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Name Born Died Information Caballero, M(anuel) F(ernández) more... 14 Mar. 1835 Murcia, Spain 26 Feb. 1906 Spain Spanish composer Cabanilles (alternatively: Cavanilles), Juan Bautista José (alternatively: Josep) more... 6 Sep. 1644 Algemesí, Valencia, Spain 29 Apr. 1712 Valencia, Spain Spanish composer and organist. He probably began as a chorister at his local church; later he moved to Valencia, where he became second organist in 1665 and first organist the following year. In 1668 he was ordained to the priesthood. His works include sacred vocal works (a 6-voice Mass, a Magnificat, a Beatus vir, motets in Spanish) and many organ works, especially tientos. Cabanilles is considered by many the greatest (and certainly the most prolific) Spanish Baroque composer. He was certainly the greatest of the Valencian composers of organ music, and together with Correa de Araujo the most important Spanish organists of the 17th century Cabezón, Antonio de more... 1510 Castrillo de Matajudos, Spain 26 Mar. 1566 Madrid, Spain blind from birth, organist and harpsichord as well as composer principally of keyboard music who from 1548 worked in the service of Emperor Philip II. He is the author of Obras de Musica para Tecla y Harpa y Vihuela and he also wrote what is among the earliest surviving music for solo organ Cabezon, Hernando de more... 7 Oct. 1541 Spain 1602 Spain son of the above, music publisher and composer Cable, Howard more... 15 Dec. 1920 Toronto, Canada   Canadian composer, conductor and arranger Cabus, Peter more... 1923 2000 Flemish composer Cacciapaglia, Roberto more... 1953 Milan, Italy   composer, pianist and record producer Caccini (Signorini), Francesca (La Cecchina) more... 18 Sep. 1587 Florence, Italy c.1640 Florence, Italy Italian composer, singer, lutenist, poet, and music teacher of the early Baroque era. She was the daughter of Giulio Caccini, and was probably the most famous and influential female European composer, in any genre, between Hildegard of Bingen in the 12th century and the 19th century. She became the first Eurydice in Peri’s Dafne in 1600. She published several volumes of her compositions and also wrote poetry in the Latin and Tuscan languages. She wrote and sang in the opera La liberazione di Ruggiero dall' isola d'Alcina Caccini [Romano], Giulio more... 8 Oct. 1551 Rome, Italy 10 Dec. 1618 Florence, Italy father of Francesca, and one of the pioneering figures in the development of early Italian opera, Eurydice produced in 1600; composer of a book of madrigals and canzonets, Le nuove musiche which appeared in 1601 Caccini, Settimia more... 6 Oct. 1590 Italy c.1638 Italy like her sister Francesca also a composer Caceres (Caseres, Casseres), Abraham eighteenth century   prominant composer of Jewish music in 18th century Holland. Descended from a Jewish family which probably originated in Portugal (the town of Caceres lays in Portugal), the first time his name appears in documents is in 1718, as the composer of the music for the celebration of the confraternity lekach tov (a good lesson/conclusion) which was founded in that year for studying religious texts. Eight years later, in 1726, he composed the music for the inauguration of the synagogue Honen Dal (redeemer of the poor) in The Hague. He wrote also the music for two of Immanuel Hay Ricchi 's poems in his book Hon Ashir (Rich fortune). Later, in 1738 in the celebration of Simchat Torah , he is mentioned as composer and player Cadenet, Pierre fl. 1200-30   troubadour Cadicamo, Enrique [pseudonym: Rosendo Luna] more... 15 Jul. 1900 nr. Buenos Aires, Argentina 3 Dec. 1999 Buenos Aires, Argentina Argentinean poet and composer Cadman, Charles Wakefield more... 24 Dec. 1881 Johnstown, PA, USA 30 Dec. 1946 Los Angeles, CA, USA a composer inspired by American Indian themes who wrote operas, the Pennsylvania Symphony which includes the banging of an iron plate), orchestral suites, chamber music and a large number of songs Caesar, Irving [Isidor] more... 4 Jul. 1895 New York, USA 18 Dec. 1996 New York, USA American lyricist and composer Caesar, Rodolfo more... 1950 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil   graduated from the Instituto Villa-Lobos, UNIRIO. He had previously studied electroacoustic composition at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), Paris. As a student of Pierre Schaeffer he came to work directly with some of the most important composers of the genre. Back in Brazil he has started to teach as well, and, in conjunction with Tim Rescala, to develop the Estúdio da Glória. Later he completed a PhD in electroacoustic composition at the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, England, and now works in his private studio. He is also responsible for the music laboratory at the Escola de Música at the UFRJ Cafaro [Caffaro], Pasquale 8 Feb. 1716 S Pietro in Galatina, nr. Lecce 23 Oct. 1787 Naples Italian composer Caffi, Francesco 14 Jun. 1778 Venice, Italy 24 Jan. 1874 Padua, Italy Italian composer Cage, John more... 5 Sep. 1912 Los Angeles, USA 12 Aug. 1992 pupil of Schönberg and exploited of the 'prepared' piano; a musical visionary, his music being described by one commentator as 'disembodied beauty of sound without association, without precedented timbre or form, without aesthetic antecedent' - he has explored the essence of music, pitch, timbre, and sound itself Cagnoni, Antonio 8 Feb. 1828 Godiasco, nr. Voghera 30 Apr. 1896 Bergamo, Italy Italian composer Cahen [Cahen d'Anvers], Albert 8 Jan. 1846 Paris, France 23 Feb. 1903 Cap d'Ail, nr. Monte Carlo French composer Cahn, Sammy [Samuel Cohen] more... 18 Jun. 1913 New York, NY, USA 15 Jan. 1993 Los Angeles, CA, USA American violinist and song writer Caietain (or Cajetan), Fabrice-Marin more... c.1540 Gaeta, Italy c.1578 Italian-born composer who worked in France and was influenced by the theories of l'Académie de Poésie et de Musique Caimo, Giuseppe (Gioseppe) more... c. 1540 Milan, Italy 1584 Milan, Italy organist and composer Cailo, Giovanni Carlo 1610 1688 Neapolitan composer and organ player. His Stabat Mater a cinque voci is considered to be a trendsetter for a range of well-known (and less well-known) Stabats composed in Naples (A.Scarlatti, Astorga, Fago, Pergolesi), all belonging to the so called Neapolitan School. This refers to the Neapolitan culture in opera, which became an enormous influence in church music. These compositions are divided into self-contained units (chorals, recitatives, arias, etc) and the text is expressed in an operatic manner Caine, Uri more... 8 Jun. 1956 Philadelphia, USA   jazz pianist and composer Caix, d'Hervelois, Louis de more... c. 1670 Paris, France 1760 Paris, France famous as a performer on the viola da gamba, for which instrument he composed many fine works Cajetan, Fabrice-Marin (see Caietain)       Calace, Raffaele 1863 Naples, Italy 1934 Naples, Italy son of Antonio Calace, a successful instrument maker, Raffaele discovered the possibilities of the mandolin and became an unequalled mandolin virtuoso. After he had graduated with honours at the Regio Conservatorio di Musica in Naples, he intended to give the mandolin its rightful place in music. To achieve this, he toured through Europe and Japan, and made three long-playing records. Raffaele wrote about 200 compositions that belong to the most beautiful and technically difficult works written for the mandolin. He also wrote didactical works, among which a method for playing the Liuto Cantabile (a 5-double stringed mandoloncello) and his much-praised mandolin method. This was published in 1910 and elaborates on the eighteen-century Italian mandolin methods by Giovanni Battista Gervaiso (c. 1725-c. 1785), Gabriele Leone (c. 1725-c. 1790) and others Calandra [Calandria, Calandro], Nicola fl. 1740-1760   Italian composer particularly of operas Caldara, Antonio more... 1670/71 Venice, Italy 26/8 Dec. 1736 Vienna, Austria Italian baroque composer who wrote over 70 operas, 30 oratorios, motets, masses and string sonatas Caldeira Cabral, Pedro more... 1950 Lisbon, Portugal   as a child he began studying Portuguese guitar, classic guitar and the recorder (flute). In 1970 he began studying lute, viola da gamba and other old string and wind instruments. Later he founded and directed the bands La Batalla and Concerto Atlântico which specialised in old music played on historical instruments. Between 1967 and 1975, he took various courses on contemporary music composition and worked with Karel Goyvaerts, Constança Capdeville, José Alberto Gil and Jorge Peixinho Caldicott, Alfred James 26 Nov. 1842 Worcester, England 24 Oct. 1897 nr. Gloucester, England English composer Caldwell, John more... 1947 Rochester, NY, USA 13 Jan. 1995 Clarion, PA, USA composer, art curator, music critic who studied music, art and literature at Allegheny College undertaking composition studies with Harold Boatrite. John Caldwell composed works for orchestra, band, chorus, chamber ensembles, and solo marimba Cale, John more... 9 Mar. 1940 Crynant, Wales   worked with the Velvet Underground where he played violin and bass. Cale is also known for producing The Stooges' first album (featuring Iggy Pop). as well as producing Siouxsie & the Banshees' last album. He has worked both as a composer and an actor in film Calegari, Cornelia (Maria Caterina) 