HA
Composers whose names start with HA.
Hafdís Bjarnadóttir
Hafdís Bjarnadóttir (born 1977) is an Icelandic composer and electric guitarist who gained prominence in 2013 when she was inspired by a knitting pattern for a lace shawl to compose "Thordis’ Fichu".
Read → Post-WarHagood Hardy
Hugh Hagood Hardy, (February 26, 1937 – January 1, 1997) was a Canadian composer, pianist, and vibraphonist. He played mainly jazz and easy listening music. He is best known for the 1975 single, "The
Read → 20th CenturyHaig Gudenian
Hayk Kyutenyan (Armenian: Հայկ Կիւտէնեան), anglicized as Haig Gudenian (19 May 1885 – 12 May 1972), was an Armenian American violinist, composer, and author. He left his home city of Constantinople
Read → Post-WarHaig Mardirosian
Haig Mardirosian (born 1947 in New York City) is Dean Emeritus of the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Tampa, Professor Emeritus at American University in Washington, DC, a concert
Read → 20th CenturyHaim Alexander
Haim Alexander (Hebrew: חיים אלכסנדר; August 9, 1915 – March 18, 2012) an Israeli composer and music educator. Biography Alexander was born in Berlin, Germany on August 9, 1915. He was a student at
Read → 21st CenturyHaim Tukachinsky
Haim Tukachinsky (Also Haim Zimra Tukachinsky ; November 10, 1987 – September 24, 2018) was an Israeli Jewish Orthodox pianist, composer, conductor and musical director. Biography Haim Tukachinsky
Read → Post-WarHåkon Berge
Håkon Berge (born 22 April 1954) is a Norwegian contemporary composer, conductor and arranger. Berge was born in Stavanger. He studied composition at the Music Department at the University of
Read → Late RomanticHakon Børresen
Axel Ejnar Hakon Børresen (2 June 1876 – 6 October 1954) was one of the foremost Danish composers of the 20th century. Life Børresen was born and died in Copenhagen, and was descended from a merchant
Read → EntryHal Beckett
Hal Foxton Beckett is a Canadian composer and music producer. Career Beckett began his musical studies in Halifax, and later moved to Vancouver and attended the University of British Columbia to
Read → Late RomanticHale A. VanderCook
Hale Ascher VanderCook (3 September 1864 – 16 October 1949) was a composer, conductor, and cornetist best known for his marches and brass solos. He was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan and began composing
Read → Post-WarHale Smith
Hale Smith (June 29, 1925 – November 24, 2009) was an American composer, arranger, and pianist. Biography Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he learned piano at an early age and played mellophone in the high
Read → Late RomanticHalfdan Cleve
Halfdan Cleve born Halfdan Klewe (5 October 1879 – 6 April 1951) was a Norwegian composer, and father of the singer and composer Cissi Cleve. Biography Cleve was born and raised in Kongsberg, Norway.
Read → RomanticHalfdan Kjerulf
Halfdan Kjerulf (17 September 181511 August 1868) was a Norwegian composer. Biography Kjerulf was born in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway. He was the son of a high government official. His early
Read → Post-WarHalim El-Dabh
Halim Abdul Messieh El-Dabh (, Ḥalīm ʻAbd al-Masīḥ al-Ḍabʻ; 4 March 1921 – 2 September 2017) was an Egyptian-American composer, musician, ethnomusicologist, and educator, who had a career spanning
Read → Post-WarHalina Harelava
Halina Kanstancinaŭna Harełava, also known as Galina Gorelova (; ; born 5 March 1951), is a Belarusian contemporary composer. Biography Harełava was born in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR (now Belarus), and
Read → 20th CenturyHalsey Stevens
Halsey Stevens (December 3, 1908 – January 20, 1989) was a music professor, biographer, and composer of American music. Life Halsey Stevens was born in Scott, New York and educated at Syracuse
Read → Post-WarHalvor Haug
Halvor Haug (20 February 1952 – 3 June 2025) was a Norwegian composer whose music has been performed internationally and widely recorded. Life and career Born in Trondheim, Haug studied with Kolbjørn
Read → Late RomanticHamilton Harty
Sir Herbert Hamilton Harty (4 December 1879 – 19 February 1941) was an Irish composer, conductor, pianist and organist. After an early career as a church organist in his native Ireland, Harty moved
Read → Late RomanticHamish MacCunn
Hamish MacCunn, né James MacCunn (22 March 18682 August 1916) was a Scottish composer, conductor and teacher. He was one of the first students of the newly founded Royal College of Music in London,
Read → Early RomanticHammamizade İsmail Dede Efendi
Hammamizade İsmail Dede Efendi (9 January 1778 – 29 November 1846) was a composer of Ottoman classical music. Biography He was born on 9 January 1778, at Şehzadebaşı-Fatih in Istanbul, and started
