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Composers whose names start with JO.
J. Ord Hume
Lieutenant James Ord Hume (14 September 1864 – 25 November 1932) was an English musician, remembered as a composer and arranger for brass bands, but in his time noted as a conductor and judge in
Read → 21st CenturyJo Blankenburg
Jo Blankenburg is a German composer based in Los Angeles. He writes music for film and motion picture advertising. His primary musical instrument is the piano. He was trained to play organ. Personal
Read → Post-WarJō Kondō
Jō Kondō (近藤譲; surname Kondō; born 28 October 1947 in Tokyo) is a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music. Kondo studied composition from 1968 to 1972 with Yoshio Hasegawa and Hiroaki
Read → 21st CenturyJo Yeong-wook
Jo Yeong-wook (, occasionally romanized as Cho Young-wuk; born January 1, 1962) is a South Korean film score composer and music director. He is most widely known for his collaborations with director
Read → RomanticJoachim Andersen (composer)
Carl Joachim Andersen (29 April 1847 – 7 May 1909) was a Danish flutist, conductor and composer born in Copenhagen, son of the flutist Christian Joachim Andersen. Both as a virtuoso and as composer
Read → RenaissanceJoachim Burmeister
Joachim Burmeister (1564 in Lüneburg – 5 May 1629 in Rostock) was a German composer, cantor, and music theorist active in northern Germany during the late Renaissance. He is noted for his writings on
Read → Post-WarJoachim Montagne
Joachim Louis-Paul Havard de la Montagne (30 November 1927 – 1 October 2003) was a French composer, organist and choral director. Life Joachim Havard de la Montagne was the son of French parents;
Read → BaroqueJoachim Neander
Joachim Neander (165031 May 1680) was a German Calvinist teacher, theologian and hymnwriter whose most famous hymn is Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of Creation (). The hymn has been
Read → Late RomanticJoachim Neergaard
Joachim Bruun Neergaard (27 April 1877 – 31 October 1920) was a Danish composer and pianist. As a composer he wrote works for violin, piano, and orchestral pieces. Neergaard produced fewer than 30
Read → Early RomanticJoachim Nicolas Eggert
Joachim Nicolas Eggert (22 February 1779 – 14 April 1813) was a Swedish composer and musical director. Eggert was born in Gingst on Rügen, at that time part of Swedish Pommern. At a very young age he
Read → 21st CenturyJoachim Raabe
Joachim Raabe (born 1974) is a German church musician and a composer of sacred music, especially of the genre Neues Geistliches Lied. Career Born in Haiger, Raabe studied church music from 1997 to
Read → RomanticJoachim Raff
Joseph Joachim Raff (27 May 182224 or 25 June 1882) was a Swiss composer, pedagogue and pianist. Biography Raff was born in Lachen in Switzerland. His father, a teacher, had fled there from
Read → RenaissanceJoachim Thibault de Courville
Joachim Thibault de Courville (died 1581) was a French composer, singer, lutenist, and player of the lyre, of the late Renaissance. He was a close associate of poet Jean Antoine de Baïf, and with
Read → 20th CenturyJoachim Ulric Voyer
Joachim Ulric Voyer (5 July 1892 – 8 January 1935) was a Canadian opera composer. His L'Intendant Bigot, created in Montreal in 1929, was one of the first Canadian operas. Early life J.-Ulric Voyer
Read → RenaissanceJoachim van den Hove
Joachim van den Hove (1567? – 1620) was a Flemish/Dutch composer and a lutenist. He composed works for lute solo and for lute and voice. Moreover, he wrote many arrangements for lute of Italian,
Read → RenaissanceJoan Ambrosio Dalza
Joan Ambrosio Dalza (fl. 1508) was a Milanese lutenist and composer. His surviving works comprise the fourth volume of Ottaviano Petrucci's influential series of lute music publications, Intabolatura
Read → RenaissanceJoan Brudieu
Joan Brudieu (; 1520–1591) was a French-Catalan composer. Brudieu was born around 1520 in the diocese of Limoges and died in la Seu d'Urgell in 1591, after spending most of his life in the Aragonese
Read → Post-WarJoan Franks Williams
Joan Franks Williams (April 1, 1930 – January 30, 2003) was an American composer. Life Joan Franks Williams was born in Brooklyn, on April 1, 1930 to her father, Harold Franks, and her mother. Both
Read → Post-WarJoan La Barbara
Joan Linda Lotz La Barbara (born June 8, 1947) is an American vocalist and composer known for her explorations of non-conventional or "extended" vocal techniques. Considered to be a vocal virtuoso in
Read → 21st CenturyJoan Magrané Figuera
Joan Magrané Figuera (born in 1988, Reus) is a Spanish composer. Biography Joan Magrané Figuera started to study composition with Ramon Humet. Subsequently, he studied at Esmuc in Barcelona with
Read → 20th CenturyJoan Mary Last
Joan Mary Last (12 January 1908 – 9 October 2002) was an English music educator, author and composer born in Littlehampton, Sussex. She studied piano with Mathilde Verne and York Bowen, making her
Read → RenaissanceJoan Pau Pujol
Joan Pau Pujol (; baptized 18 June 1570 – 17 May 1626) was a Catalan and Spanish composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque. While best known for his sacred music, he also wrote
Read → 21st CenturyJoan Szymko
Joan Szymko (born 1957) is an American choral conductor, music educator and composer. She was born in Chicago and studied choral conducting and music education at the University of Illinois
Read → Post-WarJoan Tower
Joan Tower (born September 6, 1938) is a Grammy-winning contemporary American composer, concert pianist, and conductor. Her work has been performed worldwide. Since gaining recognition for her first
Read → 20th CenturyJoan Trimble
Joan Trimble (18 June 1915 – 6 August 2000) was an Irish composer and pianist from Ulster. She studied at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music in London, and she and her
Read → Post-WarJoanna Brouk
Joanna Brouk (February 20, 1949 – April 28, 2017) was an American electronic composer, author, and playwright who was active in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Early life Brouk grew up in St. Louis,
Read → 21st CenturyJoanna Marsh
Joanna Marsh (born 1970) is a British composer of choral and orchestral works, who has lived in Dubai since 2007. Life and career Marsh studied composition with Richard Blackford and Judith Bingham.
Read → 21st CenturyJoanne Metcalf
Joanne Metcalf (born 1958) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. Best known for her choral music, she has worked closely with the Hilliard Ensemble and Singer Pur, among other
Read → BaroqueJoannes Baptista Dolar
Joannes Baptista Dolar ( or Janez Kersnik Dolar, , also Tollar or Thollary; 1620, Kamnik – February 13, 1673, Vienna) was a composer and contemporary of Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Johann
Read → ClassicalJoão de Sousa Carvalho
João de Sousa Carvalho (22 February 1745c. 1798) was the foremost Portuguese composer of his generation. Born in Estremoz, he studied music from 1753 at the Colégio dos Santos Reis in Vila Viçosa,
Read → Early RomanticJoão Domingos Bomtempo
João Domingos Bomtempo (; also Buontempo; Lisbon, 28 December 1775 – Lisbon, 18 August 1842) was a Portuguese classical pianist, composer and pedagogue. Biography Bomtempo was the son of an Italian
Read → 21st CenturyJoão Guilherme Ripper
João Guilherme Ripper (born 1959 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian composer and conductor. João Guilherme Ripper is a composer, conductor, cultural manager and professor at the School of Music of the
Read → BaroqueJoão Lourenço Rebelo
João Lourenço Rebelo, or João Soares Rebelo (1610 – 16 November 1661) was the only Portuguese composer to adopt the Venetian polychoral style. Despite his closeness to King John IV of Portugal
Read → 21st CenturyJoão MacDowell
João MacDowell (born 1965) is a Brazilian composer known for fusing contemporary and popular styles with classical music. His work includes opera, symphonic, chamber music, and early albums of
Read → RomanticJoaquín Gaztambide
Joaquín Romualdo Gaztambide y Garbayo (7 February 1822 in Tudela, Navarre – 18 March 1870 in Madrid) was one of the most prominent Spanish composers of zarzuela in the mid-nineteenth century. His
Read → 20th CenturyJoaquín Pardavé
Joaquín Pardavé Arce (30 September 1900 – 20 July 1955) was a Mexican film actor, director, songwriter and screenwriter of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. He was best known for starring and
Read → 20th CenturyJoaquín Rodrigo
Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre, 1st Marquess of the Gardens of Aranjuez (; 22 November 1901 – 6 July 1999), was a Spanish composer and a virtuoso pianist. He is best known for composing the Concierto de
Read → Late RomanticJoaquín Turina
Joaquín Turina Pérez (9 December 188214 January 1949) was a Spanish composer of classical music. Biography Turina was born in Seville. He studied in Seville as well as in Madrid. He lived in Paris
Read → 21st CenturyJoby Talbot
Joby Talbot (born 25 August 1971) is a British composer. He has written for a wide variety of purposes, with a broad range of styles, including instrumental and vocal concert music, film and
Read → 21st CenturyJocelyn Morlock
Jocelyn Morlock (14 December 1969 – 27 March 2023) was a Canadian composer and music educator based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her piece My Name is Amanda Todd won the 2018 Juno Award for
Read → Post-WarJocelyne Binet
Jocelyne Binet (27 September 1923 – 13 January 1968) was a Canadian composer, pianist, and music educator. She studied in Montreal and Paris, France, and returned to compose and teach music in
Read → Post-WarJocy de Oliveira
Jocy de Oliveira (formerly de Carvalho; born 11 April 1936) is a Brazilian pianist, multimedia artist and composer. Biography Jocy de Oliveira was born in Curitiba and grew up in São Paulo, Brazil.
Read → Post-WarJody Diamond
Jody Diamond (born Pasadena, California, April 23, 1953) is an American composer, performer, writer, publisher, editor, and educator. She specializes in traditional and new music for Indonesian
Read → 21st CenturyJoe Cutler
Joe Cutler (born London, 17 December 1968) is a British composer who grew up in Neasden and studied music at the Universities of Huddersfield and Durham, before receiving a Polish Government
Read → Post-WarJoe Hisaishi
, known professionally as , is a Japanese composer, musical director, conductor and pianist, known for over 100 film scores and solo albums dating back to 1981. Hisaishi's music has been known to
Read → 21st CenturyJoe Kraemer (composer)
Joe Kraemer (born June 21, 1971) is an American composer and conductor of film and television scores. He has worked with director Christopher McQuarrie several times -- The Way of the Gun (2000),
Read → Post-WarJoe Maneri
Joseph Gabriel Esther Maneri (February 9, 1927 – August 24, 2009) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. Violinist Mat Maneri is his son. He has performed with his son, Mat,
Read → Post-WarJoe Sample
Joseph Leslie Sample (February 1, 1939 – September 12, 2014) in emulation of one of the leading progressive jazz bands of the day, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. Sample never took a degree from the
Read → Late RomanticJoe Slater (composer)
John Joseph Slater (1872- 16 May 1926) was an Australian composer of popular and light classical works. He operated a music publishing company in Leichardt and blended his product with sheet music
Read → Post-WarJoe Vannelli
Joe Vannelli (born 28 December 1950) is a Canadian musician, composer and record producer. He is credited on most records of his brother, Gino Vannelli, and in collaboration with youngest brother
Read → EntryJoel Corelitz
Joel Corelitz is an American composer and sound designer. He is best known for his work on The Unfinished Swan which garnered him a BAFTA nomination for Best Music. His other works include Gorogoa,
Read → Late RomanticJoel Engel (composer)
Joel Engel (also Yoel or Yury; ; 28 April 1868 – 11 February 1927) was a Russian music critic, composer and one of the leading figures in the Jewish art music movement. Born in the Russian Empire,
Read → 21st CenturyJoel Fausto
Joel Ferreira Figueiredo (born 9 May 1988), better known by Joel Fausto, is a Portuguese musician, songwriter, composer and record producer. He is known as the frontman of Joel Fausto & Illusion
Read → Post-WarJoel Hoffman (composer)
Joel Hoffman (born 1953 in Vancouver) is a Canadian/American composer of contemporary classical music and pianist living in New York, New York. Hoffman's music draws much of its richness and variety
Read → Post-WarJoel Mandelbaum
Mayer Joel Mandelbaum (born October 12, 1932) is an American music composer and teacher, best known for his use of microtonal tuning (notably just intonation and 19 equal temperament and the 31 equal
Read → 21st CenturyJoel Puckett
Joel Puckett (born in 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American composer. Joel completed his academic work at the University of Michigan, earning both a Masters of Music and a Doctorate of Musical
Read → Post-WarJoel Thome
Joel Thome (born in Detroit, Michigan) is the conductor and artistic director of Orchestra of Our Time. A Grammy Award recipient, Thome has been acclaimed internationally as an accomplished conductor
Read → Post-WarJoël-François Durand
Joël-François Durand (born 17 September 1954) is a French composer. Biography Born in Orléans, Durand studied mathematics, music education and piano in Paris, then composition with Brian Ferneyhough
Read → 21st CenturyJoelle Khoury
Joelle Khoury is a Lebanese-American pianist and composer of jazz and contemporary classical music. Background Born in Beirut, Joelle Khoury left Lebanon for the United States after the beginning of
Read → Post-WarJoëlle Léandre
Joëlle Léandre (born 12 September 1951) is a French double bassist, vocalist, and composer active in new music and free improvisation. In the field of contemporary music, she has performed with
Read → 21st CenturyJoep Beving
Joep Beving (born 9 January 1976 in Doetinchem) is a Dutch composer and pianist. Life and work Music has been a passion of Beving’s since childhood. The son of a schoolteacher, he formed his first
Read → 21st CenturyJoey Roukens
Joey Roukens (born 28 March 1982) is a Dutch composer of contemporary classical music. Roukens was born in Schiedam, and studied composition with Klaas de Vries at Codarts University for the Arts and
Read → Early RomanticJohan Christian Gebauer
Johann Christian Gebauer (6 August 1808 – 24 January 1884) was a Danish composer, organist and music theorist. Gebauer showed promise as a musician early on. He received his first formal training in
Read → Post-WarJohan de Meij
Johannes Abraham "Johan" de Meij (; born November 23, 1953 in Voorburg) is a Dutch conductor, trombonist, and composer, best known for his Symphony No. 1 for wind ensemble, nicknamed The Lord of the
Read → Late RomanticJohan Halvorsen
Johan Halvorsen (15 March 1864 – 4 December 1935) was a Norwegian composer, conductor, and violinist. Life Born in Drammen, he was an accomplished violinist from a very early age and became a
Read → BaroqueJohan Helmich Roman
Johan Helmich Roman (26 October 1694 – 20 November 1758) was a Swedish Baroque composer. He has been called "the father of Swedish music" or "the Swedish Handel." He was the leader of the Swedish
Read → 20th CenturyJohan Kvandal
David Johan Kvandal (né Johansen; 8 September 1919 – 16 February 1999) was a Norwegian composer. Career He was born in Kristiania to David Monrad Johansen and Amunda Holmsen, with the family later
Read → 21st CenturyJohan Lindström (musician)
Johan Lindström is a musician, composer, arranger and record-producer based in Stockholm, Sweden. He has worked professionally, since 1991, as a musician, playing guitar, piano and pedal steel. He
Read → Early RomanticJohan Peter Emilius Hartmann
Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann (14 May 1805 – 10 March 1900) was, together with his son-in-law Niels W. Gade, the leading Danish composer of the 19th century, a period known as the Danish Golden Age.
Read → 21st CenturyJohan Söderqvist
Johan Söderqvist (born 11 February 1966) is a Swedish film score composer. He has twice been nominated for the European Film Award for Best Composer for his film scores. Personal life Johan
Read → RomanticJohan Svendsen
Johan Severin Svendsen (30 September 184014 June 1911) was a Norwegian composer, conductor and violinist. Born in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway, he lived most of his life in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Read → 21st CenturyJohan Testad
Johan Testad (born 1973) is a Swedish composer. He won Guldbagge Award for Best Original Score for his work on (2018). Life and career He studied music in Gävle, before being introduced to film score
Read → Late RomanticJohan Wagenaar
Johan Wagenaar (1 November 1862 – 17 June 1941) was a Dutch composer and organist. Life Born in Utrecht, out of wedlock, he was the son of Cypriaan Gerard Berger van Hengst and Johanna Wagenaar.
Read → ClassicalJohan Wikmanson
Johan Wikmanson (28 December 1753 – 10 January 1800) was a Swedish organist and composer. Biography Wikmanson was born in Stockholm and, except for 18 months spent in Copenhagen studying mathematics
Read → 20th CenturyJohana Harris
Johana Harris (31 December 1912 – 5 June 1995) was a Canadian pianist, composer, and music educator. She had highly successful career as a concert pianist, making numerous recordings and appearing as
Read → ClassicalJohann Abraham Peter Schulz
Johann Abraham Peter Schulz (31 March 1747 – 10 June 1800) was a German musician. He is best known as the composer of the melody for Matthias Claudius's poems "Der Mond ist aufgegangen" and "Wir
Read → BaroqueJohann Adam (composer)
Johann Adam (c. 1705 – 13 November 1779) was a German violist and composer of the Baroque era. Life Little is known about Johann Adam's early years and his birth year is an estimate. In 1733, he was
Read → ClassicalJohann Adam Hiller
Johann Adam Hiller (25 December 1728 – 16 June 1804) was a German composer, conductor and writer on music, regarded as the creator of the Singspiel, an early form of German opera. In many of these
Read → BaroqueJohann Adam Reincken
Johann Adam Reincken (also Jan Adams, Jean Adam, Reinken, Reinkinck, Reincke, Reinicke, Reinike; baptized 10 December 1643 – 24 November 1722) was a Dutch/German organist and composer. He was one of
Read → BaroqueJohann Adolf Scheibe
Johann Adolph Scheibe (5 May 1708 – 22 April 1776) was a German-Danish composer and significant critic and theorist of music. Though much of his theoretical work survives, most of his compositions
Read → BaroqueJohann Adolph Hasse
Johann Adolph Hasse (baptised 25 March 1699 – 16 December 1783) was an 18th-century German composer, singer and teacher of music. Immensely popular in his time, Hasse was best known for his prolific
Read → BaroqueJohann Anastasius Freylinghausen
Johann Anastasius Freylinghausen (2 December 1670, Bad Gandersheim — 12 February 1739, Halle an der Saale) was a German Lutheran theologian associated with the Pietist Halle School and a scholar and
Read → ClassicalJohann André
Johann André (28 March 1741 – 18 June 1799) was a German musician, composer and music publisher of the Classical period. He was born and died in Offenbach am Main. In 1774, as the patriarch of a
Read → RenaissanceJohann Andreas Herbst
Johann Andreas Herbst (baptized June 9, 1588 – January 24, 1666) was a German composer and music theorist of the early Baroque era. He was a contemporary of Michael Praetorius and Heinrich Schütz,
Read → ClassicalJohann Andreas Streicher
Johann Andreas Streicher (13 December 1761 – 25 May 1833) was a German pianist, composer and piano maker. In 1793, he married Nannette Streicher (1769–1833), another piano maker and daughter of
Read → Early RomanticJohann Anton André
Johann Anton André (6 October 1775 – 6 April 1842) was a German composer and music publisher of the Classical period, best known for his central place in Mozart research. Life Born in Offenbach am
Read → ClassicalJohann August Just
__NOTOC__Johann August Just (c. 1750 in Gröningen, Holy Roman Empire – December 1791? in The Hague) was a German keyboard player, violinist and composer. He wrote a number of works for keyboard and
Read → BaroqueJohann Balthasar Christian Freißlich
Johann Balthasar Christian Freislich (also Freißlich, Fraißlich, baptised 30 March 1687 - 17 April 1764) was a German composer and organist. Life Johann Balthasar Christian Freißlich was born in
Read → BaroqueJohann Balthasar König
Johann Balthasar König (baptised 28 January 1691 – buried 2 April 1758) was a German Baroque composer, especially of hymn melodies, having published a hymnal with 1,913 melodies. He was the church
Read → Early RomanticJohann Baptist Cramer
Johann (sometimes John) Baptist Cramer (24 February 1771 – 16 April 1858) was an English pianist, composer and music publisher of German origin, born in the Holy Roman Empire. He was the son of
Read → ClassicalJohann Baptist Henneberg
Johann Baptist Henneberg (5 December 1768 – 27 November 1822) was an Austrian composer, pianist, organist and Kapellmeister. Career Born in Vienna, Henneberg was Kapellmeister from 1790 to 1801 at
Read → Early RomanticJohann Baptist Krall
Johann Baptist Krall (1803–4 May 1883) was an Austrian composer, conductor, music editor/arranger, and member of the board of directors of the Wiener Singverein of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde.
