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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Muhal Richard Abrams
Pianist
19-Sep-1930   Levels and Degrees of Light
John Adams
Composer
15-Feb-1947   Nixon in China
Fred E. Ahlert
Composer
19-Sep-1892 20-Oct-1953 I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
Isaac Albéniz
Composer
29-May-1860 18-May-1909 Iberia
Tomaso Albinoni
Composer
8-Jun-1671 17-Jan-1751 Adagio in G minor
Maryanne Amacher
Composer
25-Feb-1943 22-Oct-2009 Sound Characters (Making the Third Ear)
Joachim Andersen
Musician
29-Apr-1847 7-May-1909 Danish flautist and composer for flute
Leroy Anderson
Composer
29-Jun-1908 18-May-1975 The Syncopated Clock
George Antheil
Composer
8-Jul-1900 12-Feb-1959 Le Ballet mécanique
Craig Armstrong
Composer
1959   Classical and film composer
Malcolm Arnold
Composer
21-Oct-1921 23-Sep-2006 The Bridge on the River Kwai
Edward Artemiev
Composer
30-Nov-1937   Electroacoustic composer, scored Solaris
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Composer
29-Jan-1782 12-May-1871 La Muette de Portici
Georges Auric
Composer
15-Feb-1899 24-Jul-1983 Theme for Moulin Rouge
Milton Babbitt
Composer
10-May-1916 29-Jan-2011 Music for Synthesizer
Johann Sebastian Bach
Composer
21-Mar-1685 28-Jul-1750 Baroque composer
Burt Bacharach
Pianist
12-May-1929   Incomparable composer of lounge music
Angelo Badalamenti
Composer
22-Mar-1937   Scored several David Lynch films
Mily Balakirev
Composer
21-Dec-1836 16-May-1910 Russian nationalist composer
Samuel Barber
Composer
9-Mar-1910 23-Jan-1981 Adagio for Strings
Warren Barker
Composer
16-Apr-1923 3-Aug-2006 Composer for 77 Sunset Strip
John Barry
Composer
3-Nov-1933 30-Jan-2011 Film composer, James Bond, Out of Africa
Bela Bartok
Composer
25-Mar-1881 26-Sep-1945 Hungarian composer
Arnold Bax
Composer
8-Nov-1883 3-Oct-1953 Symphonist, Tone Poet
Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer
17-Dec-1770 26-Mar-1827 Prominent composer
Vincenzo Bellini
Composer
3-Nov-1801 23-Sep-1835 I Puritani di Scozia
Richard Rodney Bennett
Composer
29-Mar-1936   The Mines of Sulphur
Alban Berg
Composer
9-Feb-1885 24-Dec-1935 Violin Concerto
Arthur Berger
Composer
15-May-1912 7-Oct-2003 Ideas of Order
Luciano Berio
Composer
24-Oct-1925 27-May-2003 Italian Avant-garde composer
Lennox Berkeley
Composer
12-May-1903 26-Dec-1989 Stabat Mater
Irving Berlin
Composer
11-May-1888 22-Sep-1989 White Christmas, God Bless America
Hector Berlioz
Composer
11-Dec-1803 8-Mar-1869 French romantic composer
Elmer Bernstein
Composer
4-Apr-1922 18-Aug-2004 Scored The Magnificent Seven
Leonard Bernstein
Conductor
25-Aug-1918 14-Oct-1990 Conductor, New York Philharmonic
Georges Bizet
Composer
25-Oct-1838 3-Jun-1875 Carmen
Boris Blacher
Composer
19-Jan-1903 30-Jan-1975 Die Nachtschwalbe
Ran Blake
Pianist
20-Apr-1935   Third Stream composer
Carla Bley
Pianist
11-May-1938   Pianist and composer
Arthur Bliss
Composer
2-Aug-1891 28-Mar-1975 Morning Heroes
Marc Blitzstein
Composer
2-Mar-1905 22-Jan-1964 The Cradle Will Rock
Ernest Bloch
Composer
24-Jul-1880 15-Jul-1959 Schelomo
John Blow
Composer
23-Feb-1649 1-Oct-1708 Venus and Adonis
Luigi Boccherini
Composer
19-Feb-1743 28-May-1805 Cello Concerto in B-flat
Jerry Bock
Composer
23-Nov-1928 3-Nov-2010 Fiorello!
