| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Lully, Jean-Baptiste |
Lulli, Giovanni Battista |
1632 |
1687 |
Italian-born French composer, instrumentalist, and dancer who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France. He is considered the chief master of the French baroque style |
| Lundvik, Hildor |
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1885 |
1951 |
Swedish music teacher , precentor and organist (Västerås) and singing teacher . He became organist of St Göran, Stockholm, 1928, directed the Bellman Male-Choir from 1930 to 1950, and was Principal Conductor of the Stockholm Federation of Male Voice Choirs. |
| Lunn , Jean |
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Writer, translator |
| Lupo, Thomas |
Lup[o, Thomas the Elder |
1571 |
1627 |
English composer and viol player of the late Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. Along with Orlando Gibbons, John Coprario, and Alfonso Ferrabosco, he was one of the principal developers of the repertory for viol consort. |
| Lusignan, J. de Lau |
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Wrote lyrics for The Estudiantina waltz composed 1881 |
| Luther, F. |
Luther, Frank |
1899 |
1980 |
American country music singer, dance band vocalist, playwright, songwriter and pianist. |
| Luther, Martin |
|
1483 |
1546 |
German composer and hymn writer whose experiences with the catholic church culminated in the development of the Reformation of the Church. |
| Lutkin, Peter Christian |
|
1858 |
1931 |
American composer who was a member of the faculty of Northwestern University's Conservatory of Music and played a role in restoring the Conservatory and bringing it into the College of Arts and Sciences. Lutkin later served as Dean of the School of Music when it was formed |
| Lutoslawski, Witold |
|
1913 |
1994 |
Polish composer and orchestral conductor |
| Luzzaschi, Luzzasco |
|
1545 |
1607 |
Italian composer, organist, and teacher of the late Renaissance. He was a skilled representative of the late Italian madrigal style, along with Palestrina, Wert, Monte, Lassus, Marenzio, Gesualdo and others. |
| Lvov, Alexei Fyodorovich |
Lvov, Alexis von |
1798 |
1870 |
Russian composer. He composed the imperial Russian national anthem Bozhe, tsarya khrani (also known as God Save the Tsar). He wrote the opera Undine in 1846. |
| Lvovsky, S. V. |
Lvovsky, Grigory Fyodorovich; L'vovsky , Grigor F. |
1830 |
1894 |
Russian composer Sent to St. Petersburg to further his musical studies, particularly in violin, for which he had a special gift, In 1856 in St. Petersburg he was appointed to the post of precentor at the St. Alexander Nevsky Lavra, and shortly thereafter, a similar post at St. Isaac’s Cathedral, which was consecrated in 1858. He occupied these two posts—among the most prestigious in all Russia—until his death |
| Lyell, Margaret |
Dawson, Margaret |
1910 |
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Margaret Lyell was a pseudonym for Margaret Dawson. Composer |
| Lymon, Frankie |
|
1942 |
1968 |
American rock and roll/rhythm and blues singer and songwriter, |
| Lynch, T. T. |
Lynch, Thomas Toke |
1818 |
1871 |
British minister and writer of sacred verse |
| Lyndon-Gee, Christopher |
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20th century English conductor and composer |
| Lynes, Frank |
|
1858 |
1913 |
American composer and teacher who is primarily remembered for the piano pieces he wrote for his students; his sonatinas are essentially in a conservative classical style |
| Lynn, George |
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20th century American composer, arranger and editor |
| Lynne, Jeff |
|
1947 |
|
English songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer who gained fame as the leader and sole constant member of Electric Light Orchestra. |
| Lyon, James |
|
1872 |
1949 |
British born Australian Composer of songs |
| Lyon. M.D. |
Lyon, Marjorie |
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Poet |
| Lyte, Henry F. |
Lyte, Henry Francis Rev. |
1793 |
1847 |
Best known for having written the words of " Abide with Me" in 1820 |