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Name	Born	Died	Information
Daams, Andreas more...	3 Feb 1971 Goch, Germany		German writer and composer
Daca (or Daza), Esteban	c.1537 Valladolid, Spain	c.1594 Valladolid, Spain	Spanish composer and vihuelist. His work El Parnaso contains contains fantasias, romanzas, villanescas, etc.
Da Costa, Antonio	1714	1780	there is speculation that he was responsible for 18th-century guitar manuscripts found in Portugal
Dacosta, Isaac François (original surname Franco)	17 Jan. 1778 Bordeaux, France	12 Jul. 1866 Bordeaux, France	French clarinetist and composer of concertos, fantasies, etc., for clarinet
Dadelsen, Hans Christian von more...	1948 Germany		German writer and composer
Daelen, Ulla van more...	1962 Monheim, Germany		Harpist. Her compositions, influenced by jazz, classical, pop, folk, and world music, are unconventional and cross over all musical boundaries
Dafeldecker, Werner more...	1964		Bassist Dafeldecker has played jazz, rock, and new music, and has been commissioned to write works by Konzerthaus Wien and ORF, among others
Daffner, Hugo	2 Jun. 1882 Munich, Germany	9 Oct. 1936 Dachau	German composer
Daglish, Ben more...	1967		composer and musician from the UK, known for creating many soundtracks during the 1980s for home computer games
d'Agnesi, Maria Teresa (see Agnesi, Maria Teresa d')
Dahl, Emma	1819 Denmark	1896 Denmark	a well-known singer and composer who published several songs and a set of vocal studies
Dahl, Ingolf more...	9 Jun 1912 Hamburg, Germany	6 Aug. 1970 Frutigen, Switzerland	American composer of Swedish-German parentage
Dahlstedt, Palle more...	1971 Sweden		Swedish composer, musician, sound artist and researcher. His music ranges from orchestral works to interactive music installations, from theatre music to electronic improvisations
Dahmen (or Damen), Hubert	5 Dec. 1812 Amsterdam, The Netherlands	21 Dec. 1837 Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Dutch composer
Dahmen, Johan Arnold	1766	c.1808	a cellist in Salomon's London orchestra, Dahmen composed three sacred songs, accompanied by string quartet, and in Haydn's late manner. It seems they are also some of the earliest published pieces written for solo voice and string quartet.
Dahmen, Johan Arnold	1766	c.1808	It is not clear whether this is the same person or brother of a Jean Arnold Dammen (Fetis calls him Jean Andre Dahmen), who belonged to a large Dutch musical family, was born in 1760, at the Hague, and had the reputation of being a clever player. About 1769 he was living in London. Of his compositions, several books of Duets and Sonatas appeared. In 1794 he was appointed to Drury Lane, and in the years 1796 and 1797 he travelled in South Germany [information taken from Cello Playing in 19th Century France, Belgium and Holland]
Dahmani, Michel (see Gatlif, Tony)
Dalayrac (or D'Alayrac), Nicolas-Marie	8 Jun. 1753 Muret, Haute-Garonne	26 Nov. 1809 Paris, France	French composer
Dal Barba, Daniel (Daniele) (Pius) (see Barba, Daniel (Daniele) (Pius) dal)
Dalbavie, Marc-Andre more...	1961 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France		Since 1985, he has been working at IRCAM in the music research department. in addition to his activities as conductor. He also studied with Pierre Boulez; he has received numerous prizes and awards
Dalby, Martin more...	25 Apr. 1942 Aberdeen, Scotland	25 Oct. 2018 Scotland	Scottish composer
Dalcan, Dominique more...	1964 Beirut, Lebanon		French electronic musician and film composer
Dale, Benjamin James more...	17 Jul. 1885 London, UK	30 Jul. 1943 London	English composer
Dale Roberts, Jeremy more...	16 May 1934 Minchinhamptonn, UK	11 Jul. 2017 UK	English composer, formerly head of composition at the Royal College of Music, London
Daley, Eleanor more...	21 Apr. 1955 Parry Sound, Canada		Canadian composer, organist, and accompanist
Dalfi d'Alvernha (see Dauphin of Auvergne)
Dalgas, Andonis (Andonios Dalgas Dhiamandidhis) more...	1892	1945	one of the greatest Greek singers of rebétika of his time. Known as Dalgas after the undulations in his voice (dalgasis Turkish for wave), his recording career was brief but prolific. Steeped in the multifaceted Constantinopolitan musical tradition from an early age, Dalgas arrived to Greece in 1922 and soon became celebrated for his live recitals
Dallapiccola, Luigi more...	3 Feb. 1904 Pazin, Croatia	19 Feb. 1975 Florence, Italy	an Italian composer known for his lyrical twelve-tone compositions
Dall'Argine, Costantino (see Argine, Costantino dall')
Dalvimare (or d'Alvimare), (Martin-)Pierre	18 Sep. 1772 Dreux, Eure-et-Loire	13 Jun. 1839 Paris, France	French composer
Daly, Ross more...	29 Sep. 1952 King's Lynn, Norfolk, UK		a distinguished composer and multi instrumentalist of Irish descent and lives on the Greek island of Crete. Daly was reared in England, the USA and Japan. ?n his teens he saw Ravi Shankar play Monterey and Stanford University on the West Coast of the US which had a profound effect on him. This influenced his move from classical music to modal Indian classical music. Later he was to play with Shankar in Athens in the early nineties
Dalza, Joan Ambrosio more...	fl. 1508		Italian lutenist and composer
Daman (or Damon, Demaunde), William more...	c. 1540	1591	English composer and psalmist
Damare, Eugene more...	1840 Bayonne, France	1919	French composer
Damase, Jean-Michel more...	27 Jan. 1928 Bordeaux, France		French composer
Dambis, Pauls	30 Jun. 1936 Riga, Latvia		Latvian composer
Dameron, Tadley Ewing Peake (Tadd) more...	21 Feb. 1917 Cleveland, Ohio, USA	8 Mar. 1965	American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer
Damiani, Paolo more...	1952 Rome, Italy		Italian jazz cellist and double-bassist
Dammen, Jean Arnold (see Dahman, Johan Arnold)
Damoureau, Mme. Laure Cinthie (née Montalant)	6 Feb. 1801 Paris, France	25 Feb. 1863 Paris, France	French singer who was the author of a Méthode de chant, etc.
Damrosch, Walter (Johannes)	30 Jan. 1862 Wroclaw	22 Dec. 1950 New York, USA	American composer
Damse, Józef	26 Jan. 1789 Sokolów, Malopolska	15 Dec. 1852 Rudna, nr. Warsaw	Polish composer
Dan, Ikuma	7 Apr. 1924 Tokyo, Japan		Japanese composer
Danbé, Jules	15 Dec. 1840 Caen, France	30 Oct. 1905 France	French violinist, composer of works for violin and author of a method, etc.
Danckerts, Ghiselin more...	c.1510 Tholen, Zeeland	after Aug. 1565	a Dutch composer, singer, and music theorist of the Renaissance. He was principally active in Rome, in the service of the Sistine Chapel, and was one of the judges at the famous debate between Nicola Vicentino and Vicente Lusitano in 1551.
Dancla, Arnaud Philippe more...	1 Jan 1820 Bagneres-de-Bigorre, France	1 Feb 1862 Bagnères-de-Bigorre, France	French cellist and composer called Dancla cadet or 2e. Cello. He published Etudes (Op. 2), two books of Duets, a Fantasia on Themes from Auber's Sirbne, Melodies, and a Cello method, Le Violoncelliste moderne
Dancla, (Jean Baptiste) Charles more...	19 Dec 1817 Bagnères-de-Bigorre, France	8 or 10 Nov 1907 Tunis	called Dancla aîné or 1r. Violin. Violinist and composer. Composed c. 130 works for violin, quartet, orch., etc., incl. Souvenir de la Société des Concerts: 6 duos pour piano et violon (Paris, Colombier-Gallet), op. 91; and method books. Author Les Compositeurs chefs d'orchestre (1873), Miscellanées musicales (1876), Notes et souvenirs (1893, 2nd end., 1898; Eng. transl. Samuel Wolf, Linthicum Heights, Maryland: 1981)
Dancla, (Jean Pierre) Léopold more...	1 Jun 1822 Bagnères-de-Bigorre, France	29 Apr. 1895 Paris, France	called Dancla jeune or 3e. Violin who was also a horn player. Composer of works for violin
Dandelot, Georges (Edouard)	2 Dec. 1895 Paris, France	17 Aug. 1975 St.-George de Didonne, Charente-Maritime	French composer
Dandrieu, Jean-François more...	c.1682 Paris, France	17 Jan. 1738 Paris, France	French Baroque composer, harpsichordist and organist
Daneau, Nicolas	17 Jun. 1866 Binche	12 Jul. 1944 Brussels, Belgium	Belgian composer
d'Anglebert, Jean Henri (see Anglebert, Jean Henri d')
Danhauser, Adolphe-Léopold	26 Feb. 1835 Paris, France	9 Jun. 1896 Paris, France	French composer
Danièl, Arnaut more...	fl. 13th century		Provençal troubadour of the 13th century, praised by Dante and called "Grand Master of Love" by Petrarch. In the 20th century he was lauded by Ezra Pound as the greatest poet to have ever lived
Daniel-Lesur, Jean Yves (or Lesur, Daniel (Jean Yves)) more...	19 Nov. 1908 Paris, France	2 Jul. 2002 Paris, France	French composer, organist and administrator
Danielpour, Richard more...	1956 New York, USA		studied at the New England Conservatory and the Juilliard School of Music. He is one of the most recorded composers of his generation and was one of the first composers to be signed to an exclusive recording contract with Sony Classical. Danielpour is an active educator and commits much of his time to cultivating young musicians. He was in residency at the Acadamie Musicale de Villcroze and was Master Artist for the Atlantic Center for the Arts first International Residency Program in Italy. Danielpour has also served as Co-Director of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestras Composition and Conducting Institute, and recently completed a three-year composer residency with the Pacific Symphony. He currently serves on the faculties of both the Curtis Institute of Music and the Manhattan School of Music, and also gives master classes throughout the country
Daniels, Mabel Wheeler	27 Nov. 1878 Swampscott, Mass., USA	10 Mar. 1971 Boston, Mass., USA	American composer
Danilaitis, Danius more...	1973		Lithuanian composer
Dankevich, Konstantin	24 Dec. 1905 Odessa	26 Feb. 1984 Kiev	Russian composer
Dankworth, John (Johnny) (Philip William) more...	20 Sep. 1927 London, England		English composer
Dann, Horace more...	20 Nov. 1896 Surrey, England	18 Dec. 1958 London, England	pianist, lecturer, BBC administrator and, in a small way, composer
Danner, Wilfried Maria more...	24 Apr. 1956 Duisburg, Germany		German composer
Dannström (Johan) Isidor	15 Dec. 1812 Stockholm	17 Oct. 1897 Stockholm	Swedish composer
Danoville, Le Sieur de more...	fl. 1687		French musician and composer, author of a treatise L'Art de toucher le Dessus et Basse de Violle (Paris 1687)
Dantas Leite, Vânia more...	1945 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil		Brazilian composer
Danyel, John more...	1564 nr. Bath, England	after 1625	English composer and lutenist
Danzi, Franz (Ignaz) more...	15 Jun. 1763 Schwetzingen	13 Apr. 1826 Karlsruhe	German composer
Danzi-Marchand, Maria Marguerethe	1768 Germany	1800	studied voice and piano as a child. In the early 1780s she lived in the home of Leopold Mozart, studying piano and composition. (Leopold Mozart referred to her by the nickname "Gretl" in his letters). She became an opera singer, best-known for her interpretations of W. A. Mozart's operas
Daquin, Louis-Claude more...	4 Jul. 1694 Paris, France	15 Jun. 1772 Paris, France	French composer of Jewish birth writing in the Baroque and Galant styles. He was a virtuoso organist and harpsichordist
D'Arcais, Francesco (see Arcais, Francesc d')
Darcis (or d'Arcis, s'Arcy), François-Joseph	1759/60 Vienna, Austria	c.1783 possibly Moscow, Russia	Austrian-born composer
Darias, Javier more...	1946 Spain		Spanish composer
Dargomyzhsky, Alexander Sergeyevich more...	14 Feb. 1813 Troitskoye, Tula	17 Jan. 1869 St. Peterburg, Russia	Russian composer who bridged the gap in Russian opera composition between Mikhail Glinka and the later generation of 'The Five' and Tchaikovsky
Darke, Harold more...	29 Oct. 1888 London, UK	28 Nov. 1976 Cambridge, UK	English composer and organist
Darling, Edward Irving more...		13 Feb. 1894 Mount Clemens, Detroit, Mich. USA	American composer
Darling, Erik more...	25 Sep. 1933 Baltimore, Maryland, USA	3 Aug. 2008 Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA	American singer, songwriter, guitarist and banjo player
Darnton, (Philip) Christian	30 Oct. 1905 Leeds, England	14 Apr. 1981 Hove, England	English composer
Darondeau, Benoni	1740 Munich, Germany	probably Paris, France	German-born composer
Darondeau, Henry	28 Feb. 1779 Strasbourg	30 Jul. 1865 Paris, France	French composer
Darreg, Ivor (born: Kenneth Vincent Gerard O'Hara) more...	5 May 1917 Portland, Oregon, USA	1994	a leading proponent of and composer of microtonal or "xenharmonic" music. He also created a serie of experimental musical instruments
Darwish, Shaykh Sayyid more...	17 Mar. 1892 Alexandria. Egypt	15 Sep. 1923 Cairo, Egtypt	Egyptian composer who is considered the father of modern Egyptian music
Darzins, Emils more...	3 Nov. 1875 Jaunpiebalga	31 Aug. 1910 Riga, Latvia	Latvian composer, conductor and music critic
Dashow, James (Hyler) more...	7 Nov. 1944 Chicago, USA		an internationally recognized pioneer, has been making music with computers since 1968. His technical research includes the development of MUSIC30, a complete language for digital sound synthesis, and the Dyad System, which integrates pitch and electronic sound. He now lives in Rome
Dashkova, Ekaterina Romanova	1743 St Petersburg, Russia	1813	Russian composer
Dassoucy (or Assoucy, D'Assoucy, Coypeau, Coipeau, Couppeau), Charles (d')	16 Oct. 1605 Paris, France	29 Oct. 1677 Paris, France	French composer
Dattari (or dal Dattaro), Ghinolfo more...	c. 1537 Bologna, Italy	May 1617 Bologna, Italy	Italian singer and composer
Daugherty, Michael more...	1954 Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA		American composer
Daunais, Lionel more...	31 Dec. 1901 Montréal, Canada	18 Jul. 1982 Montréal, Canada	French Canadian baritone singer and composer
Dauphin of Auvergne more...	c.1150	1234/35	or in Occitan Dalfi d'Alvernha was Count of Clermont and Montferrand , troubadour and patron of troubadours. He is sometimes called Robert IV, Dauphin of Auvergne but there is no solid evidence for the name Robert, and the name can cause confusion since his first cousin once removed was Robert IV, count of Auvergne, who died in 1194
Dauprat, Louis François more...	24 May 1781 Paris, France	17 Jul. 1868 Paris, France	French horn player and composer of works for horn and orchestral music. His was also the author of Méthode de cor-alto et cor-basse, premier, second cor (Paris, 1830) and various theoretical treatises
Daussoigne-Méhul, Louis Joseph	10 Jun. 1790 Givet, Ardennes, Belgium	10 Mar. 1875 Liège, Belgium	Belgian composer
Dautrecourt, Jean Augustin more...		1695	French composer from Lyon, at one time confused with Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe who has now been identified as Jean de Sainte-Colombe
Dauvergne (or d'Auvergne), Antoine	3 Oct. 1713 Moulins	11 Dec. 1797 Lyons, France	French composer
Dauverné, François (Georges Auguste) more...	1799	1874	French trumpeter and author of a famous trumpet method
Davaux (or Davau, D'Avaux), Jean-Baptiste more...	19 Jul. 1742 La Côte-St André	2 Feb. 1822 Paris, France	French composer
Dauvergne, Antoine more...	1713 Moulins, Allier, France	1797 Lyon, France	French composer and violinist
Daveluy, Raymond more...	23 Dec. 1926 Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada		Canadian organist, composer, administrator, educator/td>