Arrigo Boito
Composer
24-Feb-1842 10-Jun-1918 Mefistofele
William Bolcom
Composer
26-May-1938   Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Aleksandr Borodin
Composer
12-Nov-1833 27-Feb-1887 Prince Igor
Giovanni Bottesini
Musician
22-Dec-1821 7-Jul-1889 Cristoforo Colombo
Pierre Boulez
Composer
26-Mar-1925   Modern composer and conductor
Paul Bowles
Author
30-Dec-1910 18-Nov-1999 The Sheltering Sky
William Boyce
Composer
7-Feb-1710 7-Feb-1779 Cathedral Music
David Braham
Composer
1838 11-Apr-1905 The Mulligan Guards
Johannes Brahms
Composer
7-May-1833 3-Apr-1897 Ein deutsches Requiem
Benjamin Britten
Composer
22-Nov-1913 4-Dec-1976 Billy Budd
Earle Brown
Composer
26-Dec-1926 2-Jul-2002 Developed open-form scores
Max Bruch
Composer
6-Jan-1838 2-Oct-1920 Kol Nidrei
Anton Bruckner
Composer
4-Sep-1824 11-Oct-1896 Mass in D Minor
Gavin Bryars
Composer
16-Jan-1943   Avant-garde composer
John Bull
Composer
c. 1562 12-Mar-1628 English composer and organist
Anthony Burgess
Novelist
25-Feb-1917 25-Nov-1993 A Clockwork Orange
Charles Burney
Musicologist
7-Apr-1726 12-Apr-1814 History of Music
Carter Burwell
Composer
19-Nov-1955   Composer for all Coen Bros films
Ferruccio Busoni
Pianist
1-Apr-1866 27-Jul-1924 Fantasia Contrappuntistica
Dietrich Buxtehude
Composer
c. 1637 9-May-1707 Baroque period organist
William Byrd
Composer
1543 4-Jul-1623 English madrigalist, composer
John Cage
Composer
5-Sep-1912 12-Aug-1992 Experimental composer
Thomas Campion
Composer
12-Feb-1567 1-Mar-1620 English musical poet, Bookes of Ayres
Elliott Carter
Composer
11-Dec-1908   The Defence of Corinth
Robert Casadesus
Pianist
7-Apr-1899 19-Sep-1972 French pianist/composer
Alfredo Casella
Composer
25-Jul-1883 5-Mar-1947 Rejuvinated Vivaldi
Francesco Cavalli
Composer
14-Feb-1602 14-Jan-1676 Didone
Gustave Charpentier
Composer
25-Jun-1860 18-Feb-1956 Louise
Rhys Chatham
Composer
19-Sep-1952   An Angel Moves Too Fast To See
Carlos Chávez
Composer
13-Jun-1899 2-Aug-1978 Sinfonía de Antígona
Luigi Cherubini
Composer
14-Sep-1760 15-Mar-1842 The Water Carrier
Frederic Chopin
Composer
22-Feb-1810 17-Oct-1849 Composer for the piano
Domenico Cimarosa
Composer
17-Dec-1749 1-Jan-1801 Il Matrimonio segreto
Muzio Clementi
Composer
24-Jan-1752 10-Mar-1832 Gradus ad Parnassum
George M. Cohan
Composer
3-Jul-1878 5-Nov-1942 Yankee Doodle Dandy
Cy Coleman
Composer
14-Jun-1929 18-Nov-2004 Hey, Big Spender
Alice Coltrane
Jazz Musician
27-Aug-1937 12-Jan-2007 Musician and widow of John Coltrane
Aaron Copland
Composer
14-Nov-1900 2-Dec-1990 Fanfare for the Common Man
Arcangelo Corelli
Violinist
17-Feb-1653 8-Jan-1713 Concerti Grossi
François Couperin
Composer
10-Nov-1668 12-Sep-1733 L'Art de Toucher le Clavecin
