| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Abbott, Katy |
Abbott Kvasnica, Katy |
1871 |
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Australian 20th/21st century composer. her body of work incorporates orchestra, chamber and music for voice - an area where she exhibits a particular flair. As well as freelance composition, Abbott Kvasnica is Lecturer in Composition at Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne. |
| Abbs, Keith |
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British performer, teacher, arranger and composer. He has sung with many professional classical choirs such as the Linden Singers and the BBC Singers, and for five years was a member of the St. Paul’s Cathedral choir. Several of his jazz band arrangements have been featured in foyer concerts at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Cadogan Hall, and two of his vocal arrangements have been recorded and published by the King’s Singers |
| Abelard, Peter |
Abaelardus, Petrus; Abélard, Pierre |
1079 |
1142 |
Medieval French scholastic philosopher, theologian, and preeminent logician. His love for, and affair with, Héloïse d'Argenteuil has become legendary. The Chambers Biographical Dictionary describes him as "the keenest thinker and boldest theologian of the 12th century".[ |
| Abelard, Peter |
Abaelardus, Petrus; Abélard, Pierre |
1079 |
1142 |
Medieval French scholastic philosopher, theologian, and preeminent logician. His love for, and affair with, Héloïse d'Argenteuil has become legendary. The Chambers Biographical Dictionary describes him as "the keenest thinker and boldest theologian of the 12th century".[ |
| Abrahami, Doran |
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American writer and translator. |
| Abrams, Rita |
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1943 |
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American songwriter, performer and writer who has specialised in childrens' songs |
| Abt, F. |
Abt, Franz |
1819 |
1885 |
German composer and choral conductor.[2] He composed roughly 3,000 individual works mostly in the area of vocal music. Several of his songs were at one time universally sung, and have obtained a more or less permanent place in the popular repertory. |
| Acworth, Harry Arbuthnot |
Acworth, H. A. |
1849 |
1933 |
Lyricist, for many composers including Elgar |
| Adam, Adolph-Charles |
|
1803 |
1856 |
French composer particularly of operas and ballets, and music critic. |
| Adams, Arthur Henry |
|
1872 |
1936 |
Born in New Zealand spent most of his adult life in Australia as a Journalist, author and poet |
| Adams, Brant |
|
1944 |
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American Composer, Arranger and Orchestrator. Brant has been a member of the Oklahoma State University music faculty since 1987, serving as area coordinator of music theory and composition and as head of the Department of Music since 2008. |
| Adams, Bryan |
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1970 |
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Canadian singer songwriter, musician, producer, actor, social activist, and photographer.. Adams has been one of the most successful figures of the world of rock music during last three decades. |
| Adams, George Archibald Emmett |
Adams, Emmett |
1889 |
1938 |
Australian, songwriter and Lyricist |
| Adams, H. M. |
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20th century British composer, musicologist and author |
| Adams, Ishmael |
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Ghanean composer and conductor who formed the Damas choir in the 1950s, a non denominational mixed choir |
| Adams, Lee |
|
1924 |
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American lyricist best known for his musical theatre collaboration with Charles Strouse. Won Broadway's Tony Award twice: in 1961, his lyrics as part of a Best Musical win for "Bye, Bye Birdie;" and in 1970, his lyrics as part of a Best Musical win for "Applause." |
| Adams, Lydia |
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Canadian Choral conductor. While in England, she worked with many leading conductors, composers and arrangers including Sir David Willcocks, Sir Neville Marriner, John Rutter, Bob Chilcott, Tonϋ Kaluste among others. In 1981, Lydia Adams became the pianist of the Elmer Iseler Singers, a fully professional chamber choir based in Toronto, and worked with its founder, the late Dr. Elmer Iseler, in that capacity for 17 years. She was appointed Conductor and Artistic director after his death |
| Adams, Sarah Flower |
|
1805 |
1848 |
English Poet |
| Adams, Stephen |
|
1841 |
1913 |
Pseudonym for Michael Maybrick English composer and singer |
| Adams, Stephen |
|
1844 |
1913 |
Pseudonym for Michael Maybrick English composer and singer |
| Adelaide Latvian Society, |
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Formed in Adelaide South Australia in 1953 |
| Ades, Hawley |
|
1908 |
2008 |
American choral arranger, |
| Adkins, Adele |
Adele; Adkins, Adele Laurie Blue |
1988 |
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Adele is a British singer-songwriter who has sold millions of albums worldwide and won a total of 15 Grammys as well as an Oscar. |
| Adkins, James Edward |
Adkins, J. E. |
1867 |
1939 |
Irish Organist,Choirmaster and Composer |
| Adler, Richard |
|
1921 |
2012 |
Composer, lyricist, producer |
| Adlgasser, Anton Cajetan |
|
1729 |
1777 |
German organist and composer at Salzburg Cathedral and at court, and composed a good deal of liturgical music (including eight masses and two requiems) as well as oratorios and orchestral and keyboard works. |
| Adrian, John |
Adrian, J. |
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Lyricist for pop and country songs, especially for Billy "Crash" Craddock |
| Afanasieff, Walter |
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1958 |
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Russian American multiple Grammy-award-winning record producer and songwriter. He is best known for his long association with Mariah Carey, for whom he was co-producer and co-writer for several years, beginning in 1990. |
| Agay, Denes |
|
1911 |
2007 |
Hungarian-born American composer, arranger and author |
| Agazzari, Agostino |
|
1578 |
1640 |
Italian composer and music theorist. Agazzari wrote several books of sacred music, madrigals and the pastoral drama Eumelio (1606). |