Read → ClassicalHampartsoum Limondjian
Hampartsoum Limondjian (; 1768 – 29 June 1839) was an Ottoman Armenian composer of Armenian church, inclined to composition of classical music and Ottoman classical music. He was a musical theorist
Read → 21st CenturyHanan Ben Ari
Hanan Ben Ari (; born 8 April 1988) is an Israeli singer, songwriter, and composer. His debut album, Izun (Balance), released 21 February 2016, was certified gold in Israel with 15,000 copies sold in
Read → EntryHanan Townshend
Hanan Townshend is a New Zealand-born film composer best known for his work in Terrence Malick films such as The Tree of Life, Knight of Cups, and To the Wonder. Career Townshend was a music licensee
Read → EntryHandel at Cannons
George Frideric Handel was the house composer at Cannons from August 1717 until February 1719. The Chandos Anthems and other important works by Handel were conceived, written or first performed at
Read → EntryHandel Reference Database
The Handel Reference Database (HRD) is the largest documentary collection on George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) and his times. and UCLA's William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (2011–12). HRD is
Read → Late RomanticHanina Karchevsky
Hanina Karchevsky (1877-20 December 1925), was a Jewish composer, conductor and music teacher who became an important figure in the establishment of the musical culture of the pre-state Yishuv and of
Read → Early RomanticHanna Brooman
Johanna Amalia "Hanna" Brooman (; 21 August 1809 – 7 February 1887), was a Swedish composer, translator and educator. She was active as a teacher of the Royal Dramatic Training Academy from 1847
Read → 21st CenturyHanna Hartman
Hanna Hartman (born 1961 in Uppsala, Sweden) is a Swedish composer, sound artist and performer. Biography From 1982 to 1988 Hanna Hartman studied literature and theatre history at the University of
Read → 21st CenturyHanna Havrylets
Hanna Oleksiivna Havrylets (11 April 195827 February 2022, ) was a Ukrainian composer. Biography She was born in , Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR and received her early music education in her
Read → 21st CenturyHanna Kulenty
Hanna Kulenty (born March 18, 1961, in Białystok) is a Polish composer of contemporary classical music. Since 1992, she has worked and lived both in Warsaw (Poland) and in Arnhem (Netherlands).
Read → Post-WarHanna Skalska-Szemioth
Hanna Wanda Skalska-Szemioth (29 April 1921 - 10 April (or 10 May) 1964) was a Polish composer, journalist, and music educator who composed both classical and popular music, often collaborating with
Read → 21st CenturyHannah Kendall
Hannah Kendall (born May 1984 in London) is a British composer currently based in New York. Background and career Kendall grew up in Wembley, where her mother is the head teacher in a primary school.
Read → Post-WarHanne Haller
Hanne Haller (January 14, 1950 in Rendsburg, Germany - November 15, 2005 in Tegernsee, Germany; full name Hannelore Haller) was a German pop singer (genre known as "schlager" in German), composer,
Read → 21st CenturyHannes Löschel
Hannes Löschel (born 1963 in Vienna) is an Austrian composer of avant-garde electronic music. Löschel began playing the piano when he was five years old. Following his music education at the
Read → 21st CenturyHannes Taljaard
Hannes Taljaard, born Daniël Johannes Taljaard (born 1971) is a South African classical music composer from Siloam, Venda. Taljaard's compositions have been performed in South Africa and Europe and
Read → 20th CenturyHanning Schröder
Hanning Schröder (born Hans Schröder; 4 July 1896 – 16 October 1987) was a German composer and violist. From 1927, he worked in Berlin as a violist in orchestras for opera, radio and film, and in the
Read → 20th CenturyHanns Eisler
Hanns Eisler (; 6 July 1898 – 6 September 1962) was an Austrian and German composer. He is best known for composing the national anthem of East Germany, for his long artistic association with Bertolt
Read → 20th CenturyHanns Jelinek
Hanns Jelinek (5 December 1901 – 27 January 1969) was an Austrian composer of Czech descent who is also known under the pseudonyms Hanns Elin, H. J. Hirsch, Jakob Fidelbogen. Biography Jelinek was
Read → 20th CenturyHanns Ludwig Kormann
Hanns Ludwig Kormann (2 April 1889 – 18 February 1965) was a German conductor, composer, and tenor. Biography Born on 2 April 1889, in Leipzig, Kormann began his musical career as a singer, engaged
Read → 20th CenturyHanns Wolf
