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Name	Born	Died	Information
Raaff, Robin de more...	1968 The Netherlands		Dutch composer
Raaijmakers, Dick (a.k.a. Kid Baltan) more...	1 Sep. 1930 Maastricht, The Netherlands		Dutch composer particularly of electronic music
Raappana, Sakari more...	27 Feb. 1966 Suomussalmi, Finland		Finnish composer who took private studies in composition with Vesa Valkama
Raas, Jan more...	Jan. 1942 The Netherlands		Dutch organist and composer
Raats, Jaan more...	15 Oct. 1932 Tartu, Estonia		Estonian pianist and composer
Rabaud, Henri (Benjamin) more...	10 Nov. 1873 Paris, France	11 Sep. 1949 Paris, France	French conductor and composer, descended from a family with distinguished musical tradition, was a pupil of Gédalge and Massenet at the Paris Conservatoire, where he became director after Fauré's retirement. He composed of operas, symphonies, and the symphonic poem La Procession nocturne, op. 6
Rabaud, Hippolyte (François) more...	29 Jan. 1839 Salelles d'Aude, France	20 Apr. 1900 Paris, France	father of Henri, cellist and composer of études and a Méthode for cello
Rabinovitch-Barakovsky, Alexandre more...	1945 Baku, Azerbaijan		pianist, conductor and composer who is well known for his work with the pianist Martha Argerich
Rachmaninoff(or Rachmaninov, Rachmaninow, Rakhmaninov, Rakhmaninov), Sergei (or Sergey, Serge) Vasilievich more...	1 Apr. 1873 Semyonovo, Russia	28 Mar. 1943 Beverley Hills, CA, USA	Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Sergei Rachmaninoff was the spelling the composer himself used while living in the West throughout the latter half of his life
Rakov, Nikolay Petrovich	14 Mar. 1908 Kaluga, Russia		Russian composer and teacher
Racy, Ali Jihad more...	Ibl al-Saqi, Lebanon		performer, composer, ethnomusicologist and specialist in the music of the Middle East
Radcliffe, Philip more...	27 Apr. 1905 Surrey, England	2 Sep. 1986 France	British composer and music critic
Radeck, Ferdinand more...	1828 Spandau, Germany	1903	he was extremely diligent in both the musical applications and in administration and in 1854 was appointed bandmaster of the 6th Grenadier Regiment band in Posen (now Poland) For much of his military career he was bandmaster and administrator in the garrison of Goblets. He wrote several quality marches and his most well known march is Fridericus Rex Grenadiermarsch which is no 136 in book II of German Regimental marches.
Radermacher, Erika more...	16 Apr. 1936 Eschweiler, Aachen		German-born musician, teacher and composer
Radermacher, Friedrich more...	14 Apr. 1924 Düren, Germany		German teacher and composer
Radesca di Foggia, Enrico more...	late 16th century Foggia, Italy	early 1625 Turin, Italy	Italian composer. He worked at Turin Cathedral as organist (until c. 1615) and then as choirmaster, and from 1610 also served at the court of Amadeo of Savoy, becoming choirmaster by 1615. He was one of the earliest composers of sacred music for small vocal ensemble and continuo, but in his seven secular collections concentrated on duets, using a lively style derived from the canzonetta
Radic, Dusan more...	23 Dec. 1929		Serbian composer whose works include 'List', for voice and piano, and 'The Tower of Skulls'
Radigue, Eliane more...	24 Jan. 1932 Paris, France		a French electronic music composer whose work, since the early 1970s, has been almost exclusively created on a single synthesizer, the ARP 2500 modular system and tape
Radino, Giovanni Maria more...	fl. late 16th century/early 17th century		Italian lutenist whose Intavolatura di balli per sonar di liuto was published in Venice in 1592
Raditschnig, Werner more...	21 Nov. 1948 Villach, Carinthia, Austria		Austrian composer
Radomski, Nicolaus more...	Radom (fl. first half 15th century)		Polish musician and composer
Radulescu, Horatiu more...	7 Jan. 1942 Bucharest, Romania		a composer best known for the spectral technique of composition which he has developed since the late 1960s
Radziwill, Anton Heinrich, Count of Otyka and Nieswiez more...	13 Jun 1775, Grand Duchy of Posen	7 Apr. 1833 Grand Duchy of Posen	a great musical talent, not only an agreeable Violoncellist but also a Composer. In the latter capacity he was extensively known through his music to Goethe's Faust. For the Violoncello he published only one work, Complaints de Marie Stuart, with Piano accompaniment. The remainder of his published compositions consist of vocal pieces, of which one is arranged with guitar and cello accompaniment. He was appointed by the King of Prussia, in 1815, Governor of the Grand Duchy of Posen. He spent a part of the year generally at Berlin. His house there was the centre of artist celebrities
Raeburn, Boyd more...	27 Oct. 1913 Faith, South Dakota, USA	2 Aug. 1966 Lafayette, Louisiana, USA	American jazz bandleader, bass saxophonist and composer
Raedt, Pierre de more...	fl. first half of 16th century		composer originally from Belgium
Raes, Godfried-Willem more...	3 Jan. 1952 Ghent, Belgium		Belgian composer and instrument maker, founder of the Logos-Group (1968), out of which grew the Logos Duo, with Moniek Darge
Raff, (Joseph) Joachim more...	27 May 1822 Lachen, Switzerland	24/25 Jun. 1882 Frankfurt, Germany	Swiss-German pianist, composer and teacher, greatly celebrated in his lifetime but nearly forgotten in the late 20th century
Ragazzi, Angelo more...	c.1680	1750	Neapolitan violinst and composer who was active in Naples and Vienna
Ragnarsson, Hjálmar Helgi more...	1952		Icelandic composer
Ragué, Louis-Charles more...	1744 Nawur, Belgium	c.1793 Moulins-Warnant, Belgium	Belgian composer, harpist and teacher
Rahbani, Mansour Al more...	1925 Antelias, nr. Beirut, Lebanon	13 Jan. 2009 Beirut, Lebanon	Lebanese composer, musician, poet and lyricist
Rahbari, Ali (Alexander) more...	1948 Tehran, Iran		Persian (Iranian) composer and conductor. From 1988 to 1996, Rahbari was the principal conductor of the Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra and after that became music director of Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra
Rahula, Tomi more...	1976		Estonian composer and conductor
Rai, Takayuki more...	1954 Tokyo, Japan		composer and writes his own composition programs for computer, back to Japan after 10 years in Hollande he is the Sonologie Studio director at theMusic Kunitachi College
Raichev, Alexander more...	11 Apr. 1922	2003	Bulgarian pianist and composer
Raick, Dieudonné more...	bap. 1 Mar. 1703 Liège, Belgium	30 Nov. 1764 Anvers, Belgium	Belgian composer and organist
Räihälä, Osmo Tapio more...	15 Jan,.1964 Suomussalmi, Finland		he has experimented uninhibitedly with a wide variety of styles and elements even within a single work. His output consists mostly of chamber music. Free twelve-tone music is perhaps the single dominant feature in his idiom. At his most experimental, he has employed eight electric toothbrushes, a grand piano and a gong in Dentalation (1988); elsewhere, he has employed tonal or Minimalist elements. His most extensive textures can be found in the sextet Black Watch (1996)
Raik, Priit	1948 Estonia		composer and conductor who now lives and works in Finland. He worked as a conductor and music teacher at the Tallinn Conservatory and was a conductor also at the 1990 Estonian Song Festival in Tallinn. His major output as a composer is music for various wind ensembles
Raimbaut of Orange more...	c.1147	1173	or in Occitan Raimbaut d'Aurenga, was a major troubadour, having contributed to the creation of trobar clus, or cryptic style, in troubadour poetry. About forty of his works survive, displaying a gusto for rare rhymes and intricate poetic form
Raimondi, Ignazio more...	1735 Naples, Italy	14 Jan. 1813 London, England	Italian-born composer who lived and worked in Amsterdam and Paris
Raimondi, Pietro more...	20 Dec. 1786 Rome, Italy	30 Oct. 1853 Rome, Italy	Italian composer particularly of opera
Raimund, Ferdinand more...	1790	1836	Austrian actor, dramatist and librettist
Rainger, Ralph (born Ralph Reichenthal) more...	7 Oct. 1901 New York City, NY, USA	23 Oct. 1942 nr. Palm Springs, California, USA	American pianist and composer of popular music principally for films including Thanks for the Memory, which won and Academy Award and which entertainer Bob Hope adopted as his signature song
Rainier, Priaulx more...	2 Mar. 1903 Howick, Natal, South Africa	10 Oct. 1986 France	South-African-born violinist and composer who, in 1943, was appointed a Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music, a post she held until 1961
Räisänen, Tomi more...	2 Jun. 1976 Helsinki, Finland		Finnish composer who studied composition with Harri Vuori (1997-2000) and Erkki Jokinen
Raitio, Pentti more...	4 Jun. 1930 Finland		a Finnish composer whose idiom has developed from his subtle post-Webern early period towards a freer style combining Post-Serialist and Neo-Impressionist features
Raitio, Väinö more...	15 Apr. 1891 Sortavala, Finland	10 Sep. 1945 Helsinki, Finland	He is reported to have declared that "Music is colour". In winter 191617, Raitio went to Moscow to continue his studies, and it was there that he first encountered the music of Skryabin. Raitio later went to Berlin (1921) and Paris (192526), but he wrote his boldest works before going to Paris. His tone poem Joutsenet (The Swans, 1919) has as its theme Romantic-Symbolist philosophy, but its use of orchestral colour and harmony are more Impressionistic. The importance he attached to colour is indicated in the title of Raitio's major piano work, Neljä värirunoelmaa (Four Colour Poems, 1922). Raitio's core output of the 1920s is highly reminiscent of Skryabin
Rajicic, Stanojlo	1910		after studying at the Prague Conservatorium, Rajicic created a thrilling polytonic harmonic musical language. He composed the opera 'Simonida', operas for television and cycles for voice and orchestra ('In the Linden Forest', 'Yellow Leaves', and many others), symphonies and several concertos
Rajna, Thomas more...	21 Dec. 1928 Budapest, Hungary		South African composer and pianist. He started to play the piano and compose at an early age and studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music where he won the Liszt Prize in 1947. That year he left Hungary to settle in London and in 1970 he settled with his family in Cape Town, South Africa
Rak, Stepan more...	(8 Aug.) 1945		Czech virtuoso guitarist and composer. His exact birth date is uncertain
Rakov, Nikolai more...	14 Mar. 1908 Kaluga, Russia	3 Nov. 1990 Moscow, Russia	Russian composer
Raksin, David more...	4 Aug. 1912 Philadelphia, USA	9 Aug. 2004 Van Nuys, California, USA	studied with Arnold Schoenberg before moving to Hollywood initially as an arranger and later as a composer particularly of film scores including his biggest hit Laura. For many years he was Professor of Music at the University of Southern California (USC) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Ralph, James more...	1695-1710 possibly Philadelphia, US	24 Jan. 1762 Berkshire(?), England	In his Autobiography, Benjamin Franklin recalled Ralph as a man of exquisite manners and declares, "I think I never knew a prettier talker". Ralph's The Fashionable Lady (1730) should be considered the first opera by an American, not Anthony Aston's The Fool's Opera (as cited by Sonneck in his Early Opera in America). Ralph, foremost a writer, travelled with Franklin to England beginning in 1724, and moved in circles of notable friends such as John Gay, Alexander Pope and William Hogarth. The Fashionable Lady fits into the scheme of English ballad opera of the period. Specific numbers in this opera are lifted most often from John Gay's The Beggar's Opera and Polly, but also from Charles Johnson's The Village Opera and Thomas Walker's The Quaker's Opera. Only one number in Ralph's work, The Queen's Old Courtier, could possibly have been composed by Ralph; in this rare instance, the music suits Ralph's text
Rameau, Jean-Philippe more...	25 Sep. 1683 Dijon, France	12 Sep. 1764 Paris, France	one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the Baroque era. He replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera, and was attacked by those who preferred Lully's style
