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Name	Born	Died	Information
Laakso, Ilari	21 Oct. 1952 Kankaanpää, Finland		Finnish composer who has written mainly instrumental music
Laakso, Petri	1955 Finland		Finnish composer who has worked with electronic music
Labarre, Théodore more...	24 Mar. 1805 Paris, France	9 Mar. 1870 Paris, France	French harpist and composer
Labarre, Trille more...	18th century		author of Nouvelle méthode pour la guitarre (published c.1801) and composer of music for guitar solo, for guitar and violin and guitar and voice
Labitzky, August more...	22 Oct. 1822 Petschau	28 Aug. 1903 Bad Reichenhall	Czech composer and kapellmeister, son of Josef
Labitzky, Josef (Joseph) more...	4 Jul. 1802 Schönfeld	18 Aug. 1881 Karlsbad	Kapellmeister and composer, father of August
Labro, Nicolas Charles (called Labro aîné) more...	21 Oct. 1811 Sedan, Ardennes, France	28 May 1882 Paris, France	French double-bass player, author of a contrabass method. He was called Labro aîné to distinguish him from his younger brother Antoine Auguste Labro (jeune) (1817-1887) who was also a double-bassist
Labunski, Wiktor	14 Apr. 1895 St. Petersburg, Russia	26 Jan. 1974 Kansas City, USA	Russian-born pianist and composer
Laburda, Jiri more...	3 Apr. 1931 Czech Republic		Czech composer [entry prompted by Dr. Amy Dunker]
Lacerda (de), Bernarda Ferreira	1595	1644 Porto, Portugal	asked by King Phillip II of Spain to educate his children, she refused, preferring to devote her life to musical study. Many of her manuscripts are in the Royal Library, Madrid
Lacerda, Osvaldo more...	23 Mar. 1927 São Paulo, Brazil		Brazilian composer and teacher
Lacerna (de la Serna), Estacio de	c.1565 Seville, Spain	c.1626 Peru, South America	Spanish organist and composer who emigrated to Peru sometime after 1604
Lachenmann, Helmut more...	27 Nov. 1935 Stuttgart, Germany		German composer associated with musique concrète
Lachert, Piotr de Peslin more...	5 Sep. 1938 Warsaw, Poland		Polish-born Belgian composer, who in the early 1970s became one of the first proponents of 'new consonant music' [entry privided by Antonio Iorio]
Lachner, Franz Paul more...	2 Apr. 1803 Rain am Lech, Germany	20 Jan. 1890 Munich, Germany	German composer and conductor, brother of Ignaz Lachner and Vinzenz Lachner
Lachner, Ignaz more...	17 Sep. 1807 Rain am Lech, Germany	25 Feb. 1895 Hanover, Germany	German composer and conductor, brother of Franz Paul Lachner and Vinzenz Lachner
Lachner, Vinzenz more...	18 Jul. 1811 Rain am Lech, Germany	22 Jan. 1893 Karlsruhe, Germany	German composer and conductor, brother of Franz Paul Lachner and Ignaz Lachner
Lacour, Guy more...	8 Jun. 1932 Soissons, France		French composer of classical music, and a tenor saxophonist
Laderman, Ezra more...	29 June 1924 Brooklyn, New York		American composer and teacher, widely recognized as a major influence in American composition. Ezra Ladermans commissions have included works for the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, and the orchestras of Minnesota, Dallas, Louisville, Houston, Detroit, Albany, Denver, New Jersey, Indianapolis, Syracuse, and New Haven; and for the New York City, Turnau, and Tri-Cities operas. He has written works for such chamber ensembles as the Tokyo, Juilliard and Vermeer quartets; and for soloists Yo-Yo Ma, Elmar Oliveira, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Samuel Baron, Sherrill Milnes and Emanuel Ax, among many others. In February 2003 the Pittsburgh Symphony under Gunter Herbig, conductor, and with Richard Page as soloist premiered his Concerto for Bass Clarinet and Orchestra. Recipient of three Guggenheim fellowships, the Prix de Rome, and Rockefeller and Ford Foundation grants, Ezra Laderman was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1989. In 1988, Laderman was named a visiting composer at Yale University and served as dean of its School of Music from 1989 to 1995. After a years sabbatical, he returned to a teaching role at Yale where he currently serves as professor of composition
Ladmirault, Paul more...	10 Dec. 1877 Nantes, France	30 Nov. 1944 Camoël, France	French composer whose music expressed his devotion to Brittany
Laduchin, Nikolai Mikhailovich	3 Oct. 1860 St. Petersburg, Russia;	19 Sep. 1918 Moscow, Russia	Russian music theorist and composer
Ladunka, Naum I.	13 Dec. 1730	2 Aug. 1782 St. Petersburg, Russia	composer and folk song arranger
Ladurner, Josef Alois more...	7 Mar 1769 Tirol	20 Feb. 1851	Tirolean composer, first teacher of the French composer Daniel François Esprit Auber
Laere, Henri van more...	2 Jul. 1899 Wachtebeke (Flandre Orientale), Belgium	16 Nov. 1979 Sint-Niklaas, Belgium	Belgian composer and teacher
Laet, Roeland de (see Lassus, Orlande de)
Lafertin, Fapy more...	1950 Courtrai, Belgium		jazz guitarist of Romani ethnicity, one of the foremost contemporary exponents of the Belgian-Dutch style of Gypsy jazz
Lagarde, G. F. Alice (see Ferrata, Giuseppe)
Lagoya, Alexandre more...	21 Jun. 1929 Alexandria, Egypt	24 Aug. 1999 Paris, France	composer of transcriptions of keyboard music for the guitar
Lahusen, Christian more...	12 Apr. 1886 Buenos Aires, Argentina	18 May 1975 Überlingen, Germany	German composer
Lai, Francis more...	26 Apr. 1932 Nice, France	7 Nov. 2018 Nice, France	French accordionist, and composer noted for his film scores
Laiho, Timo more...	19 Jun. 1957 Helsinki, Finland		composer whose output focuses on chamber music
Laitinen, Arvo (Anto) more...	4 Feb. 1893 Aura, Finland	30 Aug. 1966 Helsinki, Finland	musicologist and composer of chamber music and six Symphonies
Lajtha, László more...	30 Jun. 1892 Budapest, Hungary	16 Feb. 1963 Budapest, Hungary	Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist and conductor
Lakatos, Roby more...	16 Aug. 1965 Budapest, Hungary		Romani (Gypsy) violinist from Hungary, renowned for his mix of classical music with Hungarian Romani music and jazz themes
Laks, Szymon more...	1 Nov. 1901 Warsaw, Poland	11 Dec. 1983 Paris, France	Polish violinist, conductor and composer and Holocaust survivor. Laks's compositions may be described as neo-classical; he left several string quartets, symphonic suites, as well as many chamber works and songs
Lalande, Michel Richard de (also Delalande) more...	15 Dec. 1657 Paris, France	18 Jun. 1726 Versailles, France	French Baroque composer and organist who was in the service of King Louis XIV. He was one of the most important composers of grand motets
Lalo, Édouard(-Victoire-Antoine) more...	27 Jan. 1823 Lille, France	22 Apr. 1892 Paris, France	French composer of Spanish descent [details by Terry L. Mueller]
Laloy, Didier more...	11 Jun. 1974 Etterbeek, Belgium		Belgian accordianist and composer
Lam, Man-Yee (also Lam Manyee or Lin Minyi) more...	10 Sep. 1950 Hongkong		Chinese composer and music producer
Lama, Gaetano more...	28 Feb. 1886 Naples, Italy	27 Apr. 1950 Naples, Italy	Italian composer
Laman, Willem Frederik (Wim) more...	22 Apr. 1946 Den Haag, The Netherlands		Dutch composer
Lamarque Pons, Jaures more...	6 May 1917 Salto, Uruguay	11 Jun. 1982 Montevideo, Uruguay	Uruguayan composer and pianist
Lamb, Joseph more...	6 Dec. 1887 Montclair, New Jersey, USA	3 Sep. 1960 Brooklyn, NY, USA	noted American composer of ragtime music. Lamb, of Irish descent, was the only non-African American of the "Big Three" composers of classical ragtime, the other two being Scott Joplin and James Scott
Lamballe, Marie-Theresa-Louisa (Maria Luisa of Savoy, Princess de Lamballe) more...	8 Sep. 1749 Turin, Italy	3 Sep. 1792 Paris, France	amateur composer
Lambardi, Francesco more...	1587 Naples, Italy	1642	Neapolitan Baroque composer who participated in the staging of feste a ballo with Giovanni Maria Trabaci
Lambe, Walter more...	c.1450/51 Salisbury, England	after Michaelmas 1499 Windsor, England	English composer, one of the three leading Eton choirbook composers. A Walter Lambe from Salisbury, clearly the composer, was elected King's scholar at Eton in 1467; he was aged fifteen the year before, and so was born in 1450 or 1451. Lambe was installed as a clerk at St George's, Windsor in 1479, and held the post of master of the choristers jointly until 1480 and on his own from 1482 to 1484. He then probably sought further advancement elsewhere, because his name does not appear in the records again until 1492. After that year the records are very incomplete, but he was still a clerk in 1499-10
Lambert, (Leonard) Constant more...	23 Aug. 1905 London, England	21 Aug. 1951 London, England	a British composer and conductor
Lambert, Michel more...	1610 Champigny-sur-Veude, France	29 Jun. 1696 Paris, France	Lambert was a musician and tutor in Paris for Gaston of Orleans, brother of Louis XIII. He was known as an important singer and teacher, even in his own time, and holds a position as the most important composer of French airs in the second half of the 17th century. Through his compositions, Lambert played a part in influencing the French opera composers of his day
Lambrechts, Jean more...	1 July 1936 Tongeren, Belgium		Belgian composer who works in The Netherlands
Lamond, Frederic more...	28 Jan. 1868 Glasgow, Scotland	21 Feb. 1948 England	Scottish pianist and composer
Lampadarios, Petros more...	c.1730 Tripoli, Greece	1777 Constantinople	Greek composer known for his work as a hymnographer
Lampadius, Henricus more...	1503 Danzig	1583	teacher, preacher at St. Magni and at St. Michael's in Brunswick, composer of the 6-part motet Victimae paschali laudes
Lampe, Johann Friedrich more...	1703 Saxony, Germany	25 Jul. 1751 Edinburgh, Scotland	Lampe wrote operatic works in English in defiance of the vogue for Italian opera popularised by George Frideric Handel and Nicola Porpora. Lampe, along with Henry Carey and J. S. Smith, founded the short-lived English Opera Project. He became a friend of Charles Wesley, and wrote several tunes to accompany Wesley's hymns
Lancen, Serge more...	5 Nov. 1922 Paris, France	10 Jul. 2005 Paris, France	French composer
Lancino, Thierry more...	27 Mar. 1954 Civray, Vienne, France		French composer
Landeghem, Jan Van more...	28 Nov. 1954 Tamise, Belgium		Belgian composer, organist, choral director and teacher
Landi, Stefano more...	baptized 26 Feb. 1587 Rome, Italy	28 Oct. 1639 Rome, Italy	an Italian composer and teacher of the early Baroque Roman School. He was an influential early composer of opera, and wrote the earliest opera on a historical subject Sant'Alessio (1632)
Landini, Francesco more...	c.1325 probably Florence	2 Sep. 1397 Florence, Italy	Italian composer, organist, singer, poet and instrument maker. He was one of the most famous and revered composers of the second half of the 14th century, and by far the most famous composer in Italy
Landowski, Marcel François Paul more...	18 Feb. 1915 Pont-l'Abbé, Finistère, France	23 Dec. 1999 Paris, France	French composer, biographer and arts administrator
Landré, Guillaume more...	24 Feb. 1905 The Hague, The Netherlands	6 Nov. 1968 Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Dutch composer of operas, 4 symphonies, and chamber music. His father, Willem Landré was also a composer
Landré, Willem more...	12 Jun. 1874 Amsterdam, The Netherlands	1 Jan. 1948 Eindhoven, The Netherlands	Dutch composer and music critic, father of Guillaume Landré
Landy, Leigh more...	1951		composer and musicologist of Dutch and American citizenship, author of Understanding the art of sound organization
Lane, Philip more...	1950 Cheltenham, England		English composer and musicologist, noted for his light music compositions and arrangements, as well as his painstaking work reconstructing lost film scores
Lang, Bernhard more...	24 Feb. 1957 Linz, Austria		Austrian composer of the experimental and avant-garde school, particularly advocating a style he has self-termed "repetition-perpetrator"
Lang, Craig Sellar more...	13 May 1891 Hastings, New Zealand	24 Nov. 1971 England	New Zealand-born, British-domiciled organist, music teacher and composer
Lang, David more...	8 Jan. 8 1957 Los Angeles, USA		American composer living in New York City. He was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Music for The Little Match Girl Passion
Lang, Josephine Köstlin more...	14 Mar. 1815 Munich, Germany	2 Dec. 1880 Tübingen, Germany	German composer who studied composition and thorough bass with Mendelssohn when she was ten
Lang, Klaus more...	26 Apr. 1971 Graz, Austria		Austrian composer and organist
Lång, Peter more...	2 Jun. 1963 Finland		Finnish composer. Peter Lång's principal works are his three operas
Langa, Francesco Soto de (see Soto da Langa, Francesco)
Långberg, Peter more...
