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8 Feb. 1941
Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan

Name	Born	Died	Information
Saar, Louis Victor	10 Dec. 1868 Rotterdam, The Netherlands	23 Nov. 1937 St. Louis, USA	after completing a degree in history and literature (1885) and later one in music from the Munich Conservatory where his principal teacher was Josef Rheinberger, Saar continued his studies in Vienna, Leipzig and Berlin, before settling in New York in 1894, where for many years he was an accompanist at The Metropolitan Opera and later teacher of theory at various institutions in that city and elsewhere in USA. Antonín Dvorák offered him a job to teach harmony and counterpoint at the National Conservatory from 1896 to 1898. In 1917 he joined the faculty of the Chicago Musical College and in 1934 he moved to the St. Louis Institute of Music, where he remained until his death. As a composer he is hardly remembered today - but if he were, it would be for his Psalm CXXVIII for solo, chorus and orchestra and other choral pieces. He also left an orchestral suite: From The King of the Great North West, Three Silhouettes, the suite Rococo op. 27 (1915) and other orchestral works, chamber music (Piano quartet op. 39; Violin sonata op. 44; Piano trio op. 97; Cello sonata, op. 121), violin and piano pieces and songs such as, Song of Consolation (1912)
Saar, Mart more...	28 Sep. 1882 Hüpassaare, Estonia	28 Oct. 1963 Tallinn, Estonia	Estonian composer, who composition with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Aleksander Ljadov, who though a composer in a wide range of genres is best known for his piano music as well as for his pioneering work as a collector of old Estonian folk songs
Saariaho, Kaija more...	14 Oct. 1952 Helsinki, Finland		one of Finland's internationally most successful composers, and she also leads an international lifestyle. She first studied with Paavo Heininen at the Sibelius Academy and went on to study with Brian Ferneyhough and Klaus Huber in Freiburg. She settled in Paris in 1982 and has lived there ever since, only a stone's throw away from the famous studios of Ircam, an important base for her career
Saban, Antun Tomislav	1 Jan. 1971 Zagreb, Croatia		studied composition at the Zagreb Music Academy in the class of Professor Kempf, and graduated from Vienna High School of Music and Drama with Erod. Saban is both a composer and an arranger as well as being Head of the Croatian Composers Society
Sabaneyev (or Sabanejev, Sabaneev, Sabanejew), Leonid Leonidovich	1 Oct. 1881 Moscow, Russia	3 May 1968 Antibes, France	Russian-born musicologist and composer
Sabata, Victor (Vittorio)de more...	10 Apr. 1892 Trieste, Italy	11 Dec. 1967 Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy	Italian composer and conductor
Sabino, Francesco more...
Sabino, Giovanni Maria more...
Sabio, Alfonso el more...
Sacchini, Antonio more...	14 Jun. 1730 Florence, Italy	6 Oct. 1786 Paris, France	Italian opera composer
Sachsen-Julich-Cleve (von), Anna Maria	1627	1669	composer
Sacré, Louis-Joseph (real name: Louis-Joseph Berlot) more...	8 Dec. 1810 Brussels, Belgium	30 May 1891 Etterbeck, Belgium	Belgian composer and conductor
Sacton, Robert more...
Sadikov, Oltun more...	1947		composer and conductor, son of Tolibjon Sadikov
Sadikov, Tolibjon more...	14 Mar. 1907 Samarkand, Uzbekistan	1957	studied composition with Viktor Uspensky and then, in Moscow, with Reinold Glière. He founded the Uzbek Composers Union in 1934, wrote the first Uzbek opera Leili and Mejnun in 1939, composed over 100 songs and film scores
Sadikova, Aziza more...	6 Oct. 1978 Tashkent, Uzbekistan		Uzbek organist, pianist, composer and conductor, grand-daughter of Tolibjon Sadikov. Her work includes mainly chamber, choral, vocal and piano works
Sadze, Christianus	1410	1490	Flemish music theorist
Saebelmann Kunileid, Aleksander more...
Saegusa, Shigeaki more...
Saeverud, Harald more...
Saeys, Eugène	10 Sep. 1887 Ixelles, Belgium	22 Aug. 1969 Bruxelles, Belgium	Belgian composer and teacher
Saffery, Eliza (Mrs. Henry Shelton)	fl. early 19th century England		composer of songs
Safonov (or Safonoff), Vasily Ilyich more...	6 Feb. 1852 Itschory, Russia	27 Feb. 1918	Russian pianist, teacher, conductor and composer
Sager, Brian	5 Nov. 1964 Madison, WI, USA		American composer
Sagreras, Julio more...
Sahakdust	fl. early 700s		Armenian woman composer
Sahl, Michael more...
Saikkola, Lauri more...	31 Mar. 1906 Viiruri, Finland	24 Sep. 1995 Helsinki, Finland	he began his symphonic career before the Second World War. His output blends Neo-Classical elements into a National Romantic style. He wrote a total of ten Symphonies (193989), and twelve Sinfoniettas in his late period
Saint Circ, Uc de more...
Saint-Croix (de), Mlle			theatre performances of her operettas took place in France between 1873-1875
Saint-Didier (Comtesse de)	1790 France		wrote a successful cantata in 1820
Sainte-Colombe, Monsieur de more...	1640 France	1690 France	a celebrated player of the viol. He is most likely one and the same with Jean de Sainte-Colombe, and father to Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe le fils. He is known only through a handful of contemporary references, one of which attributes to him the innovation of adding a seventh (AA) string to the bass viol. Jean Rousseau stated that Sainte-Colombe "perfected" the art of viol playing. Marais wrote Tombeau pour Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, published in 1701, for him. Sainte-Colombe presumably also taught his own children: he is said to have given concerts at his home at which he and his two daughters played in consort
Sainte-Colombe, Sieur de 'le fils' more...
Saint-Georges, Joseph Boulogne more...
Saint-Ghislain, Arnulphus de more...	fl. 1400		Flemish music theorist, possibly a composer, who came almost certainly from Saint-Ghislain
Saint Godric more...
Saint-Luc, Jacques de more...	19 Sep. 1616 Ath, Belgium	c.1710 Vienne	Belgian lutenist and composer
Saint Quentin, Huon de more...	13th century		medieval French composer associated with music of the Crusades
Saint-Saens, Camille more...	9 Oct. 1835 Paris, France	16 Dec. 1921 Algiers, Algeria	French composer and performer, best known for his orchestral work The Carnival of the Animals
Saint-Trond, Rodolphe de	c.1070 possibly Moustier-sur-Sambre, Flanders	1138	Flemish composer and music theorist
Saint Victor, Adam of more...		1146	prolific poet and composer of Latin hymns and sequences, he is believed to have sparked the expansion of the poetic and musical repertoire in the Notre Dame school with his strongly rhythmic and imagery-filled poetry
Sainton-Dolby, Charlotte Helen	1821 London	1885	contralto soloist at a London Philharmonic concert in 1842. Also a composer who wrote a large number of songs and founded a vocal school in London in 1872
Sainz de la Maza, Eduardo more...	1903 Burgos, Spain	1982 Barcelona, Spain	the younger brother of Regino Sainz de la Maza who premiered Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez, from the end of the 1950s dedicated himself to composition and teaching
Sakac, Branimir more...	5 Jun. 1918 Zagreb, Yugoslavia	29 Dec. 1979 Zagreb, Yugoslavia	Yugoslavian composer
Sakai, Itaru more...	24 Mar. 1970 Osaka, Japan		Japanese composer
Sakamoto, Ryuichi more...	17 Jan. 1952 Nakano, Tokyo, Japan		an Academy Award-winning, Grammy-winning, Golden Globe-winning Japanese musician, composer, producer and actor, based in New York and Tokyo.
Sakhnovsky, Yuri Sergeyevich	1866 Moscow, Russia	1930	Russian composer and writer
Sala, Oskar more...	18 Jun 1910 Germany	26 Feb. 2002 Germany	20th century German composer and a pioneer of electronic music who played an instrument called the trautonium, a predecessor to the synthesiser
Salaber, Piotr more...	30 Jul. 1966 Wroclaw, Poland		Polish composer, pianist and conductor who has written music for theatre, TV and movies [entry prompted by Pawel Nowak]
Salaks, Vilnis more...	18 Jan. 1939 Riga, Latvia		Latvian composer
Salas y Castro, Esteban more...	25 Dec. 1725 Havan, Cuba	14 July 1803 Santiago de Cuba, Cuba	Cuban composer of religious music
Salazar, Álvaro more...	1938 Porto, Portugual		Portuguese composer
Salazar, Diego Jose de more...	c.1659 Spain	25 Jun. 1709 Seville, Spain	Spanish composer who was maestro de capilla of the cathedral in Seville for many years
Salé (or Sallé), Adrien Trudon (Trudo)	bap. 6 Jun. 1722 Saint-Trond, Belgium	19 Mar. 1782 Averbode, Belgium	Belgian composer and organist
Sale, Sophia		1869 Westminster, UK	a choirmaster, organist and teacher who composed hymns and songs
Salgán, Horacio more...	15 Jun. 1916 Buenos Aires, Argentina		Argentine pianist, composer, orchestra leader, and arranger who specializes in tango music
Salieri, Antonio more...	18 Aug 1750 Legnago, Italy	7 May 1825 Vienna, Austria	composer and conductor, as well as one of the most important and famous musicians of his time
Salieri, Francesco more...
Salinas, Horacio more...	Lautro, Chile		Multi-instrumentalist, composer, and music director of Andes folk group Inti Illimani
Salinis, Hymbert de more...	1378-1384 Salins, Flanders	after 1413	Flemish composer
Sallé, Adrien Trudon (Trudo) (see Salé (or Sallé), Adrien Trudon (Trudo))
Sallinen, Aulis more...	9 Apr. 1935 Salmi, Finland (now Russia)		he wrote his first compositions in the late 1950s, at the time of the advent of Modernism in Finnish music. Sallinen initially wrote orchestral and chamber music, but with Ratsumies (The Horseman) his focus shifted to opera
Salmanov, Vadim more...	4 Nov. 1912 St. Petersburg, Russia	27 Feb. 1978 St. Petersburg, Russia	teacher and composer whose early works are marked by a broad Russian melodism, with an harmonic structure following the models of Prokofiev and Shostakovich. From 1960 he adopted more advanced techniques, including polyphony
Salmenhaara, Erkki more...	12 Mar. 1941 Helsinki, Finland	19 Mar. 2002 Helsinki, Finland	always a composer of extremes, for a time the most radical Modernist, then a master of ceremonies at 'nursery concerts', sao too in his new style he went to extremes, progressing beyond free-tonality to a sort of neo-tonality or neo-simplicity that is something quite different from 'traditionalism' or a 'return to the past'. One might call him unique among Finnish composers, a sort of musical dissenter. In his radical early period, Salmenhaara experimented with a variety of composition techniques not yet widely used in Finland, such as aleatorics and playing the piano directly on the strings, as in Suoni successivi (1962) for piano. The Concerto for Two Violins (1963) makes use of electronic amplification, resulting reportedly in "spine-chilling" sounds. Salmenhaara also invented an instrument called the ferrophone, which remained a curiosity
Salomon, Johann Peter more...
Salonen, Esa-Pekka more...	30 Jun. 1958 Helsinki, Finland		better known as a conductor than as a composer, although he originally began to study conducting to be able to conduct his own music, Salonen has performed an enormous body of music as a conductor including a considerable amount of contemporary music. Even so, he has been able to cultivate his own voice as a composer. He took the whole of the year 2000 off from conducting in order to focus on composition
Salonen, Sulo Nikolai more...	27 Feb. 1899 Finland	21 May 1976	a choral composer of the older generation for whom dodecaphony was a rejuvenating force. He is best known for his sacred music; his earliest works show the influence of Bach and Gregorian chant. He experimented with dodecaphony in the organ work Toccata (1955). Later, for example in the Missa a cappella (1957) and the Requiem (1962), he did not apply row technique as such, but his dodecaphonic experiments had lent an increased chromatic flavour to his style
Saluzzi, Dino more...
Salvatore, Giovanni more...
Salvetti, Simone more...
Salzburg, monch von more...
Salzedo, Carlos more...
Salzedo, Leonard more...
Samama, Leo more...	25 Mar. 1951 Apeldoorn, The Netherlands		Dutch administrator, teacher and composer, Samama graduated from the University of Utrecht in musicology and for a number of years studied composition with Rudolf Escher. In 1976/77 he continued his doctoral studies with a Rotary Foundation Grant at UCLA in Los Angeles, California, and lectured on Dutch music in the 20th Century (a.o. at UCLA and the University of Maryland). Leo Samama has taught the history of music and culture (history of art, philosophy and aesthetics) at the Utrecht Conservatory (1977-1988), lectured on Musical criticism in theory and practice at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague (1987-1989), was on the faculty of the Musicology Department of the Utrecht University, specializing in Music of the Twentieth Century and Musical Criticism (1988-1992), was a critic at De Volkskrant (1978-1984) and a correspondent of the Nieuwe Rotterdamse Courant/Handelsblad (1986-1990) (both leading newspapers in The Netherlands). Leo Samama was on the board of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam as the orchestras artistic advisor (1988-1994) and was head of the orchestras artistic department as a delegate of the board (1991-1993). Samama has also been artistic adviser of the Centrum Nederlandse Muziek (1988-1993) (an organisation that promotes Dutch music) and advisor of the broadcasting company NCRV (1992-1994)
Samara, Spiro more...
Samazeuilh, Gustave more...
Saminsky, Lazare	8 Nov 1882 Odessa, Ukraine	20 Jun. 1959 Port Chester, NY, USA	Ukrainian born composer, conductor and writer on music
Samiou, Domna more...
Samkopf, Kjell more...
Sammartini, Giovanni Battista more...	1700/1701 Milan, Italy	1775 Milan, Italy	an Italian composer, organist, choirmaster and teacher. He counted Gluck among his students, and was himself a prolific composer of 3 operas, over 70 symphonies, concertos and chamber music, which show, the symphonies especially, the beginnings of a change from the brief opera-overture style and the introduction of a new seriousness and use of thematic development that prefigure Haydn and Mozart. His earliest music was for liturgical use
Sammartini, Giuseppe more...	1693/95 Milan, Italy;	c. 1750 London, England	an Italian composer and an oboist, brother of Giovanni Battista
Sammons, Albert more...
Sammut, Eric more...
Sampson, David more...	1951 Charlottesville, Virginia		American composer who was Composer-in-Residence with the Colonial Symphony Orchestra (1998-2003)
Sampson, Edgar more...	31 Aug. 1907 New York City, USA	16 Jan. 1973 Englewood, New Jersey, USA	noted jazz musician, composer and arranger
Sampson, Richard more...	c.1470	1554	English churchman and composer who was Dean of the Chappell Royal (1516-54) and later, Bishop of Chichester, Coventry, and Lichfield, from 1536. Sampson has left two motets in a MS dating from c.1517-1520: a four-part Psallite felices, believed to have been written in honour of Henry VIII, and a five-part Quam pulchra es
Samson, René more...	1948 Paramaribo, Surinam		chemist who started composing at the age of 40. Since 1998 a small enthusiast group of musicians has regularly performed his music
Samuel more...	fl. 10th century		musician, possibly a composer, attached to the monastery of Bilsen, in Limbourg
Samuel, Gerhard more...	20 Apr. 1924 Bonn, Germany	25 Mar. 2008 Seattle, Washington, USA	German-born composer and conductor
Samuel, Léopold	5 May 1883 Saint-Gilles, Belgium	10 Mar. 1975 Uccle	Belgian composer and teacher
Samuel, Rhian more...	1944 Aberdare, Wales		composed around 80 published works, and her music has been performed in many countries, from Chile to Japan. She has also written about music; as co-editor of the New Grove (Norton) Dictionary of Women Composers, she has been at the forefront of issues concerning Gender and Music
Samuel-Rousseau, Alexandre (true name Samiel or Samuel Alexandre Rousseau) more...	11 Jun. 1853Neuves-Maisons, France	1 Oct. 1904 Paris, France	maitre de chapelle (director of music and choir director) at St-Clotilde in Paris, collaborating with Franck during the latter 15 years of Francks tenure as titulaire organist there. Composer of operas, masses, choral works, etc. Father of the noted composer Marcel Samuel-Rousseau (1882-1955)
Samuel-Rousseau, Marcel Louis Auguste more...	18 Aug. 1882 Paris, France	11 Jun. 1955 Paris, France	son of French organist Samuel Rousseau (1853-1904), French composer and teacher
San, Herman van more...	19 Mar. 1929 Malines, Belgium	26 Oct. 1975 Malines, Belgium	Belgian composer and music theorist
Sancan, Pierre more...	24 Oct. 1916 Mazamet, France	20 Oct. 2008 Paris, France	French pianist, conductor and composer
Sances, Giovanni Felice more...	c.1600 Italy	1679 Vienna, Austria	Italian composer who succeeded Antonio Bertali as imperial Kapellmeister in Vienna, a position that he held until his death
Sanchez, Chalino more...	30 Aug. 1960 Sinaloa, Mexico	16 May 1992 Culiacán, Mexico	Mexican singer, songwriter and corridista
Sancho I, rei d. more...
Sancho, Ignatius more...	c.1729	14 Dec. 1780 Westminster, London, UK	composer, music theorist, actor, and writer, he is the first known Afro-Briton to vote in a British election. He gained fame in his time as "the extraordinary Negro", and to 18th century British abolitionists he became a symbol of the humanity of Africans and immorality of the slave trade
Sancto Johanne, Matheus de Sancto Josepho, Benedictus a more...
