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Name	Born	Died	Information
Caballero, M(anuel) F(ernández) more...	14 Mar. 1835 Murcia, Spain	26 Feb. 1906 Spain	Spanish composer
Cabanilles (alternatively: Cavanilles), Juan Bautista José (alternatively: Josep) more...	6 Sep. 1644 Algemesí, Valencia, Spain	29 Apr. 1712 Valencia, Spain	Spanish composer and organist. He probably began as a chorister at his local church; later he moved to Valencia, where he became second organist in 1665 and first organist the following year. In 1668 he was ordained to the priesthood. His works include sacred vocal works (a 6-voice Mass, a Magnificat, a Beatus vir, motets in Spanish) and many organ works, especially tientos. Cabanilles is considered by many the greatest (and certainly the most prolific) Spanish Baroque composer. He was certainly the greatest of the Valencian composers of organ music, and together with Correa de Araujo the most important Spanish organists of the 17th century
Cabezón, Antonio de more...	1510 Castrillo de Matajudos, Spain	26 Mar. 1566 Madrid, Spain	blind from birth, organist and harpsichord as well as composer principally of keyboard music who from 1548 worked in the service of Emperor Philip II. He is the author of Obras de Musica para Tecla y Harpa y Vihuela and he also wrote what is among the earliest surviving music for solo organ
Cabezon, Hernando de more...	7 Oct. 1541 Spain	1602 Spain	son of the above, music publisher and composer
Cable, Howard more...	15 Dec. 1920 Toronto, Canada		Canadian composer, conductor and arranger
Cabus, Peter more...	1923	2000	Flemish composer
Cacciapaglia, Roberto more...	1953 Milan, Italy		composer, pianist and record producer
Caccini (Signorini), Francesca (La Cecchina) more...	18 Sep. 1587 Florence, Italy	c.1640 Florence, Italy	Italian composer, singer, lutenist, poet, and music teacher of the early Baroque era. She was the daughter of Giulio Caccini, and was probably the most famous and influential female European composer, in any genre, between Hildegard of Bingen in the 12th century and the 19th century. She became the first Eurydice in Peris Dafne in 1600. She published several volumes of her compositions and also wrote poetry in the Latin and Tuscan languages. She wrote and sang in the opera La liberazione di Ruggiero dall' isola d'Alcina
Caccini [Romano], Giulio more...	8 Oct. 1551 Rome, Italy	10 Dec. 1618 Florence, Italy	father of Francesca, and one of the pioneering figures in the development of early Italian opera, Eurydice produced in 1600; composer of a book of madrigals and canzonets, Le nuove musiche which appeared in 1601
Caccini, Settimia more...	6 Oct. 1590 Italy	c.1638 Italy	like her sister Francesca also a composer
Caceres (Caseres, Casseres), Abraham	eighteenth century		prominant composer of Jewish music in 18th century Holland. Descended from a Jewish family which probably originated in Portugal (the town of Caceres lays in Portugal), the first time his name appears in documents is in 1718, as the composer of the music for the celebration of the confraternity lekach tov (a good lesson/conclusion) which was founded in that year for studying religious texts. Eight years later, in 1726, he composed the music for the inauguration of the synagogue Honen Dal (redeemer of the poor) in The Hague. He wrote also the music for two of Immanuel Hay Ricchi 's poems in his book Hon Ashir (Rich fortune). Later, in 1738 in the celebration of Simchat Torah , he is mentioned as composer and player
Cadenet, Pierre	fl. 1200-30		troubadour
Cadicamo, Enrique [pseudonym: Rosendo Luna] more...	15 Jul. 1900 nr. Buenos Aires, Argentina	3 Dec. 1999 Buenos Aires, Argentina	Argentinean poet and composer
Cadman, Charles Wakefield more...	24 Dec. 1881 Johnstown, PA, USA	30 Dec. 1946 Los Angeles, CA, USA	a composer inspired by American Indian themes who wrote operas, the Pennsylvania Symphony which includes the banging of an iron plate), orchestral suites, chamber music and a large number of songs
Caesar, Irving [Isidor] more...	4 Jul. 1895 New York, USA	18 Dec. 1996 New York, USA	American lyricist and composer
Caesar, Rodolfo more...	1950 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil		graduated from the Instituto Villa-Lobos, UNIRIO. He had previously studied electroacoustic composition at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), Paris. As a student of Pierre Schaeffer he came to work directly with some of the most important composers of the genre. Back in Brazil he has started to teach as well, and, in conjunction with Tim Rescala, to develop the Estúdio da Glória. Later he completed a PhD in electroacoustic composition at the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, England, and now works in his private studio. He is also responsible for the music laboratory at the Escola de Música at the UFRJ
Cafaro [Caffaro], Pasquale	8 Feb. 1716 S Pietro in Galatina, nr. Lecce	23 Oct. 1787 Naples	Italian composer
Caffi, Francesco	14 Jun. 1778 Venice, Italy	24 Jan. 1874 Padua, Italy	Italian composer
Cage, John more...	5 Sep. 1912 Los Angeles, USA	12 Aug. 1992	pupil of Schönberg and exploited of the 'prepared' piano; a musical visionary, his music being described by one commentator as 'disembodied beauty of sound without association, without precedented timbre or form, without aesthetic antecedent' - he has explored the essence of music, pitch, timbre, and sound itself
Cagnoni, Antonio	8 Feb. 1828 Godiasco, nr. Voghera	30 Apr. 1896 Bergamo, Italy	Italian composer
Cahen [Cahen d'Anvers], Albert	8 Jan. 1846 Paris, France	23 Feb. 1903 Cap d'Ail, nr. Monte Carlo	French composer
Cahn, Sammy [Samuel Cohen] more...	18 Jun. 1913 New York, NY, USA	15 Jan. 1993 Los Angeles, CA, USA	American violinist and song writer
Caietain (or Cajetan), Fabrice-Marin more...	c.1540 Gaeta, Italy	c.1578	Italian-born composer who worked in France and was influenced by the theories of l'Académie de Poésie et de Musique
Caimo, Giuseppe (Gioseppe) more...	c. 1540 Milan, Italy	1584 Milan, Italy	organist and composer
Cailo, Giovanni Carlo	1610	1688	Neapolitan composer and organ player. His Stabat Mater a cinque voci is considered to be a trendsetter for a range of well-known (and less well-known) Stabats composed in Naples (A.Scarlatti, Astorga, Fago, Pergolesi), all belonging to the so called Neapolitan School. This refers to the Neapolitan culture in opera, which became an enormous influence in church music. These compositions are divided into self-contained units (chorals, recitatives, arias, etc) and the text is expressed in an operatic manner
Caine, Uri more...	8 Jun. 1956 Philadelphia, USA		jazz pianist and composer
Caix, d'Hervelois, Louis de more...	c. 1670 Paris, France	1760 Paris, France	famous as a performer on the viola da gamba, for which instrument he composed many fine works
Cajetan, Fabrice-Marin (see Caietain)
Calace, Raffaele	1863 Naples, Italy	1934 Naples, Italy	son of Antonio Calace, a successful instrument maker, Raffaele discovered the possibilities of the mandolin and became an unequalled mandolin virtuoso. After he had graduated with honours at the Regio Conservatorio di Musica in Naples, he intended to give the mandolin its rightful place in music. To achieve this, he toured through Europe and Japan, and made three long-playing records. Raffaele wrote about 200 compositions that belong to the most beautiful and technically difficult works written for the mandolin. He also wrote didactical works, among which a method for playing the Liuto Cantabile (a 5-double stringed mandoloncello) and his much-praised mandolin method. This was published in 1910 and elaborates on the eighteen-century Italian mandolin methods by Giovanni Battista Gervaiso (c. 1725-c. 1785), Gabriele Leone (c. 1725-c. 1790) and others
Calame, Geneviève more...	30 Dec. 1946 Geneva, Switzerland	8 Oct. 1993 Geneva, Switzerland	Swiss pianist, music educator and composer
Calandra [Calandria, Calandro], Nicola	fl. 1740-1760		Italian composer particularly of operas
Caldara, Antonio more...	1670/71 Venice, Italy	26/8 Dec. 1736 Vienna, Austria	Italian baroque composer who wrote over 70 operas, 30 oratorios, motets, masses and string sonatas
Caldeira Cabral, Pedro more...	1950 Lisbon, Portugal		as a child he began studying Portuguese guitar, classic guitar and the recorder (flute). In 1970 he began studying lute, viola da gamba and other old string and wind instruments. Later he founded and directed the bands La Batalla and Concerto Atlântico which specialised in old music played on historical instruments. Between 1967 and 1975, he took various courses on contemporary music composition and worked with Karel Goyvaerts, Constança Capdeville, José Alberto Gil and Jorge Peixinho
Caldicott, Alfred James	26 Nov. 1842 Worcester, England	24 Oct. 1897 nr. Gloucester, England	English composer
Caldwell, John more...	1947 Rochester, NY, USA	13 Jan. 1995 Clarion, PA, USA	composer, art curator, music critic who studied music, art and literature at Allegheny College undertaking composition studies with Harold Boatrite. John Caldwell composed works for orchestra, band, chorus, chamber ensembles, and solo marimba
Cale, John more...	9 Mar. 1940 Crynant, Wales		worked with the Velvet Underground where he played violin and bass. Cale is also known for producing The Stooges' first album (featuring Iggy Pop). as well as producing Siouxsie & the Banshees' last album. He has worked both as a composer and an actor in film
Calegari, Cornelia (Maria Caterina)	1644	after 1675	an organist and singer who became a nun in 1661. Her first book of motets was published when she was fifteen and it met with considerable success
Calegari (or Callegari), Antonio	17 Feb. 1757 Padua, Italy	22 Jul. 1828 Padua, Italy	Italian composer
Calegari (or Callegari), Giuseppe	c.1750 Padua, Italy	1812 Padua, Italy	Italian composer
Calegari, Luigi Antonio	c.1780 Padua, Italy	1849 Venice, Italy	Italian composer
Calexico more...			a band from Tucson, Arizona, US comprising Joey Burns and John Convertino, named composer of music for the films L' Amour, l'argent, l'amour (2000) and Committed (2000)
Caliendo, Christopher more...			guitarist, conductor, teacher, publicist and composer of over five hundred classical/world music compositions, including those in the American tango, American gypsy and chamber jazz genres. Christopher has an AA in Humanities and a BA from the New England Conservatory of Music and an MFA from UCLA in Theory/Composition. His teachers include Henry Mancini, Frank Zappa, Jerrold Immel, Neal Hefti, Henry Lazarof, Paul Reale and Pierrre Boulez
Califano, Arcangelo	early 18th century		Italian composer
Califona, Aniello	1870	1919	composer/lyricist of Vieni Sul Mar, based on an old Neopolitan waltz, made popular by Enrico Caruso, but well known before his time, and of O surdato 'nnammurato, Carmela mia, Ninì tirabusciò
Calkin, James more...	19 Sep. 1786 London, England	18 Jan. 1862 London, England	pianist, violinist and cellist who composed orchestral, chamber and piano music
Calkin, Joseph (also called Tenielli Calkin after his mother who was born Tenniel) more...	13 Jan. 1816 London, England	6 Jun. 1874 London, England	son of above and tenor, who became a fine teacher and composer of songs
Calkin, John Baptiste more...	16 Mar. 1827 London, England	15 Apr. 1905 Crouch End, Middlesex, England	brother of above, organist; composer of church music, glees, part-songs and music for piano and organ
Calkin, George more...	10 Aug. 1829 London, England	13 Jul. 1911 Hampstead, London, England London, England	cellist, organist, choral director; composer of music for organ and choir
Call, Leonard von more...	1779 Tyrol, Austria	1815 Austria	Austrian guitarist and composer known particularly for his music for guitar as well as for 16 published collections of songs for male voice choir which established the tradition of male voice singing in Vienna
Callaerts, Joseph more...	22 Aug. 1838 Antwerp, Belgium	3 Mar. 1901 Antwerp, Belgium	spent his whole life in Antwerp, his native city, where he built up a successful career as an organist, composer and teacher
Callaway, Ann	1949		she began her musical training in Baltimore with Grace Newsom Cushman and continued at Smith College with Alvin Etler. She received graduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University, where she studied with George Crumb, Jack Beeson, and George Edwards. Her music has been broadcast on both coasts of the United States and she is the subject of a documentary produced by Swedish Radio. Callaway has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, commissions from the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Guild of Organists, and has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Leighton Artist Colony in Banff. Her works have been performed by the Seattle Symphony, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. She has composed many chamber and orchestral works, in addition to several song cycles and works for chorus
Callcott, John Wall more...	1766 London, England	1821 London, England	composer of glees and catches
Callcott, William Hutchins more...	1807 London, England	1882 London, England	son of above; also composer of glees and catches
Callhoff, Herbert more...	13 Aug. 1933 Viersen, Germany		German composer
Calloway, Cab more...	25 Dec. 1907 Rochester, New York, USA	18 Nov. 1994 Hockessin, Delaware, USA	famous American jazz singer and bandleader
Calmel, Roger more...	13 May 1920 Languedoc, France	4 Jul. 1998 Paris, France	French composer. His nearly 400 works span every genre, from chamber music to opera
Calthorpe, Nancy more...	1914 Waterford, Ireland	1998 Dublin, Ireland	Irish harpist, arranger and composer
Calvi, Carlo more...			Italian composer who wrote Intavolatura de chitarra e chitariglia
Calvisius, Sethus (born: Seth Kalwitz) more...	21 Feb. 1556 Gorsleben, Germany	24 Nov. 1615 Leipzig, Germany	German music theorist, composer, chronologer, astronomer, and teacher of the late Renaissance.
