| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Leighton, William [Sir] |
|
1565 |
1622 |
Elizabethan composer and editor who published The Teares and Lamentatacions of a Sorrowfull Soule (1614) which comprised 55 pieces by 21 composers (among them John Bull, William Byrd, John Dowland and Martin Peerson), including eight by himself. |
| Leininger, Jim |
|
1942 |
|
American choral director, music teacher, church musician, voice teacher, and composer/arranger. Jim's expierience includes serving as a full-time teacher in the public school systems of Florida and Texas, teaching in all levels (K-12th grade). |
| Leisinger, Ulrich |
|
1964 |
|
German musicologist and director of the research department of the International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg . |
| Leisring, Volkmar |
|
1588 |
1637 |
German cantor, composer and a Protestant minister. He composed a collection of 5- to 8-voice choral works for use in worship. |
| Leisy, James F. |
|
1937 |
1989 |
Arranger and editor of song books. Composer for musical theatre |
| Leitch, Donovan |
Donovan |
1946 |
|
Scottish singer, songwriter and guitarist. He developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelia, and world music (notably calypso). |
| Leite, Marcos |
|
1950 |
2002 |
Brazilian composer who debuted professionally in choir and vocal music in 1967; having created several choirs. As an arranger, he incorporated the advanced harmonic language developed by bossa nova and MPB into the vocal parts. |
| Leka, Penny |
Knapp, Penny Leka |
|
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20th century lyricist and arranger |
| Lekberg, Sven |
|
1899 |
1984 |
American composer, organist and professor of music. Lekberg's compositional style is influenced by Vaughn Williams and is characterized by modal scales, parallelism, and mild dissonance |
| Lemaire, Ferdinand |
|
1832 |
1879 |
French librettist and poet, best known for writing the libretto of Camille Saint-Saëns's opera Samson et Dalila. |
| Lemaire, Gaston |
Lemaire, Gaston Jean-Eugène |
1854 |
1928 |
French composer mainly of operas |
| Lemare, Edwin Henry |
|
1865 |
1934 |
English organist and composer who lived the latter part of his life in the United States. He was the most highly regarded and highly paid organist of his generation,as well as the greatest performer and one of the most important composers of the late Romantic English-American Organ School. |
| Lemlin, Lorenz |
Lemlin, Laurentius |
1495 |
1549 |
German composer of the Renaissance |
| Lemon, Laura G. |
Fleming , Austin ; Lemon, Laura Gertrude ; Macdonald, Ian |
1866 |
1924 |
Canadian composer and songwriter who lived and worked in England |
| Lennon, John |
|
1940 |
1980 |
Famed singer-songwriter John Lennon founded the Beatles, a band that impacted the popular music scene like no other before, |
| Lennox, Annie |
|
1954 |
|
Scottish singer/songwriter |
| Leo, Leonardo |
|
1694 |
1744 |
Italian composer |
| Leonard, Conrad |
Leonard, George Conrad |
1898 |
2003 |
British composer and pianist. . He composed over 400 ballads and performed with stars like Fred Astaire and Gracie Fields |
| Leoncavallo, Ruggiero |
Leoncavallo, Ruggero |
1858 |
1919 |
Italian opera composer and librettist. Although he would produce numerous operas and other songs throughout his career it is his two-act work Pagliacci (1892) that remained his lasting contribution |
| Leontovych, Mykola |
Leontovich, Mykola; Leontovych, Mykola Dmytrovych |
1877 |
1921 |
Ukrainian composer, choral conductor, and teacher of international renown. |
| Leppard, Raymond |
|
1927 |
|
British conductor and harpsichordist. Promoted interest in early music and conducted at Glyndebourne |
| Lerner, Alan Jay |
|
1918 |
1986 |
American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, and later Burton Lane, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre for both the stage and on film |
| Leslie, Henry David |
|
1822 |
1896 |
English composer and conductor. Leslie was a leader in supporting amateur choral musicians in Britain, founding prize-winning amateur choral societies. He was also a supporter of musical higher education, helping to found national music schools. |
| Leslie, Henry T. |
|
|
1877 |
English composer, arranger and editor |
| Leslie, Kenneth |
|
1892 |
1974 |
Canadian poet and songwriter, and an influential political activist in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s A Christian socialist, he was given the nickname, "God's Red Poet." |
| Lethbridge, Lionel |
|
|
|
British organist, Music arranger, translator and editor. Director of Music at Denstone College for many years |
| Letocart, H. |
Letocart, Henri |
1866 |
1945 |
French organist, pupil of Cesar Franck, composer for organ |
| Leunig, Michael |
|
1945 |
|
Australian Poet, Writer and Cartoonist |
| Levene, Gus |
Levene , Gershun |
1911 |
1979 |
Orchestrator, Music Arranger. He is best remembered for his arrangement of the first recording of Irving Berlin's song "White Christmas," sung by Bing Crosby in 1942. |
| Leveridge, Richard |
Leueridge, Richard |
1670 |
1758 |
English bass singer of the London stage and a composer of baroque music, including many popular songs. |