1644 after 1675 an organist and singer who became a nun in 1661. Her first book of motets was published when she was fifteen and it met with considerable success Calegari (or Callegari), Antonio 17 Feb. 1757 Padua, Italy 22 Jul. 1828 Padua, Italy Italian composer Calegari (or Callegari), Giuseppe c.1750 Padua, Italy 1812 Padua, Italy Italian composer Calegari, Luigi Antonio c.1780 Padua, Italy 1849 Venice, Italy Italian composer Calexico more...     a band from Tucson, Arizona, US comprising Joey Burns and John Convertino, named composer of music for the films L' Amour, l'argent, l'amour (2000) and Committed (2000) Caliendo, Christopher more...     guitarist, conductor, teacher, publicist and composer of over five hundred classical/world music compositions, including those in the American tango, American gypsy and chamber jazz genres. Christopher has an AA in Humanities and a BA from the New England Conservatory of Music and an MFA from UCLA in Theory/Composition. His teachers include Henry Mancini, Frank Zappa, Jerrold Immel, Neal Hefti, Henry Lazarof, Paul Reale and Pierrre Boulez Califano, Arcangelo early 18th century   Italian composer Califona, Aniello 1870 1919 composer/lyricist of Vieni Sul Mar, based on an old Neopolitan waltz, made popular by Enrico Caruso, but well known before his time, and of O surdato 'nnammurato, Carmela mia, Ninì tirabusciò Calkin, James more... 19 Sep. 1786 London, England 18 Jan. 1862 London, England pianist, violinist and cellist who composed orchestral, chamber and piano music Calkin, Joseph (also called Tenielli Calkin after his mother who was born Tenniel) more... 13 Jan. 1816 London, England 6 Jun. 1874 London, England son of above and tenor, who became a fine teacher and composer of songs Calkin, John Baptiste more... 16 Mar. 1827 London, England 15 Apr. 1905 Crouch End, Middlesex, England brother of above, organist; composer of church music, glees, part-songs and music for piano and organ Calkin, George more... 10 Aug. 1829 London, England 13 Jul. 1911 Hampstead, London, England London, England cellist, organist, choral director; composer of music for organ and choir Call, Leonard von more... 1779 Tyrol, Austria 1815 Austria Austrian guitarist and composer known particularly for his music for guitar as well as for 16 published collections of songs for male voice choir which established the tradition of male voice singing in Vienna Callaerts, Joseph more... 22 Aug. 1838 Antwerp, Belgium 3 Mar. 1901 Antwerp, Belgium spent his whole life in Antwerp, his native city, where he built up a successful career as an organist, composer and teacher Callaway, Ann 1949   she began her musical training in Baltimore with Grace Newsom Cushman and continued at Smith College with Alvin Etler. She received graduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University, where she studied with George Crumb, Jack Beeson, and George Edwards. Her music has been broadcast on both coasts of the United States and she is the subject of a documentary produced by Swedish Radio. Callaway has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, commissions from the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Guild of Organists, and has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Leighton Artist Colony in Banff. Her works have been performed by the Seattle Symphony, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. She has composed many chamber and orchestral works, in addition to several song cycles and works for chorus Callcott, John Wall more... 1766 London, England 1821 London, England composer of glees and catches Callcott, William Hutchins more... 1807 London, England 1882 London, England son of above; also composer of glees and catches Callhoff, Herbert more... 13 Aug. 1933 Viersen, Germany   German composer Calloway, Cab more... 25 Dec. 1907 Rochester, New York, USA 18 Nov. 1994 Hockessin, Delaware, USA famous American jazz singer and bandleader Calmel, Roger more... 13 May 1920 Languedoc, France 4 Jul. 1998 Paris, France French composer. His nearly 400 works span every genre, from chamber music to opera Calthorpe, Nancy more... 1914 Waterford, Ireland 1998 Dublin, Ireland Irish harpist, arranger and composer Calvi, Carlo more...     Italian composer who wrote Intavolatura de chitarra e chitariglia Calvisius, Sethus (born: Seth Kalwitz) more... 21 Feb. 1556 Gorsleben, Germany 24 Nov. 1615 Leipzig, Germany German music theorist, composer, chronologer, astronomer, and teacher of the late Renaissance. Calvo Cantero, Charo more...     studied singing and music theory, contemporary dance and dramatic art in Madrid and Brussels. In the 1980s, she was a dancer in Brussels. She then studied electronic music at Antwerpen Conservatoire and electoacoustic composition at Mons with Annette Vande Gorne. Charo has worked on the sound design and music for many theatre and dance projects, for films and dance videos Camacho, João more... 11 Jan. 1972 Luanda, Angola   Portuguese music teacher, teacher and composer Cambert, Robert more... c.1628 Paris, France Feb./Mar. 1677 London, England harpsichordist and organist; His opera Pomone was one of the earliest examples of French opera. It is believed that he lost his opera monopoly to Lully whereupon he moved to London, and was reputedly murdered there by his valet Cambini, Giuseppe Maria (Gioacchino) more... 13 Feb. 1746 Livorno, Italy 29 Dec. 1825 Bicêtre Italian-born composer Camerloher (or Camerlocher, Cammerlocher), Placidus Cajetan von more... 9 Aug. 1718 Murnau 21 Jul. 1782 Freising composer, lutenist and organist Cameron, John more... 1944   English composer, arranger and music supervisor for film, TV and ttheatre Camidge, John the elder more... 1734 1803 organist and composer of chants Camidge, John the younger more... 1790 York, England 21 Sep. 1859 York, England son of Matthew Camidge, organist and composer of chants Camidge, Matthew more... 1764 England 1844 son of John Camidge the elder, organist, composer of piano sonatas and chants and editor of cathedral music Camilleri, Charles Mario more... 1931 Malta   a composer who has been inspired by Maltese and African sources and whose works include a opera Melita, Missa Mundi for organ and Abongo for wind quintet Camilleri, Lelio more... 1957 Rome, Italy   Professor of Electronic Music at the GB Martini Conservatory of Music (Bologna, Italy). Since 1999, he also teaches music and multimedia in the Master Program on Multimedia organized by the University of Florence and the RAI (Italian Radio and Television). He has composed electronic and instrumental works which have been performed in Europe, North America, South America, and New Zealand, and broadcasted by the Italian, Belgian, Australian and Argentinean radios Camilleri, William more... London, UK   composer of music managed by Sandra Marsh management in Beverly Hills whose website is www.filmworks-online.com Camilo, Michel more... 4 Apr. 1954 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic   pianist and composer, known as an outstanding jazz, Latin and classical pianist Camm, Cheryl more... Worksop, England   English composer and educator, who spent many years studying working in New Zealand Camp, Hamilton more... 30 Oct. 1934 London, England 2 Oct. 2005 British-born singer, songwriter, and actor. Camp was evacuated during WWII to the United States as a child with his mother and sister(s). He became a child actor in films and onstage, originally performing under the name Bob Camp Campa, Gustavo E(milio) 8 Sep. 1863 México 29 Oct. 1934 México Mexican composer Campagnoli, Bartolomeo more... 10 Sep. 1751 Cento di Ferrara, Italy 6 Nov. 1827 Neustrelitz, Germany Italian violinist and composer Campana, Fabio 14 Jan. 1819 Livorno, Italy 2 Feb. 1882 London, England Italian composer Campana, Francesca   1665 Rome published composer who was also considered one of the finest singers in Rome. Campana composed and played the spinet as well Campanus, Johannes Vodnianus (Jan Vodnanský Campanus; Jan z Vodnan, Jan Campanus-Vodnanský, Jan Kampánus Vodnanský, Ionnes Campanus Vodnianus) more... 27 Dec. 1572 Vodnany, Bohemia 13 Dec. 1622 Prague Czech humanist, composer, pedagogue, poet, and dramatist. He studied at the University of Prague and in 1596 and was made Master of Liberal Arts there. He became a teacher in Prague and Kutná Hora. From 1603 he taught Greek and Latin at the University of Prague. He also taught history and Latin poetry. He was repeatedly appointed as dean, prorector, and rector of this university Campbell, Alexander 22 Feb. 1764 Tombea, Perths., Scotland 15 May 1824 Edinburgh, Scotland Scottish composer Campbell, Bruce     one of several writers who owed much to his association with Robert Farnon, he was a fellow Canadian, who actually came to Britain some years before Farnon, and played trombone with various British bands during the 1930s including Ambrose, Jack Harris, Jack Hylton, Sid Millward, Hugo Rignold and Lew Stone. Campbell assisted Farnon on his post-war BBC radio shows, and eventually became a frequent contributor to various mood music libraries. Skippy is still familiar to older TV viewers in Britain as the theme for Seeing Sport Campbell, Malcolm (Calum) 13 Apr. 1937 Benbecula, Scotland 11 Jan. 2005 Benbecula, Scotland Scottish piper and composer of music for the pipes. In the tradition of earlier times, he composed