Davantès, Pierre (also Maistre Pierre) more...	c.1525 Rabastenne, France	31 Aug. 1561 Geneva, Switerland	humanist, printer, composer and contributor to the Geneva Psalter
Davesne (or d'Avesne, Davesnes), Pierre Just	fl. 1768	after 1783	French composer
Davey, Shaun more...	1948 Belfast, N. Ireland		Irish composer
Davico, Vincenzo	14 Jan. 1889 Monaco	8 Dec. 1969 Rome, Italy	Italian composer
David, Félicien(-César) more...	13 Apr. 1810 Cadenet, Vaucluse	29 Aug. 1876 St Germain-en-Laye	French composer
David, Ferdinand more...	20 Jan 1810 Hamburg, Germany	18/19 Jul 1873 Klosters	a German virtuoso violinist and composer of about 40 works. They include two symphonies, five violin concertos, an opera (Hans Wacht, 1852), a string sextet for three violins, viola and two cellos, and a number of lieder. He also produced a concertino for trombone. David also worked as editor of violin works by, for instance, Francesco Maria Veracini, Pietro Locatelli and Johann Gottlieb Goldberg
Dávid, Gyula more...	6 May 1913 Budapest, Hungary	14 Mar. 1977 Budapest, Hungary	Hungarian violist, conductor and composer
David, Johann Nepomuk more...	30 Nov. 1895 Eferding, Upper Austria	22 Dec. 1977 Stuttgart, Germany	Austrian organist and composer
David, Karl Heinrich	30 Dec. 1884 St Gall	17 May 1951 Nervi, Italy	Swiss composer
David, Samuel	12 Nov. 1836 Paris, France	3 Oct. 1895 Paris, France	French composer
David, Thomas Christian more...	22 Dec. 1925 Wels, Austria	19 Jan. 2006 Vienna, Austria	Austrian composer, flautists and keyboardist, son of the composer Johann Nepomuk David [information updated by Benjamin Lindsay]
Davidenko (or Davigyenko), Alexander (Alexandrovich)	13 Apr. 1899 Odessa, Crimea, Ukraine	1 May 1934 Moscow, Russia	Russian composer
Davidoff (or Davidow), Alexi (Alexei)	24 Mar. 1867 Moscow, Russia	7 Mar. 1940 Berlin, Germany	Russian-born composer
Davidov (or Davidoff), Karl (Yul'yevich) more...	15 Mar 1838 Goldingen, Kurland, Latvia	26 Feb 1889 Moscow, Russia	he may be reckoned amongst the most famous cellists of his time. Although born in the little Courland town, Goldingen, his parents moved to Moscow in 1840. He there began his studies with H. Schmidt, who was first Cellist at the Moscow Theatre. He carried on further studies under H. Schuberth, in St. Petersburg. He received his theoretical training from Moritz Hauptmann, in Leipzig, where he appeared at the Gewandhaus Concert towards the end of 1859. This was such a brilliant debut that, when Fried. Grutzmacher was called away from Leipzig to Dresden in 1860, Davidoff was offered his place, which he accepted. He did not, however, long fill it, having conceived the desire of undertaking a tour, which led him into Holland. He then travelled through Russia, when he returned to St. Petersburg. Not long. after he was appointed Imperial solo cellist, and somewhat later (1862) teacher at the Imperial Conservatoire. In 1874 he took part in the concerts of the Paris Conservatoire. Two years after he was named Director of the Russian Imperial Musical Society in St. Petersburg, as well as Director of the Conservatoire there. Davidoff's playing is especially distinguished for its perfect accuracy, as well as by a clever and easy mastery of the greatest difficulties. His Cello compositions consist of several Concertos and a collection of agreeable Drawing-room Pieces
Davidov (or Davidor, Dawydov, Davydov, Davydof), Stepan (Stephan) Ivanovich (Ivanowitsch)	1777	22 May 1825 Moscow (or St. Petersburg), Russia	Russian composer
Davidovsky, Mario more...	4 Mar. 1934 Médanos, Argentina		Argentine-American composer
Davidson, Duane A.	1935	1964	a pupil of Quincy Porter, won several awards for his compositions and enjoyed performances of his works in the United States and Europe during his short life
Davidson, Randall more...	1953		an American composer and native Midwesterner, he's lived in Minneapolis for more than twenty years
Davie, Cedric Thorpe more...	13 May 1913 Glasgow, Scotland	18 Jan. 1983	Scottish composer who was Professor of Music at St Andrews University from 1946 to 1978
Davies, Harry Parr more...	24 May 1914 Briton Ferry, Wales	14 Oct. 1955 London, England	a Welsh composer and songwriter
Davies, Peter Maxwell (see Maxwell Davies, Peter)
Davies, Tansy more...	1973 Bristol, England		British composer
Davies, Walford more...	6 Sep. 1869 Oswestry, England	11 Mar. 1941 Bristol, England	a British composer, who held the title Master of the King's Music from 1934 until 1941
Davis, Anthony more...	20 Feb. 1951 Paterson, New Jersey, USA		an American composer, jazz pianist, and student of gamelan music
Davis, Carl more...	28 Oct 1936 New York, USA	3 Aug 2023 Oxford, England	American conductor and composer who made England his home and married an English actress, Jean Boht. He was a conductor with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and regularly conducted the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. He has written music for over 100 television programs but is best known for creating music to accompany films that were originally silent. He has assisted in the orchestration of the symphonic works of Paul McCartney
Davis, Charles Henry more...	18 May 1815 Usk, Monmouthshire, England	17 May 1854 NSW, Australia	organist, tenor singer and composer of sacred music
Davis, Clara Novello (see Novello Davis, Clara)
Davis, David (see Novello, Ivor)
Davis, Donald more...	4 Feb. 1957 Anaheim, California, USA		American film score composer, conductor, and orchestrator
Davis, Hugh more...			composer, performer, instrument inventor, lecturer and musicologist. He studied music at Oxford University, 1961-64 (BA). He was the assistant to the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen in Cologne, 1964-66. As a Researcher at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales of the French Radio in 1966-67 he compiled a catalogue of electronic music compositions (see below). 1967-1986 he was the founder-director, and 1986-91 the research consultant, at the Electronic Music Studio, Goldsmiths College, University of London. In 1986-93 he was the external consultant for electronic musical instruments at the Gemeentemuseum, the Hague. From 1999 he was a part-time Researcher in Sonic Art at the Centre for Electronic Arts, Middlesex University, London
Davis, John David	22 Oct. 1867 Birmingham	20 Nov. 1942 Estoril	English composer
Davis, Miles more...	26 May 1926 Alton, Illinois, USA	28 Sep. 1991 Santa Monica, California, USA	American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer
Davison, A(rchibald) T(hompson)	11 Oct. 1883 Boston, Mass., USA	6 Feb. 1961 Brant Rock, nr. Marshfield, Mass., USA	American composer
Davy, John more...	23 Dec. 1763 Upton Helions, nr. Exeter	22 Feb. 1824 London, England	prolific composer of operas
Davy, Richard more...	c.1465	1507	one of the composers represented in the Eton Choirbook. His 'Passion according to St.Matthew' is the earliest setting by a named composer which extends this basic liturgical theatre into a musical composition, by providing a polyphonic choral version of the high voices segments a structure that remained intact through to the Passions of J.S.Bach and beyond. Davy was master of the choristers at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1490-92, where this Passion may have been first performed
Dawson, William Levi more...	26 Sep. 1899 Anniston, Alabama, USA	2 May 21900 Montgomery, Alabama, USA	African-American composer, choir director and professor
Day, Edgar more...	1883	1983	English organist and composer
Daza, Esteban (see Daca, Esteban)
Deacon, Nigel more...	1950s England		a science educator and researcher in the Midlands, but his passion is music. He is a pianist and composer and has written for the piano since 1975, when he was an undergraduate at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. He has published over a hundred piano pieces with his imprint Sutton Elms Publications
Deák, Csaba more...	16 Apr. 1932 Budapest, Hungary		Hungarian-born Swedish composer
Deakin, Andrew more...	late 20th century		lecturer, writer, musician, composer and sound artist who works with Martin Robinson as tractor and with Martin Robinson, Catherine Bassett and Vicki Spong as Extractor
Dean, Brett more...	1961		composer and viola player who studied in Brisbane, Australia before moving to Germany
De André, Fabrizio more...	18 Feb. 1940 Genoa, Italy	11 Jan. 1999 Milan, Italy	an Italian singer-songwriter and poet. In his works he often told stories of prostitutes, marginalized and rebellious people. His name is spelled as "Fabrizio de André", with lowercase "de", on some records and on his signature, but "Fabrizio De André" seems to be the most used and accepted form
Deane, Raymond more...	1953 Achill Island, Ireland		contemporary freelance Irish composer and author
DeAngelis, Angelo Rivotorto	fl. 1770-1787	c.1825 Padua, Italy	Italian composer
Dearnley, Christopher more...	11 Feb. 1930 Wolverhampton, England	15 Dec. 2000 South Maroota, NSW, Australia	English organist and composer. His most familiar organ compositions include: Dominus regit me - Meditation [supplmentary information by Terry L. Mueller]
De Boeck, Auguste (see Boeck, Auguste De)
DeBoer, Brian more...			studied music and composition at the University of California, Irvine, the Eastman School of Music, and UCLA. His music, including his arrangement of STAR WARS: THE OPERA, has been performed by the New World Symphony. Brian composed the music for A PASSAGE TO MIDDLE EARTH: THE MAKING OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS for the SCIFI Network, and was an orchestrator on the Emmy-winning reality show, THE AMAZING RACE. Many of his other projects have appeared in numerous film festivals worldwide, including Sundance, the Cleveland Film Festival, and the Newport Beach Film Festival. In addition, he plays bassoon professionally with the Redlands Symphony, the San Bernardino Symphony, and the Grammy-nominated Absolut Ensemble
Debussy, (Achille-)Claude more...	22 Aug. 1862 St.. Germain-en-Laye, France	25 Mar. 1918 Paris, France	French composer. He worked within the style commonly referred to as impressionist music, a term which he dismissed. Debussy was not only one of the most important French composers but was also one of the most important figures in music at the turn of the last century; his music represents the transition from late-romantic music to 20th century modernist music
Décaux, Abel	1869 Auffay, France	19 Mar. 1943	studied composition with Jules Massenet and organ with Widor at the Paris Conservatory and Guilmant at the Schola Cantorum. He was the organist titulair of the organ of the famous Sacré-Coeur in Paris during 20 years (1903-1923). On October 16, 1919, Décaux inaugurated the great 'new' Sacré-Coeur Organ, in collaboration with Marcel Dupré and Charles-Marie Widor. Décaux taught organ at the Schola Cantorum in Paris and also in the United States of America from 1923 to 1935 at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester. After his return to France in 1935 he taught at the César Frank organ school. He was famous as an improvisor, but his only known organ composition is Clairs de lune, piano (1. Minuit passe, 1900; 2. La ruelle, 1902; 3. La cimitière, 1907; 4. La Mer, 1903; 5th piece planned, but never written) [supplementary information by Terry L. Mueller]
DeCesare, Stephen more...	1969 Providence, Rhode Island, USA		American musical-theatre composer
de Chatelain, Clara (de Pontigny) (see Chatelain, Clara de (de Pontigny)
Decker, George De more...	31 Aug. 1951 Asse, Belgium		Belgian sound artist and composer
Decker, Pamela more...	1955		American organist and composer who is Associate Professor of Organ/Music Theory at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. She also serves as organist at Grace St. Pauls Episcopal Church in Tucson
Decsenyi, Janos	24 Mar. 1927 Budapest, Hungary		in 1956 he graduated as a composer at the Budapest Ferecz Liszt Academy of Music. Since 1951 he has been on the staff of the Hungarian Radio. In 1956 he won a prize at the Vercelli composers competition in Italy, he was awarded an Erkel prize in 1975, and the prize of the Hungarian critics in 1981, and 1991. Since 1986 he is Honoured Artist. His interests over a broad sphere of music genres - he composed symphonic and chamber music, chorals, film music and incidental music for radio, theatres and also electroacoustic music
Decruck, Fernande (Breilhl-Decruck, Jeanne Delphine Fernande) more...	1896 Gaillac, France	6 Augu. 1954 France	French organist, pianist and composer. Her husband Maurice Decruck was solo saxophonist (his title) with the New York Philharmonic. He was not a composer, but for quite a long time, many of her compositions were published under his name. Her Chant Lyrique is one of the first works written by a woman composer for La garde républicaine
Dédé, Edmond more...	20 Nov. 1827 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA	1903 Paris, France	one of the famous Creole of colour composer, violin prodigy and conductor at the Alcazar Theatre (where he worked for 27 years). He married a French woman, Sylvie Leflet, in 1864
Dédé, Eugène Arcade more...	1860s Bordeaux, France		son of Edmond Dédé, Eugene also composed music some of which was orchestrated by his father
Dedekind, Constantin Christian more...	2 Apr. 1628 Anhalt-Cöthen, Germany	1697 Dresden, Germany	German bass singer, poet and composer
Dedler, Rochus more...	1799 Oberammergau	1822 Vienna	teacher most famous for writing music for the Oberammergau passion play which has been performed since 1633 when during the plague the village council of the Twelve and the Six vow to perform the "Tragedy of the Passion" every 10 years. The first performance took place in 1634. The music heard today has been extensively arranged since it was composed in about 1811 by Dedler
Dedrick, Christopher more...	12 Sep. 1947		son of Art Dedrick (a trumpet player, music arranger, and band leader), Dedrick is an American-Canadian composer, orchestrator, conductor, sound editor, musician, singer, recording artist
Deering (or Deering, Dearing, Diringus), Richard more...	c.1580 Hampshire, Ebngland	1630 England	English composer, who despite being from England, lived and worked most of his life in the Spanish-dominated South Netherlands, because of his Roman Catholic faith. He returned to England in 1625 as organist to the Catholic Queen Henrietta Maria and 'musician for the lutes and voices' to Charles I
De Ferrari, Serafino (Amadeo) (see Ferrari, Serafino (Amadeo) de)
Deffés, (Pierre-)Louis	25 Jul. 1819 Toulouse, France	10 Jun. 1900 Toulouse, France	French composer
de Fontaines, Philippe (see Fontaines, Philippe de)
Defoort, Bart more...	10 Feb. 1964 Bruges, Belgium		Belgian saxophonist and composer, brother of Kris
Defoort, Kris more...	30 Nov. 1959 Bruges, Belgium		Belgian avant-garde jazz pianist and composer
Defossez, René more...	4 Oct. 1905 Spa	20 May 1988 Brussels	Belgian composer
Degen, Helmut more...	14 Jan. 1911 Aglasterhausen, Baden, Germany	2 Oct. 1995 Germany	German composer
Degen, Johann more...	c.1585 Weismann, Germany	29 Aug. 1637 Bamburg, Germany	German organist and composer
Degen, Søffren more...	12 Oct. 1816 Copenhagen, Denmark	7 Jul. 1885 Frederiksberg, Denmark	Danish guitarist and composer
