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Name	Born	Died	Information
Apell (or Capelli), David August von	23 Feb. 1754 Kassel Germany	30 Jan. 1832 Kassel Germany	German composer and author, awarded a knighthood of the Golden Spur in 1800 by Pius VII (1740-1823) for a mass he had written
Apelles, William H.	1859 USA	1919 USA	Apelles' father was the bandmaster at West Point in 1853 when General Sheridan (1831-1888) graduated. Sheridan was to become only the fourth man in US history to be awarded a fourth star. W. H. Apelles became a noted clarinettist, wind director and composer, and among his works is a march entitled "Sheridan March"
Aperans, Dace more...	19 Dec. 1953		studied at McGill University with Brian Cherney and Bruce Mather. Besides her compositional activities, she has worked as a musical director, assistant conductor and music lecturer. She has composed works in the chamber music, vocal, choral and orchestral genres
Aperghis, Georges more...	23 December 1945 Athens, Greece		Greek composer who has worked mainly in France. Many of his works feature the voice, including a number of operas
ApIvor, Denis more...	14 Apr. 1916 Collinstown, West Meath, Eire	27 May 2004 Robertsbridge, East Sussex	studied medicine at University College, London and composition with Patrick Hadley; composer of ballets (working with Constant Lambert), four operas (including Yerma), five symphonies, concertos (including the first British guitar concerto, in 1954, premiered by Julian Bream), a cantata Alterwise by Owl-light (to text by Dylan Thomas) and chamber music
Apolinar, (Danny) Daniel George	15 May 1934 USA	23 Mar. 1995 USA	American songwriter and singer. Apolinar, working with Hal Hester, supplied the music and lyrics for Your Own Thing, produced at the Orpheum Theatre in 1968. I ran for 937 performances and won a Drama Critics' Circle Award in 1968
Apolloni, Giuseppe more...	8 Apr. 1822 Vicenza, Italy	31 Dec. 1889 Vicenza, Italy	Italian composer, in particular of 5 operas, one, L'ebreo, was to remain in the repertory for almost 50 years, making it one of the most important works by a contemporary of Verdi
Apolloni (or Appoloni, Appolini), Salvatore (Salvadore)	c. 1704 Venice, Italy		Italian composer of operas, La fama dell'onore (1727), Le metamorfosi odiamorose (1732), La Pelerina (1734) and Il pastor fido (1739)
Aponte-Ledée, Rafael	15 Oct. 1938 Guayama, Puerto Rico		educated at the Madrid Conservatory and later at the Di Tella Institute in Buenos Aires where he studied with Alberto Ginastera and Gerardo Gandini. As a composer, Aponte has been interested in controlled improvisation and extensions of the playing techniques used on traditional instruments In 1968, the Fluxus group, under the leadership of Aponte-Ledée and Francis Schwartz was organized to ferment avant-garde music and break with the nationalist position. These two composers embraced the full range of international modernist ideas, from serialism to mixed-media expressions and made a strong impact on the music aesthetics of the decade. Aponte-Ledée has been a major figure in the promotion of new music in Puerto Rico, as founder of the discontinued Biennials of New Music (1978) and director of the Latin American Foundation for Contemporary Music (1981)
Apostel, Hans Erich (Heinrich)	22 Jan. 1901 Karlsruhe, Germany	30 Nov. 1972 Vienna, Austria	German-born serial composer, pupil of Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg, his works include symphonies, three string quartets, a Requiem and solos for piano. As a Jewish-Austrian composer, of German birth, Apostel’s music remained unperformed until after the Second World War
Apostolov, Pavel Ivanovich	6 Dec. 1905 Russia	19 Jul. 1969 Leningrad, Russia	Russian military bandmaster, musicologist and composer. The premiere of Shostakovich's Symphony no. 14 (Opus 135) was also notable for the death in the audience of Pavel Apostolov who had been one of the composer's most vicious critics
Apothéloz, Jean	12 May 1900 Switzerland	10 Jul. 1965	Swiss composer
Appeldoorn, Dina more...	26 Feb. 1884 Rotterdam, The Netherlands	4 Dec. 1938 The Hague, The Netherlands	Dutch composer
Appelby Thomas more...	c.1488 England	1563 probably Lincoln, England	an English Renaissance composer and church musician, he was Informator Choristarum at Magdalen College, Oxford from 1539 until 1541, where he was succeeded by John Sheppard. Appleby was also organist and instructor of the choristers at Lincoln Cathedral 1538-39 and 1541-62
Appell, Dave	24 May 1922		American popular composer. One of the two men who made Philadelphia one of the brightest lights in the popular music galaxy, Dave Appell worked as a composer, engineer and producer at Cameo-Parkway Records. Appell, whose first hit was the 1958 novelty tune Mexican Hat Rock, a bizarre amalgamation of the Mexican Hat Dance and O Dem Golden Slippers (“the nuns loved it”), revealed one of the secrets of his songwriting success — find a song that had come off copyright and re-work it. Ida became Wild One for Bobby Rydell. "South Street? That’s the Stephen Foster classic Camptown Races,” Appell explained
Appenzeller, Benedictine (Benedictus)	c. 1480-88 Oudenaarde	after 1558	Flemish composer, chansonnier and maitre de la chapelle to Mary of Hungary (1505-1558), sister of the Emperor Charles V, who acted as regent of the Netherlands in Brussels between 1531 and 1555
Appert, Donald Lawrence more...	2 Jan. 1953		American composer, author and trombonist
Appia, Thédore	27 Oct. 1887 Belgium		Belgian composer and teacher resident in Switzerland and the United States
Appiani, Vincenzo	18 Aug. 1850		Italian piano teacher and composer
Appignani, Adelaide Orsola	c. 1807	30 Sep, 1884	Italian composer, singer and conductor
Applebaum, Edward	28 Sep. 1937		American composer and teacher, based in Santa Barbara, California, USA
Applebaum, Louis more...	3 Apr. 1918 Toronto, Canada	19 Apr. 2000 Toronto, Canada	Canadian composer of several hundred film scores
Applebaum, Mark more...	1967 Chicago, USA		Mark Applebaum received his Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego where he studied principally with Brian Ferneyhough. His solo, chamber, choral, orchestral, electro-acoustic and electronic work has been performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia with notable premieres at the Darmstadt summer sessions. He has received commissions from Betty Freeman, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, the Paul Dresher Ensemble, Zeitgeist, MANUFACTURE, the Jerome Foundation and the American Composers Forum, among others. He is the recipient of the 1997 Stephen Albert Award, administered by the American Music Center
Applebaum, Stanley	1 Mar. 1922		American composer, arranger, conductor and author
Appleby, Thomas	c. 1535-63		English church musician and composer
Appledorn, Mary Jeanne van	2 Oct. 1927 Holland MI, USA		American composer
Appleford, Patrick Robert Norman	4 May 1925		English minister and composer
Appleman, Sidney Herbert	10 Apr. 1927		American composer and pianist
Appleton, Jon (Howard) more...	4 Jan. 1939 Los Angeles, CA, USA		American writer and composer mostly of stage, chamber, piano, electroacoustic and multimedia works
Appleyard, Peter	26 Aug. 1928 England		Canadian jazz vibraphonist, percussionist and composer
Appo, William	c. 1808	after 1877	American composer, horn player and conductor
Appolloni, Gioseffo	fl. 1591-c. 1600		Italian composer
Appy, Charles Ernest more...	25 Oct 1834 The Hague, The Netherlands		his father was a tenor player in the Royal band, but moved with his family to Amsterdam. The 14-year old Charles Ernest began his piano stusies with Richard Hol. A year after he gave up the piano for the violoncello, on which the Belgian, Charles Montigny, and later, Merlen, the first cellist at Amsterdam, gave him instruction. He received the final finish from Franco-Mendes, under whom he also studied composition. His cello compositions consist of Fantasias on Motifs from the Freischutz and Robert le Diable, as well as some smaller light pieces
Aprea, Tito	10 Oct. 1904		Italian pianist and composer
Aprikian, Garbis more...	1926 Alexandria		composer and choral conductor of Armenian origin
Aprile, Giuseppe [Scirolino, Sciroletto]	28 Oct. 1732	11 Jan. 1813	Italian singer and composer
Aquanus, Adam	c. 1492		Belgian composer
Aquila, Marco, da l' (or dall')	c.1480	after 1538	very few facts or contemporary statements survive concerning the life of this early Italian master of lute playing. He was active as a lutenist and composer in Venice where, in 1505, he was granted the privilege to publish lute tablatures for ten years. However, no such publications are known to exist. Stylistically and chronologically, de L'Aquila stands between the "Petrucci-lutenist's" (Spinacino, Dalza, Bossinensis, with their mood-searching, often short quasi-improvisatory Ricercari) and Francesco da Milano, Albert de Rippe, Simon Gintzler and Valentin Bakfark, who brought the imitative Ricercar/Fantasia to an artistic climax at the middle of the century
Aquino, Frank Joseph [Bernie Kane]	3 Dec. 1906		American composer and singer
Aquitaine, Guillaume IX d' more...	1071	1127	troubadour
Aracil, Alfredo	13 Jul. 1954 Madrid, Spain		Spanish composer and writer; Associate Professor Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Araia, [Araja] Francesco	25 Jun. 1709 Naples, Italy	sometime before 1770 Bologna, Italy	Italian composer who worked for the Russian court between 1735 and 1759. Although the majority of the operas he wrote in Russia were of Italian libretti, his Tsefal i Prokris (1755) was the first opera in Russian. He briefly returned to Russia in 1762
Arakelian, Melvin Sam	19 Apr. 1946		American songwriter, singer and musician
Arakishvili, Dimitri (Ignat'yevich)	23 (Old Style 11) Feb. 1873 Vladikavkaz	13 Aug. 1953 Tbilisi	Georgian composer, ethnomusicologist and teacher
Aralla, Paolo more...	1960 Lecce, Italy		composer of a wide range of music, both traditional and making use of computer technology. Since 1994 he has collaborated with the MM&T studio in Milan and in the autumn of 1997 he attended a course in the musical application of computer technology at IRCAM in Paris
Arámbarri (y Gárate), Jesús more...	13 Apr. 1902 Bilbao, Spain	11 Jul. 1960 Madrid, Spain	Basque composer who studied composition in Paris with Paul Dukas. Many of his stylish and expressive compositions were conceived as tributes to those who had most influenced his career, Manuel de Falla, Jaun Carlos de Gortázar and Javier Arisqueta
Aranaz y Vides, Pedro	bap. 2 May 1740 Tudela	24 Sep. 1820 Cuenca	Spanish composer
Aranda, del Sessa d'	fl. 1571		Italian composer
Aranda, Luis de		1627 Spain	Spanish composer who was maestro de capilla at Granada Cathedral
Aranda, Mateo de	fl. 1500s		Portuguese composer for the vihuela and author of Arte Nueva para tecla y Vihuela
Arañés, Juan	late 1500s Alcala de Henares, Spain	c. 1649 Rome, Italy	Spanish composer who worked in Rome where he published his Libro segundo de tonos y villancicos in 1624
Arant, Jack	4 Jul. 1917		American songwriter