Henry Cowell
Composer
11-Mar-1897 10-Dec-1965 New Musical Resources
Johann Baptist Cramer
Pianist
24-Feb-1771 16-Apr-1858 Études
George Crumb
Composer
24-Oct-1929   1968 Pulitzer Prize for Music
Carl Czerny
Pianist
20-Feb-1791 15-Jul-1857 Pianist, composer of piano exercises
Vincent d'Indy
Composer
27-Mar-1851 1-Dec-1931 Symphonie Cévenole
Luigi Dallapiccola
Composer
3-Feb-1904 19-Feb-1975 Canti di Prigionia
Félicien-César David
Composer
13-Apr-1810 29-Aug-1876 Le Désert
Mario Davidovsky
Composer
4-Mar-1934   Synchronisms
Reginald De Koven
Composer
3-Apr-1859 16-Jan-1920 Oh, Promise Me
Claude Debussy
Composer
22-Aug-1862 25-Mar-1918 French Impressionist composer
Georges Delerue
Composer
12-Mar-1925 20-Mar-1992 French film composer
Léo Delibes
Composer
21-Feb-1836 16-Jan-1891 Lakmé
Frederick Delius
Composer
29-Jan-1862 10-Jun-1934 Over the Hills and Far Away
Ernst von Dohnányi
Composer
27-Jul-1877 9-Feb-1960 Opus 25
Gaetano Donizetti
Composer
29-Nov-1797 8-Apr-1848 Lucia di Lammermoor
Thomas A. Dorsey
Musician
1-Jul-1899 23-Jan-1993 The father of gospel music
John Dowland
Composer
c. 1562 21-Jan-1626 Lachrimae, Lutenist
Guillaume Dufay
Composer
c. 1400 27-Nov-1474 Composer of the Burgundian school
Paul Dukas
Composer
1-Oct-1865 17-May-1935 The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Vernon Duke
Composer
10-Oct-1903 16-Jan-1969 April in Paris
Tan Dun
Composer
18-Aug-1957   Heaven, Earth, Mankind
Marcel Dupré
Organist
3-May-1886 30-May-1971 French organist and composer
Francesco Durante
Composer
15-Mar-1684 13-Aug-1755 Pastoral Mass
Louis Durey
Composer
27-May-1888 3-Jul-1979 Carillons
Antonin Dvorak
Composer
8-Sep-1841 1-May-1904 From the New World
Hanns Eisler
Composer
6-Jul-1898 6-Sep-1962 German radical composer
Edward Elgar
Composer
2-Jun-1857 23-Feb-1934 Pomp and Circumstance
Georges Enesco
Composer
19-Aug-1881 4-May-1955 Oedipe
Sammy Fain
Composer
17-Jun-1902 6-Dec-1989 Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Percy Faith
Musician
7-Apr-1908 9-Feb-1976 Easy listening arranger and composer
Manuel de Falla
Composer
23-Nov-1876 14-Nov-1946 La Vida Breve
Gabriel Fauré
Composer
12-May-1845 4-Nov-1924 Requiem
Morton Feldman
Composer
12-Jan-1926 3-Sep-1987 Coptic Light
John Field
Composer
26-Jul-1782 23-Jan-1837 Irish composer of Nocturnes
Vivian Fine
Composer
28-Sep-1913 20-Mar-2000 Drama for Orchestra
Lukas Foss
Conductor
15-Aug-1922 1-Feb-2009 Director, Buffalo Philharmonic, 1963-71
César Franck
Composer
10-Dec-1822 8-Nov-1890 Symphonic Variations
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Composer
1583 1-Mar-1643 Italian organist and composer
Hugo Friedhofer
Composer
3-May-1901 17-May-1981 The Best Years of Our Lives
