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Name	Born	Died	Information
Faber, Heinrich (Magister Henricus Faber) more...	before 1500 Lichtenfels, Germany	26 Feb. 1552 Oelsnitz, Germany	a German music theorist, composer and Kantor
Faber, Johann Christoph more...	c.1660 Germany	1725 Oettingen, Germany	German composer
Faber, Nikolaus more...		1673	German composer
Fabini, Eduardo more...	18 May 1882 Solís de Mataojo, Uruguay	17 May 1950 Montevideo, Uruguay	violinist and composer
Fàbrega, Josep more...		1789 or 1791	Catalan violinist and composer
Fabri, Martinus more...	fl. 1400		a composer, probably either from Flanders or the Netherlands, of the very late Middle Ages and earliest Renaissance. Most of his music was composed around 1400, but nothing is known of his life
Fabri, Thomas more...	fl. 1400s		composer from the Netherlands, who became choir master at the Saint Donatien Church (Sint-Donatiuskerk) in Brugge in 1412
Fabritius, Ernst	1842 Finland	1899	Fabritius' health prevented him from pursuing a career as a violinist; instead, he went into agriculture. Fabritius's output as a composer belongs to the High Romantic era, with influences from Schumann and Mendelssohn, and in some cases Chopin. Fabritius was important in the sense that although he wrote some 30 solo songs, he focused on instrumental music unlike the mainstream composers of the day. His principal work is the instrumentally idiomatic Violin Concerto in D minor (1878). His other major instrumental works include the six-movement suite En barndomsdag (A Day in Childhood, 1884) for violin and piano. He also worked on a Symphony in the 1870s but only completed two movements
Fabrycy, Jan	c. 1615 Poland	c. 1655	composer of a cappella music including a parody mass based on the polyphonic motet In te Domine speravi (In you, Lord, I set my hope) by Waclaw z Szamotul
Facco, Giacomo more...	4 Feb. 1676 Venice, Italy	16 Feb. 1753 Madrid, Spain	Italian composer
Facoli, Marco more...	fl. c.1560-1590		Italian composer
Fagen, Donald more...	10 Jan. 1948 Passiac, New Jersey, USA		Jazz pianist , arranger and composer who is a member of the group 'Steely Dan'
Fagerlund, Sebastian more...	6 Dec. 1972 Finland		Finnish violinist and composer
Fagerudd, Markus more...	1 Jun. 1961 Finland		he has worked with a number of different types of music, not only concert music but also music for the stage and rock and jazz, for example as a member of the Free Okapi jazz band. His concert music does not, however, usually display rock or jazz influences
Faggioli, Michelangelo more...	1666 Naples, Italy	1733 Naples, Italy	Italian composer. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera considers La Cilla (music by Michelangelo Faggioli, text by F. A. Tullio, 1706) to be the first example of opera buffa
Fago, Nicola more...	26 Feb. 1677 Taranto, Italy	18 Feb. 1745 Naples, Italy	an Italian Baroque composer and teacher
Fahey, John more...	28 Feb. 1939 Takoma Park, MD, USA	22 Feb. 2001 Salem, Oregon, USA	American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who pioneered the steel-string guitar as a solo instrument. His style has been greatly influential and has been described as American Primitive, a term borrowed from painting and referring mainly to the self-taught nature of his art. Fahey himself borrowed from the folk and blues traditions in American music but also incorporated classical, Brazilian, Indian and abstract music into his eclectic oeuvre
Fähndrich, Walter more...	1 Apr. 1944 Menzingen, Switzerland		Swiss viola player and composer
Fahrbach, Anton	10 Feb. 1819 Vienna, Austria	1 Dec. 1887 Vienna, Austria	brother of Anton Fahrbach, Friedrich Fahrbach and Philipp Fahrbach the Elder; flautist under J. Strauss the Elder and J. Lanner; a composer of waltzes
Fahrbach, Friedrich	1811 Vienna, Austria	19 Mar. 1867 Verona, Italy	musician; brother of Anton Fahrbach, Joseph Fahrbach and Philipp Fahrbach the Elder. Flautist under J. Strauss the Elder; also composed waltzes and marches, had his own band and was military bandmaster from 1848
Fahrbach, Joseph	25 Aug. 1804 Vienna, Austria	6 Jun. 1883 Vienna, Austria	musician and composer of works for the flute; brother of Anton Fahrbach, Friedrich Fahrbach and Philipp Fahrbach the Elder; flute and guitar virtuoso at the Court Opera Theatre, also ran a music school and was a military bandmaster
Fahrbach, Philipp the Elder	25 Aug. 1815 Vienna, Austria	31 Mar. 1885 Vienna, Austria	violinist and composer; brother of Anton Fahrbach, Friedrich Fahrbach and Joseph Fahrbach, father of Philipp Fahrbach the Younger. He formed his own band from 1835, but in the period 1838-1856 he was director of music for the court balls and later in the period 1856-1865, he was a military bandmaster
Fahrbach, Philipp the Younger	16 Dec. 1843 Vienna, Austria	15 Feb. 1894 Vienna, Austria	violinist and band leader; son of Philipp Fahrbach the Elder. In 1855 he took over his father´s band, which was highly acclaimed at the Exhibition Universelle in Paris in 1878 (major rival of J. Strauss the Younger)
Fahres, Michael more...	15 Apr. 1951 Bamberg, Germany		Michael Fahres, who studied composition with Louis Andriessen and Ton de Leeuw, is a composer whose recent work has been devoted to electro-acoustic soundscapes
Faidit, Gaucelm more...	c.1170 Uzerche, Limousin, France	1230 during 4th crusade	troubadour. About 70 of Gaucelm's poems and 14 of his melodies survive
Fain, Sammy (born Samuel Feinberg) more...	17 Jun 1902 New York, USA	6 Dec 1989 Los Angeles, USA	Jewish-American composer of popular music. He was nominated for the best Original Song Oscar nine times, winning twice, with Secret Love in Calamity Jane in 1954 and with Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing in the movie of the same title in 1955
Fairchild, Blair more...	23 Jun. 1877 Belmont, Massachusetts, USA	23 Apr. 1933 Paris, France	American composer and diplomat. Along with Charles Wakefield Cadman, Charles Sanford Skilton, Arthur Nevin, and Arthur Farwell, among others, he is sometimes grouped among the Indianists, although he had only a marginal association with their work
Faißt (or Faisst), Immanuel Gottlob Friedrich more...	13 Oct. 1823 Esslingen, Würtemberg, Germany	5 Jun. 1894 Stuttgart, Germany	German organist and composer. He studied theology at Tübingen University, but gave it up, on Mendelssohn's advice, for music, in which he was self-taught. He travelled as an organist and settled at Stuttgart, where he founded an organ school in 1847 and a society for the study of church music; he was one of the founders of the Conservatory there. He also wrote about and edited music
Faith, Percy more...	7 Apr 1908 Toronto, Canada	9 Feb 1976 Encino, California, USA	originally he became known during the 1930s for his programme Music By Faith which was also carried by the Mutual network in the USA. The opening track Dizzy Fingers (like all his recordings, this was arranged by Faith himself) includes a small choir which Faith described as adding a touch of 'vocalese'. Back home in Canada he discovered that he had a few dollars to spare from the budget for one of his radio shows, so he engaged a small number of singers who happened to be in the same studio block. The idea was instantly popular, and many of his singles would later have some voices alongside the orchestra. In 1940 he relocated to the USA where he became one of the most successful broadcasters and recording artists of his time. He was always busy, whether working in the recording studios, radio, television or films
Falconieri (or Falconiero), Andrea more...	1585 or 1586 Naples, Italy	29 Jul. 1656 Naples, Italy	Italian composer and lutenist from Naples
Falckenhagen, Adam more...	26 Apr. 1697 Groß-Dölzig, near Leipzig, Germany	1761 Bayreuth, Germany	German lutenist and composer
Fall, Leo more...	2 Feb. 1873 Olmütz, Austria	16 Sep. 1925 Vienna, Austria	Austrian composer of operettas
Falla, Manuel de more...	23 Nov. 1876 Cádiz, Spain	14 Nov. 1946 Alta Gracia, Argentina	Spanish composer of classical music
Falik, Yuri more...	1936 Odessa Ukraine		Ukrainian cellist and composer
Faltermeyer, Harold more...	5 Oct. 1952 Munich, Germany		German musician, keyboardist, composer and record producer
Faltin, Richard	1835 Germany	1918	he studied in Leipzig, moved to Finland in 1856, working first in Viipuri and from 1869 in Helsinki. Faltin's output consists mostly of sacred music, and his main contribution was his work as a teacher and a conductor, and as a leading figure in the musical community as a whole
Falú, Eduardo more...	7 Jul. 1923 El Galpón, Salta (Argentina)		composer over more than 100 pieces, including Las Golondrinas (The Swallows), the zambas La Candelaria and La Cuartelera, and Argentine Suite
Fampas, Dimitris more...	22 Dec. 1921 Lafkos, Greece	3 May 1996 Greece	Greek guitarist, composer and professor
Fanshawe, David more...	19 Apr. 1942 Paignton, Devon, England	5 Jul. 2010 Swindon, Wiltshire, England	English composer and ethnomusicologist. His work is situated at the crossroads of traditional and modern music
Fantini, Girolamo more...	1600 Spoleto, Italy	1675 Florence, Italy	Italian trumpeter and composer. In 1634 Girolamo Fantini and Girolamo Frescobaldi, the greatest trumpeter and organist of their day, performed at the Villa Borghese; this is the first known performance that combined these two instruments. Though the trumpet had an important role in military and court life, it had not previously found a place in the concert hall. In 1628 Frescobaldi was appointed to the court of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, where Fantini was the Chief Court Trumpeter; presumably they met in Tuscany and likely performed together there. It is the report of their performance in Harmonie universelle by Marin Mersenne (1636) that records their performance together
Farina, Carlo more...	c.1600 Mantua, Italy	Jul. 1640 Vienna, Austria	Italian composer and violin virtuoso who spent part of his life in the service of the court of Dresden, where in 1626 he published a set of sonatas
Fariña, Mimi Baez (born Margarita Mimi Baez) more...	30 Apr. 1945	18 Jul. 2001	a singer, songwriter, and activist
Fariña, Richard George more...	8 Mar. 1937 New York, USA	30 Apr. 1966 Carmel Valley, USA	American writer and folksinger. He was a figure in both the counterculture scene of the early- to mid-sixties as well as the budding folk rock scene of the same era
Farinel (or Farinell, Farinelli), Michel more...	1649 Grenoble, France	1726	violinist known through a set of variations were published by John Playford in The Division Violin in 1684 (London) where it is listed in the index as A Division on Mr Farinell's Ground, and in the first part of The Division Flute published in 1704 by Walsh in London. It is possible that Giovanni Battista (or Jean-Baptiste) and Michel are one and the same person as there is uncertainty as to their exact dates and places of birth and death
Farinelli, [Carlo] (see Broschi, Carlo)
Farinelli, Cristiano more...	fl. seventeenth century		Italian composer and violinist, Cristiano Farinelli was a friend of the composer Arcangelo Corelli and is said to have been the uncle of the castrato, Farinelli
Farinelli, Giovanni Battista (Farinelly, Jean-Baptiste)	1655 Grenoble, France	c.1720 Venice, Italy	composer and violinist who was employed as concertmaster of the Hanover court orchestra. Hawkins refers to a Farinelli who was appointed as chapel-master of St Stephen in Toulouse - he suggests that this might be the Hanover Farinelly. There is also Chrysander's statement, apparently unsupported, that Corelli visited Farinelli at Hanover between 1680-85 and that Farinelli gave Corelli a ground to compose on. In Walter Rowland's 'Among the Great Masters of Music', the author recounts the story of Farinelli's hope to follow The Elector to England upon his becoming George I. "In the thick of all the bustle consequent on the court's leaving Hanover, this gentleman wrote and thrust into the elector's notice a composition to the words, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom." Giovanni Battista Farinelli was the uncle of the famous castrato Carlo Broschi (who took his uncle's name Farinelli) (1705-1782)
Farkas, Ferenc more...	15 Dec. 1905 Nagykanizsa, Hungary	10 Oct. 2000 Budapest, Hungary	a Hungarian composer
Farmer, Art more...	21 Aug. 1928 Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA	4 Oct. 1999 New York, USA	Jazz flugelhorn player and composer
Farmer, John I more...	c.1570	c.1601	English composer, mainly of madrigals. He is probably one of the least-known composers of the English Madrigal School
Farmer, John II more...	16 Aug. 1835 Nottingham, England	17 Jul. 1901 Oxford, England	English organist and composer who after a period teaching music at Harrow School, where he composed school songs, one of his best known being Forty Years On, which he wrote in 1872, was appointed organist of Balliol College, Oxford, and founded the Balliol Concerts. He composed oratorios, cantatas, and other church music, and chamber music