Hanns Wolf (sometimes incorrectly called Hans Wolf; June 7, 1894 – July 2, 1968) was a post-romantic and modern composer, pianist and music professor. Nearly all his works were destroyed after World
Read → 20th CenturyHanoch Jacoby
Hanoch (Heinrich) Jacoby (; March 2, 1909 – 13 December 1990) was an Israeli composer and viola player. Biography Hanoch Heinrich Jacoby was born on March 2, 1909, in Königsberg, Germany (now
Read → Post-WarHans Abrahamsen
Hans Abrahamsen (born 23 December 1952) is a Danish composer born in Kongens Lyngby near Copenhagen. His Let me tell you (2013), a song cycle for soprano and orchestra, was ranked by music critics at
Read → RomanticHans Balatka
Hans Balatka (March 5, 1827 – April 17, 1899) was an American conductor and composer. His efforts contributed much to the great increase in popularity of European classical music in the United States
Read → 20th CenturyHans Blüher
Hans Blüher (17 February 1888 – 4 February 1955) was a German writer and philosopher. He attained prominence as an early member and "first historian" of the Wandervogel movement. He was aided by his
Read → RomanticHans Bronsart von Schellendorff
Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf (11 February 18303 November 1913) was a classical musician and composer who studied under Franz Liszt. Biography Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf (also called Hans von
Read → 20th CenturyHans Carste
Hans Friedrich August Carste (5 September 1909 in Frankenthal – 11 May 1971 in Bad Wiessee) was a German composer and conductor. He arrived in Berlin in 1931 after working in Vienna and Breslau. He
Read → 20th CenturyHans Chemin-Petit
Hans Helmuth Chemin-Petit (24 July 1902 – 12 April 1981) was a German composer, conductor and music educator. Life Born in Potsdam, the son of and a concert singer studied from 1920 to 1926
Read → RomanticHans Christian Lumbye
Hans Christian Lumbye (; 2 May 1810 – 20 March 1874) was a Danish composer of waltzes, polkas, mazurkas and galops, among other things. Life and career As a child, he studied music in Randers and
Read → 20th CenturyHans Erich Apostel
Hans Erich Apostel (22 January 1901 – 30 November 1972) was a German-born Austrian composer of classical music. Life and career Hans Erich Apostel was born on 22 January 1901 in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Read → Post-WarHans Eugen Frischknecht
Hans Eugen Frischknecht (born 8 May 1939) is a Swiss composer, organist, choral conductor and harpsichordist. Life Born in St. Gallen, Frischknecht graduated from the Swiss Music Pedagogic
Read → 20th CenturyHans Ewald Heller
Hans Ewald Heller (17 April 1894 – 1 October 1966) was an Austrian-American composer, music critic and teacher. Life Heller studied with Camilla Horn and J. B. Foerster and received a doctorates from
Read → 20th CenturyHans Felix Husadel
Hans Felix Husadel (18 May 1897 – 25 July 1964) was a German composer and conductor, particularly noted for modernizing the military band and for his march compositions. Early life Husadel, born in
Read → RenaissanceHans Folz
Hans Folz ( 1437 – January 1513) was a German author of the late medieval early Renaissance period. Folz was born in Worms. He was made a citizen of the city of Nuremberg, Germany in 1459 and master
Read → 20th CenturyHans Friedrich Micheelsen
Hans Friedrich Micheelsen (9 June 1902 – 23 November 1973) was a German composer and church musician. Micheelsen's composition instructors included Paul Kickstat and Paul Hindemith. Micheelsen wrote
Read → Post-WarHans G. Helms
Hans G Helms (8 June 1932 – 11 March 2012) was a German experimental writer, composer, and social and economic analyst and critic. Life Helms was born in Teterow into a Jewish family, who were able
Read → 20th CenturyHans Gahlenbeck
Hans Gahlenbeck (27 September 1896 − 10 December 1975) was a German conductor and Generalmusikdirektor (GMD). Life Born in Rostock, from 1926 to 1928 Gahlenbeck was artistic director of the
Read → 20th CenturyHans Gál
Hans Gál OBE (5 August 1890 – 3 October 1987) was an Austrian composer, pedagogue, musicologist, and author, who emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1938. Life Gál was born to a Jewish family in the
Read → Post-WarHans Haselböck
Johann Haselböck (26 July 1928 – 20 October 2021) was an Austrian organist, composer, author and academic teacher. He was organist at the Dominican Church, Vienna, for 65 years, and was professor of
Read → 20th CenturyHans Heinz Stuckenschmidt
Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt (1 November 1901 – 15 August 1988) was a German composer, musicologist, and historian and critic of music. Life Stuckenschmidt was born in Strasbourg. At as early an age as
Read → Late RomanticHans Huber (composer)