Rudolf Friml
Composer
7-Dec-1884 12-Nov-1972 The Vagabond King
Johann Joseph Fux
Composer
c. 1660 13-Feb-1741 Gradus ad Parnassum
Giovanni Gabrieli
Composer
1557 12-Aug-1612 Italian composer at St. Mark's
Baldassare Galuppi
Composer
18-Oct-1706 3-Jan-1784 Il Filosofo di Campagna
Carlo Gesualdo
Composer
c. 1560 8-Sep-1613 Composer of madrigals, murdered his wife
Gordon Getty
Business
20-Dec-1934   Heir to the Getty Oil fortune
Orlando Gibbons
Composer
1583 5-Jun-1625 Late Tudor composer and organist
W. S. Gilbert
Composer
18-Nov-1836 29-May-1911 Gilbert & Sullivan
Patrick Gilmore
Composer
25-Dec-1829 24-Sep-1892 The Father of The American Band
Philip Glass
Composer
31-Jan-1937   Einstein on the Beach
Aleksandr Glazunov
Composer
29-Jul-1865 21-Mar-1936 Raymonda
Mikhail Glinka
Composer
21-May-1804 3-Feb-1857 Ruslan and Lyudmila
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Composer
2-Jul-1714 15-Nov-1787 Orfeo ed Eurydice
Jerry Goldsmith
Composer
10-Feb-1929 21-Jul-2004 Prominent soundtrack composer
Mack Gordon
Composer
21-Jun-1904 28-Feb-1959 Chattanooga Choo Choo
Jay Gorney
Composer
12-Dec-1896 14-Jun-1990 Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?
Charles Gounod
Composer
17-Jun-1818 18-Oct-1893 Faust
Percy Grainger
Composer
8-Jul-1882 20-Feb-1961 Country Gardens
Enrique Granados
Composer
27-Jul-1867 24-Mar-1916 Goyescas
Johnny Green
Composer
10-Oct-1908 15-May-1989 Body and Soul
André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry
Composer
8-Feb-1741 24-Sep-1813 Richard Coeur de Lion
Edvard Grieg
Composer
15-Jun-1843 4-Sep-1907 Norway's greatest composer
Charles Griffes
Composer
17-Sep-1884 8-Apr-1920 The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan
Albert Hague
Composer
13-Oct-1920 12-Nov-2001 Redhead
Fromental Halévy
Composer
27-May-1799 17-Mar-1862 La Juive
Marvin Hamlisch
Composer
2-Jun-1944 6-Aug-2012 The Way We Were
George Frideric Handel
Composer
23-Feb-1685 14-Apr-1759 Messiah
W. C. Handy
Composer
16-Nov-1873 29-Mar-1958 Father of the Blues
Howard Hanson
Composer
28-Oct-1896 26-Feb-1981 Symphony No. 4
Lou Harrison
Composer
14-May-1917 2-Feb-2003 Musical wayfarer
Hamilton Harty
Conductor
4-Dec-1879 19-Feb-1941 Principal Conductor, The Hallé, 1920-34
Johann Adolph Hasse
Composer
25-Mar-1699 16-Dec-1783 Sesostrato
Joseph Haydn
Composer
31-Mar-1732 31-May-1809 Symphony No. 102 in B-flat Major
Michael Haydn
Composer
14-Sep-1737 10-Aug-1806 Missa Hispanica
Pierre Henry
Composer
9-Dec-1927   Electronic music pioneer
Hans Werner Henze
Composer
1-Jul-1926   Boulevard Solitude
Victor Herbert
Composer
1-Feb-1859 24-May-1924 Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life
Jerry Herman
Composer
10-Jul-1931   Hello Dolly!
