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| Name | Other Names | Birth Date | Death Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armstrong, Kathy | Canadian percussionist and educator who is well-known for her work in bringing Ghanaian music and dance to choirs, schools and community groups in North America and Europe. She has twenty-five years of studies in Ghanaian music and dance | |||
| Gibbs, Cecil Armstrong | Armstrong-Gibbs, Cecil | 10/08/1889 | 12/05/1960 | English composer, best known for his output of songs. Gibbs also devoted much of his career to the amateur choral and festival movements in Britain |
| Arnaud, Leo | French-American composer of film scores, best known for "Bugler's Dream", which is used as the theme by television networks presenting the Olympic Games in the United States. | |||
| Arne, Michael | 01/01/1741 | 01/01/1786 | English composer, harpsichordist, organist, singer, and actor. He was the son of the composer Thomas Arne and the soprano Cecilia Young, a member of the famous Young family of musicians of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Like his father, Arne worked primarily as a composer of stage music and vocal art song, | |
| Arne, Thomas Augustine | 12/03/1710 | 05/03/1778 | English composer, best known for the patriotic song Rule, Britannia!. He also wrote a version of God Save the King, which became the British national anthem, and the song A-Hunting We Will Go. Arne was the leading British theatre composer of the 18th century, working at Drury Lane and Covent Garden. | |
| Arnold, Doris | BBC Radio presenter, producer, and pianist. | |||
| Arnold, Malcolm | 21/10/1921 | English composer. with a reputation for composing light music, film scores, works for theatre, ballets and symphonies. | ||
| Artman, Ruth Eleanor | School teacher in Fort Wayne, Carmel and Illinois for many years, and also a church choral director and composer. - | |||
| Asche, Oscar | Asche, John Stange(r) Heiss Oscar | 01/12/1871 | 01/12/1936 | Australian actor, director and writer, best known for having written, directed, and acted in the record-breaking musical Chu Chin Chow, |
| Ashford, Nickolas | 01/09/1942 | Nick Ashford was part of the singing-songwriting duo Ashford & Simpson with his wife Valerie Simpson. | ||
| Ashman, Howard | 01/12/1951 | 01/12/1991 | American playwright and lyricist | |
| Asmussen, Svend | Danish jazz violinist known as "The Fiddling Viking". A Swing style virtuoso, he played and recorded with many of the greats of Jazz, including Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and Stephane Grappelli. | |||
| Aston, Peter G. | English composer, academic and conductor perhaps best known for his choral works. Although best known for his liturgical choral works, his output included chamber works for voices and instruments, choral and orchestral works and an opera for children. He is probably best known for his Communion and Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in F. | |||
| Kemal, Mustafa | Ataturk; Ataturk, Kemal Mustafa; Attaturk | 01/07/1881 | 01/07/1938 | Turkish Military commander, later President. In 1934 Atatürk wrote a tribute to the Anzacs killed at Gallipoli |
| Atherton, Jacqueline | Australian composer/author/Teacher. Former member of Australian Voices | |||
| Atkins, Ivor [Sir] | 01/03/1869 | 01/03/1953 | Choirmaster and organist at Worcester Cathedral from 1897 to 1950. He is well known for editing Allegri's Miserere with the famous top-C part for the treble. He is also well known for The Three Kings, an arrangement of a song by Peter Cornelius as a choral work for Epiphany.He composed songs, church music, service settings and anthems. With Edward Elgar he prepared an edition of Bach's St. Matthew Passion. | |
| Atkinson, Elizabeth J. | Pianist/organist of Foundry United Methodist Church in Virginia Beach, VA. Her choral compositions have been performed and premiered by numerous churches and music groups. | |||
| Attaignant, Pierre | French music printer, active in Paris. Compositions by Attaignant have been used in contemporary popular music | |||
| Atterbury, Luffman | 01/07/1735 | 01/07/1796 | carpenter, builder and musician | |
| Attwood, Thomas | 23/11/1765 | 24/03/1838 | An English composer and organist. |
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