Farmer, Thomas more...		d. 1688	English violinist and composer
Farnaby, Giles more...	1560 Truro, Cornwall	Nov. 1640 London, England	he graduated from the University of Oxford in 1592 receiving a Bachelor's degree in music. His best known works are included in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, for which he composed 52 pieces. There are also four pieces by his son, Richard. In addition to his music for the virginal, Farnaby also composed madrigals, canzonets and psalms
Farnon, Robert (Joseph) more...	24 Jul. 1917 Toronto, Canada	23 Apr. 2005 St Martin's, Guernsey	had a distinguished career in Canadian Radio during the 1930s, eventually taking over Percy Faith's CBC Orchestra when Faith went to the USA in 1940. During World War II, as Captain Robert Farnon, he was posted to Britain in 1944 as conductor of the Canadian Band of the Allied Expeditionary Forces, working alongside Glenn Miller and George Melachrino, who fronted the American and British bands. After the war, Farnon remained in Britain where he quickly established himself in radio, records, films and television. His gift for composition resulted in hundreds of his works being accepted for the background music library operated by the London publishers Chappells
Farrant, Richard more...	c.1530	30 Nov. 1580	composer of English church music, also a choirmaster, playwright and theatrical producer noted for creating the Blackfriars Theatre that hosted children's companies. Some compositions attributed simply to "Farrant" in early sources may be by him or by one of two or more John Farrants, organists active in Salisbury (1598-1602), Bristol (1570-1571), Ely (1567-1572), Hereford (1592-1593) and Christ Church Newgate Street, London (end of sixteenth century), in the late 16th and early 17th century
Farrar, Ernest more...	7 Jul. 1885 Lewisham, London	8 Sep. 1918 Battle of Epehy Ronssoy, nr Le Cateau, France	English composer, pianist and organist. Farrar is perhaps best known as the teacher of Gerald Finzi. Farrar's tragic death affected the young Finzi deeply, and from the very beginning, most of his music was elegiac in tone
Farrar, Orion R. more...	1866 Indianapolis, Indiana, USA	c.1929 California, USA	American bandmaster and composer particularly of marches
Farrell, Ciarán more...	1969 Dublin, Ireland		Irish composer
Farrenc, Jeanne Louise Dumont	1804 Paris	1875 Paris	professor of piano at the Paris Conservatoire from 1842-1873
Farrenc, Vicorine Louis	1826 Paris	1859 Paris	daughter of Jeanne, who died after a very brief career but left many songs and piano works
Farrés, Osvaldo more...	13 Jan. 1902 Quemado de Güines, Cuba	22 Dec. 1985 North Bergen, New Jersey, USA	Cuban composer best known as the writer of the song Quizás, quizás, quizás (1947), which was translated into English as Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps. Farrés left his native Cuba in 1962 and never returned, dying in exile in 1985
Farwell, Arthur more...	23 Mar. 1872 St. Paul, Minnisota, USA	20 Jan. 1952 New York, USA	American composer, conductor, educationalist, lithographer, esoteric savant, and music publisher
Fasch, Carl Friedrich more...	18 Nov. 1736 Zerbst, Germany	3 Aug. 1800 Berlin, Germany	a German composer and harpsichordist who was the son of the composer Johann Friedrich Fasch, a pupil of J.S. Bach
Fasch, Johann Friedrich more...	15 Apr. 1688 Buttelstädt, Germany	5 Dec. 1758 Zerbst, Germany	German violinist and composer who studied under Johann Kuhnau in Leipzig. He was held in high regard by his contemporaries (Johann Sebastian Bach made manuscript copies of a number of his pieces), and he is today considered an important link between the Baroque and Classical periods
Fasolo, Giovanni Battista (Brother John Baptist) more...	c.1598 Asti (?), Italy	1664	Italian organist and composer, a Franciscan friar, who worked in in Rome, Naples, Palermo and finally in Monreale where it is assumed that he died in 1664, or certainly before 1680
Fäsy, Albert Rudolph more...	1837 Zurich Enge, Switzerland	1891 Konstanz, Switzerland	Swiss composer, the son of a department store owner and city councillor. He had his first musical training with Franz Abt and Alexander Müller, the latter a friend of Richard Wagner. In 1856 he was admitted to the Leipzig Conservatory and three years later moved to Vienna.
Fauges, Guillaume (Vincent) more...	before 1442 possibly Normandy, France	after 1471 France	Franco-Flemish composer. Faugues was much admired by Tinctoris, and his name is mentioned in Compère's Omnium honorum plena. Three of his masses survive, one based on the basse dance, one on L'homme armé that is probably the earliest entirely canonic setting, and one based on Le Serviteur that is an early example of the parody Mass, and was formerly ascribed to Ockeghem
Fault, Francois du	c.1604	c.1670	lutenist and composer
Faulkes, (George) William (Henry) more...	4 Nov. 1863 Liverpool, England	25 Jan. 1933 Liverpool, England	English organist and composer
Faure, Gabriel (Urbain) more...	12 May 1845 Pamiers, France	4 Nov. 1924 Paris, France	French composer, organist, pianist, and teacher. He was the foremost French composer of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers. His harmonic and melodic language affected how harmony was later taught
Fawkyner	fl. 15th century		we know nothing of his life but he has left us Gaude virgo salutata and Gaude rosa sine spina, two very long antiphons, both striking works with some exciting florid display that appear in the Eton Choirbook
Fayrfax (or Fairfax, Fairfaux, Feyrefax), Robert more...	1464 Deeping Gate, Lincolnshire, England	1521 buried St. Alban's Abbey, England	English singer and composer, nothing is yet known of his childhood or early musical training, and the first information that we have about Fayrfax's musical career is that he became a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal by December 6, 1497 when he was granted a chaplaincy of the Free Chapel at Snodhill Castle, a post which was relinquished a year later to Robert Cowper, a fellow Gentleman. He is reported as being organist of St Alban's Abbey from 1498-1502. Fayrfax gained a Mus.B. from Cambridge in 1501, and a Mus.D. in 1504; he later acquired a D.Mus. from Oxford (by incorporation) in 1511. He became a member of the Fraternity of St Nicholas in 1502. The Caius and Lambeth Choirbooks (assembled in the mid to late 1520s) contain the earliest surviving collections of his masses. Missa O quam glorifica is perhaps Fayrfax's most complex if not most impressive work. According to an inscription in the Lambeth Choirbook it was composed 'for his forme in proceading to bee Doctor'; no doubt this was his exercise for Cambridge University in 1504, the earliest English example known to us. The standard requirement for an early Tudor doctorate was the submission of a mass and antiphon, which were to be performed on the day of taking the degree (no antiphon of this type is known to have survived among Fayrfax's output)
Fazio, Alfio more...	27 Oct. 1959 Genova, Italy		Italian composer of contemporary music
Febel, Reinhard more...	7 Mar. 1952 Metzingen/Stuttgart, Germany		German composer
Febure, Johannes le	fl sixteenth/seventeenth century		Flemish composer born either in the Low Countries or Vienna sometime in the sixteenth century; his exact date and location of birth are unknown. He died sometime between 1609 and 1612. He served in a number of important musical posts in Austria, including Kapellmeister in Konstanz and in Mainz. While he uses some of the polyphonic techniques of the Flemish school, his music most clearly reflects the influence of the Venetian style, and of Giovanni Gabrielli in particular
Fedé, Johannes more...	c.1415 nr. Douai, France	after 1477 probably Paris, France	a French composer of the early Renaissance. While he was mentioned by Eloy d'Amerval as one of the greatest composers of the age, and resident in Paradise, relatively few of his works have survived. He was a contemporary of Johannes Ockeghem, and spent his life both in France and Italy
Fedel, Brigide (see Fedeli, Aurelia)
Fedele, Diacinta Romana	fl. seventeenth century		composer who published in Vicenza in 1628
Fedele, Ivan more...	6 May 1953 Lecce, Italy		Italian composer who teaches composition at the Conservatoire G. Verdi
Fedeli, Aurelia (Fidele, Brigide)	c. 1613	1704	many of her poems were set to music by composer such as Cavalli and Steffani
Feiler, Dror more...	31 Aug. 1951 Tel Aviv Israel		Swedish-Israeli musician, composer and artist, chairman of the Swedish organization Jews for Israeli-Palestinian Peace (JIPF) and the European organization European Jews for a Just Peace (EJJP)
Feinberg, Samuil Yevgenyevich	26 May 1890 Odessa, Ukraine	23 Oct. 1962 Moscow, Russia	Russian pianist, composer and teacher
Feld, Jindrich more...	19 Feb. 1925 Prague, Czechoslovakia	8 Jul. 2007 prague,, Czech Republic	Czech composer
Felderhof, Jan more...	25 Sep. 1907 Bussum, The Netherlands		Dutch composer and conductor
Feldman, Barbara Monk more...	18 Jan 1953 Québec, Canada		Canadian composer of mostly chamber works who has taught at Hochschule der Kunste (Berlin), California Institute of the Arts, and Northwestern University. Feldman's compositions have been performed worldwide, and as a composer she has received awards and commissions from Stichting Nieuwe Muziek Zeeland, Stiftung Kunsterlerhaus Boswil, Banff School of Fine Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council, and many other institutions and organizations. She has been an active presenter and advocate for contemporary music, having founded Santa Fe's Timeshards new music performance series. She married the American composer Morton Feldman in June 1987
Feldman, Mark more...	17 Jul. 1955 Brooklyn, New York, USA		American violinist and composer
Feldman, Morton more...	12 Jan. 1926 New York City, New York, USA	3 Sep. 1987 Buffalo, New York, USA	a major figure in 20th-century music, Feldman went through several compositional phases. He was a pioneer in aleatoric music and indeterminate music, and in music requiring improvisation. His works are characterized by quietness, slowness, and often by their extreme length, especially in his later music
Feller, Harald	1951 Munich, Germany		German organist and composer
Felsenthal, Amalie	1841 Germany		published composer of songs and piano works, including a set of 50 songs for children
Fenigstein, Victor more...	1924 Zürich, Switzerland		Swiss-born pianist and composer who has lived in Luxembourg since 1948
Fenis, Rudolf von	c.1150	before 30 Aug. 1196	German Minnesinger who came from the aristocratic Neuenberg family, with ties to the royal house of Burgundy. He belonged to an important group of Minnesinger who provided a link with trouvère song, absorbing and adapting form and subject matter from Romance verse and laying the foundation for the period of high Minnesang in Germany. His kinship with French culture is seen in the intellectual tone of his songs, particularly his thinking in antitheses. Seven or eight poems survive; melodies are provided by the Old French and Provençal models on which he based his songs
Fennesz, Christian more...	25 Dec. 1962 Vienna, Austria		Austrian composer and guitarist
Fennimore, Joseph	1940 New York, USA		American composer and pianist
Fenton, George (né George Richard Ian Howe) more...	19 Oct. 1950 London, England		British composer best known for his work writing film scores and music for television, although he also writes music for the theatre. Fenton founded the Association of Professional Composers which later amalgamated with the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors and with the Composers Guild of Great Britain to become the British Academy of Composers & Songwriters. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Music and is a visiting professor at the Royal College of Music
Feo, Francesco more...	1691 Naples, Italy	18 Jan. 1761 Naples, Italy	Italian composer of opera
Faragó, Béla more...	1961 Kaposvár, Hungary		Hungarian composer
Faragó, Péter Joseph more...	1932 Hungary		Hungarian composer with an interest in Hungarian folk music some arrangements of which have been published for recorders by Barenreiter
Feragut, Beltrame (also known as Bertrand di Avignone)	c.1385 Avignon, France	c.1450 Aix, France	priest and composer who, having worked in Vicenza, was appointed maestro di cappella of Milan Cathedral (1425-30) and may then have moved to Ferrara. By 1449 he was a chaplain at the court of René d'Anjou at Aix. Ten compositions by him survive: four mass sections (including a Gloria-Credo pair), a hymn, a Magnificat, three motets and a rondeau