Hans Huber (28 June 185225 December 1921) was a Swiss composer. Between 1894 and 1918, he composed five operas. He also wrote a set of 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 100, for piano four-hands in all
Read → 20th CenturyHans Jürgen von der Wense
Hans Jürgen von der Wense (10 November 1894 – 9 November 1966) was a German poet, composer, photographer, aphorist and hiker. Life Wense was born in Ortelsburg, then in East Prussia but today
Read → RenaissanceHans Kotter
Hans Kotter, sometimes given as Hans Cotter, Hans Kotterer, or Hans Kotther, (1480–1541) was a German composer and organist of the Renaissance. Although organ music was not popular or
Read → 20th CenturyHans Lang (Austrian composer)
Hans Lang (5 July 1908, in Vienna – 28 January 1992, in Vienna) was an Austrian composer of light music, film music and Viennese songs. He wrote one operetta, the musikalisches Lustspiel, Lisa,
Read → RenaissanceHans Leo Hassler
Hans Leo Hassler (in German, Hans Leo Haßler) (baptised 26 October 1564 – 8 June 1612) was a German composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, elder brother of lesser known
Read → Post-WarHans Leygraf
Hans Leygraf (7 September 1920 – 12 February 2011 ) was a Swedish pianist, music educator, conductor and composer. Life Born in Stockholm, Leygraf studied piano with in Stockholm and Anna
Read → RenaissanceHans Neusidler
Hans Neusidler (also Neusiedler, Newsidler) (c.1508 – 2 February 1563), was a German composer and lutenist of the Renaissance. Life Neusidler was born in Pressburg (today Bratislava, Slovakia) and
Read → Post-WarHans Otte
Hans Günther Franz Otte (3 December 1926 – 25 December 2007) was a German composer, pianist, radio promoter, and author of many pieces of musical theatre, sound installations, poems, drawings and
Read → 21st CenturyHans Peter Ströer
Hans Peter Ströer (born 1956) in Munich is a German jazz musician and composer. Life and career At the age of seven, Ströer was already composing his own rock 'n' roll pieces on the guitar, and at
Read → Late RomanticHans Pfitzner
Hans Erich Pfitzner (5 May 1869 – 22 May 1949) was a Russian-born German composer, conductor and polemicist who was a self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera
Read → 20th CenturyHans Redlich
Hans Ferdinand Redlich (11 February 1903 – 27 November 1968) was an Austrian musicologist, writer, conductor and composer who, due to political disruption by the Nazi Party, lived and worked in
Read → Late RomanticHans Rott
Johann Nepomuk Karl Maria Rott (1 August 1858 – 25 June 1884) was an Austrian composer and organist. His music is little-known today, though he received high praise in his time from Gustav Mahler and
Read → RenaissanceHans Sachs
Hans Sachs (5 November 1494 – 19 January 1576) was a German Meistersinger ("mastersinger"), poet, playwright, and shoemaker. Biography Hans Sachs was born in Nuremberg (). As a child he attended a
Read → 20th CenturyHans Schimmerling
Hans Schimmerling (born Hanus Aldo Schimmerling; 5 September 1900 – 19 October 1967) was a Czech-American pianist, composer, teacher, musicologist and writer. Life and education Schimmerling was born
Read → RomanticHans Schläger
Hans (Johann) Schläger (5 December 1820 – 17 May 1885) was an Austrian conductor and composer, important in the musical life of Salzburg in the 1860s. He was particularly involved in choral music.
Read → Late RomanticHans Sitt
Hans Sitt (born Jan Hanuš Sitt on 21 September 1850, Prague – 10 March 1922, Leipzig), was a Bohemian violinist, violist, teacher, and composer. During his lifetime, he was regarded as one of the
Read → RomanticHans Sommer (composer)
Hans Sommer (born 20 July 1837 in Braunschweig (Brunswick) – 26 April 1922 in Braunschweig) was a German composer and mathematician. Sommer was born Hans Friedrich August Zincke in Braunschweig in
Read → 20th CenturyHans Spialek
Hans Spialek (April 17, 1894 – November 20, 1983) was an Austrian-born American composer and orchestrator. Raised in Vienna and given an early musical education, he continued his studies in Moscow,
Read → Post-WarHans Stadlmair
Hans Stadlmair (3 May 1929 – 13 February 2019) was an Austrian conductor and composer. He conducted the Münchener Kammerorchester for almost four decades. He conducted more than 6000 concerts, many
Read → 21st CenturyHans Thomalla
Hans Thomalla (, born 1975) is a German-American composer, who has resided in the United States since 2002. Career Hans Thomalla was born in Bonn, and studied composition at the Frankfurt University
Read → Post-WarHans Ulrich Engelmann