Calvo Cantero, Charo more...			studied singing and music theory, contemporary dance and dramatic art in Madrid and Brussels. In the 1980s, she was a dancer in Brussels. She then studied electronic music at Antwerpen Conservatoire and electoacoustic composition at Mons with Annette Vande Gorne. Charo has worked on the sound design and music for many theatre and dance projects, for films and dance videos
Camacaro, Pablo	1949 Carora, Venezuela		Venezuelan composer and pianist
Camacho, João more...	11 Jan. 1972 Luanda, Angola		Portuguese music teacher, teacher and composer
Cambert, Robert more...	c.1628 Paris, France	Feb./Mar. 1677 London, England	harpsichordist and organist; His opera Pomone was one of the earliest examples of French opera. It is believed that he lost his opera monopoly to Lully whereupon he moved to London, and was reputedly murdered there by his valet
Cambini, Giuseppe Maria (Gioacchino) more...	13 Feb. 1746 Livorno, Italy	29 Dec. 1825 Bicêtre	Italian-born composer
Camerloher (or Camerlocher, Cammerlocher), Placidus Cajetan von more...	9 Aug. 1718 Murnau	21 Jul. 1782 Freising	composer, lutenist and organist
Cameron, John more...	1944		English composer, arranger and music supervisor for film, TV and ttheatre
Camidge, John the elder more...	1734	1803	organist and composer of chants
Camidge, John the younger more...	1790 York, England	21 Sep. 1859 York, England	son of Matthew Camidge, organist and composer of chants
Camidge, Matthew more...	1764 England	1844	son of John Camidge the elder, organist, composer of piano sonatas and chants and editor of cathedral music
Camilleri, Charles Mario more...	7 Sep. 1931 Hamrun, Malta	3 Jan. 2009 Naxxar, Malta	a composer, conductor and writer, who has been inspired by Maltese and African sources and whose works include a opera Melita, Missa Mundi for organ and Abongo for wind quintet
Camilleri, Lelio more...	1957 Rome, Italy		Professor of Electronic Music at the GB Martini Conservatory of Music (Bologna, Italy). Since 1999, he also teaches music and multimedia in the Master Program on Multimedia organized by the University of Florence and the RAI (Italian Radio and Television). He has composed electronic and instrumental works which have been performed in Europe, North America, South America, and New Zealand, and broadcasted by the Italian, Belgian, Australian and Argentinean radios
Camilleri, William more...	London, UK		composer of music managed by Sandra Marsh management in Beverly Hills whose website is www.filmworks-online.com
Camilo, Michel more...	4 Apr. 1954 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic		pianist and composer, known as an outstanding jazz, Latin and classical pianist
Camm, Cheryl more...	Worksop, England		English composer and educator, who spent many years studying working in New Zealand
Camp, Hamilton more...	30 Oct. 1934 London, England	2 Oct. 2005	British-born singer, songwriter, and actor. Camp was evacuated during WWII to the United States as a child with his mother and sister(s). He became a child actor in films and onstage, originally performing under the name Bob Camp
Campa, Gustavo E(milio)	8 Sep. 1863 México	29 Oct. 1934 México	Mexican composer
Campagnoli, Bartolomeo more...	10 Sep. 1751 Cento di Ferrara, Italy	6 Nov. 1827 Neustrelitz, Germany	Italian violinist and composer
Campana, Fabio	14 Jan. 1819 Livorno, Italy	2 Feb. 1882 London, England	Italian composer
Campana, Francesca		1665 Rome	published composer who was also considered one of the finest singers in Rome. Campana composed and played the spinet as well
Campanus, Johannes Vodnianus (Jan Vodnanský Campanus; Jan z Vodnan, Jan Campanus-Vodnanský, Jan Kampánus Vodnanský, Ionnes Campanus Vodnianus) more...	27 Dec. 1572 Vodnany, Bohemia	13 Dec. 1622 Prague	Czech humanist, composer, pedagogue, poet, and dramatist. He studied at the University of Prague and in 1596 and was made Master of Liberal Arts there. He became a teacher in Prague and Kutná Hora. From 1603 he taught Greek and Latin at the University of Prague. He also taught history and Latin poetry. He was repeatedly appointed as dean, prorector, and rector of this university
Campbell, Alexander	22 Feb. 1764 Tombea, Perths., Scotland	15 May 1824 Edinburgh, Scotland	Scottish composer
Campbell, Bruce			one of several writers who owed much to his association with Robert Farnon, he was a fellow Canadian, who actually came to Britain some years before Farnon, and played trombone with various British bands during the 1930s including Ambrose, Jack Harris, Jack Hylton, Sid Millward, Hugo Rignold and Lew Stone. Campbell assisted Farnon on his post-war BBC radio shows, and eventually became a frequent contributor to various mood music libraries. Skippy is still familiar to older TV viewers in Britain as the theme for Seeing Sport
Campbell, Malcolm (Calum)	13 Apr. 1937 Benbecula, Scotland	11 Jan. 2005 Benbecula, Scotland	Scottish piper and composer of music for the pipes. In the tradition of earlier times, he composed tunes to commemmorate people and events in the local community. His march Bain's Welcome to Creagorry and his jig Hercules the Bear, composed in 1980, remembered when, during the making of a television commercial, the beast escaped from his handler
Campbell, Mary Maxwell	1812 Scotland	1886	composer of songs
Campen, Ank van more...	1932 The Netherlands		harpist and composer
Campenhout, François van more...	5 Feb. 1779 Brussels, Belgium	24 Apr. 1848 Brussels, Belgium	tenor, violinist and opera composer who also composed the Belgian national anthem La Brabançonne
Camphouse, Mark more...	1954 Oak Park, Illinois		American professor of music and composer
Camphuysen, Dirk Rafelsz more...	1586 Gorinchem, The Netherlands	9 Jul. 1627 Dokkum, The Netherlands	Dutch painter, poet, composer, musical and literary theorist and theologian
Campion, François more...	1685	1747	composer, guitarist and lutenist, the dominant composer for the guitar in the first third of the 18th century. He composed works of groundbreaking complexity and indeed he may have been the only composer to write fugues for the guitar
Campion, Thomas (Campian) more...	12 Feb. 1567 London, England	1 Mar. 1620 London, England	English poet, physician, and composer of over 100 lute songs
Campioni (or Campione, Campion) Charles Antoine (or Carlo Antonio)	16 Nov. 1720 Lunéville	12 Apr. 1788 Florence, Italy	French-born composer
Campo, Conrado del (full name: Conrado del Campo y Zabaleta) more...	28 Oct. 1879 Madrid, Spain	17 Mar. 1953 Madrid, Spain	composer of operas, symphonic poems, chamber and choral music
Campo, Régis more...	1968 Marseille, France		French composer of stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, piano, and organ works that have been performed throughout Europe, as well as in Japan, the USA and elsewhere
Campogrande, Nicola more...	9 Oct. 1969 Turin, Italy		Italian composer [information provided by the composer]
Campos, Augusto de more...	1931 São Paulo, Brazil		founder of the Concrete poetry movement in Brazil, he is also a translator, music critic and visual artist
Campra, André more...	4 Dec. 1660 Aix-en-Provence, France	29 Jun. 1744 Versailles, France	composer, initially of sacred music, who in his 40s turned to writing secular works for the stage and opera-ballets. He was choir-master in Toulon, Arles and Toulouse, and was appointed music master at Notre-Dame de Paris in 1694. From 1695, he devoted himself to the opera repertory, much to the despair of musical chronicler Lecerf de la Viéville who wrote: "... if the poor boy had not deserted the Church to go and serve the Opera, I think Italy would be hard put to contend with us successfully." Composer at the Chapelle Royale, then inspector of the Opera, he succeeded in cultivating both the French spirit and the Italian taste, secular repertory and sacred music at the same time
Camps, Pompeyo	27 Oct. 1924 Paraná	1997 Buenos Aires, Argentina	Argentinean composer
Camus, Sebastien le more...	c. 1610 Paris, France	1677 Paris, France	French composer, also a virtuoso gamba and theorbo player
Camussi, Ezio	16 Jan. 1877 Florence, Italy	11 Aug. 1956 Milan, Italy	Italian composer
Canal, Marguerite	29 Jan. 1890 Toulouse, France	27 Jan. 1978 Cépet, nr. Toulouse, France	French composer
Canales, Manuel more...	1747 Toledo, Spain	1786 Toledo, Spain	Spanish composer
Canaro, Francisco more...	26 Nov. 1888 San Jose de Mayo, Argentina	14 Dec. 1964 Buenos Aires, Argentina	composer particularly of tangos and successful bandleader
Canat de Chizy, Edith more...	26 Mar. 1950 Lyon, France		French violinist and composer
Canavas (Canavasso), Jean Baptiste (l'aîné) more...	25 Mar. 1713 Turin, Italy	7 Jun. 1784 Paris, France	Italian cellist and composer
Canavas (Canavasso), Joseph (le cadet) more...	c.1714 Turin, Italy	26 Sep. 1776 Paris, France	Italian violinist and composer
Canazzi, Antonio	fl. 1653		Italian composer
Candeille, Pierre Joseph	8 Dec. 1744 Estaires	24 Apr. 1827 Chantilly	French composer
Candeille-Simons, Amelie June (Julie)	31 Jul. 1767 Paris, France	4 Feb. 1834 Paris, France	composed many works including an operetta that was performed at Theatre Francaise in 1792
Cangiasi, Giovanni Antonio more...	before 1590 Milan, Italy	in or after 1614 Italy	Italian composer and organist
Canino, Bruno more...	30 Dec. 1935 Naples, Italy		Italian classical pianist and composer
Canis, Cornelius (de Hondt, d'Hondt) more...	c.1505	1561	Franco-flemish composer. Master of choirboys and later maitre de chapelleat the court of Emperor Charles V in Brussels from no later than 1542 until about 1555. From 1557 held posts in churches in Courtrai
Cannabich, (Johann) Christian (Innocenz Bonaventura) more...	bap. 28 Dec. 1731 Mannheim, Germany	20 Jan. 1798 Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany	violinist and conductor, a member of the Mannheim school of composers; composed symphonies, operas, ballets and chamber music as well as a cantata in memory of Mozart written in 1797. Cannabich probably conducted at the premiere of Mozart's Idomeneo K.366 in Munich where he was the director of its Court orchestra
Cannabich, Karl more...	bap. 11 Oct. 1771 Mannheim, Germany	1/2 May 1806 Munich, Germany	German composer
Canning, Thomas more...	12 Dec. 1911 Brookville, PA, USA	1989 Rochester, USA	American composer
Cannio, Enrico more...	1874 Naples, Italy	1949 Naples, Italy	Italian musician and composer
Cannon, (Jack) Philip more...	21 Dec. 1929 Paris, France		pupil of Imogen Holst; writer of songs, a concertino for piano and strings and Songs to Delight for women's choir
Canobbio, Carlo	1741 possibly Venice, Italy	7 Mar. 1822 St Peterburg, Russia	Italian-born composer
Canova da Milano, Francesco more...			an Italian lutenist virtuoso and composer of the Renaissance who wrote several books of music for lute. Some of his works are still famous today and are frequently performed
Canteloube (de Malaret), Marie-Joseph more...	21 Oct. 1879 Annonay, France	4 Nov. 1957 Grigny, France	pianist, conductor and collector of folk-song; his most famous work is his arrangement of folk-songs entitled Songs of the Auvergne for soprano accompanied by piano or orchestra [correction supplied by Francois Favre]
Cantemir, Dimitrie (Dimitrius)	1673 Moldavia	1723	Dimitrius Cantemir stands among the great historical figures from the East. He led a life of travel, migration, and exile. He was a Moldavian prince as well as Knaez of Russia. Cantemir was active as an authority in history, philosophy, theology, diplomacy, geography, ethnology, literature, and most importantly for us, music. He played the tanbour (an Ottoman plucked stringed instrument) admirably, he composed masterpieces, and invented a style of notation that served his purposes and assured the survival of his own works as well as of some 300 works he knew and played
Cantone (Cantoni), Serafino more...	fl. 1580-1627		Italian composer and organist
Cantuária, Vinicius more...	29 Apr. 1951 Manaus, Brazil		Brazilian singer, songwriter, guitarist, drummer and percussionist, associated with Bossa nova and Brazilian jazz