Lange, Daniel de more...	11 Jul. 1841 Rotterdam, Netherlands	30 Jan. 1918 Point Loma, California, USA	Dutch romantic composer. He studied in Rotterdam with his father Samuel de Lange sr. (composition/organ) and Simon Ganz (violoncello), in Brussels with B. Damcke (composition) and A.F. Servais (cello). Together with his brother Samuel de Lange jr. he gave many concerts in Eastern Europe and taught at the conservatory of Lviv from 1860 until 1863. After a short period in Rotterdam he moved to Paris (1864). He met many famous French composers such as Berlioz, Lalo and Massenet, and taught composition, for instance to E. Chausson. In 1867 he went back to Holland and became one of the most influenced Dutch musicians of 19th-century. In 1883, in association with composers Frans Coenen and Julius Röntgen, Daniel de Lange was instrumental in the foundation of the Amsterdam Conservatory. He wrote many songs and choral works, a piano sonata, an opera and one cello concerto [entry provided by Jascha Albracht]
Lange, Gustav more...	13 Aug. 1830 Schwerstedt, Germany	20 Jul. 1889 Wernigerode, Germany	German composer
Lange, Samuel de sr. more...	1811	1884	Dutch composer, father of the cellist Daniël de Lange and composer Samuel de Lange jr.
Lange, Samuel de jr. more...	22 Feb. 1840 Rotterdam, Netherlands	6 Jul. 1911 Stuttgart, Germany	Dutch romantic composer. He studied in Rotterdam with his father Samuel de Lange sr. and A. Winterberger (organ), in Brussels with B. Damcke (composition) and in Vienna with Carol Mikuli (piano). Gave many concerts in Eastern Europe together with his brother Daniel de Lange (cellist). Taught at the Conservatory of Lviv from 1860 until 1863. After a short period in Rotterdam he lived and taught in Basel (1874) (Switzerland), Paris (1875), Cologne (1876-1885), The Hague (1886-1893) and finally Stuttgart, where he was offered the post of director at the conservatory. He wrote many compositions, including organ works, songs, oratoria, piano music, 13 string quartets, 5 piano trios, 5 symphonies, 3 cello sonatas, 4 violin sonatas 7 organ concertos, 2 piano concerts, 3 cello concertos. His compositions are influenced by Mendelssohn, Brahms and Reger. His later works reveal an interesting authentic style [entry provided by Jascha Albracht]
Lange-Müller, Peter more...	1 Dec. 1850 Fredericksberg, Denmark	26 Feb. 1926, Copenhagen, Denmark	Danish composer and pianist
Langford, Gordon (né Coleman) more...	May 1930 Edgware, Middlesex, England		English composer, arranger and performer. Although well known in the brass band community as a composer and arranger, he is less well known as a composer of orchestral music, despite winning an Ivor Novello award for his March from the Colour Suite in 1971
Langgaard, Rued (né Rud Immanuel Langgaard) more...	28 Jul. 1893 Copenhagen, Denmark	10 Jul. 1952 Ribe, Denmark	late-Romantic Danish composer and organist
Langgaard, Siegfried more...	1852	1914	Danish composer and pianist, father of Rued, Langgaard
Langlais, Jean more...	15 Feb. 1907 La Fontanelle, France	8 May 1991 Paris, France	notable French organist who held positions at Paris St-Pierre-de-Montrouge and Paris Ste-Clothilde (where he was one of the successors of César Franck), 1945-1987. His organ works include: La Nativité, Suite médiévale, Dominica in palmis, Three Gregorian Paraphrases, 9 Pièces, Les rameaux (The Palms), Incantation pour un jour saint, Suite brève, 3 méditations sur la sainte trinité [information provided by Terry L Mueller]
Lanier (or Laniere), Nicholas more...	bap. 10 Sep. 1588 Rouen, France	24 Feb. 1666 Greenwich, London, England	French lutenist, violist, singer and composer who was the first to hold the title 'Master of the King's Musick'. During the Commonwealth of England he lived in the Netherlands, but returned to resume his duties in 1660
Laniuk, Juri (Yuri) more...	1957 L'viv Ukraine		Ukrainian cellist and composer [information provided by Simon Camartin]
Lanman, Anthony (Jseph) more...	1973 Des Moines, Iowa, USA		American guitarist and composer
Lann, Vanessa more...	1968 Brooklyn, USA		American composer
Lanner, August more...	23 Jan. 1835 Vienna, Austria	27 Sep. 1855 Vienna, Austria	Austrian composer, son of the better-known Josef Lanner
Lanner, Joseph more...	12 Apr. 1801 Vienna, Austria	14 Apr. 1843 Vienna, Austria	one of the earliest Viennese composers to reform the waltz from a simple peasant dance to something that even the highest society could enjoy, either as an accompaniment to the dance, or for the music's own sake. He was just as famous as his friend and musical rival Johann Strauss I, who was better known outside of Austria in their day because of his concert tours abroad, in particular, to France and England
Lannoy, Colinet de more...		d.1497	Obrecht used a chanson by Colinet de Lannoy, that had enjoyed extensive circulation in Italian sources, as the model for his Missa Cela sans plus while Pope Leo X (reigned 1513-1521) who may have received instruction from the Flemish composer Heinrich Isaac, composed a five-part arrangement of a Colinet de Lannoy chanson melody
Lannoy, Comtesse E. de	1764 Belgium	1820	composer of songs and orchestral works, she also compiled a collection of Austrian folk songs
Lannoy, Eduard von more...	3 Dec. 1787 Brussels, Belgium	28 Mar. 1853 Vienna, Austria	clarinetist, music teacher and composer
Lansky, Paul more...	18 Jun. 1944 USA		American electronic-music or computer-music composer,educator, and music critic. His early work used conventional instrumental ensembles and serial techniques. His work since the 1970s has been mainly electronic, though he has recently shifted his focus back to the acoustic genre [entry prompted by Susan Mielke]
Länsiö, Erkki more...	1927 Finland	1956	Finnish composer whose characteristic style is to be found in his best-known work, the incisively humorous Musiikkia 5 puhaltimelle ja kontrabassolle (Music for 5 winds and double bass, 1949)
Länsiö, Tapani more...	22 Oct. 1953 Finland		he divides his time between composing and performing. He has conducted the Finnish Polytechnic Male Choir since 1984 raising it to be regarded as the most significant Finnish male voice choir performing contemporary music. His own limited output as a composer also focuses on choral music, with more or less equal numbers of works for mixed choir and male voice choir, and a few children's choir pieces. The most significant of his instrumental works is the String Quartet (1995)
Lantier, Pierre more...	30 Apr. 1910 Marseille, France	1998	French composer and teacher
Lantins, Arnold de more...	fl. 1420s	before 2 Jul. 1432	Franco-Flemish composer of the late Medieval era and early Renaissance. He is one of a few composers who shows aspects of both medieval and Renaissance style, and was a contemporary of Dufay during that composer's sojourn in Italy
Lantins, Hugo de more...	fl. 1420-1430		Franco-Flemish composer of the late Medieval era and early Renaissance. He was active in Italy, especially Venice, and wrote both sacred and secular music; he may have been a relative of Arnold de Lantins, another composer active at the same time in the same area
Lapicida, Erasmus (also Erasmus Steinmetz) more...	1440 or 1445	19 Nov. 1547 Vienna, Austria	Renaissance Flemish composer, singer and cleric
Laporte, Andre more...	12 Jul. 1931 Oplinter, nr Tienen, Belgium		Belgian composer
Lara, Augustin (Angel Agustin Maria Carlos Fausto Mariano Alfonso del Sagrado Corazon Lara y Aguirre del Pino) more...	30 Oct. 1897 Tlacotalpan, Veracruz, Mexico	6 Nov. 1970 Mexico City, Mexico	Mexican singer and songwriter
Lara, Isidore de (né Isidore Cohen) more...	8 Sep. 1858 London, England	2 Sep. 1935 Paris, France	English composer and singer
Larchet, John Francis more...	13 Jul. 1884 Dublin, Ireland	10 Aug. 1967 Dublin, Ireland	Irish composer. He was Director of Music at the Abbey Theatre from 1907 to 1934 and was professor of harmony and counterpoint at the Royal Irish Academy of Music from 1920 to 1955. He was also professor of music at University College Dublin from 1921 to 1958
Larchikov, Vadim more...	9 Jul. 1967 Sebastopol, Ukraine		Ukrainian cellist and composer
Larcom, Lucy more...	5 Mar. 1824 Beverly, Mass., USA	17 Apr. 1893 Boston, Mass., USA	American poetess and composer of songs
Lark, Kenneth (see Whitlock, Percy)
Larkins, Ellis more...	15 May 1923 Baltimore, USA	29 Sep. 2002 Baltimore, USA	Jazz painist, accompanist and composer
Larsen, Christian more...	early 1970s Omaha, Nebraska		American composer and producer
Larsen, Jon more...	7 Jan. 1959 Oslo, Norway		autodidact guitarist, composer, surrealistic painter, and record producer with heavy influence on the revival of Gypsy jazz worldwide
Larsen, Libby more...	24 Dec. 1950 Wilmington, Delaware, USA		one of America's most performed living composers. She has created a catalogue of over 400 works spanning virtually every genre from intimate vocal and chamber music to massive orchestral works and over fifteen operas. Grammy Award winning and widely recorded, including over fifty CDs of her work, she is constantly sought after for commissions and premieres by major artists, ensembles, and orchestras around the world, and has established a permanent place for her works in the concert repertory
Larsen, Tore Björn more...	1957 Denmark		Danish composer
Larsson, Lars-Erik	1908 Sweden	1986	composer of the popular A Swedish Pastorale (especially the middle movement, Romance) for orchestra and the choral suite, Förklädd Gud (God in Disguise). Both these works, completed in the 1930s, were originally for radio, a medium of wide range and impact. Although these works indicate a tendency towards lightweight neo-classicism, his output could be profound, exhibiting great technical skill. He visited Alban Berg and was the first in Sweden to compose according to the twelve-tone system
Larvor, Francis more...			French composer and performer
Lasceux, Guillaume more...	3 Feb. 1740 Poissy, France	1831 Paris, France	French organist, improviser and composer
Laserna, Blas de more...	1751 Corella, Navarra, Spain	1816 Madrid, Spain	one of the most prolific and popular songwriters of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Spain
Laske, Otto more...	1936 Olesnia, Silesia, Poland		active poet, composer, clinical-developmental psychologist, and cognitive scientist
Lassen, Eduard more...	13 Apr. 1830 Copenhagen, Denmark	15 Jan. 1904 Weimar, Germany	Belgian composer and conductor of Danish birth who spent most of his career working as the music director at the court in Weimar. A moderately prolific composer, Lassen produced music in a variety of genres including operas, symphonic works, piano works, lieder, and choral works
Lasserre, Jules more...	29 Jul 1838 Tarbes, France		French cellist and composer. In 1869 he settled down in London as his permanent residence, and became first Cellist in the "Musical Union" as well as in Costa's Orchestra. He wrote several works for his instrument
Lassus, Orlande de [Orlandus Lassus, Orlando (di) Lasso, Orlandus Lassus, Roland de Lassus, Roland Delattre] more...	1530/32 Mons, Belgium	14 Jun. 1594 Munich, Germany	Franco-Flemish composer of late Renaissance music. Along with Palestrina he is today considered to be the chief representative of the mature polyphonic style of the Franco-Flemish School, and he was the most famous and influential musician in Europe at the end of the 16th century
Lateef, Yusef (né William Emanuel Huddleston) more...	9 Oct. 1920 Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA		American Grammy Award-winning jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer and educator
Latenas, Faustas more...	1956 Lithuania		Lithuanian composer
Latilla, Gaetano more...	12 Jan. 1711 Bari, Italy	15 Jan. 1788 Naples, Italy	Italian opera composer, the most important of the period immediately preceding Niccolò Piccinni (his nephew)
La Trobe, Christian Ignatius more...	1758	1836	Moravian minister and composer. His life work was as secretary to the Moravian Brethren's Society for the Furtherance of the Gospel to the Heathen. He was well known in evangelical and anti-slavery societies. One result of La Trobe's successful visitation in 1815-16 to the mission at the Cape of Good Hope was the publication of his Journal of a Visit to South Africa (1818) and the posthumous Letters to my Children (1851). He also published a six-volume Selection of Sacred Music from the Works of the most Eminent Composers of Germany and Italy (1806-26)
Lâtre, Roland de (see Lassus, Orlande de)
Latry, Olivier more...	22 Feb. 1962 Boulogne-sur-Mer, France		French organist, improviser and Professor of Organ in the Conservatoire de Paris
Lattre, Roland de (see Lassus, Orlande de)
Lauber, Joseph more...	27 Dec. 1864 Ruswil, Switzerland	28 May 1952 Genf, Switzerland	Swiss composer
