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Name	Born	Died	Information
Ciaia (or Ciaja), Alessandro della more...	fl. 1650-1666		Sienese nobleman (contemporary with Azzolinos grandfather) and accademico intronato who studied with Desiderio Pecci, was a composer, singer and performer on the monochord, lute and theorbo. He published a set of five-voice madrigals with continuo as his op.1 (Venice, 1636), a set of Lamentationi sagre e motetti for solo voice and continuo as op.2 (Venice, 1650), and Sacri modulatus for two to nine voices as op.3 (Bologna, 1666)
Ciaia (or Ciaja), Azzolino Bernardino della more...	21 May 1671 Siena, Italy	15 Jan. 1755 Pisa, Italy	Italian organist and composer
Ciampi, Francesco more...	c.1690 possibly Massa or Pisa	after 1764	Italian composer
Ciampi, Vincenzo (Legrenzio)	c.1719 Piacenza	30 Mar. 1762 Venice, Italy	Italian composer, and a pupil of Durante. He was resident in London 1748-60, and from then to his death was maestro di cappella at the Ospizio degli Incurabili in Venice
Ciampolini, Daniel more...	1961 France		joined the Conservatoire de Nice (France) at the age of nine, while at the same time, studying drums and jazz with his father, with whom he later played in a famous Parisian cabaret. He won first prize for percussion at the Conservatoire de Paris, studied harmony and in 1980 became part of the Ensemble Intercontemporain. In 1986, during his stay at the Berkeley College of Music in Boston, he mastered the vibraphone. In his repertoire he includes the Pieces for Timpani by Elliott Carter, Losing Touch (vibraphone solo) by Edmund Campion, Piano Phase by Steve Reich and Psappha by Iannis Xenakis, of which he has created a spatialised, electronic version
Cianchettina, Veronica Dussek	1779	1853	a fine Bohemian pianist who wrote many pieces. Her five year old son, Pio, toured as a prodigy
Ciardi, Cesare more...	1818 Florence, Italy	1877 Strel'na	Italian flautist and composer
Cibbini, Katherine	1790	1858	daughter of composer Kozeluch, she published many of her works under her maiden name
Cicognini, Alessandro more...	25 Jan. 1906 Pescara, Italy	9 Nov. 1995 Rome, Italy;	Italian composer who scored numerous neorealist films of the late 1940s and the 1950s but he is especially known for providing music for some of Vittorio DeSica's most famous films
Ciconia, Johannes more...	c. 1335/c.1370	10 Jun/12 Jul. 1412 Padua, Italy	Flemish composer and priest who was born in Liège. There is some confusion between father and son who both bear the same name. The Johannes Ciconia who worked in Italy from 1358 to 1367 was probably the composer's father (who would date from c.1335). In which case, it was Johannes Ciconia the son (who dates from c.1370) who composed both sacred and secular music and wrote several musical treatises
Cifra, Antonio more...	1584 Terracina	2 Oct. 1629 Loreto, Italy	Italian composer of the Roman School of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was one of the significant transitional figures between the Renaissance and Baroque styles, and produced music in both idioms
Ciglic, Zvonimir more...	20 Feb. 1921 Ljubljana, Slovenia	21 Jan. 2006 Ljubljana, Slovenia	Slovenian composer, teacher and conductor
Cigrang, Edmond more...	1922 Luxembourg		singing teacher and composer from Luxembourg
Cikker, Ján more...	29 Jul. 1911 Banská Bystrica	21 Dec. 1989 Bratislava	composer of operas, including Resurrection and Mr. Scrooge, as well as orchestral, chamber and piano works
Cilea, Francesco more...	26 Jul. 1866 Palmi, Italy	20 Nov. 1950 Savona, Italy	composer mainly of operas, including Adrienne Lecouvreur, sonatas for 'cello and piano and solos for piano
Cima, (Giovanni) Andrea more...	c. 1580 Milan, Italy	after 1627	Italian composer of the early Baroque period, brother of Giovanni Paolo Cima
Cima, Giovanni Paolo more...	c.1570 Milan, Italy	1622 Milan, Italy	an Italian composer and organist in the early Baroque era. He was a contemporary of the composers Claudio Monteverdi, Girolamo Frescobaldi, and Alessandro Stradella. He is not be confused with the artist Giovanni Battista Cima, called Cima da Conegliano
Cimador (or Cimadoro), Giambattista [Giovanni Battista; J. B.]	1761 Venice, Italy	27 Feb. 1805 Bath, England	Italian composer
Cimarosa, Domenico more...	17 Dec. 1749 Aversa, Italy	11 Jan. 1801 Venice, Italy	pupil of Sacchini and Piccinni; sometime called the 'Italian Mozart', he held revolutionary opinions which led to his arrest, imprisonment, a death sentence from which he was reprieved, and finally banishment from Naples; composer of church music and more than 60 operas. Leopold II commissioned from him a comic opera. The result was the great comic opera Il Matrimonio Segreto, which premiered in January 1792, roughly six weeks after Mozart's death. It remains one of the world's best known and popular comic operas
Cimello, (Giovanni) Tomaso more...	c.1510	after 1579	Italian composer and poet, who taught music in Naples, worked in Rome and at the seminary of Bénévent (1571-1573)
Cinelu, Mino more...	1957 Saint-Cloud, Paris, France		French composer, programmer and producer who is most widely known as a percussionist
Cioffi, Giuseppe more...	3 Nov. 1901 Naples, Italy	1976	Neapolitan composer
Cioffi, Luigi more...			Neapolitan composer, son of Giuseppe Cioffi
Cipolla, Francesco	fl. 1785/6		Italian composer
Cipra, Milo more...	13 Oct. 1906 Vares, Bosnia and Herzegovina	9 Jul. 1985 Zagreb, Croatia	Croatian composer
Cipriani, Alessandro more...			Italian composer
Cirillo (or Cerilli), Francesco	4 Feb. 1623 Grumo Nevano, Aversa, nr. Naples	after 1677	Italian composer
Cisternino, Nicola more...	1957 San Giovanni Rotando, Foggia, Italy		Italian composer
Cittadini, Santiago more...	fl. 19th/20th Cent)		composer and lyricist of the popular Italian song Ninna Nanna (Sleep, darling, sleep) made popular by Beniamino Gigli [entry corrected by Ken Wilson]
Ciurlionis, Mikalojus Konstantinas (originally Èiurlionis, Mikalojus Konstantinas) more...	22 Sep. 1875 Old Varena, Lithuenia	10 Apr. 1911 Pustelnik, nr Warsaw, Poland	Lithuanian composer and painter. During his short life he composed about 250 pieces of music and created about 300 paintings. The majority of his paintings are housed in the M. K. Ciurlionis National Museum of Art, in Kaunas, Lithuania. His works have had a profound influence on modern Lithuanian culture [entry prompted by Timas Pelanis]
Cividale, Antonio da (also Antonius de Civitate Austrie) more...	fl. 1392-1421 probably from Cividale del Friuli, Italy		Italian composer of the early quattrocento, at the end of the musical medieval era and beginning of the Renaissance. He is one of a few Italian composers of the early 15th century whose works have survived; they are transitional between the trecento and the early Renaissance styles
Civitareale, Walter more...	2 Aug. 1954 Differdange, Luxembourg		pianist and composer from Luxembourg
Civitate Austrie, Antonius de (see Cividale, Antonio da)
Claesen, Ludo more...	22 Mar. 1956 Genk, Belgium		Belgian composer
Claeys, Wim more...			Belgian accordionist and composer
Claflin, (Alan) Avery more...	21 Jun. 1898 Keene, N.H., USA	9 Jun. 1979 Greenwich, Conn, USA	businessman; composer of operas, orchestral and choral music and chamber music
Clagget (or Claggett, Claggitt), Walter	c.1741 possibly Waterford	1798	Irish composer
Clair, Leslie (pseudonym for Leslie Judah Solley)	1905	1968	barrister and one time a Member of Parliament for the Thurrock constituency in Essex, as Leslie Clair he was also known in music circles, and in 1957 worked for a while with Barry Gray on the TV series The Adventures of Twizzle composing the theme which, appropriately, was known as The Twizzle Song (the lyrics were provided by Roberta Lee). The London publishers Chappell & Co. recorded Clairs best-known piece Dance of the Blue Marionettes for their Recorded Music Library in 1947 with Sidney Torch conducting the Queens Hall Light Orchestra
Clan, Carlo Maria	1669	1745
Clapisson, [Antonin] (Antoine-)Louis	15 Sep. 1808 Naples, Italy	19 Mar. 1866 Paris, France	French violinist and composer of comic operas
Clapp, Philip Greeley	4 Aug. 1888 Boston, USA	9 Apr. 1954 Iowa City, USA	American composer
Clapperton, James more...	1968 Aberdeen, Scotland		Scottish pianist and composer who is Artistic Director of the Music Factory festival in Norway and was the composer in residence at the Grigakadamiet Institutt for Musikk from 1998 to 2000
Clari, Giovanni Carlo Maria more...	27 Sep. 1677 Pisa	16 May 1754 Pisa	Italian composer
Claribel (really Mrs Barnard) more...	England, 1830	Dover, 1869	a composer of a great quantity of gentle, melodic songs, that were popular in their day
Clark, Frederick Scotson more...	London, 1840	London, 1883	clergyman, schoolmaster and organist; composer of many popular works for organ
Clark, Patrick David more...	1967		Clark's education includes a Master's degree in composition from the University of Arizona and a Doctor of Musical Arts from Rice University, as well as fellowships at Tanglewood, the Conductor's Institute of South Carolina (1995), and the Summer Course in Composition, directed by Ladislav Kubic in Prague, Czech-Republic (1994). From 1998 to 2001, Clark studied with Louis Andriessen and Martijn Padding in Holland. Theatrical works have been the main focus of Clark's recent projects, including recent works based on Shakespeare, Kerouac, Herman Gorter and Louis Aragon. The Netherlands Ballet Orkest performed Clark's work for symphonic orchestra, Wet Crimson on Chiricahua in September 2000.
Clark, Sonny more...	21 Jul. 1931 Herminie, Pennsylvania, USA	13 Jan. 1963 New York, USA	American hard bop pianist. An underappreciated jazz artist during his time, Clark's work has become much more widely known after his death. Strongly influenced by Bud Powell, Clark is known for his unique touch, sense of melody and complex, hard-swinging style.