Canuti, Giovanni Antonio	c.1680 Lucca, Italy	Apr. 1739 Lucca, Italy	Italian composer
Capdenat, Philippe more...	17 Jul. 1934 Bordeaux, France		French composer and organist
Capdeville, Constança	1937 Barcelona, Spain	1992 Lisbon, Portugal	Portuguese composer of Catalan origin. She studied with Croner de Vasconcellos at the Conservatório Nacional. As a teacher she had an enormous influence on a whole generation of contemporary Portuguese composers [entry provided by Carlos Alberto Augusto]
Capdevielle, Pierre	1 Feb. 1906 Paris, France	9 Jul. 1969 Bordeaux, France	French composer
Capelletti, Daniel more...	20 Sep. 1958 Luxembourg		pianist and composer
Capelli (or Capello, Cappelli, Capella), Giovanni Maria	7 Dec. 1648 Parma, Italy	16 Oct. 1726 Parma, Italy	Italian composer
Capello, Giovanni Francesco more...	fl. 1615		seventeenth-century Italian composer
Capet, Lucien more...	1873 Paris, France	1928 Paris, France	violinist and composer
Caplet, André more...	1878 Havre, France	1925 Paris, France	conductor and composer, friend of Debussy some of whose works he arranged for orchestra; he wrote orchestral and choral works as well as chamber music and songs
Capio (or Capion), Iseut (or N'Iseut) de more...	c. 1140	after 1190	noblewoman and trobairitz from Gévaudan, France
Capirola, Vincenzo more...	1474 probably Brescia, Italy	after 1548 Italy	an Italian composer, lutenist and nobleman of the Renaissance. His music is preserved in an illuminated manuscript called the Capirola Lutebook, which is considered to be one of the most important sources of lute music of the early 16th century
Caplet, André more...	23 Nov. 1878 Le Havre, Normandy, France	22 Apr. 1925 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France	French composer and conductor now known primarily through his orchestrations of works by Claude Debussy
Capocci, Gaetano more...	16 Oct. 1811 Rome, Italy	11 Jan. 1898 Rome, Italy	organist and composer of church music
Capocci, Filippo more...	11 May 1840 Rome, Italy	25 Jul. 1911 Rome, Italy	son of above, organist and composer of organ music
Capponi, Abate Ranieri more...	fl. seventeenth century		Italian composer who died in about 1700
Cappus, Jean Baptiste more...	c. 1700	c. 1749	French composer
Capranica [Capranico], Matteo	26 Aug. 1708 possibly Amatrice, Rieti	after 1776 Naples	Italian composer
Capricornus [Bockshorn], Samuel Friedrich more...	21 Dec. 1628 Zercice, nr. Mlodá Boleslav	10 Nov. 1665 Stuttgart	South-German violinist and composer
Caprioli, Antonio more...	fl. 1500		Italian composer
Caproli (or Caprioli) Del Violino, Carlo	c.1617 Rome, Italy	c.1693 Rome, Italy	Italian violinist and composer
Capron, Henri more...	fl. 1785-1795		American cellist, composer, impresario and teacher of French origin
Capua, Eduardo di more...	12 Mar. 1865 Naples, Italy	3 Oct. 1917 Milan, Italy	Italian singer and songwriter
Capuana, Franco	29 Sep. 1894 Fano, Italy	10 Dec. 1969 Naples, Italy	Italian composer
Capuzzi [Capucci], Giuseppe Antonio more...	1 Aug. 1755 Breno, Brescia	28 Mar. 1818 Bergamo, Italy	Italian composer
Capuzzo, Maura more...	1963 Padua, Italy		Italian composer who is member of Agon Milano (centre for research, developing and performing of electroacoustic music). Her works and electroacoustic pieces have been performed in Italy, United States, Germany and Asia by many musicians, among others, Irvine Arditti, Francesco Filidei, Taipei hamber singers, Italian flute Quartet, Kettwiger Bach Ensemble and Chamber Choir of the University of Florence.
Cara, Marchetto more...	c.1470 Italy	probably 1525 Mantua, Italy	Italian composer, lutenist and singer of the Renaissance. He was mainly active in Mantua, was well-connected with the Gonzaga and Medici families, and along with Bartolomeo Tromboncino, was well known as a composer of frottolas
Carafa (de Colobrano), Michele [Michel] (Enrico-Francesco-Vincenzo-Aloisio-Paolo) more...	17 Nov. 1787 Naples, Italy	26 Jul. 1872 Paris, France	Italian opera composer
Carapella, Tommaso	c.1654 Cerreto Sannita	20 Sep. 1736 Naples	Italian opera composer
Carasali, Odoardo	fl. 1736		Italian composer
Carcani (or Carcano), Giuseppe [Gioseffo] more...	1703 Cremona, Italy	Jan. 1779 Piacenza, Italy	Italian composer
Carcassi, Matteo more...	1792 Florence, Italy	16 Jan. 1853 Paris, France	guitarist, composer and teacher
Càrceres, Bartomeu more...	fl. 16th century		Valencian musician, copyist and composer
Cardenal, Peire more...	late 12th century Puy-en-Velay, France	c.1278	a Provençal troubadour known for his satirical pieces and for his dislike of the clergy
Cardew, Cornelius more...	1936 England		guitarist and pupil of Ferguson, later associated with Stockhausen; his music falls into three distinct styles: conventional music for small chamber groups and solo performers, works in which the performers make a free choice of the notes to be played, and his political works inspired by Maoist ideas
Cardillo, Salvatore more...	1874	1947	Italian songwriter whose richly scored sentimental Napuletano classic Core 'ngrato ('Ungrateful heart') written in 1911 for Enrico Caruso, has remained ever since a staple of the Italian tenor concert repertoire
Cardonne, Jean-Baptiste [Philibert] more...	26 Jun. 1730 Versailles, France	after Aug. 1792	French composer
Cardoso, Jorge more...	1949 Posadas, Argentina		concert guitarist, composer and musicologist, Jorge Cardoso is also medical doctor at the National University of Cordoba Argentina, (1973)
Cardoso, Manuel more...	bap. 11 Dec. 1566 Fronteira, Portugual	24 Nov. 1650 Lisbon, Portugual	Portuguese composer and organist
Cardy, Patrick more...	22 Aug. 1953 Toronto, Canada	24 Mar. 2005 Ottowa, Canada	Canadian composer, teacher and flautist
Carena, Felice (Felix) more...			Italian composer, not to be confused with the Venetian painter of the same name (1879-1966)
Caresana, Cristoforo more...	c.1640 Venice, Italy	1709 Naples, Italy	Italian composer
Carey, Henry more...	c.1688 York, England	5 Oct. 1743 London, England	English composer
Carisio, Giovanni Il Orbino; Il Cieco	c.1627 Turin, Italy	7 Nov. 1687 Turin, Italy	Italian composer
Carissimi, Giacomo more...	bap. 18 Apr. 1605 Marino, Papal States	12 Jan. 1674 Rome	when 18 he is mentioned as a singer at the Cathedral in Tivoli, but in 1627 he is appointed maestro di cappella at St. Ruffino, Assisi, and in 1630 he moves finally to become maestro di cappella of the Collegium Germanicum Hungaricum in Rome. He is considered the father of modern oratorio and as an outstanding teacher, among whom there are many noted composers such as Alessandro Scarlatti, Johann Kasper Kerll, Jakob Baudrexel, Kaspar Förster (who was probably Buxtehude's teacher), Johann Philip von Krieger, Christophe Bernard, and Marc-Antoine Charpentier (who ranked his teacher with Lully)
Carle, Frankie [né: Francis Nunzio Carlone] more...	25 Mar. 1903 Providence, RI, USA	7 Mar. 2001 Mesa, AZ, USA	American pianist, bandleader and composer whose theme song was Sunrise Serenade
Carlebach, Neshama more...	1974		daughter of the Jewish singer-songwriter Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, who is a singer in her own right, the protege of her late father
Carlebach, Shlomo more...	14 Jan. 1925 Berlin, Germany	20 Oct. 1994 USA/Canada	Jewish religious teacher, composer, and singer
Carleton, Bob more...	1896	1956	American pianist and composer
Carleton (Carlton, Charlton), Nicholas (the elder) more...	c.1570	1630	English composer
Carleton, Richard more...	c.1558	c.1638	composer of madrigals and instrumental music of whose biography absolutely nothing is known
Carlevaro, Abel more...	1918 Montevideo, Uruguay	2001	an exceptional virtuoso, classic guitar composer and teacher
Carlevaro, Alvaro more...	1957 Montevideo, Uruguay		guitarist and composer
Carlos, Wendy (Walter) more...	14 Nov. 1939 Pawtucket, USA		American composer
Carlson, Bengt	1890 Finland	1953	Finnish choral composer
Carlstedt, Jan more...	15 Jun. 1926 Orsa, Sweden	2004	Swedish composer
Carlton, Richard more...	1955 United Kingdom		British-born Australian guitarist and composer
Carluccio-Leante, Francesco more...	1953 Verona, Italy		Italian composer
Carmichael, Hoagy more...	22 Nov. 1899 Bloomington, Indiana, USA	27 Dec. 1981 Rancho Mirage, California, USA	American composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader
Carmona, Juan more...	1963 Lyons, France		flamenco guitarist and composer
Carnicer (y Batile), Ramón more...	24 Oct. 1789 Tárrega, nr. Lérida	17 Mar. 1855 Madrid, Spain	Spanish composer
Carniolus, Jacobus (see Gallus Carniolus, Jacobus)
Caro, Francisco de more...	23 Mar. 1898 Buenos Aires, Argentina	31 Jul. 1976 Buenos Aires, Argentina	Argentinean composer and pianst
Caro, Julio de more...	11 Dec. 1899 Buenos Aires, Argentina	11 Mar. 1980 Buenos Aires, Argentina	violinist, bandleader and composer
Carolan, Turlough Ó [Toirdhealbhach Ó Cearbhalláin] more...	1670 Nobber, Co. Meath, Ireland	25 Mar. 1738 Alderford, Co. Roscommon, Ireland	Carolan's father moved to Alderford in Co. Roscommon, where he worked in some capacity or other for the family of Mac Dermott Roe. Mrs. Mac Dermott Roe seems to have taken a liking to the young Carolan and, when at the age of eighteen he was blinded by smallpox, she arranged for him to learn the harp from a harper of the Mac Dermott Roe family. She supported him until at the age of twenty one he set off on his career of itinerant harper. The harpers, most of whom like Carolan were blind, travelled the countryside on horseback guided by a helper. Everywhere they went they were received as honoured guests and were very hospitably treated in all the great and indeed not so great, houses. Carolan, although he was said to have been a somewhat indifferent harper having come to the instrument at too late an age, had an enormous reputation as a composer, and would therefore have been considered a cut above his fellow harpers. In musical terms Carolan is unusual, if not unique, in the three elements of influence which affect his music. These are (i) the music of the Irish harping tradition, whose roots descend to the depths of antiquity and which was to die out by the end of the eighteenth century, (ii) the traditional dance music and songs and, very importantly, (iii) the music of the great Italian composer of his day, Arcangelo Corelli. These three disparate strands coalesce in his music, producing a phenomenon unique in the history of Irish music. He fails to fall comfortably into any convenient musicological category and is therefore an enigmatic and most interesting musical figure. But this is no more a barrier to his success now than it has been at any time since his own day; and his music is perhaps more popular and more widely played today than ever before
Caroline, Mlle			opera performed in Paris in 1786 at the Theatre Beaujolais
Caroli, Angelo Antonio	13 Jun. 1701 Bologna, Italy	26 Jun. 1778 Bologna, Italy	Italian composer
Caron, Firminus more...	fl. 1460-1475		a French composer, and probably singer, of the Renaissance. While highly successful as a composer and influential, especially on the development of imitative counterpoint, and while numerous compositions of his survive, he is almost unique in there being an almost complete absence of direct biographical information about him. Most of what is known about his life and career is inferred
Caroso, Fabrizio (Marco) more...	1535/1536 Sermoneta, Italy	1605/1620 Italy	Italian Renaissance composer and choreographer. Besides miscellaneus instrumental music, he is remembered for Nobiltà di dame, a manual of courtly and social dance of the Renaissance [entry corrected by W. Pin]
Caroubel, Pierre Francisque more...		1611	French violinist and composer who collaborated with Michael Praetorius and is known for his dance music, bransles and galliards
Carpani, Giovanni Antonio	fl. 1660		Italian composer
Carpenter, Gary more...	1951		British composer, arranger and orchestrator
Carpenter, John more...	16 Jan. 1948 Carthage, New York, USA		American director, writer, composer and producer