tunes to commemmorate people and events in the local community. His march Bain's Welcome to Creagorry and his jig Hercules the Bear, composed in 1980, remembered when, during the making of a television commercial, the beast escaped from his handler Campbell, Mary Maxwell 1812 Scotland 1886 composer of songs Campen, Ank van more... 1932 The Netherlands   harpist and composer Campenhout, François van more... 5 Feb. 1779 Brussels, Belgium 24 Apr. 1848 Brussels, Belgium tenor, violinist and opera composer who also composed the Belgian national anthem La Brabançonne Camphouse, Mark more... 1954 Oak Park, Illinois   American professor of music and composer Camphuysen, Dirk Rafelsz more... 1586 Gorinchem, The Netherlands 9 Jul. 1627 Dokkum, The Netherlands Dutch painter, poet, composer, musical and literary theorist and theologian Campion, François more... 1685 1747 composer, guitarist and lutenist, the dominant composer for the guitar in the first third of the 18th century. He composed works of groundbreaking complexity and indeed he may have been the only composer to write fugues for the guitar Campion, Thomas (Campian) more... 12 Feb. 1567 London, England 1 Mar. 1620 London, England English poet, physician, and composer of over 100 lute songs Campioni (or Campione, Campion) Charles Antoine (or Carlo Antonio) 16 Nov. 1720 Lunéville 12 Apr. 1788 Florence, Italy French-born composer Campo, Conrado del (full name: Conrado del Campo y Zabaleta) more... 28 Oct. 1879 Madrid, Spain 17 Mar. 1953 Madrid, Spain composer of operas, symphonic poems, chamber and choral music Campo, Régis more... 1968 Marseille, France   French composer of stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, piano, and organ works that have been performed throughout Europe, as well as in Japan, the USA and elsewhere Campogrande, Nicola more... 9 Oct. 1969 Turin, Italy   Italian composer [information provided by the composer] Campos, Augusto de more... 1931 São Paulo, Brazil   founder of the Concrete poetry movement in Brazil, he is also a translator, music critic and visual artist Campra, André more... 4 Dec. 1660 Aix-en-Provence, France 29 Jun. 1744 Versailles, France composer, initially of sacred music, who in his 40s turned to writing secular works for the stage and opera-ballets. He was choir-master in Toulon, Arles and Toulouse, and was appointed music master at Notre-Dame de Paris in 1694. From 1695, he devoted himself to the opera repertory, much to the despair of musical chronicler Lecerf de la Viéville who wrote: "... if the poor boy had not deserted the Church to go and serve the Opera, I think Italy would be hard put to contend with us successfully." Composer at the Chapelle Royale, then inspector of the Opera, he succeeded in cultivating both the French spirit and the Italian taste, secular repertory and sacred music at the same time Camps, Pompeyo 27 Oct. 1924 Paraná 1997 Buenos Aires, Argentina Argentinean composer Camus, Sebastien le more... c. 1610 Paris, France 1677 Paris, France French composer, also a virtuoso gamba and theorbo player Camussi, Ezio 16 Jan. 1877 Florence, Italy 11 Aug. 1956 Milan, Italy Italian composer Canal, Marguerite 29 Jan. 1890 Toulouse, France 27 Jan. 1978 Cépet, nr. Toulouse, France French composer Canales, Manuel more... 1747 Toledo, Spain 1786 Toledo, Spain Spanish composer Canaro, Francisco more... 26 Nov. 1888 San Jose de Mayo, Argentina 14 Dec. 1964 Buenos Aires, Argentina composer particularly of tangos and successful bandleader Canat de Chizy, Edith more... 26 Mar. 1950 Lyon, France   French violinist and composer Canavas (Canavasso), Jean Baptiste (l'aîné) more... 25 Mar. 1713 Turin, Italy 7 Jun. 1784 Paris, France Italian cellist and composer Canavas (Canavasso), Joseph (le cadet) more... c.1714 Turin, Italy 26 Sep. 1776 Paris, France Italian violinist and composer Canazzi, Antonio fl. 1653   Italian composer Candeille, Pierre Joseph 8 Dec. 1744 Estaires 24 Apr. 1827 Chantilly French composer Candeille-Simons, Amelie June (Julie) 31 Jul. 1767 Paris, France 4 Feb. 1834 Paris, France composed many works including an operetta that was performed at Theatre Francaise in 1792 Cangiasi, Giovanni Antonio more... before 1590 Milan, Italy in or after 1614 Italy Italian composer and organist Canino, Bruno more... 30 Dec. 1935 Naples, Italy   Italian classical pianist and composer Canis, Cornelius (de Hondt, d'Hondt) more... c.1505 1561 Franco-flemish composer. Master of choirboys and later maitre de chapelleat the court of Emperor Charles V in Brussels from no later than 1542 until about 1555. From 1557 held posts in churches in Courtrai Cannabich, (Johann) Christian (Innocenz Bonaventura) more... bap. 28 Dec. 1731 Mannheim, Germany 20 Jan. 1798 Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany violinist and conductor, a member of the Mannheim school of composers; composed symphonies, operas, ballets and chamber music as well as a cantata in memory of Mozart written in 1797. Cannabich probably conducted at the premiere of Mozart's Idomeneo K.366 in Munich where he was the director of its Court orchestra Cannabich, Karl more... bap. 11 Oct. 1771 Mannheim, Germany 1/2 May 1806 Munich, Germany German composer Canning, Thomas more... 12 Dec. 1911 Brookville, PA, USA 1989 Rochester, USA American composer Cannio, Enrico more... 1874 Naples, Italy 1949 Naples, Italy Italian musician and composer Cannon, (Jack) Philip more... 21 Dec. 1929 Paris, France   pupil of Imogen Holst; writer of songs, a concertino for piano and strings and Songs to Delight for women's choir Canobbio, Carlo 1741 possibly Venice, Italy 7 Mar. 1822 St Peterburg, Russia Italian-born composer Canova da Milano, Francesco more...     an Italian lutenist virtuoso and composer of the Renaissance who wrote several books of music for lute. Some of his works are still famous today and are frequently performed Canteloube (de Malaret), Marie-Joseph more... 21 Oct. 1879 Annonay, France 4 Nov. 1957 Grigny, France pianist, conductor and collector of folk-song; his most famous work is his arrangement of folk-songs entitled Songs of the Auvergne for soprano accompanied by piano or orchestra [correction supplied by Francois Favre] Cantemir, Dimitrie (Dimitrius) 1673 Moldavia 1723 Dimitrius Cantemir stands among the great historical figures from the East. He led a life of travel, migration, and exile. He was a Moldavian prince as well as Knaez of Russia. Cantemir was active as an authority in history, philosophy, theology, diplomacy, geography, ethnology, literature, and most importantly for us, music. He played the tanbour (an Ottoman plucked stringed instrument) admirably, he composed masterpieces, and invented a style of notation that served his purposes and assured the survival of his own works as well as of some 300 works he knew and played Cantone (Cantoni), Serafino more... fl. 1580-1627   Italian composer and organist Cantuária, Vinicius more... 29 Apr. 1951 Manaus, Brazil   Brazilian singer, songwriter, guitarist, drummer and percussionist, associated with Bossa nova and Brazilian jazz Canuti, Giovanni Antonio c.1680 Lucca, Italy Apr. 1739 Lucca, Italy Italian composer Capdenat, Philippe more... 17 Jul. 1934 Bordeaux, France   French composer and organist Capdeville, Constança 1937 Barcelona, Spain 1992 Lisbon, Portugal Portuguese composer of Catalan origin. She studied with Croner de Vasconcellos at the Conservatório Nacional. As a teacher she had an enormous influence on a whole generation of contemporary Portuguese composers [entry provided by Carlos Alberto Augusto] Capdevielle, Pierre 1 Feb. 1906 Paris, France 9 Jul. 1969 Bordeaux, France French composer Capelletti, Daniel more... 20 Sep. 1958 Luxembourg   pianist and composer Capelli (or Capello, Cappelli, Capella), Giovanni Maria 7 Dec. 1648 Parma, Italy 16 Oct. 1726 Parma, Italy Italian composer Capello, Giovanni Francesco more... fl. 1615   seventeenth-century Italian composer Capet, Lucien more... 1873 Paris, France 1928 Paris, France violinist and composer Caplet, André more... 1878 Havre, France 1925 Paris, France conductor and composer, friend of Debussy some of whose works he arranged for orchestra; he wrote orchestral and choral works as well as chamber music and songs Capio (or Capion), Iseut (or N'Iseut) de more... c. 1140 after 1190 noblewoman and trobairitz from Gévaudan, France Capirola, Vincenzo more... 1474 probably Brescia, Italy after 1548 Italy an Italian composer, lutenist and nobleman of the Renaissance. His music is preserved in an illuminated manuscript called the Capirola Lutebook, which is considered to be one of the most important sources of lute music of the early 16th century Caplet, André more... 23 Nov. 1878 Le Havre, Normandy, France 22 Apr. 1925 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France French composer and conductor now known primarily through his orchestrations of works by Claude Debussy Capocci, Gaetano more... 16 Oct. 1811 Rome, Italy 11 Jan. 1898 Rome, Italy organist and composer of church music Capocci, Filippo more... 11 May 1840 Rome, Italy 25 Jul. 1911 Rome, Italy son of above, organist and composer of organ music Capponi, Abate Ranieri more... fl. seventeenth century   Italian composer who died in about 1700 Cappus, Jean Baptiste more... c. 1700 c. 1749 French composer Capranica [Capranico], Matteo 26 Aug. 1708 possibly Amatrice, Rieti