Clark, Thomas more...	bap. 1775	1859	English composer of psalmody
Clarke, Douglas more...	1893 England	1962 Warwick, England	conductor; compositions include works for orchestra
Clarke, Henry Leland more...	9 Mar. 1907 Dover, N.H., USA		American composer and scholar
Clarke, James more...	15 Oct. 1957 London, England		English composer who has been a visiting professor at universities in various countries, including Azerbaijan, where he was appointed an honorary Professor of Music at the Baku Music Academy; Russia, at the Moscow Conservatoire, and Sweden, at the University of Malmö. He has led composition courses at the Time of Music Festival in Viitasaari, Finland, where he was featured composer in 2000, and at the Festival junger Künstler Bayreuth. He was a featured composer at the 2004 Ars Musica festival in Brussels, where ten works were performed in the largest survey of Clarkes music to date
Clarke, James Peyton more...	1807/8 Ebinburgh, Scotland	1877 Canada	Canadian composer who was the first person to receive a bachelor's degree in music in North America. He is best known for his work Lays of the Maple Leaf (1853)
Clarke, Jane	early 19th century England		excellent organist and published a setting of psalms in 1818
Clarke, Jeremiah more...	c. 1674 London, England	1 Dec. 1707 England	pupil of Blow; organist and composer of music for harpsichord, including The Prince of Denmark's March which is known erroneously as 'Purcell's Trumpet Voluntary', for the church and for the theatre; shot himself after a disappointment in love
Clarke, Dr. John more...	1770	1836	organist and composer of many glees and an early arranger of Handel's oratorios. In 1810 he added the name Whitfield to his paternal name of Clarke
Clarke, Nigel more...	1960		began his musical career as trumpeter in the British military, but a developing interest in Composition stimulated by the New Polish School of composers took him to the Royal Academy of Music to study with Paul Patterson (1982-6). Here his striking originality and capacity for hard work were recognised with several significant awards including the Parker Manson Prize (adjudicated by Sir Michael Tippett) and the Queens Commendation for Excellence, the Royal Academy of Musics highest distinction
Clarke, Rebecca Helferich (Friskin) more...	27 Aug 1886 Harrow	13 Oct 1979 New York, USA	an English classical composer and violist best known for her chamber music featuring the viola. She is considered one of the most important British composers in the interwar period between World War I and World War II; she has also been described as the most distinguished British female composer of her generation. Though she wrote little, due in part to her ideas about the role of a female composer, her work was recognized for its compositional skill. Most of Clarke's works have yet to be published (or have only recently been published), and her work was largely forgotten after she stopped composing. Scholarship and interest in her work revived when she reached her ninetieth birthday in 1976
Clarke, Rhona more...	12 Jan. 1958 Dublin, Ireland		Irish composer
Clarke-Whitfield, John more...	1770 Gloucester	1836 Hereford	organist and composer of popular church music
Clarus, Max	31 Mar. 1852 Mühlberg	6 Dec. 1916 Braunschweig	German composer
Clavé, (José) Anselmo	21 Apr. 1824 Barcelona	24 Feb. 1874 Barcelona	Spanish composer
Clavel, Joseph more...	20 Dec. 1800 Nantes, France	31 Aug. 1852 Sillé-le-Guillaume, France	French violinist and composer of chamber music
Clay, Frédéric (Emes) more...	3 Aug 1838 Paris, France	24 Nov 1889 Great Marlow, Bucks	English composer known principally for his music written for the stage. He was born in Paris, the son of James Clay, a Member of Parliament, who was celebrated as a player of whist and the author of a treatise on that subject. The son was a composer of operas, cantatas and popular songs including I'll sing thee songs of Araby
Clay, Paul B. (also Paulo Clay) more...			sound designer, editor and composer
Clayton, Buck (born Wilbur Dorsey Clayton) more...	12 Nov. 1911 Parsons, Kansas, USA	8 Dec. 1991 New York, USA	American jazz trumpet player. Clayton worked closely with Li Jinhui, father of Chinese popular music in Shanghai which was to change the course of music history in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan
Clayton, Jay more...	28 Oct. 1941 Youngstown, Ohio, USA		avant-garde vocalist, educator and composer
Clayton jnr., John more...			double-bassist, composer and arranger in both the jazz and classical fields
Clayton, Thomas	c.1660-70	c.1720-30	English composer
Clearfield, Andrea more...	1960		a native of Philadelphia, she has composed for virtually every medium and her works are frequently performed internationally. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Muhlenberg College, a Master of Music in Piano from The University of the Arts, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition from Temple University. Since 1986, Dr. Clearfield has served on the faculty of The University of the Arts where she teaches Composition and Interarts, and the Sarasota Music Festival. She is the host and producer of the Philadelphia SALON Concert Series, featuring contemporary, classical, jazz, electronic and world music, founded in 1987
Cleary, Siobhán more...	1970 Dublin, Ireland		Irish composer
Cleemput, Werner van	14 Jul. 1930 Saint-Nicolas, Flandre Orientale		Belgian composer
Clemens non Papa (Jacques or Jacob Clement) more...	c. 1510/1515	1555/56	Flemish composer of masses, motets and other sacred works; his sobriquet may be explained by the need to distinguish him from Pope Celement VIII or from the Flemish poet, Jacobus Papa, who like the composer lived in Ypres
Clément, Charles-François	c.1720 Provence	after 1782 possibly Paris	French composer
Clément, (Jacques) Félix (Alfred)	13 Jan. 1822 Paris, France	23 Jan. 1885 Paris, France	French composer
Clementi, Aldo more...	Italy, 1925		composer of concerto for 2 pianos and wind orchestra and of chamber music works, including Ideograms and Informels
Clementi, Muzio [Mutius Philippus Vincentius Franciscus Xaverius] more...	24 Jan 1752 Rome, Italy	10 Mar 1832 Evesham, Worcs., UK	prodigal pianist who was brought to England by the English Member of Parliament, Peter Beckford; the author of piano studies entitled Gradus ad Parnassum, successful piano manufacturer based in London; the first composer to develop a distinct, often descriptive, pianistic style of composition and piano sonatas, of which he wrote more than 60, directly influenced Beethoven. He taught J. B. Cramer, John Fields and Johann Hummel. In 1781 he appeared in contest with Mozart before Joseph II; general agreement being that Mozart probably "won". Mozart considered that Clementi possessed not the slightest taste or feeling in playing, being merely a mechanicus. Clementi commenting on Mozarts playing said, "Never before had I heard anyone play with such grace and spirit"
Clementi, Orazio more...	c. 1637 Padua, Italy	1 Aug. 1708 probably Vienna, Austria	a theorboist, he was a member of the court orchestra in Vienna. He also composed pieces for the guitar
Cleobury, Stephen more...	31 Dec. 1948 England		English organist, conductor, composer and arranger
Clérambault, Louis Nicolas more...	19 Dec. 1676 Paris, France	26 Oct. 1749 Paris, France	organist and composer of music for keyboard; also composed four books of fine cantatas
Clerck, Patrick de more...	1958 ostende, Belgium		Belgian composer
Clérice, Justin	16 Oct. 1863 Buenos Aires	9 Sep. 1908 Toulouse, France	Argentian-born composer
Clérisse, Robert more...	1899	1973	French composer and saxophonist, founder of the Marcel Mule saxophone quartet
Clerk of Penicuik, Sir John more...	1676	4 Oct. 1755 Penicuik House, Scotland	student of Corelli, he appears to have given up composition altogether by the time he reached 30, for a highly successful law career in his native Scotland: eventually he was one of the signatories to the Treaty of Union with England, although his music shows him to have been a keen Scots patriot. His work was never published, and as far as we know the music survives only in his own papers, which are lodged in the Scottish Record Office in Edinburgh
Clifford, Julian more...	1877 London, UK	1921 London, UK	pianist, conductor and composer of works for orchestra, piano and voice
Clifford, Hubert John more...	1904 Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia	1959 Singapore	conductor and composer including light music under various pseudonyms. Clifford was Director of Music for film director Sir Alexander Korda. As such he wrote the accompaniment of the Casanova Night Club sequence in The Third Man, published separately as The Casanova Melody. For this Clifford used his pseudonym Michael Sarsfield. He composed a symphony in 1940. Its turbulent first movement is very much in the tradition of Walton's First, and the composer was not unhappy at it being associated with the wartime spirit. The symphony was started in January 1938 and completed in August 1940 during one of the first air raids on London. Commentators have remarked on its "unusual fluency and power", and certainly the first movement at least has the striking immediacy of a film score, and in the last movement the driving energy is crowned triumphantly by the main theme of the opening movement returning on trumpets in their highest register. His piece Atomic Energy, is scored for bass (alto) flute, heckelphone, E flat clarinet and vibraphone as well as the more usual orchestral instruments. The Serenade for Strings, in four movements, is a work of substance; Five Nursery Tunes was broadcast for the first time by the BBC Symphony Orchestra in May 1941. He wrote for other British films, notably Bachelor of Hearts (1958), The Dark Man (1950), House of Secrets (1956), The One That Got Away (1957) and Hunted (1952). He provided attractive contributions to the light orchestral suite in the Cowes Suite and the Kentish Suite, whose five movements are Dover, Canterbury (a prelude on Orlando Gibbons hymn tune of that name), Pastoral and Folk Song, Swift Nicks of Gads Hill and Greenwich, subtitled Pageant of the River. He penned Four Sketches from As You Like It for strings and a couple of brass fanfares, one for Australia Day, the other derived from the Cowes Suite. Clifford was a professor at the RAM after leaving the BBC in 1944
Cliquet Pleyel, Henri more...	12 Mar. 1894 Paris, France	5 Sep. 1963 Paris, France	French composer
Cloërec, René more...	31 May 1911 Paris, France	13 Dec. 1995	French composer noted for his film scores [entry corrected by W. Pin]
Clokey, Joseph Waddell	28 Aug. 1890 New Albany, Ind., USA	14 Sep. 1950 Covina, Calif., USA	American composer
Clozier, Christian more...	25 Aug. 1945 Compiègne, France		co-founder and director of the Interational Institute of Electroacoustic Music of Bourges. He created the Gmebaphone for the diffusion of electroacoustic sound in concert and the Gmebogosse for amateur musicians, produced numerous musical shows at prestigious historical sites and is responsible for the founding of the International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music (CIME)
Clucas, Humphrey more...	1941		English composer particularly of choral, mostly liturgical, music and music for orgen
Clutsam, George Howard more...	26 Sep. 1866 Sydney N.S.W., Australia	17 Nov. 1951 London, England	pianist/accompanist and critic who settled in England in 1899 and composed a symphony, songs and operettas, one, Lilac Time, infamously 'editing' the music of Schubert
Coates, Albert Henry	23 Apr. 1882 St. Petersburg, Russia	11 Dec. 1953 Cape Town, South Africa	Russian-born conductor who studied in Leipzig and who composed operas, Samuel Pepys, Pickwick and Tafelberg se Kleed
Coates, Eric more...	27 Aug. 1886 Hucknall, Notts., England	21 Dec. 1957 Chichester, England	viola player; composer of songs and works for orchestra generally light in character, for example The Three Bears and The Three Elizabeths
Coates, Gloria more...	10 Oct. 1938 Wisconsin, USA		American composer who has composed works for orchestra (including 14 symphonies), vocal music with piano and orchestral accompaniment, numerous chamber music works for two to nine instruments (including 8 string quartets), solo instrumental pieces, choral works, electronic, and music for the theatre
Cobb, Gerard Francis more...	1838 Nettlestead, England	1904 Cambridge, England	university teacher and prolific composer of church music, songs, part-songs, chamber music and pieces for piano
Cobbold, William	1560 Norwich, England	7 Nov. 1639 Beccles, Suffolk	English organist and composer
Cocchi, Gioacchino	c.1720 possibly Naples, Italy	after 1788 probably Venice	Italian composer
Coccia, Carlo more...	14 Apr. 1782 Naples, Italy	13 Apr. 1873 Naples, Italy	Italian opera composer
Coccia, Maria Rosa	4 Jan. 1759 Rome, Italy	Nov. 1833	a composer from the age of fourteen, at the age of fifteen she received the title of maestra di cappella from the Accademia Filarmonia of Bologna. Her works were successful during her lifetime
Cochereau, Pierre more...	9 Jul. 1924 St. Mandre, France	6 Mar. 1984 Lyons, France	French organist and composer
Cockshott, Gerald Wilfred	14 Nov. 1915 Bristol, England	3 Feb. 1979 London, England	English composer
Coco, Mlle	fl. 1709		composer who was published in Paris in 1709
Cocq, François le more...	c.1685	1729	Le Cocq taught the guitar to the wife of the Elector of Bavaria and is reported to have played to the sister of the Archduke Charles of Austria, later emperor Charles VI. In 1729 Le Cocq had retired from his position as musician of the Chapel Royal in Brussels
Codax, Martin more...	early 13th century		the identity of Martin Codax is essentially synonymous with his seven surviving Cantigas de Amigo, which have been dated somewhat precariously to c.1230
Coelho, Manuel Rodrigues more...	c. 1555 Portugal	after 1633	Portuguese organist and composer who published Flores de musica (1620), one of only two volumes of Iberian keyboard music to appear in print during the entire 17th century
Coelho, Ruy	2 Mar. 1892 Alcaçer do Sal	5 May 1986 Lisbon, Portugal	Portuguese composer
Coen, Massimo more...	1933 Rome, Italy		Italian violinist and composer
Coenen, Johannes Meinhardus	1824 The Hague, The Netherlands	1899 Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Dutch composer
Coenen, Willem	17 Nov. 1837 Rotterdam, The Netherlands	18 Mar. 1918 Lugano, Italy	Dutch pianist and composer who trained in Holland before settling in London in 1862 where he was a well-known piano teacher
Coerne, Louis Adolph (Adolphe)	27 Feb. 1870 Newark, N.J., USA	11 Sep. 1922 Boston, Mass., USA	composer of music in a variety of forms including an opera Zenobia
Coferati, Matteo	7 Jul. 1638	16 Jan. 1703 Florence, Italy	singer, composer and chaplain at Florence cathedral for nearly 45 years
Cogan (or Coogan), Philip	c. 1748 Cork, Ireland	3 Feb. 1833 Dublin, Ireland	arguably the most important and it seems the most prolifc composer working in Dublin at the close of the 18th century. He became a boy chorister in St. Fin Barre's Cathedral there under William Smith. Later he became an adult member of that choir before deciding to go to Dublin in 1772 (at the age of 24). He was appointed as a stipendiary in the choir of Christ Church Cathedral on his arrival in Dublin. It seems he didnt stay long in the post soon resigning to become organist of John's Church in 1778. Two years, later on 14th November 1780 he was appointed Organist of St. Patrick's Cathedral. Besides being a notable performer on pianoforte, harpsichord and organ, and a busy teacher, Philip Cogan also managed to be a prolific composer. His published output runs to two piano concertos, something like twenty piano sonatas, five sonatas for Violin and Piano, some separate piano pieces (variations, rondos and the like) and a number of songs, including one for voice, two violins and figured bass. Most of his works are extant but some of the piano sonatas seem to have been lost. Besides these published works, there is some church music in the manuscript music library of Christ Church Cathedral
Cohan, George Michael more...	4 Jul. 1878 Providence, RI, USA	5 Nov. 1942 New York City, NY, USA	actor, composer, lyricist, librettist, playwright, producer and director
Cohen, Jules-Émile-David	2 Nov. 1835 Marseilles	13 Jan. 1901 Paris, France	French composer
Cohen, Leonard more...	21 Sep. 1934 Montreal, Quebec, Canada		poet and songwriter whose first book of poetry was Let Us Compare Mythologies... (1956). A graduate of McGill University, Cohen went on to write several novels, including Beautiful Losers (1967). Also a singer and songwriter, Cohen released the first of several albums including Songs of Leonard Cohen in 1967. He has composed scores for such films as Bird on a Wire (1990) and Love, etc (1996). The 1997 documentary film, Leonard Cohen, Spring 1996 follows his daily life as a poet and singer
Cohen, Léonce	12 Feb. 1829 Paris, France	c. 1884	French violinist and composer of works for violin, light opera, etc.