Bernard Herrmann
Composer
29-Jun-1911 24-Dec-1975 Scored Psycho, Citizen Kane
Hildegard von Bingen
Religion
16-Sep-1098 17-Sep-1179 Scivias seu Visiones
Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson
Composer
23-Apr-1958   Icelandic film composer
Paul Hindemith
Composer
16-Nov-1895 28-Dec-1963 Mathis der Maler
E. T. A. Hoffmann
Author
24-Jan-1776 25-Jun-1822 Das Fräulein van Scuderi
Gustav Holst
Composer
21-Sep-1874 25-May-1934 The Planets
Arthur Honegger
Composer
10-Mar-1892 27-Nov-1955 Pacific 231
Francis Hopkinson
Author
2-Oct-1737 9-May-1791 The Ballad of the Kegs
James Horner
Composer
14-Aug-1953   Scored Titanic
William Horsley
Composer
15-Nov-1774 12-Jun-1858 English composer of glees
Jacques Ibert
Composer
15-Aug-1890 5-Feb-1962 Escales
John Ireland
Composer
13-Aug-1879 12-Jun-1962 The Holy Boy
Charles Ives
Composer
20-Oct-1874 19-May-1954 Third Symphony (The Camp Meeting)
Leoš Janácek
Composer
3-Jul-1854 12-Aug-1928 Her Foster Daughter
Maurice Jarre
Composer
13-Sep-1924 29-Mar-2009 Score to Lawrence of Arabia
Joseph Joachim
Violinist
28-Jun-1831 15-Aug-1907 Virtuoso violinist, Joachim Quartet
Norman Dello Joio
Composer
24-Jan-1913 24-Jul-2008 Meditation on Ecclesiastes
Mauricio Kagel
Composer
24-Dec-1931 18-Sep-2008 Absurdist composer
Michael Kamen
Composer
15-Apr-1948 18-Nov-2003 Prolific film composer and conductor
John Kander
Composer
18-Mar-1927   Top Broadway composer
Jerome Kern
Composer
27-Jan-1885 12-Nov-1945 Show Boat
Aram Khachaturian
Composer
24-May-1903 1-May-1978 Gayane
Leon Kirchner
Composer
24-Jan-1919 17-Sep-2009 Quartet No. 3
Zoltán Kodály
Composer
16-Dec-1882 6-Mar-1967 Psalmus Hungaricus
Franz Kotzwara
Composer
1730 2-Feb-1793 The Battle of Prague
Édouard Lalo
Composer
27-Jan-1823 22-Apr-1892 Le Roi d'Ys
Constant Lambert
Composer
23-Aug-1905 21-Aug-1951 Rio Grande
Burton Lane
Composer
2-Feb-1912 5-Jan-1997 On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
Jean Langlais
Composer
15-Feb-1907 8-May-1991 Organist and composer
Orlando di Lasso
Composer
1530 14-Jun-1594 Psalmi Davidis Poenitentiales
Michel Legrand
Composer
24-Feb-1932   Film composer, The Windmills of Your Mind
Franz Lehár
Composer
30-Apr-1870 24-Oct-1948 The Merry Widow
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Composer
8-Mar-1857 9-Aug-1919 Pagliacci
Oscar Levant
Pianist
27-Dec-1906 14-Aug-1972 Panelist, Information Please
György Ligeti
Composer
28-May-1923 12-Jun-2006 Lontano, Lux Aeterna
Franz Liszt
Composer
22-Oct-1811 31-Jul-1886 Hungarian composer
Horace Liveright
Publisher
10-Dec-1886 24-Sep-1933 Publisher of the Modern Library series
Jay Livingston
Composer
28-Mar-1915 17-Oct-2001 Que Sera Sera
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Composer
22-Mar-1948   Evita
Frank Loesser
Composer
29-Jun-1910 28-Jul-1969 Guys and Dolls
Carl Loewe
Composer
30-Nov-1796 20-Apr-1869 German composer of ballads
Frederick Loewe
Composer
10-Jun-1901 14-Feb-1988 My Fair Lady
Alvin Lucier
Composer
14-May-1931   I Am Sitting In A Room
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Composer
28-Nov-1632 22-Mar-1687 Founder of French opera
Witold Lutoslawski
Composer
25-Jan-1913 7-Feb-1994 Aleatoric composer
Edward MacDowell
Composer
18-Dec-1860 23-Jan-1908 American piano composer
Bruno Maderna
Composer
21-Apr-1920 13-Nov-1973 Avant-garde composer
Gustav Mahler
Composer
7-Jul-1860 18-May-1911 Das Lied von der Erde
Gian Francesco Malipiero
Composer
18-Mar-1882 1-Aug-1973 Rispetti e Strambotti
Henry Mancini
Composer
16-Apr-1924 14-Jun-1994 Moon River
Karen Mantler
Composer
1966   Composer, musician and champion of Arnold
Cliff Martinez
Composer
5-Feb-1954   Composer for Steven Soderbergh films
Pietro Mascagni
Composer