after 1776 Naples Italian composer Capricornus [Bockshorn], Samuel Friedrich more... 21 Dec. 1628 Zercice, nr. Mlodá Boleslav 10 Nov. 1665 Stuttgart South-German violinist and composer Caprioli, Antonio more... fl. 1500   Italian composer Caproli (or Caprioli) Del Violino, Carlo c.1617 Rome, Italy c.1693 Rome, Italy Italian violinist and composer Capron, Henri more... fl. 1785-1795   American cellist, composer, impresario and teacher of French origin Capua, Eduardo di more... 12 Mar. 1865 Naples, Italy 3 Oct. 1917 Milan, Italy Italian singer and songwriter Capuana, Franco 29 Sep. 1894 Fano, Italy 10 Dec. 1969 Naples, Italy Italian composer Capuzzi [Capucci], Giuseppe Antonio more... 1 Aug. 1755 Breno, Brescia 28 Mar. 1818 Bergamo, Italy Italian composer Capuzzo, Maura more... 1963 Padua, Italy   Italian composer who is member of Agon Milano (centre for research, developing and performing of electroacoustic music). Her works and electroacoustic pieces have been performed in Italy, United States, Germany and Asia by many musicians, among others, Irvine Arditti, Francesco Filidei, Taipei hamber singers, Italian flute Quartet, Kettwiger Bach Ensemble and Chamber Choir of the University of Florence. Cara, Marchetto more... c.1470 Italy probably 1525 Mantua, Italy Italian composer, lutenist and singer of the Renaissance. He was mainly active in Mantua, was well-connected with the Gonzaga and Medici families, and along with Bartolomeo Tromboncino, was well known as a composer of frottolas Carafa (de Colobrano), Michele [Michel] (Enrico-Francesco-Vincenzo-Aloisio-Paolo) more... 17 Nov. 1787 Naples, Italy 26 Jul. 1872 Paris, France Italian opera composer Carapella, Tommaso c.1654 Cerreto Sannita 20 Sep. 1736 Naples Italian opera composer Carasali, Odoardo fl. 1736   Italian composer Carcani (or Carcano), Giuseppe [Gioseffo] more... 1703 Cremona, Italy Jan. 1779 Piacenza, Italy Italian composer Carcassi, Matteo more... 1792 Florence, Italy 16 Jan. 1853 Paris, France guitarist, composer and teacher Càrceres, Bartomeu more... fl. 16th century   Valencian musician, copyist and composer Cardenal, Peire more... late 12th century Puy-en-Velay, France c.1278 a Provençal troubadour known for his satirical pieces and for his dislike of the clergy Cardew, Cornelius more... 1936 England   guitarist and pupil of Ferguson, later associated with Stockhausen; his music falls into three distinct styles: conventional music for small chamber groups and solo performers, works in which the performers make a free choice of the notes to be played, and his political works inspired by Maoist ideas Cardillo, Salvatore more... 1874 1947 Italian songwriter whose richly scored sentimental Napuletano classic Core 'ngrato ('Ungrateful heart') written in 1911 for Enrico Caruso, has remained ever since a staple of the Italian tenor concert repertoire Cardonne, Jean-Baptiste [Philibert] more... 26 Jun. 1730 Versailles, France after Aug. 1792 French composer Cardoso, Jorge more... 1949 Posadas, Argentina   concert guitarist, composer and musicologist, Jorge Cardoso is also medical doctor at the National University of Cordoba Argentina, (1973) Cardoso, Manuel more... bap. 11 Dec. 1566 Fronteira, Portugual 24 Nov. 1650 Lisbon, Portugual Portuguese composer and organist Cardy, Patrick more... 22 Aug. 1953 Toronto, Canada 24 Mar. 2005 Ottowa, Canada Canadian composer, teacher and flautist Carena, Felice (Felix) more... Italian composer, not to be confused with the Venetian painter of the same name (1879-1966) Caresana, Cristoforo more... c.1640 Venice, Italy 1709 Naples, Italy Italian composer Carey, Henry more... c.1688 York, England 5 Oct. 1743 London, England English composer Carisio, Giovanni Il Orbino; Il Cieco c.1627 Turin, Italy 7 Nov. 1687 Turin, Italy Italian composer Carissimi, Giacomo more... bap. 18 Apr. 1605 Marino, Papal States 12 Jan. 1674 Rome when 18 he is mentioned as a singer at the Cathedral in Tivoli, but in 1627 he is appointed maestro di cappella at St. Ruffino, Assisi, and in 1630 he moves finally to become maestro di cappella of the Collegium Germanicum Hungaricum in Rome. He is considered the father of modern oratorio and as an outstanding teacher, among whom there are many noted composers such as Alessandro Scarlatti, Johann Kasper Kerll, Jakob Baudrexel, Kaspar Förster (who was probably Buxtehude's teacher), Johann Philip von Krieger, Christophe Bernard, and Marc-Antoine Charpentier (who ranked his teacher with Lully) Carle, Frankie [né: Francis Nunzio Carlone] more... 25 Mar. 1903 Providence, RI, USA 7 Mar. 2001 Mesa, AZ, USA American pianist, bandleader and composer whose theme song was Sunrise Serenade Carlebach, Neshama more... 1974   daughter of the Jewish singer-songwriter Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, who is a singer in her own right, the protege of her late father Carlebach, Shlomo more... 14 Jan. 1925 Berlin, Germany 20 Oct. 1994 USA/Canada Jewish religious teacher, composer, and singer Carleton, Bob more... 1896 1956 American pianist and composer Carleton (Carlton, Charlton), Nicholas (the elder) more... c.1570 1630 English composer Carleton, Richard more... c.1558 c.1638 composer of madrigals and instrumental music of whose biography absolutely nothing is known Carlevaro, Abel more... 1918 Montevideo, Uruguay 2001 an exceptional virtuoso, classic guitar composer and teacher Carlevaro, Alvaro more... 1957 Montevideo, Uruguay   guitarist and composer Carlos, Wendy (Walter) more... 14 Nov. 1939 Pawtucket, USA   American composer Carlson, Bengt 1890 Finland 1953 Finnish choral composer Carlstedt, Jan more... 15 Jun. 1926 Orsa, Sweden 2004 Swedish composer Carlton, Richard more... 1955 United Kingdom   British-born Australian guitarist and composer Carluccio-Leante, Francesco more... 1953 Verona, Italy   Italian composer Carmichael, Hoagy more... 22 Nov. 1899 Bloomington, Indiana, USA 27 Dec. 1981 Rancho Mirage, California, USA American composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader Carmona, Juan more... 1963 Lyons, France   flamenco guitarist and composer Carnicer (y Batile), Ramón more... 24 Oct. 1789 Tárrega, nr. Lérida 17 Mar. 1855 Madrid, Spain Spanish composer Carniolus, Jacobus (see Gallus Carniolus, Jacobus)       Caro, Francisco de more... 23 Mar. 1898 Buenos Aires, Argentina 31 Jul. 1976 Buenos Aires, Argentina Argentinean composer and pianst Caro, Julio de more... 11 Dec. 1899 Buenos Aires, Argentina 11 Mar. 1980 Buenos Aires, Argentina violinist, bandleader and composer Carolan, Turlough Ó [Toirdhealbhach Ó Cearbhalláin] more... 1670 Nobber, Co. Meath, Ireland 25 Mar. 1738 Alderford, Co. Roscommon, Ireland Carolan's father moved to Alderford in Co. Roscommon, where he worked in some capacity or other for the family of Mac Dermott Roe. Mrs. Mac Dermott Roe seems to have taken a liking to the young Carolan and, when at the age of eighteen he was blinded by smallpox, she arranged for him to learn the harp from a harper of the Mac Dermott Roe family. She supported him until at the age of twenty one he set off on his career of itinerant harper. The harpers, most of whom like Carolan were blind, travelled the countryside on horseback guided by a helper. Everywhere they went they were received as honoured guests and were very hospitably treated in all the great and indeed not so great, houses. Carolan, although he was said to have been a somewhat indifferent harper having come to the instrument at too late an age, had an enormous reputation as a composer, and would therefore have been considered a cut above his fellow harpers. In musical terms Carolan is unusual, if not unique, in the three elements of influence which affect his music. These are (i) the music of the Irish harping tradition, whose roots descend to the depths of antiquity and which was to die out by the end of the eighteenth century, (ii) the traditional dance music and songs and, very importantly, (iii) the music of the great Italian composer of his day, Arcangelo Corelli. These three disparate strands coalesce in his music, producing a phenomenon unique in the history of Irish music. He fails to fall comfortably into any convenient musicological category and is therefore an enigmatic and most interesting musical figure. But this is no more a barrier to his success now than it has been at any time since his own day; and his music is perhaps more popular and more widely played today than ever before Caroline, Mlle     opera performed in Paris in 1786 at the Theatre Beaujolais Caroli, Angelo Antonio 13 Jun. 1701 Bologna, Italy 26 Jun. 1778 Bologna, Italy Italian composer Caron, Firminus more... fl. 1460-1475   a French composer, and probably singer, of the Renaissance. While highly successful as a composer and influential, especially on the development of imitative counterpoint, and while numerous compositions of his survive, he is almost unique in there being an almost complete absence of direct biographical information about him. Most of what is known about his life and career is inferred Caroso, Fabrizio (Marco) more... 1535/1536 Sermoneta, Italy 1605/1620 Italy Italian Renaissance composer and choreographer. Besides miscellaneus instrumental music, he is remembered for Nobiltà di dame, a manual of courtly and social dance of the Renaissance [entry corrected by W. Pin] Caroubel, Pierre Francisque more...   1611 French violinist