Read → ClassicalJohann Baptist Neruda
Johann Baptist Georg Neruda (, c. 1708 – c. 1780) was a Czech classical composer, violinist and cellist. Life Neruda's dates of birth and death are only approximations (1708 according to the Grove
Read → ClassicalJohann Baptist Novak
Johann Baptist Novak (, 1756 – January 29, 1833) was a Slovene composer. Life Novak was born in Ljubljana, at that time part of the Holy Roman Empire, 1756. He died in Ljubljana on January 29, 1833.
Read → ClassicalJohann Baptist Wanhal
Johann Baptist Wanhal (12 May 1739 – 20 August 1813) was a Czech composer of the Classical period. He was born in Nechanice, Bohemia, and died in Vienna. His music was well respected by Wolfgang
Read → BaroqueJohann Bernhard Bach
Johann Bernhard Bach (23 May 1676 – 11 June 1749) was a German composer, and second cousin of J. S. Bach. Life Johann Bernhard Bach was born in Erfurt, Electorate of Mainz, in 1676, in the house
Read → Early RomanticJohann Bernhard Logier
Johann Bernhard Logier (9 February 1777 – 27 July 1846) was a German composer, teacher, inventor, and publisher resident in Ireland for much of his life. He invented the chiroplast, a device to help
Read → ClassicalJohann Carl Friedrich Rellstab
Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab (27 February 1759 – 19 August 1813) was a German composer, writer, music publisher, and critic who was born and died in Berlin. Rellstab was a very influential figure
Read → Early RomanticJohann Caspar Aiblinger
Johann Caspar Aiblinger (23 February 1779 – 6 May 1867) was a German composer associated with the Cecilian Movement. Biography Aiblinger was born in Wasserburg am Inn, Bavaria. In his eleventh year,
Read → BaroqueJohann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer
Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (some authorities use the spelling Johann Kaspar Ferdinand Fischer) (1656 27 August 1746) was a German Baroque composer. Johann Nikolaus Forkel ranked Fischer as one
Read → BaroqueJohann Caspar Kerll
Johann Caspar Kerll (9 April 1627 – 13 February 1693) was a German Baroque composer and organist. He is also known as Kerl, Gherl, Giovanni Gasparo Cherll and Gaspard Kerle. Born in Adorf in the
Read → BaroqueJohann Caspar Vogler
Johann Caspar Vogler (23 May 1696 – 3 June 1763) was a German organist and composer taught by Johann Sebastian Bach. Biography He was born in Hausen, near Arnstadt; from 1706 he studied with Johann
Read → ClassicalJohann Christian Bach
Johann Christian Bach (5 September 1735 – 1 January 1782) was a German composer of the Classical era and the youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach received his early musical training from his
Read → ClassicalJohann Christian Friedrich Hæffner
Johann Christian Friedrich Hæffner (2 March 1759 in Oberschönau – 28 May 1833 in Uppsala) was a German-born Swedish composer. Hæffner received his first musical education with the Schmalkalden
Read → ClassicalJohann Christian Jacobi (oboist)
Johann Christian Jacobi (1719 – 1784) was a German oboist and composer of the Baroque period. Life Jacobi was born in Tilsit, Prussian Lithuania (now Sovetsk, Russia). He had his first lessons on the
Read → ClassicalJohann Christian Kittel
Johann Christian Kittel (18 February 1732 – 17 April 1809) was a German organist, composer, and teacher. He was one of the last students of Johann Sebastian Bach. His students included , , Johann
Read → BaroqueJohann Christian Schickhardt
Johann Christian Schickhardt (or Schikardt; c. 1682c. 25 March 1762) was a German composer and woodwind player. Biography Schickhardt was born in Braunschweig, Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Read → ClassicalJohann Christoph Altnickol
Johann Christoph Altnickol, or Altnikol, (baptised 1 January 1720, buried 25 July 1759) was a German organist, bass singer, and composer. He was a student, copyist and son-in-law of Johann Sebastian
Read → BaroqueJohann Christoph Bach
Johann Christoph Bach (baptised 18 December 1642 – 31 March 1703) was a German composer and organist of the Baroque period. Johann Christoph was an older cousin of Johann Sebastian Bach who would
Read → BaroqueJohann Christoph Bach (organist at Ohrdruf)
Johann Christoph Bach (16 June 1671 – 22 February 1721) was a musician of the Bach family. He was the eldest of the brothers of Johann Sebastian Bach who survived childhood. Life Christoph was born
Read → ClassicalJohann Christoph Friedrich Bach
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (21 June 1732 – 26 January 1795) was a German composer and harpsichordist, the fifth son of Johann Sebastian Bach, sometimes referred to as the "Bückeburg Bach". Born
Read → ClassicalJohann Christoph Kellner
Johann Christoph Kellner (15 August 1736 – 1803) was a German organist and composer. He was the son of Johann Peter Kellner. Life He was born in Gräfenroda, Thuringia, Germany, where he studied music
Read → BaroqueJohann Christoph Pepusch
Johann Christoph Pepusch (; 1667 1752), also known as John Christopher Pepusch () and Dr Pepusch, was a German-born Baroque composer who spent most of his working life in England. Early life Pepusch
Read → BaroqueJohann Christoph Pez
Johann Christoph Pez, also Petz, (9 September 1664 – 25 September 1716) was a German Baroque musician, Kapellmeister, and composer who worked in the courts of the Electorate of Bavaria and Duchy of
Read → RenaissanceJohann Crüger
Johann Crüger (9 April 1598 – 23 February 1662) was a German composer of well-known hymns. He was also the editor of the most widely used Lutheran hymnal of the 17th century, Praxis pietatis melica.
Read → RenaissanceJohann Daniel Mylius
Johann Daniel Mylius (c. 15831642) was a composer for the lute, and writer on alchemy. Born at Wetter in present-day Hesse, Germany, he went on to study theology and medicine at the University of
Read → BaroqueJohann David Heinichen
Johann David Heinichen (17 April 1683 – 16 July 1729) was a German Baroque composer and music theorist who brought the musical genius of Venice to the court of Augustus II the Strong in Dresden.
Read → BaroqueJohann Erasmus Kindermann
Johann Erasmus Kindermann (29 March 1616 – 14 April 1655) was a German Baroque organist and composer. He was the most important composer of the Nuremberg school in the first half of the 17th century.
Read → ClassicalJohann Ernst Altenburg
Johann Ernst Altenburg (15 June 1734 – 14 May 1801) was a German composer, organist and trumpeter. He is not to be confused with a similarly named composer in the 1620s who contributed to the
Read → ClassicalJohann Ernst Bach II
Johann Ernst Bach (28 January 1722 – 1 September 1777) was a German composer of the Classical Period. He was the son of Johann Bernhard Bach. Life Johann Ernst Bach, the son of Johann Bernhard Bach,
Read → BaroqueJohann Ernst Eberlin
Johann Ernst Eberlin (27 March 1702 – 19 June 1762) was a German composer and organist whose works bridge the baroque and classical eras. He was a composer of church organ and choral music. Marpurg
Read → BaroqueJohann Ernst Galliard
Johann Ernst Galliard (?1666/?1687–1747 ) was a composer from the Holy Roman Empire. Galliard was born in Celle, Holy Roman Empire to a French wig-maker. His first composition instruction began at
Read → BaroqueJohann Fischer (composer)
Johann Fischer (1646–1716) was a German violinist, keyboardist and composer of the baroque era. His name is not to be confused with another composer named Johann Fischer, born in Lübeck and listed by
Read → ClassicalJohann Franz Xaver Sterkel
Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel (3 December 1750 in Würzburg – 12 October 1817 in Würzburg) was a German composer and pianist in the 18th and early 19th centuries. He was educated at the University of
Read → ClassicalJohann Friedrich Agricola
Johann Friedrich Agricola (4 January 1720 – 2 December 1774) was a German composer, organist, singer, pedagogue, and writer on music. He sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Flavio Anicio Olibrio.
Read → ClassicalJohann Friedrich Ernst Benda
Johann Friedrich Ernst Benda (also Ernst Friedrich Johann Benda or Ernst Benda; baptized 10 October 1749 – 24 February 1785) was a German musician and composer of Czech origin. Life Johann Friedrich
Read → BaroqueJohann Friedrich Fasch
Johann Friedrich Fasch (15 April 1688 – 5 December 1758) was a German violinist and composer. Much of his music is in the Baroque-Classical transitional style known as galant. Life Fasch was born in
Read → Early RomanticJohann Friedrich Naue
Johann Friedrich Naue (November 17, 1787, in Halle (Saale) – May 19, 1858, in Halle) was a German composer, organist, and choir director and music theorist. He was a student of Ludwig van Beethoven
Read → ClassicalJohann Friedrich Peter
Johann Friedrich Peter (sometimes John Frederick Peter) (May 19, 1746 – July 13, 1813) was an American composer of German origin and the one who first brought the music of Joseph Haydn to the United
Read → ClassicalJohann Friedrich Reichardt
Johann Friedrich Reichardt (25 November 1752 – 27 June 1814) was a German composer, writer and music critic. Early life Reichardt was born in Königsberg, East Prussia, to lutenist and Stadtmusiker
Read → Early RomanticJohann Friedrich Schubert
Johann Friedrich Schubert (17 December 176913 October 1811) was a German composer and violinist. Schubert was born in Rudolstadt, in either 1770 or 1769, and was an apprentice to Christian Hieronimus
Read → BaroqueJohann Georg Albinus
Johann Georg Albinus (6 March 1624 – 25 May 1679) was a German Protestant pastor and hymnwriter. He studied at the University of Leipzig and served as a rector at the Naumburg Cathedral School and
Read → ClassicalJohann Georg Albrechtsberger
Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (3 February 1736 – 7 March 1809) was an Austrian composer, organist, and music theorist, widely regarded as one of the leading figures in counterpoint and composition
Read → ClassicalJohann Georg Benda
Johann Georg Benda (; 30 August 1714 – 4 December 1752) was a Czech violinist and composer. He was active in the Electorate of Saxony. Life Johann Georg Benda was born on 30 August 1714 in Benátky
Read → ClassicalJohann Georg Heinrich Backofen
Johann Georg Heinrich Backofen (6 July 1768 in Durlach – 10 July 1830? in Darmstadt) was a German clarinetist, composer, and painter. In his time, Backofen enjoyed great fame; he was not only known
Read → ClassicalJohann Georg Hermann Voigt
Johann Georg Hermann Voigt (14 May 1769 – 24 February 1811) was a German organist, cellist, violist and composer. Life Born in Osterwieck, Voigt was the son of Stadtmusikus' C. C. Voigt from the town
Read → ClassicalJohann Georg Lickl
Johann Georg Lickl, also Ligkl, Hans-Georg Lickl, (11 April 1769 – 12 May 1843) was an Austrian composer, organist, Kapellmeister in the main church of Pécs, and piano teacher. Biography Lickl was
Read → BaroqueJohann Georg Pisendel
Johann Georg Pisendel ( – 25 November 1755) was a German Baroque violinist and composer who, for many years, led the Court Orchestra in Dresden as concertmaster, then the finest instrumental ensemble
Read → BaroqueJohann Georg Reutter
Johann Adam Joseph Karl Georg Reutter, during his life known as Georg Reutter the Younger (6 April 1708 – 11 March 1772) was an Austrian composer. According to David Wyn Jones, in his prime he was
Read → ClassicalJohann Georg Röllig
Johann Georg Röllig (or Johann George Roellig as his autograph signature indicates)(1710–1790), brother of composer Johann Christian Roellig (b.1716), was a German composer, organist and
Read → Early RomanticJohann Gottfried Arnold
Johann Gottfried Arnold (15 February 1773 – 16 July 1806) was a German cellist and composer. Life He was the son of the schoolmaster of Niedernhall near Oehringen in Württemberg. From his earliest
Read → ClassicalJohann Gottfried Bernhard Bach
Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach (11 May 1715 – 27 May 1739) was a German musician. It is not known whether he composed, and his career as an organist is not in itself notable, but his life throws
Read → ClassicalJohann Gottfried Müthel
Johann Gottfried Müthel (January 17, 1728 – July 14, 1788) was a German composer and noted keyboard virtuoso. Along with C.P.E. Bach, he represented the Sturm und Drang style of composition. As far
Read → RomanticJohann Gottfried Piefke
Johann Gottfried Piefke (9 September 1817 – 25 January 1884) was a German band leader, (Kapellmeister) and composer of military music. Life Piefke was born in Schwerin an der Warthe, Prussia (now
Read → ClassicalJohann Gottfried Pratsch
Johann Gottfried Pratsch (; ; , also called Prach; c. 1750), was a Prussian-born composer of music. He spent most of his life in Russia, and sometimes supported himself by teaching music to students
Read → ClassicalJohann Gottfried Vierling
Johann Gottfried Vierling (January 25, 1750 – November 22, 1813) was a German organist and composer. Life and career Vierling was born in Metzels. From 1763 he studied at the Lyzeum in Schmalkalden.
Read → BaroqueJohann Gottfried Walther
Johann Gottfried Walther (18 September 1684 – 23 March 1748) was a German music theorist, organist, composer, and lexicographer of the Baroque era. Life and work Walther was born at Erfurt,
Read → BaroqueJohann Gotthilf Ziegler
Johann Gotthilf Ziegler (25 March 1688 in Leubnitz, Electorate of Saxony – 15 September 1747 in Halle an der Saale) was a German baroque composer and organist. He is a descendant of a musical family,
Read → ClassicalJohann Gottlieb Goldberg
Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (; baptized 14 March 1727 – 13 April 1756) was a German virtuoso harpsichordist, organist, and composer of the late Baroque and early Classical period. He is best known for
Read → BaroqueJohann Gottlieb Graun
Johann Gottlieb Graun (1702/1703 – 27 October 1771) was a German Baroque/Classical era composer and violinist, born in Wahrenbrück. His brother Carl Heinrich was a singer and also a composer, and is
Read → BaroqueJohann Gottlieb Janitsch
Johann Gottlieb Janitsch (19 June 1708 – c. 1763) There are also many other manuscripts in libraries across Europe. Works Vocal * Cantata "Che debbo rimirar" for soprano, strings and basso continuo *
Read → ClassicalJohann Gottlieb Naumann
Johann Gottlieb Naumann (17 April 1741 – 23 October 1801) was a German composer, conductor, and Kapellmeister. Life Johann Gottlieb Naumann was born in Blasewitz, Dresden and received his musical
Read → ClassicalJohann Hartmann
Johann Ernst Hartmann (24 December 1726 – 21 October 1793) was a Danish classical composer and violinist. He is remembered in particular for his two operas on texts by Johannes Ewald in which he
Read → BaroqueJohann Heinrich Buttstett
Johann Heinrich Buttstett (also Buttstedt, Buttstädt) (25 April 1666 – December 1, 1727) was a German Baroque organist and composer. Although he was Johann Pachelbel's most important pupil and one of
Read → BaroqueJohann Heinrich Schmelzer
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (c. 1620–1623between 29 February and 20 March 1680) was an Austrian composer and violinist of the middle Baroque era. Almost nothing is known about his early years, but he
Read → Early RomanticJohann Heinrich Walch
Johann Heinrich Walch (1776–1855), was a German conductor, chamber musician and choral master at the court of the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg. Life Walch acted in various capacities for Augustus, Duke of
Read → RenaissanceJohann Hermann Schein
Johann Hermann Schein (20 January 1586 – 19 November 1630) was a German composer of the early Baroque era. He was Thomaskantor in Leipzig from 1615 to 1630. He was one of the first to import the
Read → BaroqueJohann Hugo von Wilderer
Johann Hugo von Wilderer (1670 or 1671 – buried 7 June 1724) was a German Baroque composer. He was born in Bavaria and died in Mannheim, where in his later years he served as the Kapellmeister of the
Read → BaroqueJohann Jakob Froberger
Johann Jakob Froberger (baptized 19 May 1616 – 7 May 1667) was a German Baroque composer, keyboard virtuoso, and organist. Among the most famous composers of the era, he was influential in developing
Read → BaroqueJohann Jeremias du Grain
Johann Jeremias du Grain, also Dugrain, Legrain or Dügren (c. 1700 – 14 January 1756) was a German composer of the Baroque period. Life Johann Jeremias du Grain was born in Gdańsk sometime around
Read → BaroqueJohann Joachim Quantz
Johann Joachim Quantz (; 30 January 1697 – 12 July 1773) was a German composer, flautist and flute maker of the late Baroque period. Much of his professional career was spent in the court of
Read → 21st CenturyJóhann Jóhannsson
Jóhann Gunnar Jóhannsson (; 19 September 1969 – 9 February 2018) was an Icelandic composer who wrote music for a wide array of media including theatre, dance, television, and film. His work is
Read → RomanticJohann Joseph Abert
Johann Joseph Abert (20 September 1832 – 1 April 1915 in Stuttgart) was a German composer. An ethnic German from the Sudetenland, he is also known in Czech as Jan Josef Abert. Life and career Abert
Read → BaroqueJohann Joseph Fux
Johann Joseph Fux (; c. 1660 – 13 February 1741) was an Austrian composer, music theorist and pedagogue of the late Baroque era. His most enduring work is not a musical composition but his treatise
Read → BaroqueJohann Justus Kahle
Johann Justus Kahle (11 February 1668 in Helmstedt – c. 1731 in Clausthal-Zellerfeld) was a German organist and composer. Life He was born, son of the baker Bathold Kahle, on 11 February 1668, and
Read → ClassicalJohann Karl Ordonez
Johann Karl Rochus Ordonez (19 April 1734 – 6 September 1786), also known as Carlo d'Ordonez, was one of a number of composers working in Vienna during the second half of the eighteenth century.