Aranyi-Aschner, Gyorgy	16 Mar. 1923		Hungarian teacher and composer
Arapov, Boris (Alexandrovich) more...	12 Sep. (Old Style 30 Aug.) 1905 St Peterburg	27 Jan. 1992 St Peterburg	Russian composer and teacher
Arató, Istvan	19 Feb. 1910)		Hungarian composer
Araujo, Gina de	1890		Brazilian singer and composer
Araujo, Juan de more...	1646 Extremadura, Spain	1712 Sucre, Bolivia	outstanding South American composer of the early to mid-baroque
Araújo, Pedro de	before 1662	9 Dec. 1684	Portuguese composer
Arauxo, Francisco Correa de (Correa de Araujo)	ca. 1576	1654	organist and composer. Organist at the Church of S. Salvador in Seville from 1599 until 1636, then at Jaén Cathedral until 1640, finally at Segovia Cathedral until his death. His Libro de tientos y discursos de música practica, y theorica de organo, intitulado Facultad organica (Alcald, 1626) contains 62 tientos and seven other pieces, all for organ, introduced by a theoretical treatise and arranged in order of increasing difficulty
Arban, (Joseph) Jean-Baptiste (Laurent)	28 Feb. 1825	9 Apr. 1889	French cornet player, conductor and arranger
Arbatsky, Yury Ivanovich	15 (Old Style 2) Apr. 1911 Russia	3 Sep. 1963	American folklorist and composer
Arbeau, Thoïnot (pen-name of Jehan Tabouret)	17 Mar. 1519 Dijon, France	23 Jul 1593 Langres, France	author of famous book on dance, Orchésographie
Arbeel, Marcel	10 Jan. 1919		Dutch saxophonist, conductor, adminnistrator, teacher and composer
Arbel, Chaya more...	1921 Nuremberg, Germany		composer who has lived in Israel since 1936
Arbenz, Wilhelm	20 Oct. 1899		Swiss composer and choral conductor
Arbós, Enrique Fernández	24 Dec. 1863 Madrid, Spain	2 Jun. 1939 San Sebastián, Spain	Spanish violinist and conductor; arranged part of Iberian by Albéniz
Arbuckle, Dorothy M. Fry	23 Jan. 1910		American composer and author
Arbuthnot, John	1667	27 Feb. 1735	Scottish doctor, author and composer
Arca, Paolo	1953
Arcadelt, Jacob (Jacques) (Arkadelt, Arcadet, Arcadente, Archadelt or Arcadelth) more...	1504/5 Liège, Belgium	14 Oct. 1568 Paris, France	Flemish composer or madrigals, motets and masses who worked in Rome who was perhaps the most important of the northern composers to settle in Italy at the time when the madrigal was developing. As a distinguished polyphonist, he brought a contrapuntal element to the song-like chordal Italian style to produce madrigals of balance and polish. His first book (1539) was reprinted more than thirty times over a period of more than a century; it was this that contained the famous Il bianco e dolce cigno
Arcais, Francesco 'd, Marchese di Valverde	15 Dec. 1830 Cagliari	14 Aug. 1890 Castel Gandolfo	Italian composer
Arcaraz, Luis more...	5. Dec. 1910 Mexico City, Mexico	15 Dec. 1963 nr. San Luis Potos, Mexico	composer and bandleader who was most active writing music for Mexican films, but also had a big band that toured both Mexico and the USA. His theme song was Sombra Verde
Arcas, Julian	1832	1882	Spanish-born guitarist, composer and teacher
Arce, Jose Martinez de	1660	1721	Spanish madrigalist
Archalgelsky, Alexander	1846	1924
Archambeau, Jean-Michel d'	3 Mar. 1823 Herve, Belgium	Aug. 1899 Verviers, Belgium	Belgian composer and organist
Archer, Frederick	16 Jun. 1838 Oxford, England	22 Oct. 1901 Pittsburgh, USA	composer of works for organ
Archer, Harry [Auracher]	21 Feb. 1888 Creston, IA, USA	23 Apr. 1960 New York, NY, USA	trombonist, bandleader and composer particularly of many successful Broadway musicals including Little Jesse James (1923)
Archer, Kimberly K.			studied trumpet at Florida State University and received her Bachelor of Music Education in 1996. She composed Symphony No. 1 “For those taken too soon...,” which was premiered at her alma mater in 2001. Ms. Archer was commissioned by the Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma Northeastern Division to compose a work for their convention. She now lives in Syracuse, New York
Archer, Malcolm David more...	29 Apr. 1952		composer, organist and master of the choristers at Wells Cathedral; conductor of Wells Oratorio Society and the City of Bristol Choir; appointed organist and director music at St. Paul's Cathedral in 2004
Archer, Richard Donald	3 Jul. 1947		English music teacher, organist, conductor and composer
Archer, Stephen Mark	5 Jan. 1953		American popular composer and singer
Archer, Tim James	29 Jul. 1949		American songwriter, singer and producer
Archer, Violet [Balestreri] more...	24 Apr. 1913 Montreal, Canada	22 Feb. 2000 Ottawa, Canada	composer, performer and teacher, she had a tremendous impact on musical life in Canada, an impact that has been acknowledged widely: among other special awards and distinctions, she was recipient of several honorary doctorates (McGill, University of Windsor and University of Calgary) and the Order of Canada (1983)
Archilei, Antonio ["Antonio di S Fiora"]	c. 1550	Nov. 1612	Italian singer, lutenist and composer
Arconati, Felice Antonio	c. 1610	after 1679	Italian maestro di cappella and composer
Arcuri, Serge more...	10 Jun. 1954 Beauharnois, Québec		he completed his musical studies in composition and analysis with Gilles Tremblay at the Montreal Conservatory of Music in 1981. He then pursued studies in electroacoustic music with Yves Daoust at the Conservatory and with Marcelle Deschênes at the University of Montréal
Ardanaz, Pedro	1638	11 Dec. 1706	Spanish composer
Ardemanio, Giulio Cesare	c. 1580	1650	Italian composer
Arden, Jeremy more...	1964 London, England		British composer of stage, orchestral, chamber and electroacoustic music that has been performed in Asia, Europe and the USA to great acclaim. He is especially noted for his stage music
Ardesi, Carlo	c. 1550-60	in or after 1612	Italian composer and instrumentalist resident in Bohemia
Ardesi, Giovanni Paolo	after 1550-60	in or after 1612	Italian composer
Ardespin, Melchior d'	c. 1643	1717	composer, cornettist and flautist, who worked in the Munich court of Prince Max Emmanuel III, rising to become director of chamber music
Ardévol, José	13 Mar. 1911 Spain	7 Jan. 1981	Spanish-Cuban composer who along with young Cuban composers established Grupo de Enovacion Musical in 1943
Arditi, Luigi	16 Jul. 1822 Crestentino, Piedmont	1 May 1903 Hove, nr. Brighton, England	composer of operas, but best known for the vocal waltz, Il Bacio - 'The Kiss'
Arditti, David more...	1 Jul. 1964 Bournemouth, England		English composer
Ardley, Neil (Richard)	26 May 1937		English jazz composer and writer
Arel, Büent	23 Apr. 1918	24 Nov. 1990	American composer of Turkish birth
Arel, Hüseyin Sadeddin	18 Dec. 1880	6 May 1955	Turkish composer
Arellano, George Isidro [George Arno]	22 Feb. 1933		American religious composer, teacher and singer
Arena, Giuseppe	1713 Malta	6 Nov. 1784 Naples, Italy	Italian organist and composer
Arend, Arie den	3 Feb. 1903	22 Feb. 1982	Dutch conductor, teacher, organist and composer
Arends Andrej Fedorovich [Heinrich-Eugen]	14 (Old Style 2) Mar. 1855	27 Apr. 1924	Russian conductor, violinist, and composer of German extraction
Arendt, Joachim	20 Sep. 1893		German music director and composer
Arensky, Anton Stepanovich (Arenski) more...	12 Jul. (Old Style 30 Jun.) 1861 Novgorod, Russia	25 (Old Style 12) Feb. 1906 Perkijarvi, Finland	composer of operas, symphonies and piano music and teacher of Rakhmaninov and Skryabin
Arentino, Paolo	1508	1584	Italian Renaissance composer
Arentino, Paolo	1508	1584	not to be confused with Leonardo Aretino (c.13701444), Florentine humanist, historian and chancellor; Pietro Aretino (14921556), Italian writer; or Spinello Aretino (c.1330-c.1410), Italian painter
Arenz, Heinz	1924		German wind director, administrator and composer
Aretz (de Ramón y Rivera), Isabel	13 Apr. 1909		Venezuelan ethnomusicologist, folklorist and composer of Argentinean birth
Argamakov, Vasily Nikolayevich	1 Nov. (Old Style 20 Oct.) 1883	3 Jun. 1965	Russian pianist, pedagoguge and composer
Argauer, Wilhelm		28 Feb. 1904	Austrian composer
Argent, William Ignatius	26 Aug. 1844		English organist, choral conductor, writer and composer
Argentina more...	fl. second half 14th century		singer who may have been a composer
Argentina, Sareno S.	7 Feb. 1917		American songwriter
Argento, Dominick Joseph more...	27 Oct. 1927 York, PA, USA	20 Feb. 1919 Minneapolis, MN, USA	pupil Dalla-Piccola; American composer of 5 operas, including Christopher Sly, Letters from Composers for tenor and guitar. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1975 for his song cycle From the Diary of Virginia Woolf
Argese, Leonard	6 Oct. 1942		American popular songwriter and guitarist
Argilliano, Ruggiero	fl. 1612		Italian music editor and composer
Argine, Costantino dall'	12 May 1842 Parma	1 Mar. 1877 Milan, Italy	Italian composer
Argir, Frederick Emmett	4 Sep. 1943		American songwriter and performer
Argiro, James Anthony	11 Jul. 1939		American popular composer, conductor and pianist
Arho, Anneli more...	12 Apr. 1951 Finland		composer of Minos (1978) for harpsichord, written for her husband Jukka Tiensuu, Once upon a time (1980) for wind quintet and AikAika (TimTime, 1987) for three cellos. Many of her works explore the philosophy of time in music by contrasting completely static moments with frenzied virtuoso eruptions
Aria, Cesar	21 Sep. 1820	30 Jan. 1894	Italian choir director, pianist, composer and administrator
Ariani, Adriano	25 Nov. 1877	28 Jan. 1935	Italian pianist and composer
Aribon more...	c.1000 probably Liège, Flanders	c.1078 Orléans	music theorist and probably a composer
Aridas, Chris William John	12 Nov. 1947		American religious songwriter, singer and producer
Arienti, Ugo	1 Mar. 1879		Italian choir director and composer
Arienzo, Nicola d'	24 Dec. 1842 Naples, Italy	25 Apr. 1915 Naples, Italy	Italian composer
Arif Bey	1831	1885	Turkish composer
Arima, Daigoro	12 Sep. 1900		Japanese composer and musicologist
Arimino, Vincentius da (see Rimini, Vincenzo da)
Ariosti, Attilio (Malachia [Clemente]) [Frate Ottavio]	5 Nov. 1666 Bologna, Italy	c. 1729 possibly England	composer of operas and performer of the viola d'amore who, together with Handel and Bononcini produced opera in eighteenth-century London
Ariosti, Giovanni Battista	1668	after 1715	Italian composer
Aristakesyan, Emin Aspetovich	19 Nov. 1936		Armenian composer
Aristophanes more...	c. 448 BC	380 BC	Greek playwrite
Arizaga, Rodolfo (Bernardo)	11 Jul. 1926 Buenos Aires, Argentina	12 May 1985 Escobar, Argentina	studied Ondes Martenot in Paris with Ginette Martenot and introduced the instrument in Argentina when he returned to the country during the mid 50s. A prolific composer, many of his works include the Ondes Martenot including Délires, cantata for soloist, female chorus (three voices), celesta, vibraphone, harp, Ondes Martenot, 3 violins, 3 violas and 3 cellos, Sonata Breve for piano and Ondes Martenot, El organillo for solo Ondes Martenot and El ombligo de los limbos, la momia y una encuesta
Arizmendi, Fermin de	bap. 11 Jun. 1691	15 Dec. 1733	Spanish composer
Arizo, Miguel de	c. 1595	in or after 1642	Spanish composer
Arizti (Sobrino), Cecilia	28 Oct. 1856	30 Jun. 1930	Cuban composer, pianist and teacher
