| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Pierpoint, F. S. |
Pierpoint , Folliott Sandford. |
1835 |
1917 |
English hymnist and poet |
| Pierpont, James |
Pierpont, James Lord |
1822 |
1893 |
New England born songwriter, arranger, organist, and composer, best known for writing and composing "Jingle Bells" in 1857, |
| Piggott, H. E. |
Piggott, Harry Edward |
1878 |
1966 |
English composer, author of music books and arranger |
| Pike, Harry Hale |
|
1874 |
|
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| Pilgrim, Jack |
|
1929 |
2007 |
A former lecturer in the Department of Music and the School of Education at Leeds University and Leeds Festival Chorus Master. Editor, Author, Composer, Arranger |
| Pilkington, Francis |
|
1565 |
1638 |
English composer, lutenist and singer. Although he was a clergyman, Pilkington also composed secular music, madrigals and songs for lute. |
| Pilkington, Michael |
|
|
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English singing teacher and Conductor of the East Surrey Choral Society for 20 years. Edited many volumes of English song for Stainer & Bell and ABRSM. Edited some 20 volumes of choral works for Novello |
| Pinkard, Maceo |
|
1897 |
1962 |
American composer, lyricist, and music publisher. Among his compositions is "Sweet Georgia Brown", a popular standard for decades after its composition |
| Pinkham, Daniel |
|
1923 |
2006 |
American composer, organist, and harpsichordist. |
| Pinkston, Dan |
|
1972 |
|
Ivory coast born American composer and professor of music in California. Among Pinkston’s many compositions is a setting of the four New Testament canticles for choir and orchestra. Entitled Canticles, this piece includes the Nunc Dimittis, for which Pinkston won the 2000 American Choral Director’s Association Brock Memorial Composition Contest |
| Pinsonneault, Albert |
|
|
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US 20th century choral conductor and academic |
| Pinsuti, Ciro |
|
1829 |
1888 |
Anglo-Italian composer. Educated in music for a career as a pianist, he studied composition under Rossini. From 1848 he made his home in England, where he became a teacher of singing, and in 1856 he was made a professor at the Academy of Music in London. |
| Pipping, Ernst |
|
1936 |
|
german composer |
| Pitcher, Gladys |
|
1890 |
1996 |
American music educator, pianist, and cellist. Throughout her career she served as a public school music educator in New England as well as an editor and arranger of choral music for multiple music publishers. |
| Pitfield, Thomas Baron |
|
1903 |
1999 |
British composer, poet, artist, engraver, calligrapher, craftsman, furniture builder and teacher. He was a prolific composer and his compositions include collections of miniatures for students and amateurs, a five-movement Sinfonietta, a Trio for flute, oboe and piano, concertos for piano, violin, recorder and percussion, a Xylophone Sonata, an Oboe Sonata, and solo works for accordion, clarsach, and harmonica. |
| Pitoni, Giuseppe Ottavio |
|
1657 |
1743 |
Italian organist and composer. He became one of the leading musicians in Rome during the late Baroque era, the first half of the 18th century. |
| Pitt, Percy |
|
1870 |
1932 |
English organist and conductor. He was appointed Chorus Master for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 1906; within a year he had become first an assistant conductor and then Principal Conductor |
| Pitts, William S. |
Pitts, William Savage |
1830 |
1918 |
American physician and composer who wrote the well-known song "The Church in the Wildwood" in 1857. |
| Pizzetti, Ildebrando |
|
1880 |
1968 |
Italian composer of classical music, musicologist and music critic. |
| Planché, J. R. |
Planché, James Robinson |
1796 |
1880 |
British playwright, antiquarian and genealogist. Over a period of about 60 years he wrote or adapted works of 176 plays of different genres including comedy, melodrama and opera. |
| Plank, David |
Plank, David Theodore |
1920 |
2006 |
A published composer. David and his wife, Martha, were educators in the Medina and Rittman school systems. For three years they lived in Iowa while David taught music at Buena Vista College |
| Planquette, Robert |
|
1848 |
1903 |
French composer of songs and operettas |
| Plante, Jacques |
|
1920 |
2003 |
French lyricist of popular songs |
| Platt, J. E. |
Platt, Jack E. |
1914 |
1996 |
American composer and Music arranger |
| Plessis, Hubert du |
|
1922 |
2011 |
South African composer and pianist, graduate of The South African College of Music. He lectured on Music and Composition at Stellenbosch University from 1958 until his retirement in 1987. His compositions include a large variety of genres: children's music, chamber music, choir music, Kunstlieder and symphonies. |
| Plitmann, Hila |
|
1973 |
|
Jerusalem born soprano, poet and wife of Eric Whitacre |
| Plomer, William |
Plomer, William Charles Franklyn; Pagan, Robert |
1903 |
1973 |
South African and British author, known as a novelist, poet, librettist and literary editor. He was educated mostly in the United Kingdom, but described himself as an "Anglo-African-Asian". He became a literary editor for Faber and Faber, and was a reader and literary adviser to Jonathan Cape, where he edited a number of Ian Fleming's James Bond series. Fleming dedicated Goldfinger to Plomer. |
| Plumstead, Mary |
|
1905 |
1980 |
British compopser. Despite writing a number of beautiful songs, she never really came to great prominence as a composer in her own lifetime. The excellence of her choral writing is surely going to finally bring her belated recognition |
| Pockriss, Lee |
|
1924 |
2011 |
American songwriter who wrote many well-known popular songs and several scores for films and Broadway shows. |
| Poe, Edgar Allan |
Poe, Edgar |
1809 |
1849 |
American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, |