| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Leaf, Robert |
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1936 |
2005 |
American composer of hymns and secular choral music. He wrote both instrumental and vocal music |
| Leaman, S. Scott |
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American high school teacher and choral director |
| Lear, Edward |
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1812 |
1888 |
English humourist and artist |
| Leavitt, John |
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1956 |
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American composer, conductor, teacher, and church musician. An extraordinary composer and clinician for church and school music literature, Leavitt continues to teach, lecture, and conduct numerous workshops, festivals, and symposia. He has numerous publications for choir, piano, organ, hand bells, and string orchestra and is co-author of the widely used choral music method textbook series Essential Elements for Choir. |
| Lebell, Ludwig |
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1873 |
1954 |
Austrian born cellist and composer. Professor of cello and chamber music at Trinity College of Music, 1910-1953. |
| Leck, Henry H. |
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Founder and artistic director of the Indianapolis Children's Choir and the Indianapolis Youth Chorale, and a choral clinician and specialist in voice change in boys. Author of "Creating Artistry Through Choral Excellence" |
| Lecuona, Ernesto |
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1896 |
1963 |
Cuban born composer and pianist of worldwide fame. He composed over six hundred pieces, mostly in the Cuban vein, and was a pianist of exceptional skill.[ |
| Ledbetter, Steven |
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Scholar, writer, lecturer, and conductor, who served as Musicologist and Program Annotator for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He has conducted choral ensembles and orchestras at Dartmouth College and Providence College and sung in the Boston Symphony's Tanglewood Festival Chorus for more than 15 years. from 1979 to 1998. |
| Ledger, Philip |
Ledger, Sir Philip |
1937 |
2012 |
British classical musician and academic, best known for his tenure as director of the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, between 1974 and 1982 and as director of Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama from 1982 until his retirement in 2001.He was also a composer of choral music and an organist. |
| Lee, Dave |
|
1944 |
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American poet. He was the first poet laureate of the state of Utah and was his 1999 collection News From Down to the Café was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. |
| Lee, E. Markham |
Lee, Ernest Markham |
1874 |
1956 |
English composer, author, lecturer, pianist and organist |
| Lee, J. |
Lee, Jaeryoung |
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American musician who in addition to performing, serves as Professor of Music at San Diego Mesa College and MiraCosta College. She has been teaching applied piano (classic and jazz), class piano, world music, music theory (classic and jazz), music appreciation, music for elementary school teachers, show choir and class voice for the jazz vocalist. |
| Lee, Ken |
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Music Arranger |
| Lee, Vernon |
Goldson, Michael H. |
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American music publisher, songwriter and composer. |
| Leek, Stephen |
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1959 |
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Australian composer, conductor, educator, and publisher. |
| Lees, Gene |
Lees. Frederick Eugene John |
1928 |
2010 |
Canadian music critic, biographer, lyricist, and former journalist |
| Lees, Heath |
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Scottish born Emeritus Professor of Music at Auckland University, and divides his year equally between New Zealand and France. He is a composer and writer on musical subjects particularly Wagnerian |
| Leeuw, Ton de |
Leeuw , Antonius Wilhelmus Adrianus de |
1926 |
1996 |
Dutch composer. He occasionally experimented with microtonality. |
| Legge, Philip |
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1972 |
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Australian miusician |
| Legrand, Michel |
|
1932 |
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French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist. Legrand is a prolific composer, having written over 200 film and television scores in addition to many memorable songs |
| Lehar, Franz |
|
1870 |
1948 |
Austro-Hungarian composer. He is mainly known for his operettas, of which the most successful and best known is The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe). |
| Lehmann, Liza |
|
1862 |
1918 |
English operatic soprano and composer, known for her vocal compositions. |
| Leiber, Jerry |
Leiber, Jerome |
1933 |
2011 |
Leiber and Mike Stoller were American songwriting and record producing partners. Stoller was the composer and Leiber the lyricist They wrote many hits for Elvis Presley and wrote or co-wrote over 70 chart hits.. |
| Leigh, Carolyn |
|
1926 |
1983 |
American lyricist for Broadway, movies, and popular songs. |
| Leigh, Mitch |
Michnick, Irwin |
1928 |
2014 |
American musical theatre composer and theatrical producer best known for the musical Man of La Mancha. |
| Leigh, Richard |
|
1951 |
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American country music singers and songwriter |
| Leighton-Jones, Michael |
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Born in New Zealand, early training Australia. he sang in the Choirs of King's College, Cambridge (with Sir David Willcocks) and Westminster Abbey. For ten years he was a member of the London-based vocal quintet The Scholars, before joining the music staff at the University of Queensland. He has written many original works and arrangements for choir and smaller vocal groups. In 1997 he was appointed Director of Music at Trinity College, the University of Melbourne. He now freelances |
| Leighton, Kenneth |
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1929 |
1988 |
British composer and pianist. He had various academic appointments at the Universities of Leeds, Oxford and Edinburgh. His compositions include church and choral music, pieces for piano, organ, cello, oboe and other instruments, chamber music, concertos, symphonies, and an opera. |
| Leighton, William [Sir] |
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1565 |
1622 |
Elizabethan composer and editor who published The Teares and Lamentatacions of a Sorrowfull Soule (1614) which comprised 55 pieces by 21 composers (among them John Bull, William Byrd, John Dowland and Martin Peerson), including eight by himself. |
| Leininger, Jim |
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1942 |
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American choral director, music teacher, church musician, voice teacher, and composer/arranger. Jim's expierience includes serving as a full-time teacher in the public school systems of Florida and Texas, teaching in all levels (K-12th grade). |