Arkadiev, Mikhail	1958		Russian pianist and composer
Arkad'yev, Ivan Petrovich	19 (Old Style 19) Jan. 1872	30 Dec. 1946	Russian conductor, pedagogue and composer
Arkas, Nikolay Nikolayevich	26 Dec. 1852 Nikolaev	13 Mar. 1909 Nikolaev	Ukrainian historian and composer
Arkhangel'sky, Alexander Andreyevich	23 (Old Style 11) Oct. 1846	16 Nov. 1924	Russian choral conductor and composer
Arkhimandritov, Boris Ivanovich	1932		Russian composer
Arkin, Alan more...	26 Mar. 1934 New York, USA		although better known as an actor, Alan Arkin has also composed a number of songs including 'The Banana Boat Song', which featured in the film 'Calyso Heat Wave' (1957) and 'Quinto (My Little Pony)' which featured in the film 'Riso amaro' (1949)
Arkin, Robert B.	1 Aug. 1923		American songwriter
Arkwright, Marian (Ursula)	25 Jan. 1863	23 Mar. 1922	English composer
Arkwright, Mrs. Robert		1849 England	sister of poet Felicia Hemans and composer of songs
Arlen, Albert	1905	1993	Australian composer and director
Arlen, Harold (born: Hyman Arluck) more...	15 Feb. 1905 Buffalo, NY, USA	23 Apr. 1986 New York, NY, USA	American writer of many of the greatest hits from the 1930's and 1940's, including the entire score for The Wizard of Oz including the songs Over the Rainbow, Get Happy, Stormy Weather, It's Only a Paper Moon, I've Got the World on a String and Last Night When We Were Young which have become standards
Arlom, Wilfred	1 May 1887 England	12 Nov. 1945	Australian pianist, organist and composer
Arlt-Kruse, Lotte	married 13 Apr. 1930		German pianist, composer and administrator
Arluck, Elliot	23 Jun. 1915		American composer and author
Arluck, Hyman (see Arlen, Harold)
Arma, Paul [Pál; Imre Weisshaus]	22 Oct. 1905 Hungary	28 Nov. 1987	French composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist
Armanini, Mark	11 Feb. 1952 Canada		studied composition with Elliot Weisgarber and Robert Rogers at the University of British Columbia. Apart from his composing, he is very active in the Vancouver music community, having been involved with a number of organizations, including being the founder/producer of The Vancouver Composers Showcase, president of the Vancouver Pro Musica and vice-president of the Community Arts Council of Vancouver. His music includes instrumental, chamber, vocal and orchestral works
Armbruster, René	30 Nov. 1931		Swiss violinist, teacher and composer
Armenian, Raffi more...	4 Jun 1942 Egypt		conductor and composer, Raffi Armenian began studying the piano at the age of ten. After a successful debut in a performance of a Mozart piano concerto, he continued his studies under Prof. B. Seidlhofer at the Academy of Music in Vienna, receiving an artists diploma in piano in 1962. In 1963 he emigrated to Canada and made Canada his home. Mr. Armenian's subsequent academic honors include a Bachelor of Science from the University of London and diplomas in conducting and composition from the Academy of Music in Vienna, where, as a recipient of a Canada Council Grant, he studied under Profs. Swarowsky, Schmid and Uhl. During this time, he also received vocal training from Prof. F. Grossman, musical director of the Vienna Boys' Choir
Armentrout, Lee	30 Apr. 1909		American songwriter, arranger and trombonist
Armentières (d’), Peronelle	1340 Navarre		Machaut described her as being "the best singer born in a hundered years" and she was clearly an expert reader of the intricate rondeaux he sent to her
Armenyan, Gevork Artashesovich	5 Jan. 1920		Armenian composer
Armer, Elinor	6 Oct. 1939		American composer and pianist
Armes, Philip	15 Aug. 1836 England	10 Feb. 1908	cathedral organist and composer of Church music
Armfelt, Carl more...	12 Nov. 1956 Helsinki, Finland		studied with Einojuhani Rautavaara and Osmo Lindeman (1975-1982)
Armiger, Martin			born in England and educated there and at Flinders University in South Australia, Armiger began writing music for performance groups, multimedia events, student films and various kinds of theatre. Fifteen years playing in bands touring Australia, the U.K and U.S.A. and recording four albums with the Melbourne band The Sports before giving up the touring life to concentrate on record production, music arrangement and ultimately on composition, with film score credits including Young Einstein, Come in Spinner, The Secret Life of Us and Marking Time
Armingaud, Jules	3 May 1820	27 Feb. 1900	French violinist and composer
Armino, Vincenzo da (see Rimini, Vincenzo da)
Armistead, James	1877	30 Aug. 1935	English organist and composer
Armitage, Reginald Moxon (see Gay, Noel)
Armocida, William Francis	29 Mar. 1922		American songwriter
Armsdorff andreas [Armsdorf, Armstorff]	9 Sep. 1670	31 Dec. 1699	German composer and organist
Armsheimer, Ivan Ivanovich [Johann-Josef]	19 (Old Style 7) Mar. 1860 St. Petersburg, Russia	1933 Leningrad, Russia	Russian composer, trumpeter, military conductor and pedagogue
Armstrong, Craig more...	1959 Glasgow, Scotland		studied composition and piano at the Royal Academy of Music where in 1981 he was awarded the Charles Lucas prize and the Harvey Lohr scholarship for composition, writer of or contributor to scores for the Baz Lurhmann hits Romeo + Juliet (for which he received the Anthony Asquith BAFTA Award and an Ivor Novello for Best Original Score) and Moulin Rouge (for which he received a Golden Globe in 2002). 2003 saw his soundtracks to three major films - Phillip Noyce’s critically acclaimed take on Graham Greene’s The Quiet American, starring Michael Caine; fellow Glaswegian Peter Mullan’s Magdalene Sisters and Love Actually, the smash hit directed by Richard Curtis
Armstrong, Harry (Henry W.)	22 Jul. 1879	28 Feb. 1951 New York, NY, USA	American songwriter and entertainer, who wrote the music to Sweet Adeline
Armstrong, James	1840	30 Apr. 1928	Northern Irish minister and composer
Armstrong, John Gordon more...	1952 Toronto, Canada		studied composition at the University of Toronto where he received a Bachelor or Music in Theory and Composition in 1975. After a year of study with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, he continued his formal studies at the University of Michigan where he received both a Masters Degree and a Doctorate in Composition
Armstrong, Lil(ian) [née Hardin]	3 Feb. 1898	27 Aug. 1971	American jazz pianist, singer and composer
Armstrong, (Daniel) Louis [Satchmo; Satchelmouth; Pops; Dippermouth] more...	c. 1898 New Orleans, USA	6 Jul. 1971 New York, USA	African-American virtuoso jazz trumpeter, singer and band-leader
Armstrong, Lil Hardin more...	3 Feb. 1898 Memphis, Tennessee, USA	27 Aug. 1971 Chicago, USA	jazz pianist, composer, arranger, singer, and bandleader, and the second wife of Louis Armstrong with whom she collaborated on many recordings in the 1920s
Armstrong, Sinclair [Bob]	12 Feb. 1912		American composer and arranger
Armstrong, Thomas (Henry Wait)	15 Jun. 1898 Peterborough, England	26 Jun. 1994	composer particularly of church and chamber music; sometime Principal of The Royal Academy of Music, London
Armstrong, Tommy	fl. 19th century		a miner from the North of England who was known as The Pitman's Poet and who set many of his rough-and-ready poems to popular and traditional tunes. Examples include Trimdothe 1882 n Grange Explosion and The Oakey Eviction
Armstrong, William D(awson)	11 Feb. 1868	9 Jul. 1936	American composer and administrator
Armstrong-Gibbs, Cecil more...	1869 Great Baddow, Essex	12 May 1960 Chelmsford, Essex	a little-known prolific English composer, adjudicator and conductor, who studied under Sir Adrian Boult and Ralph Vaughan Williams and a contemporary of Sir Arthur Bliss, Herbert Howells and Sir Arnold Bax. Known principally for his solo songs, Armstrong Gibbs also wrote music for the stage, sacred works, three symphonies and a substantial amount of chamber music, much of which remains unpublished. He gained wide recognition during the early part of his life, but until recently, like many of his contemporaries, has been little known. Although he retired from adjudicating, he continued conducting and composing right to the end of his life. He died in Chelmsford on 12th May 1960 and is buried with his wife in Danbury churchyard
Arnaboldi, Joseph P.	2 Dec. 1920		American composer
Arnaldi, Stefano	Italy		composer/pianist who wrote film scores for Liberate i pesci! (2000), Tea with Mussolini (1999), played piano solos in Besieged (1998) and orchestrated Jane Eyre (1996)
Arnaoudov, Gheorghi more...	1957 Sofia, Bulgaria		Bulgarian composer of stage, orchestral, chamber, vocal and piano works
Arnatt, Ronald	16 Jan. 1930		English composer, conductor and organist resident the United States
Arnaud, (Jean) Stéphane (Guillaume)	16 Mar. 1807	Jan. 1863	French composer
Arnaud, Léo (born Noël Leon Marius Arnaud) more...	24 Jul. 1904 Lyon France	26 Apr. 1991 Los Angeles, California, USA	French composer who studied at conservatories in Lyon and Paris. After studying with composers Vincent D'Indy and Maurice Ravel, he emigrated to the United States in 1931. For many years, he performed in Fred Waring's band. He also worked in Hollywood as an arranger, composer and orchestrator from 1936-1966
Arnauld, Serge	16 Nov. 1944		Swiss composer
Arnaut Danièl (see Danièl, Arnaut)
Arnaut de Mareuil more...	fl. c.1170-1200		one of the troubadours of Provence, to him is attributed the introduction into Provençal poetry of the amatory epistle
Arndt, Felix more...	20 May 1889 New York, USA	16 Oct. 1918 Harmon-on-Hudson, USA	American composer of light songs, most famously Nola, named for his wife, also a composer of light music, he made over 3,000 piano-rolls. Arndt, a fine pianist, was also an influence on the young and then unknown George Gershwin, who would visit him at his studio in the Aeolian Building on 42nd St., between 6th and 7th Avenues. This contact may have been the inspiration for Gershwins Rialto Ripples and through Arndt, Gershwin came to make piano rolls in Jan 1916. It is said that it was Arndt who got Gershwin a job at Aeolian Hall
Arndt, Nola	11 Jul. 1889	19 Jul. 1977	American composer, singer and teacher
Arne, Michael	c. 1740 London, England	14 Jan. 1786 London, England	illegitimate son of the above; composed music for the stage including The Lass with a delicate air
Arne, Thomas Augustine	bap. 28 May 1710 London, England	5 Mar. 1778 London, England	composer of operas, oratorios, orchestral and keyboard music and most famously, Rule Britannia
Arnell, Richard (Anthony Sayer) more...	15 Sep. 1917 London, England	10 Apr. 2009 Bromley, England	best known today as a teacher and as a composer of film music
Arnestad, Finn (Oluf Bjerke)	23 Sep. 1915	1994	Norwegian composer and critic
Arnheim, Gus more...	4 Sep. 1897 Philadelphia, PA, USA	19 Jan. 1955 Los Angeles, CA, USA	American popular composer and conductor; hits include I Cried for You (1923) and Sweet and Lovely (1931)
Arnheim, Richard	18 Feb. 1869		medical doctor and composer
Arnic, Blaz more...	31 Jan. 1901 Slovenia	1 Feb. 1970 Ljubljana	Slovenian composer and organist
Arnie, Ralf [pseudonym Dieter Rasch]	14 Feb. 1924		German writer of popular songs, composer and publisher