Ferdinand III of Hungary more...	13 Jul. 1608 Gratz, Styria	2 Apr. 1657 Vienna, Austria	a scholarly and cultured man, an excellent linguist and a composer of music. His musical works, together with those of the emperors Leopold I and Joseph I, have been published by G. Adler (Vienna, 1892-1893)
Ferguson, Barry more...	1942		head chorister at Exeter Cathedral and organ scholar at Peterhouse, Cambridge, became assistant organist at Peterborough Cathedral, Organist at Wimborne Minster, and Organist and Master of the Choristers at Rochester Cathedral. He studied composition with Herbert Howells, and his music is published by Novello, OUP, Cramer, Encore, Cathedral Music, Banks, Basil Ramsey and RSCM
Ferguson, Howard more...	21 Oct. 1908 Belfast, Ireland	1 Nov. 1999 Cambridge, UK	editor, pianist and composer. His musical gifts were recognized as a child of 13 and consequently he was given a fine musical education in composition, conducting and piano at Britain's Royal Academy of Music, as well as with private teachers. Despite consistently warm receptions to his compositions and the high regard of his musical peers, Ferguson has produced few works. His entire output consists of 19 opus numbers and two works without opus. Though afforded a long life, his composing career spans only 1927 to 1959. In his article on Ferguson in the New Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Michael Hurd wrote, "After completing two extended choral works for the Gloucester meetings of the Three Choirs Festival, Amore Langueo (1956) and The Dream of the Rood (1959), he decided that he had said all he wished to say as a composer and courageously determined to write no more"
Ferguson, Ludwig Wilhelm von more...	c.1775 Germany	c.1823 Germany	German composer
Ferguson, Maynard more...	4 May 1928 Verdun, Quebec, Canada	23 Aug. 2006 Ventura, California	a Canadian jazz trumpet player and bandleader. He came to prominence playing in Stan Kenton's orchestra, before forming his own band in 1957. He was noted for being able to play accurately in a remarkably high register, and for his bands, which served as stepping stones for up-and-coming talent
Ferlendis, Alessandro more...	1783	c.1833	Italian composer and a celebrated virtuoso oboe performer, one of the three sons of Giuseppe
Ferlendis, Giuseppe more...	1755 Bergamo, Italy	1802 Lisbon, Portugal	Italian composer and a celebrated virtuoso oboe and cor anglais performer
Ferling, Erik	1733 Sweden	1808	the most important event in Finnish music in the 18th century was the founding of the Turun Soitannollinen Seura (Turku Music Society) in 1790. The Society brought together the best musicians in the city, and although its activities were far from continuous in the 19th century, it can be considered the direct predecessor of the present Turku Philharmonic Orchestra. Throughout the Society's first active period (1790-1808), its conductor was the composer Erik Ferling
Fernandes, Gaspar more...	1566 Portugual	1629 Puebla, New Spain	a Portuguese composer and organist active in the cathedrals of Santiago de Guatemala (present-day Antigua Guatemala) and Puebla de los Ángeles, New Spain (present-day Mexico)
Fernandez, Heraclio more...	1851 Maracaibo, Venezuela	1886 La Guaira, Venezuela	Venezuelan composer and pianist. Pieces including Misa a dos voces, the waltzes Ecos del corazón, Las variaciones sobre el araguato, Happy New Year, Al General Francisco Alcántara and the dances La juguetona, Violetas sensitivas, No me olvides and Recuerdos del teatro Naar constitute part of the rich music of Venezuela
Fernandez, José Loyola more...	1941, Cuba		Cubian composer
Fernandez, Lorenzo more...	4 Nov. 1897 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	27 Aug. 1948	Brazilian composer
Fernandez de Huete, Diego more...	1650	1711	Toledan cathedral harpist and composer. His two volume, Compendio numeroso en cifra para arpa, provides a thorough tutorial covering everything from simple secular dance tunes and songs over the fundaments of continuo playing to some of the most intricate and elaborate baroque style harp music we possess
Fernandez de Santiago, Rois more...	13th century		a clergyman from Santiago de Compostela. One of his cantigas suggests that he accompanied Fernando III's army when it captured Seville from the Moors
Fernandez Hidalgo, Gutierre more...	c. 1547 Spain	11 Jun. 1623 La Plata, Bolivia	late Renaissance, Spanish-born composer who worked mainly in South America
Fernandez Palero, Francisco more...	Spain	1597 Granada, Spain	composer and organist at the royal chapel in Granada for some forty years
Fernando, Jorge more...	c.1967 Portugal		Portuguese guitarist, composer and fadisto
Fernando, Sunetra			since its formation in 1997, the Rhythm In Bronze gamelan ensemble led by artistic director, composer and ethnomusicologist Sunetra Fernando, has pioneered the emergence of a Malaysian gamelan with a global resonance. Sunetra and her friends have together trained a new kind of gamelan musician, brought the gamelan to a new contemporary concert stage and developed a new audience for its music
Ferneyhough, Brian more...	16 Jan. 1943 Coventry, England		English composer
Fernstrom, John Axel more...	6 Dec. 1897 Ichang, China	19 Oct. 1961 Lund, Sweden	Swedish composer, painter, conductor, poet
Ferrabosco, Alfonso I more...	bap. 18 Jan. 1543 Italy	12 Aug. 1588 Bologna, Italy	Italian composer. While mostly famous as the solitary Italian madrigalist working in England, and the one mainly responsible for the growth of the madrigal there, he also composed much sacred music. He also may have been a spy for Elizabeth I while he was in Italy
Ferrabosco, Alfonso II more...	c.1575 Greewich, London, England	bur. 11 Mar. 1628 Greenwich, London, England	English composer and viol player of Italian descent. He straddles the line between the Renaissance and Baroque eras. He was the illegitimate son of the Italian composer Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder. His mother might have been Susanna Symons, whom Alfonso the elder later married. Ferrabosco the younger was left under the guardianship of Gomer van Awsterwyke, a member of the queen's court. Although Alfonso the elder asked for Alfonso the younger to be sent to him in Italy, where he had moved with his wife, the queen insisted that he stay in England. Ferrabosco remains in Gomer van Awsterwyke's care until his death in 1592. At this time he started a long career as a court musician, including as the private music tutor of Prince Henry
Ferragutti, Toninho	1959 São Paulo, Brazil		Brazilian accordionist, arranger and composer
Ferrandini, Giovanni more...	1710 Venice, Italy	25 Oct. 1791 Munich, Germany	Italian composer
Ferrari, Benedetto more...	1603/1604 Reggio nell'Emilia, Italy	22 Oct. 1681 Modena, Italy	Italian composer, particularly of opera, librettist and theorbo player
Ferrari, Luc more...	5 Feb.1929 Paris, France	22 Aug. 2005 Arezzo, Italy	French composer
Ferrari, Serafino (Amadeo) de more...	6 May 1824 Genoa, Italy	27 Mar. 1885 Genoa, Italy	Italian composer, pianist, organist and Kapellmeister
Ferrata, Giuseppe	1856 Gradioli, Italy	28 Mar. 1928 New Orleans, USA	Italian pianist and composer who used the pseudonym G. F. Alice Lagarde
Ferré, Léo more...	24 Aug. 1916 Monaco	14 Jul. 1993 Castellina, nr. Sienna, Italy	a monument of French chanson, revered throughout the francophone world, singer, songwriter, author, composer and conductor, mostly remembered for songs like Avec le Temps, Les Anarchistes, and Jolie Môme
Ferrer y Esteve, José Rafaël Juan more...	13 Mar. 1835 Torroella de Montgrí, nr. Girona, Spain	7 Mar. 1916 Barcelona, Spain	guitarist, composer and teacher
Ferretti, Giovanni more...	c.1540 Italy	after 1609 possibly Rome, Italy	Italian composer of the Renaissance, best known for his secular music. He was important in the development of the lighter kind of madrigal current in the 1570s related to the villanella, and was influential as far away as England
Ferreyra, Beatriz	21 Jun. 1937 Cordoba, Argentina		Ferreyra participating in the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), under the leadership of Pierre Schaeffer, and contributed to Henri Chiarucci's and Guy Reibel's exploratory work Rapport entre la hauteur et la fondamentale d'un son musical, published in March 1966 in Revue Internationale d'Audiologie (Chiarucci and Reibel 1966). While at the GRM, Ms. Ferreyra aided in the realization of recordings for Pierre Schaeffer's Solfége de l'ObjetSonore (Schaeffer 1967), also working as a teacher and giving lectures at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique, Paris, France
Ferrières (vidame de Chartres), Guillaume de	c.1145 France	1204 Palestine	French troubadour
Ferro, Marco Antonio more...		1662 Vienna, Austria	Italian-born lutenist at the court of Emperor Ferdinand III in Vienna, and a composer who was probably a courtier of high rank as he calls himself Cavalier Aurato and Conte Palatino Cesareo in his Opus 1 published in 1649 in Venice
Fesca, Alexander more...	22 May 1820 Karlsruhe, Germany	22 Feb. 1849 Brunswick, Germany	German pianist and composer, son of Frederic Ernest Fesca
Fesca, Frederic Ernest more...	15 Feb. 1789 Magdeburg, Germany	24 May 1826 Carlsruhe, Germany	German violinist and composer of instrumental music
Fesch, Willem (or Wilhelm) de more...	1687 The Netherlands	late 1750s	not only a cellist, but also an organist. Probably a pupil of Rosier, Vice-Kapellmeister at Bonn, whose daughter he married. In the latter capacity he worked at the Antwerp Cathedral until 1725, when he undertook, as d'Eve's successor, the office of Choirmaster. (Alphonse d'Eve received the appointment of Choirmaster at the Antwerp Cathedral on November 5, 1718, having previously directed during a long period the choir of the church of St. Martin in Courtrai). But as he treated somewhat roughly the boys of the church choir entrusted to his direction, de Fesch dismissed in 1731. Soon thereafter he moved to London where he gave concerts and played violin in Handel's orchestra (in 1746). In 1748 nd 1749 he conducted at Marylebone Gardens. He apparently made no public appearances after 1750. His works included the oratorios Judith (1735) and Joseph (1746), both of which were given several performances but are now lost, as well as chamber dutes, solo and trio sonatas, concertos and part songs. He was still living there in 1757, as appears from the portrait of him in that year by Lacave. Also amongst his published compositions mentioned by Burney as dry and uninteresting, there are also six Violoncello solos printed at Amsterdam (Op. 8)
Festa, Costanzo more...	c/1485/1490 probably Piedmont	10 Apr. 1545 Rome, Italy	Italian composer of the Renaissance. While he is best known for his madrigals, he also wrote sacred vocal music. He was the first native Italian polyphonist of international renown
Fetherolf, David more...	1956 New York, USA		American cellist and composer
Fetis, Francois-Joseph more...	25 Mar. 1784 Mons, Hainaut, Belgium	26 Mar. 1871 Brussels, Belgium	Belgian musicologist, composer, critic and teacher. He was one of the most influential music critics of the 19th century, and his enormous compilation of biographical data in the Biographie universelle des musiciens remains an important source of information today
Fetras, Oscar (né Faster, Otto)	16 Feb. 1854 Hamburg, Germany	11 Jan. 1931 Hamburg, Germany	German conductor and composer
Févin, Antoine de more...	c.1470 Arras, France	late 1511/early 1512 Blois, France	a French composer of the Renaissance. He was active at the same time as Josquin Desprez, and shares many traits with his more famous contemporary
Févin, Robert de more...	fl. late 15th/early 16th centuries		French composer of the Renaissance. He was the brother of Antoine de Févin, a considerably more famous composer at the court of Louis XII of France. Whether he was older or younger than Antoine is not known
Février, Pierre more...	1696 France	1760 Paris, France	French baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist
Fezandant, Michael more...	fl. mid-sixteenth century		composer, lutenist and publisher
Fiala, Jaromir more...	30 Dec. 1892 Postoloprty, Czech Republic	15 May 1967 Prague, Czech Republic	Czech composer and writer on music
Fiala, Josef more...	3 Feb. 1748 Lochovice, Bohemia	31 Jul. 1816 Donaueschingen, Germany	Czech oboist, cellist and composer much admired by Mozart
Fiala, Petr	25 Mar. 1943 Czech Republic		Czech director of The Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno and composer
Fiamengo, Francesco di Pietro Fabri	fl. 1620-1637		Sicilian priest-composer
Fiamengo (Werrecore)(de Vlaming), Mathias Hermann more...	c.1523 Flanders	c.1574 Vercore, Italy	Flemish composer who worked as maestro di cappella at the Milan Cathedral
