| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| L James, Molly |
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American composer and accompanist. She is widely recognized for her sacred compositions and arrangements in various catalogs with over 200 choral anthems, several seasonal cantatas, multiple piano solo and duet collections, keyboard magazines, and instrumental ensemble pieces in publication. |
| L'Estrange, Alexander |
L'Estrange, Alexander Richard William |
1974 |
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English composer of choral music and music for television and an arranger for world-class vocal ensembles. He is also an accomplished jazz musician (piano and double bass), choral workshop leader, presenter of children's concerts and jazz examiner |
| La Cour, Niels |
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1944 |
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Danish composer. Niels la Cour taught music theory at the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music in Odense between 1968 and 1977 and at the Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen from 1978 onwards in 1988 he was awarded "Choir Composer of the Year" by the Danish Amateur Choral Federation. |
| La Touche, John |
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1914 |
1956 |
American musician and writer. Much of his work included Rabelaisian humor and was therefore often censored or caused protest. |
| LaBarr, Susan |
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1981 |
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US singer, pianist and composer |
| Lacôme, Paul |
Lacôme d'Estalenx, Paul-Jean-Jacques |
1838 |
1920 |
French composer. Between 1870 and the turn of the century he produced a series of operettas and operas-bouffes that were popular both in France and abroad |
| LaForge, Frank |
La Forge, Frank |
1879 |
1953 |
American pianist and composer and arranger of art songs. |
| Lai, Francis |
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1932 |
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French accordionist, and composer noted for his film scores. |
| Laine, Cleo |
Bullock, Clementine Dinah ; Laine, Dame Cleo Lady Dankworth |
1927 |
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English jazz and pop singer and an actress, noted for her scat singing and for her vocal range. |
| Lakond, Wladimir |
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1987 |
Editor, Author and Translator, former Director of Edward B. Marks Music Corporation. In 1987 the American Academy of Arts received a bequest from Wladimir and Rhoda Lakond for a biennial award of $10,000 given either to a composition student or an experienced composer. |
| Lallouette, Jean Francois |
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1651 |
1728 |
French composer of the Baroque period |
| Lamb, W. R. M. |
Lamb, Walter Rangeley Maitland |
1882 |
1961 |
20th century Poet author and Translator. In a career spanning forty years, Lai has written music for films, television programs and alone or in collaboration with others has composed music for more than one hundred films and has personally written more than six hundred songs. Notably, he penned the music for the Perry Como hit "I Think of You" (lyrics by Rod McKuen). |
| Lambert, Constant |
|
1905 |
1951 |
British composer and conductor |
| Lampl, Kenneth |
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1964 |
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Kenneth Lampl is an American composer and lecturer known for his film, television and choral music. He is the former head of the Australian National University School of Music. |
| Landes, Rob |
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Contemporary American pianist, organist, harpist, arranger, conductor and published composer. |
| Landon, H. C. Robbins |
|
1926 |
2009 |
American musicologist, journalist, historian and broadcaster, best known for his work in rediscovering the huge body of neglected music by Haydn and in correcting misunderstandings about Mozart. |
| Lane, Burton |
Kushner, Morris Hyman |
1912 |
1997 |
American composer and lyricist. His most popular and successful works include Finian's Rainbow and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. |
| Lang, Andrew |
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1844 |
1912 |
Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. |
| Lang, C. S. |
Lang, Craig Sellar |
1891 |
1971 |
New Zealand-born British organist, composer and music teacher. |
| Lang, David |
|
1957 |
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American composer who went on to earn a Doctorate of Musical Arts at Yale University in 1989. he was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Music for The Little Match Girl Passion, which went on to win a 2010 Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance.[ |
| Lang, Rupert |
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1948 |
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Canadian composer, Director of Music at West Vancouver United Church, where he founded the Vancouver Children’s Choir. Since 1986, he has been Organist and Director of Music at Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver. Lang has written innovative music for both choirs he directs - a number of them published by Boosey & Hawkes |
| Langdon, John |
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British Organist, music arranger and editor, who began his musical life as a chorister at Worcester Cathedral. He studied at King’s College, Cambridge as an organ scholar under Sir David Willcocks. Teacher at Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama eventually elected to a Fellowship in 2005 and retired in 2015 |
| Lange, Robert |
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1948 |
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Zambian-born British record producer and songwriter |
| Langford, Gordon |
Colman, Gordon Maris |
1930 |
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English composer, arranger and performer. Although well known in the brass band community as a composer and arranger, he is less well known as a composer of orchestral music, despite winning an Ivor Novello award for his March from the Colour Suite in 1971. |
| Langford, Paul |
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Born and raised in Hong Kong, Paul Langford has been a Chicago-based singer, arranger, keyboardist, producer, and conductor since 1997 and has a career that spans over 25 years. His work includes arranging for and performing with groups such as The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Chicagoland Pops, the Pensacola and LaCrosse Symphony Orchestras, as well as for Walt Disney World. |
| Langlais, Jean |
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1907 |
1991 |
French composer, blind from the age of 2. He was a pre-eminent organist and pianist |
| Langley, James W. |
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1994 |
Senior BBC music producer, brass band competition adjudicator, and Trinity College music examiner, with the remarkable unbroken period of 38 years that he freely devoted to the Midland Youth Orchestra (MYO) . From the orchestra’s formation in 1956 right up to the moment of his brief illness, James Langley was continuously at the service of the MYO, first as a horn player, then Associate Conductor, Conductor and, ultimately, its outstanding Music Director for so many years.” |
| Lanier, Sidney Clopton |
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1842 |
1881 |
American musician, poet and author. |
| Lantz, David |
Lantz, David III |
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American trombonist, teacher, choral director. While not teaching or playing, he fills his spare time with music publishing activities, including editing, engraving, arranging and composing choral music and occasionally conducting choral reading sessions. He has nearly 300 choral octavos in print. Married to Marti Lunn Lantz |
| Lantz, Marti Lunn |
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American pianist, organist, composer, vocalist and teacher of piano and voice. Collaborating with her husband, composer and teacher David Lantz III on many choral works, she is co-owner of Lantz Choral Publications, a publisher of sacred choral works |