Lauder, Sir Henry McLennan more...	4 Aug. 1870 Portobello, Edinburgh, Scotland	26 Feb. 1950 Strathaven, Lanarkshire, Scotland	known professionally as Harry Lauder, a notable Scottish entertainer who composed the majority of the songs for which he was famous
Lauder, James more...	c.1535 Edinburgh, Scotland	c.1595	Lauder was licensed in 1552 to travel in England and France for 'improvement in music and the playing of instruments'. He was a composer and teacher of music and is believed to have served as a spy in the service of Mary Queen of Scots
Lauer, Christof more...	25 May 1953 Melsungen, nr. Frankfurt, Germany		German jazz band-leader and composer
Laufenberg (or Loufenburg), Heinrich (see Castro, Henricus de Libero)
Launis, Armas more...	22 Apr. 1884 Hämeenlinna, Finland	7 Aug. 1959 Nice, France	an exceptional figure in Finnish music, in that he methodically sought to become an opera composer. He wrote a total of eight operas; two further unfinished opera projects are known of. However, only the first two of his operas, Aleksis Kivi (1913) and Kullervo (1917), have ever been produced on stage. In addition to operas, he wrote orchestral works, chamber music, piano pieces and vocal music. Launis remained a peripheral name in Finland partly because he emigrated to Nice in 1930 and lived most of the rest of his life abroad. He also wrote the music to the documentary Häidenvietto Karjalan runomailla (Wedding Feast in the Runo Lands of Karelia, 1921), recycling some of its material from his earlier works
Laurenti, Christopher de (see DeLaurenti, Christopher)
Laurentius de Florentia (see Firenze, Lorenzo da)
Laurenz, Pedro (né Pedro Blanco Acosta) more...	10 Oct. 1902 Argentina	7 Jul. 1972 Argentina	bandoneon player, director and composer of Argentine tango music
Lauridsen, Morten more...	27 Feb. 1943 Colfax, Washington, USA		his music is performed regularly by choruses and vocal artists throughout America. Morton Lauridsen is Chair of the Composition Department at the University of Southern California School of Music in Los Angeles, a faculty he joined in 1967
Laurischkus, Max more...	1876 Insterburg, Germany	1929 Berlin, Germany	German composer
Lauro, Antonio more...	3 Aug. 1917 Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela	18 Apr. 1986 Caracas, Venezuela	a Venezuelan composer, considered to be one of the foremost South American composers of the 20th century
Laurson, Mikael	1951 Finland		Finnish composer who has worked with electronic music. The Centre for Music and Technology, as part of its promotion of the introduction of new methods using new technology into the Sibelius Academy, has developed MacSet for the Macintosh environment, an aid for learning and teaching theory and analysis of post-tonal music. The design and programming has been carried out mainly by Marcus Castren and Mikael Laurson
Lauterbach, Lorenz	1906 Waldrach/Neuhausen, Germany	1986	German composer
Lavagne, André more...	12 Jul. 1913 Paris, France		French composer
Lavagne, Edmond more...	1880		French pianist and composer, father of André
Lavagnino, Angelo Francesco more...	22 Feb. 1909	21 Aug. 1987	Italian composer best known for writing the scores to dozens of films, including The Naked Maja, Legend of the Lost, Gorgo, Daisy Miller, Esther and the King, and two directed by Orson Welles, Othelloand Chimes at Midnight
Lavallee, Calixa more...	28 Dec. 1842 Verchères, Montreal, Quebec, Canada	21 Jan. 1891 Boston, Mass., USA	French-Canadian-American musician and Union Army officer during the American Civil War who composed the music for O Canada, which officially became the national anthem of Canada in 1980
Lavelle, Caroline more...			British singer-songwriter and cellist who has created three solo albums and contributed vocals, music, and production help to many other artists and bands
Lavigna, Vincenzo more...	21 Feb. 1776 Altamura, Bari, Italy	14 Sep. 1836 Milan, Italy	Italian concert-master, keyboard player and composer
Lavigne, Philibert de (see Delavigne, Philibert)
Lavotta, János more...	5 Jul. 1764	11 Aug. 1820	Hungarian composer noted for writing in the verbunkos style
Lavry, Marc more...	22 Dec. 1903 Riga, Latvia	24 Mar. 1967 Israel	Israeli composer
Lawes, Henry I more...	5 Dec. 1595 Dinton, Wilts.	21 Oct. 1662 London, England	Henry Lawes was received as one of the gentlemen of the chapel royal (in 1626), and held the position until the Commonwealth put a stop to church music. Even during that period without music, Lawes continued his work as a composer, and the famous collection of his vocal pieces, Ayres and Dialogues for One, Two and Three Voyces, was published in 1653 and followed by two other books under the same title in 1655 and 1658 respectively. On the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, Lawes returned to the royal chapel, and composed an anthem for the coronation of King Charles II
Lawes, William more...	1602 Salisbury, Wilts.	1645 Chester, England	the son of Thomas Lawes, a vicar choral at Salisbury Cathedral, and brother to Henry Lawes, a very successful composer in his own right, William composed secular music and songs for court masques (and doubtless played in them), as well as sacred anthems and motets for Charles's private worship. He is most remembered today for his sublime viol consort suites for between three and six players and his lyra viol music. His use of counterpoint and fugue and his tendency to juxtapose bizarre, spine-tingling themes next to pastoral ones in these works made them disfavoured in the centuries after his death; they have only become widely available in recent years
Layolle (or dell'Aiolle, dell'Aiuola, dell'Ajolle, dell'Aiolli), Francesco de more...	4 Mar. 1492 Florence, Italy	c.1540 Lyon, France	an Italian composer and organist of the Renaissance. He was one of the first native Italian composers to write sacred music in the Franco-Flemish polyphonic style, combining it with the indigenous harmonic idioms of the Italian peninsula
Layton, John Turner more...	2 Jul. 1894 Washington, D.C., USA	6 Feb. 1978 London, England	American songwriter, singer and pianist
Lazar, Filip more...	6 May 1894 Craiova, Romania	3 Nov. 1936 Paris, France	avant-garde Romanian composer and pianist
Lazarof, Henri more...	12 Apr. 1932 Sophia, Bulgaria		Bulgarian composer
Lazkano, Ramon more...	1968 San Sebastián, Spain		Spanish Basque composer of classical music
Leach, Mary Jane more...	1949 Vermont, USA		American composer based in New York City
Lead Belly more...	20 Jan. 1888 Mooringsport, Louisiana,, USA	6 Dec. 1949 New York, USA	iconic American folk and blues musician, and multi-instrumentalist, notable for his strong vocals, his virtuosity on the twelve-string guitar, and the songbook of folk standards he introduced
Lebedeff, Aron more...	1873 Homel, Russia	8 Nov. 1960 USA	Yiddish theatre star
Lebègue, Nicolas Antoine	1631 France	1702 France	related to the Le Nain painters, Nicolas Lebègue was an exceptionally influential musician. Many copies of his works reached the New world during his lifetime. Organist at Saint-Merry and at the Chapelle Royale, he was also a harpsichordist, an expert at organ building, and a famous teacher (Grigny and Agincourt were among his many pupils). He has left many motets for small orchestras, two books of harpsichord pieces, and three books of organ pieces whose style is characteristic of organ composition at the time of Louis XIVth
Lebel, Firmin more...	c. early 16th century Noyon, France	27/31 Dec. 1573 Rome, Italy	French composer and choir director of the Renaissance, active in Rome. While relatively little music of his survives, he was notable as one of the likely teachers of Palestrina
Lebic, Lojze more...	23 Aug. 1934 Prevalje, Slovenia		Slovenian composer
Lebloitte, Jossequin (see Desprez, Josquin)
Leborne, Aimé Ambroise Simon more...	29 Dec. 1797 Brussels, Belgium	2 Apr. 1866 Paris, France	tenor singer and composer of operas and vocal works; he also edited the revision of Catel's Traité d'harmonie (rev. edn. 1848)
Lebouc, Charles-Joseph more...	22 Dec 1822 Besançon, France	6 Mar 1893 Hyères, France	French cellist. Besides some pieces for violoncello, with piano accompaniment, he composed a Methode complete et pratique de Violoncelle. Saint-Saëns' 'The Swan' was written for the aging Lebouc, who was famous also for being the son-in-law of the well-known singer Adolphe Nourrit. Saint-Saëns had promised a solo piece for the cellist years previous, but he did not get around to the project until February 1886. By this time, Lebouc was the subject of ridicule in the string-playing community due to a number of bad performance habits that he had acquired in his old age. Once he had performed 'The Swan' with its extreme mellowness, he again caused his fellow cellists to take notice of the tenderness in his playing
Lebrun, Ludwig August more...	bap. 2 May 1752 Mannheim, Germany	16 Dec. 1790 Berlin, Germany	German oboist and composer, husband of the noted singer and composer Franceska Danzi and father of the German pianist and composer Sophie Lebrun Dülken
Lebrun, Sophie (see Dülken, Sophie Lebrun)
Lebrun-Danzi, Franceska more...	24 Mar. 1756 Mannheim, Germany	14 May 1791 London, England	born in the same year as Mozart, she made her operatic debut at Schwetzingen in 1772 and soon became the leading soprano and virtuosa da camera of the Mannheim court opera. In addition to touring as an opera star and concert artist, she composed two sets of six keyboard sonatas with violin accompaniment which were first published in London and later reprinted in cities across Europe. She married Ludwig Lebrun and their daughter, Sophie Lebrun Dülken, was a noted pianist and composer
Lecce, Francesco	fl. 17th/18th century		Italian composer known for a mandoline concerto [entry prompted by Philippe Watel]
Lechantre, Mlle	fl. latter half 18th century France		composed concertos
Lechner, Leonhard more...	c.1553 Germany	1606	German composer and music editor who worked with Orlando de Lassus
Lechner, Otto more...	1954 Melk, Austria		Austrian accordionist and composer
Leclair l'aîné, Jean-Marie more...	10 May 1697 Lyon, France	22 Oct. 1764 Paris, France	Baroque violinist and composer. He is considered to have founded the French violin school. His brothers Jean-Marie Leclair le cadet, Pierre Leclair (1709-84) and Jean-Benoît Leclair (1714-after 1759) were also musicians
Leclair le cadet, Jean-Marie more...	1703	30 Nov. 1777	French composer, and younger brother of the better-known Jean-Marie Leclair l'aîné ("the elder")
Lecocq, Charles more...	3 Jun. 1832 Paris, France	24 Oct. 1918 Paris, France	French composer
Lecuona [y Casado], Ernesto more...	6 Aug. 1895 Guanabacoa, Havana, Cuba	29 Nov. 1963 Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands	Cuban composer, brother of Ernestina
Lecuona [y Casado], Ernestina more...	16 Jan. 1882 Matanzas, Cuba	3 Sep. 1951 Havana, Cuba	Cuban pianist, music educator and composer, sister of Ernesto
Lecuona, Margarita more...	18 Apr. 1910 Havana, Cuba	1981 New Jersey, USA	musician and composer, cousin of Ernest and Ernestina Lecuona, the author of the song Babalú, made popular in the Latin American world by Miguelito Valdés, and in the United States by Desi Arnaz
Ledbetter, Huddie William (see Lead Belly)
Ledenev, Roman more...	4 Dec. 1930 Moscow, Russia		Russian teacher and composer. He was educated at the Central Musical School of the Moscow Conservatory from 1942 until 1948, he studied under N. Rakov and composition under A.N. Aleksandrov at the Moscow Conservatory from 1948 until 1958. He completed his postgraduate training there and later joined the staff as a theory teacher
Lederer, Joseph Anton more...	15 Jan. 1733 Ziemetshausen, Swabia	22 Sep. 1796 Ulm, Germany	German composer
Ledger, Philip more...	12 Dec. 1937 Bexhill-on-Sea, England		British musician and academic, best known for his tenure as director of the Choir of King's College, Cambridge between 1973 and 1982 and as director of Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama from 1982 until his retirement in 2001. He is also a composer of choral music and organist
Leduc, Daniel more...	3 Sep. 1965 Montréal, Canada		Canadian composer of electroacoustic music
Leduc, Jacques more...	1 Mar. 1932 Jette, Belgium		Belgian composer
Lee, (George) Alexander more...	1802 London, England	8 Oct. 1851 London, England	composer and musical director at Vauxhall Gardens
Lee, Bill more...	23 Jul. 1928 Snow Hill, Alabama, USA		arranger and composer of film scores
Lee, Brent more...	1964 Wynyard, Saskatchewan, Canada		Canadian composer and professor of Music Composition at the University of Windsor
Lee, Noël more...	25 Dec. 1924 Nanjing, China		American classical pianist and composer living in Paris, France
Lee, Thomas Oboe more...	5 Sep. 1945 Beijing, China		Chinese-American composer
Lee Daly, Melissa more...	1985 Fareham, England		English composer, winner of the 2002 BBC Proms/Guardian Young Composers Competition
Leemans, Hébert (Philippe Adrien) more...		10 Jun. 1771	Belgian composer