Read → Early RomanticJohann Kaspar Mertz
Joseph Kaspar Mertz (17 August 1806 – 14 October 1856) was an Austrian guitarist and composer. Biography Caspar Joseph Mertz (baptised Casparus Josephus Mertz) was born in Pressburg (now Bratislava,
Read → ClassicalJohann Kirnberger
Johann Philipp Kirnberger (also Kernberg; 24 April 1721, Saalfeld – 27 July 1783, Berlin) was a musician, composer (primarily of fugues) and music theorist. He studied the organ with Johann Peter
Read → BaroqueJohann Krieger
Johann Krieger (28 December 1651 – 18 July 1735) was a German composer and organist, younger brother of Johann Philipp Krieger. Born in Nuremberg, he worked at Bayreuth, Zeitz, and Greiz before
Read → BaroqueJohann Kuhnau
Johann Kuhnau (; 6 April 16605 June 1722) was a German polymath, known primarily as a composer today. He was also active as a novelist, translator, lawyer, and music theorist, and was able to combine
Read → BaroqueJohann Ludwig Bach
Johann Ludwig Bach (14 February 1677 – 1 May 1731) was a German composer and violinist. He was born in Thal (Ruhla) near Eisenach on 4 February 1677. At the age of 22 he moved to Meiningen eventually
Read → Early RomanticJohann Ludwig Böhner
Johann Ludwig Böhner (7 January 1787 - 28 March 1860) was a German composer, pianist, and organist. He was known as the "Thuringian Mozart" by his contemporaries. Life Böhner was born in Töttelstädt,
Read → ClassicalJohann Ludwig Krebs
Johann Ludwig Krebs (baptized 12 October 1713 – 1 January 1780) was a German Baroque musician and composer for the pipe organ, harpsichord, other instruments and orchestras. His output also included
Read → BaroqueJohann Mattheson
Johann Mattheson (28 September 1681 – 17 April 1764) was a German composer, critic, lexicographer and music theorist. His writings on the late Baroque and early Classical period were highly
Read → BaroqueJohann Michael Bach
Johann Michael Bach (baptised 19 August 1648, Arnstadt, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen – 27 May 1694, Gehren) was a German composer of the Baroque period. He was the brother of Johann Christoph Bach, as
Read → ClassicalJohann Michael Vogl
Johann Michael Vogl (August 10, 1768 – November 19, 1840), was an Austrian baritone singer and composer. Though famous in his day, he is remembered mainly for his close professional relationship and
Read → 20th CenturyJohann Nepomuk David
Johann Nepomuk David (30 November 1895 – 22 December 1977) was an Austrian composer. Life and career David was born in Eferding. He was a choirboy in the monastery of Sankt Florian and studied at an
Read → RomanticJohann Nepomuk Fuchs (composer)
Johann Nepomuk Fuchs (5 May 1842 – 5 October 1899) Johann studied musical theory in Vienna with the prominent theorist and composer Simon Sechter, with whom Schubert had planned to study. In 1864, he
Read → Early RomanticJohann Nepomuk Hummel
Johann Nepomuk Hummel (14 November 177817 October 1837) was an Austrian composer and pianist. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era. He was among Wolfgang
Read → Early RomanticJohann Nepomuk Schelble
Johann Nepomuk Schelble (16 May 1789 – 6 August 1837), was a German conductor, composer, singer (tenor) and music teacher. Best known as the founding conductor of Cäcilienverein (the Choir of Saint
Read → ClassicalJohann Nikolaus Forkel
Johann Nikolaus Forkel (22 February 1749 – 20 March 1818) was a German musicologist and music theorist, generally regarded as among the founders of modern musicology. His publications include the
Read → BaroqueJohann Nikolaus Tischer
Johann Nikolaus Tischer (1707–1774) was a German organist, composer, and teacher of the Baroque and early Classical eras. He is best known for his long tenure as the town organist in Schmalkalden and
Read → BaroqueJohann Pachelbel
Johann Pachelbel (also Bachelbel; baptised 11 September 1653 – buried 9 March 1706) was a German composer, organist, and teacher who brought the south German organ schools to their peak. He composed
Read → BaroqueJohann Paul von Westhoff
Johann Paul von Westhoff (1656 – buried 17 April 1705) was a German Baroque composer and violinist. One of the most important exponents of the Dresden violin school, he was among the highest ranked
Read → RomanticJohann Peter Cavallo
Johann Peter Cavallo (23 December 1819 – 19 April 1892) was a German organist, pianist and composer of Italian origin and active in France. Life Born in Munich, Cavallo settled in Paris around 1842,
Read → BaroqueJohann Peter Kellner
Johann Peter Kellner (variants: Keller, Kelner; 28 September 1705 – 19 April 1772) was a German organist and composer. He was the father of Johann Christoph Kellner. Biography He was born in
Read → Early RomanticJohann Peter Pixis
Johann Peter Pixis (10 February 178822 December 1874) was a German pianist and composer, born in Mannheim. He lived in Vienna from 1808 to 1824, then in Paris to 1840, during which time he was among
Read → ClassicalJohann Peter Salomon
Johann Peter Salomon (20 February 1745 baptized – 25 November 1815) was a German violinist, composer, conductor and musical impresario. Although an accomplished violinist, he is best known for
Read → BaroqueJohann Philipp Förtsch
Johann Philipp Förtsch (14 May 1652 – 14 December 1732) was a German baroque composer, statesman and medical doctor. Life Förtsch was born in Wertheim and possibly received his musical education from
Read → BaroqueJohann Philipp Krieger
Johann Philipp Krieger (also Kriger, Krüger, Krugl, and Giovanni Filippo Kriegher; baptised 27 February 1649; died 7 February 1725) was a German Baroque composer and organist. He was the elder
Read → BaroqueJohann Rosenmüller
Johann Rosenmüller (1619 – 10 September 1684) was a German Baroque composer, who played a part in transmitting Italian musical styles to the north. Career Rosenmüller was born in Oelsnitz, near
Read → ClassicalJohann Rudolf Zumsteeg
Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg (10 January 1760 – 27 January 1802) was a German composer and conductor from the Classical period. Zumsteeg championed the operas of Mozart in Stuttgart, staging the first
Read → BaroqueJohann Rudolph Ahle
Johann Rudolph (or Rudolf) Ahle (24 December 1625 – 9 July 1673) was a German composer, organist, theorist, and Protestant church musician. Biography Ahle was born in Mühlhausen, Thuringia. While not
Read → RomanticJohann Rufinatscha
Johann Rufinatscha (1 October 1812 – 25 May 1893 ) was an Austrian composer, theorist and music teacher. Life Rufinatscha was born in 1812 in Mals (Austria, now in the Italian province of South
Read → BaroqueJohann Schelle
Johann Schelle (6 September 1648 – 10 March 1701) was a German Baroque composer. Biography Schnelle was born on 6 September 1648 in Geising, Saxony. From 1655 to 1657 he was a choirboy in Dresden and
Read → ClassicalJohann Schobert
Johann Schobert (c. 1720, 1735 or 1740 – 28 August 1767) was a composer and harpsichordist. His date of birth is given variously as about 1720, about 1735, or about 1740, his place of birth as
Read → BaroqueJohann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across a variety of instruments and forms,
Read → BaroqueJohann Sigismund Kusser
Johann Sigismund Kusser or Cousser (baptized 13 February 1660 – before 17 November 1727) was a composer born in the Kingdom of Hungary who was active in Germany, France, and Ireland. Life The son of
Read → BaroqueJohann Sigismund Weiss
Johann Sigismund Weiss (after 1690 – 12 April 1737) was a German lutenist and composer. He was probably born in Breslau, Silesia (now Wrocław, Poland) to lutenist Johann Jacob Weiss, who taught the
Read → Post-WarJohann Sonnleitner
Johann Sonnleitner (born 1941) is an Austrian music educator and expert as interpreter of early music on historical keyboard instruments. He is an organist, a harpsichordist and music historian. Life
Read → BaroqueJohann Speth
Johann (Johannes) Speth (9 November 1664 – 12. Oktober 1728 Augsburg) was a German organist and composer. He was born in Speinshart, some 150 km from Nuremberg, but spent most of his life in
Read → RenaissanceJohann Staden
Johann Staden (baptized 2 July 1581 – 15 November 1634) was a German composer and organist of the early Baroque period. He is best known for establishing the so-called Nuremberg School. He was father
Read → ClassicalJohann Stamitz
Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz (; 18 June 1717 – 27 March 1757) was a Czech composer and violinist. Stamitz is considered the founding father of the Mannheim school, a composition style that his two
Read → RenaissanceJohann Stobäus
Johann Stobäus (6 July 158011 September 1646) was a composer and lutenist. Life Stobäus was born at Graudenz (now Grudziądz, Poland) in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. From 1599 to 1608 he was a
Read → Early RomanticJohann Strauss I
Johann Baptist Strauss I (; ; 14 March 1804 – 25 September 1849), also known as Johann Strauss Sr., the Elder or the Father (), was an Austrian composer of the Romantic Period. He was famous for his
Read → RomanticJohann Strauss II
Johann Baptist Strauss II (; ; 25 October 1825 – 3 June 1899), also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger or the Son (), was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and
Read → Late RomanticJohann Strauss III
Johann Maria Eduard Strauss III (; ; 16 February 18669 January 1939) was an Austrian composer whose father was Eduard Strauss, whose uncles were Johann Strauss II and Josef Strauss, and whose
Read → BaroqueJohann Theile
Johann Theile (29 July 1646 – 24 June 1724) was a German composer of the Baroque era, famous for the opera Adam und Eva, Der erschaffene, gefallene und aufgerichtete Mensch, first performed in
Read → BaroqueJohann Tobias Krebs
Johann Tobias Krebs (7 July 1690 – 11 February 1762) was a German organist and composer, today best remembered as the father of Johann Ludwig Krebs, one of Bach's most accomplished pupils. Krebs was
Read → BaroqueJohann Ulich
Johann Ulich, the younger (Wittenberg, 1677-Zerbst, 1742) was a German organist and composer in Zerbst, and music teacher to the princely family. Ulich was born in 1677 in Wittenberg, Germany. His
Read → RenaissanceJohann Ulrich Steigleder
Johann Ulrich Steigleder (22 March 1593 – 10 October 1635) was a German Baroque composer and organist. He was the most celebrated member of the Steigleder family, which also included Adam Steigleder
Read → BaroqueJohann Valentin Meder
Johann Valentin Meder (baptised May 3, 1649 – July 1719) was a German composer, organist, and singer. (He is not to be confused with the German composer Johann Gabriel Meder, born in 1729 near
Read → Early RomanticJohann Vesque von Püttlingen
Johann Vesque von Püttlingen (pseudonym Johann Hoven) (23 July 1803 – 29 October 1883), born J. Vesque de Puttelange, was an Austrian lawyer, diplomat, author, composer and singer. His full name and
Read → BaroqueJohann Vierdanck
Johann Vierdanck (also Virdanck, Vyrdanck, Feyertagk, Feyerdank, Fierdanck; ca. 1605–1646) was a German violinist, cornettist, and composer of the Baroque period. Life Vierdanck was born near
Read → ClassicalJohann Vogel (composer)
Johann Christoph Vogel (also given as Fogel) (18 March 1756, in Nuremberg – 28 June 1788, in Paris) was a German composer. Life He spent most of his life working in France. He moved to Paris in 1776,
Read → RomanticJohann von Herbeck
Johann Ritter von Herbeck (25 December 1831 – 28 October 1877) was an Austrian conductor and composer, best known for leading the premiere of Franz Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony. Life and career
Read → RenaissanceJohann Walter
Johann Walter, also known as Johann Walther or Johannes Walter (original name: Johann Blankenmüller; 1496 – 25 March 1570), was a Lutheran composer and poet during the Reformation period. Life Walter
Read → RenaissanceJohann Wanning
Johann Wanning (also known as Johannes Wanningus, Wannigk, Wannicke or Wangnick) (1537 – 23 October 1603) was a Dutch composer, kapellmeister and singer who worked for most of his career in the
Read → ClassicalJohann Wilhelm Cornelius von Königslöw
Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Königslöw (16 March 1745 – 14 May 1833) was a German composer and musician active at the St. Mary's Church, Lübeck. Life Born in Hamburg, he studied piano and singing
Read → ClassicalJohann Wilhelm Hertel
Johann Wilhelm Hertel (9 October 1727 – 14 June 1789) was a German composer, harpsichord and violin player. He was born in Eisenach, into a family of musicians. His father, Johann Christian Hertel
Read → Early RomanticJohann Wilhelm Wilms
Johann Wilhelm Wilms (March 30, 1772 (baptized) – July 19, 1847) was a Dutch-German composer, best known for setting the poem Wien Neêrlands Bloed to music, which served as the Dutch national anthem
Read → BaroqueJohann Wolfgang Franck
Johann Wolfgang Franck (17 June 1644 in Unterschwaningen, Mittelfranken – c. 1710 in London) was a German baroque composer. Life He worked from 1673 to 1679 as Kapellmeister in Ansbach and then lived
Read → 20th CenturyJohanna Beyer
Johanna Magdalena Beyer (July 11, 1888 – January 9, 1944) was a German-American composer and pianist. Among her best known compositions is IV for Percussion Ensemble (1935), the only work published
Read → 21st CenturyJohanna Doderer
Johanna Doderer (born 18 September 1969 in Bregenz) is an Austrian composer. Biography Doderer was born in 1969 in Bregenz, Austria. She is the great-niece of the Austrian novelist Heimito von
Read → RomanticJohanna Kinkel
Johanna Kinkel (8 July 1810 – 15 November 1858), born Maria Johanna Mockel, was a German composer, writer, pedagogue, and revolutionary. Biography Kinkel was born in Bonn to Catholic parents Marianna
Read → Late RomanticJohanna Müller-Hermann
Johanna Müller-Hermann (15 January 1868 – 19 April 1941) was an Austrian composer and pedagogue. Life Johanna Hermann began to receive music lessons at an early age, together with her two siblings.
Read → Late RomanticJohanna Senfter
Johanna Senfter ( 27 November 1879 – 11 August 1961) was a German composer. Family background Johanna Senfter was born in 1879 as the youngest of the six children of Elise and Georg Senfter. Her
Read → EntryJohannes Alanus
Johannes Alanus () was an English composer. He wrote the motet Sub arturo plebs/Fons citharizancium/In omnem terram. Also attributed to him are the songs "Min frow, min frow" and "Min herze wil all
Read → Early RomanticJohannes Bernardus van Bree
Johannes Bernardus van Bree (29 January 1801 – 14 February 1857) was a Dutch composer, violinist and conductor. Van Bree was born and died in Amsterdam. He was a pupil of Jan George Bertelman. From
Read → RomanticJohannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms (; ; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period. His music features expressive counterpoint, freer dissonance, rhythmic
Read → RenaissanceJohannes Brassart
Johannes Brassart (also known as Jehan Brassart or Jean Brassart) (c. 1400 – before 22 October 1455) was a Flemish composer of the early-Renaissance Burgundian school. Of his output, only sacred
Read → EntryJohannes Cesaris
Johannes Cesaris (fl. 1406 – 1417) was a French composer of the late Medieval era and early Renaissance. He was one of the composers of the transitional style between the two epochs, and was active
Read → MedievalJohannes Ciconia
Johannes Ciconia (c. 1370 – between 10 June and 13 July 1412) was an important Franco-Flemish composer and music theorist of trecento music during the late Medieval era. He was born in Liège, but
Read → RenaissanceJohannes de Quadris
Johannes de Quadris (Quatris) (before 1410 – 1457?) was an Italian composer of the early Renaissance. He was one of the first composers of polyphony associated with the basilica of St. Mark's in
Read → Post-WarJohannes Driessler
Johannes Driessler (26 January 1921 – 3 May 1998) was a German composer, organist, and lecturer. He composed operas, chamber music, and especially sacred music both vocal and for organ. Life and work
Read → RenaissanceJohannes Eccard
Johannes Eccard (1553–1611) was a German composer and kapellmeister. He was an early principal conductor at the Berlin court chapel. Biography Eccard was born at Mühlhausen, in present-day Thuringia,
Read → RenaissanceJohannes Fedé
Johannes Fedé (also Jean Sohier) (c. 1415 – 1477?) was a French composer of the early Renaissance. While he was mentioned by Eloy d'Amerval as one of the greatest composers of the age, and resident
Read → Early RomanticJohannes Frederik Fröhlich
Johannes Frederik Fröhlich (21 August 1806 – 21 May 1860) (or Frølich), a Danish violinist, conductor and composer, was a precursor of Niels Gade and J.P.E. Hartmann, and a central figure in Danish
Read → Post-WarJohannes Fritsch
Johannes Georg Fritsch (27 July 1941 – 29 April 2010) was a German composer. At the age of seven, Fritsch found a violin in the attic of his uncle's house in Bensheim-Auerbach, Germany, and began
Read → RomanticJohannes Gelbke
Johannes Woldemar Gelbke (19 July 1846 – 1 March 1903) was a German composer, choir lieder, conductor and singer He became known especially in Germany for his song Horch! Die alten Eichen rauschen...
Read → RenaissanceJohannes Ghiselin
Johannes Ghiselin (Verbonnet) (fl. 1455–1511) was a Flemish composer of the Renaissance, active in France, Italy and in the Low Countries. He was a contemporary of Josquin des Prez, and a significant
Read → RomanticJohannes Haarklou
Johannes Haarklou (May 13, 1847 – November 26, 1925) was a Norwegian composer, organist, conductor, and music critic. Biography Haarklou was born in the village of Haukedalen in Førde Municipality in
Read → Late RomanticJohannes Helstone
Johannes Helstone, born Nicodemus Johannes Helstone (11 January 1853 – 24 April 1927), was a Surinamese composer, pianist and writer. He is best known for his 1906 opera Het Pand der Goden. Biography
Read → RenaissanceJohannes Jeep
Johannes Jeep (pronounced "Yape"; also Johann or Jepp; 1581/1582 – 19 November 1644) was a German organist, choirmaster and composer. Biography Jeep, who was born in Dransfeld, Germany, is remembered
Read → 21st CenturyJohannes Kalitzke
Johannes Kalitzke (born 12 February 1959) is a German composer and conductor. After studying in Cologne and at the IRCAM in Paris, he was chief conductor at the Musiktheater im Revier in
Read → 21st CenturyJohannes Kreidler
Johannes Kreidler (born 1980) is a German composer, performer, conceptual and media artist. Kreidler came to prominence with a series of politically charged pieces of musical performance art,
Read → RenaissanceJohannes Lippius
Johannes Lippius (24 June 1585 – 24 September 1612) was an Alsatian theologian and music theorist. He coined the term "harmonic triad" in his Synopsis musicae novae (Synopsis of New Music; 1612).
Read → RenaissanceJohannes Lupi
Jean Leleu, most commonly known by the latinized version of his name, Johannes Lupi (c. 1506 – December 20, 1539), was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. A representative of the generation
Read → RenaissanceJohannes Magirus the elder
Johannes Magirus (26 March 1537 – 4 July 1614) was a German Lutheran Theologian. Name change His name at birth, like that of his father, was Johannes Koch. The English language equivalent would be
Read → EntryJohannes Malfatti
Johannes Malfatti (born 1976) is a German composer, sound designer and multi-instrumentalist from Berlin. He releases music under his own name and various monikers and writes music for film, theatre,
Read → 21st CenturyJohannes Maria Staud
Johannes Maria Staud (born 17 August 1974) is an Austrian composer. His works have been performed internationally by major orchestras, ensembles, and soloists, and he has received several composition
Read → RenaissanceJohannes Martini
Johannes Martini (c. 1440 – late 1497 or early 1498) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. Life He was born in Brabant around 1440, but information about his early life is scanty. He
Read → ClassicalJohannes Matthias Sperger
Johannes Matthias Sperger, also often Johann, (Czech: Jan Matyáš Sperger; 23 March 1750 – 13 May 1812) was an Austrian double bassist and composer. Sperger was born in Feldsberg, and trained from
Read → 21st CenturyJohannes Möller (guitarist)
Johannes Möller (born November 29, 1981) is a Swedish classical guitarist and composer. Early life Johannes Möller was born on 29 November 1981 to Swedish parents. His father Mats Möller is a
Read → RenaissanceJohannes Nucius
Johannes Nucius (also Nux, Nucis) (c. 1556 – March 25, 1620) was a German composer and music theorist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. Although isolated from most of the major centers
Read → RenaissanceJohannes Ockeghem
Johannes Ockeghem (c. 1410 – 6 February 1497) was a Franco-Flemish composer and singer of early Renaissance music. Ockeghem was a significant European composer in the period between Guillaume Du Fay
Read → Late RomanticJohannes Pache
Johannes Johann Fürchtegott Pache (9 December 1857, Bischofswerda – 24 December 1897, Limbach) was a German composer and organist. Life Pache was born in Bischofswerda, Upper Lusatia, as son of a
Read → Late RomanticJohannes Palaschko
Johannes Palaschko (13 July 1877 in Berlin – 21 October 1932 in Berlin) was a German composer, violinist and violist who wrote numerous works for both violin and viola. He became a violin student of
Read → 20th CenturyJohannes Petzold
Johannes Petzold (24 October 1912 – 19 May 1985) was a German church musician, composer of several hymnal songs and docent at the Thuringian Church Music School. Life Born in Plauen, Vogtland,
Read → RenaissanceJohannes Prioris
Johannes Prioris (c. 1460 – c. 1514) was a Netherlandish composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the first composers to write a polyphonic setting of the Requiem Mass. On the basis of documents
Read → RenaissanceJohannes Pullois
Johannes Pullois (numerous variant spellings of his name include Pillays, Pilloys, Pylois, Pyloys, Pyllois, Puilloys, Puylloys, Puyllois) (died 23 August 1478) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the
Read → RenaissanceJohannes Regis
Johannes Regis (French: Jehan Leroy; c. 1425 – c. 1496) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. He was a well-known composer at the close of the 15th century, was a principal contributor to
Read → BaroqueJohannes Schenck
Johannes Schenck (or Johan Schenk, 3 June 1660–after 1712) was a Dutch musician and composer. Schenck was born in Amsterdam and baptized in a Catholic hidden church. He became a renowned virtuoso
Read → ClassicalJohannes Spech
Johannes (or János) Spech (10 December 1767 – 24 November 1836) was a Hungarian classical era composer. He was born in Bratislava. Musicologist Dezsö Legány theorized that Spech must have been
Read → MedievalJohannes Symonis Hasprois
Johannes Symonis (Jehan Simon) Hasprois (died 1428) was a French composer originally from Arras. Four of his works of music survive in four different manuscripts, and he may also have written a
Read → MedievalJohannes Tapissier
Johannes Tapissier (also Jean Tapissier, Jean de Noyers) ( 1370 – 1408 to 1410) was a French composer and teacher of the late Middle Ages, in the period transitional to the Renaissance style. He was
Read → RenaissanceJohannes Tinctoris
Jehan le Taintenier or Jean Teinturier (Latinised as Johannes Tinctoris; also Jean de Vaerwere; c. 1435 – 1511) was a Renaissance music theorist and composer from the Low Countries. Up to his time,
Read → RomanticJohannes Verhulst
Johannes Josephus Hermanus Verhulst (March 19, 1816, in The Hague – January 17, 1891, in The Hague) was a Dutch composer and conductor. As a composer mainly of songs and as administrator of Dutch
Read → RenaissanceJohannes Vodnianus Campanus
Johannes Vodnianus Campanus (also Ionnes Campanus Vodnianus; , Jan z Vodňan or Jan Kampánus Vodňanský; 27 December 1572 – 13 December 1622) was a Czech humanist, composer, pedagogue, poet and
Read → RenaissanceJohannes von Soest
Johannes Steinwert von Soest (Johannes de Susato) (1448 – 2 May 1506) was a German composer, theorist and poet. Most biographical details about his life survive in Johannes' verse autobiography,
Read → 21st CenturyJohannes Winkler (composer)
Johannes Winkler is a film music composer, multi-instrumentalist, and music producer based in Vienna, Austria. Since 2016, he has frequently collaborated with Canadian musician Edo Van Breemen. Early
Read → Post-WarJohn A. Ross (composer)
John Andrew Ross (December 15, 1940 – June 12, 2006) was an African American jazz musician, composer, musical director, and choral conductor. Ross was born and raised in Roxbury, Massachusetts and
Read → BaroqueJohn Abell
John Abell (1653 – after 1724) was a Scottish countertenor, composer and lutenist. Life and career John Abell was born in 1653 in Aberdeenshire and by 1 May 1679 he had become a member of the Chapel
Read → 21st CenturyJohn Abram
John Abram (born 1959) is an Anglo-Canadian composer best known for his work with electroacoustic music. Born in England, Abram became interested in music when he was six; he began composing in his
Read → Late RomanticJohn Adam Hugo
John Adam Hugo (1873–1945) was an American composer and pianist. A native of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Hugo studied from 1888 until 1897 at the Stuttgart Conservatory; his instructors there included ,
Read → 21st CenturyJohn Adams
John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is an American composer and conductor. Among the most regularly performed composers of contemporary classical music, he is particularly noted for his
Read → Late RomanticJohn Albert Delany
John Albert Delany (6 July 185211 May 1907), He has been called "Australia's greatest musician" and "The Australian Gounod". then studied with the Benedictine monks at Lyndhurst College, Sydney, and
Read → ClassicalJohn Alcock (organist, born 1740)
John Alcock ( 28 January 1740 – 30 March 1791) was an English organist, who composed several songs between 1770 and 1780. Biography John Alcock was born around 1740, to Margaret Alcock, née Beaumont
Read → Late RomanticJohn Alden Carpenter
John Alden Carpenter (February 28, 1876 – April 26, 1951) was an American composer. Carpenter's compositional style was considered to be mainly "mildly modernistic and impressionistic"; many of his
Read → RenaissanceJohn Amner
John Amner (1579–1641) was an English composer. A composer of sacred works, Amner was born in Ely and had a close association with Ely Cathedral, even before his employment there as Informator
Read → ClassicalJohn Antes
John Antes (24 March 1740 – 17 December 1811) was the first American Moravian Missionary to travel and work in Egypt, one of the earliest American-born chamber music composers, and the maker of
Read → Post-WarJohn Anthony Lennon
John Anthony Lennon (born 1950 in Greensboro, North Carolina) is an American composer of contemporary classical music based in Georgia. Biography Early life and education John Anthony Lennon was born
Read → Post-WarJohn Arpin
John Francis Oscar Arpin (3 December 1936 – 8 November 2007) was a Canadian composer, recording artist and entertainer, best known for his work as a virtuoso ragtime pianist. Born in Port McNicoll,
Read → BaroqueJohn Banister (composer)
John Banister (1630 – 3 October 1679) was an English musical composer and violinist. Early life Banister was the son of one of the waits (municipal musicians) of the parish of St.