Ramin, Günther Werner Hans more...	15 Oct. 1898 Karlsruhe, Germany	27 Feb. 1956 Leipzig, Germany	influential German organist, conductor, composer and pedagogue
Ramirez, Ariel more...	4 Sep. 1921 Santa Fe, Argentina		Argentinean composer and collector of over 400 folk and country songs
Ramm, Andrea von (born: Andrea Ramm von Marnov) more...	8 Sep. 1928 Pärnu (Pernau), Estonia	30 Nov. 1999 Munich, Germany	Estonian-born mezzo-soprano, who trained, in Fribourg (Switzerland), Munich and Milan, in music theory, composition and musicology, as well as singing instruction
Ramm, Valentina Yosifovna	22 Oct. 1888 Kharkov, Ukraine		Ukrainian composer
Rammaert, Alove more...	20 Jun. 1915 Mouscron, Belgium	12 Sep. 2006 Auderghem (Brussels), Belgium	Belgian composer (information provided by Jan de Kloe)
Ramos de Parej, Bartolomé more...	c. 1440 Baeza (Jaén), Spain	1522 Rome, Italy	noted composer and theorist who held the chair of music at the University of Salamanca. In 1482, he proposed that tuning should be modified to incorporate more harmonious thirds and sixths. The scheme that he proposed was a form of mean tone temperament
Ramovs, Primoz more...	20 Mar. Ljublijana, Slovenia	Jan. 1999 Ljublijana, Slovenia	Slovenian composer
Rampollini, Mattio more...	1497	c. 1553	Italian composer
Ramsey, Robert more...		1644	English composer and organist of Trinity College, Cambridge (1628-1644)
Ran, Shulamit more...	21 Oct. 1949 Tel Aviv, Israel		Israeli-born pianist who has been professor of composition at the University of Chicago since 1973. Her First Symphony won a Pulitzer Prize
Randall, John more...	1715	1799	English organist, Cambridge professor of music and composer
Randel, Andreas more...	1806	1864	Swedish composer
Rands, Bernard more...	2 Mar. 1934 Sheffield, UK		composer of contemporary classical music who lives and works in the USA
Raney, Doug more...			American jazz guitarist and composer
Raney, Jon more...	1961 New York City, USA		jazz pianist and composer
Ranglin, Ernest more...	1932 Jamaica, WI		jazz guitarist and composer
Rangstrom, Ture	1884 Sweden	1947	wrote massive symphonies and other works for the orchestra, but is best known for his dramatic songs, revealing an unsurpassed insight into the demands and potential of vocal music. He was himself a trained singer and singing teacher
Raninen, Paarvo	1946		pianist, musical arranger and composer for windbands
Ránki, György more...	30 Nov. 1907 Budapest, Hungary	22 May 1992 Hungary	Hungarian composer for various media with a strong interest in ethnomusicology
Rannap, Rein more...	6 Oct. 1953 Tallinn, Estonia		Estonian composer and pianist
Ranse, Marc de	1881	1951	French organist, conductor and composer, de Ranse was a student of the Schola Cantorum with Guilmant and d'Indy, after which he was appointed organist of the Church of Saint-Louis-d'Antin in Paris, a post he held until 1933. He was director of the Institut Grégorien in Paris and founded the choir Le Choeur Mixte
Ranta, Sulho more...	15 Aug. 1901 Peräseinäjoki , Finland	5 May 1960 Helsinki, Finland	wrote several chamber music works in an Expressionist vein in his early period in the 1920s and attracted attention with his bold choice of style. In the 1930s, however, he turned to a more traditional style embracing Neo-Classical clarity and tonality. The core of Ranta's extensive output consists of four numbered Symphonies, preceded by the unnumbered Sinfonia programmatica (192931) inspired by Greek mythology. Ranta also provided sub-titles for his numbered Symphonies: the First Symphony is Sinfonia piccola, the Second is Sinfonia semplica (1936), the Third is Sinfonia dell'arte (1947), and the Fourth is Oratorio volgare (1951)
Ranzato, Virgilio more...	7 May 1883 Venice, Italy	20 Apr. 1937 Como, Italy	Italian composer
Raoux, Louis-Alexis more...	11 Sep. 1814 Courtrai, Belgium	15 Nov. 1855 Evere, Belgium	Belgian composer and teacher
Raphael, Georg more...	1865	1904	German composer who, after studying medicine, then studied music. Georg was engaged as a church musician at the Luther Kirche and later became the music director of the Matthäi Kirche in Berlin
Raphael, Gunther more...	30 Apr. 1903 Berlin, Germany	1960 nr. Herford, Germany	German composer
Raphun, Martin more...	1597	c. 1626	organist and composer
Rappé, Jean-Baptiste more...	5 Feb. 1836 Grammont, Belgium	10 Jan. 1889 Ghent, Belgium	Belgian cellist, composer and teacher
Rascarini, Francesco Maria more...	before 1645 Reggio Emilia, Italy	1706 Turin, Italy	castrato singer and composer
Raschenau, Maria Anna von more...	1650	1714	known only as the composer of several oratorios, all thought to be lost. References to her in court documents provide a picture of her life and personality: she was a prodigy, not only in music but also in other intellectual accomplishments, and she wasmost unusually for a womangranted a court stipend to continue her education, at the request of her father, a respected court employee. Trained in languages, philosophy, theology and history, as well as music and the usual household arts, she may have aimed to become a courtier or a noble wife, or perhaps a court governess or musician. In 1671 or 1672 she entered the convent of St. Jacob, where her musical career blossomed, as the practice of presenting large-scale musical works on patron saints days for members of the Imperial family became established in Viennese convents. The high point of this activity was 16901710, a time during which state visits to convents to hear music performed by virtuous nuns and young girls meshed perfectly with the Imperial familys concept of itself
Raseghi, Andreas F. more...	1964 Karlsruhe, Germany		German composer, arranger & producer
Raselius, Andreas (a.k.a. Andreas Raselius Ambergensis) more...	1561-1563 Hahnbach, Germany	6 Jan. 1602 Heidelberg, Germany	German composer of the Renaissance
Rasi, Francesco more...	14 May 1574 Arezzo, Italy	30 Nov. 1621 Italy	Italian composer, singer (tenor), chitarrone player, and poet
Raskatov, Alexander more...	1953 Moscow, Russia		Russian composer
Rasmussen, Kristina more...			a composer and conductor of choral music, she is currently music director at Newport Center United Methodist Church in Corona del Mar, California
Rasmussen, Peter more...	1838	1913	Rasmussen studied with German composer Gebauer. He taught at the Royal Danish Conservatoire and was organist at the garrison church in Copenhagen
Rasmussen, Sunleif more...	19 Mar. 1961 Sandur, Faroe Islands		foremost Faroese composer of classical music
Rasse, François more...	27 Jan. 1873 Helchin (Helkijn) (Flandre Occidentale)	4 Jan. 1955 Ixelles, Belgium	Belgian composer, violinist, conductor and teacher
Ratassepp, Arvo more...	17 Mar. 1926 Tallinn, Estonia	22 Dec. 1986 Tallinn, Estonia	Estonian composer
Rathaus, Karol (born Karl Leonhard Bruno Rathaus) more...	16 Sep. 1895 Tarnopol, Austro-Hungarian Empire, today Ukraine	21 Nov. 1954 Flushing, New York City, US	Rathaus trained in Vienna but fled Germany just before the Second World War, spending some time in Paris and London, before emigrating to the USA in 1938
Rathbone, George more...	1874 Manchester, U.K.	1951	Rathbone trained at the RCM as a pianist and organist. He was particularly noted for his songs, works for choir and church anthems
Rathgeber, Valentin more...	3 Apr. 1682 Obereisbach, Germany	2 Jun. 1750 Kloster Banz, Germany	a Benedictine monk who gained fame during his lifetime for the four Trachten (parts) of his Augsburgisches Tafel-Confect.
Ratniece, Santa more...	22 Mar. 1977 Jelgava, Latvia		Latvian composer
Rauchenecker, Georg Wilhelm more...	8 Mar. 1844 Monaco	17 Jul. 1906 Elberfeld, Germany	German composer
Raum, Elizabeth more...	1945 USA		Canadian composer and oboist, she received a Bachelor of Music degree in oboe performance from the Eastman School of Music. From 1968-75 she served as principal oboist of the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra in Halifax, Nova Scotia and in 1975 was named principal with the Regina Symphony Orchestra, a position she still currently holds. She received a Master of Music degree in composition from the University of Regina. She has composed several works for solo brass instruments, especially tuba, and has also composed orchestral and chamber works
Rauscher, Jacob more...	1771	1834	Dutch composer
Rautavaara, Einojuhani more...	9 Oct. 1928 Helsinki, Finland	27 Jul 2016 Finland	when Jean Sibelius, on the occasion of his 90th birthday, was offered a scholarship by the American Koussevitzky Foundation to present to the young composer of his choice in his homeland, he selected Einojuhani Rautavaara. The younger composer has gone through several stylistic periods in his career: Neo-Classicism, dodecaphony up to and including Serialist experiments, Neo-Romanticism and a synthesis period bringing together the various facets of his earlier output
Rautavaara, Pentti more...	29 Sep. 1917 Vaasa, Finland	18 Jun. 2002 Finland	Finnish composer
Rautio, Matti more...	25 Feb. 1922 Helsinki, Finland	22 Jun. 1986 Tampere, Finland	a Finnish composer who developed in the late 1940s and early 1950s, at a time when Neo-Classicism was the mainstream in Finnish music. Rautio's output remained rather limited, consisting of fewer than a dozen pieces; his life's work was in reforming Finnish music education
Rauw, Georg (see Rhau, George)
Rava, Enrico more...	1939 Trieste, Italy		jazz trumpeter and composer
Ravanello, Oreste more...	1871 Italy	1938 Italy	Italian composer and organist
Ravel, Maurice more...	7 Mar. 1875 Ciboure, France	28 Dec. 1937 France	French composer and pianist, known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his music and generally considered to be one of the major composers of the 20th century. His piano, chamber music, and orchestral works have become staples in the repertoire. Ravel's piano compositions, such as Miroirs and Gaspard de la Nuit are virtuosic, and his orchestrations, such as in Daphnis et Chloé and his orchestral arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, are notable for the effective use of tonal color and variety of sound and instrumentation. To the general public he is probably best known for his orchestral work, Boléro, which he considered a trivial work and once described as "a piece for orchestra without music". According to Sacem, Ravel currently earns more royalties than any other French musician, making him (for now at least) officially France's most popular composer
Ravenscroft, Thomas more...	1582/1592	1635	English composer, theorist and editor, notable as a composer of rounds and catches, and especially for compiling collections of British folk music, including catches, rounds, street cries, vendor songs, "freeman's songs" and other anonymous music, in three collections: Pammelia (1609), Deuteromelia (1609) and Melismata (1611)
Ravets (or Ravits), Antoine-Guillaume more...	c.1758 Louvain, Belgium	1827 Anvers, Belgium	Belgian composer and organist
Raway, Érasme more...	2 Jun. 1850 Liège, Belgium	Oct. 1918 Brussels, Belgium	Belgian composer and theologian
Rawlinson, Harold more...	1891	1978	his work, mainly orchestral, figured in the light music programmes of the first half of the 20th century. He composed a few songs like Heigho Youth, Dear Sussex and The Philosopher. Most popular among his orchestral output was the Lyric suite for strings; The Open Road, performed successfully on the BBC and by light orchestras elsewhere including, in 1946, in Doncaster; its three movements were entitled Song of the Open Road, Song of the Hills and By The Camp Fire. Also popular was the six movement suite of Troubadour Songs, also for string orchestra, and In A Kentish Garden, for full orchestra. Rawlinson also wrote incidental music (an overture and seven movements) for the play The Maid of Orleans
Rawsthorne, Alan more...	2 May 1905 Haslingden, Lancs.	24 Jul. 1971 Essex	British composer
Raxach, Enrique more...	15 Jan. 1932 Barcelona, Spain		Spanish-Dutch composer
Raymond, Fred more...
