| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Christopher, Keith |
|
1957 |
1988 |
American actor, singer-songwriter and AIDS activist |
| Chrysander, Friedrich |
|
1826 |
1901 |
German music historian, critic , editor and publisher, |
| Churchill, Frank |
|
1901 |
1942 |
American film composer incuding many Disney movies |
| Churchill, John |
|
1920 |
|
British composer of chiefly church music, Professor of music and choral conductor in Canada after 1967 |
| Churchill, Stuart |
|
1907 |
2000 |
Vocalist musician with the nationally renowned band Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians and also sang on his own radio show for NBC Music professor |
| Chynoweth, Neville James, Rt. Rev |
|
1922 |
2011 |
Australian composer chiefly of Church music |
| Ciardi, John |
Ciardi, John Anthony |
1916 |
1986 |
American poet, translator, and etymologist. While primarily known as a poet, he also translated Dante's Divine Comedy, wrote several volumes of children's poetry, pursued etymology, contributed to the Saturday Review as a columnist and long-time poetry editor. |
| Clapp, Sunny |
Sonny Clapp |
1899 |
1962 |
American bandleader, composer, arranger, trombonist, clarinetist, and alto saxophonist, |
| Clapton, Eric |
Clapton, Eric Patrick |
1945 |
|
English rock and blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. |
| Clare, E. A. |
Caleb Simper; Clare, Edwyn A. |
1856 |
1942 |
Edwyn Clare was a pseudonym used by Caleb Simper. Why he used his mother's maiden name isn't clear (unless he found his own embarrassing. ) There are several anthems published under the name Clare, but the vast amount of Caleb's output was published under the name of Simper . |
| Clare, John |
|
1793 |
1964 |
English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption. His poetry underwent a major re-evaluation in the late 20th century, and he is now often considered to be among the most important 19th-century poets |
| Clare, Sidney |
|
1892 |
1972 |
American comedian, dancer and composer. His best-known songs include "On the Good Ship Lollipop" |
| Clark, Dave |
|
|
|
A composer and author of religious books |
| Clark, Denny |
|
|
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Poet, singer and Translator. He translated the poems written in the Holcaust camps for Donald McCullough who says "A trained singer himself, Clark was able to make transliterations to ensure that the best vowels for singing fell on the proper notes, all while remaining faithful to the original text. It was an immensely complicated task. As he finished the lyrics for each song, he would pass them on to me and I would begin the arrangement.” |
| Clark, Eugene L. |
|
|
|
Composer of religeous songs and cantatas. Blind and bedridden with crippling arthritis since 1963, Eugene Clark has not allowed his handicaps to prevent his composing and arranging music by dictating each song, note by note and word by word, into a dictating machine. Mr. Clark has written three cantatas and nearly 200 songs, most of them during his illness. |
| Clark, J. |
Clark, Jacqueline |
|
|
Australian Composer |
| Clark, Rudy |
Clark, Rudolph |
1935 |
|
American songwriter most active in the 1960s and 70s |
| Clark, Thomas |
|
1775 |
1859 |
Composer of West Gallery music, especially for the Nonconformist churches of the South East of England. |
| Clarke-Witfield, J. |
|
1770 |
1836 |
English organist and composer |
| Clarke, Aidan |
|
|
|
Aidan Clarke has been a writer for more than 3 decades during most of which he has lived, worked and walked around in Newcastle Upon Tyne. |
| Clarke, Jeremiah |
|
1673 |
1707 |
English baroque composer and organist. |
| Clarkson, Geoffrey |
Clarkson-Hale; Clarkson, G. Clarkson, Geof. Clarkson, Geoff Clarkson, J. Clarkson, Jeff Clakson, Jeff Clarkson |
1914 |
|
American pianist and Composer of popular music for, among others, Les Brown and his band of renown, Paul McCartney, Perry Como and Dean Martin |
| Clary, S. |
Clary, Salone Theodore |
1939 |
|
African-American composer, music arranger, choral conductor and educator |
| Clausen, Rene |
|
1953 |
|
Choral conductor, clinician, educator, composer, and arranger |
| Clawson, Michael |
|
|
|
Director of Music Ministries at Central United Methodist Church. He has recently come to Kings Mountain having served churches in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky. Michael has taught voice in several colleges, universities, and community colleges in North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee and is currently teaching voice in Kings Mountain. |
| Clayton, Adam Charles |
|
1960 |
|
Member of U2 |
| Clayton, John (Jr.) |
|
1952 |
|
African American bassist and author |
| Clemens, Jacobus |
Non Papa, Jacobus Clemens |
1510 |
1556 |
Dutch composer of polyphonic chansons, motets and psalms set to popular Dutch tunes |
| Clementi, Muzio Filippo Vincenzo Francesco Saverio |
|
1752 |
1832 |
Italian-born English composer, pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer. |
| Cleobury, Stephen |
Bromley; Cleobury, Stephen Jonm |
1948 |
|
English conductor and organist, Director of music at Kings College from 1982. He is Director of Music at King’s College, Cambridge, a post he has held for over 30 years. He is Conductor Laureate of the BBC Singers, following a period of 12 years as their Chief Conductor. From 1983-2009 he was Conductor of the Cambridge University Musical Society |