Read → Post-WarJohn Barnes Chance
John Barnes Chance (November 20, 1932 – August 16, 1972) was an American composer. Chance studied composition with Clifton Williams at the University of Texas, Austin, and is best known for his
Read → Early RomanticJohn Barnett (composer)
John Barnett (15 July 1802 – 16 April 1890) was an English composer and writer on music. Life Barnett was the eldest son of a Prussian Jew named Bernhard Beer, who changed his surname on settling in
Read → Post-WarJohn Barry (composer)
John Barry Prendergast (3 November 1933 – 30 January 2011) was an English composer and conductor of film music. Born in York, Barry spent his early years working in cinemas owned by his father.
Read → Post-WarJohn Batt (solicitor and composer)
__NOTOC__ Malcolm John Batt (1 May 1929 - 26 August 2017) was a British solicitor, who under the pen name John Malcolm was also a writer and composer of library music. He composed Non Stop, a short
Read → RomanticJohn Bayley (musician)
John Bayley (circa 1847 – 1910) was an English bandmaster, clarinetist, violinist, and organist who was active in his native country and North America. Cornetist Herbert L. Clarke described him in
Read → Post-WarJohn Beal (composer)
John Everett Beal (born January 20, 1947) is an American composer and conductor known for his work in the American film industry. He has conducted for major recording artists ranging from Olivia
Read → Post-WarJohn Beckwith (composer)
John Beckwith (March 9, 1927 – December 5, 2022) was a Canadian composer, writer, pianist, teacher, and administrator. Born in Victoria, British Columbia, he studied piano with Alberto Guerrero at
Read → RenaissanceJohn Bennet (composer)
John Bennet (c. 1575 – after 1614) was a composer of the English Madrigal School. Little is known for certain of Bennet's life, but his first collection of madrigals was published in 1599. Life
Read → ClassicalJohn Bennett (composer)
John Bennett (or Bennet; c. 10 March 1735, Liverpool – September 1784, in London) was an English organist and composer. Biography Details of Bennett's life are limited, but it is known that he
Read → Post-WarJohn Bevan Baker
John Stewart Bevan Baker (3 May 1926 – 24 June 1994) was a British composer, born in England, but a longtime resident of Scotland. Biography He was born in Staines, Middlesex, to an English father,
Read → Late RomanticJohn Blackwood McEwen
Sir John Blackwood McEwen (13 April 1868 – 14 June 1948) was a Scottish classical composer and educator. He was professor of harmony and composition at the Royal Academy of Music, London, from 1898
Read → BaroqueJohn Blow
John Blow (baptised 23 February 1649 – 1 October 1708) was an English composer and organist of the Baroque period. Appointed organist of Westminster Abbey in late 1668, his pupils included William
Read → EntryJohn Browne (composer)
John Browne (1453–c. 1500) was an English composer of the Tudor period, who has been called "the greatest English composer of the period between Dunstaple and Taverner". Despite the high level of
Read → Post-WarJohn Buckley (composer)
John Buckley (born 19 December 1951) is an Irish composer and pedagogue, a co-founder of the Ennis Summer School and a member of Aosdána. Biography John Buckley was born in Templeglantine, County
Read → RenaissanceJohn Bull (composer)
John Bull (1562/63 – 12/13 March 1628) was an English composer, organist, virginalist and organ builder. He was a renowned keyboard performer of the virginalist school and most of his compositions
Read → Post-WarJohn Buller (composer)
John Buller (7 February 1927 – 12 September 2004) was a British composer. Career John Buller was born in London on 7 February 1927. His musical career began as a chorister at St Matthew's,
Read → 21st CenturyJohn Burge
John David Bryson Burge (born 2 January 1961) is a Canadian composer, music educator, and pianist. He has won a number of awards for his compositions, including the Alberta Culture Award (1982), the
Read → Post-WarJohn Burke (composer)
John Joseph Burke (10 May 1951 – 18 January 2020) was a Canadian composer and music educator. As a composer he wrote mainly works for chamber ensembles, and his music displays an acute sensitivity to
Read → Post-WarJohn C. Williams (baritone saxophonist)
John C. Williams (8 February, 1941 – 13 May, 2025) was best known as a baritone saxophonist, though he played many other instruments, including bass saxophone and recorder. He was also a jazz
Read → 20th CenturyJohn Cage
John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer, artist, and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of
Read → Post-WarJohn Caldwell (musicologist)
John Anthony Caldwell (born 6 July 1938) is an English musicologist and composer. Life Caldwell was born in Bebington, Cheshire and studied the organ at the Matthay School of Music in Liverpool,
Read → Post-WarJohn Carmichael (composer)
John Carmichael (born 5 October 1930) is an Australian pianist, composer and music therapist who has long been resident in the United Kingdom. One of his best known works is the Concierto folklorico
Read → Post-WarJohn Carpenter
John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American filmmaker, composer, and actor. Most commonly associated with horror, action, and science fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s, he is
Read → Post-WarJohn Casken
John Arthur Casken (born 15 July 1949) is an English composer. Casken was born in Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. While at Barnsley Grammar School in the 1960s his music teacher played a
Read → Post-WarJohn Chowning
John M. Chowning (; born August 22, 1934, in Salem, New Jersey) is an American composer, musician, discoverer, and professor best known for his work at Stanford University, the founding of CCRMA –
Read → Early RomanticJohn Christian Bechler
John Christian Bechler (7 January 1784 in Oesel, Governorate of Livonia (present-day Estonia) – 18 April 1857 in Herrnhut, Saxony (present-day Germany)) was a Moravian bishop, composer, and organist.
Read → ClassicalJohn Christmas Beckwith
John Christmas Beckwith (25 December 1759 – 3 June 1809) was an English organist and composer. Life Beckwith was born in Norwich on 25 December 1759, son of Edward Beckwith (1734–1793). His father
Read → ClassicalJohn Christopher Smith
John Christopher Smith (born Johann Christoph Schmidt; 17123 October 1795) was an English composer who, following in his father's footsteps, became George Frideric Handel's secretary, student and
Read → ClassicalJohn Collett (composer)
John Collett (c1735-1775) was an English violinist and composer. He is credited with composing the first British four movement symphony. He later moved to Aberdeen, Scotland and then Edinburgh, where
Read → RenaissanceJohn Coprario
John Coprario (c. 1570–80 – c. June 1626), also known as Giovanni Coprario or Coperario, was an English composer, viol player and teacher. Life and career According to later commentators, such as
Read → Post-WarJohn Corigliano
John Paul Corigliano (born February 16, 1938) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. With over 100 compositions, he has won accolades including a Pulitzer Prize, five Grammy Awards,
Read → Post-WarJohn Courter
John Edward Courter (June 25, 1941 – June 21, 2010) was an American composer, organist, and carillonneur who served as a professor of music at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, from 1971 until his
Read → 20th CenturyJohn Cozens (musician)
John Cozens (27 April 1906 – 5 April 1999) was a Canadian arts administrator, arranger, choir conductor, and tenor of English birth. He became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1950. Early life and
Read → Post-WarJohn Craton
John Douglas Craton (born August 6, 1953) is an American classical composer. His works have been performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan. While his compositions cover a diverse
Read → RomanticJohn Croisier
John Henri Croisier (? – 1915) was a French composer and playwright. Works He created pieces for piano and operettas for which he sometimes wrote both the music as well as the lyrics. *1880: L’Année
Read → Late RomanticJohn David Davis
John David Davis (22 October 1867 – 20 November 1942), often known as J D Davis, was an English composer, born in Edgbaston, near Birmingham. Career Although born into a musical family, Davis was
Read → Post-WarJohn Davison (composer)
John H. Davison (31 May 1930 – 5 March 1999) was an American composer and pianist. Life and career Born in Istanbul, Turkey, he grew up in Upstate New York and in New York City, and studied music at
Read → Post-WarJohn Diercks
John Diercks (1927 – April 2020) was an American composer born in Montclair, New Jersey, in 1927. He held degrees from Oberlin College, the Eastman School, and the University of Rochester (PhD). His
Read → 20th CenturyJohn Donald Robb
John Donald Robb (June 12, 1892 – January 6, 1989) was an American composer, ethnomusicologist, arts administrator, and attorney. Biography Early life A symphony concert in his hometown of
Read → RenaissanceJohn Dowland
John Dowland (c. 1563 – buried 20 February 1626) was an English Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer. He is best known today for his melancholy songs such as "Come, heavy sleep", "Come again",
Read → EntryJohn Dragonetti
John Dragonetti is an American composer, songwriter, and music producer based in Los Angeles, California. He is also a founding member (along with Blake Hazard) of the band The Submarines. Early life
Read → Post-WarJohn Duffy (composer)
John Duffy (June 23, 1926 – December 22, 2015) was an American composer who created more than 300 works from symphonic music and operas to music for the concert hall, theatre, and film and
Read → MedievalJohn Dunstaple
John Dunstaple (or Dunstable; c. 1390 – 24 December 1453) was an English composer whose music helped inaugurate the transition from the medieval to the Renaissance periods. The central proponent of
Read → 21st CenturyJohn Eacott
John Eacott (born 19 December 1960) is a British jazz trumpeter and composer. Life Beginnings, early influences John Eacott was born in Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom. His father Kenneth Eacott
Read → Post-WarJohn Eaton (composer)
John Charles Eaton (March 30, 1935 – December 2, 2015) was an American composer. Born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, Eaton attended Princeton University, where he graduated in 1957. He later lived in
Read → BaroqueJohn Eccles (composer)
John Eccles (1668 – 12 January 1735) was an English composer. Born in London, eldest son of professional musician Solomon Eccles and brother of fellow composer Henry Eccles, John Eccles was appointed
Read → Post-WarJohn Elwood Price
John Elwood Price (June 21, 1935 – May 9, 1995) was an American composer, pianist, ethnomusicologist, and music teacher. He composed approximately 600 musical works in a wide variety of genres. His
Read → 21st CenturyJohn Eriksson (musician)
John Eriksson (born 8 January 1974, Hortlax (Piteå), Sweden) is a Swedish musician and composer best known as a founding member of Peter Bjorn and John. Career He was born in 1974 and raised in
Read → 21st CenturyJohn Estacio
John Estacio (born April 8, 1966) is a contemporary Canadian composer of opera, orchestral and choral music. __TOC__ Life and career Estacio was born in Newmarket, Ontario. Raised in the farming
Read → RenaissanceJohn Farmer (composer)
John Farmer (c. 1570c. 1601) was an important composer of the English Madrigal School. He was born in England during the Elizabethan period, and was also known by his skillful settings for four
Read → 20th CenturyJohn Fernström
John Fernström (6 December 1897 – 19 October 1961) was a Swedish composer. He was the founder of the Nordic Youth Orchestra. Early life and education Fernström was born in Yichang, China, where he
Read → Post-WarJohn Ferritto
John E. Ferritto (January 20, 1937 – January 7, 2010) was an American composer, conductor, and music professor. He graduated with honors in piano and violin performance from the Cleveland Institute
Read → Early RomanticJohn Field (composer)
John Field (26 July 1782 – 23 January 1837) was an Irish pianist, composer and teacher widely credited as the inventor of the nocturne. While many of his contemporaries wrote in a similar style,
Read → Post-WarJohn Fodi
John Fodi (22 March 1944 – 2 November 2009) was a composer and music librarian. Born in Hungary, he became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1961. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre, he was a
Read → ClassicalJohn Foster (composer)
John Foster (1752–1822) of High Green in the parish of Ecclesfield, West Riding of Yorkshire was a coroner and amateur musician. He composed two books of sacred music in a 19th-century classical
Read → Late RomanticJohn Foulds
John Herbert Foulds (; 2 November 1880 – 25 April 1939) was an English cellist and composer of classical music. He was largely self-taught as a composer, and belongs among the figures of the English
Read → RomanticJohn Francis Barnett
John Francis Barnett (16 October 183724 November 1916) was an English composer, pianist and teacher. Life John Francis Barnett was born on 16 October 1837 at St John's Wood, London. His father was
Read → Late RomanticJohn Francis Larchet
John Francis Larchet (13 July 1884 – 10 August 1967) was an Irish composer and teacher. He studied at Trinity College Dublin (MusB 1915, MusD 1917), also at the Royal Irish Academy of Music (RIAM)
Read → 21st CenturyJohn Frandsen (composer)
John Frandsen (born 13 March 1956) is a Danish composer, organist and choral conductor, whose work includes operas, chamber music, and religious music. His 1999 Now Flashes the White Light of the
Read → BaroqueJohn Frederick Lampe
John Frederick Lampe (born Johann Friedrich Lampe; probably 1703 – 25 July 1751) was a musician and composer. Life Lampe was born in the Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire. He came to England in
Read → 20th CenturyJohn Gardner (composer)
John Linton Gardner, CBE (2 March 1917 – 12 December 2011) was an English composer of classical music. Early life John Gardner was born in Manchester, England and grew up in Ilfracombe, North Devon.
Read → EntryJohn Godfrey (composer)
John Godfrey is a composer and performer, co-founder and musical director of Icebreaker (1989-1997), founder member of Crash Ensemble (1997–present), founder of the Quiet Music Ensemble, and lecturer
Read → Early RomanticJohn Goss (composer)
Sir John Goss (27 December 1800 – 10 May 1880) was an English organist, composer and teacher. Born to a musical family, Goss was a boy chorister of the Chapel Royal, London, and later a pupil of
Read → Post-WarJohn Greaves (musician)
John Greaves (born 23 February 1950) is a Welsh bass guitarist, pianist and composer who was a member of Henry Cow and has collaborated with Peter Blegvad. He was also a member of progressive rock
Read → EntryJohn Hanboys
John Hanboys, also John Hamboys and possibly J. de Alto Bosco (fl. 1370), was a medieval musical theorist from England. Biography Very little is known of the life of Hanboys. He may have come from
Read → Post-WarJohn Harbison
John Harris Harbison (born December 20, 1938) is an American composer and academic. Life John Harris Harbison was born on December 20, 1938, in Orange, New Jersey, to the historian Elmore Harris
Read → 21st CenturyJohn Hardy (composer)
John Hardy (born 1957) is an English-born composer who has been commissioned by the Arts Council/National Lottery, the BBC, Welsh National Opera and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, among others.
Read → RomanticJohn Hartmann
John Hartmann (October 24, 1830 – 1897) was a Prussian brass composer. He is notable for having served Prince George, Duke of Cambridge as bandmaster in the British 4th Regiment, 12th Lancers.
Read → Post-WarJohn Hawkins (Canadian composer)
John Hawkins (26 July 1944 in Montreal – 14 January 2007 in Toronto) was a Canadian composer, conductor, music educator, and pianist. He notably won the 2nd-century Week Composition Competition in
Read → BaroqueJohn Hebden
John Hebden (1712–1765) was a composer and musician in 18th century Great Britain. Little is known of Hebden's life. He was baptized on 21 July 1712 at Spofforth, near Harrogate in Yorkshire, the son
Read → RomanticJohn Henry Hopkins Jr.
John Henry Hopkins Jr. (October 28, 1820 – August 14, 1891) was an American clergyman and hymnodist, most famous for composing the song "We Three Kings of Orient Are" in 1857 (even though it does not
Read → Late RomanticJohn Henry Mee
John Henry Mee (16 August 1852 – 15 January 1918) was an Oxford academic, clergyman, composer and author on musical subjects. Life and career Mee was born at Riddings Vicarage in Derbyshire, the son
Read → Late RomanticJohn Henry Thomas
John Henry Thomas (born 24 November 1854, in Truro, Cornwall, died 22 February 1928, in Moonta) was an Australian composer, editor, and conductor. He is known for composing several Cornish Christmas
Read → RenaissanceJohn Hilton the younger
John Hilton (ca. 15991657) was an English early Baroque composer. He is best known for his books Ayres or Fa-Las for Three Voices and Catch That Catch Can. Life Hilton was born about 1599 in
Read → Post-WarJohn Hopkins (composer)
John Hopkins (born in 1949, at Polegate in East Sussex) is a British composer. Education Hopkins studied at University College Cardiff. There his teachers included Alun Hoddinott and Arnold Whittall.