Raymundi, Daniel more...	c.1558 Liège, Belgium	25 Jan. 1634 Liège, Belgium	Flemish composer and man of letters
Razaf, Andy (born: Andriamanantena Paul Razafinkarefo) more...	16 Dec. 1895 Washington, DC, USA	3 Feb. 1973	an African American composer, poet, and lyricist of such well-known songs as Ain't Misbehavin and Honeysuckle Rose
Razzi, Giovanni more...	13 Dec. 1531 Marradi, Italy	8 Aug. 1611 Florence, Italy	Italian theologian, writer, music editor and composer
Read, Daniel more...	16 Nov. 1757 USA	4 Dec. 1836 USA	American composer of the First New England School, and one of the primary figures in early American classical music
Read, Gardner more...	2 Jan. 1913 Evanston, Illinois, USA	10 Nov. 2005 Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, USA	composer, teacher, conductor and writer
Reade, Paul more...	1943 Lancashire, UK	7 Jun. 1997	British composer. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music then worked as repetiteur with English National Opera. He wrote the score for several ballets including Bintley's Hobson's Choice (1989) and Far from the Madding Crowd (1996)
Reali, Giovanni more...	1681	c. 1727
Rebagliati, Claudio more...	6 Oct. 1843 Nola, Italy	23 Jul. 1909 Lima, Peru	Italian-born violinist and composer
Rebel, François more...	19 Jun. 1701 Paris, France	7 Nov. 1775 France	son of Jean-Fery Rebel, French composer of the Baroque era
Rebel, Jean-Fery more...	18 Apr. 1666 France	2 Jan. 1747 France	an innovative French Baroque composer and violinist
Rebelo, Joao Lourenco more...	1610 Caminha, Portugal	16 Nov. 1661 Quinta de Santo Amaro, nr Lisbon, Portugal	Portuguese composer
Reber, Heinz more...	1952 Bern, Switzerland		Swiss-born composer who has worked in Bern, Berlin and most recently in Vienna, where he teaches solo voice and musical and dramatic expression at the Univeristy of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, as well as directing opera projects
Rebikov (or Rebikoff, Ryebikoff), Vladimir Ivanovich more...	31 May 1866 Krasnoyarsk, Russia	1 Oct. 1920 Yalta, Russia	late twentieth-century romantic Russian composer and pianist
Rechberger, Herman more...	14 Feb. 1947 Linz, Austria		studied graphic art and the guitar in Linz before continuing his guitar studies in Zürich and Brussels. He has been living in Finland since 1970 and became a Finnish citizen in 1974. He is the most colourful and uninhibited of the recent Finnish Modernists, in many ways transcending the boundaries of strict Modernism. He often combines elements from early music, particularly the Renaissance, with a variety of modern sound worlds. He is also an accomplished player of both recorder and oboe
Reda, Siegfried more...	27 Jul. 1916 Bochum, Germany	13 Dec. 1968 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany	German composer and organist
Redford, John more...	c.1485	1547	noted as a composer of early English keyboard music, but there are very few surviving details of his life
Redgate, Roger more...
Redin (or Redein), Jean-François more...	bap. 5 Nov. 1748 Anvers, Belgium	27 Feb. 1802 Anvers, Belgium	Belgian composer and violinist
Redman, Don more...	29 Jul. 1900 Piedmont, West Virginia, USA	30 Nov. 16964 New York, USA	an American jazz musician, arranger, and composer
Redman, Joshua more...	1 Feb. 1969 Berkelely, California, USA		saxophonist and composer
Redouté, Jean(-François) more...	3 Feb. 1902 Mons, Belgium	5 Feb. 1994 Marcinelle, Belgium	Belgian composer and conductor
Reed, Alfred more...	25 Jan. 1921 New York, USA	17 Sep. 2005 USA	one of America's most prolific and frequently performed composers
Reed, Eric more...	21 Jun. 1970 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA		an American jazz pianist and composer
Reed, Lou more...	2 Mar. 1942 Brooklyn, NY, USA		an influential American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist
Reed, Owen more...	17 Jun. 1910 Odesa, Missouri, USA		an American composer, conductor, and author
Reeve, Gregory more...			American composer born in New York City
Reeve, Stephen more...	1948 London, UK		English composer
Reeves, Camden more...	1974		studied composition with Philip Grange at the University of Exeter, with David Blake and Roger Marsh at the University of York and with Paavo Heininen at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. At the age of just 22, he was appointed Composer Fellow with the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester
Regamey, Constantin more...	1907 Kiev, Russia	27 Dec. 1982 Lausanne, Switzerland	Swiss composer and pianist
Regenbogen, Barthel more...		c. 1320	a Meistersinger who flourished in about 1300 AD
Reger, Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian (Max) more...	19 Mar. 1873 Brand, Bavaria	11 May 1916 Leipzig, Germany	German composer, organist, pianist and teacher.
Reggio, Pietro more...	6 Jul. 1632	23 Jul. 1685	Italian singer, composer, and lutenist
Reginaldus (see Libert, Reginaldus)
Regis, Johannes more...	c.1425	c.1496 Soignies, Flanders	a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. He was a well-known composer at the close of the 15th-century, was a principal contributor to the Chigi Codex, and was secretary to Guillaume Dufay
Regnart, Jacob		1599	Flemish musician who rose to the post of deputy bandmaster in Prague. During the reign of Rudolf II he moved to Innsbruck but he returned to Prague in 1598. In Prague, Regnart published masses dedicated to the head of the Chapter of Prague's St. Vitus' Cathedral, the humanist poet Jiri S. Pontan of Braitenberk. The madrigal written on a poem by Torquato Tasso, was published by the Munich music printer Adamus Berg
Regnault, Pierre (see Sandrin)
Regnier de Quaregnon (see Quaregnon, Regnier de)
Regondi, Giulio more...	1822 Geneva or Lyon	6 May 1872 London, UK	an Italian classical guitarist, concertinist and composer
Regteren-Altena, Lucas van more...	1924	2000	Dutch composer
Regteren-Altena, Maarten van more...	22 Jan. 1943,br>Amsterdam, The Netherlands		Dutch composer, performer and band leader
Rehnqvist, Karin more...	21 Aug. 1957 Stockholm, Sweden		Swedish composer
Reich, Stephen Michael (Steve) more...	3 Oct. 1936 New York, USA		American composer. Reich is known as one of the pioneers of minimalism, although he sometimes deviates from a purely minimalist style. Reich has developed a number of very influential compositional ideas including using tape loops to create phasing patterns (such as in his first works, It's Gonna Rain, Come Out); and using processes to create and explore musical concepts (Pendulum Music, Four Organs). These compositions, marked by their use of repetitive figures and phasing effects, have significantly influenced contemporary American music as well as contemporary music as a whole; The Guardian has described Reich as one of the few composers to have "altered the direction of musical history"
Reicha, Anton more...	26 Feb. 1770 Prague, Czechoslovakia	28 May 1836 Paris, France	a Czech-born naturalized French composer
Reicha, Josef more...	12 Feb. 1752 Chudenice, Czechoslovakia	5 Mar. 1795 Bonn, Germany	a Czech cellist, composer and conductor. He was the uncle of composer and music theorist Anton Reicha
Reichardt, (Bernhardine) Juliane Benda	1732 Germany	1783	singer, pianist and composer and member of an illustrious Czech-German musical family, Juliane wrote two piano sonatas and many songs
Reichardt, Johann Friedrich more...	25 Nov. 1752 Königsberg, Germany	27 Jun. 1814 Giebichenstein, Germany	a German composer, writer and music critic
Reichardt, Louise	1779 Germany	1826	daughter of Juliane, taught in Hamburg and organised a Handel Festival there. A soprano who composed for voice
Reiche, Gottfried more...	5 Feb. 1667 Weissenfels, Germany	6 Oct. 1734 Leipzig, Germany	German trumpet player and composer of the Baroque era. He is best known for having been Johann Sebastian Bach's chief trumpeter at Leipzig from Bach's arrival there in 1723 until Reiche's death
Reichert, Mathieu-André	1830 Maastricht, Belgium	1880 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Belgian-born composer and flautist
Reijseger, Ernst more...	13 Nov. 1954 Bussum, The Netherlands		a Dutch cellist and composer. He specializes in jazz, improvised music, and contemporary classical music and often gives solo concerts
Reimann, Aribert more...
Reimann, Heinrich more...
Reims, Robert de more...
Reina, Felix more...
Reina, Rafael more...
Reina, Sisto more...
Reinagle, Alexander more...	1747 England	1809 USA	born to Joseph Reinagle (see below), Alexander was educated in Scotland, he taught harpsichord in Glasgow and was a friend of C.P.E. Bach. He emigrated to America at age 30. He contributed to American music in many ways. He directed plays and operas, produced concerts that he wrote a good deal of music for and composed piano and piano/violin sonatas. His music could also be heard in several plays and as many as 28 different types of operas. He also supervised the construction of the New Theatre in Philadelphia in the mid 1790s. He was also the piano teacher of George Washington's adopted daughter [part contributed by Jeshua Madden]
Reinagle, Hugh more...	1766 Portsmouth, U.K.	Lisbon, Portugal	Joseph Reinagle's younger brother received his education from Crosdill, and was distinguished for his unwonted skill. He died while still young, at Lisbon, whither he had gone for the restoration of his failing health. Of his compositions appeared three works: two of them, Op. 1 and 2, consist of six Cello solos, and Op. 3 contains six Duets for two Violoncellos
Reinagle, Joseph more...	1762 Portsmouth, U.K.	1836 Oxford, U.K.	the son of a German music teacher who emigrated to England, Joseph was originally intended for the navy, but gave it up after his first voyage. He was apprenticed then to a goldsmith in Edinburgh, but neither in this did be persevere, and his father resolved to let him be a musician. He at first chose the trumpet as his instrument, on which he acquired some skill, and entered the service of the king as trumpeter. He was obliged to give up the wind instrument on account of his health, and was then Violoncellist, Violinist, and finally Violoncellist again. For a while he was Concert Director in Edinburgh. In 1789 he went to Dublin, and in 1791 to London, where, besides obtaining a good position in the best orchestras, he was principal cello at Salomon's concerts. He finally settled at Oxford. He published, for the Violoncello, thirty Duos in four books, as Op. 2, 8, 4, and 5, as well as a School Concise Introduction to the Art of playing the Violoncello, which went through four editions
Reincken, Johann Adam more...
Reinecke, Carl Heinrich Carsten more...	23 Jun. 1824 Altona, Germany	10 Mar. 1910 Leipzig, Germany	composer, conductor and performer, director of the Gewandhaus concerts at Leipzig
Reinhardt, Django more...
Reinhardt, Franz more...
Reininger, Blaine more...
Reinmar der Alte (see Hagenau, Reinmar von)
Reinvere, Juri more...
Reis, Jacob de more...	c.1540	c.1605
Reis, Gaspar dos more...		1674	mestre de capela at Portugals primatial cathedral, at Braga and composer
Reissiger, Carl more...
Reizenstein, Franz more...
Rembt, Johann Ernst more...	26 Aug. 1749 Suhl, Germany	26 Feb. 1810 Suhl, Germany	German organist and composer [information provided by Donna Gosnell]
Remouchamps, Henri de more...	c.1660	1639 Liège, Belgium	Flemish composer and organist
Renard, Antoine more...
Rendano, Alfonso more...
Rendeux, Englebert more...	1717 Liège, Belgium	c.1787	Belgian composer and painter
Rener, Adam (also called Adam le Liégeois) more...	c.1485 Liège, Belgium	c.1520 Altenburg	Flemish composer and singer
Renesse, George van more...
Renie, Henriette more...
Renier, Nicolas more...