Hans Ulrich Engelmann (8 September 1921 in Darmstadt - 8 January 2011) was a German composer. Biography Engelmann studied composition with Hermann Heiss and Wolfgang Fortner. He was a regular
Read → 20th CenturyHans Ulrich Staeps
Hans Ulrich Staeps (1909–1988) was a German composer, music professor and professional recorder player. Staeps was born in Dortmund and was a professor at the Vienna Conservatory from 1940–1975. He
Read → Post-WarHans Uwe Hielscher
Hans Uwe Hielscher (born 1945) is a German organist and composer. He was organist and carillonneur at the Marktkirche in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany, from 1979 to 2009, and has played internationally
Read → 20th CenturyHans Vogt (composer)
Hans Vogt (14 May 1911 – 19 May 1992) was a German composer and conductor. Career Born in Danzig, Vogt studied with Georg Schumann and Otto Frickhoeffer at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin from 1929
Read → RomanticHans von Bülow
Freiherr Hans Guido von Bülow (; 8 January 1830 – 12 February 1894) was a German conductor, pianist, and composer of the Romantic era. As one of the most distinguished conductors of the 19th century,
Read → Late RomanticHans von Koessler
Hans von Koessler (1 January 1853 – 23 May 1926) was a German composer, conductor and music teacher. In Hungary, where he worked for 26 years, he was known as János Koessler. Biography Koessler, a
Read → 20th CenturyHans Weisbach
Hans Edgar Weisbach (19 July 1885 – 23 April 1961) was a German conductor and pianist. Life Born in Głogów, Silesia, Weisbach came from a family of soldiers. Already from the age of seven he received
Read → Post-WarHans Werner Henze
Hans Werner Henze (1 July 1926 – 27 October 2012) was a German composer. His large oeuvre is extremely varied in style, having been influenced by serialism, atonality, Neoclassicism, Italian music,
Read → Post-WarHans Zender
Johannes Wolfgang Zender (22 November 1936 – 22 October 2019) was a German conductor and composer. He was the chief conductor of several opera houses, and his compositions, many of them vocal music,
Read → Post-WarHans-Christian Bartel
Hans-Christian Bartel (born 27 November 1932 − 27 December 2014) was a German violist and composer. Life Born in Altenburg, Bartel was the son of a teacher. He got his first violin lessons at the age
Read → Post-WarHans-Christian von Dadelsen
Hans-Christian von Dadelsen (born 4 December 1948) is a German composer and music writer. He is the son of the musicologist Georg von Dadelsen and journalist Dorothee von Dadelsen. Life Born in
Read → Post-WarHans-Joachim Hespos
Hans-Joachim Hespos (13 March 1938 – 18 July 2022) was a German composer of avant-garde music. He was trained as a teacher and worked until 1984. Self-taught as a composer, he then worked freelance
Read → 21st CenturyHans-Joachim Hessler
Hans-Joachim Hessler (German: Heßler, born in Recklinghausen) is a German composer, musician and musicologist. Today, he lives in Duisburg and Diemelsee. As a contemporary composer, he attributes his
Read → 20th CenturyHans-Joachim Koellreutter
Hans-Joachim Koellreutter (2 September 1915 – 13 September 2005) was a Brazilian composer, teacher and musicologist. Koellreutter was born in Freiburg, Germany and lived in Brazil from 1937 onward,
Read → Post-WarHans-Jürgen Hufeisen
Hans-Jürgen Hufeisen (born 10 February 1954) is a German recorder player and composer. Life Horseshoe was born in a hotel room in ). His mother, a travelling saleswoman from the Allgäu, had kept the
Read → Post-WarHans-Jürgen von Bose
Hans-Jürgen von Bose (born 24 December 1953) is a German composer. Life After an unsettled adolescence, Bose entered the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt in 1969, where he received instruction in piano
Read → Post-WarHans-Ludwig Schilling
Hans-Ludwig Schilling (9 March 1927 – 18 August 2012) was a German composer and music educator. Life Born in Mayen, Schilling was musically instructed from early childhood on by his grandfather
Read → 20th CenturyHans-Martin Majewski
Hans-Martin Majewski (14 January 1911 – 1 January 1997) was a German composer of film scores. Selected filmography References Bibliography * Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise
Read → 21st CenturyHans-Ola Ericsson
Hans-Ola Ericsson (born 1958 in Stockholm) is a Swedish organist, composer, pedagogue, and visual artist. Career Ericsson studied church music at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, and
Read → 20th CenturyHans-Otto Borgmann
Hans-Otto Borgmann (20 October 1901 – 26 July 1977) was a German film music composer during the Third Reich. He joined UFA as a silent film music conductor in 1928, and became head composer by 1931.