and composer who collaborated with Michael Praetorius and is known for his dance music, bransles and galliards Carpani, Giovanni Antonio fl. 1660   Italian composer Carpenter, Gary more... 1951   British composer, arranger and orchestrator Carpenter, John more... 16 Jan. 1948 Carthage, New York, USA   American director, writer, composer and producer Carpenter, John Alden more... 1876 Park Ridge, Ill., USA 1951 Chicago, USA wealthy business man who wrote orchestral works (including two symphonies, the second based on Algerian tunes), and pieces for piano and for voice, including Adventures in a Perambulator (orchestral suite), Krazy Kat (a ballet) and Skyscrapers Carpentier, Joseph more... fl. 18th century   composer of Vingt et une variations des folies d'Espagne (c.1774) for voice and guitar Carpentier, Simon more...     musician and composer who has been working for film, television and publicity since 1987. He works with Zumanity a cabaret-style show from Cirque du Soleil that is resident at the New York-New York Hotel and Casino on Las Vegas Blvd. (The Strip) Carpentras, Elzear Genet more... c.1470 Carpentras, France 14 Jun. 1548 Avignon, France a French composer of the Renaissance, he was famous during his lifetime, and was especially notable for his settings of the Lamentations which remained in the repertory of the Papal Choir throughout the 16th-century. In addition, he was probably the most prominent Avignon musician since the time of the ars subtilior at the end of the 14th-century Carpi, Fiorenzo more... 19 Oct. 1918 Milan, Italy 21 May 1997 Milan, Italy Italian composer Carr, Benjamin more... 12 Sep. 1768 London, England 24 May 1831 Philadelphia, USA English-born composer Carr, Edwin (James Nairn) more... 10 Aug. 1926 Auckland, New Zealand 27 Mar. 2003 Waiheke Island, New Zealand New Zealand composer [date of death supplied by W. Pin] Carr, Frank Osmond more... 1858 Bradford, England 1916 Uxbridge, England composer of successful light comedy operas Carr, Howard more... 1880 Manchester, England 1960 London, England composer of light operas, orchestral music and songs Carrapatoso, Eurico more... 1962 Mirandela, Portugal   Eurico Carrapatoso graduated from the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade in Porto with a degree in history in 1985. In that same year, he began his musical studies with José Luís Borges Coelho. In 1987, he took the fugue examination under the supervision of Cândido Lima at the Conservatório de Música in Lisbon. In 1988, he began his composition studies at the Escola Superior de Música in Lisbon, where one of his teachers was Constança Capdeville. His final studies were with Jorge Peixinho from 1991-93 at the Conservatório de Música, where he graduated with the highest classification. He has taught composition (and also social and economic history) at several institutions, including the Escola de Música in Porto and the Escola Superior de Música in Lisbon. Since 1989, he has taught Analysis and Techniques of Musical Composition at the Academia de Amadores de Música and the Conservatório de Música, and since 1998, he has taught Analysis at the Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra in Lisbon. His works have been performed by most major ensembles and orchestras in Portugal, and also by major orchestras in France and the USA. Among the conductors of his music are Stefan Asbury, Vasco Azevedo, Christopher Bochmann, Cesário Costa, Osvaldo Ferreira, Mark Foster, Teresita Gutierrez Marques, Paulo Lourenço, and John Pereira. Carrapatoso has won several awards, including the Cantonigròs Prize (Barcelona, 1995), the Lopes-Graça Prize from the city of Tomar (1998-99) and the Francisco de Lacerda Prize (1999); in addition, his works have represented Portugal twice at the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers (1998-99). His Mentes, Peer! (incidental music for Henrik Ibsen’s play Peer Gynt) was premièred in February 2002, at the inauguration of the new Teatro Aberto in Lisbon. Carreira, António more... c.1525 Portugal 1592 Portugual Portuguese organist and composer who was master of the royal chapel in Lisbon from 1564 Carreño, Maria Teresa more... 22 Dec. 1853 Carácas, Venezuela 12 Jun. 1917 New York, USA four times married conductor and operatic soprano who studied with Gottschalk and Rubinstein; not the composer of the Venezuelan National Anthem Carrillo(-Trujillo), Julián (Antonio) more... 28 Jan. 1875 San Luis Potosi, Mexico 9 Sep. 1965 San Angél, Mexico studied violin in Leipzig; developed a system of microtonal composition, invented instruments to play quarter-, eighth- and sixteenth-tones, and composed symphonies, operas, masses and chamber music, over 50 of which were for his invented instruments Carrion, Alonso de more...     troubadour and guitarist Carrodus, Tiplady more... 1836 Keighley, Yorks, England 1895 London, England pupil of Molique; composed for his instrument, the violin Carroll, David more... 15 Oct 1913 Chicago, Illinois, USA   musical director of Mercury Records from 1951 to the early 1960s, during which time he accompanied many of the label’s contract singers as well as making some instrumental recordings of his own. Several of his LPs had a ‘dance’ theme, often including his own compositions, and he employed the cream of Chicago’s session musicians Carroll, Walter more... 1869 Manchester, England 1955 Manchester, England church musician; composer of piano and violin music for children Carse, Adam (formerly, Adam von Ahn Carse) more... 19 May 1878 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England 2 Nov. 1958 Great Missenden, Bucks, England composer of orchestral, chamber and educational music Carste, Hans more... 9 May 1919 Frankenthal, Germany 5 Nov. 1971 Bad Wiessee, Germany German composer and conductor Cart (Czarth, Zarth), Jiri (Geroge) more... 1708 Vysoká, Czechoslovakia 1778 Mannheim (?), Germany Czech violinist and composer who served at the court of Berlin together with F.E.Bach and then as a violinist of the Mannheim orchestra Cartan, Jean more... 1 Dec. 1960 Nancy, France 25 Mar. 1932 France French composer, son of the noted mathematician Elie Cartan and brother of Henri Paul Cartan, a founding member of Bourbaki group of French mathematicians Cartellieri, Antonio Casimir more... 27 Sep. 1772 Danzig 27 Sep. 1807 Liebshausen, Bavaria Bohemian composer who studied with Albrechtsberger and was a favourite of Prince Joseph von Lobkowitz, who went out of his way to secure Cartellieri's services after hearing his C-minor Symphony in Vienna Carter, Alvin Pleasant (Delaney) more... 5 Apr. 1891 Maces Spring, Virginia, USA 7 Nov. 1960 Kentucky, USA American Country music musician and founding member of the well known Carter Family group Carter, Andrew more... 1939 Leicester, England   English choral director and composer Carter, Benny more... 8 Aug. 1907 Harlem, New York, USA 12 Jul. 2003 Los Angeles, California, USA American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader Carter, Betty (born: Lillie Mae Jones) more... 16 May 1929 Flint, Michigan, USA 26 Sep. 1998 USA American jazz singer who was renowned for her improvisational technique and idiosyncratic vocal style. Carter, Charles Thomas c. 1735 Dublin, Ireland 12 Oct. 1804 London, England a considerable degree of confusion exists about the biographical details of this composer. There were several musicians and composers with the Carter surname in Dublin during the 2nd half of the 18th century, in particular two composers: Thomas Carter and Charles Thomas Carter. The confusion is intensified by the fact that the latter was, it seems, known also as Thomas or Tom and that both men ended up in London! There are some anthems by T. Carter in the choir library of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. Charles Thomas Carter was a boy chorister in Christ Church Cathedral. He became organist of St. Werburgh's Church in Dublin around 1751 and moved to London in the early 1770s. In London he established a name as a composer: a huge amount of music by Thomas Carter or Charles Thomas Carter was published in London at the end of the eighteenth century including chamber music, vocal music, and music for solo harpsichord, piano, and organ. John O'Keefe writing in his Recollections said of Carter that “any music he had never seen before, placed before him, upside down, he could play it off on the harpsichord!” [date of death corrected by W. Pin] Carter, Elizabeth 1717 1806 composer Carter, Elliott (Cook) jnr. more... 11 Dec. 1908 New York, USA   studied with Piston and Nadia Boulanger; composer of a wide range of music including operas (one was performed in Osnabrück, Germany, in 1927), ballets and choral and chamber works Carter, Ernest Trow more... 1866 Orange, N.J., USA 1953 Stamford, Conn., USA professionally a lawyer, piano pupil of William Mason and studied composition in Germany; composed operas, ballets and orchestral works Carter, John 1932 St. Louis, Missouri, USA possibly c. 1981 Carter served as composer-in-residence with the National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, DC) in 1968 and was an instructor at Federal City College, Washington, in the 1970s Carter, Regina more... 1962 Detroit, USA   American jazz violinist and composer. A cousin of jazz saxophonist James Carter, Regina Carter took a double major in classical music and African American music at both the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music and Oakland University in Michigan, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in performance Carter, Ron more... 4 May 1937 Ferndale, Michigan, USA   American jazz double-bassist Carter, Sydney Bertram 6 May 1915 London, England 13 March 2004 songwriter, poet and singer, best known for his popular hymn 'The Lord of The Dance' Carthy, Eliza (Amy Forbes) more... 23 Aug. 1975 Scarborough, England   folk violinist and composer, daughter of Martin Carthy Carthy, Martin more... 1941 Hertfordshire, England   folk musician and composer Cartier, Jean-Baptiste 28 May 1765 Avignon, France 1841 Paris, France French composer Carulli, Ferdinando Maria Meinrado Francesco Pascale Rosario more... 10 Feb. 1770 Naples, Italy 17 Feb. 1841 Paris, France one of the most famous composers for classical guitar and the author of the first complete classical guitar method, which continues to be used today. He wrote a variety of works for classical guitar, including concertos and chamber works. He was an extremely prolific writer for guitar, writing over 400 works for the instrument in the space of 12 years Caruso (or Carusio), Luigi [Lodovico] 25 Sep. 1754 Naples, Italy 1822 Perugia, Italy Italian composer Carvalhinho, Miguel more...     