Sanders, John more...
Sandrin, Pierre more...	c.1490 probably St. Marcel, nr. Paris, France	after 1561 probably Italy	a French composer of the Renaissance. He was a prolific composer of chansons in the middle of the 16th century, some of which were extremely popular and widely distributed. One of his chansons, Doulce memoire, became one of the most popular pieces of the entire 16th century, and exists in countless copies and arrangements in sources in many countries, including many for lute and for keyboard
Sandström, Jan more...
Sandström, Sven David more...
Sandvold, Arild more...
Sandys, William more...
Sani, Nicolà more...	1961 Ferrera, Italy		composer and journalist, works for Italian radio and television (RAI), movie (he has worked for M. Antonioni), audio-visual field and realises multimedia installations
Sankey, Stuart more...
Santa Cruz, Antonio de more...
Santa Maria, Tomás de more...	Madrid, Spain	1570 Ribadavia, Spain	a Spanish music theorist, organist and composer of the Renaissance. Little is known about his life except that he joined the Dominican order of friars in 1536, he was employed as an organist in various locales in mid-century, and he published his major work, Arte de tañer fantasía, a comprehensive work on keyboard technique of the time, in Valladolid in 1565
Santa Maria de los Conejos (see Wright, Mary C.)
Santamaría, Ramón "Mongo" more...	7 Apr. 1917 Havana, Cuba	1 Feb. 2003 Miami, Florida	Afro-Cuban Latin jazz percussionist, most famous for being the composer of the jazz standard Afro Blue
Santaolalla, Gustavo more...
Santiago, Felipe Perez more...
Santoliquido, Francesco more...
Santoro, Claudio more...
Santoso, Renadi more...	06 Aug. 1964 Cologne, Germany		specialist in gamelan cross-over, composer, teacher, performer and improvisor, who has been based in the Netherlands since 1969
Santos, Paulo Sergio dos more...
Santos, Moacir more...	8 Apr. 1924 Pernambuco, Brazil		he started playing the clarinet at age 11. During the 1940s, working around Bahia, Ceará and Paraíba. By that time, he learned to play the saxophone. He joined Severino Araújo's Orquestra Tabajara and headed for Rio de Janeiro in 1948. He was soon hired by Rádio Nacional, remaining for 19 years. Besides being an excellent instrumentalist, he is also a maestro and arranger. He taught music to Roberto Menescal, Nara Leão, Sérgio Mendes and others, and in the 1950s and 60s, he wrote music with Vinicius de Moraes, Mário Telles and other simiilar figures. His debut album, "Coisas", was released in 1965 on the label Forma, and all of the tracks are named Coisa ('Thing'). He later wrote soundtracks, which led him to the United States, where he eventually settled. There, he works in the film industry and is a music professor
Santos Discepolo, Enrique more...
Sanz, Gaspar more...	4 Apr. 1640 Calanda	1710 Madrid, Spain	Spanish priest and musician who taught as professor of music at the University of Salamanca. He was organist to the viceroy of Naples and author of Instucción de música sobre la Guitarra Española
Sapellnikov, Vassily	2 Nov. 1867 Odessa, Ukraine	17 Mar. 1941 San Remo, Italy	Ukrainian pianist and composer
Sapir, Naomi (Schemer-Sapir or Shemer-Saphir) more...	1930 Kibbutz Kinneret, Palestine	26 June 2004 Tel Aviv, Israel	composer and songwriter, her most famous song being Y-Rushelayim Schel Zahav (Jerusalem, City of Gold). She was awarded the Israel Prize in 1983 for her contribution to music
Sappho	fl. 612 BC Ancient Greece		composed women's laments
Sappho, pseudonym			composer who published in England in 1755
Sarasate, Pablo de more...	10 Mar. 1844 Pamplona, Spain	28 Sep. 1908 Biarritz, France	one of the greatest of the 19th century violin virtuosos, worked closely with a number of composers and was the dedicatee and first performer of Bruch's Second Concerto and Scottish Fantasy, of Lalo's First Concerto and Symphonie Espagnole, and of Saint-Saëns Rondo Capriccioso. His own compositions were primarily showpieces for his phenomenal technique. The best known of these today is the Carmen Fantasy
Sarcoli, Alfredo more...
Sarda, Albert more...
Sarde, Philippe more...
Sardinha, Aníbal Augusto (see Garôto)
Sardonius (or Sardinony), Jean more...	fl. first half 17th century		Belgian composer
Sargent, Malcolm more...
Sari, Jozsef more...
Sarkisyan, V more...
Sarly, Henry more...	28 Dec. 1883 Tirlemont	3 Dec. 1954 Brussels, Belgium	Belgian composer, conductor and teacher
Sarmanto, Heikki more...	22 Jun. 1939 Finland		the first Finn to study at Berklee College of Music. He was first enrolled there in 196869, when his main teachers were Charlie Mariano and Herb Pomeroy. Meanwhile his studies with Margaret Chaloff were to have a decisive impact on his pianism. As a composer Heikki Sarmanto is an open-minded, forever curious experimenter whose works have in the course of their development acquired major proportions. Despite his studies at the University of Helsinki and the Sibelius Academy, he is still something of a self-taught composer. This has, on the other hand, led to an aversion for placing music in categories. The jazz tradition, classical music and uninhibited avant-garde tendencies are naturally woven together in his music
Sarri, Domenico more...
Sarrier, Antonio more...
Sars, Gerard more...
Sarsfield, Michael (see Clifford, Hubert John)
Sarti, Giuseppe more...
Sarto, Johannes de	fl. first half 15th century		Flemish priest and composer
Sarto, Mattheus (see Dusart, Mathieu)
Sartorio, Antonio more...
Sary, Laszlo more...
Sas Andre more...			Peruvian composer. His compositions highlight the influence of native music
Sas Orchassal, André (Andrés)	6 Apr. 1900 Paris, France	26 Aug. 1967 Lima, Peru	French-born later naturalised Peruvian composer, violinist, conductor, musicologist and teacher
Sasnauskas, Ceslovas more...
Sasse, Karl Ernst more...
Sateren, Leland more...
Satie, Erik (Alfred Leslie) more...	17 May 1866 Honfleur, France	1 Jul. 1925 Paris, France	a French composer, pianist and writer. He wrote articles for several periodicals; there appears to have been a brief period in the late 1880s during which he published articles under the pseudonym Virginie Lebeau
Sato, Michihiro more...
Satoh, Somei more...
Sauer, Arthur more...
Sauer, Emil von more...
Sauguet, Henri more...
Saumell, Manuel more...
Saunders, James more...
Saunders, Max more...
Saunders, Rebecca more...
Sauter, Eddie	1914	1981	he arranged for "Red" Norvo, Benny Goodman, and the Sauter-Finegan bands, among others, and did the arranging of the Broadway musicals 1776 and Superman. His original compositions included the movie score Mickey One, Focus Suite, and the Tanglewood Concerto
Sauton, Jean-Baptiste		2 Feb. 1733 Mons, Belgium	Belgian composer and organist
Sauzay (or Sauzai, Sausay), (Charles) Eugène more...	14 Jul. 1809 Paris, France	24 Jan. 1901	French violinist and composer of instrumental and choral music, violin études; author of books on performance
Savage, Jane	c. 1780 England	c. 1830 England	flourished as a composer of harpsichord pieces and songs in England at the end of the 18th century. She was also a virtuoso keyboard player
Savage, (William) Dudley more...	20 Mar. 1920 Gulval, Cornwall	25 Nov. 2008 Liskeard, Cornwall	organist, broadcaster, composer and arranger
Savall, Jordi more...
Savenberg, Peter	18 Jul. 1961 Uccle< Belgium		Belgian composer
Savikangas, Max more...	31 Mar. 1969 Finland		Finnish composer and viola player
Savinio, Alberto more...
Savari, Jean Nicolas more...
Savolainen, Jarmo more...
Savonarola, Girolamo more...
Savouret, Alain more...	1942 Le Mans, France		pianist, conductor and composer, member of the IMEB College of Composers, and is particularly interested in the sociology of music and in improvisation, which he teaches at the Conservatory of Paris
Savvopoulos, Dionisis more...
Sawer, David more...
Sax, Adolphe more...
Saxton, Robert more...
Say, Fazil more...
Saygun, Adnan more...
Saylor, Bruce more...
Sayve (or Saife, Sainne, Saive, Seave, Seyve), Lambertus (Lambert) de	1549 Liege	1619 Linz, Austria	de Sayve came from a family of musicians originally from the region of Liège which was active in the 16th and 17th centuries. In his time, he was admired as composer, the theoretician and composer Michael Praetorius valued him highly. He wrote madrigals during his stay in Prague
Scaife, George Arthur more...
Scarani, Giuseppe more...
Scarlatti, Alessandro more...	2 May 1660 Sicily, Italy	24 Oct. 1725 Naples, Italy	Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. He was the father of two other Baroque composers, Domenico Scarlatti and Pietro Filippo Scarlatti
Scarlatti, Domenico more...	26 Oct. 1685 Naples, Italy	23 Jul. 1757 Madrid, Spain	Italian composer who spent much of his life in Spain and Portugal. He was extremely influential in the development of the Classical period in music through his individual style, though he lived mostly during the Baroque era
Scarlatti, Francesco more...	1666 Palermo, Sicily	after 1741 possibly Dublin, Ireland	Italian composer, younger brother of Alessandro. He was appointed violinist of the Royal Chapel in 1684, where he remained seven years. After his marriage in 1691 he returned to Palermo, no doubt to take up various posts as maestro of different institutions in the city. By 1733 he was in Dublin, where he posted a notice in a newspaper, declining responsibility for the debts of his second wife, Jane who hath elop'd from her husband. He is last heard of in distressful circumstances thro a long confinement by sickness - the beneficiary of a benefit concert there in 1741
Scarlatti, Pietro Filippo more...	5 Jan. 1679 Rome, Italy	22 Feb. 1750 Naples, Italy	Italian composer, organist and choirmaster
Scarmolin, Louis more...
Scartazzini, Andrea Lorenzo more...
Scelsi, Giacinto more...	8 Jan. 1905 La Spezia, Italy	9 Aug. 1988 Rome, Italy	born to an aristocratic family living on an old estate in the country surrounding Naples in southern Italy, he had little formal musical training, he is now recognized as one of the most creative composers of the twentieth century. Scelsi's mature music is marked by a supreme concentration on single notes, combined with a masterly sense of form. Scelsi revolutionized the role of sound in western music - his best known work is the Quattro Pezzi per Orchestra, each on a single note. These single notes are elaborated through microtonal shadings, harmonic allusions, and variations in timbre and dynamics
Schaathun, Asbjorn more...
Schacht, Theodor von more...
Schaeffer, Pierre more...
Schafer, Dirk more...
Schafer, Murray more...
Schaffen, Henri more...	early 16th century		French or Flemish composer known to have worked in Italy
Schaffer, Boguslaw more...	6 Jun. 1929 Lwów (Lviv, Ukraine)		Polish composer, theoretician, music critic and teacher
Schaffrath, Christoph more...
Schampaert, Jozef	18 Feb. 1899 Puurs, Belgium	11 Jan. 1985 Willebroek, Belgium	Belgian composer and teacher
Schanderl, Hans II more...
Schantz, Filip von	1835	1865	studied in Leipzig in the late 1850s becoming conductor of the theatre orchestra in Helsinki in the 1860s and wrote his Kullervo Overture (1860), reflecting the influence of Beethoven and German early Romanticism, for the inauguration of the new theatre building. This was apparently the first composition to have been inspired by the Finnish national epic. Von Schantz also wrote vocal music. He died of typhoid
Scharmann, Andreas more...
Scharwenka, Philipp more...
Scharwenka, Xaver more...
Schat, Peter more...
Schechter, Boris	20 Jan. 1900 Odessa, Ukraine	16 Dec. 1961 Moscow, Russia	Ukrainian composer
Scheibe, Johann Adolph more...
Scheidemann, Heinrich more...	c. 1596	1663	German organist and composer, a pupil of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Scheidler, Christian Gottlieb more...
Scheidt, Gotfried more...	1593	1661	German organist and composer, a younger brother of Samuel Scheidt
Scheidt, Samuel more...	bap. 3 Nov. 1587 Halle, Germany	24 Mar. 1654 Germany	German composer and organist, one of Germany's most distinguished composers at that time, especially in the field of keyboard music. His three volumes of Tabulatura nova (1624) are a monumental compendium of song and dance arrangements, sets of variations, fantasias, toccatas, fugues and liturgical pieces (often plainsong-based) for the Lutheran Mass and Office. Likewise his four books of Geistliche Konzerte illustrate the ways of elaborating a chorale, fusing declamatory ideas with contrapuntal writing. He also published motets and instrumental dance music
Schein, Johann Hermann more...
Scheinsberg, Frans Johan more...
Schelle, Johann more...
Schelling, Ernest more...
Schemelli, Georg Christian more...
Schenck, Johann more...
Schenck, Peter Petrowitsch	23 Feb. 1870 St. Petersburg, Russia	1915	Russian pianist and composer
Schenker, Friedrich more...
Scherchen-Hsiao, Tona more...
Scherer, Sebastian Anton	1631	1712	south German composer who was organist at the Cathedral in Ulm
Schermers, François-Corneille more...	11 Nov. 1822 Anvers, Belgium	2 Jul. 1874 Anvers, Belgium	Belgian composer, pianist and teacher
Schiassi, Gaetano Maria more...
Schiavetto, Giulio more...
Schibler, Armin more...
Schickele, Peter more...
Schickhardt, Johann Christian more...
Schie, Tjako van more...	1961 Coevorden, The Netherlands		Dutch classical concert pianist and composer
Schierbeck, Poul more...
Schifrin, Lalo more...
Schikaneder, Emanuel more...
Schildt, Melchior more...
Schiller, Friedrich more...
Schilling, Otto Erich more...
Schillinger, Joseph (Moiseyevich) more...	31 Aug. 1895 Kharkov, Ukraine	23 Mar. 1943 New York, USA	Russian born theorist, teacher, conductor and composer
Schillings, Max von more...
Schindelmeisser, Ludwig more...
Schindloeker, Philippe more...	25 Oct. 1753 Mons, Belgium	16 Apr. 1827 Vienne	Belgian composer and cellist
Schiphorst, Iris ter more...
Schipizky, Frederick more...
Schiske, Karl more...
Schlager, Christof more...
Schlee, Thomas Daniel more...
Schleg, Ludmilla more...
Schlegel, Leander more...
Schleiermacher, Steffen more...
Schlenker, Manfred more...
Schlick, Arnolt more...	c.1460 nr. Heidelburg, Germany	after 1521	a German organist and composer of the Renaissance. Though records of his early life are sparse, most likely he was from the area around Heidelberg (based on linguistic evidence). He was blind for much of his life. His method of weaving contrapuntal lines around a cantus firmus, derived from a chorale tune, can be seen as foreshadowing the development of the chorale prelude in a later age. Schlick can be seen as the first figure in a long line of development which culminated in the music of J.S. Bach more than two hundred years later
Schlosberg, Benoit more...
Schlunz, Annette more...
Schmelzer, Johann Heinrich more...
Schmid, Franz Xaver more...
Schmid, Heinrich Kaspar more...
Schmid, Karl Norbert more...
Schmid, Martin more...
Schmidseder, Ludwig more...
Schmidt, Franz more...	22 Dec. 1874 Bratislava, Slovakia	11 Feb. 1939 Vienna, Austria	an Austrian composer, cellist and pianist
Schmidt, Mia more...
Schmidt, Ole more...	14 Jul. 1948 Copenhagen, Denmark	6 Mar. 2010 France	Danish composer and conductor
Schmidt-Gentner, Willy more...
Schmidt Sistermanns, Johannes more...
Schmit, Camille more...	30 Mar. 1908 Aubange, Belgium	11 May 1976 Limelette, Belgium	Belgian composer, organist and teacher
Schmitt, Alphonse	1875 Alsace, France	1912	French organist, conductor and composer, Alphonse Schmitt studied with Guilmant until 1901. Choirmaster of the Église Saint-Philip-du-Roule in Paris
Schmitt, Florent more...	28 Sep. 1870 Blamont, Meurthe et Moselle	17 Aug. 1958 Neuilly-sur-Seine	a French composer. He entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1889, studying under Lavignac, Pierre Dubois, Jules Massenet, and Gabriel Fauré. In 1900 Schmitt won the Prix de Rome after his fourth attempt
Schmitt, Matthias more...
Schmittbaur, Joseph Aloys more...
Schmitz, Manfred more...
Schmohl, Gunther more...
Schmucki, Annette more...
Schmugel, Johann Christoph II more...
Schnabel, Artur more...
Schnebel, Dieter more...
Schneider, Enjott more...
Schneider, Georg Abraham more...
Schneider, Johann I more...
Schneider, Maria more...	27 Nov. 1960 Windom, Minnesota, US		arriving in New York City in 1985 after studies at the University of Minnesota, the University of Miami and the Eastman School of Music, she immediately sought out Bob Brookmeyer to study composition. At the same time she became an assistant to Gil Evans, working on various projects with him, but most notably, the film The Color of Money and music for the Gil Evans/Sting tour in 1987. In the latest years she's been invited to conduct Evans' music extensively featuring such musicians as Jon Faddis, Wallace Roney, Miles Evans, Ingrid Jensen and David Sanborn
Schneitzhoeffer, Jean Madeleine Marie more...	13/15 Oct. 1785 Toulouse, France	4 Oct. 1852 Paris, France	French timpanist and composer of ballets, operas, instrumental music, etc.
