| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Montague, J. Harold |
|
1906 |
1950 |
J. Harold Montague was professor of music at Virginia State University (for African Americans) He was also a prominent choir director |
| Montani, Nicola |
|
1880 |
1948 |
American musician involved in the Catholic Liturgical Revival of the Early 20th Century. He left list of published works, guidelines and lists of music for Catholic services |
| Monte, Phillippe de |
Monte, Philippus de |
1521 |
1603 |
Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. He was a member of the 3rd generation madrigalists and wrote more madrigals than any other composer of the time |
| Monteverdi, Claudio |
|
1567 |
1643 |
Italian composer, gambist, singer and Roman Catholic priest. |
| Montgomerie, Alexander |
|
1550 |
1598 |
Scottish Jacobean courtier and poet, or makar, born in Ayrshire. He was one of the principal members of the Castalian Band, a circle of poets in the court of James VI in the 1580s which included the king himself. |
| Montgomery, Bruce |
Montgomery, Bruce Eglinton |
1927 |
2008 |
American composer, author, musical theater performer and painter; and a conductor and director, particularly of the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas. |
| Montgomery, Garth |
|
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Co-wrote Chiqita Banana jingle in 1944 when working for an ad agency |
| Montoya, David V. |
|
1968 |
|
US composer who has spent his career making music in various churches around Southern California as a conductor, composer, tenor soloist and cantor. Currently, he is teaching as a member of the La Habra High School HiARTS program where he directs the choirs and teaches guitar, piano and Advanced Placement Music Theory. |
| Moody, Ivan |
|
1964 |
|
British composer. Moody's compositions show the influences of Eastern liturgical chant and the Orthodox Church. He is a widely published musicologist and editor |
| Moore, Undine Smith |
|
1904 |
1989 |
Notable and prolific female African-American composer |
| Moore, Donald |
|
1946 |
|
Organist-Choirmaster at Pilgrim United Church of Christ in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. He is a prolific composer, arranger, lyricist and author with over 500 compositions in print |
| Moore, J. David |
|
1962 |
|
American musician who has composed or arranged over two hundred arrangements of vocal jazz, spirituals, barbershop quartet, Celtic mouth music, Civil Rights marching songs, early American hymn tunes, sixteenth-century madrigals, and folk music in Ukrainian, Gaelic, Austrian, Brazilian Portuguese, French, and Latin. |
| Moore, Thomas |
|
1779 |
1852 |
Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of "The Minstrel Boy" and "The Last Rose of Summer". |
| Moore, William |
|
1893 |
1951 |
African American blues singer and guitarist. |
| Mora, Valda |
|
1902 |
2001 |
Latvian Poet |
| Morales, Cristobal de |
|
1500 |
1553 |
Spanish composer of the Renaissance. He is generally considered to be the most influential Spanish composer before Victoria. |
| Morehen, John |
|
|
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British organist, Emeritus Professor at the University of Nottingham. For 25 years (1964-89) a regular BBC solo recitalist and continuo player. Amongst conductors for whom he has prepared choirs are Yehudi Menuhin, Sir Charles Mackerras and Sir David Willcocks. On graduating from Cambridge in 1967 he returned to Washington as joint-Lecturer at the College of Church Musicians and at American University, serving also as Washington critic for The Musical Times. He returned to the UK in 1968 o |
| Morell, Thomas |
|
1703 |
1784 |
English librettist, classical scholar, and printer. Morell wrote the longest and most detailed surviving account of collaboration with Handel |
| Morgan, Freddy |
Morgenstern, Frederick |
1910 |
1970 |
American actor, A composer as well as a performer, his popular song compositions included "The Japanese Farewell Song" and his biggest hit, "Hey, Mr. Banjo.". |
| Morgan, John |
|
|
|
Calgary organist, choral conductor, composer, arranger and clinician, who is well versed in the classical, musical, jazz and pop genres. |
| Morgan, Reginald |
|
|
|
British composer of light music active from at least the 1930s to the 1960s, composed many ballad-type songs, several of them with words of a "sacred" character. He did not confine himself to vocal pieces, |
| Morley, Thomas |
|
1557 |
1603 |
English composer, theorist, singer and organist of the Renaissance. He was one of the foremost members of the English Madrigal School. He became organist at St Paul's Cathedral. He was the most famous composer of secular music in Elizabethan England. He and Robert Johnson are the composers of the only surviving contemporary settings of verse by Shakespeare. |
| Morosan, Vladimir Dr |
|
|
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Of Russian descent, American Founder and President of Musica Russica, is one of the leading experts outside Russia in the fields of Russian choral music and Orthodox liturgical music. He is also the composer and editor of numerous choral arrangements, chiefly for Orthodox liturgical use |
| Morrah, Dave |
|
1914 |
1991 |
Humorous writer, best known for his mock German style, he wrote for Collier's, Look and American Magazine as well as The Saturday Evening Post. |
| Morricone, Ennio |
Savio, Maestro, Dan; Nichols, Leo |
1928 |
|
Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor and former trumpet player, who has written music for more than 500 motion pictures and television series, as well as contemporary classical works. Over the past seven decades, Morricone has composed over 500 scores for cinema and television, as well as over 100 classical works. His filmography includes over 70 award-winning films. |
| Morris, (Mrs.) C. H. |
|
1862 |
1929 |
American composer of hymns. She is said to have written 1000 texts and many tunes including "Sweeter as the years go by." |
| Morris, Albert |
Kaisermann, Maurício Alberto |
1951 |
|
Brazilian singer and songwriter best known for the hit song "Feelings" composed by Loulou Gasté |
| Morris, Christopher |
|
1922 |
2015 |
Church organist who worked with Sir William Walton and commissioned the Carols for Choirs books . He was also music editor at Oxford University Press. arranged several pieces for the organ, and also created a cantata from Vaughan Williams’s opera A Pilgrim’s Progress. Morris’s own composition Born in a Manger was performed at the King’s College Cambridge Carol Service in 1962, and subsequently recorded by the Bach Choir. He also composed a number of songs. |
| Morris, Nathan |
|
1971 |
|
African American singer, businessman, and a founding member of Boyz II Men. |
| Morris, Norman |
|
1927 |
2009 |
British born American based composer, arranger and choirdirector |