Portuguese classical guitarist and composer Carvalho, Eleazar de 28 Jul. 1912 Iguatú   Brazilian composer Carvalho, João de Sousa more... 22 Feb. 1745 Estremoz 1798 Alentejo Portuguese composer Carvalho, Léon (see Miolan-Carvalho)       Carver, Robert more... c.1485 Scotland c.1570 Scotland a Scottish Renaissance monk and composer of Christian sacred music who spent much of his life at Scone Abbey in Perthshire Carwithen, Doreen Mary more... 15 Nov. 1922 Haddenham, Bucks, UK 5 Jan. 2003 Forncett St. Peter, Norfolk, UK British composer of classical and film music. She was also known as Mary Alwyn Cary, Francis Clive Savill more... 1883 Sible Hedingham 1968 composer of incidental music for plays and active in the folk song movement Cary (Carey), Henry more... c.1688 1743 London, England poet, playwright and composer of stage pieces, cantatas and songs; sometimes, mistakenly, believed to be the composer of God Save the Queen Cary, Tristram Ogilvie more... 14 May 1925 Oxford, England 24 Apr. 2008 Adelaide, South Australia composer of film and television scores and electronic music on tape, including Birth is Life is Power is Death is God is Caryll, Yvan (Ivan) (real name: Félix Tilkin) more... 12 May 1861 Liège, Belgium 29 Nov. 1921 New York, USA composer of many musical comedies Casa, Girolamo dalla more...   d. 1601 an Italian composer, instrumentalist, and writer of the late Renaissance. He was a member of the Venetian School, and was perhaps more famous and influential as a performer than as a composer. Two books of madrigals and one book of motets survive from his compositional output, which probably was not large. More important to musicology, however, was his two-part 1584 treatise on ornamentation (Il vero modo di diminuir), which gives clear and precise examples of ornamentation as it was practiced in singing and playing motets and madrigals at the time. From this treatise it is clear that polyphonic works were usually performed unadorned, but works in a more homophonic style, and especially grand polychoral works with frequent sectional changes and prominent cadences, were embellished with ornaments, few of which appear in the actual notated music Casablancas, Benet more... 1956   Spanish composer Casabona, Francisco 16 Oct. 1894 São Paolo, Brazil   Brazilian-born composer Casadesus, Francis [François] (Louis) more... 2 Dec. 1870 Paris, France 27 Jun. 1954 Paris, France composer of operas and orchestral music Casadesus, Robert Guillaume more... 1878 Paris, France 1940 brother of above; pianist and composer Casadesus, (Henri) Gustav more... 1879 Paris, France 1947 viola player; composer of light operas and ballets Casadesus, Marius Robert Max more... 1892 Paris, France   son of Francis Louis; violinist who composed operas and chamber music Casadesus, Robert Marcel more... 1899 Paris, France 1972 son of Robert Guillaume; Robert Marcel formed a successful two-piano team with his wife Gaby and composed concertos for piano, violin and other works for orchestra and piano Casale, Emanuele more... 14 Oct. 1974 Catania, Italy   Italian composer Casals i Defilló, Pau Carles Salvador (known as Pablo Casals) more... 1876 Ventdrell, Catalonia, Spain   virtuoso Catalan Spanish cellist and composer (and later conductor). He made many recordings throughout his career, of solo, chamber, and orchestral music, also as conductor, but Casals is best remembered for the recording of Bach's Cello Suites he made from 1936 to 1939 Casamorata, Luigi Fernando 15 May 1807 Würzburg, Germany 24 Sep. 1881 Florence, Italy German-born composer Casanova, André more... 12 Oct. 1919 France   trained as a lawyer; works include a violin concerto, a work for xylophone, kettledrums and strings and La Clé d'argent) for soprano, tenor, baritone and orchestra Casanovas, padre Narciso more... 1747 1794 Spanish composer Casavola, Franco 13 Jul. 1891 Modugno, Bari 7 Jul. 1955 Bari, Italy Italian composer Casazola, Matilde more... 1942 Bolivia   Bolivian songwriter Cascante, Jose more...   1702 Colombian composer Cascia, Donato da more... fl. 1350-70   Italian composer of the trecento. All of his surviving music is secular, and the largest single source is the Squarcialupi Codex. He was probably also a priest, and the picture that survives of him in the Squarciulupi Codex shows him in the robes of the Benedictine order Cascia, Giovanni da more... c.1270 Cascia, Umbria, Italy c.1351 Italy also known as Johannes de Florentia or Cascia, de, documentation pertaining to Giovanni da Cascia's life are scant. He lived and worked in Padua, then Verona and Milan, probably in the 1330s and 1340s. Giovanni's music does survive, however, in major sources from both Florence and the north (including the earliest source of Italian music from Padua); one large Florentine manuscript contains his portrait. In addition, literary evidence for Giovanni's fame abounds: chroniclers Villani and Franco Sacchetti both mention him, and Prudenzani proves his music was still in circulation some 70 years after his death. Villani even provides one intriguing anecdote about his life. Apparently when Jacopo da Bologna, Maestro Piero, and Giovanni da Cascia were all working together for the della Scala court in Verona, the trio competed in a mini-cycle of madrigals that refes to a mysterious and praiseworthy "Anna"; she later becomes a viperous menace to her admirers, but she gets the last word in Giovanni's final contribution to the madrigal group Casella, Alfredo more... 25 Jul. 1883 Turin, Italy 5 Mar. 1947 Rome, Italy studied under Fauré anti-romantic and Italian nationalist who music eschewed 'vocal melodramatic melody' and included an oratorio The Desert Challenged, idealizing Mussolini's Ethiopian campaign Casella, Enrique Mario more... 1 Aug. 1891 Montevideo, Uruguay 10 Dec. 1948 Tucumán, Argentina Argentinean composer Caserta, Antonello (Antonellus) da more... fl. 14th-15th centuries   Italian composer, born at Caserta, near Naples. His work is found in the Codex Chantilly and the Reina MS. He set French texts in preference to his native Italian ones, but though some of his music makes use of the 'mannered' style, other pieces are simpler in idiom Caserta, Philippus de (also Philipoctus, Filippo, Philippot, Philippottus) more... c.1360 c.1435 Italian composer and theorist. Originally from Caserta, near Naples, he was in Avignon in the 1380s but worked in Italy. He may be the 'Philippot' who was at the Aragon court in 1420. His six pieces to French texts in the Chantilly MS show that, though an Italian, he had absorbed the essentials of the late fourteenth French school; his cacce and ballate are simpler and more characteristically Italian Casey, Kenneth more... 10 Jan. 1899 New York, USA 10 Aug. 1965 Cornwall, New York, USA American composer, publisher, author and child actor Cashian, Philip more... 1963 Manchester, England   British composer Casimiri, Raffaele (Casimiro) 3 Nov. 1880 Gualdo Tadina, nr. Perugia 15 Apr. 1943 Rome, Italy Italian composer Casimiro Júnior [Casimiro da Silva], Joaquim 30 May 1808 Lisbon, Portugal 28 Dec. 1862 Lisbon, Portugal Portuguese composer Casken, John (Arthur) more... 15 Jul. 1949 Barnsley, England   English composer Cass, Ronald (Ronnie) more... 21 Apr. 1923 Llanelli, Wales 2 Jun. 2006 London, England composer of musicals and the film music for three Cliff Richard movies, The Young Ones (1962), Summer Holiday (1963) and Wonderful Life (1964) Cassadó, Gaspar more... 1897 Barcelona, Spain 1966 Madrid, Spain 'cellist, pupil of Casals, made his New York debut in 1936. He composed many works for the cello which are still performed today Cassadó (Valls), Joaquín 30 Sep. 1867 Mataró, Barcelona, Spain 25 Mar. 1926 Barcelona, Spain Spanish composer Casselli, Angelica     operatic composer whose Christoforo Colombo was produced in Nice in 1865 at the Theatre Italien Cassidy, Patrick more... 1956 Claremorris, Co. Mayo, Ireland   Irish classical composer Casson, Miss fl. late 18th century England   composer of songs Cassuto, Alvaro (Leon) more... 17 Nov. 1938 Oporto, Portugal   conductor and composer; whose works include Canticum in tenebris for soloists, chorus and orchestra Castagnoli, Giulio more... 22 Nov. 1958 Rome, Italy   Italian copmposer Castaldi, Alfonso 23 Apr. 1874 Maddalone, Italy 6 Aug. 1942 Bucharest, Romania Italian-born composer Castaldi, Bellerofonte more... 1580 1649 Italian composer and one of Seicento Italy's most intriguing public figures. Bellerofonte Castaldi was as well known for his sensational adventures, controversial poetry, and stinging satires as for his impressive musical activities as a theorbo virtuoso and composer of monody. His volume of sophisticated music for theorbo, Capricci a due stromenti (1622), is fashioned to display his wide-ranging talents as a composer, graphic artist and poet Castel, José more... fl. 1770   Spanish composer Castel, Robert de fl. second half 13th century   Flemish trouvère Castellanos, Tania more...     