1973, she and Tabackin founded a large orchestra on the West Coast that made her an international reputation as a brilliant big band composer and bandleader. In the 1980s, already recognised as a major force in the big band world, she relocated to New York, and re-formed her band, which she continued to lead into the 21st century. Her distinctive, percussive piano style is rooted in bebop, but her compositions have a broad stylistic range, and many of her pieces conjure up a feeling of Japanese delicacy and grace
Akpabot, Samuel Ekpe more...	3 Oct 1932 Nigeria	Aug 2000 Uyo, Nigeria	Nigerian composer and organist (NS)
Aksakov, Sergey Sergeyevich	6 Jan. 1891	4 Sep. 1968	Russian composer
Akses, Necil Kâzim more...	6 May 1908 Constantinople, Turkey	16 Feb. 1999 Ankara, Turkey	Turkish composer [date of death provided by Willem Pin] (NS)
Akst, Harry more...	15 Aug. 1894 New York, NY, USA	31 Mar. 1963 Hollywood, CA, USA	American popular composer and pianist; hit songs include Dinah (1925) and Am I Blue? (1929) (NS)
Aksyonov, Aleksey Nikolayevich	14 (Old Style 1) January 1909	15 May 1962	Russian composer
Aksyonov, Semyon Nikolayevich	1784 or 1790	11 Jun. (Old Style 30 May) 1853	Russian guitarist, composer, and pedagogue who developed or advanced the use of harmonics on his instrument
Aktug, Mehmet more...	30 May 1959 Istanbul, Turkey	30 Nov 2009 Essen, Germany	Turkish composer of mostly orchestral and chamber works that have been performed in Europe and elsewhere (NS)
Akutagawa, Yasushi more...	12 Jul. 1925 Tokyo, Japan	31 Jan. 1989 Tokyo, Japan	son of Ryûnosuke Akutagawa, a prominent Japanese novelist, Yasushi studied composition with K. Hashimoto and conducting with N. Kaneko. His style, rather than drawing on Japanese folk or popular idiom, is internationalist inspired by Shostakovich and Prokofiev (NS)
Ala, Giovanni Battista	c.1598	c.1630	Italian composer and organist
Alabiev (see Alyabiev)
Aladau, Mikalai Illitsch (see Aladov, Nikolai Illyich)
Aladov (or Aladow), Nikolai Illyich (or Aladau, Mikalai Illitsch)	21 (Old Style 9) Dec. 1890 St. Petersburg, Russia	4 Dec. 1972 Minsk, Russia	Belarusian composer and pedagogue [additional information provided by Willem Pin]
Alagna, Matthew	27 Feb, 1920	14 May 1965	American composer, pianist, and trumpeter
Alain, Albert	1880	1971
Alain, Jehan-Ariste more...	3 Feb. 1911 St.-Germain-en-Laye, France	20 Jun. 1940 Petit-Puy, France	born in to a highly musical family, his father, Albert Alain, was also a composer and organist (some of Albert's works are published by Leduc along with those of Jehan's younger brother Olivier), he studied organ with Marcel Dupré and composition with Paul Dukas. He composed music for organ, piano and various chamber variations
Alain, Olivier more...	3 Aug. 1918 Saint-German-en-Laye, nr. Paris, France	28 Feb. 1994 Paris, France	French composer, pianist, and musicologist (NS)
Alaire	fl. 1534-49		French composer
Alakotila, Timo more...	15 Jun. 1959 Hattula, Finland		Finnish pianist, harmonium player, composer and arranger [birth date confirmed by Wim Pin] (NS)
Alaleona, Domenico more...	16 Nov. 1881 Montegiorgio, Italy	28 Dec. 1928 Montegiorgio, Italy	Italian composer and organist (NS)
Alamanda d'Estane, Lady more...	flourished late 1100s		trobairitz
Alamani, Jo(?hannes)	fl. 14th century		composer
Alamire, Pierre (Petrus) (also Peter van den Hove) more...	c.1470 Nuremberg, Bavaria	26 Jun. 1536 Mechelen	to describe Petrus Alamire as a composer would be misleading, since there never was such a person, and it had been thought doubtful that he ever personally contributed a work to the ornate books that he prepared. He led a colourful life, including that of a British spy, so there may have been good reason that he arrived in that part of the world that is now Belgium, using a pseudonym. He was German, probably called Petrus Imhoff, and he was skilled in music, in particular as a copyist, who produced the most beautiful books. He was soon in demand by Royalty who used these elaborate books as major gifts. They have, therefore, been well preserved. The origin of all the music is not known, and Alamire had probably collected it on his travels before he arrived in the Low Countries - as they were then know. Handed down is around 850 works in 48 choir books. Music is even discovered in bookbindings, obviously incorrectly copied and used for this purpose. We know that his fame spread throughout Europe, as he supplied famous houses with these fine documents, Only one work is attributed with certainty to Alamire, a four-part instrumental piece Tandernaken op den Rijn; however his evident skill as a composer suggests that many of the anonymous works of the time may be his
Álamo, Lázaro González del	c.1530	between 17 Mar. and 19 May 1570	Spanish composer active in Mexico
Alandia Canipa, Edgar more...	1950 Oruro, Bolivia		Bolivian composer, now resident in Italy, of stage, orchestral, chamber, vocal, and electroacoustic works that have been performed throughout Europe and in the Americas; he is also active as a conductor
Alanus, Johannes [Jo. Alani] more...		c.1373	English composer (NS)
Alard, Jean-Delphin more...	8 Mar. 1815 Bayonne, France	22 Feb. 1888 Paris, France	French composer and violinist who was praised by Paganini and performed at a memorial service for Felix Mendelssohn. Alard compiled a collection of 56 pieces entitled Maitres clasiques du violon and wrote Ecole du violon: methode complete et progressive [Studies for the violin: A complete and progressive method] which include 24 caprices in all of the different keys. Alard succeeded Baillot in the royal orchestra and as professor of music at the conservatory in Paris which position he held from 1843 to 1875. Jean-Delphin Alard, son-in-law of the French luthier Jean Baptiste Vuillaume (1798-1875), inherited both the 1715 Alard and 1716 Messiah Stradivari
Alardy, Jacques (Jacobus)	c.1515	c.1593	Flemish composer active in Spain
Alarius (see Verloge, Hilaire)
Alart, Simon		after 1515	French composer
Alary, Jules (Giulio) Eugène Abraham	16 Mar. 1814 Mantova, Italy	17 Apr. 1891 Paris, France	Italian composer and conductor
Alasgarov, Suleyman	1924		Azerbaijani professor at the Baku Academy of Music, most famous for his popular musical comedy Ulduz
Alassio, Nino	13 Apr. 1872	7 Mar. 1954 Genoa, Italy	Italian composer (NS)
Alba, Alonso Perez d'	c.1475 Spain	c.1520 Spain	Spanish composer and A singer at the Court of Queen Isabella from 1491. He is represented in the Cancionero de Palacio, and also wrote a quantity of sacred music
Alba, Pedro	fl. 1557-72		Spanish composer
Albam, Manny (Emmanuel) more...	24 Jun. 1922 born at sea en route to Dominican Republic	2 Oct. 2001 Croton, New York, USA	composer/arranger, saxophonist. Emigrated to New York when he was six years old. Played alto and baritone NYC from 1940; wrote for many bands in that decade including Muggsy Spanier, Boyd Raeburn, Bobby Sherwood, San Donahue, Charlie Barnet. From 1950 a fluent, successful Swing Era-based freelance arranger. Drum Suite (1955) on RCA typical of best work: wrote half the arrangements (rest by Ernie Wilkins); band included Al Cohn, Joe Newman, Conte Candoli, other excellent sidemen; drummers Osie Johnson, Gus Johnson, Don Lamond, Ted Sommer providing tasteful punctuation: no loud solos, just beautiful swing. Much TV and film work; visited UK, recorded with Tubby Hayes; many albums as leader now out of print on RCA, Dot, Solid State, Coral (The Jazz Greats Of Our Time, two vols of original comps. with all-star sidemen; West Side Story, Sophisticated Lady 1957-8). Wrote and recorded with Curtis Fuller, Stan Getz, Coleman Hawkins (La Vie En Rose (1956)), Gerry Mulligan, Buddy Rich, Clark Terry; wrote Afro-Dizzyac for Dizzy Gillespie, Country Man for Dakota Staton, etc. Taught at Eastman School of Music (1970s)
Albanese, (Egide-Joseph-Ignace-)Antoine	1729	1800	French soprano castrato and composer of Italian origin
Albanese, Guido	2 Dec. 1893		Italian composer
Albanesi, Carlo	22 Oct. 1856	21 Sep. 1926	Italian pianist and composer
Albanesi, Luigi	3 Mar. 1821	4 Dec. 1897	Italian pianist and composer
Albano, Marcello	fl. 1601-16		Italian composer and musician
