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Composers whose names start with RO.
R. O. Morris
Reginald Owen Morris (3 March 1886 – 15 December 1948), known professionally and by his friends by his initials, as R.O. Morris, was a British composer and teacher. Teacher and author Morris was born
Read → EntryRob Burger
Robert Burger (born March 26, 1971) is an American composer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist, and music director. Biography Burger began playing piano at an early age, starting his formal training at
Read → Post-WarRob du Bois
Rob du Bois (28 May 1934 – 28 August 2013) was a Dutch composer, pianist, and jurist. Background and education Rob (Robert Louis) du Bois was born in Amsterdam. His French ancestry can be seen from
Read → Post-WarRob Kapilow
Robert Kapilow (born December 22, 1952) is an American composer, conductor, and music commentator. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Yale University, a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, and a
Read → 21st CenturyRob Lewis (composer)
Rob Lewis (born 2 November 1982) is an Emmy nominated English composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist. He gained critical acclaim for his compositions for looping cello, which formed the basis
Read → EntryRob Rokicki
Rob Rokicki is an American composer, lyricist, and musician. He is best known for writing the music and lyrics to the Broadway musical The Lightning Thief. Career Rokicki graduated from the
Read → 21st CenturyRob Simonsen
Rob Simonsen is an American composer and conductor. He is best known for his scores in films such as 500 Days of Summer (2009), The Age of Adaline (2015), Gifted (2017), The Only Living Boy in New
Read → Post-WarRobbi Finkel
Robbi Finkel (born Robert Mark Finkel; April 11, 1950 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American-Canadian composer, record producer, pianist and arranger. Grammy nominated, Finkel is an honorary
Read → Post-WarRobert Aldridge (composer)
Robert Livingstone Aldridge (September 7, 1954 in Richmond, VA) is an American composer, professor, and current Head of Composition professor, and former Director of Music at the Mason Gross School
Read → 20th CenturyRobert Alexander Anderson (composer)
Robert Alexander Anderson (often given as R. Alex Anderson) (June 6, 1894 – May 30, 1995) was an American composer who was born and lived most of his life in Hawaii, writing many popular Hawaiian
Read → Post-WarRobert Allworth
Robert Cooper Allworth (10 March 1943 - 26 February 2017) was an Australian composer. His album of his composition Last Look at Bronte was nominated for the 1987 ARIA Awards for Best Classical Album.
Read → RomanticRobert Ambrose (composer)
Robert Steele Ambrose (March 7, 1824 – March 31, 1908) was a British-Canadian organist and composer. He was notable for his evangelical music compositions. Life Ambrose was born on March 7, 1824, to
Read → Post-WarRobert Amirkhanyan
Robert Babkeni Amirkhanyan (; born November 16, 1939) is an Armenian composer and songwriter. He is a professor at the Yerevan State Conservatory. He wrote over 300 songs, vocal series, operettas.
Read → Post-WarRobert Ashley
Robert Reynolds Ashley (March 28, 1930 – March 3, 2014) was an American composer, who was best known for his television operas and other theatrical works, many of which incorporate electronics and
Read → Post-WarRobert Beaser
Robert Beaser (born May 29, 1954, Boston, Massachusetts) is an American composer. Biography Beaser was brought up in a non-musical family. His father was a physician and mother was a chemist. He grew
Read → Post-WarRobert Bernat
Robert Bernat (July 3, 1931 – December 3, 1994) was an American composer and the founder, artistic director, and conductorof the River City Brass Band in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His musical
Read → Late RomanticRobert Browne Hall
Robert Browne Hall (30 June 1858 Bowdoinham, Maine – 8 June 1907), usually known as R. B. Hall, was a leading composer of marches and other music for wind bands. Life and career A principal American
Read → 20th CenturyRobert Bruce (Scottish composer)
Robert Richard Fernie Bruce (17 August 1915 – 13 August 2012) was a composer, lecturer and a decorated Flight Lieutenant during the WWII. He was the great grandson of James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin
Read → Late RomanticRobert Brydges Addison
Robert Brydges Addison (16 August 1854 – 8 July 1920) was an English composer, choirmaster and teacher. Born in Dorchester on Thames, Oxfordshire, Addison was the son of clergyman William Fountaine
Read → BaroqueRobert Cambert
Robert Cambert (c. 1628–1677) was a French composer principally of opera. His opera Pomone was the first actual opera in French. Biography Under Mazarin Born in Paris c. 1628, he studied music under
Read → Post-WarRobert Carl
Robert Carl (born July 12, 1954, in Bethesda, Maryland) is an American composer who currently resides in Hartford, Connecticut. He was chair of the composition program at the Hartt School, University
Read → RenaissanceRobert Carver (composer)
Robert Carver CRSA (also Carvor, Arnot; c. 1485 – c. 1570) was a Scottish Canon regular and composer of Christian sacred music during the Renaissance. Carver is regarded as Scotland's greatest
Read → 20th CenturyRobert Casadesus
Robert Marcel Casadesus (; 7 April 1899 – 19 September 1972) was a French pianist and composer. He was the most prominent member of a distinguished musical family, being the nephew of Henri Casadesus
Read → Post-WarRobert Cogan
Robert Cogan (February 2, 1930 – August 19, 2021) was an American music theorist, composer and teacher. Career He studied at the University of Michigan (B.M., 1951; M.M., 1952); Princeton University
Read → BaroqueRobert Creighton (1639?–1734)
Robert Creighton or Creyghton (1639? – 17 February 1734) was an English churchman and composer of church music. He served as Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge during the
Read → 20th CenturyRobert Dalley-Scarlett
Dr. Robert Dalley-Scarlett (16 April 1887 – 31 July 1959) was an Australian organist, choirmaster, composer and musicologist. History Dalley-Scarlett was born Robert Scarlett in Darlinghurst, New
Read → 21st CenturyRobert Davidson (composer)
Robert Davidson is an Australian composer and lecturer in music at the University of Queensland. Education He holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of Queensland (UQ), a Graduate Diploma in
Read → Post-WarRobert Davine
Robert Davine (born Aubrey Robert Davine; April 5, 1924 – November 25, 2001) was an internationally recognized American concert accordionist and Professor of Accordion and Music Theory at the
Read → Post-WarRobert De Cormier
Robert Romeo De Cormier Jr. (January 7, 1922 – November 7, 2017), sometimes known as Robert Corman, was an American musical conductor, arranger, and director. He arranged music for many singers and
Read → EntryRobert de Reins La Chievre
Robert de Reins (Rains, Reims) La Chievre was a trouvère from the Île de France, probably active in the thirteenth century. He is among those trouvères, like Richard de Fournival, who are associated
Read → BaroqueRobert de Visée
Robert de Visée (1652-1730) was a French lutenist, guitarist, theorbist and viol player at the court of the kings Louis XIV and Louis XV, as well as a singer and a composer for lute, theorbo and
Read → 20th CenturyRobert Delaney (composer)
Robert Mills Delaney, sometimes incorrectly spelled Delany (24 July 1903 – 21 September 1956) was an American composer and teacher. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Delaney began studying the violin as a
Read → 20th CenturyRobert Docker
Robert Docker (5 June 1918 – 9 May 1992) was an English composer, arranger and pianist, especially noted for his orchestral arrangements and original light music compositions. The son of a Paddington
Read → 20th CenturyRobert Elmore
Robert Hall Elmore (January 2, 1913 – September 22, 1985) was an American composer, organist, pianist who was active in Philadelphia during the mid 20th century and who wrote some organ pieces that
Read → 20th CenturyRobert Erickson
Robert Erickson (March 7, 1917 – April 24, 1997) was an American modernist composer and influential music teacher. He was one of the first American composers to explore the twelve tone technique and
Read → Post-WarRobert Evett (composer)
Robert Evett (November 30, 1922 - February 3, 1975) was an American composer and journalist. Along with Robert Parris and Russell Woollen, he was one of a trifecta described by Irving Lowens as the
Read → 20th CenturyRobert Farnon
Robert Joseph Farnon (24 July 191723 April 2005) was a Canadian-born composer, conductor, musical arranger and trumpet player. As well as being a composer of original works (often in the light music
Read → RenaissanceRobert Fayrfax
Robert Fayrfax (23 April 1464 – 24 October 1521) was an English Renaissance composer, considered the most prominent and influential of the reigns of Kings Henry VII and Henry VIII of England. He
Read → Late RomanticRobert Fischhof
Robert Fischhof (31 October 1856 – 31 March 1918 ) was a pianist, composer, and professor at the Vienna Music Conservatoire. Biography Robert Fischhof was born in Vienna to Julius Fischhof, a
Read → Post-WarRobert Fleming (composer)
Robert James Berkeley Fleming (November 12, 1921 – November 28, 1976) was a Canadian composer, pianist, organist, choirmaster and teacher. Robert was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. At a young
Read → EntryRobert Fokkens
Robert Fokkens is a South African classical music composer. He is among a new generation of younger composers in post-apartheid South Africa. He was educated in Cape Town at Rondebosch Boys' School.
