| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Key, Francis Scott |
Scott Key, Frances |
1779 |
1843 |
American lawyer and poet |
| Key, Michael |
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Music arranger |
| Keyte, Hugh |
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Expert in Renaissance music, editor |
| Kibble, Mark |
|
1964 |
|
American guitarist, arranger, band player, |
| Kilmer, Joyce |
Kilmer, Alfred Joyce |
1886 |
1918 |
American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled "Trees" (1913) Kilmer was considered the leading American Roman Catholic poet and lecturer of his generation, whom critics often compared to British contemporaries G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc |
| Kimmel, Tom |
Hobbs II, Thomas Eugene |
1953 |
|
American singer-songwriter and poet. |
| Kind, Johann Friedrich |
|
1768 |
1843 |
German dramatist, most famous for writing the libretto for Carl Maria von Weber's opera Der Freischütz (1821). |
| King, Ben E. |
King, Benjamin Earl |
1938 |
2015 |
American soul and R&B singer and record producer. |
| King, Carole |
|
1942 |
|
American composer and singer-songwriter. |
| King, Jennifer Alsup |
Alsup, Jennifer |
|
|
Canadian pianist, teacher, performer and music arranger |
| King, Lew |
|
|
|
Lew is a songwriter/composer who also arranges and orchestrates. He spent 44 years as a church musician directing choirs and music groups and arranging all kinds of choral and instrumental material |
| King, Oliver |
|
1855 |
1923 |
Classical British pianist, composer, Professor of music Royal Academy of Music London |
| King, Pete |
|
1914 |
1982 |
American music composer and arranger of easy listening music and film soundtracks. |
| King, Robert |
|
1960 |
|
English conductor, harpsichordist, editor and author. His career has concentrated on period performance of classical music, in particular from the baroque and early modern periods. |
| Kings' Singers, |
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British a cappella vocal ensemble founded in 1968. They are named after King's College in Cambridge, England, where the group was formed by six choral scholars |
| Kingsbury, John |
|
|
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Music editor and arranger for Walton music |
| Kingsley, Charles |
|
1819 |
1875 |
Broad (Anglicans tolerant of multiple forms of conformity to ecclesiastical authority) church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, historian and novelist. |
| Kingsley, Henry |
|
1830 |
1876 |
Victorian poet, brother of Charles Kingsley, chiefly known for Magdalen at Michael's Gate |
| Kingsmill, Leigh |
Phillips, Alfred William ; Sarakowski |
1844 |
1936 |
Author, Publisher, lyricist, music arranger. Alfred William Phillips writer also, under noms de plume of "Sarakowski," for pianoforte compositions, and "Leigh Kingsmill" for songs. |
| Kinkel, Johanna |
|
1810 |
1858 |
German composer, writer, and revolutionary. |
| Kinsella, John |
|
1963 |
|
Australian poet, novelist, critic, essayist and editor. |
| Kipling, Rudyard |
|
1865 |
1936 |
English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. |
| Kirby, Percival |
|
1887 |
|
Scottish born South African musicologist, ethnomusicologist, composer, conductor and broadcaster |
| Kirbye, George |
|
1565 |
1634 |
English composer of the late Tudor period and early Jacobean era. He was one of the members of the English Madrigal School, but also composed sacred music. |
| Kirchner, Shawn |
|
1970 |
|
American composer and songwriter who was appointed Swan Family Composer in Residence of the Los Angeles Master Chorale. Kirchner also maintains an active performing career as a singer and pianist. |
| Kirk, Theron |
|
1919 |
1999 |
American composer , music educator and conductor . As a composer he has published more than 1000 works for orchestra, concert band, a chamber opera, much sacred music, vocal music (choirs, songs), works for organ and carillon. |
| Kirkpatrick, John |
|
1905 |
1991 |
American classical pianist and music scholar. His career as an editor of music shaped the music and legacies of some of the great American modernists |
| Kirkpatrick, Wayne |
|
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20th century US musician |
| Kirkpatrick, William J. |
|
1838 |
|
An American prolific writer of gospel tunes and music publisher. |
| Kitson, Charles Herbert |
|
1874 |
1944 |
English organist, teacher, and music educator, author of several books on harmony and counterpoint. |