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Composers whose names start with DI.
Diana Ringo
Diana Ringo (born 8 March 1992) is a Finnish film director, composer and visual artist. She is best known for the films Quarantine (2021) and 1984 (2023). Biography Diana was born in the family of
Read → Post-WarDianaruthe Wharton
Dianaruthe Wharton (born May 7, 1951) is an American musician. A 1990 Guggenheim Fellow, she was a pianist and singer for Sweet Honey in the Rock joining as the 5th member of the group in 1974 until
Read → Post-WarDiane Juster
Diane Juster, née Rivet (born March 15, 1946) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and composer from Montreal, Quebec. Although she had some success as a performer in her own right, she has been most
Read → Post-WarDiane Thome
Diane Thome (January 25, 1942 - January 12, 2025) was an American composer. She studied piano with Dorothy Taubman and Orazio Frugoni and composition with Robert Strassburg, Roy Harris, Darius
Read → Post-WarDianne Goolkasian Rahbee
Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee (born February 9, 1938) is an Armenian-American contemporary classical composer and pedagogue. Biography Rahbee was born in Somerville, Massachusetts and raised in Waltham,
Read → Post-WarDick Farney
Farnésio Dutra e Silva (14 November 1921 – 4 August 1987), better known as Dick Farney, was a Brazilian jazz pianist, composer, and singer who was popular in Brazil from the late 1940s to the
Read → Post-WarDick Higgins
Dick Higgins (15 March 1938 – 25 October 1998) was an American artist, composer, art theorist, poet, publisher, printmaker, and a co-founder of the Fluxus international artistic movement (and
Read → 20th CenturyDick Kattenburg
Dick Kattenburg (11 November 1919 in Amsterdam – 30 September 1944 in Auschwitz) was a Dutch Jewish composer who was murdered at Auschwitz at the age of 24. His works have been recovered and
Read → 20th CenturyDick Rogers
Richard Rogers (1912–1970) was a singer, comedian, songwriter, and pianist, who wrote the lyrics for "Harlem Nocturne". Rogers was associated with Will Osborne, a "star crooner" who was on the radio
Read → Post-WarDiderik Wagenaar
Diderik Wagenaar (born 10 May 1946 in Utrecht) is a Dutch composer and musical theorist. Life and work Wagenaar has lived and worked all his adult life in The Hague. Born to a musical family that
Read → Post-WarDidier Marouani
Didier "Ecama" Marouani (born 14 July 1953) is a French composer and musician born in Monaco. External links
Read → 21st CenturyDiego Luzuriaga
Diego Luzuriaga (born 1955, in Loja) is an Ecuadorian composer of classical music. He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for Music Composition in 1993. Luzuriaga composed Manuela y Bolívar, the
Read → Post-WarDiego Masson
Diego Masson (born 21 June 1935) is a French conductor, composer, and percussionist. The son of artist André Masson and brother of the singer and actor Luís Masson, Diego Masson was born in Tossa de
Read → RenaissanceDiego Ortiz
Diego Ortiz (c. 1510 – c. 1576) was a Spanish composer and music theorist in service to the viceroy of Naples ruled by the Spanish monarchs Charles V and Philip II. Ortiz published the first manual
Read → RenaissanceDiego Pisador
Diego Pisador (1509/10? – after 1557) was a Spanish vihuelist and composer of the Renaissance. Life Little is known of the details of Pisador's life, not even the exact dates of his birth and death.
Read → 21st CenturyDieter Dolezel
Dieter Dolezel (born 28 July 1977) is a German composer and electronic guitarist. Life Dolezel was born in Munich. After initially studying philosophy at LMU Munich, he first studied guitar at the .
Read → Post-WarDieter Kaufmann
Dieter Kaufmann (22 April 1941 – 23 September 2025) was an Austrian composer, and a pioneer of electroacoustic music. He headed the new Institut für Komposition und Elektroakustik at the Vienna Music
Read → Post-WarDieter Salbert
Dieter Salbert (2 August 1932 – 6 July 2006) was a German composer. Life Born in Berlin, Salbert received piano lessons from 1938 and began early with improvisations on piano and accordion. After his
Read → Post-WarDieter Schnebel
Dieter Schnebel (14 March 1930 – 20 May 2018) was a German composer, theologian and musicologist. He composed orchestral music, chamber music, vocal music and stage works. From 1976 until his
Read → BaroqueDieterich Buxtehude
Dieterich Buxtehude (; born Diderich Hansen Buxtehude, ; – 9 May 1707) His parents were Johannes (Hans Jensen) Buxtehude and Helle Jespersdatter. His father originated from Oldesloe in the Duchy of
Read → Post-WarDiether de la Motte
Diether de la Motte (30 March 1928 – 15 May 2010) was a German musician, composer, music theorist, music critic and academic teacher. Life Born in Bonn, Schott, Mainz 1960 * Harmonielehre.