Degtiarev, Stepan more...	1766	1813	renowned Ukrainian composer of the late 18th century. He was most famous for his nationalistic Russian Choral Music
De Giosa, Nicola (see Giosa, Nicola de)
Degli Antoni (or Antonii), Pietro (see Antoni (or Antonii), Pietro degli)
De Groot, Rokus more...	1947 Aalst, The Netherlands		musicologist and composer, conducts research on music of the 20th and 21st centuries, especially in the field of the interaction between different cultural traditions, and in the perspective of present-day (re)conceptualisations of past and present religious and spiritual traditions
Deichel, Joseph Anton	17 Mar. 1699 Eichstätt	13 Apr. 1778 Eichstätt	German composer
Deichel, Joseph Christoph	30 Dec. 1695 Eichstätt	2 Aug. 1753 Eichstätt	German composer
Deiro, Guido more...	1886 Torino, Italy	1950 USA	Italian-born composer and accordionist, brother of Pietro, the two most important accordionists working in America in the early twentieth century
Deiro, Pietro more...	1888 Torino, Italy	1954 USA	brother of Guido Deiro, Italian-born composer and accordionist who lived in San Francisco from 1907
Dejazet, Hermine			her operetta Le Diable Rose was performed in Paris 1859
Dejonghe, Koen more...	27 Jun 1957 Kuurne, Belgium		Belgian pianist and composer primarily of chamber, vocal and piano works. Dejonghe studied with Levente Kende at the Lemmensinstituut in Leuven, where he graduated in 1982 with a combined diploma in music education and piano. He then studied composition with Willem Kersters at the Koninklijk Vlaams Muziekconservatorium in Antwerp, where he earned first prizes in fugue in 1990 and composition in 1994
Dekker, Wessel more...	second halk 20th century/21st century		Dutch arranger, composer and conductor, for example, of the Mandolin orchestra "Caecilia" (Amsterdam)
De Koven, (Henry Louis) Reginald (see Koven, (Henry Louis) Reginald de)
Dela, (Albert) Maurice (né Phaneuf) more...	9 Sep. 1919 Montreal, Canada	28 Apr. 1978 Verdun, Montreal, Canada	Canadian composer , arranger, organist and pianist
Delaborde, Elie (né Miriam)	8 Feb. 1839 Paris, France	9 Dec. 1913 Paris, France	French composer
Delacoste, François-Xavier more...	5 Jan. 1950 Monthey, Valais, Switzerland		Swiss composer, arranger and orchestrator
Delage, Maurice Charles more...	1879	1961	French composer and pianist. A student of Ravel and member of Les Apaches, he was influenced by travels to India and the East. Ravel's "La vallée des cloches" from Miroirs was dedicated to Delage
Delalande (or de Lalande), Michel-Richard more...	1657 Paris, France	18 Jun. 1726 Versailles, France	prolific French Baroque composer and organist who was one of the most important composers of so-called grand motets, of which he wrote almost 80
De la Luz, Cesar Portillo (see Luz, Cesar Portillo de la)
Delange (or De Lange), Herman-François	2 Jun. 1715 Liège, Belgium	27 Oct. 1781 Liège	Belgian composer
de Lange (see Lange, de)
Delannoy, Marcel	9 Jul. 1898 La Ferté-Alais, Essonnes, nr. Paris	14 Sep. 1962 Nantes, France	French composer
de Lantins, Arnold de (see Lantins, Arnold de)
de Lantins, Hugo de (see Latins, Hugo de)
Delany, John Albert more...	6 Jul. 1852 Ratcliffe, London	1907 Paddington, Australia	violinist, organist, teacher, conductor and composer. His greatest achievement was the presentation of the Australian première of Sir Edward Elgar's oratorio The Dream of Gerontius in Sydney Town Hall on 21 December 1903, to mark the golden jubilee of the ordination of Patrick Francis Moran, archbishop of Sydney
De Lara (Cohen), Isidore (see Lara (Cohen), Isidore Da)
de Lassus, Orlande (see Lassus, Orlande de)
DeLaurenti, Christopher more...	1967		Seattle based composer, improvisor, and phonographer
Delaval, Mme			a famous harpist who produced a successful cantata depicting the farewell of Louis XVI which was produced in London in 1794. She also published many songs and a large amount of harp music
Delavigne, Philibert more...	c. 1700 France	1750 France	French composer of which little is known, except that he was active at the court of Louis XV and entered the service of the Comte d'Ayen around 1730
Delbos, Claire (Louise) more...	Nov. 1906 Paris, France	22 Apr. 1959 France	French violinist and composer, and first wife of the composer Olivier Messiaen
Delcroix, Léon Charles	15 Sep. 1880 Brussels, Belgium	14 Nov. 1938 Brussels, Belgium	Belgian composer
Delden, Lex van (né Alexander Zwaap) more...	10 Sep. 1919 Amsterdam, The Netherlands	1 Jul 1988 Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Dutch composer
Deldevez, Edme Marie Ernest more...	31 May 1817 Paris, France	6 Nov. 1897 Paris, France	French violinist, conductor, composer of orchestral works and author of La Notation de la musique, etc. (Paris, 1867), Principe de la formation des accords, etc. (Paris 1868), Curiosités musicales (1873), L'Art du chef d'orchestre (1878), La Société des Concerts du Conservatoire (1887), De l'Exécution d'ensemble (Paris, 1888), Mes Mémoires (1890), Le Passé, à propos du présent, suite à Mes Mémoires (Paris, 1892)
de Leone, Francesco (Bartolomeo) (see Leone, Francesco (Bartolomeo) de)
Delerue, Georges more...	12 Mar. 1925 Roubaix, France	20 Mar. 1992 Los Angeles, USA	French composer noted most for his film scores including A Little Romance (1979) (for which he won an Oscar) as well as gaining nominations for Ann of a Thousand Days (1969), The Day of the Dolphin (1973), Julia (1977) and Agnes of God (1985)
Delfrate-Alvazzi, Giulio Maria	1772 Varzo, Italy	1819	Italian organist, friar and composer
Delft, Marc van more...	4 Apr. 1958 Den Haag, The Netherlands		Dutch composer
Delgado, Alexandre (Chaves Rosa) more...	1965 Lisbon, Portugual		Portuguese viola player and Composer mostly of orchestral and chamber works
Delgado, Francisco Eusebio more...	1792 Mexico City, Mexico	c. 1853	Mexico's greatest composer from the late-Classic-early Romantic period
Delgadillo, Luis (Abraham) more...	26 Aug. 1887 Managua	1962 Managua	Nicaraguan composer
Delibes, (Clément Philibert) Léo more...	21 Feb. 1836 St.-Germain-du-Val, Sarthe	16 Jan. 1891 Paris, France	a French composer of Romantic music
de Literes, Antonio (see Literes, Antonio de)
Delius, Frederick (Fritz) (Theodor Albert) more...	29 Jan 1862 Bradford, UK	10 Jun 1934 Grez-sur-Loing, France	English composer whose lyrical music was championed by the conductor Sir Thomas Beecham
Della Ciaia (or Ciaja), Azzolino Bernardino (see Ciaia (or Ciaja), Azzolino Bernardino della)
Della Maria, (Pierre-Antoine-)Dominique	14 Jun. 1769 Marseilles, France	9 Mar. 1800 Paris, France	French composer
Della Porta, Giuseppe	fl. 1697		Italian composer
Deller (or Teller, Döller, Töller), Florian Johann	bap. 2 May 1729 Drosendorf	19 Apr. 1773 Munich, Germany	German composer
Dellinger, Rudolf	8 Jul. 1857 Kraslice	24 Sep. 1910 Dresden, Germany	Czech born composer
Dello Joio, Norman more...	24 Jan. 1913 New York, USA	24 Jul. 2007 East Hampton, NY, USA	American composer who achieved wide popularity in the mid-twentieth century with a proliferation of essentially tonal, lyrical works
Dell'Orefice, Giuseppe (see Orefice, Giuseppe Dell')
Delmas, Marc-Jean-Baptiste	28 Mar. 1885 St Quentin	30 Nov. 1931 Paris, France	French composer
Delorko, Mario Ratko more...	1959 Hamburg, Germany		virtuoso German pianist, & conductor & composer
Del Tredici, David more...	16 Mar. 1937 Cloverdale, California, USA		American composer and Pulitzer Prize winner
Delune, Louis	15 Mar. 1876 Charleroi, Belgium	5 Jun. 1940 Paris, France	Belgian composer
Delvaux, Berthe (see Vito-Delvaux, Berthe di)
Delvincourt, Claude more...	12 Jan. 1888 Paris, France	5 Apr. 1954 Orbetello, Tuscany, Italy	French composer
Delz, Christoph more...	3 Jan. 1950 Basel, Switzerland	13 Spe. 1993 Riehen bei Basel, Switzerland	Swiss composer and pianist
Demachy (or Machy), sieur more...	fl. c.1686-1692		French viol player and composer
de Manchicourt, Pierre (see Manchicourt, Pierre de)
Demantius, Johann Christoph more...	15 Dec. 1567 Reichenberg, now in the Czech Republic	20 Apr. 1643 Freiburg, Germany	a German composer, music theorist, writer and poet. He was an exact contemporary of Monteverdi, and represented a transitional phase in German Lutheran music from the polyphonic Renaissance style to the early Baroque. As a music theoretician he is famous for compiling the first dictionary of musical terms in the German language
Demar, Johann Sebastian more...	29 Jun. 1763 Gauaschach, Bavaria	25 Jul. 1832 Orléans, France	organist and composer, director of the music education of the Garde Nationale d'Orléans
Demar, Therese	1801 Paris		composed and published more than 30 compositions for the harp
Demars, Helene-Louise	1733 France		a composer published in Paris in 1752
Demény, Desiderius	29 Jan. 1871 Budapest, Hungary	9 Nov. 1937 Budapest, Hungary	Hungarian composer
Demersseman, Jules Auguste Eduard more...	9 Jan. 1833 Hondschoote, The Netherlands	1 Dec. 1866 Paris, France	French-trained virtuoso flautist who composed mostly virtuosic pieces for his instrument
Demessieux, Jeanne more...	13 Feb. 1921 Montpelier, France	11 Nov. 1968 Paris, France	French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue who became a student of Marcel Dupré at age 13 (1936) until some disagreement ended their relationship in about 1946. She was the first woman to give a recital in Westminster Abbey and Westminster Cathedral. Demessieux enjoyed a stupendous performing career and a reputation as a brilliant technician and improvisor. She was Organist of Paris St-Esprit 1933-1962; Paris Église de la ste-Madeleine (Church of St Magdalen) 1962-1968 and Organ professor at Liège Conservatory. Among her major organ works are: 12 Chorale Preludes on Gregorian Chant Themes: (Rorate Caeli; Hosanna filio David; Adeste fideles; Domine Jesu; O filii et filiae; Attende Domine; Stabat mater) [inspired by the organ of New York St John the Divine Cathedral], Op.8, 1950; 6 Études (Pointes, Tierces, Sixtes, Accordes alternés, Notes répétées, Octaves), 1944 [Bornemann]; Prélude et fugue dans le mode lydien, Op.13, 1962; 7 Méditations sur le Saint-Esprit (Veni Sancte Spiritus, Les Eaux, Pentecôte, Dogme, Consolateur, Paix, Lumière), 1947 [Durand]; Répons pour le temps de Pâques, 1968; Triptyque (Prélude; Adagio; Fugue), Op.7, 1948; Te deum, Op.11, 1959; 3 Chorale Preludes; Andante. She also wrote a work for organ & orchestra entitled Poème, Op.9, 1949 [supplementary information by Terry L. Mueller]
Demian, Vilmos (Wilhelm)	9 Jun. 1910 Brasov		composer
Dempster, Stuart more...	7 Jul. 1936 Berkeley, California, USA		American trombonist and experimental composer. He studied at San Francisco State College in California. From 1962 to 1966 he served as principal trombonist in the Oakland Symphony; since 1968 he has taught at the University of Washington in Seattle. Dempster tours regularly throughout the US and Europe performing his own music as well as commissioned works by such composers as Luciano Berio, Donald Erb, Andrew Imbrie, Ben Johnston, Ernst Krenek, Edwin London, and Pauline Oliveros. He has collaborated and performed with choreographer Merce Cunningham in Meet the Composer's Composer/Choreographer Project; in 1993-1994 he was composer-in-residence with Seattle's New Performance Group as part of the Music in Motion project
Demunck (or de Munck), Francois more...	6 Oct 6 1815 Brussels, Belgium	28 Feb 1859 Brussels, Belgium	he entered the Conservatoire of his birthplace as a boy of ten years of age and studied with Platel. In 1834 he left the Conservatoire with the first prize, and in the following year he was nominated as his master's assistant. Demunek fell into relations which caused him to neglect the study of the Cello; consequently his performances were deprived of their precision and brilliancy; and, further, he ruined his health. Soon after, in 1845, he resigned his official work, in order to perform at concerts, in company with a singer, in Germany. His performances, however, no longer came up to the cherished expectations. In the year 1848 Servais stepped into Demunck's place as teacher at the Brussels Conservatoire, which induced him to go to London, and labour for a time in the orchestra of Her Majesty's Theatre. But only too soon the results of his dissolute life became apparent. He fell into doubtful circumstances, and, broken in body and mind, he returned, in the spring of 1858, to Brussels, where he died. Demunck published only a "Fantasia" with variations on a Russian theme (Op. 1)
Demuth, Norman	15 Jul. 1898 South Croydon	21 Apr. 1968 Chichester, England	English composer
Dench, Chris more...	10 Jun. 1953 London, UK		self-taught composer who arrived in Australia after living in West Berlin, as a guest of the DAAD Berliner Kunstlerprogramm, and Tuscany, becoming an Australian citizen in 1992. He currently lives in Newcastle, NSW
Dencke, Jeremiah more...	1725	1795	American Moravian composer
de Neele, Perrot (see Neele, Perrot de)
Denefve, Jules	1814 Chimay	19 Aug. 1877 Mons, Belgium	Belgian composer
Deneire, Hanne more...	23 Jun. 1980 Hasselt, Belgium		Belgian composer
Denhoff, Michael more...	25 Apr. 1955 Ahaus, Germany		German composer and cellist
Denio, Amy more...	9 Jun. 1961 Seattle, USA		a Seattle (USA)-based multi-instrumental composer of soundtracks for modern dance, film and theater, as well as a songwriter and music improviser
Denis, Mlle			a composer published in Paris in 1711
Denis Browne, William Charles (see Browne, William Charles Denis)
Denisov, Edison (Vasil'yevich) more...	6 Apr. 1929 Tomsk, Russia	24 Nov. 1996 Paris, France	Russian pianist and composer
Dennehy, Donnacha more...	1970 Dublin, Ireland		Irish composer
Dennis, Matt more...	11 Feb. 1914 Seattle, Washington, USA	21 Jun. 2002 Riverside, California, USA	songwriter, pianist and singer
Dentice, Fabrizio more...	c.1530 Naples, Italy	c.1590 Italy	Italian composer and virtuoso lute and viol player. He appeared as an acclaimed virtuoso in Rome and the court of Parma. He published Lamentationi a cinque voci. Other compositions (pieces for lute, madrigals, motets and faux-bourdons) appeared in contemporary anthologies
Dentice, Luigi more...		before 1601 Italy	possibly brother of Scipione, Italian writer known for his Duo Dialoghi della musica, which contains much interesting information about musicians of the time
Dentice, Scipione (or Scipione Stella) more...	1560	1635	Italian clavier player and composer of seven books of madrigals and one of motets. He was a nephew of Fabrizio Dentice
Denyer, Frank more...	1943 London, UK		English composer and pianist who forcus on creating music for a combination of conventional instruments and new, unusual, and structurally modified instruments. Partly due to his studies of non-Western music, much of Denyer's music is microtonal
Denza, Luigi more...	24 Feb. 1846 Castellammare di Stabia, Italy	26 Jan 1922 London, England	Italian composer who moved to London and became a professor of singing at the Royal Academy of Music in 1898. His best known composition was Funiculi-funicula. This rollicking dance-song in tarantella rhythm was written to be played at the opening of the new tourist attraction in Naples, the funicular railroad that takes travelers to the top of Mount Vesuvius. It has become a kind of cliché for Southern Italy and is often taken to be a folk song