Read → RomanticRobert Franz
Robert Franz Julius Knauth (28 June 1815 – 24 October 1892) was a German composer, mainly of . Biography Franz was born in Halle, Germany, the son of Christoph Franz Knauth. In 1847, Christoph Knauth
Read → RomanticRobert Fuchs (composer)
Robert Fuchs (15 February 1847 – 19 February 1927) was an Austrian composer and music teacher. As Professor of music theory at the Vienna Conservatory, Fuchs taught many notable composers, while he
Read → Early RomanticRobert Führer
Robert Jan Nepomuk Führer (2 June 1807 – 28 November 1861) was a Czech composer. Biography Born in Prague, he became the Director of Music at St. Vitus Cathedral at the age of 32. Despite his
Read → Post-WarRobert Gauldin
Robert Luther Gauldin Jr. (October 30, 1931 – September 14, 2025) was an American composer. He was professor of music theory at the Eastman School of Music. Life and career Robert Gauldin was born in
Read → Post-WarRobert Greenberg
Robert M. Greenberg (born April 18, 1954 ) is an American composer, pianist, and musicologist who was born in Brooklyn, New York. He has composed more than 50 works for a variety of instruments and
Read → 21st CenturyRóbert Gulya
Róbert Gulya (born 10 November 1973) is a Hungarian-British composer. He composes contemporary classical music as well as film scores. Life Robert Gulya studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in
Read → 20th CenturyRobert Heger
Robert Heger (19 August 1886 – 14 January 1978) was a German conductor and composer from Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine. Life and career He studied at the Conservatory of Strasbourg under Franz
Read → Post-WarRobert Helps
Robert Eugene Helps (b. Passaic, New Jersey, United States, September 23, 1928; d. Tampa, Florida, United States, November 24, 2001) was an American pianist and composer. Career Helps studied at the
Read → Post-WarRobert Heppener
Robert Heppener (9 August 1925 in Amsterdam – 25 August 2009 in Bergen ), also known as Bob Heppener, was a Dutch composer. He was among the most important Dutch composers of the 20th century. Early
Read → Late RomanticRobert Hood Bowers
Robert Hood Bowers (24 May 1877 – 29 December 1941) was an American composer, conductor and musical director of operettas and stage musicals, and a conductor and musical director for radio. He
Read → Post-WarRobert Hughes (American composer)
Robert Grove Hughes (1933–2022) was an American composer, conductor, bassoonist and music scholar based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was known for his wide-ranging artistic interests—extending
Read → 20th CenturyRobert Hughes (composer, born 1912)
Robert Watson Hughes AO MBE (27 March 19121 August 2007) was a Scottish-born Australian composer. His melodies are driven by short motives and unrelenting ostinato figures. Hughes wrote orchestral
Read → 21st CenturyRobert Hugill
Robert Hugill (born 1955) is a British composer, journalist and blogger. He runs classical music blog "Planet Hugill". Opera The Genesis of Frankenstein (setting a libretto by the composer based on
Read → 21st CenturyRobert Ian Winstin
Robert Ian Winstin (6 June 1959 – 26 June 2010) was a composer, conductor and pianist. His "Taliban Dances" - 'Concerto for Violin & Orchestra' was labelled a "masterpiece" by the American Record
Read → RenaissanceRobert Johnson (English composer)
Robert Johnson ( 1583 – 1633) was an English composer and lutenist of the late Tudor and early Jacobean eras. He is sometimes called "Robert Johnson II" to distinguish him from an earlier Scottish
Read → Late RomanticRobert Kahn (composer)
Robert Kahn (21 July 1865 – 29 May 1951) was a German composer, pianist, and music teacher. Life Kahn was born in Mannheim, the second son of and Emma Eberstadt. One of his seven siblings was the
Read → Late RomanticRobert Kajanus
Robert Kajanus (2 December 1856 – 6 July 1933) was a Finnish conductor, composer, and teacher. In 1882, he founded the Helsinki Orchestral Society, Finland's first professional orchestra. As a
Read → 20th CenturyRobert Kelly (composer)
J. Robert Kelly (September 26, 1916 in Clarksburg West Virginia – July 4, 2007 in Urbana, Illinois) was an American composer, composition teacher, and violinist. Kelly began studying violin at six
Read → 20th CenturyRobert Köbler
Robert Hans Friedrich Köbler (21 February 1912 – 7 September 1970) was a German organist, pianist, composer and professor at the University of Leipzig. Köbler was born in Waldsassen. He studied
Read → Post-WarRobert Kurka
Robert Frank Kurka (December 22, 1921 – December 12, 1957) was an American composer, who also taught and conducted his own works. Biography Kurka was born in Cicero, Illinois. He was mostly
Read → Post-WarRobert Kyr
Robert Harry Kyr (born April 20, 1952) is an American composer, writer, filmmaker, and Philip H. Knight Professor of Music Composition and Theory at the University of Oregon School of Music and
Read → EntryRobert Laidlow
Robert Laidlow (born 1994) is a British composer. He collaborates with scientists and applies advanced technology, including artificial intelligence, in his compositions. Career In 2018, Laidlow was
Read → 20th CenturyRobert Lannoy
Robert Lannoy (18 June 1915 – June 1979) was a French composer, second Prize of the Prix de Rome in 1946. He was then director of the Conservatoire de Lille for 33 years, until his death. Life Born
Read → 21st CenturyRobert Lemay
Robert Lemay (born February 13, 1960) is a Canadian composer of solo, chamber and orchestral works. Early years and education Born in Montreal, Lemay studied at Laval University, where he received
Read → Post-WarRobert Levin (musicologist)
Robert David Levin (born October 13, 1947) is an American classical pianist, musicologist, and composer. He was a professor of music at Harvard University from 1993 to 2014 and the artistic director
Read → Post-WarRobert Lombardo (composer)
Robert Michael Lombardo (5 March 1932 – 18 March 2026) was an American composer and composition teacher. Life Born in Hartford, Connecticut, to Sicilian immigrants, Lombardo received his musical
Read → Early RomanticRobert Lucas Pearsall
Robert Lucas Pearsall (14 March 1795 – 5 August 1856) was an English composer mainly of vocal music, including an elaborate setting of "In dulci jubilo" and the richly harmonic part song Lay a
Read → Post-WarRobert M. Cundick
Robert Milton Cundick Sr. (November 26, 1926 – January 7, 2016) was a Latter-day Saint composer and organist. Cundick's interest in music started at a young age, and he studied under Mormon
Read → EntryRobert MacHardy