Cohn, Arthur	6 Nov. 1910 USA	1998 USA	music publishing executive, violinist, composer, conductor and writer whose compositions include 6 string quartets and Quotations in percussion for 103 instruments and 6 players
Cohn, James (Myron)	12 Feb. 1928 Newark, N.J., USA		American composer
Coignet, Horace	13 May 1735 Lyon	29 Aug. 1821 Lyon	French composer
Coincy, Gautier de	1177	1236	Gauthier de Coincy's monumental verse narrative Les Miracles de Nostre-Dame, brings to life a fascinating page of medieval history, shedding light on the profound, and sometimes mysterious, connections between music and piety in thirteenth-century Europe. This trouvère monk, as he was known, created the earliest significant collection of vernacular Marian songs. While trouvère poetry and music are profoundly secular, even earthy, Coincy's songs dedicated to the Virgin Mary are not in any way profane, for the Marian cult in the Middle Ages sprang from the wellsprings of popular piety, which the Church eventually accepted to a certain degree
Cokken, Jean François Barthélemy (see Kocken, Jean François Barthélemy)
Cola, Alberto more...	20th century		Italian composer
Cola, Felix de	17 Dec. 1906 Cape Town, South Africa	25 Apr. 1983 Los Angeles, USA	composer, author and entertainer who emigrated from South Africa to the United States in 1943 and is best remember for being Harpo Marx's piano teacher
Colbran, Isabella Angela	1785 Spain	1845 Bologna, Italy	singer and first wife of Rossini who wrote many roles in his early operas for her. She too composed for voice
Cole, Allen	Nova Scotia, Canada		one of Canadas most celebrated musical theatre artists. Working variously as composer, musical director, lyricist and/or book writer, his musicals, including, Hush, The Crimson Veil and Anything That Moves have won numerous awards. Allen also spent three years as artistic director of the Caravan Farm Theatre in British Colombia
Cole, Bruce more...	1947 England		pupil of Birtwistle who is also a painter and a poet. His compositions include semi-theatrical works and Fenestrae Sanctae for chamber orchestra
Cole, Hugo	6 Jul. 1917 England	2 Mar. 1995 England	music critic and composer, a pupil of Nadia Boulanger. His compositions include operas for children, a horn concerto and an oboe quartet
Cole, Jonathan more...	1970 Herefordshire, England		English composer
Cole, Jonathan D. more...	1957 USA	1999 Omaha, Nebraska	American composer, conductor, musical director and pianist
Cole, Nat King [Nathaniel Adams Coles] more...	17 Mar. 1919 Montgomery, AL, USA	15 Feb. 1965 Los Angeles, CA, USA	jazz pianist, singer and composer
Cole, Rossetter Gleason	5 Feb. 1866 Clyde, Mich., USA	18 May 1952 Lake Bluff, Ill., USA	American composer
Colebault, Jacques (or Jacquet of Mantua) more...	1483 Vitré, France	2 Oct. 1559 Mantua, Italy	a French composer of the Renaissance, who spent almost his entire life in Italy. He was an extremely influential member of the generation between Josquin and Palestrina, and well represents the transitional polyphonic style between those two composers
Coleman, Anthony	1955 New York City, NY, USA		composer-keyboardist Anthony Coleman studied with the late Jaki Byard and has since performed and recorded with his own projects (Sephardic Tinge piano trio, Selfhaters Orchestra, the Lobster and Friend duo with saxophonist Roy Nathanson) and with numerous other ensembles (Marc Ribot's Los Cubanos Postizos, and duos with singer Shelley Hirsch as well as with Elliott Sharp). He has also produced recordings for Marc Ribot, Basya Schecter and Pharoah's Daughter
Coleman, Cy [born Seymour Kaufman] more...	14 Jun 1929 New York, USA	18 Nov. 2004 New York, USA	composer best known for his Broadway musicals, such as Sweet Charity and Barnum, but he was also a successful jazz pianist and composer of such popular hits as Frank Sinatra's Witchcraft and Barbra Streisand's When in Rome. Peggy Lee, Nat "King" Cole, Jack Jones and Tony Bennett also recorded his songs
Coleman, Ornette more...	19 Mar. 1930 Fort Worth, TX, USA		tenor jazz saxophonist
Coleman, Steve more...	second half 20th century USA		alto saxophonist, composer and producer
Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel more...	15 Aug. 1875 Croydon, London, England	1 Sep. 1912 Croydon, London, England	a child prodigy on the violin, born of an English woman and a West-African medical man, who studied under Stanford and was encouraged by Elgar; composed a number of works for choir and orchestra, Hiawatha's Wedding Feast, The Death of Minnehaha and Hiawatha's Departure, incidental music for the stage, chamber works and pieces for solo piano
Coleridge-Taylor, Avril (Gwendolen)	8 Mar. 1903 South Norwood, London, England	21 Dec. 1998 Seaford, England	the daughter of Afro-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, she was a pianist, conductor, and composer. She was the first woman to conduct the band of the Royal Marines, and she also conducted major orchestras, including the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra. She wrote more than ninety compositons
Coles, Cecil more...	7 Oct. 1888 Kirkudbright, Scotland	26th April 1918 near the Somme, France	studied composition at Edinburgh University, the London College of Music, and Morley College where he befriended Gustav Holst. He furthered his studies in Stuttgart, and was later appointed assistant conductor at the Stuttgart Royal Opera House. Forced to return to England before the outbreak of the First World War, he signed up for overseas service, and in 1915 was sent to the trenches in France
Coletti, Agostino Bonaventura	c.1675 Lucca	1752 Venice	Italian composer
Colgrass, Michael Charles	22 Apr. 1932 Chicago, USA		percussionist and composer, who has composed many works for percussion and Virgil's Dream for 4 actor-singers and 4 mime-musicians
Colizzi, Giovanni Andrea [Kauchlitz, Johann Andreas]	1742 Grudim, Bohemia	1808 The Netherlands	Bohemian-born organist and composer, author of Dissertatio de Sono (1774) a treatise on acoustics
Colizzi, Giuseppe more...	1925 Rome, Italy	23 Aug. 1978 Rome Italy	film production manager, director and composer
Colla, Giuseppe	4 Aug. 1731 Parma	16 Mar. 1806 Parma	Italian composer
Collan, Karl	3 Mar. 1828	12 Sep. 1871	the most important mid-19th century Finnish composer of vocal music. Like many of his contemporaries, he was an amateur and an autodidact as a composer, but his solo songs are inspired works of a wholly professional standard. The literary genre of Lied was a natural choice for him, since he was linguist and an expert on literature. He translated the Kalevala into Swedish in 186468 and collected folk tunes. Collan died of cholera
Collasse (or Colasse), Pascal [Paschal Pasquier]	bap. 22 Jan. 1649 Rheims, France	17 Jul. 1709 Versailles, France	French composer
Collet, Henri	5 Nov. 1885 Paris, France	23 Nov. 1951 Paris, France	French composer and music critic who in 1920 coined the term Les Six to described the group of composers consisting of Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, Georges Auric (18991983), Louis Durey (18881979) and Germaine Tailleferre (18921983), the group's only woman
Collett, John	c 1735 England	c. 1775 Edinburgh, Scotland	English composer noted for his symphonies
Collett, Sophia Dobson	1822 London	1894	composer of songs
Collin [Colin] de Blamont, François (see Blamont, François Collin [Colin] de)
Collingwood, Lawrance (Arthur) more...	14 Mar. 1887 London, England	19 Dec. 1982 Killin, Perthshire, Scotland	conductor whose compositions include an opera, Macbeth, and orchestral and chamber works
Collins, Anthony more...	3 Sep. 1893 Hastings, England	11 Dec. 1963 Los Angeles, CA, USA	viola player, conductor and composer of film music and works for orchestra and chamber ensemble
Collins, Nicolas more...	1954 New York, NY, USA		studied composition with Alvin Lucier at Wesleyan University, where he received his B.A. and M.A. He has performed as a composer and presented audio installations throughout the United States, Europe, South America and Japan. His work is represented on many recordings and has been broadcast on radio and television around the world. He was a pioneer in the use of microcomputers in live performance, and has made extensive use of "home-made" electronic circuitry, radio, found sound material, and transformed musical instruments. His recent work emphasizes spoken word, and combines idiosyncratic electronics with conventional acoustic instruments
Collins, Sarah more...			studied music at The City University and composition at Sussex University (with Jonathan Harvey). Concert commissions include Sonic Arts Network, The Arts Council of England, Greater London Arts, Bedford County Council, Ashley Slater and The Adenoid Quartet and the Huddersfield Festival. Ensembles range from 2 cellos, through to 5 tubas and trombones with drum kit, 7 strings and 5 male voices, and the European Union Baroque Orchestra
Collins, Walter R. more...			Collins is remembered for his days as the distinguished Musical Director of the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea, and also for conducting the London Promenade Orchestra for the Paxton Recorded Music Library during the 1940s. Earlier, in 1928, his own orchestra was sufficiently well respected to undertake a tour in Germany, and during his long career he was a prolific composer and arranger
Colombi, Giuseppe	1635	1694	Italian violinist and composer based in Modena, Italy
Colombier, Michel more...	23 May 1939 Paris, France	14 Nov. 2004 Santa Monica, CA, US	composer of effective film scores who achieved both classical and pop success
Colona-Sourget, Helene Santa (also known as Santa-Colona)	1827 France		composed a string trio, an opera and many of her songs were published
Colonna, Giovanni Paolo more...	16 Jun. 1637 Bologna, Italy	28 Nov. 1695 Bologna, Italy	organist, choir master and composer
Coltellani, Celeste	1764 Italy	1817	an operatic singer who was engaged by Emperor Josef II for the Viennna opera. She composed several arias and songs
Coltrane, Alice [ne McLeod] more...	27 Aug. 1937 Detroit, MI, USA		pianist, organist and harpist. Studied with Bud Powell, worked in Detroit with Kenny Burrell, Johnny Griffin, Lucky Thompson and Yusef Lateef. Worked with Terry Gibbs, 1962-1963, and met John Coltrane during a 1963 appearance at Birdland. They married in late 1965. She replaced McCoy Tyner with Coltrane in December 1965 and worked with him until his death in 1967. Subsequently led groups including Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Joe Henderson, and Carlos Ward, while recording for Impulse and other labels. She moved to California in 1972
Coltrane, John (William) more...	23 Sep. 1926 Hamlet, North Carolina, USA	17 Jul. 1967 Huntington, NY, USA	jazz saxophonist and composer
Colyns (or Colijns), Jean-Baptiste	25 Nov. 1834 Brussels	31 Oct. 1902 Brussels	Belgian composer
Coma, Antonio	1560 Cento, Italy	1629 Cento, Italy	it is not known where he received is musical training. He seemed to have worked as a land-serveyor and a book-keeper, but certain is that in 1589 he was appointed as Maestro di Capella at the San Biagio church in his native town. He also was director of the Academia dell'Aurora music school. He published four collections of his compositions, the last one, Sacrae Cantiones, consisting of 36 motets for 1 to 4 male voices, included a Stabat Mater
Comelade, Pascal more...	1955 Montpellier, France		French avant-garde composer
Comes (or Gomez, Gomes), Pietro	fl. 1739-1755		Italian composer
Comitas, Alexander [pseudonym for Eduard de Boer] more...	1957 The Netherlands		from 1981 till 1990 he worked as a free-lance pianist, mainly for the orchestras and the choir of the Dutch radio. In 1990 he decided to dedicate himself entirely to composing
Compère, Louis [Loyset] more...	c.1455 possibly Hainault, Belgium	16 Aug. 1518 St. Quentin, France	it is hard to trace his early life: conflicting early reports give his birthplace as St Omer, Arras and somewhere in the nearby county of Hainault. There are good reasons for thinking that he may have studied in Paris in the years around 1460, but it appears that towards the end of the decade he too had joined the court circle in Burgundy. Soon after that Compère was in Milan, where he sang in the chapel of Galeazzo Maria Sforza from July 1474 until that Duke was assassinated at the end of 1476. From 1486 Compère is documented as a singer at the royal court of Charles VIII, and he accompanied Charles on the Italian campaign of 1494. The years from 1498 show Compère in administrative posts, as Dean of St Gery in Cambrai, provost of St. Pierre in Douai and latterly as a canon of St Quentin. Of the same generation as Josquin des Prez, he was one of the most significant composers of motets and chansons of that era, and one of the first musicians to bring the light Italianate Renaissance style to France.
