| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Gimbel, Norman |
Gimbal, Norman |
1927 |
|
American lyricist of popular songs, television and movie themes |
| Ginastera, Alberto |
|
1916 |
1983 |
Argentine composer of classical music |
| Ginsberg, Neil |
|
1969 |
|
American School music teacher and composerof music for Off Broadway productions, composes and music directs Pantomonium and conductor, orchestrator and pianist |
| Ginsburg, Ned |
Ginsburg, Ned Paul |
|
|
American contemporary playwright, musical director and composer chiefly for film and television. He has also orchestrated music for many other composers |
| Giordani, Tommaso |
|
1733 |
1806 |
Italian composer active in England and particularly in Ireland. |
| Giordano, Umberto |
|
1867 |
1948 |
Italian composer, mainly of operas. |
| Giovanelli, Ruggiero |
|
1560 |
1625 |
Italian composer of Renaissance/Baroque eras |
| Girvan, Allison |
|
1967 |
|
Allison Girvan (b. 1967) has had experience as a professional choral singer, soloist, and director. She has been a featured soloist on recordings and in performance. |
| Gjeilo, Ola |
|
1978 |
|
Norwegian composer who writes mainly choral music |
| Glaser, V. |
|
|
|
Lyricist and Translator |
| Gleeson, Horace |
Gleeson, Horace Atwood |
1878 |
1959 |
Australian composer of over 150 songs on a range of patriotic, sentimental, and sacred themes. |
| Glick, Sara |
|
1938 |
2008 |
American music teacher, composer and author |
| Glick, Srul |
Glick, Srul Irving |
1934 |
2002 |
Canadian composer, radio producer, conductor, and teacher. |
| Glière, Reinhold Moritzovich |
|
1875 |
1956 |
Russian composer of German-Polish ancestry. |
| Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovitch |
|
1804 |
1857 |
First Russian composer to gain wide recognition within his own country, and is often regarded as the fountainhead of Russian classical music |
| Glover-Kind, John A. |
|
1880 |
1918 |
British composer chiefly known for the song I do Like to be Beside the Seaside |
| Glover, Charles W. |
Glover, Charles William |
1806 |
1863 |
English violinist and composer. |
| Glover, Dennis |
Glover, Denis James Matthews |
1912 |
1980 |
New Zealand poet and publisher |
| Glowatzki, Manfred |
|
1933 |
2014 |
German church musician and conductor |
| Gluck, Christoph Willibald Ritter von |
|
1714 |
1787 |
German composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period. |
| Godfrey, Peter |
|
1922 |
|
British born composer and choir director who emigrated to New Zealand in 1958 to become Director of Music for Auckland Cathedral, as well as Lecturer in Music at Auckland University. He later became Professor of Music (1974-1982). In 1978, Peter was invited back to Cambridge as Acting Director of Music/choir of King's College Chapel for six months; thus he became the first person to have been chorister, choral scholar and Head of Music at King’s since the 15th Century. |
| Godfrey, W.H. |
Godfrey, Rev. W. |
|
|
Poet and writer |
| Goehr, Alexander |
|
1932 |
|
German born English composer and academic. |
| Goemanne, Noel |
|
1926 |
2010 |
Belgian-born American composer, organist, church musician and choral director, |
| Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von |
|
1749 |
1832 |
German author and poet |
| Goetze, Mary |
|
1943 |
|
Contemporary American composer, teacher and choir director who taught courses in music education at Indiana University School of Music, also directing a children's choir program . |
| Goffin, Gerry |
Goffin, Gerald |
1939 |
2014 |
American lyricist. |
| Gold, Ernest |
Goldner, Ernst Sigmund |
1921 |
1999 |
Austrian-born American composer chiefly of film scores |
| Gold, Julie |
|
1956 |
|
New York singer-songwriter. |
| Golding, Jemma |
Dalrymple, Jemma |
|
|
Australian Chorister, composer and arranger |