| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Ford, Lena Guilbert |
Brown, Lena Guilbert |
1870 |
1918 |
American lyricist, best known for "Keep the Home Fires Burning" which she wrote during the First World War. Ford and her thirty-year-old son Walter were the first United States citizens to become fatalities of a German air raid on London, |
| Ford, Thomas |
|
1580 |
1648 |
English composer, lutenist, viol player and poet. He wrote anthems, for three to six voices; four sacred canons; 35 partsongs; six fantasias for five parts; and a few other pieces for viols. |
| Fornsete, John of |
|
|
1226 |
English monk at Reading Abbey where he kept the records and is credited as being composer of Sumer is icumen in, although it could have been W. de Wycombe. |
| Forrest, Dan |
|
1978 |
|
American composer. Dan’s choral works have received numerous awards and distinctions. He is highly active in the music publishing industry, both in concert choral music (maintaining a choral series in his name with Hinshaw Music) and in church choral music (serving as associate editor at Beckenhorst Press), |
| Forrest, George |
Chichester, George Forrest , Jr.; Forrest, Chet . |
1915 |
1999 |
Writer of music and lyrics for musical theatre best known for the show Kismet, adapted from the works of Alexander Borodin. |
| Forrester, Elizabeth |
|
|
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Poet/lyricist ? Wife/sister of James Cliffe Forrester |
| Forrester, J. Cliffe |
Forrester, James Cliffe |
1860 |
1941 |
Early 20th century English Organist and Composer and pupil of Sir Frank Bridge |
| Forsyth, Cecil |
|
1870 |
1941 |
English composer and musicologist. who moved to New York in 1914 |
| Fortune, Nigel |
|
1924 |
2009 |
Leading member of the generation of musical scholars - including Thurston Dart, Oliver Neighbour and Stanley Sadie - who played a vital role in establishing professional musicological standards in Britain in the decades after the second world war. He was a senior member of the editorial team New Grove was published in 1980. He then took on co-editorship of the quarterly journal Music and Letters (1980-2007). |
| Fosdick, W. W. |
Fosdick, William Whiteman |
1825 |
1862 |
American lawyer and Poet |
| Foss, Lukas |
|
1922 |
2009 |
German born composer and conductor |
| Foster, A. |
Foster, Arnold |
1898 |
1963 |
British composer, orchestrator and conductor, music director of Westminster school and Morley College. Director of Music of Morley College in London from 1928 to 1940; director of the English Madrigal Choir from 1928 to 1940; Director Westminster School in London from 1939. He was also lecturer at the London University Institute of Education from 1945. He was founder and conductor of the Arnold Foster Choir & Orchestra from 1945. |
| Foster, David |
|
1949 |
|
Canadian musician, record producer, composer, songwriter, and arranger |
| Foster, Myles Birket |
|
1851 |
1922 |
English organist and composer of church music, childrens' cantatas and orchestral works |
| Foster, Stephen |
Foster, Stephen Collins |
1826 |
1864 |
American songwriter primarily known for his parlor and minstrel music. Foster wrote over 200 songs |
| Foulds, John Herbert |
|
1880 |
1939 |
British composer of classical music. |
| Fowler, Frederick |
|
|
1985 |
20th century English schoolteacher, music arranger and editor. Published music with William Appleby - It would be difficult to overestimate Appleby and Fowler's contribution to student music-making in the half century after, say, 1940. |
| Fowler, John Henry |
|
|
|
Contemporary contributor and editor to CPDL |
| Fox, Charles Ira |
|
1940 |
|
American composer for film and television. |
| Fox, George |
|
1960 |
|
Canadian singer/songwriter |
| Fox, William |
Fuchs, Wilhelm |
|
1579 |
English composer and organist for Ely cathedral |
| Frackenpohl, Arthur |
|
1924 |
|
American composer and music Professor |
| Frances-Hoad, Cheryl |
Hoad, Cheryl Frances |
1980 |
|
English composer |
| Francis [Saint] of Assisi, |
Bernardone, Giovanni di Pietro di |
1181 |
1226 |
Italian Catholic friar and preacher, writer of religeous canticles |
| Franck, César |
|
1822 |
1890 |
French composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher who worked in Paris during his adult life. |
| Franck, Melchior |
|
1579 |
1639 |
German composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was a hugely prolific composer of Protestant church music, especially motets |
| Franck, Salomon |
|
1659 |
1725 |
Libnrettist of some of JS Bach's best known Canatatas. |
| François, Claude |
Cloclo; François, Claude Antoine Marie |
1939 |
1978 |
Egyptian-born French pop singer, songwriter and dancer. |
| Frank, Helga |
Frank, Helga Adele |
|
|
20th Century Composer |
| Frank, Paul |
|
1947 |
2009 |
American Lead singer, guitarist and drummer, recently a composer of Christian music |