| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Simon, Richard |
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1921 |
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Lyricist and composer |
| Simon, William |
Simon, Bill; Simon, William L. |
1920 |
2000 |
American songwriter, musician and music critic |
| Simone, Nina |
Waymon, Eunice Kathleen |
1933 |
2003 |
American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist. She worked in a broad range of musical styles including classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop. |
| Simper, Caleb |
Clare, Edwyn A. |
1846 |
1942 |
Edwyn Clare was a pseudonym used by Caleb Simper. Why he used his mother's maiden name isn't clear (unless he found his own embarrassing. ) There are several anthems published under the name Clare, but the vast amount of Caleb's output was published under the name of Simper . |
| Simpson, Valerie |
|
1946 |
|
American Songwriter, who with Nickolas Ashford was a husband-and-wife songwriting-production team and recording artists. |
| Sims, Tommy |
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20th century US musician |
| Sinclair, Marion |
|
1895 |
1988 |
Australian schoolteacher and songwriter |
| Sinding, Christian |
Sinding, Christian August |
1856 |
1941 |
Norwegian composer. He is known for his lyrical works for piano, such as Frühlingsrauschen (Rustle of Spring, 1896). He was often compared to Edvard Grieg and regarded as his successor. |
| Singh, Vijay |
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Active performer, composer, teacher, conductor, and clinician residing Washington where he is Professor of Music and Choral/Jazz Director, Voice at Central Washington University. |
| Sirett, Mark |
|
1952 |
|
Canadian composer & choral conductor |
| Sirvatka, Martin |
|
|
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American music director of various school music programmes, music arranger. |
| Sisask, Urmas |
|
1960 |
|
Estonian composer, much of what he composes is sacred music. |
| Sitwell, Osbert [Sir] |
|
1892 |
1969 |
English writer |
| Sitwell, Sacheverell, Sir |
Sitwell, Sir Sacheverell Reresby 6th Baronet |
1897 |
1988 |
English writer, best known as an art critic, music critic (his books on Mozart, Liszt, and Domenico Scarlatti are still consulted), and writer on architecture, particularly the baroque. |
| Sixten, Fredrik |
Sixten, Sven Fredrik Johannes |
1962 |
|
Swedish composer, cathedral organist and conductor, now recognized as one of Sweden's best-known composers of church music |
| Sjolund, Paul |
|
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Leading composer of American church and choral music. The range of his style includes a wide spectrum of majestic anthems, fanfares and festival hymns, poignant children's music, and exhilarating range of spirituals and folksongs. |
| Skelton, John |
|
1460 |
1529 |
Tudor poet and satirist of both political and religious subjects whose reputation as an English poet of major importance was restored only in the 20th century |
| Skempton, Howard |
|
1947 |
|
English composer, pianist, and accordionist associated with the English school of experimental music |
| Skloff, Michael |
|
|
|
American Composer of the theme tune for the sitcom "Friends" together with his wife and producer Marta Kauffman |
| Slack, Roy |
|
|
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Author and composer, particularly of childrens' music |
| Slade, Julian |
Slade, Julian Penkivil |
1930 |
2006 |
English writer from London of musical theatre, best known for the show Salad Days, which he wrote in six weeks in 1954 and which became the UK's longest-running show of the 1950s, with over 2,288 performances. |
| Slater, Neil |
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Noted Jazz composer and arranger. Dr Slater is Professor in the Jazz Studies Division of the College of Music at the University of North Texas |
| Sleeth, Natalie |
Wakeley, Natalie Allyn |
1930 |
1992 |
American composer. An organist, she wrote over 180 highly successful selections for church and school. |
| Slessor, Kenneth |
|
1901 |
1971 |
Australian poet, journalist and official War Correspondent in World War II. He was one of Australia's leading poets, notable particularly for the absorption of modernist influences into Australian poetry |
| Sletto, Barbara |
|
1962 |
|
American composer, music teacher and choir director a specialist in youth choirs. |
| Sløgedal, Bjarne |
|
1927 |
|
Norwegian composer. During the years 1951-96 he was organist in the Kristiansand Cathedral, Southern Norway. Sløgedal is one of Norway's most active and highly respected church musicians, as organist, conductor and composer. |
| Smaczny, Jan |
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Musicologist who specialises in Dvorak. Hamilton Harty Chair of Music at Queen’s University, Belfast, and an authority on Czech music. An author, broadcaster and journalist, He is a graduate of the University of Oxford, has studied at the Charles University in Prague and has worked extensively in university education. |
| Smalls, Charlie |
|
1943 |
1987 |
African-American composer and songwriter, best known for writing the music for the 1975 Broadway musical The Wiz. |
| Smart, Christopher |
Smart, Kit; Smart, Kitty; Smart, Jack |
1722 |
1771 |
English poet. He was a major contributor to two popular magazines and a friend to influential cultural icons like Samuel Johnson and Henry Fielding. Smart, a high church Anglican, was widely known throughout London. |
| Smart, Henry Thomas |
|
1813 |
1879 |
English organist and composer. Smart was highly rated as a composer by his English contemporaries, but is now remembered only by a few organists and choral singers |