Leenhouts, Paul more...	1957 The Netherlands		composer, arranger and editor of numerous works for chamber music ensembles
Lees, Benjamin (born: Benjamin George Lisniansky) more...	8 Jan. 1924 Harbin, China	30 May 2010 Glen Cove, Long Island, USA	American composer
Leeuw, Reinbert de more...	8 Sep. 1938 Amsterdam, The Netherlands		Dutch conductor, pianist and composer
Leeuw, Ton de more...	16 Nov. 1926 Rotterdam, The Netherlands	31 May 1996 Paris, France	Dutch composer
Lefébure-Wely, Louis James Alfred more...	13 Nov. 1817 Paris, France	31 Dec. 1869 Paris, France	French organist and composer
Lefebvre, Charles Edouard more...	19 Jun. 1843 Paris, France	8 Sep. 1917 Aix-de-Bains, France	French composer and professor at the Conservatoire de Paris who won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1870 [entry prompted by Alain Trottier]
Lefebvre, Charles-Hugues more...	28 Aug. 1864 St-Hugues, nr. Montreal, Canada	22 Feb. 1948 Montreal, Canada	choirmaster, writer on music, critic, teacher and composer of hymns, plainsong harmonisations and other liturgical music
Lefebvre, Claude more...	11 Nov. 1931 Ardres, France	2 May 2012 France	French composer and poet
Lefèvre, Jean Xavier more...	6 Mar. 1763 Lausanne Cressis, Switzerland	9 Nov. 1829 Paris Neuilly, France	Swiss-born French clarinettist and composer
Le Flem, Paul (see Flem, Paul le)
Legley, Victor more...	18 Jun. 1915 Hazebrouck, France	28 Nov. 1994 Ostend, Belgium	Belgian violist and composer, of French birth
Legnani, Luigi Rinaldo more...	7 Nov. 1790 Ferrara, Italy	5 Aug. 1877 Ravenna, Italy	one of the greatest Italian guitarists of the romantic period. His predecessors had established the audiences for the guitar and made possible his career as a touring performer; on the other hand, they had also raised the technical standards and the expectations of these audiences. Legnanis virtuosity was often compared with that of his friend Paganini, who was himself a competent guitarist and who once stated that he considered Legnani "first" among guitarists. One Spanish critic wrote of Legnanis "remarkable agility of execution," of his "tone of infinite depth and rare singing beauty," and celebrated his cantabile on the bass strings
Legrady, Thomas (Theodore) more...	22 Mar 1920 Budapest, Hungary		Hungarian-born, naturalized-Canadian composer
Legrand, Michel more...	24 Feb. 1932 Bécon-les-Bruyères, Paris, France	26 Jan. 2019 Paris, France	French composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist; son of Raymond Legrand
Legrand, Raymond more...	23 May 1908 Paris, France	2 Dec. 1974 Paris, France	conductor and composer renowned for hits such as Irma la douce, father of Michel Legrand
Legrenzi, Giovanni more...	12 Aug. 1626 Clusone, Italy	27 May 1690 Venice, Italy	Italian composer and organist of the Baroque era. He was one of the most prominent composers in Venice in the late 17th century, and extremely influential on the development of late Baroque idioms across northern Italy
Leguerney, Jacques more...	1906 Havre, Fance	10 Sep. 1997 Paris, France	French composer especially noted for his art songs
Lehár, Franz jr more...	30 Apr. 1870 Komámo, Slovakia	24 Oct. 1948 Bad Ischl Austria	Austrian composer of Hungarian descent, mainly known for his operettas
Lehmann, Liza (Elisabetha Nina Mary Frederica) more...	11 Jul. 1862 London, England	19 Sep. 1918 Pinner, Middlesex, England	English operatic soprano and composer, known for her vocal compositions
Lehrer, Tom more...	9 Apr. 1928 New York ,USA		American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician
Lehrndorfer, Franz more...	10 Aug. 1928 Salzburg, Austria		Austrian composer and organist
Lehto, Anita more...	1970 Hämeenlinna, Finland		she is a graduate of Tampere Conservatory where her main instrument was the accordion. She now conducts windbands and has begun writing for them
Lehto, Jukka-Pekka more...	28 Oct. 1958 Ahlainen, Finland		Finnish flautist and composer [entry corrected by Terry L. Mueller]
Leibowitz, René more...	17 Feb. 1913 Warsaw, Poland	29 Aug. 1972 Paris, France	French composer, conductor, music theorist and teacher born in Warsaw, Poland
Leiding, Georg Dietrich (see Leyding, Georg Dietrich)
Leifs, Jón more...	1 May 1899 Sólheimar, Iceland	30 Jul. 1968 Reykjavík, Iceland	Icelandic composer
Leigh, Mitch more...	30 Jan. 1928 Brooklyn, New York, USA		American musical theatre composer and theatrical producer best known for the musical Man Of La Mancha
Leigh, Walter more...	22 Jun. 1905 Wimbledon, London, England	12 Jun. 1942 Tobruk, Libya	English composer
Leighton, Kenneth more...	2 Oct. 1929 Wakefield, England	24 Aug. 1988 Edinburgh, Scotland	British composer and pianist
Leiviskä, Helvi more...	25 May 1902 Helsinki, Finland	12 Aug. 1982 Helsinki, Finland	the three Symphonies of Leiviskä reflect a serious composer personality. Counterpoint plays an important part in her work, and it was counterpoint that led her to explore a more chromatic style. This is evident both in the single-movement Sinfonia brevis (1962/72), not one of her numbered symphonies, and in the Third Symphony (1971). Leiviskä was also important in that she pioneered the concept of a 'woman composer' at a time when the very existence of such a person could arouse prejudice in audiences
Lekeu, Guillaume more...	20 Jan. 1870 Verviers, Belgium	21 Jan. 1894 Verviers, Belgium	a Belgian (Wallon) composer remembered most for a violin sontata he wrote for the famous violin virtuoso Eugène Ysaÿe
Lelio, de more...	c.17th century		composer
Lelong, Fernand more...	3 Sep. 1939 Pas-de-Calais, France	2 Nov. 2002 Paris, France	French tuba player, consultant to the tuba maker Antoine Courtois and composer of studies, etc., (pub. Paris: Billaudot)
Lema, Ray (né Raymond Lema A'nsi Nzinga) more...	30 Mar. 1946 Lufu-Toto, Bas-Congo Province, DR Congo		pianist, guitarist, and songwriter
Lemacher, Heinrich more...	26 Jun. 1891 Solingen, Germany	16 Mar. 1966 Cologne, Germany	German composer
Lemare, Edwin Henry more...	9 Sep. 1866 Ventnor, Isle of Wight, England	24 Sep. 1934	English organist and composer who lived the latter part of his life in the United States
Lemba, Artur Gustavovich	24 Sep. 1885 Tallinn, Estonia	21 Sep. 1963 Tallinn, Estonia	Estonian composer, critic and pianist
Lemckert, Johann T more...	1940 The Netherlands		Dutch organist and composer
Lemmens, Jacques-Nicolas (Jaak-Nicolaas) more...	3 Jan, 1823 Zoele-Parwijs, near Waterloo, Belgium	30 Jan. 1881 Sempst, near Malines, Belgium	an organist and a composer for his instrument
Lena, Battista more...	8 Jun. 1960 Italy		Italian composer
Lendvai, Erwin more...	4 Jun. 1882 Budapest, Hungary	31 Mar. 1949 London, England	Hungarian composer and choral conductor. He was an uncle of the composer Kamilló Lendvay
Lendvay, Kamilló more...	28 Dec. 1928 Hungary		Hungarian composer
Lenine (né Osvaldo Lenine Macedo Pimentel) more...	2 Feb. 1959 Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil		Brazilian songwriter, singer and guitarist
Lenners, Claude more...	1956 Luxembourg		teacher and composer from Luxembourg
Lenning, Carl Petter	1711/12 Sweden	1788	in 1747, Lenning, organist of Turku Cathedral, was appointed music director at the Turku Academy. This occurred with the formation of the Academic Capell, an instrumental ensemble with, initially, 10 to 15 members and which can be considered the first regularly performing Finnish orchestra
Lennon, John Ono (born John Winston Lennon) more...	9 Oct. 1940 Liverpool, England	8 Dec. 1980 New York, USA	an iconic British 20th-century composer and singer of popular music, best known as the founding member of The Beatles, in which he and Paul McCartney formed the massively successful Lennon-McCartney songwriting partnership throughout the 1960s
Lenski, Adriaan more...	1972 Antwerp, Belgium		Belgian composer
Lentz, Daniel more...	10 Mar. 1942 Latrobe, Pennsylvania, USA		American composer of electronic music
Lentz, Georges more...	1965 Luxembourg		Luxembourg-born composer and violinist who has lived in Australia since 1990
Lentz, Johan Nicolaas more...	1719 or January 1720 Gau-Bickelheim, The Netherlands	1782 Rotterdam, The Netherlands	Dutch composer
Leo, Leonardo (Lionardo Oronzo Salvatore de) more...	5 Aug. 1694 San Vito degli Schiavoni, Italy	31 Oct. 1744 Naples, Italy	an Italian Baroque composer
León, Tania more...	14 May 1943 Havana, Cuba		Cuban-born composer and conductor who is also an educator and advisor to arts organizations
Leonarda (Leonardo), Isabella	1620	1704	during the seventeenth century, Lombardy was home to more published nun composers than anywhere else in Italy. This composer was prolific among them. In 1693, at the age of seventy-three, she published a set of eleven trio sonatas, and in 1696 a sonata for solo violin and organ continuo, which place her among the first Italian women to compose in the new baroque instrumental genres. She published 20 volumes of music during her life, of which two have been lost. The surviving volumes contain more than 200 pieces of music
Leonardo, Umberto more...	Naples, Italy		Neapolitan guitarist and composer
Leoncavallo, Ruggiero more...	8 Mar. 1857 Naples, Italy	9 Aug. 1919 Montecatini, Italy	Italian opera composer
Leone, Francesco (Bartolomeo) de	28 Jul. 1887 Ravenna, Ohio	10 Dec. 1948 Akron, Ohio	American composer
Leone, Gabriele more...	1732 Italy	1770 Italy	mandolinist and composer for the instrument
Leoninus (or Léonin), magister more...	c.1135 probably France	c.1201 Paris, France	educated at St. Benoit, a collegiate church subordinate to Notre Dame, and earned the magister degree. Became a member of the Notre Dame clergy, and by 1180 had attained preisthood and became a canon at the cathedral. He was one of the composer-performers where were instrumental in creating modal rhythms and meters. Also according to Anonymous IV created a form of music called clausula, a polyphonic section of chant in which both voices were written in discant-style counterpoint and proceeded at approximately the same rate. He was also supposedly the original writer for the Magnus Liber Organi (Great book of Organum) [entry supplied by Ben Conrad]
Leontaritis, Franghiskos more...	c. 1518 Chandakas, Crete	c. 1572 Chandakas, Crete	he studied in Italy and worked in Rome and Venice before being engaged as a member of the choir in the Munich Court in 1562 where he composed masses and motets as well as secular music
Leontovych, Mykola more...	13 Dec. 1877 Podolia region, Russian Empire	23 Jan. 1921 Kiev, Ukraine	Ukrainian composer, choral conductor, priest and teacher
Leopold I, Emperor of Austria more...	9 Jun. 1640 Vienna, Austria	5 May 1705 Vienna, Austria	patron of music and a composer, Leopold I continued to enrich the court's musical life by employing and providing support for distinguished composers such as Antonio Bertali, Giovanni Bononcini, Johann Kaspar Kerll, Ferdinand Tobias Richter, Alessandro Poglietti, Johann Fux. Leopold's surviving works show influence of Bertali and Viennese composers in general (in oratorios and other dramatic works), and of Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (in ballets and German comedies). His sacred music is perhaps his most successful, particularly Missa angeli custodis, a Requiem Mass for his first wife, and Three Lections, composed for the burial of his second wife. Much of Leopold's music was published with works by his father, and described as "works of exceeding high merit"
Leopolita, Marcin more...	c. 1530 Lwów, Poland	1589	Polish composer who worked at the court of King Zygmunt August
Leoz, Jesus García more...	1904 Spain	1953 Spain	Spanish composer
Lepnurm, Hugo more...	31 Oct. 1914 Tsitre, Kolga, Harjumaa, Estonia	15 Feb. 1999 Tallinn, Estonia	Estonian composer
Lerinckx, Jos more...	13 Jun. 1920 Halle, Belgium	23 Dec. 2000 Mechelen, Belgium	Belgian composer
Leroux, Philippe more...	24 Sep. 1959 Boulogne Billancourt, France		French composer who works in Canada
Lesage, Jean more...	1958 Montréal, Canada		Canadian composer
Lescurel, Jehan de more...		23 May 1304 Paris, France	medieval poet and composer. He was a transitional figure from the trouvère period to the ars nova. His lyrical style unites him with the composers of the later period, and they clearly thought highly enough of him to include his music in the same manuscript which preserves the Roman de Fauvel
Leslie, Edgar more...	31 Dec. 1885 Stamford, Connecticut, USA	1976 USA	American song-writer
Lessel, Wincenty Ferdynand more...	1750 Jilové, Czech Republic	1825 Pulawy, Poland	pianist and composer of Czech origin, father of Franciszek Lessel
Lessel, Franciszek more...	1780 Pulawy, Poland	26 Dec. 1838 Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland	son of Wincenty Ferdynand Lessel, Franciszek was a Polish court musician, headed Warsaw's Amateur Music Society, and gave lessons on how to play the glass harmonica. In later life he largely had non-musical administrative and inspector jobs.
