| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Cantrell, Byron |
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Music arranger, editor and author |
| Caplet, Andre |
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1878 |
1925 |
French composer and conductor now known primarily through his orchestrations of works by Claude Debussy. |
| Capponi, Pio |
Capponi , Father John Francis |
1911 |
1984 |
Padre Pio was a gifted director, composer, organist and judge of musical competitions. He used these talents all over the world. |
| Carell, Victor |
Cioccarelli, Victor Thomas |
1916 |
2001 |
Australian singer, director, film producer and author |
| Carew, Thomas |
|
1595 |
1640 |
English poet, |
| Carey, Mariah |
|
1970 |
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American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. According to the Recording Industry Association of America, she is the third-best-selling female artist in the United States |
| Carey, Paul |
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21st century American composer and conductor |
| Carissimi, Giacomo |
|
1605 |
1674 |
Italian composer of the early Baroque |
| Carl, Robert |
|
1954 |
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American composer and music academic |
| Carleton, Bob |
Carleton, Robert Louis |
1894 |
1956 |
American pianist and composer of popular music. He composed over 500 songs, including the World War I hit, "Ja-Da" in 1918. He made a brief appearance as a pianist in the 1946 film Bringing Up Father. |
| Carleton, C. J. |
Carleton, Caroline |
1811 |
1874 |
South Australian poet, born in England, who is best known for her prize-winning poem Song of Australia |
| Carlson, Joanna |
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British born American singer songwriter |
| Carlton, Richard |
|
1558 |
1638 |
English composer, A minor canon of Norwich Cathedral, Carlton belonged also to the older generation of madrigal composers, particularly fond of the 'Byrd' or English cadence of flat versus sharp leading-notes. |
| Carmichael, Hoagy |
|
1899 |
1981 |
American composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader |
| Carole-Smith, Monique |
|
1972 |
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Australian composer, born in Zimbabwe, now living in Brisbane |
| Carpenter, Richard |
|
1946 |
|
American pop musician, best known as one half of the brother/sister duo the Carpenters record producer, arranger, pianist, keyboardist, occasional lyricist, and composer, |
| Carr-Boyd, Ann |
Wentzel , Ann Kirsten |
1938 |
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Australian classical composer and musicologist. |
| Carr, Howard |
Carr, Howard Frank Dunlop |
1880 |
1960 |
British Composer and author |
| Carrillo, Alvaro |
|
1921 |
1969 |
Mexican composer |
| Carrington, Simon |
|
1942 |
|
conductor, singer and double bass player, member and co-director of the King's Singers |
| Carroll, Harry |
|
1892 |
1962 |
American songwriter, pianist, and composer. |
| Carse, Adam |
Carse, Adam (von Ahn) |
1878 |
1958 |
English born Composer and historian of instruments. From 1909 to 1922 Adam Carse was Assistant Music Master at Winchester College. In 1923 he returned to the Royal Academy of Music in London as Professor of Harmony and Counterpoint a post he held until 1940. |
| Carswell, Eddie |
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American Composer, singer in American Christian Group "New Song" founded in 1981 |
| Carter, Andrew |
|
1939 |
|
English composer, conductor and arranger. A notable moment in Carter's musical career was a commission in 1997 to write a mass (Missa Sancti Pauli) for the tercentenary celebration of St Paul's Cathedral in London. In 2007, he composed a 22-variation Passacaglia for organ to mark the 90th birthday of the former York Minster organist Francis Jackson. He travels extensively in Europe and Australia and New Zealand as a choral director. |
| Carter, John |
Shakespeare, John Nicholas |
1942 |
|
English singer and songwriter. |
| Cartwright, Kenneth |
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Composer of Jazz music |
| Carubia, Mike |
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American composer and Music arranger. Mike has written and recorded over 130 original pieces of music for Omni Music, a music source for television and radio. He has also published over 75 jazz ensemble arrangements or compositions plus 3 books on improvisation. |
| Carulli, Ferdinando |
Carulli, Ferdinando Maria Meinrado Francesco Pascale Rosario |
1770 |
1841 |
Italian composer for classical guitar |
| Carver, Robert |
Carvcor, Arnot |
1487 |
1546 |
Scottish Canon regular and composer of Christian sacred music during the Renaissance. Carver is regarded as Scotland's greatest composer of the 16th-century. He is best known for his polyphonic choral music |
| Cary, Tristram |
|
1925 |
2008 |
English composer, lived and died in South Australia |