7-Dec-1863 2-Aug-1945 Cavalleria Rusticana
Jules Massenet
Composer
12-May-1842 13-Aug-1912 Manon
Johann Mattheson
Composer
28-Sep-1681 17-Apr-1764 German baroque composer, theorist
Felix Mendelssohn
Composer
3-Feb-1809 4-Nov-1847 Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream
Gian-Carlo Menotti
Composer
7-Jul-1911 1-Feb-2007 The Saint of Bleecker Street
Olivier Messiaen
Composer
10-Dec-1908 27-Apr-1992 Turangalîla-Symphonie
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Composer
5-Sep-1791 2-May-1864 Robert le Diable
Darius Milhaud
Composer
4-Sep-1892 22-Jun-1974 The Creation of the World
Vic Mizzy
Composer
9-Jan-1916 17-Oct-2009 Addams Family theme
Jimmy Monaco
Composer
13-Jan-1885 16-Oct-1945 You Made Me Love You
Meredith Monk
Singer
20-Nov-1942   Vocalist and "interdisciplinary performance" artist
Claudio Monteverdi
Composer
15-May-1567 29-Nov-1643 Vespro della Beata Vergine
Douglas Stuart Moore
Composer
10-Aug-1893 25-Jul-1969 The Devil and Daniel Webster
John Moran
Composer
1965   Composer of The Manson Family opera
Thomas Morley
Composer
c. 1557 Oct-1602 Laboravi in Gemitu Meo
Ennio Morricone
Composer
10-Nov-1928   Scored The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Composer
27-Jan-1756 5-Dec-1791 Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Modest Mussorgsky
Composer
9-Mar-1839 16-Mar-1881 Boris Godunov
Conlon Nancarrow
Composer
27-Oct-1912 10-Aug-1997 Studies for Player Piano
Carl Nielsen
Composer
9-Jun-1865 3-Oct-1931 The Four Temperaments
Hermann Nitsch
Performance Artist
29-Aug-1938   6-Tage-Spiel des Orgies Mystries Theater
Luigi Nono
Composer
29-Jan-1924 8-May-1990 Il Canto Sospeso
Ivor Novello
Composer
15-Jan-1893 6-Mar-1951 Keep the Home Fires Burning
Michael Nyman
Composer
23-Mar-1944   Minimalist/soundtrack composer and pianist
Jacques Offenbach
Composer
20-Jun-1819 5-Oct-1880 Inventor of the the opérette
Pauline Oliveros
Composer
2-Jun-1932   Composer, Deep Listener
Carl Orff
Composer
10-Jul-1895 29-Mar-1982 Carmina Burana
Johann Pachelbel
Musician
1-Sep-1653 3-Mar-1706 Canon in D Major
Ignace Paderewski
Pianist
18-Nov-1860 29-Jun-1941 Polish pianist and composer
Niccolo Paganini
Violinist
27-Oct-1782 27-May-1840 Italian violinist and composer
Giovanni Paisiello
Composer
9-May-1740 5-Jun-1816 Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Charlemagne Palestine
Pianist
14-Aug-1945   Strumming Music
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Composer
c. 1525 2-Feb-1594 Italian Renaissance composer
Arvo Pärt
Composer
11-Sep-1935   Choral composer
Harry Partch
Composer
24-Jun-1901 3-Sep-1974 Hobo composer, built his own instruments
Krzysztof Penderecki
Composer
23-Nov-1933   Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Composer
4-Jan-1710 16-Mar-1736 La Serva Padrona
Jacopo Peri
Composer
20-Aug-1561 12-Aug-1633 Dafne, the first opera
Oscar Peterson
Jazz Musician
15-Aug-1925 24-Dec-2007 Maharajah of the keyboard
Stu Phillips
Composer
9-Sep-1929   Television composer, Knight Rider
Walter Piston
Composer
20-Jan-1894 12-Nov-1976 Symphony No. 3
Amilcare Ponchielli
Composer
31-Aug-1834 16-Jan-1886 La Gioconda
Cole Porter
Composer
9-Jun-1891 15-Oct-1964 I've Got You Under My Skin
Francis Poulenc
Composer
7-Jan-1899 30-Jan-1963 Les dialogues des Carmélites
Josquin Des Prez
Composer
c. 1445 27-Aug-1521 Master Renaissance composer
Sergei Prokofiev
Composer
23-Apr-1891 5-Mar-1953 Peter and the Wolf
Giacomo Puccini
Composer
22-Dec-1858 29-Nov-1924 Madame Butterfly
Henry Purcell
Composer
c. 1659 21-Nov-1695 Dido and Aeneas
Sun Ra
Jazz Musician
22-May-1914 30-May-1993 Jazz musician from Saturn
Sergei Rachmaninov
Composer
20-Mar-1873 28-Mar-1943 Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Ralph Rainger