Carpenter, John Alden more...	1876 Park Ridge, Ill., USA	1951 Chicago, USA	wealthy business man who wrote orchestral works (including two symphonies, the second based on Algerian tunes), and pieces for piano and for voice, including Adventures in a Perambulator (orchestral suite), Krazy Kat (a ballet) and Skyscrapers
Carpentier, Joseph more...	fl. 18th century		composer of Vingt et une variations des folies d'Espagne (c.1774) for voice and guitar
Carpentier, Simon more...			musician and composer who has been working for film, television and publicity since 1987. He works with Zumanity a cabaret-style show from Cirque du Soleil that is resident at the New York-New York Hotel and Casino on Las Vegas Blvd. (The Strip)
Carpentras, Elzear Genet more...	c.1470 Carpentras, France	14 Jun. 1548 Avignon, France	a French composer of the Renaissance, he was famous during his lifetime, and was especially notable for his settings of the Lamentations which remained in the repertory of the Papal Choir throughout the 16th-century. In addition, he was probably the most prominent Avignon musician since the time of the ars subtilior at the end of the 14th-century
Carpi, Fiorenzo more...	19 Oct. 1918 Milan, Italy	21 May 1997 Milan, Italy	Italian composer
Carr, Benjamin more...	12 Sep. 1768 London, England	24 May 1831 Philadelphia, USA	English-born composer
Carr, Edwin (James Nairn) more...	10 Aug. 1926 Auckland, New Zealand	27 Mar. 2003 Waiheke Island, New Zealand	New Zealand composer [date of death supplied by W. Pin]
Carr, Frank Osmond more...	1858 Bradford, England	1916 Uxbridge, England	composer of successful light comedy operas
Carr, Howard more...	1880 Manchester, England	1960 London, England	composer of light operas, orchestral music and songs
Carrapatoso, Eurico more...	1962 Mirandela, Portugal		Eurico Carrapatoso graduated from the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade in Porto with a degree in history in 1985. In that same year, he began his musical studies with José Luís Borges Coelho. In 1987, he took the fugue examination under the supervision of Cândido Lima at the Conservatório de Música in Lisbon. In 1988, he began his composition studies at the Escola Superior de Música in Lisbon, where one of his teachers was Constança Capdeville. His final studies were with Jorge Peixinho from 1991-93 at the Conservatório de Música, where he graduated with the highest classification. He has taught composition (and also social and economic history) at several institutions, including the Escola de Música in Porto and the Escola Superior de Música in Lisbon. Since 1989, he has taught Analysis and Techniques of Musical Composition at the Academia de Amadores de Música and the Conservatório de Música, and since 1998, he has taught Analysis at the Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra in Lisbon. His works have been performed by most major ensembles and orchestras in Portugal, and also by major orchestras in France and the USA. Among the conductors of his music are Stefan Asbury, Vasco Azevedo, Christopher Bochmann, Cesário Costa, Osvaldo Ferreira, Mark Foster, Teresita Gutierrez Marques, Paulo Lourenço, and John Pereira. Carrapatoso has won several awards, including the Cantonigròs Prize (Barcelona, 1995), the Lopes-Graça Prize from the city of Tomar (1998-99) and the Francisco de Lacerda Prize (1999); in addition, his works have represented Portugal twice at the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers (1998-99). His Mentes, Peer! (incidental music for Henrik Ibsens play Peer Gynt) was premièred in February 2002, at the inauguration of the new Teatro Aberto in Lisbon.
Carreira, António more...	c.1525 Portugal	1592 Portugual	Portuguese organist and composer who was master of the royal chapel in Lisbon from 1564
Carreño, Maria Teresa more...	22 Dec. 1853 Carácas, Venezuela	12 Jun. 1917 New York, USA	four times married conductor and operatic soprano who studied with Gottschalk and Rubinstein; not the composer of the Venezuelan National Anthem
Carrillo(-Trujillo), Julián (Antonio) more...	28 Jan. 1875 San Luis Potosi, Mexico	9 Sep. 1965 San Angél, Mexico	studied violin in Leipzig; developed a system of microtonal composition, invented instruments to play quarter-, eighth- and sixteenth-tones, and composed symphonies, operas, masses and chamber music, over 50 of which were for his invented instruments
Carrion, Alonso de more...			troubadour and guitarist
Carrodus, Tiplady more...	1836 Keighley, Yorks, England	1895 London, England	pupil of Molique; composed for his instrument, the violin
Carroll, David more...	15 Oct 1913 Chicago, Illinois, USA		musical director of Mercury Records from 1951 to the early 1960s, during which time he accompanied many of the labels contract singers as well as making some instrumental recordings of his own. Several of his LPs had a dance theme, often including his own compositions, and he employed the cream of Chicagos session musicians
Carroll, Walter more...	1869 Manchester, England	1955 Manchester, England	church musician; composer of piano and violin music for children
Carse, Adam (formerly, Adam von Ahn Carse) more...	19 May 1878 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England	2 Nov. 1958 Great Missenden, Bucks, England	composer of orchestral, chamber and educational music
Carste, Hans more...	9 May 1919 Frankenthal, Germany	5 Nov. 1971 Bad Wiessee, Germany	German composer and conductor
Cart (Czarth, Zarth), Jiri (Geroge) more...	1708 Vysoká, Czechoslovakia	1778 Mannheim (?), Germany	Czech violinist and composer who served at the court of Berlin together with F.E.Bach and then as a violinist of the Mannheim orchestra
Cartan, Jean more...	1 Dec. 1960 Nancy, France	25 Mar. 1932 France	French composer, son of the noted mathematician Elie Cartan and brother of Henri Paul Cartan, a founding member of Bourbaki group of French mathematicians
Cartellieri, Antonio Casimir more...	27 Sep. 1772 Danzig	27 Sep. 1807 Liebshausen, Bavaria	Bohemian composer who studied with Albrechtsberger and was a favourite of Prince Joseph von Lobkowitz, who went out of his way to secure Cartellieri's services after hearing his C-minor Symphony in Vienna
Carter, Alvin Pleasant (Delaney) more...	5 Apr. 1891 Maces Spring, Virginia, USA	7 Nov. 1960 Kentucky, USA	American Country music musician and founding member of the well known Carter Family group
Carter, Andrew more...	1939 Leicester, England		English choral director and composer
Carter, Benny more...	8 Aug. 1907 Harlem, New York, USA	12 Jul. 2003 Los Angeles, California, USA	American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader
Carter, Betty (born: Lillie Mae Jones) more...	16 May 1929 Flint, Michigan, USA	26 Sep. 1998 USA	American jazz singer who was renowned for her improvisational technique and idiosyncratic vocal style.
Carter, Charles Thomas	c. 1735 Dublin, Ireland	12 Oct. 1804 London, England	a considerable degree of confusion exists about the biographical details of this composer. There were several musicians and composers with the Carter surname in Dublin during the 2nd half of the 18th century, in particular two composers: Thomas Carter and Charles Thomas Carter. The confusion is intensified by the fact that the latter was, it seems, known also as Thomas or Tom and that both men ended up in London! There are some anthems by T. Carter in the choir library of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. Charles Thomas Carter was a boy chorister in Christ Church Cathedral. He became organist of St. Werburgh's Church in Dublin around 1751 and moved to London in the early 1770s. In London he established a name as a composer: a huge amount of music by Thomas Carter or Charles Thomas Carter was published in London at the end of the eighteenth century including chamber music, vocal music, and music for solo harpsichord, piano, and organ. John O'Keefe writing in his Recollections said of Carter that any music he had never seen before, placed before him, upside down, he could play it off on the harpsichord! [date of death corrected by W. Pin]
Carter, Elizabeth	1717	1806	composer
Carter, Elliott (Cook) jnr. more...	11 Dec. 1908 New York, USA	5 Nov. 2012 New York, USA	studied with Piston and Nadia Boulanger; composer of a wide range of music including operas (one was performed in Osnabrück, Germany, in 1927), ballets and choral and chamber works
Carter, Ernest Trow more...	1866 Orange, N.J., USA	1953 Stamford, Conn., USA	professionally a lawyer, piano pupil of William Mason and studied composition in Germany; composed operas, ballets and orchestral works
Carter, John	1932 St. Louis, Missouri, USA	possibly c. 1981	Carter served as composer-in-residence with the National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, DC) in 1968 and was an instructor at Federal City College, Washington, in the 1970s
Carter, Regina more...	1962 Detroit, USA		American jazz violinist and composer. A cousin of jazz saxophonist James Carter, Regina Carter took a double major in classical music and African American music at both the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music and Oakland University in Michigan, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in performance
Carter, Ron more...	4 May 1937 Ferndale, Michigan, USA		American jazz double-bassist
Carter, Sydney Bertram	6 May 1915 London, England	13 March 2004	songwriter, poet and singer, best known for his popular hymn 'The Lord of The Dance'
Carthy, Eliza (Amy Forbes) more...	23 Aug. 1975 Scarborough, England		folk violinist and composer, daughter of Martin Carthy
Carthy, Martin more...	1941 Hertfordshire, England		folk musician and composer
Cartier, Jean-Baptiste	28 May 1765 Avignon, France	1841 Paris, France	French composer
Carulli, Ferdinando Maria Meinrado Francesco Pascale Rosario more...	10 Feb. 1770 Naples, Italy	17 Feb. 1841 Paris, France	one of the most famous composers for classical guitar and the author of the first complete classical guitar method, which continues to be used today. He wrote a variety of works for classical guitar, including concertos and chamber works. He was an extremely prolific writer for guitar, writing over 400 works for the instrument in the space of 12 years
Caruso (or Carusio), Luigi [Lodovico]	25 Sep. 1754 Naples, Italy	1822 Perugia, Italy	Italian composer
Carvalhinho, Miguel more...			Portuguese classical guitarist and composer
Carvalho, Eleazar de	28 Jul. 1912 Iguatú		Brazilian composer
Carvalho, João de Sousa more...	22 Feb. 1745 Estremoz	1798 Alentejo	Portuguese composer
Carvalho, Léon (see Miolan-Carvalho)
Carver, Robert more...	c.1485 Scotland	c.1570 Scotland	a Scottish Renaissance monk and composer of Christian sacred music who spent much of his life at Scone Abbey in Perthshire
Carwithen, Doreen Mary more...	15 Nov. 1922 Haddenham, Bucks, UK	5 Jan. 2003 Forncett St. Peter, Norfolk, UK	British composer of classical and film music. She was also known as Mary Alwyn
Cary, Francis Clive Savill more...	1883 Sible Hedingham	1968	composer of incidental music for plays and active in the folk song movement
Cary (Carey), Henry more...	c.1688	1743 London, England	poet, playwright and composer of stage pieces, cantatas and songs; sometimes, mistakenly, believed to be the composer of God Save the Queen
Cary, Tristram Ogilvie more...	14 May 1925 Oxford, England	24 Apr. 2008 Adelaide, South Australia	composer of film and television scores and electronic music on tape, including Birth is Life is Power is Death is God is
Caryll, Yvan (Ivan) (real name: Félix Tilkin) more...	12 May 1861 Liège, Belgium	29 Nov. 1921 New York, USA	composer of many musical comedies
Casa, Girolamo dalla more...		d. 1601	an Italian composer, instrumentalist, and writer of the late Renaissance. He was a member of the Venetian School, and was perhaps more famous and influential as a performer than as a composer. Two books of madrigals and one book of motets survive from his compositional output, which probably was not large. More important to musicology, however, was his two-part 1584 treatise on ornamentation (Il vero modo di diminuir), which gives clear and precise examples of ornamentation as it was practiced in singing and playing motets and madrigals at the time. From this treatise it is clear that polyphonic works were usually performed unadorned, but works in a more homophonic style, and especially grand polychoral works with frequent sectional changes and prominent cadences, were embellished with ornaments, few of which appear in the actual notated music