Albany, Joe [Joseph Albani] more...	24 Jan. 1924 Atlantic City, NJ, USA	11 Jan. 1988	pianist and songwriter. Important bop pianist, modern execution not obscuring deep feeling for the blues. Overlooked by critics for many years, partly because he walked out of jobs (e.g. with Charlie Parker) over musical differences. Worked 1940s with Benny Carter, Stan Getz; his first recording session was with Georgie Auld's big band in 1945 (Honey, Stompin' At The Savoy), but records with Lester Young (1946) in LA revealed both in comping and solos that he was well ahead of the field. In a broadcast from the Finale Club in 1946 Albany is an aggressive participant, his choruses fully a match for Charlie Parker's, raising memories of the creative duelling of Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines. Albany was potentially a giant who got lost, perhaps because of drugs; in the late 1940s, he told Ira Gitler, he was passing as an albino in a black neighbourhood in Tulsa. First recording as a leader was quartet set The Right Combination (1957) with Warne Marsh; he wrote songs recorded by Anita O'Day (At Mr Kelly's '58 on Verve); worked with Charles Mingus in NYC (1963). Further albums included Joe Albany At Home and Proto-Bopper (1971-2) on Spotlite; trio set Birdtown Birds and Two's Company with bassist Niels-Henning Oersted Pederson, both on Steeplechase, made in Copenhagen (1973-4); solo sets incl. one made in Milan (1974) on Horo, This Is For My Friends and Plays George Gershwin And Bruce Lane made in Paris (1976) on Musica, The Albany Touch (1977) on Seabreeze in CA; duo Joe + Joe (1974) in Rome with Joe Venuti on Horo; trio Bird Lives! NYC (1979); Portrait Of An Artist (1981) on Elektra with George Duvivier, Charlie Persip, Al Gofa on guitar (NS)
Albareda, Marcián	fl. 1622-26		Spanish composer
Albarello, Riccardo	1869	Jan. 1896	Italian teacher and composer
Albéniz, Isaac (Manuel Francisco) more...	29 May 1860 Camprodón, Catalonia, Spain	18 May 1909 Cambô-les-Bains, France	child prodigy and pupil of Liszt, significant composer of music for piano often exploiting Spanish rhythmic and melodic idiom including the cycle Iberia. He formed a contract with the English banker Francis Burdett Money-Coutts in which Albéniz set the banker's libretto but the association produced only one success Pepita Jiménez. A trilogy based around the story of King Arthur was never performed. (NS)
Albéniz, Mateo Perez more...	c.1755 Spain	23 Jun. 1831 San Sebastián, Spain	a Spanish composer and theorist. He was maestro de capilla in Lograno and San Sebastian. A Sonata in D, his only surviving keyboard work, is in a lively 6/8 tempo inspired by the Spanish Zapateado (NS)
Albéniz y Basanta, Pedro more...	14 Apr. 1795 Logroño, Castile, Spain	12 Apr. 1855 Madrid, Spain	son of above, pianist, organist and composer of minor piano and vocal pieces (NS)
Alberch Vila, Pere more...	1517 Vic, Spain	16 Nov. 1582 Barcelona, Spain	Spanish composer (NS)
Alberdi, Juan Bautista more...	29 Aug. 1819	19 Jun. 1884	Argentinean laywer, man of letters, and composer (NS)
Alberga, Eleanor more...	30 Sep. 1949 Jamaica, W.I.		Alberga was born in Jamaica, came to Britain in 1970 on a scholarship to the RAM, and then settled here. Her music is both informed by her classical training and reflects the diversity of her background, which includes dancing with an authentic African dance company and singing Jamaican folksongs. The press frequently comment on the rich, colouful atmospheres she evokes, and her bright, energetic scoring. Her music has been performed by many leading orchestras, including the London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, LMP and the Bournmouth Sinfonietta. In 1991 Alberga wrote the music for the film Escape from Kampala which was nominated for a BAFTA award
Albergati (Capacelli), Pirro Conte d' more...	20 Sep. 1663 Bologna, Italy	22 Jun. 1735 Bologna, Italy	Italian composer (NS)
Alberghetti, Bernardino	probably c. 1600	after 1649	Italian composer and musician
Alberghi, Paolo Tommaso	bap. 31 Dec. 1716	11 Oct. 1785	Italian violinist, composer, and teacher
Albero y Ananos, Sebastian Ramon de more...	1722 Roncal, Spain	1756 Madrid, Spain	Spanish organist and composer, a contempory and colleague of Dominico Scarlatti during the latter's period at the Spanish Court (NS)
Albers, Bradley Gene	26 Aug. 1952		American administrator and composer
Albers, John Kenneth	10 Dec. 1924		American popular composer, singer and arranger
Albert, Prince Consort, Prince of Saxe-Coberg-Gotha more...	26 Aug. 1819 Schloss Rosenau, Germany	14 Dec. 1861 Windsor, England	consort to Queen Victoria, organist and minor composer of songs and church music much of it influenced by Mendelssohn
Albert, Adrienne more...	1941 USA		American mezzo-soprano, noted for her work with Igor Stravinsky, and composer living and working in Santa Monica, California. Although relatively new to composition, Albert is established in the field with a recent NEA grant for a symphony about Homer, Alaska, now complete, and various other commissions, artist in residencies, and awards. Albert's work is performed internationally, in the US, in Europe, and extends to a recent set of Chinese performances
Albert, Charles Louis Napoléon d' more...	25 Feb. 1809 Sardinia	26 May 1886	French dancing-master and composer (NS)
Albert, Eugen d' (originally Francis Charles) more...	10 Apr. 1864 Glasgow, Scotland	3 Mar. 1932 Riga, Latvia	studied under Liszt, composer of 20 operas, including Die Abreise and Tiefland, piano concertos, a symphony and much chamber music. He married six times. His music showed the influence of Brahms.
Albert, Franz Eduard	29 Oct. 1879		German military band director and composer
Albert, Heinrich more...	8 Jul. 1604 Lobenstein, Saxony	6 Oct. 1651 Konigsberg, Germany	German organist and composer, cousin and pupil of Heinrich Schütz (NS)
Albert, Karel more...	16 Apr. 1901 Antwerp, Belgium	23 May 1987 Liedekerke, Belgium	Belgian composer who wrote some of his work under the pseudonym Karel Victors. (Some sources suggest he died 4 Oct. 1987) [information revised by Ivo Jacobs (23/Apr/2008)] (NS)
Albert, Ludwig more...	26 Apr. 1966 Belgium		Belgian marimba virtuoso and composer
Albert, Stephen more...	6 Feb. 1941 New York City, USA	27 Dec. 1992 Cape Cod, MA, USA	American composer who won the Pulitzer Prize 1985 for his symphony RiverRun
Albert, Thomas more...	14 Dec. 1948 Lebanon, Pennsylvania, USA		American composer and teacher. His music is stylistically postmodern, exhibiting influences of Ives, Copland, Crumb, minimalism and 20th century American popular music
Albertazzi, Alberto	1783		Italian composer and piano teacher
Albertet de Sestaro	fl. 1210-31		troubadour
Alberti, Bob more...	1 Dec. 1934		American popular composer and arranger (NS)
Alberti, Domenico [de Albertis] more...	1710 Venice, Italy	1740 Formio, Rome	Italian singer, harpsichordist and composer whose works bridge the Baroque and Classical periods
Alberti, Gasparo more...	c.1489 Padua, Italy	c.1560 Bergamo, Italy	an Italian composer who worked his way through the ranks at the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, in Bergamo, starting as a cleric in 1503, and eventually becoming maestro di cappella by 1536. He was forced to retire in 1550, but was reappointed and worked there until 1559. Alberti was one of the first composers to use a number of new techniques, including the use of cori spezzati and salmi spezzati
Alberti, Giuseppe Mateo more...	20 Sep. 1685	18 Feb. 1751	Italian composer and violinist (NS)
Alberti, Innocentio more...	c.1535	15 Jun. 1615	Italian instrumentalist and composer (NS)
Alberti, Johann Friedrich more...	11 Jan. 1642 Tönning, Schleswig, Germany	14 Jun. 1710 Merseburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany	German composer and organist (NS)
Alberti, Lodovico more...	1857	6 Apr. 1939 Santa Margherita, Ligure, Italy	Italian composer (NS)
Alberti, Nino	1878		Italian composer and critic
Alberti, Pietro	fl. 1697-1706		Italian composer, violinist, and organist resident in North Europe
Albertin, Alfons	18th century		German composer
Albertine, Charles more...	24 Feb. 1929 Passaic, New Jersey, USA	18 May 1986 Los Angeles, California, USA	American popular composer who though completely self-taught wrote and arranged for many of the leading bands of his day, wrote film scores and music for successful TV series and even classical works including a symphony (NS)
Albertini, Albert Nicholas [Al Alberts] more...	10 Aug. 1922 Chester, Pennsylvania, USA	27 Nov 2009 Arcadia, Florida, USA	American popular composer, lyricist, and singer (NS)
Albertini (or Albertino), Ignazio more...	1644 possibly Milan, Italy	22 Sep. 1685 Vienna, Austria	violinist and composer of instrumental music and sonatas for his instrument. He was for some time attached to the court in Vienna and was, for a reason as yet unelucidated, murdered in 1685 (NS)
Albertini, Joachim (Gioacchino)	1749 Pesaro	27 Mar. 1812 Warsaw, Poland	Polish composer of Italian birth
Albertini, Thomas Anton	c.1660	3 Oct. 1735	German composer
Albertoni, Azzo [pseudonym: Alberto Edelmann]	14 Feb. 1862		Italian composer, librettist, director, and voice teacher
Albertsen, Per (Hjort)	27 Jul. 1919 Trondheim, Norway		Norwegian composer, organist, and teacher
Albertus Parisiensis, Magister more...	fl. 12th century		French cantor and composer, probably originally from Estampes, in the Arrondissement of Mirande
Albertz, Sef more...	4 Mar. 1971 Venezuela		Venezuelan guitarist, arranger and composer now based in Germany (NS)