Composer
7-Oct-1901 23-Oct-1942 Thanks For The Memory
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Composer
25-Sep-1683 12-Sep-1764 Hippolyte et Aricie
Maurice Ravel
Composer
7-Mar-1875 28-Dec-1937 Bolero
Alan Rawsthorne
Composer
2-May-1905 24-Jul-1971 Theme and Variations for Two Violins
Alfred Reed
Composer
25-Jan-1921 17-Sep-2005 Russian Christmas Music
Steve Reich
Composer
3-Oct-1936   Minimalist composer, Different Trains
Ottorino Respighi
Composer
9-Jul-1879 18-Apr-1936 Belfagor
Harry Revel
Composer
21-Dec-1905 3-Nov-1958 Poor Little Rich Girl
Nelson Riddle
Composer
1-Jun-1921 6-Oct-1985 Bandleader, orchestral arranger
Josef Anton Riedl
Composer
11-Jun-1929   Glas-Spiele
Terry Riley
Composer
24-Jun-1935   In C
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Composer
6-Mar-1844 8-Jun-1908 The Flight of the Bumblebee
Richard Rodgers
Composer
28-Jun-1902 30-Dec-1979 Rodgers and Hammerstein
Sigmund Romberg
Composer
29-Jul-1887 9-Nov-1951 The New Moon
Harold Rome
Composer
27-May-1908 26-Oct-1993 I Can Get It for You Wholesale
Ned Rorem
Composer
23-Oct-1923   Paris Diary
Gioacchino Rossini
Composer
29-Feb-1792 13-Nov-1868 William Tell Overture
Nino Rota
Composer
3-Dec-1911 10-Apr-1979 Film composer, The Godfather
Anton Rubinstein
Pianist
16-Nov-1829 8-Nov-1894 The Tower of Babel
Pete Rugolo
Composer
25-Dec-1915 16-Oct-2011 Jazz and television composer
Luigi Russolo
Author
30-Apr-1885 6-Feb-1947 Authored the manifesto The Art of Noises
Camille Saint-Saëns
Composer
9-Oct-1835 16-Dec-1921 Samson et Dalila
Antonio Salieri
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18-Aug-1750 7-May-1825 Tarare
Giuseppe Sarti
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28-Dec-1729 28-Jul-1802 I Due Litiganti
Erik Satie
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17-May-1866 1-Jul-1925 Messe des Pauvres
Alessandro Scarlatti
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2-May-1660 24-Oct-1725 Mitridate Eupatore
Domenico Scarlatti
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26-Oct-1685 23-Jul-1757 Composed 555 sonatas
Victor Schertzinger
Film Director
8-Apr-1890 26-Oct-1941 Road to Singapore
Harvey Schmidt
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Artur Schnabel
Pianist
17-Apr-1882 15-Aug-1951 Pianist and classical composer
Dieter Schnebel
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Arnold Schoenberg
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4-Nov-1900 3-Sep-1984 That's Entertainment
Aleksandr Scriabin
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25-Dec-1871 14-Apr-1915 Prometheus: The Poem of Fire
Roger Sessions
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28-Dec-1896 16-Mar-1985 Concerto for Orchestra
David Shire
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Dmitri Shostakovich
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25-Sep-1906 9-Aug-1975 Symphony No. 7
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8-Dec-1865 20-Sep-1957 The Swan of Tuonela
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10-Jul-1889 17-Dec-1975 Shuffle Along
Nicolas Slonimsky
Musicologist
27-Apr-1894 25-Dec-1995 Preeminent musicologist
Bedrich Smetana
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2-Mar-1824 12-May-1884 My Country
Stephen Sondheim
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22-Mar-1930   West Side Story
John Philip Sousa
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6-Nov-1854 6-Mar-1932 Stars and Stripes Forever
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10-Nov-1891 29-Nov-1972 Composer for hundreds of Looney Tunes
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10-May-1888 28-Dec-1971 Gone With the Wind
