| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| D'Aquin, Louis-Claude |
D'Aquino, d'Aquin, d'Acquin |
1694 |
1772 |
French composer of Jewish ancestry, writing in the Baroque and Galant styles. He was a virtuoso organist and harpsichordist. |
| Da Gagliano, Marco |
|
1582 |
1643 |
Italian composer of the early Baroque era. He was important in the early history of opera and the development of the solo and concerted madrigal. |
| da Todi, Jacopone |
|
1230 |
1306 |
13th Century Franciscan Friar. He wrote several laudi (songs in praise of the Lord) in Italian |
| Dakers, Lionel |
|
1924 |
2003 |
English organist and administrator, past director of Royal Society of Church Music, Church musician |
| Dale, Jim |
|
1935 |
|
English actor, voice artist, and singer-songwriter |
| Dale, P. |
|
|
|
Music Arranger |
| Daley, Eleanor |
Daley, Eleanor Joanne |
1955 |
|
Canadian composer of choral and church music, a church choirmaster, choral clinician and accompanist. |
| Dalglish, Malcolm |
|
1952 |
|
American hammered dulcimer player and builder, composer, and choral director. |
| Dalziel, Kathleen |
|
1881 |
1969 |
Australian author.poet and lyricist |
| Damrosch, Frank |
Damrosch, Frank Heino |
1859 |
1937 |
German-born American music conductor and educator. |
| Daniel-Lesur, Jean-Yves |
|
1908 |
2002 |
French organist and composer |
| Daniel, George |
|
1789 |
1864 |
English author and poet |
| Danzig, Evelyn |
Levine, Evelyn Danzig |
1902 |
1996 |
American songwriter |
| Darby, Kenneth Lorin |
Darby, Ken |
1909 |
1992 |
American composer, vocal arranger, lyricist, composer of film scores and conductor |
| Dare, Anthony |
Hall, Frederick (Fred) Fifield ; Morel, Gabriel, Brand, Georges , Stanbridge, C. and Surrey, Charles. |
1878 |
1956 |
Australian composer; lyricist; conductor; pianist; arranger |
| Dargomyzhsky, Aleksandr Sergeyevich |
|
1813 |
1869 |
19th-century Russian composer. He bridged the gap in Russian opera composition between Mikhail Glinka and the later generation of The Five and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. |
| Darion, Joe |
|
1917 |
2001 |
American musical theatre lyricist, |
| Darke, Harold |
|
1888 |
1976 |
English composer and organist. |
| Darley, George |
|
1795 |
1846 |
Irish poet, novelist, and critic. |
| Dart, Thurston |
|
1921 |
1871 |
British musicologist, conductor and keyboard player |
| Dash, Julian |
|
1916 |
1974 |
American swing music jazz tenor saxophonist |
| Dashnaw, Alexander |
|
|
|
American Professor of Music, composer, arranger and Choral Director. Professor Emeritus of Music at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, has served as president of the Eastern Division of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), and as president of the New York State Association of College Music Programs (NYSACMP). Alexander Dashnaw has also been a champion of new choral music. He has commissioned 38 new works for chorus, from over 30 recognized composers. |
| Daumer, Georg Friedrich |
|
1800 |
1875 |
German poet and philosopher |
| Daunton, Frank |
|
1919 |
2007 |
British Music teacher, Arranger and broadcaster |
| Davalos, Jaime |
|
1921 |
1981 |
Argentinian Poet and Musician, particularly the folk music of Argentina |
| Davenant, W. |
D'Avenant, William, Sir; Davenant, William, Sir |
1606 |
1668 |
English poet and playwright |
| Davenport, John |
Blackwell, Otis |
1931 |
2002 |
African-American songwriter, singer, and pianist, whose work significantly influenced rock and roll |
| Davey, J. L. |
|
|
|
Music arranger |
| David, H. T. |
David, Hans Theodor |
1902 |
1967 |
German born American Musicologist and editor. In 1937 Hans T. David joined the staff at the New York Public Libary, and in 1939 became a lecturer at New York University; after serving as a professor and head of the musicology department at Southern Methodist University in Dallas (1945-1950), he was professor of music history at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (from 1950). He was highly regarded as a Bach scholar. |
| David, Hal |
|
1921 |
2012 |
American lyricist. He was best known for his collaborations with composer Burt Bacharach and his association with Dionne Warwick. The duo's film work includes the Oscar-nominated title songs for "What's New Pussycat?" and "Alfie", "The Look of Love", from Casino Royale; and the Oscar-winning Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. In addition, "Don't Make Me Over", "(They Long to Be) Close to You" and "Walk On By" have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fam |