Robert Machardy LL.D né McHardy (10 September 1848 – 8 July 1921) was a 19th-century Scottish composer, conductor, and music educator. A Fellow of the National College of Music, he composed over a
Read → ClassicalRobert Mackintosh
Robert Mackintosh (c 1745–1807), known as 'Red Rob' on account of the colour of his hair, was a Scottish composer and violinist, active in Edinburgh at the end of the 18th century. He was known for
Read → Post-WarRobert Marcel Lepage
Robert Marcel Lepage (born 5 July 1951) is a Canadian musician and film score composer. Born in Montreal, Lepage trained in music at the age of 20, and learned to play the clarinet and saxophone. He
Read → EntryRobert Miller (composer)
Robert Miller is an American music composer for film, television and concert hall. Over the years he has earned seven Clio Awards, two AICP Awards, two Emmy "group" nominations for the Coca-Cola spot
Read → Post-WarRobert Moevs
Robert Walter Moevs (2 December 1920 – 10 December 2007) was an American composer of contemporary classical music. He was known for his highly chromatic music. Career Moevs was born in La Crosse,
Read → 20th CenturyRobert Moffat Palmer
Robert Moffat (variously "Moffatt" and "Moffett") Palmer (b. June 2, 1915, Syracuse, New York; d. July 3, 2010, Ithaca, New York) was an American composer, pianist and educator. He composed more than
Read → Post-WarRobert Moran (composer)
Robert Moran (born January 8, 1937) is an American composer of operas and ballets as well as numerous orchestral, vocal, chamber and dance works. Life A native of Denver, Moran studied twelve-tone
Read → Post-WarRobert Morris (composer)
Robert Daniel Morris (born October 19, 1943) is a British-born American composer and music theorist. Early life and education Born in Cheltenham, England, in 1943, Morris received his musical
Read → RenaissanceRobert Morton (composer)
Robert Morton (also Mourton, Moriton; c. 1430 – after 13 March 1479) was an English composer of the early Renaissance, mostly active at the Burgundian court. He was highly regarded at the time. Only
Read → Post-WarRobert Muczynski
Robert Muczynski (March 19, 1929 – May 25, 2010) was an American composer. Muczynski studied piano with Walter Knupfer and composition with Alexander Tcherepnin at DePaul University in Chicago, where
Read → Post-WarRobert Nagel
Robert Nagel (September 29, 1924 – June 5, 2016) was an American trumpet player, composer, and teacher. He was an early advocate for brass chamber music, especially the brass quintet. Nagel was the
Read → Late RomanticRobert Nathaniel Dett
Robert Nathaniel Dett (October 11, 1882 – October 2, 1943), often known as R. Nathaniel Dett and Nathaniel Dett, was a Canadian-American composer, organist, pianist, choral director, and music
Read → Late RomanticRobert O'Dwyer
Robert O'Dwyer (in Irish: Riobárd Ó Duibhir) (27 January 1862 – 6 January 1949) was an Irish composer mainly known for having written one of the first operas in the Irish language. Biography Robert
Read → Post-WarRobert Owens (composer)
Robert Lee Owens III (September 19, 1925 – January 5, 2017) was an American composer, pianist, and actor. Biography Owens was born in Denison, Texas, and grew up in Berkeley, California. Owens began
Read → RomanticRobert Papperitz
Benjamin Robert Papperitz (4 December 1826 – 29 September 1903) was a prominent German music educator, composer, and organist who served on the faculty of the Leipzig Conservatory for over fifty
Read → RenaissanceRobert Parsons (composer)
Robert Parsons (c. 1535 – 25 January 1572) was an English composer of the Tudor period who was active during the reigns of King Edward VI, Queen Mary I and Queen Elizabeth I. He is noted for his
Read → 21st CenturyRobert Paterson (composer)
Robert Paterson (born April 29, 1970) is an American composer of contemporary classical music, as well as a conductor and percussionist. His catalog includes over 120 compositions. He has been called
Read → 20th CenturyRobert Planel
Robert Planel (2 January 1908 – 25 May 1994) was a French composer, music pedagogue and violinist. Life Born in Montélimar, Planel was the son of the founder (1903) and director of the music school
Read → RomanticRobert Planquette
Jean Robert Planquette (; 31 July 1848 – 28 January 1903) was a French composer of songs and operettas. Several of Planquette's operettas were extraordinarily successful in Britain, especially Les
Read → Post-WarRobert Powell (composer)
Robert J. Powell (July 22, 1932 – January 17, 2025) was an American composer, organist, and choir director. Powell earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Louisiana State University with a focus on
Read → RomanticRobert Prescott Stewart
Sir Robert Prescott Stewart (16 December 1825 – 24 March 1894) was an Irish composer, organist, conductor, and teacher – one of the most influential classical musicians in 19th-century Ireland.
Read → Post-WarRobert Russell (composer)
Robert Russell (1933 – March 29, 2020) was an American composer, educator, and broadcaster. Biography Russell was born in 1933 in Hempstead, New York. He received bachelor's and master's degrees in
Read → 20th CenturyRobert Russell Bennett
Robert Russell Bennett (June 15, 1894 – August 18, 1981) was an American composer and arranger, best known for his orchestration of many well-known Broadway and Hollywood musicals by other composers
Read → Post-WarRobert Rutman
Robert Rutman (15 May 1931 – 1 June 2021) was a German visual artist, musician, composer, and instrument builder. Best known for his work with homemade idiophones in his Steel Cello Ensemble, Rutman
Read → Post-WarRobert Saxton
Robert Saxton (born 8 October 1953 in London) is a British composer. Biography Robert Saxton was born in London and started composing at the age of six. He was educated at Bryanston School. Guidance
Read → 20th CenturyRobert Schollum
Robert Schollum (22 August 1913 – 30 September 1987) was an Austrian composer, conductor, music educator, music critic, musicographer and academic scholar. He was president of the for several years
Read → 20th CenturyRobert Scholz (pianist)
Robert Scholz (; 16 October 1902 – 11 October 1986) was an Austrian-born American pianist, conductor, composer and teacher. He achieved fame as a pianist, especially in Austria during the Twenties
Read → RomanticRobert Schumann
Robert Schumann (; ; 8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic era. He composed in all the main musical genres of the time, writing for solo
Read → 21st CenturyRobert Scott Thompson
Robert Scott Thompson (born 1959, California) is an American composer of ambient, instrumental and electroacoustic music. He earned the B.Mus. degree from the University of Oregon and M.A. and Ph.D.