Casablancas, Benet more...	1956		Spanish composer
Casabona, Francisco	16 Oct. 1894 São Paolo, Brazil		Brazilian-born composer
Casadesus, Francis [François] (Louis) more...	2 Dec. 1870 Paris, France	27 Jun. 1954 Paris, France	composer of operas and orchestral music
Casadesus, Robert Guillaume more...	1878 Paris, France	1940	brother of above; pianist and composer
Casadesus, (Henri) Gustav more...	1879 Paris, France	1947	viola player; composer of light operas and ballets
Casadesus, Marius Robert Max more...	1892 Paris, France		son of Francis Louis; violinist who composed operas and chamber music
Casadesus, Robert Marcel more...	1899 Paris, France	1972	son of Robert Guillaume; Robert Marcel formed a successful two-piano team with his wife Gaby and composed concertos for piano, violin and other works for orchestra and piano
Casale, Emanuele more...	14 Oct. 1974 Catania, Italy		Italian composer
Casals i Defilló, Pau Carles Salvador (known as Pablo Casals) more...	1876 Ventdrell, Catalonia, Spain		virtuoso Catalan Spanish cellist and composer (and later conductor). He made many recordings throughout his career, of solo, chamber, and orchestral music, also as conductor, but Casals is best remembered for the recording of Bach's Cello Suites he made from 1936 to 1939
Casamorata, Luigi Fernando	15 May 1807 Würzburg, Germany	24 Sep. 1881 Florence, Italy	German-born composer
Casanova, André more...	12 Oct. 1919 France		trained as a lawyer; works include a violin concerto, a work for xylophone, kettledrums and strings and La Clé d'argent) for soprano, tenor, baritone and orchestra
Casanovas, padre Narciso more...	1747	1794	Spanish composer
Casavola, Franco	13 Jul. 1891 Modugno, Bari	7 Jul. 1955 Bari, Italy	Italian composer
Casazola, Matilde more...	1942 Bolivia		Bolivian songwriter
Cascante, Jose more...		1702	Colombian composer
Cascia, Donato da more...	fl. 1350-70		Italian composer of the trecento. All of his surviving music is secular, and the largest single source is the Squarcialupi Codex. He was probably also a priest, and the picture that survives of him in the Squarciulupi Codex shows him in the robes of the Benedictine order
Cascia, Giovanni da more...	c.1270 Cascia, Umbria, Italy	c.1351 Italy	also known as Johannes de Florentia or Cascia, de, documentation pertaining to Giovanni da Cascia's life are scant. He lived and worked in Padua, then Verona and Milan, probably in the 1330s and 1340s. Giovanni's music does survive, however, in major sources from both Florence and the north (including the earliest source of Italian music from Padua); one large Florentine manuscript contains his portrait. In addition, literary evidence for Giovanni's fame abounds: chroniclers Villani and Franco Sacchetti both mention him, and Prudenzani proves his music was still in circulation some 70 years after his death. Villani even provides one intriguing anecdote about his life. Apparently when Jacopo da Bologna, Maestro Piero, and Giovanni da Cascia were all working together for the della Scala court in Verona, the trio competed in a mini-cycle of madrigals that refes to a mysterious and praiseworthy "Anna"; she later becomes a viperous menace to her admirers, but she gets the last word in Giovanni's final contribution to the madrigal group
Case, John Carol more...	27 Apr. 1923 Salisbury, Wiltshire, England	28 Dec. 2012 Thornton-le-Dale, England	English baritone and song composer
Casella, Alfredo more...	25 Jul. 1883 Turin, Italy	5 Mar. 1947 Rome, Italy	studied under Fauré anti-romantic and Italian nationalist who music eschewed 'vocal melodramatic melody' and included an oratorio The Desert Challenged, idealizing Mussolini's Ethiopian campaign
Casella, Enrique Mario more...	1 Aug. 1891 Montevideo, Uruguay	10 Dec. 1948 Tucumán, Argentina	Argentinean composer
Caserta, Antonello (Antonellus) da more...	fl. 14th-15th centuries		Italian composer, born at Caserta, near Naples. His work is found in the Codex Chantilly and the Reina MS. He set French texts in preference to his native Italian ones, but though some of his music makes use of the 'mannered' style, other pieces are simpler in idiom
Caserta, Philippus de (also Philipoctus, Filippo, Philippot, Philippottus) more...	c.1360	c.1435	Italian composer and theorist. Originally from Caserta, near Naples, he was in Avignon in the 1380s but worked in Italy. He may be the 'Philippot' who was at the Aragon court in 1420. His six pieces to French texts in the Chantilly MS show that, though an Italian, he had absorbed the essentials of the late fourteenth French school; his cacce and ballate are simpler and more characteristically Italian
Casey, Kenneth more...	10 Jan. 1899 New York, USA	10 Aug. 1965 Cornwall, New York, USA	American composer, publisher, author and child actor
Cashian, Philip more...	1963 Manchester, England		British composer
Casimiri, Raffaele (Casimiro)	3 Nov. 1880 Gualdo Tadina, nr. Perugia	15 Apr. 1943 Rome, Italy	Italian composer
Casimiro Júnior [Casimiro da Silva], Joaquim	30 May 1808 Lisbon, Portugal	28 Dec. 1862 Lisbon, Portugal	Portuguese composer
Casken, John (Arthur) more...	15 Jul. 1949 Barnsley, England		English composer
Cass, Ronald (Ronnie) more...	21 Apr. 1923 Llanelli, Wales	2 Jun. 2006 London, England	composer of musicals and the film music for three Cliff Richard movies, The Young Ones (1962), Summer Holiday (1963) and Wonderful Life (1964)
Cassadó, Gaspar more...	1897 Barcelona, Spain	1966 Madrid, Spain	'cellist, pupil of Casals, made his New York debut in 1936. He composed many works for the cello which are still performed today
Cassadó (Valls), Joaquín	30 Sep. 1867 Mataró, Barcelona, Spain	25 Mar. 1926 Barcelona, Spain	Spanish composer
Casselli, Angelica			operatic composer whose Christoforo Colombo was produced in Nice in 1865 at the Theatre Italien
Cassidy, Patrick more...	1956 Claremorris, Co. Mayo, Ireland		Irish classical composer
Casson, Miss	fl. late 18th century England		composer of songs
Cassuto, Alvaro (Leon) more...	17 Nov. 1938 Oporto, Portugal		conductor and composer; whose works include Canticum in tenebris for soloists, chorus and orchestra
Castagnoli, Giulio more...	22 Nov. 1958 Rome, Italy		Italian copmposer
Castaldi, Alfonso	23 Apr. 1874 Maddalone, Italy	6 Aug. 1942 Bucharest, Romania	Italian-born composer
Castaldi, Bellerofonte more...	1580	1649	Italian composer and one of Seicento Italy's most intriguing public figures. Bellerofonte Castaldi was as well known for his sensational adventures, controversial poetry, and stinging satires as for his impressive musical activities as a theorbo virtuoso and composer of monody. His volume of sophisticated music for theorbo, Capricci a due stromenti (1622), is fashioned to display his wide-ranging talents as a composer, graphic artist and poet
Castel, José more...	fl. 1770		Spanish composer
Castel, Robert de	fl. second half 13th century		Flemish trouvère
Castellanos, Tania more...			Cuban activist, steel-worker and composer
Castello, Dario more...	c.1590 Italy	c.1630 Italy	an Italian composer and instrumentalist from the early Baroque period, who worked and published in Venice. He was a late member of the Venetian School, and played a part in the early transformation of the instrumental canzona into the sonata
Castelloza, Dame	fl. 13th century Auvergne, France		Castelloza was a noblewoman and wife to Turc de Mairona. The subject of her poems is courtly love. Three of her poems are extant, but no music survives
Castelnau, Alamanda	1160	1223	trobairitz
Castelnau (de), Almucs	c.1140		a trobairitz who has been identified as being Almoïs, the wife of Guigue de Châteauneuf-de-Randon, the Count of Castelnau, who became the mother of Guillaume de Châteauneuf in 1219. Sje is associated with another trobairitz, Iseut de Capio, and the duet Domna nalmucs, si-us plages
Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario more...	3 Apr. 1895 Florence, Italy	15/16 Mar. 1968 Hollywood, CA, USA	pupil of Pizzetti, who settled in America after his being a Jew banned him from Italian cultural life; composer of delicate refinement whose works include 2 violin concertos, a guitar concerto, choral music, piano pieces, songs, operas and songs for the synagogue
Castelo, Custódio more...	23 Dec. 1966 Almeirim, Portugual		Portuguese guitarist, composer and producer
Castéra, René d'Avezac	3 Apr. 1873 Dax, Landes, France	17 Jul. 1932 Milan, Italy	French-born composer
Castérède, Jacques more...	10 Apr. 1926 Paris, France		French composer
Castiglioni, Niccolò more...	17 Jul. 1932 Milan, Italy	7 Sep. 1996 Italy	Italian composer, pianist and writer on music, he worked mainly in the United States. His compositions include a Symphony in C with a choral text drawn from Jonson, Dante, Shakespeare and Keats
Castil-Blaze, Francois Henri Joseph more...	1 Dec. 1784 Cavaillon, France	11 Dec. 1857 Paris, France	French critic, librettist and composer
Castille, Blanche de	1188	1252	Queen Blanche of Castile, Queen of France, composer
Castilleja, Pedro Fernandez de		1547	nearly all his works have been lost though his status may be guessed from the fact that Guerrero named him 'Master of Masters'
Castillo, Graciela more...	1940 Córdoba, Argentina		Argentinean composer, among the small group of composers that created the Experimental Music Centre (Centro de Música Experimental) at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina during the mid 1960s. She is at present Professor of Composition and Music Analysis at the same University
Castillo, Jesús	9 Oct. 1877 San Juan Ostuncalco, Guatemala	23 Apr. 1946 Quetzaltenango	Guatemalan composer
Castillo, Manuel more...	1930	2005	Spanish composer
Castillon de Saint-Victor, Marie-Alexis more...	1838	5 Mar 1853	French composer who died tragically in the early years of his career. His memory was held dear by a generation of young French composers, from Saint-Saëns and Fauré to Debussy and Ravel, who remembered him as a founding member of the new French school and the first composer of his generation to devote himself almost exclusively to writing chamber music
Castro, Francisco José de more...	fl. late 17th & early 18th century		Spanish composer
Castro, Henricus de Libero (possibly Laufenberg [Loufenberg], Heinrich) more...	c.1390 Freiburg (?), Germany	31 Mar. 1460 Strasbourg	German-Swiss poet and musician. It does not seem out of the question that Heinrich Laufenberg and Henricus de Castro were the same man, but the issue remains unresolved
Castro, Jean de more...	c.1540	c.1600	Castro was of the last generation of great Renaissance polyphonists, and has a career outline closely resembling Lassus'. He was probably the second most prominent polyphonist from the Low Countries, former headquarters of European polyphonic development, after Lassus. Later, political problems forced him to leave and take up posts in France and then Germany
Castro, Juan José more...	7 Mar. 1895 Avellaneda, Buenos Aires	5 Sep. 1968 Buenos Aires	pupil of Vincent d'Indy; works include an opera in Spanish Proserpina and the Stranger and a piano concerto
Castro de Gistau, Salvador (see Gistau, Salvador Castro de)
Castro Herrera, Ricardo	7 Feb. 1864 Durango	28 Nov. 1907 México	Mexican composer
Castro Robinson, Eve de more...	1956		New Zealand composer
Castrovillari, Daniele da [di]	fl. 1660-61		Italian composer
Castrucci, Pietro more...	1679 Rome, Italy	7 Mar. 1752 Dublin, Ireland	Italian violinist, conductor, and composer
Casulana (de Merarii), Maddalena	c. 1540 Brescia/Casola dElsa (Casula)	c.1590 Siena, Italy	the first woman to consider herself a professional composer and to have three volumes of her madrigals published by to prominent Venetian printers. Her first book was published in 1568 and she dedicates to show the world the futile error of men who believe themselves patrons of the high gifts of the intellect, which according to them cannot also be held in the same way by women