Albicastro, Henrico (Heinz or Heinrich von Blankenburg or Weissenburg) more...	before 1670 Switzerland	after 1738 Bieswangen, The Netherlands	pseudonym of Johann Heinrich von Weissenburg. He studied at the University of Leiden from 1681. Around 1700 he was in Amsterdam, where Roger published a number of his virtuosic works for strings, including concertos and more than fifty sonatas for violin (some with viola or cello) and continuo and used the Folia in one of his sonatas. J. J. Quantz mentions (in his autobiography in Marpurg's Historisch-kritische Beiträge) having practiced Albicastro's works as a youth (NS)
Albin, Peter Scott	6 Jun. 1944		American popular composer, lyricist, and electric bassist
Albini, Felix	10 Dec. 1869	18 Apr. 1933	Croatian composer (NS)
Albini, Filippo	probably between 1580 and 1590	1626 or later	Italian composer and musician
Albini, Francesco Maria	Mar. 1829	11 Jun. 1917	Italian composer
Albini, Srecko (Felix)	10 Dec. 1869	18 Apr. 1933	Croatian composer and conductor
Albini, Francesco Maria	Mar. 1829	11 Jun. 1917	Italian composer
Albinoni, Tomaso Giovanni (Zuane) more...	8 Jun. 1671 Venice, Italy	17 Jan. 1751 Venice, Italy	Italian violinist who was a significant influence on J.S. Bach; composer of concerti grosso, more than 40 operas and a spurious although charming Adagio most probably the work of his biographer Remo Giazotto (b. 1910)
Alboniz, Miguel	29 May 1917		guitarist and transcriber
Albrecht, Alexander more...	12 Aug. 1885 Arad, Hungary	30 Aug. 1958 Bratislava, Slovakia	in 1908 he was elected chief organist of the church in Bratislava and he taught in the church school. From 1921 he was chief organist at the cathedral of St. Martin. Performances of his compositions have taken place in Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Bratislava, Berlin, Chicago U.S.A.; some of them under his personal direction (NS)
Albrecht, Georg von more...	19 Mar. 1891 Kazan, Russia	15 Mar. 1976 Heidelberg, Germany	German composer and pianist (NS)
Albrecht, Johann Lorenz more...	8 Jan. 1732 Görmar in Mühlhausen, Germany	29 Nov, 1768 Mühlhausen, Germany	German writer on music and composer (NS)
Albrecht, Karl (Franzovich)	8 Sep. (Old Style 27 Aug. 1807	8 Mar. (Old Style 24 Feb.) 1863	German conductor and composer resident in Russia
Albrecht, Ludwig [Lyudvig Karlovich]	8 Jun. (Old Style 27 May) 1844	1899	Russian cellist and composer
Albrecht, Max Richard	14 Mar. 1890	13 or 14 February 1945	German composer
Albrecht, Pôl more...	23 May 1874 Luxembourg	8 May 1975 Luxembourg	Luxembourg band conductor and composer (NS)
Àlbrechtsberger, Johann Georg more...	3 Feb. 1736 Klosterneuburg, Austria	7 Mar. 1809 Vienna, Austria	friend of Joseph Haydn, teacher of counterpoint to Beethoven; composer and important musical theorist. In 1772 he obtained the position of court organist in Vienna, which he held for twenty years, before he became choirmaster at St. Stephen's Cathedral
Albrici, Bartolomeo	c.1640	1693 or later	Italian keyboard player and composer
Albrici, Vincenzo more...	26 Jun. 1631 Rome, Italy	8 Aug. 1696 Prague, Bohemia	Italian composer and keyboard player [additional information by Willem E. M. Pin] (NS)
Albright, William more...	20 Oct. 1944 Gary, Indiana, USA	17 Sep. 1998 Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA	American composer, organist and pianist. Although he had composed music for practically every instrumental and vocal medium, he was primarily known for his keyboard works
Albu, Sandu	22 Aug. 1897		Romanian violinist, teacher, and composer
Albuzio, Giovanni Giacopo	fl. 1536		Italian lutenist, viola player, and composer of German birth
Alcalay, Luna more...	21 Oct. 1928 Zagreb, Croatia	9 Oct. 2012 Vienna, Austria	sometime teacher with the Vienna Boys Choir and piano teacher. As a result of contact with avant-garde influences, she developed a highly personal compositional system (NS)
Alcaraz, Jordi more...	10 Jun. 1943	11 Jun. 1985	Catalan composer (NS)
Alcarotto [Alcarotti], Giovanni Francesco	c.1536	8 May 1596	Italian composer
Alcedo, José Bernardo more...	20 Aug. 1788 Lima, Peru	28 Dec. 1878 Lima Peru	Peruvian composer [additional information by Willem E. M. Pin] (NS)
Alchevsky, Grigory Alekseyevich more...	1886 Kharkiv, Ukraine, Russia	1920 Moscow, Russia	Ukrainian vocal pedagogue, singer, and composer [additional information by Willem E. M. Pin]
Alcman more...	fl. 7th century BC		Ancient Greek choral lyric poet from Sparta
Alcock, Gilbert A.	1870	10 Jan. 1954	English organist, choirmaster, and composer
Alcock, Gillian more...	1950		Australian dulcimer maker, player, music publisher, teacher and writer (NS)
Alcock, James	29 Jun. 1778	30 Apr. 1860	English singer, teacher, and composer
Alcock, John snr. more...	11 Apr. 1715 London, England	23 Feb. 1806 Lichfield, England	composer. Organist at St Andrew, Plymouth (1737-41), St Lawrence, Reading (1741-49), Lichfield Cathedral (1749-60), Sutton Coldfield (1761-86), Tamworth (1766-90); composer of church music, glees and instrumental music (NS)
Alcock, John jnr. more...	bap. 28 Jan. 1740 Plymouth, England	bur. 27 Mar. 1791 Walsall, England	son of above; organist at Newark (1756-68), Walsall (1773-91); composer of church music
Alcock, Stanley	1871	7 Jan. 1964	English composer
Alcock, Sir Walter Galpin more...	29 Dec. 1861 Edenbridge, Kent	11 Sep. 1947 Salisbury, England	organist of Salisbury Cathedral; composer of church music (NS)
Alcorn, Michael more...	1962 Ireland		Michael Alcorn studied at the University of Ulster and completed a PhD in composition with John Casken at the University of Durham. In 1989 he was appointed composer-in-residence at Queen's University, Belfast, where he continues to teach in the School of Music. He is particularly active as a promoter of new music technologies and was appointed director of SARC, the Sonic Arts Research Centre based at Queen’s University, Belfast, in 2001. He has been a visiting composer at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University, and at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. (NS)
Alcorta, Amancio Jacinto more...	16 Aug. 1805 Santiago del Estero, Argentina	3 May 1862 nr. Buenos Aires, Argentina	Argentinean composer and politician (NS)
Aldana, José Manuel	1758	7 Feb. 1810	Mexican violinist and composer
Aldana, Mario Kuri (or Kuri-Aldana, Mario)	15 Aug. 1931		Mexican composer (NS)
Alday (le père)	1737		French violin teacher and composer
Alday, François (l'aîné)	c.1761 Mahón, Menorca	1835 possibly Lyons, France	French violinist and composer
Aldega, Giovanni	26 Feb. 1815	April 1862	Italian composer
Alden, John W.	13 May 1895		American composer and teacher
Alden, Joseph Reed	28 Jul. 1886	18 Sep. 1951	American popular composer and lyricist
Alder, Cosmas	c.1497	7 Nov. 1550	Swiss composer
Alder, Richard Ernst	8 Jun. 1853	Mar. 1904	Swiss conductor and composer
Alderighi, Dante more...	7 Jul. 1898 Taranto, Italy	12 Dec. 1968 Rome, Italy	Italian pianist and composer (NS)
Aldomar, Pedro Juan	fl. 1506		Spanish composer
Aldous, Benjamin more...	1975 Cornwall, England		he studied composition with Jonathan Powles and Stephen Pratt at Liverpool and then studied with Adrian Beaumont at Bristol for his Masters degree. He was awarded a grant from the RVW trust to study in Bristol. He has met occasionally with Philip Cashian (NS)
Aldous, J(ohn) E(dmund) P(aul) more...	8 Dec. 1853 Sheffield, England	23 Jan. 1934 Hamilton, Canada	English organist, teacher, conductor, and composer who became resident in Canada (NS)
Aldrich, David Brent	30 Aug. 1951		American composer and jazz pianist
Aldrich, Henry more...	22 Jan. 1648 London, England	14 Dec. 1710 Oxford, England	composer of church music and catches including, according to some sources, the round Great Tom Is Cast. Mark Gilson, in a personal communication, notes that Great Tom Is Cast was published in The Musical Companion, attributed to Matthew White. Aldrich would only have been 19 at the time and is unlikely to be the author, though he would certainly have been familiar with the round. His most famous round was Bonny Christ Church Bells which shares certain characteristics with 'Great Tom' (NS)
Aldridge, Amanda Ira [Amanda Christina Elizabeth; Ring, Montague] more...	10 Mar. 1866 London, England	5 Mar. 1956 London, England	English composer, singer, and teacher (NS)
Aldridge, Donald Ray	24 Apr. 1947		American popular composer, lyricist, and singer
Aldridge, Robert Livingston more...	7 Sep. 1954 Richmond, VA, USA		Robert Livingston Aldridge is a faculty member of Western Oregon University. He earned his Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Musical Arts from Yale University, a Master of Music from New England Conservatory of Music, and a Bachelor of Arts from University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The Massachusetts Artist's Foundation, and the Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Fund. His opera, Elmer Gantry, was given its full stage world premiere by Tulsa Opera in 2001. He has been Composer-in-Residence at the American Dance Festival, and has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony on five occasions. He represented the New York Foundation for the Arts in a solo concert of his music at Lincoln Center, and he is a founder of Composers in Red Sneakers. His music has been recorded on BMG, RCA Red Seal, GM, Foghorn, SoundVision, Open Loop, and Northeastern labels, and he is published by G. Schirmer and Dorn Publications (NS)