Deodato, Eumir (Almeida, Eumir Deodato de)
de Paul (see Paul, de)
de Pauw (see Pauw, de)
de Peellaert, Augustin-Philippe (see Peellaert, Augustin-Philippe de)
Penne, Antoine de (see Penne, Antoine de)
de Picardia, Petrus (see Picardia, Petrus de)
de Placker, Christiaan (see Placker, Christiaan de)
de Poppe, Ferdinand (see Poppe, Ferdinand de)
de Placker, Christiaan (see Placker, Christiaan de)
de Puysseleyr, Peter Frans (see Puysseleyr, Peter Frans de)
de Quercu, Simon (see Quercu, Simon de)
Dequin, Leon	fl. 1890-1910		French composer
de Raedt, Pierre (see Raedt, Pierre de)
de Reulx, Anselme (see Reulx, Anselme de)
de Reux, Jacques (see Reux, Jacques de)
Dering, Richard more...	c.1580 England	1630 England	expatriate English musician who because of his Roman Catholic faith, lived and worked in the Spanish-dominated South Netherlands. He returned to England in 1625 as organist to the Catholic Queen Henrietta Maria and 'musician for the lutes and voices' to King Charles I
de Rivulo, Franziscus (see Rivulo, Franziscus de)
de Rocourt, Pierre (see Rocourt, Pierre de)
Derome, Jean more...	29 Jun. 1955 Montreal, Quebec, Canada		French Canadian avant-garde saxophonist, flautist and composer
de Ronghe, Michaël (see Ronghe, Michaël de)
Deroo, Maurits Alfons more...	4 Nov. 1902 Brugge, Belgium	4 Mar. 1988 Assenede, Belgium	Belgian composer
de Rore, Cipriano (see Rore, Cipriano de)
Derosier, Nicholas more...	fl. 17th century		guitarist and composer who invented the guitarre angelique with eight strings more than usual. He was the author of Les principes de la guitarre (1694) and Neuveaus principes pour le guitarre (1699) both in French tablature for the 5 course guitar
De Sabata, Victor (Vittorio) (see Sabata, Victor (Vittorio) de)
de Saint-Luc, Jacques (see Saint-Luc, Jacques de)
de Salinis, Hymbert (see Salinis, Hymbert de)
de Sarto, Johannes (see Sarto, Johannes de)
Désaugiers, Marc-Antoine	1742 Fréjus	10 Sep. 1793 Paris, France	French composer
de Sayve (or Saife, Sainne, Saive, Seave, Seyve) (see Sayve de)
Deschamps, Eustache (also known as Morel) more...	1346 Vertus, Champagne, France	1406	French poet. Guillaume de Machaut (c.13001377), who popularized the new lyric genres such as the rondeau, ballade, lai, and virelai in the 14th century, is considered to have been the leader of the new rhétorique, or poetic art. This tradition was continued by Eustache Deschamps, Christine de Pizan (1363c.1434), Charles d'Orléans (13941464/5), and François Villon (1431-after 1463), as well as by Jean Froissart (c.1337c.1405), the great chronicler
de Scholbas, Arnold (see Scholbas, Arnold de)
Desderi, Ettore more...	10 Dec. 1892 Asti, Italy	23 Nov. 1974 Florence, Italy	Italian composer best known for his sacred music
de Seixas, Carlos (see Seixas, Carlos de)
Désenclos, Alfred more...	7 Feb. 1912 Pontel, Pas-de-Calais, France	31 Mar. 1971 Paris, France	French composer
de Senleches, Jacob (see Senleches, Jacob (Jacques) de)
Desfosses (or Desfossés, Desfossez), Françoise Elizabeth (later Mme Caraque, Countess)	fl. 1789-1820		French composer
Deshayes (or Des Hayes, des Hayes, Deshays), Prosper-Didier	fl. 1785-1804	1815 Paris, France	French composer
de Sire, Simon (see Sire, Simon de)
Deslandres, Adolphe-Edouard-Marie	22 Jan. 1840 Batignolles, Monceaux	30 Jul. 1911 Paris, France	French composer
Des Marais, Paul (Emile) (see Marais, Paul (Emile) des)
Desmarets (or Desmarest, Desmarestz, Desmarais), Henri more...	Feb. 1661 Paris, France	7 Sep. 1741 Lunéville	French composer
Desmazures (or Desmasures), Laurent	10 Nov. 1714 Marseilles, France	29 Apr. 1778	French composer
Desmond, Paul (born: Paul Emil Brentenfield) more...	25 Nov. 1924 San Francisco, California, USA	30 May 1977 USA	American composer and woodwind improviser, one of the most prolific artists in free jazz, and for many years a member of the Dave Brubeck Octet and the Brubeck Quartet
de Somere, Édouard-Constantin (see Somere, Édouard-Constantin de)
Desormery (or Désormerie), Léopold-Bastien	c.1740 Bayon, Lorraine	c.1810 nr. Beauvais	French composer
Desplat, Alexandre more...	23 Aug. 1961 Paris, France		an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning film composer
Desportes, Yvonne (Berthe Melitta) more...	18 Jul. 1907 Coburg, France	29 Dec. 1993 Paris, France	French composer, pianist and lecturer
Desprez (or des Prez), Josquin (né Lebloitte) (French rendering of Dutch 'Josken Van De Velde', diminutive of 'Joseph Van De Velde'; latinized Josquinus Pratensis, alternatively Jodocus Pratensis) more...	c. 1440/45 Belgium	27 Aug. 1521 Condé-sur-l'Escaut, France	Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. He was the most famous European composer between Guillaume Dufay and Palestrina, and is usually considered to be the central figure of the Franco-Flemish School. He appears to have worked in Milan (c. 1459-1477), Aix-en-Provence (1477), Rome (c. 1489-1495) and Condé-sur-l'Escaut (the last years of his life) and who in his day enjoyed a very high reputation as a composer
Dessane, Antoine more...	10 Dec. 1826 Forcalquier, nr Aix-en-Provence, France	8 Jun. 1873 Québec City, Canada	French-born organist, pianist, cellist, teacher and composer
Dessau, Paul more...	19 Dec. 1894 Hamburg, Germany	28 JUn 1979 Königs Wusterhausen, Germany	German composer and conductor
Dessauer, Josef (Joseph)	28 May 1798 Prague	8 Jul. 1876 Mödling, nr. Vienna, Austria	Prague-born composer
Dessel, Lode van more...	5 Feb. 1909 Sint-Katelijne-Waver	7 Jul. 1993 Alost, Belgium	Belgian composer, organist and teacher
Dessoff, Felix Otto more...	14 Jan. 1835 Leipzig, Germany	28 Oct. 1892 Frankfurt, Germany	German conductor and composer. His daughter Emma Margarete "Gretchen" Dessoff (11 June 1874, Vienna - 27 November 1944, Locarno, Switzerland) was a German choral conductor who was a pioneer of women's choruses. In 1924 with Angela Diller, she formed the Adesdi Chorus of Women's Voices, with the name being formed from parts of each of the founders' names. This was renamed the Dessoff Choirs in 1929
Destouches (or des Touches), André Cardinal more...	6 Apr. 1672 Paris, France	7 Feb. 1749 Paris, France	French composer best known for the opéra-ballet Les éléments
Destouches, Franz (Seraph) von	21 Jan. 1772 Munich, Germany	10 Dec. 1844 Munich, Germany	German composer
Deswert, Jules more...	16 Aug 1843 Louvain, Belgium	24 Feb 1891 Ostende, Belgium	after completing his studies under Servais, in 1865 he stopped at Dusseldorf, and was for a time engaged there. Three years later he entered the Weimar Hofkappelle as first Cellist, whence he was summoned to Berlin, in 1869, with the title of Concertmaster, as solo cellist of the Royal band and teacher in the High School of Music. He gave up this in 1873 in order to devote himself to composition. After he had remained a few years in Wiesbaden, be chose Leipsig as his residence in 1881. Besides two operas, The Albigenses firsat performed in 1878 at Wiesbaden, the other, Graf Hammerstein, in 1884 in Mayence, he wrote three Cello Concertos, as well as many Drawing-room Pieces, re-edited a collection of old Violoncello music and arrangements of classical compositions, and published three books of Etudes under the title of Le Mecanisme du Violoncelle. He also produced a Cello method, which was brought out by Novello, in London
Desyatnikov, Leonid more...	16 Oct. 1955 Kharkiv, Russia		Russian composer
Deszczynski, Józef	1781 Vilnius	1844 Horodyszcze	Lithuanian composer
de Thérache, Pierrequin (see Thérache, Pierrequin de)
Dethier, Gaston M.	1875 Belgium	1958 USA	Belgian organi lived in the USA and he composed a Procession Solennelle, published by J. Fischer in 1908
dÉtienne chez Vannes (or dÉtienne de Liège chez Auda) (see Liège, Stephanus de)
Detlefsen, Christian more...	22 Feb. 1951 Bredstedt, Germany		German born composer who now lives in The Netherlands
de Trazegnies, François-Joseph (Franciscus Josephus) (see Trazegnies, François-Joseph (Franciscus Josephus) de)
Dett, Robert (or R.) Nathaniel more...	11 Oct. 1882 Drummondville, Ontario, Canada	2 Oct. 1943 on tour	composer in the United States and Canada. During his lifetime he was one of the most successful black composers, known for his use of folk songs and spirituals for choral and piano compositions in the romantic style. He was among the first African American composers during the early years of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. His works often appeared among the programs of William Marion Cook's New York syncopated Orchestra. Dett himself performed at Carnegie Hall and at the Boston Symphony Hall as a pianist and choir director
Deutsch, Max more...	17 Nov. 1892 Vienna, Austria	22 Nov. 1982 Paris, France	an Austrian-French musical composer,conductor, and teacher
Deutz, Rupert de more...	1075-1080 probably Liège, Belgium	4 Mar. 1129 or 1130 near Cologne, Germany	Flemish theologian and musician, probably a composer
Devcic, Natko more...	30 Jun. 1914 Glina, Croatia	4 Sep. 1997 Zagreb, Croatia	Croatian composer
de Vleeshouwer, Albert (see Vleeshouwer, Albert de)
de Verlit (or Verlith), Gaspar (see Verlit (or Verlith), Gaspar de)
Devienne, François more...	31 Jan. 1759 Joinville, Haute-Marne	5 Sep. 1803 Charenton	French composer and professor for flute at the Paris Conservatory
de Vinea, Antoine (see Wyngaerde, Antonius van den)
de Vitry, Philippe (see Vitry, Philippe de)
De Vol, Frank more...	20 Sep 1911 Moundsville, West Virginia, USA	27 Oct 1999 Lafayette, California, USA	known primarily as the composer for the radio and TV series The Brady Bunch, but light music fans appreciate that his career has been far more substantial. It was not uncommon to see the credit Music by De Vol on many films, and he also appeared as a character actor in several US television series, such as I Dream of Jeannie, Bonanza and Petticoat Junction
de Vos, Eduard (see Vos, Eduard de)
de Vos, Isidore (see Vos, Isidore de)
de Vos, Laurent (see Vos, Laurent de)
Devreese, Frédéric more...	2 Jun. 1929 Amsterdam, The Natherlands		Dutch-born Belgian composer of mostly orchestral, chamber and piano works that have been performed throughout the world; he is also active as a conductor. He is the son of composer-conductor Godfried Devreese
Devreese, Godefroid (Godfried) more...	22 Jan. 1893 Kortrijk, Belgium	4 Jun. 1972 Brussels, Belgium	a pupil of Ysaÿe and César Thomson. He led the Kurhaus Orchestra in The Hague and was a member of the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, also working as a conductor in Antwerp and Brussels. He spent some 29 years as director of the Malines Conservatory, establishing the city as an important musical centre. The compositions of Devreese, romantic in general style, include concertos, symphonies and a wide variety of works. His reputation as a composer has remained largely limited to his own country
de Wert, Giaches (see Wert, Giaches de)
de Winde, Paul (see Winde, Paul de)
de Wisme, Nicholas (see Wisme, Nicholas de)
de Wreede Johannes (see Urreda, Johannes)
Dexter, Harry more...	1910	1973	Harry Dexter, who should not be confused with Harold Dexter (b. 1920) sometime Organist of Southwark Cathedral and Professor of the Guildhall School, could well have been included in my series on English composers for amateurs as he produced a large number of arrangements for students, instrumental ones of Mozart, Haydn, Lehár, Grieg, Massenet, Johann Strauss, Debussy, Mendelssohn, Brahms and so on, for clarinet, recorder and flute, and vocal ones of traditional material from Britain, America (spirituals and others), France, Germany and Switzerland
Dezède (or De Zède, Dezèdes, Desaides, De Zaides), Nicolas (Alexandre)	c.1742	11 Sep. 1792 Paris, France	French composer
D'Harcourt (or d'Harcourt), Eugène (see Harcourt (d'Harcourt), Eugène d')
D'Hoedt, Henri-Georges (see Hoedt, Henri-Georges d')
Dhomont, Francis more...	2 Nov. 1926 Paris, France		French composer of electroacoustic/acousmatic music
Dia, Beatriz Comtessa de more...	fl. 1212		a trobairitz
Diabate, Toumani more...	10 Aug. 1965 Mali		Malian kora player who has gained international acclaim for his music. He is a versatile performer, being equally at home with the traditional music of Mali as well as with cross-cultural collaborations with flamenco, blues, jazz, and other international styles
Diabelli, Anton more...	5/6 Sep. 1781 Mattsee, nr. Salzburg, Austria	7/8 Apr. 1858 Vienna, Austria	guitarist, composer, pianist and publisher, best known for his waltz, or ländler, on which Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his 33 variations for piano (Diabelli Variations, Op. 120)
Diack, John Michael more...	1869	1947	Diack was well known in his day for his arrangements, many ballad-like songs and, most notably, the nursery rhymes (e.g., Sing a Song of Sixpence and Little Jack Horner) set in the style of Handel
Diamond, David Leo more...	9 Jul. 1915 Rochester, New York, USA	13 Jun. 2005 Brighton, New York, USA	pupil of Roger Sessions and Nadia Boulanger, this prolific American composer become one of the best-known composers of his generation. He received many awards, his music was performed by many leading musicians, but he never achieved the international acclaim enjoyed by fellow composers such as Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber. Among his output are 10 string quartets and 11 symphonies
Diamond, Joel more...	1951 Bronx, New York, USA		New York-based composer, arranger and pianist/keyboardist Joel Diamond has successfully fused his interests in 'serious' orchestral music and contemporary electronica. His string quartet, Danza Caprichosa, recorded by Orchestra Nova, was nominated for a Grammy award
Diana, Antonio		c.1862	probably from the Bologna area, he published a Raccolta di composizioni per organo d'ogni genere (Milan: Ricordi, 1862) in two parts. Part One is for the organo semplice; Part Two is for the organo moderno and contains rules on registration, the classification of stops, combinations, imitation effects and the use of the pedal; a third part, for the organo corale, was announced but the author's death prevented its publication
Dianow, Anton	19 Feb. 1882 Moscow, Russia	25 Mar. 1939 Moscow, Russia	Russian composer
Diaz (de la Peña), Eugène(-Emile)	27 Feb. 1837 Paris, France	12 Sep. 1901 Coleville, France	French composer
Diaz, Simon more...	8 Aug. 1928 El Llano, Venezuela		singer and songwriter particularly of tonadas, the slow, gentle ballads that were traditionally sung by ranch hands as they carried out the milking, partly in the belief that soothing cattle in this way improved the yield
Dibdin, Charles more...	4 Mar. 1745 Dibdin, nr. Southampton, England	25 Sep. 1814 London, England	British musician, dramatist, novelist, actor and songwriter
Dickinson, Clarence more...	7 May 1873 Lafayette, Ind., USA	2 Aug. 1969 New York, USA	American organist and choirmaster, composer, virtuoso, performer, author, lecturer, and teacher - worked to broaden an appreciation of organ music and reach new audiences. He worked tirelessly to improve the quality of church music. He founded the American Guild of Organists (AGO) and the School of Sacred Music at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, USA
Dickinson, Peter more...	15 Nov. 1934 Lytham St. Annes, Lancs.		English composer, musicologist, and pianist.