Catalani, Alfredo more...	19 Jun. 1854 Lucca, Italy	7 Aug. 1893 Milan, Italy	studied in Paris; composer of operas including La Wally, of a symphonic poem Hero and Leander and a mass
Catalani, Angelica B.	1780 Italy	1849 Italy	a dramatic soprano whose career lasted from 1795 to 1825. She later founded a school of singing. Her compositions for voice included the brilliant La Belle Molinara which was a favourite of singers of the day
Cate, Andreas Ten (see Ten Cate, Andreas)
Catel, Charles-Simon more...	10 Jun. 1773 Laigle, Orne	29 Nov. 1830 Paris, France	French composer
Catelani, Angelo	30 Nov. 1811 Guastalla	5 Sep. 1866 San Martino di Mugnano, Modena	Italian composer
Catherine, Philip more...	1942 London, UK		Jazz musician and composer
Catlett, Francisco Mora more...			Percussionist, composer, arranger, teacher and producer
Catley, Anne	1745	1789 London	composer
Cato, Diomedes more...	1560/65 nr. Treviso, Italy	after 1618 probably Sweden	an Italian-born composer and lute player, who lived and worked entirely in Poland. He is known mainly for his instrumental music. He mixed the style of the late Renaissance with the emerging Baroque, and also Italian idioms with Polish folk material; and in addition he was one of the first native-born Italian composers to visit Sweden
Catoire (or Katuar), Georgy (Lvovich) more...	27 Apr. 1861 Moscow, Russia	21 May 1926 Moscow, Russia	Russian musical theorist and composer of French heritage who was a pupil of Liadof. His compositions include orchestral and piano music and some songs
Catrufo, Gioseffo [Giuseppe]	19 Apr. 1771 Naples, Italy	19 Aug. 1851 London, England	Italian-born composer
Cattaneo, Francesco Maria more...	c.1698 Lodi (?), Italy	20 Dec. 1758 Dresden	Italian violinist and composer
Cattani, Lorenzo	before 1681 Massa Carrara	1713 Pisa, Italy	Italian composer
Cattelani, Ferruccio more...	28 Mar. 1867 Palma, Italy	16 Apr. 1932 Milan	Italian composer
Catunda, Eunice	4 Mar. 1915 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil		Brazilian composer
Caturla, Alejandro Garcia more...	7 Mar. 1906 Remedios, Cuba	12 Nov. 1940 Remedios	Cuban composer
Cauberghs, Louis	1928		Belgian percussionist and composer
Caudella, Eduard	3 Jun. 1841 Iasi	15 Apr. 1924 Iasy	Romanian composer
Caurroy, François Eustace du more...	bap. 4 Feb. 1549 Beauvais, France	7 Aug. 1609 Paris, France	was born in Gerberoy, a French composer of the late Renaissance. He was a prominent composer of both secular and sacred music at the end of the Renaissance, including musique mesurée, and he was also influential on the foundation of the French school of organ music as exemplified in the work of Jean Titelouze
Causton, Richard more...	1971 London, UK		English composer
Caustun, Thomas (also Causton, Cawston) more...	early 16th century	1569 London, England	composer of church music
Cauter, Jean van de	1 Aug. 1906 Nimy, nr. Mons, Belgium	27 Jul. 1979 Charleroi, Belgium	composer, organist and organiser
Cauter, Koen (or Coen) de more...	mid 20th century West-Vlaming, Belgium		Belgian jazz guitarist and composer
Cavalieri, Emilio de' more...	c.1550	11 Mar. 1602 Rome, Italy	Italian composer, producer, organist, diplomat, choreographer and dancer at the end of the Renaissance era. His work, along with that of other composers active in Rome, Florence and Venice, was critical in defining the beginning of the musical Baroque era. He was an influential early composer of monody, and wrote what is usually considered to be the first oratorio. He is considered the composer of the first oratorio (really a 'morality play' set to music) entitled The Representation of Soul and Body, and an early exponent of figured bass
Cavalli [Caletti, Bruni], Pier [Pietro] Francesco more...	14 Feb. 1602 Crema, Lombardy, Italy	14 Jan. 1676 Venice, Italy	organist and singer; composer of more than 40 operas, including Ormindo, Callisto, Eritrea and Erismena and church music
Cavallini, Ernesto more...	1807	1874	Italian composer and legendary clarinetist who studied at the Milan Conservatory and played in the orchestra of La Scala from 1831-1851
Cavazzoni, Girolamo (Hieronimo d'Urbino) more...	c.1525 Italy	c.1577	son of the following; composer of keyboard music
Cavazzoni, Marco Antonio more...	c.1490 Italy	c.1570	singer and organist, the latter in the service of Pope Leo X; composer of works for keyboard
Cavendish, Michael more...	c.1565 England	1628	composer of lute songs, psalms and madrigals, a contributor to the collection entitled The Triumphs of Oriana
Cavos, Catterino	30 Oct. 1775 Venice, Italy	10 May 1840 St. Peterburg, Russia	Italian-born composer
Caymmi, Dorival more...	30 Apr. 1914 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil	16 Aug. 2008 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	one of the most important songwriters in Brazilian popular music
Cazden, Norman	23 Sep. 1914 New York, USA	18 Aug. 1980 Bangor, Me., USA	American composer
Cazzati, Maurizio more...	c.1620 Lucera, nr. Reggio Emilia	1677 Mantua, Italy	Italian composer
Cearbhalláin, Toirdhealbhach Ó (see Carolan, Turlough Ó)
Ceccarelli, Luigi more...	1953 Rimini, Italy		Italian composer
Cecchini, Angelo	fl. 1635-1639		Italian composer
Cecere, Carlo more...	7 Nov. 1706 Naples, Italy	15 Feb. 1761 Naples, Italy	Italian composer
Cechini, Tomaso	1580	1644	Italian-born composer, Cechini held the position of organist in the cathedral in Split and Hvar, on the island of Hvar, in Croatia
Celanský, Ludvik Vitezslav	17 Jul. 1870 Vienna, Austria	27 Oct. 1931 Prague	Austrian-born composer
Celis, Frits more...	11 Apr. 1929 Antwerp, Belgium		Belgian conductor and composer of orchestral, chamber, choral, and vocal works
Cellier, Alexandre Eugène	17 Jun. 1883	4 Mar. 1968	French organist and composer, Cellier studied with Guilmant until 1908. He was the organist of the Temple d'Etoile in Paris
Cellier, Alfred more...	1 Dec 1844 London, England	28 Dec 1891 London, England	organist and conductor; composer of light operas, the best known being Dorothy, as well as orchestral and choral works
Celoniati (or Celoniatti, Celoniat, Celonieti, Celonietto), Ignazio	before 1740	1784 Turin, Italy	Italian composer
Cenci, Giuseppino	fl. 16th century		Roman singer and composer. His canzonetta, Fuggi, fuggi, fuggi da questo cielo, became very popular under the title, Ballo di Mantova. It probably originated in a sixteenth-century theatrical work performed at the ducal court in Mantua, because, soon after, the tune became the musical emblem of that city. There are hundreds of versions of the piece, which became so popular throughout Europe that it eventually entered the realm of folk music, wherein each country claimed it as its own. It survives today as the main theme of Vltava, the second symphonic poem in the Bohemian-born composer Bedrich Smetanas nationalistic six-part cycle Má vlast, and also as the basis of the Israeli national anthem
Cercamon more...	fl. c.1135-1145		whose real name, as well as any actual biographical datum, is unknown, was one of the earliest troubadours. He was apparently a jester of sorts, born in Gascony, who spent most of his career in the courts of William X of Aquitaine and perhaps of Eble III of Ventadorn. He was the inventor of the planh (the Provençal dirge), of the tenso (a sort of rhymed debate in which two poets write one stanza each) and perhaps of the sirventes
Ceremuga, Josef	14 Jun. 1930 Ostrava-Kuncice		Czech composer
Cererols, Joan more...	9 Sep. 1618 Martorell, Spain	27 Aug. 1680 Montserrat, Spain	Catalan musician, composer and Benedictine monk
Cerha, Friedrich Paul more...	17 Feb. 1926 Austria		violinist and conductor; compositions include Spiegel nos. 1-8 for orchestra with tape
Cernitz, Ulrich more...		1654 Hamburg, Germany	German organist and composer
Cernohorsky, Bohuslav Matej more...	christened 16 Feb. 1684 Nymburk, Bohemia	1 Jul. 1742 Graz, Austria	Czech composer
Cerny, Frantisek more...	1861	1940	Czech double bass player and composer
Certon, Pierre more...	c.1510/20 probably Melun, France	23 Feb. 1572 Paris, France	a French composer of the Renaissance. He was a representative of the generation after Josquin and Mouton, and was influential in the late development of the French chanson
Ceruti, Roque more...	c.1683 Milan, Italy	3 Dec. 1760 Lima	Italian-born composer
Cervantes (Kawanag), Ignacio more...	31 Jul. 1847 Havana, Cuba	29 Apr. 1905 Havana, Cuba	Cuban composer
Cervellini, Giovanni more...	18th century		Venetian organist and composer
Cervelló, Jordi more...	Oct. 1935 Barcelona, Spain		Spanish composer
Cerveri de Girona (born Cervera, Guillem de) more...	fl 1259-1285		Catalan troubadour who was the most prolific troubadour, leaving behind some 114 lyric poems among other works, including an ensenhamen of proverbs for his son, totaling about 130. He was a court poet to James the Conqueror and Peter the Great. He wrote pastorelas and sirventes and his overriding concern was the complexities of court life. None of his music survives
Cervetto, Giacobbe (Giacomo) Basevi	1682 Italy	1783 England	London-based cellist and composer, father of James Cervetto
Cervetto, James more...	8 Jan. 1748 London, England	5 Feb. 1837 London, England	English cellist and composer, son of Giacobbe Basevi Cervetto and Elizabeth Cervetto
Cesare, Giovanni Martino more...	c. 1590 Udine, Italy	6 Feb. 1667 Munich, Germany	Italian composer, trombonist and cornett player
Cesarini, Carlo Francesco (Carlo del Violino)	c.1664 Rome, Italy	c.1730 Rome, Italy	Italian composer
Cesarini, Franco more...	18 Apr. 1961 Bellinzona, Tessin, Switzerland		Swiss composer, director and musician
Cesaris, Johannes more...	fl. 1406-1417		French composer of the late Medieval era and early Renaissance who was active in Bourges. He was one of the composers of the transitional style between the two epochs, and was active at the Burgundian court in the early 15th century
Cesena, Giovanni Battista Biondi detto more...	fl. 1598-1609		Italian composer and organist
Cesis, Sulpitia (Sulpiza)	1577		nun, lutenist and composer, her only known works are an important collection of motets for 2-12 voices published in Modena, 1619
Cestana, Sig.	fl. 18th century		there is no available information on his life. However, a concerto for harpsichord and orchestra (harpsichord part only extant) by a certain Sig. Cestana has been found in a manuscript from the library of the Conservatory of Brescia
Cesti, Antonio [Pietro] more...	bap. 5 Aug. 1623 Arezzo, Italy	14 Oct. 1669 Venice, Italy	known today primarily as an Italian composer of the Baroque era, he was also a singer (tenor), and organist. He was "the most celebrated Italian musician of his generation"
Cesti, Remigio	c.1635 Arezzo, Italy	1710/1717 Florence, Italy	Italian composer
Cetiz, Mahir more...	1977 Ankara, Turkey		Turkish pianist and composer
Ceuleers, Willem more...	1963		Belgian composer
Cezar, Corneliu	22 Dec. 1937 Bucharest, Romania		Romanian composer
Chabrier, (Alexis-)Emmanuel more...	18 Jan. 1841 Ambert, Puy-de-Dôme, France	13 Sep. 1894 Paris, France	civil servant based in Paris, also pianist who in laer life suffered severe mental illness; composer of many popular works including España and an opera Le Roi malgré lui
Chailly, Luciano more...	1920 Italy		pupil of Hindemith; composer of chamber works, works for piano and a number of operas including The Proposal and Procedura penale
Chadwick, George Whitefield more...	13 Nov. 1854 Lowell, Mass., USA	4 Apr. 1931 Boston, Mass. USA	studied in Germany; composed 3 symphonies, 5 string quartets and numerous other works and is seen as the founder of an American school of composition
Chagas, Paulo more...	31 Aug. 1953 Salvador, Bahía, Brazil		Brazilian-born Belgian-German composer, now resident in the USA