Read → 21st CenturyHanspeter Kyburz
Hanspeter Kyburz (born 8 July 1960) is a contemporary Swiss composer of classical music, known for applying electronic music techniques to his productions. Career Kyburz was born in Lagos, Nigeria to
Read → Post-WarHarald Feller (organist)
Harald Feller (born 1951 in Munich) Feller can boast international concert activity and CD and radio recordings. He recorded the organ parts for the film Brother of Sleep. Awards * Stipendium der
Read → Late RomanticHarald Fryklöf
Harald Leonard Fryklöf (14 September 188211 March 1919) was a Swedish composer, music teacher, and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. The music he wrote was in a Late Romantic style. At
Read → 20th CenturyHarald Genzmer
Harald Genzmer (9 February 1909 – 16 December 2007) was a German composer of classical music and an academic. Biography The son of the legal historian , Genzmer was born in Blumenthal, near Kiel,
Read → Late RomanticHarald Heide
Harald Heide (March 8, 1876 – January 27, 1956) was a Norwegian violinist, conductor, and composer. Heide was born in Fredrikstad, the son of the violin-maker Johan Albert Heide (1847–1925). followed
Read → Post-WarHaralds Sīmanis
Haralds Sīmanis (12 June 1951 – 1 December 2022) was a Latvian singer and composer. Biography Sīmanis was born in Cēsis to a mixed Latvian-Romani family. He did not receive a musical education but
Read → 21st CenturyHaraldur Vignir Sveinbjörnsson
Haraldur Vignir Sveinbjörnsson (born 1975) is an Icelandic composer and arranger. Education He studied piano with Árni Harðarson at the Kopavogur Music School where he graduated in 1997. He finished
Read → 20th CenturyHarcourt Whyte
Ikoli Harcourt-Whyte (; 19051977), popularly known as Harcourt Whyte, was a Nigerian composer best remembered for his classic hymn "Atula Egwu." Life Ikoli was born in Abonnema in the old Niger Delta
Read → ClassicalHardenack Otto Conrad Zinck
Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck (also: Hartenack; 2 July 1746 in Husum – 15 February 1832 in Copenhagen) was a German-Danish composer. Early years At the age of 5, the young Otto performed for King
Read → 20th CenturyHarilaos Perpessas
Harilaos Perpessas (Greek: Χαρίλαος Περπέσσας) (10 May 1907 — 19 October 1995) was a Greek-German composer of the Postmodern period. Life and career Born to Greek parents in Leipzig, he moved to
Read → 20th CenturyHarl McDonald
Harl McDonald (July 27, 1899 – March 30, 1955) was an American composer, conductor, pianist and teacher. McDonald was born in Boulder, Colorado, and studied at the University of California, Berkeley,
Read → Post-WarHarley Gaber
Harley Gaber (June 5, 1943 – June 16, 2011) was a visual artist and composer known for his minimalist and spectral approaches to time and sound. With his emphasis on quiet sustained sonorities and
Read → Post-WarHarold Blumenfeld
Murray Harold Blumenfeld (October 15, 1923 – November 1, 2014) was an American classical composer. He wrote over thirty musical compositions. He was also a conductor, a music critic, and an educator,
Read → Post-WarHarold Boatrite
Harold Boatrite (April 2, 1932 – April 26, 2021) was an American composer. After early studies with Stanley Hollingsworth, Harold Boatrite was awarded a fellowship to the Tanglewood Music Center
Read → Post-WarHarold Budd
Harold Montgomory Budd (May 24, 1936 – December 8, 2020) was an American composer and poet. Born in Los Angeles and raised in the Mojave Desert, he became a respected composer in the minimal music
Read → 20th CenturyHarold Craxton
Thomas Harold Hunt Craxton (30 April 188530 March 1971) was an English pianist, teacher and composer. Early life Born in London, and growing up in Devizes, Craxton began studying piano with Tobias
Read → 20th CenturyHarold Gramatges
Harold Gramatges (26 September 1918 – 16 December 2008) was a Cuban composer, pianist, and teacher. Gramatges was born in Santiago, Cuba. In 1941, he entered the conservatory in Santiago de Cuba to
Read → 20th CenturyHarold L. Walters
Harold Laurence Walters (September 29, 1918 — October 22, 1984) was an American composer. He also used the pseudonym Fred L. Frank. Walters began taking music lessons and playing cornet at the age of
Read → 20th CenturyHarold Levey
Harold Levey (17 June 1894, New York City – 18 June 1967, New York City) was an American composer, lyricist, arranger, orchestrator, clarinetist, and conductor. He is best remembered for composing
Read → 21st CenturyHarold Meltzer
Harold Meltzer (June 8, 1966 – August 12, 2024) was an American composer. Meltzer was inspired by a wide variety of stimuli, from architectural spaces to postmodern fairy tales and messages inscribed
Read → 20th CenturyHarold Morris (composer)
Harold Cecil Morris (March 17, 1890 – May 6, 1964) was an American pianist, composer and educator. Morris was born in San Antonio, Texas. He graduated from the University of Texas in 1910 and
Read → Post-WarHarold Shapero
Harold Samuel Shapero (April 29, 1920 – May 17, 2013) was an American composer. Early years Shapero was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, on April 29, 1920. He and his family later moved to nearby Newton.
