| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| 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, |
| Poelinitz, Josephine |
|
1942 |
|
American composer and arranger |
| Pointer, John |
|
|
1934 |
Honorary librarian and orchestral manager of Royal Philharmonic Society 1912-15.Music arranger and editor for Novello |
| Pola, Eddie |
Pollacsek, Sidney Edward |
1907 |
1995 |
American actor, radio/teklevision -producer and songwriter |
| Polay, Rhonda |
Sandberg-Pooler, Rhonda; Sandberg, Rhonda |
|
|
American contemporary composer of over 100 works and music arranger. Founder and owner of Rhondalay Press Married to Frank Pooler, choral director |
| Polonsky, Yakov Petrovich |
|
1819 |
1898 |
Russian Pushkinist poet who tried to uphold the waning traditions of Russian Romantic poetry during the heyday of realistic prose. Many of his poems were set to music by Russian composers |
| Pomus, Doc |
Felder, Jerome Solon |
1925 |
1991 |
American blues singer and songwriter. He is best known as the co-writer of many rock and roll hits. Pomus was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a non-performer in 1991, the Songwriters Hall of Fame (1992), and the Blues Hall of Fame (2012). |
| Pooler, Frank |
|
1926 |
2013 |
American award-winning American choirmaster, and former Director of Choral Studies at California State University, Long Beach. Married to Rhonda Sandberg, composer |
| Poorman, Berta |
|
1931 |
|
Berta and Sonja Poorman are a mother and daughter team that have been collaborating on sacred and secular choral music for more than twenty years. Both have worked with all ages in church choral programs |
| Poorman, Sonja |
|
1955 |
|
Berta and Sonja Poorman are a mother and daughter team that have been collaborating on sacred and secular choral music for more than twenty years. Both have worked with all ages in church choral programs |
| Pop, Adrian |
|
1951 |
|
Romanian Professor of music and composer of Symphonic, choral, chamber music, live electronic, jazz music |
| Pope, Alexander |
|
1688 |
1744 |
18th-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse, as well as for his translation of Homer. |
| Popp, André |
Popp, André Charles Jean |
1924 |
2014 |
French composer, arranger, church organist and screenwriter. |
| Porcaro, Jeff |
|
1954 |
1992 |
was an American drummer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known for his work with the rock band Toto but is one of the most recorded session musicians in history, working on hundreds of albums and thousands of sessions. |
| Pordage, Samuel |
|
1633 |
1691 |
17th-century English poet. He made various translations, wrote poems, and laid claim to two tragedies |
| Porpora, Niccolò |
Porpora, Niccolò Antonio |
1686 |
1768 |
Neapolitan composer of Baroque operas and teacher of singing, whose most famous singing student was the castrato Farinelli. Other students included composers Matteo Capranica and Joseph Haydn. |
| Porter, Cole |
|
1891 |
1964 |
Prominent American composer and songwriter |
| Porter, Steve |
Porter, Steven |
1943 |
|
American author, arranger and instrumentalist |
| Porterfield, Sherri |
|
1958 |
|
American Director of Choirs at Cedar Park Middle School in Cedar Park, Texas. Having also taught in Missouri and Kansas, her choirs have won numerous first place and sweepstakes awards in competitions and have appeared at several state music educators conventions. In addition, she has served as an adjunct assistant professor of music education at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music. |
| Poston, Elizabeth |
|
1905 |
1987 |
English composer, pianist, and writer. She composed scores for radio and television productions – over 40 for radio alone – and collaborated with C. S. Lewis, Dylan Thomas, and other writers. She wrote the score for the television production of Howards End. In addition to composing, Poston was an academic. She wrote articles and program notes for the Arts Council of Great Britain and was the editor of a number of folksong carol and hymn collections |
| Pote, Allen |
|
1945 |
|
American composer of religious music and, with his wife Susan, co-founder of the Pensacola Children's Chorus. |
| Potger, Keith |
|
1941 |
|
Ceylon born, he is one of the founding members of the Australian pop-folk group The Seekers. he played twelve string guitar , mandolin and banjo, and sang. He has been the vocal, and often instrumental, arranger for the group throughout its career. |
| Pottle, Samuel H |
|
1935 |
1978 |
American composer, conductor, and musical director involved in many theatrical and television productions. He is perhaps best remembered for his work on Sesame Street and The Muppet Show |
| Poulenc, Francis |
Poulenc, Francis Jean Marcel |
1899 |
1963 |
French composer and pianist. His compositions include mélodies, solo piano works, chamber music, choral pieces, operas, ballets, and orchestral concert music. |
| Poulton, George R. |
|
1828 |
1867 |
British musician and composer. best known for composing the tune to "Aura Lea". |
| Pound, Ezra Weston Loomis |
|
1885 |
1972 |
American poet |
| Pounds, Jessie Brown |
|
1861 |
1921 |
American lyricist of gospel songs |