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11-Jan-1870 31-Mar-1934 My Mother Was a Lady
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22-Aug-1928 5-Dec-2007 Influential avant-garde composer
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4-Apr-1762 19-Mar-1796 The Haunted Tower
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1642 28-Feb-1682 S. Giovanni Battista
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14-Mar-1804 24-Sep-1849 Täuberl-Walzer
Johann Strauss
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25-Oct-1825 3-Jun-1899 The Blue Danube
Richard Strauss
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11-Jun-1864 8-Sep-1949 Also sprach Zarathustra
Igor Stravinsky
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17-Jun-1882 6-Apr-1971 The Rite of Spring
Billy Strayhorn
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29-Nov-1915 31-May-1967 Take the A Train
Charles Strouse
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7-Jun-1928   Bye Bye Birdie
Arthur Sullivan
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13-May-1842 22-Nov-1900 Gilbert & Sullivan
George Szell
Conductor
7-Jun-1897 30-Jul-1970 Conductor, Cleveland Orchestra, 1946-70
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8-Oct-1930 20-Feb-1996 A Way A Lone
Thomas Tallis
Composer
c. 1510 23-Nov-1585 Miserere Nostri
Giuseppe Tartini
Violinist
8-Apr-1692 26-Feb-1770 Trillo del Diavolo
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Composer
7-May-1840 6-Nov-1893 Russia's best known composer
Georg Philipp Telemann
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14-Mar-1681 25-Jun-1767 German Baroque composer
James Tenney
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Pianist
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Alan Thicke
Actor
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David Tudor
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Nobuo Uematsu
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Jimmy Van Heusen
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12-Oct-1872 26-Aug-1958 Sinfonia Antarctica
Giuseppe Verdi
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9-Oct-1813 27-Jan-1901 La Traviata
Henri Vieuxtemps
Violinist
17-Feb-1820 6-Jun-1881 Belgian violinist and composer
Heitor Villa-Lobos
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5-Mar-1887 17-Nov-1959 Bachianas Brasileiras
Antonio Vivaldi
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4-Mar-1678 28-Jul-1741 The Four Seasons
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22-May-1813 13-Feb-1883 Ride of the Valkyries
Weasel Walter
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Harry Warren
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24-Dec-1893 22-Sep-1981 Forty-Second Street
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18-Nov-1786 5-Jun-1826 Oberon
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Bassist
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Anton Webern
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3-Dec-1883 15-Sep-1945 Atonal composer
Kurt Weill
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2-Mar-1900 3-Apr-1950 The Threepenny Opera
Richard A. Whiting
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12-Nov-1891 10-Feb-1938 Ain't We Got Fun?
Charles-Marie Widor
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21-Feb-1844 12-Mar-1937 Toccata
Henryk Wieniawski
Violinist
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John Williams
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Christian Wolff
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Iannis Xenakis
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