Lesueur, Jean François more...	15 Jan. 1760 Drucat-Plessiel, France	6 Oct. 1837 France	French composer of eight operas, several masses, and other sacred music
Lesur, Daniel (see Daniel-Lesur, Jean Yves)
Leszetycki, Teodor (sometimes also referred to by a germanised name Theodor Leschetitzky) more...	22 Jun. 1830 Lancut, Poland	14 Nov. 1915 Dresden, Germany	Polish pianist, teacher and composer
le Thiere, Charles(see Thiere, Charles le)
Levenson, Boris more...	1884 Bessarabia, a province of Russian Empire	1947 USA	Russian-born American composer
Levesque, Louise	1708 Paris	1745	composer
Levi, Hermann more...	7 Nov. 1839 Gießen, Germany	13 May 1900 Munich, Germany	German-Jewish composer and conductor noted for his friendship with Richard Wagner
Leviev, Milcho more...	19 Dec. 1937 Plovdiv, Bulgaria		Bulgarian-born and educated pianist and composer who defected to West Germany in 1970 and has since moves to Los Angeles. He became a US citizen in 1977. He works mainly in the field of jazz
Levina, Zara more...	5 Feb. 1906 Simferopol, Ukraine	27 Jun. 1976 Moscow, Russia	Ukrainian composer who has written two piano concertos, chamber music and vocal music
Lévinas, Michaël more...	1949 Paris, France		French pianist and composer
Levine, Alexander more...	Philadelphia, USA		jazz pianist, composer, recording artist, producer and educator
Levine, Alexander more...	Moscow, Russia		Russian-born guitarist and composer who is now based in the United Kingdom
Levine, Joey more...	29 May 1947 New York, USA		American songwriter, producer and performer of pop music starting around 1966
Levine, Mark more...			jazz pianist, theorist and educator
Levine, Michael A. more...	20 Feb. 1964 Tokyo, Japan		American composer who is currently based in Los Angeles, USA. His Concerto for Pedal Steel Guitar and Orchestra is believed to be the first concerto ever written for the pedal steel guitar
Levitan, Daniel more...	1953		composer of numerous works for percussion ensemble that are regularly performed at colleges and universities across the country and around the world
Levitan, Yuri more...	20 Dec. 1912 Poltava, Russia		Russian composer who has written many concerti, chamber music, film music and also light music
Levitzki (or Levitski), Mischa more...	25 May 1898 Kremenchuk, Ukraine	2 Jan. 1941 Avon-by-the-Sea, New Jersey, USA	Russian-born American concert pianist, arranger and transcriber
Levy, Fabien more...	11 Dec. 1968 Paris, France		French composer
Levy, Krishna more...	27 May 1964 New Delhi, India		Indian-born French composer
Lévy, Michel Maurice more...	1883 Ville d'Avray, France	1965 Paris, France	French composer
Lewandowski, Louis more...	23 Apr. 1821 Wrzesnia, Poland (then in Germany)	4 Feb. 1894 Berlin, Germany	German composer of synagogal music
Lewis, Andrew more...	1963 Sutton-in-Ashfield, England		composer, principally of electro-acoustic music
Lewis, George more...	14 Jul. 1952 Chicago, USA		composer, electronic performer, installation artist, trombone player, and scholar in the fields of improvisation and experimental music
Lewis, John more...	3 May 1920, La Grange, Illinois, USA	29 Mar. 2001 New York City, USA	American jazz pianist, composer and arranger best known as the musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet
Lewis, Meade Lux more...	Sep. 1905 Chicago, Illinois, USA	7 Jun. 1964 Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA	American pianist and composer, noted for his work in the boogie-woogie style
Lewis, Paul more...	1943 Brighton, England		English composer best known for his television music
Lewis, Robert Hall more...	1926 Portland, Oregon, USA	22 Mar. 1996 Baltimore, USA	American composer, conductor and educator
Lewkovitch, Bernhard more...	28 May 1927 Denmark		Danish composer
Ley, Henry George more...	30 Dec. 1887 Chagford, Devon, England	24 Aug. 1962 England	English organist, composer and music teacher
Leybach, Ignace Xavier Joseph more...	17 July 1817 Gambsheim, Alsace, France	23 May 1891 Toulouse, France	French teacher, pianist and organist, and a composer of salon piano music
Leyding, Georg Dietrich more...	23 Feb. 1664 Buecken, Germany	10 May 1710 Brunswick, Germany	German organist and composer mainly of works for organ
Lhéritier, Jean (see Héritier, Jean l')
Lhoir, Bernard more...			Belgian jazz pianist and composer
Lhotka, Fran more...	25 Dec. 1883 Vozice, Croatia	26 Jan. 1962 Zagreb, Croatia	Croatian composer
Li, Huanzhi (also known as Li Zhonghuan) more...	2 Jan. 2 1919 Hong Kong	19 Mar. 2000 Beijing, China	Chinese composer
Li, Min Xiong more...			contemporary Chinese composer and percussionist
Liadov, Anatoly Konstantinovich more...	11 May 1855 St. Petersburg, Russia	28 Aug. 1914 Polynovka, Novgorod, Russia	Russian composer, teacher and conductor
Liao, Chang Bing more...			Chinese composer of Journey to Sichuan Province
Liapunov, Sergei more...	30 Nov. 1859 Yoroslavl, Russia	8 Nov. 1924 Paris, France	pianist and composer, sometime teacher in the conservatory of St. Petersburg. In 1923, after the Revolution in Russia he escaped to Paris
Liardet, Jean-Paul more...	5 Oct. 1939 Lausanne, Switzerland		Swiss composer
Liatoshinsky, Boris more...	3 Jan. 1895 Shitomir	15 Apr. 1968 Kiev	prolific Russian composer
Libaek (or Lieback), Sven Erik more...	20 Sep. 1938 Norway		Norwegian composer noted for his film scores
Liban, Jerzy more...	c. 1464 Liepnitz, Silesia	after 1546	Polish musical theorist and composer who spent some time in Cologne and lectured at Cracow University in 1511, 1513 and 1520
Liberda, Bruno more...	17 Feb. 1953 Mödling, Vienna		Austrian composer
Libero Castro, Henricus de (or Heinrich Laufenberg) more...	c1390 Freiburg (?), Germany	1460 Strasbourg, Germany	composer
Libert (or Liberth), Gautier (Gualterius, Gualtero) more...	fl. 1423-1428		composer of the early Renaissance, possibly French, who flourished in Rome
Libert, Reginaldus more...	fl.c.1425-1435		French composer of the early Renaissance. He was a minor member of the Burgundian School, a contemporary of Guillaume Dufay, and one of the first to use fauxbourdon in a mass setting
Libert, Simon more...	1820 Liège, Belgium	20 Jan. 1861 Paris, France	Belgian composer and violinist
Lichnowsky, Fürst Karl Alois more...	21 Jun. 1761 Vienna, Austria	15 Apr. 1814 Vienna, Austria	musician and composer, lodge brother of Mozart. Lichnowsky was one of the most significant aristocratic supporters of Beethoven. In an 1805 letter the composer called him "one of my most loyal friends and promoters of my art"
Lichnowsky, Reichsgraf Moritz von more...	1771	1837	composer of Sieben Variationen für Klavier über ein Thema von Paisiello ('Nel cor più non mi sento') - also the dedicatee of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90
Lichtveld, Lodewijk Alphonsus Maria (Lou) more...	7 Nov. 1903 Paramaribo, Surinam	10 Jul. 1996 Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Surinamese politician, playwright, composer and poet who wrote under the pseudonym "Albert Helman" in the Netherlands
Lickl (also Ligkl), Johann Georg [in Hungarian: Lickl György] more...	11 Apr. 1769 Korneuburg, Lower Austria	12 May 1843 Pécs, Hungary	Austrian composer, organist, Kapellmeister in the main church of Pécs, and piano teacher
Lidarti, Christian Joseph (Cristiano Giuseppe) more...	23 Feb. 1730 Vienna, Austria	1795 Pisa, Italy	Austrian-born composer, who from 1751 worked in Italy
Liddell, Claire more...	24 May (year unknown) Glasgow, Scotland		contemporary Scottish pianist and composer
Liddle, Samuel more...	1867 Leeds, England	1951	English pianist, organist and composer. His many vocal pieces are written in ballad style. Most popular among his songs is the Psalm 84-based How Lovely Are Thy Dwellings
Lidholm, Ingvar more...	24 Feb. 1921 Jönköping, Sweden		Swedish composer
Lie, Harald more...	21 Nov. 1902 Christiania, Norway	23 May 1942 Oslo, Norway	Norwegian composer
Liebermann, Lowell more...	22 Feb. 1961 New York City, USA		American composer, pianist and conductor
Liebermann, Rolf more...	14 Sep. 1910 Zurich, Switzerland	2 Jan. 1999 Paris, France	Swiss composer
Lieberson, Goddard	1911	1977	As President of Columbia Records, the composer Goddard Lieberson was among the nation's most influential musical personalities from the 1940s to his death in the 1970s. His Papers lodged at Yale University, the gift of his widow, Vera Zorina, include essentially every Columbia LP recording issued during his tenure, twenty-five file drawers and nineteen additional boxes of correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, and the holograph manuscripts of his compositions. Lieberson engaged authors, poets, and public figures to do spoken recordings; their correspondence combined with that of musicians comprise one of the most remarkable correspondence files in the Yale Music Archives. Among the major correspondences are those with Samuel Beckett, Sir Thomas Beecham, Irving Berlin, Fanny Brice, Noel Coward, Henry Cowell, Nelson Eddy, Edna Ferber, Jose Ferrer, Ira Gershwin, John Gielgud, Sir Alec Guiness, Paul Hindemith, Jerome Kern, Andre Kostelanetz, Lotte Lehman, Lotte Lenya, Groucho Marx, W. Somerset Maugham, Darius Milhaud, Eugene Ormandy, Egon Petri, Gregor Piatigorsky, Cole Porter, Basil Rathbone, Fritz Reiner, Richard Rogers, Artur Rodzinski, William Saroyan, Arnold Schoenberg, Dame Edith Sitwell, Osbert Sitwell, Rudolph Serkin, Rise Stevens, Leopold Stokowsky, Igor Stravinsky, George Szell, Joseph Szigeti, Virgil Thomson, Heitor Villa-Lobos, and Bruno Walter
Lieberson, Peter more...	25 Oct. 1946 New York City, USA		American composer, son of Goddard Lieberson, president of Columbia Records, and ballerina and choreographer Vera Zorina. Married (1999) mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (1954-2006) [entry prompted by Dr Christopher McGahan]
Liebhold (or Liebholdt) more...	1700?	1750	German composer
Liebman, David more...	4 Sep. 1946 Brooklyn, New York, USA		American jazz saxophonist and flautist
Liebmann, Helene Riese	1796 Germany	after 1835	a child prodigy who published compositions in her teens, she was an acclaimed pianist before she was thirteen. Her works reflect the influence of Mozart in style and form
Liechtenstein, Ulrich von more...	1200 Murau, Austria	1278	medieval nobleman, knight, politician and minnesinger
Liedes, Anna-Kaisa more...			Finnish folk musician and composer of film music
Liège, Stephanus de (also dÉtienne chez Vannes, dÉtienne de Liège chez Auda) more...	c.850 Salm, Flanders	16 May 920	musician, possibly composer, who was bishop of Liège from 903 to 920
Liehmann, Antonin more...	1808	1879	Czech organist and composer, teacher of Antonín Dvorák
Lier, Bertus van more...	10 Sep 1906 Utrecht, The Netherlands	14 Feb. 1972 Roden, The Netherlands	Dutch composer, conductor, music critic and teacher
Lieske, Wulfin more...	1956 Linz, Austria		Austrian guitarist and composer
Ligeti, Gyorgy more...	28 May 1923 Dicsöszentmárton, Romania	12 Jun. 2006 Vienna, Austria	a Jewish Hungarian composer born in Romania who later became an Austrian citizen. Many of his works are well known in classical music circles, but among the general public, he is probably best known for his opera Le Grand Macabre and the various pieces which feature prominently in the Stanley Kubrick films 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining and Eyes Wide Shut
Lignoquercu, Rogierus de more...	fl. second half 15th century		singer and possibly composer who died in Cambrai
Lijnschoten, Henk van more...	28 Mar. 1928 The Hague, The Netherlands	1 Nov. 2006 Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, The Netherlands	Dutch composer who also wrote under the names Ted Huggens and Michel van Delft
Lilburn, Douglas Gordon more...	2 Nov. 1915 Whanganui, New Zealand	6 Jun. 2001 Wellington, New Zealand	New Zealand composer
Lilien, Baroness Antoinette (von)	1781	1841	composer of piano works published in Vienna in 1799
Lilien, Baroness Josephine (von)			probably a sister to the preceding, composer of piano works published in Vienna in 1800
Lilien, Ignace (Ignacy) more...	29 May 1897 Lviv, Poland	10 May 1964 The Hague, The Netherlands	textile engineer and composer
Liliuokalani, Queen (or Lydia Kamaka'ehal) more...	2 Sep. 1838 Honolulu, Hawaii	11 Nov. 1917 Honolulu, Hawaii	born Lydia Lili'u Loloku Walania Wewehi Kamaka'eha, was the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii. She was also known as Lydia Kamaka'eha Paki, with the chosen royal name of Lili'uokalani, and her married name was Lydia K. Dominis. She composed more than 165 songs
Lilius, Franciszek more...	c. 1600	1657	descended from a family of Italians, the Giglis, Lilius was a composer, conductor and kapellmeister
Lilius, Wincenty [Vincentius Gigli] more...	before 1590 Rome	c. 1640 Warsaw, Poland	a composer who was active in the archducal court at Graz (Austria) in the 1590s. From approx. 1600 until his death he worked in King Sigismund III's chapel in Cracow and Warsaw
Lille, Simon de (see Insula, Simon de)
Lim, Liza more...	30 Aug. 1966 Perth, Western Australia		Australian composer
Lima, Cândido more...	1939 nr Viana do Castelo, Portugal		Portuguese pianist and composer
Limenios (Latin: Limenius) more...	fl. second century BC		son of Thoenus, hailed from Athens and a virtuoso kithara player, composer of Paean and Processional (Second Delphic Hymn) (128 BC). He is one of earliest, if not the earliest, known composer in recorded history for a surviving piece of music
Lin, Minyi (see Lam, Man-Yee)
Linares, Carmen (stage name of Carmen Pacheco Rodríguez) more...	1951 Linares, Jaén Province, Spain		considered one of the finest flamenco singers in Spain
Lincke, (Carl Emil) Paul more...	7 Nov. 1866 Berlin, Germany	3 Sep. 1946 Hahnenklee, Germany	German composer and theatre conductor. Lincke's march Berliner Luft("Berlin Air") is the unofficial anthem of Berlin. It is one of the traditional encores of the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra
Lindberg, Christian more...	15 Feb. 1958 Stockholm, Sweden		Swedish trombonist, conductor and composer
Lindberg, Magnus more...	27 Jun. 1958 Helsinki, Finland		now based in Paris, Lindberg writes music with aggressive rhythms and massive outbursts that has been compared with Xenakis, Berio and Boulez. He was appointed composition professor at the Swedish Royal Conservatoire in 1996