Read → 20th CenturyHarold Van Heuvelen
Harold John Van Heuvelen (March 30, 1919 – April 26, 2017) was an American composer and musician known principally for his Symphony No. 1 (opus 7), which was composed during World War II and which
Read → 20th CenturyHarold Vincent Milligan
Harold Vincent Milligan was an American professional musician and musical writer. He is best known for his biography about the life of Stephen Foster. Early life His first public performance was at
Read → Post-WarHarper MacKay
Harper MacKay (October 13, 1921 — June 2, 1995 ) was an American pianist, music director, and composer and arranger of music for television and film. He was the longtime music director of the Los
Read → 20th CenturyHarriet Bolz
Harriet Seymour Hallock Bolz (November 24, 1909 – March 9, 1995) was an American composer based in Ohio. Early life and education Harriet Seymour Hallock was born in Columbus, Ohio, the daughter of
Read → Late RomanticHarriet P. Sawyer
Harriet Priscilla Sawyer Achorn (11 November 1862 – 20 May 1934) was an American composer who wrote mostly songs and some educational pieces for children. She was also known as Hattie, and published
Read → Post-WarHarriet Padberg
Harriet Padberg, RSCJ was an American mathematician, composer, music therapist, and Catholic religious sister. She was a pioneer in the music therapy field, and also held significant contributions in
Read → Early RomanticHarriet Wainwright
Harriet Wainwright Stewart (c. 1766–1843) was a British composer, singer, and writer. A musical entrepreneur, she developed a subscription list of several hundred people and sold at least two of her
Read → Late RomanticHarriet Ware (composer)
Harriet Ware (August 26, 1877 – February 9, 1962) was an American composer, pianist, and music educator. Early life Harriet Ware was born in Waupun, Wisconsin, the daughter of Silas Edward Ware and
Read → Post-WarHarrison Birtwistle
Sir Harrison Birtwistle (15 July 1934 – 18 April 2022) was an English composer of contemporary classical music best known for his operas, often based on mythological subjects. Among his many
Read → 20th CenturyHarry Archer (composer)
Harry Archer (February 21, 1888 – April 23, 1960) was an American composer and orchestra leader. He is best remembered for six Broadway shows from the 2nd and 3rd decades of the 20th-century, but
Read → Post-WarHarry Bannink
Harry Bannink (10 April 1929, Enschede – 19 October 1999, Bosch en Duin) was a Dutch composer, arranger and pianist. He wrote over 3,000 songs. Bannink studied at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague,
Read → Late RomanticHarry Burleigh
Harry Burleigh (born Henry Thacker Burleigh, December 2, 1866 – September 12, 1949) was an American classical composer, arranger, and professional singer known for his baritone voice. The first black
Read → Late RomanticHarry Dean (musician)
Harry Dean (22 February 1879 – 30 October 1955) was a Canadian conductor, pianist, organist, and music educator of English birth. He was a particularly influential figure within the field of music
Read → 21st CenturyHarry Escott
Harry Escott (born 9 September 1976) is a British composer living in London. He has composed the scores to several films, including Shame (2011), Hard Candy (2005), A Mighty Heart (2007), and Ali &
Read → Late RomanticHarry Farjeon
Harry Farjeon (6 May 1878 – 29 December 1948) was a British composer and an influential teacher of harmony and composition at the Royal Academy of Music for more than 45 years. Early life and studies
Read → Post-WarHarry Freedman
Harry Freedman, (; April 5, 1922 – September 16, 2005) was a Canadian composer, English hornist and teacher. He wrote a range of orchestral works including the scores to films such as The Bloody
Read → 20th CenturyHarry Partch
Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of unique musical instruments. He composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation,
Read → Late RomanticHarry Rowe Shelley
Harry Rowe Shelley (June 8, 1858 – September 12, 1947) was an American composer, organist (church and concert), and professor of music. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Shelley studied with Gustave J.