Schnittke, Alfred more...	24 Nov. 1934 Engels, Russia	3 Aug. 1998 Hamburg, Germany	wrote film scores for over 60 films, 9 symphonies, 6 concerti grossi, 4 violin concertos, 2 cello concertos, concertos for piano and a triple concerto for violin, viola and cello, as well as 4 string quartets and much other chamber music, ballet scores, choral and vocal works. His first opera, Life with an Idiot, was premiered in Amsterdam (April 1992). His operas Gesualdo and Historia von D. Johann Fausten were unveiled in Vienna (May 1995) and Hamburg (June 1995) respectively
Schnitzer, Franz more...
Schnyder, Daniel more...	1961 Zurich, Switzerland		saxophonist and composer, Schnyder now lives in New York City. His orchestral works and his chamber music compositions have been performed and recorded all over the world. He has written for the Vienna Art Orchestra, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich (4th Symphony, commissioned by David Zinman), the Opera of Bern (Tempest by Shakespeare), the NDR Orchestra in Hannover, the NDR Big Band in Germany, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the New York based new music group "Absolute Ensemble" under the direction of Kristjan Jaervi (Bass Trombone Concerto for David Taylor) and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
Schnyder von Wartensee, Franz Xaver more...
Schobert, Johann more...
Schoeck, Othmar more...	1 Sep. 1886 Brunnen, Switzerland	8 Mar. 1957 Zurich, Switzerland	Swiss composer
Schoeller, Philippe more...
Schoemaker, Maurice more...	27 Dec. 1890 Anderlecht, Belgium	24 Aug. 1964 Etterbeek, Belgium	Belgian composer
Schoendorff, Philippe more...	1565-1570 Liège, Belgium	c.1617	Belgian composer, instrumentalist and music editor
Schoenfield, Paul more...
Scholbas, Arnold de	fl. second half 17th century		Belgian composer
Scholl, Amalia	1823 Germany	1879	a composer of songs
Scholl, Michael Gregor more...
Scholl, Andreas more...
Schollaert, Paul more...	15 Nov. 1940 Hasselt Belgium		Belgian composer, choral director and teacher
Schollhorn, Johannes more...
Scholz, Bernhard E. more...
Schonberg, Arnold Franz Walter more...	13 Sep. 1874 Vienna, Austria	13 Jul. 1951 Los Angeles, USA	(the anglicized form of Schönberg Schoenberg changed the spelling officially when he left Germany and re-converted to Judaism in 1933) an Austrian and later Austrian-American composer. Many of Schoenberg's works are associated with the expressionist movements in early 20th-century German poetry and art, and he was among the first composers to embrace atonal motivic development. Schoenberg is particularly well-known as the innovator of the twelve-tone technique, a compositional technique involving tone rows. He was also a painter, an important music theorist, and an influential teacher of composition
Schonberg, Claude Michel more...	6 Jul. 1944 Vannes, France		French record producer, actor, singer, popular songwriter, and musical theatre composer, best known for his collaborations with the librettist Alain Boublil
Schonberg, Stig Gustav more...
Schonberger, Elmer more...
Schondorff, Philippe	1558 Liege	after 1617 Prague	he was trumpeter in the imperial orchestra and music tutor to aristocratic families. In Prague he was supported by the chaplain and Imperial Almoner Jacob Cimarrhae of the Netherlands, to whom Schondorff dedicated his five- and six-voice odes. His otherwise unknown super Usqueqpo Domine Mass was included in the rare Mass collection in St. James' church at Kutna Hora, Bohemia. In 1587 he composed another mass, hitherto unidentified, dedicating it to Rudolf II
Schonherr, Max more...
Schonherz, Richard more...
Schoonenbeek, Kees more...
Schönthal, Ruth (Ruth Schonthal) more...	27 Jun. 1924 Hamburg, Germany	11 Jul. 2006 New York, USA	composer and pianist
Schoor, Hendrik van more...	7 Aug. 1887 Anvers, Belgium	30 Oct. 1954 Anvers, Belgium	Belgian composer and teacher
Schop, Johann more...
Schorijn (or Schorie), Jean more...	fl. early 17th century		Belgian composer and organist
Schoth, Delphine	1814 Germany		a composer and brilliant pianist praised by Mendelssohn and Schumann
Schott, Georg II more...
Schouwman, Hans more...
Schrammel, Johann more...
Schreiber, Andreas more...
Schreinzer, Frau F. M.	1812 Germany	1873	published composer of songs and piano works
Schreiter, Heinz more...	9 Aug. 1915 Leipzig, Germany	1 Jan. 2006 Berlin, Germany	German composer and painter. He composed music for the films Emil und die Detektive (1963), Gruss aus Wien (1961) and Sperrbezirk (1966)
Schreker, Franz more...
Schreurs, Jokke more...
Schrey, Julius more...	26 Dec. 1870 Anvers, Belgium	3 Dec. 1936 Anvers, Belgium	Belgian composer, violinist, conductor and teacher
Schrijver, Remigius more...
Schröder, Friedrich more...	6 Aug. 1910 Näfels, Switzerland	1972	Swiss composer particularly of operettas and film music who worked extensively in Germany
Schroeder, Hermann I more...
Schroeder, Hermann II more...
Schroeter, Corona Elisabeth Wilhelmine	1751 Germany	1802	a singer, actor and published composer who made her debut at fourteen. She acted in Goethe's dramas
Schroeter, Leonhard more...
Schroeven, Léopold Henri more...	2 Aug. 1911 Walem, Belgium	12 Dec. 1995 Montignies-sur-Sambre	Belgian composer and conductor
Schroter, Corona more...
Schroter, Johann Samuel more...
Schroyens, Raymond more...
Schubart, Christian Friedrich Daniel more...
Schubert, Franz more...	31 Jan. 1797 Vienna, Austria	19 Nov. 1828 Vienna, Austria	prolific composer of songs, chamber music (including the Trout Quintet), music for piano, and symphonic music but particularly of German lied, a form he established as a new art form in the 19th century
Schubert, Georgine	1840 Germany	1878	a brilliant dramatic soprano who toured Europe and composed many songs
Schubert, Joseph more...
Schuberth, Dietrich more...
Schuermans, Pieter more...	3 Mar. 1970 Wilrijk, Belgium		Belgian composer, flautist, contrabassist and teacher
Schulhoff, Erwin more...
Schulhoff, Julius more...
Schuller, Gunther more...	22 Nov 1925 New York, US	21 Jun 2015 Boston, US	Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, orchestral conductor, French horn player, author and academic
Schults, Ulfert more...
Schultz, Johannes more...
Schultz, Svend more...
Schultze, Norbert more...
Schulz, Johann Abraham Peter more...
Schulz, Johann Philipp Christian more...
Schulz, Raimund more...
Schulz Evler, Adolf more...
Schulze, Tristan more...
Schumacher, Michael J. more...	1961 Washington, DC, USA		American pianist and composer
Schuman, William more...
Schumann, Clara Josephine Wieck more...	13 Sep. 1819 Germany	20 May 1896 Bonn, Germany	a child prodigy on piano, she toured at age eleven with great success and followed this with a monumental career. She married Robert Schumann. Her compositions are increasingly performed and recorded. Her works include songs, piano pieces, a piano concerto, a piano trio with violin and cello, choral pieces, and three Romances for violin and piano. Inspired by her husband's birthday, the three Romances were composed in 1853 and dedicated to Joseph Joachim who performed them for George V of Hanover. He declared them a "marvelous, heavenly pleasure."
Schumann, Robert more...	8 Jun. 1810 Zwickau, Saxony	29 Jul. 1856 Bonn, Germany	a German composer and pianist, he was one of the most famous Romantic composers of the first half of the 19th century, as well as a famous music critic
Schuncke, Ludwig more...
Schurmann, Gerard more...
Schurmans, Werner more...
Schuster, Joseph more...
Schutt, Eduard more...
Schutz, Heinz more...
Schutz, Heinrich more...	bap. 9 Oct. 1585 Köstritz Germany	6 Nov. 1672 Dresden, Germany	German composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and is often considered to be one of the most important composers of the 17th century along with Claudio Monteverdi. He wrote what is thought to be the first German opera, Dafne, performed at Torgau in 1627; however, the music has since been lost
Schuurman, Adriaan more...
Schuyt, Cornelis more...
Schuyt, Nico more...
Schvartz, Émile (Jean Baptiste) more...	8 Feb. 1858 Paris, France	Jun. 1928	French viola player, composer of ballets; author of treatises on reading music
Schytte, Ludvig more...	28 Apr. 1848 Aarhus, Denmark	10 Nov. 1909 Berlin, Germany	a Danish composer, pianist, and teacher
Schwaen, Kurt more...
Schwantner, Joseph more...
Schwantner, Rudolf more...
Schwartz, Arthur more...
Schwartz, Elliott more...
Schwartz, Eric J. more...		5 Nov. 1976	American composer
Schwartzburg (von), Anastasia			composer who published in 1555
Schwartzkopff, Theodor more...
Schwarz, Gerhard more...
Schwehr, Cornelius more...
Schwencke, Christian more...
Schwertsik, Kurt more...
Schwindl, Friedrich more...
Sciarrino, Salvatore more...
Sclavis, Louis more...
Scodanibbio, Stefano more...
Scofield, John more...
Scohy, Marcel more...	30 Oct. 1899 Liège, Belgium	29 May 1987 Jette, Belgium	Belgian composer and cellist
Scott, Billy "Uke" more...	12 Mar. 1923 Sunderland, England	23 Nov. 2004 Southport, Lancs., England	British music hall star who inspired three generations of ukulele players, composing, singing and writing a "teach-yourself" ukulele manual
Scott, Cyril more...	27 Sep 1879 Oxton, England	31 Dec 1970	Cyril Scott was highly praised for his composing talents during the early part of the twentieth century, and was often compared with Vaughan Williams, Arnold Bax, Percy Grainger and Claude Debussy who described him as one of the rarest artists of the present generation. George Bernard Shaw apparently once told Elgar that he had become quite daring in your harmonies of late, to which Elgar is supposed to have replied: Yes, but dont forget it was Scott who started it all
Scott, Francis George more...	25 Jan. 1880 Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland	6 Nov. 1958 Scotland	Scottish composer
Scott, James Sylvester more...
Scott, Marion Margaret more...	16 Jul. 1877 London, England	24 Dec. 1953 England	English violinist, musicologist, writer, music critic, editor, composer, and poet
Scott, Raymond more...
Scott, Shirley more...
Scott, Stephen more...
Scotto, Vincent more...
Scott-Wood, George more...	27 May 1903 Glasgow, Scotland	28th. Oct. 1978	in his youth he was a classical pianist who performed concertos at home (especially in his native Scotland) and abroad. His career in popular music began in the 1920s; between 1930 and 1939 he became Director of Light Music for Parlophone and later other EMI labels. In 1934 he formed the Six Swingers for jazz related repertoire. He became an exponent of the piano-accordion; he brought out a tutor in 1940 and formed, pre war, the Grand Accordion band (which continued post-war with fewer players) and in 1958 George Scott-Wood and His Music, comprising three accordions, piano, guitar, bass and percussion. His compositions look attractive [dates of birth & death corrected by Brian Reynolds, author of Music While You Work - An Era in Broadcasting pub. The Book Guild Ltd.]
Scriabin (or Scriabine, Skryabin, Skrjabin, Skriabin), Alexander Nikolayevich more...	6 Jan. 1872 Moscow, Russia	27 Apr. 1915 Moscow, Russia	Russian composer and pianist
Scronx, Gérard more...	fl. early 17th century		composer active in Liège, Belgium
Sculthorpe, Peter more...	29 Apr. 1929 Launceston, Tasmania	8 Aug 1914 Australia	Australian composer, much influenced by his interest in the music of Australia's neighbours
Searle, Humphrey more...
Sebastian z Felsztyna more...	1480-1490 Poland	in or after 1543 Poland	Polish musical theorist, priest and composer
Sebastiani, Johann more...
Sechter, Simon more...	11 Oct 1788 Friedberg, Bohemia	10 Sep 1867 Vienna, Austria	Austrian music theorist, teacher, organist, conductor and composer and in that capacity is mostly remembered for writing about 5000 fugues (he tried to write at least one fugue every day), but he also wrote masses and oratorios. He may have been the most prolific composer who ever lived, outdoing even Telemann in the size of his output
Second, Didier Lupi (see Lupi (Second), Didier)
Sedaka, Neil more...	13 Mar. 1939 Brooklyn, New York, USA		an American pop singer, pianist, and songwriter often associated with the Brill Building. He teamed up with Howard Greenfield to write many major hit songs for himself and others
Seeger, Charles more...
Seeger, Mike more...
Seeger, Pete more...
Seeger, Ruth Crawford more...
Seger, Josef more...
Segers, Jan more...	27 Jul. 1929 Malines, Belgium		Belgian composer, conductor and teacher
Segerstam, Leif more...	2 Mar. 1944 Finland		a composer of feelings and visions grand, overflowing feelings and immeasurably broad visions. Segerstam is an easily inspired shaman-like composer who can write a 20-minute orchestral piece in a few days. His output has reached Baroque proportions, and not even his active career as a conductor has slowed him down. Indeed, Segerstam emulates Mahler in that he divides his time between conducting in winter and composing in summer
Sehested, Hilda more...
Sehling, Josef Antonin more...
Seiber, Mátyás more...	4 May 1905 Hungary	24 Sep. 1960 South Africa	a Hungarian-born composer who lived in England from 1935 onward. He studied in Budapest with Zoltán Kodály, and in 1928 gave the first academic lectures on jazz in Frankfurt. From 1942, he was on the staff of Morley College in London, and he became a respected teacher of composition. Several of his students went on to become great musicians themselves, including Peter Racine Fricker, Anthony Milner and Hugh Wood
Seikilos more...
Seither, Charlotte more...
Seixas, (José Antonio) Carlos de more...	11 Jun. 1704 Coimbra, Portugal	25 Aug. 1742 Lisbon, Portugal	Portuguese composer, harpsichordist and organist most of whose work is believed to have been lost in the devastating Lisbon earthquake of 1755 [entry provided by Victor Krasovsky]
Selby, William more...
Seligmann, Hippolyte Prosper more...	28 Jul 1817 Paris, France	5 Feb. 1882 Monte Carlo	French cellist and composer of études and works for cello, songs
Selim III more...	24 Dec. 1761 Istanbul, Turkey	28/29 Jul. 1808 Istanbul, Turkey	the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1789 to 1807. A great lover of music, Sultan Selim III was a composer and performer of significant talent. He created fourteen makams, melodic types, three of which are in current use today. Sixty-four compositions belonging to Selim III are known, some of which are part of the regular repertory of Turkish classical music performers. Aside from composing music, Selim III also performed on the ney and tanbur
Selle, Thomas more...
Sellenik, Adolphe Valentin more...
Selma y Salaverde, Bartolome de more...
Semilli, Richart de more...
Semini, Carlo Florindo more...
Semionov, Viatcheslav more...
Senaillé, Jean Baptiste more...	23 Nov. 1687 Paris, France	8 Oct. 1730 Paris, France	French violinist; pupil of Queversin, Baptiste Anet and Vitali. From about 1720 he was a member of Louis XV's court band at Paris. He influenced the French school of violin playing by the introduction of Italian methods. He composed 50 sonatas for unaccompanied violin [entry provided by Mark Mordue]
Senator, Ronald more...	17 Apr. 1926 London, UK	30 Apr. 2015 New York, US	British composer
Senderovas, Anatolijus more...
Seneke, Teresa	1848 Italy	1875	a composer who published a large amount of music for piano and songs. Her opera was produced in Rome
Senfl, Ludwig more...	c. 1486 Basle, Switzerland	1542/3 probably Munich, Germany	a Swiss composer of the Renaissance, active in Germany. He was the most famous pupil of Heinrich Isaac, was music director to the court of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, and was an influential figure in the development of the Franco-Flemish polyphonic style in Germany
Senilow (or Senilof), Vladimir	9 Jul. 1875 Viatka, Russia	18 Sep. 1918 St. Petersburg, Russia	Russian composer
Senleches, Jacob (Jacques) de more...	fl. 1378-95		French composer. Probably worked before 1378 at the court of John I of Aragon at Barcelona (where he was known as 'Lo Begue' and is not to be confused with Jacomi the bagpiper who was there 1372-1404). In 1378 he accompanied the Duke of Gerona to Flanders; in 1379 he was at the court of Castile and in 1383 was harpist to Cardinal Pedro de Luna. He was again at the Aragon court between 1391 and 1395
Senny, Édouard more...	22 Dec. 1923 Filot, Belgium	15 Jan. 1980 Hamoir, Belgium	Belgian composer, pianist, organist and teacher
Sentis, Jose more...
Serebrier, Jose more...
Sergiers (or Serigiers), Paul	c.1683 Anvers, Belgium		Belgian composer
Sergeyeva, Tatiana more...	28 Nov. 1951 Kalinin, Russia		graduated from and completed post-graduate studies at the Moscow Conservatory as a composer, pianist and organist. In 1987 she won the Shostakovich Composer's Prize
Seriese, Astrid more...