Fibich, Zdenek more...	21 Dec. 1850 Caslav, Czech Republic	15 Oct. 1900 Prague, Czech Republic	Czech composer and pianist
Field, John more...	26 Jul 1782 Dublin, Ireland	23 Jan 1837 Moscow, Russia	an Irish composer and pianist. He is best known for being the first composer to write nocturnes
Fields, Dorothy more...	15 Jul. 1905 Allenhurst, New Jersey, USA	28 Mar. 1974 New York City, USA	American librettist and lyricists
Fields, Herbert more...	26 Jul. 1897 New York City, USA	24 Mar. 1958 New York City, USA	American librettist and screenwriter, brother of Dorothy Fields
Figgis, Mike more...	28 Feb. 1948 Carlisle, England		British film director, producer, writer, composer and musician
Figueira, Guilhem de more...	fl. 1230s		Languedocian jongleur and troubadour from Toulouse active at the court of the Emperor Frederick II
Figueroa, Narciso more...	31 Oct. 1906 Aguadilla, Puerto Rico		musician, composer and collector of folk songs
Filiberto (or Filiberti), (Oscar) Juan de Dios more...	8 May 1885 Buenos Aires, Argentina	11 Nov. 1964 Buenos Aires, Argentina	Argentinian composer of creole music and tango
Filippenko, Arkady more...	1912 Pishcha-Vodycia, Kiev, Ukraine	1983 Kiev, Ukraine	Ukrainian composer
Fillmore, Augustus Dameron more...	1823	1870 Cincinnati, Ohio, USA	singer and composer of revival hymns and compiler of several tunebvooks using conventional shape-notes
Fillmore, (James) Henry more...	3 Dec. 1881 Cincinnati, Ohio, USA	7 Dec. 1956 Florida, USA	grandson of Augustus Dameron Fillmore, Henry Fillmore was a composer and publisher who wrote over 250 tunes and made orchestral arrangements for hundreds more
Filsell, Jeremy more...	10 Apr. 1964 Coventry, England		English pianist, organist and composer
Filtz (Fils), Johann Anton(in) more...	22 Sep. 1733 Eichstadt, Germany	14 Mar. 1760 Mannheim, Germany	a 'cellist whose father, also a 'cellist, was probably his first music teacher. In 1754, Anton became a second 'cellist in Germany's finest orchestra at Mannheim where he continued his studies with Johann Stamitz. He composed masses,concertos, trio sonatas and more than forty symphonies and remained at Mannheim until his early death [information supplied by Derek Ivor Hartwell]
Finck, Hermann more...	21 Mar. 1527 Pima, Germany	28 Dec. 1558 Wittenberg, Germany	a German organist and composer, a great-nephew of Heinrich Finck. His theoretical writing included his observations on the art of singing and of ornamentations in song. His most celebrated work is entitled Practica musica, exemplavariorum signorum, proportionum, et canonum, judicium de louis ac quaedam de arle suaviter et arlificiose cantandi conhinens (Wittenberg, 1556). It is rare and of great historic value
Finck, Heinrich more...	c.1444 probably Bamberg	c.1519 probably Stuttgart, Germany	a German composer whose surviving works are mainly part songs and other vocal compositions
Fine, Irving more...	3 Dec. 1914 Boston, Massachusetts, USA	23 Aug. 1962 Natick, Massachusetts, USA	American composer
Finger, Gottfried (Godfrey) more...	1655 Olomouc, Czech Republic	31 Aug. 1730 Mannheim, Germany	Moravian composer
Fink, Michael Jon more...	7 Dec. 1954 Los Angeles, California, USA		composer of instrumental and electronic music
Finke, Fidelio Fritz more...	22 Oct. 1891 Josefsthal, nr. Gablonz, Bohemia	12 Jun. 1968 Dresden, Germany	German composer and pedagogue
Finney, Ross Lee more...	23 Dec. 1906 Wells, Minnesota, USA	4 Feb. 1997 Carmel, California, USA	American composer
Finnissy, Michael more...	7 Mar. 1946 Tulse Hill, London, England		English composer
Finsterer, Mary more...	25 Aug. 1962 Canberra, Australia		Australian composer
Finzi, Gerald more...	14 Jul. 1901 London, England	27 Sep. 1956 Oxford, England	English composer
Finzi, Graciane more...	7 Oct. 1945 Casablanca, Morocco		French composer
Fiocchi, Vincenzo	1767 Rome, Italy	1843 Paris, France	Italian opera composer who spent the last fifty years of his life in Paris
Fiocco, Joseph Hector more...	1703 Brussels, Belgium	1741 Brussels, Belgium	Flemish (Belgian) composer and violinist, son of Pietro Antonio Fiocco
Fiocco, Pietro Antonio more...	3 Feb. 1654 Venice, Italy	3 Sep. 1714 Brussels, Belgium	Italian composer, father of Joseph Hector Fiocco
Fiorenza, Nicola	fl. 1726-1764		Italian composer from Florence
Fiorillo, Federigo more...	1753 Brunswick, Germany	c.1823	Italian-German violinist and composer, who was a pupil of his father, the opera composer Ignazio Fiorillo. He travelled extensively on concert tours, being appointed Kapellmeister in Riga in 1782. He visited Paris in 1785, and from 1788 to 1794 lived in London, where he appeared mostly as a viola player
Fiorillo, Ignazio more...	11 May 1715 Naples, Italy	Jun. 1787 Fritzlar, Germany	Italian opera composer and Hofkapellmeister in courts of Brunswick and Kassel
Firenze, Andrea da more...		1415 probably Florence, Italy	Italian composer and organist of the late medieval era. Along with Francesco Landini and Paolo da Firenze, he was a leading representative of the Italian ars nova style of the trecento, and was a prolific composer of secular songs, principally ballate
Firenze, Donato da Cascia da more...	fl. c.1350-1370		Italian composer of the trecento. All of his surviving music is secular, and the largest single source is the Squarcialupi Codex. He was probably also a priest, and the picture that survives of him in the Squarciulupi Codex shows him in the robes of the Benedictine order
Firenze, Gherardello da (see Francesco, Niccolò di)
Firenze, Lorenzo da more...		Dec. 1372/Jan. 1373	also known as Lorenzo Masini and Lorenzo di Masi, Italian composer and music teacher of the trecento. He was closely associated with Francesco Landini in Florence, and was one of the composers of the period known as the Italian ars nova
Firenze, Paolo da more...	c.1355 Florence, Italy	after 20 Sep. 1436 Florence, Italy	Italian composer and music theorist of the late 14th and early 15th centuries, the transition from the musical Medieval era to the Renaissance. More surviving music of the Italian ars nova is attributable to Paolo than to any other composer except for Francesco Landini
Firpo, Roberto more...	1884 Argentina	1969 Argentina	pianist who was also one of the first composers of tangos. Firpo studied with pianist Alfredo Bevilacqua (1874-1942), one of the earliest teachers of tango and author of a tango method book. After performing in small groups in different establishments throughout the city, Firpo formed his own orchestra, which would in turn be the launching pad for many other important careers
Firsova, Elena more...	21 Mar. 1950, Leningrad, Russia		Firsova's music has many of the qualities of lyric verse, especially the confessional variety. The majority of her music is connected in one way or another with the poetry of Osip Mandelstam. A great number of her works are cast in a single movement although these single movements follow much the same ternary design, where the three sections are markedly similar in character, perhaps with a suggestion of "development" in the second section and "recapitulation" in the third. When multi-movement works do occur in Firsova's output, they tend to be the result of her setting contrasted poems. In recent years Firsova has extended her range of colours by venturing into the world of the larger orchestra, but she has still retained the same time-scale and formal preoccupations already familiar in her chamber works
Firtich Georgiy Ivanovich more...	1938 Pskov, Russia		professor of music at St. Petersburg Pedagogical University whose compositional work is mostly as a serious music composer (works for symphony orchestra, chamber genres) although he also writes for the theatre (Adventures of Captain Vrungel based on the fairy-tale by V. Nekrasov), cinema (more than 35 films, including music for cartoon films) and TV
Fischer, Clare more...	22 Oct. 1928 Durand, Michigan, USA		American composer, arranger, pianist and organist
Fischer, Ernst	1900	1975	German composer
Fischer, Johann more...	25 Sep. 1646 Augsburg, Germany	c.1716 Schwedt, Germany	German composer and violinist
Fischer, Johann (Carl) Christian more...	1733	1800	German oboist and composer. Concert tours took him in 1768 to London, England, where he settled, marrying the daughter of the painter Thomas Gainsborough in 1780. He played frequently at the concerts promoted by Johann Christian Bach and Carl Abel (1768-81), and was a member of the queen's band. He was in the service of the Saxon court at Dresden 1760-64. He was again on tour in Europe 1786-90. Mozart, hearing him in Vienna in 1787, thought little of his playing, though he had already composed piano variations on a minuet by Fischer (K179) in 1774
Fischer, Johann Caspar (or Kaspar) Ferdinand more...	1656 Schönfeld, Bohemia	1746 Rastatt, Germany	German composer. Johann Nikolaus Forkel ranked Fischer as one of the best composers for keyboard of his day, however, partly due to the rarity of surviving copies of his music, his music is rarely heard today
Fischer, Paul more...	1943		English bass singer, organist and composer
Fiser, Lubos more...	30 Sep. 1935 Prague, Czech Republic	22 Jun. 1999 Prague, Czech Republic	Czech composer
Fisher, Fred more...	30 Sep. 1875 Cologne, Germany	14 Jan. 1942 New York, NY, USA	composer, author, publisher
Fisher, John Abraham more...	1744	1806	English violinist and composer
Fisher, Mark more...	24 Mar. 1895 Philadelphia, PA, USA	2 Jan. 1948 Long Lake, INgelside, USA	American composer and conductor
Fisher, William Arms more...	27 Apr. 1861 San Francisco, California, USA	18 Dec. 1948 Brookline, Mass. USA	American composer, author and editor
Fisher Turner, Simon more...	21 Nov. 1954 Dover, Kent		English musician, songwriter, composer and actor
Fitelberg, Grzegorz more...	18 Oct. 1879 Dvinsk, Latvia	10 Jun. 1953 Katowice, Poland	Polish conductor, violinist and composer
Fitelberg, Jerzy more...	20 May 1903 Warsaw, Poland	25 Apr. 1951 New York, USA	Polish-born US composer. He played percussion in his father Grzegorz's orchestra as a boy and studied composition at the Warsaw Conservatory and under Franz Schreker in Berlin, Germany. He settled in Paris, France, in 1933 and in New York, USA, in 1940. His fourth string quartet (1937) received an Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge award
Fitkin, Graham more...	19 Apr. 1963 Cornwall, England		English composer
Fitts, Charles more...	? USA		Charles Fitts began his musical career at the University of Georgia at the age of 15. After appearances as piano soloist with the Cincinnati Symphony and several solo recitals he was called to military duty as a First Lieutenant during the Korean War. Upon returning to the United States he embarked on a career in the growing computer technology field. In 1998 Mr. Fitts returned to music composition as a full time career. He combines his widely varied experiences in music, computer technology, and mathematics in the composition of major works for chamber ensembles, voice, synthesizer and symphony orchestra. He relies heavily on the computer as a composition productivity aid and upon his mathematical background as a tool for adding structural, philosophical and contrapuntal content to his works
Fitzenhagen, Wilhelm more...	15 Sep. 1848 Seesen, Brunswick, Germany	2 Feb. 1890 Moscow, Russia	German cellist and composer
Flagello, Nicolas more...	15 Mar. 1928 New York, USA	16 Mar. 1994 New Rochelle, New York, USA	American composer
Flaherty, Stephen more...	18 Sep. 1960 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA		American composer of musical theatre in collaboration with Lynn Ahrens. They are best known for the shows Once on This Island, which was nominated for eight Tony Awards and Ragtime, which was nominated for twelve Tony Awards and won Best Original Score
Flanagan, Tommy more...	6 Feb. 1927 Baltimore, MD, USA		American jazz composer, arranger, trombonist and educator
Flandria, Ugo de (see Isaac, Heinrich)
Flecha, Mateo I more...	1481 Prades, Spain	1553 Poblet, Spain	uncle of the composer below, Spanish composer noted particular for his ensaladas
Flecha, Mateo II more...	1530	1604 Spain	nephew of the composer above, Spanish composer who spent many years working in Italy, Vienna, Prague and Hungary
Fleck, Béla more...	10 Jul. 1958 New York City, NY, USA		American virtuoso banjo player who is best known for his work with the band 'Béla Fleck and the Flecktones', with bassist Victor Wooten, saxophonist Jeff Coffin, and percussionist Future Man. He is also an arranger and composer
Fleischmann, Aloys more...	13 Apr. 1910 Munich, Germany	21 Jul. 1992 Cork, Ireland	Irish composer and musicologist. In addition he wrote several books and articles on Irish music
Flem, Kjell more...	25 Oct. 1943 Alesund, Norway		Norwegian composer, organist and pianist