Renier, Jean-Jacques more...	3 Feb. 1747 Jupille, Belgium	16 Mar. 1815 Maastricht, Belgium	Belgian composer
Rennes, Catharina van more...
Renotte, Hubert more...	24 Feb. 1704 Liège, Belgium	before 23 Jun. 1745	Begian composer and organist
Renouard Lariviere, Regis more...
Rens, Jean-Marie more...	29 Sep. 1955		Belgian composer, pianist, accordionist and teacher
Rensburg, Jacques more...	22 May 1846 Rotterdam, The Netherlands		he undertook cello studies under Ganz in his ninth year, and continued them under Giese, Daniel de Lange, and Emil Hegar. Rensburg was destined for a commercial and not an artistic career, but his inclination for music so increased with time, that in 1867 he received permission from his father to devote himself to Art. He now went about the middle of the year named to Cologne, in order to pursue a course under the talented Violoncellist, Schmitt. The latter, however, was already, in consequence of a chest malady which, later, carried him off, so suffering that Rensburg's wish was not fulfilled of learning from him. Instead of becoming Schmitt's pupil he was his temporary assistant, as first Cellist in the orchestra of the Gurzenich Concerts, as well as teacher in the Rhenish School of Music at Cologne. Both offices were given over to him definitely on April 1, 1868, on account of his valuable services, for, in the meantime, Schmitt had died. Besides his official duty, Rensburg frequently performed with favourable success in the tours of the Rhenish Provinces, as well as in North Germany, -and in 1872, also, in the Leipzig Gewandhaus as a soloist; but the ceaseless application with which he practised his profession brought on a nervous affection, which compelled him to retire into private life. In the autumn of 1874 he went to his native town, and since the spring of 1880 be has been living at Bonn, where he is partner in a mercantile undertaking. Of his compositions have appeared: Recitative, Adagio, and Allegro, in the form of a Concerto
Renvoisy, Richard de more...
Resinarius, Balthasar more...
Respighi, Ottorino more...	9 Jul. 1879 Bologna, Italy	18 Apr. 1936 Rome, Italy	an Italian composer, musicologist and violinist. He is perhaps best known for his Roman trilogy and the three suites of Ancient Airs and Dances
Resta, Jose more...
Reubke, Julius more...
Reudenbach, Michael more...
Reuenthal, Neidhart von more...	fl. 1210-1240		(in Middle High German, Nîthart uon Riuwental) born in Bavaria and living in Austria, Neidhart von Reuental is one of the most famous German minnesingers
Reuland, Jacques more...
Reulx, Anselme de more...	fl. 16th century		composer born in Le Roeulx, Hainaut, Flanders
Reusner, Esaias more...
Reuss, Heinrich XXIV prinz more...
Reuter, Florizel von	1890	1985	American violinist and composer, a student of Thomson and Marteau
Reuter, Marcel more...	1973 Luxembourg		Luxembourg-born composer now based in Vienna
Reutter, Hermann more...
Reutter, Johann Georg jr more...
Reux, Jacques de	fl. 16th century		composer born in Le Roeulx, Flanders, possible Anselme de Reulx
Revel, Harry more...
Revell, Graeme more...
Révial, Louis (Marie Paulin) Benoist Alphonse	29 May 1810 Toulouse, France	13 Oct. 1871 Étretat, France	French tenor singer and composer of vocal works
Revueltas, Silvestre more...	31 Dec. 1899 Santiago Papasquiaro Durango, Mexico	5 Oct. 1940 Mexico City, Mexico	Mexican composer, violinist and musical director [information provided by America Bermudez]
Revutsky, Lev more...	20 (Old Style 8) Feb. 1899 Irshawetz, Ukraine	30 Mar. 1977 Kiev, Ukraine	a student of Lysenko and Gliere, he later became a professor at the Kyiv Conservatory and was elected to the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in 1957
Rey, Cemal Resit more...
Rey, Jose Maria Gallardo del more...
Reylof, François-Liévin more...	26 Sep. 1792 Ghent, Belgium	5 Jun. 1872 Heusden, Belgium	Belgian composer, pianist, organist and carillonneur
Reynaldus tenorista (see Lantins, Ray de)
Reyneau, Gacian more...
Reyngoot, Gilles more...	c.1470 Poperinge, Flanders	c.1535	Belgian composer and singer
Reynolds, Alfred more...
Reynolds, Belinda more...
Reynolds, Peter more...	12 Jan 1958 Cardiff, Wales	11 Oct 2016 Wales	Welsh composer
Reynolds, Roger more...
Reynolds, Stephen more...
Reynolds, Walter Guernsey	1873	1953	composer and organist in Seattle, Washington, USA. He published a book with ten offertories on 'American Hymn Tunes for Organ' in 1909
Reyns, Auguste François more...	13 Sep. 1849 Bruges, Belgium	4 Oct. 1932 Bruges, Belgium	Belgian composer, viola player, choral director, conductor and teacher
Reys, Jakub [also known as Jacques le Polonais, Jakub Polak] more...	c. 1540 POland	c. 1605 Paris, France	highly skilled lutenist and composer, active mainly in France. He wrote the earliest known sarabande to appear in France and was admired particularly for his galliards (of which four survive)
Reznicek, Emil Nikolaus von more...
Rezvani, Serge (see Bassiak, Cyrus)
Rhau (or Rhaw, Rauw), Georg more...	c.1488 Eisfeld, Franconia	6 Aug. 1548 Wittenberg, Germany	Kantor at the Thomasschule in Leipzig until 1520, Rhau then became a school-master in Eisleben. Subsequently Georg Rhau settled in Wittenberg, where he became a printer, issuing books both in ordinary typography (including many first editions of Luther's writing) and in musical notes, including his own works: Enchiridion musices ex vaiis musicorum libris ... (1518, often reprinted) and Enchiridion musicae mensuralis, ... (1520)
Rheinberger, Joseph more...
Rhodes, Phillip more...
Ribera, Bernardino de more...
Ribot, Marc more...
Ricardo, Nino more...
Ricci, Federico more...
Ricci, Francesco Pasquale more...
Ricci, Luigi more...
Riccio, Giovanni Battista more...
Ricciotti, Carlo more...
Richafort (or Richauffort, Rycefort, Ricartsvorde), Jean more...	c.1480 Hainault, Flanders	c.1547 probably Bruges, Belgium	a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance
Richard, Balthazar more...	c.1600 Mons, Belgium	c.1660	Flemish composer and cornettist
Richard, Etienne II more...
Richard I lionheart more...
Richards, Godfrey (Goff)	1944 St. Minver, England		Goff Richards was born in Cornwall (Great Britain). He studied at the Royal College of Music and Reading University. He is best known as an arranger and composer for brass band.Between 1976 and 1989, he taught arrangement at Salford College of Technology (currently University College, Salford) and directed the College Jazz Orchestra. He has composed and arranged for many artists and ensembles including The King's Singers, Evelyn Glennie, Phillipp McCann, the Symphony orchestra of Boston, the BBC Northern Radio Orchestra, Huddersfield Choral Society and Benjamin Luxon.
Richardson, Alan more...
Richardson, Clive more...	1909	1998	accompanist, pianist and composer, he was part of Four Hands in Harmony (with Tony Lowry). He accompanied several artists on the piano, and was an early contributor of scores to British films (especially some of the Will Hay comedies, although he wasnt credited on-screen). London Fantasia was a big success in the 1940s, when mini-piano concertos were all the rage. Other Richardson compositions to succeed were Melody On The Move and Holiday Spirit, that exuberant theme for BBC Childrens Television Newsreel. Like the previous two titles, Romantic Interlude was originally commissioned by the Chappell Recorded Music Library
Richartz, Willy (or Willi) more...	25 Sep. 1900	9 Sep. 1972	German composer
Richepin, (François Denis) Tiarko more...	9 Mar. 1884 Paris, France	12 Oct. 1973 Paris, France	French composer
Richmann, Jacob (see Riehman, Jacob)
Richter, Ferdinand Tobias more...	22 Jul. 1651 Würzburg, Germany	3 Nov. 1711 Vienna, Austria	Austrian composer and organist
Richter, Franz Xaver more...	1 Dec. 1709 Holleschau, Moravia	12 Sep. 1789 Strasbourg, Germany	Czech composer, one of the most important of the Mannheim symphonists, who joined the Mannheim Orchestra in 1747. From 1769 till his death he was musical director at the Strasbourg Cathedral. He wrote an oratorio, La Deposizione della Croce (1748), 28 masses, numerous motets and psalms, 69 symphonies, and much chamber music [information supplied by Victor Krasovsky]
Richter, Nico more...	2 Dec. 1915 Amsterdam, The Netherlands	16 Aug. 1945 Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Dutch composer
Richter Herf, Franz more...	17 Dec. 1920 Vienna, Austria	4 Jul. 1989 Salzburg, Austria	Austrian composer and Kapellmeister
Ricketts, Frederick Joseph	21 Feb. 1881	15 May 1945	he composed using the pseudonym Kenneth J Alford. Alford was his mother's family name. Born the son of a coal merchant in London, he studied both piano and organ as a child and by the age of fourteen was playing cornet in the Royal Irish Regiment Band. He completed the bandmaster's course at the Royal Military School of Music at Kneller Hall in 1908. Most of his marches were composed during the next two decades while he was bandmaster of the Second Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Alford is best remembered for his restrained and dignified poetic marches. He was as famous in England for his marches as Sousa was in the United States. He is most famous to his march Colonel Bogey
Rickstal, Jos van more...	18 Oct. 1901 Berchem, Belgium	10 Mar. 1981 Berchem, Belgium	Belgian composer, clarinetist and teacher
Rico, Joseph more...	1876	1957	French ragtime composer
Riddle, Nelson more...	1 Jun. 1921 Oradell, New Jersey, USA	6 Oct. 1985 Hollywood, California, USA	American bandleader, arranger and orchestrator whose career spanned from the late 1940s, struggled with the advent of rock n roll, and saw a career revival in the early 1980s. In the 1950's, Riddle was forever associated with his work for Capitol Records, providing arrangements and musical direction to such vocalists as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, Judy Garland, Peggy Lee and Keely Smith and in the 1980's his career was brought back into focus and prominence, working with singer Linda Ronstadt on a series of highly successful platinum selling albums and international concerts
Ridout, Alan more...	9 Dec. 1934 West Wickham, Kent	9 Dec. 1996 Caen, France	British composer and teacher
Ridout, Godfrey more...	6 May 1918 Toronto, Canada	24 Nov. 1984 Toronto, Canada	Canadian composer, teacher, writer and conductor
Riedel, Georg more...	8 Jan. 1934 Karlsbad, Czechoslovakia		Swedish double bass player and composer. Riedel migrated to Sweden at the age of four and went to school in Stockholm
Riedel, Karl more...	6 Oct. 1827 Wuppertal-Cronenberg, Germany	3 Jun. 1888 Leipzig, Germany	German composer and Kapellmeister
Rieding, Oskar (Oscar) more...	1840 Northern Germany	1918 Cilli, Hungary	the violinist Oskar Riedings greatest claim to fame lies in his contribution to Hungarian music, in particular, the musical life of Budapest. Born in 1840 in the north of Germany, he attended first the recently founded Academy of Musical Arts in Berlin, later the Leipzig Conservatory. Towards the end of the 1860s, he moved to Vienna, where in 1871, the celebrated conductor, Hans Richter, at that time Musical Director of the National Opera House in Budapest, appointed Rieding as Leader of the orchestra there. He remained for thirty-two years and composed a number of violin concertos and many salon pieces for violin and piano. Following his retirement in 1904, he lived in Cilli until his death in 1918. [information provided by Giuliana Darcy]
Riedl, Josef Anton more...	11 Jun. 1929 Munich, Germany		German composer of works for electronics, multimedia, and self-constructed instruments
Riedlbauch, Vaclav more...	1 Apr. 1947 Dysina, Czechoslavakia		Czech composer
Riegger, Wallingford more...	29 Apr. 1885 Albany, Georgia, USA	2 Apr. 1961 New York, USA	a prolific American music composer, well known for orchestral and modern dance music, and film scores
Riehm, Rolf more...	1937 Saarbrücken, Germany		German composer
Riehman (or Richmann), Jacob more...	c.1680 Germany	1726 Leeuwarden, The Netherlands	German gambist and composer
Riemann, (Karl Wilhelm Julius) Hugo more...	18 Jul. 1849 Grossmehira, Germany	10 Jul. 1919 Leipzig Germany	German musicologist. He is sometimes referred to simply as "Riemann" in material on music theory and musicology, but should not be confused with the mathematician Bernhard Riemann, who is more commonly known by that name in other contexts
Riemenschneider, Albert	31 Aug. 1878	21 Jul. 1950	organist who studied in Paris with Widor and Guilmant. Albert Riemenschneider was a great admirer of the work of Johann Sebastian Bach. The Baldwin-Wallace College has founded a Riemenschneider Bach Institute in 1969, containing a large library with manuscripts, books, sheet music and more about Bach. He founded the Baldwin-Wallace College's Conservatory in 1899. Albert published 371 Harmonized Chorales and 69 Chorale Melodies with Figured Bass by Johann Sebastian Bach
Riemenschneider, Georg	1848	1913	composer, organist and conductor who worked in Germany and the Netherlands
Riehn, Rainer more...	12 Nov. 1941 Danzig, Germany		German composer and conductor
Riepel, Joseph more...	22 Jan. 1709 Deutsch Hörschlag (Oberösterreich)	23 Oct. 1782 Regensburg, Germany	German violinist, composer and musical theorist
Riera, Rodrigo more...	1923 Carora, Venezuela	9 Aug. 1999 Barquisimeto, Venezuela	a Venezuelan guitarist and composer. He wrote a vital and important body of works for the guitar, inspired by and dedicated to the rich music legacy of his region in the Lara state in Western Venezuela, displaying a loving nationalism that led him to be associated with the work of Antonio Lauro but with a technique that is more accessible to beginners and intermediate guitar players
Ries, Ferdinand more...	bap. 28 Nov. 1784 Bonn, Germany	13 Jan. 1838 Aachen (?), Germany	German composer, a friend and pupil of Beethoven
Riessler, Michael more...	1957 Ulm, Germany		German composer and clarinetist
Rietz, Julius more...	28 Dec. 1812 Berlin, Germany	12 Sep. 1877 Dresden, Germany	German conductor, composer and teacher of composition
Riga, François more...	21 Jan. 1831 Liège, Belgium	18 Jan. 1892 Schaerbeek, Belgium	composer and organist
Riga, Nicolas more...	fl. mid 18th century		composer from Liège, Belgium
Rigatti, Giovanni Antonio more...