Concone, (Paolo) Giuseppe (Gioacchino)	12 Sep. 1810 Turin, Italy	6 Jun. 1861 Turin, Italy	child singer and later noted singing teacher, author of celebrated vocalises or vocal studies
Cone, Edward Toner	4 May 1917 Greensboro, North Carolina	23 Oct. 2004 Princeton, New Jersey	musicologist, pianist and composer. For his bachelor degree at Princeton he was a student of the composer Roger Sessions, and studied piano with Jeffrey Stoll, Karl Ulrich Schnabel and Eduard Steuermann. His compositions were "broadly 'tonal' in style, was always well fashioned yet rarely strongly distinctive; while holding interest, it didn't quite project necessity". He was appointed Professor, Department of Music, Princeton University 1960-85 (Emeritus) and Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large, Cornell University 1979-85
Confalonieri, Giulio	23 May 1896 Milan, Italy	29 Jun. 1972 Milan, Italy	Italian composer
Conforti, Giovanni Battistia more...	fl. 1550-1570 Bologna or Naples, Italy		an Italian composer. In the dedication to his Primo libro de ricercari a quattro voci (Valerio Dorico, Rome, 1558) he says that he "owes much" to Cardinal Niccolò Caetani of Sermoneta, for whom he had probably worked in Rome
Conforto (or Conforti), Nicola more...	25 Sep. 1718 Naples, Italy	16 Mar. 1793 Madrid, Spain	Italian composer particularly of operas
Confrey, Edward Elzear (Zez) more...	3 Apr. 1895 Peru, Illinois, USA	22 Nov. 1971 Lakewood, NJ, USA	pianist, composer and bandleader
Congiet, Petrus (de)	fl. 1480 The Netherlands		Flemish composer
Connesson, Guillaume more...	1970 Boulogne-Billancourt, France		French composer
Conniff, Ray more...	6 Nov. 1916 Attleboro, Mass., USA	12 Oct. 2002 Escondido, CA, USA	American arranger, composer and bandleader
Connolly, Justin more...	1933 London, England		pupil of Fricker, who also studied law. He has composed many works including a series of Triads each for three players
Conon de Béthune more...	c.1150 Artois region	1219/1220 nr. Constantinople	a crusader and trouvère poet
Conrad, Con [Contrad K. Dobe] more...	18 Jun. 1891 New York, NY, USA	28 Sep. 1938 Van Nuys, CA, USA	composer, pianist and publisher who was active from the 1920s through the 1930s. His chief Iyricist collaborators were Buddy De Sylva, Joe Young, Vincent Rose, Leo Robin, and Herb Magidson. During this period, he wrote a few songs that became nationally popular. In 1920, he had his first big hit in Margie, the lyric by Benny Davis. He migrated to California in 1929. In 1934, his song, The Continental with lyric by Herb Magidson, was the first 'Best Song' Academy Award winner. It had been interpolated into the Astaire - Rogers film 'The Gay Divorcee'
Conrad, Johann Christoph		c. 1772 Germany	German organist
Conradi, August	27 Jun. 1821 Berlin, Germany	26 May 1873 Berlin, Germany	German composer
Conradi, Johann Georg	/td>	22 May 1699 Oettingen	German composer
Constant, Marius	7 Feb. 1925 Bucharest, Romania	15 May 2004 Paris, France	left Romania after his graduation from the conservatory there in 1944 and has lived in Paris since then. He studied composition with his compatriot George Enescu and with Olivier Messiaen, Arthur Honegger and Nadia Boulanger, and conducting with Jean Fournet. In 1956 he became musical director of Roland Petit's Ballets de Paris, and two years later the same year his most ambitious orchestral composition up to that time, the 24 Preludes for Orchestra, was given its premiere by the Orchestre National de l'ORTF under Leonard Bernstein, to whom Constant dedicated that work. Since then he has been constantly active as a composer, a conductor and general activist for contemporary music. Among his compositions are the ballets Cyrano de Bergerac and In Praise of Folly and, more recently, the orchestral piece Hämeenlinna, in observance of the 125th anniversary of the birth of Sibelius. Some 40 years ago Constant also composed music for the television series The Twilight Zone
Constantinescu, Paul more...	30 Jun. 1909 Ploiesti, Romania	20 Dec. 1965 Bucharest, Romania	Romanian composer
Constantinidis, Yannis [pseudonym: Kostas Yannidis] more...	21 Aug. 1903 Greece		Greek composer who combines elements of Greek modal music and 20th century harmony techniques. Along with his art music he composed a large number of popular songs writing under the pseudonym Kostas Yannidis
Contant, (Josph Pierre) Alexis more...	12 Nov. 1858 Montreal, Canada	28 Nov. 1918 Montreal, Canada	composer, organist, teacher, and pianist born in Montréal, he received his first piano lessons from his mother and continued his musical education with a number of Canadian composers, one of them being Calixa Lavallée. He was the author of the first Canadian oratorio, Caïn, performed at the Monument national in Montréal in 1905. He played the organ in the church of St-Jean-Baptiste in Montréal for over 30 years and taught piano in numerous schools in the region. He composed works for piano, choir, orchestra, and choir and orchestra, as well as chamber music
Conte, David	1955 USA		American composer
Conte, Jean	12 May 1830 Toulouse, France	1 Apr. 1888 Paris, France	French violist, composer of symphonic music and author of a method and exercises for violin
Contessa de Dia (see Beatriz de Día)
Conti, Carlo	14 Oct. 1796 Arpino, Frosinone	10 Jul. 1868 Naples, Italy	Italian composer
Conti, Francesco Bartolomeo more...	20 Jan. 1681 Florence, Italy	20 Jul. 1732 Vienna, Austria	a very famous and highly respected composer in his time. The largest part of his life he worked at the imperial court in Vienna. In 1708 he was apointed first theorbo player, in 1713 he became also court composer. After these appointments he became one of the highest paid musicians in Vienna, who was able to perform his own works with the best singers, since he could pay them well. After falling ill in 1726 he returned to Italy, but in 1732 he returned to Vienna to introduce some new works. It is an indication of his reputation that his successor as court composer, Antonio Caldara, had to step aside to make place for Conti. Shortly thereafter Conti died
Conti, Giacomo more...	24 May 1754	24 Jan. 1805	violinist and composer who led the orchestra of the Burgtheater from 1793, created on 14 March 1741 by Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa of Austria to be a theatre next to her palace, and which her son, emperor Joseph II, called the "German National Theatre" in 1776. Two Mozart operas premiered there: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1782) and Così fan tutte (1790). Beginning in 1794, the theatre was called the K.K. Hoftheater nächst der Burg
Conti, Giacomo more...	24 May 1754	24 Jan. 1805	Giacomo Conti should not be confused with Gioachimo Conti (Gizziello) the soprano castrato who came to London in Handel's Italian Opera at Covent Garden and became a rival to Farinelli who was then appearing with Porpora's troupe at the Lincoln Inn Fields Theatre. Gioachimo created Handel's "Ariodante". He was famed for his high notes and the only time Handel composed a high C was for him
Conti, Ignazio Maria	1699 Florence, Italy	28 Mar. 1759 Vienna, Austria	Italian-born composer
Conti, Nicola [Niccolò]	fl. 1733-1753		Italian composer
Contilli, Gino	19 Apr. 1907 Rome, Italy	4 Apr. 1978 Genoa, Italy	Italian composer
Conus, George Edvardovich [Edwin] more...	30 Sep. 1862 Moscow, Russia	29 Aug. 1933 Moscow, Russia	pianist and composer, pupil of Taneief, he composed orchestral works, and music for piano and for voice
Conus, Julius more...	1 Feb. 1869 Moscow, Russia	3 Jan. 1942 Malenki, Russia	Russian violinist and composer greatly esteemed in his time in his native Moscow. His violin concerto was premiered in Moscow in 1898 and became a repertoire staple in Russia at the time
Conus, Lev more...	1871 Moscow, Russia	1944 Cincinnati, USA	Russian pianist, music educator, and composer, who moved to the USA in 1935
Converse, Frederick Shepherd	5 Jan. 1871 Newton, Mass., USA	8 Jun. 1940 Westwood, Mass., USA	pupil of Chadwick and Paine, later of Rheinberger at Munich; composer of orchestral works including 6 symphonies, 4 operas, songs, chamber music and works for piano and Flivver 10,000,000 in celebration of the 10 millionth Ford car
Conversi, Girolamo more...	fl. c.1570-1590		publisher of the second earliest books of canzonettas (1572) - the earliest having been published in 1567 by Giovanni Ferretti - and the composer of a six-part madrigal, a setting of the first eight lines of the fourteen-line sonnet Zephiro Torna from Francesco Petrarch's Rime Sparse (c.1370), which appears in the 1588 of Nicholas Yonge's Musica Transalpina
Conyngham, Barry more...	27 Aug. 1947 Sydney, Australia		one of Australia's so-called 'middle-generation' composers, a contemporary of Anne Boyd and Ross Edwards. His music is classical with a twist: the influences of jazz, electronics and Japanese culture are always at hand
Cooder, Ry more...	1947 Los Angeles, CA, USA		guitarist, composer and producer
Cook, Eliza	1817 London	1889	composer of many songs and a regular contributor to the literary magazines of the day
Cook, Will Marion	27 Jan. 1869 Washington, USA	19 Jul. 1944 New York, USA	American composer
Cooke, Arnold (Atkinson) more...	4 Nov. 1906 Gomersal, Yorks., England	13 Aug. 2005 Five Oak Green, Kent, England	studied under Hindemith in Berlin, composer of chamber and orchestral music, including 6 symphonies, and church music. He was Director, Festival Theatre, Cambridge 1932; Professor of Harmony, Counterpoint and Composition, Royal Manchester College of Music 1933-38; Professor of Harmony, Counterpoint and Composition, Trinity College of Music, London 1947-77
Cooke, Benjamin	1734 London, England	1793 London, England	pupil of Pepusch and organist; composer of church music and part-songs
Cooke, Deryck Victor	1919 Leicester, England	1976	musicologist noted for completing Mahler's 10th symphony
Cooke, Henry more...	c. 1616	1672 Hampton Court, England	English composer, actor and singer. Master of the Children to the Chapel Royal, whose members then included Pelham Humphrey, John Blow and Henry Purcell; composed music for church and stage, including part of the music for The Siege of Rhodes
Cooke, Robert	1768 England	1814 England	the son of Benjamin Cooke, whom he succeeded in 1793 as organist of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. In 1802 he became organist and master of the Choristers of Westminster Abbey; he composed sacred and secular vocal works, including a Service in C (published in 1806) and three glees that won Catch Club prizes (a collection of eight was published in 1805). He died by drowning himself in the Thames and was buried in the Abbey
Cooke, Thomas Simpson (Tom) more...	1782 Dublin, Ireland	26 Feb. 1848 London, England	actor, music publisher, tenor and composer of theatre music and glees
