| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Copeland, Fanny S. |
Copeland, Fanny Susan |
1872 |
1970 |
Irish Born Linguist and Translator |
| Copland, Aaron |
|
1900 |
1990 |
American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music |
| Copley, Evan |
Copley, R. Evan |
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American academic and musician who has published several theory text books. His numerous compositions include symphonic, choral, band, keyboard, and chamber music works in 1986, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast Copley's motet, "In Thee, O God, Do I Put My Trust" on 350 radio stations and 40 television stations . |
| Coppens, Paul Theodore |
|
1943 |
|
Born in and musically educated in Austria, Paul Coppens founded the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra and went on to enjoy busy musical years directing the orchestra for international ballet and opera companies including the Stuttgart, London Royal and Bolshoi Ballets as well as the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company. He is now based in Queensland where he writes and arranges music and conducts the Buderim Male Choir. |
| Corelli, Arcangelo |
|
1653 |
1713 |
Italian violinist and composer of the Baroque era. |
| Corghi, Azio |
|
1937 |
|
Italian opera composer, also a teacher and musicologist. Corghi held the chair in composition at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and had many famous students, including Silvia Colasanti, Ludovico Einaudi, and Fabio Mengozzi. In 2005 he was made a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. |
| Corigliano, John |
|
1938 |
|
American composer |
| Corkill, Peter |
|
|
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music teacher at Kambala Girls School located in Sydney, New South Wales |
| Corley, Maria Thompson |
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Jamaican born canadian Pianist, arranger and Teacher. Aside from being an accomplished pianist, Maria Corley is an author, whose first novel, Choices, was published by Kensington. She is also a composer and arranger of music for both solo voice and chorus, with pieces commissioned and recorded by the Florida A&M University Concert Choir, the Tallahassee Boys Choir, and soprano Randye Jones. |
| Cornelius, Peter |
|
1824 |
1874 |
German composer, writer about music, poet and translator. |
| Corney, Alfred |
|
|
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Lyricist |
| Cornford, Frances |
|
1886 |
1960 |
English poet, Granddaughter of Charles Darwin, married to Francis Cornford |
| Cornish, William |
|
1465 |
1523 |
English composer, dramatist, actor and poet |
| Corp, Ronald |
|
1951 |
|
Composer, conductor and Church of England priest. He is Artistic Director of the New London Orchestra and the New London Children’s Choir both of which he founded, respectively, in 1988 and 1991. He is also Musical Director of the London Chorus and the Highgate Choral Society. He has worked with the BBC Singers, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Leipzig Philharmonic Orchestra. Ronald was awarded an OBE in 2012. |
| Corrette, Michel |
|
1707 |
1795 |
French organist, composer and author of musical method books. |
| Cory, George C. [Jr] |
|
1920 |
1978 |
American composer |
| Cory, William |
Cory, William Johnson; Johnson, William |
1823 |
1892 |
English educator and poet. Cory became an assistant master at Eton in 1845 just after graduating from King's College Cambridge. |
| Costa, M. |
Costa, Sir Michael Andrew Angus |
1808 |
1884 |
Composer, arranger and conductor |
| Costeley, Guillaume |
|
1531 |
1606 |
French composer of the Renaissance. |
| Cotes, Ambrosio |
|
1550 |
1603 |
Spanish Renaissance composer. Like many other Spanish composers of the period, his secular villancicos and canzonetas have been lost. Of the sacred works 25 polyphonic compositions are preserved in Granada, a mass in the Cathedral of Valencia, and a further 3 motets in the Colegio del Patriarca. |
| Cotton, W. J. |
|
|
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American composer, music arranger and author |
| Coulter, Phil |
|
1942 |
|
Irish musician, songwriter and record producer. He was awarded the Gold Badge from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors in October 2009 |
| Coungeau, Emily |
|
1860 |
1936 |
English born Australian Poet |
| Couperin, François |
|
1668 |
1733 |
French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. |
| Coursen, Charlotte H. |
C. H. C. |
|
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Late 19th century , early 20th Century American Translator, writer and poet |
| Courtney, Craig |
|
|
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American composer, conductor, vocal coach and Choir music director with many published works. Craig Courtney, staff composer and editor at Beckenhorst Press, writes for choir, voice and piano, plus extended works for choir and orchestra. |
| Covell, Roger |
|
1931 |
|
Australian musicologist, critic and author. Professor Emeritus in the School of English, Media and Performing Arts at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, and continues to contribute articles and reviews to the Sydney Morning Herald, where he served as principal music critic from 1960 until the late 1990s. |
| Cowall, Nicholas |
|
|
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Australian music educator, conductor, vocal coach, vocalist, Russian language coach, based in Melbourne. Member of The International Society For Orthodox Church Music |
| Cowan, Marie |
|
|
1919 |
In 1903 Marie Cowan was hired to alter the song lyrics of Walzing Matilda for use as an advertising jingle for Billy Tea, making it nationally famous. |
| Cowan, Samuel K. |
Cowan, Samuel Kennedy |
1850 |
1918 |
Irish Poet and Author. Many of his poems were set to music |