Aldrovandini, Giuseppe Antonio Vincenzo (alternatively: Aldovrandini, Andervandino, Androvandino, Giuseppe, Gioseffo, Antonio Vincenzo, Giuseppe Maria) more...	8 Jun. 1671 Bologna, Italy	9 Feb. 1707 Bologna, Italy	Italian composer, principally of opera
Alegiani, Romolo	11 May 1890		Italian composer and conductor
Aleksandrov, Aleksandr Vasil'evich (see Alexandrov, Alexander)
Alemshah, Kourkene	22 May 1907	14 Dec. 1947	Armenian composer
Alenev, Yevgeny (or Eugen) Fyodorovich	17 (Old Style 5) May 1864	12 Mar. (Old Style 27 Feb.) 1902	Russian composer and pianist
Aleotti, Raffaella (see Aleotti, Vittoria)
Aleotti, Vittoria (also known as Raffaela Aleotta) more...	1574	1646	composer of madrigals and sacred works that were published in Venice in 1593
Ales, Oreste	1853	1929	Italian composer
Aleskerov, Suleiman Eiyub ogly	22 Feb. 1924		Azerbaijani composer
Alessandrescu, Alfred	14 (Old Style 2) August 1893	18 Feb. 1959	Romanian composer, pianist, and conductor
Alessandri, Felice more...	24 Nov. 1747 Rome, Italy	15 Aug. 1798 Casalino, nr. Modena, Italy	Italian composer (NS)
Alessandri, Giulio d'	fl. 1684-96		Italian composer
Alessandrini, Luigi	1736	29 Jan. 1794	Italian composer
Alessandrino, Venetiano	16th century		Italian composer
Alessandro (or Alessandri), Gennaro d'	fl. 1739-40		Italian composer
Alessandro, Raffaele d'	17 Mar. 1911	17 Mar. 1959	Swiss composer, pianist, and organist
Alessandro Mantovano	fl. c. 1510-c. 1530		Italian composer
Alessandro Padovano	fl. 1563		Italian composer
Alessio, Carlos D' more...	1935 Buenos Aires, Argentina	14 Jun. 1992 Paris, France	Argentinean-born composer of songs, music for the theatre and for film who is particularly associated with the films of Marguerite Duras (NS)
Aletter, Wilhelm (pseudonym is Alphonse Tellier)	27 Jan. 1867 Germany	30 Jun. 1934 USA	Wilhelm Aletter, a German-American pianist, was a prolific writer of light music and used five pseudonyms especially Alphonse Tellier, Leo Norden and Herbert Wells Thayer. Under his own name he published Happy Youth: Twelve Easy Pieces (2 vols.) and under the name Tellier he published Plainte d'amour (1908), almost certainly a transcription. Perhaps Hearts and Flowers was his best known piano piece
Alexander, Alfred	8 May 1844		English organist and composer
Alexander, Arthur	25 Mar. 1891 Dunedin, New Zealand	20 Dec. 1967 Chinnor, Oxfordshire, England	pianist, organist, singer, conductor and composer of songs and piano music. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music where he won the McFarren Prize and the Chappell Gold Medal, debuted in Vienna and spent three years in Paris. He spent a number of years in Ametrica as music adviser to George Eastman, founder of the Eastman School of Music. In 1922 Eastman instantly dismissed Alexander, a musician whom he admired very much. Arthur, in addition to being in charge of Mr. Eastman's music and teaching voice at the Eastman, was conductor of the Eastman Theatre Orchestra and was to conduct the new Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. He and Mr. Eastman were talking about the programmes in the theatre. Mr. Eastman suggested that it would be a good idea to have Samuel L. Rothafel, managing director of the Roxy Theatre, come from New York to "see how we are doing." Arthur disagreed and a heated argument developed. Finally Arthur said, "If 'Roxy' comes here, I quit." Without raising his voice Mr. Eastman replied, "I accept your resignation, Arthur." Thus ended the Rochester career of a brilliant musician. Alexander returned to London and was professor of piano at the Royal College of Music. He premiered Bax's Piano Sonata no.2. He was married to the composer Freda Swain from 1921
Alexander (known as Der Meister or Der Wilde)	fl. 1247-1288 in Germany and Schwabia		a minnesinger of the late thirteenth century. Four of his melodies survive, including a relatively mature example of the Leich(or lai)
Alexander, Christian (David)	15 Jan. 1964		English composer
Alexander, Haim [Heinz] more...	9 Aug. 1915	18 Mar. 2012	Israeli composer and teacher of German birth (NS)
Alexander, Jeff more...	2 Jul. 1910 Seattle, Washington, USA	23 Dec. 1989 Whidbey Island, Washington, USA	American popular composer and conductor (NS)
Alexander, Josef	15 May 1907	28 Feb. 1992	American composer
Alexander, Larry	21 Jul. 1939		American popular songwriter
Alexander, Leni more...	8 Jun. 1924 Breslau, Germany	7 Aug. 2005 Santiago, Chile	Chilean composer of German origin (NS)
Alexander, Monty (Bernard Montgomery) more...	6 Jun. 1944 Kingston, Jamaica		jazz pianist who moved from Jamaica to Florida in 1962 and then to New York in the early 70s. He led own trio with Milt Jackson and Ray Brown in the early 1970s. His unique laid-back style, slightly behind the beat and with Caribbean influence, has been characteristic of his live performances and his many recordings
Alexander, Robyn Lynn	10 Jun. 1951		American popular composer, lyricist, and singer
Alexander, Russell more...	26 Feb. 1877 Nevada City, Missouri, USA	2 Oct. 1915 Liberty, New York, USA	virtuoso on the euphonium; joined the circus band of Belford's Carnival at the age of 18. At 20, became arranger and euphonium soloist with Barnum & Bailey Circus Band under the noted circus bandmaster Carl Clair. Toured Europe with the circus from 1897-1902. As a composer he is considered one of the greatest of American march writers, particularly noted for his circus marches. Famous marches include Colossus of Columbia, Memphis the Majestic, Belford's Carnival, Storming of El Caney Galop, The Southerner and Burr's Triumphal
Alexander, Van (born Alexander Van Vliet Feldman) more...	2 May 1915		American popular composer, lyricist, and arranger (NS)
Alexander, William P.	8 Nov. 1927		American composer
Alexandra (Moraru), Liana more...	27 May 1947 Bucharest, Romania	2011 (?)	Romanian composer and teacher (NS)
Alexandre (Alessandro), Charles-Guillaume	c.1735	late 1787 or early 1788 Paris, France	French composer and violinist
Alexandrescu, Romeo	17 Jun. 1902	1976 (?)	Romanian composer, pianist, and musicologist (NS)
Alexandrov, Alexander (aka Vasil'yevich) (see Aleksandrov, Aleksandr Vasil'evich more...	13 Apr. 1883 Plakhino, Russia	8 Jul. 1946 Berlin, Germany	a Russian Soviet composer, the founder of the Red Army Choir, who wrote the music for the national anthem of the Soviet Union, which in 2001, became the anthem of Russia (with new lyrics)
Alexandrov (or Alexandrof, Alexandrow), Anatoly Nikolayevich more...	25 (Old Style 13) May 1888 Moscow, Russia	16 Apr. 1982 Moscow, Russia	pupil of Taneief; composer of songs, piano sonatas and orchestral works. Alexandrov was influenced by Scriabion, Medtner and Rachmaninov. His work typifies the development of Russian music from the turn of the century to the final stage of socialist realism and the dissolution of Soviet cultural policy in the 1980s
Alexandrov, Boris Alexandrovich more...	4 Aug. (Old Style 22 Jul.) 1905	17 Jun. 1994	Russian composer and conductor, particularly of military music (NS)
Alexandrov, Nikolay Ivanovich	23 (Old Style 11) Dec. 1818	5 Jan. 1886 (Old Style 24 Dec. 1885)	Russian guitarist and composer
Alexandrov, Yury Mikhailovich	1 Sep. (Old Style 19 Aug.) 1914		Russian composer and editor
Alexandrova-Kochetova, Alexandra Dorimedontovna	24 Oct. 1833	17 Nov. 1903	Russian singer and composer (NS)
Alexandrowa, Mlle. A.	1835 Russia		pianist, singer and published composer
Alexiadis, Minas more...	1960 Athens, Greece		Greek jazz pianist and composer (NS)
Alexiou, Haris (nee Hariklia Roupaka) more...	27 Dec. 1950 Thebe, Greece		Greek singer and composer of songs (NS)
Alfano, Franco more...	8 Mar. 1875 Posilippo, Naples	27 Oct. 1954 San Remo	composer of operas, including Cyrano de Bergerac and chamber music, but he is remembered most for completing, at the suggestion of Toscanini, Puccini's Turandot from sketches left by the composer, an achievement maligned by some but which has not been attempted by any other (NS)
Alferaki, Akhilles Nikolayevich more...	3 Jul. (Old Style 21 June) 1846 Kharkov, Russia	27 Dec. 1919 Petrograd (St. Petersburg), Russia	Ukrainian composer and statesman of Greek descent
Alfidi, Joseph (Jo) more...	28 May 1949 Yonkers, New York, USA		composer, pianist, conductor and teacher
Alfeyev (Bishop of Vienna and Austria), Hilarion more...	24 Jul. 1966 Moscow, Russia		a hierarch of the Moscow Patriarchate, theologian, church historian, composer. Author of several monographs on dogmatic theology, patristics and church history, numerous articles in various languages, musical compositions.