Arnim, Bettina von Brentano	1785 Germany	1859	composer of songs and masses. She held salons for famous literary and musical figures of the time
Arnold, Bernard [Buddy]	11 Aug. 1915		American popular composer and writer
Arnold, Byron	15 Aug. 1901	25 Dec. 1971	American composer and teacher
Arnold, David more...	England		film and TV music composer whose work includes Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and Independence Day (1996)
Arnold, David H.	9 Oct. 1933		American popular composer and producer
Arnold, Ernst (pseudonym for E. Jeschke)	12 Feb. 1890 Vienna, Austria	5 Jan. 1962 Vienna, Austria	composer, lyricist and singer of typical Viennese popular songs who wrote about 800 songs
Arnold, Frank Arthur	12 Jan. 1944		American songwriter
Arnold, Georg		16 Jan. 1676	Austrian composer and organist resident in Germany
Arnold, George Benjamin	22 Dec. 1832	31 Jan. 1902	English composer and organist
Arnold, Gustav more...	1 Nov. 1831 Altdorf Switzerland	28 Sep. 1900 Altdorf Switzerland	Swiss conductor, organist and composer
Arnold, György	5 Jun. 1781 Paks, Hungary	25 Oct. 1848 Subotica, Hungary	Hungarian composer and church musician
Arnold, Johann	1773	1806	composer for the guitar
Arnold, John	1715-20 Great Warley, England	bur. 14 Feb. 1792	composer of songs and catches but also a collector of metrical psalm tunes
Arnold, John Henry	29 May 1887	19 Jun. 1956	English organist, writer, teacher and composer
Arnold, Karl	6 May 1794	11 Nov. 1877	German pianist, conductor and composer
Arnold, Malcolm more...	21 Oct. 1921 Northampton, England	23 Sep. 2006 Norwich, England	born the son of a well-to-do shoe manufacturer. Brought up in a musical family and educated privately at home. Took up the trumpet, inspired by Louis Armstrong and studied it on a scholarship at the RAM. Joined LPO as 2nd trumpet and gained exposure to wider repertoire, especially Mahler. Conscientious objector during the 39-45 war, but changed mind and enlisted 1943, only to get discharge by shooting himself in the foot. Played in the BBC SO and LPO. He is the composer of the Oscar winning film score to The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Inn of the Sixth Happiness, the various St. Trinians comedies, The Sound Barrier, Suddenly Last Summer, Hobsons Choice, and the Rose Tattoo. Arnold is as prolific in the fields of chamber music, symphonic, and brass music and also Grand Grand Overture Op. 57 (1956) which is scored for three electric vacuum cleaners, electric floor polisher, rifles and Orchestra. In addition he has composed nine symphonies, several suites of dances and many concertos (these contain his finest work). His personal life has been particularly fraught with tragedy and it is reflected in the later symphonies (except for the ninth where some resolution seems to take place)
Arnold, Maurice [Maurice Arnold Strothotte]	19 Jan. 1865 St Louis, USA	23 Oct. 1937 New York, USA	American conductor, teacher and composer
Arnold, Samuel Dr.	10 Aug. 1740 London, England	22 Oct. 1802 London, England	unrelated to John Arnold; edited Handel's works in 36 volumes; composer of popular operas and church music, also produced a collection of metrical psalm tunes; from some time he was also organist to the Chapel Royal
Arnold, William	1768	1832	English shipwright, choirmaster and composer
Arnold, Yury (Karlovich) [Jurig von]	13 (Old Style 1) Nov. 1811 St. Petersburg, Russia	20 (Old Style 8) Jul. 1893 Karakesh, nr. Simferopol, Russia	Russian writer on music and composer
Arnoldus, Flandrus (see Flandrus, Arnoldus)
Arnone, Dominick L. [Don]	2 Dec. 1920	16 Jun. 2005	American popular composer, teacher and guitarist
Arnott, Archibald Davidson	25 Feb. 1870		Scottish organist, choirmaster and composer
Arndt, Felix more...	20 May 1889 New York, USA	16 Oct. 1918 New York, USA	pianist and composer of popular music. His mother was the Countess Fevrier, related to Napoleon III
Arntzen, Kees			Dutch composer and music critic
Arnulphus de Saint-Ghislain (see Saint-Ghislain, Arnulphus de)
Arolas, Eduardo	24 Feb. 1888 Argentina	29 Sep. 1924 Paris, France	a virtuoso bandoneonist, arranger and composer of tangos such as Una Noche de Garufa written when he was just 17 years old, the title a reference to the Garufa, a place in the Mondiole district of Montevideo, Uruguay. He died in Paris the victim of of pulmonary tuberculosis and alcoholism
Aroca y Ortega, Jesús	Oct. 1877 Algete, Spain	31 Oct. 1935 Madrid, Spain	Spanish composer and musicologist
Arodin, Sidney J. [Arnondrin]	29 Mar. 1901	6 Feb. 1948	American jazz clarinetist and composer
Arolas, Eduardo more...	24 Feb. 1892 Argentina	29 Sep. 1924 Paris, France	nicknamed 'The Tiger of the Bandoneon' (El Tigre del Bandoneon), he was a virtuoso bandoneonist, arranger and composer, who wrote many orchestrations and arrangements as well as many tangos
Aromando, Joseph S.	19 Jan. 1912		American songwriter
Aron, Pietro (see Pietro Aaron)
Arona, Colombino	1885		Italian song composer including the patriotic O Gioventu' d'Italia written in 1914 to words by Giov. Corvetto
Arpa, Giovanni Leonardo dell' [Mollica]	c. 1525	Jan. 1602	Italian harpist, composer and actor
Arpa, Rinaldo dall' (see Trematerra, Rinaldo)
Arpin, John (Francis Oscar)	3 December 1936		Canadian ragtime pianist, singer, composer and arranger
Arques, Lluís Blandes	1929		Spanish administrator, teacher and composer
Arquette, Cliff	28 Dec. 1905		American songwriter and pianist
Arquimbau, Domingo	c. 1758	26 Jan. 1829	Spanish composer
Arras, Andrieu Contredit d	c. 1180	1248	trouvère. He was a member of the Puy d'Arras, one of several French societies that organized literary and musical festivals with compositions durung the trouvère period. He was connected with Guillaume le Vinier, and may have been a knight. Sixteen poems with melodies survive.
Arras, Jean d'		1584 probably in Madrid, Spain	Flemish composer and organist originally from Arras in Flanders who was active in Italy and Spain
Arras, Moniot d'	fl. c 1190 - 1239		a trouvère who worked as a monk at Arras. He had many noble patrons and wrote a jeu-parti jointly with Guillaume le Vinier. Twenty-three of his poems, with thirteen tunes, survive; his especially fine Ce fut en Maiwas was used by Hindemith in the suite Nobilissima Visione
Arregui, José Maria	c. 1875	1955	Spanish composer
Arregui Garay, Vicente	3 Jul. 1871 Madrid, Spain	2 Dec. 1925 Madrid, Spain	Spanish composer
Arrell, Greg F.	15 Jan. 1950		American popular composer and singer
Arresti (Aresti), Floriano	c. 1660 Bologna, Italy	1719 Bologna, Italy	Italian organist and composer
Arresti, Giulio Cesare	26 Feb. 1617 or later	17 Jul. 1701 or later	Italian composer and organist
Arriaga (y Balzola), Juan Crisóstomo Jacobo Antonio	27 Jan. 1806 Rigoitia, nr. Bilbao	17 Jan. 1826 Paris, France	Spanish composer of opera, a symphony and 3 string quartets
Arrieta Corera, (Emilio) Juan Pascual Antonio more...	21 Oct. 1821 Puente la Reina, Spain	11 Feb. 1894 Madrid, Spain	Spanish composer of many operas and zarzuelas
Arrieu, Claude more...	30 Nov. 1903 Paris, France	7 Mar. 1990 Paris, France	(pseudonym: Luise Marie Simon) a prolific French composer, who studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Dukas, among others, taking first prize for composition in 1932. Her music had the ease of flow and elegance of structure that typified Parisian neo-classicism, while avoiding the often concomitant frivolity. Vivacity, clarity of expression and a natural feel for melody were her hall marks. Her radio score Frederic General won a Prix Italia in 1949. Her music included several stage works, concertos and numerous wind chamber pieces
Arrigo [Henricus]	fl. 14th century		Italian composer
Arrigo, Girolamo more...	2 Apr. 1930 Palermo, Italy		Sicilian composer who lives in Paris; writer of vocal works and works for large instrumental ensembles
Arrigo, Giuseppe	9 Sep. 1838	30 Sep. 1913	Italian organist and composer
Arrigoni, Carlo	5 Dec. 1697 Florence, Italy	19 Aug. 1744 Florence, Italy	lutenist, theorbo player and composer who worked in Florence until around 1731 when he moved to London giving concerts as a performer, supervised performances of his opera Fernando (1734) and sang and played at the original performances of Handel's Alexander’s Feast (1736). After his five year stay in London, he gained the patronage of the Grand Dukes of Tuscany and returned to Florence. His music was performed in Vienna, although he does not appear to have ever travelled there
Arrigoni, Giovanni Giacomo	fl. 1635-63		Italian composer and organist
Arro, Edgar Alexandrovich	24 (Old Style 11) Mar. 1911	1986	Estonian composer and organist
Arroio (or Arroyo), Joao Marcellino	4 Oct. 1861 Oporto, Portugal	18 May 1930 Colares, nr. Lisbon, Portugal	Portuguese composer
Ars, Nikolay Andreyevich	1857 Moscow, Russia	8 July (Old Style 25 Jun.) 1902 Kaunas, Lithuania	Russian composer and conductor
Arsenault, Angèle	1 Oct. 1943		Canadian popular singer, songwriter and media host
Arseneault, Raynard more...	9 Jun. 1945 Quebec, Canada	1995	he studied at the Montréal Conservatory with Gilles Tremblay (composition and analysis), Françoise Aubut-Pratt (harmony and organ) and in 1973 was awarded premier prix and the Prix d'Europe in composition. He spent eight years in France from 1973 to 1981. There he studied with Tony Aubin (composition) and Pierre Cochereau (organ) at the Académie Internationale de Nice, with Claude Lefebvre (composition) at the Conservatoire National de la Région de Metz and Claude Ballif (analysis and composition) and Michel Philippot (composition) at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris. Encounters with Yvan Wychnegradski in Paris and Jacinto Scelsi in Rome had important effects on his development as a composer
Artamonov, Aleksey Pavlovich	17 (Old Style 4) Feb. 1906		Russian conductor, pedagogue and composer
Arteaga, Edward more...			a native of New Jersey, he attended Boston University, graduating in 1972 with a Bachelor of Music degree in composition. Emigrating to Canada later that year, he attended the Shawnigan Lake Summer School of the Arts where he studied with Jean Coulthard. Since then he has worked as musical and technical director for the Paula Ross Dance Company (whose tours have given his music national exposure), attended Canada's first choreographic seminar at York University in 1978 and has had works commissioned and premiered by Toronto's ARRAY-MUSIC
Artemovsky, Semyon (Stepanovich) (see Gulak-Artemovsky, Semyon Stepanovich)
Artemyev, Edward [Edouard] Nicolay [Artemiev] more...	30 Nov. 1937 Novosibirsk, Siberia, Russia		Edouard Artemyev is regarded as the most firmly established among Russian composers of electronic music and film scores
Arter, Matthias	1964 Switzerland		Swiss oboist and composer. He studied with Thomas Indermühle (Zurich) and Heinz Holliger (Freiburg-in-Breisgau). His musical activities are dominated by chamber music, unaccompanied solo concerts and free improvisation
Arthopius, Balthasar [Artocopus, Artopaeus]	c.1490	late Jul. 1534	German organist and composer