Coolidge, Mrs Elizabeth (Penn) Sprague more...	30 Oct. 1864 Chicago, USA	4 Nov. 1953 Cambridge, Mass., USA	pianist, composer and patron of music; through the Coolidge Foundation, she gifted the Auditorium at the Library of Congress and established numerous music festivals, prizes and scholarships
Cools, Eugène	27 Mar. 1877 Paris, France	5 Aug. 1936 Paris, France	French composer
Cooper, George more...	1840	1927	American composer remembered today for his song Sweet Genevieve, to music by Henry Tucker
Cooper, John (see Coprario, Giovanni)
Cooper, Lindsay	3 Mar. 1951 London, England		composer, multi-instrumentalist, and political activist Lindsay Cooper has been a fixture on the new music scene in both Great Britain and Europe since she first appeared with Henry Cow in 1974
Cooper, Paul more...	19 May 1926 Victoria, IL, USA	4 Apr. 1996 Texas, USA	American teacher and composer
Coots, John Frederick (Fred)	2 May 1897 New York, USA	8 Apr. 1985 New York, NY, USA	Tin Pan Alley composer who wrote the music for Santa Claus is Coming to Town & Love Letters in the Sand
Cope, David (Howell)	17 May 1941 San Francisco, USA		American composer
Copeland, Darren more...	1968 Bramalea, Ontario, Canada		Canadian composer
Copi, Ambroz more...			electroacoustic composer and sound designer who as produced work since 1985 for concerts, radio, theatre, dance, and site-specific installation
Copland, Aaron (originally: Kaplan) more...	14 Nov. 1900 New York, NY, USA	2 Dec. 1990 New York, USA	studied under Nadia Boulanger; highly successful composer of ballets Billy the Kid, Rodeo, film scores, 3 symphonies and important orchestral works including Appalachian Spring and Lincoln Portrait, a composer who drew from American's own musical heritage and produced works, sometimes lyrical, sometimes abstract and sometimes fiercely dissonant
Coppens, Claude Albert more...	23 Dec. 1936 Belgium		Belgian pianist, lawayer and composer
Coppini, Alessandro more...	c. 1465 Italy	1527 Florence, Italy	Italian composer and organist
Coppola, Piero	11 Oct. 1888 Milan, Italy	13 Mar. 1971 Lausanne, Switzerland	Italian composer
Coppola, Pietro Antonio (Pierantonio)	11 Dec. 1793 Castrogiovanni, Sicily	13 Nov. 1877 Catania	Italian composer
Coprario, Giovanni (Coperario)(really: John Cooper) more...	c. 1570 England	1626 London, England	player of lute and viola da gamba who is supposed to have 'Italianised' his name during a period spent in Italy (although there is no evidence he ever visited that country), later was the teacher of William and Henry Lawes; composer of music for masques, various solo instruments including lute and viola da gamba and for organ
Coquard, Arthur(-Joseph)	26 May 1846 Paris, France	20 Aug. 1910 Noirmoutier, Vendée, France	French composer
Cora, Tom [ne: Corra] more...	1953/4 Richmond USA	9 Apr. 1998 Draguignam, France	American cellist, improvisor and composer
Corbera, Francisco	fl. 17th century		Spanish guitarist and composer of Guitarra Espanola y sus differencias de sonos
Corbett, William	1675 or 1680 London, England	1748 London, England	violinist and composer of music for various combinations of wind and stringed instruments, as well as songs and music for the stage. From 1700, Director of New Theater (Lincoln's Inn Fields, London); from 1705, director of the Orchestra of King's Theatre, Haymarket (London), from 1709-48, Member of Royal Orchestra, from 1716, Director of the Kings Band. He spent some years in Italy but returned to London in about 1727
Corbetta, Francesco more...	1615	1681	Italian guitarist and composer
Corbisieri [Corbisiero], Francesco	c.1730	after 1802 Naples, Italy	Italian composer
Corbisiero, Antonio	21 May 1720 Marzano di Nola, Italy	7 Jan. 1790 Naples, Italy	Italian composer
Corcoran, Frank more...	1944 Tipperary, Ireland		Irish composer based in Germany
Cordans, Bartolomeo	c.1700 Venice, Italy	14 May 1757 Udine, Italy	Italian composer
Cordell, Frank more...	1 Jun 1918 Kingston-upon-Thames, England	6 Jul 1980 Hastings, England	a fine composer, arranger and conductor whose work first became noticed through the tuneful backings he often supplied to some contract singers on HMV singles in the 1950s. Occasionally he was allowed his own 78s, and he was also responsible for several fine LPs which quickly became collectors items. The cinema beckoned with some prestigious projects including Cromwell (1970) for which he was nominated for an Oscar
Cordella, Geronimo	fl. 1747-1762		Italian composer
Cordella, Giacomo	25 Jul. 1786 Naples, Italy	c.1846/7 Naples, Italy	Italian composer
Corder, Frederick more...	26 Jan. 1852 London, England	21 Aug. 1932 London, England	teacher of composition and composer of operas
Corder, Paul	14 Dec. 1879 London, England	6 Aug. 1942 London, England	English composer
Cordero, Ernesto more...	1946 New York, USA		Puerto Rican guitarist and composer
Cordier, Baude more...	c. 1380 Rheims, France	before 1440	French composer, possibly Baude Fresnel
Corea, Chick more...	12 Jun. 1941 Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA		jazz pianist and composer
Corelli, Arcangelo more...	17 Feb. 1653 Fusignano, Italy	8 Jan. 1713 Rome, Italy	the first true virtuoso of the violin; composer of music, both sacred and secular, for solo violin and for string ensemble, the later in a form, Concerto Grosso (the most famous of which is sometimes called Christmas Concerto), which Corelli did most to establish
Corelli Marie [ne Mary (or Minnie) Mackay]	1855 Perth, Scotland	21 Apr. 1924 Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire, England	one of Great Britain's leading poetess and melodramatic authoress of her age known chiefly as a camp figure who inspired E. F. Benson's Lucia. She was also a pianist and composer
Corigliano, John more...	16 Feb. 1938 New York, USA		composer who worked in both classical and rock-music, much of it for television and radio. He won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his Symphony No. 2
Corijn, Roland more...	21 Dec. 1938 Kortrijk, Belgium		Belgian composer of orchestral, chamber, choral and piano works
Corkine, William more...	fl. 1610-1620		English composer, lutenist and viol player
Corley, Maria Thompson	1966 Jamaica, West Indies		Corleys undergraduate work was completed at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, and she received both masters and doctorate degrees in piano performance from the Juilliard School. She is an author, composer and arranger of music for both solo voice and chorus, as well as an educator
Cornacchioli, Giacinto	1598/99 Ascoli Piceno	Sep. 1673 possibly Ascoli Piceno	Italian composer
Cornago, Johannes (Juan) more...	fl. 1450-1475		Spainish composer actively mainly at the Spanish court in Naples
Cornazano, Antonio [Cornazzano]	c. 1430 Piacenza, Italy	1484 Ferrera, Italy	Italian poet and courtier, who presented a copy of his Libro dell'arte del danzare to the daughter of the Duke of Milan in 1455. A copy of this text, c. 1465, survives. It contains a theoretical introduction, a summary of eleven of Domenico's dances, and Domenico's tunes with some additions
Cornejo, Rodolfo (Soldevilla)	15 May 1909 Manila		Philippines composer
Cornelius, (Carl August) Peter more...	24 Dec. 1824 Mainz, Germany	26 Oct. 1874 Mainz, Germany	friend and colleague of Wagner; composer of part-songs and songs with political overtones, he also wrote a comic opera, The Barber of Bagdad
Corner, Philip more...	10 Apr. 1933 New York City, NY, USA		American composer
Cornet, Peeter (Pierre)	1562 The Netherlands	1616 The Netherlands	organist and composer of keyboard works who worked in the southern part of the Netherlands (today Belgium) in the first half of the 17th century. Cornet was not an organ builder but he did examine organs and advised organ builders
Cornet, Séverin more...	c.1530 Valenciennes, France	Mar. 1582 Antwerp, Belgium	French singer, conductor and composer
Corno, Filippo del more...	1970 Milan, Italy		Italian composer
Cornyshe (the older), William (Cornish) more...	c.1430 Westminster, London, England	1502 London, England	father of William Cornyshe (the younger), a member of the Fraternity of St Nicholas (or the London Guild of Parish Clerks) in 1480, Informator choristarum at St Peter's Abbey, Westminster, in the 1480s and composer of music found in the Eton Choirbook
Cornyshe (the younger), William (Cornish) more...	c. 1465 Westminster, London, England	1523 London, England	composer, actor, playwright, who, with 10 choir-boys, accompanied Henry VIII to the Field of The Cloth of Gold; composer of church music, secular songs and consort music
Corona, Manuel	17 Jun. 1880 Caibarien, Cuba	9 Jan. 1950 Havana, Cuba	performer of Cuban trova and composer
Coronaro, Antonio	29 Jun 1851 Vicenza	24 Mar. 1933 Vicenza	Italian composer
Coronaro, Gaetano	18 Dec. 1852 Vicenza	5 Apr. 1908 Milan	Italian composer
Coronaro, Gellio (Benvenuto)	30 Nov. 1863 Vicenza	26 Jul. 1916 Milan	Italian composer
Corradini (or Coradigni, Coradini), Francesco	c.1700 Naples	after 1749 possibly Madrid	Italian composer
Corradini, Nicoló	c. 1585	8 Jul. 1646	Italian organist and composer
Correa, Manuel		1653	Portuguese composer
Correa Braga, Antonio	fl. 1695		Portuguese organist and composer
Correa(u) de Araujo, Francisco (sometimes: Arauxo) more...	c. 1576 Spain	1654 Spain	organist and composer of music of ricercadas, variations and psalms
Correia de Oliveira, Fernando	2 Nov. 1921 Oporto, Portugal		Portuguese composer
Corrette, Gaspard more...	c.1670 probably Rouen, France	before 1733 Paris, France	French organist and composer, father of Michel. The only surviving work by Gaspard Corrette is an organ mass in the eighth Church Mode, published in 1703
Corrette, Michel more...	10 Apr. 1707 Rouen, France	21 Jan. 1795 Paris, France	French organist who composed for the theatre and for the church, also works for keyboard and twenty methods for instruments including the violin, cello, bass, flute, recorder, bassoon, harpsichord, harp, and mandolin
Corri, Clarence Collingwood more...	1863	1918	Corri was perhaps the most celebrated member of an extensive musical family of Italian origin active in the British Isles from the 18th century onwards. He composed dance music, songs and various operettas and musicals
Corri, Domenico more...	4 Oct. 1746 Rome, Italy	22 May 1825 Hampstead, London	father of Philip Anthony and Sophia, pupil of Porpora in Naples, Italian-born music publisher, conductor and composer
Corri, Philip Anthony [pseudonym: Arthur Clifton] more...	1784 Edinburgh, Scotland	10 Feb. 1832 Baltimore, USA	brother of Sophia Corri Dussek and composer of La Morte di Dussek (1816) an "elegiac sonata" written shortly after Jan Dussek's death in 1812, but which wasn't published until 1816.