Read → Early RomanticJohn Howard Payne
John Howard Payne (June 9, 1791 – April 10, 1852) was an American actor, poet, playwright, and writer who had nearly two decades of a theatrical career and success in London. He is today most
Read → Late RomanticJohn Ireland (composer)
John Nicholson Ireland (13 August 187912 June 1962) Ireland entered the Royal College of Music in 1893, studying piano with Frederic Cliffe, From 1897 he studied composition under Charles Villiers
Read → BaroqueJohn IV of Portugal
Dom John IV (; 19 March 1604 – 6 November 1656), also known by the Portuguese as John the Restorer (), was the King of Portugal from 1640 until his death in 1656. He restored the independence of
Read → Late RomanticJohn Ivimey
John William Ivimey (12 September 1868 – 16 April 1961) was an English organist and composer who specialized in comic operas. He also worked as director of music in schools and churches. Ivimey was
Read → 20th CenturyJohn J. Becker
John Joseph Becker (January 22, 1886 – January 21, 1961) was an American composer of contemporary classical music, a pianist, a conductor, a writer on music, and a music administrator. In the early
Read → 20th CenturyJohn Jacob Niles
John Jacob Niles (April 28, 1892 – March 1, 1980) was an American composer, singer and collector of traditional ballads. Called the "Dean of American Balladeers," Niles was an important influence on
Read → 21st CenturyJohn Jansson (composer)
John Jansson (born 15 January 1958) is a British conductor, composer, arranger and pianist. Biography John Denis Ingvar Jansson was born in Torquay, Devon, the son of a Swedish musician and an
Read → RenaissanceJohn Jenkins (composer)
John Jenkins (c. 1592–c. 1678), was an English composer of the early Baroque period. He was born in Maidstone, Kent and died in Kimberley, Norfolk. Biography Little is known of his early life. The
Read → RenaissanceJohn Juvenal Ancina
Giovanni Giovenale Ancina (19 October 1545 – 30 August 1604) was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Saluzzo and was a professed member from the Oratorians. The bishop was
Read → EntryJohn Kavanaugh
John William Kavanaugh is an American composer, lyricist and musical director who is currently serving as one of several songwriters on Sofia the First: Royal Magic for Disney Television Animation.
Read → 21st CenturyJohn Kenny (trombonist)
John Kenny (born 1957) is a British trombonist, carnyxplayer and composer. Career Kenny is a professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He
Read → Post-WarJohn Kinsella (composer)
John Kinsella (8 April 1932 – 9 November 2021) was an Irish composer and the country's most prolific symphonist during the twentieth century. Life Kinsella was born in Dublin, Ireland, the younger
Read → RomanticJohn Knowles Paine
John Knowles Paine (January 9, 1839 – April 25, 1906) was the first American-born composer to achieve fame for large-scale orchestral music. The senior member of a group of composers collectively
Read → EntryJohn Korsrud
John Korsrud (born 1963) is a Canadian composer and jazz trumpeter. Life John Korsrud was born in 1963. He graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1990. Korsrud studied composition with
Read → MedievalJohn Koukouzeles
John Koukouzeles Papadopoulos () was a Byzantine composer, singer and reformer of Byzantine chant. He was recognized as a saint by the Eastern Orthodox Church after his death. Among the most
Read → Post-WarJohn La Montaine
John Maynard La Montaine, also later LaMontaine, (March 17, 1920 – April 29, 2013) was an American pianist and composer, born in Oak Park, Illinois, who won the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his
Read → 21st CenturyJohn Landry
John Landry (born December 22, 1969) is a Canadian country music artist. Landry's debut album, Forever Took Too Long, was released in 1999 by Spin Records. Its first two singles, "There You Were" and
Read → EntryJohn Laskaris (composer)
John Laskaris ( early 15th century) was a Byzantine music theorist and composer. Life Laskaris was a native of Constantinople. Although he is often called "John Laskaris of Crete" in the sources,
Read → 20th CenturyJohn Laurence Seymour
John Laurence Seymour (January 18, 1893, in Los Angeles – February 1, 1986, in San Francisco) was an American composer and playwright. As a composer Seymour is best known for his operas, which have
Read → 20th CenturyJohn Lee (composer of church music)
John Lee (29 April 1908, Southport – 8 April 1990, Los Angeles) was a British-born Catholic musician who spent most of his career in north America. He is best remembered for his pioneering
Read → 21st CenturyJohn Lely
John Lely (born Norwich, England, in 1976) is a British experimental composer, improvising musician and curator based in London, UK. His music has been commissioned and performed by musicians
Read → Post-WarJohn Leslie McFarland
John Leslie McFarland (May 12, 1926 – January 14, 1971) was an American popular music composer and arranger. Career Early in his career, McFarland wrote several songs for Bill Haley and His Comets:
Read → Post-WarJohn Lessard
John Lessard (July 3, 1920 – January 11, 2003) was an American composer and music educator noted among peers for his eloquent and dramatic neo-classical works for piano and voice, chamber ensembles,
Read → 21st CenturyJohn Link (composer)
John Link is a New York composer and is one of the founders of Friends and Enemies of New Music. Link received a Ph.D. in music from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, a master's
Read → Early RomanticJohn Lodge Ellerton
John Lodge Ellerton (11 January 1801 – 3 January 1873) was an English composer of classical music. Life Ellerton was born in Cheshire with the name of John Lodge. He attended Rugby School and
Read → Post-WarJohn Loeffler
John Loeffler (born June 3, 1951) is an American music industry executive and executive vice president, head of New York repertoire and marketing for BMG. In 2019, Loeffler's output included new
Read → EntryJohn Loretz
John M. Loretz Jr. (1840–1908) was a French-born American composer. His compositions include a wide range of patriotic anthems, waltzes, and sacred pieces. He was the son of John B. Loretz, a
Read → RenaissanceJohn Lugge
John Lugge (c.1580 – 1647–55) was an English organist and composer, who spent most of his musical career at Exeter
Read → 21st CenturyJohn Lunn
John Lunn (born 13 May 1956) is a Scottish composer, known for the music from the series Downton Abbey and for many other television and movie soundtracks. Early life and education Lunn was born in
Read → Post-WarJohn Luther Adams
John Luther Adams (born January 23, 1953) is an American composer. His history of environmental activism informs his music. His orchestral work Become Ocean was awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for
Read → Post-WarJohn M. Mason (musician)
John M. Mason, MBE (21 January 1940 – 22 January 2011) was a Scottish solicitor, musician, composer and conductor. He was the co-founder, musical director, and conductor of the Scottish Fiddle
Read → 21st CenturyJohn Mackey (composer)
John Mackey (born October 1, 1973) is an American composer of contemporary classical music, with an emphasis on music for wind band, as well as orchestra. For several years, he focused on music for
Read → ClassicalJohn Mahon (composer)
John Mahon (also Mahone, Mahoon; 1749–1834) was an Irish composer, clarinetist, violinist, and viola player. Life Mahon was born in Oxford into an Irish family of musicians. His father William Mahon
Read → ClassicalJohn Marsh (composer)
John Marsh (31 May 1752 – 31 October 1828) was an English gentleman, composer, diarist and writer born in Netherseal, Derbyshire, England. A lawyer by training, he is known to have written more than
Read → Post-WarJohn Maxwell Geddes
John Maxwell Geddes (26 May 1941 – 7 September 2017) He taught at schools in Glasgow, and from 1986 he worked at the Academy. He lectured at many American universities and European academies, and was
Read → Post-WarJohn McCabe (composer)
John McCabe (21 April 1939 – 13 February 2015) was a British composer and pianist. He created works in many different forms, including symphonies, ballets, and solo works for the piano. He served as
Read → 21st CenturyJohn McCarthy (composer)
John McCarthy (born June 27, 1961) is a Canadian composer for film and television. His music has been described as a hybrid of acoustical and electronic elements. McCarthy’s background includes
Read → Post-WarJohn McGuire (composer)
John McGuire (born June 27, 1942 in Artesia, California) is an American composer, pianist, organist, and music editor. Biography John McGuire initially studied composition with Robert Arthur Gross at
Read → 21st CenturyJohn McLachlan (composer)
John McLachlan (born 5 March 1964) is an Irish composer. Life McLachlan was born in Dublin, son of the writer Leland Bardwell, and studied at the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama (1982–6), the
Read → RenaissanceJohn Merbecke
John Marbeck, Merbeck or Merbecke (c. 1510) was an English choral composer and theological writer whose musical setting of the early Anglican liturgy standardised the sung Anglican service until the
Read → Post-WarJohn Metcalf (composer)
John Metcalf MBE (born 1946) is a Welsh-Canadian composer. He has worked in many forms, including large-scale operas, choral and orchestral works, and chamber music, both instrumental and vocal. His
Read → 21st CenturyJohn Metcalfe (composer)
John Metcalfe (born 6 August 1964 ) is a British-based composer, arranger and violist, member of the Duke Quartet and a former member of the band The Durutti Column. Biography Metcalfe was born in
Read → RenaissanceJohn Milton (composer)
John Milton (1562–1647) was an English composer and father of poet John Milton. His compositions were mostly religious in theme. A financial worker by trade, he also wrote poetry. He lived in London
Read → 21st CenturyJohn Moran (composer)
John Moran (born 1965) is an American composer, choreographer, and theater artist. and his works are variously described as "unconventional", His works bring together a variety of mediums, including
Read → RenaissanceJohn Mundy (composer)
John Mundy (or Munday) (before 1555 – 29 June 1630) was an English composer, virginalist and organist of the Renaissance period. Life and works The son and pupil of the eminent composer William
Read → Post-WarJohn Musto
John Musto (born 1954) is an American composer and pianist. As a composer, he is active in opera, orchestral and chamber music, song, vocal ensemble, and solo piano works. As a pianist, he performs
Read → Late RomanticJohn N. Klohr
John Nicholas Klohr (July 27, 1869 – February 17, 1956) was a composer of band music. Klohr was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. A graduate of the Cincinnati public schools, Klohr set upon a career in
Read → MedievalJohn of Damascus
John of Damascus or John Damascene, born Yūḥana ibn Manṣūr ibn Sarjūn, was a Christian monk, priest, hymnographer, and apologist. He was born and raised in Damascus c. AD 675 or AD 676; the precise
Read → 21st CenturyJohn Oliver (composer)
John Oliver (born 21 September 1959) is a Canadian composer, guitarist, and conductor. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community, his music has
Read → Post-WarJohn Oswald (composer)
John Oswald (born May 30, 1953 in Kitchener, Ontario) is a Canadian composer, saxophonist, media artist and dancer. He is best known for coining the term "plunderphonics", the practice of making new
Read → 21st CenturyJohn Paesano
John Paesano (born July 2, 1977) is an American composer working primarily in film, television, and video games. He is known for collaborating with director Wes Ball on the Maze Runner film trilogy
Read → 21st CenturyJohn Palmer (composer)
John Palmer (born 1959) is a British composer, pianist, musicologist and university professor. His compositions are published by Composers Edition. Life John Palmer began his music career as a
Read → Late RomanticJohn Philip Sousa
John Philip Sousa (November 6, 1854 – March 6, 1932) was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era known primarily for US military marches. He is known as "The March King" (or the
Read → 21st CenturyJohn Pickard (composer)
John Pickard (born 11 September 1963) is a British classical composer. Biography Pickard was born in Burnley, Lancashire, England. He studied music and composition at the University of Wales, with
Read → EntryJohn Pitts (composer)
John Pitts (sometimes credited as John Michael Pitts) is a British composer, born in Surrey in 1976. Pitts studied music at Bristol and Manchester Universities, and specialises in music for piano
Read → 21st CenturyJohn Powell (film composer)
John Powell (born 18 September 1963) is an English music composer and music conductor. Based in Los Angeles, California since 1997, Powell has composed music for over 70 feature films, including
Read → Late RomanticJohn Prindle Scott
John Prindle Scott (August 16, 1877 – December 2, 1932) was an American author, lecturer, educator and composer of art songs. Biography He was born in Norwich, New York, and was educated with private
Read → 21st CenturyJohn Psathas
John Psathas, (born Ioannis Psathas, ; 1966) is a New Zealand Greek composer. He has works in the repertoire of such high-profile musicians as Evelyn Glennie, Michael Houstoun, Michael Brecker,
Read → Early RomanticJohn Purkis
John Purkis (1781 – 10 April 1849), was an English organist and teacher. He was blind at birth. A child prodigy, Purkis studied with Thomas Grenville (circa 1744–1827), also blind, and the organist
Read → Post-WarJohn Purser (musician)
John Purser (born 1942) is a Scottish composer, musicologist, music historian and playwright. Purser was born in Glasgow. He initiated the reconstruction that commenced in 1991 of the Iron Age
Read → RomanticJohn Pyke Hullah
John Pyke Hullah (27 June 1812 – 21 February 1884) was an English composer and teacher of music, whose promotion of vocal training is associated with the singing-class movement. He worked with
Read → 21st CenturyJohn Rae (musician)
John Rae (born 8 June 1966) is a Scottish jazz drummer, composer, and band leader. Early life and career John Rae was born in Edinburgh on 8 June 1966 to Scottish parents Margaret and Ronnie Rae. Rae
Read → BaroqueJohn Ravenscroft (composer)
John Ravenscroft (c. 1665 – 12 October 1697), also known as Giovanni Ravenscroft and Giovanni Rederi, was an English violinist and composer of the Baroque era, who moved to Rome. He was possibly a
Read → Post-WarJohn Rea (composer)
John Rea (born 1944) is a Montreal-based composer who won the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music in both 1981 and 1992. He obtained his bachelor's degree at Wayne State University (1967), his
Read → BaroqueJohn Reading (copyist)
John Reading (c. 1685/86 – 2 September 1764) was an English composer, organist and copyist (his name, like the town, is pronounced "Redding"a spelling variant of his name which occurs in several
Read → RenaissanceJohn Redford
John Redford (c. 1500 - died October or November 1547) was a major English composer, organist, and dramatist of the Tudor period. From about 1525 he was organist at St Paul's Cathedral (succeeding
Read → Post-WarJohn Rimmer (composer)
John Rimmer (born 5 February 1939) is a New Zealand composer. Biography John Francis Rimmer was born in Auckland. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1961 from the University of New Zealand in
Read → 20th CenturyJohn Rippiner Heath
John Rippiner Heath (4 January 1887 - 23 December 1950 ) was a British composer, violinist and physician who lived and worked for most of his life in Wales. Life Heath was born in Birmingham the son
Read → Post-WarJohn Robertson (composer)
Ernest John Robertson (born 21 October 1943) is a New Zealand-born Canadian composer of concert music. He received his preliminary musical educational as part of his schooling in New Zealand. Upon
Read → EntryJohn Roby (composer)
John Roby is a Canadian film and theatre composer and pianist. A native of Windsor, Nova Scotia, he began writing music for theatre projects in Halifax in the 1970s, and served as the pianist on Noel
Read → RomanticJohn Rogers Thomas
John Rogers Thomas (March 26, 1829 – April 5, 1896) was an American composer, pianist, and singer of Welsh descent. Biography Thomas was born in Newport, South Wales, on 26 March 1829. A baritone and
Read → 20th CenturyJohn Rox
John Jefferson Rox (born John Arthur Barber; July 21, 1902 – August 5, 1957) was an American composer and lyricist. He wrote music for Broadway shows and the recording industry. His song "It's a Big
Read → Post-WarJohn Rutter
Sir John Milford Rutter (born 24 September 1945) is an English composer, conductor, editor, arranger, and record producer, mainly of choral music. He founded the Cambridge Singers who premiered and
Read → Post-WarJohn S. Hilliard
John Stanley Hilliard (October 29, 1947 – November 15, 2019) was an American composer. Early life Born in Hot Springs, Arkansas, United states, into a family of musical amateurs, John Hilliard began
Read → ClassicalJohn Sale (singer)
John Sale (1758 – 11 November 1827) was an English bass singer of church music, and a singer and composer of glees. Life He was born in London in 1758, the son of John Sale (1734–1802). From 1767 to
Read → Post-WarJohn Sanders (musician)
John Derek Sanders OBE, FRCO (23 November 1933 – 23 December 2003) was an English organist, conductor, choir trainer and composer. He was organist of Gloucester Cathedral from 1967 to 1994, and
Read → 20th CenturyJohn Serry Sr.
John Serry (born John Louis Serrapica; January 29, 1915 – September 14, 2003) was an American concert accordionist, arranger, composer, organist, and educator. He performed on the CBS Radio and
Read → RenaissanceJohn Sheppard (composer)
John Sheppard (also Shepherd, c. 1515 – December 1558) was an English composer of the Renaissance. Biography Sheppard was probably born around 1515, judging from his statement in 1554 that he had
Read → ClassicalJohn Stafford Smith
John Stafford Smith (bapt. 30 March 175021 September 1836) was an English composer, church organist, and early musicologist. He was one of the first serious collectors of manuscripts of works by
Read → RomanticJohn Stainer
Sir John Stainer (6 June 1840 – 31 March 1901) was an English composer and organist whose music, though seldom performed today (with the exception of The Crucifixion, still heard at Passiontide in
Read → ClassicalJohn Stanley (composer)
Charles John Stanley (17 January 1712 Old Style – 19 May 1786) was an English composer and organist. Biography John Stanley was born in London on 17 January 1712. At about the age of two, he fell on
Read → Late RomanticJohn Stepan Zamecnik
John Stepan Zamecnik (May 14, 1872 in Cleveland, Ohio – June 13, 1953 in Los Angeles, California) was an American composer and conductor. He is best known for the "photoplay music" he composed for
Read → EntryJohn Stringer (composer)
John Stringer is a British composer, oboist, conductor and academic. Early life and education John Stringer was born in Newcastle and studied at the University of Huddersfield. Following an
Read → Post-WarJohn Tavener
Sir John Kenneth Tavener (28 January 1944 – 12 November 2013) was an English composer of choral religious works. Among his works are The Lamb (1982), The Protecting Veil (1988), and Song for Athene
Read → RenaissanceJohn Taverner
John Taverner (c. 1490 – 18 October 1545) was an English composer and organist, regarded as one of the most important English composers of his era. He is best-known for Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas and
Read → ClassicalJohn Taylor (Unitarian hymn writer)
John Taylor (30 July 1750 – 23 June 1826) was an entrepreneur, poet and composer of both secular (political) songs and hymns from Norwich, England. Early life John Taylor was born to Richard
Read → Post-WarJohn Tesh
John Frank Tesh Jr. (born July 9, 1952) is an American musician and radio and television presenter. He wrote the NBA on NBC basketball theme "Roundball Rock" and hosts the Intelligence for Your Life
Read → RomanticJohn Thomas (harpist)
John Thomas (1 March 1826 – 19 March 1913) was a Welsh composer and harpist. The bardic name Pencerdd Gwalia (Chief of the Welsh minstrels) was conferred on him at the 1861 Aberdare Eisteddfod. Life
Read → RomanticJohn Thomas Douglass
John Thomas Douglass (1847–1886) was an American composer, virtuoso violinist, conductor and teacher. He is best known for composing Virginia's Ball (1868), which is generally regarded as the first
Read → Early RomanticJohn Thomson (composer)
John Thomson (28 October 1805 – 18 May 1841) was a Scottish classical composer. He was born in Sprouston, Roxburghshire, the son of Andrew Mitchell Thomson, the minister of Sprouston Church. Life and
Read → Post-WarJohn Thow
John Holland Thow (October 6, 1949 – March 4, 2007) was an American music composer. Thow produced an extensive and diverse body of work comprising solo, chamber, vocal, choral, operatic and
Read → RenaissanceJohn Tomkins (composer)
John Tomkins (1586 – 27 September 1638) was a Welsh-born organist and composer, a half-brother of the composer Thomas Tomkins. He was organist at St Paul's Cathedral in London from 1619. Life Tomkins
Read → ClassicalJohn Valentine (composer)
John Valentine (7 June 1730 – 10 September 1791) was an English violinist, violist and composer. Biography John Valentine was born in Leicester, England, the son of John Valentine and his wife Sarah.
Read → Post-WarJohn Vallier
John Vallier (1 October 1920 – 11 June 1991) was an English classical pianist and composer who was known for his thunderous technique and beautiful singing tone, and was especially admired for his
Read → 21st CenturyJohn Van Tongeren
John Van Tongeren is an American keyboardist and composer for films and television. Biography Van Tongeren's career in the entertainment business began as a keyboardist, with one of his earliest
Read → Post-WarJohn Veale
John Douglas Louis Veale (15 June 1922 – 16 November 2006) was an English classical composer. Early career He was born in Shortlands, Bromley, Kent; his father, the civil servant Douglas Veale, later
Read → 20th CenturyJohn Vincent (composer)
John Nathaniel Vincent Jr. (May 17, 1902 – January 21, 1977) was an American composer, conductor, and music educator. Vincent was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and studied at the New England
Read → 20th CenturyJohn W. Duarte
John William Duarte (2 October 1919 – 23 December 2004) was a British composer, guitarist and writer. Career Duarte was born in Sheffield, England, but lived in Manchester from the age of six months.
