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| Name | Other Names | Birth Date | Death Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wilson, Sandy | Alexander Galbraith Wilson | 19/05/1924 | English composer and lyricist, best known for his musical The Boy Friend (1953) | |
| Alexander, C. F. | Alexander, Cecil Frances | 01/01/1818 | 01/01/1895 | Irish hymn-writer, poet |
| Alexander, Josef | American composer and teacher. In 1955 and 1956 he held a Fulbright fellowship as a composer in residence in Finland. His compositions have been performed by orchestras including the New York Philharmonic and the NBC Symphony. For 35 years, he taught music at Brooklyn College | |||
| Alfvén, Hugo | 01/05/1872 | 08/05/1960 | Swedish Violinist, Conductor and Composer | |
| Elgar, Caroline Alice | Alice Elgar | 09/10/1848 | 07/08/1920 | English author of verse and prose fiction, wife of Edward |
| Alison, Richard | 01/01/1592 | 01/01/1606 | English composer. His particular interest was in writing consort music | |
| Allan, Robert | 01/01/1774 | 01/01/1841 | Scottish poet | |
| Allaway, Ben | 20/21st century US composer. His work reflects a passion for cross-cultural experiences as well as the great choral traditions. | |||
| Allegri, Domenico | 01/01/1585 | 05/09/1629 | Italian composer and singer of the early Baroque Roman School and was a younger brother of the more famous Gregorio Allegri. Allegri is mainly famous as being one of the first to include specific instrumental accompaniments to sacred vocal music on a small scale | |
| Allegri, Gregorio | 01/01/1582 | 07/02/1652 | Italian composer of the Roman School and brother of Domenico Allegri; he was also a priest and a singer. | |
| Allen, Barclay | American pianist and bandleader. | |||
| Allen, Denis | 20th century singer/songwriter based in County.Limerick, Ireland. He wrote and sang the song "Limerick You're A Lady" which went to number one in Ireland in 1979 for several weeks and stayed in the chart for about a year. It has since been recorded by over 40 different artists. | |||
| Allen, George N. | Allen, George Nelson | He is primarily known today for writing the melody to the hymn Precious Lord, Take My Hand. Allen became professor of sacred music at Oberlin College, Ohio, in 1834. He was the first professor at an American university to teach music and his classes were enormously popul | ||
| Allen, Leslie H. | Allen, Leslie Holdsworth | Australian academic and poet. | ||
| Allen, H. P. | Allen, Sir Hugh Percy | English musician, academic and administrator. He was a leading influence on British musical life in the first half of the 20th century. In 1918 Sir Walter Parratt resigned the professorship of music at Oxford, and Allen succeeded him. But when Sir Hubert Parry died later in the year Allen was appointed director of the Royal College of Music in London, and Oxford thought it would lose him. Allen in fact retained his professorship for the rest of his life. He kept his rooms at New College, and fo | ||
| Allers, Franz | European-American conductor of ballet, opera, Broadway musicals, film scores, and symphony orchestras | |||
| Aldrich, T. B. | Alodrich, Thomas Bailey | American Author and Poet | ||
| King, Jennifer Alsup | Alsup, Jennifer | Canadian pianist, teacher, performer and music arranger | ||
| Alter, Martha | American pianist, music teacher and composer. | |||
| Althouse, Jay | American Composer and Arranger |
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