Corri Dussek, Sophia more...	1775 Edinburgh, Scotland	1847 London, England	composer, harpist, singer and pianist, wife of the composer Jan Dussek
Corselli, Francesco (see Courcelle, Francisco)
Corsi, Jacopo	17 Jul. 1561 Italy	29 Dec. 1602 Italy	Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque and patron of the arts in Florence
Corteccia, Francesco di Bernardo	1502 Arezzo, Italy	1571 Florence, Italy	Italian organist and composer to Cosimo I de' Medici
Cortés, Ramiro	25 Nov. 1933 Dallas, USA	2 Jul. 1984 Salt Lake City, USA	American composer
Cortese, Luigi [Louis]	19 Nov. 1899 Genoa, Italy	10 Jun 1976 Genoa, Italy	Italian composer
Cortesi, Francesco	11 Sep. 1826 Florence, Italy	3 Jan. 1904 Florence	Italian composer
Cortinas, César	9 Aug. 1890 San José, Uruguay	23 Mar. 1918 Córdoba, Argentina	Uruguay-born composer
Cortolezis, Fritz	21 Feb. 1878 Passau	13 Mar. 1934 Bad Aibling	German composer
Cortot, Alfred-Denis more...	26 Sep. 1877 Nyon, Switzerland	15 Jun. 1962 Lausanne, France	French pianist, conductor, editor and composer, founder of Ecole Normal de Musique in Paris
Coryell, Larry more...	2 Apr. 1943 Galveston, Texas, USA		American free jazz guitarist
Coryn, Roland more...	21 Dec. 1938 Kortrijk, Belgium		Belgian composer mainly of orchestral, chamber, choral and piano music
Coslow, Sam more...	27 Dec 1902 New York, USA	2 Apr 1982 New York City, USA	an American songwriter, singer and film producer
Cosma, Vladimir more...	13 Apr. 1940 Bucharest, Romania		Romanian-born French composer noted for his film and TV scores who works in Paris, France
Cosmas de melode [Kosmas de melodie] (Hagiopolites)	fl. 740, Jerusalem		composer of chants from the Greek-Byzantine rite
Cossart, Leland Albert	1877	1965	composer particularly of works for wind instruments
Cossetto, Emil	12 Oct. 1918 Trieste, Italy		Croatian conductor of Lyra, the choir of the Jewish Community in Zagreb, winner of many international competitions, composer and arranger of the Croatian song Fala (Thank you) as a funeral song on the occasion of Tito's death in 1980
Cossoul, Guilherme António	22 Apr. 1828 Lisbon, Portugal	26 Nov. 1880 Lisbon, Portugal	Portuguese composer
Costa, Abate			Portuguese composer and guitarist
Costa, Antonio Da (see Da Costa, Antonio)
Costa, Gal (née Maria da Graça Costa Penna Burgos) more...	26 Sep. 1945 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil		popular Brazilian singer-songwriter and writer
Costa, João Evangelista Pereira da	c.179 Proença a Nova, Beira Baixa	1832 Calais, France	Portuguese composer
Costa, Michael Andrew Agnus [Michele Andrea Agniello] more...	4 Feb. 1806 Naples, Italy	29 Apr. 1884 Hove, Brighton, England	pre-eminent conductor who raised the quality of orchestral playing in England to new standards; noted composer of oratorios Naaman and Eli, symphonies and operas
Costa, Pasquale Mario	1858 Taranto, nr. Naples, Italy	1933 Monte Carlo, France	a key figure in the development of the Italian romanza. As late as the 1920s, he hit his stride as an operetta composer, producing four such scores for Rome, Turin, and Milan. In between, he kept up a flow of songs, pantomimes, ballet music, marches, and piano pieces
Costanzi, Giovanni Battista Giovannino del Violoncello, da Roma	3 Sep. 1704 Rome, Italy	5 Mar. 1778	Italian cellist and composer
Coste, Gabriel	fl. 1538-1543		Renaissance composer
Coste, Napoléon more...	27 Jun. 1805 France	17 Feb. 1883 Paris, France	guitarist and important composer for the instrument. He studied with Sor and created a new idiom for his instrument which is quite different from that of his predecessors and in many ways more technically advanced
Costeley, Guillaume more...	c. 1531 Fontanges-en-Auvergne, France	1606 Evreux, France	a French composer of the Renaissance. He was the court organist to Charles IX of France and famous for his numerous chansons, which were representative of the late development of the form; his work in this regard was part of the early development of the style known as musique mesurée. He was also one of very few 16th century French composers of music for keyboard. In addition, he was a founding member of the Académie de Poésie et de Musique along with poet Jean-Antoine de Baïf, and he was one of the earliest composers to experiment with microtonal composition
Costello, Elvis [ne: Declan MacManus] more...	25 Aug. 1954 London, UK		British singer/songwriter and composer, born in London but raised in Liverpool, the son of the popular bandleader Ross MacManus. Began performing music in pubs around London in the early 1970s, before landing the record deal that would make him famous in 1977. As a solo artist, and with his band The Attractions, Costello has released a number of acclaimed albums, notably This Year's Model", "Imperial Bedroom", "King of America", "Blood and Chocolate", "Spike", "All This Useless Beauty" and "When I Was Cruel", and has undertaken successful acclaimed collaborations with artists such as Burt Bacharach, Paul McCartney, Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie Von Otter, guitarist Bill Frisell, composer Roy Nathanson and The Charles Mingus Orchestra
Cotapos (Baeza), Acario	30 Apr. 1889 Valdivia	22 Nov. 1969 Santiago	composer
Cotton, Jeffery more...	1957 Los Angeles, USA		studied with Hans Werner Henze from 1983 to 1985 at the Academy of Music in Cologne, Germany, as a Fulbright Scholar. Later he studied with George Crumb at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his Master of Arts and Ph.D. in 1989
Couci, (Gui IV) Chastelain de	c. 1165 France	1203	French troubadour
Coulais, Bruno more...	1960 Paris, France		composer of over 100 television and film scores. His first feature film was Nuit Féline (1978). Other notable composing credits include Microcosmos (1996), Belle Maman (1999), Winged Migration (2001) and Les Choristes (2004)
Coulthard, Jean more...	10 Feb. 1908 Vancouver, Canada	9 Mar. 2000 North Vancouver, Canada	Canadian pianist and composer
Couperin, Armand-Louis	25 Feb. 1727	2 Feb. 1789	second cousin to François, composed in the same genres as his forbears but in a much less rigorous manner. His harpsichord works (published c. 1751) span the gamut from intimacy to exhibitionism, reflecting the simpler musical style of his time. He was also organist at Notre Dame
Couperin, Charles	1638 Paris, France	c. 1679 Paris, France	brother of Louis (1626-1661) and father of François (1668-1733), organist and composer of keyboard music
Couperin, François more...	10 Nov. 1668 Paris, France	12 Sep. 1733 Paris, France	one of a large family of musicians working at the French court, sometimes called 'Couperin le Grand'; organist and harpsichordist whose music for the latter was often 'programmatic'
Couperin, Louis more...	1626 Chaumes-en-Brie, France	29 Aug. 1661 Paris, France	organist, viol player and composer, son of of Charles (c. 1595-1654). His free preludes for harpsichord are amongst the finest examples of that form
Cour, Niels La	1944 Denmark		studied at the Royal Conservatory, Copenhagen, with Finn Høffding, Svend Westergaard, and Bjørn Hjelmborg. Compositions include orchestral works, chamber music (4 string-quartets), a suite for organ, motets, psalms, a De Profundis and a requiem cantata
Courage, Alexander (Sandy) more...	10 Dec. 1919 Philadelphia, USA	15 May 2008 Pacific Palisades, California, USA	American arranger, orchestrator and composer probably best known for writing the theme music for Star Trek: The Original Series
Courbois, Philippe	fl. 1705-30		French composer of whom little is known although we are told he was "active in the household of the Duchess of Maine"
Courbois, Pierre more...	23 Apr. 1940 Nijmegan, The Netherlands		free jazz percussionist and composer
Courcelle, Francisco	1705 Piacenza, nr. Palma, Italy	3 Apr. 1778 Madrid, Spain	born into a French family of dance masters celebrated in European courts his father was the dance master to the young Elisabetta Farnese who would become Queen Isabel, consort to Felipe V of Spain. Courcelle would subsequently have been known also to the future Spanish king, Isabel's son Carlos III, to whom he would be maestro del cappella when, in 1731, at the age of fifteen, Carlos became Duke of Parma. A prolific composer, Francisco Courcelle held that post in the Stecatta Church in Parma as early as 1729, at a time when his precocious works were already beginning to break the limitations of Baroque style in a constant move toward classicism. When called to Madrid in 1733 to be the music master for Isabel's children, it was with an understanding that he would assume the position of maestro de capilla on the death of the incumbent José de Torres. That transition took place in 1738, and from that date until his death in a carriage accident in 1778, Courcelle maintained the post in Madrid
Courroy, Isabelle more...	11 May 1956 Longjumeau, Essonne		French flautist and performer on Balkan flutes including the kaval who is also a composer
Courtaux, (Marie Mathilde) Amanda	27 Oct. 1856 Port Louis, Mauritius	21 Apr. 1941 Sinsinawa, WI, USA	even before she finished studies at the Paris Conservatory, Mlle Courtaux began teaching piano, and to compose music which drew the attention of a publisher, M. E. Costil who in 1905 and 1906 published her Marche Militaire for piano 6-hands, Ave Maria for voice and piano, Priere De Sainte Cecile for violin, cello, harp and organ, and Priere De Sainte Cecile, piano edition in 1906. In 1921 she travelled to Sinsinawa, Wisconsion to enter the religious life becoming Sister Amanda O.P. on Jan. 1, 1922
Courville, Joachim Thibault de more...	c. 1530	1581 Paris, France	French singer, composer, lyre player (Courville's lyre was a unique instrument, consisting of eleven strings, was often played with a bow and was modeled after a supposed Ancient Greek instrument) and lutenist who was praised by Baif as the master of the art of good singing. Courville composed a number of melodies for Baif, some of these pieces having been performed for Charles IX. As a co-founder of the Academie de Poesie et Musique all of the music composed by its members were left unpublished; accordingly, there is no original extant music of Courville's
Courvoisier, Sylvie more...	30 Nov. 1968 Lausanne, Switzerland		she started to play piano at age of six initiated by her father, an amateur jazz pianist. She grew up learning jazz at the jazz Conservatory of Montreux, and classical Music at the Conservatoire de Lausanne. In 1998, she moved to Brooklyn, NY. Among her compositions: Concerto for electric guitar and chamber orchestra (1999), commissioned by the Swiss TVand Radio, Balbutiements for vocal quartet and soloists (1995-2000), and Ocre de Barbarie, a musical performance for metronomes, automatons, barrel organ, piano, tuba, saxophone, violin and percussion, commissioned by the Vidy Theater and Donaueschingen Festival (1997-1998)
Courvoisier, Walter	7 Feb. 1875 Riehen, Basle	27 Dec. 1931 Locarno	Swiss composer
Cousins, Mervyn	1962 England		English organist, choir-trainer and composer. Director of Music at St Edmundsbury Cathedral and Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral before moving to Wales as Musical Director of the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod. He has written extensively for choir and organ
Cousser (or Kusser), Johann Sigismund more...	23 Feb. 1660 Preßburg, Germany	Nov. 1727 Dublin, Ireland	German conductor and composer. He was a pupil of Lully in Paris, where he lived 1674-82, one of the directors of the Hamburg Opera 1694-96, and Kapellmeister at Stuttgart 1700-04. He went to London in 1705, and later to Dublin, where he became director of music to the viceroy
Couvin, Watriquet de	fl. 13th century		one of many trouvères known from the 13th century but for whom no surviving works are known
Coward, Noël (Pierce) more...	16 Dec. 1899 Teddington, Middx. UK	25/26 Mar. 1973 Kingston, Jamaica	playwright, composer and performer; noted for his sardonic wit which he used to wonderful effect in songs written originally to be performed in 'Revue' or in his plays
Cowell, Henry (Dixon) more...	11 Mar. 1897 Menlo Park, CA, USA	10 Dec. 1965 Shady, NY, USA	pianist who, as a composer, developed unusual, personal styles, one, the use of note clusters to be performed with the whole forearm on the piano keyboard, another, the invention of an electrical device, called the Rhythmicon, which reproduced pre-programmed rhythmic sequences, and a third trying to bring together music from Western and Eastern traditions, the last resulting in works on a lavish scale. He was the author of the highly influential New Musical Resources and a teacher of John Cage, Lou Harrison, and Burt Bacharach, Cowell is regarded as an innovator, a rebel and a genius, one of the first American composers to be celebrated for the novelty of his techniques
Cowen, Frederick Hymen (Hyman) more...	29 Jan. 1852 Kingston, Jamaica	6 Oct. 1935 London, England	pianist who published his first waltz at 6 and his first operetta at 8; his works about 300 songs, some Victorian ballads, others of a more serious nature, operas, oratorios, one entitled Ruth and 6 symphonies
Cowie, Edward more...	17 Aug. 1943 Birmingham, England		painter and composer, Edward Cowie has poured his love of nature, and in particular the landscapes of Lancashire and the Australian outback, into dark-hued, expressionistic orchestral and choral works. A noted ornithologist, he has also used birdsong in his compositions, and is a much sought-after teacher and educationist
Cox, Boudewijn more...	1965 Huybergen, The Netherlands		he grew up in Rijkevorsel (Belgium). He received degrees for guitar, chamber music, harmony and counterpoint at the Lemmensinstituut in Leuven, where he also received a degree for composition (with Luc Van Hove) and fugue (with Christian Vereecke)
Cox, David (Vasall)	4 Feb. 1916 Broadstairs, England		English composer
Cox, Hans	20th century		Dutch composer who based an opera on The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and who 4th violin concerto was premiered in 2005 in Rotterdam
Cox, Rick more...	1952 Chicago, USA		Los Angeles-based composer and multi-instrumentalist. As a featured performer (woodwinds, guitar, and sampler), he can be heard on such popular film scores as The Shawshank Redemption, The Horse Whisperer, and American Beauty (scores by Thomas Newman) and on recent recordings by jazz/new-music trumpeter Jon Hassell. He has also collaborated with guitarist/composer Ry Cooder, arranging, composing and performing on the film scores Last Man Standing and Wim Wenders End of Violence. Coxs own scores include Inside Monkey Zetterland and the Corrina, Corrina. He regularly performs in the Los Angeles area with new music, avant-rock, and jazz-oriented ensembles
Coxsun, Robert	c. 1489	c. 1550	nothing is known of his life but two keyboard pieces have survived in manuscript
Coya, Simone	fl 1679		Italian singer and composer
Cozerbreit, Isaac (see Williams, Charles)
Cozzolani (or Cozzelani), Chiara Margarita more...	1602	c. 1678 Milan	a Benedictine nun and accomplished composer who published several collections of motets and concerti
Craen, Nikolaes more...	c. 1445	1507	Franco-Flemish contemporary of Josquin des Prés who worked mainly in Italy
Craenen, Paul more...	1972 Leuven, Belgium		Belgian pianist and composer
Crafts, Daniel Steven more...	22 Sep. 1949 Detrioit, Michigan, USA		American composer
Craig Harrison, Timothy more...	1962		British composer, conductor, and performer.