Read → 20th CenturyJohn W. Schaum
John W. Schaum (January 27, 1905 – July 18, 1988) was an American pianist, composer, and educator who was born and died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Education Schaum received a Bachelor of Music degree
Read → RenaissanceJohn Ward (composer)
John Ward (1590–1638) was an English composer. He trained as a singer in Canterbury, where he was a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral. He then moved to London where he produced religious and secular
Read → 21st CenturyJohn Webb (composer)
John Webb (born 1969) is an English composer. Biography He was educated in Essex where he started playing the piano and viola. He began to compose at 14, and two years later attended Colchester
Read → 20th CenturyJohn Weinzweig
John Jacob Weinzweig (March 11, 1913 – August 24, 2006) was a composer, teacher, and advocate of contemporary Canadian concert music. Born in Toronto, Weinzweig went to Harbord Collegiate Institute,
Read → BaroqueJohn Weldon (musician)
John Weldon (19 January 1676 – 7 May 1736) was an English composer. Life Born at Chichester in the south of England, he was educated at Eton College, where he was a chorister, and later received
Read → 21st CenturyJohn Welsman
John Joseph Welsman (born 1955) is a Canadian composer known for his work in film and television. He has written film and television scores for production companies in both Canada and the United
Read → 20th CenturyJohn Wesley Work III
John Wesley Work III (July 15, 1901 – May 17, 1967) was an American composer, educator, choral director, musicologist and scholar of African-American folklore and music. Biography He was born on July
Read → Post-WarJohn White (composer)
John White (5 April 1936 – 4 January 2024) was an English experimental composer and musical performer. He invented the early British form of minimalism known as systems music, with his early
Read → 20th CenturyJohn Whitney (animator)
John Hales Whitney Sr. (April 8, 1917 – September 22, 1995) was an American animator, composer and inventor, widely considered to be one of the pioneers of computer animation. Life Whitney was born
Read → RenaissanceJohn Wilbye
John Wilbye (baptized 7 March 1574 – September 1638) was an English madrigal composer. Early life and education The son of a tanner, he was born at Brome, Suffolk, England. (Brome is near Diss,
Read → RomanticJohn William Glover
John William Glover (19 June 1815 – 19 December 1899) was an Irish composer, conductor, organist, violinist, and teacher. Life and music Glover was born in Dublin, where he initially became an
Read → Post-WarJohn Williams
John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer and conductor. Over his seven-decade career, he has composed many of the best known scores in film history. His compositional
Read → 20th CenturyJohn Woods Duke
John Woods Duke (July 30, 1899 – October 26, 1984) was an American composer and pianist. He is best known for his large output of art songs. Biography John Woods Duke was born in Cumberland, Maryland
Read → Post-WarJohn Woolrich
John Woolrich ( ; born 1954 in Cirencester) is an English composer. Biography Woolrich has founded a group (the Composers Ensemble), a festival (Hoxton New Music Days), and has been composer in
Read → 20th CenturyJohn Worley
John C. Worley (1919-1999) was a saxophonist, conductor, professor, and a composer of classical, as well as more contemporary music for saxophone. He was born in Waltham, Massachusetts in 1919 and
Read → Post-WarJohn Wyre
John Harvey Wyre (17 May 1941 – 31 October 2006) was a U.S.-born Canadian percussionist, composer, and music educator. He worked as percussionist with a number of important orchestras in North
Read → Post-WarJohnny "Guitar" Watson
John Watson Jr. (February 3, 1935 – May 17, 1996), often known professionally as Johnny "Guitar" Watson, was an American musician. A flamboyant showman and electric guitarist in the style of T-Bone
Read → Post-WarJohnny Bristol
John William Bristol (February 3, 1939 – March 21, 2004) was an American musician, most famous as a songwriter and record producer for the Motown label in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was a
Read → Post-WarJohnny Douglas (conductor)
John Henry Douglas (19 June 1920 – 20 April 2003) was an English composer, pianist, musical director, conductor, and string arranger primarily working with film scores and orchestras. He recorded
Read → Post-WarJohnny Mandel
John Alfred Mandel (November 23, 1925 – June 29, 2020) was an American composer, multi-instrumentalist, and arranger of popular songs, film music and jazz. The musicians he worked with include Count
Read → Post-WarJohnny Pacheco
Juan Pablo Knipping Pacheco (25 March 1935 – 15 February 2021), known as Johnny Pacheco, was a Dominican musician, arranger, composer, bandleader, and record producer. Born in the Dominican Republic,
Read → 21st CenturyJohnny Yim
Johnny Yim Lai-hang (born 12 August 1977) is a Hong Kong pianist, composer, arranger, and producer. Life and career Yim was born in Hong Kong, coming from a family with a musical background, with one
Read → Post-WarJoji Yuasa
was a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music. Early life and education Joji Yuasa was born in Kōriyama, Fukushima on 12 August 1929, and was a self-taught composer. He first became
Read → Post-WarJoly Braga Santos
José Manuel Joly Braga Santos, ComSE (; May 14, 1924 – July 18, 1988) was a Portuguese composer and conductor, who was born and died in Lisbon. He wrote six symphonies. Biography José Manuel Joly
Read → Post-WarJolyon Brettingham Smith
Jolyon Brettingham Smith (9 September 1949 – 17 May 2008) was a British composer, conductor, performer, author, and radio presenter, and a university teacher at the Berlin University of the Arts.
Read → Post-WarJolyon Jackson
Jolyon Jackson (3 September 1948 – 18 December 1985) was an Irish musician and composer. Life Jackson was born in Malaya where his father, Patrick Jackson, was Deputy Commissioner of the police and
Read → Post-WarJon Appleton
Jon Howard Appleton (January 4, 1939 – January 30, 2022) was an American composer, an educator and a pioneer in electro-acoustic music. His earliest compositions in the medium, e.g. "Chef d'Oeuvre"
Read → EntryJon Everist
Jon Everist is an American video game composer. He is responsible for the score to BattleTech, which he received an American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers "Composer's Choice Award" for
Read → Post-WarJon Gibson (minimalist musician)
Jon Gibson (March 11, 1940 – October 11, 2020) was an American flutist, saxophonist, composer and visual artist, known as one of the founding members of the Philip Glass Ensemble. He was a key player
Read → 20th CenturyJón Leifs
Jón Leifs (; born Jón Þorleifsson; 1 May 1899 – 30 July 1968) was an Icelandic composer, pianist, and conductor. Life Jón Leifs was born Jón Þorleifsson, at the farm Sólheimar, then in the
Read → Post-WarJon Mostad
Jon Mostad (born 21 April 1942) is a composer from Fredrikstad, Norway. He received the Norwegian state three-year scholarship for artists from 1982 until 1984. Musical style In his early
Read → Post-WarJón Nordal
Jón Nordal (6 March 1926 – 5 December 2024) was an Icelandic composer and pianist. He was considered one of the leading Icelandic composers of his generation, and his orchestral and choral works have
Read → 21st CenturyJon Opstad
Jon Opstad (born 1983) is a British composer. His work spans music for film and television, contemporary dance, concert music and album projects. He has collaborated with other artists, such as Max
Read → 20th CenturyJón Þórarinsson
Jón Þórarinsson (13 September 1917 – 12 February 2012) was an Icelandic composer, teacher, and administrator. He was a leading personality in Icelandic culture in the 20th century, particularly in
Read → 21st CenturyJonas Kullhammar
Jonas Kullhammar (2 September 1978 in Nacka, Sweden) is a Swedish jazz composer, saxophonist and is one of Sweden's most established jazz musicians. Career Since 1998 his main group has been Jonas
Read → 21st CenturyJonatan Sersam
Jonatan Sersam (born 2 June 1986) is a Swedish composer and pianist. His music has been performed by Malmö Symfoniorkester, Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester, ensemble ICTUS, Schallfeld Ensemble, Ensemble
Read → 21st CenturyJonathan Bar Giora
Jonathan Bar Giora (; born 8 July 1962) is an Israeli composer and pianist. Since 2000, Bar Giora has composed scores and soundtracks for over 150 Israeli films such as Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi, Time
Read → ClassicalJonathan Battishill
Jonathan Battishill (May 1738 – 10 December 1801) was an English composer, keyboard player, and concert tenor. He began his career as a composer writing theatre music but later devoted himself to
Read → EntryJonathan Beard
Jonathan Beard is an American orchestrator and composer for media and the concert stage. His credits include Us, The Handmaid's Tale, Despicable Me 3, Star Wars: Battlefront II, and Wicked. Beard
Read → EntryJonathan Bepler
Jonathan Bepler is an American composer of experimental music perhaps best known for his collaborative work with artists and choreographers, including many years of work with visual artist Matthew
Read → Early RomanticJonathan Blewitt
Jonathan Blewitt (19 July 1782 – 4 September 1853) His father, Jonas Blewitt (died 1805), was a distinguished organist in the late 18th century, author of A Complete Treatise on the Organ, and Ten
Read → 21st CenturyJonathan Dove
Jonathan Dove (born 18 July 1959) is an English composer of opera, choral works, plays, films, and orchestral and chamber music. He has arranged a number of operas for English Touring Opera and the
Read → EntryJonathan Geer
Jonathan Geer is an American video game music composer and musician. He has composed for a number of video games, including for Core Keeper, The Franz Kafka Videogame and Owlboy. Life and career
Read → EntryJonathan Goldsmith (musician)
Jonathan (Jon) Goldsmith is a Canadian musician, arranger, producer, and composer. Best known as a composer of film and television scores, he has also been associated with various projects as a
Read → 21st CenturyJonathan Goldstein (composer)
Jonathan Goldstein (27 September 1968 – 25 August 2019) was an English music composer for film, television, advertising, theatre, and live events. His work encompassed a range of contemporary
Read → Post-WarJonathan Harvey (composer)
Jonathan Dean Harvey (3 May 1939 – 4 December 2012) was a British composer. He held teaching positions at universities and music conservatories in Europe and the United States. Life Harvey was born
Read → Post-WarJonathan Kramer
Jonathan Donald Kramer (December 7, 1942, Hartford, Connecticut – June 3, 2004, New York City) was an American composer and music theorist. Biography Kramer received his B.A. magna cum laude from
Read → 21st CenturyJonathan Leshnoff
Jonathan Leshnoff (born September 8, 1973) is an American classical music composer. Early life and education Jonathan Leshnoff was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey to Susan and Steven Leshnoff; his
Read → 21st CenturyJonathan Little (composer)
Jonathan David Little FCLM, FISM, FRSA (born 1965 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian contemporary classical composer, arts educator and author on cultural history based in the UK and
Read → Post-WarJonathan Lloyd (composer)
Jonathan Lloyd (30 September 1948 – 31 July 2025) was a British composer. Life and career Lloyd's early teachers included Emile Spira. He continued his studies at the Royal College of Music where he
Read → 21st CenturyJonathan Manalo
Jonathan Suarez Manalo (born November 26, 1978) is a Filipino songwriter and record producer. He is currently the creative director of ABS-CBN Music, having composed numerous compositions for ABS-CBN
Read → 21st CenturyJonathan Mills (composer)
Sir Jonathan Mills (born 21 March 1963) is an Australian composer and festival director. He was born and raised in Sydney and has dual Australian and UK citizenship. His work includes operas, an
Read → 21st CenturyJonathan Pitkin
Jonathan Pitkin (born 1978) is a contemporary classical composer and lecturer. Pitkin was born in Dublin but grew up in Edinburgh. He studied at Christ Church, Oxford and at the Royal Academy of
Read → EntryJonathan Price
Jonathan Price was an American composer who is best known for his film scores to Ouija House and Necrosis, and for the opera ÆSOPERA. He died in January 2022 from glioblastoma multiforme, which is an
Read → 21st CenturyJonathan Russell (composer)
Jonathan Russell (born 1979) is an American composer of classical music, clarinetist, and bass clarinetist. Russell was the founder of the Switchboard Music Festival, which will hold its 10th
Read → 21st CenturyJonFX
John Alexander Crawford (born May 31, 1983), professionally known as JonFX, is a music producer from St. Andrews, Jamaica. He has worked with dancehall and reggae artists Shabba Ranks, I Wayne, Vybz
Read → Late RomanticJonny Heykens
Jonny Heykens, Johannes Jacobus Heijkens (24 September 1884 – 28 June 1945) was a Dutch composer of light classical music, best known for his jaunty Ständchen (Serenade) No.1 Opus 21. Heykens was
Read → Post-WarJoonas Kokkonen
Joonas Kokkonen (; 13 November 1921 – 2 October 1996) was a Finnish composer. He was one of the most internationally famous Finnish composers of the 20th century after Sibelius; his opera The Last
Read → 21st CenturyJordan Woods-Robinson
Jordan Woods-Robinson is an American actor, musician and composer, He is best known for his portrayal of Eric Raleigh in The Walking Dead series. He has also appeared in Magic City and Drop Dead
Read → Post-WarJordi Savall
Jordi Savall i Bernadet (; born 1 August 1941) is a Spanish conductor, composer and viol player. He has been one of the major figures in the field of Western early music since the 1970s, largely
Read → Post-WarJörg Demus
Jörg Wolfgang Demus (2 December 1928 – 16 April 2019) was an Austrian classical pianist who appeared internationally and made many recordings. He was also a composer and a lecturer at music
Read → 21st CenturyJörg Duda
Jörg Duda (born 17 December 1968) is a German composer of classical music. Life and career Born in Munich, Duda was influenced by the church music of Scheyern Abbey. He took lessons in organ and
Read → Post-WarJörg Ewald Dähler
Jörg Ewald Dähler (16 March 1933 – 3 November 2018), was a Swiss conductor, harpsichordist, fortepiano player and composer. Life Born in Bern, Dähler, son of the reformed pastor Karl Walter Dähler
Read → Post-WarJörg Herchet
Jörg Herchet (born 20 September 1943) is a German composer. Life Born in Dresden, Herchet grew up as the son of a driver and a worker in modest circumstances. As a pupil he received recorder and
Read → 21st CenturyJörg Widmann
Jörg Widmann (; born 19 June 1973) is a German composer, conductor and clarinetist. In 2023, Widmann was the third most performed living contemporary composer in the world. Formerly a clarinet and
Read → Post-WarJorge Antunes (composer)
Jorge de Freitas Antunes (born 23 April 1942) is a Brazilian avant-garde composer of electroacoustic and acousmatic music. He is known as the man who pioneered electronic music in Brazil. Born in Rio
Read → Post-WarJorge Arriagada
Jorge Arriagada (20 August 1943 – 8 October 2024) was a French-Chilean composer residing in France. Specializing in film music, he is best known for his longstanding collaboration with director Raúl
Read → Post-WarJorge Calandrelli
Jorge Calandrelli (December 31, 1939 – May 4, 2026) was an Argentine composer, arranger, and conductor known for his work with Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion, Arturo Sandoval, Yo-Yo Ma, Tony Bennett,
Read → 21st CenturyJorge Liderman
Jorge Mario Liderman (November 16, 1957 – February 3, 2008) was an Argentine and American composer. He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 to partially fund a new work for Duo46 titled
Read → 21st CenturyJorge Martín (composer)
Jorge Martín (born 1959) is an American composer. Early life and studies Jorge Martín was born in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, and established his residence in the United States at an early age. He
Read → Post-WarJorge Peixinho
Jorge Manuel Marques Peixinho Rosado (born 20 January 1940 — 30 June 1995) was a Portuguese composer, pianist and conductor. Life and career Born in Montijo, Portugal, Peixinho studied composition
Read → Post-WarJorge Peña Hen
Jorge Washington Peña Hen (January 16, 1928 – October 16, 1973) was a Chilean composer and musician, founder of the first children's symphony orchestra in Latin America. Due to his militancy in the
Read → 21st CenturyJorge Villavicencio Grossmann
Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann (1973) is a Peruvian composer, naturalized Brazilian, who currently resides in the United States. Biography Born in Lima, he began musical studies at the age of six,
Read → 21st CenturyJörgen Dafgård
Jörgen Dafgård (born 27 November 1964 in Gothenburg) is a Swedish composer. He gained international repute in connection with the 2003 Masterprize competition, in which his orchestral work Veils
Read → 21st CenturyJoris Vanvinckenroye
Joris Vanvinckenroye (born 1977), also known by his solo moniker BASta!, is a Flemish avant-rock and experimental double bass musician and composer. He is best known for Aranis, a neo-classical
Read → 21st CenturyJörn Arnecke
Jörn Arnecke (born 1973, in Hameln) is a German composer. Arnecke is the professor of music theory, aural training, and historical music theory at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar. Life
Read → 20th CenturyJórunn Viðar
Jórunn Viðar (7 December 1918 – 27 February 2017) was an Icelandic pianist and composer. She was the first classically trained female composer in Iceland and her music is frequently inspired by
Read → 21st CenturyJosé Abraham
José Abraham (born 18 March 1974 in Seville) is a Spanish writer, composer and music producer. His songs have been published in more than 40 countries. He has collaborated with multiple producers,
Read → Post-WarJosé Antonio Bottiroli
José Antonio Bottiroli (January 1, 1920 – March 15, 1990) was an Argentine classical music composer and poet. Biography José Antonio Bottiroli was born in Rosario, Argentina on 1 January 1920 and
Read → Post-WarJosé Antonio Labordeta
José Antonio Labordeta Subías (10 March 1935 – 19 September 2010) was a Spanish Aragonese singer, songwriter, poet, writer and political activist. He was described by The Gran Enciclopedia Aragonesa
Read → RomanticJosé Antonio Santesteban
José Antonio Santesteban (18 October 1835 in San Sebastián – 21 September 1906 in San Sebastián) was a Basque composer, the most famous of the musical family of that name (his father was José Juan
Read → RomanticJosé Augusto Ferreira Veiga
José Augusto Ferreira Veiga, Viscount of Arneiro (22 November 1838 in Portuguese Macau – 7 June 1903 in San Remo, Italy Veiga performed at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos on 31 March 1876; his
Read → Early RomanticJosé Bernardo Alzedo
José Bernardo Alzedo (August 20, 1788 – December 28, 1878) was a Peruvian composer. Alzedo was born in Lima, Peru. He studied music at the Convento de San Agustín, and composed Misa en Re Mayor (Mass
Read → Post-WarJosé Carlos Amaral Vieira
José Carlos Amaral Vieira (born 1952 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian composer, pianist, and musicologist. He has performed solo since he was eight years old and studied in Europe from 1965 to 1976. He
Read → Late RomanticJosé de la Cruz Mena
José de la Cruz Mena (3 May 187422 September 1907) was a Nicaraguan composer. When he was twenty-one years old he contracted leprosy, but continued to compose until his death twelve years later. Mena
Read → BaroqueJosé de Nebra
José Melchor Baltasar Gaspar Nebra Blasco (January 6, 1702 – July 11, 1768) was a Spanish composer and organist from the Baroque period. His work combines Spanish traditions with the Italian style of
Read → BaroqueJosé de Torres
José de Torres y Martínez Bravo (16701738) was a Spanish composer, organist, music theorist and music publisher. Biography Torres was born in Madrid, where he served as organist of the capilla real
Read → Early RomanticJosé Eulalio Samayoa
José Eulalio Samayoa (c. 1781 – c. 1866) was a Guatemalan classical composer. Biography José Eulalio Samayoa was educated within the system of guilds, progressing from apprentice to journeyman before
Read → Post-WarJosé Evangelista
José Evangelista (5 August 1943 – 10 January 2023) was a Spanish composer and music educator who was based in Montreal, Canada. He was professor of composition at the Université de Montréal from 1979