Flem, Paul le more...	18 Mar. 1881 Radon, Orne, France	31 Jul. 1984 Tréguier, Côtes d'Armor, France	French composer and musician. Le Flem studied at the Schola Cantorum under Vincent d'Indy and Albert Roussel, later teaching at the same establishment, where his pupils included Erik Satie and André Jolivet. His music is strongly influenced by his native Brittany, the landscape of which is reflected in most of his work
Fletcher, Percy more...	12 Dec. 1879 Derby, England	10 Dec. 1932 London, England	English light-music composer
Fleury, Andre more...	25 Jul. 1903 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France	6 Aug. 1995 Le Vésinay, France	French composer, pianist, organist, and pedagogue
Flies, Bernhard more...	1770 possibly Berlin, Germany		German amateur composer, best known for music to the lullaby Schlafe, mein Prinzchen, schlaf ein (Sleep, my little prince, fall asleep)
Flintoft, Luke	c.1680 Worcester, England	1727 London, England	a minor canon of the Chapel Royal, whose double chant in G minor, is among the best esteemed of its class
Flor, Christian more...	1626	1697	German organist and composer, particular of keyboard music
Florence, Robert Chase more...	20 May 1932 Los Angeles, California, USA	15 May 2008 Thousand Oaks, California, USA	American pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader
Florentia, Andreas de (or Andreas da Florentia) more...		1415	Italian composer and organist of the late medieval era. Along with Francesco Landini and Paolo da Firenze, he was a leading representative of the Italian ars nova style of the Trecento, and was a prolific composer of secular songs, principally ballate
Florentia, Gherardello de (or Niccolo di Francesco or Ghirardellus de Florentia?) more...	c.1320 to 1325 probably nr. Florence, Italy	1362 or 1363 nr. Florence, Italy	Italian composer of the Trecento, who was one of the first composers of the period sometimes known as the Italian ars nova
Florentia, Maestro Giovanni de (or Giovanni da Cascia, Jovannes de Cascia, Johannes de Florentia) more...	fl. mid-fourteenth century		Italian composer
Florentia, Jovannes de (also Giovanni Mazzuoli, Giovanni di Niccol, Giovanni degli Organi) more...	late 14th/early 15th century		Italian organist and composer. His positions included organist at Florence Cathedral, from after 1390 to 1426. Probably a pupil and later a friend of Landini
Florentia, Magister Laurentius de (also Lorenzo da Firenze, Masini) more...		Dec. 1372/Jan. 1373	Italian composer and music teacher of the Trecento. He was closely associated with Francesco Landini in Florence, and was one of the composers of the period known as the Italian ars nova
Florentz, Jean-Louis more...	19 Dec. 1947 Asnières, France	4 Jul. 2004 Paris, France	French composer
Flores, José Asunción more...	27 Aug. 1904 La Chacarita, Asunción, Paraguay	16 May 1972 Buenos Aires, Argentina	Paraguayan composer and creator of the Guarania music genre
Florian, Heinz Josef more...	1955		composer of electroacoustic music
Florio, Caryl (see Robjohn, William James)
Flosason, Sigurdur (also Siggi Flosa) more...	1964		Icelandic jazz saxophonist and composer
Flothuis, Marius more...	30 Oct. 1914 Amsterdam, The Netherlands	13 Nov. 12001 Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Dutch composer, musicologist and music critic
Flotow, Friedrich von more...	27 Apr. 1812 Teutendorf, Germany	24 Jan. 1883	German composer. He is chiefly remembered for his opera Martha, which was popular at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, but is now rarely performed.
Flower, Eliza more...	1803 England	1846 England	English musician and composer of hymns. Robert Browning was friends with Eliza and her sister Sarah (1805-1848) and they later lived with his future friend and mentor, the Reverend W.J. Fox
Flower, Sarah more...	1805 England	1848 England	English actress, poetess and writer of hymns in particular 'Nearer, My God, to Thee'. Robert Browning was friends with Sarah and her sister Eliza (1803-1848)
Floyd, Carlisle more...	11 Jun. 1926 Latta, South Carolina, USA		American opera composer, the son of a Methodist minister. He based many of his works on themes from the South. His best known opera, Susannah (1955), is based a story in the so-called Apocrypha, transferred to contemporary, rural Tennessee, and is set in a Southern dialect
Flury, Richard more...	26 Mar. 1896 Biberist, Switzerland	23 Dec. 1967 Biberist, Switzerland	Swiss conductor and composer
Focke, Fré more...	1910 Amsterdam, The Netherlands	5 Feb. 1989 Bergen, The Netherlands	Dutch pianist and composer
Focking, Hendrik more...	17 Aug. 1747 Danzig, Germany	7 Apr. 1796 Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Dutch-German composer
Fodor, Carolus Antonius/Antoine (also Carel Anton) more...	12 Apr. 1768 Venlo, The Netherlands	22 Feb. 1846 Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Dutch pianist, conductor and composer
Fodor, Carolus (or Charles) Emanuel more...	1759	c.1799	older brother of Carolus Antonius, Dutch composer
Fodor, Josephus Andreas more...	21 Jan. 1751 Venlo, The Netherlands	3 Oct. 1828 St. Petersburg, Russia	Dutch violinist and composer, pupil of Benda and brother of Carolus Antonius and Carolus Emanuel Fodor. He toured extensively as a virtuoso throughout Europe, settling in Paris in 1787 and in St. Petersburg in 1792. His daughter was the soprano Joséphine Fodor-Mainvielle (1789-1870) who took part in the London or Paris premières of several Rossini operas, scoring her biggest success in the title role of Semiramide (1825)
Fogg, Eric more...	1903 Manchester, England	1939 London, England	English composer, pianist and conductor
Foggia, Francesco more...	1604 Italy	8 Jan. 1688 Rome, Italy	Italian composer
Fogliano (da Modena), Giacomo (or Jacopo) more...	1468 Modena, Italy	10 Apr. 1548 Modena, Italy	Italian composer, brother of Lodvico Fogliano (died c.1538)
Fogliano, Lodovico more...		c.1538	Italian choir master, musical theorist and composer, brother of Giacomo Fogliano (1468-1548)
Fokking, Hendrik (see Focking, Hendrik)
Folkertsma, Paulus more...	15 Jan. 1901 Wommels, The Netherlands	4 May 1972 Aldeboarn, The Netherlands	teacher and composer
Folquet de Marselha more...	c.1150 Marseille, France	25 Dec. 1231 Toulouse, France	alternatively Folquet de Marseille, Foulques de Toulouse, Fulk of Toulouse, he came from a Genoese merchant family who lived in Marseille. Initially famed as a troubadour, he began composing songs in the 1170s and was known to Raymond Geoffrey II of Marseille, Richard Coeur de Lion, Raymond V of Toulouse, Raimond-Roger of Foix, Alfonso II of Aragon and William VIII of Montpellier. He is known primarily for his love songs, which were lauded by Dante; there are 14 surviving cansos, one tenson, one lament, one invective, three crusading songs and possibly one religious song (although its authorship is disputed)
Fomenko, Mykola more...	1894 Ukraine	1961	he came to New York in 1951 and taught at the Ukrainian Music Institute of America. His works include operas, symphonic compositions, chamber music, and art songs
Fomenko, Nikolai more...	My 1962 Leningrad, Russia		Russian composer who was one of the original members of Sekret, a Leningrad-based pop-show in the 1980s
Fomin (or Phomin), Evstigney (Yevstigney) Ipatovich	16 Aug. 1761 St. Petersburg, Russia	27 Apr. 800 St. Petersburg, Russia	Russian composer
Fonseca, Celso more...	15 Nov. 1956 Rio de Janeiro Brazil		Brazilian composer, producer and guitarist
Fonseca Portugal, Marcos António da more...	24 Mar. 1762 Lisbon, Portugal	17 Feb. 1830 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Portuguese composer who achieved international fame for his operas in Italian
Fontaine, Pierre more...	c.1380 Rouen, France	c.1450 Burgundy, France	French composer of the transitional era between the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, and a member of the Burgundian School of composers. While he was well-known at the time, most of his music has probably been lost. All of his surviving music is secular, and all his compositions are chansons
Fontaines, Philippe de more...	fl. 12th century		musician, possibly a composer
Fontana, Bill more...	25 Apr. 1947 Cleveland, Ohio, USA		pioneer in the field of sound art
Fontana, Giovanni Battista more...		1630 Padua, Italy	known to history for only one publication Sonate a 1.2.3. per il violino, o cornetto, fagotto, chitarone, violoncino o simile altro istromento (Venice, 1641), which appears to be a posthumous collection hastily assembled from manuscript sources
Fontanelli, Alfonso more...	15 Feb. 1557 Reggio nell'Emilia Italy	11 Feb. 1622 Rome, Italy	an Italian composer, writer, diplomat, courtier, and nobleman of the late Renaissance. He was one of the leading figures in the musically progressive Ferrara school in the late 16th-century, and one of the earliest composers in the seconda pratica style at the transition to the Baroque era
Fontanelli, Lodovico more...	fl.1733		Italian lutenist and composer
Fontei, Nicolò more...	c.1600	c.1647	Italian composer
Fontyn, Jacqueline more...	27 Dec. 1930 Antwerp, Belgium		Belgian composer
Foote, Arthur more...	5 Mar. 1853 Salem, MA, USA	8 Apr. 1937 Boston, MA, USA	distinguished American composer, organist, and teacher who was, for many years, the organist of Boston First Unitarian Church [entry prompted by Terry L. Mueller]
Forchhammer, Theophil	1847 Schiers, Switzerland	1923 Magdeburg, Germany	studied music at the Stuttgart conservatory where his teachers were Eduard Adolf Tod (counterpoint) and Wilhelm Immanuel Faißt (organ). Forchhammer was appointed organist in Thalwil and later in Olten after which he was appointed organist of the Marienkirche in Wismar. From here he was able to extend his knowledge of counterpoint in Berlin with Friedrich Kiel (1821-1885). He also travelled to Weimar to have Liszt evaluate his compositions
Ford, Andrew more...	18 Mar. 1957 Liverpool, England		English and Australian composer, writer and radio presenter
Ford, Ron more...	29 Sep. 1959 Kansas City, USA		American-born composer who has lived in Amsterdam since 1983
Ford, Thomas more...	c.1580 England	17 Nov. 1648 London, England	English composer, lutenist, viol player and poet
Ford, Trevor more...	1931 Tasmania, Australia		Australian-born British band-master and composer
Førde, Jan Magne	1960 Norway		well known jazz trumpeter, arranger and composer of more than 250 works for all types of ensembles, he has written several pieces for wind band, the most popular and frequently performed being Wedding March, The Dome (a beautiful trumpet solo with interesting echo effects in the band), and Mountain Air. His trumpet concerto Hornhavet (14') is a meeting of Norwegian traditional music and international rhythms and sounds
Fordell, Erik	1917	1981	composer of 44 Symphonies from 1949 onwards, a record unbroken in Finnish music until Leif Segerstam surpassed it in 2000
Forest, John more...	fl. early 15th century		one of many composers working at the same period as John Dunstaple or Dunstable (c.1390-1453) many work of which have on closer study been shown to have been composed by contemporaries including Gilles Binchois, John Benet, John Bedyngham, Leonel Power and John Forest
Forestier, Mathurin more...	c.1470 France	c.1540	French Renaissance composer. The motet Veni, sancte spiritus appeared under Josquin des Prez' name for the first time in Hans Ott's 1537 print and was unquestioningly believed to be by him until 1985, when a unique but credible attribution of the work to "M. Forestier" was rediscovered in a French manuscript dated 1510-1520
Foresythe, Reginald more...	28 May 1907 London, England	28 Dec. 1958 London, England	pianist, bandleader and jazz music composer who was the son of a Nigerian barrister and German mother. His family lived in a West African community in Shepherd's Bush
Foretic, Silvio more...	21 Dec. 1940 Split, Croatia		Croatian composer now based in Germany
Formosa, Riccardo (also Ric or Rick) more...	1 Sep. 1954 Rome, Italy		award-winning Italian-born Australian musician, arranger and composer who was the lead guitarist for pop band Little River Band from 1975 to 1976
Fornaci, Giacomo more...	fl. early 17th century		known principally for his Amorosi respiri musicali published in Venice in 1617
Fornerod, Aloys-Henri-Gerard more...	6 Jan. 1890 Cudrefin, Switzerland	8 Jan. 1965 Fribourg, Switzerland	Swiss composer who studied composition at the Schola Cantorum de Paris with Vincent d'Indy (1909-1911)
Fornsete, John of more...	Forncett, Norfolk	1238/9	English monk at Reading Abbey who is credited by some with composing Sumer is icumen in
Forqueray (Forcroy), Antoine ("le père") more...	Sep 1671 Paris, France	28 Jun. 1745 Mantes-la-Jolie France	French composer and virtuoso of the viola da gamba
Forqueray (Forcroy), Jean-Baptiste ("le fils") more...	3 Apr. 1699 Paris, France	Aug. 1782 Paris, France	son of Antoine Forqueray, was a player of the viol and a composer.