Arthur, Alfred	8 Oct. 1844	20 Nov. 1918	American singing teacher and composer
Arthuys, Philippe	1926		French composer
Artioli, Enzo A.G.	1886		Italian composer
Artl, Christian	25 Nov. 1875		Swiss composer
Artman, Ruth Eleanor	19 Sep. 1916		American composer, choral director and clinician
Artomius, Piotr [Artomiusz, Artotomius, Krzesichleb; Grodicensis]	26 Jul. 1552	2 Aug. 1609	Polish clergyman, hymnologist and ?composer
Artôt (Montagney), Jean-Désiré	23 Sep. 1803 Paris, France	25 Mar. 1887 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Belgium	horn player, teacher and composer
Artôt (Montagney), Joseph (called Alexandre)	25 Jan. 1815 Brussels, Belgium	20 Jul. 1845 Ville-d'Avray, nr. Paris, France	violinist; composer of music for violin as well as chamber music
Artyomov, Vyacheslav more...	29 Jun. 1940 Moscow, Russia, Moscow		Artyomov's early style was neo-classical. Then, influenced by the folk music of Russia and of the Caucasian and mid-Asian peoples, he developed a free-rhythmic, polytonal style, sometimes even minimalistic. In his later years his compositions exhibited a mystical and religious character
Artsybuchev (or Artzibushev, Artzybushev, Artsibushev, Artchibousheff, Arcybusev), Nicolas [Nikolai] Vassilievich	7 Mar. (Old Style 23 Feb.) 1858 Tsarskoe Selo, Russia	15 Apr. 1937 Paris, France	Russian-born composer and teacher who also used the pseudonym Ennart
Artusi, Giovanni Maria more...	c. 1540	18 Aug. 1613	Italian theorist, polemicist and composer
Artusini, Antonio	bap. 2 Oct. 1554	before 6 May 1604	Italian composer, lawyer, poet and orator
Artyomov, Viacheslav (Petrovich)	29 Jun. 1940		Russian composer
Artyom'yev, Eduard	1937		Russian composer
Artz, Carl Maria	10 Jun. 1887	21 Jul. 1963	German composer
Arundell (or Arundel), Dennis Drew	22 Jul. 1898 Finchley, London, England	10 Dec. 1988 London, England	composer of incidental music, several radio operas and a writer on music
Arutiunian (or Harut'unyan), Alexander Grigorievich more...	23 Sep. 1920 Jerevan, Armenia		Soviet-Armenian composer
Arvanitaki, Eleftheria more...	1958 Piraeus, Greece		Greek singer and songwriter
Arvey, Verna [Mrs. William Grant Still]	16 Feb. 1910		American composer, pianist and writer
Arvinte, Constantin	21 May 1926		Romanian composer
Arvonio, Angelo Carmen, Jr.	4 Jun. 1948		American popular composer, lyricist and singer
Arvonio, Robert Anthony [Bobby Arvon]	13 Sep. 1941		American popular composer, lyricist and singer
Arzumanov (Arzoumanov), Valery Grantovich	1944 Vorkuta, Russia		Russian composer
Asachi, Elena [née Teyber]	30 Oct. 1789	9 May 1877	Romanian composer, pianist and singer
Asafiev (or Asafev, Asafief, Assafieff, Assafiev, Aszafjev, Assafjew), Boris Vladimirovich more...	29 Jul. 1884 St. Petersburg, Russia	27 Jan. 1949 Moscow, Russia	Russian musicologist and composer of ballets, operas and symphonies who used the pen name Igor (or Boris Vladimirovich) Glebov
Asantschevsky, Michail Pavlovich	1838 or 1839 Moscow, Russia	24 Jan. 1881 Moscow, Russia	Russian pedagogue and composer
Asbóth, Wilhelm von	20 May 1821	6 Mar. 1877	Hungarian military music director and composer
Ascencio, Vicente	5 Apr. 1903		Spanish composer
Ascenso, Antonio	1 Nov. 1850		Italian organist, pianist and composer
Aschaffenburg, Walter (Eugene)	20 May 1927 Essen, Germany		American composer and educator of German birth
Aschenbrenner, Christian Heinrich	29 Dec. 1654	13 Dec. 1732	German composer and violinist
Ascher, Emil	12 Apr. 1849	22 Oct. 1922	American publisher, conductor and composer of German birth
Ascher, Everett [Frank Morton; Richard Hoffman; Ed Aster]	3 Apr. 1936		American popular composer
Ascher, Joseph	4 Jun. 1829	20 Jun. 1869	German pianist and composer born in England of German parents
Ascher, Józef	1829 or 1831	1869	Polish pianist and composer
Ascher, Kenneth Lee	26 Oct. 1944		American popular compsoer
Ascher, Leo more...	17 Aug. 1880 Vienna, Austria	25 Feb. 1942 New York, USA	lawyer and composer of 32 operettas, the most famous being Hoheit tanzt Walzer (1912)
Ascolese, Raffaele	1855	1923	Italian wind director, composer and editor
Ascone, Vicente	16 Aug. 1897 Siderno, Calabria, Italy	5 Mar. 1979 Montevideo, Uruguay	Uruguayan composer
Asencio, Vicente more...	29 Oct. 1908 Valencia, Spain	3 Apr. 1979 Valencia, Spain	pianist and composer, who was Professor of Harmony and Composition at the Conservatorio Superior de Musica in Valencia, Spain and wrote many attractive works for the guitar. Under the influence of Joaquin Turina and Manuel de Falla, Asencio discovered the aesthetic canons of the nationalistic movement
Ásgeirsson, Jón	11 Oct. 1928 Ísafjördur, Iceland		Icelandic critic, composer and teacher
Ash, Frances			she wrote the music and lyrics of I'm Gonna Love That Gal (Like She's Never Been Loved Before)
Ash, Paul	11 Feb. 1891	13 Jul. 1958	American composer, lyricist and conductor of German birth
Ashbourne, Peter	14 Jul. 1950		Jamaican composer and arranger
Ashby, Dorothy	6 Aug. 1932 Detriot, Michigan	13 Apr. 1986 Santa Monica, California	pianist and harpist with several small jazz groups, often as leader, who recorded with Richard Davis, Jimmy Cobb, Frank Wess and others in the late 50s and early 60s. During the latter period, she had her own radio show in her home-town. Her husband drummer John Ashby, played in her early trios and was founder of a theatre company, the Ashby Players of Detroit, for which his wife wrote scores. After relocating to the west coast she played in studio orchestras, sometimes appearing on albums featuring leading jazz musicians. She was one of very few harpists to play jazz convincingly and was, perhaps, the only such instrumentalist successfully to adapt the instrument to accommodate the language of bop
Ashcroft, Johnny	c. 1927		Australian country music singer-songwriter
Ashdown, Doug	1947		Australian popular guitarist and singer-songwriter
Ashe andrew	c. 1759	1838	Irish flautist and composer
Ashe, Frederic H.	1917	1968	American teacher and composer
Ashe, John	1907		Australian country music songwriter
Asheim, Nils Henrik more...	1960 Oslo, Norway		Norwegian organist and composer
Asherman, Alice Cornett	21 Jul 1911		American popular composer, singer and teacher
Asherman, Edward M.	19 Jan. 1913		American popular composer, guitarist and singer
Asherman, Nat	12 Aug. 1909		American popular composer and pianist
Ashfield, Robert James	28 Jul. 1911 Chipstead, Surrey		educated at Tonbridge School and the Royal College of Music, Ashfield was assistant organist at Westminster Abbey in the 1930s, organist of Southwell Minster from 1946 until 1956 and organist at Rochester Cathedral between 1956 and 1977
Ashford, Nikolas	4 May 1942		American soul singer, songwriter, and record producer
Ashforth, Alden (Banning)	May 13, 1933 New York, USA		organist in Sherman Oaks who taught at the University of California
Ashikawa, Satoshi	1953 Japan		Japanese composer
Ashley, Anthony William	1803	1877	English composer
Ashley, John ["of Bath"]		after 1834	English singer, composer and bassoonist
Ashley, John James	1772	5 Jan. 1815	English organist, pianist, singing teacher and composer
Ashley, Robert (Reynolds) more...	28 Mar. 1930 Ann Arbor, Michigan		American composer with an interest in film, electronics and multimedia
Ashot, Arian more...	3 Apr. 1973 Yerevan, Armenia		Armenian composer, now resident in Russia, mostly of orchestral, chamber, vocal, and piano works
Ashpole, Alfred	21 Jun. 1892	early 1990	English musician, conductor, and composer
Ashrafi, Mukhtar (Ashrafovich)	11 Jun. (Old Style 29 May) 1912 Bukhara	15 Dec. 1975 Tashkent	Russian composer and conductor
Ashton, Algernon (aka Bennet Langton) more...	9 Dec. 1859 Durham, England	10 Apr. 1937 London, England	English composer and pianist
Ashton, Bob Bruce	2 Jan. 1921		American popular composer, author, and educator
Ashton, John	1830	31 Dec. 1896	Welsh shoemaker, policeman, and composer
Ashton, John Howard	11 Jul. 1938		American composer, conductor, and trumpeter
Ashworth, Caleb	1722	1775	psalmodist and Baptist minister at Daventry, Northants
Asia, Daniel more...	27 Jun. 1953 Seattle, USA		American composer
Asins Arbó, Miguel	1916 Barcelona, Spain	1996 Madrid, Spain	Spanish composer including music for two films, Not On Your Life (1965) and Face of Terror (1964)
Asioli, Bonifazio	30 Aug. 1769 Correggio, Italy	18 May 1832 Correggio, Italy	Italian composer, noted particularly for his Intermezzi, 2- and 3-act operas; also wrote on tuning and temperament Osservazioni sul temperamento proprio degl'istromenti stabili: Dirette agli accordatori di pianoforte ed organo. Emilio Giusti, Milano, 1816 Disinganno sulle osservazioni fatte sul temperamento...in aggiunta al suo opusculo. Opera postuma. Ricordi, Milano Anleitung, Clavierinstrumente zu Temperiren und auf die leichteste Art ohne Beihülfe eines Meister rein und richtig zu stimmen. Artaria, Vienna, c.1819
Asioli, Francesco	c. 1645-50	in or after 1676	Italian composer, guitarist and guitar teacher
Askew, Dennis Lee	19 Apr. 1953		American popular composer, author, and performer
Askew, R.	fl. c. 1595		English composer
Askin, Ali more...	1962 Munich, Germany		Ali N. Askin composes, produces, arranges and plays music in the most diverse genres, styles and formats. He has composed for concert halls as well as for film and television. Electronic music, club tracks and remixes are as much a part of his works and productions as chamber music, pieces for radio and music for the theatre. As a musician (keyboards, electronics), he has been active in a variety of projects and bands. He has lived in Berlin since 2001. [information taken from his web site]
Aslamas, Anisim Vasil'yevich	24 or 26 Jul. 1924		Russian composer
Asma, Feike more...	1912 Den Helder, The Netherlands	1984 Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Dutch organist and composer, pupil of Jan Zwart; he succeeded his father as organist of the Dutch Reformed Church when only 14, after which he was successively organist of the Hooglandse Kerk in Leiden and the Lutherse Kerk in The Hague. In 1965 he accepted an appointment to the Grote Kerk in Maassluis
Asmara, Michael more...	17 Jun. 1956 Jakarta, Indonesia		Indonesian composer, now resident in both Indonesia and Japan, of stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, piano and multimedia works
Asola, Giammateo (Giovanni Matteo Asula) more...	c. 1532 Verona, Italy	1 Oct. 1609 Venice, Italy	Italian composer, a pupil of Ruffo. He was a secular canon from 1546, then a secular priest after 1569, active in various northern Italian cities, he held the post of maestro di cappella successively at Treviso and Vicenza cathedrals and led the Italian musicians' tribute to Palestrina in 1592. He became a chaplain at S. Severo in Venice in 1588 and remained there until his death. His very large output, though largely conventional in style, does include some double-choir pieces and works requiring basso continuo. He also published three volumes of madrigals, one of which consists entirely of 2-part canons
Aspa, Edwin	May 1835	17 Aug. 1883	English composer and teacher of Italian parentage
Aspa, Mario	1799 Messina, Italy	14 Dec. 1868 Messina, Italy	Italian composer
