| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Chappell, Herbert |
|
1934 |
|
British composer and film-maker |
| Charles d'Orleans, |
D'Orleans, Charles |
1394 |
1465 |
15th century French prince and poet. He is now remembered as an accomplished medieval poet owing to the more than five hundred extant poems he produced, written in both French and English, during his 25 years spent as a prisoner of war in England. |
| Charles-Edwards, Mervyn |
|
1902 |
1983 |
Anglican Bishop in the third quarter of the 20th century |
| Charles, Hughie |
|
1907 |
1995 |
English songwriter. He is best known for co-writing the songs "We'll Meet Again"[1] and "There'll Always Be an England" with Ross Parker. |
| Charles, Ray |
Robinson, Ray Charles |
1930 |
2004 |
American singer, songwriter, musician and composer, |
| Charpentier, Gustave |
|
1860 |
1956 |
French Composer, best known for his opera Louise.[ |
| Charpentier, Marc-Antoine |
|
1645 |
1704 |
French baroque composer. His mastery in writing sacred vocal music, above all, was recognized and hailed by his contemporaries. Any family relationship between him and Gustave Charpentier, the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century French opera composer, is highly unlikely. |
| Charteris, Richard Professor |
|
|
|
Richard Charteris is one of Australia's best-known musicologists, whose many publications span major musicological studies, monographical critical editions and refereed articles published in Europe, the UK and the USA. Professor Charteris was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1990, and was later elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in London, and was awarded the Centenary Medal in recognition of his contribution to musicology. |
| Chatman, Stephen |
|
1950 |
|
Canadian composer. Since 1976, he has been on the faculty of the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, where he was promoted to Professor in 1987 (Meckna 2001). He is Head of the Composition Division and became a Member of the Order of Canada in July 2012. |
| Chatterton, T. |
Chatterton, Thomas |
1752 |
1770 |
English poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry. |
| Chaucer, Geoffrey |
|
1343 |
1400 |
Is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to be buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. |
| Chen, Nira |
|
1924 |
|
Israeli Composer of songs and plays mostly for children. She became famous in the late 1940s as a writer of songs for folk dances. |
| Chenoweth, Wilbur |
|
1899 |
1980 |
American composer, professor of piano, organ and theory and choirmaster of various church choirs |
| Cherubini, Luigi |
|
1760 |
1842 |
Italian composer who spent most of his working life in France. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music. Beethoven regarded Cherubini as the greatest of his contemporaries. |
| Cherwien, David M. |
|
1957 |
|
American Lutheran conductor, composer and organist. |
| Chesterton, Frances |
Blogg, Frances Alice |
1869 |
1938 |
English Poet who wrote six plays and numerous poems, and was the wife of G. K. Chesterton |
| Chesterton, Gilbert Keith |
Chesterton,, G. K. |
1874 |
1936 |
English English writer, lay theologian, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer, and Christian apologist. |
| Chien, Shan-Hua |
|
1954 |
|
Taiwanese professor of music and tenor vocalist, composer, ethnomusicologist, and choral conductor |
| Chilcott, Robert |
Chilcott, Bob |
1955 |
|
British choral composer, conductor, and singer, based in Oxford, England. |
| Child, William |
|
1606 |
1697 |
English composer and organist. |
| Childs, David N. |
|
1969 |
|
New Zealad born American based Composer and choir director and conductor |
| Childs, Edwin T. |
|
1945 |
|
American music professor and a composer of church music and other choral works |
| Ching-Fu, T'ien |
|
1911 |
|
Poet, student of Bliss Wiant |
| Chinn, Teena |
|
|
|
American composer and arranger well known in the pop choral field. She is currently full-time minister of music at Fenton United Methodist Church in Fenton, Michigan. |
| Chirbury, Richard |
|
1380 |
1454 |
English composer in Royal service composing chiefly plainsong and polyphony for the mass |
| Chopin, Frederic |
Chopin, Fryderyk Franciszek, |
1810 |
1849 |
Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era |
| Chorley, Henry Fothergill |
|
1808 |
1872 |
English literary, art and music critic, writer and editor. He was also an author of novels, drama, poetry and lyrics. |
| Christiansen, F. Melius |
|
1871 |
1955 |
Norwegian-born violinist and choral conductor in the Lutheran choral tradition. Founder of St. Olaf choir in United States |
| Christiansen, Olaf Christian |
|
1901 |
1984 |
Olaf C. Christiansen - professor of music at St. Olaf College, respected composer and arranger of sacred song, eminent clinician, internationally acclaimed conductor of the St. Olaf Choir -son of F. Melius Christiansen |
| Christiansen, Paul J. |
|
1914 |
1997 |
A well known American composer, Academic, clinician and conductor. Another son of F. Melius Christiansen |