Read → Post-WarRobert Simpson (composer)
Robert Wilfred Levick Simpson (2 March 1921 – 21 November 1997) was an English composer, as well as a long-serving BBC producer and broadcaster. He is best known for his orchestral and chamber music
Read → 20th CenturyRobert Siohan
Robert Lucien Siohan (27 February 1894 – 16 July 1985) was a French conductor and composer. Trained as a violist, he also served as choral conductor. Biography Born in the 14th arrondissement of
Read → Post-WarRobert Sirota
Robert Sirota (born October 13, 1949) is an American composer based in New York City and Searsmont, Maine. Sirota has written solo instrumental, vocal, chamber, orchestral, operatic, and liturgical
Read → 21st CenturyRobert Skowronski
Robert Krzysztof Skowronski (born 28 April 1980) is a Polish-born Swedish musician, songwriter and record producer. He participated at Melodifestivalen 2025 as a songwriter for the winning song "Bara
Read → Post-WarRobert Starer
Robert Starer (8 January 1924 in Vienna – 22 April 2001 in Kingston, New York) was an Austrian-born American composer, pianist and educator. Robert Starer began studying the piano at age 4 and
Read → 21st CenturyRobert Steadman
Robert Steadman (born 1 April 1965) is a British composer of classical music who mostly works in a post-minimalist style but also writes lighter music, including musicals, and compositions for
Read → 20th CenturyRobert Still
Robert Still (10 June 1910 – 13 January 1971) was a wide-ranging English composer of tonal music, who made strong use of dissonance. He produced four symphonies and four string quartets. As a
Read → RomanticRobert Stoepel
Robert Auguste Stoepel (born Auguste Stöpel, 1821 – 1 October 1887) was a German-born American composer and conductor. His compositions include Hiawatha, a symphony for orchestra and vocal soloists,
Read → 20th CenturyRobert Strassburg
Robert Strassburg (August 30, 1915 – October 25, 2003) was an American conductor, composer, musicologist and music educator. Included among his compositions are numerous musical settings of the
Read → Post-WarRobert Suderburg
Robert Charles Suderburg (28 January 1936 in Spencer, Iowa – 22 April 2013 in Williamstown, Massachusetts) was an American composer, conductor, and pianist. Biography The son of a jazz trombonist,
Read → 20th CenturyRobert Talbot (conductor)
Jean Robert Talbot (2 December 1893 – 24 August 1954) was a Canadian conductor, violinist, violist, composer, and music educator. For more than 25 years, he was the conductor of the Société
Read → Late RomanticRobert Tempest (composer)
Robert Tempest (1868, Philadelphia – March 21, 1955, Carlisle, Pennsylvania) was an American composer and concert pianist. He studied piano in his native city with Carl Von Amsburg and Edward
Read → Post-WarRobert Turner (composer)
Robert Comrie Turner, (June 6, 1920 – January 26, 2012) was a Canadian composer, educator, and radio producer. Biography Born in Montreal, Turner graduated in 1943 with a bachelor's degree in music
Read → BaroqueRobert Valentine (composer)
Robert Valentine (c. 1671 – 26 May 1747), also known as Roberto Valentini and Roberto Valentino, was an English composer, recorder player, oboist and violinist, who moved to Rome and became a citizen
Read → 21st CenturyRobert Voisey
Robert Voisey (born 1969) is a composer and producer of electroacoustic and chamber music. He founded Vox Novus in 2000 to promote the music of contemporary composers and in 2001 created The American
Read → RomanticRobert Volkmann
Friedrich Robert Volkmann (6 April 1815 – 30 October 1883) was a German composer. Life Robert Volkmann was born in Lommatzsch near Meißen in the Kingdom of Saxony. His father, a music director for a
Read → 21st CenturyRobert W. Parker (composer)
Robert W. Parker (August 13, 1960 – April 13, 2020) was an American composer, organist, and percussionist based in Southern California. He is best known for his sacred music and compositions for
Read → Post-WarRobert Walker (composer)
Robert Walker (born 18 March 1946) is an English composer, writer and broadcaster. He was born in Northampton, England. He was a pupil at Northampton Grammar School (now Northampton School for Boys),
Read → 20th CenturyRobert Ward (composer)
Robert Eugene Ward (September 13, 1917 – April 3, 2013) was an American composer who is best remembered for his opera The Crucible (1961) after the 1953 play of the same name by Arthur Miller. He was
Read → 21st CenturyRobert Wells (composer)
Robert Henry Arthur Wells (born 7 April 1962) is a Swedish singer, songwriter and musician best known for the musical , which contains elements of rock, classical and boogie-woogie. Early life and
Read → Post-WarRobert Wells (songwriter)
Robert Wells (born Robert Levinson, October 15, 1922 – September 23, 1998) was an American songwriter, composer, screenwriter and television producer. During his early career, he collaborated with
Read → RomanticRobert Whinham
Robert Whinham (1814–1893) was a fiddler, composer and dancing master from Morpeth, Northumberland. Many tunes composed by him are still played, notably the Remember Me hornpipe, Whinham's Reel, and
Read → RenaissanceRobert White (composer)
Robert White (also Whyte; c. 1538 – 1574) probably born in Holborn, a district of London, was an English composer of High Renaissance music. His surviving works include a setting of verses from
Read → Early RomanticRobert William Keith
Robert William Keith (1787–1846) was an English musical composer and writer. Life Born at Stepney on 20 March 1787, he was the son of Cornelius Keith, organist of St. Peter's, Cornhill, and of the
Read → Post-WarRobert William Witt
Robert William Witt (March 4, 1930 – September 18, 1967) was an American neoclassical and experimental composer. A native of Youngstown, Ohio, he was a composer, pianist, and professor of music at
Read → Late RomanticRobert Winterberg
Robert Anton Winterberg (27 February 1884 – 22 June 1930) was an Austrian composer, conductor, pianist, and theatre director. He is best known as a composer of German-language operettas, most of
Read → BaroqueRobert Woodcock
Robert Woodcock (bap. 9 October 1690 – 10 April 1728) was an English marine painter, musician, and composer who lived during the Baroque period. He is notable for having published the earliest known
Read → Post-WarRobert Wykes
Robert A. Wykes (May 19, 1926 in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania; - June 29, 2021 in St. Louis, Missouri) was an American composer of contemporary classical music and flautist. He began studying the flute as
Read → 21st CenturyRobert Zollitsch (composer)
Robert Zollitsch (; born 1966) is a composer and producer of new Chinese music. He is known as Lao Luo (, literally "Old Ro/Gong") in China, and established himself as an expert of traditional Asian
Read → 20th CenturyRoberta Bitgood
Roberta Bitgood (Wiersma) (15 January 1908 – 15 April 2007) was an American organist, choir director, and composer. She was a pioneer of 20th-century American church music, and the first woman to
Read → RomanticRoberta Geddes-Harvey
Anne Catherine Roberta Geddes-Harvey (née Geddes; 25 December 1849 – 22 April 1930) was a Canadian organist, choirmaster and composer. Early life and education Roberta Geddes was born in Hamilton,
Read → 21st CenturyRobertinho do Recife
Carlos Roberto Cavalcanti de Albuquerque (born 1953), known as Robertinho do Recife, is a Brazilian guitarist, record producer, composer born in the city of Recife, Brazil. His first contact with the
Read → Post-WarRoberto Bienzobas
Roberto Bienzobas Gárate (born in Bilbao on 8 October 1942 ) is a Basque musician, conductor, composer and choir director. Life and career He was born in Bilbao on 8 October 1942. He has worked as a
Read → 21st CenturyRoberto Brambilla
Roberto Brambilla (born 30 October 1975) is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music. Life Brambilla was born in Livorno, Italy, and studied music at the "Conservatorio G. Verdi" in Milan
Read → Post-WarRoberto Cantoral
Roberto Cantoral García (7 June 1935 – 7 August 2010) was a Mexican composer, singer and songwriter. He was known for composing a string of hit Mexican songs, including "El Triste", "Al Final", "La
Read → 21st CenturyRoberto Carnevale
Roberto Carnevale (born 15 June 1966) is an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic teacher. Biography and career Born in Catania, he started studying piano at the age of seven. He took a
Read → Post-WarRoberto Ciotti
Roberto Ciotti (20 February 1953 – 31 December 2013) was an Italian blues musician, composer and guitarist. Life and career Born in Rome, Ciotti began playing the guitar at the age of 12. From 1970
Read → Post-WarRoberto De Simone
Roberto De Simone (; 25 August 1933 – 6 April 2025) was an Italian stage director, academic teacher, playwright, composer and ethnomusicologist. Beginning as a harpsichordist, he turned to research
Read → 21st CenturyRoberto Fabbri
Roberto Fabbri (born 1964, Rome) is an Italian classical guitarist, composer, teacher and writer. Biography He studied classical guitar under the guidance of Carlo Carfagna at the Conservatory "Santa
Read → 20th CenturyRoberto García Morillo
Roberto García Morillo (January 22, 1911 – October 26, 2003) was an Argentine composer, musicologist, music professor and music critic. Biography García Morillo was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina,
Read → 20th CenturyRoberto Gerhard
Robert Gerhard i Ottenwaelder (; 25 September 1896 – 5 January 1970) was a Spanish and British composer, musical scholar, and writer, generally known outside his native region of Catalonia as Roberto
Read → 20th CenturyRoberto Lupi
Roberto Lupi (28 November 1908 – 17 April 1971) was an Italian composer, conductor, and music theorist. Born in Milan and trained at the conservatory there, he began his conducting career in 1937.