Serly, Tibor more...	25 Nov. 1901 Losonc, Hungary	8 Oct. 1978 London, England	Hungarian violist, violinist and composer
Sermilä, Jarmo more...	16 Aug. 1939 Hämeenlinna, Finland		he arrived at concert music through jazz, and to this day he occasionally performs jazz, playing the trumpet and the flugelhorn. Sermilä's concert music hardly ever displays jazz influences, however. Improvisation does play an important role in his work, but this is related more to the avant-garde aesthetic of Vinko Globokar than to jazz. Sermilä's work is characterized by a free sort of exploration of the Modernist vocabulary and the avoidance of strictly controlled systems
Sermisy, Claudin de more...	c.1490 Picardy, Burgundy, or Île-de-France	13 Oct. 1562 probably Paris, France	a French composer of the Renaissance. Along with Clément Janequin he was one of the most renowned composers of French chansons in the early 16th century; in addition he was a significant composer of sacred music. His music was both influential on, and influenced by, contemporary Italian styles
Serocki, Kazimierz more...	3 Mar. 1922 Torun, Poland	9 Jan. 1981 Warsaw, Poland	Polish pianist and composer who studied composition with Kazimierz Sikorski and Nadia Boulanger and was one of the founders of the Warsaw Autumn contemporary music festival
Serov (or Serrov, Seroff), Alexander Nikolayevich	23 Jan. 1820 St. Petersburg, Russia	1 Feb. 1871 St. Petersburg, Russia	Russian critic and composer
Serova, Valentina,Semenovna (née Bergman, Valentina)	1846 Moscow, Russia	1924/1927	Russian composer
Serqueira de Lima, Juan more...
Serra, Luis II Maria more...
Serrano, Emilio more...
Serrano, Jose more...
Servais, Adrien Francois more...	6 Jun. 1807 Hal, nr. Brussels, Belgium	26 Nov. 1866 Hal, nr. Brussels, Belgium	Belgian cellist who studied with Platel at the Brussels Conservatory and succeeded Platel at the conservatory. Berlioz described him as "Paganinian." He was probably the finest cellist of his day, praised for his intense, pure sound, flawless intonation, and acrobatic technique. He collaborated with Vieuxtemps and Leonard in composing duos for violin and cello. Alone, Servais composed music only for solo cello. It was not by chance that his favourite genre was the fantasia: there are sixteen fantasias for cello and orchestra and only three concertos among his published works
Sessa, Claudia Donna	fl. Milan		composer who was published in Venice in 1613
Sessions, Roger more...	28 Dec. 1896 Brooklyn, New York, USA	16 Mar. 1985 Princeton, New Jersey, USA	American composer, critic and teacher of music
Seter, Mordecai more...
Setti, Kilza more...
Seuriot, (Louis) Auguste more...	7 May 1801 Paris, France	1880 or 1881	French viola player who wrote violin duos
Séverac, Déodat de	20 Jul. 1872	24 Mar. 1921	a student at the Schola Cantorum with d'Indy (composition) and Guilmant (organ), he completed his studies in 1907 and then left Paris. He composed only a few organ works; his other compositions are for piano and voice(s)
Sexsmith, Ron more...
Seyfried, Ignaz Xaver Ritter von more...	15 Aug 1776 Vienna, Austria	27 Aug 1841	an Austrian musician, conductor and composer. von Seyfried was a pupil of both Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johann Albrechtsberger. He published Albrechtsberger's complete written works after his death. His own pupils included Franz von Suppé. In 1805, von Seyfried conducted the première of the original version of Beethoven's Fidelio
Seymer, William more...	21 Aug. 1890 Stockholm, Sweden	17 Mar. 1964 Stockholm, Sweden	writer and composer, particularly of miniatures for the piano entitled Strofer i sol och skugga, Skizzer and Sommarcroquiser Op.11, which includes the ever-popular Solöga
Sgambati, Giovanni more...
Sha, Han Kun more...
Shackford, Charles Reeve	1918	1979	composer; after bachelor and master degrees at Yale, where he studied with Paul Hindemith and Ralph Kirkpatrick, et al., Shackford received a Ph.D. at Harvard, where he studied with Walter Piston and A. T. Davison and was a research fellow in acoustics. His longest teaching experience was at Connecticut College from 1964 to 1979, when he was killed in an automobile accident
Shaiman, Marc more...	22 Oct. 1959 Newark, New Jersey, USA		multiple-award-winning American composer, lyricist, arranger, and performer for films, television, and theatre
Shaked, Yuval more...
Shakhidi, Tolibhon more...	13 Mar. 1946 Dushanbe, Tajikistan		a master of different genres, including operas, ballets, symphonies and instrumental compositions, his work represents a unique fusion of the very best of the European and Asian musical traditions
Shankar, Lakshmi more...
Shankar, Ravi more...
Shapey, Ralph more...
Shaporin (or Schaporin, Sjapoerin, Sjaporin, Saporin, Sciaporin, Caporine, Chaporine), Yury Alexandrovich more...	8 Nov. (Old Style 27 Oct.) 1887 Glukhov, Ukraine	9 Dec. 1966 Moscow	he received his secondary and higher education in St. Petersburg, where he graduated from the Law Faculty of the University. He entered the Conservatory in 1913 and graduated as composer and conductor in 1918. His teachers were Nikolai Sokolov, Maximilian Steinberg and Nikolai Tcherepnin. Together with Maxim Gorki and Alexander Blok he founded the Great Dramatic Theatre of Leningrad
Shaposhnikov (or Shaposchnikow, Schaposchnikow, Schaposchnikov, Chapochnikov), Adrian Grigoryevich	9 Jun 1888 (or 1887) St. Petersburg, Russia	22 Jun. 1967 Moscow, Russia	Russian composer
Sharman, Rodney more...
Sharon, Ralph more...
Sharp, Elliott more...
Shavers, Charlie more...
Shaw, Artie more...
Shaw, Oliver more...	1779 Middleboro, Mass, USA	1848 Providence, RI, USA	organist who was blind from early childhood, active teacher and composer of anthems, songs and a number of widely played instrument pieces
Shaw, Thomas more...
Shaw, Woody more...
Shchedrin, Rodion more...	16 Dec. 1932 Moscow, Russia		his early works are written in an orthodox Soviet idiom. In the 1960s Shchedrin began incorporating newer different styles of music, such as neoclassicism, pop music and jazz. Shchedrin defines his position as "post-avant-garde"
Shcherbachov, Nikolay Vladimirovich	24 Aug. 1854 St. Petersburg, Russia	Mone Carlo, Monaco	Russian composer
Shcherbachov, Vladimir Vladimirovich more...	24 (Old Style 12) Jan. 1889 Warsaw, Poland	5 Mar. 1952 Leningrad, Russia	Polish born composer who worked variously at Conservatories in Leningrad and Tblisi before returning to Leningrad in 1948
Shchetynsky, Alexander (Oleksandr) more...	22 Jun. 1960, Kharkiv, Ukraine		Ukrainian composer who graduated in 1983 from V. Borisov's composition class at the Kharkiv art Insitute
Shea, David more...
Shearer, Allen more...
Shearing, George more...
Shebalin (or Schebalin, Sjebalin, Sebalin, Chebaline), Vissarion Yakovlevich more...	11 Jun. 1902 Omsk, Siberia	28 May 1963 Moscow, Russia	Russian composer who entered the Omsk College of Music in 1921. From 1923 until 1928 Shebalin studied at the Moscow Conservatory (under Miaskovsky)
Shelbye, William more...
Shenderev, Georgi more...
Sheng, Bright	6 Dec. 1955 Shanghai, China		during the Cultural Revolution, he worked in Qinghai for seven years as a pianist and percussionist in a folk music and dance troupe, and avidly studied and collected folk music. In 1978, when China's universities reopened, he was one of the first students accepted by the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. He moved to New York in l982. Among his teachers were Leonard Bernstein (composition and conducting), George Perle, Hugo Weisgall, Chou Wen-Chung, and Jack Beeson. In addition to the MacArthur Foundation fellowship, and awards received in China and Europe, Sheng has received a number of prizes in the United States
Sheng, Lihong more...
Shenshin (or Chenchine), Alexander	18 Nov. 1890 Moscow, Russia	1944	Russian composer
Shephard, Richard more...
Shepherd, Arthur more...
Shepherd, John I more...	c.1515 England	1558 England	English composer and organist
Shepp, Archie more...
Sheppard, David more...
Sheppard, John more...	c.1515	1558	English composer and organist. He was choirmaster at Magdalen College, Oxford from 1543 to 1548, and was a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal by no later than 1552. He remained unpublished in his lifetime and was largely re-discovered in the late 20th century as a composer of extraordinary originality in voicings and textures of choral sound. His six-voice Media vita in morte sumus throws an intense melodic emphasis on a trio of high soprano with a pair of tenor-alto lines, and has the Gregorian cantus firmus melody moving in regular note-values at twice the normal speed in the baritone
Sherard, James more...
Sheremetiev, Boris (Sergeyevich) more...	1822 Russia	1906	Russian composer
Sheriff, Noam more...
Sherman, Jimmy more...
Sherman, Richard M more...
Sherman, Robert B II more...
Sherrington, Helena Lemmens	1834 England	1906	a celebrated soprano who composed a number of songs
Sherwin, Manning more...
Sherwood, Gordon	25 Aug. 1929 USA		from studies with Copland at Tanglewood, Jarnach in Hamburg and at the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome and the last two movements of his symphony winning the George Gershwin Memorial Award Contest and being performed in Carnegie Hall by Mitropoulos and the New York Philharmonic in 1957, Sherwood took to living as a beggar in the streets of Paris, only to be rediscovered by an old acquaintance from his Hamburg days who makes a television documentary about him. Sherwood travelled widely, playing piano in Beirut hotels and movie theatres, writing on commission for the Egyptian Ministry of Culture, spending eight years in Kenya composing and studying Swahili under the patronage of President Jomo Kenyatta, as well as periods in Nepal, India, Singapore, Japan, China, Russia, South America and elsewhere. From his opus numbers, it's obvious he never stopped writing producing tonal music, using traditional forms while not sounding particularly American at all, colourful works which come out of the European tradition of Stravinsky, Shostakovich and Bartók
Shibano, Satsuki more...
Shibata, Minao more...
Shield, Leroy more...
Shield, William more...	1748	1829
Shiels, Andrew more...
Shifrin, Seymour Jack	1926	1979	composer; studied composition with William Schuman, Otto Luening, and Darius Milhaud, and taught composition at the University of California at Berkeley and at Brandeis University
Shimada, Aiko more...
Shimoyama, Hifumi more...
Shinohara, Makoto more...
Shipp, Matthew more...
Shire, David more...
Shirinsky, Vasily Petrovich	17 Jan. 1901 Ekaterinodar, Russia	16 Aug. 1965 Mamontovka, nr. Moscow, Russia	Russian violinist, conductor and composer
Shirtliff, Andrew more...
Shishido, Mutsuo more...
Shishov (or Schischow, Chichov), Ivan Petrovich	8 Oct. 1888 Novocherkassk, Russia	6 Feb. 1947 Moscow, Russia	Russian composer
Shleg, Ludmilla more...
Shmotova, Marina more...	1959 Irkutsk, Siberia		after leaving Irkutsk College of Arts as a first study pianist, she moved to Moscow to continue her studies. In 1985 she graduated from the Gnessin Music Academy where she studied composition under Nikolai Peiko. From 1990 to 1997 Marina Shmotova took an active part in masterclasss on composition held by Sergey Berinsky
Shohat, Gil more...
Shore, Howard more...
Short, Michael more...	1937 Bermuda		English composer who has written a wide variety of music, ranging from works commissioned for professional ensembles to pieces for amateurs, educational music, jazz scores and advertising jingles. Many of his compositions have been broadcast on BBC network radio and have been performed in various countries throughout the world
Shorter, Wayne more...
Shostakovich, Dmitri more...	25 Sep. 1906 St. Petersburg, Russia	9 Aug. 1975 Moscow, Russia	the finest Russian composer of the Soviet era whose greatest works are considered to be his symphonies and his string quartets, fifteen of each
Shott, Peter more...
Shur more...
Shvedov, Konstatin Nikolaievich	1886 Moscow, Russia		Russian pianist, conductor and composer
Sibbing, Robert more...
Sibelius, (Johan) Jean (Julius Christian) more...	8 Dec. 1865 Hämeenlinna, Finland	20 Sep. 1957 Järvenpää, Finland	the premiere of the tone poem Kullervo (1892) by Jean Sibelius on April 28, 1892 was a key moment in the history of Finnish music. Kullervo was Sibelius's first significant extensive work, and the most original and powerful work ever written in Finland up to that time. The audience in the Great Hall of the University of Helsinki received the work with rapturous acclaim but also with some confusion. That evening, as Kajanus later observed, "the mighty spring tide of Finnish music burst out of the wilderness with a roar". Few composers can have been more fortuitously in the right place at the right time as Sibelius. He arrived in Helsinki in 1885, only three years after the founding of the Music Institute and an orchestra in Helsinki. Had these two institutions not existed, his development might have been stunted, or his talent might even have remained hidden
Sicard, Mlle			composer who published in Paris between 1678-82
Sichler, Jean more...
Sichynsky, Denys more...	1865	1963	composer, conductor, and conservatory teacher was a prominent figure in Lviv. Sichynsky organized choral organizations and the preservation of Ukrainian folk songs
Sidelnikov, Nikolai more...
Siebert, Edrich more...
Siebert, Friedrich more...
Sieczynski, Rudolf more...
Siede, Ludwig more...
Siefert (or Sieffert), Paul (Paulus) more...	1586	1666	German organist and composer
Siegel, Wayne more...
Siegmeister, Elie more...
Siep, Willem Frederik more...
Sierra, Roberto	1953		Roberto Sierra became widely recognized as a composer in 1987, when his first major orchestral composition, Júbilo, premiered at Carnegie Hall with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Born in Puerto Rico, Sierra studied at the Conservatory of Music and the University of Puerto Rico. After graduation, Sierra traveled to Europe to study at the Royal College of Music and the University of London, and later at the Institute for Sonology in Utrecht. Upon returning to Puerto Rico in 1982, Sierra became Director of the Cultural Activities Department at the University of Puerto Rico and Chancellor of the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music. He later became Composer-in-Residence of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and in 1992, joined the composition faculty at Cornell University. Sierras numerous commissions include works for many of the major American orchestras
Sigebert de Gembloux (see Gembloux, Sigebert de)
Siger, Paul	fl. second half 16th century		Belgian composer
Sigtenhorst-Meyer, Bernard van den more...
Sigurbjornsson, Thorkell more...
Siimer, Mart more...
Sikhra, Andrey more...
Sikora, Elzbieta more...	20 Oct. 1944 Lwów (Lviv, Ukraine)		in 1968-70 she studied electroacoustic music under Pierre Schaeffer and Francois Bayle at the Paris Groupe de Recherches Musicales. After her return to Warsaw, she took up composition studies with Tadeusz Baird and Zbigniew Rudzinski. During her studies, together with Krzysztof Knittel and Wojciech Michniewski she formed the KEW composers' group, with which she toured in Poland, Sweden, Austria and West Germany. Since 1981 she has lived in France where she attended a computer music course at IRCAM and studied composition with Betsy Jolas. At present she is professor at the Conservatory in Angouleme, France, where she teaches electroacoustic music and composes
Sikorski, Kazimierz more...	28 Jun. 1895 Zurich, Switerland	1986 Warsaw, Poland	in 1925-26 and 1930, Sikorski studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. For many years he taught composition and theory at the State Colleges of Music in Lódz, Poznan and Warsaw. He was the president of the State Colleges of Music in Lódz, (1947-54) and in Warsaw (1957-66). In the years 1953-59 he was president of the Polish Composers' Union
Sikorski, Tomasz more...	19 May 1939 Warsaw, Poland	12 Nov. 1988 Warsaw, Poland	son of Kazimierz Sikorski with whom he studied composition. Right from the beginning of his career as a composer, Sikorski clearly defined the path he would take and he never departed from it. What he always found the most important was the sound itself - the acoustic object with its initial phase, its resonance, its vibration and its inner substance. His primary interest was always in the tonal gesture, the sounding phenomenon and pinned them to a piece of paper rather as some people pin butterflies
Silberman, Benedict more...
Silcher, Friedrich more...
Sillen, Josef Otto af more...
Siloti (or Ziloti), Alexander Ilyich	9 Oct. 1863 Kharkov, Ukraine	8 Dec. 1945 New York, USA	Ukrainian conductor, pianist and composer
Silva, Andreas de more...			one of the most extraordinary works of the Medici Codex is Andreas de Silva's Omnis pulchritude Domini ... we find two striking augmented fifths, intervals more strictly forbidden and more out of tune with ordinary 16th-century counterpoint than diminished fifths ... these intervals lend their eerie floating sound to the depiction of the miracle of the Risen Christ ... If de Silva's Ascension motet did not appear in the Medici Codex of 1518, no one would guess that this work, with its futuristic sounds, was written in the early sixteenth century [quotation taken from Secret Chromatic Art in Netherlands Motet by Edward Lowinsky]
Silva, Matteo more...