Cuban activist, steel-worker and composer Castello, Dario more... c.1590 Italy c.1630 Italy an Italian composer and instrumentalist from the early Baroque period, who worked and published in Venice. He was a late member of the Venetian School, and played a part in the early transformation of the instrumental canzona into the sonata Castelloza, Dame fl. 13th century Auvergne, France   Castelloza was a noblewoman and wife to Turc de Mairona. The subject of her poems is courtly love. Three of her poems are extant, but no music survives Castelnau, Alamanda 1160 1223 trobairitz Castelnau (de), Almucs c.1140   a trobairitz who has been identified as being Almoïs, the wife of Guigue de Châteauneuf-de-Randon, the Count of Castelnau, who became the mother of Guillaume de Châteauneuf in 1219. Sje is associated with another trobairitz, Iseut de Capio, and the duet Domna n’almucs, si-us plages Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario more... 3 Apr. 1895 Florence, Italy/td> 15/16 Mar. 1968 Hollywood, CA, USA pupil of Pizzetti, who settled in America after his being a Jew banned him from Italian cultural life; composer of delicate refinement whose works include 2 violin concertos, a guitar concerto, choral music, piano pieces, songs, operas and songs for the synagogue Castelo, Custódio more... 23 Dec. 1966 Almeirim, Portugual   Portuguese guitarist, composer and producer Castéra, René d'Avezac 3 Apr. 1873 Dax, Landes, France 17 Jul. 1932 Milan, Italy French-born composer Castérède, Jacques more... 10 Apr. 1926 Paris, France   French composer Castiglioni, Niccolò ( more... 17 Jul. 1932 Milan, Italy   worked mainly in the United States; compositions include a Symphony in C with a choral text drawn from Jonson, Dante, Shakespeare and Keats Castil-Blaze, Francois Henri Joseph more... 1 Dec. 1784 Cavaillon, France 11 Dec. 1857 Paris, France French critic, librettist and composer Castille, Blanche de 1188 1252 Queen Blanche of Castile, Queen of France, composer Castilleja, Pedro Fernandez de   1547 nearly all his works have been lost though his status may be guessed from the fact that Guerrero named him 'Master of Masters' Castillo, Graciela more... 1940 Córdoba, Argentina   Argentinean composer, among the small group of composers that created the Experimental Music Centre (Centro de Música Experimental) at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina during the mid 1960s. She is at present Professor of Composition and Music Analysis at the same University Castillo, Jesús 9 Oct. 1877 San Juan Ostuncalco, Guatemala 23 Apr. 1946 Quetzaltenango Guatemalan composer Castillo, Manuel more... 1930 2005 Spanish composer Castillon de Saint-Victor, Marie-Alexis more... 1838 5 Mar 1853 French composer who died tragically in the early years of his career. His memory was held dear by a generation of young French composers, from Saint-Saëns and Fauré to Debussy and Ravel, who remembered him as a founding member of the new French school and the first composer of his generation to devote himself almost exclusively to writing chamber music Castro, Francisco José de more... fl. late 17th & early 18th century   Spanish composer Castro, Henricus de Libero (possibly Laufenberg [Loufenberg], Heinrich) more... c.1390 Freiburg (?), Germany 31 Mar. 1460 Strasbourg German-Swiss poet and musician. It does not seem out of the question that Heinrich Laufenberg and Henricus de Castro were the same man, but the issue remains unresolved Castro, Jean de more... c.1540 c.1600 Castro was of the last generation of great Renaissance polyphonists, and has a career outline closely resembling Lassus'. He was probably the second most prominent polyphonist from the Low Countries, former headquarters of European polyphonic development, after Lassus. Later, political problems forced him to leave and take up posts in France and then Germany Castro, Juan José more... 7 Mar. 1895 Avellaneda, Buenos Aires 5 Sep. 1968 Buenos Aires pupil of Vincent d'Indy; works include an opera in Spanish Proserpina and the Stranger and a piano concerto Castro de Gistau, Salvador (see Gistau, Salvador Castro de)       Castro Herrera, Ricardo 7 Feb. 1864 Durango 28 Nov. 1907 México Mexican composer Castro Robinson, Eve de more... 1956   New Zealand composer Castrovillari, Daniele da [di] fl. 1660-61   Italian composer Castrucci, Pietro more... 1679 Rome, Italy 7 Mar. 1752 Dublin, Ireland Italian violinist, conductor, and composer Casulana (de Merarii), Maddalena c. 1540 Brescia/Casola d’Elsa (Casula) c.1590 Siena, Italy the first woman to consider herself a professional composer and to have three volumes of her madrigals published by to prominent Venetian printers. Her first book was published in 1568 and she dedicates “…to show the world … the futile error of men who believe themselves patrons of the high gifts of the intellect, which according to them cannot also be held in the same way by women” Catalani, Alfredo more... 19 Jun. 1854 Lucca, Italy 7 Aug. 1893 Milan, Italy studied in Paris; composer of operas including La Wally, of a symphonic poem Hero and Leander and a mass Catalani, Angelica B. 1780 Italy 1849 Italy a dramatic soprano whose career lasted from 1795 to 1825. She later founded a school of singing. Her compositions for voice included the brilliant La Belle Molinara which was a favourite of singers of the day Cate, Andreas Ten (see Ten Cate, Andreas)       Catel, Charles-Simon more... 10 Jun. 1773 Laigle, Orne 29 Nov. 1830 Paris, France French composer Catelani, Angelo 30 Nov. 1811 Guastalla 5 Sep. 1866 San Martino di Mugnano, Modena Italian composer Catherine, Philip more... 1942 London, UK   Jazz musician and composer Catlett, Francisco Mora more...     Percussionist, composer, arranger, teacher and producer Catley, Anne 1745 1789 London composer Cato, Diomedes more... 1560/65 nr. Treviso, Italy after 1618 probably Sweden an Italian-born composer and lute player, who lived and worked entirely in Poland. He is known mainly for his instrumental music. He mixed the style of the late Renaissance with the emerging Baroque, and also Italian idioms with Polish folk material; and in addition he was one of the first native-born Italian composers to visit Sweden Catoire (or Katuar), Georgy (Lvovich) more... 27 Apr. 1861 Moscow, Russia 21 May 1926 Moscow, Russia Russian musical theorist and composer of French heritage who was a pupil of Liadof. His compositions include orchestral and piano music and some songs Catrufo, Gioseffo [Giuseppe] 19 Apr. 1771 Naples, Italy 19 Aug. 1851 London, England Italian-born composer Cattani, Lorenzo before 1681 Massa Carrara 1713 Pisa, Italy Italian composer Cattelani, Ferruccio more... 28 Mar. 1867 Palma, Italy 16 Apr. 1932 Milan Italian composer Catunda, Eunice 4 Mar. 1915 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil   Brazilian composer Caturla, Alejandro Garcia more... 7 Mar. 1906 Remedios, Cuba 12 Nov. 1940 Remedios Cuban composer Cauberghs, Louis 1928   Belgian percussionist and composer Caudella, Eduard 3 Jun. 1841 Iasi 15 Apr. 1924 Iasy Romanian composer Caurroy, François Eustace du more... bap. 4 Feb. 1549 Beauvais, France 7 Aug. 1609 Paris, France was born in Gerberoy, a French composer of the late Renaissance. He was a prominent composer of both secular and sacred music at the end of the Renaissance, including musique mesurée, and he was also influential on the foundation of the French school of organ music as exemplified in the work of Jean Titelouze Causton, Richard more... 1971 London, UK   English composer Caustun, Thomas (also Causton, Cawston) more... early 16th century 1569 London, England composer of church music Cauter, Jean van de 1 Aug. 1906 Nimy, nr. Mons, Belgium 27 Jul. 1979 Charleroi, Belgium composer, organist and organiser Cauter, Koen (or Coen) de more... mid 20th century West-Vlaming, Belgium   Belgian jazz guitarist and composer Cavalieri, Emilio de' more... c.1550 11 Mar. 1602 Rome, Italy Italian composer, producer, organist, diplomat, choreographer and dancer at the end of the Renaissance era. His work, along with that of other composers active in Rome, Florence and Venice, was critical in defining the beginning of the musical Baroque era. He was an influential early composer of monody, and wrote what is usually considered to be the first oratorio. He is considered the composer of the first oratorio (really a 'morality play' set to music) entitled The Representation of Soul and Body, and an