Lindberg, Oskar more...	23 Feb. 1887 Gagnef, Dalarnas län, Sweden	10 Apr. 1955 Stockholm, Sweden	nationalist/romantic composer who in 1939 edited the Church of Sweden's hymnbook. His 1912 Requiem was of particular importance to the history of Swedish liturgical works
Lindblad, Adolf Fredrik more...	1 Feb. 1801 Skänninge, Sweden	23 Aug. 1878 Linköping, Sweden	Swedish composer, mainly remembered for his songs
Lindblad, Rune more...	12 May 1923 Gothenburg, Sweden	5 May 1991 Sweden	Swedish pioneer of musique concrete, live electronic music and electro-acoustic music
Lindborg, PerMagnus more...	5 Apr. 1968 Sweden		Swedish-born composer, performer and researcher
Lindeman, Osmo (Uolevi) more...	16 May 1929 Helsinki, Finland	15 Feb. 1987 Vantaa, Finland	he began his career with orchestral and chamber music works, progressing from the Neo-Classicism of his First Symphony, Sinfonia inornata (1959) to the expansive sound fields and texture-based conceptions of his First (1963) and Second (1965) Piano Concertos. In his Concerto for Chamber Orchestra (1966), he added aleatoric counterpoint to his palette. Lindeman created his first electronic composition, Kinetic Forms, in 1969, and after that he never wrote instrumental music again
Linden, Dolf van der (real name David Gysbert van der Linden)	1915	1999	the leading figure on the light music scene in the Netherlands from the 1940s until the 1980s. As well as broadcasting frequently with his Metropole Orchestra, he made numerous recordings for the background music libraries of leading music publishers such as Boosey & Hawkes, Charles Brull and Paxton, often under various pseudonyms such as Nat Nyll and David Johnson. Peter Pan was one of his own compositions for Paxton, and it was chosen as the theme for a popular US TV show. Dolf's commercial recordings (especially for the American market) were often as Van Lynn or Daniel De Carlo
Linden, Cornelis Van der more...	24 Aug. 1839 Dordrecht, The Netherlands	9 May 1918 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Linden, Jan van der more...	7 Mar. 1932 Diest, Belgium		Belgian composer and teacher
Lindholm, Herbert more...	17 June 1946 Porvoo, Finland		Finnish flautist and composer of melodic and free tonal music
Lindley, Robert more...	4 Mar 1775 Rotherham, U.K.	13 Jun 1855 U.K.	he began his musical studies when he was about five years of age, with his father, an amateur performer, who began by teaching him the violin, and, at nine years of age, the violoncello. At sixteen he had made considerable progress, and the younger Cervetto, hearing him play, undertook his gratuitous instruction, and brought him to the South of England. Even at this age he had commenced to compose for himself, and was sent for to take the place of the professor who was to have played the violoncello solo at one of the Brighton concerts, and who had been taken suddenly ill. Lindley's performance was rapturously applauded; he played Concertos at several subsequent concerts with the same result, and was then engaged for the Theatre, frequently playing before the Prince Regent. In 1794 he succeeded Sperati at the Opera and was principal Violoncellist at all the concerts of any importance in London. In the following year began the intimacy with Dragonetti, the celebrated double-bass player, which lasted for fifty-two years. Forster quotes Chorley's remark that "Nothing could be compared with the intimacy of their mutual musical sympathy." They played together at the same desk at the Opera and every orchestral concert of any importance, and Lindley's performance of the accompaniment to Recitative from figured bass was most "elaborate and ingenious." Concerning Lindley's playing, he was probably the greatest violoncellist of his time; he was distinguished for the beauty, richness, and extreme purity of his tone, and his great technical skill was remarkable, though probably in this and his manner of rendering he did not equal Romberg. The story is well-known how, when Romberg, during his residence in England, heard him play, and was asked by Salomon what he thought of his performance, replied: "He is the devil." He retired in 1851. Lindley is less remarkable as a composer. He wrote four Concertos, Duets for Violin and Violoncello (Op. 5), Duos for two Violoncellos (Op. 6, 8, 10, and 27), Solos for Violoncello Op. 9), and several Variations on Airs, as well as Potpourris
Lindpaintner, Peter Joseph von more...	9 Dec. 1791 Koblenz, Germany	21 Aug. 1856	German composer who was the musical director at the Court of Stuttgart from 1819 to 1856 as the successor of Franz Danzi, Konradin Kreutzer and Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Lindsay, Arto more...	28 May 1953 Richmond, Virginia, USA		American guitarist, singer, record producer and experimental composer
Linek, Jiri Ignac more...	21 Jan. 1725 Bakov nad Jizerou, Bohemia	30 Dec. 1791 Bakov nad Jizerou, Bohemia	Czech late-Baroque composer and teacher
Lineva (or Linyova, Lineff), Eugenia (née Yevgenyia Eduardovna Papritz)	4 Jan. 1854 Brest-Litovsk, Russia	24 Jan. 1919 Moscow, Russia	Russian contralot and collector of folksongs
Lingo, Victor (Vic) (see Kalischnig, Walter)
Linjama, Jaakko more...	16 May 1909 Äänekoski, Finland	2 May 1983 Jyväskylä, Finland	emerged as a composer at a fairly advanced age. He was a primary school teacher, and he did not begin to study composition with Aarre Merikanto until fairly late in life. His studies with Eino Roiha were also important, since Linjama himself stated that this was what opened his ears to modern music. Jaakko Linjama's son Jouko Linjama and grandson Jyrki Linjama are also composers.
Linjama, Jouko more...	4 Feb. 1934 Kirvu, Finland (now Russia)		(son of Jaakko Linjama) church organist and composer. His early works include 5 Metamorphosen (1963) for chamber ensemble, modelled on the Five Canons op. 16 of Webern. His later worked is principally with influences derived from Gregorian chant, late Medieval polyphony and Renaissance sacred music. Although Linjama's idiom is free-tonal, it incorporates the legacy of 1960s Modernism in its use of sound fields, for instance
Linjama, Jyrki more...	23 Apr. 1962 Jyväskylä, Finland		(grandson of Jaakko Linjama) he often combines the multi-threading of Post-Serialism with an almost Romantic emotional sensitivity. This is apparent in early works such as Aufschwung (1985/90) for cello and piano and Elegie für Streicher (1987), where the choice of language alone identifies the Expressionist roots of the music. Linjama has mostly written chamber music and solo works, but also a great deal of vocal music. His only work for large orchestra is pas de deux (1994)
Link, Harry (né Harry Linkey) more...	25 Jan. 1896 Philadelphia, USA	5 Jul. 1956 New York City, USA	American song-writer
Link, Joachim-Dietrich more...	1925 Germany	2001 Germany	German composer most associated with the former DDR
Linko, Ernst more...	14 Jul. 1889 Tampere, Finland	28 Jan. 1960 Helsinki, Finland	pianist and teacher who wrote a body of quite conventional music inspired by the masters of the Baroque and the Classical-Romantic era, including four Piano Concertos (191657), solo piano works and chamber music
Linkola, Jukka more...	21 Jul. 1955 Helsinki, Finland		he first studied the piano at the Sibelius Academy but he emerged as a jazz musician and composer. He took a first step towards concert music in Crossings (1983) for tenor saxophone and orchestra, blending the sax improvisations beautifully with the more conventional orchestral background. Linkola has continued to pursue careers in both jazz and concert music, although he usually keeps these two worlds separate. His output also contains musicals and popular songs that do not fall into either of these two categories. Linkola is an exceptionally prolific composer, and he is remarkable for being able to adapt his writing to a wide variety of situations
Linley, Thomas sr more...	17 Jan. 1733 Badminton, Gloucestershire, UK	19 Nov. 1795 Bath, UK	English singing teacher, musical director and composer, father of Thomas Linley jr
Linley, Thomas jr more...	7 May 1756 Bath, UK	5 Aug. 1778 nr. Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire, UK	one of the most precocious composers and performers that have been known in England, and became known as the "English Mozart". His death in a boating accident at the age of twenty-two came as a considerable shock to English musicians. Linley's early death was a tragedy for English music, as Mozart recognised. He told Michael Kelly in 1784 that 'Linley was a true genius' who 'had he lived, would have been one of the greatest ornaments of the musical world'.
Linley, William more...	1771 Bath, UK	1835	brother of Thomas Linley jr, composer of glees and songs and writer
Linnala, Eino Mauno Aleksanteri more...	19 Aug. 1896 Helsinki, Finland	1973 Helsinki, Finland	composer who wrote two Symphonies in 1927 and 1935 and a considerable amount of Gebrauchsmusik (occasional music)
Linsén, Gabriel	1838	1914	Finnish composer who focused on vocal music, and is known today by virtue of a handful of well-written miniatures including Kesäpäivä Kangasalla (Summer day in Kangasala, 1864), originally written for female choir but today a favourite with all Finnish choirs [maybe related to Roman literature professor Johan Gabriel Linsén (17851848) who was one of Finlands earliest romanticists and an influential member of the Finnish Literature Society]
Lintinen, Kirmo more...	16 May 1967 Saarijärvi, Finland		he made a name for himself in jazz before making a breakthrough as a composer of concert music. Lintinen had studied the piano at the Sibelius Academy before his jazz career, and he describes himself as "a classical musician who has had a more jazzy period". Today, he works in both jazz and concert music as a musician and a composer
Linwood, Mary	1755 England	1845 England	composer who published a number of songs and an oratorio in 1840 and was also an artist in needlework and author of Leicestershire Tales' (4 vols., 1808)
Linx, David more...	22 Mar. 1965 Belgium		Belgian jazz singer and composer
Lionheart, Richard (1st of England) more...	8 Sep. 1157 Oxford, England	6 Apr. 1199 Chlus, Duchy of Aquitaine, France	English king who composed poetry and wrote in Limousin (lenga d'òc) and also in French. While a prisoner of Leopold V, Duke of Austria, Richard wrote Ja nus hons pris or Ja nuls om pres ("No man who is imprisoned"), which is addressed to his half-sister Marie de Champagne. He wrote the song, in French and Occitan versions, to express his feelings of abandonment by his people and his sister
Lipatti, Dinu more...	1 Apr. 1917 Bucharest, Romania	2 Dec. 1950 Geneva, Switzerland	Romanian classical pianist and composer whose career was cut short by his death from Hodgkin's disease at age 33
Lipinsky (Lipinski), Karl Joseph (Karol Józef) more...	30 Oct. 1790 Radzyn Podlaski, Poland	16 Dec. 1861 Virlov, Ukraine	Polish virtuoso violinist and composer
Lipkin, Malcolm more...	2 May 1932 Liverpool, England	2 Jun 2017 England	English composer
Lipovek, Marijan more...	26 Jan. 1910 Ljubljana, Slovenia	25 Dec. 1995 Ljubljana, Slovenia	Slovenian composer, pianist, and teacher
Lirithier, Jean (see Héritier, Jean l')
Lisinski, Vatroslav (né Ignaz Fuchs) more...	8 Jul. 1819 Zagreb, Croatia	31 May 1854 Zagreb, Croatia	Croatian composer
Lisniansky, Benjamin George (see Lees, Benjamin)
Liste, Anton Heinrich more...	1772	1832	known mainly for a sonata for bassoon and piano written in about 1822
Lissenko (or Lysenko, Lisenko), Mykola Vitalyevych	22 Mar. 1842 Hrynky, Ukraine	6 Nov. 1912 Kiev, Ukraine	Ukrainian composer
Liszt, Franz more...	22 Oct. 1811 Doborján, Hungary	31 Jul. 1886 Bayreuth, Germany	Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer. He was a renowned performer throughout Europe during the 19th century, noted especially for his showmanship and great skill with the keyboard. Today, he is generally considered to be the greatest pianist who ever lived. Liszt also contributed greatly towards the Romantic idiom; he is credited with the invention of the symphonic poem
Litaize, Gaston more...	11 Aug. 1909 Ménil-sur-Belvitte, Vosges, France	5 Aug. 1991 Bruyères, Vosges, France	a French organist and composer. Considered one of the 20th century masters of the French organ, he toured, recorded, worked at churches, and taught students in and around Paris. Blind from infancy, he studied and taught for most of his life at the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles (National Institute for the Blind)
Literes, Antonio de more...	18 Jun. 1673 Majorca, Spain	18 Jan. 1747 Madrid, Spain	Spanish composer of zarzuelas
Lithander, Carl Ludvig	1773 Noaroots, Estonia	1843	his Finnish father was a vicar in Noaroots, Estonia. After the parents died, some of the children moved via Stockholm to Turku in 1790; Carl Ludvig remained with his uncle in Stockholm. He lived in London from 1814 to 1818 and met Muzio Clementi, who published some of his works. He returned to Sweden but moved to Germany for health reasons in 1821, and three years later he was appointed to an organist's post in Greifswald
Lithander, Charlotte			sibling of Carl Ludvig, composer
Lithander, Christophylos	1778 Noaroots, Estonia	1823	sibling of Carl Ludvig, composer
Lithander, Ernst Gabriel	1774 Noaroots, Estonia	1803	sibling of Carl Ludvig, composer
Lithander, Fredrik Emanuel more...	1777 Noaroots, Estonia	1823	was an accountant by profession but was also a piano teacher and pianist, and music librarian with the Turku Music Society. Like his brother Carl Ludvig, he appears to have been an accomplished pianist; for instance, he accompanied Crusell in the latter's performances on a visit to Finland in 1801. As a composer, Fredrik was more conventional than Carl Ludvig and more closely linked to the style of Mozart and Haydn. He wrote a few sets of variations for piano, one piano sonata ("Sonate facile") and a handful of solo songs
Litinsky (or Litinski), Genrich (or Heinrich) Ilych (or Iljitsch)	17 Mar. 1901 Lipovets, Ukraine	26 Jul. 1985 Moscow, Russia	Ukrianian composer and teacher
Litolff, Henry more...