Read → Post-WarHarry Somers
Harry Stewart Somers, CC (September 11, 1925 – March 9, 1999) was a contemporary Canadian composer. Somers earned the unofficial title of "Darling of Canadian Composition." He was a founding member
Read → 21st CenturyHarry Stafylakis
Haralabos "Harry" Stafylakis (born 1982) is a Canadian-American composer, guitarist, and educator based in New York City. He is the Composer-in-Residence of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and
Read → Post-WarHarry Thumann
Harry Thumann (28 February 1952 – 2001) was a German electronic composer, record producer and sound engineer. He designed and built synthesizers and studio equipment. Early life and career Born
Read → 21st CenturyHarry Vetro
Harry Vetro (born August 28, 1995) is a Canadian drummer and composer. He has recording credits with such Canadian jazz players as Mike Murley and Steve Wallace. Vetro has received multiple grants
Read → 21st CenturyHarrysong
Harrison Tare Okiri (born 30 March 1981) better known by his stage name Harrysong, is a Nigerian singer, songwriter and instrumentalist who rose to fame after his tribute song to Nelson Mandela won
Read → Late RomanticHartmann von An der Lan-Hochbrunn
Hartmann von An der Lan-Hochbrunn (21 December 1863 – 6 December 1914) was an Austrian Catholic priest, composer, organist, and conductor. Life He was born Paul Eugen Josef von An der Lan-Hochbrunn
Read → EntryHaruka Nakamura (composer)
Haruka Nakamura, (stylized haruka nakamura) is a Japanese composer, producer, pianist, and guitarist who lives in Tokyo. Across his music career, Nakamura has worked with the likes of Nujabes, Aimer,
Read → Post-WarHaruna Miyake
is a Japanese pianist and composer, who also uses the name Haruna Shibata. She was born in Tokyo and studied music there, making her debut as a pianist at age 14 playing Mozart with the Tokyo
Read → 20th CenturyHarutyun Hanesyan
Harutyun Hanesyan (; December 30, 1911 – March 7, 1987) was a Turkish violist and composer. He was Armenian by ethnicity. Biography Hanesyan was born on December 30, 1911, in Istanbul in the Ottoman
Read → RomanticHarvey B. Dodworth
Harvey B. Dodworth (November 16, 1822 – January 24, 1891) was a bandmaster and conductor of the 13th Regiment Band as well as the Dodworth Band, and was the first person in the United States to
Read → 21st CenturyHarvey J. Stokes
Harvey J. Stokes (born 1957) is an American composer and oboist. As of 2020, he is Professor of Music at Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia, where he founded and directs a Computer Music
Read → 20th CenturyHarvey Samuel Whistler
Harvey Samuel Whistler Jr. (September 7, 1907 – March 17, 1976) was an American violinist, editor, arranger, and composer of educational music studies for studio, homogenous, and heterogeneous class
Read → Post-WarHarvey Sollberger
Harvey Sollberger (born May 11, 1938 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa) is an American composer, flutist, and conductor specializing in contemporary classical music. Life Sollberger holds an M.A. degree from
Read → 20th CenturyHasan Rashid
Hasan Ahmad Rashid (: also spelled Hassan Rasheed; July 10, 1896 – May 25, 1969) was an Egyptian composer and operatic baritone. He was part of Egypt's first generation of classical composers.
Read → Post-WarHasen Qojahmetov
Hasen Káripjanuly Qojahmetov (; born 9 August 1949) is a Kazakh political activist, composer, journalist, member of the Writers Union of Kazakhstan, and a participant in the 1986 Jeltoqsan uprising.
Read → 20th CenturyHashimoto Kunihiko
(September 14, 1904 – May 6, 1949) was a Japanese composer, violinist, conductor, and musical educator. Biography Hashimoto was born in the Hongō district of Tokyo. In 1923, he entered the Tokyo
Read → 21st CenturyHauke Harder
Hauke Harder (born 1963 in Heide (Holstein), Germany) is a German composer and experimental physicist. Life Harder received a PhD in chemistry, and works at the Institute for Physical Chemistry,
Read → Early RomanticHåvard Gibøen
Håvard Gibøen (2 March 1809 – 27 July 1873) was a Norwegian fiddler and composer, born on the municipality of Møsstrond, in Telemark. The area is a part of Tinn today. Among his folk tunes are
Read → 21st CenturyHåvard Jørgensen
Håvard Jørgensen (born 26 September 1975), also known as Haavard, Lemarchand, is a songwriter, guitarist and vocalist. He was the original guitarist of the Norwegian black metal bands Satyricon and
Read → Late RomanticHavergal Brian
William Havergal Brian (29 January 187628 November 1972) was an English composer, librettist, and church organist. He is best known for having composed 32 symphonies—an unusually high number amongst
Read → Late RomanticHaydn Wood
Haydn Wood (25 March 1882 – 11 March 1959) was a 20th-century English composer and concert violinist, best known for his 200 or so ballad style songs, including the popular Roses of Picardy. while
Read → EntryHaydn's birthplace
Haydn's birthplace is in Rohrau in Lower Austria. The composer Joseph Haydn was born here in 1732. Today it is a museum. History The farmhouse was built about 1728 by Matthias Haydn, a wheelwright
Read → EntryHaydn's name
The name of the composer Joseph Haydn had many forms, following customs of naming prevalent in his time. Baptismal names and the use of "Franz" Haydn was baptized shortly after his birth, on 1 April
Read → Post-WarHayg Boyadjian
Hayg Boyadjian (born 1938) is an American composer of classical music whose work includes art song, chamber music and symphonies. Solo recordings of his compositions have been released by Opus One
Read → RenaissanceHayne van Ghizeghem
Hayne van Ghizeghem ( 1445 – from 1472 to 1497) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the early Renaissance Burgundian School. While many of his works have survived, little is known about his life. He was
Read → 20th CenturyHazel Volkart
Hazel O. Cline Volkart (20 May 1907 – 21 May 1985) was an American composer, music educator, and pianist. Volkart studied music at the Oklahoma College for Women, the Kansas City Conservatory, the
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