Cramer, Anna more...	15 Jul. 1873 Amsterdam, The Netherlands	4 Jun. 1968 Blaricum, The Netherlands	Dutch composer particularly of songs
Cramer, Johann Baptiste more...	24 Feb. 1771 Mannheim, Germany	16 Apr. 1858 London, England	piano pupil of Clementi, founder of the music publishing firm of Cramer & Co. and composer of a great quantity of studies, sonatas and concertos for piano
Crane, Laurence more...	1961 Oxford, England		studied composition with Peter Nelson and Nigel Osborne at Nottingham University, graduating in 1983. He lives and works in London. He is closely associated with the British ensemble Apartment House
Cras, Jean Émile Paul more...	22 May 1879 Brest, France	14 Sep. 1932 Brest, France	Jean Cras had a distinguished naval career, with final promotion to the position of rear-admiral. He was a pupil of Duparc and, within the limitations of his career, a prolific and varied composer
Craven, Elizabeth Margravine of Anspach [Ansbach]	17 Dec. 1750 London, England	13 Jan. 1828 Naples, Italy	English-born composer
Crawford, Robert more...	18 Apr. 1925 nr. Edinburgh, Scotland		studied privately with Hans Gal and then with Benjamin Frankel at the Guildhall School of Music. His works include two quartets (1949, 19567), still regularly performed today. Between 1970 and 1985 he was a music producer with BBC Scotland, and a number of commissions followed his retirement including an octet for Glasgow University and a Sonata for the Scottish International Piano Competition. His most recent work is his Symphonic Study: Lunula, commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Spring 1998
Crawford Seeger, Ruth Porter more...	3 Jul. 1901 East Liverpool, Ohio, USA	18 Nov. 1953 Chevy Chase, MD, USA	born Ruth Porter Crawford, her compositions included a string quartet, 3 songs with piano, oboe and percussion and Rissolty Rossolty for 10 wind instruments, drums and strongs
Craxton, (Thomas) Harold (Hunt) more...	30 Apr. 1885 Devizes, England	30 Mar. 1971 London, England	pianist and accompanist, editor and composer of music much of it for the piano
Creamer, Henry	21 Jun. 1879 Richmond, VA, USA	14 Oct. 1930 New York City, NY USA	American composer who worked as a vaudeville and songwriting team with pianist John Turner Layton (1894-1978). His compositions include That's a Plenty (1909), After You've Gone (1918), Dear Old Southland (1921), 'Way Down Yonder In New Orleans (1922) and If I Could Be With You (1930)
Crecquillon, Thomas more...	c. 1505 The Netherlands	probably early 1557 Béthune	director of music to Charles V's chapel at Brussels in about 1544, and later a prebendary in various Flemish towns-Louvain, Namur, Termonde and finally Béthune, he wrote some sixteen Masses, 116 motets, 192 chansons, five French psalms and Lamentations. Highly regarded in his own day (much of his music circulated widely in print), he is most distinguished as a chanson composer. Though some of his chansons are in the light and witty French style, many are more serious in tone and written in flowing, imitative 5-part polyphony sometimes involving canon; in this they hark back to the late chansons of Josquin Desprez. In sacred music Crecquillon often matched musical to verbal expression, using harsh dissonance to create tension (the 5-part set of Lamentations shows this well, despite its major mode), but his smooth vocal line and command of sonority are equally impressive [text taken from HOASM]
Cree Brown, Chris more...	1953 New Zealand		New Zealand composer who has a diverse range of interests: solo instrumental and chamber pieces, orchestral works, electroacoustic and computer music, music theatre, multi-media and intermedia Art and large-scale musical sculptures designed for public sites
Crego, Cliff more...	1950 USA		American composer, conductor, teacher, poet and art photographer
Crema, Giovanni Maria da	1520	1570	Italian lutenist and composer about whom little is known. He was responsible also for intabulations of chansons and other vocal compositions by his contemporaries
Cremona, Robert (Rob) more...	29 May 1956 London, England		his work has been performed in Italy, Australia, Czech Republic, Malta as well as in England. His 2 CDs have sold all over the globe and he has written several scores and jingles for Capital Radio, BBC TV and Channel Four TV in the UK. Most notably, Cremona's music is used mainly by choreographers in ballet and contemporary dance. He has written scores for Dance Companies from performances at Richmond Theatre in the UK to the BJ's Jazz Club on the island of Malta. Despite enduring kidney failure, a stroke and 2 heart attacks, Cremona continues to work with a variety of bands, most recently he got together four top musicians to form "Out for the Count" who have performed in London venues since the latter part of 2004 [information supplied by Alice Grima (DOBB Management - London)]
Crescentini, Girolamo	2 Feb. 1766 Urbania, Italy	24 Apr. 1846 Naples, Italy	castrato and composer of operas
Crespel more...	fl. mid-16th century		French composer known only for a number of chansons that are extant
Crespo, Enrique more...	1941 Montevideo, Uruguay		trombonist, arranger and composer who leads of the ensemble German brass
Cresswell, Lyell more...	13 Oct. 1944 Wellington, New Zealand		New Zealand-born composer who has been based in Edinburgh, Scotland since 1985
Creston, Paul [né Joseph Guttoveggio] more...	10 Oct.1906 New York, NY, USA	24 Aug. 1985 USA	organist and composer of 5 symphonies, 12 concertos, chamber music and choral works.
Creutziger, Elisabet Cecelia (von Moseritz)	c. 1490	c. 1536 Wittenburg	daughter of a Polish nobleman. During the persecutions, the family came to Wittenberg, where the young woman was married to Kaspar Creutziger, a student at the university and one of Luthers most devoted pupils. Shortly after, he became minister and teacher in Magdeburg and later, 1528, professor of theology in Wittenberg. Elisabet Creutziger, who was a friend of Luthers wife, is mentioned as a woman of rare musical gifts and a model wife and mother
Crews, Lucile	23 Aug. 1888 Pueblo, Colo., USA	3 Nov. 1972 San Diego, USA	American composer
Creyghton, Robert (Creighton) more...	1593	1674	composer of church music
Crispell, Marilyn more...	30 Mar. 1947 Philadelphia, PA, USA		free jazz pianist and composer
Crispi, Pietro Maria	c.1737 Rome, Italy	16 Jun. 1797 Rome, Italy	Italian composer
Crist, Bainbridge	13 Feb. 1883 Lawrenceburg, Indiana, USA	7 Feb. 1969 USA	named for his grandfather William Bainbridge, trained as a lawyer, later established as a singing teacher, wrote orchestral, choral and vocal works
Cristo, Pedro de	c. 1550 Portugal	1618 Lisbon, Portugal	Portuguese composer who was maestro di cappella in Coimbra and Lisbon
Crivelli, Giovanni Battista more...		1652	Italian composer who worked in a number of Italian cities as well as serving at the courts of Munich and Modena
Croce, Giovanni Dalla more...	c. 1557 Venice, Italy	1609 Venice, Italy	Italian composer of the late Renaissance, of the Venetian School. He was particularly prominent as a madrigalist, one of the few among the Venetians other than Monteverdi
Croce, James Joseph (Jim) more...	10 Jan. 1943 South Philadelphia, USA	20 Sep. 1973 Natchitoches, Louisiana, USA	American singer-songwriter
Croes, Henri Jacques de	19 Sep. 1705 Antwerp, Belgium	16 Aug. 1786 Brussels, Belgium	Flemish composer and bandmaster
Croft, John more...	1971 Auckland, New Zealand		since the orchestral piece Inventions de lautre (composed in 1997 but premiered by the BBC Philharmonic in 2002), his music has increasingly drawn on the natural spectral properties of sounds as the basis for harmonic and temporal structures. He has recently begun to focus on the integration of performance and live electronics, as in Siramour, commissioned in 2002 by the London Sinfonietta
Croft, William more...	bap. 30 Dec. 1678 Warwickshire, UK	14 Aug. 1727 Bath, UK	organist and fine composer of sacred music, including the hymn-tune St. Anne (O God our Help in Ages Past), and of music for the harpsichord. In his General History of Music (1789) the musical historian Charles Burney wrote of Croft as having, "gone through life in one even tenor of professional activity and propriety of conduct. We hear of no illiberal traits of envy, malevolence, or insolence the universal respect he obtained from his talents and eminence in the profession seems to have blended with personal affection"
Croix, Pierre de la (see Cruce, Petrus de)
Crombruggen, Paul van (real name: Vincent Christoff)	13 Oct. 1905 Malines, Belgium	31 Aug. 1992 Wilrijk	composer and music critic
Crook, John more...	fl. early 20th-century		composer of Cockney songs and works for musical theatre including music for J. M. Barrie's 1905 production of Peter Pan
Crosse, Gordon more...	1 Dec. 1937 Bury, England		pupil of Wellesz and Petrassi, particularly known for his music including child singers
Crossley-Holland, Peter Charles more...	28 Jan. 1916 London, UK	27 Apr. 2001 London, UK	composer and writer on music, enthnomusicologist inspired by music from the Orient
Crosti, Eugène Charles Antoine	31 Oct. 1833 Paris, France	after 1889	French bass singer, author of didactic works and translator of Italian opera
Crotch, William more...	5 Jul. 1775 Norwich, England	29 Dec. 1847 Taunton, England	first gave public recital on the organ at the age of 4 and by the age of 22 was a professor of music at Oxford University; in later life he was an accomplished water-colourist. He produced a large output of sacred works including an oratorio Palestine. He was also the first principal of the Royal Academy of Music (1822)
Crotti, Archangelo	fl. 16/17th centuries		Italian composer
Crouch, Frederick William Nicholls more...	31 Jul. 1808 Marylebone, London	18 Aug. 1896 Portland, Maine, USA	English cellist and composer, he achieved early success as a cellist in notable orchestras and bands and as a composer. most notably for his song Kathleen Mavourneen. In 1849 he emigrated to the United States where he had a varied career as a performer and conductor. Living in Richmond, VA he joined the Confederate Army, enlisting in the First Richmond Howitzers, and served throughout the war. He eventually settled in Baltimore and became a voice teacher in addition to his composing work
Croudson, Henry more...	1898 Leeds, UK	1971 Essex, UK	an organist in the North of England. His many admirers in the cinema organ fraternity believe that, had he worked for a major London cinema in the 1930s, he could have become as famous as many of his contemporaries such as Sidney Torch, with whom his rhythmic style was often compared. Before army service in the First World War, he had worked as a clerk in the Midland Bank, but by the time he was demobbed in 1921 he realised that his future was in the music profession. Like many colleagues in the 1920s, he found employment in cinemas accompanying silent films, leading in the 1930s to regular engagements in the best northern cinemas. He made his first broadcast for the BBC on the Wurlitzer organ of the Paramount Theatre, Leeds, on 19 December 1934, and in the following year recorded the first of more than 20 records for Regal Zonophone. In 1940 partly due to difficult wartime conditions Henry and his wife Edna became managers of a public house in Leeds. However he did not desert the cinema organ and made welcome, but increasingly occasional, appearances in various parts of the country. In 1945 he worked on a film starring Wilfred Pickles, and was later invited to appear at the Gaumont in Londons Haymarket, where he remained for three years. When the Rank Organisation dismissed all its remaining cinema organists, Henry joined the music publishers Arcadia (who also handled some of George Melachrinos compositions), and he was later with Chappell & Co. Interestingly some of his most enjoyable compositions were accepted by the rival firm Bosworth & Co.