Little, Booker more...
Little, David more...
Litzau, Johannes Barend more...
Liu, Feng-jing more...
Liu, Weikang more...
Liu, Wenjin more...
Liu, Yuan more...	1959 China		graduate of the Shanghai Conservatory, he now teaches in Beijing. Liu Yuan writes for symphony orchestras and has written also for the traditional music ensemble Tian Yin
Liu, Zhuang more...
Livingston, Jay more...
Livorsi, Paola more...	20 Oct. 1967 Alessandria, Italy		studied composition at the Conservatory in Turin, Italy with Riccardo Piacentini, at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique of Lyon, at the Sibelius Academy, composition and computer music under Kaija Saariaho and Jean-Baptiste Barrière and has taken masterclasses with Franco Donatoni, György Ligeti, Ivan Fedele, Salvatore Sciarrino and Kaija Saariaho as well as studies in computer music in Paris 1999-2000 (CCMIX, ex Ateliers Upic) and 2000-2001 (IRCAM). She has lived in Finland since 2001
Llanas, Albert more...	1957 Barcelona, Spain		Spanish composer
Llobet, Miguel more...
Llossas, Juan more...
Lloyd, Charles more...
Lloyd, Charles Harford more...
Lloyd, George more...
Lloyd, Richard more...
Lloyd Webber, Andrew more...
Lloyd Webber, William more...
Llull, Ramon more...
Lobachev, Grigorii	8 Jul. 1888 Moscow, Russia	18 Jun. 1953 Moscow, Russia	Russian composer
Lobanov, Vassily more...	2 Jan. 1947 Moscow, Russia		Russian pianist and composer. His early works are characterised by their energetic rhythms, showing the influence of Denisov. His later works are influenced by Schnittke. He started applying serial techniques using quarter tones and double stops when writing for wind instruments. His fondness for repeated arpeggio patterns and Reichian phasing is a characteristic element in his oevre. Since 1997 he has been professor for piano at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, Germany
Lobo, Alonso more...	25 Feb. 1555 Osuna, Spain	5 Apr. 1617 Seville, Spain	a Spanish composer of the late Renaissance. Although not as famous as Victoria, he was highly regarded at the time, and Victoria himself considered him to be his equal
Lobo, Duarte more...	c.1565 Alcáçovas, Portugual	24 Sep. 1646 Lisbon, Portugal	a Portuguese composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque. He was the most famous Portuguese composer of the time. Along with Filipe de Magalhães, Manuel Cardoso, and John IV, King of Portugal, he is considered to represent the "golden age" of Portuguese polyphony. His motet Audivi vocem de cælo, undoubtedly one of the masterpieces of seventeenth-century polyphony, enjoyed an extraordinary but deserved popularity among lovers of Renaissance music in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England
Locatelli, Pietro Antonio more...	3 Sep. 1695 Bergamo, Italy	30 Mar. 1764 Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Italian composer and violinist
Locke, Matthew more...
Lockheart, Mark more...
Loduca, Joseph more...
Loeb, David more...
Loeffler, Charles Martin more...
Loeillet, Jacques more...
Loeillet, Jean Baptiste more...
Loesser, Frank more...
Loevendie, Theo more...
Loewe, Augusta	1882 Germany		alto singer and composer of songs. Schumann speaks of her voice in his writings
Loewe, Carl more...
Loewe, Frederick more...
Logghe, Geert more...
Logothetis, Anestis more...
Logy, Johann Anton more...
Lohmann, Adolf more...
Lohr, Hermann more...
Lohr, Ina more...
Lokshin, Alexander more...	19 Sep. 1920 Biysk, Siberia	11 Jun. 1987 Moscow, Russia	Russian composer whose symphonies and other works show the influences of late German-Austrian romanticism and expressionism
Lolli, Antonio more...
Lolli, Giuseppe Francesco more...
Lolo (Lolette?), Mlle			composer who published in 1726
Lomakin, Gavriil Yakimovich more...
Lomax, Alan more...
Lombardi, Luca more...
Lombardini, Maddalena more...
Lombardo, Carlo more...
Lonati, Carlo Ambrogio more...
London, Frank more...
Longo, Achille more...
Longstaff, Edward more...			best remembered for that foot-tapping ballad When the Sergeant-Major's Parade. There were other song titles, plus musical monologues, stage works like the musical comedy His Girl and the revue Up With the Lark
Longstaff, Margaret more...			credited with composing the N.F.S. March (1944)
Lonque, Georges more...
Lonquich, Heinz Martin more...
Loomis, Harvey Worthington more...
Loos, Armin	1904 Germany	1971 USA	Loos immigrated to the United States from Dresden in 1928. He was an evening and weekend composer, living much of his life in New Britain, Connecticut. Few of his works were performed during his lifetime. His widow has been successful in promoting them after his death. His musical works include five string quartets and four symphonies. An early encouragement to Loos was the award of second prize in a WPA-sponsored choral competition in 1938, in which William Schuman received first prize, David Diamond third, and Elliott Carter fifth
Looten, Christophe more...
Looy, Jos van more...	29 Jul. 1927 Lierre, Belgium		Belgian composer, organist, choral cirector and teacher [corrected by Terry L. Mueller]
Lopatnikoff, Nikolai L'vovich	16 Mar. 1903 Reval, Estonia	7 Oct. 1976 Rittsburgh, PA, USA	Russian pianist and composer
Lope, Santiago more...
Lopez, Felix Maximo more...
Lopez, Francis more...
Lopez, Francisco III more...
Lopez, George more...
Lopez, Miguel more...
Lopez Graca, Fernando more...
Loqueville, Richard de more...		1418 Cambrai	Franco-Flemish composer who played and taught the harp to the son of the Duke of Bar in 1410, is believed to have taught plainsong to Guillaume Dufay (1397-1474) and the other choirboys of the Duke of Bar. From 1413 to his death he taught music at Cambrai Cathedral
Lorano, Filippo de (see Lurano, Filippo de)
Lorentzen, Bent more...
Lorenzani, Paolo more...
Lorenziti, Joseph Antoine more...
Lorenzo da Firenze (see Firenze, Lorenzo da)
Lorenzo, Leonardo de more...
Loriers, Nathalie more...
Lortzing, Albert more...
Losada, Francisco more...
Losy, Jan Antonin more...
Lotis, Theodoros more...
Lotter, Adolph (or Adolf) more...	1871 Czechoslovakia	1942	studied at the Prague Conservatoire, prinicpal bass of the Queen's Hall Orchestra, London, composer of typically charming salon music, much of it published by Hawkes and Son, London as well as The Ragtime Bass Player which was composed and published in 1913 at the height of the ragtime era, and has been popular for over 80 years. The startup and ident music used by Associated-Rediffusion and Rediffusion, London on their opening night, September 22, 1955, began with Variations on a theme of The British Grenadiers (trad., probably arr. Adolf Lotter). For London musicians and music lovers, the destruction of Queens Hall by a Nazi incendiary bomb on the night of Saturday 10th May 1941 was an appalling tragedy. Elgar's oratorio, The Dream of Gerontius, had been performed there in an afternoon concert given by the Royal Choral Society and the LPO, conducted by Dr Malcolm Sargent. The final words of the Angel, 'Be brave and patient, swiftly shall pass thy night of trial here, and I will come and wake thee on the morrow' as the chorus breathes 'Amen, Amen', have never been more fitting or prophetic. The night of trial began within hours, and although no lives were lost, many instruments were destroyed. "Adolf Lotter lost one of his basses," the trombonist Lawrence Martin remembered. "The next day we were recording at Denham Studios and arrived to find that Studio 1 was out of action, an escaping raider having jettisoned his bombs, as they frequently did, one falling on the studio. That was the end of another of Adolf's basses, and nearly the end of him. He didn't live much longer."
Lotti, Antonio more...	1667 Venice or Hanover	5 Jan. 1740 Venice, Italy	Italian composer
Lotz, Hans Georg more...
Lotz, Mark Alban more...	12 Jun. 1963 Tübingen, Germany		Mark grew up in Thailand, Uganda and Germany. Mark started playing the flute at age seventeen and has studied both jazz and classical/contemporary music at the Amsterdam School of Arts in the Netherlands. His professional activities include composing as well as performing in musical settings ranging from improvised music, jazz, beat & world music
Loucheur, Raymond more...	1 Jan. 1899 Tourcoing, France	14 Sep. 1979 Nogent-sur-Marne, France	French composer of orchestra music, ballet (Hop-Frog, 1953) and chamber music
Loud, John Hermann	1873		organist of Park Church in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied with Guilmant in Paris and composed a number of works for organ
Louel, Jean more...
Loufenberg (or Laufenburg), Heinrich (see Castro, Henricus de Libero) more...
Loughborough, Raymond more...	fl. 1925-1955		English composer of songs who dabbled in the light genre piece for chamber ensemble, Mirage and Song of Sunset, both for piano trio, appearing in 1927 and 1938 respectively
Louie, Alexina more...
Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia more...
Louis, Mme.	fl. 17th century France		composed a well received operetta Fleur dEpine and had a song published in Paris
Louiguy more...
Lourie (or Lurie, Lurye), Arthur Vincent	14 May 1892 St. Petersburgh, Russia	12 Oct. 1966 Princeton, NJ, USA	Russian-born composer
Louisa Frederica, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin	1722	1792	composer
Lovano, Joe more...
Lovenjoul, Jean-Henri-Joseph Spoelberch de	9 Oct. 1766 Louvain, Belgium	28 Dec. 1838 Louvain, Belgium	Belgian composer
Lovland, Rolf more...
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Lubeck, Louis, more...	14 Feb 1838 The Hague, The Netherlands		his father, the Hof-Kapellmeister, Johann Heinrich Lilbeck, so highly esteerned by the Dutch musical world (died on February 7, 1865, at the Hague), gave him his first regular instruction, after he had up to his seventeenth year occupied himself with music as a dilettante. In order still further to perfect himself he studied from 1857-1859 under Leon Jacquard's direction in Paris. He then made successful journeys through France and Holland, took up his residence in Colmar, where he often joined in concerts with Clara Schumann and Jul. Stockhausen; in 1866 he was summoned to Leipzig as first cellist at the Gewandhaus Concerts and teacher at the Conservatoire. He fulfilled these duties until 1868, in which year he occupied a similar position in Frankfurt-on-the-Maine, and he also undertook fresh concert journeys through Germany, Holland, and England. In the year 1871 Lubeck was a member of the Carlsruhe Capelle. He did not, however, remain long in this position, but he next went, in 1873, to Berlin and St. Petersburg. From the latter place lie went to Sondershausen, where he belonged to the Ducal Band as soloist, and afterwards to North America. In the year 1881 he returned to Europe, and was engaged as successor to the Concertmaster, Jul. Stahlknecht, for the Berlin Royal Band. Besides a collection of small pieces, amongst which are some transcriptions, Lubeck has written two Concertos
Lubeck, Vincent more...
Lublin, Jan de more...
Luc, Sylvain more...	1965 Bayonne, France		French jazz guitarist, arranger, composer and accompanist
Luc, de more...	c. 17th-century		composer
Lucas, Adrian more...
Lucas, Charles more...	1808 Salisbury, U.K.	23 Mar 1869 London, U.K.	he received his first musical instruction as chorister of the Cathedral, under Arthur Thomas Corfe, after which he attended the Royal Academy of Music in London, pupil of Robert Lindley. In 1830 he was named Composer and Violoncellist to Queen Adelaide, and performed the duties of Organist at St. George's Chapel. Two years later be was entrusted with the duties of Orchestra Conductor at the Royal Academy of Music, and succeeded Cipriani Potter as Principal in 1859. He had already taken the place of his master, Lindley, as first Violoncellist of the Italian Opera. He died on March 23, 1869, in London. His successor in the Opera was the cellist, Collins
Lucas, Leighton more...	5 Jan 1903 London, U.K.	1982	largely self-taught, later he became a Professor at the RAM. Experiences with Diaghilev's Ballet Russes (1918-21) and at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre (1921-3) was followed by his conducting a performance of Rutland Boughton's opera The Immortal Hour in 1923. He later had further experience conducting for the ballet and after coming out of the RAF in 1946 formed his own orchestra, giving concerts of unfamiliar and modern, especially French, music. He broadcast and lectured on ballet, music and the theatre. And he composed
Lucchesi, Andrea more...