early exponent of figured bass Cavalli [Caletti, Bruni], Pier [Pietro] Francesco more... 14 Feb. 1602 Crema, Lombardy, Italy 14 Jan. 1676 Venice, Italy organist and singer; composer of more than 40 operas, including Ormindo, Callisto, Eritrea and Erismena and church music Cavallini, Ernesto more... 1807 1874 Italian composer and legendary clarinetist who studied at the Milan Conservatory and played in the orchestra of La Scala from 1831-1851 Cavazzoni, Girolamo (Hieronimo d'Urbino) more... c.1525 Italy c.1577 son of the following; composer of keyboard music Cavazzoni, Marco Antonio more... c.1490 Italy c.1570 singer and organist, the latter in the service of Pope Leo X; composer of works for keyboard Cavendish, Michael more... c.1565 England 1628 composer of lute songs, psalms and madrigals, a contributor to the collection entitled The Triumphs of Oriana Cavos, Catterino 30 Oct. 1775 Venice, Italy 10 May 1840 St. Peterburg, Russia Italian-born composer Caymmi, Dorival more... 30 Apr. 1914 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 16 Aug. 2008 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil one of the most important songwriters in Brazilian popular music Cazden, Norman 23 Sep. 1914 New York, USA 18 Aug. 1980 Bangor, Me., USA American composer Cazzati, Maurizio more... c.1620 Lucera, nr. Reggio Emilia 1677 Mantua, Italy Italian composer Cearbhalláin, Toirdhealbhach Ó (see Carolan, Turlough Ó)       Ceccarelli, Luigi more... 1953 Rimini, Italy   Italian composer Cecchini, Angelo fl. 1635-1639   Italian composer Cecere, Carlo more... 7 Nov. 1706 Naples, Italy 15 Feb. 1761 Naples, Italy Italian composer Cechini, Tomaso 1580 1644 Italian-born composer, Cechini held the position of organist in the cathedral in Split and Hvar, on the island of Hvar, in Croatia Celanský, Ludvik Vitezslav 17 Jul. 1870 Vienna, Austria 27 Oct. 1931 Prague Austrian-born composer Celis, Frits more... 11 Apr. 1929 Antwerp, Belgium   Belgian conductor and composer of orchestral, chamber, choral, and vocal works Cellier, Alexandre Eugène 17 Jun. 1883 4 Mar. 1968 French organist and composer, Cellier studied with Guilmant until 1908. He was the organist of the Temple d'Etoile in Paris Cellier, Alfred more... 1 Dec 1844 London, England 28 Dec 1891 London, England organist and conductor; composer of light operas, the best known being Dorothy, as well as orchestral and choral works Celoniati (or Celoniatti, Celoniat, Celonieti, Celonietto), Ignazio before 1740 1784 Turin, Italy Italian composer Cenci, Giuseppino fl. 16th century   Roman singer and composer. His canzonetta, Fuggi, fuggi, fuggi da questo cielo, became very popular under the title, Ballo di Mantova. It probably originated in a sixteenth-century theatrical work performed at the ducal court in Mantua, because, soon after, the tune became the musical emblem of that city. There are hundreds of versions of the piece, which became so popular throughout Europe that it eventually entered the realm of folk music, wherein each country claimed it as its own. It survives today as the main theme of Vltava, the second symphonic poem in the Bohemian-born composer Bedrich Smetana’s nationalistic six-part cycle Má vlast, and also as the basis of the Israeli national anthem Cercamon more... fl. c.1135-1145   whose real name, as well as any actual biographical datum, is unknown, was one of the earliest troubadours. He was apparently a jester of sorts, born in Gascony, who spent most of his career in the courts of William X of Aquitaine and perhaps of Eble III of Ventadorn. He was the inventor of the planh (the Provençal dirge), of the tenso (a sort of rhymed debate in which two poets write one stanza each) and perhaps of the sirventes Ceremuga, Josef 14 Jun. 1930 Ostrava-Kuncice   Czech composer Cererols, Joan more... 9 Sep. 1618 Martorell, Spain 27 Aug. 1680 Montserrat, Spain Catalan musician, composer and Benedictine monk Cerha, Friedrich Paul more... 17 Feb. 1926 Austria   violinist and conductor; compositions include Spiegel nos. 1-8 for orchestra with tape Cernitz, Ulrich more...   1654 Hamburg, Germany German organist and composer Cernohorsky, Bohuslav Matej more... christened 16 Feb. 1684 Nymburk, Bohemia 1 Jul. 1742 Graz, Austria Czech composer Cerny, Frantisek more... 1861 1940 Czech double bass player and composer Certon, Pierre more... c.1510/20 probably Melun, France 23 Feb. 1572 Paris, France a French composer of the Renaissance. He was a representative of the generation after Josquin and Mouton, and was influential in the late development of the French chanson Ceruti, Roque more... c.1683 Milan, Italy 3 Dec. 1760 Lima Italian-born composer Cervantes (Kawanag), Ignacio more... 31 Jul. 1847 Havana, Cuba 29 Apr. 1905 Havana, Cuba Cuban composer Cervellini, Giovanni more... 18th century   Venetian organist and composer Cervelló, Jordi more... Oct. 1935 Barcelona, Spain   Spanish composer Cerveri de Girona (born Cervera, Guillem de) more... fl 1259-1285   Catalan troubadour who was the most prolific troubadour, leaving behind some 114 lyric poems among other works, including an ensenhamen of proverbs for his son, totaling about 130. He was a court poet to James the Conqueror and Peter the Great. He wrote pastorelas and sirventes and his overriding concern was the complexities of court life. None of his music survives Cervetto, Giacobbe (Giacomo) Basevi 1682 Italy 1783 England London-based cellist and composer, father of James Cervetto Cervetto, James more... 8 Jan. 1748 London, England 5 Feb. 1837 London, England English cellist and composer, son of Giacobbe Basevi Cervetto and Elizabeth Cervetto Cesare, Giovanni Martino more... c. 1590 Udine, Italy 6 Feb. 1667 Munich, Germany Italian composer, trombonist and cornett player Cesarini, Carlo Francesco (Carlo del Violino) c.1664 Rome, Italy c.1730 Rome, Italy Italian composer Cesarini, Franco more... 18 Apr. 1961 Bellinzona, Tessin, Switzerland   Swiss composer, director and musician Cesaris, Johannes more... fl. 1406-1417   French composer of the late Medieval era and early Renaissance who was active in Bourges. He was one of the composers of the transitional style between the two epochs, and was active at the Burgundian court in the early 15th century Cesena, Giovanni Battista Biondi detto more... fl. 1598-1609   Italian composer and organist Cesis, Sulpitia (Sulpiza) 1577   nun, lutenist and composer, her only known works are an important collection of motets for 2-12 voices published in Modena, 1619 Cestana, Sig. fl. 18th century   there is no available information on his life. However, a concerto for harpsichord and orchestra (harpsichord part only extant) by a certain Sig. Cestana has been found in a manuscript from the library of the Conservatory of Brescia Cesti, Antonio [Pietro] more... bap. 5 Aug. 1623 Arezzo, Italy 14 Oct. 1669 Venice, Italy known today primarily as an Italian composer of the Baroque era, he was also a singer (tenor), and organist. He was "the most celebrated Italian musician of his generation" Cesti, Remigio c.1635 Arezzo, Italy 1710/1717 Florence, Italy Italian composer Cetiz, Mahir more... 1977 Ankara, Turkey   Turkish pianist and composer Ceuleers, Willem more... 1963   Belgian composer Cezar, Corneliu 22 Dec. 1937 Bucharest, Romania   Romanian composer Chabrier, (Alexis-)Emmanuel more... 18 Jan. 1841 Ambert, Puy-de-Dôme, France 13 Sep. 1894 Paris, France civil servant based in Paris, also pianist who in laer life suffered severe mental illness; composer of many popular works including España and an opera Le Roi malgré lui Chailly, Luciano more... 1920 Italy   pupil of Hindemith; composer of chamber works, works for piano and a number of operas including The Proposal and Procedura penale Chadwick, George Whitefield more... 13 Nov. 1854 Lowell, Mass., USA 4 Apr. 1931 Boston, Mass. USA studied in Germany; composed 3 symphonies, 5 string quartets and numerous other works and is seen as the founder of an American school of composition Chagas, Paulo more... 31 Aug. 1953 Salvador, Bahía, Brazil   Brazilian-born Belgian-German composer, now resident in the USA Chagrin, Francis (né Alexander Paucker)) more... 1905 Bucharest, Romania 1972 England Romanian-born composer Chaikovsky, Boris (Alexandrovich) 10 Sep. 1925 Moscow, Russia   Russian composer Chaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (see Tchaikovsky, Pyotr (Peter) Ilyich)       Chailley, Jacques 24 Mar. 1910 Paris, France   French composer Chailly, Luciano 19 Jan. 1920 Ferrara, Italy   Italian composer Chaistaignerais (de la), Mme     composer who was published in Paris in 1699 Chalayev, Shirvani 16 Nov. 1936 Khosrekh, Dagestan   Russian composer Chalhoub, Claude more... 1974 Lebanon   Lebanese violinist and composer Chalmel, Gaston more... 20th century   French composer, arranger and musical director of the brass ensemble Le Débuché de Paris which was established in Paris in 1927 Chaloff, Serge more... 24 Nov. 1923 Boston, MA, USA 16 Jul. 1957 American jazz baritone saxophonist Chamatero di Negri, Ippolito fl. late 16th/early 17th centuries   Italian composer Chambers, Paul more...     composer for film and television Chambonnières, Jacques Champion de more... 1602 c.1672 Paris, France like his father, court harpsichordist to French kings (in his father's case, Louis XIII, in his, Louis XIV who enobled him); he was an important composer for the har