Asper, Frank W.	9 Feb. 1892	8 Nov. 1973	American composer, conductor, and organist
Asperi, Ursula	1807 Rome		produced her first opera in 1827 and for a year (1839), conducted an orchestra in a Florence theatre
Aspestrand, Sigwardt	13 Nov. 1856 Fredrikshald	31 Dec. 1941 Oslo	Norwegian composer
Aspinwall, Joseph [Aspinall]	18th century		English composer
Asplmayr (or Aspelmayr, Aspelmeier, Asplmyer, Aschpellmayr, Appelmeyer), Franz more...	bap. 2 Apr. 1728 Linz, Austria	29 Jul. 1786 Vienna, Austria	Austrian violinist and composer of Italian Opera
Aspull, George	Jun. 1813	19 Aug. 1832	English pianist and composer
Aspull, William	1798	16 Jan. 1875	English composer, teacher, and singer
Asquith, John	fl. 1878-1882		English organist and composer
Asriel, Andre	22 Feb. 1922		German composer of Austrian-Turkish origin
Assad, Clarice more...	1978 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil		Brazilian pianist and composer, daughter of Sergio
Assad, Sergio more...	26 Dec. 1952 Sao Paolo, Brazil		guitarist and composer, father of Clarice
Assafiev, Boris more...	29 Jul. 1884 St Petersburg, Russia	27 Jan. 1949 Moscow, Russia	composer, particularly of ballets and opera and music critic, a pupil of Rimski-Korsakov
Assandra (Allessandra), Caterina	fl. 1609-1618		nun and composer of religious works. Her fame as a composer and performer extended beyond Italy during the first half of the 17th century and some of her works were published during her life
Assante, Allison	6 Mar. 1923		American popular composer and lyricist
Assche, Anatole van	11 Apr. 1888 Saint-Trond, Belgium	23 Mar. 1978 Saint-Trond, Belgium	Belgian composer, teacher and administrator [entry corrected by Michel Eyckmans, the composer's grandson]
Asselbergs, Lucas	30 Mar. 1959 Heemstede, The Netherlands		Dutch-born pianist, composer, arranger and lyricist. His work includes film music (Blonde Dolly, WEA 1986), arrangements for the Boulevard of Broken Dreams Orchestra (Edison award for It's the talk of the Town, 1984), and approximately 100 songs for The Handsom Harry Company (1991-2008). Asselbergs is also the keyboard player with Mark Foggo's Skasters [information provided by Lucas Asselbergs]
Asselin, (Paul) André	25 Feb. 1923		Canadian pianist, composer and writer
Assis, Gilson de more...	1956 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil		Brazilian-born percussionist and composer based in Germany
Assmeyer (Aßmayer), Ignaz	11 Feb. 1790 Salzburg, Austria	31 Aug. 1862 Vienna, Austria	composer, organist at St. Peter's Abbey, Salzburg, conductor of the Court Orchestra and friend of Franz Schubert
Ast, Max	17 Mar. 1874		German organist, choir director and composer
Ast, Maximilian	3 Sep. 1875		Austrian composer and conductor
Astaire, Fred [Fred Austerlitz] more...	10 May 1899 Omaha, NB, USA	22 Jun. 1987 Los Angeles, CA, USA	actor, dancer, pianist, drummer and prolific composer
Astarita (or Astaritta), Gennaro	c.1745-9 possibly Naples, Italy	after 1803	Italian composer particularly of opera
Astley, Edwin (Thomas) more...	12 Apr. 1922 Warrington, Cheshire, England	19 May 1998 Goring, Oxfordshire, England	composer for the British film industry who worked on well over 30 films
Aston, Hugh (Ashton, Austen, Aystoun) more...	c. 1485	Nov. 1558	an English composer of the early Tudor period. While little of his music survives, he is notable for his innovative keyboard writing
Aston, Peter (George) more...	5 Oct. 1938 Edgbaston, England	13 Sep. 2013 England	English composer and conductor
Astorga, Baron Emanuele (Gioacchino Cesare Rincón) d'	20 Mar. 1680 Augusta, Sicily	c. 1757 possibly Madrid, Spain	harpsichordist, singer and composer of Cantate da Camera and a famous Stabat Mater
Asuar, José Vicente	20 Jul. 1933		Chilean composer and acoustic engineer
Aszodi, Ferenc	6 Aug. 1929		Hungarian military musician and composer
Atanackovic, Slobodan	23 Sep. 1937		Yugoslavian composer
Atanasov, Georgy (Georgi)	18 May 1882 Plovdiv, Bulgaria	17 Nov. 1931 Fasano, Lago di Garda	regarded as the founder of Bulgarian opera, Aranasov composed many operas on Bulgarian historical themes. Initially, his music showed a strong Italian influence although later he was less successful seeking inspriation from the work of Wagner and Richard Strauss
Atayan, Robert Arshakovich	7 Nov. 1915		Armenian musicologist and composer
Atchley, Samuel Lee	26 June 1945		American popular songwriter
Atehortúa, Blas Emilio	3 Oct. 1933		Colombian composer
Atema, Gerard			Dutch composer of music for theatre and television
Ath, Andreas d'	fl. 1622-30		South Netherlands composer and organist
Athanasiu-Gardeev, Esmeralda	1834	1917	Romanian composer and pianist
Athanassov, Georgi	18 (Old Style 6) May 1882	17 Nov. 1931	Bulgarian composer and conductor
Athenaeus	fl. 200		Greek author, also called Athenaeus of Naucratis, because he was born and resided in Naucratis, Egypt. Athenaeus is remembered primarily for his anthological anecdotal collection Deipnosophistae, Banquet of the Learned, in which a variety of characters debate a wide spectrum of topics including food, luxury, diet, health, sexual relationships, pornography, music, humour and linguistics. Athenaeus' works provide much valuable information about the ancient world which would otherwise be missing
Atherton, Michael	17 Feb. 1950 England		Australian composer
Atherton, Percy Lee	25 Sep. 1871	8 Mar. 1944	American composer
Atienza y Pineda, Francisco de	c. 1657	March 1726	Mexican composer, probably of Spanish birth
Atinsky, Jerry [Allen]	9 Oct. 1917		American popular composer, author and guitar teacher
Atkerson, Paul	2 Jul. 1921		American popular composer, author and pianist
Atkins, (Chester Burton) Chet more...	20 Jun. 1924 Luttrell, Tennessee, USA	30 Jun. 2001 Nashville, Tennessee, USA	influential American guitarist, songwriter and record producer
Atkins, Ivor Algernon more...	29 Nov. 1869 Llandaff, Wales	26 Nov. 1953 Worcester, England	English organist, composer and conductor
Atkins, John		1671	English violinist and composer
Atkins, Robert Augustus	2 Oct. 1811	3 Aug. 1889	Welsh organist and composer
Atkins, William	29 Jul. 1907 England	7 Mar. 1979	Canadian bandmaster, teacher and composer
Atkinson, Condit Robert	4 Jul. 1928		American composer, author and educator
Atkinson, Frederick Cook more...	20 Aug. 1841 Norwich, Norfolk	30 Nov. 1896 East Dereham, Norfolk	Atkinson served as a chorister at Norwich Cathedral. He graduated from Cambridge University and was organist and choirmaster at St. Luke’s Church in Manningham, Bradford; Norwich Cathedral; and St. Mary’s Parish Church in Lewisham, London
Atkinson, Gordon Hewlett more...	6 Nov. 1928 Melbourne, Australia		organist and composer
Atkinson, John		12 Feb. 1671	English violinist and composer
Ato [Hatto] episcopus Trecensis	fl. 1123-45		composer
Atrash, Farid	c. 1915	26 Dec. 1974	Egyptian composer and singer of Syrian origin
Atrio, Hermanus d' more...	c.1470	c.1513	probably Flemish singer and composer
Attaingnant, Pierre	c. 1494	late 1551 or 1552	publisher of French lute and keyboard music and of one of the oldest dance collections that includes pavanes, basse dances and branles. Some of these compositions were later transcribed for the lute and guitar
Attal, Dario	11 Oct. 1881		Italian pianist and composer
Attanasio, Donald Joseph [Don Christopher]	15 Mar. 1938		American songwriter
Attaway, William A.	19 Nov. 1915		American popular composer and arranger
Attenhofer, Carl	5 May 1837	22 May 1914	Swiss choral conductor and composer
Atterberg, Kurt (Magnus)	12 Dec. 1887 Gothenburg, Sweden	15 Feb. 1974 Stockholm, Sweden	trained as an engineer; composed a nationalistic opera Fanal and several symphonies, his sixth entitled Dollar Symphony, won an international competition sponsored by the Columbia Graphophone Company causing international outcry when it was awarded a special price of £2,000, on the occasion of the centenary of Schubert's death (1928). Swedish folk music influences were a major element in many of Atterberg's orchestral works
Atterbury, Luffmann	c. 1740	11 Jun. 1796	English glee composer
Atteridge, (Richard) Harold	9 Jul. 1886	15 Jan. 1938	American popular librettist
Attey, John	before 1622 Ross-on-Wye, England	1640	composer of last published book of lute songs in 1622
Attrup, Carl August	4 Mar. 1848	5 Oct. 1892	Danish organist and composer
Attwater, John Post	26 Jun. 1862	10 Apr. 1909	English organist, choirmaster, administrator, singer, violinist, conductor and composer
Attwood, Thomas more...	bap. 23 Nov. 1765 London, England	24 Mar. 1838 London, England	pupil of Mozart; organist and composer of theatre and church music
Atwell, Roy	2 May 1878	6 Feb. 1962	American popular composer and comedian
Atys, ______	18 Apr. 1715	8 Aug. 1784	French creole flautist, composer and teacher
Auber, Daniel (François Esprit) more...	29 Jan. 1782 Caen, France	12 or 13 May 1871 Paris, France	pupil of Luigi Cherubini, violinist and composer of instrumental music but later very successful composer of more than 40 operas, including Muette de Portici, Manon Lescaut, Fra Diavolo, Cheval de bronze, Diamants de la couronne and Domino noir
Aubert, Jacques le père	30 Sep. 1689 Paris, France	17 or 18 May 1753 Belleville, nr. Paris, France	composer of music for violin and for the stage
Aubert, Louis François-Marie	19 Feb. 1877 Paramé, Brittany	9 Jan. 1968 Paris, France	pupil of Fauré; composer of songs, piano music and the fairytale opera The Blue Forest
Aubert, Mrs			she published music in London in 1719
Aubéry du Boulley, Prudent-Louis	9 Dec. 1796 Verneuil	28 Jan. 1870 Verneuil	French composer and teacher
Aubigney (d’), Nina von Engelbronner	1777 Germany	India	her songs are written in English, German and Italian. She also wrote a book on singing
Aubin, (Aimé-Nicolas) Napoléon	9 Nov. 1812 Switzerland	12 Jun. 1890	Canadian conductor, composer, editor, journalist, printer, poet and chemist
Aubin, Tony (aka Louis Alexander or Alexandre) more...	8 Dec. 1907 Paris, France	21 Sep. 1981 Paris, France	French composer and conductor
Auchy, Michel d' (Seigneur du Mesnil) more...	fl. 13th century		trouvère
Audefroi le Batart more...	fl. 1190-1230		French trouvère who was born in Arras
Audiffren, Jean	bap. 24 Sep. 1680	8 Aug. 1762	French composer and priest
Audinot, Nicolas-Médard	1732 Bourmont-en-Bassigny, Haute-Marne	21 May 1801 Paris, France	French bass, librettist, composer and impresario
Audran, (Achille) Edmond	12 Apr. 1840 Lyons, France	17 Aug. 1901 Tierceville, France	composer of church music but later highly successful comic opera, including La Mascotte
Aue, Hartmann von more...	c.1170	c.1210	a leading poet of the Middle High German period. He belonged to the lower nobility of Swabia, where he was born. After receiving a monastic education, he became retainer (Dienstmann) of a nobleman whose domain, Aue, has been identified with Obernau on the Neckar. He also took part in the Crusade of 1196-97. The date of his death is as uncertain as that of his birth; he is mentioned by Gottfried von Strassburg (c.1210) as still alive, and in the Crône of Heinrich von dem Türlin, written about 1220, he is mourned for as dead