Silveira Palhano de Jesus, Joyce more...	31 Jan 1948 Brazil		(known simply as 'Joyce') South American composer, performer, singer and guitarist, married to Brazilian jazz drummer Tutty Moreno, who in a career spanning more than three decades has recorded more than twenty albums
Silver, Horace more...	2 Sep. 1928 Norwalk, Connecticut, USA		born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva, an American jazz pianist and composer
Silvestri, Alan more...	26 Mar. 1950 New York City, USA		an acclaimed American Academy Award nominated film score composer.
Silvestri, Constantin more...
Silvestrov, Valentin more...	30 Sep. 1937 Kiev, Russia		his works include six symphonies, poems for piano and orchestra, miscellaneous pieces for (chamber) orchestra, two string quartets, piano quintet, three piano sonatas, piano pieces, chamber music, vocal music (cantatas, songs, etc.)
Simai, Pavol more...
Simar, Julien-Jean	8 Jan. 1852 Brussels, Belgium	29 Mar. 1903 Brussels, Belgium	Belgian composer and conductor
Simeone, Harry more...
Similä, Martti	1898	1958	Finnish composer
Simon, Anton	5 Aug. 1850 Paris, France	1 Feb. 1916 St. Petersburg, Russia	French-corn conductor and composer
Simon de Insula (see Insula, Simon de)
Simon de Lille (see Insula, Simon de)
Simon, Eric	1907	1984	Austrian-American clarinetist and composer
Simon, Jean-Henri more...	11 Apr. 1783 Anvers, Belgium	10 Feb. 1861 Anvers, Belgium	Belgian composer, violinist and teacher
Simon, Johann Caspar more...	10 Jan. 1701 Floh, nr Schmalkalden	22 Nov. 1776 Leipzig	studied in Jena with Johann Nikolaus Bach. He was musical director to the Hohenlohe Court (1727-1731) in Langenburg, before being appointed organist & musical director in Nördlingen (1731-1751). In 1751 he moved to Leipzig where he became a wealthy Tuchhändler after the death of a close relative. His organ works include 14 leichte Praeludia und Fugen durch die Tone [entry provided by Uli Metzner]
Simon le Breton	fl. 15th century	12 Nov. 1473 Cambrai, Belgium	singer and composer
Simon, Lucy more...
Simon, Paul Frederic more...	13 Oct. 1941 Newark Heights, New Jersey, USA		an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, half of the folk-singing duo Simon and Garfunkel
Simonelli, Matteo more...	1618	20 Sep. 1696 Rome	Italian organist and singer, teacher of Corelli
Simonetti, Achille	1857	1928	Italian-English violinist and composer who studied with Bianchi, Cavallini, Gamba and Sivori. He was a member of the London Trio, and a professor of violin at the Irish Royal Academy of Music. He was an early champion of the Brahms violin concerto, and wrote a cadenza for the work
Simonides of Ceos more...	c. 556 BC Ioulis, Kea, Greece	468 BC Sicily	Greek lyric poet and composer
Simonis, Jean-Marie more...	22 Nov. 1931 Mol, Belgium		Belgian composer and teacher
Simons, François more...	1699 Saint-Trond, Belgium	1 Jan. 1789 Saint-Léonard-lez-Liège	Belgian composer
Simons, Marijn more...
Simons, Moises more...
Simpson, Andrew II more...
Simpson, Christopher more...	c. 1605 Yorkshire, England	29 July 1669 London, England	English musician and composer, particularly associated with music for the viola da gamba
Simpson, Thomas more...
Simpson Curenton, Evelyn more...
Sims, Richard more...
Sims, Zoot more...
Sinatra, Frank more...
Sinclair, Cameron more...
Sinclair, George Robertson more...
Sinding, Christian August more...
Singelée, Jean-Baptiste	25 Sep. 1812 Brussels, Belgium	29 Sep. 1875 Ostende, Belgium	Belgian violinist who was a pupil of Wery at the Brussels Conservatoire. He was solo violinist in the Brussels orchestra, and in 1852 he became conductor of the orchestra at Gand. He composed 144 works for violin
Singer, Caspar more...
Singh, Jagjit (born Jagmohan Singh) more...		10 Oct. 10 2011 Dehli, India	known as The Ghazal King, singer and composer who popularised the poetic form of singing (ghazal) that originated in the Middle East and spread to India in the 12th century
Singh, Vijay			performer, composer, teacher and clinician residing in Ellensburg, Washington. After completing his undergraduate degree in Music Education from Willamette University, he taught public school music at the secondary level for three years in Oregon where his choirs were consistently rated among the best in the Northwest. Vijay has a Master's degree from Portland State University where he was a graduate teaching assistant, and has directed ensembles at Western Oregon State University, Mt. Hood Community College, Portland State University, and Frank DeMiero's Jazz Camp. He currently is a professor of music at Central Washington University where he teaches voice, directs the Vocal Jazz program, and conducts the University Chorale. As a composer/arranger, Vijay writes for all levels in both classical choral and jazz idioms, and his works have been performed at regional and national ACDA, MENC, and IAJE conventions throughout the United States
Singier, Jean Marc more...
Singlée, Jean Baptiste	1812 Belgium	1875 Ostende, Belgium	Belgian composer
Sinigaglia, Leone more...
Sink, Kuldar more...
Sinopoli, Giuseppe more...
Sion, Pwyll ap more...
Sioumak, Alexey more...
Sipilä, Eero	1918 Finland	1972	with an interest in early music, particularly Gregorian chant, his early Neo-Classical early period featured instrumental works such as the String Trio (1952) and the Partita (1955) for wind quintet. In the early 1960s, he turned to choral music . In the motet Super flumina Babylonis (1963), he combined cluster harmonies and glissandos with Gregorian chant influences. Sipilä's principal work is Te Deum laudamus (1969) for soloists, choir and orchestra. A lighter and more humorous side of his output can be seen in the solo song cycles Schein und Sein (1966) and Tiitiäisen satupuu (Tiitiäinen's Fairy-Tale Tree, 1971). His last work, which he himself considered one of his finest, is the string quartet Lux aeterna (1972) which like his early String Trio is based on a Gregorian chant
Sire, Simon de more...	1800 Durbuy, Belgium	1872 Dinant, Belgium	Belgian composer and pianist
Siren, Pekka more...
Sirmen (Sirman/Syrmen), Maddelena (Maddalina, Maddalena) Laura Lombardini	fl. 1735/45?-1818 or 1720-1795 Italy		at the age of seven, she was musically advanced enough to attract the attention of the governor of the Mendicanti at an open audition to select young girls as apprentices to the music school of the ospedale. A violinist, pupil of Tartini and rival of Sarti. She toured France and England where her compositions were published
Sisask, Urmas more...
Sistermanns, Johannes S more...
Sivic, Pavel more...
Siwinski, Jaroslaw more...	1964		pianist and composer who also composes music for theatre and film. In addition, Siwinski is a composer of bugle-call for the city of Rzeszów
Sjoberg, Carl more...
Sjogren, Emil more...
Skalkottas, Nikos more...
Skempton, Howard more...
Skerl, Dane more...
Skinner, James Scott more...	5 Aug. 1843 Banchory, Aberdeen, Scotland	17 Mar. 1927 Aberdeen, Scotland	Scottish dancing master, violinist, fiddler and published composer of more than 600 compositions
Skjavetic, Julije	sixteenth century		between 1557 and 1573 Julije Skjavetic (Schiavetti) lived in Sibenik, and conducted the choir in the famous Sibenik Cathedral. He wrote a collection of madrigals for 4-5 voices and a collection of motets for 5-6 voices (both published in Venice in 1563 and 1564 respectively). An important collection of his motets held in Dresden, disappeared after the destruction of the city in 1945, only to be rediscovered in Krakow in 1993
Skoryk, Myroslav more...	1938		Ukrainian composer who taught at the conservatories in both Lviv and Kyiv, and also in Moscow
Skouen, Synne more...
Skovoroda, Grigory more...
Skriabin, Alexander more...	6 Jan. 1872 Moscow, Russia	27 Apr. 1915 Moscow, Russia	Russian pianist and composer. No one was more famous during his lifetime, and few were more quickly ignored after his death. Although he was never absent from the mainstream of Russian music, the outside world neglected him until recently. Today, there is worldwide resurgence of interest in his music and ideas
Skrowaczewski, Stanislaw more...	3 Oct. 1923 Lwów (Lviv, Ukraine)		studied piano, conducting and composition at the Lwów Music Academy and at the Cracow Conservatory. In 1946 he took over as conductor the Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra. A year later he won the Szymanowski Composition Prize and went to Paris where he completed his studies under Nadia Boulanger, Arthur Honegger and Paul Kletzki. He returned to Poland in 1949 and was appointed conductor of the Katowice State Philharmonic Orchestra (until 1954). From 1955 to 1957 he was principal conductor of the Cracow Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1956 he won first prize in the International Conductors' Competition at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. Since 1960 Skrowaczewski has lived and worked in the United States
Skulte, Adolfs more...	28 Oct. 1909 Kiev	2000 Riga, Latvia	graduated in 1934 from the Latvian Conservatory, where he studied composition under Jazeps Vitols and joined its composition faculty in 1936
Slade, Julian more...
Slaney, Ivor more...			composer of tuneful orchestral pieces, most of which date from the 1950s: Three Irish Reels (1950), the sprightly Reveille for Toy Soldiers (1952), Hi Fiddle Diddle (1953, for strings and celesta), Whistling Wallaby (1954), Georgian Rumba and Three Irish Jigs (both 1956), An Edwardian Entr'acte (1957) and The Swanee Whistler (1959)
Slavenski, Josip	1896	1955	a Croatian composer who was influenced by the Medjumurje folklore of the Balkans (the orchestrated 'Balkanophonia') and music from the Orient (the vocal-instrumental 'Religiophonia', or the 'Symphony of the Orient')
Slavicky, Klement more...
Slonimsky, Nicolas more...	27 Apr. 1894 St. Petersburg, Russia	25 Dec. 1995 Los Angeles, CA, USA	Russian-American composer, conductor, musician, music critic, lexicographer and author who emigrated to the US in 1923
Slonimsky, Sergei more...	12 Aug. 1932 Leningrad, Russia		Russian composer who has been influenced by folkloric idiom, 12-tone techniques and new forms of notations and then jazz forms and new-romantic forms
Slonov, Mikhail Akimovich	1869 Kharkov, Ukraine	1930	Ukrainian composer
Slootmaeckers, Marcel more...	21 Jan. 1904 Niel, Belgium	3 May 1980 Hemiksem, Belgium	Belgian composer, viola player, conductor, choral director and teacher
Sloten, Karel van der more...	1848 Hofstade, nr. d'Alost, Belgium	1930 Brussels, Belgium	Belgian composer who occasionally uses the pseudonym Paul d'Acosta
Slothouwer, Jochem more...
Slowinski, Wladyslaw more...	14 May 1930 Sadlno Poland		Polish conductor and composer. In the 1970s he began organizing musical events. From 1970 to 1973 he was the artistic director of the Polskie Nagrania recording company and in 1973 he became the general Secretary of the Polish Composers Union (a post he held for six consecutive years). He has been the chairman of the Warsaw department of the organization since 1985. In 1986 he created the annual Warsaw Musical Meetings festival
Sluka, Lubos more...	1928		Czech composer
Sluys, Leopold more...	19 Jan. 1922 Oudenaken, Belgium	6 Dec. 1988 Halle	Belgian composer, organist and teacher
Smalley, Denis more...
Smalley, Roger more...
Smallwood, Scott more...
Smareglia, Antonio more...	5 May. 1854 Pula, Italy (now Croatia)	15 Apr. 1929 Grado, Italy	an Istrian opera composer
Smart, Harriet Anne	1817 London	1883	composer of vocal music
Smart, Henry Thomas more...
Smart, Jason more...
Smet, Johan de more...
Smet, Raoul de more...	1936 Belgium		after his studies of basic musical theory (Music Academy Antwerpen), French and Spanish Linguistics and Literature , Philosophy and History of Fine Arts and Music (Universities of Leuven, Salamanca and Madrid) and several years of teaching in Tunisia, he took private composition lessons with A.Verbesselt (Antwerpen), L.Goethals (Ghent) and T.de Leeuw (Amsterdam). He attended several international courses and festivals of new music: Darmstadt, Bilthoven - Rotterdam, Salzburg (American Seminar), Venice, Bucharest, Odessa, Sint-Petersburg, Edmonton (Can), Senigallia (It) and Antwerp, where music of his was performed. From 1974 till 94 he organized the Orphische Avonden (Orphean Evenings), concerts of new chamber music. From 1983 to 1993 he was aristic director of the Foyerconcerts of contemporary chamber music in Antwerp. Between 1980 and 1984 he was a member of the Board of the Music Centre in Louvain. He has been publishing new work of Flemish composers, between 1981 and 1990. Since 1987 he has organized, every two years, in Antwerp, the Orpheus-Prijs, an international contest for the interpretation of new chamber music. Since 1995 he has been vice-president of the Music Council of Flanders and, since 2001 a Board member of the Union of Belgian Composers [information provided by the composer]
Smetana, Bedrich more...	2 Mar. 1824 Litomysl, Bohemia	12 May 1884 Prague	one of the greatest Czech composers of the 19th century. He is best known for his symphonic poem Vltava (The Moldau), the second in a cycle of six which he entitled Má vlast (My Country)
Smetanin, Michael more...
Smethergell, William more...
Smidbergs, Vilnis more...
Smirnov, Dmitri more...	2 Nov. 1948 Minsk, Russia	9 Apr. 2020 St. Albans, UK	entered the Moscow Conservatoire in 1967, where he studied composition with Nikolai Sidelnikov, orchestration with Edison Denisov, and analysis with Jury Kholopov. He also studied with Webern's pupil Philip Herschkowitz. From 1973 until 1980 he was an editor for the publishing house Sovetsky Kompozitor. Since then he worked as a freelance composer. His Solo for Harp won a First Prize in a competition in Maastricht in 1976
Smirnova, Tatiana Georgievna more...	30 Mar. 1940 Moscow, Russia		Russian composer
Smis, A. K. (see Kuznetsov (or Kusnetzow), Konstantin Alexeyevich)
Smit, André-Jean more...	24 Aug. 1926 Ville dAvray, France		French composer from a family from Liège, Belgium
Smit, Leo I more...
Smit, Sytze more...
Smit Sibinga, Theo more...
Smith, Alice Mary White (Mrs. Meadows-White)	1839 London	1884	elected an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music and made an Associate of the London Philharmonic Society in 1867. One of her duets enjoyed worldwide popularity
Smith, Andrew more...
Smith, Bessie more...
Smith, Chas more...
Smith, David Stanley	1877	1949	composer; a pupil of Horatio Parker, Smith was in the class of 1900 at Yale College and began teaching at the School of Music in 1903. He succeeded Parker as Dean in 1920
Smith, Eva Munson	1843 USA		head of the music department of Otoe University. Edited Women in Sacred Song a collection of 150 musical compositions by 50 women composers (Boston, 1885)
Smith, Gregg more...
Smith, Hale	29 Jun. 1925 Cleveland, Ohio, USA		Smiths professional career included serving as an editor and music choral consultant for various music publishing houses and teaching at Long Island University and the University of Connecticut, Storrs. He has composed numerous orchestral and chamber works, as well as several choral and solo vocal pieces
Smith, Jabbo more...
Smith, John Stafford more...	1750	1750
Smith, Randall more...
Smith, Ronald Bertram	3 Jan. 1922 London, England	27 May 2004 Saltwood, Kent	pianist, composer, teacher, writer and broadcaster
Smith, Stuart Saunders more...
Smith, Wadada Leo more...
Smith, William II more...
Smith, William O more...
Smith, Willie I 'the lion' more...
Smolka, Jaroslav more...
Smolka, Martin more...
Smolski, Dmitri more...	25 Jul. 1937 Minsk, Russia		his earliest major successes were the First Piano Concerto and the symphonic poem Belarus, both dating from 1960. His First Symphony followed in 1962 and inspired a particularly creative period crowned by the pair of ballets, the Patriotic Etude and Belorussian Picture
Smulders, Carl (Charles, Karel) (Anton) more...	8 May 1863 Maastricht, Belgium	21 Apr. 1934 Liège, Belgium	Belgian composer, pianist and teacher
Smyth, Ethel Mary more...	23 Apr. 1858 London, England	8 May 1944 England	an English composer and a leader of the women's suffrage movement. Possibly her best-known work is The March of the Women (1911), which became an anthem for the Women's Social and Political Union, to which she belonged
Snel, Joseph-François more...	30 Jul. 1793 Brussels, Belgium	10 Mar. 1861 Koekelberg, Belgium	Belgian violinist, conductor, teacher and composer
Snep, Johan more...	1656	1719	Dutch composer who was organist in Zierikzee who is known to have been n enthusiastic admirer of the famous viol player Johan Schenck
Snoeck, François-Joseph-Jean more...	25 Nov. 1772 Brussels, Belgium	12 Jul. 1845 Brussels, Belgium	Belgian composer and professor of singing
Snoei, Wouter more...
Snyers, Félix more...	11 Feb. 1940 Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Belgium		Belgian composer, organist and teacher
Soaper, John more...
Sobeck, Johann more...
Soderman, Johan August more...
Soenen, Willy more...	10 Aug. 1937 Menin, Belgium		Belgian composer, trumpeter, conductor and teacher
Soetaert, Jacques-Norbert more...	8 Nov. 1813 Oostkerke (Flandre Occidentale)	10 Mar. 1845 Ghent, Belgium	Belgian composer
Sohal, Naresh more...	18 Sep. 1939 Punjab, India	30 Apr. 2018 United Kingdom	Indian-born British composer
Sohier, Jean (see Fedé, Johannes)
Soignies, Gontier de more...