Read → 21st CenturyRoberto McCausland Dieppa
Roberto McCausland-Dieppa (born July 6, 1959), also known as Dieppe, is a Colombian pianist, composer, and conductor, specializing in classical, jazz, and Hungarian music. His performances at various
Read → 21st CenturyRoberto Molinelli
Roberto Molinelli (born 1963, Ancona) is an Italian composer, conductor and violist. He has graduated with honors and won prizes in national and international competitions. His CD on Carl Reinecke's
Read → 21st CenturyRoberto Occhipinti
Roberto Occhipinti (born March 25, 1955) is a Canadian jazz bassist and composer. He is most noted as a two-time Juno Award nominee for Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year, receiving nominations at
Read → 21st CenturyRoberto Paci Dalò
Roberto Paci Dalò is an Italian author, composer and musician, film maker and theatre director, sound and visual artist, radio-maker. He is the co-founder and director of the performing arts ensemble
Read → 21st CenturyRoberto Procaccini
Roberto Procaccini • Lobbe (born Roberto Procaccini, on , Rome, Italy) is an Italian composer, producer, and keyboard player. Studies He studied piano (classical and jazz) privately, and then at the
Read → 21st CenturyRobin de Raaff
Robin de Raaff (; born in 1968 in Breda, the Netherlands) is a Dutch composer and bassist. De Raaff has written six Symphonies, eleven Concertos for solo instrument(s) and orchestra, an Oratorio
Read → Post-WarRobin Holloway
Robin Greville Holloway (born 19 October 1943) is an English composer, academic and writer. Early life Holloway was born in Leamington Spa. From 1953 to 1957, he was a chorister at St Paul's
Read → Post-WarRobin Maconie
Robin John Maconie (born 22 October 1942) is a New Zealand composer, pianist, and writer. Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Maconie studied with Frederick Page and Roger Savage at the Victoria
Read → Post-WarRobin Minard
Robin Minard (born 1953) is a Canadian composer and installation artist. Minard was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He began his studies of composition at the University of Western Ontario, then at
Read → Post-WarRocco Di Pietro
Rocco Di Pietro (born 1949) is composer, pianist, author, teacher, and habilitationist whose work crosses multiple disciplinary boundaries. "His work has a literary and visual component linking him
Read → Early RomanticRochus Dedler
Rochus Dedler (15 January 1779 – 17 October 1822) was a German composer. He is best known as the author of a stage music for the version of the Oberammergau Passion Play by Father . Life Dedler was
Read → Post-WarRocío Sanz Quirós
Rocío Sanz Quirós (1934–1993) was a Costa Rican composer. She was born in Costa Rica and completed her music education in California and at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. She lived and
Read → EntryRocoberry
Rocoberry (Hangul: ) is a South Korean indie pop duo consisting of members Roco and Conan (also known as Berry). They are best known for composing songs for Korean dramas, including the 2017 hit
Read → Post-WarRod McKuen
Rodney Marvin McKuen ( ; ; April 29, 1933 – January 29, 2015) was an American poet, singer-songwriter and composer. He was one of the best-selling poets in the United States during the late 1960s.
Read → 21st CenturyRod Schejtman
Maestro Rod Schejtman is an Argentine–American symphonic composer, pianist, engineer, and educator. He is the founder of The Piano Encyclopedia, known for developing a methodology to teach
Read → Post-WarRoddy Ellias
Roddy Ellias (born 1950) is a Canadian guitarist, composer and improviser. He performs contemporary new music, jazz, and classical repertoire. Career Ellias was born in 1950 in Val-d'Or, Quebec and
Read → 21st CenturyRoderick Watkins
Roderick Evan Watkins DL (born 1964) is an English composer and the Vice Chancellor of Anglia Ruskin University, in East Anglia. Early life Watkins was educated at Gresham's School, the Oberlin
Read → 21st CenturyRodney Sharman
Rodney Sharman (born 24 May 1958) is a Canadian composer and flutist based in Vancouver. His music has been performed in over 30 countries worldwide. He has won several international and national
Read → 21st CenturyRodney Waschka II
Rodney Waschka II is an American composer known for his algorithmic compositions and his theatrical works. Biography Waschka studied at Brooklyn College, at the Institute of Sonology, then newly part
Read → 21st CenturyRodolfo Acosta (composer)
Rodolfo Acosta Restrepo (born 1970) is a Colombian composer, performer, improviser and professor of music. Biography Born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1970, Acosta studied music theory and composition in
Read → Post-WarRodolfo Arízaga
Rodolfo Arizaga (July 11, 1926 – May 12, 1985) was an Argentine composer. Arizaga was born in Buenos Aires, where he studied composition at the National Conservatory under Alberto Williams, José Gil,
Read → 20th CenturyRodolfo Halffter
Rodolfo Halffter Escriche (30 October 1900 – 14 October 1987) was a Spanish composer, music critic, and professor with Mexican citizenship (from 1939). He wrote in a style always informed by his
Read → 20th CenturyRodolfo Narciso Chavarría
Rodolfo Narciso Chavarría (4 March 1901- 3 October 1968) was a marimba player and composer from Guatemala. Biography He was born in the city of San Cristóbal Verapaz, and his parents were Vicente
Read → ClassicalRodolphe Kreutzer
Rodolphe Kreutzer (15 November 1766 – 6 January 1831) was a French violinist, teacher, conductor, and composer of forty French operas, including La mort d'Abel (1810). He is probably best known as
Read → 20th CenturyRodolphe Mathieu
Joseph Rodolphe Mathieu (10 July 1890 – 29 June 1962) was a Canadian composer, pianist, writer on music, and music educator. The Canadian Encyclopedia states, "Considered too avant-garde for his time
Read → RenaissanceRodrigo de Ceballos
Rodrigo de Ceballos (also Çavallos, Cevallos, Zaballos; c.1525-c.1581 ) was a Spanish composer. Early life His father's family de Ceballos Cabanilla came from Burgos, and he may have trained as a
Read → 21st CenturyRodrigo Leão
Rodrigo Costa Leão Muñoz Miguez (born 15 October 1964), known professionally as Rodrigo Leão, is a Portuguese musician and songwriter. He became known in the 1980s as a member of the Portuguese
Read → 21st CenturyRodrigo Ratier
Rodrigo Sebastian Ratier (born May 21, 1969) is an Argentine composer, arranger, conductor and pianist from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has developed his career as an arranger and a performer in the
Read → Post-WarRoger Bellon
Roger Bellon is a French composer, conductor, orchestrator, and producer, known for his work in film, television, theatre, and opera. Early life He was eight when he had his first piano and
Read → 20th CenturyRoger Boucher
Roger Boucher (13 January 1885 – 20 October 1918) was a French organist and composer. Biography Entered at the Conservatoire de Paris in 1901, Roger Boucher won a 2nd prize in harmony (class of Émile
Read → Post-WarRoger Bourland
Roger Bourland (born December 13, 1952) is an American composer, publisher, blogger, and Professor-Emeritus of Music at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Biography Born in Evanston, Illinois,
Read → Post-WarRoger Boutry
Roger Jean Boutry (27 February 1932 – 7 September 2019) was a French composer and conductor. Biography Born in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, Boutry was a pianist, conductor, arranger, and
Read → Post-WarRoger Craig Vogel
Roger Craig Vogel (born July 6, 1947) is an American composer of contemporary classical music and a music educator. Life The oldest of two children, Vogel was born in Cleveland, Ohio and graduated in
Read → Post-WarRoger Donald Dickerson
Roger Donald Dickerson (born August 24, 1934) is a New Orleans pianist, composer, and educator. Biography Coming from a musical family, Dickerson began piano lessons at 8 years old. In elementary
Read → 20th CenturyRoger Dumas (composer)
Roger Dumas (31 December 1897 – 15 June 1951) was a French composer and conductor. Biography After he finished his musical studies, first at the Conservatory of Nice then the Conservatoire de Paris,
Read → 20th CenturyRoger Goeb
Roger John Goeb (October 9, 1914 – January 3, 1997) was an American composer. Biography Roger Goeb was born in Cherokee, Iowa. Although he had studied piano, trumpet, French horn, viola, violin, and
Read → Late RomanticRoger Harding (singer)
Roger Harding (1858 – August 29, 1901) was an American singer, composer and music publisher active in the United States from 1890 to 1901. Biography Harding was born in Kentucky in 1858 to Roger