Forqueray (Forcroy), Michel more...	1681 Paris, France	1757	French composer, brother of Antoine
Forqueray (Forcroy), Nicolas-Gilles ("le neveu") more...	1703 Paris, France	1791	French composer, son of Antoine
Forrest, George more...	31 Jul. 1915 Brooklyn, New York, US	10 Oct. 1999 Miami, Florida, US	George Forrest Chichester, Jr., he was also known professionally at times as Chet Forrest. He was a writer of music and lyrics for musical theatre best known for the show Kismet, adapted from the works of Alexander Borodin
Forsberg, Roland more...	1939 Stockholm, Sweden		Swedish composer, arranger, organist and choirmaster
Forsman, Kristina more...	1970 Umeå, Sweden		Swedish composer
Forsström, Timo	1961 Finland		horn player in Kaartin Soittokunta,The Finnish Army Band in Helsinki and successful composer for wind instruments, such as the internationally acclaimed Variations for Wind Orchestra (1975/88), Fantasia for Clarinet and Wind Orchestra (1986) and the dynamic fanfares (1984, 1985, 1987 and 1996). Other works by Eerola for wind band include Syksyisiä kuvia (Autumn Scenes, 1985), the Suite for Wind Orchestra (1992) and the Music for Brass Quintet and Wind Orchestra (1998)
Förster (or Foerster), Adolphe Martin more...	2 Feb. 1854 Pittsburg, USA	10 Aug. 1927 USA	American composer, teacher, pianist, and performer
Förster, Christoph (full first names were Johann Christoph Friedrich) more...	30 Nov.1693 Bibra, Thuringa	5/6 Dec. 1745 Rudolstadt	German composer
Förster, Emanuel Aloys more...	26 Jan. 1748 Niedersteine bei Glatz, Prussia	12 Nov. 1823 Vienna, Austria	composer and music teacher, who spent most of his life in Vienna, Austria
Förster (or Foerster), Josef Bohuslav more...	22 Feb. 1859 Osenice, Czechosolvakia	29 May 1951 Stara Boleslav, Czechoslovakia	Czech composer of classical music [entry prompted by Terry L. Mueller]
Forster, Kaspar (or Caspar) more...	February 1616 Danzig, Germany	2 Feb. 1673 Oliva, nr. Danzig	German singer and composer
Forsyth, Malcolm more...	8 Dec. 1936 Pietermaritzburg, South Africa	5 Jul. 2011 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada	South African and Canadian trombonist and composer
Fort, Bernard more...	8 Jun. 1954, Lyon, France		French composer
Fortescue Harrison, Annie more...	1851	1944	English composer of songs and piano pieces who married in 1877 after which she became known as Lady Arthur Hill. The Hill family did bridge class barriers but they objected to the romance between Miss Annie Fortescue Harrison, the talented, accomplished musician daughter of a Sussex MP, who came to Hillsborough Castle. Lord Arthur Hill and Miss Harrison fell in love but the family objected to their second son marrying a penniless, landless commoner. Annie was popular in the village, played the organ in the parish church and ministered to the needs of the poorer people in the parish. Lord Arthur was intent on marrying her but Annie did not want to be the cause of a rift in the family and fled to England. Arthur searched, was unable to find her and married another Annie - Annie Nisida Denham Cookes, but just a year after their wedding she died (1874) and is commemorated in a stained-glass window in the Wakehurst chapel of Ardingley parish church in Sussex. Some time later at a London concert Arthur Hill heard for the first time the plaintive song of parted lovers, In the Gloaming (published 1877) - found it had been composed by his lost love! The two were reunited and the Hill family finally gave the couple their blessing and Lord and Lady Hill took up residence in Hillsborough Castle, their marriage lasted 50 years until Lord Arthur's death in 1931. Lady Hill survived him by 14 years. Lady Hill wrote operettas and her small C. P. England organ, dating from 1795, was presented to the parish church of St. Malachi when the Hills left the area in 1924 and is still played during church services. The church dates from 1636, and the east window with its depiction of angels with wings under their chins is the design of Sir Joshua Reynolds. The Hill family home Hillsborough Castle was purchased by the state in 1922
Fortner, Wolfgang more...	12 Oct. 1907 Leipzig, Germany	5 Sep. 1987 Heidelberg, Germany	German composer and teacher who has written a number of works featuring the organ including Organ Concerto (1932), Toccata und Fuge (1930) and Intermezzos (1962) [information supplied by Terry L. Mueller]
Fortsch, Wolfgang more...	1675	4 Mar. 1743 Nürnberg, Germany	German composer
Foscarini, Giovanni Paolo more...	fl. 1600-1647		Italian guitarist, lutenist, theorist and composer
Foskett, Ben more...	1977		London and Paris-based British composer
Foss, Lukas more...	15 Aug. 1922 Berlin, Germany		German-born organist, composer and conductor who has been resident in the US since about 1935. His works comprise mainly stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal and piano works
Foster, Al more...	18 Jan. 1943 Richmond, Virginia, USA		American jazz drummer and composer
Foster, Frank (also known as Frank Benjamin Foster III) more...	23 Sep. 1928 Cincinnati, Ohio, USA	26 Jul. 2011 Chesapeake, Virginia, USA	American tenor and soprano saxophonist, flautist, arranger, and composer
Foster of High Green, Yorkshire, John more...	1752	1822	a coroner and amateur musician who composed two books of sacred music in a 19th-century classical style published between 1817 and 1822
Foster, Stephen Collins more...	4 Jul. 1826 Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania, USA	13 Jan. 1864 New York City, USA	known as "the father of American music", Foster was an American songwriter known primarily for his parlour and minstrel music
Fotiadis, Stelios more...	24 Jul. 1951 Thessaloniki, Greece		Greek composer
Fougstedt, Nils-Eric more...	24 May 1910 Finland	12 Apr. 1961	a conductor who championed a lot of new Finnish music, was also one of the first Finnish composers to cross the line into dodecaphony. His Angoscia (1954) was the first dodecaphonic orchestral work written in Finland. Fougstedt's most impressive work is Aurea dicta (1959) for choir and orchestra
Foulds, John more...	2 Nov. 1880 Hulme, Manchester	25 Apr. 1939 Calcutta, India	English composer particularly of light music and theatre scores
Fourdrain, Félix	3 Feb. 1880 Paris, France	23 Oct. 1923 Paris, France	his father was organist, and he replaced him at the age of twelve. He then studied organ with Guilmant and Widor at the Paris Conservatory and composition with Jules Massenet, who became a close friend. Fourdrain won the first prize for organ in 1902. After his studies he spent most of his time for composing. He befriended Henri Cain and Arthur Bernède, who wrote a libretto for him, and he completed his first opera in 1903, after which he continued to write successful operas
Fournival, Richart de more...	1201	c. 1260	a medieval philosopher and trouvère best known for the lyrical poem Bestiaire d'amour ("The Bestiary of Love")
Fowler, Dylan more...	1956 Tripoli, Libya		guitarist, composer and folk music collaborator, based for much of his life in south Wales
Fox, Christopher more...	1955 York, UK		English composer
Fox, Jim more...	1953 Indiana, USA		American composer, and also founder and director of the recording label Cold Blue
Fox, Terry more...			Known for his work in the sports and TV industries, American composer Fox has worked extensively with the NFL, the NBA, and TV shows Grown-ish and CSI: New Orleans
Frachen, Victor Van more...	8 May 1924 Sint-Ulriks-Kapelle	18 Nov. 1999 Affligem, Belgium	Belgian composer, baritone, organist, music critic and teacher
Frampton, Roger more...	20 May 1948 Portsmouth, UK	4 Jan. 2000 Australia	Australian jazz pianist, saxophonist, composer, and educator
Franc, Guillaume more...	c. 1505 Rouen, France	1570 Lausanne, Switzerland	French composer and contributer to the Geneva Psalter
Francaix, Jean more...	23 May 1912 Le Mans, France	25 Sep. 1997 Paris, France	French composer [entry provided by LB Venema]
Francescatti, Zino (full first names were René-Charles "Zino") more...	9 Aug. 1902 Marseilles, France	17 Sep. 1991 La Ciotat, Bouches-du-Rhône, France	French virtuoso violinist
Franceschini, Petronio more...	9 Jan. 1651 Bologna	4 Dec. 1680 Venice	Baroque composer from Italy.