Alfieri, Pietro more...	29 Jun. 1801 Rome, Italy	12 Jun. 1863 Rome, Italy	Italian musicologist and composer (NS)
Alfiero (Alfieri), Giuseppe	1630 Naples, Italy	21 Jan. 1665 Naples, Italy	Italian composer
Alfonso II of Aragon more...	1152	1196	also Alfons I of Provence and Barcelona, known as the Chaste or the Troubadour was king of Aragon and count of Barcelona from 1162 to 1196
Alfonso X of Castile ('El Sabio') more...	23 Nov. 1221 Castile, Spain	4 Apr. 1284 Castile, Spain	King of Castile and León (from 1252) and brother-in-law of Edward I of England. A patron of Castilian literature and historiography, and of the arts, he initiated the study of music at Salamanca University. Many troubadours found favor at his court, and it was here that the MS known as the Cantigas de Santa Marìa was compiled; Alfonso himself may have composed some of its melodies. 'El Sabio' means 'The Wise'
Alfonso, Don	13 May 1899		American samba composer of Italian birth
Alfonso, Javier	1 Feb. 1904)	1988	Spanish pianist and composer (NS)
Alfonso, Mariano (see Lara, Agustin)
Alfonso, Nicolas	6 Dec. 1913 Santander, Spain	2 Oct. 2001 Brussels, Belgium	composer, guitarist and teacher
Alford, Delton L.	13 Aug. 1938		American religious composer, conductor, and arranger
Alford, Harry L. more...	1875 or 1883	4 Mar. 1939	American organist, composer, and arranger (NS)
Alford, Henry more...	7 Oct. 1810 London, England	12 Jan. 1871 Canterbury, England	English minister, writer, editor, translator, and composer
Alford, Kenneth (see Ricketts, Frederick Joseph)
Alford, Marmaduke	1647	May 1715	English vocalist and composer
Alfred, Roy	14 May 1916		American popular composer and writer
Alfvén, Hugo (Emil) more...	1 May 1872 Stockholm, Sweden	8 May 1960 Faluns, Sweden	conductor, violinist and composer of 5 symphonies, 3 orchestral Swedish Rhapsodies, cantatas and a violin sonata. Alfvén's interest in Swedish folk music and Swedish folk songs penetrates the larger part of his works
Algazi, Léon more...	19 Feb. 1890		French-Israeli composer and conductor of Romanian descent (NS)
Alghisi (Algisi), Paris Francesco more...	19 Jun. 1666 Brescia, Italy	29 or 30 Mar. 1733 Brescia, Italy	Italian composer and organist (NS)
Al-Haj, Rahim more...	1967 Baghdad, Iraq		Iraqi ud player and composer who is now resident in the United States
Aliabiev, Alexander (see Alyabiev, Alexander)
Alin, Pierre [Pierre Schüler Jr.]	26 Jul. 1879	6 Oct. 1920	Swiss composer, pianist, singer, and journalist
Alinovi, Giuseppe	27 Sep. 1790	18 Mar. 1869	Italian composer
Alío y Brea, Francisco	27 Mar. 1862 Barcelona, Spain	31 Mar. 1908 Barcelona, Spain	Spanish composer, folklorist, and music critic [additional information by Willem E. M. Pin]
Aliotti, Bonaventura more...	c.1640 Palermo, Italy	c.1690 Palermo, Italy	also known under the name 'Padre Palermino', Aliotti was a pupil of the organist Giovanni Battista Fasolo (author of Annuale, published in 1645, an influential text on playing the organ) and choirmaster of Palermo Cathedral, Bonaventura Rubino (composer of Vespro del Santissimo Stellario (1644) set for twelve choruses and various instruments). In March 1671 Aliotti moved to Padua. There, working with Pallavicino, Aliotti composed sacred music until, probably to find a more comfortable climate, he moved in October 1674 to Ferrara to take up an appointment as organist at the church of the Confraternita della Morte. It is known that he wrote at least eleven oratorios of which only four have survived (NS)
Aliprandi, Bernardo Maria (Bernhard)	5 Feb. 1747 Milan, Italy	19 Feb. 1801 Frankfurt am Main, Germany	Italian cellist and composer active in Germany
Alis, Román more...	24 Aug. 1931 Palma de Mallorca Spain	29 Oct. 2006 Madrid, Spain	Spanish composer (NS)
Aliseda, Jerónimo de	c.1548	28 Jun. 1591	Spanish composer
Aliseda, Santos de		4 Jul. 1580	Spanish composer
al-Isfahani, Abu al-Faraj more...	897 Isfahan, Persia	967	compiler of the collection of song texts, the monumental Kitab al-Aghani, or Book of Songs (NS)
Alison, Richard (Allinson, Allison) more...	fl. 1592-1606		composer of madrigals, lute solos and compiler of book of metrical psalm tunes
Aliverdibeyov, Nazim	1926	1985	Azerbaijani composer and teacher, especially remembered for writing Organ Fantasy based on Bayati-Shiraz mugam
Alix, René	14 Sep. 1907	30 Dec. 1966	French composer and organist
Alizade (or Alizadeh), Akshin Alikuly ogly (or Agshin Aligulu)	22 May 1937 Baku, Azerbaijani		Azerbaijani composer (NS)
Alizadeh, Ali more...	1961 Baku, Azerbaijan		Azerbaijani composer, now resident in both Azerbaijan and Turkey, of orchestral, chamber, vocal, and piano works that have been performed throughout Asia and Europe
Alizadeh, Franghiz [Frangis Ali-Sade] more...	28 May 1947 Baku, Azerbaijan		studied piano under U. Khalilov at the Music School of Baku, 1954-65; Azerbaijani State Conservatory 1965-72 under Kara Karayev; post-graduate research in composition at Azerbaijan State Conservatory 1974-76; candidate degree in 1989; in 1982 she married the film-maker Dzhangir Gasanga Zeinalov; since 1989 she has been Professor at the State Conservatory
Alkan, Charles Henry Valentin (né Morhange) more...	30 Nov. 1813 Paris, France	29 Mar. 1888 Paris, France	died under a falling bookcase - child prodigy who won the premier prix for solfège at the Paris Conservatoire at the age of seven, composer of extremely difficult piano music, who also wrote for the pedal-piano
Allabene, Gregorius	1720	1802	Italian composer
Allacher, Heinrich	11 Mar. 1929		Austrian trombonist, teacher, and composer
Allaga, Géza more...	1841 Hungary	19 Mar. 1913	Hungarian composer who wrote many concert works featuring the Hungarian hammered dulcimer or cymbalum (NS)
Allaire, (Joseph Georges-Émile) Gaston more...	18 Jun. 1916 Berlin, New Hampshire, USA	15 Jan 2011 Deerfield Beach, Florida, USA	Canadian musicologist, teacher, organist, pianist, and composer (NS)
Allaire, Ulderic	1901	1969	Canadian wind director, editor, and composer
Allam, Walter Edward	1902 London, England		Composed a wide range of music including one symphony
Allan, Cameron	1955		Australian film composer
Allan, Esther	28 Apr. 1914		American popular composer, pianist, and organist of Polish birth
Allan, James	27 Jul. 1842	10 Aug. 1885	Scottish lithographer, precentor, and composer
Allan, N(orman) Fraser	1911	1940	Canadian songwriter and pianist
Allanbrook, Douglas (Phillips) more...	1 Apr. 1921 Melrose, Boston, USA	29 Jan. 2003 Annapolis, Maryland, USA	American composer, concert pianist and harpsichordist. He was associated with a group of mid-twentieth century Boston composers who were students of Nadia Boulanger (NS)
Allard, Émilien more...	12 Jun. 1915 Montreal, Canada	18 Nov. 1977 Ottowa, Canada	Canadian carillonneur, pianist, clarinetist, and composer (NS)
Allard, Joseph more...	1 Feb. 1873	14 Nov. 1947	Canadian fiddler and composer (NS)
Allchin, William Thomas Howell	1843	8 Jan. 1883	English organist, teacher, and composer
Alldahl, Per-Gunnar	11 Oct. 1943		Swedish composer
Allegra, Salvatore more...	15 Jul. 1898 Palermo, Italy	12 Sep. 1993 Florence, Italy	composer of operetta and opera including Ave Maria (1934), I viandanti (1936), Il medico suo maigrado (1938) and Romulus (1952) [additional information by Willem E. M. Pin] (NS)
Allegri, Domenico more...	c.1583	5 Sep. 1629 Rome, Italy	Italian composer
Allegri, Gregorio more...	1582 Rome, Italy	17 Feb. 1652 Rome, Italy	maestro di cappella of the Sistine Chapel, in Rome (1610-1629). Composer of church music including the celebrated nine-part Miserere mei (Psalm 51) for nine voices, which, after a single hearing, or maybe two, in the Sistine Chapel, was transcribed by the 14 year old W. A. Mozart (NS)
Allegri, Lorenzo [Il Tedesco] more...	c.1573	15 Jul. 1648	Italian composer and lutenist, possibly of German birth
Allemanov, Dmitry Vasil'yevich	3 Nov. (Old Style 22 Oct.) 1867		Russian composer and researcher of church music
Allen, Alfred Benjamin	4 Sep. 1850		English pianist and composer
Allen, Allen David	26 Aug. 1936		American popular composer, lyricist, and producer
Allen, Barclay	27 Sep. 1918		American popular composer, conductor, and pianist
Allen, Bernie	22 Aug. 1938		New Zealand composer, performer, and conductor
Allen, David Bliss	16 Sep. 1939		American popular composer and lyricist
Allen, Eugene W.	1927		American military band director and composer
Allen, George Benjamin more...	21 Apr. 1822	30 Nov. 1898	English singer, organist, opera director, and composer (NS)
