| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Kosma, Joseph |
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1905 |
1969 |
Hungarian composer |
| Koukias, Constantine |
Koukias, Konstantin |
1965 |
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Tasmanian composer and opera director of Greek ancestry based in Amsterdam. He is the co-founder and artistic director of IHOS Music Theatre and Opera, which was established in 1990 in Tasmania's capital city, Hobart. |
| Kouvaras, Linda |
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Dr Linda Kouvaras is a musicologist, composer and pianist. She lectures at Melbourne University's Faculty of music, and has been senior resident tutor in creative studies and music at Ormond College since 1993 |
| Kraus, Egon |
Krauss, Egon |
1905 |
1985 |
German born Secretary General for international society for Music Education, author, music editor |
| Kraus, Joseph Martin |
|
1756 |
1792 |
German composer |
| Krenek, Ernst |
|
1900 |
1991 |
Austrian, later American (1938) composer of Czech origin. He explored atonality and other modern styles and wrote a number of books, |
| Kreter, Leo |
Kreter. Leo Edward |
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Musicologist and arranger. Dr. Kreter teaches at the faculty of music, University of California, Fullerton |
| Kretzmer, Herbert |
|
1925 |
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South African journalist and lyric writer. He is best known as the lyricist for the English-language musical adaptation of Les Misérables as well as for his long-time collaboration writing the English-language lyrics to the songs of French chansonnier Charles Aznavour |
| Kretzschmar, H. |
Kretzschmar [Kretschmar], August Ferdinand Hermann ; Kretzschmar, Hermann |
1848 |
1924 |
German writer on music, conductor, choral director and composer |
| Kreutz, Robert Edward |
|
1922 |
1996 |
American composer, author and musicologist |
| Kreutzer C. |
Kreutzer, Conradin; Kreutzer, Konrad |
1780 |
1849 |
German Composer, mostly operatic |
| Krieger, Henry |
|
1945 |
|
American 20th century composer of Musical Theatre. He most notably wrote the music for the Broadway shows Dreamgirls (1981, with lyrics and book by Tom Eyen),The Tap Dance Kid (1983), and Side Show (1997). |
| Krips, Henry |
|
1914 |
1987 |
Austrian born Australian conductor, composer and pianist best known for his 23-year record term (1949-72) as principal conductor of the South Australian Symphony Orchestra |
| Kroeger, Karl |
|
1932 |
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American composer and professor of music at several universities. with a particular interest in sacred music |
| Krogstad, Bob |
|
1951 |
2015 |
American Composer, arranger and conductor composer, arranger and conductor, both in sacred and secular music. |
| Krone, Beatrice |
Perham, Beatrice |
1902 |
2000 |
American 20th Century music educator, arranger and author. She was lecturer at the USC School of Music in 1946 when Idyllwild Arts, as it is now known, was first conceived. Krone and her husband, then dean of the USC music department and a renowned choral conductor, worked with USC School of Law Dean Robert Kingsley to establish the Idyllwild Arts Foundation. |
| Krone, Max |
Krone, Max Thomas |
1901 |
1970 |
Professor of Music and Dean Institute of the Arts University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Founder with his wife of the Idyllwild Arts Academy. |
| Kroupová, Olga |
|
1966 |
|
Slovakian composer of classical music, arranger and editor |
| Krueger, Don |
|
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American Composer of Sacred Songs |
| Krüger, Dietrich |
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Music arranger and editor |
| Krunnfusz, Dan |
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20th century American composer arranger and Teacher. Director of Madison Boychoir in Winsconsin |
| Kruse, Bjórn Howard |
|
1946 |
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20th century Norwegian clarinetist and composer |
| Kubik, Gail |
|
1914 |
1984 |
American composer, music director, violinist, and teacher. Joining NBC Radio as staff composer in New York in 1940, he was music director for the Motion Picture Bureau at the Office of War Information, where, during World War II, he composed and conducted the music scores of motion pictures. He won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for Music for Symphony Concertante. |
| Kucken, Friedrich Wilhelm |
|
1810 |
1882 |
German composer and conductor. |
| Kugler, Franz Theodor |
|
1808 |
1858 |
German Poet, Dramatist and art Historian |
| Kuhn, Paul |
|
1928 |
2013 |
German jazz musician |
| Kuhnau, Johann |
|
1660 |
1722 |
German 18th Century composer, music critic and author |
| Kunz, Jack |
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Well known American high school director composer, arranger and lyricist with particular interest in Jazz |
| Kunze, Michael |
|
1943 |
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German composer |
| Kupferschmid, Steve |
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began his music career as a trombonist, then worked for many years as a choral editor for a leading music publisher. In recent years he has been a choral catalog editor for a major educational sheet music dealer. In his spare time he enjoys writing arrangements for young and developing choirs. |