Francesco, Niccolò di (also Gherardello da Firenze) more...	c.1320-1325 nr. Florence, Italy	1362/63 Froence, Italy	Italian composer of the trecento, he was one of the first composers of the period sometimes known as the Italian ars nova
Francesconi, Luca more...	17 Mar. 1956 Milan, Italy		Italian composer
Franchetti, Alberto more...	18 Sep. 1860 Turin, Italy	4 Aug. 1942 Viareggio, Italy	Italian composer of operas
Franchetti, Arnold more...	1911 Lucca, Italy	7 Mar. 1993 Cromwell, Connecticut, USA	son of Alberto Franchetti, Italian-born, American composer
Franchomme, Auguste more...	10 Apr 1808 Lille, France	21 Jan 1884 Paris, France	French cellist and composer. His compositions, consisting of a Concerto, Nocturnes, Etudes, Variations, and a variety of smaller Drawing-room pieces, have still some value for cello players. His best productions are the Twelve Caprices (Op. 7)
Francisco de Leon			composer of music found in the Latin American mss. Guatemala (ca. 1570-1635) which consist of 13 bound volumes and two fragments. Francisco de Leon was maestro de capilla in northwestern Guatemala
Franciscus, magister (see Andrieu, François)
Francisque, Antoine more...	c. 1570 Saint-Quentin, France	5 Oct. 1605 Paris, France	16th-century French lutenist and composer
Franck, César(-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert) more...	10 Dec. 1822 Liège, Belgium	8 Nov. 1890 Paris, France	composer, organist and music teacher of Belgian origin, was one of the great figures in classical music in France (and the world) in the second half of the 19th century. He was organist of Église de Ste-Clothilde, Paris from 1858 until his death. His best known works for organ include 6 Pièces (1860-2) (comprising Fantaisie in C Major, Grande pièce symphonique in f# minor, Prélude, fugue et variation in b minor, Pastorale in E Major, Prière in c# minor, Final in Bb Major), his 3 Pièces (1878) (comprising Fantaisie in A Major, Cantabile in B Major, Pièce héroïque in b minor), his 3 Chorals (1890) (comprising Choral No. 1 in E Major, Choral No. 2 in b minor and Chorale No. 3 in a minor) [additional information supplied by Terry L. Mueller]
Franck, Eduard more...	5 Oct. 1817 Breslau, Silesia	1 Dec. 1893 Germany	son of Richard Franck, German composer, pianist and music pedagogue
Franck, Melchior more...	c.1579 Zittau, Germany	1 Jun. 1639 Coburg, Germany	a German composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was a hugely prolific composer of Protestant church music, especially motets, and assisted in bringing the stylistic innovations of the Venetian School north across the Alps into Germany
Franck, Richard more...	3 Jan. 1858 Cologne	22 Jan. 1938	father of Eduard Franck, German pianist, composer and teacher
Franco, Hernando more...	1532 Galizuela, Spain	28 Nov. 1585 probably Mexico City, Mexico	a Spanish composer of the Renaissance, who was mainly active in Guatemala and Mexico. Some hymns in the Nahuatl language by a composer of the same name (Hernando don Franco) are now presumed to be the work of a native composer who took Franco's name, as was the custom, on his conversion to Christianity and baptism (if so, they may be the earliest extant notated music in the European tradition by a Native American composer)
Franco, Johan Henri Gustave more...	12 Jul. 1908 Zaandam, Netherlands	14 Apr. 1988 Virginia Beach, USA	Dutch-born, American composer
Franco, Miguel more...	1962, Murcia, Spain		Madrid-based Spanish composer
Francoeur, François more...	21 Sep 1698 Paris, France	5 August 1787 Paris, France	At a time when the violin had long suffered from a certain contempt in France because of its Italian origins and its use as a street instrument (Pierre Trichet said in 1640: "Violins are chiefly employed for dances, balls, ballets, masquerades, serenades, aubades, banquets and other cheerful pastimes..."(Traité des instruments de musique.") Francoeur belongs to the first generation of musicians to devote themselves entirely to the violin as performer and composer
François, Samson	1924 France	1970 France	an erratic pianist, a precocious prodigy who played a Mozart concerto when only six, he studied with Marguerite Long, and "acquired his technique from listening to Vladimir Horowitz 78s." And his technique, indeed, was prodigious, as was his imagination. After he was recognized in the concert world he spent much of his time in Paris clubs and all-night bars listening to and playing jazz, living the supreme Bohemian life. He played Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 5 with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic in 1947 (and later recorded it for EMI with Witold Rowicki conducting), and toured rather extensively, although he sometimes missed concerts reportedly because of drug abuse. In 1955 he received the Grand prix du Disque for a Chopin disk and recorded most of the composer's music-highly idividualistic performances, always played with the utmost imagination and virtuosity
Franco of Cologne more...	fl. mid-13th century		a German music theorist and possibly composer. He was one of the most influential theorists of the late Medieval era, and was the first to propose an idea which was to transform music notation permanently: that the duration of any note should be determined by its appearance on the page, and not from context alone
Franco-Mendes, Jacques more...	1816 (or 1812) Amsterdam		Belgian cellisy who exercised a great, indeed the greatest influence on Dutch cello playing. He studied with Prager on the Violoncello, with Bertelmann in theory, but, in order to educate himself still further in cello playing, be went to Merk, at Vienna, in 1829. Franco-Mendes was undecided as to whether he should pursue music for his pleasure or as his career. He soon decided for the latter, and undertook with his brother Joseph, who was a gifted violinist, a journey to London and Paris in the year 1831. He made his debut in the former city at a concert given by Nepomuk Hummel and on his return to Amsterdam he received from the King of Holland the title of Chamber Violoncellist. In 1833 the brothers Franco-Mendes undertook together a concert tour in Germany, and were heard with success in Frankfort, Leipzig, and Dresden. In the following year Jacques was nominated first solo Cellist of the King of Holland. In 1836 he again went with his brother to Paris. The latter died in 1841, and this loss so heavily affected Jacques that for a long time he could not resolve to undertake any more musical journeys but played only at a few concerts in the main towns of Holland. Recovering his interest in performance, in 1845 he took part in the musical festival which was held at Bonn to celebrate the unveiling of the Beethoven memorial, but on account of the overwhelming number of musical productions he gained no success. From 1860 he lived in Paris. As a composer, Franco-Mendes proved that to a certain extent his aim was worthy of respect, for he occupied himself with chamber music in its more serious aspect. He wrote two Quintets and a String Quartet, one of which was distinguished by receiving a prize from the Netherlands Society for the advancement of Music. He has also composed a long list of Drawing-room pieces for his instrument, amongst them a grand Duo for two Violoncellos, an Elegie, Fantasias, Caprices, and more pieces of the same kind; some of them are still performed, as, for example, the Adagio (Op. 48)
Frank, Andrew more...	1946 Los Angeles, USA		American composer and academic
Frankel, Benjamin more...	31 Jan 1906 London, UK	12 Feb. 1973 London, UK	British composer
Franke, Bernd more...	1959 Weissenfels/Saale, Germany		German composer
Franken, Wim more...	7 Jan. 1922 Assen, Netherland	21 Apr. 2012 Deventer, Netherlands	Dutch composer, pianist and carillonneur
Frankhuijzen, Paul more...	1956 's Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands		Dutch Composer Paul Frankhuijzen studied Composition with Daan Manneke and Alexandru Hrisanide at the Tilburg Conservatory, as well as Sonology at The Institute for Sonology in Utrecht. He is inspired by non-western and particularly early vocal music. His oeuvre comprises over forty musical pieces, for solo instruments, chamber ensemble and orchestra
Franssens, Joep more...	1955, Netherlands		Dutch composer
Franz, Johann Christian more...	1762	1814	German composer
Franz, Robert more...	28 Jun. 1815 Halle, Germany	24 Oct. 1892 Halle, Germany	German composer, mainly of lieder
Franzén, Olov more...	1946 Umeå, Sweden		Swedish cellist and composer
Fränzl, Ferdinand (Ignaz Joseph) more...	20 May 1767 Schwetzingen	27 Oct. 1833 Mannheim	German violinist, composer, conductor, and opera director
Franzl, Ignaz (Franz Joseph)	3 Jun. 1736	Aug./Sep. 1811	composer and violinist who in 1774 became Konzertmeister of the orchestra at Mannheim
Fraser, Simon			his collection of 'The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and The Isles' was assembled between 1715 and 1745 but did not appear in print until 1816. A record of Gaelic songs as sung by his older relatives, the tunes were set in very simple keyboard arrangements, presumably to be useful to as wide a spectrum of music lovers as possible
Fraser-Simson, Harold more...	15 Aug. 1872 London, UK	19 Jan. 1944 Inverness, Scotland	English composer of light music, including songs and the scores to musical comedies
Frauenlob, Heinrich more...	between 1250-1260 Meissen, Germany	29 Nov. 1318 Mainz, Germany	sometimes known as Henry of Meissen, was a Middle High German poet
Frederick (the Great or der Grosse) II of Prussia more...	24 Feb. 1712 Berlin, Germany	17 Aug. 1786 Potsdam, Germany	Frederick was a gifted musician who played the transverse flute. He composed 100 sonatas for the flute as well as four symphonies. The Hohenfriedberger Marsch, a military march, was supposedly written by Frederick to commemorate his victory in the Battle of Hohenfriedberg during the Second Silesian War. His court musicians included C. P. E. Bach, Johann Joachim Quantz, and Franz Benda. A meeting with Johann Sebastian Bach in 1747 in Potsdam led to Bach writing The Musical Offering
Freedman, Harry (originally Henryk Frydmann) more...	5 Apr. 1922 Poland	16 Sep. 2005 Canada	Polish-born Canadian composer
Freeman, Lawrence "Bud" more...	13 Apr. 1906 Chicago, USA	15 Mar. 1991 Chicago, USA	American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer
Frehner, Paul more...	1970 Montreal, Canada		Canadian composer
Frei, Carl	1884	1967	Frei occupies a very special place during the glory period of the barrel organ between two world wars. At the tender age of nine years old he was already studying harmony and counterpoint at the Waldkirch Academy of Music. From age 14 on, well-known factories such as Bruder, Gavioli employed him in Waldkirch and Paris. After the First World War he established himself in Breda (Holland). After the Second World War he was forced to move to Waldkirch along with his son, Carl Frei jr. where he carried on with his business of building and redesigning fairground organs. After his death his son Carl carried on the business. Beside his great contributions as an arranger and composer he also became famous for the introduction of a new sound effect in Dutch street-organs. The first was the bright voiced bourdon Celeste in the melody section. This evenly floating tuned bourdon was so much loved by organ enthusiasts that it was copied by other organ builders who incorporated it as a stop in their instruments. Frei also amplified the violin section by adding a violin-celeste stop, which was also tuned to this floating sound temperament. He also introduced the stop unda maris in the counter melody section while in the large (72 and 90 keys) organs he incorporated stops with names like bifoon I (in melody) and bifoon II (in the countermelody)
Freinsberg, Jean Adam (see Guilain, Jean Adam)
Freisitzer, Roland more...	16 Aug. 1973 Vienna, Austria		Austrian composer
Freitas Branco, Frederico Guedes de more...	15 Nov. 1902 Lisbon, Portugal	12 Jan. 1980 Portugal	Portuguese composer, conductor, musicologist, and pedagogue.
