| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Lochnane, C. |
Lochnane, Clement |
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British light music composer in the late 19th and early 20th Century |
| Lockhart, J. G. |
Lockhart, John Gibson |
1794 |
1854 |
Scottish writer and editor. He is best known as the author of the definitive biography of his father-in-law Sir Walter Scott |
| Lockton, Edward |
Teschemacher, Edward |
1878 |
1940 |
Wrote lyrics under both names |
| Loesser, Frank |
|
1910 |
1969 |
American songwriter who wrote the lyrics and music to the Broadway hits Guys and Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others. |
| Loewe, Frederick |
Loewe, Friedrich |
1901 |
1988 |
Austrian-American composer. He collaborated with lyricist Alan Jay Lerner on a series of Broadway musicals, including the long-running My Fair Lady and Camelot, both of which were made into films. |
| Lojeski, Ed |
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|
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American choral arranger/director. His arrangements have a special meaning to vocal groups and choral directors who seek material beyond the standard and ordinary. |
| Lomax, Alan |
|
1915 |
2002 |
American field collector of folk music of the 20th century. He was also a folklorist, ethnomusicologist, archivist, writer, scholar, political activist, oral historian, and film-maker. |
| Lomax, John A. |
|
1867 |
1948 |
American teacher, a pioneering musicologist and folklorist who did much for the preservation of American folk songs |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth |
|
1807 |
1882 |
American poet |
| Lönna, Kjell |
|
1936 |
|
Swedish choir director, TV host and composer. He directs three choirs in Sundsvall |
| Loomer, Diane |
Kolander, Diane |
1940 |
2012 |
American born Canadian choral director. guest conductor and clinician. In 1994, she was the first female musician to conduct Canada’s National Youth Choir. |
| Loose, Mary Ellen |
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|
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US 20/21st century composer, arranger and professional accompanist |
| Loosemore, Henry |
|
1600 |
1670 |
British organist and composer chiefly of sacred music |
| Lopez, Kristen Anderson |
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|
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American actress and songwriter. Anderson-Lopez, along with her husband Robert Lopez and Henry Jackman, wrote and produced music for the 2011 Disney film Winnie the Pooh. She and her husband also wrote the songs for Disney's Frozen[8] including "Let It Go", for which they won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 86th Academy Awards and two Grammy Awards at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards |
| Lopez, Robert |
|
1975 |
|
American songwriter of musicals, best known for co-creating The Book of Mormon and Avenue Q, and for penning the songs featured in the Disney animated feature film, Frozen. |
| Lorca, Federico Garcia |
|
1898 |
1936 |
Spanish Poet, playwright considered one of Spain's greatest poets and dramatists, shot by Franco supporters in Spanish civil war |
| Loth, Bernard |
|
1896 |
1972 |
French composer and editor. |
| Lotti, Antonio |
|
1667 |
1740 |
Italian Baroque composer producing masses, cantatas, madrigals, around thirty operas, and instrumental music. His sacred choral works are often a cappella |
| Lovatt, S. E. |
Lovatt, Samuel Ernest |
1877 |
1954 |
British composer of art songs and choral settings |
| Love, Mike |
|
1941 |
|
American Singer and songwriter, a founding member of the Beach Boys group |
| Lovelace, Richard |
|
1618 |
1657 |
17th century poet |
| Lovelock, William |
|
1899 |
1986 |
English classical composer and pedagogue who spent many years in Australia. He was the first Director of the Queensland Conservatorium of Music in Brisbane, and later became the chief music critic for The Courier-Mail newspaper. |
| Lovland, Rolf |
|
1955 |
|
Norwegian composer and lyricist. He is maybe most recognised for composing the song You Raise Me Up, |
| Lowry, Mark |
Lowry, Mark Alan |
1958 |
|
American Christian comedian, songwriter, and singer, best known for co-writing the song "Mary, Did You Know?" |
| Lowry, Robert Rev. |
|
1826 |
1899 |
American professor of literature, a Baptist minister and composer of gospel hymns. He is most remembered as a composer of gospel music and a hymn writer, and also worked as a music editor at the Biglow & Main Publishing Company. He was responsible for around 500 compositions |
| Lubetkin, Charles |
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|
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Lyricist |
| Luboff, Norman |
|
1917 |
1987 |
American music arranger, music publisher, and choir director. |
| Lucas, Clarence |
|
1866 |
1947 |
Canadian composer, lyricist, conductor, and music professor. He composed music for voice, choir, organ, piano and orchestra. He wrote overtures, cantanas, symphonies, operas, chamber music, songs for musicals, lyrics for popular songs and art songs |
| Ludlow Jr., Benjamin |
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|
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American composer of gospel songs |
| Luik, Viivi |
|
1946 |
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Estonian poet |