Allen, Henry Robinson more...	1809	27 Nov. 1876	Irish baritone singer and composer (NS)
Allen, Sir Hugh (Percy) more...	23 Dec. 1869 Reading, England	20 Feb. 1946 Oxford, England	English organist, conductor, administrator, and composer
Allen, Lanny	7 Aug. 1942		American religious composer, director, and singer
Allen, Paul Hastings	28 Nov. 1883 Hyde Park, Mass., USA	28 Sep. 1952 Boston, Mass., USA	American composer
Allen, Peter more...	18 Feb. 1952 Ottawa, Ontario		Canadian composer particular of music for film and TV commercials
Allen, Peter Charles more...			Canadian pianist and composer
Allen, Peter John Douglas	1935		Scottish minister and composer
Allen, Peter [Woolnough] more...	10 Feb. 1944 Tenterfield, NSW, Australia	18 Jun. 1992 California, USA	Australian popular songwriter and stage entertainer (NS)
Allen, Rex (Elvey)	31 Dec. 1924		American country-music singer and songwriter
Allen, Richard Gould	12 Sep. 1924		American popular composer, lyricist, and actor
Allen, Robert	5 Feb. 1928 Troy, NY, USA	1 Oct. 2000 Quogue, NY, USA	American popular composer, writer, accompanist and producer; his hits include I Never Felt More Like Falling in Love, To Know You and You Are Never Far Away From Me
Allen, Robert E.	1 Feb. 1920		American composer
Allen, Steve [Stephen Valentine Patrick William] more...	26 Dec. 1921 Chicago. IL	30 Oct. 2000 Los Angeles, CA, USA	American composer, pianist, singer, and comedian, creator and first host of The Tonight Show. These all describe the artist that Noel Coward once called "the most talented man in America". However, Allen himself ranked his gift for musical composition above all others (NS)
Allen, Thomas S. more...	16 Dec. 1876 Natick, Massachusetts, USA	23 Oct. 1919 Boston, Massachusetts, USA	American instrumentalist and composer (NS)
Allen, Thornton W.			composer of Bill Bailey
Allen, Virginia more...			currently residing in New York City, where she is a member of the conducting faculty at the Juilliard School and a Conductor of the Juilliard Trombone Choir. She studied French Horn and conducting and earned a Bachelor of Music Education degree and Master of Music degree in Performance from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. and a Diploma in Wind Conducting from the University of Calgary. Allen was a pioneer for women in military bands. She was the first woman to command and conduct an active duty military band that included women, when she was appointed Principal Conductor of the Army’s band in Atlanta
Allen, Ward [Warden Ambrose] more...	11 May 1924 Kirkton, Ontario, Canada	3 Aug, 1965 Hull, Quebec, Canada	Canadian fiddler and composer (NS)
Allen, William Clyde, Jr.	20 Apr. 1945		American composer, author, and conductor
Allende Sarón, Adolfo	29 Aug. 1890	9 Oct. 1966	Chilean composer and writer on music
Allende Sarón, Pedro Humberto more...	29 Jun. 1885 Santiago, Chile	17 Aug. 1959 Santiago, Chile	Chilean composer whose works include 12 Tonadas, of popular Chilean character, for piano, works for orchestra and songs [additional information by Willem E. M. Pin] (NS)
Allende-Blin, Juan more...	24 Feb. 1928 Santiago de Chile, Chile		Chilean composer who, since 1951 has worked extensively in Germany (NS)
Allessandra, Caterina (see Assandra, Caterina)
Allevi, Giuseppe	1603 or 1604	18 Jul. 1670	Italian composer
Alleyn, Alfred Hopkins	1867	24 Feb. 1949	English author and composer
Allier, Gabriel	6 Sep. 1863	31 Jan. 1924	French conductor, military band director, and composer
Allik, Kristi A. more...	6 Feb. 1952 Toronto, Canada		Canadian composer and teacher, who received her musical education at the University of Southern California, Princeton University and the University of Toronto, tutored by such prestigious professors as John Weinzweig, James Hopkins, Frederick Leseman, Lothar Klein, Oskar Morawetz and Milton Babbit, specializing in electronic music
Allinson, Thomas [Allanson] more...		1704 Lincoln, England	English organist and composer (NS)
Allison, Horton Claridge	25 Jul. 1846	17 Oct. 1926	English pianist, organist, teacher, and composer
Allison, John A.	27 Apr. 1914		American popular composer and lyricist
Allison, Mose (John Jr.) more...	11 Nov. 1927 Tippo, Mississippi, USA		American jazz pianist, singer, and songwriter (NS)
Allitsen, Mary Frances [real name Bumpus] more...	30 Dec. 1848 London, England	30 Sep. 1912 London, England	English composer and singer [additional information by Willem E. M. Pin] (NS)
Allman, Michael L(ee)	9 Oct. 1911		American popular composer, lyricist, and musician
Allmand, Frank	1858	8 Sep. 1948	English composer
Allon, Henry more...	13 Oct. 1818 Welton, Elloughton-cum-Brough, near Hull, England	16 Apr. 1892 London, England	English minister, musician, and hymnbook compiler (NS)
Allon, Henry Erskine more...	Oct. 1864 Canonbury, England	3 Apr. 1897 Marylebone, London, England	English composer (NS)
Allori, Pietro more...	18 May 1925 Gonnessa, Cagliari, Italy	31 Mar. 1985 Sardinia, Italy	entered the clergy in 1951 and became choir master and canon of the cathedral in the nearby town of Iglesias, where he remained the rest of his life. From an early age he devoted himself to the study of music and this was the only reason that he left the island for some time, in order to study at the conservatories in Florence and Milan. In his compositions Allori stays close to the Gregorian chant. He was strongly influenced by his homeland, especially the folk music. Sardinia is one of the places where the village people keep up a tradition of a kind of Passion plays, in which very old melodies are used to recite liturgical texts (NS)
Allton, Minette	13 Apr. 1916 USA		composer of popular music
Allum, Charles Edward	27 Jun. 1852		English organist, choirmaster, and composer
Allworth, Robert more...	10 Mar. 1943 Australia		Australian symphonic composer and recorder producer who achieved recognition in 1965 when the ISCM selected a sonata for piano for performance in Stockholm
Allyn, Marilyn Ione	25 Feb. 1946		American country composer, lyricist, and singer
Almaliach, Ambrose Lupo de (see Lupo, Ambrose)
Alman, Samuel more...	20 Sep. 1878 Sobolevka, Podolia, Russia	20 Jul. 1947 London, England	considered by many to be the greatest 'English' composer of synagogue music (NS)
Almandoz (Mendizabal), Norberto more...	5 Jun. 1893	7 Dec. 1970	Spanish composer and organist (NS)
Almaran (or Eleta Almaran), Hector Varela Carlos Eleta	late nineteenth century	second half of twentieth century	Panamanian composer of popular songs, in particular Historia de un amor, an internationally acclaimed bolero, that was recorded by virtually every major Latin artist during the 50s and 60s [additional information by Willem E. M. Pin] Historia de un Amor Ya no estas más a mi lado corazón en el alma solo tengo soledad Y si ya no puedo verte ¿Por qué Dios me hizo quererte? Para hacerme sufrir más Siempre fuiste la razón de mi existir Adorarte para mi fué religión En tus besos yo encontraba El amor que me brindaba el derecho y la pasión Coro: Es la historia de un amor como no hay otro igual Que me hizo comprender todo el bien todo el mal Que le dío luz a mi vida, apagándola después Ay que noche tan oscura Sin tu amor no viviré
Almasio, Francesco more...	1806	14 Nov. 1871	Italian organist and composer (NS)
Almeida, Antonio d'	fl. 1550		Portuguese composer and choir director
Almeida, Carlos	7 Jul. 1906		Brazilian violinist, composer, and conductor
Almeida, Eumire Deodato de [Eumir Deodato] more...	21 Jun. 1942		Brazilian popular composer and lyricist (NS)
Almeida, Fernando de	c.1600	21 Mar. 1660	Portuguese composer
Almeida, Francisco António de more...	c.1702 Lisbon, Portugal	1755 possibly Lisbon, Portugal	composer of many operas, the majority first performed in Lisbon, Portugal (NS)
Almeida, Inácio António de	18 Feb. 1760	25 Oct. 1825	Portuguese composer
Almeida, John Kameaaloha more...	28 Nov. 1897 Pauoa Valley, Oahu, Republic of Hawaii	9 Oct. 1985 Honolulu, Hawaii, USA	Hawaiian composer, lyricist, and teacher (NS)
Almeida, Laurindo Antonio de (Laurindo José de Araujo Almeida Nobrega Neto) more...	2 Sep. 1917 Miracatú, São Paulo, Brazil	26 Jul. 1995 Los Angeles, California, USA	Brazilian guitarist, composer and arranger who brought the Bossa Nova to the US audiences (NS)
Almeida, Waldemar de	24 Aug. 1904		Brazilian pianist and composer