Rigaut de Berbezilh more...	f. 1175-1215		a troubadour, born to a family of poor knights in Saintonge. He was a great influence on the Sicilian School and is quoted in the Roman de la Rose. About 15 of his poems survive
Righini, Vincenzo more...
Rihm, Wolfgang more...
Riisager, Knudage more...
Rijcke, Antoine de more...
Rijken, Jos more...
Rijnvos, Richard more...
Rijspoort, Jan more...	fl. late 16th century/early 17th century		Belgian composer
Riley, Terry more...
Rilski, Neophyte more...
Rimbaud, Robin more...
Rimini, Vincenzo da (also Vincenzo da Armino, Vincentius de Arimino, Magister Dominus Abbas de Arimino, L'abate Vincenio de Imola, Frate Vinceno) more...	14th century		Italian composer. An abbot at either Rimini or Imola, who is portrayed in the Squarcialupi Codex. His extant output consists of four madrigals and two cacce (this is unusual, as most composers produced only one caccia)
Rimmer, John more...
Rimmer, William more...
Rimonte (or Ruymonte), Pedro more...	16 Apr. 1565 Saragossa, Spain	30 Nov. 1627	Spanish-born composer active in Brussels
Rimskaya-Korsakova, Yuliya Lazarevna (see Veysberg, Yuliya Lazarevna)
Rimsky-Korsakov, Georgy Mikhaylovich	26 Dec. 1901 St. Petersburg, Russia	10 Oct. 1965 Leningrad, Russia	Russian composer and musicologist
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai Andreyevich more...	18 Mar. 1844 Tikhvin, Novgorod, Russia	21 Jun. 1908 Lyubensk, St. Petersburg, Russia	a Russian composer, one of five Russian composers known as The Five, and was later a teacher of harmony and orchestration. He is particularly noted for a predilection for folk and fairy-tale subjects, and for his extraordinary skill in orchestration, which may have been influenced by his synesthesia
Rinck, Johann Christian Heinrich more...	18 Feb. 1770 Elgersburg, Saxe-Gotha (Thuringia), Germany	7 Aug. 1846 Darmstadt, Germany	German organist and composer
Ringbom, Nils-Eric more...	27 Dec. 1907 Finland	13 Feb. 1988 Finland	composer whose output experiements with a Brucknerian First Symphony (1939) with grotesque and satirical tones in the Second (1944) and Third (1948) Symphonies, with dissonant Neo- Classicism à la Hindemith in the Wind Sextet (1951), and with fully chromatic (though not yet dodecaphonic) writing in the Fourth (1962/82) and Fifth (1970) Symphonies
Ringer, Catherine more...	18 Oct. 1957 Suresnes, France		French singer, musician, songwriter, dancer, choreographer, and actress
Ringger, Rolf Urs more...
Riotte, Philipp Jakob more...
Ripa, Alberto da more...
Rippe, Albert de more...
Riquier, Guiraut more...
Rische, Michael more...
Rise, Indra more...
Risset, Jean-Claude more...	1938 Le Puy, France		scientist, pianist and composer, member of Mathews' group at Bell Laboratories in the 60's, the first to make convincing musical use of sound synthesis by computer and also carried out important psychoacoustic research on instrumental sounds. Until1999, he was Reseach Director at the National Center for Scientific Reseach (CNRS) in Marseille
Ristori, Giovanni Alberto more...
Ritter, August Gottfried more...
Ritter, Christian more...
Ritter, Fannie Raymond	1840 USA	1890	author of Woman as a Musician
Ritter, Helmut more...
Ritter, Peter more...
Rittmann, Trude	1908 Mannheim, Germany	22 Feb. 2005 Lexington, Mass. USA	music and dance arranger. who arranged dance and choral music for Carousel, South Pacific, My Fair Lady and The Sound of Music. Often billed as Trude Rittman, she was particularly noted for such arrangements as the elaborate ballet sequences in The King and I and The Girl in Pink Tights, and her spectacular choral work in Fanny and Camelot. She began piano lessons at the age of eight, and graduated from the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne in 1932. In the same year she was described by the British symphonist Havergal Brian as "Germany's most brilliant woman composer". She left Germany in 1933
Rivas, Jose Maria more...
Rivera, Carlos Rafael more...
Rivera, Paquito d' more...
Rivers, Sam more...
Rivier, Jean more...	21 Jul. 1896 France	6 Nov. 1987 France	French composer who composed over two hundred works, including music for orchestra, chamber groups, chorus, piano, and solo instruments. He served as Professor of Composition at the Paris Conservatory from 1948 until his retirement in 1966. During the period 1948-1962 he shared this position with Darius Milhaud
Rivilis, Pavel more...
Rivulo, Franziscus de more...	fl. 1560-1566		singer and composer originally from Hainault known to have been active in Gdansk, Poland
Rixner, Josef more...
Roach, Max more...
Roads, Curtis more...	1951 Cleveland, USA		composer and for more than 15 years, was editor of the Computer Music Journal and one of the founders of the International Computer Music Association. Author of computer music books and articles and presently, professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara
Robb, Magnus more...	1970 Edinburgh		Scottish viola player and composer
Robberechts, André more...	16 Dec. 1797 Brussels, Belgium	23 Mar. 1860 Paris, France	Belgian violonist and composer
Robbins, David more...	14 Aug. 1923 Greensburg, Indiana, USA	2005 Vancouver, Canada	influential American-Canadian trombonist, composer, arranger and teacher
Robbins, Richard (Stephen) more...	4 Dec. 1940 South Weymouth, Mass. USA	7 Nov. 2012 New York, USA	composer, particularly of film scores. Robbins was nominated for an Oscar in 1992 for his score for the film Howards End (performed by Martin Jones) and in 1993 for The Remains of the Day
Roberday, Francois more...
Robert, Lucie more...
Robert de Castel (see Castel, Robert de)
Robert de la Piere (see Piere, Robert de la)
Robert, Jean-Louis more...	20 May 1948 Haine-Saint-Pierre	12 May 1979 Thisnes, Belgium	Belgian composer, pianist and teacher
Robert, Lucie more...
Roberti, Robert (see Vollstedt, Robert)
Roberts, Charles Luckeyeth (known as Luckey Roberts) more...	7 Aug. 1887 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA	5 Feb. 1968 New York City, USA	composer and pianist who worked in the jazz, ragtime, and blues styles
Roberts, Marcus more...
Roberts, Mary Lee more...
Robin, Leo more...
Robindore, Brigitte more...
Robinson, Christopher more...
Robinson, Fanny Arthur	1831 England	1879	a pianist and composer who taught at the Irish Conservatory
Robinson, John (the Younger) more...	1682	1762	English musician who was appointed organist of Westminster Abbey replacing William Croft
Robinson, J. Russell more...	8 Jul. 1892 Indianapolis, Indiana, USA	30 Sep. 1963 Paldale, California, USA	United States ragtime and dixieland jazz pianist and a composer of popular tunes
Robinson, Martin more...	1974		freelance composer, sonic artist and sound technician
Robinson, Russell more...			American published author, composer and arranger with over 200 publications
Robinson, Thomas more...	c. 1560	after 1609	an English renaissance composer and music teacher, who flourished around 1600. He taught and wrote music for lute, cittern, orpharion, bandora, viol, and singing
Robjohn, William James more...	2 Nov. 1843 Tavistock, Devon, England	21 Nov. 1920 Tavistock. d-Asheville, NC, USA	English-born American composer who used the pseudonym Caryl Florio. As a teenager he sailed with his parents to New York. The youngster became the first boy soloist in New York's Trinity Church and subsequently worked as an organist and choirmaster as well as touring as an actor. He spent many years at the Vanderbilt estate where he was in charge of music. Florio composed a large amount of music: hymns, chamber music, a piano concerto, a light opera, at least two grand operas and two symphonies
Robledo, Melchor more...		1587	Spanish composer who spent a period as a Papal singer in Rome
Robles, Daniel Alomía more...	3 Jan. 1871 Huánuco, Peru	18 Jun. 1942 Chosica, Peru	a Peruvian composer and ethnomusicologist, he is best known for composing the song El Cóndor Pasa in 1913 as part of a zarzuela, a musical play that alternates between spoken and sung parts, of the same name. The song was based on Andean folk songs
Robrecht, Carl more...
Robson, Jean-Jacques more...	bap. 4 Dec. 1723 Termonde, Belgium	24 Oct. 1785 Tirlemont	Belgian composer and organist
Rochberg, George more...	5 Jul 1918 Paterson, NJ, USA	30 May 2005 Philadelphia, USA	composer, teacher and author, sometime pupil of George Szell, Rosario Scalero and Gian Carlo Menotti, who travelled to Italy in 1950 on a Fulbright Scholarship where he met Luigi Dallapiccola. His most successful work was his 1974 Violin Concerto
Roche, Rose la	fl. latter half 18th century France		wrote a successful work for piano and orchestra published by Benoit, Paris and also composed sonatas
Rochefort, Jean Baptiste more...