Dickson, Ellen Elizabeth (Dolores)	1819 England	1878	the daughter of General Alex Dickson, she had a wide reputation as a songwriter
Dickson, Ian more...	1977		composer
Dickson, John more...	Big Spring, Texas, USA		Texas-born French hornist, orchestrator, arranger and composer. In 1995 John began an association with Chick Corea as an orchestrator and rehearsal assistant resulting in works for piano and string quartet and pieces for orchestra and jazz quintet/sextet. The first of these, Spain for Sextet and Orchestra won the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement for 2000
Dickson, Oliver Wilson- (see Wilson-Dickson, Oliver)
Didkovsky, Nicholas (Nick) more...	1958 Bronxville, USA		composer, guitarist, computer music programmer, and leader of the band Doctor Nerve. Didkovsky has developed a Java music API called JMSL (Java Music Specification Language). JMSL is a toolbox for algorithmic composition and performance. JMSL includes JScore, an extensible staff notation editor. JMSL can output music using either JavaSound or JSyn
Di Domenica, Robert (see Domenica, Robert Di)
Dieltiens, Lode more...	18 Sep. 1926 Wijnegem, Belgium		Belgian composer, organist, choral director and teacher
Diémer, Louis-Joseph more...	14 Feb. 1843 Paris, France	21 Dec. 1919 Paris, France	a French pianist and composer. Diémer was also instrumental in promoting the use of historical instruments, giving a series of harpsichord performances as part of the 1889 Universal Exhibition and contributing to the founding of the Société des instruments anciens
Dienel, Otto more...	11 Jan. 1839 Tiefenfurt im Kreis Bunzlau, Germany	10 Mar. 1905 Berlin, Germany	the son of a Silesian cantor and music teacher and attended the Görlitz Hochschule and the Bunzlau Seminary. Then, he went to Berlin, entered the Royal Institute for Church Music, and studied with August Wilhelm Bach, Carl August Haupt, Carl Albert Löschhorn, August Edouard Grell, and Wilhelm Taubert. After some time as organist at the Bartholomäus-und-Heiligkreuzekirche, he took the post at the Berlin Marienkirche in 1869 and remained until his death in 1905. He also taught at the Royal Seminary and on the organ in his church. He was elected to honorary membership in the American Guild of Organists in 1898
Diepenbrock, Alphons more...	2 Sep. 1862 Amsterdam, The Netherlands	5 Apr. 1921 Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Dutch composer, essayist and classicist
Dieren, Bernard Hélène Joseph van more...	27 Dec. 1887 Rotterdam, The Netherlands	24 Apr. 1936 London, England	Dutch-born composer, critic, author, and writer on music
Diesineer (or Diessener), Gerhard more...	c. 1640 Germany	after 1673 London (?), UK	German composer
Diet, Edmond-Marie	25 Sep. 1854 Paris, France	30 Oct. 1924 Paris, France	French composer
Dieter, Christian Ludwig	15 Jun. 1757 Ludwigsburg	15 May 1822 Stuttgart, Germany	German composer
Diethelm, Caspar more...	31 Mar. 1926 Lucerne, Switzerland	1 Jan. 1997 Lucerne, Switzerland	Swiss composer
Dietrich, Albert (Hermann) more...	28 Aug. 1829 Forsthaus Golk, nr. Meissen, Germany	19 Nov. 1908 Berlin, Germany	German composer and conductor
Dietrich, Amalia	1838 Germany		made her debut at the age of eight and went on to publish many songs and piano pieces
Dietrich, Sixt more...	1492/94	1548	German composer
Dietrichstein, Count Moritz von more...	19 Jan. 1775	21 Aug. 1864	antiquary, historian, Viennese court conductor who was self-educated in music, von Dietrichstein composed part-songs, hymns and piano pieces. He was also director of what is today the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
Dietsch (or Dietzch, Dietz), (Pierre-)Louis(-Philippe)	17 Mar. 1808 Dijon, France	20 Feb. 1865 Paris, France	French composer
Dietz, Howard more...	8 Sep. 1896 New York, USA	30 Jul. 1983 New York, USA	American publicist, lyricist, and librettist
Dieupart, Charles (François) more...	after 1667 France	c. 1740 London, England	French harpsichordist, violinist and composer, active mainly in England. He was known as Charles to his contemporaries and to Hawkins, the main source for the events of his life, but an autograph letter in French is signed F. Dieupart
Dignum, Charles more...	c.1765	29 Mar. 1827	English tenor and composer. He was apparently short and plump
Dijk, Jan van more...	4 Jun. 1918 Oostzaan, The Netherlands		Dutch composer
Dijk, Rudi van more...	27 Mar. 1932 Culemborg, The Netherlands	29 Nov. 2003 East Sussex, England	Dutch composer of classical orchestral, chamber and vocal music, often featuring violin or piano
Dijker, Mathieu more...	29 Jun. 1927 Amsterdam, The Netherlands		Dutch composer, carillonneur and organist
Dijkstra, Lowell more...	1952 Exeter, Canada		Canadian-born composer now based in The Netherlands
Dijon, Guiot de more...	fl. early 13th century		troubadour
Dikcius, Arunas more...	1962		Lithuanian organist, pianist and composer
Dikker, Loek more...	28 Feb. 1944 Amsterdam, The Netherlands		composer, pianist, conductor and arranger
Diletsky, Nikolai more...
Dillen, Guillaume more...	c.1543 possibly Flanders	13 Mar. 1627 Parma, Italy	composer also called Villico, possibly Flemish
Dillen, Oscar more...	25 Jun. 1958 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands		Dutch musician and composer
Dillon, James more...	29 Oct. 1950 Glasgow, Scotland		Scottish composer often regarded as belonging to the New Complexity school
Dimas de Melo Pimenta, Emanuel	3 Jun. 1957 São Paolo, Brazil		Brazilian composer
Dimitrescu, Constantin	19 Mar. 1847 Blejoi-Prahova	9 May 1928 Bucharest	Romanian composer
Dimmler (or Dimler, Dümler), Franz Anton	14 Oct. 1753 Mannheim	7 Feb. 1827 Munich, Germany	German composer
Dimov, Bojidar more...	31 Jan. 1931 Lom, Bulgaria		German composer of Bulgarian origin
Dimov, Ivan	13 Dec. 1927 Kazanlak, Bulgaria		Bulgarian composer
d'India, Sigismondo (see India, Sigismondo d')
d'Indy, Vincent more...	27 Mar. 1851 Paris, France	2 Dec. 1931 Paris, France	a French composer and teacher
Dinescu, Violeta more...	13 Jul. 1953 Bucharest, Romania		Romanian-born German composer of stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, and piano works
Dinev, Petar more...	14 Jul. 1889 Kumanichevo, Bulgaria	2 Jul. 1980 Sofia, Bulgaria	Bulgarian composer and musicologist with a special interest in transcribing chant
Ding, Shande more...	11 Dec. 1911 Kunshan, Jiangsu, China	12 Aug. 1995 Shanghai, China	Chinese pianist, composer and teacher
Dinicu, Grigoras more...	3 Apr. 1889 Bucharest, Romania	28 Mar. 1949 Bucharest, Romania	Romanian Roma composer and violinist
Dios Filiberto, Juan de more...	8 May 1885 Buenos Aires, Argentina	11 Nov. 1964 Buenos Aires, Argentina	orchestral conductor, composer, pianist, guitarist, violinist and harmonium player. He created the Sociedad Argentina de Autores y Compositores de Música (SADAIC) and registered as a founder member in 1936
Dirani, Zade more...	1980 Jordan		Jordanian pianist and composer whose compositions blend the traditions of the Middle East and Western classicism
Diruta, Girolamo more...	c.1554 Deruta, Italy	after 1610 Italy	Italian organist, music theorist, and composer. He was famous as a teacher and for his part in the development of keyboard technique, particularly on the organ. As a contrapuntist, Diruta anticipates Fux in describing the different "species" of counterpoint: note against note, two notes against one, suspensions, four notes against one, and so forth. Unlike Fux, he defines a less-rigorous kind of counterpoint that was adequate for improvisation; for example it neither requires contrary motion nor prohibits successive perfect consonances
Dissevelt, Tom more...	1921	1989 Leiden, The Netherlands	Dutch composer and keyboard player
Distel, Sascha more...	29 Jan. 1933 France	22 Jul. 2004 Rayol-Canadel, France	French jazz guitarist, singer and songwriter
Distler, Hugo more...	24 Jun. 1908 Nuremberg, Germany	1 Nov. 1942 Berlin, Germany	German composer, known mostly for his church choral music
Dittersdorf, Carl (Karl) Ditters von more...	2 Nov. 1739 Vienna	24 Oct. 1799 Neuhof, Bohemia	commissioned in 1786 to write a German opera for the Burgtheater, he produced what became the singspiel Doktor und Apotheker, one of the first great German opera works. He was a fine composer although his string quartets pale when compared to those of his contemporaries Haydn and Mozart. He was one of a remarkable group that performed one of Mozart's string quartets: Haydn and Dittersdorf on violin, Mozart on the viola and Vanhal on the cello
Dittrich, Paul-Heinz more...	12 Apr. 1930 Gornsdorf, Germany		German composer
Divitis, Antonius (de Rijcke, le Riche) more...	c.1475 Löwen	after 1526	Franco-Flemish composer. From 1501 to 1506 he worked at churches in Bruges and Malines and visited Spain, and in 1515 was a singer at the French court. Two of his Masses, on motets bv Richafort and Alexander Agricola, and some Mass movements and motets, were published in anthologies between 1514 and 1549
di Vito-Delvaux, Berthe (see Vito-Delvaux, Berthe di)
Dix, William Chatterton more...	14 Jun. 1837 Bristol, England	9 Sep. 1898 Cheddar, Somerset, England	business man and writer of many hymns and carols
Dixon, Willie more...	1 Jul. 1915 Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA	29 Jan. 1992 Burbank, California, USA	American blues bassist, singer, songwriter, arranger and record producer
Dizi, Francois Joseph more...	14 Jan. 1780 Manur, Belgium	Nov. 1847 Paris, France	Belgian-born French harpist who won fame as a concert player, as a harpist at the principal theatres, & was harp teacher to the royal princesses. He invented the "perpendicular harp" & established a harp factory in Paris with Pleyel. As a composer he wrote sonatas, romances, variations, studies etc. for harp & in 1827 published his Ecole de Harp, Being a Complete Treatise on the Harp
Djurov, Plamen more...	1949 PLeven, Bulgaria		Bulgarian pianist, conductor and composer who focuses on orchestral and chamber instrumental genres
Dlugoraj, Wojciech (also called Gostinensis) more...	c. 1557 Poland	c. 1619 Germany	Poland lutenist and composer who is believed to be responsible for compiling the Leipzig Lutebook of 1619. According to literary sources of the period, he must have been an exceptionally virtuosic player on the instrument as well as being a brilliant improviser
Dluski, Erazm	1857 Szczuczynce, Podolia	26 Feb. 1923 Otwock, nr. Warsaw, Poland	Polish composer
Dmitriev, Georgi more...	1942 Krasnodar, Russia		Dmitriev works draw on several resources: folk songs, Byzantic liturgy in combination with serial techniques. He also draws on material from "Old Russia", from J.S. Bach and the literature as Herman Hesse. Many of his works feature percussion
Döbber, Johannes	28 Mar. 1866 Berlin, Germany	26 Jan. 1921 Berlin, Germany	German composer
Dobbins, Bill more...	1947 Athens, Ohio, USA		composer, author and educator who is Professor of Jazz Studies and Contemporary Media at The Eastman School of Music
Dobronic, Antun	2 Apr. 1878 Jelsa, Hvar	12 Dec. 1955 Zagreb	Yugoslavian composer
Dobroven (or Dobrovein, Dobrowen), Issay Alexandrovich (born: Barabeichik, Isay Aleksandrovich)	27 Feb. 1894 Nishi Novgorod, Russia	9 Dec. 1953 Oslo, Norway	Russian composer, conductor and writer
Dobrowolski, Andrzej more...	9 Sep. 1921 Lvov, Poland	8 Aug. 1990 Graz, Austria	Polish composer and teacher
Dobrzynski, Ignacy Feliks more...	15 Feb. 1807 Romanów, Volhynia	10 Oct. 1867 Warsaw, Poland	Polish pianist and composer
Doche, Alexandre Pierre Joseph	1799 France	1849 St Peterburg, Russia	French-born composer
Doche, Joseph-Denis	22 Aug. 1766 Paris, France	20 Jul. 1825 Soissons, France	French composer
Docker, Robert more...	5 Jun 1918 London, UK	9 May 1992 Suffolk, UK	Docker was par excellence an arranger and a prolific one, especially for programmes like the BBC's Friday Night is Music Night and Melodies For You, but also for other occasions and ensembles, including his own sextet and trio. He arranged the by now famous music for the film Chariots of Fire and he conducted the accompaniment when the Queen Mother unveiled a memorial plaque to Noel Coward in Westminster Abbey. Potpourris of popular melodies, folk tunes, film and musical themes poured from his busy pen. But Docker was known as a composer and improviser as well as an arranger
Dodds, Johnny more...	12 Apr. 1892 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA	8 Aug. 1940	clarinet, composer, recording artist, bandleader
Dodge, Charles more...	1942 Ames, Iowa, USA		a music computer pioneer, has been particularly interested since the 70s in the treatment of lyric words and voice song by computer and is presently Music Professor at Dartmouth College in Hanover, Vermont
Dodgson, Stephen more...	17 Mar. 1924 London, England	12 Apr. 2013 London, England	British composer who has written music covering a number of genres, but he is perhaps best known for his guitar music
Dodworth, Allan more...	1817	1896	military bandmaster, dancing master and composer, Dodworth's manual Assistant for A. Dodworth's pupils was originally published in 1885 and "new and enlarged" editions were reissued from 1888 onwards. Allen Dodworth invented a new style of marching horn (patented in 1838) which was based on an old style marching trombone where the bell pointed backwards over the player's left shoulder. With the soldiers marching behind the band, they could keep in step as they heard the music [dates of birth and death taken from Elizabeth Aldrich's From the ballroom to hall: grace and folly in nineteenth-century dance]
Doelle, Franz	9 Nov. 1883 Mönchengladbach	13 Mar. 1965 Leverkusen	German composer
Doest, Ton ter more...	1964 The Netherlands		Dutch composer
Döhler, Theodor (von) more...	20 Apr. 1814 Naples, Italy	21 Feb. 1856 Florence	Italian composer