Read → Post-WarRoger Jones (composer)
Roger William Jones (born 1948) is an English musician and composer of church music. Alongside writing cantatas and hymn tunes he leads workshops and conducts performances of his works both around
Read → EntryRoger Mason (musician)
Roger Ashley Mason is an Australian keyboardist who has been a member of new wave groups Models, Absent Friends and Icehouse. He was a session and backing musician for United Kingdom's Gary Numan and
Read → Post-WarRoger Matton
Roger Matton OC (18 May 1929 – 7 June 2004) was a Canadian composer, ethnomusicologist, and music educator. As a composer his works are characterized by their association with folklore and folk
Read → 21st CenturyRoger Neill
Roger Neill (born December 26, 1963) is an American composer, arranger, orchestrator, conductor, guitarist and educator. Don't Think Twice, and Beginners. Notable television scores include the series
Read → Post-WarRoger Nixon
Roger Alfred Nixon (August 8, 1921 – October 13, 2009) was an American composer, musician, and professor of music. He wrote over sixty compositions for orchestra, band, choir and opera. Nixon
Read → Late RomanticRoger Quilter
Roger Cuthbert Quilter (1 November 1877 – 21 September 1953) was a British composer, known particularly for his art songs. His songs, which number over a hundred, often set music to text by William
Read → Post-WarRoger Reynolds
Roger Lee Reynolds (born July 18, 1934) is an American composer. He is known for his capacity to integrate diverse ideas and resources, and for the seamless blending of traditional musical sounds
Read → 20th CenturyRoger Roger (composer)
Roger Roger (5 August 1911 – 12 June 1995) was a French composer of light orchestral music and film scores, as well as a conductor and bandleader. His aliases included Eric Swan and Cecil Leuter, the
Read → Post-WarRoger Rooman
Roger Laurent Rooman (24 July 1948 – 15 August 1996) was an Australian composer of classical music, known for his orchestral and chamber works, particularly for string instruments. His compositions
Read → Post-WarRoger Rossi
Roger Rossi (born 1940) is an American pianist, accompanist, vocalist, bandleader, published author and composer born Roger Rossitto, in Brooklyn, New York. He is the son of concert violinist Vincent
Read → 20th CenturyRoger Sacheverell Coke
Roger Sacheverell Coke ( ("cook"); 20 October 1912 – 23 October 1972) was an English composer and pianist. Life Roger Sacheverell Coke was from a wealthy family. He inherited the family estate of
Read → 20th CenturyRoger Sessions
Roger Huntington Sessions (December 28, 1896 – March 16, 1985) was an American composer, teacher, and writer on music. He had started his career writing in a neoclassical style, but gradually moved
Read → Post-WarRoger Smalley
John Roger Smalley (26 July 1943 – 18 August 2015) was an Anglo-Australian composer, pianist and conductor. Professor Smalley was a senior honorary research fellow at the School of Music, University
Read → Post-WarRoger Steptoe
Roger Steptoe (born 1953) is an English composer and pianist. He studied music at the University of Reading as an undergraduate and then at the Royal Academy of Music, London, from 1974 to 1977 as a
Read → 21st CenturyRoger Zare
Roger Joseph Zare (born 1985 Sarasota, Florida) is a Chinese-American composer and pianist. Currently based in Boone, North Carolina. He is known primarily for his orchestral and wind ensemble works,
Read → 21st CenturyRogerio Caetano
Rogerio Caetano (born Goiânia, September 26, 1977) is a Brazilian musician, arranger, musical producer and composer. Bachelor of Music in Composition by the University of Brasília, he is an awarded
Read → 21st CenturyRogério Skylab
Rogério Tolomei Teixeira (born September 2, 1956), known professionally as Rogério Skylab, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, lyricist, classical guitarist, author, blogger, record producer, actor and
Read → RenaissanceRogier Michael
Rogier Michael von Bergen (ca. 1553 probably in Bergen-op-Zoom – after middle 1623 in Dresden) was a Franco-Flemish composer, singer and Kapellmeister of the late Renaissance. Life and work Early
Read → 20th CenturyRoh Ogura
was a Japanese composer and writer. Biography He was born in Kitakyushu and lived in Tokyo and Kamakura. First he learned French Modern Music under Shiro Fukai and Tomojiro Ikenouchi. Then he studied
Read → EntryRohit Sharma (composer)
Rohit Sharma is an Indian film composer, most famously known for being the music director of the film The Kashmir Files , directed by Vivek Agnihotri. His film composing career began during the early
Read → Post-WarRoland Cardon
Roland Cardon (15 April 1929 – 18 August 2001) was a Belgian composer, pedagogue, flautist, clarinetist and multi-instrumentalist. He often published works under the name Guy Rodenhof. After studies
Read → Post-WarRoland Carter (composer)
Roland Marvin Carter (born May 4, 1942) is an American composer and conductor, largely of choral music. A native of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Carter studied music education at Hampton University, from
Read → 21st CenturyRoland Dyens
Roland Dyens () (19 October 1955 – 29 October 2016) was a French classical guitarist, composer, and arranger. He is considered one of the greatest guitarists of his time. Life and career Dyens was
Read → Late RomanticRoland F. Seitz
Roland Forrest Seitz (1867–1946) was an American composer, bandmaster, and music publisher. For his many march compositions he earned the sobriquet “The Parade Music Prince”. Early life and education
Read → Post-WarRoland Trogan
Roland Trogan (August 6, 1933 – May 1, 2012) was an American composer, teacher and author. Biography Born in Saginaw, Michigan, Trogan was a musical prodigy. He performed classical piano music as a
Read → Post-WarRolande Falcinelli
Rolande Roberte Ginabat-Falcinelli (18 February 1920 – 11 June 2006) was a French organist, pianist, composer, and music educator. Biography Rolande Falcinelli (born Ginabat), the grandniece of
Read → Post-WarRolf Alexander Wilhelm
Rolf Alexander Wilhelm (23 June 1927 – 17 January 2013 ) was a German composer, film composer, arranger and conductor. Life Born in Munich, at the age of seven Wilhelm received piano lessons.
Read → Post-WarRolf Gehlhaar
Rolf Rainer Gehlhaar (30 December 1943 – 7 July 2019) was an American composer, Professor in Experimental Music at Coventry University and researcher in assistive technology for music. Life Born in
Read → 21st CenturyRolf Gupta
Rolf Arvind Gupta (born 14 January 1967) is a Norwegian contemporary composer and conductor. Early life and education Born in Uppsala, Gupta has studied with Jorma Panula at the Sibelius Academy in
Read → 21st CenturyRolf Hind
Rolf Hind (born 1964 in London) is a British pianist and composer. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London and at the University of California, Los Angeles. Biography Rolf Hind was born in
Read → 20th CenturyRolf Liebermann
Rolf Liebermann (14 September 1910 – 2 January 1999), was a Swiss composer and music administrator. He served as the artistic director of the Hamburg State Opera from 1959 to 1973 and again from 1985
Read → 21st CenturyRolf Løvland
Rolf Undsæt Løvland (born 19 April 1955) is a Norwegian composer, lyricist, arranger, and pianist. Together with Fionnuala Sherry, he formed the Celtic-Nordic group Secret Garden, in which he was the
Read → Post-WarRolf Riehm
Rolf Riehm (15 June 1937 – 3 January 2026) was a German composer who wrote stage and orchestral works as well as music for ensembles and solo instruments. He began as an oboist and music teacher and
Read → Post-WarRolf Schweizer
Rolf Schweizer (14 March 1936 – 6 June 2016 ) was a German composer, choirmaster and church music director, who was based primarily at Pforzheim. Schweizer was part of the movement Neues Geistliches
Read → 21st CenturyRolf Thomas Lorenz
Rolf Thomas Lorenz (born 19 May 1959 in Klingenthal) is a German composer and music teacher. Life From 1974 to 1982 Lorenz received composition lessons from Jürgen Golle in Zwickau. From 1978 to 1982
Read → 21st CenturyRolf Wallin
Rolf Wallin (born 7 September 1957) is a Norwegian composer, trumpeter and avant-garde performance artist. Biography Wallin was born in Oslo, where he studied with Finn Mortensen and Olav Anton
Read → 21st CenturyRollo Dilworth
Rollo A. Dilworth (born September 23, 1970) is an American choral composer, arranger, conductor, and music educator from St. Louis, Missouri. Education Dilworth, as a young boy, was impassioned by
Read → 21st CenturyRom Di Prisco