Sojo, Vicente Emilio more...	8 Dec. 1887 Guatire, Venezuela	11 Aug. 1974 Caracas, Venezuela	a Venezuelan musicologist, educator and composer
Sokalski, Vladimir	6 Apr. 1863 Heidelberg, Germany		composer
Sokalsky, Pyotr Petrovich	26 Sep. 1832 Kharkov, Ukraine	11 Apr. 1887 Odessa, Ukraine	Ukrainian composer, critic and folk song collector
Sokolov, Nikolay (or Nikolai) Alexandrovich	26 Mar. 1859 St. Petersberg, Russia	27 Mar. 1922 St. Petersberg, Russia	Russian composer and teacher
Sokolovic, Ana more...
Sokolowski (or Sokolovski, Sokolowsky), Marek (Marcus) Konrad (Danielovich)	25 Apr. 1818 Pohrebyszcze, Ukraine	5 (or 25) Dec. 1883 Vilnius, Latvia;	Russian guitarist and composer
Sola, Andres de more...
Sola, Louis-Joseph more...	fl. end of 18th century		composer and violinist active in Liège, Belgium
Solage more...	fl. late 14th century France	probably after 1403	French composer of the greatest number of pieces in the Chantilly Codex, the principal source of music of the ars subtilior, the manneristic compositional school centered around Avignon at the end of the century
Solal, Martial more...
Soler, Agustin Charles more...
Soler Sarda, Josep more...
Solere, Pedro Etienne more...
Soler i Ramos, padre Antonio Francesc Xavier Joseph more...	3 Dec. 1729 Olot, Spain	20 Dec. 1783 El Escorial, Spain	Spanish composer particular of music for keyboard instruments many based on traditional Spanish folk forms including the fandango [information supplied by Ulrich Metzner]
Soliva, Carlo more...
Soll, Burkhardt more...
Sollberger, Harvey more...
Sollima, Giovanni more...
Solnitz, Anton Wilhelm more...
Solomon, Edward more...	25 Jul 1855 London, UK	22 Jan 1895 London, UK	a member of a family of theatre musicians and a musical director in various London and even New York theatres, he was one of Sullivan's most accomplished English contemporaries on the light musical stage and, predictably, his music is not dissimilar. He wrote ballads and numerous salon piano solos but it was his stage shows which made his name during his lifetime. Solomon gained notoriety for his bigamous marriage to American prima donna Lillian Russell. It ended when she sued for divorce after learning of his previous marriage
Solotariov, Vladislav (see Zolotaryov, Vladislav)
Solvay, Théodore-Auguste more...	11 Sep. 1822 Rebecq, Belgium	17 Oct. 1908 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Belgium	Belgian composer and pianist
Solovyov (or Soloviov), Nikolay Feopemptovich	9 May 1846 Petrozavodsk, Russia	27 Dec. 1916 St. Petersburg, Russia	Russian composer, critic and teacher
Somary, Johannes more...
Somere, Édouard-Constantin de (known as Somers) more...	10 Feb. 1789 Ghent, Belgium	14 Apr. 1846 Ghent, Belgium	Belgian composer, pianist, organist, viola player, conductor and teacher
Somers, Harry more...
Somervell, Arthur more...
Somis, Giovanni Battista more...	25 Dec. 1686 Turin, Italy	14 Aug. 1763 Turin, Italy	Italian violinist and composer
Somis, Giovanni Lorenzo more...	1688 possibly Turin, Italy	1775 Turin, Italy	Italian violinist and composer, brother of Giovanni Battista
Sommer, Vladimir more...
Sommerfeldt, Oistein more...
Sommerlatte, Ulrich more...
Sommerro, Henning more...
Sondheim, Stephen more...
Sonevytsky, Ihor more...	1926		trained as a composer and musicologist in Munich and immigrated to the United States. As a co-founder of the Ukrainian Music Institute of America, Sonevytsky has been active in arranging festivals of Ukrainian music. He is a prolific composer with over sixty art songs to his credit
Sonninen, Ahti more...	11 Jul. 1914 Kuopion maalaiskunta, Finland	28 Jul. 1984 Helsinki, Finland	a Finnish composer who was firmly rooted in Neo-Classicism. However, Neo-Classicism is only one of his stylistic frameworks, albeit the most important one. His output is equally varied in other ways too, being by turns devoutly spiritual, vividly humorous, archaically Finnish or internationally urban. Works for children and film music form further self-contained genres in his output. His Pessi and Illusia is one of the best-known Finnish ballets
Sophie Elisabeth of Braunsweig (Braunschwieg) Wolfenbuttel	1613	1676	composer
Sophia Fredericka Wilhelmina (Margravin von Bayreuth) (see Wilhelmina, (Friederike Wilhelmine Sophie) Margravin von Bayreuth)
Sophronios more...
Sor, Fernando (baptized Joseph Fernando Macari Sors or José Fernando Macarurio Sors) more...	14 Feb. 1778 Barcelona, Spain	10 Jul. 1839 Paris, France	a Spanish guitarist and composer known sometimes in Spain as the 'Beethoven of the Guitar'
Sorabji, Kaikhosru Shapurji more...
Sordello more...	fl. 1220-1269		a 13th-century Italian troubadour, born in the municipality of Goito in the province of Mantua. He is perhaps best remembered for the praise heaped on him by other poets: he is praised by Dante Alighieri in the De vulgari eloquentia, and in the Purgatorio of The Divine Comedy is made the type of patriotic pride. He is also the hero of a well-known poem by Robert Browning.
Sorensen, Bent more...
Sorenson, Torsten more...
Sorge, Georg Andreas more...
Soriano, Francesco more...	1548 Soriano, Italy	1549/1621 possibly Rome	Italian composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the most skilled members of the Roman School in the first generation after Palestrina
Sorkocevic, Antun more...
Sorkocevic, Luka more...	1734	1789	Croatian symphonist
Sorozabal, Pablo more...
Sortes, Jean more...	fl. 14th century	1394	Flemish composer and organist
Sosa, Mercedes more...
Sosa, Omar more...	10 Apr. 1965 Camagüey, Cuba		Cuban pianist and composer of popular music
Sotelo, Mauricio more...	2 Oct. 1961 Madrid, Spain		he studied composition with Francis Burt at the Vienna University of Music, where the official jury unanimously awarded him the Prize of Honour for graduate studies in 1987. Subsequently, he honed his skills with the master composer Luigi Nono in Berlin and Venice. Sotelo has been awarded the Spanish National Music Prize (2001), the Queen Sofía International Prize for Composition (2000), and the Förder Preis of the Foundation Ernst von Siemens (1997), among others, as well as a number of similar prizes in Hamburg (1996), Köln (1992) and Vienna (1989), and the Composition Prizes of SGAE (1989) and the National Youth Orchestra of Spain (1987). His works have been selected for the UNESCO International Composers' Tribune in Paris and have been recognised by international institutions such as the Körber Foundation in Hamburg (1994), the Alban Berg Foundation in Vienna (1987-89) and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany (1985-87) [information provided by Gemma Romero Junquera]
Soto de Langa, Francisco more...	1534 Langa, Spain	1619 Rome, Italy	Spanish composer, editor and singer who in 1590 served as interim maestro di cappella of the Papal Choir
Sou Alle, Ali Ben more...
Soubre, Étienne more...	30 Dec. 1813 Liège, Belgium	8 Sep. 1871 Liège, Belgium	Belgian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher
Souffriau, Arsène more...	26 Feb. 1926 Ixelles, Belgium		Belgian composer, conductor and teacher
Soulage, Marcelle more...
Souliaert, Carolus more...
Souris, Andre more...
Sousa, John Philip more...	6 Nov. 1854 Washington, D.C., USA	6 Mar. 1932 Reading, Pennsylvania, USA	American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era known particularly for American military and patriotic marches. Because of his mastery of march composition and resultant prominence, he is known as "The March King". In public he was typically referenced by his full name
Sousa Carvalho, Joao de more...	22 Feb. 1745 Estremoz, Portugual	c.1799 Alentejo, Portugual	foremost Portuguese composer of his generation
Sousa Dias, Antonio more...	1959 Lisbon, Portugual		Portuguese composer noted for his work for cinema and television
Souster, Tim more...	29 Jan. 1943 Bletchley, Milton Keynes, England	1 Mar. 1994 Cambridge, England	British composer best known for his electronic music output
Souther, Richard more...	20th century, USA		American composer, producer, arranger, sound designer and multi-keyboardis
Soutullo, Reveriano more...
Soveral, Isabel more...
Sowa, Jakub		1593	Polish composer
Spaan, Bart more...
Spadi, Giovanni Battista more...
Spagna, Juan di more...
Spahlinger, Mathias more...
Spahn, Claudia more...
Spalding, Albert	1888	1953	American violinist, a student of Chiti and Buitrago before entering the Bologna Conservatory at the age of 14, he lated studied with Lefort. He made his American debut in 1908. He gave the US premiers of the violin concertos of Dohnanyi, Elgar and Barber. His own works include an orchestra suite, 2 violin concertos, a string quartet, a violin sonata
Sparagna, Ambrogio more...
Sparke, Philip more...
Sparnaay, Harry more...
Spasov, Bozhidar more...
Spassov, Ivan more...
Spath, Andreas more...
Speak, Jeroen more...
Spedding, Alan John more...
Speer, Daniel more...
Speight, John more...
Spendiaryan (or Spendiarow, Spendiarov), Alexander Afanasii	1 Nov. 1871 Kakhovka, Ukraine	7 May 1928 Erevan, Armenia	Urainian composer and conductor
Sperger, Johann Mathias more...	23 Mar. 1750 Feldsberg, Lower Austria (today Valtice, Czech Republic)	13 May 1812 Ludwigslust, Austria	studied with the organist Franz Anton Becker, before moving to vienna. His reputation rested largely on his ability as a player of the double bass. He was commemorated by a performance, a fortnight after his death of Mozart's requiem. He wrote a large part of his music , his concertos, cassations, serenades and 45 symphonies during a period he spent in Pressburg [entry suggested by Kenneth John Holmes]
Spergher, Ignazio more...
Speth, Johann(es) more...	9 Nov. 1664 Speinshart, Germany	after 1719	German organist and composer, who was organist at Augsburg Cathedral from Nov. 1692 [entry prompted by Tony Staes]
Speuy, Hendrik more...
Spicer, Paul more...
Spisak, Michal more...	14 Sep. 1914 Dabrowa Górnicza, Poland	29 Jan. 1965 Paris, France	Polish violinist and compser who after studying with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, remained in France. From 1937 he worked exclusively as a composer
Spivakovsky, Michael more...
Spoel, Adrian van der more...
Spoelberch de Lovenjoul, Jean-Henri-Joseph (see Lovenjoul, Jean-Henri-Joseph Spoelberch de)
Spoelstra, Mark more...
Spohr, Louis (originally Ludwig) more...	5 Apr 1784 Brauschweig, Germany	22 Oct 1859 Kassel, Germany	a prolific composer (his opus list amounts to over 150 works), Spohr was a noted violinist, and invented the violin chin-rest. He was also a significant conductor, being one of the first to use a baton and also inventing rehearsal letters, the large letters which are found on sheet music (they enable a conductor to ask the orchestra to start playing "from letter C", for example)
Spoliansky, Mischa more...
Sponga (or Spongia), Francesco (see Usper, Francesco)
Spontini, Gasparo more...	14 Nov. 1774 Ancona, Italy	24 Jan. 1851 Ancona, Italy	Italian opera composer and conductor
Sporck, Antal more...
Sporck, Jo more...
Sporleder, Charlotte	1836 Germany		a composer of violin and piano works
Sprenkle, Elam Ray more...
Sprimont, Paul more...	25 Jun. 1928 Brussels, Belgium		Belgian composer, organist, pianist and teacher
Squarcialupi, Antonio di Bartolomeo more...	27 Mar. 1416 Florence, Italy	6 Jul. 1480 Florence, Italy	Italian organist and composer. He was the most famous organist in Italy in the mid-15th century and was thge original owner of what is today known as the Squarcialupi Codex, an illuminated manuscript compiled in Florence, Italy in the early 15th century. It is the single largest primary source of music of the 14th-century Italian trecento (also known as the "Italian ars nova")
Squire, J.H. more...	1880	1956	a cellist, had an early life full of incident. He ran away to sea as a boy and later killed a man in self-defence. He then entered the world of the light orchestra and was written a whisker of joining that on the ill-fated Titanic. Instead, and in the year next year (1913), he formed the J.H. Squire Celeste Octet (piano, celeste, strings) which was to give many concerts and over 500 broadcasts 1923 and the mid 1950s (the Octet was in abeyance between 1939 and around 1949) and made many records notably for Columbia. His own compositions, single movement genre pieces, were feature by the Octet - An Irish Love Song, The Picaninies' Picnic, An Ant's Antics and Moonbeams and Shadows were among their titles, some of them featuring solos for the cellos
Squire, William Henry more...	8 Aug 1871 Ross-on-Wye	17 Mar 1963 London, U.K.	he was at least as well known as a cellist as he was a composer. Educated at Kingsbridge Grammar School in South Devon, he became a Foundation Scholar at the RCM, in 1883 where he studied the cello with Edward Howell and composition with Parry and Stanford. His London debut was in 1890 at the St James' Hall; he played in the Covent Garden Orchestra 1894-7 and the Queen's Hall Orchestra 1897-1901, toured widely as a soloist, notably with Clara Butt. He came to Doncaster in 1908 and played his own arrangements of Chopin and Offenbach (Kennerley Rumford, Clara Butt's husband, sang in the same concert Squire's song For Me Alone). Squire returned to Doncaster in 1910 and played his Meditation in C. He taught at the RCM between 1898 and 1917 and at the Guildhall School 1911-17 and was associated with the Performing Rights Society between 1926 and 1953. His last public concert appearance was in 1941 in Exeter Cathedral
St. John, Georgie Boyden		1899 New York - Windsor Hotel fire	composer of songs
Staal, Ede more...
Stabile, Annibale more...	c.1535 probably Naples, Italy	Apr. 1595 Kraków, Poland	an Italian composer of the Renaissance. He was a member of the Roman School of composition, and probably was a pupil of Palestrina. He was active mainly at Rome but moved briefly to Kraków, Poland at the end of his life
Stabler, Gerhard more...
Stachowski, Marek more...	1936 Piekary Slaskie, Poland	3 Dec. 2004 Kraków, Poland	Polish composer who studied with Krzysztof Penderecki at the State Higher School of Music in Kraków
Stade, Wilhelm more...
Staden, Johann more...
Stadler, Anton more...
Stadlmayr, Johann more...
Stadtfeld, Alexandre more...	28 Aug. 1826 Wiesbaden, Germany	4 Nov. 1853 Brussels, Belgium	German-born, naturalised Belgian composer
Staebler, Gerhard more...
Staeps, Hans Ulrich more...
Staes, Ferdinand(-Philippe-Joseph) more...	bap. 16 Dec. 1748 Brussels, Belgium	23 Mar. 1809 Brussels, Belgium	Belgian composer, harpsichordist and organist
Stafford Smith, John (see Smith, John Stafford)
Stahmer, Klaus Hinrich more...
Stahnke, Manfred more...
Stainer, John more...
Stainov, Petko more...
Stallaert, Alphonse more...
Stalling, Carl more...	10 Nov. 1892	29 Nov. 1972	composer and arranger of music for animated cartoons. He is most closely associated with the Looney Tunes shorts produced by Warner Bros, where he worked, averaging one complete score each week, for twenty-two years. Working together with the composers Max (Maximilian Raoul Walter) Steiner (1888-1971) and Scott Bradley, Carl Stalling developed the 'click track', a means of synchronising music with action on the screen
Stalpart van der Wiele, Jan Baptist more...
Stalpers, Harry more...
Stam, Edward more...
Stam, George more...
Stam, Henk more...
Stambultsyan, Tigran more...
Stamitz, Carl (Karel) more...	7 May 1745 Mannheim	9 Nov. 1801	Bohemian composer. He was the most prominent of the second generation of the so-called Mannheim school. He is the brother of Johann Anton Stamitz
Stamitz, (Johann) Anton more...	1750 0r 1754 Mannheim	1789 or 1809 Paris, France	a German (and second-generation Bohemian) composer and violinist
Stamitz, Johann Wenzel Anton (Jan Vaclav Antonin) more...	19 Jun. 1717 Havlickuv Brod, Czech Republic	27 Mar. 1757 Mannheim	Czech composer and violinist. Johann was the father of Carl Stamitz and Anton Stamitz, also composers
Stammet, Arthur more...	1959 Luxembourg		baritone singer and composer from Luxembourg
Standford [Gledhill], [John] Patric more...	5 Feb. 1939 Barnsley, England	23 Apr. 2014 Suffolk	English composer
Stanchinsky, Aleksey (or Alexei, Alexey) Vladimirovich more...	21 (Old Style 9) Mar. 1888 Obolsunovo, Russia	6 Oct. 1914 Logachevo, Russia	pupil of Zhilayev and Taneyev at the Moscow Conservatory, he was influenced firstly by Mussorgsky and then by Skryabin. He left a series of interesting and experimental piano compositions
Stanculescu-Vosganian, Michaela (see Vosganian, Mihaela)
Stanfield, Stephen more...
