| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Holiday, Jimmy |
|
1934 |
1987 |
American R&B singer and songwriter. |
| Holl, Monika |
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Music editor |
| Holland, Brian |
|
1941 |
|
American songwriter and record producer best known for much of the Motown sound |
| Holland, Dulcie |
|
1913 |
2000 |
Australian composer. and music educator. Best known for her contributions to music education through her energetic involvement with the Australian Music Examinations Board, Holland has in recent decades gained greater recognition as a composer. She is now regarded by some critics as one of the more significant Australian composers of her generation. |
| Holland, Edward Jr. |
Holland, Eddie |
1939 |
|
American singer, songwriter and record producer. He was the team lyricist of Holland–Dozier–Holland, the songwriting and production team responsible for much of the Motown Sound |
| Holland, Josiah G. |
Titcomb, Timothy |
1819 |
1881 |
American novelist and poet. He helped to found and edit Scribner's Monthly (afterwards the Century Magazine), in which appeared his novels, Arthur Bonnicastle, The Story of Sevenoaks, Nicholas Minturn. In poetry he wrote "Bitter Sweet" (1858), "Kathrina", the lyrics to the Methodist hymn "There's a Song in the Air", and many others. |
| Holland, Wilfred |
|
1920 |
2005 |
British born composer, choral and orchestral conductor, pianist and teacher who spent the last 45 years of his life based In Canberra, Australia. |
| Holliday, Billie |
|
1915 |
1959 |
US singer and composer |
| Hollier, Donald |
|
1934 |
|
Australian composer and choral conductor |
| Holmes, Brian |
Holmes, B. W. |
1946 |
|
Physics professor and Musician. As a composer, Holmes often writes for solo voice and chorus. Brian Holmes has also composed numerous songs, song cycles, choral works and instrumental works, including a concerto for toy piano and orchestra |
| Holst, Gustav |
Holst, Gustavus Theodore von |
1874 |
1934 |
English composer, arranger and teacher. Best known for his orchestral suite The Planets, he composed a large number of other works across a range of genres, |
| Holst, Imogen |
|
1907 |
1984 |
English composer, arranger, conductor, teacher and festival administrator. The only child of the composer Gustav Holst, she is particularly known for her educational work at Dartington Hall in the 1940s, and for her 20 years as joint artistic director of the Aldeburgh Festival. |
| Homer, Ben |
|
1917 |
1975 |
Ben Homer was an American songwriter, composer and arranger |
| Homilius, Gottfried August |
|
1714 |
1785 |
German composer, cantor and organist |
| Honegger, Arthur |
Honegger, Oscar-Arthur |
1892 |
1955 |
Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les Six. |
| Hood, Basil |
Hood, Basil Willett, Charles |
1864 |
1917 |
British dramatist and lyricist, perhaps best known for writing the libretti of half a dozen Savoy Operas and for his English adaptations of operettas, including The Merry Widow. |
| Hood, Thomas |
|
1799 |
1845 |
English poet, author and humourist |
| Hooker, Brian |
|
1880 |
1946 |
American composer and lyricist for shows on Broadway in 1920s and 30s |
| Hope, Alec Derwent |
|
1907 |
2000 |
Australian poet and essayist known for his satirical slant. He was also a critic, teacher and academic. |
| Hopkins, Antony |
|
1921 |
2014 |
English composer, pianist and conductor, as well as a writer and radio broadcaster |
| Hopkins, Gerard Manley |
Hopkins, Gerard Manly S. J. (Rev) |
1844 |
1889 |
English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and a Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets |
| Hopkins, John H. |
Hopkins, John Henry Jr |
1820 |
1891 |
American clergyman and hymnist, most famous for composing the song "We Three Kings of Orient Are" in 1857 |
| Hopkins, Sarah |
|
1958 |
|
Australian composer-performer, highly acclaimed for her visionary music and inspiring performances for cello, harmonic overtone singing, handbells, choir and the celestial Harmonic Whirlies of her own creation. |
| Hopson, Hal Harold |
|
1933 |
|
Full-time American composer and church musician with over 1000 published works, which comprise almost every musical form in church music. |
| Horn, Charles Edward |
|
1786 |
1849 |
English composer and singer. He composed operas and glees, and had successful career in USA where he died |
| Horn, Moritz |
|
1814 |
1874 |
German poet and Novellist. |
| Horn, Wolfgang |
|
|
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20th century German music editor and arranger |
| Horner, James |
|
1953 |
2015 |
American composer, conductor and orchestrator of film scores. He was known for the integration of choral and electronic elements in many of his film scores, and for his frequent use of motifs associated with Celtic music. |
| Horovitz, Joseph |
|
1926 |
|
British composer and conductor. Professor of Composition at the Royal College of Music since 1961, and a Council Member of the Composers' Guild of Great Britain since 1970. |
| Horsley, William |
|
1774 |
1858 |
English musician. His compositions are numerous, and he is best known for his glees and hymns |