Auenbrugg (Auenbrugger) (von d'), Marianna		1786 Vienna, Austria	harpsichordist, singer and composer
Auer, Leopold	1845 Hungary	1930 Dresden, Germany	violinist and composer for the violin
Auerbach, Lera more...	21 Oct. 1973 Chelyabinsk, Russia		Russian-born poet, pianist and composer, she was one of the very last artists to defect the Soviet Union during a concert tour in 1991 while still in her teens. She subsequently studied at The Juilliard School, where she studied piano with Joseph Kalichstein and composition with Milton Babbit and Robert Beaser. In 2002 she graduated from the prestigious piano soloist program of the Hannover Hochschüle für Musik where she studied with Einar-Steen Nøkleberg
Auer-Sedak, Eva	17 Jul. 1938		Yugoslavian composer
Auernhammer, Josepha Barbara von	25 Sep. 1756	20 or 30 Jan. 1820	Austrian pianist and composer
Aufderheide, May (Frances) more...	21 May 1888	1 Sep. 1972 California, USA	American ragtime composer
Auffmann, Joseph Anton	c.1720	c.1774	German organist and composer
Aufschnaiter, Benedikt Anton	bap. 21 Feb. 1665 Kitzbuhel, Germany	bur. 24 Jan. 1742 Passau, Germany	in a letter written in 1724, Aufschnaiter indicated that it was in Vienna that he received most of his musical training leading some scholars to suggest that he worked in at the Court there. On 16 January, 1705, Aufschnaiter was appointed to succeed Georg Muffat as kappelmeister to the prince-archbishop Johann Philipp, Count Lamberg, based in Passau. Although he wrote some music for ecclesiastical use the major part of his output was secular. This led to his being accused by various bishops of showing insufficient devotion to his religious musical duties. He produced a theoretical work entitled Regulæ Fundamentales Musurgiæ which described works by composers he regarded as his masters, Giacomo Carissimi, Orlando di Lasso, Kaspar Kerll and Adam Gumpelzhaimer
Auget, Paul [Auger]	c. 1592	22 Mar. 1660	French composer
August, Peter	1726	16 Feb. 1787	German harpsichordist, organist and composer
Augustinas, Vaclovas more...	1959 Lithuania		Lithuanian conductor and composer who has also been a member of two rock groups. He has gained a high reputation especially for his choral writing
Augustine, Daniel Schuyler	3 Jul. 1942		American composer, arranger and teacher
Augustus, Janice G. more...	1945		American pianist, violinist and composer
Aulas, Francisque	1884	30 Jun. 1915	French composer
Auld, Georgie [John Altwerger]	19 May 1919	7 or 8 Jan. 1990	Canadian jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and conductor
Aulen, (Johannes)	15th century		German composer
Auletta, Domenico	1723 Naples, Italy	1753 Naples, Italy	Italian composer
Auletta, Pietro Antonio	c. 1698 Sant' Angelo a Scala, Avellino	Sep. 1771 Naples	composer of opera seria and opera buffa list of his operas
Auli, Juan	1797 Felanitx, Mallorca	10 Jan. 1869 Felanitx, Mallorca	Spanish organist and composer
Aulich, Bruno [pseudonym: Alfred Boesting]	19 May 1902		German writer on music
Aulin, (Laura) Valborg	9 Jan. 1860	13 Mar. 1928	Swedish composer, pianist and teacher
Aulin, Tor (Bernhard Vilhlem)	10 Sep. 1866	1 Mar. 1914	Swedish composer, conductor and violinist
Aumann (or Aumonn, Aumon, Auman), Franz Joseph (Franz-Seraph, Johann, Leopold)	24 Feb. 1728 Traismauer, Austria	30 Mar. 1797 St. Florian, Austria	member of the order of the Austinian Canons and composer of church music that shows Venetian and Neapolitan influences and was later to have a strong influence on a young Anton Bruckner
Aurenga, Raimbaut d' (Count of Orange) more...	fl. 1144/7-1173		French troubadour
Aurenhammer, Josefa (Josephine)	1776	1841 Vienna, Austria	composer and pianist. Mozart praised her technique
Auric, Georges more...	15 Feb. 1899 Lodève, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France	23 Jul. 1983 Paris, France	one of Les Six, composer of orchestral and chamber music as well as for film, including many of the greatest Ealing comedies including The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), and Roman Holiday (1953)
Aurisicchio (or Euresicchio, Eurisechio, Orisicchio), Antonio	c. 1710 Naples, Italy	3 or 4 Sep. 1781 Rome, Italy	Italian composer
Auspitz-Kolar, Auguste	1843 Bohemia	23 Aug. 1878	a successful concert pianist who left many songs and piano works
Austen, Augusta Amherst [Mrs. T. Anstey Guthrie]	2 Aug. 1827 England	5 Aug. 1877	a student at the Royal Academy and organist who composed sacred and secular songs
Auster, Lydia Martinovna more...	30 (Old Style 17) May 1912 Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan	3 Apr. 1993 Tallinn, Estonia	Estonian composer
Austin, Axel W.E.	1875 Sweden		American military music director, publisher and composer
Austin, Billy	6 Mar. 1896	24 Jul. 1964	American songwriter
Austin, David	10 Oct. 1932		English teacher and composer
Austin, Dorothea more...			a member of the New York Women Composers Association, an association of women composers specializing in Electronic and Computer Music, Dorothea Austin has proved her skill in the field of this area with her composition Transformation for Viola, Piano & Tape, (1973)
Austin, Elizabeth R. more...	15 Jul. 1938 Baltimore, Maryland USA		Elizabeth Austin received early musical training at the Peabody Preparatory Department. A student of the late Grace Newsom Cushman, Mrs. Austin spent her teenage summers at the Jr. Conservatory Camp. At sixteen, she won First Prize in the NFMC's Composition competition for Christ Being Raised (SATB), which is published by Arsis Press. When Nadia Boulanger visited Goucher College (Towson, MD), where Mrs. Austin was a music major, she awarded the composer a scholarship to study with her at the Conservatoire Americaine in Fontainebleau, France (1958). The Drei Rilke Lieder (middle voice and piano) had been the deciding factor in Mlle. Boulanger's choice. Mrs. Austin also counts Robert Hall Lewis and Donald Harris among her teachers
Austin, Ernest more...	24 Jun. 1900 Gainesville, TX, USA	21 Jan. 1972 Palm Springs, CA, USA.	American crooner and songwriter including The LOnesome Road (1929)
Austin, Kevin	10 Jul. 1948		Canadian composer and teacher of English birth
Austin, Larry (Don) more...	12 Sep. 1930 Oklahoma, USA		American composer, pupil of Milhaud. His works include electronics and improvisatory techniques. Co-founder and president of the CDCM (Consortium to Distribute Computer Music). Administration Council member of the International Computer Music Association, and president form 1990 to 1994. Director of the Studio EMS at the University of North Texas (1978-1996)
Austin, Patricia	10 Aug. 1950		American popular songwriter and singer
Austin, Ray	26 May 1915		American composer, arranger, and conductor
Austin, Tony	29 Oct. 1938		American popular songwriter and publisher
Austin, William Frank	23 Dec. 1846	16 Feb. 1891	English organist and composer
Auteri Manzocchi, Salvatore	26 Dec. 1845 Palermo, Italy	21 Feb. 1924 Parma, Italy	Italian composer noted for his opera
Autras Vila, Juan d'	1900 Barcelona, Spain	1978 Barcelona, Spain	Spanish composer, particularly of songs
Austin-Philips, Eric	12 Oct. 1947		Australian composer
Auteri-Manzocchi, Salvatore	26 Dec. 1845	21 Feb. 1924	Italian composer
Autry, (Orvon) Gene more...	29 Sep. 1907 Tioga Springs, Texas, USA	2 Oct. 1998 Los Angeles, CA, USA	American country-music and popular singer, songwriter and actor
Auvergne, Antoine d'	3 Oct. 1713	12 Feb. 1797	French composer
Auvinen, Antti more...	3 May 1974		Finnish composer
Auvray, Georges	fl. 19th century		composer of French ballroom music
Aux-Cousteaux, Artus [Hautcousteaux; Arthur]	c. 1590	c. 1654	French composer and singer
Auza-(Léon), Atiliano	5 Oct. 1928		Bolivian composer and violinist
Avalon, Robert more...	25 Sep. 1955 San Antonio, TX, USA	30 Apr. 2004 Houston, TX, USA	American composer-pianist who wrote in a wide range of genres
Avanesov, Artur more...	9 Dec. 1980 Moscow, Russia		Russian-born Armenian pianist and composer of chamber, choral, vocal and piano works
Avanzolini, Girolamo	c. 1600	c. 1678	Italian composer and author
Aveau, Frans	22 Nov. 1882	10 Feb. 1921	Belgian bassoonist, military director and composer
Avella, Giovanni d'	fl. 1657		Italian theorist and composer
Avella, Vicente more...	27 Nov. 1970 Caracas, Venezuela		Venezuelan composer, now resident in the USA, of orchestral, chamber, choral and vocal works that have been successfully performed in the Americas. He has also written many film scores
Avellino, Alfred	10 Feb. 1913		American popular composer, author, and arranger
Avena, Renato	19 Oct. 1870		Italian composer and conductor
Avenarius, Philipp	c. 1553	in or after 1610	German composer and organist
Avens, Ludolph	fl. 19th century		composer of Fugue humoresque
Averkamp, Anton [Anthonius Josephus]	18 Feb. 1861 Willige Langerak	1 Jun. 1934 Bussum	Dutch composer and choir director
Avermaete François-Fidèle (Frans) van	13 Mar. 1845 Courtrai, Belgium	23 Jul. 1918 Ghent, Belgium	Belgian composer, pianist, organist and teacher
Avery [Avery Burton]	c. 1470	c. 1543	English composer
Avgerinos, Yannis	30 Apr. 1949		Greek conductor, composer and teacher
Avesian, Garo more...	28 Apr. 1979 Beirut, Lebanon		Lebanese-born Armenian composer mostly of chamber works
Avetissian (Avetisyan), Khachatur more...	1926 Gyumri, Armenia	1996	Armenian composer who founded the Folk Music Department of the Komitas National Conservatory in 1978 where, under his guidance, an entire generation of master instrumentalists were trained. He created numerous famous songs, ballet, oratorio, film and dance music, as well as a large number of works for various folk instruments. His brilliant melodic work reveal a refined lyricism. In 1958 he assummed the role of the artistic director of National Dance Ensemble, and later, the Tatoul Altunian Song and Dance Ensemble, where his new folk instrumental and vocal music became a staple of the repertory
Avianus, Johannes		22 Jan. 1617	German writer on music, composer and schoolmaster
Avidom, Menahem [Mahler-Kalkstein]	6 Jan. 1908 Stanislav, Poland	5 Aug. 1995	Polish born Israeli composer of 7 symphonies, an opera Alexandra and music for piano
Avignon, Raimon d'	fl. 1225 Avignon, France		troubadour
Aviles (or Avilez), Manuel Leitão de		between 13 September and 25 October 1630	Portuguese composer who was maestro de capilla at the Capilla Real (Royal Chapel) in Granada from 1603 until his death in 1630
Avison, Charles more...	16 Feb. 1709 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England	9 or 10 May 1770 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England	pupil of Geminiani; composer of concertos, editor of Marcello's psalm-settings with English texts
Avison, John	25 Apr. 1915	30 Nov. 1983	Canadian conductor and pianist
Avitrano, Giuseppe Antonio	1670 Italy	1756 Naples, Italy	composer particularly of string sonatas