Stanford, Charles Villiers more...	30 Sep. 1852 Dublin, Ireland	29 Mar. 1924	Irish organist, pianist and composer
Stangl, Burkhard more...
Stanhope, Paul more...
Stankovich, Evgeny (Yevgeny) more...	19 Sep. 1942 Svalava, Ukraine		studied composition with Adam Soltis at the Lviv Conservatory (1962-63), and with Boris Liatoshinsky (1965-68) and Miroslav Skorik (1968-70) at the Kiev Conservatory. In 1970 to 1976, he worked as an editor for Muzykna Ukraina, the only music publishing house in Soviet Ukraine. For many years he is a professor of composition at the Ukrainian Music Academy (former Kiev Conservatory)
Stanley, Albert Augustin more...
Stanley, John more...
Stants, Iet more...
Stappen, Crispin Van more...	c.1465	10 Mar. 1522 Cambrai	Flemish singer and composer
Starck von Bronsart, Ingeborg more...
Starer, Robert more...
Starokadomsky (or Starokadomski), Mihail Leonidovich	31 May 1901 Brest-Litovsk, Russia	24 Apr. 1954 Moscow, Russia	Russian organist and composer
Starter, Jan Janszoon more...
Starzer, Josef more...
Stastny-Pokorny, Jaroslav (see Graham, Peter)
Statham, Heathcote more...
Staub, Volker more...
Staud, Johannes Maria more...
Staude, Christoph more...
Steadman-Allen, (Raymond) Ray Victor more...	18 Sep 1922 London, UK	15 Dec. 2014 UK	particularly associated with the Salvation Army in which he has attained high rank, he has produced hundreds of excellently crafted arrangements and original compositions for S.A. bands and songster brigades, many of them based on song tunes long popular in Army citadels
Stebbins, George Waring	1869	1930	American organist and composer who studied first in the USA with Huntington Woodman, and thenin Paris with Guilmant. He became organist of the Emmanuel Baptist Church in Brooklyn, later also of the Plymouth Church in Brooklyn
Stedron, Milos sr more...
Stedron, Milos jr more...
Steelant, Philippe Van more...	fl. middle 17th century		Belgian composer and organist active in Anvers
Steemson, Miss	fl. 1780s Lancaster, UK		church organist in Lancster, England who wrote Dirge for funerals
Steenhuis, Francois more...
Steenwick, Gisbert more...
Stefani, Andrea more...
Steffan, Ernest more...	1896 Vienna, Austria	1967 Berlin, Germany	an Austrian-born composer famous for his operettas. In 1921 his operetta Das Milliardensouper premiered in Berlin. It was followed by Agri, premiered in Vienna, as well as Muenchausen, Toni from Vienna, Katherina and his version of Karl Milloecke's Gasparone which were all premiered in Berlin. In 1933 he moved to England, where he taught singing and the piano, wrote film music and began writing musicals. His musical Darling I Hate You was premiered in Nuernberg in 1954 [information provided by Mrs. Lilian Ronaldson]
Steffan, Joseph Anton more...
Steffani, Abbate Agostino more...	25 Jul. 1654 Castelfranco, Tuscany	12 Feb. 1728 Frankfurt am Main	Italian composer and pupil of Kerll who served the Electoral Court in Munich and as choirmaster at Hanover; in addition to his sacred and instrumental copositions, Steffani also wrote several operas
Steffaro, Julius more...
Steffe, William more...			composer of the hymn Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory (c. 1852) to words by Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910
Steffen, Wolfgang more...
Steffens, Johann more...
Steffens, Walter more...
Steggall, Charles more...
Stehman, Jacques more...	8 Jul. 1912 Brussels, Belgium	20 May 1975 Knokke-Heist, Belgium	Belgian composer, painist, teacher, musicologist and music critic
Steibelt, Daniel more...	22 Oct. 1765 Berlin, Germany	2 Oct. 1823 Saint Petersburg, Russia	German pianist and composer who was appointed director of the Royal Opera in St. Petersburg in 1811
Steidl, Pavel more...
Steiger, Rand more...
Steigleder, Johann Ulrich more...
Stein, Gottfried more...
Stein, Leon more...
Steinbach, Emil more...	15 Nov. 15, 1849 Lengenrieden, Baden	6 Dec. 1919 Mainz, Germany	German composer and conductor
Steinberg (or Shteynberg), Maximilian Oseyevich more...	4 Jul. (Old Style 22 Jun.) 1883 Vilnius, Lithuania	6 Dec. 1946 St. Petersburg, Russia	Russian composer and teacher who studied at University of St. Petersburg and with Rimsky-Korsakov (his father-in-law from 1908), and Glazunov. He became professor of composition St. Petersburg Conservatory from 1908, and director from 1934. Shostakovich was one of his students
Steiner, Fred more...	24 Feb. 1923 New York City, USA	23 Jun. 2011 Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico	American composer, conductor, orchestrator, film historian and arranger for television, radio and film
Steiner, Max (Maximilian Raoul Walter) more...	10 May 1888 Vienna, Austria	28 Dec. 1971 Hollywood, California, US	Austrian-American composer of music for films, probably his most famous score being that for Gone with the Wind
Steiner, Timo more...	6 May 1976 Estonia		Estonian composer
Steinhardt, Victor more...	1943 Los Angeles, California, USA		composer and professor emeritus of piano at the University of Oregon
Steinke, Gunter more...
Steinmann, Conrad more...
Steketee, Huug more...
Stekke, Léon more...	12 Oct. 1904 Soignies, Belgium	24 Jan. 1970 Anderlecht, Belgium	Belgian composer, choral director and teacher
Stella, Scipione (or Scipione Dentice) more...	1560	1635	Italian composer of five books of madrigals. He was a nephew of Fabrizio Dentice
Stenhammar, Wilhelm	1871 Sweden	1927	a sober and business-like classicist, whose technical skill and safe, aristocratic taste place him in a category of his own. His six string quartets are exceptional and his two symphonies and two piano concertos masterful, as is the almost impressionistically glowing orchestral serenade. His songs have stature and class. In addition to composing, he was also one of the most prominent pianists of his day and a far-seeing conductor who brought to Sweden numerous first-performances of European avant-garde compositions
Stenius, Torsten	1918	1964	church organist and composer mainly of sacred vocal works such as cantatas, oratorios and the Svenskt requiem (Swedish '-language' Requiem) and organ works
Stepan, Josef Antonin more...
Stephan, Rudy more...
Stephanus de Liège (see de Liège, Stephanus)
Stephanovic, Miko (Lyle "Spud" Murphy) more...	19 Aug. 1908 Berlin, Germany	5 Aug. 2005 Hollywood, California, USA	an exceptionally versatile jazz and swing musician, who played several instruments, wrote over a hundred instrumental compositions, led his own orchestra, and made swing arrangements for bands such as those of Benny Goodman, Fletcher Henderson and Bob Crosby
Stepovoy (or Stepovyi), Jakov (or Yakym) Stepanovich	1893 Kharkov, Ukraine	1921	Ukrainian composer
Steppe, Raoul more...	24 Jan. 1882 Alost, Belgium	2 Dec. 1975 Saint-Nicolas, Belgium	Belgian composer, organist and teacher
Steptoe, Roger more...
Sterkel, Johann Franz Xaver more...
Sternberg, Erich Walter more...
Sternefeld, Daniel more...	27 Nov. 1905 Anvers, Belgium	2 Jun. 1986 Uccle, Belgium	Belgian conductor and composer
Stetsenko (or Stetzenko), Kiril (or Kyril, Kyrylo)	1882 Kiev, Ukraine	1922	Ukrainian composer
Steuerlein, Johann more...
Steup, Hendrik Coenraad more...
Steveniers, Jacques more...	1817 Liège, Belgium	28 Jun. 1899 Brussels, Belgium	Belgian violinist and composer
Stevens, Bernard more...
Stevens, Jean-Baptiste more...	29 Sep. 1796 Enghien, Belgium	6 May 1865 Mons, Belgium	Belgian composer, violinist, conductor and teacher
Stevens, John I more...
Stevens, Leith more...
Stevens, Richard John Samuel more...
Stevenson, John more...
Stevenson, Ronald more...	6 Mar. 6 1928 Blackburn, England	28 Mar. 28 2015 Edinburgh, Scotland	British composer
Stewart, Andrew more...
Stewart, Bob more...
Stewart, Charles Hylton more...
Stewart, David A more...
Stewart, "Slam" Leroy Elliott	1914	1987	one of America's pre-eminent performers on double bass, appearing with Art Tatum, Billy Taylor, Erroll Garner, Benny Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, et al. His best-known composition is Flat Foot Floogie
Stiastny, Bernard Wenceslaus more...	1770 Prague, 1770		older brother of Joseph (see below), Bernard too was a Violoncellist, and was employed as first performer of his instrument in the orchestra of the Prague Theatre. Six Sonatas for two Violoncellos, and two instruction works were published by him. The first, entitled Il maestro e lo scolare, 8 imitazioni e 6 pezzi con fughe per due violoncelli ; the other is a cello method, entitled Methode de Violoncelle, in two parts
Stiastny Joseph more...	1743? Bohemia		information regarding his education and his life are very limited. He is said to have been in the Prague Orchestra in 1800. On the title page of his Op. 3, consisting of a Divertimento for Violoncello, he describes himself as Violoncellist to the Grand Duke at Frankfort. As the brief existence of the Grand Duchy of Frankfort, of which the Regent was Prince Primate of Dalberg, occurred within the years 1810-1814, there can scarcely be a doubt that Stiastny resided at Frankfort during that time. Later, about 1820, he bore the title of Musical Director of Nuremberg, and in that year lived at Mannheim. He appears to have gone from there to Great Britain, for many of his later works, as, for example, the Trois Duos Concertans (Op. 8) and the Six pieces faciles (Op. 9), are dedicated to Englishmen. Amongst these compositions the Concertino (Op. 7), dedicated to Robert Lindley, may be favourably distinguished from similar productions among the Cello compositions at that period. The remaining Cello pieces of J. Stiastny, which consist of Variations (Op. 10), Rondo and Variations (Op. 12), two Sonatas with Bass (Op. 2), twelve light pieces for two Cellos (Op. 4), six similar ones (Op. 5), three Concerted Duos (Op. 6), and Six Solos with Bass (Op. 11) are qualified to be placed amongst the best productions of the older Cello literature, as they contained effects which for that period were entirely novel
Stich, Jan Vaclav more...
Stiehl, Heinrich Franz Daniel more...
Stiel, Ludwig more...
Stiles, George more...
Still, William Grant more...
Stine, Robert more...
Stinfalico, Eterio (see Marcello, Alessandro)
Stirling, Elizabeth	1819 England	1895	an organist and composer who was not given a degree of Oxford University even though she qualified because women were not eligible. Her song All Among the Barley was a prize-winner
Stobaeus, Johann more...
Stock, David more...	1939 USA		American composer active in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA for many years. He is currently a professor of music at Duquesne University and is best known for his years as composer-in-residence with the Seattle Symphony and his many years as music director of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, an organization which he founded
Stock, Jeffrey more...
Stockaert, Adrien more...	fl. second half 16th century		composer originally from Belgium
Stockem, Johannes de (see Stokem, Johannes de)
Stockhausen, Karlheinz more...	22 Aug. 1928 Burg Mödrath, nr Cologne, Germany	5th Dec. 2007 Kurten, Germany	a German composer, one of the most important and controversial composers of the 20th century
Stockhausen, Markus more...	2 May 1957 Cologne, Germany		son of Karlheinz, trumpeter and composer
Stockhausen, Simon more...	5 Jun. 1967 Cologne, Germany		son of Karlheinz, keyboard and saxophone player and composer
Stockmeier, Wolfgang more...
Stoeckel, Gustave Jacob	1819 Bavaria	1907	composer and first Professor of Music at Yale, his association with Yale began in 1855 as 'Organist and Chapel Master'. His appointment as Professor of Music did not occur until 1890, a few years before his retirement and near the time when Yale began offering a degree in music. Among his musical output, Stoeckel composed six operas
Stojanovits, Peter Lazar more...
Stojanovic, Petar	1877	1957	a violinist who performed throughout Europe, composed concerts and sonatas for the violin, viola and other instruments, along with other chamber pieces
Stojowski, Zygmunt (Sigismond or Sigismund) Denis Antoni de Jourdan more...	4 May 1870 Strzelce, Poland	5 Nov. 1946 New York, NY, USA	a composer, pianist and teacher who studied with Wladyslaw Zelenski in Cracow and Léo Delibes, Louis Diémer, Theodore Dubois and Jules Massenet at the Paris Conservatoire. He was also in a select group of Paderewski students. Since October 1905 he lived in the USA, where his career gradually shifted from composition to appearing as a soloist with orchestras and in recital; he also taught piano performance at a number of prestigious institutions
Stokem (or Stockem), Johannes de more...	1445 Stokkem, nr. Liège, Belgium	1501	Flemish composer who was in the service of Beatrice of Aragon, Queen of Hungary, after her marriage to Matthias Corvinus. By 1487 he is found as a singer in the Papal Choir in Rome and seems to have been a musician of contemporary importance. This is witnessed by the fact that four chansons by him are included by the publisher Petrucci in his Harmonice Musices Odhecaton of 1501, the first printed collection of part-songs
Stokkermans, Joop more...
Stokowski, Leopold more...
Stolcer-Slavenski, Josip more...	11 May 1896 Cakovec, Croatia	30 Nov. 1955 Belgrade, Yugoslavia	Croatian composer
Stolk, Pieter more...
Stoll, David more...
Stollery, Pete more...
Stoltzer, Thomas more...
Stoltzman, Richard more...
Stolz, Robert more...
Stolzel, Gottfried more...
Stone, Carl more...
Stookey, Noel (Paul) more...	30 Dec. 1937		singer-songwriter best known as "Paul" in the trio Peter, Paul and Mary. He is an alumnus of Michigan State University. His best-known composition is The Wedding Song (There is Love)
Stoppelenburg, Willem more...
Storace, Bernardo more...
Storace, Marc more...	7 Oct. 1951 Sliema, Malta		Maltese rock vocalist and songwriter. His career in music started in the 1960s, but he is most noted for his position as lead singer and songwriter of Swiss rock band Krokus from 1980
Storace, Stephen more...
Storbekken, Egil more...
Storme, Jean-Martin more...	6 Mar. 1769 Wervicq (Flandre Occidentale)	1 Nov. 1857 Wervicq	Belgian composer and organist
Stott, Wally (see Morley, Angela)
Stoumon, Oscar more...	20 Aug. 1835 Liège, Belgium	1900	Belgian composer, music critic and theatre director
Stover, Franklin more...	5 Nov. 1953 Sacramento, CA, USA		American composer
Stoyanov, Vesselin more...
Strachey, Jack more...	1894	1972	Strachey was at his peak in the 1940s and 1950s. He composed for musicals - Belinda Fair (1949), Dear Little Billie and Lady Luck - and revues like Spread it Abroad from which came his biggest hit, the song These Foolish Things. He wrote several other popular songs as well as orchestral numbers, marches including, reflecting his long preoccupation with the theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, Overture and Beginners and Theatreland
Stradella, Alessandro more...	3 Apr. 1639 Rome, Italy	25 Feb. 1682 Genoa, Italy	Italian composer of the middle Baroque. He was born in Rome, and was murdered in Genoa
Straesser, Joep more...
Straight, Charles Theodore (Charley) more...	16 Jan. 1891 USA	24 Sep. 1940 Chicago, USA	American pianist, bandleader and composer
Strange, Allen more...	26 Jun. 1943 Calexico, CA, USA		American composer and performer. He studied composition with Michalsky at State University, Fullerton (BA, MA 1967) and later with Erickson, Partch, Gaburo and Oliveros (composition and electronic media) at the University of California, San Diego (1967-8, 1970-71)
Strange, Nicholas le more...
Strasfogel, Ignace more...
Strassburg, Gottfried von more...		c.1210	author of the Middle High German courtly romance Tristan, which is regarded, alongside Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival and the Nibelungenlied, as one of great narrative masterpieces of the German Middle Ages. He is also the composer of a small number of surviving lyrics
Strategier, Herman more...
Stratford, William monk of more...	fl. 15th century		the composer of a four part Magnificat that features in the Eton Choirbook
Strattner, Georg Christoph more...
Straus, Oscar more...	6 Mar. 1870 Vienna, Austria	11 Jan. 1954 Bad Ischl, Austria	Viennese composer of operettas. An anecdote states that his original name was actually Strauss, but for professional purposes he deliberately omitted the final 's', since he wished not to be associated with the illustrious Strauss family of Vienna. However, he did follow the advice of Johann Strauss II in 1898 about abandoning the prospective lure of writing waltzes for the more lucrative business of writing for the theatre
Strauss, Christoph more...
Strauss, Eduard more...	15 Mar. 1835 Vienna, Austria	28 De. 1916 Vienna, Austria	Austrian composer who, together with brothers Johann Strauss II and Josef Strauss formed the Strauss musical dynasty. The family dominated the Viennese light music world for decades, creating many waltzes and polkas for Austrian emperors and their courtiers. He was affectionately known in his family as 'Edi'
Strauss, Franz more...