Rochenard, Mme (de la)			composer who published in Paris in 1699
Rocourt, Pierre de more...	first half 14th century		Flemish composer from Rocourt, near Liège
Rode, Pierre more...	16 Feb. 1774 Bordeaux, France	25 Nov. 1830 Damazan, France	French violinist and composer
Rogers, James Hotchkiss	1857	1940	American organist and composer who studied with Clarence Eddy and later in Paris with Guilmant and Widor. He was appointed organist of the First Unitarian Church in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He wrote works for organ and for piano as well as a number of songs
Rodgers, Richard more...
Rodio, Rocco more...
Rodo, Gabriel more...
Rodolphe de Saint-Trond (see Saint-Trond, Rodolphe de)
Rodrigo, Joaquin more...	22 Nov. 1901 Sagunto, Spain	6 Jul. 1999 Madrid, Spain	Spanish composer who was almost totally blind from the age of 3
Rodrigues, Amalia more...
Rodrigues Coelho, Manuel more...
Rodrigues, Ernesto more...	1959 Lisbon, Portugal		improviser, composer - violin, viola, soprano sax, electronics. For over 20 years Rodrigues has played genres of music ranging from contemporary to free jazz and improvisation, live and in the studio. His main interest shifted towards contemporary improvised and composed music, as well as indeterminate and graphic scores by Gerhard Stäbler. He studies composition with Emmanuel Nunes
Rodrigues, Gerardo more...
Rodrigues, Maria Joachina	fl. late 1600s Mexico		nun and composer
Rodriguez, Ana Maria more...
Rodriguez, Jorge more...
Rodriguez, Nicolas more...
Rodriguez, Robert Xavier more...
Rodriguez Pico, Jesus more...
Rodriguez van der Spoel, Adrian more...
Rodwell, George Herbert Buonaparte more...	1800	1852	author, musical director and composer, particularly for theatrical productions
Roels, Hans more...
Roels, Louis Joseph more...	6 Jun. 1887 Hasselt, Belgium	3 Sep. 1939 Hasselt, Belgium	Belgian composer, pianist and teacher
Roels, Oscar August more...	2 Nov. 1864 Ghent, Belgium	29 Oct. 1939 Ghent, Belgium	Belgian composer, organist, conductor and teacher
Roelstraete, Herman more...	25 Oct. 1925 Lauwe (Flandre Occidentale)	1 Apr. 1985 Courtrai, Belgium	Belgian composer, organist, conductor, choral director, teacher and musicologist
Roerade, Wim more...
Roeseling, Kaspar more...
Roger, Miquel	1954 Barcelona, Spain		he studied at the Conservatori Superior Municipal de Musica de Barcelona. He later worked with Josep Soler on counterpoint, fugue and orchestration, and graduated in 1985 from the University of Barcelona in Philosophy and Letters He has dedicated himself to composition since 1977, the year in which his first piece was published by Zimmermann Verlag. Roger won commissions from the Asociacion Musica XXI (1979), the Festival Internacional de Musica de Barcelona (1981), the Ajuntament de Badalona (1989) and Associació Catalana de Compositors (1991). His Opera Nascita e Apoteosi di Horo has recived a prize in the I Concurso Internacional de Composición de Óperas de Camara composed for the Joven Orquesta Nacional de España (JONDE). He teaches counterpoint, music history, aesthetics and composition
Roger-Ducasse, Jean more...
Rogers, Benjamin more...
Rogers, Keith more...
Rogers, Shorty more...
Roger, Pathie (see Pathie, Rogier)
Rogier, Philippe more...
Rogierus de Lignoquercu (see Lignoquercu, Rogierus de)
Rogister, Fernand more...	8 Dec. 1872 Liège, Belgium	6 May 1954	Belgian composer et conductor
Rogister, Jean more...	25 Oct. 1879 Liège, Belgium	20 Mar. 1964	compositer, viola player and teacher
Rognoni (Taeggio), Francesco more...	second half of 16th century Milan, Italy	after 1626	an Italian Renaissance composer. He was the son of Riccardo Rognoni and brother of Giovanni Domenico Rognoni Taeggio, both prominent Italian composers and musicians. He published both collections of his works and treatises. His most famous work was Selva de varii passaggi, a treatise on both vocal and violin technique, and on ornamentation
Rognoni, Riccardo more...
Rohaczewski, Andrzej more...	early 17th century		composer and organist at the court of Albert Stanislaw Radziwill at Olyka and Nieswiez
Rojas Beoto, José Antonio ("Nico") more...	3 Aug. 1921 Havana, Cuba	22 Nov. 2008 Havana, Cuba	guitarist, songwriter and hydraulic engineer, a key member of the filin ("feeling") movement, which combined Cuban rhythms with harmonies and melodies influenced by North American jazz in the 1940s and 1950s
Rojer, Robert more...
Rojko, Uros more...
Rokovic, Bora more...
Roland, Claude-Robert more...	19 Dec. 1935 Pont-de-Loup, Belgium		Belgian composer, organist, conductor, teacher and musicologist
Roland-Manuel, Alexis (born Roland Alexis Manuel Levy) more...	22 Mar. 1891 Paris, France	2 Nov. 1966	French composer and critic
Roldan, Amadeo more...
Roldan, maestro more...
Rolla, Alessandro more...
Rolle, Johann Heinrich more...
Rollig, Johann Georg more...
Rollinger, Luc more...	1969 Luxembourg		trumpeter and composer from Luxembourg
Rollins, Sonny more...
Rolon, Jose more...
Roma, Laurencini da more...
Roman, Johan Helmich more...
Romanowski, Otto more...	16 Oct. 1952 Finland		Finnish composer who has an interest in computer-assisted composition
Romans, Alain more...
Romans, Beatrice (Beatriz, Bieris) de	fl 1200s		composer
Romanus, Antonius more...	fl.1400-1432		an Italian composer of the early 15th century, the early quattrocento, in which musical styles was in transition between the late medieval era and early Renaissance
Romberg, Andreas more...
Romberg, Bernhard more...	11 Nov. 1767 Dinklage, Germany	13 Aug. 1841 Hamburg, Germany	German cellist and composer. Romberg composed not only for the cello; he wrote operas, a ballet, symphonies, overtures, quartets, concert pieces for piano, flute, violin, and incidental music. He also devoted much time to conducting and quartet playing. Romberg also composed cello music for teaching, although frequent tours prevented him from giving it too much time. He wrote a number of cello compositions of an educational character, thus revealing his remarkable inventiveness
Romberg, Sigmund more...
Rombi, Philippe more...
Romby, Paul more...
Rome, Harold	1908	1993	composer and lyricist of the well-known musicals Pins and Needles, Call Me Mister, Fanny, Destry Rides Again, and I Can Get It for You Wholesale
Romero, Antonio more...
Romero, Celedonio more...
Romero, Mateo (né Rosmarin, Mathieu) more...	c.1575 Liège, Belgium	10 May 1647 Madrid, Spain	Flemish-born Spanish composer
Romitelli, Fausto more...
Romppanen, Ari more...	1974 Finland		Finnish composer, pianist and music teacher who studied composition at the Sibelius Academy with Erkki Jokinen. His compositions include Interference for flute, clarinet, cello and percussion [details supplied by the composer]
Roncalli, Ludovico more...			composer of music for guitar which appeared in the book entitled Capricci Armonici sopra la Chitarra Spagnuola
Ronchetti, Lucia more...
Rondonia, Indio Jaboti de more...
Ronell, Ann more...
Rongé, Jean-Baptiste more...	1 Apr. 1825 Liège, Belgium	28 Oct. 1882 Liège, Belgium	Belgian composer and musical writer
Ronghe, Michaël de more...	30 Oct. 1620	8 Jan. 1696	Flemish composer
Rontgen, Julius more...
Roo, Paul de more...
Rooijen, Laurens van more...
Rooke, William Michael (see Rourke, William Michael)
Roon, Marc van more...			prizewinner and finalist of the 1989 International Thelonious Monk Jazz Competition, Washington, the Amsterdam Jazz Concours and the Martial Solal Piano Concours, Paris. He performed and recorded with international stars like Clark Terry, Dave Liebman, Chuck and Bob Findley, Billy Hart, Santi di Briano, the Metropele Jazz Orchestra, Art Farmer and Ack van Rooyen. He has also written ballet music for the Modern Djazzdance company Djazzex, for the Scapino Rotterdam and the Nederlands Danstheater at the Hague
Roos, Robert de more...
Roosendael, Jan Rokus van more...
Roost, Jan van der more...	1 Mar. 1956 Duffel, Belgium		Belgian composer, teacher and conductor
Root, George Frederick more...
Rooth, Lazlo more...
Rootham, Cyril more...	5 Oct. 1875 Redland, Bristol, England	18 Mar. 1938 Cambridge, England	an English composer, educator and organist. His work at Cambridge University made him an influential figure in English music life. A Fellow of St John's College, where he was also organist, Rootham ran the Cambridge University Musical Society, whose innovative concert programming helped form English musical tastes of the time. One of his students was the younger composer Arthur Bliss, who valued his tuition in orchestration. Rootham's own compositions include two symphonies and several smaller orchestral pieces, an opera, chamber music, and many choral settings. Among his solo songs are some settings of verses by Siegfried Sassoon which were made in co-operation with the poet.
Ropartz, Joseph Guy more...
Rore, Cipriano (or Cypriano, Cypriaan, Cyprien) de more...	1515/6 Ronse, Flanders	11/20 Sep. 1565 Parma, Italy	Flemish composer and teacher. He was a central representative of the generation of Franco-Flemish composers after Josquin who went to live and work in Italy, and who were formative in the development of the late Renaissance styles there. Pierre Maillart, in his Tons et discours sur les Modes de Musique of 1610 places him amongst the four greatest Flemish madrigalists
Rorem, Ned more...
Rosa, Clotilde more...
Rosa, Salvatore more...
Rosas Cadenas, José Juventino Policarpo more...	26 Jan. 1869 Santa Cruz de Galeana Guanajuato	9 Jun. 1894 Surgidero de Batabo (Cuba)	Mexican composer, violinist and band-leader, famous for his waltz Sobre las Olas (Over the waves) [information provided by America Bermudez]
Rosauro, Ney more...
Rose, Barry more...
Rose, Bernard more...
Rose, David (pseudonyms: Ray Llewellyn, Sgt. David Rose) more...	15 Jun 1910 London, U.K.	23 Aug 1990 Burbank, California, USA	the Rose family moved to the USA when David was just four-years-old. In 1943 he had a big hit with his own composition Holiday For Strings which firmly launched him as a light music composer in the eyes of the public. His second wife was Judy Garland (28 Jul 1941-8 Jun 1944). By the late '40s he was a regular on Red Skelton's radio show, moving with him into television. He later wrote scores and themes for over 20 television series and won Emmy awards for his 14 year stint on Bonanza, 10 years with Little House On The Prairie and his work on three much-acclaimed Fred Astaire specials. Rose had a worldwide smash hit in 1962 with another of his own tunes, a humorous and satirical piece called The Stripper. He had actually composed this four years previously for a television show called Burlesque, and it gathered dust on his record companys shelves until they needed a B side for Ebb Tide. A Los Angeles disc jockey picked it up, and the rest as they say is musical history
Rose, Fred more...
Rose, John more...	23 Sep. 1928 London, England		born of Dutch parents and educated at the Diocesan College, Cape Town (1942-46), there he studied organ with Dr Claude Brown and wrote music which was performed by the Cape Town Municipal Orchestra. He continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music, London, and at Oxford under Edmund Rubbra. He founded the St Albans Chamber Choir and was an extra-mural tutor for various universities, a lecturer at Langside College, Glasgow, and teacher at Madras College, St Andrews. His Prelude & Fugue Op 8 (1993) and Scherzo-Intermezzo-Toccata Op 9 (1995, first performed 1999) are a natural development from his early organ studies and interest in the organs and organ music of the Netherlands and Germany [information provided by Robin Bennett]
Rose, Jon more...
Rosebrook, Leon more...