Almeida Prado, José Antônio Rezende de more...	8 Feb. 1943 Santos, Brazil	21 Nov 2010	Almeida Prado is a prolific Brazilian composer who, from 1969 to 1973, studied with Ligeti and Foss (in Darmstadt) and with Messiaen and Nadia Boulanger (in Paris). His piece, Cartas Celestes (Celestial Charts) dates from 1973 and was intended originally for a multimedia show in a planetarium as a musical description of the night sky in the southern hemisphere between August and September. However, it has gained acceptance as a concert piece in its own right (NS)
Almenräder, Carl more...	3 Oct. 1786 Ronsdorf, Wuppertal, Germany	14 Sep. 1846 Biebrich, Germany	German bassoonist, inventor, and composer (NS)
Almeri, Giovanni Paolo	17 Aug. 1629	after 1689	Italian composer
Almila, Atso more...	13 Jun. 1953 Helsinki, Finland		Finnish composer whose first operas was Kolmekymmentä hopearahaa (Thirty Pieces of Silver, 1988), based on the story of a Revivalist preacher in the 19th century. He has later written the emigrant opera Ameriikka (America, 1992); Isontaloon Antti (Antti Isotalo, 2000), set in early 20th-century Ostrobothnia; and Pohjanmaan kautta (Bottoms Up! 2002), set in the time of the Prohibition. Almila's operas are simple in style, consciously designed as folk operas, and often quote folk music (NS)
Almivare, Martin-Pierre d' (or Martin-Pierre Alvimare) more...	18 Sep. 1772 Dreux, France	13 Jun. 1839 Paris, France	Martin-Pierre Dalvimare (Marquis d'Almivare) was a French composer particularly of concertos for harp; Almivare is one of the composers whose works were copied by the Duchess of Norfolk (formerly Countess of Surrey), Lady Charlotte Sophia (Leveson-Gower) Howard, (1788-1870) part of the The James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection at Yale University (NS)
Almodar, Pere Joan	sixteenth century		Spanish composer of the song Ah, Pelayo que desmayo
Almond, Marsha Renee	25 May 1959		American popular composer and lyricist
Almoro, Juan	c.1485	1504	Spanish composer
Almukhamedov, Gaziz Salikhovich more...	1895 Muraptalovo, Tatar	1938 Kazan	an ethnic Bashkir Tatar opera singer (tenor) and composer
Almqvist, Carl Jonas Love (Ludvig) more...	28 Nov. 1793 Stockholm, Sweden	26 Sep. 1866 Bremen, Germany	Swedish author, journalist, and composer [additional information by Willem E. M. Pin] (NS)
Alnæs, Eyvind more...	29 Apr. 1872 Fredriksstad, Norway	24 Dec. 1932 Oslo, Norway	Norwegian composer, conductor and organist (NS)
Alnar, Hasan Ferit more...	11 Mar. 1906 Istanbul, Turkey	27 Jul. 1978 Ankara, Turkey	Turkish conductor and composer, a member of the so-called "Turkish Five" which included Ahmet Adnan Saygun, Necil Kazim Akses, Cemal Resit Rey, Ulvi Cemal Erkin and Alnar. These musicians, all sent abroad to train, returned to Turkey in 1934, a year before Paul Hindemith was placed in charge of the planning of the musical institutes and musical training in Turkey. (NS)
Aloisi, Giovanni Battista	fl. 1628-44		Italian composer
Aloiz, Vladislav Frantsevich [Aloys]	1 Jul. 1860	1918	Bohemian cellist and composer resident in Poland and Russia
Aloma, Harold David	8 Jan. 1908		Hawaiian popular composer, lyricist, and musician
Alomía Robles, Daniel more...	3 Jan. 1871	17 Jul. 1942	Peruvian ethnomusicologist and composer (NS)
Alon, Aaron more...	14 May 1981 USA		American composer
Aloni, Aminadav more...	14 Sep. 1928 Tel Aviv, Israel	9 Aug. 1999 Sherman Oaks, California, USA	Israeli composer and musician (NS)
Alonso	fl. 1500		Spanish composer, perhaps identifiable with Alonso de Plaja
Alonso, Francisco more...	9 May 1887 Granada, Spain	19 May 1948	Spanish composer of zarzuelas, revistas and revue-style sainetes
Alonso, Lopez Francisco more...	9 May 1887	18 May 1948	Spanish conductor and composer (NS)
Alonso Bernaola, Carmelo more...	16 Jul. 1929 Ochandiano, Spain	5 Jun. 2002	Professional known by his mother's maiden name Bernaola, Basque composer Carmelo Alonso Bernaola, a leading figure in Spanish music wrote symphonies and themes for hundreds of movies, television shows and theatre productions. He studied classical music in Rome and Siena, Italy, and Darmstadt, Germany. He became director of the Vitoria Conservatory in the Basque regional capital in the early 1980s and in 1993 he was accepted into the academy of fine arts and recognized as one of the leading Spanish composers of the 20th century (NS)
Alonso-Crespo, Eduardo more...	18 Mar. 1956 Tucuman, Argentina		composer and conductor, Eduardo Alonso-Crespo studied at the National University of Tucumán in Argentina, where he also received his civil engineering degree. Through a Fulbright grant, he obtained his master's degree in conducting at Carnegie Mellon University. Alonso-Crespo's works have been performed by orchestras and ensembles from France, Portugal, Poland, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, and the United States. He has been awarded more than a dozen national and international prizes from Argentine, Spanish, and Italian institutions, including the Alejandro Shaw Award from the National Academy of Fine Arts of Argentina and the Cristóbal Colón International Prize for Symphonic Music. His compositions range from chamber to orchestral music, while his works for the stage include the ballets Two Stories of Birds and Medea, the incidental music for Macbeth, and the operas Putzi, Juana la loca, and Gorbachov (NS)
Alonso de Alba	c.1475 Spain	1520 Spain	Spanish composer, probably also a singer at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella, who composed a Stabat Mater
Alotin, Yardena more...	19 Oct. 1930 Tel-Aviv, Israel	4 Oct 1994 New York City, New York, USA	composer, pianist and teacher, studied at Tel-Aviv Music Teachers Seminary and at Israeli Academy of Music (NS)
Alpaerts, Flor (Florent) more...	12 Sep. 1876 Antwerp, Belgium	5 Oct. 1954 Antwerp, Belgium	Belgian composer and conductor (NS)
Alpen, Hugo more...	26 Oct. 1842 Kellinghusen, Germany	20 Jun. 1917 Strathfield, Australia	Australian music educator and composer of German birth (NS)
Alperin, Mikhail (Jefimowitsch) more...	7 Nov. 1956 Ukraine, Soviet Union		Ukrainian born pianist and composer, an exponent of Moldovian jazz, more recently based in Oslo, Norway (NS)
Alperson, Edward Lee, Jr more...	3 Apr. 1925 Omaha, Nebraska, USA	31 Oct. 2006 Encino, California, USA	American popular composer and film producer
Alpert, David A.	2 Mar. 1929		American popular songwriter and musician
Alpert, Herb more...	31 Mar. 1935 Los Angeles, California, USA		American popular trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and record company executive (NS)
Alquen, Peter Cornelius Johann d'	7 Sep. 1795	17 Nov. 1863	German composer
Alrich, Alexis			American composer who studied at the New England Conservatory, California Institute of the Arts and with Lou Harrison at Mills College
Alschausky, Joseph Serafini more...	12 Mar. 1879 France	15 Jan 1948 Falkenberg, Germany	Trombonist and composer of French birth
Al'shvang, Arnol'd Alexandrovich	1 Oct. 1898	28 Jul. 1960	Soviet music historian, pianist, and composer
Alsina, Carlos Roqué more...	19 Feb. 1941 Buenos Aires, Argentina		Argentinian pianist, self-taught composer and co-founder of the French improvisation group New Phonic Art who has composed well over 100 works
Alsleben, Julius more...	24 Mar. 1832 Berlin, Germany	8 Dec. 1894 Berlin, Germany	German musicologist, pianist, and composer (NS)
Alsted, Birgitte more...	15 Jun. 1942 Odense, Denmark		Danish composer and violinist (NS)
Alsters, Georges-Jacques more...	1770 Ghent, Belgium	11 Apr. 1849 Ghent, Belgium	composer, organist and carillonneur (NS)
Alstyne, Mrs. Alexander more...	24 Mar. 1820 Putnam County, New York, USA	12 Feb. 1915 Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA	one of several pseudonyms employed by the remarkable blind composer of hymns, Frances Jane Crosby
Alt, Bernhard more...	7 Apr. 1903 Munsterburg, Silesia, Germany	7 Feb. 1945 Berlin, Germany	German composer and violinist (NS) - not to be confused with composer below
Alt, Bernhard more...	15 Dec. 1896 Klosterneuberg, Austria	23 Aug. 1942 Mechelen, Belgium	Belgian composer - not to be confused with composer above
Altavilla, Onofrio	5 Sep. 1887		Italian composer and choral music teacher (NS)
Altena, Maarten more...	22 Jan. 1943 Amsterdam, The Netherlands		Dutch double-bass player and composer; founder of the Maarten Altena Ensemble (NS)
Altenburg, Johann Ernst more...	15 Jun. 1734 Weissenfels, Germany	14 May 1801 Bitterfeld, nr. Leipzig, Germany	German trumpeter in the French Army (1757-1766); later organist in Landsburg and, from 1769, in Bitterfeld. He is most famous for an important treatise on trumpters of this period, Versuch einer Anleitung zur heroisch-musikalischen Trompeter- und Pauker-Kunst (1795) and their approach to playing the trumpet