Strauss, Johann I more...	14 Mar. 1804 Vienna, Austria	25 Sep. 1849 Vienna, Austria	(German: Johann Strauß (Vater), "Johann Strauss (father)"; in English also known as Johann Strauss Sr) Austrian composer known particularly for his waltzes and for popularizing it alongside Josef Lanner thereby (without intention) setting the foundations for his sons to carry on his musical dynasty. His most famous piece, however, is probably the Radetzky March (named after Joseph Radetzky von Radetz) whereas his most famous waltz is probably the Lorelei Rhine Klänge op. 154
Strauss, Johann II more...	25 Oct. 1825 Vienna, Austria	3 Jun. 1899 Vienna, Austria	(German: Johann Strauß (Sohn), "Johann Strauss (son)"; in English also Johann Strauss the Younger, Johann Strauss Jr., Johann Sebastian Strauss) Austrian composer known especially for his waltzes, such as The Blue Danube
Strauss, Johann III more...	1866 Vienna, Austria	1939 Berlin, Germany	Austrian composer, son of Eduard Strauss and grandson of Johann Strauss I. He was unofficially entrusted with the task of upholding his family's tradition after the disbandment of the Strauss Orchestra by his father in 1901. His talents were not fully realised during his lifetime as musical tastes had changed in the Silver Age with more popular composers such as Lehár and Oscar Straus dominating the Viennese musical scene with their operettas although his uncle, Johann Strauss II supervised his development as a musician, a fact disputed by Eduard Strauss
Strauss, Josef more...	20 Aug. 1827 Vienna, Austria	22 Jul. 1870 Vienna, Austria	Austrian composer. He was fondly referred to as 'Pepi' by his family and close friends. He was the son of Johann Strauss I and brother of Johann Strauss II and Eduard Strauss
Strauss, Richard more...	11 Jun. 1864 Munich, Germany	8 Sep. 1949 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany	German composer of the late Romantic era, particularly noted for his tone poems and operas. He was also a noted conductor
Strauwen, Jean more...	22 Mar. 1878 Laeken, Belgium	4 Jan. 1947 Brussels, Belgium	Belgian composer and teacher
Stravinsky, Igor Fyodorovich more...	17/18 Jun. 1882 Orenienbaum, Russia	6/7 Apr. 1971 New York, USA	a quintessentially cosmopolitan Russian, Stravinsky was one of the most influential composers and artists of 20th century music, both in the West and in his native land
Strayhorn, Billy more...
Strecker, Heinrich more...
Streicher (or Streikher), Ljuba (or Lyubou )	3 Mar. 1888 Wladikawkas	31 Mar. 1958 Moscwo, Russia	composer
Strelnikow (or Strelnikov), Nikolai	2 May 1999 Plotzk	12 Apr. 1939 Leningrad, Russia	composer
Strens, Jules more...	5 Dec. 1893 Ixelles, Belgium	19 Mar. 1971 Bruxelles, Belgium	Belgian composer, violinist, organist and conductor
Streulens, Herman more...	19 Sep. 1936 Comines, Belgium		Belgian composer, pianist, organist, conductor and teacher
Strietman, Willem more...
Striggio, Alessandro more...	&c.1450 Mantua, Italy	29 Feb. 1592 Mantua, Italy	Italian composer, instrumentalist and diplomat of the Renaissance. He composed numerous madrigals as well as dramatic music, and by combining the two, became the inventor of madrigal comedy. One of his most impressive works, and one of the most impressive achievements in Renaissance polyphony, is his motet Ecce beatam lucem for 40 independent voices, which he wrote for the marriage of a Bavarian duke and which was first performed in Munich in 1568. There is some evidence that he may have had the music for this piece with him on his diplomatic visit to London in 1567, and Thomas Tallis may have seen it and been either inspired or challenged by it, for shortly afterwards Tallis wrote his own 40-voice tour-de-force Spem in alium for Queen Elizabeth. Unlike the setting by Tallis, Striggio specifically indicates for the voices to be doubled by instruments. In the premiere of Striggio's motet the forces included eight flutes, eight violi, eight trombones, harpsichord and theorbo. The motet is a polychoral composition for four choirs, which include sixteen, ten, eight and six voices respectively, all spatially separated. His son, also named Alessandro Striggio, wrote the libretto for Monteverdi's Orfeo.
Striker, Victor more...
Strindberg, Henrik more...
Stringari, Antonio more...
Strobl, Bruno more...	1949 Klagenfurt, Austria		Austrian composer
Strong, George Templeton more...	26 May 1856 New York, USA	27 Jun. 1948 Geneva, Switzerland	American viola player and composer
Stroppa, Marco more...	8 Dec. 1959 Verona, Italy		Italian composer
Strouse, Charles more...	7 Jun. 1928 New York City, NY, USA		three-time Tony Award-winning American composer and lyricist
Strozzi, Barbara	1619	1664 or later Venice	in 1619, Barbara Strozzi's name was entered into the baptismal register of the Church of Santa Sofia in Venice, her mother a servant in the household of Giulio Strozzi, a respected man of letters. Giulio adopted and educated Barbara, and eventually made her his heiress. Barbara presided over the meetings of the Accademia dei Unisoni, (a circle of Venetian intellectuals) whose participants she dazzled with formidable gifts both personal and musical. She was a student of Cavalli and one of the most prolific cantata composers of the 17th century
Strozzi, Gregorio more...	c.1615	after 1687	Italian composer and organist
Strungk, Delphin more...
Strungk, Nicolaus Adam more...
Stuart, Leslie (pseudonym of Thomas Augustine Barrett) more...	15 Mar 1864 Southport, UK	27 Mar 1928 Richmond, Surrey	primarily remembered as the composer of the musical comedy Floradora (1899, revived in 1915 and 1931). Several of his 65 or some songs especially Soldiers of the Queen, The Bandolero, Little Dolly Daydream, Lily of Laguna and a number of 'coon songs', became hits. His instrumental pieces included at least one Cakewalk. He also used the pseudonym Lester Thomas
Stuart, Mary more...
Stucken, Frank van der more...	15 Dec. 1858 Fredericksburg	16 Aug. 1929 Hamburg, Germany	composer and conductor
Stucky, Steven more...
Stuntz, Joseph Hartmann more...
Sturges, Edmond (see Turges, Edmond)
Sturm, Hartmut more...
Sturton, Edmund more...	fl. 15th century		presumably the composer of the six part Ave Maria ancilla Trinitatis in the Lambeth choirbook and the Gaude virgo mater Christi in the Eton Choirbook whose six voices cover a fifteen-note range
St. Victor, Adam of (se Adam of St. Victor)
Styne, Jule more...
Suarda, Marie Virginia			composer who published in Venice in 1692
Subligny, Madam			composer who published in London in 1700
Subotnick, Morton more...
Subramaniam, L more...
Suchon, Eugen more...
Suda, Peeter more...
Suder, Joseph more...
Sueur, Jean Francois Le more...
Sugar, Miklos more...
Sugawara, Meiro more...
Sugiyama, Haseo more...
Suilamo, Harri more...	22 Mar. 1954 Uskela, Finland		a composer of brief, concentrated and rapidly moving works all polished to the utmost in their melodic and harmonic details. Tonal colour, including modern playing techniques, play an important role in his works, and on occasion he makes use of microintervals. Suilamo writes above all chamber music. His only orchestral work Aiva (1991) is also written much like chamber music, favouring solo lines and small alternating instrumental groups
Suk, Josef sr more...	1874	1935	eminent Czech violinist, pedagogue and composer (1874-1935) trained on piano, violin and organ by his father, Josef Suk, he then studied violin with Bennewitz and chamber music with Wihan at the Prague Conservatory (1885-1891). He then pursued additional training in chamber music with Wihan and composition with Dvorak. In 1898 he married Dvorak's daughter. He began his career playing 2nd violin in Wihan's string quartet, which became known as the Czech Quartet in 1892. He remained a member of the quartet until his retirement in 1933. He also was professor of composition at the Prague Conservatory from 1922
Sulek, Stjepan more...
Sullivan, Arthur more...
Sulzer, Salomon more...
Sumac, Yma more...
Sumarokov, Victor more...
Sumarte, Richard more...
Sumera, Lepo more...	8 May 1950 Tallinn, Estonia	2 Jun. 2000 Tallinn, Estonia	studied composition with Veljo Tormis in his teens and, from 1968, with the Heino Eller at the Estonian Academy of Music (then Tallinn Conservatoire). After Ellers death (1970) he studied with Heino Jürisalu, graduating in 1973. He took post-graduate studies at the Moscow Conservatory (1979-1982) with Roman Ledenev. From the late 1980s electro-acoustic music (particularly - live electronics) became increasingly important in his output
Sumner, Peter more...	1929		his two careers embraced 31 years in the Royal Marines (18 of them as Director of Music, latterly of the C-in-C Fleet Band) and about eighteen years in the Doncaster Peripatetic Music Service, studied conducting at the Royal Academy of Music and is a respected arranger and composer, of marches for band (The Blue Light was written for a police training centre), short instrumental solos include Water Nymph for oboe (his principal instrument) and most recently a suite Celebration to mark Doncaster's 800th anniversary celebration of its first charter in 1994 and available in military band, brass band and orchestral versions
Sumsion, Herbert more...
Sun Ra more...
Suntjens, Simon-Hubert more...	8 May 1820 Roermond, The Netherlands	18 Oct. 1855 Hasselt, Belgium	Belgian composer and pianist
Suolahti, Heikki more...	2 Feb. 1920 Helsinki, Finland	27 Dec. 1936 Helsinki, Finland	before his untimely death at sixteen he wrote one symphony, the Sinfonia piccola (1935), which has remained in the repertoire of youth orchestras in Finland and in the USA
Suppe, Franz von more...	18 Apr 1819 Split, Dalmatia	21 May 1895 Vienna, Austria	born Francesco Ezechiele Ermenegildo, Cavaliere Suppé-Demelli, von Suppe was a composer and conductor notable for his operettas
Suremont, Pierre-Jean (Pierre-Hans) more...	1762 Anvers, Belgium	8 Mar. 1831 Anvers, Belgium	Belgian composer
Suriani, Alberta more...
Surinach, Carlos more...
Surman, John more...
Surmenian, Eric more...			graduated from the Marseille Conservatory on classical and jazz bass and from the Amsterdam Conservatory" on jazz bass cum laude. He leads and composes for his piano trio and for his string trio
Susato, Tielman (Tylman) more...	c.1500 probably Soest, Westphalia	c.1562 Low Countries	Renaissance Flemish composer, instrumentalist and publisher of music in Antwerp. While his place of birth is unknown, some scholars believe that because of his name Susato meaning de Soest, of the town of Soest he may be from the town of that name in Westphalia
Suslin, Viktor more...
Sussmayr, Franz Xaver more...
Suter, Hermann more...
Sutermeister, Heinrich more...	12 Aug. 1910 Feurerthalen, Schaffhausen , Switzerland	16 Mar. 1995 Morges, Waadt, Switzerland	Swiss composer known primarily for his operas
Sutherland, Margaret more...
Sutton, John more...	fl. 15th century		Fellow of Magdalen, Oxford in 1476 and of Eton in 1477, composed a setting of Sale Regina that appears in the Eton Choirbook
Sveinsson, Atli Heimir more...
Svendsen, Johan more...	30 Sep. 1840 Christiana (now Oslo), Norway	14 Jun. 1911,br>Copenhagen, Denmark	Norwegian composer, conductor and violinist
Svensson, Esbjorn more...
Svensson, Fabian more...
Svetlanov, Yevgeny more...	6 Sep. 1928 Moscow, Russia	3 May 2002 Moscow, Russia	Russian conductor, composer, and pianist who led Russia's State Symphony Orchestra for 35 years. He was best known for his interpretations of Russian compositions, including works by Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, and Rachmaninoff
Sviridov, Georgy Vasilevich more...	16 Dec. 1915 Fatezh/Kursk, Russia	5 Jan. 1998 Moscow, Russia	Russian pianist and composer. Among his compositions is a large quantity of vocal and choral music (romances; lyrics; songs, choruses; oratorio; cantata; concertos for chorus; etc.) as well as chamber music (trio; piano pieces) and orchestral music
Svoboda, Michael more...
Swaan, Egmont more...
Swain, Freda more...	31 Oct. 1902 Portsmouth, Hants. England	29 Jan. 1985 Chinnor, Oxon, England	English composer and pianist, wife of Arthur Alexander
Swann, Donald Ibrahím more...	30 Sep 1923 Llanelli, Wales	23 Mar 1994 London	composer of much choral music, carols, art songs - using words by Tolkien, Betjeman and C. Day Lewis - and an opera Perelandra (words by C.S. Lewis) as well as lighter compositions: several for the stage, like Lyric Revue (1951), Penny Plain, At the Drop of a Hat (1956) and At the Drop of Another Hat and of course, the brilliantly memorable lighter songs he composed to the lyrics of Michael Flanders - The Slow Train, The Rhinoceros Song, The Elephant Song, Warthog Song, I'm a Gnu, The Gas Man Cometh and, much the most popular of all, The Hippopotamus Song, particularly associated with baritone Ian Wallace who entitled his autobiography Promise Me You'll Sing "Mud"
Swan, Timothy more...
Swayne, Giles more...
Sweeden, Hans van more...
Sweelinck (or Swelinck, Zwelinck, Sweeling, Sweelingh, Sweling, Swelingh), Jan Pieterszoon more...	Apr./May 1562 Deventer, The Netherlands	16 Oct. 1621 Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue whose work straddled the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras. Many of his family were musicians principally organists and he is known to have studied with Jan Willemszoon Lossy as well as Zarlino, the famous composer and theorist, in Venice
Sweeney, Eric more...
Sweeney, Joel more...
Swerts (or Swert), Pierre-Julien (Jules) de (see Deswert, Jules)
Swerts, Piet more...	14 Nov. 1960 Tongres, Belgium		Belgian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher
Swider, Jozef more...
Swift, Kay	1897	1993	best remembered for her musical Fine and Dandy, which ran on Broadway in 1930 for 236 performances, and for her close relationship with George Gershwin
Swingle, Ward more...
Swinnen, Peter more...	31 Jan. 1965 Lierre, Belgium		Belgian composer, cellist and teacher
Swolfs, Laurent more...	8 Mar. 1878 Brussels, Belgium	4 Nov. 1954 Brussels, Belgium	tenor singer, composer and teacher
Syberg, Franz more...
Sykes, Roosevelt more...
Sylvian, David more...
Synghel, Henry-Alexandre Van more...	16 Mar. 1700 Ghent, Belgium	10 Apr. 1856 Bruzzels, Belgium	Belgian composer, teacher and music theorist
Syvinki, Esko more...	10 Dec. 1943 Finland		composer of several concertos
Szabados, Gyorgy more...
Szabo, Ferenc	27 Dec. 1902 Budapest, Hungary	4 Nov. 1969 Budapest, Hungary	Hungarian composer
Szadek, Tomasz	1550	1611	Polish composer
Szalonek, Witold more...	2 Mar. 1927 Czechowice-Dziedzice, Poland		trained in Poland, then moved to Paris to study under Nadia Boulanger. In 1963 Szlonek discovered and classified the so-called 'combined sounds' generated by the woodwind instruments. From the early 1970s he moved to Germany, in 1973 succeeding Boris Blacher as Professor of Composition at West Berlin's Hochschule der Kunstet
Szalowski, Antoni more...
Szamotul, Waclaw more...
Szanto, Theodor more...
Szarzynski, Stanislaw Sylwester more...			Polish composer
Székely, Zoltán more...	8 Dec. 1903 Hungary	5 Oct. 2001 Canada	a violinist and composer
Szell, George more...	7 JUn. 1897 Budapest, Hungary	30 Jul. 1970 USA	György Széll, best known by his Anglicised name George Szell, was a conductor and composer. He is remembered today for his long and successful tenure as music director of the Cleveland Orchestra from 1946 to 1970 and for the recordings of the standard classical repertory he made with Cleveland and other orchestras. It is said that Szell, among all conductors, had a baton with "one of the sharpest points" because his orchestras were distinguished by their precision
Szeluto, Apolinary more...	23 Jul. 1884 St. Petersburg, Russia	22 Aug. 1966 Chodziez, Poland	pianist and composer. As a composer he belonged with K. Szymanowski, L. Rozycki and G. Fitelberg to the group Mloda Polska. Szeluto produced an immense output - including 25 symphonies, several orchestral suites, five piano concertos, concertos for violin and cello, two masses, other choral music and songs, and chamber and instrumental works
Szemzo, Tibor more...
Szervanszky, Endre more...
Szokolay, Sandor more...
Szulc, Josef more...
Szymanowska, Marie Wolowska more...	14 Dec. 1789 Warsaw, Poland	23 Jul. 1831 St. Petersburg, Russia	Goethe praised her piano playing in the highest terms. She was a published composer who also wrote odd combinations seldom attempted by other composers
Szymanowski, Karol more...	6 Oct. 1882 Tymoszówka, Ukraine	24 Mar. 1937 Lausanne, Switzerland	the foremost Polish composer of the early 20th century. With his friends, violinist Pawel Kochanski and pianist Artur Rubinstein, Szymanowski twice travelled to the USA by way of London in 1920-21, giving concerts that met with critical and popular success. During the years 1924-26 Szymanowski received increasing recognition at home, despite the opposition of conservative sections of musical society. He spent a lot of time in Paris, chiefly for the many performances of his compositions
Szymanski, Pawel more...	28 Mar. 1954 Warsaw, Poland		Polish composer who is widely regarded as the most important composer in his generation in Poland