Avitsur, Eitan more...	1941 Jerusalem, Israel		musical director and conductor of the Jerusalem Youth Orchestra (1987-1999). Honorary Member (since 1998) of the administrative committee at the Kiskunfelegyhaza Orchestra, Hungary. Founder of the Music Department’s Electro-Acoustic Music Laboratory. B.Mus, Rubin Academy of Music, 1972. Diploma Mozarteum, Summer Academy, Saltzburg Austria, 1976. Composer, arranger and conductor, with special interests in electro-acoustic music, theory, harmony and counterpoint
Avni, Tzvi Jacob more...	2 Sep. 1927 Saarbrücken, Germany		Israeli composer, pupil of Copland Foss and Ben-Haim, composer of works for orchestra, chamber ensembles and string quartet and winner of the 2001 Israel Prize for Music
Avola, Alexander Albert	27 Jan. 1914		American composer, author, and teacher
Avondano, Pedro Antonio	bap. 16 Apr. 1714 Lisbon, Portugal	1782 Lisbon, Portugal	Portuguese composer of Italian ancestry
Avoort, Aliocha van der	1966 Brussels, Belgium		van der Avoort studied to be a cameraman at the Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle in Brussels and has been working as such since 1992. Parallel to this he has been developing his passion for music and since 1995 he has been studying electroacoustic composition at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Mons under Annette Vande Gorne. He has developed and produced sound projects for theatre and video as well as sound installations for the plastic arts
Avosani, Orfeo	fl. 1641-45		Italian composer and organist
Avossa, Giuseppe (d')	1708 Paolo, Calabria	9 Jan. 1796 Naples, Italy	Italian composer
Avraamov, Arseny Mikhailovich more...	22 (Old Style 10) Apr. 1886	19 May 1944	Russian theorist, folklorist and avant-garde composer
Avrahami, Gad	1952 Kibbutz Shamir, Israel		Israeli percussionist, composer and arranger
Avramovski, Risto	1943		Yugoslavian composer
Avsenik, Slavko	26 Nov. 1929		Slovenian radio orchestra musician and composer
Avsenik, Vilko	9 Nov. 1928		Slovenian composer and musician
Avshalomov (or Avshalomoff, Avshalom), Aaron	11 Nov. 1894 Nikolayevsk, Russia	26 Apr. 1965 New York, USA	composer active in China between 1928-46 and whose music was inspired by Chinese themes
Avshalomov, David more...	1946 New York, NY, USA		singer, conductor and composer, he represents a musical lineage whose story stretches from the Caucasus to Siberia, through China, to the US. His father Jacob is a nationally renowned composer and conductor, now retired, and his mother Doris a well-known Northwest poet
Avshalomov, Jacob (David) more...	28 Mar. 1919 Tsingtao, China		son of Aaron, conductor and composer of choral and orchestral music
Awad, Emil	2 Aug. 1963		Mexican composer and conductor
Axman, Emil	3 Jun. 1887	25 Jan. 1949	pupil of Novák; Moravian composer of symphonies and choral works and music critic
Axt, William L.	19 Apr. 1888	13 Feb. 1959	American composer and conductor
Axton, Hoyt	1938		guitarist/singer of the folk revival in the 1960s, Hoyt is now known mainly as a songwriter. His Greenback Dollar was performed by the Kingston Trio in 1963 and his The Pusher was recorded by Steppenwolf and used in the film Easyrider
Ayala, Robert Steven	9 Mar 1951		American religious composer and singer
Ayala Pérez, Daniel	21 Jul. 1906	20 Jun. 1975	Mexican conductor and composer
Ayedonitsky, Pavel Kuz'mich	19 Aug. 1922		Russian composer
Ayer, Nat D. more...	1887 USA	1952 England	Tin Pan Alley composer who wrote King Chanticleer" (1911) used in the Ziegfeld Follies
Ayers, Lydia more...			a member of the New York Women Composers in the Electronic and Computer Music Association, Lydia explores the possibilities available with electronics, computers, traditional acoustic instruments like the gamelan, the human voice and anything capable of producing music
Ayler, Albert more...	13 Jul. 1936 Cleveland Ohio	sometime around 25 Nov. 1970	African-American tenor saxophonist whose innovations in style and technique were a major influence on free jazz
Ayleward, Richard	1626 Winchester, England	15 Oct. 1669 Norwich, England	Ayleward was a chorister at Winchester Cathedral under Christopher Gibbons (1638-9) and organist and Master of the Choristers at Norwich Cathedral from 1661-4 and from 1666-9. He wrote service music and twenty verse anthems (some keyboard music attributed to him may be by his father)
Aylott, Lydia Georgina Edith [Thomas]	28 Jan. 1936		English teacher and composer
Aylward, Florence	10 Mar. 1862	14 Oct. 1950	English composer
Aylward, Theodore	c. 1730	27 Feb. 1801	English organist and composer
Aylward, Theodore Edward	28 Feb. 1844	6 Feb. 1933	English organist and composer
Aynes, Edith Annette [Pat]	2 Apr. 1909		American composer and author
Ayoub, Nick [Nicholas]	7 Sep. 1926	2 May 1991	Canadian wind player and composer of Lebanese parents
Ayres, Frederic [Frederic Ayres Johnson]	17 Mar. 1876	23 Nov. 1926	American composer
Ayres, Marvin more...			he studied at Trinity College of Music, specialising in cello as a first instrument. Today he is composer and player for film and television. The result of his work in the 90s is the electroacoustic album Cellosphere, a fusion of ambient and classical techniques realised entirely playing solo cello and violin, using experimental bowing and treatments. The basis for the broad outline of Cellosphere was to create an amorphous soundscape using new technologies and treatments, but without the rigid confines of restrictive music sequencers. Marvin Ayres has his own solo electric string quartet using the new generation of electric string instruments alongside orthodox acoustic instruments, both playing, composing and arranging strings for sessions and various musical projects
Ayres, Mitchell	24 Dec. 1910		American popular composer, author and conductor
Ayres, Paul more...	1970 London, UK		British composer & arranger, choral conductor & musical director and organist & accompanist
Ayres, Richard more...	1965 Cornwall, England		in 1986 Richard Ayres followed Morton Feldman's classes at the Darmstadt and Dartington summer schools and which he decided to make music a full-time occupation. He studied composition, electronic music and trombone at Huddersfield Polytechnic, graduating with Distinction in 1989. Since September 1989 he has lived and worked in the Netherlands. He followed the postgraduate composition course at the Royal Conservatory in Den Haag, studying with Louis Andriessen and graduating in 1992. [information taken from Richard Ayres' homepage]
Ayres, Warren Joyce	6 Feb. 1908		American popular composer and author
Ayrton, Edmund	bap. 19 Nov. 1734	22 May 1808	English organist and composer
Ayrton, William	24 Feb. 1777	8 Mar. 1858	English composer, writer and impresario
Ayscue, Brian Thomas	25 Apr. 1948		American composer, saxophonist and clarinettist
Ayse, Sultan	2 Nov. 1887	May 1960	Turkish composer
Aytano, Aldo		1900	Italian composer
Azäis, Hyacinthe	4 Apr. 1741	c. 1795	French composer
Azalais de Porcairages more...	fl. mid-12th century		trobairitz (woman troubadour). The sole source for her life is the collection known as Biographies des Troubadours, which tells us only that she loved Gui Guerrejat, the brother of William VII of Montpellier, and made many good songs about him; meaning, probably, that the one poem of hers known to the compiler had been addressed to Gui
Azanchevsky (or Azancheffsky, Azancsevszkij, Asanchevsky), Mikhail Pavlovich (von)	5 Apr. (Old Style 24 March) 1839 Moscow, Russia	24 (Old Style 24) Jan. 1881 Moscow, Russia	Russian composer and scholar
Azarashvili, Vazha Shalvovich	13 Jul. 1936		Georgian composer
Azarova, Svitlana more...	9 Jan. 1976 Izmail, Ukraine		Ukrainian composer of contemporary solo, chamber and orchestral music
Azdil, Sidika (see Ozdil, Sidika)
Azevedo da Silva, Conde Fernando de		1923 Lisbon, Portugal	Portuguese composer
Azevedo, Carlos more...	1964 Vila Real, Portugal		Portuguese composer mostly of orchestral and chamber works. He is also active as a jazz composer, conductor and pianist
Azevedo, Geraldo more...	Petrolina, Brazil		Brazilian guitarist and song composer
Azevedo, Sérgio more...	1968 Coimbra, Portugal		Portugese composer of ballet, chamber music and prize winning works for choir. In 2001 he founded SCORE to promote new Portugese music
Azeyev, Yevstafy Stepanovich	7 March (Old Style 23 Feb.) 1851	1918	Ukrainian composer and choirmaster
Azguime, Miguel more...	1985 Lisbon, Portugal		composer, poet and percussionist, he founded the Miso Ensemble in 1985, a flute and percussion duo recognised by the public and by the critics as one of the most important Portuguese contemporary music groups. Besides giving numerous concerts in Portugal, the “Miso Ensemble” has been presented regularly abroad. In 1997, he established the first Portuguese Loudspeaker Orchestra and as a researcher, he has been working on the development of real time computer music
Azkué (Aberasturi), Resurrección María de	5 Aug. 1864 Lequeitio, Vizcaya	9 Nov. 1951 Bilbao	Spanish composer, ethnomusicologist and philologist
Azmayparashvili, Shalva Il'ich	7 Jan. 1903 (Old Style 25 Dec. 1902) Tbilisi	17 May 1957 Tbilisi	Georgian composer and conductor
Aznavour, Charles (born Varenagh Aznavourian) more...	22 May 1924 Paris, France		French chansonnier and writer of popular songs
Azopardi, Francesco more...	5 May 1748 Rabat, Malta	6 Feb. 1809	Azopardi studied music in Malta and in Naples where he became a celebrity as much for his piano and organ playing and orchestral conducting as for his compositions. He was a prolific composer and an excellent teacher of music. His scientific treatise on music, Il Musico Pratico was translated into French and used at the Royal Conservatory of Paris in 1778. Cherubini in his Course of Counterpoint and Fugue, quotes from this work. Azopardi also wrote L'Origine delle regole della musica as well as a large number of sacred works including the oratorio La Passione di Cristo
Azpiazú, Raul	23 Sep. 1924		Cuban composer, singer and woodwind player
Azza Gëra	fl. 16th century		inventor of Ethiopian chant notation
Azzaiolo, Filippo more...	ca. 1530	1569	Italian composer and singer associated particularly with Bolognese churches. He is best remembered for three books of villotas alla padoana for four voices, published in Venice between 1557 and 1569 under the title Villotte del fiore. The books comprise works by Azzaiolo and by others, some featuring dance rhythms and nonsense syllables. When, in 1568, Wilhelm V, son of Duke Albert V of Bavaria, married Renee of Lorraine, Orlando Lassus, who had charge of the music at the festivities sang Azzaiolo's celebrated Chi passa per sta strada to his own lute accompaniment. A description of the music-making at the event is included in an account written by the Italian-born composer and poet Massimo Troiano who provided a libretto for the event. The same piece forms the basis of a keyboard piece, Qui passe (chi passa) for my Lady Nevell, by the English composer William Byrd
Azzara, Bennie Anthony [Bennie Martini]	2 Nov. 1910		American popular composer, author and singer
Azzolina, Mark	1925		American military musician, conductor and composer
Azzolina, Philip J.	6 Aug. 1890		American military musician, direector and composer
Azzoni, Giulio	4 Oct. 1881		Italian pianist, composer and writer
Azzoni, Italo	23 Dec. 1853	28 Sep. 1935	Italian composer and conductor