Dohmen, Andreas more...	1962 Viersen, Germany		German composer
Dohnányi, Ernö (Ernst von) more...	27 Jul. 1877 Bratislava, now Slovakia	9 Feb. 1960 New York, USA	a Hungarian conductor, composer, and pianist
Doire, René	13 Jun. 1879 Evreux	9 Jul. 1959 Paris, France	French composer
Doisy, Charles more...		1807 Paris, France	composer, teacher, performer, instrument dealer in Paris. Doisy wrote for the 5- and 6 course guitar, approximity 200 compositions for guitar solo and for guitar with piano, brass or violins. The name of this composer is often confused with the composer C. Lintant (1758-1830) who also wrote music for the guitar. So the fictive name 'Doisy-Lintant' is sometimes referred to in literature (Eitner) to indicate Doisy
Dolatshani, Darius more...	1947 Tehran, Iran		Iranian composer
Doldinger, Klaus more...	12 May. 1936 Berlin, Germany		German saxophonist, especially well-known for jazz and as a composer of film music
Doles, Johann Friedrich more...	23 Apr. 1715 Steinbach-Hallenberg, Saxe-Meiningeen, Germany	8 Feb. 1797 Leipzig, Germany	composer of Protestant church music and Thomaskantor
Dolin, Samuel (Joseph)	22 Aug. 1917 Montreal, Canada		Canadian composer
Dolmetsch, Victor	1852 Colombes, France	1904	French pianist and composer, older brother of early music pioneer, Arnold Dolmetsch (1858-1940). Victor studied piano at the Paris Conservatoire under Antoine Marmontel, and taught there himself. He composed a violin concerto, several works for piano, and contributed reviews to the French musical periodical Le Ménéstral
Dolores, José Silvestre de los (see White, Joseph)
Dolphy, Eric more...	20 Jun. 1928 Los Angeles, California, USA	29 Jun. 1964 Berlin, Germany	American jazz alto saxophonist, flautist, and bass clarinetist
Domenica, Robert Di more...	4 Mar. 1927 New York, USA		American composer
Domenico da Piacenza	1390	1464	the first dance choreographer to establish an Italian school of the dance, and his students Cornazano and Guglielmo describe themselves as devoted disciples and fervent imitators (divotissimo discieplo e fervente imitatore) of this man with a knightly aura of perfection and famous virtue (cavagliere aurato per la sua perfecta et famosissima virtute). The so-called Domenico manuscript from 1455, the earliest surviving treatise on the art of dance, was written by an anonymous scribe or student of dance based on the work of this illustrious man. It includes 23 dances and their music as well as theoretical explanations on the art of dance
Domenico (or Domenici), Gianpaolo di (Paolo, Giampaolo de, Giovan Paolo de)	fl. 1719-1724		Italian composer possibly born in Naples
Domeniconi, Carlo more...	1947 Cesena, Italy		Italian guitarist and composer known as a concert artist in both the classical and jazz idioms
Domhardt, Gerd more...	19 Feb. 1945 Wolmirstedt, Germany	18 Feb. 1997 Halle an der Salle, Germany	German composer
Dominguez, Alberto more...	1913 Chiapas, Mexico	1975	Mexican composer/arranger
Domínguez, Ángel Adolfo more...	15 September 1918 San Telmo, Buenos Aires, Argentina	13 September 1974	bandoneonist, arranger, leader and composer
Dominiceti, Cesare	12 Jul. 1821 Desenzano del Guarda	20 Jul. 1888 Sesto di Monza	Italian composer
Domselaer, Jacob van more...	15 Apr. 1890 Nijkerk, The Netherlands	5 Jan. 1960 Bergen, The Netherlands	Dutch composer
Donaldson, Lou more...	1 Nov. 1926 Badin, North Carolina, USA		alto saxophonist and composer
Donaldson, Walter more...	15 Feb. 1893 Brooklyn, New York, USA	15 Jul. 1947 Santa Monica, California, USA	United States popular songwriter, producing many hit songs of the 1910s and 1920s
Donati, Ignazio more...	c.1570 Casalmaggiore, Italy	21 Jan. 1638 Milan, Italy	Italian composer of the early Baroque era. He was one of the pioneers of the style of the concertato motet
Donati, Pino	9 May 1907 Verona, Italy	24 Feb. 1975 Rome, Italy	Italian composer
Donato, Baldassare more...	1525/1530	June 1603 Venice, Italy	Italian composer and singer of the Venetian school of the late Renaissance. He was maestro di cappella of the prestigious St. Mark's Basilica at the end of the 16th century, and was an important figure in the development of Italian light secular music, especially the villanella
Donatoni, Franco more...	9 Jun. 1927 Verona, Italy	17 Aug. 2000 Milan, Italy	Italian composer
Donaudy, Stefano	21 Feb. 1879 Palermo, Italy	30 May 1925 Naples, Italy	Italian composer
Doncaster, Sara (Emily) more...			American composer. Sara Doncaster is the director of the Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival in Irasburg, Vermont. She is a recipient of a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Citation of Merit from the Vermont Arts Council for Distinguished Service to the Arts
Donck, Adrien Van der	early 17th century Anvers, Belgium	15 Dec. 1668	Belgian composer
Dondeyne, Désiré Louis Corneille more...	20 Jul. 1921 Laon, France		French composer and conductor
Donizetti (Ciummei), Alfredo	2 Sep. 1867 Izmir	4 Feb. 1921 Rosario, Argentina	Italian composer
Donizetti, Gaetano more...	29 Nov. 1797 Bergamo, Italy	8 Apr. 1848 Bergamo, Italy	student of Giovanni Simone Mayr, Donizetti composed chamber music, choral music, music for keyboard. Among his operas, Lucia di Lamermoor is probably the best known [information supplied by Kajornsak Kittimathaveenan]
Donner, Henrik Otto more...	1938 Finland		one of Finlands most radical experimenters. After the early Cantata profana (1962), written in a post-Darmstadt idiom, Donner turned to a freer form of Modernism. He might use the noise from 12 radios as a background as in Ideogramme I (1962) or instruct 20 musicians to move between rooms in an art gallery as in Ideogramme II (1963). Donner had the greatest liking for 'happenings', such as Street Piece Helsinki organized together with Ken Dewey and Terry Riley in August 1963. Donner's Sinfonia (Hommage à Charles Ives) (1964) for strings and Hammond organ is a quote-and-collage ironic comment on the symphony tradition so highly respected by Finns; it quotes from Mozart, Lennon & McCartney and contemporary Modernist works
Donnini, Girolamo	fl. 1719	1752 Bonn, Germany	composer
Donovan, Richard	1891	1971	Donovan enjoyed a long and active career as a composer, teacher, conductor, and important musical force in the New Haven (USA) area. Donovan was on the faculty of the Yale School of Music from 1928 to 1960
Dont, Jacob more...		18 Nov 1888 Vienna, Austria	son of Joseph Valentin, Jacob, was well known by the publication of excellent practical works for the Violin
Dont, Joseph Valentin more...	15 Apr 1776 Nieder-Georgenthal, Bohemia	14 Dec. 1833 Vienna, Austria	remarkable for his performances as quartet and orchestra player, he received instructions from Stiastny in Prague. In 1804 he was enrolled in the opera orchestra of the Vienna Karnthnerthor Theatre, from which he transferred to the Burg Theatre orchestra in 1828
Dooley, James more...	22 Aug. 1976 US		American composer, arranger and orchestrator working principally in film music
Doolittle, Emily more...	1972 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada		Canadian composer
Dooren, Arthur Van more...	20 Jan. 1862 Maaseik, Limbourg, Belgium	1926 Brussels, Belgium	Belgian composer and pianist
Doorn, Frans van more...	1930 Haarlem, The Netherlands	18 May 1995	Dutch composer
Doppelbauer, Josef Friedrich more...	5 Aug. 1918 Wels, Upper Austria	16 Jan. 1989 Salzburg, Austria	Austrian composer, organist and choir master
Dopper, Cornelius more...	7 Feb. 1870 Stadskanaal, nr. Groningen	18 Sep. 1939 Amsterdam	Dutch composer
Doppler, Árpád	5 Jun. 1857 Pest	13 Aug. 1927 Stuttgart	Hungarian-born composer
Doppler, (Albert) Franz (Ferenc) more...	16 Oct. 1821 Lvov	27 Jul. 1883 Baden, nr. Vienna, Austria	composer
Doppler, Karl (Károly) more...	12 Sep. 1825 Lvov	10 Mar. 1900 Stuttgart, Germany	composer
Doran, Matt (Higgins)	1 Sep. 1921 Covington, Ky., USA		American composer
Dorati, Antal more...	9 Apr. 1906 Budapest, Hungary	13 Nov. 1988 Gerzensee, Switzerland	Hungarian-born conductor and composer
Doret, Gustave more...	20 Sep. 1866 Aigle	19 Apr. 1943 Lausanne, Switzerland	French composer
Dorff, Daniel more...	7 Mar. 1956 New Rochelle, NY, USA		American composer for whom acclaim came early with First Prize in the Aspen Music Festivals annual composers competition at age 18 for his Fantasy, Scherzo and Nocturne for saxophone quartet. Dorff received degrees in composition from Cornell and University of Pennsylvania; his teachers included George Crumb, George Rochberg, Karel Husa, Henry Brant, Ralph Shapey, Elie Siegmeister, and Richard Wernick. He studied saxophone with Sigurd Rascher. In 1996, Dorff was named Composer-In-Residence for the Haddonfield Symphony, in which he played bass clarinet from 1980 through 2002
Dorfman, Joseph more...	3 Aug. 1940 Odessa, Ukraine	7 Jun. 2006 Los Angeles, California, USA	Israeli composer of Ukrainian birth
Dorham, Kenny more...	30 Aug. 1924 Fairfield, Texas, USA	5 Dec. 1972 New York, USA	American jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer
Dormael, Pierre van more...	24 May 1952 Brussels, Belgium		Belgian guitarist and composer
Dorman, Avner more...	14 Apr. 1975 Tel Aviv, Israel		Israeli composer
Dorn, Alexander (Julius Paul)	8 Jun. 1833 Riga, Latvia	27 Nov. 1901 Berlin, Germany	Latvian-born composer
Dorn, Charles James more...	1839	1910	American guitarist, composer, teacher
Dorn, Heinrich (Ludwig Egmont)	14 Nov. 1804 Königsberg	10 Jan. 1892 Berlin, Germany	German composer
Dorne, Jean-Baptiste Van more...	23 May 1773 Louvain, Belgium	10 Dec. 1834 Louvvain, Belgium	Belgian painter and composer
Dornel, Louis-Antoine more...	c.1680	after 1756 Paris	French composer
Dorsey, Jimmy more...	29 Feb. 1904 Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, USA	12 Jun. 1957 New York City, USA	American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, trumpeter and big band leader
Dorumsgaard, Arne Oddvar more...	7 Dec. 1921 Fredrikstad, Norway	13 Mar. 2006	Norwegian musicologist, composer, teacher, critic, and singer
Dorus, Louis (true name Vincent Joseph van Steenkiste) more...	1 Mar. 1813 Valenciennes, France	9 Jun. 1896 Étretat, France	French flautist and composer of solos for flute and L'Étude de la Nouvelle Flûte, méthode progressive arrangée après Devienne (Paris: Schoenenberger, 1845)
Dorzée, Aurélie more...			violinist and composer
Doss, Adolf von	10 Sep. 1823 Pfarrkirchen, Bayern	13 Aug. 1886 Rome, Italy	German-born composer
Doss, Thomas more...	6 Jun. 1966 Linz, Austria		Austrian composer and conductor
Dostal, Nico more...	25 Nov. 1895 Korneuburg, Nieder Österreich	27 Oct. 1981 Salzburg, Austria	Austrian composer
Dotzauer, (Justus Johann) Friedrich more...	20 Jan. 1783 Häselrieth, nr. Hildburghausen	6 Mar. 1860 Dresden, Germany	German composer
Douai, Parrot de	fl. 14th century		singer and poissibly a composer
Douai, Thomas de	fl. 14th century		Flemish musician, possibly a composer
Doubrava, Jaroslav	25 Apr. 1909 Chrudim	2 Oct. 1960 Prague	Czech composer
Doucet, Clement more...	1895 Brussels, Belgium	1950 Brussels, Belgium	Belgian pianist (duetist with Jean Wiener) and composer, he was the pianist at the legendary restaurant-cabaret Le Boeuf sur le Toit
Douglas, Bill (William) more...	7 Nov. 1944 London, Ontario, Canada		Canadian musician, composer, pianist, and bassoonist
Douglas, Clive Martin	27 Jul. 1903 Rushworth, Victoria	29 Apr. 1977 Melbourne	Australian composer
Douglas, Dave more...	24 Mar. 1963 Montclair, New Jersey, USA		American trumpeter, composer, teacher and improvisor
Douglas, Roy more...	12 Dec. 1907 Tunbridge Wells, UK	23 Mar. 2015 Tunbridge Wells, UK	English composer and arranger, noted for his work assisting William Walton and Ralph Vaughan Williams
Douloff (or Dulow), Georg	4 Jun. 1875 Moscow, Russia		Russian violinist, composer and editor
Dourlen, Victor(-Charles-Paul)	3 Nov. 1780 Dunkerque	8 Jan. 1864 Batignolles, nr. Paris)	French composer
Douw, Andre more...	1951 The Hague, The Netherlands		Dutch composer
Dove, Jonathan more...	18 Jul. 1959 England		British composer of opera and choral works and theatre, film, orchestral and chamber music
Dowland, John more...	1563 London or Dublin	20 Feb. 1626 London, England	an English, possibly Irish-born composer, singer, and lutenist. He is best known today for his song Flow, my tears which would form the basis for his best known instrumental work, Lachrimae or Seaven Teares Figured in Seaven Passionate Pavans, a set of seven for five viols and lute
Downes, Andrew more...	1950 Handsworth, Birmingham, UK		British classical composer
Downes, David more...	1967 Wellington, New Zealand		his compositions include theatre and film scores, orchestral and electro-acoustic pieces, many of which are private or public commissions
Downie, Kenneth more...	1946 Glasgow, Scotland		composer of brass band music
Doyle, Patrick more...	1953		trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Doyle has composed a considerable number of scores for the theatre, especially for Kenneth Branagh, but is best known for his film music, for example to Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, A Little Princess and most notably and among the most recent, Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen), a graceful, wistful score including two song settings of 17th-century lyrics
Doyle, Roger more...	1949 Dublin, Ireland		Irish composer
Draeseke, Felix (August Bernhard) more...	7 Oct. 1835 Coburg, Germany	26 Feb. 1913 Dresden, Germany	composer of the "New German School" admiring Liszt and Richard Wagner. He wrote compositions in most forms including eight operas and stage works, four symphonies, and much vocal and chamber music