Crowe, Alfred Gwyllym	1835 Bermuda	1894	military band-master, orchestral conductor and composer of waltzes, the most famous being the See-Saw Waltz
Cruce, Petrus de more...	fl. 1270-1299		we cannot be sure whether he was French or Italian: he was also known as Pierre de la Croix. He wrote a treatise on mensural polyphony, which has not not survived although several of his motets (in a style known as the Petronian motet) are extant. They offer an interesting insight into his notational theories. His motets are characterised by having the triplum much faster than that of any of his contemporaries, while the tenor and duplum voices held long notes, leading some commentators to suggest that these works are for a solo voice with accompanying instruments. His implementation of a greater selection of rhythmic choices moving beyond the conventional restriction of either perfect prolation or imperfect prolation (the division of the breve into semibreves), declaring that any number of semibreves, up to seven, could occupy the space of one breve, makes his notational innovations an important precursor to the development of the Ars Nova style
Cruciger, Elisabeth (see Creutziger Elizabet)
Cruft, Adrian Francis more...	10 Feb. 1921 Mitcham, England	20 Feb. 1987 England	pupil of Jacobs and Rubbra, also a double-bass player; compositions include works for chamber orchestra and church music
Crüger, Johannes	1 or 9 Apr. 1598 Gross-Breesen, Lower Lusatia, Germany	23 Feb. 1662 Berlin, Germany	German musical theorist and composer. He composed 71 chorales, of which 18 have received a wide usage in Evangelical churches. His church-hymn collections include Neues vollkömmliches Gesangbuch (1640), Praxis pietatis melica (1644) which appeared in many editions, Geistliche Kirchenmelodeyen (1649) and Psalmodica sacra (1658)
Crumb, George more...	24 Oct. 1929 Charleston, WV, USA	6 Feb. 2022 Pennsylvania, USA	pupil of Blacher; works include Black Angels for electric string quartet and Echoes of Time and the River for orchestra. He was the winner of a 2001 Grammy Award and the 1968 Pulitzer Prize in Music
Crusell, Bernhard Henrik more...	15 Oct. 1775 Uusikaupunki, Finland	28 Jul. 1838 Stockholm, Sweden	clarinettist; writer of many fine works for his instrument as well as operas and songs. He made Swedish translations of operas by Mozart and Rossini, among others. His biography reads as a fascinating and even somewhat improbable chapter in the history of Finnish music: the rags-to-riches story of a poor bookbinder's son from Uusikaupunki who became an internationally celebrated clarinetist and composer, whose works were mostly published by Peters in Leipzig, and who met such notables as Luigi Cherubini, Carl Maria von Weber and the budding 13-year-old genius Felix Mendelssohn in the salons of Europe
Cruz, Sor Juana Ines de la	1648	1695 Mexico City	had a gift for writing Latin verse that attracted the attention of the Viceroy and Vicereine. She lived at court for five years and became a famous intellectual. She later directed music and drama in a convent school
Cruz de Castro, Carlos more...	23 Dec. 1941 Madrid, Spain		Spanish composer
Csapó, Gyula more...	1955 Hungary		Hungarian composer now resident in Canada where he is Professor of Music (Composition) at the University of Saskatchewan
Cseki, Kalman	20th century		pianist, cellist, composer and arranger
Cseko, Luiz Carlos	1945 Bahia Brazil		Cseko graduated in composition at the Universidade de Brasilia and also studied composition with Fernando Cerqueira, Rinaldo Rossi and Nicolau Kokron. He obtained an MA from the University of Colorado, USA, and studied electroacoustic music with Vladimir Ussachevsky at Columbia-Princeton University. His music sits in an experimental tradition, and seeks to establish "interfaces between music, movement, light/shadow, scenic and acoustic spaces, drama and chance." He is the leader of the Oficina de Linguagem Musical (Workshop in Musical Language), his own project, using contemporary music as an educational tool
Csermák, Anton Georg [Antal Gyorgy]	1774 Veszprém, Hungary	1822	Hungarian violinist and composer who lived in Vienna from 1790, noted for writing in the verbunkos style
Csiky, Boldizsar	3 Oct. 1937 Tirgu-Mures, Romania		Romanian pianist and composer
Csonka, Paul	1905 Vienna, Austria	24 Nov. 1995 Palm Beach, FL, USA	rather than following his father into the oil business, he pursued a musical career, and at the age of twenty-eight he formed the Opera Guild of Salzburg, a company that specialized in presenting both 20th century operas and operas written before the 18th century. The political atmosphere in Europe led to the disbanding of the company in 1938, and Csonka fled to Cuba, where he continued to compose, teach and write music criticism. He became a Cuban citizen in 1947 but left the island when Fidel Castro assumed power. His US career began in 1962 when he became creative director of the Grand Opera Company of Palm Beach (now known as the Palm Beach Opera Company), a post he held until 1983. He also worked with the Opera Department of the University of Louisiana and was engaged as a vocal coach with the Lyric Opera of Chicago during its 1956 season. He won $11,000 on a TV trivia quiz show on, naturally, the subject of opera
Cubells, Pedro more...	fl. 1532		maestro di capilla at Santa Maria del Mar, Barcelona, Spain some of whose music is extant
Cuclin, Dimitrie	24 Mar. 1885 Galati	7 Feb. 1978 Bucharest	Romanian composer
Cucu, Gheorghe	11 Feb. 1882 Romania	2 Aug. 1932 Romania	Romanian composer known particularly for his vocal and choral music
Cueco, Pablo	second half of 20th century		one of the great masters of the zarb (a melodic percussion instrument from Persia) who is also a free jazz composer and arranger. As a percussionist he recorded in the 1980s and 90s. He is co-director of the Transes Européennes Orchestra
Cui, César Antonovich more...	18 Jan. 1835 Vilnus, Lithuania	24 Mar. 1918 Petrograd (St. Petersburg), Russia	of French descent, Cui was a Russian military engineer and army general and a member of 'The Five' who wrote 10 operas, songs and piano pieces and completed works by Dargomizhsky and Mussorgsky He was also a writer of musical criticism
Cui, Jian	1961 China		based in Beijing, a composer of film music
Cuk, John more...	16th century		English composer who may also have been the sub-provost of Lincoln Cathedral in 1520
Culwick, James C.	28 Apr. 1845 West Bromwich, Staffordshire	5 Oct. 1907 Dublin, Ireland	English-born composer
Cumbersworth, Starling	25 Jul. 1915 Remson Corners, Ohio	8 Aug. 1985 Cleveland, USA	American composer
Cundell, Edric	29 Jan. 1893 London, UK	19 Mar. 1961 London, UK	studied the French horn at Trinity College London and joined its teaching staff in 1914. In 1938, after a good deal of conducting experience, notably at Glyndebourne, he became Principal of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in succession to the deceased Landon Ronald and conducted many student opera performances. He composed chamber music, songs and works for orchestra
Cunelier, Jacquemart le (see Cuvelier, Jean)
Cunningham, Alice	19 Feb. 1909 Watonga, Oklahoma	27 Jun. 2004 New Paltz, New York	social and political activist, musician, publisher and songwriter, who penned a song called How Can You Keep Movin' that entered the post-war folk consciousness through the New Lost City Ramblers and Ry Cooder, though it took her years to assert her authorship; together with her husband, Gordon Friesen, she produced the folk magazine, Broadside, championing songs of social justice and social conscience such as Bob Dylan's Blowin' in the Wind, Janis Ian's Baby I've Been Thinking, Peter La Farge's The Ballad of Ira Hayes, Phil Ochs's Changes, Thom Parrott's The Aberfan Coal Tip Tragedy, Malvina Reynolds's Little Boxes, Buffy Sainte-Marie's Welcome, Welcome Emigrante, Pete Seeger's Waist Deep in the Big Muddy and Nina Simone's Mississippi Goddam
Curci, Giuseppe	15 Jun. 1808 Barletta	5 Aug. 1877 Barletta)	Italian composer
Curcio, Stephanie more...			American harpist and composer
Curiale, Joseph more...	1 Jul 1955 Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA		American composer and longtime arranger for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Curnow, James more...	1943 Port Huron, Michigan, USA		American instrumental music teacher and composer
Curran, Alvin more...	1938 Providence, RI, USA		American composer Alvin Curran co-founded the group Musica Elettronica Viva and has been active with solo performances, international radio concerts and large-scale sound installations since the 1960s
Curschmann, Karl Friedrich	21 Jun. 1805 Berlin, Germany	24 Aug. 1841 Langfuhr, nr. Gdansk	German-born composer
Curti, Franz	16 Nov. 1854 Kassel, Germany	6 Feb. 1898 Dresden, Germany	German composer
Curtis, Charles more...	1960 California, USA		American cellist and avant-garde composer
Curtis, Ernesto de	1875 Naples, Italy	1937 Italy	remembered for his contribution to song in his native region of Naples, in particular his Turna a Surriento, a setting of words by his brother Giovanni Battista, and a favourite recital item in tenor repertoire, from Caruso to Pavarotti. He was also a fine pianist and accompanist who played for many celebrated singers including Beniamino Gigli
Curzon, Frederic more...	4 Sep. 1899 London, UK	Dec. 1973 Bournemouth, UK	pianist, organist and conductor until the success of his Robin Hood Suite encouraged him to take up full-time composing just before World War 2 broke out. The third movement March of the Bowmen has retained its popularity to this day. Later Curzon fulfilled an executive role guiding the Boosey & Hawkes Recorded Music Library, but that still allowed plenty of opportunities for composing
Cusins, William George more...	14 Oct. 1833 London, UK	31 Aug. 1893 Ardennes	pianist and organist of Queen Victoria's private chapel, composer of oratorios and orchestral works, Master of the Queen's Music (1870-93)
Custard, Reginald Goss (see Goss-Custard, Reginald)
Cutler, Chris more...	mid 20th century		percussionist, writer on music and composer, co-founder with Dave Stewart of The Ottowa Music Co. a 22 piece Rock composer's orchestra
Cutler, Joe more...	1968 Neasden, London, UK		British composer who studied in England and at the Chopin Academy of Music with Zbigniew Rudzinski
Cutter, William	20th century USA		choral director, arranger, editor and composer
Cutting, Francis or Thomas more...	c. 1660 England	early 18th century	lutenist who composed a noted arrangement of the popular tune Greensleeves and wrote for instrumental consort
Cuvelier, Jean more...	fl. 1372-87		Frech composer and poet
Cuvillier, Charles (Louis Paul)	24 Apr. 1877 Paris, France	14 Feb. 1955 Paris, France	French composer
Cuyvers, Guy more...	1960 Antwerp, Belgium		Belgian guitarist and composer, noted for his film scores and music for television
Cyrille, Andrew more...	10 Nov. 1939 Brooklyn, NY, USA		jazz drummer and composer
Czapek, Leopold Eustache	fl. early 19th century		pianist and composer who contributed one variation to the original set of 50 variations written on a waltz provided by Diabelli
Czernik, Willy	24 Feb. 1901 Dresden, Germany	6 Jan. 1996 Lammerspiel, Dusseldorf, Germany	German conductor and composer particularly of operetta
Czernohorsky, Bohuslav Matej more...	16 Feb. 1684 Nymburk, Bohemia	1 Aug. 1742 Graz, Styria	Minorite Franciscan priest, excellent organist and composer, he is credited with founding the Prague School of composers that represented the culmination of the Baroque movement in Bohemia and prepared the way for early Classicism. It was while he was the organist at the Basilica in Assisi that, in Easter 1712, he composed the Marian antiphon, Regina Coeli, for 8 voices in double choir, organ and continuo, his only work written in single parts. Although premiered in Italy, he signed and dated this composition using his pen name, 'The Bohemian Friar from Prague, Organist'
Czernowin, Chaya more...	7 Dec. 1957 Haifa, Israel		Israeli composer now resident in the United States
Czerny, Carl more...	20 Feb. 1791 Vienna, Austria	15 Jul. 1857 Vienna, Austria	pupil of Beethoven, teacher of Liszt; composed over 1,000 works including many studies for the piano
Czibulka, Alphons more...	14 May 1842 Szepes-Váralla, Hungary	27 Oct. 1894 Vienna, Austria	band-master abd composer of operettas, dance music and light piano music including Stéphanie Gavotte
Cziffra, Gyorgy more...	5 Nov. 1921 Budapest, Hungary	15 Jan. 1994	he studied piano with his father and when he was nine years old entered the piano class of Dohnányi at the Liszt Academy. After a promising start to his career he was called for military service and was a prisoner-of-war for several years beginning in 1941. It wasn't until 1947 that he was able to resume his studies and career. He won the prestigious Franz Liszt Prize after which he was widely acclaimed for his performances of Chopin and Liszt and, later, for his stupendous virtuoso performances of his own transcriptions. In spite of wide acclaim, he (like Horowitz at one point) abandoned his career until the early 1990s when he gave a concert in Paris
Czukay, Holger more...	24 Mar. 1938 Danzig, Germany		a founding member of the enormously influential Krautrock group Can, Holger Czukay was one of the pivotal underground figures of his era; over the course of his long, expansive career, Czukay successfully bridged the gap between pop and the avant-garde, pioneering the use of samples and exploring the significance of world music on Western culture
Czyz, Henryk	16 Jun. 1923 Grudziadz, Poland		Polish composer