Freixanet, Joseph more...	c.1730	1762	Spanish composer
Fremart, Henri more...	c. 1595 Beauvais, Picardy	1651	French priest and composer
French, Jacob more...	15 Jul. 1754 Stoughton, Massachusetts, USA	May 1817 Simsbury, Connecticut, USA	a singing master and one of the first American composers
French, William Percy more...	1 May 1854 Tulsk, County Roscommon, Ireland	24 Jan. 1920 Formby, UK	one of Ireland's foremost songwriters and entertainers in his day
Frensel Wegener-Koopman, Bertha more...	27 Sep. 1874 Bloemendaal, Netherlands	17 Jul. 1953 Amsterdam, Netherlands	Dutch composer and music educator
Frenzel, Franz Xaver (Katt, Friedemann) more...	8 Oct. 1945 Mauterndorf, Austria		Austrian composer who works under the pen name Friedmann Katt
Frescobaldi, Girolamo more...	Sep. 1583 Ferrara, Italy	1 Mar. 1643 Rome, Italy	appointed organist at St. Peter's in Rome at the age of 24, Frescobaldi is universally regarded as the most significant Italian organist-composer of the 17th century. His published volume of liturgical organ music, the Fiori musicali (1635), was held in such high estimation that even decades later J. S. Bach acquired a copy for his own study
Fresneau, Henri more...	fl. 1538-1554		French composer of chansons
Fresneau, Jehan more...	before 1450 Camrai	after 1505 possibly Chartres, France	French composer and singer
Fresu, Paolo more...	10 Feb. 1961 Berchidda, Sardinia		Italian jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player, as well as a composer and music-arranger
Freundt, Cornelius (also known as Bonamicus) more...	c.1535 Plauen	c. August 1591 Zwickau	German Kantor and composer
Frey, Jürg more...	15 May 1953 Aarau, Switzerland		Swiss composer and clarinettist
Freystädtler, Franz Jacob	1761 Salzburg, Austria	1841	composer, teacher and organist. Became a pupil of Mozart's in Vienna, supposedly to study musical theory. Attempt the completion of Mozart's Requiem K.626 before Sussmäyr took over and completed it
Fricker, Anne	c. 1820		poet and composer of songs
Fricker, Peter Racine more...	5 Sep. 1920 London, England	1 Feb. 1990 California, USA	an English composer who lived in the United States for the last thirty years of his life
Fricke, Florian more...	23 Feb. 1944 Lindau am Bodensee, Germany	29 Dec. 2001 Munich, Germany	German musician and composer
Frid, Géza more...	25 Jan. 1904 Máramarossziget, present-day Romania	13 Sep. 1989 Beverwijk, Netherlands	Hungarian–Dutch composer and pianist
Frid, Grigory Samuilovich (see Fried, Grigori)
Friderici, Daniel more...	1584 Eichstaedt (now Querfurt)	23 Sep. 1638 Rostock	German cantor, conductor, and composer
Fridman-Kochevskaya, Sofia (or Sonia) (see Eckhardt-Gramatté, Sophie-Carmen)
Fried, Grigori (also known as Grigory Samuilovich Frid) more...	22 Sep. 1915 Petrograd (now St Petersburg), Russia	22 Sep. 2012 Russia	Russian composer of music written in many different genres, including chamber opera
Friedlander, Erik more...	1 Jul. 1960 New York City, New York, USA		American cellist and composer
Friedman, Ignaz (originally Solomon (Salomon) Isaac Freudman(n)) more...	13 Feb. 1882 Podgórze near Kraków, Poland	26 Jan. 1948 Sydney, Australia	Polish pianist and composer
Friedman, Stanley Arnold more...	1951 USA		USA-born composer and trumpeter who came to NZ to be principal trumpet in the NZSO
Friedmann (or Friedman), Alexander	31 May 1866 St. Petersburg, Russia		Russian ballet dancer and composer, father of Russian cosmologist and mathematician Alexander Alexandrovich Friedmann (or Friedman) (1888-1925)
Friedmann, Carl Berthold Ulrich more...	29 Apr. 1862 Mücheln bei Merseburg, Germany	9 Apr. 1952 Bern, Switzerland	German-Swiss composer, conductor and musician
Friedrich II, King of Prussia (also known as Frederick the Great) more...	24 Jan. 1712 Berlin	17 Aug. 1786 Sanssouci	amateur flautist and composer
Friml, (Charles) Rudolf more...	7 Dec. 1879 Prague	12 Nov. 1972 Los Angeles, California, USA	Czech-born composer of operettas, musicals, songs and piano pieces, as well as a pianist
Fripp, Robert more...	16 May 1946 Wimborne Minster, Dorset, UK		English musician, songwriter, and record producer
Frisch, Jean-Paul more...	1945 Pétange, Luxembourg		conductor and composer from Luxembourg
Frisell, (William Richard) Bill more...	18 Mar. 18 1951 Baltimore, Maryland, USA		American guitarist, composer and arranger
Frish, Jean Paul more...	29 Oct. 1945 Petingen, Luxemburg		composer
Frith, Fred more...	17 Feb. 1949 Heathfield, Sussex, UK		English multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improvisor
Fritsch, Balthasar more...	c.1570/80	after 1608	German composer
Fritsch, Johannes more...	27 Jul. 1941 Auerbach, Germany	29 Apr. 2010 Bonn, Germany	German composer
Fritz, Gaspard more...	18 Feb. 1716 Geneva, Switzerland	23 Mar. 1783 Geneva, Switzerland	Geneva-born violinist and composer
Fritz, Johny more...	1944 Aspelt, Luxembourg		clarinetist, recorder player and composer from Luxembourg
Froberger, Johann Jacob more...	18 May 1616 Stuttgart, Germany	7 May 1667 Héricourt, Alsace	a German Baroque composer, keyboard virtuoso, and organist. He was very well known during his lifetime and modern scholars consider him to be one of the most important keyboard composers before Johann Sebastian Bach
Fröhlich, Friedrich Theodor more...	20 Feb. 1803 Brugg, Switzerland	16 Oct. 1836 Aarau, Switzerland	Swiss composer
Fröhlich (or Frølich), Johannes Frederik more...	21 Aug. 1806 Denmark	21 May 1860 Copenhagen, Denmark	Danish violinist, conductor and composer
Fröhlich, Joseph more...	20 May 1780	5 Jan. 1862	German composer and teacher
Froidebise, Pierre more...	15 May 1914 Ohey, Belgium	28 Oct. 1962 Liège, Belgium	Belgian organist, composer, and musicologist
Froleyks, Stephan more...	1962		German composer
Frølich, Johannes Frederik (see Fröhlich, Johannes Frederik)
Froom, Mitchell more...	29 Jun. 1953 USA		American musician and record producer
Frost, Stephen more...	1959 Bungay, UK		Stephen divides his time between composition, filmmaking, music editing, and conducting
Frühling, Carl more...	28 Nov. 1868 Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine)	25 Nov. 1937 Vienna, Austria	Austrian composer and pianist
Frumerie, Gunnar de	1908 Sweden	1987	brilliant composer of romances
Fry, William Henry more...	10 Aug. 1813 Philadelphia, USA	21 Dec. 1864 Santa Cruz, Virgin Islands	pioneering American composer, music critic, and journalist
Fryba, Hans more...	24 Apr. 1899 Reisenberg, Austria	3 Jun. 1986 Gramatneusiedl, Austria	Austrian double-bass player and composer
Frydmann, Henryk (see Freedman, Harry)
Frye, Walter more...		before June 1475	15th-century English composer who belonged to the Guild of St Nicholas in London from 1457. A number of his songs and the motet Ave regina caelorum became very popular in Northern Europe in the late 15th-century, single lines from them providing cantus firmi for works by Josquin, Obrecht and Tinctoris
Fuchs, Johann Leopold more...	2 Nov. 1785 Dessau, Germany	3 Apr. 1853 St. Petersburg, Russia	German composer, pianist and writer on music
Fuchs, Johann Nepomuk more...	5 May 1842 Austria	15 Oct. 1899	brother of Robert Fuchs, composer of operas and conductor
Fuchs, Robert more...	15 Feb. 1847 Frauental, Austria	19 Feb. 1927 Vienna, Austria	Austrian composer and Professor of Music Theory at the Vienna Conservatory. He was the brother of Johann Fuchs. He taught many notable composers, including Gustav Mahler, Hugo Wolf, Jean Sibelius, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Erich Korngold, Franz Schmidt, Franz Schreker, Richard Heuberger, Leo Fall, and Erkki Melartin. In his lifetime, his best known works were his five serenades; their popularity was so great that Fuchs acquired the nickname Serenaden-Fuchs ("the Serenading Fox")
Fuchswild, Johannes	fl. 1500		German composer and singer in the court chapel at Stuttgart
Fučík, Julius Ernest Wilhelm more...	18 Jul. 1872 Prague, Bohemia	25 Sep. 1916 Berlin, Germany	Czech composer and conductor of military bands
Fuenllana, Miguel de more...	x.1525	1585/1605	Spanish lutenist and composer who, although blind from birth, became a consummate virtuoso on the vihuela, and served at the Spanish court in the 1560s. His principal collection of music for the vihuela, Orphénica lyra (1554), was dedicated to King Philip II and represents perhaps the high point of this repertory
Fuhler, Cor more...	1964 Barger-Oosterveld, Drenthe, Netherlands		Dutch/Australian improvisor, composer, and instrument builder associated with free jazz, experimental music and acoustic ecology
Fuhrmann, Arthur	1930 Hannover, Germany		conductor of the Helsinki Police Band, and well known musical arranger. He is an active member of Teosto, an association promoting royalties for composers, and as chairman of ELVIS, the Association of Light Music Composers, he has played an active part in promoting light music in Finland. His work Fanfaarimarssi (Fanfare march) is popular among youth bands
Fujieda, Mamoru more...	1955 Japan		Japanese composer associated with the postminimalist movement of contemporary classical music
Fujikura, Dai more...	27 Apr. 1977 Osaka, Japan		Japanese-born composer
Fukai, Shirō more...	4 Apr. 1907 Akita, Japan	2 Jul. 1959 Kyoto, Japan	Japanese composer
Fukushima, Kazuo more...	11 Apr. 1930 Tokyo, Japan		Japanese composer
Fulda, Adam von more...	c. 1445 Fulda	1505 Wittenburg	German musical author of the second half of the 15th century
Fulkerson, James more...	2 Jul. 1945 Streator, Illinois, USA		American composer
Fullman, Ellen more...	1957 Memphis, Tennessee, USA		American composer, instrument builder, and performer.
Fumagalli, Adolfo more...	19 Oct. 1828 Inzago, Italy	3 May 1856 Florence, Italy	Italian virtuoso pianist and composer, brother of Polibio, Carlo, Luca and Disma, all composers
Fumagalli, Carlo more...	10 Nov. 1822 Milan, Italy	1907 Milan, Italy	Italian composer, brother of Polibio, Adolfo, Luca and Disma, all composers
Fumagalli, Disma more...	8 Sep. 1826 Milan, Italy	9 Mar. 1893 Milan, Italy	Italian composer, brother of Polibio, Adolfo, Luca and Carlo, all composers
Fumagalli, Luca more...	29 May 1837 Inzago, Italy	5 Jun. 1908 Milan, Italy	Italian composer, brother of Polibio, Adolfo, Carol and Disma, all composers
Fumagalli, Polibio more...	126 Oct. 1830 Inzago, Italy	21 Jun. 1900 Milan, Italy	Italian composer, brother of Carlo, Adolfo, Luca and Disma, all composers
Fumet, Dynam-Victor more...	4 May 1867 Toulouse, France	2 Jun. 1949 Paris, France	French organist and composer, father of Raphaël Marie Paul Fumet
Fumet, Raphaël Marie Paul more...	31 May 1898 Juilly, France	1979 Angers, France	20th century composer and organist
Funck, David more...	1648 Sankt Joachimsthal (now Jáchymov)	c. 1699	Czech or German music composer, educator, and performer on several instruments, including violas da gamba, violin, guitar, and clavichord
Furrer, Beat more...	6 Dec. 1954 Schaffhausen, Switzerland		Swiss-born Austrian composer and conductor
Furst, Joe (born Furstenberg, Joseph E) more...	22 Sep 1898 New York, USA	11 Jun. 1973 New York, USA	pianist, music teacher and composer
Fürstenau, Anton Bernhard more...	20 Oct. 1792 Münster	18 Nov. 1852 Dresden, Germany	virtuoso German flautist and composer
Fürstenau, Kaspar more...	26 Feb. 1772 Münster	11 May 1819 Oldenburg	German flautist and composer, father of Anton
Furtwängler, Wilhelm more...	25 Jan. 1886 Berlin, Germany	30 Nov. 1954 Baden-Baden, Germany	German conductor and composer
Furuhjelm, Erik	1883	1964	Finnish composer best remembered for his Brahmsian Piano Quintet in C minor (1906), one of the most highly valued works in Finnish chamber music
Fuss, Johann Evangelist (also named Fusz, János) more...	c. Jun. 1777 Tolna, Hungary	9 Mar. 1819 Buda, Hungary	Hungarian composer
Fux, Johann Joseph more...	1660 Hirtenfeld, Styria	13 Feb. 1741 Vienna, Austria	Austrian composer, music theorist and pedagogue of the late Baroque era. He is most famous as the author of Gradus ad Parnassum, a treatise on counterpoint, which has become the single most influential book on the Palestrina style of Renaissance polyphony. Almost all modern courses on Renaissance counterpoint, a mainstay of college music curricula, are indebted in some degree to this work by Fux