Dragatakis, Dimitris more...	22 Jan. 1914 Epiros, Greece	18 Dec. 2001 Athens, Greece	a Greek composer of classical music
Draghi, Antonio more...	17 Jan. 1634 or 16 Jan. 1635 Rimini	16 Jan. 1700 Vienna, Austria	Italian composer possibly the brother of Giovanni Battista Draghi
Draghi, Giovanni Battista more...	c.1640 Italy	1708 England	Italian composer and keyboard player
Dragoi, Sabín V(asile)	18 Jun. 1894 Seliste, Arad	31 Dec. 1968 Bucharest, Romania	Romanian composer
Dragon, Carmen more...	28 Jul. 1914 Antioch, California, USA	28 Mar. 1984 USA	a conductor, composer, and arranger
Dragonetti, Domenico Carlo Maria more...	7 Apr. 1763 Venice, Italy	16 Apr. 1846 London, England	Italian double bass virtuoso, teacher and composer
Dragoni, Giovanni more...	c.1540 Medola, Italy	Dec. 1598 Rome, Italy	an Italian composer of the Roman School of the late Renaissance, a student of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, and a prominent composer and maestro di cappella in Rome in the late 16th century. He left numerous sacred and secular works, almost all vocal, and was especially noted for his often-reprinted books of madrigals
Dragstra, Willem more...			Dutch composer
Dragt, Jaap more...	1930	2003	Dutch organist and composer
Drakakis, Kostas more...			Greek composer and conductor
Drake, Earl R(oss)	26 Nov. 1865 Aurora, Ill., USA	6 May 1916 Chicago, USA	American composer, pianist and violinist, pupil of Joachim
Drake, Erik	8 Jan. 1788 Föllingsö, Östergötland	9 Jun. 1870 Stockholm, Sweden	Swedish composer
Drake, Ervin more...	3 Apr. 1919 New York City, USA		American songwriter
Dramm, David more...	1961 Illinois, USA		American composer, singer, guitarist and lyricist
Drdla, Frantisek (Franz) Alois more...	28 Nov. 1869 Zdár nad Sázavou	3 Sep. 1944 Bad Gastein, Austria	Moravian composer
Drechsler, Joseph	26 May 1782 Vlachovo Brezi, nr. Strakovice	27 Feb. 1852 Vienna, Austria	Austrian composer
Dregnau de Lille, Maroie de	fl. 1200s		one of the few female trouveres for whom music is extant. Le Manuscrit du Roi (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, MS fr. 844, f. 181.)
Dresden, Sem more...	20 Apr. 1881 Amsterdam	30 Jul. 1957 Den Haag	Dutch composer
Drese, Ingrid more...	1957 Armel, Belgium		Belgian composer
Dresher, Paul (Joseph) more...	8 Jan. 1951 Los Angeles, USA		American composer
Dressel, Erwin	10 Jun. 1909 Berlin, Germany	17 Dec. 1972 Berlin, Germany	German composer
Dressler (Dreßler, Dresslerus, Dresler), Gallus more...	16 Oct. 1533 Nebra, Germany	c. 1585 Zerbst, Germany	German Protestant Kantor and composer
Dreszer, Anastazy Wilhelm	28 Apr. 1845 Kalisz	2 Jun. 1907 Halle, Germany	German composer
Dretzel, Cornelius Heinrich more...	bap. 18 Sep. 1697 Nuremberg	7 May 1775 Nuremberg, Germany	German organist and composer
Drexel, Johann Chrysostom	24 Jan. 1758 Diessen/Epfenhausen, nr. Landsberg	8 Feb. 1801 Augsburg, Germany	German composer
Dreyblatt, Arnold more...	1953 New York City, USA		American composer and visual artist
Dreyer, Johann Melchior	24 Jun. 1747 Rittlingen/Württemberg, Germany	22 Mar. 1824 Germany	German composer and organist
Dreyfus, George (Georg)	22 Jul. 1928 Wuppertal, Germany		German composer
Dreyschock, Alexander more...	15 Oct. 1818 Zack	1 Apr. 1869 Venice, Italy	composer
Drieberg, Friedrich von	10 Dec. 1780 Charlottenburg	21 May 1856 Charlottenburg	German composer
Dries, Jean van den	26 Apr. 1829 Anvers, Belgium	2 Sep. 1891 Anvers, Belgium	Belgian composer and flautist
Driessler, Johannes	26 Jan. 1921 Friedrichsthal, nr. Saarbrücken		German composer
Drigo, Riccardo more...	30 Jun. 1846 Padua, Italy	1 Oct. 1930 Padua, Italy	Italian composer
Dringeles, Heinrich more...	fl. 18th-century		Czech composer
Drozdov (or Drosdow), Anatoly Nikalayevich	4 Nov. 1883 Saratov, Russia	10 Sep. 1950 Moscow, Russia	Russian composer and musicologist
Druckman, Jacob more...	26 Jun. 1928 Philadelphia, USA	24 May 1996 USA	American composer
Drummond, Frederick more...			pianist and composer, Drummond flourished during the first three decades of the 20th century, and is best remembered for the very popular ballad The Gay Highway beloved of the Australian bass/baritone Peter Dawson
Druschetzky (or Druzecky, Druzechi, Drzecky), Georg more...	7 Apr. 1745 Druzek, nr. Pchery	6 Sep. 1819 Buda	composer
Drysdale, (George John) Learmont	3 Oct. 1866 Edinburgh	18 Jun. 1909 Edinburgh	Scottish composer
Druzecky, Georg (born Jiri) more...	7 Apr. 1745 Jemniky, Bohemia	21 Jun. 1819 Budapest, Hungary	Austrian composer of Bohemian birth
Duarte, John William more...	2 Oct 1919 Sheffield, UK	23 Dec. 2004 Barnet, Herts.	English guitarist, composer, teacher, writer and chemist
Duarte, Leonora	1610	c. 1678	composer
Düben, Andreas more...	c.1590 Leigzig, Germany	7 Jul. 1662 Stockholm, Sweden	German organist and composer, active mainly in Sweden
Duben, Gustav the elder more...	1628 Stockholm, Sweden	1690 Stockholm, Sweden	German organist and composer, active mainly in Sweden, son of Andreas Düben
Düben, Martin more...	1598/9	late 1640s	German organist and composer, active mainly in Sweden, brother of Andreas Düben
Dubois, Dorothea	1723 Dublin	1804	wrote a musical comedy The Divorce in 1771, also published a novel in 1770
Dubois, Léon	9 Jan. 1859 Brussels, Belgium	19 Nov. 1935 Boitsfort	Belgian composer
Dubois, Pierre Max more...	1 Mar. 1930 Graúlhet, Tarn	29 Aug. 1995	French composer [additional information from Allan Child]
Dubois, (François-Clément) Théodore more...	24 Aug. 1837 Rosnay, France	11 Jun. 1924 Paris, France	French organist, teacher and highly successful composer and author of treatises, etc.
Dubourg, Matthew more...	1707	1767 London, England	Irish violinist, conductor, and composer, who also enjoys the distinction of having led the orchestra at the premiere of Georg Friedrich Handel's great oratorio Messiah
Dubrovay, Laszlo more...	23 Mar. 1943 Budapest, Hungary		Hungarian pianist and composer
Dubugnon, Richard more...	1968		Swiss-French composer
Duchambre, Charlotte Antoinette Pauline	1778 France	1858	after losing both her parents as well as the family fortune at the age of 20, she continued her musical education and published over 300 chansons. She also had a salon that was a meeting place for celebrities in music
Duchess of Lorraine	fl. early 1200s		composer
Duddell, Joe more...	26 Jul. 1972		British composer
Dudley, Anne (born Anne Jennifer Beckingham) more...	7 May 1956 Chatham, Kent, UK		Academy Award-winning English orchestra composer and pop musician
Dudziak, Urszula more...	22 Oct. 1943 Bielsko-Biala, Poland		Polish jazz vocalist
Dueño Colón, Braulio more...	26 Mar. 1854 San Juan, Puerto Rico	4 Apr. 1934 Bayamón, Puerto Rico	musician and composer
Duerinck, Philip more...	1954		guitarist and composer
Dufaut, Francois more...	before 1604	1682	French lutenist and composer
Dufay, Guillaume more...	5 Aug. 1397 Beersel, Belgium	27 Nov. 1474 Cambrai	Franco-Flemish composer and music theorist of the early Renaissance. As the central figure in the Burgundian School, he was the most famous and influential composer in Europe in the mid-15th century
Duff, Arthur more...	13 Mar. 1899 Dublin, Ireland	23 Sep. 1956 Dublin, Ireland	Irish composer, conductor and musician
Dufferin, Lady Helen Selina	1807 Ireland	1867	a well-known composer of songs
Duffy (born Aimee Anne Duffy) more...	23 Jun. 1984 Gwynedd, Wales		Welsh singer-songwriter
Duffy, John more...	23 Jun. 1926, New York, USA		American composer
Duffy, Philip Edmund more...	1943		Master of the Music at the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral from 1966 to 1996 and composer of music for the liturgy, including communion services, gospel acclamations and responses
Duffy, Thomas C. more...	17 Jun. 1955		American composer
Dufourt, Hughues more...	28 Sep. 1943 Lyon, France		French composer and philosopher associated with the Spectral school of composition
Dugan, Franjo sr	11 Sep. 1874 Krapinica, Croatia	12 Dec. 1948 Zagreb, Croatia	Croatian organist and composer who studied mathematics and physics and held the position of cathedral organist at Zagreb Cathedral
Dugazon (Gourgaud), (Alexandre-Louis-)Gustave	c.1782 Paris, France	c.1826 Paris, France	French composer
Duggan, Joseph Francis	10 Jul. 1817 Dublin, Ireland	1900 London, England	Irish-born composer
Du Grain (or du Grain, Dügren), Jean (Johann Jeremias) (see Grain (du Grain, Dügren), Jean (Johann Jeremias) du)
Duhamel, Antoine more...	30 Jul. 1925 Valmondois, nr. Paris, France	11 Sep. 11 2014 Valmondois, nr. Paris, France	French composer particularly noted for his music for film
Duindam, Chris more...	1963 The Netherlands		Dutch violinist and composer
Dukas, Paul (Abraham) more...	1 Oct. 1865 Paris, France	17 May 1935 Paris, France	French composer and teacher of classical music
Dukay, Barnabas more...	1950 Hungary		Hungarian pianist and composer
Duke, John (Woods)	30 Jul. 1899 Cumberland, Md., USA	26 Oct. 1984 Northampton, Mass. USA	American composer
Duke, Vernon (né Dukelsky, Vladimir (Alexandrovich)) more...	10 Oct. 1903 Parfianovka, nr. Pskov	16 Jan. 1969 Santa Monica, Calif., USA	Russian-born composer
Dulichius (Deulich, Deilich, Teilich, Dulichs), Philipp more...	18 Dec. 1562 Chemnitz, Germany	24 Mar. 1631 Stettin, Germany	German composer
Dülken, Sophie Lebrun more...	20 Jul. 1781 London, England	23 Jul. 1863 Munich, Germany	German pianist and composer, the daughter of Munich court oboist Ludwig August Lebrun and singer and composer Francesca Lebrun (Franziska Danzi)
Dumage, Pierre (see Mage, Pierre du)
Dumbraveanu, Corneliu more...			Romanian conductor, arranger and composer
Dumitrescu, Gheorghe	28 Dec. 1914 Otesani, Vilcea		Romanian composer
Dumonchau, Charles-François	11 Apr. 1775 Strasbourg	21 Dec. 1820 Lyon, France	French composer
Dumont (Du Mont), Henri	1610 Liège, Flanders	5 Aug. 1684 France	brought up to the sound of Italian music, a friend of Huyghens's, he arrived in Paris around 1640. His outstanding musical personality and ambition (he wrongly claimed to have introduced the use of the thorough bass) led him from the organ loft of St Paul's to the service of the Duke of Anjou. In 1683 he was appointed teacher's assistant to the King's Musicians, then composer to la Chapelle (1672), and finally teacher's assistant to the Queen's Musicians. His book of motets (1668) contains, together with vocal pieces of indisputable beauty, a few instrumental works for the viol, the harpsichord or the organ
Dunayevsky (or Dunajewski, Dunajewskij), Isaak (Iosifovich) more...	30 (Old Style 18) Jan. 1900 Lokhvitsi, Russia	25 Jul. 1955 Moscow, Russia	Dunayevsky was one of the first composers in the Soviet Union to start using jazz. However he is really an innovator as he is concerened to make his music comprehensible and widely accessible. His success lies in his lyricism and his use of familiar themes
Duncan, Trevor more...	27 Feb 1924 Camberwell, London	17 Dec 2005 Taunton, Somerset	Trevor Duncan was the pseudonym of Leonard Charles Trebilco who produced a quantity of light orchestral music in a slightly updated Eric Coates style during the 1950s and early 1960s. In 1959, he composed his two most famous works The Girl From Corsica and the Little Suite from which the opening March was used as the signature tune for Dr. Finlay's Casebook
Duncan, William Edmondstoune	22 Apr. 1866 Sale, Cheshire	26 Jun. 1920 Sale	English composer
Dunhill, Thomas (Frederick) more...	1 Feb. 1877 London, England	13 Mar. 1946 Scunthorpe, Lincs.	English composer
Duni, Antonio	c.1700 Matera	after 1766 possibly Schwerin	Italian composer
Duni (or Duny), Egidio (Romualdo) (Egide (Romuald))	9 Feb. 1709 Matera, Basilicata	11 Jun. 1775 Paris	Italian-born composer
Duniecki, Stanislaw	25 Nov. 1839 Lvov	16 Dec. 1870 Venice, Italy	Polish-born composer
Dunkelman, Stephan more...	7 May 1956 Brussels, Belgium		Belgian electroacoustic music composer
Dunker, Amy more...	1964		Associate Professor of Music at Clarke College where she teaches composition, theory, aural skills and brass, Amy has degrees from Morningside College (BME-Music Education), the University of South Dakota (MM-Trumpet Performance), Butler University (MM-Composition) and a DMA (Composition) University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music. She has studied composition with James Mobberley, Chen Yi, Robert L. Cooper, Michael Schelle, James Aikman and Robert P. Block
Dunkler, Francois more...	1779 Rastadt, Germany	1861 's-Gravenhage, The Netherlands	German-born Dutch composer, conductor, bassoonist and trombonist
Dunkler, Francois jr more...	24 Feb. 1816 Namen, The Netherlands	16 Sep. 1878 Den Haag, The Netherlands	Dutch composer, musical director and clarinetist
Dunn, Sir Vivian more...	1908	1995	sometime Director of Music to the Royal Marines, he was an able composer; most famously of the march Cockleshell Heroes for the celebrated 1950s film, but also of other marches like Globe and Laurel, The Pompey Chimes, dedicated in 1949 to Portsmouth Football Club, and the Canadian National Exhibition March
Dunstable (or Dunstaple), John more...	c.1390 probably Dunstable, England	24 Dec. 1453 possibly St. Alban's, England	English composer of polyphonic music of the late medieval era and early Renaissance. He was one of the most famous composers active in the early 15th century, a near-contemporary of Leonel Power, and was widely influential, not only in England but on the continent, especially in the developing style of the Burgundian School. The spelling "Dunstaple" is generally to be preferred, since it occurs in more than twice as many musical attributions as that of "Dunstable". The few English musical sources are equally divided between "b" and "p"; however, the contemporary non-musical sources, including those with a claim to a direct association with the composer, spell his name with a "p".