Roseingrave, Daniel	c. 1650 England	1727 Dublin, Ireland	organist and Lay Vicar Choral at Christ Church Cathedral and St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin from 1698 until his death in 1727, he had moved to Dublin as organist of both Cathedrals. after holding similar appointments at three English Cathedrals: Gloucester (1679), Winchester (1682) and Salisbury (1692). He had been a boy chorister in the English Chapel Royal under Captain Cook, and is said to have studied under Henry Purcell and John Blow. He certainly seems to have been influenced by the latter's music. He was a somewhat volatile character, having cut off the ear of one of his colleagues with his sword in Christ Church during a service! Not surprisingly this caused the authorities there to ban the wearing of swords during services. Daniel was also in trouble at St. Patrick's for fighting with another of his colleagues at a tavern. He had previously been in difficulty at Gloucester for violent behavior. On the strength of his surviving music one would wish that more had come down to us
Roseingrave, Ralph	c. 1695 England	bur. 7 Dec. 1747 Dublin, Ireland	son of Daniel, organist and Lay Vicar Choral at Christ Church Cathedral and St. Patricks Cathedral in Dublin from 1727 until his death in 1747. His father, Daniel, had moved to Dublin in 1698 as organist of both Cathedrals. Ralph succeeded his father as Organist of both Cathedrals, officially on Daniel's death in 1727, but in fact probably some years before that. He, his wife, Sarah and their children lived on Peter Street, near to St. Patricks. She died at the end of April 1746 and was buried at St. Patricks on May Day that year. Ralph survived her by only a year and a half. There are at least 12 anthems and two Services, in C major and in F major, by Ralph Roseingrave in the choir Library of Christ Church Cathedral
Roseingrave, Thomas	c. 1690 Winchester, England	1788 Dublin, Ireland	son of Daniel and brother of Ralph, Thomas appears to have been the most prolific of the three and certainly had the highest public profile. On the strength of a grant from St. Patricks Cathedral, Dublin, he went to Italy at the age of nineteen where he met, befriended and studied with Domenico Scarlatti. He settled in London around 1717, quickly establishing himself as a performer, composer and teacher. In 1725 he was appointed organist of the new church of St. Georges Hanover Square. Not long afterwards he began to show signs of mental instability (which he may well have inherited from his father). He returned to Ireland some time before 1753, for in that year Mrs. Delany writes "Mr. Roseingrave (...who was sent away from St. George's on account of mad fits) is now in Ireland, and at times can play very well on the harpsichord."
Rosell, Lars Erik more...
Rosen, Jerome more...
Rosenberg, Hilding	1892 Sweden	1985	in his extremely long career, Rosenberg was able to witness how taste radically changed with time. The scandal greeting his first string quartet had transformed into reverence and national acclaim by the time he produced his twelfth and last. This series of quartets has no match in the modern era. Rosenberg composed in all the genres of his time and his symphonies, solo concertos and major oratorios (Holy Night, The Revelation of St. John) are still regularly performed
Rosendahl, August more...
Rosenfeld, Gerhard more...
Rosenheck, Allan more...	10 Oct. 1938 New York City, US		Rosenheck's music for recorders is popular with German recorder groups. In 1972 he moved to Switzerland, where his composing developed. His music for recorders is a blend of light classical music, Jazz and Broadway [entry privded by Winfried Bauer]
Rosenman, Leonard more...
Rosenmüller, Johann more...	1619	1684 Wolfenbüttel, Germany	German Baroque composer who played a part in transmitting Italian musical styles to the north [entry corrected by Winfried Bauer]
Rosenthal, Laurence more...
Rosenthal, Manuel more...
Rosenthal, Moriz more...
Rosers, Guillelma (de)	fl. c. 1250		composer
Rosetti (or Rossetti), Francesco Antonio (also Franz Anton Rösler) more...	1750 Leitmeritz, Bohemia	30 Jun. 1792 Ludwigslust, Germany	Franz Anton Rösler (also known as Francesco Antonio Rosetti [Rossetti]) was a German composer. His birth name cannot be exactly determined; he could have been called "Anton Rös(s)ler" or "Rusizscka" or something similar. His marriage entry in Wallerstein notes only the name Antonio Rosetti and the place Leitmeritz. The first name frequently specified "Franz" is based on a mistake of a musicologist, who regarded a Franz Anton Rösler, born in 1746, as Antonio Rosetti. Franz Anton Rösler was however a shoemaker
Rosier (or de Rosier, Rosiers ) Carl (Charles) more...	26 Dec. 1640 Liège, Belgium	1725 Cologne, Germany	Belgian composer and violinist
Rosing-Schow, Niels more...
Roslavets (or Roslavyets, Rosslavets, Rosslawets, Roslavetz, Roslavec), Nikolai (or Nikolaj ) Andreyvich more...	4/5 Jan. 1881 Dushatino, Ukraine, Russia	23 Aug. 1944 Moscow, Russia	writing music influenced by Scriabin and showing a resemblance to Schonberg's work, he is recognized as one of the important pioneers in the evolution of non-tonal serial music
Rösler, Franz Anton (see Rosetti, Francesco Antonio)
Rosmarin, Mathieu (see Romero, Mateo)
Rosner, Arnold more...
Rosnes, Renee more...
Ross, Eric more...
Ross, Marshall more...
Rosse, Francois more...
Rosse, Frederick more...	1867 Jersey	20 Jun 1940	Rosse, whose Doge's March from The Merchant of Venice music long remained popular, was educated at Harrow and abroad at Leipzig, Dresden, Brussels and Vienna. He began as a singer in the theatre, taking part in The Geisha at Daly's. He also became Chorus Master at Daly's and moved on from that to be Musical Director in various London theatres
Rosseau, Norbert more...	11 Dec. 1907 Ghent, Belgium	1 Nov. 1975 Ghent, Belgium	Belgian composer and violinist
Rossellini, Renzo more...	2 Feb. 1908 Rome, Italy	13 May 1982 Monte Carlo, Monaco	Italian composer best known for his film scores
Rossem, Andries van more...
Rosseter, Philip more...
Rossetti, Francesco Antonio (see Rosetti, Francesco Antonio)
Rossi, Camilla de more...
Rossi, Luigi de more...	c.1597 Torremaggiore, Naples, Italy	19 Feb. 1653 Rome, Italy	an Italian Baroque composer. He studied music in Naples with the Franco-Flemish composer Jean de Macque who was organist of the Santa Casa dellAnunziata and maestro di cappella to the Spanish viceroy. Rossi later entered the service of the Caetanis, dukes of Traetta. Rossi is noteworthy principally for his chamber-cantatas, which are among the finest that the 17th century produced
Rossi, Michelangelo more...
Rossi, Salomone more...
Rossi (de), Romana Camilla	fl. early 1700s Rome		wrote numerous oratorios for the Viennese court; of these only four oratorios and a cantata have survived, in the Austrian National Library. De Rossi's works were heard yearly in Vienna from 1707-1710
Rossi Re, Fabrizio de more...
Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio more...	29 Feb. 1792 Pesaro, Italy	13 Nov. 1868 Passy, France	Italian musical composer who wrote more than 30 operas as well as sacred music and chamber music. His best known works include Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) and Guillaume Tell (William Tell)
Rossler, Franz Anton more...
Rossum, Frédéric (Frederik) van more...	5 Dec. 1939 Ixelles, Belgium		Dutch-origin now naturalised Belgian composer, pianist and teacher
Rossum, Piet-Jan van more...
Rota, Nino more...
Rota, Renzo more...
Rotaru, Doina more...
Roters, Ernst more...
Roth, Daniel more...
Rothenberg, Ned more...
Rothenberg, Theophil more...
Rotsaert, Julien (Frère Ildefons) more...	20 Nob. 1902 Bruges, Belgium	31 Mar. 1981 Knokke-Heist, Belgium	Belgian composer and teacher
Rott, Hans more...
Rottach, Meingosus more...
Rottiers, Jef more...	27 Aug. 1904 Malines, Belgium	22 Apr. 1985 Malines, Belgium	Belgian composer, carillonneur, painter, designer and teacher
Roucourt, Jean-Baptiste more...	28 Oct. 1780 Brussels, Belgium	1 May 1849 Brussels, Belgium	Belgian composer, singer and teacher
Rouge, Guillaume le more...	fl. 1450-1465		composer of the chanson Se je fayz dueill
Rouget de Lisle, Claude Joseph more...
Roukens, Joey more...
Rouma, Willy more...	29 Jun. 1941 Liège, Belgium		Belgian composer, conductor, choral director and teacher
Rourke (or Rooke), William Michael	fl. 1825-1849		violinist, composer, leader of the concert band at Vauxhall (1825-1833) and of the Royal Artillery Band (1849)
Rouse, Christopher more...	15 Feb. 1949 Baltimore, USA	21 Sep. 2019 Towson, USA	American expressionist composer who won the Pulitzer Prize
Rouse, Mikel more...
Roussakis, Nicolas more...
Rousseau, Jean Jacques more...	28 Jun. 1712 Geneva, Switzerland	2 Jul. 1778 Ermenonville, nr. Paris, France	a Geneva-born philosopher of the Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French Revolution, the development of socialist theory, and the growth of nationalism. Rousseau also made important contributions to music both as a theorist and as a composer. With his Confessions and other writings, he practically invented modern autobiography and encouraged a new focus on the development of subjectivity that would bear fruit in the work of thinkers as diverse as Hegel and Freud. His novel Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse was one of the best-selling fictional works of the eighteenth century and was important to the development of romanticism
Rousseau, Marcel Louis Auguste Samuel (see Samuel-Rousseau, Marcel Louis Auguste)
Rousseau, Pierre (see Vellones, Pierre)
Rousseau, Samuel (or Samiel) Alexandre (see Samuel-Rousseau, Alexandre)
Roussel, Albert more...	5 Apr. 1869 Tourcoing, France	23 Aug. 1937 Royan, France	a French composer
Rouwizer (or Rouwyzer, Rouwijser, Rouweyse), François-Léonard more...	2 Jul. 1737 Maastricht, Belgium	9 Dec. 1827 Maastricht, Belgium	Belgian composer and violinist
Rouwkema, Daniel more...	1974 The Netherlands		born in The Netherlands, Rouwkema spent many years in England (Chester Cathedral and St George's Parish Church in Belfast). Most of Rouwkema's compositions are for choir, including 'the Roden Service', Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in f-minor (for the Roden Boys Choir) (2006), A great and mighty wonder (2005), People look east (2004), Unto us a Child is given (2002), A Celtic Prayer in two versions SSA and SATB (2001) (pub. Faber, London) as well as organ works that have been published in Holland (1994) and many arrangements for male voice choir, etc. He is working currently working in Holland as a choirmaster [information provided by the composer himself]
Roux, Gaspard le more...
Rovetta, Giovanni more...
Rowe, Robert more...
Rowland, David more...
Rowland, William more...	31 Mar. 1943 Pickens, South Carolina, USA		American organist, carillonneur and composer. Rowland's catalogue, as of 2006, has 4 symphonies, the first of which was composed at age 14, a concertante for blockflutes (Soprno, Sop., Alt., Ten., C. Grand bass), an opera, Laura in progress, a violin concerto for a Hong Kong patron, a clarinet concerto, In Memorian of his friend Kip Stecker (now lost but composed in Florida near Frederick Delius's Farm), a concerto grosso in baroque style, among many other worked, works for organ and harpsichord as well as carillon, a requiem in memoriam of his friend Art Kelley, a tone poem (The Pitons, Cliffs and Waterfalls of Guam) and many other works of a symphonic nature [information provided by the composer]
Rowland, William S. more...			Ragtime composer
Rowles, Jimmy more...
Roxburgh, Edwin more...
Roy, Adrian [Adrien, Adriaen] le more...	c. 1520 France	1598 France	French publisher/printer, composer, lutenist and writer. Founder of the Le Roy and Ballard publishing company in 1551.The company existed from 1551 - 1798 when the revolution destroyed many a prosperous livelihood. Le Roy published some of his own lute methods.Th company also published music by Orlando di Lassus [additional information provided by Denys Geel]
Roy Henry more...	fl. 1410		probably a reference to a "King" Henry (a corruption of the French, le Roi Henri). An English composer, almost certainly a king of England, probably Henry V, but also possibly Henry IV. His music, two compositions in all, appears in a position of prominence in the Old Hall Manuscript
Roy, Myke more...