Read → 21st CenturyDietmar Bonnen
Dietmar Bonnen (born 27 July 1958 in Cologne, Germany) is a German composer and pianist. Life Dietmar Bonnen studied music and fine arts in Cologne and Düsseldorf. In 1981 he founded the
Read → 20th CenturyDietrich Erdmann
Dietrich Erdmann (20 July 1917 – 22 April 2009) was a German composer and university lecturer. Life Erdmann was born in Bonn. His father was the publicist and trade union official Lothar Erdmann, his
Read → 20th CenturyDilys Elwyn-Edwards
Dilys Elwyn-Edwards (née Roberts; 19 August 1918 – 13 January 2012) was a Welsh-language composer, lecturer and accompanist. Biography Dilys Roberts was born on 19 August 1918 in Dolgellau, Wales.
Read → Post-WarDimitri Nicolau
Dimitri Nicolau (21 October 1946 in Keratea, Greece - 29 March 2008 in Rome, Italy) was a composer, stage director, conductor, musicologist, writer and professor. He was born in Keratea, Greece and
Read → 21st CenturyDimitri Scarlato
Dimitri Scarlato (born 21 April 1977) is an Italian composer and conductor, based in London. Early life and education He received his degree in Composition, Conducting and Score Reading in 2004 at
Read → Post-WarDimitri Terzakis
Dimitris Terzakis (; born March 12, 1938) is a Greek composer. His father was the author Angelos Terzakis. Biography Terzakis was born on March 12, 1938 in Athens. From 1959 to 1964, Terzakis studied
Read → 21st CenturyDimitri Voudouris
Dimitri Voudouris (Greek: Δημήτριος Βουδούρης), is an electroacoustic, new music composer, scientific researcher and pharmacist living in South Africa who pioneered UNYAZI,the first electronic music
Read → 20th CenturyDimitrie Cuclin
Dimitrie Cuclin (April 5 1885 – February 7, 1978) was a Romanian classical music composer, musicologist, philosopher, translator, and writer. Biography Early life Cuclin was born in the city of
Read → RomanticDimitrios Lalas
Dimitrios Stergios Lalas or Lallas () was a significant Greek composer and musician. Biography Lalas was born in 1844 or 1848 in Magarevo, then Ottoman Empire (now North Macedonia). He soon became
Read → 20th CenturyDimitrios Levidis
Dimitrios Levidis (; 8 April 1885 or 1886, Athens - 29 May 1951, Palaio Faliro) was a Greek composer, later naturalized French (1929). Background He descended from an aristocratic family with
Read → 20th CenturyDimitris Dragatakis
Dimitris Dragatakis (Greek: Δημήτρης Δραγατάκης; 22 January 1914 – 18 December 2001) was a Greek composer of classical music and Greek art music. He was born in Platanoussa, Epirus in 1914 and
Read → Late RomanticDina Appeldoorn
Christina Adriana Arendina (Dina) Koudijs-Appeldoorn (26 December 1884 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands – 4 December 1938 in The Hague) was a Dutch composer and pianist whose works, such as her two
Read → Post-WarDina Koston
Dina Koston (b. 1929?, d. 2009, Washington, D.C.) was an American pianist, music educator and composer. Life and career Dina Koston began the study of music at age two with her mother. She continued
Read → Late RomanticDina Nurpeisova
Dina Nurpeisova or Nurpeissova (1861 - 31 January 1955) was a composer from the western part of Kazakhstan in the Uralsk area. She was also a noted dombyra player. For her musical accomplishments,
Read → 20th CenturyDing Shande
Ding Shande (; November 12, 1911 – December 8, 1995) was a Chinese composer, pianist, and music teacher. Biography Ding was born in Kunshan, Jiangsu. He studied music with teachers including Huang
Read → 20th CenturyDinorá de Carvalho
Dinorá Gontijo de Carvalho (1 June 1895 – 28 February 1980) was a Brazilian pianist, conductor, music educator and composer. Life Carvalho was born in Uberaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and began her
Read → RenaissanceDiomedes Cato
Diomedes Cato (1560 to 1565 – d.1627 in Gdansk) was an Italian-born composer and lute player, who lived and worked entirely in Poland and Lithuania. He is known mainly for his instrumental music. He
Read → Early RomanticDionisio Aguado y García
Dionisio Aguado y García (8 April 178429 December 1849) was a Spanish classical guitarist and composer of the late Classical and early Romantic periods. Biography Born in Madrid, he studied with
Read → Post-WarDionysis Savvopoulos
Dionysis Savvopoulos (; 2 December 1944 – 21 October 2025) was a Greek singer-songwriter. As a musician and songwriter, he made significant contributions to modern Greek music as part of the Greek
Read → 21st CenturyDirk Brossé
Dirk, Knight Brossé (born 18 February 1960, Ghent) is a Belgian conductor and composer. He has composed over 200 works, including concerti, oratorios, lieder, chamber music and symphonic works.
Read → 21st CenturyDirk Kaftan
Dirk Kaftan (born 1971) is a German opera and concert conductor. Career Born in Marburg, West Germany, Kaftan grew up in Wittlich and Canada. At the age of 18 he began employment as a repetiteur at
Read → ClassicalDismas Hataš
Dismas Hataš (; 1 December 1724 – 13 October 1777) was a Czech composer and violinist of the early classical period. Life Hataš was born on 1 December 1724 in Vysoké Mýto, to a musical family. Many
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