Duparc (or Fouqyes Duparc), (Marie Eugène) Henri more...	21 Jan. 1848 Paris, France	12 Feb. 1933 Mont-de-Marsan	French composer
Duphly, Jacques more...	12 Jan. 1715 Rouen, France	15 Jul. 1789 Paris, France	French harpsichordist and composer who Pascal Taskin, the harpsichord maker, considered to be one of the best teachers in Paris
Dupin, Paul	14 Aug. 1865 Roubaix	6 Mar. 1949 Paris, France	French composer
Duplessis le cadet	fl. 1734		French composer
Duplessis, Lenoir	1754 Paris		French composer
Dupont, Auguste more...	9 Feb. 1827 Ensival, nr. Liege, Belgium	17 Dec. 1890 Brussels, Belgium	Belgian composer and arranger
Dupont, Gabriel Edouard Xavier	1 Mar. 1878 Caen, France	2 Aug. 1914 Vésinet, nr. Paris, France	French composer
Duport, Jean-Louis more...	4 Oct. 1749 France	7 Sep. 1819 France	French cellist and composer perhaps best known today for his 21 etudes for solo cello that constitute the final part of the Essai sur le doigté du violoncelle et sur la conduite de l'archet ("Essay on the fingering of the violoncello and on the conduct of the bow") (1806), a seminal work of cello technique
Duport, Jean-Pierre more...	27 Nov. 1741 France	31 Dec. 1818 Paris, France	a composer and significant cellist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He is contemporaneously important for owning and playing the Duport Stradivarius (named after Jean-Pierre Duport)
Duprato, Jules-Laurent	20 Aug. 1827 Nîmes, France	20 May 1892 Paris, France	French composer
Dupré, Marcel more...	3 May 1886 Rouen, France	30 May 1971 Meudon, nr. Paris, France	a French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue
Dupre, Mme	fl. 1750 France		composer
Duprez, Gilbert(-Louis) more...	6 Dec. 1806 Paris, France	23 Sep. 1896 Paris, France	French tenor singer and composer of operas, vocal works; author of L'Art du chant (1845) and La Mélodie: Études complémentaires vocales et dramatiques de l'Art du chant (1846), and volumes of memoirs: Souvenirs d'un chanteur (1880) and Récréations de mon grand Âge (1888)
Dupuis, Albert	1 Mar. 1877 Verviers	19 Sep. 1967 Brussels	Belgian composer
Dupuis, Sylvain	9 Oct. 1856 Liège	28 Sep. 1931 Bruges	Belgian composer
Dupuy, Bernard-Aimable (or Aymable) more...	1707	1789	French composer mainly of church music
Dupuy, Jean Baptiste Edouard more...	c.1770 Corcelles, Neuchâtel	3 Apr. 1822 Stockholm	Swiss-born composer
Duquesnoy (Lanctin), Charles (François Honoré)	18 May 1759 Beuzet	9 May 1822 Brussels, Belgium	Belgian composer
Duran de la Motta, Antonio more...	c.1675	1736	South American composer
Durán, José	fl. 1760-1762	after 1791 probably Barcelona	Spanish composer
Durand de la Bergerie, Giles more...			Early Renaissance composer, probably French
Durand, Emile	16 Feb. 1830 St.-Brieuc	6 May 1903 Neuilly	French composer
Durand, (Marie) Auguste more...	1830	1909	French publisher, organist and composer. He studied at the Paris Conservatory, was organist at various churches, and a partner in the publishing firm of Durand & Fils. He wrote drawing-room music for piano, including popular waltzes
Durand, Paul more...	1907	1981	French composer
Durante, (Pasquale) Francesco more...	31 Mar. 1684 Frattamaggiore, Italy	13 Aug. 1755 Naples, Italy	Italian composer and teacher
Durey, Louis (Edmond) more...	27 May 1888 Paris, France	3 Jul. 1979 St Tropez, France	French composer
Durham, Eddie more...	19 Aug. 1906 Texas, USA		jazz composer and arranger, who invented, amplified and played electric guitar and trombone
Durieux, Frederic more...	27 Feb. 1959 Paris, France		French composer of mostly orchestral, chamber and vocal works
Durkó, Zsolt more...	10 Apr. 1934 Szeged	2 Apr. 1997 Budapest, Hungary	Hungarian composer
Durlet, Emmanuel more...	11 Oct. 1893 Antwerp, Belgium	1977	pianist, composer, pedagogue of the piano and, from 1920 to 1959, professor of paino at the Royal Flemish Conservatoire in Antwerp (Belgium)
Durme, Fernand van more...	18 Apr. 1914 Eksaarde (Flandre Orientale)		Belgian composer and organist
Durme, Jef (Josef) Van (van) more...	7 May 1907 Kemzeke-Waas, Belgium	28 Jan. 1965 Brussels, Belgium	Belgian composer
Durme, Oscar van more...	6 Jun. 1867 Kemzeke-Waas (Flandre Orientale)	28 Jan. 1965 Brussels, Belgium	Belgian composer
Durón, Sebastian more...	bap. 19 Apr. 1660 Brihuega, Spain	3 Aug. 1716 Cambó	Spanish composer
Duruflé, Maurice more...	11 Jan 1902 Louviers, France	16 Jun 1986 Paris, France	French composer, organist, and pedagogue
Durville, Philippe more...	10 Mar. 1957 Bourg-la-Reine, France		French composer
Dusapin, Pascal more...	29 May 1955 Nancy, France		French composer
Dusart, Mathieu (also known as Mattheus Sarto) more...	fl. 1730-1771		Belgian composer probably from Liège
Dusek, Frantisek Xaver more...	8 Dec. 1731 Choteborky, Czechoslvakia	12 Feb. 1799 Prague, Czechoslovakia	Czech composer and one of the most important harpsichordists and pianists of his time
Dussek (or Dusik) (Cormundi), Franz Benedikt (Frantisek Josef)	22 Mar. 1766 Caslav	after 1816 Zaticina	Bohemian composer
Dussek (or Dusik), Jan Ladislav (more properly Václav Jan Dusík) more...	12 Feb. 1760 Caslav, Bohemia	20 Mar. 1812 St.-Germain-en-Laye, France	one of the most celebrated composers and pianists of his age. He is considered one of the first early Romantic composers. Completing two years of study at the Charles University in Prague (1776-1778) he traveled in 1779 to Mechelen (now in Belgium) where he appeared for the first time as a pianist. He found employment at the municipal court of Wilhelm the V as a piano teacher. By 1783 he had appeared in St. Petersburg, at the court of the Czar, although he fled the country in the wake of the plot against Catherine II (in which he himself became implicated) and found refuge at the court of Prince Karl Radziwill in Lithuania. From 1784-1786 he gave concerts again in Germany, not only on the piano, but also on the glass harmonica. He then settled in Paris where his playing found favour with Marie-Antoinette. He remained in Paris as pianist, composer and teacher but fled to Britain when the French Revolution broke out in 1789, turning to music publishing to sustain himself and his family. In London, he met Haydn, Muzio Clementi, and probably John Fields and Viotti. Fleeing bankruptcy and abandoning his family, he returned to Europe in 1800 and took up concert tours again, eventually returning to Paris and working for Talleyrand. He died in 1812 leaving behind a large body of piano works including 14 concerti
Dussek, Sophia (née Corri, later Moralt) more...	1 May 1775 Edinburgh, Scotland	probably 1831 London, England	in 1792, she married the composer Jan Ladislav Dussek. Modern-day musicologists believe that some of the works that were published under her husband's name and historically credited to him, including the famous sonatas (1797) and sonatinas (1799) for solo harp, were actually her creation. None of her works, published during her lifetime appeared as by J L, but Pleyel only used the name Dussek on the Paris editions, as J L was known there, but Sophia was not. It was not until 1953 that the sonata in C minor from Opus 2 book 2 appeared inder the name of JL, a misattribution by Nicanor Zabeleta. Following Jan's death in 1812, Sophia married the violist John Alvis Moralt. The couple lived in Paddington, where she founded a music school
Dutilleux, Henri more...	22 Jan. 1916 Angers, France	22 May 2013 Paris, France	French composer
Dutillieu (Dutilleu, Du Tilleul), Pierre	15 May 1754 Lyon, France	28 Jun. 1798 Vienna, Austria	French composer
Dütsch, Otto Johann Anton more...	c.1823 Copenhagen, Denmark	21 Apr. 1863 Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany	Danish-born composer
Duval, Mademoiselle Louise	1718 Paris, France	after 1775	member of the Paris opera from 1720-1760. Her ballet opera Les Genies was the first work by a female composer to be performed at the Grand opera in 1736. It was well received and performed nine times
Duvernoy, (Antoine François) Frédéric (Auguste) more...	17 Jul. 1800 Seine, France	19 Oct. 1874 Nancy, France	French horn player, founder of the French school of horn playing and author of the Méthode pour le cor (Paris, 1802)
Duvernoy, Victor Alphonse more...	30 Aug. 1842 Paris, France	7 Mar. 1907 Paris, France	French composer
Duyse, Florimond (Flor) van	4 Aug. 1843 Ghent, Belgium	18 May 1910 Ghent, Belgium	Belgian composer and musicologist
Dvarionas, Boleslovas (Balis) more...	19 Jun. 1904 Liepaja, Latvia	23 Aug. 1972 Vilnius, Latvia	Latvian pianist and composer. He founded the Vilnius Municipal Symphony Orchestra, and after it was united, in 1940, with the Kaunas Radio Orchestra, Dvarionas became the first chief conductor of the Lithuanian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra (now the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra), Lithuania's oldest symphony orchestra
Dvorácek, Jirí	8 Jun. 1928 Vamberk		composer
Dvorák, Antonin (Leopold) more...	8 Sep. 1841 Nelahozeves nr. Prague	1 May 1904 Prague	Czech composer of Romantic music. He successfully combined folk melodies with symphonic and chamber music
Dvorak, Robert James more...	3 Oct. 1919 Chicago, USA		at age 8, his interest and introduction to music study was guided by Czech composer-arranger, Frank Mulacek, who gave him piano lessons and exposed him to quality music literature. At 12 years of age, he began French horn lessons with Chicago conductor and brass instrument instructor, Karel Husa. Later he was tutored by Chicago Symphony players, Josef Mourek, Max Pottag and Philip Farkas. During his high school years 1933-37, of greatest importance was music teacher, Louis M. Blaha, a Czech who emigrated from Vienna in the 1920s. As Director of Orchestra and Band music in the J. Sterling Morton High School and College in Cicero, Illinois, Blaha inspired his students as he introduced them to the music of the world's great masters. In addition, he guided them in future pursuits. He encouraged Robert's beginning music composition efforts and advised his application for a scholarship to the original Chicago Musical College Conservatory in downtown Chicago. It followed that young Dvorak was awarded a full scholarship in composition and theory to study with composer, Max Wald [entry prompted by Dr. Amy Dunker]
Dyens, Roland more...	1955 Tunisia		a French classical guitarist, composer, and arranger
Dylan, Bob (born Robert Allen Zimmerman) more...	24 May 1941 Duluth, Minnesota, USA		American singer-songwriter, author, musician and poet
Dyson, George more...	28 May 1883 Halifax, Yorkshire, UK	28 Sep. 1964 Winchester, UK	English musician and composer
Dzegelyonok (or Dsegelenok), Alexander (Mikhaylovich)	24 Aug. 1891 Moscow, Russia	31 Jan. 1969 Moscow, Russia	Russian composer
Dzenitis, Andris more...	23 Jan. 1978 Riga, Latvia		Latvian composer of mostly orchestral, chamber, choral, and electroacoustic works
Dzerzhinsky, Ivan (Ivanovich) more...	9 Apr. 1909 Tambov	18 Jan. 1978 Leningrad	Russian composer
Dzovenos (or Tsovenou), Kostas more...	19th century	20th century	Greek composer of rebetika music
Dzubay, David more...	1964 Minneapolis, USA		earned a D.M. in Composition at Indiana University in 1991. Additional study was undertaken as a Koussevitzky Fellow in Composition at the Tanglewood Music Center (1990), the June in Buffalo Festival, and as co-principal trumpet of the National Repertory Orchestra in Colorado (1988, 1989). His principal teachers have been Donald Erb, Frederick Fox, Eugene O'Brien, Lukas Foss, Oliver Knussen, Allan Dean and Bernard Adelstein