Chagrin, Francis (né Alexander Pauker) more...	1905 Bucharest, Romania	1972 England	Romanian-born composer who adopted the name Francis Chagrin while living and working in Paris towards the end of the 1920s. In 1936, he moved to England and following the outbreak of World War II, he joined the BBC as a musical advisor and composer-in-chief for its French service, positions he held for the duration of the war. Chagrin's film career began after World War II, and included the scores for the comedy The Last Holiday (1950) and the POW drama The Colditz Story (1955). His work came to encompass television series as well as innumerable commercials
Chaikovsky, Boris (Alexandrovich)	10 Sep. 1925 Moscow, Russia		Russian composer
Chaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (see Tchaikovsky, Pyotr (Peter) Ilyich)
Chailley, Jacques	24 Mar. 1910 Paris, France		French composer
Chailly, Luciano	19 Jan. 1920 Ferrara, Italy		Italian composer
Chaistaignerais (de la), Mme			composer who was published in Paris in 1699
Chalayev, Shirvani	16 Nov. 1936 Khosrekh, Dagestan		Russian composer
Chalhoub, Claude more...	1974 Lebanon		Lebanese violinist and composer
Chalmel, Gaston more...	20th century		French composer, arranger and musical director of the brass ensemble Le Débuché de Paris which was established in Paris in 1927
Chaloff, Serge more...	24 Nov. 1923 Boston, MA, USA	16 Jul. 1957	American jazz baritone saxophonist
Chamatero di Negri, Ippolito	fl. late 16th/early 17th centuries		Italian composer
Chambers, Paul more...			composer for film and television
Chambonnières, Jacques Champion de more...	1602	c.1672 Paris, France	like his father, court harpsichordist to French kings (in his father's case, Louis XIII, in his, Louis XIV who enobled him); he was an important composer for the harpsichord
Chaminade, Cécile (Louise Stéphanie)	8 Aug. 1857 Paris, France	18 Apr. 1944 Monte Carlo, Monaco	pupil of Godard; excellent pianist; a composer of light, graceful music for the piano as well as works for the orchestra, ballet and voice
Champagne, Claude more...	1891 Canada	1965	arranger of French-Canadian folk-songs, composer of works for chamber orchestra and Altitude for chorus, ondes martenot and orchestra
Champagne, Thibaut de more...	1201 Troyes, France	8 Jul. 1253 France	French poet whose sixty-six poems are divided as follows: thirty-nine love sings, twelve jeux-partis, or debating songs, four Crusade songs, and eight serventois
Champein, Stanislas	19 Nov. 1753 Marseilles, France	19 Sep. 1830 Paris, France	French composer
Champion, Nicolas (also Nicolas Liégeois, Clais le Liégeois) more...	c. 14745 nr. Liége, Belgium	20 Sep. 1533	Franco-Flemish composer and singer of the Renaissance. He was a member of the renowned musical establishments of the Habsburg court, including the chapels of Philip I of Castile and Charles V
Chan, Ka Nin more...	3 Dec. 1949 Hong Kong		Canadian composer and teacher
Chance, John Barnes more...	20 Nov. 1932 Beaumont, Texas, USA	16 Aug. 1972 USA	American composer
Chancelier, Philippe le more...	1165 Paris, France	26 Dec. 1236 Paris, France	for a time the chancellor of Paris, a French philosopher who was one of the most prolific Medieval lyric poets and a composer
Chanier, Theodore Ward more...	29 Apr. 1902 Newport, RI, USA	27 Jul. 1961 Boston, Mass, USA	compositions include songs based on the poetry of Walter de la Mare and a violin sonata
Chapi (y Lorente), Ruperto more...	27 Mar. 1851 Villena, nr. Alicante, Spain	25 Mar. 1909 Madrid, Spain	composed zarzuelas, a symphony, orchestral works and pieces for piano
Chappell, Herbert more...	1934 Bristol, England		English composer
Chapuis, Auguste (Paul Jean-Baptiste) more...	20 Apr. 1868 Dampierre-sur-Salon, France	6 Dec. 1933 Paris, France	pupil of Massenet, Franck and Dubois; composer of operas and a fine organist
Charbonnier, Janine	1926		French composer
Charke, Richard more...	c.1709 England	c. 1738 Jamaica	English violinist, composer and singer who fled to Jamaica because of his gambling debts
Charles, Ray (born Ray Charles Robinson) more...	23 Sep. 1930 Albany, Georgia, USA	10 Jun. 2004 Greenville, Florida, USA	American composer, pianist, bandleader, one of the major influences on the sound of rhythm and blues
Charles Soler, Agustín more...	12 Jul. 1960 Manressa, Barcelona, Spain		Spanish pianist and composer
Charlotte Fredericke Wilhelmine Louise, Princess of Saxe-Meiningen	1831 Germany	1855	composed several marches and a number of songs and piano pieces
Charpentier, Gabriel more...	13 Sep. 1925 Richmond, Quebec, Canada		Canadian composer
Charpentier, Gustave more...	25 Jun. 1860 Dieuze, Lorraine, France	18 Feb. 1956 Paris, France	pupil of Massenet and composer of operas, in particular Louise and its unsuccessful sequel Julien, music for orchestra, and songs
Charpentier, Jacques more...	18 Nov. 1933 France		organist and composer, Charpentier studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Aubin and Messiaen. Most of his works are based on the Carnatic modes (he studied Hindu music in Bombay and Calcutta 1953-54). Messian's influence is apparent in his use of harmony, rhythm, organ style and theology. Principally an Organist, Charpentier has also served as Music Inspector for French Ministry of Cultural Affairs [entry provided by Douglas Wilkie]
Charpentier, Jacques-Marie more...	1766	1834	son of Jean-Jacques Carpentier, French organist and composer
Charpentier, Jean-Jacques more...	1734	1794	father of Jacques-Marie Charpentier (1766-1834), French organist and composer
Charpentier, Marc-Antoine more...	1643 Paris, France	24 Feb. 1704 Paris, France	composer of oratorios, masses and operas, Charpentier trained at the Italian school (Le Mercure wrote "he had learnt music under Carissimi"). He was a most eclectic composer, collaborating with Molière for the Malade Imaginaire, directing the Dauphin's musicians, composing theatre music for the house of Guise. A counter tenor himself, he has left us, in his Meslanges, a large corpus of sacred music, including, among masses, leçons de ténèbres and oratorios and 235 short motets
Charpentier, Raymond (Louis Marie)	14 Aug. 1880 Chartres, France	27 Dec. 1960 Paris, France	French composer
Charrosin, Frederick George more...	1910	1976	a prolific composer of mood music, with many titles to his credit. He also created numerous arrangements for various ensembles broadcasting regularly on the BBC, and his Playbox became familiar during the 1950s
Chartrain [Chartrin], Nicolas-Joseph	c.1740 Liège, Belgium	1793 Paris, France	Belgian composer
Chartres, Vidamé de more...	1145-55 France	c. April 1204	French trouvère, probably identifiable with Guillaume de Ferrières
Chasins, Abram more...	1903 New York, USA		pianist and music adviser; compositions include piano concertos, orchestral music and works for solo piano
Chatelain, Clara de (de Pontigny) more...	1807	1876	wife of Jean-Baptiste François Ernest de Chatelain (1801-76), republican author, who settled in London in 1842. Clara was a composer, translator and author. Her last work was the translation into English of the Italian libretto of Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) for the English stage
Châtelain de Coucy, Le more...	fl. 12th century		a French trouvère of the 12th century. He may have been the Guy de Couci who was castellan of Château de Coucy from 1186 to 1203. Some twenty-six songs are attributed to him, and about fifteen or sixteen are considered authentic
Chaumont, Lambert more...	1645 Liège, Belgium	23 Apr. 1712 Hoei, Belgium	Belgian priest, organist and composer
Chausson, (Amédée-)Ernest more...	20 Jan. 1855 Paris, France	10 Jun. 1899 Mantes-sur-Seine, France	trained as a lawyer; composition pupil of Massenet and Franck who composed orchestral and operatic works, Poem for violin and orchestra, as well as several fine songs, and who was killed in a bicycling accident on his estate
Chavarría, Roque Jacinto de	1688 Sucre, Bolivia	1719	South-American composer
Chavero Aramburu, Hector Roberto more...	31 Jan. 1908 Pergamino, Argentina	23 May 1992 Nimes, France	Argentine singer, songwriter, guitarist, and writer. He is considered the most important Argentine folk musician of the 20th century. He adopted the stage name Atahualpa Yupanqui
Chávez (y Ramírez), Carlos (Antonio de Padua) more...	13 Jun. 1899 Popotla, nr. Mexico City, Mexico	2 Aug. 1978 Mexico City, Mexico	folk-song collector, conductor and musical organiser; composer of a wide range of works for orchestra, including 6 symphonies, and for smaller ensembles occasionally using native Mexican instruments as in Xochipili-Macuilxochitl (named for the Mexican god of music)
Chaviano, Flores more...	10 Dec. 1946 Caibarién, Cuba		Cuban-born composer, guitarist and musical director who has lived in Spain since 1981
Chaynes, Charles more...	1925 Toulouse, France		French violinist and composer, pupil of Rivier and Milhaud at the Conservatoire de Paris
Chazal, Mrs Elisabetta (see Gambarini, Elisabetta de)
Chédeville le Cadet, Nicolas more...	1705	1782	a French Baroque composer
Chekassine (or Chekasin), Vladimir more...	1947 Yekaterinburg, Russia		Russian composer, jazz instrumentalist-performer, producer (film-director), who, from 1975, worked as a teacher at the Lithuanian Music Academy
Chelard (né Chélard), Hippolyte-André(-Jean)-Baptiste	1 Feb. 1789 Paris, France	12 Feb. 1861 Weimar, Germany	French-born composer
Chelleri (or Kelleri, Keller, Cheler), Fortunato	May 1690 Parma, Italy	11 Dec. 1757 Kassel, Germany	Italian-born composer
Chemin-Petit, Hans more...	24 Jun. 1902 Potsdam, Germany	12 Apr. 1981 Berlin, Germany	German composer
Chemirani, Bijan more...	after 1968 Paris, France		began studying zarb early on with his father Djamchid and his brother Keyvan. He also plays the daf, another Iranian percussion instrument of folk origin, used today in traditional music ensembles
Chemirani, Djamchid more...	1942 Tehran, Iran		composer and performer on the tombak. Since his arrival in Paris in 1961 he has taught at the Centre d'Etudes de Musique Orientale in the Paris Sorbonne Institut de Musicologie
Chemirani, Keyvan more...	1968 Paris, France		performer oon the zarb and accompanist
Chen, Biao (see Chen, Musheng)
Chen, Gang more...	1935 Shanghai, China		Chinese composer who is Professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
Chen, Musheng more...	1971 Zhejiang province, China		following studies at the Shanghai Conservatory, with Chen Ming-zhi (fugue), Yang li-qing (orchestration), Zhao Xiao-Sheng (composition), etc, Chen moved to Geneva in October 2000 where he undertook composition studies in the class of Eric Gaudibert at the Conservatory of Geneva. At the same time he attended in 2003/04 a master class held by Klaus Huber in Lugano. From 2004 to 2005 he lived in Paris as a composer in residence at the Cité International des Arts. Since the première of his work Ch´an (Suite) took a place at the Radio DRS2 in January 2002 in Bern, the music of Biao Chen has gained a considerable public audience. In 2002 he received an Honorary Award (the highest award given) of the Accademia Costantiniana Arti e Scienze in Rome for the composition String quartet No.1 (Yun). In 2004 Biao Chen won the first prize and the public prize of the 5th international competition of the Henri Dutilleux Prize for Les franges du rêve Ib and Prix Special from the Academie Internationale de Lutece at the Grand Concours International 2004 (music section), for his Si l'âme, c'était ce ciel... (Yun2). He was also winner of the Artistic Award of the Patino Foundation and Geneva City, which enabled him to work at the Cité international des Arts in Paris (2004-2005). Many of his works are published by the Alphonse Leduc Editions in Paris. He currently teaches at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music
Chen, Qigang more...	1951 Shanghai, China		Chinese-born composer, the son of a famous calligrapher and painter who fell out of favour during the Cultural Revolution, the son trained at the Central Conservatory of Music Beijing and later at IRCAM in Paris studying with Olivier Messiaen (1984-1988), Ivo Malec, Betsy Jolas, Claude Ballif and Claude Castérède. Chen Qigang was appointed as the Music Director of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony
