| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Hayes, Alfred |
|
1911 |
1985 |
British screenwriter, television writer, novelist, and poet, who worked in Italy and the United States. He is perhaps best known for his poem "Joe Hill" |
| Hayes, Mark |
|
1953 |
|
American composer and arranger. His predominant output is of choral music in the Christian sacred music and gospel music genres. |
| Hays, Lee |
|
1914 |
1981 |
American folk-singer and songwriter |
| Hayward, Lou |
Zaninelli, Luigi |
1932 |
|
Italian-American composer of vocal and instrumental music. Zaninelli has published over 300 works. He uses the name "Lou Hayward" for his jazz compositions and arrangements and his given name for his "serious" compositions. |
| Hazell, Chris |
Hazell, Christopher Charles |
1948 |
|
English recording producer for classical music, arranger and composer |
| Hazelwood, Mike |
|
1941 |
2001 |
English singer songwriter |
| Head, Michael |
Head, Michael Dewar |
1900 |
1976 |
British composer, pianist, organist and singer. The largest part of Head’s output as a composer was songs |
| Headington, Christopher |
|
1930 |
1996 |
English composer, musicologist, and pianist. |
| Healey, Derek |
|
1936 |
|
British born composer who studied with Herbert Howells and Harold Darke, who also worked in Canada and retired in USA |
| Heath, Fenno Follansbee Jr |
|
1926 |
2008 |
American composer, teacher and choral conductor |
| Heatherly, Ruth Holley |
|
|
|
20th century composer |
| Heber, (Bishop) Reginald |
|
1783 |
1826 |
English clergyman, traveller, man of letters and hymn-writer |
| Hecht, Don |
|
1930 |
2002 |
American Songwriter |
| Hecht, Gustav |
|
1851 |
1932 |
German composer of Art songs and Choral settings |
| Heckmann, Harald |
|
1924 |
|
German musicologist , editor and teacher |
| Hedges, Anthony |
|
1931 |
|
English composer whose output covers most musical genres. His chamber music output is extensive, from solo to ensemble works and his vocal compositions are equally numerous and varied. |
| Heermann, Johann |
|
1585 |
1647 |
German poet and hymn-writer. |
| Hegar, Friedrich |
|
1841 |
1927 |
Swiss composer, conductor, violinist |
| Heiberg, Ellen |
|
1930 |
|
Danish Poet |
| Heiberg, Harold |
|
1922 |
2013 |
American Professor of Music, piano recitalist, soloist with orchestra, chamber musician and accompanist, |
| Heiden, Bernhard |
|
1910 |
2000 |
German born American composer and music teacher, |
| Heine, Heinrich |
|
1797 |
1856 |
German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Lieder (art songs) by composers such as Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert. |
| Held, Grey |
|
|
|
20th/21st century American poet |
| Heller, Ruth |
Heller, Ruth Ann |
|
|
American author of choral music books. Music Arranger and Instrumental Director of Lyme-Old Lyme High School . |
| Helvey, Howard |
|
1968 |
|
American composer, arranger and pianist, and serves as organist and choirmaster of historic Calvary Episcopal Church. |
| Hely-Hutchinson, Victor |
Hely-Hutchinson, Christian Victor |
1901 |
1947 |
South African born British composer. He is best known for the Carol Symphony He is also well known for his settings of various nursery rhymes and children's poems |
| Hemans, Mrs |
Browne, Felicia Dorothea; Hemans, Felicia Dorothea |
1793 |
1835 |
English Poet |
| Hemberg, Eskil |
|
1938 |
2004 |
Swedish Composer, conductor, organist and choral director |
| Henderson, Ed |
|
1952 |
|
American composer and music arranger known particularly for his arrangements of Latin American Music |
| Henderson, Moya |
|
1941 |
|
Australian composer whose works comprise predominantly Australian themes. |