Lucchinetti, Giovanni more...
Lucia, Paco de (né Francisco Gustavo Sánchez Gómez) more...	21 Dec. 1947 Algeciras, Cádiz, Spain		Spanish flamenco guitarist and composer. He is regarded as one of the finest guitarists in the world and the greatest living guitarist of the flamenco genre
Lucic, Franjo more...	31 Mar. 1889 Velike Gorice, Croatia	16 Mar. 1972 Zagreb, Croatia	Croatian composer, organist and music theorist
Lucier, Alvin more...	14 May 1931 Nashua, New Hampshire, USA	1 Dec. 2021 Middletown, Connecticut, USA	American composer of experimental music and sound installations that explore acoustic phenomena and auditory perception
Ludford, Nicholas more...	c.1485	1557	the name, at least, of Nicholas Ludford is familiar to most students of English music. He is generally perceived as a lesser contemporary of Robert Fayrfax (Ludford's festal masses are preserved with those by Fayrfax in the great early 16th-century choirbooks at Lambeth Palace, London, and Caius College, Cambridge),and all that is commonly known of him is that his music defines the gap between Fayrfax and John Taverner. However, most are unaware that, with eleven complete and three incomplete mass settings (with a record of another three which are now lost), Ludford was the most prolific composer of masses in Tudor England. He possessed compositional skills equal to any of his better-known contemporaries, and was indeed one of the greatest composers for the pre-Reformation church in England
Lüdig, Mihkel more...	9 May 1880 Reiu, Estonia	7 May 1958 Vändra, Estonia	Estonian composer, organist and choir conductor. As a composer, he particularly worked on a cappella choral songs
Ludwig, Marcus more...	1960 Leipzig, Germany		German-born composer
Ludwig, Peter more...	Brannenburg, Germany		composer and pianist who writes tangos, chansons, melodramas and chamber music. His music for the stage has been performed internationally, and his orchestra arrangements are much sought after. As a solo performer he appears as improviser and pianist for silent films
Luengen, Ramona more...
Luening, Otto more...
Luigini, Alexandre more...
Lukacic, Ivan	1584 Sibenik, Croatia	1648	conductor and organist in Split Cathedral, in 1620 he published a collection Sacrae cantiones, containing 27 motets for 1-5 voices accompanied by organs. Lukacic's collection, the only surviving copy, was lost during the Second World War but was rediscovered in the 1980s at the Jagiellon Library in Krakow, Poland
Lukas, Zdenek more...	21 Aug. 1928 Prague, Czechoslovakia	13 Jul. 2007 Prague, Czechoslovakia	after graduating from the Theater Institute in Prague, Lukas was an elementary teacher for five years. From 1953-1964, he was employed by the Czechoslovak Radio Studio in Plzen as an editor and literary manager where, in 1954, he founded and directed the mixed choir, Ceska Pisen (Czech Song), whose overall artistic standards he raised immeasurably during the course of its first 20 years. The choir achieved international acclaim under his direction, a tradition which it continues to this day [entry prompted by Dr. Amy Dunker]
Lukaszewski, Pawel more...
Lully, Jean-Baptiste more...	28 Nov. 1632 Florence, Italy	22 Mar. 1687 Paris, France	Jean-Baptiste Lully, originally Giovanni Battista Lulli was an Italian-born French composer, who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France. He took French citizenship in 1661 go here for an excellent biography by Bethany Kissell
Lumbye, Hans Christian more...
Luna, Pablo more...
Lunceford, Jimmie more...
Lund, Erik more...
Lundgren, Stefan more...
Lundin, Bengt more...
Lundquist, Torbjorn Iwan more...
Lundvik, Hildor more...
Luolajan-Mikkola, Vilho more...	22 Dec. 1911		a composer of solo songs including the ever popular Häätanhu (Wedding Dance, 1945) and sprightly instrumental works
Lupi (Second), Didier more...		after 1559	French composer, not identical with any composer called Lupus. Lived in Lyons, and published sacred and secular chansons (Lassus' very popular Susanne un jour is based on his chanson of the same name) and French psalm settings
Lupi, Johannes more...	c.1506	20 Dec. 1539 Cambrai, Flanders	a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. A representative of the generation after Josquin, he was a minor but skilled composer of polyphony who was mainly active in Cambrai. Lupi is sometimes confused with several other musicians of the 16th-century. Johannes Lupi was the name of two other obscure figures, neither of whom was a composer. One was active at Nivelles, the other at Antwerp, both in the first half of the century. In addition, there was a composer named Lupus, often referred to by contemporary musicologists as the "Italian Lupus", whose works survive in the Medici codex, another composer named Lupus Hellinck, who may be the same as the "Italian Lupus", and an entire family of musicians named Lupo. Of this family, only Ambrose Lupo, of Milan, was active in the early 16th century
Lupo, Ambrose (or Lupus Italus, de Almaliach) more...	c.1505 Italy	c.1591	Italian musician, one of six string (viol or violin) players, including Alexandro and Romano Lupo, all of whom had been brought to England in November 1540 on orders from Henry VIII
Lupo, Thomas I more...	bap. 7 Aug. 1571 London, England	probably Dec. 1627 London, England	son of Joseph Lupo, an English composer and violinist of the late Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. Along with Orlando Gibbons, John Coprario, and Alfonso Ferrabosco, he was one of the principal developers of the repertory for viol consort.
Lupo, Thomas I more...	bap. 7 Aug. 1571 London, England	probably Dec. 1627 London, England	there were in fact at least two and possibly three musicians active during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in England under the name Thomas Lupo. We know relatively little of any of them, except that there were two Thomas Lupos in court service in the early seventeenth century, the other being Thomas Lupo, Jr, son of Peter Lupo. In particular we do not know with certainty which of them is the composer of some eighty viol consorts, including fantasias and In nomines, that have survived attributed to Thomas Lupo, though Jennings concludes that most of the surviving works were written by Joseph's son, attributing differences in style to the evolution of the elder composer's technique rather than two composers. There also some anthems, motets and songs attributed to a Thomas Lupo. Works include Oberon by Ben Jonson (1611); Love Freed from Ignorance and Folly by Ben Jonson (1611) and The Lords' Masque by Campion (1613) [comment taken from Thomas Lupo ("The Elder")]
Lupo, Thomas II more...	1577 England	1642 England	English musician, son of Peter Lupo, grandson of Ambrose Lupo. Musician for the violins to the King c.1603-c.1641 (see note in entry for Thomas Lupo I)
Lupus more...			known only by works that survive in the Medici codex (1518)
Lupus Italus (see Lupo, Ambrose)
Lupus, Joannes (see Lupus Hellinck)
Lurano (or Luprano or Lorano), Filippo de more...	c.1475 probably Cremona, Italy	after 1520 probably Aquileia, Italy	an Italian composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the most prolific composers of frottola after Marchetto Cara and Bartolomeo Tromboncino. One of his frottola was evidently the favourite song of Cesare Borgia, the son of Pope Alexander VI, according to a manuscript source of the time
Lurie, Arthur (see Lourie, Arthur Vincent)
Lurie, Evan more...
Lurie, John more...
Lusitano, Vicente more...	date unknown Olivença, Portugal	after 1561	Portuguese music composer and important theorist of the late Renaissance
Lustig, Jacob Wilhelm more...
Luther, Martin more...
Lutkemann, Paul more...
Lutoslawski, Witold more...	25 Jan. 1913 Warsaw, Poland	7 Feb. 1994 Warsaw, Poland	one of the major composer of the twentieth century he established his international reputation with Musique Funèbre (1958), written in memory of Bartok. His own personal aleatoric technique whereby the performers have freedom within certain controlled parameters was first demonstrated in his Jeux Venitiens (1961) and is to be found in almost all the later music
Lutyens, Elisabeth more...	9 Jul. 1906 London, UK	14 Apr. 1983 London, UK	a combative and idiosyncratic character and a composer of music that has been described as sensuously beautiful, Elisabeth Lutyens had to struggle to earn her place among the composers of classical twentieth century musical canon, and her music is still seldom heard or recorded
Lutz, Alfred more...
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Lutzow Holm, Ole more...
Luython, Karel	1557 Antwerp	1620 Prague	Carl Luython was an excellent composer, though he failed to be properly appreciated in his time. He joined the Rudolfian orchestra around 1577, and from January 1582 be was its organist. A quiet introvert (as witnessed by the organmaker Jachym Rudner, who built the organ at St. Vitus'), he nevertheless lived a disorganized life full of conflicts (particularly with the said Rudner), perhaps even a life plagued by failure. He was prematurely fired in 1612, failed to receive the promised sum of 200 gold pieces, and was in such difficult financial straits that he had to sell his specially built archycymbalum based on absolute tuning, a reflection of the composer's high qualities as theoretician. His work Liber I. Missarum... was printed in Mikulat Straus' shop in Prague in 1609, a luxurious, richly illustrated work dedicated to Rudolf II consisting of church compositions
Luz, Cesar Portillo de la more...	31 Oct. 31 1922 Havana, Cuba	4 May 2013 Havana, Cuba	Cuban lyricist and composer
Luzzaschi, Luzzasco more...	c.1545 Ferrara, Italy	10 Sep. 1607 Ferrara, Italy	Italian composer, organist, and teacher of the late Renaissance. His accompanied madrigals would have a considerable influence on Gesualdo
Lvov (or Lwoff), Alexy (or Alexis) Fyodorovich	5 Jun. 1798 Reval, Estonia	28 Dec. 1870 (possible 7 Jan. 1871) Kovno, Lithuania	Estonian violinist and composer
Lvovsky, Bretislav	1857	1910	Czech opera composer
Lvovsky, Grigory Fyodorovich	25 Jan. 1830 Bessarabia, Russia	5 Oct. 1894 Bessarabia, Russia	Russian choral director and composer
Lwowczyk, Marcin (see Marcin Leopolita)
Lyadov, Anatoly Konstantinovich (see Liadov, Anatoly Konstantinovich)
Lyakhnov, Ivan Yegorovich	1813 Moscow, Russia	25 Feb. 1877 Moscow, Russia	Russian guitarist and composer
Lyapunov (or Liapunoff, Liapounoff, Liapunov, Liapounov, Ljapoenov, Ljapunov), Sergey Mikhaylovich	30 Nov. 1859 Yaroslav, Russia	8/9 Nov. 1924 Paris, France	Russian conductor, pianist and composer
Lyatoshynsky (or Lyatoshinsky, Liatoshinski, Ljatosjinski, Liatoshynsky, Liatoshinsky, Lyatoshinsky), Boris Mikolayovich	3 Jan. 1895 Zhitomir, Ukraine	15 Apr. 1968 Kiev, Ukraine	as a law student, he also took lessons from Gliere at the Kiev Conservatory. Eventually, he taught there from 1935 1968. In his operas, symphonic and chamber music, Lyatoshynsky attempted to form a broadly national style, blending Ukrainian folk motifs with a characteristically Russian romanticism. Lyatoshynsky has been viewed as the most influential 20th century composer in Ukraine
Lybin, Dmitri more...	27 Jun 1963 Minsk, Belarus		Belarusian composer of orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, piano, and organ works. Together with Sergey Beltiukov, Galina Gorelova, Vyacheslav Kuznetsov, Yevgeny Poplavsky, and others he founded the Belarusian Society for Contemporary Music in 1990. He has served as its permanent secretary since 1991 and as its chairman since 2001. He has also served as a musical consultant to the Atlar Company since 1993. He has taught form, orchestration and score reading at the Belarusian Academy of Music in Minsk since 2001
Lynch, David more...			American composer, who works in the Sound Department of Warner Bros. Studios, Hollywood, CA
Lynton, Everett (see Wright, Lawrence)
Lyon, David more...	1938 Walsall, England		composer of orchestral, vocal, chamber and theatre music, written in accessible idiom with emphasis on melody, rhythm and colour.
Lysenko, Mykola more...	22 Mar. 1842 Krynky, Ukraine	6 Nov. 1912 Kyiv, Ukraine	sometimes called the father of Ukrainian music, the son of a landowner, Lysenko was deeply impressed by the folk songs of local peasants during his youth. His art songs, to texts of Shevchenko, recapture a sense of his rustic early surroundings. He later studied natural science at the University of Kyiv, and between 1866 and 1868 took courses in piano and composition with Karl Reinecke at the Leipzig Conservatory. From 1874 1876, Lysenko studied orchestration with Rimsky-Korsakov in Saint Petersburg, where he also organized a choir to give performances of Ukrainian folk music. In 1904, he founded a musical institute in Kyiv and was active as a composer, performer, ethnomusicologist, and teacher
Lysight, Michel more...	1958 Brussels, Belgium		Belgo-Canadian composer
Lyudkevych, Stanislav (Stanislaw Ludkiewicz (Polish) or Stanislav Filipovich Ludkevich (Russian)) more...	24 Jan. 1879 Jaroslaw in present-day Poland	10 Sep. 1979 Lviv	Ukrainian composer who studied with Zemlinsky in Vienna and then taught in Lviv. His works include operas, patriotic cantatas, and symphonic pieces. He also made editions and settings of Ukrainian folk songs
Lyytikäinen, Pasi more...	2 Oct. 1975 Lapinlahti, Finland		Finnish flautist and composer who studied composition at the Sibelius Academy with Erkki Jokinen 1997-2002 and Paavo Heininen from autumn 2002