Altenburg, Michael more...	27 May 1584 Alach bei Erfurt, Germany	12 Feb. 1640 Erfurt, Germany	German church musician and composer (NS)
Alter, Louis more...	18 Jun. 1902 Haverhill, Mass., USA	5 Nov. 1980 New York, NY, USA	American pianist and composer; wrote many popular songs including Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans, My Kinda Love, Rainbow On The River, The Blues Are Brewin', You Turned The Tables On Me and Manhattan Serenade [additional information by Willem E. M. Pin] (NS)
Alter, Myriam more...	Belgium		coming from a Judeo-Spanish family (Sephardic Jews), Myriam Alter was raised with all kinds of music such as Latin, Italian, Oriental, Spanish, South American and classical. As a piano player she was trained in classical music but later found her way into jazz. It was not until she was in her mid-30s that she began writing and performing romantic jazz
Alter, Paul more...	11 Mar. 1922 Chicago, Illinois, USA	11 Jun. 2011 Los Angeles, California, USA	American popular composer and lyricist (NS)
Altès, Ernest (Eugène) (called Altès jeune)	28 Mar. 1830 Paris, France	2 Jul. 1899 St. Dyé sur Loire, France	French violinist, conductor, and composer of chamber music and orchestral works, including a Divertissement on Auber themes for the Auber centennial in 1882
Altès, Joseph-Henri (called Altès aîné) more...	18 Jan. 1826 Rouen, France	24 Jul. 1895 Paris, France	French flautist and composer of works for flute, methods, etc. (NS)
Altherr, Ernst	9 Apr. 1921		Swiss wind conductor, composer, and arranger
Althoff, Ernie more...	22 May 1950 Mildura, Victoria, Australia		Australian composer (NS)
Althouse, Monroe A.	26 May 1853	12 Oct. 1924	American conductor, composer, and circus musician
Altier, Stephane more...	1969 Avignon, France		studied composition in Rueil-Malmaison with Alain Roizenblat (1er Prix de composition 1995 / Mention d'excellence 1997), then at the Conservatoire Superieur de Paris with Jacques Charpentier (1er prix de composition 1999), and finally at the Royal Academy of Music (London) where he is awarded a Master Degree (M.MUS) in composition 'with distinction' in 2001 (NS)
Altieri, Paolo	29 Jan. 1745	17 Oct. 1820	Italian composer and music teacher
Altink, Hendrik	10 Oct. 1888	29 Jan. 1966	Dutch hornist, cellist, pianist, singer, conductor, and composer
Altmaier, Josef	1939		German composer
Altman, Arthur more...	28 Oct. 1912 Brooklyn, NY, USA	18 Jan. 1994 Lake Worth, Florida	American popular composer and lyricist who wrote the hit All or Nothing at All (1943) (NS)
Altman, Ludwig more...	2 Sep. 1910 Breslau, Germany	27 Nov. 1990 San Francisco, California, USA	German-American organist and composer (NS)
Altman, W.L. more...			completed his Bachelor of Music in theory and composition in 1986, for which he received the Murray Adaskin Composition Award. In 2000, under the supervision of Randall Snyder, he went on to complete a Master of Music in composition at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln where he was bestowed the Vreeland Award for outstanding graduate student in Fine Arts
Altnikol, Johann Christoph more...	baptised 1 Jan. 1720 Berna with Lauban, Schlesien	25 Jul. 1759 Naumburg, Saale	organist and composer; a pupil of J.S. Bach (NS)
Altschuler, Ernest	1 Oct. 1922	11 May 1973	American popular composer and lyricist
Altschuler, Modest (Moisei Isaacovich) more...	15 Feb. 1873 Moghilev, Ukraine	12 Sep. 1963 Los Angeles, California, USA	cellist, conductor and composer
Alvarado, Diego [Diogo] de	c.1570	12 Feb. 1643	organist and composer attached to the Royal Chapel, Lisbon, Portugal
Álvares, Paulo Sergio more...	1960 Belo Horizonte, Brazil		Brazilian-born pianist and composer, Alvares received his undergraduate degree in Sao Paulo. He came to the United States to study at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. Later he went to Cologne, Germany, to pursue his interest in contemporary music, and he received several prizes in performance competitions there. He is a faculty member of the Superior School of Music in Cologne where he leads the Ensemble for Aleatoric Music (NS)
Alvares Lobo, Elias	1834	15 Dec, 1901	Brazilian composer
Alvares Pinto, Luiz	1719		Brazilian composer
Alvarez, Calixto	15 Mar. 1938		Cuban pianist and composer
Álvarez, Fermín Maria more...	1833 Zaragoza, Spain	1898 Barcelona, Spain	Spanish composer of music for voice including La Partida "Sierras de Granda" made famous by Enrico Caruso (NS)
Alvarez, Javier more...	1956 Mexico City, Mexico		Mexican composer who studied composition with Mario Lavista, then with John Downey at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; in London with John Lambert at Royal College of Music and at City University. Founder member and past chairman of Sonic Arts Network. Visiting professor at Malmö Academy of Music, Sweden; teaches at City University, London, and University of Hertfordshire. Output includes opera and works for chamber ensembles, solo instruments (with and without electroacoustics), voice, choir and orchestra. Has also written for film and dance (NS)
Alvarez Acero, Bernardo	mid-18th century	21 Jan. 1821	Spanish composer
Álvarez Alonso, Antonio more...	11 Mar. 1867	22 Jun. 1903	Spanish conductor and composer (NS)
Alvarez Solar-Quintes, Nicolas more...	23 Jul. 1893 Gijon, Spain	9 Aug. 1967 Madrid, Spain	Spanish composer and musicologist (NS)
Alvaro	fl. 1470-75		Portuguese court musician, possibly identifiable with Alvaro Afonso
Alvaro, Romero	1908		Italian jazz pianist, singer, and violinist, and popular composer
Alvazzi, Clemente	fl. 1826 Varzo, Italy		Italian composer known for his religious music
Alvazzi, Giulio Maria Delfrate- (see Delfrate-Alvazzi, Giulio Maria
Alvear, Maria de more...	1960 Madrid, Spain		Spanish composer, whose mother is German, Maria works in the field of music theatre and video installations, the latter with her sister Ana de Alvear. Her work parallels that of Joseph Beuys, an important influence in her thinking and work, both seeking to exploit archaic cultures and shamanistic traditions, both rejecting the division between artistic and everyday creativity. Many of her works have been written employing "écriture automatique" or "automatic writing" where the music is written down as it is drawn from the subconcious rather than through the use of rational deliberation. Maria de Alvear is based in Cologne, Germany and since 1989 she has also been working as a painter and sculptor (NS)
Alveri, Giovanni Battista	1660-70 Bologna, Italy	after 1719	Italian composer
Alvernhe, Peire d' more...	flourished between 1149 - 1170 Clermont, France		troubadour from the Auvergne, a region of France (NS)
Alves, Bill more...	1960 USA		American teacher, composer and director of Microfest an annual Southern California festival of microtonal music (NS)
Alvimare, Martin-Pierre (see Almivare, Martin-Pierre d')
Alvisi, Adolfo	1880		Italian conductor and composer
Alwin, Karl Oskar [Alwin Oskar Pinkus]	15 Apr. 1891 Konigsberg, Germany	15 Oct. 1945 Mexico City, Mexico	German composer and conductor
Alwood, Richard	16th century		English composer
Alwyn, Kenneth (born Kenneth Alwyn Wetherell) more...	28 Jul. 1928 London, England		English composer (NS)
Alwyn, Mary (see Carwithen, Doreen Mary)
Alwyn, William more...	7 Nov. 1905 Northampton, England	11 Sep. 1985 Southwold, Suffolk, England	son of a grocer, left school at 15 to join the family business, but won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, London where he won prizes for composition. Eventually he became professor of composition at RAM and flautist with London Symphony Orchestra. Founder member of Composers' Guild, CBE 1978. Major Works: 5 symphonies, two operas, song cycles, piano & chamber compositions and a wealth of film scores including Odd man out and The History of Mr Polly (NS)
Alyab'iev, Alexander Alexandrovich (Alabiev, which is an incorrect alliteration, Alabief, Alabiew) more...	15 (Old Style 4) Aug. 1787 Tobolsk, Russia	6 Mar. (Old Style 22 Feb.) 1851 Moscow, Russia	composer of songs, especially The Nightingale formerly added to the Lesson Scene from Rossini's Barber of Seville, and operas. He acquired a considerable knowledge of folk music and an understanding of Oriental and Caucasian subjects
Al-Zand, Karim more...	1970 USA		formerly a jazz pianist and director, now a composer and university teacher. The music of composer Karim Al-Zand has been called "strong and startlingly lovely" (Boston Globe)