Royer, Joseph Nicolas more...
Roye, Évariste de more...	13 Feb. 1907 Willebroek, Belgium	13 Feb. 1978 Anvers, Belgium	Belgian composer, oboist, conductor and teacher
Roylance, Dave more...
Rozmann, Akos more...
Rozsa, Miklos more...
Rozsavolgyi, Mark more...
Rozycki, Jacek more...	c. 1630 near Leczyca, Poland	c. 1704 Warsaw, Poland	composed great motets and concertos in the Italianate concertato style and also more traditional sacred polyphony
Rozycki, Ludomir more...
Rubalcaba, Gonzalo more...
Rubbra, Edmund more...
Rubino, Bonaventura more...
Rubinstein, Anton (Grigoryevich) more...	28 Nov. 1829 Vikhvatinets, Russia	20 Nov. 1894 Peterhof, St. Petersburg, Russia	a Russian Jewish pianist, composer and conductor. As a pianist he was regarded as a rival to Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst the greatest keyboard virtuosi
Rubinstein, Nikolai Grigoryevich more...	2 (or 14) Jun. 1835 Moscow, Russia	23 Mar. 1881 Moscow, Russia	a Russian Jewish pianist and composer. He was the younger brother of Anton Rubinstein and a close friend of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Rudel, Jaufré (Lord of Blaye) more...	mid-12th century		troubadour probably living in the mid-12th century. He is noted for developing the theme of "love from afar" (amor de lonh) in his songs. Seven of Rudel's poems have survived to the present day, four of them with music. His composition Lanquan li jorn is thought to be the model for the Minnesinger Walther von der Vogelweide's song Allerest lebe ich mir werde
Ruders, Poul more...
Rudersdorff, Mme. Hermine Mansfield	1822 Russia	1882 USA	a dramatic soprano who toured Germany and London. She taught in America and published songs and an essay
Rudhyar, Dane more...	23 Mar. 1895 Paris, France	13 Sep. 1985 California, USA	born Daniel Chennevière, Rudhyar was one of the first composers to consciously reject the forms and sonorities of traditional European art music in favor of exploring polytonic dimensions and new sound combinations. Soon after coming to America, his compositions were performed at the New York Metropolitan Opera on April 4, 1917 as an integral part of the multi-media performance art known as Métachorie. It was the first performance of dissonant polytonal music in America. In New York and California, Rudhyar befriended other avant-garde composers of the 1920s - such as Charles Ives, Edgard Varèse, Leo Ornstein, Henry Cowell, Charles Seeger, Carl Ruggles, Ruth Crawford-Seeger. Together they formed a loosely-knit group known as the Ultra-Moderns. In a sense, Rudhyar acted as the "high-priest and spokesman" for the Ultra-Moderns and in a series of penetrating and uncomprising articles, challenged traditional European music and the "neo-Classicism" of Stravinsky and his followers. But the musical establishment "chose Stravinsky over Scriabin," as Rudhyar later stated, and the Ultra-Moderns were soon unwelcomed in the world of serious music. Now, almost a century later, the work of Rudhyar and his contribution to modern music is finally being widely recognized and accepted.
Rudnev, Sergei more...
Rudnik, Eugeniusz more...
Rudolph, Archduke of Austria more...
Rudzinski, Witold more...	4 Mar. 1913 Siebiez, Russia		Polish pianist, teacher, writer and composer who studied with Tadeusz Szeligowski in Vilnius and Nadia Boulanger and Charles Koechlin in Paris
Rudzinski, Zbigniew more...	23 Oct. 1935 Czechowice, Poland		Polish composer who studied with Piotr Perkowski in Warsaw before extended his studies in Paris and Holland
Rue, Pierre de la more...	c.1452 probably Tournai, Belgium	20 Nov. 1518 Kortrijk, The Netherlands	a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. A member of the same generation as Josquin des Prez, he ranks with Agricola, Brumel, Compère, Isaac, Obrecht, and van Weerbeke as one of the most famous and influential exponents of the Netherlands polyphonic style in the decades around 1500. de la Rue was the favourite composer of Margaret of Austria and almost his entire output is preserved in the manuscript collections of Pierre (Petrus) Alamire (c.1470-1536), one of the most skilled music scribes of his time
Rueda, Jesus more...
Rueff, Jeanine	1922		French pianist and composer who studied at the Paris Conservatory with Noël and Jean Gallon and Henri Busser. She won the Favareille-Chailley-Richez prize for her Piano Quintet in 1945 and the second Grand Prix de Rome in 1948. She worked as an accompanist at the Conservatory and taught solfege there from 1959. She has mostly written chamber music, as well as orchestral music, an opera, and a ballet
Ruegg, Mathias more...
Ruffo, Vincenzo more...	c.1508 Verona, Italy	9 Feb. 1587 Sacile, Italy	an Italian composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the composers most responsive to the musical reforms suggested by the Council of Trent, especially in his composition of masses, and as such was an influential member of the Counter-Reformation
Rugge, Heinrich von more...
Ruggero, Osvaldo more...
Ruggles, Carl	1876	1971	a composer with a relatively small output: fourteen songs, seventeen other works, and hundreds of pages of sketches. One of his strongest champions was Charles Ives
Rugolo, Pete more...
Ruhling, Isa more...
Ruhm, Gerhard more...
Ruiter, Fanny de more...
Ruiter, Wim de more...
Ruiz, Josep more...
Ruiz de Ribayaz, Lucas more...
Ruiz-Pipo, Antonio more...
Ruloffs, Bartholomeus more...
Rumelant, meister more...
Runcie, Constance Fauntleroy	1836 USA		composer and organiser of the Minerva Club, said to be the first womens club in America
Rundgren, Todd more...
Rung, Henrik more...
Runjanin, Josip	1821 Vinkovci, Croatia	1878	the verses for the Croatian national anthem 'Our Beautiful Homeland' (Lijepa nasa domovino) were written by the Croatian poet and diplomat Antun Mihanovic (1796-1861) and the music was composed by Runjanin. It was adopted in 1891
Running, Joseph more...
Runswick, Daryl more...
Ruoff, Axel more...
Ruohomäki, Jukka	1947 Finland		one of the Finnish pioneers on the electronic field. He started working in 1970 in the Electronic Music Studio at Helsinki University's Department of Musicology as an assistant of Erkki Kurenniemi and he made independent compositions as well as music for ballet, theatre, radio plays and films. In the 1980s Ruohomäki was mainly involved with computer graphics
Rupert de Deutz (see Deutz, Rupert de)
Ruppe, Christian Friedrich more...	22 Aug. 1753 Salzungen, Thüringen, Germany	25 May 1826 Leiden, The Netherlands	German-born Dutch composer [entry prompted by Elaine Keillor]
Ruppel, Paul Ernst more...	18 Jul. 1913 Esslingen am Neckar, Germany	27 Nov. 2006 Neukirchen-Vluyn, Germany	German composer, Kantor and choral director
Rusca, Claudia Francesca	1593	1676	composer who published in Milan in 1630
Ruschkowski, Andre more...	1959 Berlin, Germany		electro-acoustic composer and audiovisual artist
Rushing, Jimmy more...
Rusila, Kristian more...	10 Feb. 1974 Finland		Finnish harpsichordist, pianist and composer who studied composition with Paavo Heininen
Russell, George more...	23 Jun. 1923 Cincinnati, Ohio, USA	27 Jul. 2009 Boston, Massachusetts, USA	American composer and musical theorist whose great innovation was expostulated in his book The Lydian Concept of Tonal Organisation (1953)
Russell, Henry more...
Russell, Kennedy more...		1954	a writer of popular songs, with ones like As You Pass By, At Santa Barbara, The Barber of Turin, Gypsy River, Poor Man's Garden, Vale, Young Tom o'Devon, The Church Bells of England (clearly a song enjoyed by Doris Arnold as she arranged it for male voices) and Gypsy Dan. Some of Russell's songs were incorporated into films or in stage works. He produced for orchestra the genre pieces Tinkabelle, Dance of the Icicles, Patrol of the King's Jesters and Old Romance; pianists enjoyed his The Little Clockwork Fairy and the suite The Wooing of the Snowflakes
Russell, Pee Wee more...
Russell, William I more...
Russo, William more...
Russolo, Antonio more...	1909 Italy	8 Jun. 1996 Italy	Italian Futurist composer, brother of the more famous Futurist composer and theorist Luigi Russolo
Russolo, Luigi more...	30 Apr. 1885 Portogruaro, Italy	4 Feb. 1947 Cerro di Laveno, Italy	Italian Futurist painter and composer, and the author of the manifestoes The Art of Noises (1913) and Musica Futurista
Rust, Friedrich Wilhelm more...	6 Jul. 1739 Wörlitz, Germany	8 Mar. 1796 Wörlitz, Germany	Friedrich Wilhem Rust belonged to a distinguished German musical family. His father was a person of eminence, and he received a first-rate education. He was taught music by his elder brother, Johann Ludwig Anton, who as an amateur had played the violin in J.S. Bach's orchestra in Leipzig; and at 13 he played the whole of the Wohltemperirtes Clavier without book. Composition, organ and clavier he learned from Friedemann and Emanuel Bach, and the violin from Höckh and F. Benda; and in 1765, during a journey to Italy, from G. Benda, Tartini and Pugnani
Rust, Wilhelm more...	15 Aug. 1822 Dessau, Germany	2 May 1892 Leipzig, Germany	German organist and scholar, Wilhelm Rust, belonged to a distinguished German musical family. He was nephew of the the famous muscu teacher, Wilhelm Karl Rust and grandson of Friedrich Wilhelm Rust. He himself was an advocate, and a fine amateur player on both violin and pianoforte, learned music from his uncle and F. Schneider. Rust composed some songs and keyboard music
Rustichelli, Carlo more...	24 Dec. 1916 Carpi, Italy	13 Nov. 2004 Rome, Italy	he studied cello, piano and composition at the Accademia Filarmonica in Bologna, completing his studies at the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Upon leaving, he began work in the opera. In the late 1930s he entered the film industry but initially wrote scores only intermittently. However, in 1947 he scored the actor/ director Pietro Germi's Gioventù perduta (Lost Youth), beginning the most important collaborative relationship of his career, and over the next 25 years they made nearly 20 films together. he was best known for the Academy Award-winning soundtrack to Divorce, Italian Style
Rutini, Giovanni Marco more...
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Rutti, Carl more...
Ruttmann, Walter more...
Rutzky, Annie more...	12 Jan. 1920 Anvers, Belgium	1943-1945 Auschwitz	Belgian composer and pianist
Ruyneman, Daniel more...
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Ryba, Jan Jakub more...
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Rydberg, Bo more...
Rydman, Kari more...	15 Oct. 1936 Helsinki, Finland		a composer whose radical period consists of chamber music and orchestral works. For example, in the six Sonatas written for a variety of ensembles (196263), Rydman experimented with modern textures, glissandos, microintervals, aleatoric counterpoint and graphic notation
Ryelandt, Joseph (baron) more...	7 Apr. 1870 Bruges, Belgium	29 Jun. 1965 Bruges, Belgium	Belgian composer and teacher
Ryterband, Roman more...	2 Aug. 1914 Lódz, Poland	17 Nov. 1979 Palm Springs, Florida, USA	Polish pianist, conductor and composer. Trapped in France at the outbreak of World War Two, Ryterband moved first to Switerland and then to Canada before in 1960 moving to Chicago. His final move, to Paplm Springs took place in 1967
Rypdal, Terje more...
Rzewski, Frederic more...	13 Apr. 1938 Westfield, Mass., USA		American-born composer, pianist and teacher active for many years in Belgium