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Deathyear |
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Powell, Kathy |
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American music teacher she has nearly twenty years' experience as a Director of Music Ministries/Organist in Florida Catholic churches, and is a past Member of the Year in the National Association of Pastoral Musicians' Director of Music Ministries Division. |
Powell, Rosephanye |
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1962 |
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American choral composer, singer, professor, and researcher one of America's premier composers of choral music Her compositions include sacred and secular works for mixed chorus, women's chorus, men's chorus, and children's voices. |
Powell, Thomas |
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1817 |
1880 |
Composer published in Australia |
Pownall, George |
Pownall, George Hyde |
1866 |
1939 |
English born painter, singer, conductor and composer. His interests were certainly diverse, ranging from choral work to vaudeville. He spent the last 28 years of his life in Australia. |
Praed, Winthrop Mackworth |
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1802 |
1839 |
English politician and poet. |
Praetorius, Michael |
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1571 |
1621 |
German composer, organist, and music theorist.[1] He was one of the most versatile composers of his age, being particularly significant in the development of musical forms based on Protestant hymns, many of which reflect an effort to improve the relationship between Protestants and Catholics. |
Prendergast, Arthur Hugh Dalrymple |
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1833 |
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English composer and conductor |
Prescott, Oliveria |
Prescott, Oliveria Louisa |
1843 |
1919 |
English writer and composer. She lectured in harmony and composition for Newnham College, Cambridge, and also taught harmony at the High School for Girls in Baker Street, London. She composed several overtures, a piano concerto, shorter orchestral pieces, vocal and choral works and two symphonies |
Preskett, Graham |
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Writes and arranges music for movies and television, for production and advertising, as well as arranging songs for many artists and playing a whole array of instruments. |
Presley, Elvis |
Presley, Elvis Aron |
1935 |
1977 |
American Rock and Roll Singer and film actor |
Preston, Billy |
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1946 |
2006 |
American singer-songwriter and performer whose work encompassed R&B, rock, soul, funk, and gospel. |
Prévert, Jacques |
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1900 |
1977 |
French poet and screenwriter. His poems became and remain popular in the French-speaking world, particularly in schools. His best regarded films formed part of the poetic realist movement, and include Les Enfants du Paradis (1945). |
Prewitt, Frank |
Prewitt, Frank James |
1893 |
1962 |
Canadian poet, who spent most of his life in the United Kingdom. He was a war poet of World War I, and was taken up by Siegfried Sassoon. |
Price, Nancy |
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American singer, teacher, choir director, composer and lyricist In collaboration with Don Besig, Nancy has written over four hundred compositions for school and church choirs. |
Pride, Margaret |
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Australian choral conductor with a doctorate in choral studies and conducting from University of Southern California. She is is currently Music Director of Collegium Choirs, Music Director of Perth Young Women's Choir and freelances in Perth, interstate and overseas both as clinician and conductor |
Prima, Louis |
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1910 |
1978 |
Sicilian-American singer, actor, songwriter and trumpeter |
Prime, Ralph R. |
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American retired college choral conductor and professor of music. He was Director of Choral Organizations and Handbell Choirs for 21 years at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, Composer of many choral works much of it sacred California |
Prince, Hugh |
Prince, Hugh Durham |
1906 |
1960 |
American manager of a radio script agency and a songwriter,. His best known composition is "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy". |
Printz, Brad |
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1905 |
1955 |
American music educator for ten years and the highly respected choral manager for J.W. Pepper at Wingert-Jones Music in Kansas City, Missouri, for nearly 20 years. Brad made the most of his diverse background, creating wonderfully crafted and inspiring choral music in a variety of styles for both the sacred and educational markets. |
Pritchard, Arthur |
Pritchard, Dr. Arthur John |
1908 |
1997 |
British organist, choir master, composer and arranger, mainly of sacred music |
Proctor, Adelaide A. |
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1825 |
1864 |
English poet and philanthropist. She worked prominently on behalf of unemployed women and the homeless, and was actively involved with feminist groups and journals |
Prokhorov, Vadim |
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Russian born concert pianist, conductor and Music professor. His father was a diplomat. Now a US citizen. His choral compositions and arrangements of Russian vocal compositions and folk songs have been published by Oxford University Press, Hal Leonard, and Musica Russica. He is a member of the Authors Guild and ASCAP. Mosconcert, soloist and chamber music performer, 1969-87; composer and author, 1987 — . Moscow |
Protheroe, Daniel |
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1866 |
1934 |
Welsh composer and conductor. He emigrated to the USA, where he was educated. He is best known for composing Calvinist Methodist hymns. |
Proulx, Richard |
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1937 |
2010 |
American composer and editor of church music, including anthems, service music, hymn concertatos, organ music and music for handbell choir, |
Prout, Ebenezer |
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1835 |
1909 |
English musical theorist, writer, teacher and composer, whose instruction, afterwards embodied in a series of standard works still used today, underpinned the work of many British classical musicians of succeeding generations. |
Pryce, Mark |
Pryce, The Rev. Canon Mark |
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British theological educator, poet and priest. His current research interest is using poetry as a means of theological reflection and professional development. He is based at the University of Birmingham. |
Puccini, Giacomo |
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1858 |
1924 |
Italisn started the operatic trend toward realism with his popular works, which are among the most often performed in opera history |
Puddy, A. P. |
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Australian Music arranger |
Puddy, G. M. |
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Australian music arranger |
Puddy, Mark |
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Australian music educator, music publisher and composer who specialises in writing and arranging choral works for youth and community choirs. He is the resident composer and arranger for The Australian Girls Choir and his treble and mixed-voice works feature in eisteddfods and music festivals in Australia and overseas. |