Rom Di Prisco (born August 30, 1972), sometimes known as Morphadron, is a Canadian electronic composer. He has provided music for over 30 video games, including the Need for Speed series (second
Read → RomanticRomain-Octave Pelletier I
Romain-Octave Pelletier I (sometimes spelled Peltier) (9 September 1843 – 4 March 1927) was a Canadian organist, pianist, composer, writer on music, and music educator. Early life and career Born in
Read → Post-WarRomán Alís
Román Alís (1931 – 2006) was a Spanish composer. He was born in Palma de Mallorca on August 24, 1931, and died in Madrid on 29 October 2006. Education and training Román Alís' interest in music
Read → Post-WarRoman Bunka
Roman Bunka (2 December 1951 – 12 June 2022) was a German guitarist, oud player and composer, active in world music and jazz fusion bands. He lived most of his life in Munich, Bavaria, where he was
Read → 20th CenturyRoman Haubenstock-Ramati
Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, born Roman Haubenstock (; 27 February 1919 – 3 March 1994) was a composer and music editor who worked in Kraków, Tel Aviv and Vienna. Life Haubenstock-Ramati was born in
Read → ClassicalRoman Hoffstetter
Roman Hoffstetter (born 24 April 1742, in Laudenbach, near Bad Mergentheim, Holy Roman Empire; died: 21 May (Baker's) or June (New Grove 2nd) 1815, in Miltenberg-am-Main, Germany; alternative
Read → 21st CenturyRoman Hurko
Roman Hurko is a New York based composer who specializes in Byzantine Rite Music. Biography Early life Roman Hurko is an American-Canadian of Ukrainian descent, born in Toronto, Canada (1962). A
Read → 20th CenturyRoman Maciejewski
Roman Maciejewski (28 February 1910 in Berlin, Germany – 30 April 1998 in Gothenburg, Sweden) was a Polish composer. His mother, Bronisława Maciejewska, was a talented violinist and music teacher who
Read → 20th CenturyRoman Palester
Roman Palester (28 December 1907 – 25 August 1989) was a Polish composer of classical music. Palester composed his most significant work during the 1960s and was the first Polish musician to be
Read → 20th CenturyRoman Simovych
Roman Apollonovych Simovych (28 February 190130 July 1984) was a Ukrainian composer, educator, and music theorist. Born in Sniatyn, now in Ukraine, Simovych graduated from the Prague Conservatory in
Read → 20th CenturyRoman Toi
Roman Toi (18 June 1916 – 7 May 2018) was an Estonian-Canadian composer, choir conductor, and organist. Influenced by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Toi's music is melodic, lyrical, and melancholic in
Read → 21st CenturyRoman Turovsky-Savchuk
Roman Mykhailovych Turovsky-Savchuk (born May 16, 1961) is an American artist-painter, photographer and videoinstallation artist, as well as a lutenist-composer, born in Ukraine. His musical works
Read → 20th CenturyRoman Vlad
Roman Vlad (29 December 1919 – 21 September 2013) was a Romanian-born Italian composer, pianist, and musicologist. Biography Born in Cernăuți, Kingdom of Romania (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine), he studied
Read → Post-WarRomano Crivici
Romano Crivici (1953) is an Australian violinist, pianist and composer. Romano Crivici is one of Australia's only contemporary composers who is also a recognised contemporary classical performer on
Read → 21st CenturyRomano Musumarra
Romano Musumarra (born 21 July 1956) is an Italian composer, arranger, musician and record producer. Life and career Born in Rome, Musumarra approached music as a child, learning to play pipe organ
Read → Post-WarRomeo Cascarino
Romeo Cascarino (September 28, 1922, Philadelphia – January 8, 2002, Norristown) was an American classical music composer. Biography Cascarino was born in Philadelphia on September 28, 1922 and
Read → Post-WarRomuald Twardowski
Romuald Twardowski (; 17 June 1930 – 13 January 2024) was a Polish composer, pianist, organist and academic teacher who studied in Vilnius, Warsaw and Paris. In a style described as "developed
Read → RomanticRomualdo Marenco
Romualdo Marenco (March 1, 1841 – October 9, 1907) was an Italian composer primarily noted for ballet music. Marenco started his musical career as a violinist in the Doria Theater in Genoa. His first
Read → Post-WarRon Collier
Ron Collier, (July 3, 1930 – October 22, 2003) was a Canadian jazz trombonist, composer, and arranger. He performed in and led a number of jazz groups, and created orchestrations for and recorded
Read → Post-WarRon Goodwin
Ronald Alfred Goodwin (17 February 19258 January 2003) was an English composer and conductor known for his film music. He scored over 70 films in a career lasting over fifty years. His most famous
Read → 21st CenturyRon Korb
Ron Korb is a multi Grammy-nominated and Juno Award winning Canadian flutist (flautist) and composer. Musical style Korb is best known for writing culturally diverse music and his mastery of a wide
Read → 21st CenturyRon Kuivila
Ron Kuivila (born December 19, 1955) is an American sound artist from Boston, MA. He is primarily known for his sound installations, performances, and recorded materials that make use of computers,
Read → Post-WarRon Nelson (composer)
Ronald Jack Nelson (December 14, 1929 – December 24, 2023) was an American composer of classical music and popular music and a music educator. Biography Nelson was born December 14, 1929, in Joliet,
Read → EntryRon Saltmarsh
Ron Saltmarsh is an American composer, producer, guitarist and performer. He has written many TV and movie scores, and also written many country music songs. Saltmarsh was born in Portland, OR in
Read → Post-WarRon Weidberg
Ron Weidberg (; born 1953 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli composer, musicologist, and pianist. His works have been performed by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the Israel Camerata Jerusalem, among
Read → Post-WarRonald Barnes (carillonist)
Ronald Montague Barnes (June 11, 1927 – November 3, 1997) was an American carillonist, composer, and musicologist. He first began playing the carillon as a teenager at his hometown's church. In 1952,
Read → 20th CenturyRonald Binge
Ronald Binge (15 July 1910 – 6 September 1979) was a British composer and arranger of light music. Biography Binge was born in a working-class neighbourhood in Derby, Derbyshire, in the English
Read → 21st CenturyRonald Caltabiano
Ronald Caltabiano (born December 7, 1959) is an American arts administrator and composer of contemporary classical music, with his music showing elements of modernism and romanticism. He holds B.M.,
Read → 20th CenturyRonald Center
Ronald Center (2 April 1913 – 18 April 1973) was a Scottish composer. Biography Center was born in Aberdeen where he studied piano under Julian Rosetti and organ under Willan Swainson. In 1943 he
Read → Post-WarRonald Senator
Ronald Senator (17 April 1926 – 29 April 2015) was a British composer who divided his time between New York City and London. Early life Senator, from a Jewish family, studied at Oxford University
Read → 20th CenturyRonald Settle
Ronald Coulter Settle (21 June 1909 – 11 July 1998) was an English composer, pianist, teacher, writer and examiner. Education Settle was born in Wirral, Cheshire on 21 June 1909. He was educated at
Read → Post-WarRonald Stein
Louis Ronald Stein (April 12, 1930 - August 15, 1988) was an American film composer and conductor. At the height of his career in the 1950s and 1960s, he was best known for scoring B movies produced
Read → Post-WarRonald Stevenson
Ronald James Stevenson (6 March 1928 – 28 March 2015) was a Scottish composer, pianist, and music scholar. Biography The son of a Scottish father and Welsh mother, Stevenson was born in Blackburn,
Read → Post-WarRonaldo Miranda
Ronaldo Miranda (b. April 26, 1948 Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian composer and music professor. Miranda studied at the Escola de Música da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, under Henrique
Read → 21st CenturyRonan Hardiman
Ronan Hardiman (born 19 May 1961) is an Irish composer, famous for his soundtracks to Michael Flatley's dance shows Lord of the Dance, Feet of Flames and Celtic Tiger Live. Early life Hardiman was
Read → 21st CenturyRoni Benise
Roni Benise, is an American guitarist who describes his style as "Spanish guitar" or "nouveau flamenco." After growing up on a small farm near Ravenna, Nebraska, Benise moved to Los Angeles,
Read → Post-WarRonn McFarlane
Ronn McFarlane (born 1953) is an American lutenist and composer, most notable as an interpreter of Renaissance music. He formerly taught lute at the Peabody Conservatory, and has recorded many albums
Read → Post-WarRonnie Hazlehurst
Ronald Hazlehurst (13 March 1928 – 1 October 2007) was an English composer and conductor who, having joined the BBC in 1961, became its Light Entertainment Musical Director. Hazlehurst composed the