Read → RomanticJosé Ferrer (guitarist)
José Ferrer Esteve de Fujadas (in 19th-century France known as "Joseph Ferrer") (13 March 1835 – 7 March 1916) was a Spanish guitarist and composer. Life Ferrer was born in Torroella de Montgrí,
Read → ClassicalJosé Herrando
José Herrando (Valencia, c. 1720/1721-Madrid, 1763) was a Spanish violinist and composer. Career Herrando was a friend of the writer and mathematician Diego de Torres Villarroel and a fixed musician
Read → RomanticJosé Inzenga
José Inzenga y Castellanos (Madrid, 3 June 1828 – 28 June 1891) was a Spanish composer of zarzuelas and professor at the Conservatory of Madrid and academic of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de
Read → RomanticJosé Julián Jiménez
José Julián Jiménez (January 9, 1823–March 3, 1898), was a Cuban violinist and composer. Early life José Julián Jiménez was born in Trinidad, Cuba. Jiménez was part of a vibrant group of free black
Read → Post-WarJosé Loyola
José Eulalio Loyola Fernández (born 1941) is a Cuban composer, professor and flutist. Academic background José Loyola was born in 1941 in Cienfuegos, Cuba. He began to study flute with his father,
Read → Post-WarJosé Luis Torregrosa
José Luis Torregrosa (December 4, 1944 in Talavera de la Reina, Toledo – November 5, 2007 in Málaga) was a Spanish singer, musician, composer, and record producer. He worked with numerous artists
Read → Post-WarJosé Luis Turina
José Luis Turina (born 1952, in Madrid) is a Spanish composer, grandson of Joaquín Turina. He studied composition under Antón García Abril, Román Alís, Rodolfo Halffter and Carmelo Bernaola at the
Read → 21st CenturyJosé María Cano
José María Cano Andrés (born 21 February 1959) is a Spanish visual artist, musician, composer, and record producer. From 1982 to 1998, he was a member and principal composer of the Spanish pop-rock
Read → Early RomanticJosé Mariano Elízaga
Elízaga Prado, José Damián (27 September 1786 – 2 October 1842) was a Mexican composer, music theorist, pianist, organist and teacher. He was the Kapellmeister of emperor Agustín I of Mexico and was
Read → Late RomanticJosé Marín Varona
José Marín Varona (Camagüey, March 10, 1859Havana, September 17, 1912) was a Cuban composer, conductor, pianist and professor. Biographical note José Marín Varona was born on March 10, 1859, in the
Read → ClassicalJosé Maurício (Portuguese composer)
José Maurício (Coimbra, 19 March 1752 - Figueira da Foz, 12 September 1815 ) was a Portuguese composer mainly known for his prolific production of sacred music. A native of Coimbra, Mauricio began as
Read → ClassicalJosé Maurício Nunes Garcia
José Maurício Nunes Garcia (September 20, 1767 – April 18, 1830) was a Brazilian composer and priest, who is known as one of the greatest exponents of Classicism in the Americas. Born in Rio de
Read → Early RomanticJosé Melchor Gomis
José Melchor Gomis y Colomer (6 January 1791 – 4 August 1836) was a Spanish Romantic composer. Career He was born in Ontinyent, Vall d'Albaida, Valencia Province. He served as the music director for
Read → 20th CenturyJosé Muñoz Molleda
José Muñoz Molleda (1903–1988) was a Spanish composer, journalist, jurist and politician. He was one of the "músicos del '27." He was born in La Línea de la Concepción in 1903, where he first studied
Read → Post-WarJosé Nieto (composer)
José Nieto (born March 1, 1942) is a Spanish composer, orchestrator, songwriter, conductor and drum player. He is best known for writing films scores, such as Mad Love (2001), El bosque animado
Read → 20th CenturyJosé Pablo Moncayo
José Pablo Moncayo García (June 29, 1912 – June 16, 1958) was a Mexican pianist, percussionist, music teacher, composer and conductor. "As composer, José Pablo Moncayo represents one of the most
Read → Late RomanticJosé Vianna da Motta
José Vianna da Motta (modern spelling as Viana da Mota; 22 April 1868 – 1 June 1948) was a Portuguese pianist, teacher, and composer. He was one of the last pupils of Franz Liszt. The José Vianna da
Read → 20th CenturyJosée Vigneron-Ramackers
Christiane-Josée Vigneron-Ramackers (25 January 1914 – 30 August 2002), also known as Jo Delande, was a Belgian music educator, conductor and composer. She is known for founding the Academie voor
Read → Post-WarJosef Anton Riedl
Josef Anton Riedl (11 June 1929 – 25 March 2016) was a German composer. Biography Riedl was born in Munich in 1929 (1927 is also given as his year of birth). Following a period of studies at the
Read → ClassicalJosef Antonín Sehling
Josef Antonín Sehling (also Seeling, Seling, Sölling; 7 January 1710 – 19 September 1756) was a Bohemian composer and violinist of the baroque period. Life Sehling was born in Toužim (German:
Read → Post-WarJosef Berg
Josef Berg (8 March 1927 – 26 February 1971) was a Czech composer, musicologist and librettist. His work represents a remarkable value in the context of Czech music after World War II. Life From 1946
Read → Late RomanticJosef Bohuslav Foerster
Josef Bohuslav Foerster (30 December 1859 – 29 May 1951) was a Czech composer and musicologist. He is often referred to as J. B. Foerster, and his surname is sometimes spelled Förster. Life Foerster
Read → ClassicalJosef Fiala
Josef Fiala (; 3 February 1748 – 31 July 1816) was a Czech composer, oboist, viola da gamba virtuoso, cellist and pedagogue of the Classical period. Life He was born in Lochovice in Bohemia and began
Read → RomanticJosef Forster (composer)
Josef Forster (20 January 1838 in Trofaiach – 23 March 1917 in Vienna) was an Austrian composer; known primarily for his operas and operettas. Biography He was one of ten children born to Jakob
Read → Late RomanticJosef Karl Richter
Josef Karl Richter (16 March 1880 in Podersam22 September 1933 in Vienna) was a Bohemian composer and military bandmaster. Richter was the son of a court official. He studied music and graduated in
Read → RomanticJosef Labor
Josef Paul Labor (29 June 184226 April 1924) was an Austrian pianist, organist, and composer of the late Romantic era. Labor was an influential music teacher. As a friend of some key figures in
Read → RomanticJosef Leopold Zvonař
Josef Leopold Zvonař (22 January 1824 – 23 November 1865) was a Czech composer, pedagogue, and music critic. Life and career Zvonař was born in Kublov, studied at the organ school in Prague with
Read → Post-WarJosef Maria Horváth
Josef Maria Horváth (born József Mária Horváth; 20 December 1931 – 21 October 2019) was an Austrian composer of Hungarian descent, who wrote contemporary classical music. A Professor at the Mozarteum
Read → Late RomanticJosef Matthias Hauer
Josef Matthias Hauer (March 19, 1883 – September 22, 1959) was an Austrian composer and music theorist. He is best known for developing, independent of and a year or two before Arnold Schoenberg, a
Read → ClassicalJosef Mysliveček
Josef Mysliveček (9 March 1737 – 4 February 1781) was a Czech composer. He contributed to the formation of late eighteenth-century classicism in music. Mysliveček provided his younger friend Wolfgang
Read → RomanticJosef Pischna
Josef Pischna (; 15 June 1826 – 19 October 1896) was a Czech pianist and composer. Josef Pischna was born in near Příbram and studied oboe at the Prague Conservatory from 1840 to 1846. He worked for
Read → ClassicalJosef Reicha
Josef Reicha (12 February 1752 – 5 March 1795), also spelt Rejcha, was a Czech cellist, composer and conductor. He was the uncle of composer and music theorist Anton Reicha. Josef Reicha was born in
Read → RomanticJosef Rheinberger
Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (17 March 1839 – 25 November 1901) was a composer and organist from Liechtenstein, residing in Bavaria for most of his life. As court conductor in Munich, he was responsible
Read → RomanticJosef Richard Rozkošný
Josef Richard Rozkošný (21 September 1833 – 3 June 1913) was a Czech composer and pianist. Life Rozkošný was born on 21 September 1833 in Prague. He studied at a gymnasium, but he also took piano
Read → ClassicalJosef Schnabel
Joseph Ignaz Schnabel (24 May 1767 – 16 June 1831) was a German composer and church musician. Life He was born in Naumburg am Queis in Silesia, now in Poland. He came from a family of musicians and
Read → ClassicalJosef Seger
Josef Seger (born Josef Ferdinand Norbert Segert, last name also Seeger or Seegr) (21 March 1716 – 22 April 1782) was an organist, composer, and educator from Bohemia. After graduating in philosophy
Read → Early RomanticJosef Slavík
Josef Slavík (26 March 1806 – 30 May 1833) was a Czech violin virtuoso and composer. He was expected by Viennese musical critics to become Paganini's successor after composing a supposedly unplayable
Read → RomanticJosef Strauss
Josef Luckhardt Strauss (20 August 1827 – 22 July 1870) was an Austrian composer. Early life He was born in Mariahilf (now Vienna), the son of Johann Strauss I and Maria Anna Streim, and brother of
Read → Late RomanticJosef Suk (composer)
Josef Suk (4 January 1874 – 29 May 1935) was a Czech composer, violinist, and Olympic silver medalist. He studied under Antonín Dvořák, whose daughter he married. Biography From a young age, Josef
Read → Late RomanticJosef Szulc
Josef Zygmunt Szulc (4 April 1875, Warsaw, Warsaw Governorate, Russian Empire – 10 April 1956, Paris, France) was a composer and conductor. He also used the pseudonym Jan Sulima. Life Szulc was born
Read → 20th CenturyJosef Tal
Josef Tal (; September 18, 1910 – August 25, 2008) was an Israeli composer. He wrote three Hebrew operas; four German operas, dramatic scenes; six symphonies; 13 concerti; chamber music, including
Read → Early RomanticJosef Triebensee
Josef Triebensee (Trübensee) (November 21, 1772 Třeboň - April 22, 1846 Prague) was a Bohemian composer and oboist. He studied composition with Albrechtsberger and oboe with his father, Georg
Read → Late RomanticJosef Venantius von Wöss
Josef Venantius von Wöss (13 June 1863 – 22 October 1943) was a Viennese church musician, composer, teacher of harmony and music publishing lector. He is known for piano transcriptions of large-scale
Read → Early RomanticJosef Vorel
Josef Vorel (also Worel) (13 November 1801 – 19 December 1874) was a Czech priest and composer. He is known mainly as a composer of songs and choirs in the folk style. Vorel was born in Opočno, the
Read → Late RomanticJosef Wagner (composer)
Josef Franz Wagner (20 March 1856 – 5 June 1908) was an Austrian military bandmaster and composer. He is sometimes referred to as "The Austrian March King". Hailing from Vienna, which remained a key
Read → Late RomanticJosef Weiss
Josef Weiss (also Weiß, 5 November 1864 – 1945) was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He began his career as a concert pianist in 1877 at the age of 13. He performed in concert halls internationally
Read → RomanticJosefa Somellera
Josefa Somellera Guiterrez Zavalla Rebollo (1810-1885) was an Argentine composer and singer who performed and published under the name Josefa Somellera. Somellera was born in Buenos Aires to Josefa
Read → Post-WarJosefina Benedetti
Josefina Benedetti Punceles (born September 17, 1953) is a Venezuelan-American composer, musicologist and choral director. Biography Josefina Benedetti was born in New Haven, Connecticut to
Read → 21st CenturyJosefine Opsahl
Josefine Opsahl (born 18 January 1992) is a Danish composer and cellist based in Copenhagen and Berlin. She writes classical music as a composer and also performs as solo artist with cello and live
Read → Late RomanticJosefine Winter
Josefine Winter (since 1914 Winter Edle von Wigmar; born 21 December 1873 in Vienna; died 20 January 1943 in the Theresienstadt ghetto) was an Austrian painter, composer and writer. Life Josefine, or
Read → RomanticJosep Anselm Clavé
Josep Anselm Clavé i Camps (21 April 1824 – 24 February 1874) also known as José Anselmo Clavé, was a Catalan politician, composer and writer, founder of the choral movement in Catalonia and a
Read → RomanticJosep Maria Ventura i Casas
Josep Maria Ventura i Casas (Alcalá la Real (Jaén), 1817 – Figueres (Catalonia), 1875), popularly known as Pep Ventura, was a Spanish musician and composer from Catalonia who consolidated the long
Read → 20th CenturyJoseph Achron
Joseph Yulyevich Achron, also seen as Akhron (Russian: Иосиф Юльевич Ахрон, Hebrew: יוסף אחרון) (May 1, 1886 – April 29, 1943) was a Russian composer and violinist, who settled in the United States.
Read → 20th CenturyJoseph Ahrens
Joseph Johannes Clemens Ahrens (April 17, 1904 in Sommersell – December 21, 1997 in Berlin) was a German composer and organist. Ahrens received early training in organ and choral music with Wilhelm
Read → Post-WarJoseph Alfidi
Joseph Alfidi (May 28, 1949 – February 2, 2015) was an American pianist, composer, and conductor and initially a child prodigy. He was born in Yonkers, New York, as the son of American-born parents
Read → Late RomanticJoseph Allard (fiddler)
Joseph Allard (February 1, 1873 – November 14, 1947) was a Canadian fiddler and composer. He occasionally recorded under the pseudonym Maxime Toupin. Allard made many popular recordings, including
Read → ClassicalJoseph Aloys Schmittbaur
Joseph Aloys Schmittbaur (also Schmittbauer; 8 November 1718 - 24 October 1809) was a German composer, Kapellmeister, instrument maker and music teacher. Life Joseph Aloys Schmittbaur was born in
Read → RomanticJoseph Ascher
Joseph Simon Ascher (3 June 1829 – 20 June 1869) was a Dutch-Jewish composer and pianist. He lived in Paris and London for most of his life. Life Ascher was born in Groningen, the son of the chazzan
Read → Post-WarJoseph Baber
Joseph Wilson Baber Jr. (September 11, 1937 – March 19, 2022) was an American composer, violist, and composition teacher living in Lexington, Kentucky. Life Baber was born in 1937 in Richmond,
Read → RomanticJoseph Barnby
Sir Joseph Barnby (12 August 183828 January 1896) was an English composer and conductor. Life Barnby was born at York, as a son of Thomas Barnby, who was an organist. Joseph was a chorister at York
Read → 20th CenturyJoseph Beaulieu
Joseph Beaulieu (21 May 1895 – 1 October 1965) was a Canadian composer, folklorist, and music educator. He traveled extensively throughout Canada collecting folk songs, which he compiled in several
Read → 20th CenturyJoseph Beer
Joseph Beer (; 7 May 1908 – 23 November 1987) was a composer who worked mainly in the genres of operettas, singspiele, and operas. Beer started composing music as a young man in Vienna in the 1930s.
Read → ClassicalJoseph Benda
Joseph Benda (; c. 7 May 1724 – 22 February 1804) was a Czech violinist and composer active in the Kingdom of Prussia. Life Joseph Benda was baptised on 7 May 1724. He was born in Benátky nad
Read → 21st CenturyJoseph Bertolozzi
Joseph Bertolozzi (born 1959) is an American composer and musician with works ranging from full symphony orchestra and solo songs to immense sound-art installations. With increasingly numerous
Read → BaroqueJoseph Bodin de Boismortier
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (23 December 1689 – 28 October 1755) was a French baroque composer of chamber music, cantatas, opéra-ballets, and vocal music. Boismortier was one of the first composers
Read → Late RomanticJoseph Bonnet
Joseph Élie Georges-Marie Bonnet (17 March 1884 – 2 August 1944) was a French composer and organist. Biography One of the major French pipe organists, Joseph Bonnet was born in Bordeaux. He first
Read → Late RomanticJoseph Boulnois
Joseph Boulnois (28 January 1884 – 20 October 1918) was a French organist and composer. Biography Boulnois attended the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied counterpoint with Georges Caussade and
Read → Late RomanticJoseph Brody
Joseph Brody ( ) (1876/1877 – 1937) was an American Jewish composer who wrote for the Yiddish theatre as well as liturgical Jewish works. He taught George Gershwin and was a friend of Yossele
Read → Post-WarJoseph Byrd
Joseph Hunter Byrd Jr. (December 19, 1937 – November 2, 2025) was an American composer, musician and academic. After first becoming known as an experimental composer in New York City and Los Angeles,
Read → RomanticJoseph Callaerts
Joseph Callaerts (11 August 1830 – 3 March 1901) was a Belgian organist, carillonneur, composer and music teacher. He was an important member of the Belgian school of organ playing. Biography Joseph
Read → Late RomanticJoseph Canteloube
Marie-Joseph Canteloube de Malaret (; 21 October 18794 November 1957) was a French composer, musicologist, and author best known for his collections of orchestrated folksongs from the Auvergne
Read → Late RomanticJoseph Carl Breil
Joseph Carl Breil (29 June 1870 – 23 January 1926) was an American lyric tenor, stage director, composer and conductor. He was one of the earliest American composers to compose specific music for
Read → Early RomanticJoseph Christoph Kessler
Joseph Christoph Kessler (26 August 180014 January 1872), also seen as Kötzler, was a German pianist and composer who was active mostly in the Austrian Empire. His études, nocturnes, variations,
Read → 21st CenturyJoseph Curiale
Joseph Curiale (born July 1, 1955) is an American composer, producer, songwriter, arranger and conductor. Education Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Curiale attended the University of Bridgeport and
Read → Early RomanticJoseph Czerny
Joseph Czerny (17 June 1785, Hořovice – 7 January 1842, Vienna) was a pianist, composer, music publisher, and piano teacher from the Austrian Empire. He was not related to Carl Czerny. Among his
Read → ClassicalJoseph Dall'Abaco
Joseph Abaco (full name Joseph (Giuseppe) Marie Clément Ferdinand dall'Abaco) (27 March 171031 August 1805) was an Italian violoncellist and composer. He was born and baptised in Brussels, the
Read → Early RomanticJoseph Daussoigne-Méhul
Joseph Daussoigne-Méhul (10 June 1790 – 10 March 1875) was a French composer and music educator. He served as the first director of the Royal Conservatory of Liège from 1826–1862; having been
Read → Post-WarJoseph Dillon Ford
Joseph Dillon Ford (February 6, 1952 – March 8, 2017) was an American composer and author. Life and career Ford was born in Americus, Georgia. He held undergraduate degrees in music and graduate
Read → Late RomanticJoseph Engleman
Joseph Engleman (1881–1949), born Josef, was an English light music composer and viola player, active in Birmingham, England. His son Harry was also a professional musician, initially in his father's
Read → Late RomanticJoseph Erskine Agnew
Joseph Erskine Agnew (1868/69 – December 1, 1949 ) was a musician, arranger, music store proprietor, and music publisher in Des Moines, Iowa and later Newton, Iowa briefly. He played the mandolin. He
Read → Early RomanticJoseph Eschborn
Peter Joseph Eschborn (March 4, 1800, in Mainz – November 17, 1881, in
Read → Post-WarJoseph Fennimore
Joseph Fennimore (born 16 April 1940) is an American composer, pianist and teacher best known for his works for piano and chamber ensembles, ranked by Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Philip Kennicott
Read → RomanticJoseph Friedrich Hummel
Joseph Friedrich Hummel (14 August 1841 – 29 August 1919) was an Austrian choral conductor, composer and music teacher. Father of musicologist Walter Hummel, he was a musician and promoter of the
Read → Post-WarJoseph Gelineau
Joseph Gelineau, SJ (31 October 1920 – 8 August 2008) was a French Jesuit priest and composer, mainly of modern Christian liturgical music. He was a member of the translation committee for La Bible
Read → BaroqueJoseph Gibbs (composer)
Joseph Gibbs (23 December 169812 December 1788), was an English composer. He was not prolific, but he was not entirely unknown. Biography Gibbs was born in Dedham, Essex to John Gibbs and Judith
Read → Early RomanticJoseph Gungl
Joseph Gungl, correct: Josef Gung'l (1 December 1809 – 1 February 1889), was a Hungarian composer, bandmaster, and conductor. He was soprano Virginia Naumann-Gungl's father. Biography Gungl was born
Read → 21st CenturyJoseph Hallman
Joseph Hallman (born Nov. 20, 1979) is an American composer. A functional orphan, Hallman was born and raised in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended Girard College
Read → Late RomanticJoseph Hellmesberger Jr.
Joseph Heinrich Georg Hellmesberger Jr. (9 April 1855 – 26 April 1907), also known as Pepi Hellmesberger, was an Austrian composer, violinist and conductor. Biography Hellmesberger was born in Vienna
Read → Late RomanticJoseph Hinton
Joseph Harold Hinton (1 January 1862 – 4 January 1941) was a British composer and organist. Hinton was born in Claydon, Buckinghamshire. His teachers included Frederick Bridge of Westminster Abbey.