Chen, Yi more...	4 Apr. 1953 Guangzhou, China		Chinese composer now based in the United States
Cheremetev, Boris (see Sheremetev (Sheremetyev), Boris Sergeyevich)
Cherepnin, Nicholas Nikolaevich more...	1873 St. Petersburg, Russia	1945 Issy-les-Moulineaux	composer and conductor, pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov. From 1905 to 1917 he was principal of the conservatory of St. Petersburg, and from 1918 to 1921 he was principal of the conservatory of Tbilisi. Escaped in 1921 and from 1925 until his death he was principal of the Rakhmaninov-Conservatory in Paris. Father of the American composer and pianist Alexander Cherepnin
Cherici (or Chierici, Clerici), Sebastiano	c.1642 Pistoia	c.1703 Pistoia	Italian composer
Chéri-Cizos, Victor more...	15 Mar. 1830 Auxerre, France	11 Nov. 1882 Paris, France	French violinist and composer of stage works, ballets, and orchestral works
Cherney, Brian more...	4 Sep. 1942 Peterborough, Ontario, Canada		Canadian composer
Chernin, Elena Kats- (see Kats-Chernin, Elena)
Chernyavsky, Yakov more...	1903		Russian composer
Chéron, André more...	1695	1766	French keyboard player and composer
Cherubini, (Maria) Luigi (Carlo Zenobio Salvatore) more...	14 Sep. 1760 Florence, Italy	15 Mar. 1842 Paris, France	lived and worked mainly in Paris; composer of works for stage, including orperas in French and in Italian, and for the church, including 2 Requiems
Cheslock, Louis	9 Sep. 1898 London, England	19 Jul. 1981 Baltimore, US	English-born composer
Chesnokov, Pavel Grigor'yevich more...	24 Oct. 1877 Voskresensk	14 Mar. 1944 Moscow, Russia	Russian composer
Chestnut, Cyrus more...	17 Jan. 1963 Baltimore, Maryland, USA		American jazz pianist, songwriter, and producer
Chevillard, Camille Paul Alexandre more...	14 Oct 1859 Paris, France	30 May 1923 Chatou, France	son of Pierre François Alexandre, son-in-law and later successor to the noted conductor Camille Lamoureux; composer of orchestral and chamber works
Chevillard, Pierre François Alexandre more...	15 Jan 1811 Antwerp, Belgium	20 Dec 1877 Paris, France	Cellist and composer. He studied with Norblin, at the Paris Conservatoire (1820-1827) before undertaking the duties of solo cellist in the orchestra of the Theatre Gymnase. In this position, which afforded him abundant leisure for pursuing the study of composition under Fetis' direction, he remained until 1831. He then became member of the orchestra of the Italian Opera. In the year 1859 he was appointed to a Professoriate at the Paris Conservatoire in Vaslin's place. Chevillard distinguished himself not only as a trained virtuoso player, but also as a musician animated by a high artistic aim, which he proved by his efforts to introduce the last String Quartets of Beethoven into Parisian musical circles, for whom these magnificent "tone poems" had until then been an unknown world. After repeated fruitless attempts, which failed on account of the insufficient intelligence of his associate players, he at length Succeeded by means of the artists Maurin, Sabattier, and Mas, who had the same aim in view, in gaining the requisite force by which he was able to carry out his ideas. At first the quartet confederates established private performances before a few connoisseurs only. By degrees, however, the number of the audience increased, so that they ventured on a public hearing, which took place in the Pleyel Saloon. During the years 1855 and 1856 the four players undertook tours in Germany in order to perform the last Beethoven Quartet at Cologne, Frankfort, Darmstadt, Leipsig, Berlin, and Hanover. Chevillard's cello compositions were a Concerto, Quinze Melodies, Morceaux developpes pour Violoncelle et Orchestre ou Piano, a Fantasia on Themes from Marino Falliero Lamenti, Adagio and Finale, and Andante et Barcarolle. Besides these he published a Cello method which bears the title Methode complete de Violoncelle, contenant la theorie de l'instrument, des gamines, legons progressives, etudes, airs varies et legons pour chaeune des positions
Chevreuille, Raymond more...	17 Nov. 1901 Watermael-Boitsfort,, Belgium	9 May 1976 Montignies-le-Tilleul, Belgium	composer of 7 symphonies, a ballet Cinderella, 6 string quartets and Prayer for Those Condemned to Death for narrator and orchestra
Chiarini, Pietro	early 18th century	c.1765 possibly Cremona, Italy	Italian composer born in Brescia
Chiaucourt, Bernard de more...	c.1780		composer of Folies d'Espagne, variés pour la flûte avec accompagnement de violon et basse (1816). Bernard de Chiacourt appears to have lived in the southern part of the Dutch Republic
Chic, Leon more...	1819	1916
Chiesa, Melchiorre more...	1716	1783
Chihara, Paul more...	1938 Seattle, Washington, USA		American composer who has written ballet music, film scores and a large quantity of both small and large scale works
Chilcott, Bob more...	9 Apr. 1955 Plymouth, UK		British choral composer, conductor, and singer, based in Oxford, England
Chilcott, Thomas more...	early 18th century	1766 England	organist; composer of harpsichord concertos and songs
Child, William more...	1606 Bristol, England	1697 Windsor, England	organist both to Charles I and, after the Commonweath and Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, to Charles II; composer mainly of church music
Childs, Barney more...	1926 USA		composer, teacher and writer; works include songs, a clarinet concerto and Welcome to Whipperginny for 9 percussionists
Childs, Billy more...	8 Mar. 1957 Los Angeles, California, USA		composer and jazz pianist
Chilese, Bastian more...	fl. 1608		Italian composer
Chin, Unsuk more...	14 Jul. 1961 Seoul, South Korea		Korean composer of classical music, based in Berlin, Germany
Chini, André more...	18 May 1945 Romengoux, France		French conductor, musician and composer now based in Sweden
Chinzer, Giovanni	c.1700 Florence, Italy	after 1749	Italian composer
Chiochiolo (or Chiocchiolo, Chioccioli), Antonio	c.1680 possibly Brescia	after 1706	Italian composer
Chion, Michel more...	1947 Creil, France		composer of experimental music. He teaches at several institutions within France and currently holds the post as Associate Professor at the Université de Paris where he is a theoritician and teacher of audio-visual relationships
Chipp, Edmund Thomas more...	25 Dec. 1823 London, UK	1886	English organist and composer
Chipp, Thomas Paul more...			a noted harpist and player of the kettle drum, he was the father of the noted English organist and composer Edmund Thomas Chipp
Chishkin, Oles' [Alexander] Semyonovich	3 Jul. 1895 Dvurechnïy Kut, nr. Kharkov		Russian composer
Chisholm, Erik more...	4 Jan. 1904 Cathcart, Lanark, Scotland	8 Jun. 1965 Rondebosch, nr. Cape Town, South Africa	pianist, educator and conductor; composer of a trilogy of short operas, symphonies, piano concertos (no. 2, The Indian, drawing on Indian cultural influences), chamber music and ballets
Chiweshe, Stella (also Stella Rambisai Chiweshe, Stella Rambisai Chiweshe Nekati, or Stella Nekati Chiweshe) more...	8 Jul. 1946 Mhondoro, Zimbabwe		Zimbabwean musician who is internationally known for her singing and playing of the mbira dzavadzimu, a traditional instrument of the Shona people of Zimbabwe
Chlubna, Osvald more...	22 Jun. 1893 Brno	30 Oct. 1971 Brno	Czech composer
Chong, Kee-Yong more...	1971 Kluang, Malaysia		Malaysian composer
Chopin, Frédéric François (originally: Fryderyk Franciszek) more...	1 Mar. 1810 Zelazowa Wola, Poland	17 Oct. 1849 Paris, France	pianist who studied in Warsaw but settled in Paris, living until 1847 with the writer Aurore Dudevant (Georges Sand); influenced by Field (Nocturnes), Bellini and the music of his birthplace (Polonaises and Mazurkas), he was a leading figure in the Romantic Movement who wrote particularly effectively for the piano, although he also wrote songs, 2 piano concertos and a sonata for 'cello and piano
Choron, Alexandre(-Étienne)	21 Oct. 1771 Caen, France	28 Jun. 1834 Paris, France	French composer
Chou, Wen-chung more...	1923 China		in 1946 he settled in U.S.A.; many of his works include Chinese references, for example In the mode of Shang for chamber orchestra
Chrétien (or Crétien, Chrestien), Jean-Baptiste	c.1728-30 possibly Paris, France	1 Dec. 1760 Versailles, France	French composer
Chrétien de Troyes more...	fl. late 12th century		a French poet and trouvère. Little is known of his life, but he seems to have been from Troyes, or at least intimately connected with it, and between 1160 and 1181 he served at the court of his patroness Countess Marie de Champagne, daughter of Eleanor of Aquitaine, perhaps as herald-at-arms (as Gaston Paris speculated). His work on Arthurian subjects represents some of the best of medieval literature
Christiansen, Henning	28 May 1932 Copenhagen, Denmark		Danish composer
Christensen, Jon more...	20 Mar. 1943 Oslo, Norway		Norwegian jazz percussionist
Christensen, Mogens more...	7 April 1955		Danish composer
Christensen, Phil more...			New York based composer who works in a wide variety of styles, including funk, blues, jazz, fusion, rock, avant garde, electronic, progressive rock, and many others
Christian, Charlie more...	29 Jul. 1916 Bonham, Texas	2 Mar. 1942 New York City, NY, USA	American swing and bebop jazz guitarist
Christianovitsj (or Christianowitch, Khristianovich), Nikolaj (Nikolai) Filipovitsj (Filipovich)	22 Jul. 1828 Kislino, Kaluga, Russia	10 Apr. 1890 Poltava, Ukraine	Russian composer and musicologist
Christine, Henri more...	1867	1941	French composer who was encouraged by the cabaret artist Mistinguett (Jeanne Bourgeois) to compose ragtimes and other syncopated songs for her
Christoff, Dimiter (Dmitri) more...	2 Oct. 1933 Sofia, Bulgaria		Bulgarian composer
Christoff, Vincent (see Crombruggen, Paul van)
Christoskov (Hristoskov), Petar more...	1917 Sofia, Bulgaria		Bulgarian composer who has been much influenced by Bulgarian folk music
Christou, Yannis (Jani) more...	8 Jan. 1926 Heliopolis, Egypt	8 Jan. 1970 Athens, Greece	studied philosophy at Cambridge University; works include an oratorio Tongues of Fire, Praxis for Twelve for piano and 11 strings, and The Strychnine Lady for viola, 5 actors, instrumental ensembles, tapes, assorted toys and a red cloth
Christov (Hristov, Khristov, Dobre (or Dobri) more...	1875 Varna, Bulgaria	1941 Sofia, Bulgaria	Bulgarian composer particularly of liturgical music
Christy, Edwin Pearce more...	28 Nov. 1815 Philadelphia, PA, USA	21 May 1862 New York City, USA	American composer, singer, actor and stage producer. He is more commonly known as E. P. Christy, and was the founder of the blackface minstrel group Christy's Minstrels
Chu, Wang-Hua more...	1941 China		Chinese-born, Australian-based pianist and composer
Chuang, Se-lien more...	1965 Taiwan		composer, pianist and media artist who has lived in Austria since 1991
Chueca, Federico more...	5 May 1846 Madrid, Spain	20 Jun 1908 Madrid, Spain	Spanish composer
Chukhadjian, Tigran	1837 Constantinople	25 Feb. 1898 Smyrna	composer
Church, Frank Martin	10 Apr. 1874 Sandusky, Ohio	28 Sep. 1959 Chevy Chase, Maryland	studied in the Oberlin Conservatory of Music from 1894-1898. After his graduation from the New England Conservatory of Music in 1901 he studied organ with Guilmant and Widor from 1903-1905. He made career as organist, teacher and composer. He was director of music at Columbia College, Baylor University at Waco, Texas, Greensboro College and Athens College in Alabama
Church, John more...	1675 England	1741	author of Introduction to Psalmody; composer of fine church music and songs in the style of Henry Purcell
Churchill, Frank		14 May 1942	composer who wrote Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf
Chvála, Emanuel	1 Jan. 1851 Prague	28 Oct. 1924 Prague	Czech composer
Chylinski, Andrzej more...	fl. 1625-1635		Polish singer and composer of the Baroque period. In 1630 he left for Italy, to work as a musician and priest in the Basilica di San Antonio in Padova, becoming maestro di cappella in 1632. He returned to Poland in 1635