Read → BaroqueRoque Ceruti
Roque Ceruti (Milan c. 1683 or 1686 – Lima, 1760) was an Italian composer in Peru. He was recruited as conductor of the Viceroy of Peru's private orchestra, and was a dominant italianizing influence
Read → Post-WarRory Boyle
Rory Boyle is a Scottish composer and currently Professor of Composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Early life and education Boyle was born in Ayr, Scotland on 9 March 1951. His father
Read → 21st CenturyRory Viner
Rory Viner (born May 31, 1983) is a Canadian sound artist, experimental composer and installation artist, based in Tokyo, Japan. Career His works focus on interpreting data, either gathered by the
Read → Post-WarRos Bandt
Rosalie (Ros) Edith Bandt (born 18 August 1951 in Geelong) Bandt is an internationally acclaimed sound artist, composer, researcher and performer. Trained as a school teacher, Bandt went on to study
Read → BaroqueRosa Giacinta Badalla
Rosa Giacinta Badalla (ca. 1660 – ca. 1710) was an Italian composer from the Milan area and Benedictine nun. She was at the convent of Saint Radegonda in Milan from 1678. Badalla had only one printed
Read → Post-WarRosa Guraieb
Rosa Guraieb Kuri (20 May 1931 – 2 March 2014) was a Mexican pianist, music educator and composer of Lebanese ancestry. She was born in Matías Romero, Oaxaca, Mexico, and studied in Beirut with
Read → 20th CenturyRosa Nepgen
Rosa Sophia Cornelia Nepgen (Barkly East, Cape Colony, 12 December 1909 – Stellenbosch, South Africa, 14 February 2000) was a South African composer. The bulk of her oeuvre consists of settings of
Read → Late RomanticRosalie Balmer Smith Cale
Rosalie Balmer Smith Cale (, September24, 1875 – January4, 1958) was an American pianist and composer, whose operettas were performed in St. Louis, Missouri, and New York. Cale was born in St. Louis,
Read → 20th CenturyRosalie Housman
Rosalie Housman (June 25, 1888 – October 28, 1949) was an American composer of mostly songs and chamber music, journalist, and lecturer. Many of her compositions were sung by notable musicians. She
Read → Late RomanticRosalind Ellicott
Rosalind Frances Ellicott (November 14, 1857 – April 5, 1924) was an English composer, considered one of the leading female composers of her generation. Her father had no interest in music and it was
Read → BaroqueRosanna Scalfi Marcello
Rosanna Scalfi Marcello () was an Italian singer and composer of the late Baroque and early Classical periods. Life Rosanna Scalfi's exact birth and death dates are unknown; she was professionally
Read → 20th CenturyRosario Bourdon
Joseph Charles Rosario Bourdon (March 6, 1885 – April 24, 1961) was a French Canadian cellist, violinist, conductor, arranger and composer. He was a child prodigy skilled with many musical
Read → 21st CenturyRosario Di Bella
Rosario Di Bella (born 27 July 1963) is an Italian composer, singer-songwriter, music arranger and musician. Background Born in Zafferana Etnea, Catania, the son of a trumpeter, Di Bella spent much
Read → Late RomanticRosario Scalero
Natale Rosario Scalero (24 December 1870 in Moncalieri - 25 December 1954 in Montestrutto) was an Italian violinist, music teacher and composer. Life and career By the age of six, Scalero was under
Read → Post-WarRoscoe Mitchell
Roscoe Mitchell (born August 3, 1940) is an American composer, jazz instrumentalist, and educator, known for being "a technically superb – if idiosyncratic – saxophonist". The Penguin Guide to Jazz
Read → 21st CenturyRosephanye Powell
Dr Rosephanye Powell, (born 1962) is an American choral composer, singer, professor, conductor and researcher. Powell has been hailed as one of America's premier composers of choral music. She has a
Read → 20th CenturyRoslyn Brogue
Roslyn Brogue (16 February 1919 – 1 August 1981) was an American pianist, violinist, music educator, classics scholar, poet, author and composer. She was born in Chicago, Illinois, and graduated from
Read → Post-WarRoss Bauer
Ross Bauer (born December 19, 1951, Ithaca, New York) is an American composer, conductor, and music educator. A professor emeritus of the University of California, Davis, he was awarded the Walter
Read → 21st CenturyRoss Cullum
Ross Cullum (born 1957) is an English composer, record producer, and audio engineer, known for working with Enya, Tears for Fears, Moya Brennan, and several other artists. Career Cullum became an
Read → Post-WarRoss Edwards (composer)
Ross Edwards (born 23 December 1943) is an Australian composer of a wide variety of music including orchestral and chamber music, choral music, children's music, opera and film music. His distinctive
Read → Post-WarRoss Harris (composer)
Ross Talbot Harris (born 1 August 1945) is a New Zealand composer, multi-instrumentalist, and music educator. Life and career Born in Amberley, Harris was educated at the University of Canterbury
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Ross Lee Finney (December 23, 1906 – February 4, 1997) was an American composer who taught for many years at the University of Michigan. Life and career Born in Wells, Minnesota, Finney received his
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Röstäm Möxämmätxaci ulı Yaxin (16 August 1921 – 23 November 1993) was a Tatar composer and pianist, People's Artist of the USSR (1986). Author of more than 300 songs and romances, including the State
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Rostislav Grigoryevich Boyko (1 August 193118 November 2002) was a Russian composer and conductor. He was principally active in both occupations within the area of choral music. He produced more than
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Rosy Wertheim (19 February 1888 – 27 May 1949) was a Dutch pianist, music educator and composer. Biography Rosalie Marie Wertheim was born in Amsterdam to parents John and Adriana Rosa Gustaaf
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Rowan S. Taylor (1927–2005) was an American composer and conductor. Taylor composed over 250 symphonies in addition to his concertos, songs, chamber works, operas, choral works, and ballets. His
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Roxanna Anna Macklow Smith (née Panufnik; born 24 April 1968 ) is a British composer of Polish descent. She is the daughter of the Polish composer and conductor Sir Andrzej Panufnik and his second
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Roy Ewing "Robert" Agnew (23 August 1891 – 12 November 1944) was an Australian composer, pianist, teacher, and radio announcer. He was described as "the most outstanding of the early
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Roy Fredrick Bargy (July 31, 1894 – January 16, 1974) was an American composer and pianist. Biography Born in Newaygo, Michigan, he grew up in Toledo, Ohio. In 1919, he began working with Charley
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Richard Roy Douglas (12 December 1907 – 23 March 2015) was an English composer, pianist and arranger. He worked as musical assistant to William Walton and Ralph Vaughan Williams, made well-known
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Roy Fernando Guzmán Rodriguez (born June 28, 1987) is a composer of experimental, contemporary and algorithmic instrumental and electronic music, sound artist, improviser and poet born in San Juan,
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Roy Ellsworth Harris (February 12, 1898 – October 1, 1979) was an American composer. He wrote music on American subjects, and is best known for his Symphony No. 3. Life Harris was born in Chandler,
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Roy Henry ("King" Henry) () was an English composer, almost certainly the pseudonym of an English King: probably Henry V, but also possibly Henry IV. His music, two compositions in all, appears in a
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Roy Zu-Arets (; born January 22, 1969) is an American-Israeli composer, pianist, music producer, and arranger. Biography Roy Zu-Arets grew up in Tel Aviv, Israel, to a Ladino-speaking family of
Read → EntryRoyal Academy of Music (company)
The Royal Academy of Music was a company founded in February 1719, during George Frideric Handel's residence at Cannons, by a group of aristocrats to secure themselves a constant supply of opera
Read → 21st CenturyRozalie Hirs
Rozalie Hirs (born 7 April 1965) is a Dutch composer of contemporary classical music and a poet. The principal concerns of her work are the adventure of listening, reading, and the imagination.
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