| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Milner, Anthony |
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1925 |
2002 |
British composer, teacher and conductor. |
| Milsom, John |
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British musicologist and editor. Professorial Fellow in music (composition) at Liverpool Hope University |
| Milton, [Snr] John |
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1563 |
1647 |
English composer and father of poet John Milton. His compositions were mostly religious in theme. A financial worker by trade, he also wrote poetry |
| Milton, John |
|
1608 |
1674 |
English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), written in blank verse. |
| Miškinis, Vytautas |
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1954 |
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Lithuanian composer and music professor who has been Choir Director of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre conservatory since 1985. To date he has composed and recorded over 700 pieces, both religious and secular |
| Mistowski, Alfred |
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1872 |
1964 |
Born in England Dr. Mitowski composed services, part songs and items for violin and piano |
| Mitchell, George |
|
1917 |
2002 |
Scottish musician, best known for having devised the long-running The Black and White Minstrel Show. |
| Mizzy, Vic |
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1916 |
2009 |
American composer for television and movies whose best-known works are the themes to the 1960s television sitcoms Green Acres and The Addams Family. Mizzy also penned top-20 songs from the 1930s to 1940s. |
| Mochnik, John V. |
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1942 |
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Active for thirty-five years as a university choral and orchestral conductor, composer/arranger, administrator, and teacher, his works have been performed at national and divisional conventions of the American Choral Directors Association as well as abroad. |
| Moder, Richard |
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Gerrman Editor, Adapter, Performer, Originator, Instrumentalist for Ludwig Doblinger Verlag |
| Moehn, Heinz |
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Music editor and author |
| Moeran, Ernest John |
|
1894 |
1950 |
English composer who had strong associations with Ireland |
| Moerenhout, J. |
Moerenhout, Martin-Joseph; Moerenhout,, Jos |
1909 |
1985 |
Belgian composer, conductor and clarinetist. |
| Moffat, Alfred |
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1863 |
1950 |
Scottish musician, musicologist, composer and collector of music. |
| Mohr, Jon |
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Composer of popular Christian music, bass singer in Christian band groups. |
| Mohr, Joseph |
Mohr , Josephus Franciscus ; Mohr, Father Joseph Franz ; Mohr, Josef |
1792 |
1848 |
Austrian Roman Catholic priest and writer, who wrote the words to the Christmas carol "Silent Night". |
| Möller, Friedrich W. |
Möller, Friedrich-Wilhelm |
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Möller wrote the modern tune for the Happy Wanderer shortly after World War II. It is often mistaken for a German folk song, but it is actually an original composition. His sister Edith Möller adapted Sigismund's words for her choir. |
| Molloy, James Lyman |
|
1837 |
1909 |
Irish composer of songs, and also adaptor of Irish folk tunes |
| Mommer, Hans Guenter |
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20th century conductor and c omposer |
| Mompou, Frederic |
Mompou, Federico |
1893 |
1987 |
Spanish composer of piano and song cycles |
| Monaco, James |
|
1885 |
1945 |
Italian born American Tin Pan Alley composer, sometimes nicknamed "Ragtime Jimmie" -- was a multiple Oscar nominee who wrote spmgs for Bing Crosbie and is perhaps best remembered for "You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)," a hit for Judy Garland |
| Monahan, Patrick |
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1969 |
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American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor, best known as the lead vocalist for the band Train. |
| Monckton, Lionel |
|
1861 |
1924 |
English writer and composer of musical theatre. He became Britain's most popular composer of Edwardian musical comedy in the early years of the 20th century |
| Mondonville, Jean-Joseph de |
Mondonville, Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de |
1711 |
1772 |
French violinist and composer. He composed both sacred works, opera and works for violin |
| Monelle, Raymond |
|
1937 |
2010 |
British music theorist, teacher, music critic, composer and jazz pianist. |
| Monge, Antonio Romeo |
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Antonio Romero Monge and Rafael Ruiz Perdigones had recorded Spanish flamenco-pop as Los del Rio, a pop and dance duo which formed in 1962. They are best known for their smash-hit dance single "Macarena". |
| Monk, William Henry |
|
1823 |
1889 |
English organist, church musician and music editor who composed popular hymn tunes, including one of the most famous, "Eventide", used for the hymn "Abide with Me". He also wrote music for church services and anthems |
| Monro, George |
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1731 |
English organist and composer George Monro(e) was organist in St Peter’s Cornhill, London. He played harpsichord at the theatre in Goodman’s Fields. |
| Monsell, J. S. B. |
Monsell, John Samuel Bewley |
1811 |
1875 |
Irish born Anglican priest who worked in England. His 11 volumes of poetry encompass almost 300 hymns. |
| Monson, Craig |
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20th CenturyAmerican musicologist. He retired in 2015 after thirty years at Washington University, where he has taught primarily Renaissance, Baroque, and Native American music, as well as issues of music and gender. He served as Chair of the Music Department, 1993-96, and as Director of Graduate Studies for some nineteen years |