| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Ronsard, Pierre de |
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1524 |
1585 |
French poet , chief among the French Renaissance group of poets known as La Pléiade. |
| Roos, Charles O. |
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American Indian poet, author, lyricist of the late 19th century. He had a particular interest in native American culture and some of his poems were set in a song cycle. |
| Root, George F. |
Wurzel, G. Friedrich |
1825 |
1895 |
American composer. He published over 500 pieces of music from 1848 until 1896. He used his German surname Wurzel, the English equivalent of Root, for his minstrel songs. |
| Roper, E. Stanley |
Roper, Edgar Stanley |
1978 |
1953 |
Organist and composer to the Chapel Royal in 1919 |
| Rore, Cipriano de |
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1515 |
1565 |
Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance, active in Italy. Not only was he a central representative of the generation of Franco-Flemish composers after Josquin des Prez who went to live and work in Italy, but he was one of the most prominent composers of madrigals in the middle of the 16th century |
| Rorem, Ned |
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1923 |
1999 |
American composer and diarist, best known and most praised for his song settings. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 |
| Rose, Billy |
Rose, William |
1899 |
1966 |
American impresario, theatrical showman and lyricist. He is credited with many famous songs, notably "Me and My Shadow" (1927), "Without A Song" (1929), "It Happened in Monterrey" (1930) and "It's Only a Paper Moon" (1933) |
| Rose, Gregory |
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1948 |
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conductor, composer, arranger, and music director. He has conducted orchestral, choral and ensemble premieres throughout Europe and the Far East. |
| Rose, Margaret |
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1936 |
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English poet. |
| Rose, P. de |
DeRose, Peter |
1900 |
1953 |
American composer of jazz and pop music during the Tin Pan Alley era. |
| Ross, Hugh |
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1898 |
1990 |
American choral director and conductor of the Schola Cantorum of New York. In 1933 he became a professor at the Manhattan School of Music. He also served on the faculty of Queens College, City University of New York. |
| Ross, Jerry |
Rosenberg, Jerold |
1926 |
1955 |
American lyricist and composer whose works with Richard Adler for the musical theater include The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees, winners of Tony Awards in 1955 and 1956 respectively in both the "Best Musical" and "Best Composer and Lyricist" categories. |
| Ross, John |
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Australian composer John Ross is a graduate of Durham University, and a Fellow of Trinity College, London. In 1996 he retired as Senior Lecturer, Charles Sturt University and Director, Murray Conservatorium |
| Ross, Robert |
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Music arranger |
| Ross, Walter Beghtol |
Ross, Walter Begtol |
1936 |
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American composer, music educator, hornist and flutist with more than 100 compositions |
| Rosselli, Francesco |
Roscelli, Francesco; Rossello, Francesco; Roussel, François |
1510 |
1577 |
French composer. His madrigals were often published under various italiansed versions of his name |
| Rossetti, Dante Gabriel |
Rossetti , Gabriel Charles Dante |
1828 |
1882 |
English poet, illustrator, painter, and translator, and member of the Rossetti family. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. Rossetti was later to be the main inspiration for a second generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement, most notably William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. His work also influenced the European Symbolists and was a major precursor of the Aesthetic movement. |
| Rossetti, Christina |
Rossetti, Christina Georgina |
1830 |
1894 |
English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. She is famous for writing Goblin Market and Remember, and the words of the Christmas carol In the Bleak Midwinter. |
| Rossi, Luigi |
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1597 |
1653 |
Italian Baroque composer. Rossi is noteworthy principally for his chamber-cantatas, which are among the finest that the 17th century produced. Rossi composed just two operas: Il palazzo incantato, which was given at Rome in 1642; and Orfeo, written after he was invited by Cardinal Mazarin in 1646 to go to Paris for that purpose, and given its premiere there in 1647 |
| Rossini, Gioacchino A. |
Rossini, Gioachino Antonio |
1792 |
1868 |
Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces. |
| Rota, Nino |
Rota, Giovanni |
1911 |
1979 |
Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti. He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli's Shakespeare films, and for the first two films of Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy, receiving the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Godfather Part II (1974). |
| Roth, Ernst [Dr.] |
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1896 |
1971 |
Music publisher for Universal Edition in Vienna and Boosey & Hawkes in London, and became the company's director in 1968. He also wrote about music and translated. |
| Roth, Herman |
|
1882 |
1938 |
Music Editor |
| Rothenberg, Irv |
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American choral director, and teacher of elementary music for 25 years He is also a choral director. He also conducts the Chapel Choir for Wyoming United Methodist in Wyoming, DE and the Asbury United Methodist Chancel Choir |
| Rothery, W. G. |
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1858 |
1930 |
Lyricist and translator |
| Rouget de L'Isle, Claude Joseph |
De Lisle, Claude Joseph Rouget; Lisle, Claude Joseph Rouget de |
1760 |
1836 |
French army officer of the French Revolutionary Wars. He is known for writing the words and music of the Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin in 1792, which would later be known as La Marseillaise and become the French national anthem. |
| Rouse, Jay |
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American choral arranger in Christian music. He has over three hundred and fifty compositions and arrangements published |
| Routley, Erik |
Routley, Erik Reginald |
1917 |
1982 |
English born scholar who moved to America in 1975 as Professor of Church Music at Westminster Choir College. He helped export the fruits of the British hymn explosion, which significantly influenced hymnals and hymn singing in the United States during the last quarter of the twentieth century. |
| Rovetta, Giovanni |
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1596 |
1668 |
Italian Baroque composer and maestro di capella of the Capella Marciana at St Mark's Basilica, Venice between Monteverdi and Cavalli. |
| Rowan, Irwin |
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20th century author and lyricist |