Read → Late RomanticJoseph Hofmeister
Joseph C. Hofmeister (March 29, 1867 – October 1, 1933) was a Czech American bandleader, composer and music educator. An immigrant from Bohemia, he was based in southern Minnesota. He was best known
Read → Post-WarJoseph Horovitz
Joseph Horovitz (26 May 1926 – 9 February 2022) was an Austrian-born British composer and conductor best known for his 1970 pop cantata Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo, which achieved widespread
Read → RomanticJoseph Joachim
Joseph Joachim (28 June 1831 – 15 August 1907) was a Hungarian violinist, conductor, composer and teacher who made an international career, based in Hanover and Berlin. A close collaborator of
Read → Late RomanticJoseph Jongen
Joseph Marie Alphonse Nicolas Jongen (14 December 1873 – 12 July 1953) was a Belgian organist, composer, and music educator. Biography Jongen was born in Liège, where his parents had moved from
Read → ClassicalJoseph Karl Ambrosch
Joseph Karl Ambrosch (; 6 May 1759 – 8 September 1822) was a Czech tenor opera singer and composer. Early life Born in Český Krumlov, Ambrosch lived in Berlin as a tenor opera singer since 1791.
Read → Early RomanticJoseph Kemp (organist)
Joseph Kemp (1778–1824) was an English musical composer, organist and teacher. He is noted as an early proponent of teaching music in classes and the playing of exercises by students. In 1810, at the
Read → 20th CenturyJoseph Kosma
Joseph Kosma (22 October 19057 August 1969) was a Hungarian composer who immigrated to France. His most famous composition is the standard Autumn Leaves. Biography Kosma was born József Kozma in
Read → Early RomanticJoseph Kreutzer
Joseph Kreutzer (11 November 1790 – 16 June 1840) was a German composer, conductor, guitarist, and violinist. Kreutzer was born in Aachen, the son of a local music teacher. He lived in Düsseldorf
Read → Early RomanticJoseph Küffner
Joseph Küffner (Kueffner) (31 March 1776 in Würzburg – 9 September 1856 in Würzburg) was a German musician and composer who, among other achievements, contributed significantly to the guitar
Read → Early RomanticJoseph Lanner
Joseph Lanner (12 April 1801 – 14 April 1843) was an Austrian dance music composer and dance orchestra conductor. He is best remembered as one of the earliest Viennese composers to reform the waltz
Read → ClassicalJoseph Leopold Eybler
Joseph Leopold Eybler (8 February 1765 – 24 July 1846) was an Austrian composer and contemporary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Life Eybler was born into a musical family in Schwechat near Vienna. His
Read → Post-WarJoseph Marcus Ritchie
Joseph Marcus Ritchie (born 1946 in Elizabethton; †21 August 1989 in Washington, D.C. ) was an American organist, choirmaster and composer. He often shortened his name to "J. Marcus Ritchie."
Read → Early RomanticJoseph Maria Wolfram
Joseph Maria Wolfram (21 July 1789 – 30 September 1839) was a German-Czech politician and amateur composer who wrote operas which were performed with success. Biography Wolfram was born on 21 July
Read → ClassicalJoseph Martin Kraus
Joseph Martin Kraus (20 June 1756 – 15 December 1792), was a German-Swedish composer in the Classical era who was born in Miltenberg am Main, Holy Roman Empire. He moved to Sweden at age 21, and died
Read → Late RomanticJoseph Marx
Joseph Rupert Rudolf Marx (11 May 1882 – 3 September 1964) was an Austrian composer, teacher and critic. He is best known for his 150 lieder, most accompanied by piano, with some scored for
Read → Early RomanticJoseph Mayseder
Joseph Mayseder (27 October 1789 – 21 November 1863) was an Austrian violin virtuoso and composer. Biography Mayseder showed musical promise from an early age, and was a student of Joseph Suche
Read → 20th CenturyJoseph Meyer (songwriter)
Joseph Meyer (March 12, 1894 – June 22, 1987) was an American songwriter, who wrote some of the most notable songs of the first half of the twentieth century. Many of his songs were originally
Read → BaroqueJoseph Michel (composer)
Joseph Michel (1679–1736) was an 18th-century French baroque chorister, composer and music teacher of the Sainte Chapelle of Dijon, demolished in 1802. A contemporary of Jean-Philippe Rameau, his
Read → RomanticJoseph O'Kelly
Joseph O'Kelly (29 January 1828 – 9 January 1885), composer, pianist and choral conductor, was the most prominent member of a family of Irish musicians in 19th- and early 20th-century France. He
Read → EntryJoseph P. Skelly
Joseph Paul Skelly, also abbreviated J. P. Skelly, (29 July 1850 – 23 June 1895) was a composer of music. He arranged the music for songs published as sheet music. For other songs he composed the
Read → 21st CenturyJoseph Phibbs
Joseph Phibbs (born 25 April 1974) is an English composer of orchestral, choral and chamber music. He has also composed for theatre, both in the UK and Japan. Since 1998 he has written regularly to
Read → 20th CenturyJoseph R. Wood
Joseph Wood (May 12, 1915 – June 3, 2000) was an American composer and music educator. He was a faculty member at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where he taught music theory and composition from
Read → Late RomanticJoseph Redding
Joseph Deighn Redding (September 13, 1859 – November 21, 1932) was an American composer, librettist, lyricist, lawyer, and civil servant. He is best known for arguing the United States Supreme Court
Read → BaroqueJoseph Riepel
Joseph Riepel (Rainbach im Mühlkreis, 22 January 1709 - Regensburg, 23 October 1782) was an Austrian-born German music theorist, composer and violinist. Riepel is known for his theoretical work,
Read → RomanticJoseph Robinson (composer)
Joseph Robinson (16 August 1815 – 23 August 1898) was an Irish composer, baritone, conductor, and teacher. Biography Joseph Robinson was the youngest son of Francis Robinson senior, a "writing
Read → Late RomanticJoseph Rumshinsky
Joseph Rumshinsky (1881–1956) was a Jewish composer born near Vilna, Lithuania (then part of Russian Poland). Along with Sholom Secunda, Alexander Olshanetsky and Abraham Ellstein, he is considered
Read → Late RomanticJoseph Ryelandt
Joseph Ryelandt (7 April 1870 – 29 June 1965) was a Belgian classical composer. He is known for sacred vocal music, including several oratorios and masses. His oeuvre catalog, which lists 133 opus
Read → 20th CenturyJoseph Schillinger
Joseph Moiseyevich Schillinger (; 1 September 1895 (other sources: 31 August 1895 ) – 23 March 1943) was a composer, music theorist, and composition teacher who originated the Schillinger System of
Read → ClassicalJoseph Schubert (composer)
Joseph Schubert (20 December 1754 – 28 July 1837) was a German composer, violinist, and violist. Schubert was born in Varnsdorf, Bohemia (now Czech Republic) to a musical family. He received his
Read → ClassicalJoseph Schuster (composer)
Joseph Schuster (11 August 174824 July 1812) was a German composer. Life and career Schuster was born in Dresden, where he received his first musical training from his father, a court musician, and
Read → Post-WarJoseph Schwantner
Joseph Clyde Schwantner (born March 22, 1943) is an American composer, educator and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2002. He was awarded the 1970 Charles Ives Prize.
Read → EntryJoseph Thalken
Joseph Thalken is an American composer and pianist. Biography Joseph Thalken was raised in Southern California and was mentored early on by Lynn Murray, Margaret and Karl Kohn. He was supported by
Read → ClassicalJoseph Touchemoulin
Joseph Touchemoulin (23 October 1727 – 25 October 1801) was a French violinist and composer of the classical period who mainly worked in Bonn and Regensburg. Biography Born in Chalon-sur-Saône,
Read → 21st CenturyJoseph Trapanese
Joseph Trapanese (born August 7, 1984) is an American composer, conductor, arranger, and music producer. He works in the production of music for films, television, records, theater, concerts, and
Read → Early RomanticJoseph von Blumenthal
Joseph von Blumenthal, also known as Joseph de Blumenthal (1 November 1782 – 9 May 1850 ), was an Austrian violinist and violist, influential pedagogue and composer. Biography Joseph von Blumenthal
Read → Early RomanticJoseph Wackenthaler
Joseph Wackenthaler (20 November 1795 – 3 March 1869) was a French Kapellmeister from 1819, an organist from 1833 to 1869 at the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Strasbourg, and a composer. Wackenthaler's
Read → Post-WarJoseph Waters
Joseph Martin Waters (born 1952) is an American classical composer. He also mounts experimental electronic music festivals attempting to bridge the gap between contemporary popular genres and the
Read → ClassicalJoseph Weigl
Joseph Weigl (28 March 1766 – 3 February 1846) was an Austrian composer and conductor. Life Wiegl was born in Eisenstadt, Austrian Empire. The son of Joseph Franz Weigl (1740–1820), the principal
Read → Post-WarJoseph Willcox Jenkins
Joseph Willcox Jenkins (15 February 1928 – 31 January 2014) was an American composer, professor of music, and musician. During his military service in the Korean War, he became the first arranger for
Read → Early RomanticJoseph Woelfl
Joseph Johann Baptist Woelfl (surname sometimes written in the German form Wölfl; 24 December 1773 – 21 May 1812) was an Austrian pianist and composer of the late Classical period. Life Woelfl was
Read → RomanticJoseph-A. Fowler
Joseph-A. Fowler (14 November 1845 – 4 January 1917) was a Canadian composer, organist, choirmaster, pianist, and music educator. His compositional output mainly consists of sacred music, although he
Read → Late RomanticJoseph-Ermend Bonnal
Joseph-Ermend Bonnal (1 July 1880 – 14 August 1944); also Ermend-Bonnal, alias Guy Marylis) was a French composer and organist. Ermend-Bonnal received initial musical instruction from his father, a
Read → ClassicalJoseph-François Garnier
Joseph-François Garnier (18 June 1755 – 31 March 1825) was a French oboist and composer. Life Joseph-François Garnier was born in 1755 in Lauris, Vaucluse, to a family of modest means. His father was
Read → Post-WarJoseph-François Kremer
Joseph-François Kremer (born 22 June 1954) is a French composer, conductor, cellist and musicologist. Biography Joseph-François Kremer was born in Lyon (France) in 1954. Currently director of the
Read → BaroqueJoseph-Hector Fiocco
Joseph-Hector Fiocco (20 January 1703 – 21 June 1741), born in Brussels, was a composer and harpsichordist of the late Baroque period. His father, the Italian composer Pietro Antonio Fiocco, and one
Read → RomanticJoseph-Henri Altès
Joseph-Henri Altès (18 January 1826 – 24 July 1895) was a 19th-century French flautist, composer and pedagogue. Biography Born in Rouen, Joseph-Henri Altès was the son of a soldier. Violinist and
Read → BaroqueJoseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer
Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer (12 May 1703 – 11 January 1755) was a French Baroque composer, harpsichordist, organist, and administrator. Biography Born in Turin, Royer went to Paris in 1725, and in
Read → ClassicalJosepha Barbara Auernhammer
Josepha Barbara Auernhammer (25 September 1758 – 30 January 1820) was an Austrian pianist and composer. Biography Auernhammer was born in Vienna, the eleventh of fifteen children born to Johann
Read → Late RomanticJoséphine Boulay
Joséphine Pauline Boulay (22 May 1869 – 5 August 1925) was a French organist, composer and professor. Career Born in Paris, she became blind at age three. She began her studies with the Blind Sisters
Read → RomanticJosephine Lang
Josephine Caroline Lang (14 March 1815 – 2 December 1880) was a German composer. Josephine Lang was the daughter of Theobald Lang, a violinist, and , opera singer. Her mother taught young Josephine
Read → 21st CenturyJosephine Stephenson
Josephine Stephenson (born 1990) is a French-British composer, arranger, singer and instrumentalist who works across a variety of musical genres. Early life and education Stephenson learned cello and
Read → Late RomanticJosephine Trott
Josephine Augusta Trott (December 24, 1874 - March 2, 1950) was an American author, composer, and music educator who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Colin Shepherd. Her violin pedagogy books are
Read → Late RomanticJosephine Troup
Emily Josephine Troup (7 July 1853, Woodberry Down, London – 11 April 1913, Saltwood, Kent) was an English composer of songs and works for piano and violin. She founded a scholarship for female
Read → ClassicalJosephus Andreas Fodor
Josephus Andreas Fodor (21 January 1751 – 3 October 1828) was a Dutch violinist and composer of the Classical era. Life Josephus Andreas Fodor was born in Venlo, the son of a squire who had been
Read → 21st CenturyJoshua (American singer)
Joshua Hong (born December 30, 1995), known mononymously as Joshua (), is an American singer based in South Korea. Managed by Pledis Entertainment, he is a member of the South Korean boy band
Read → EntryJoshua Banks Mailman
Joshua Banks Mailman is an American music theorist, as well an analyst, composer, improvisor, philosopher, critic, and technologist of music. Early life and education Joshua Banks Mailman was born in
Read → 21st CenturyJoshua Fineberg
Joshua Fineberg (born July 26, 1969) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. Biography Joshua Fineberg was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He began his musical studies at the age of
Read → 21st CenturyJoshua Rosenblum
Joshua Rosenblum (born May 10, 1963) is an American composer, conductor, pianist, arranger, music journalist, and author. He has composed extensively for the concert hall as well as for musical
Read → Post-WarJoshua Uzoigwe
Joshua Uzoigwe (1 July 1946 – 15 October 2005) was a Nigerian composer and ethnomusicologist. A member of the Igbo ethnic group, many of his works draw on the traditional music of that people. Early
Read → Early RomanticJosiah Andrew Hudleston
Josiah Andrew Hudleston (22 February 1799 – 19 August 1865) was an Anglo-Irish civil servant, guitarist and composer. The Hudleston Collection at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin, Ireland,
Read → RomanticJosiah Pittman
Josiah Pittman (3 September 1816 – 23 April 1886) was a British organist, composer of church music, music editor, and accompanist at opera rehearsals. Life Pittman was born on 2 September 1816, the
Read → Late RomanticJosiah Ransome-Kuti
Josiah Jesse "J.J." Ransome-Kuti (1 June 1855 – 4 September 1930) was a Nigerian clergyman and music composer. He was known for setting Christian hymns to indigenous music, and for writing Christian
Read → Late RomanticJosif Marinković
Josif Marinković (Serbian Cyrillic: Јосиф Маринковић; Vranjevo, near Novi Bečej, 15 September 1851 – Belgrade, 13 May 1931) was a Serbian composer and choral director. Like his younger contemporary
Read → Post-WarJosima Feldschuh
Josima Feldschuh (also spelled Feldszuh or Feldschu; 26 June 1929 – 21 April 1943) was a Polish pianist and composer of Jewish origin. Feldshuh was considered a child prodigy. Life Josima Feldschuh
Read → Late RomanticJosip Hatze
Joseph Hatze (1879–1959) was one of the first and most prominent Croatian composers at the beginning of the 20th century. Hatze was born in Split (then Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Croatia) to a
Read → RomanticJosip Runjanin
Josip Runjanin (8 December 1821 – 20 January 1878), born Josif Runjanin (), was an Austrian career military officer, politician and composer of Serb origin best known for composing the melody of the
Read → Late RomanticJosipina Eleonora Hudovernik
Josipina Hudovernik, sister Marija Eleonora, (March 25, 1863 – March 1, 1945) was a Slovenian music teacher, headmistress and composer. She wrote and composed the popular Slovenian Christmas carol
Read → 21st CenturyJoško Ćaleta
Joško Ćaleta (2 October 1964) is a Croatian ethnomusicologist, music pedagogue, conductor, composer, record producer and klapa singer. He is a member of the Croatian Composers' Society He received
Read → Post-WarJosquin Des Pres (American musician)
Josquin Des Pres (born Josquin Turenne Des Pres) is a French-born American record producer, songwriter, and TV composer who is also known for his composing collaboration with English lyricist Bernie
Read → RenaissanceJosquin Des Prez
Josquin Lebloitte dit des Prez (c. 1450–1455 – 27 August 1521) was a composer of Renaissance music, who is variously described as French or Franco-Flemish. Considered one of the greatest composers of
Read → BaroqueJosse Boutmy
Josse Boutmy (1 February 1697 – 27 November 1779) was a composer, organist and harpsichordist of the Austrian Netherlands who established himself in Brussels. Background Boutmy was born in Ghent. He
Read → 21st CenturyJouni Kaipainen
Jouni Ilari Kaipainen (24 November 1956 – 23 November 2015) was a Finnish composer. Kaipainen was born in Helsinki to the physician and politician Osmo Kaipainen, and his wife, the author Anu
Read → Post-WarJovan Adamov
Jovan Adamov (born 5 May 1942, Čoka) is a Serbian composer and conductor, best remembered as the conductor of the famous children's show "Muzički tobogan". Biography Although he graduated as a
Read → RomanticJovan Paču
Jovan Paču (Aleksandrovo near Subotica, Austrian Empire, 17 March 1847 – Kikinda, Austria-Hungary, 30 October 1902) was a Serbian composer and pianist. Biography During his education in Subotica, he
Read → 20th CenturyJovdat Hajiyev
Ahmad Jovdat Ismayil oglu Hajiyev ( / Әһмәд-Ҹөвдәт Исмајыл оғлу Һаҹыјев, , June 18, 1917 - January 18, 2002) was one of the major Azerbaijani composers of the Soviet period. He is remembered for his
Read → Post-WarJovino Santos Neto
Jovino Santos Neto (born September 18, 1954) is a Seattle-based Brazilian-American jazz pianist, flutist, composer, arranger, educator and record producer. Career Jovino Santos Neto started playing
Read → 21st CenturyJoxe Mendizabal
Jose Javier Mendizabal Aldalur (born 1970), known as Joxe Mendizabal, is a Spanish musician, composer, music producer and record producer. He has worked and created music for various music groups, TV
Read → 21st CenturyJoy Guidry
Joy Guidry is an American bassoonist and composer. Early life Guidry was born in Houston and first became interested in music through her exposure to gospel music at church. Career Guidry graduated
Read → 21st CenturyJoy Ngiaw
Joy Ngiaw (born November 23, 1994) is an Emmy Award-winning composer film and television composer. She won the Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction and Composition for an
Read → 20th CenturyJoyce Barthelson
Helen Joyce Holloway Barthelson Steigman (May 18, 1900 – December 1986) was an American composer who created five operas and numerous shorter pieces. She co-founded the Hoff-Barthelson Music School
Read → 20th CenturyJoyce Howard Barrell
Joyce Howard Barrell (née Gedye; 26 November 19176 December 1989) was an English composer. She studied with Benjamin Burrows and Harold Craxton for piano and Grace Burrows for violin, and then worked
Read → Post-WarJoyce Mekeel
Joyce Haviland Mekeel (July 6, 1931 in New Haven, CT – December 29, 1997, in Watertown, MA) was a composer, harpsichordist, teacher, anthropologist, and sculptor. Education Joyce Mekeel studied at
Read → Post-WarJože Humer
Jože Humer (24 June 1936 – 13 June 2012) was a Slovenian composer, choirmaster, lyricist, translator, and cultural organiser. He was also a judge, a secretary of the Supreme Court of Slovenia, In
Read → ClassicalJózef Elsner
Józef Antoni Franciszek Elsner (sometimes Józef Ksawery Elsner; baptismal name, Joseph Anton Franz Elsner; 1 June 176918 April 1854) was a Polish composer, music teacher, and music theoretician,
Read → 20th CenturyJózef Koffler
Józef Koffler (28 November 18961944) was a Polish composer, music teacher, musicologist and musical columnist. He was the first Polish composer living before the Second World War to apply the
Read → ClassicalJózef Kozłowski
Józef Kozłowski (, also or ; 1757/1759 – 11 March 1831) was a Russian composer of Polish origin. Biography For the most part of his life Józef Kozłowski was attached to the Russian Imperial Court,
Read → Post-WarJózef Świder
Józef Świder (born 19 August 1930 in Czechowice-Dziedzice, died 22 May 2014 in Katowice ) was a Polish composer and music teacher. He graduated from the Academy of Music in Katowice (formerly PWSM –
Read → RomanticJózef Wieniawski
Józef Wieniawski (23 May 1837 – 11 November 1912) was a Polish pianist, composer, conductor and teacher. He was born in Lublin, the younger brother of the famous violinist Henryk Wieniawski. After
Read → Post-WarJózsef Soproni (composer)
József Soproni (4 October 1930 – 24 April 2021) was a Hungarian composer. Biography After graduating from the , Soproni entered the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in 1949. He graduated in 1956. He
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