| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Agey, C. Buell |
|
1907 |
1997 |
Music arranger and transcriber |
| Agnestig, Carl-Bertil |
Andersson, Carl-Betil |
1924 |
|
Swedish music teacher and composer. He is known for music-instruction books and has written several songs, one of the more well-known is " Advent Candles" |
| Aguiar, Emani |
Aguiar, Ernani Henrique Chaves |
1950 |
|
Brazilian composer, choral conductor, and musicologist. |
| Ahlen, Waldemar |
|
1894 |
1982 |
Swedish composer and organist |
| Ahlstrom, Leonard |
|
|
|
Songwriter of Christian songs for groups such as NewSong |
| Ahrold, Frank |
|
1931 |
1989 |
Composer and Arranger of Religious Songs |
| Aichinger, Gregor |
|
1565 |
1628 |
German composer of religious music during the stylistic transition from the late Renaissance to early Baroque. His music is chiefly choral and ecclesiastical, set to Latin texts. It shows a conservative taste influenced by the Venetian school of composers, especially Giovanni Gabrieli, with whom he studied. |
| Aickin, George Ellis |
Aickin, George E |
1869 |
1937 |
English born Australian Anglican Priest |
| Aitken, George |
Aitken, George Benjamin Johnston |
1866 |
1942 |
British pianist, organist, choirmaster |
| Aked, Lindsay |
|
1930 |
2010 |
20th century Australian composer |
| Akers, Doris |
|
1923 |
1995 |
American Gospel music composer, arranger and singer. |
| Aks, Harold |
|
1922 |
2000 |
Choral Director and Lecturer |
| Akst, Harry |
|
1894 |
1963 |
American songwriter, and Pianist |
| Albrecht, Sally K. |
|
1954 |
|
Sally K. Albrecht is presently the Director of School Choral publications for Alfred Publishing Co., Inc. She is a popular choral conductor, composer and clinician |
| Alcock, Gilbert A. |
|
1870 |
1954 |
English organist, choirmaster, and composer |
| Alcock, Janey |
|
|
|
20th century Music Arranger |
| Aldrich, Henry [Dr.] |
|
1647 |
1710 |
British theologian, historian (co-editor of Clarendon's Rebellion), architect (of Peckwater Quad, Christ Church) and Vice Chancellor of Oxford University. He was a great Patron and Promoter of Music and composed many valuable Compositions for the Cathedral Service |
| Aldrich, T. B. |
Alodrich, Thomas Bailey |
1836 |
1907 |
American Author and Poet |
| Aletter, Wilhelm |
Alphonse Tellier; Herbert Wells Thayer; Leo North; Sam Weller |
1867 |
1934 |
Worked as a pianist, composer and in a music shop. He wrote salon music for orchestra and piano, as well as numerous couplets and songs . |
| Alexander, C. F. |
Alexander, Cecil Frances |
1818 |
1895 |
Irish hymn-writer, poet |
| Alexander, Josef |
|
1908 |
1992 |
American composer and teacher. In 1955 and 1956 he held a Fulbright fellowship as a composer in residence in Finland. His compositions have been performed by orchestras including the New York Philharmonic and the NBC Symphony. For 35 years, he taught music at Brooklyn College |
| Alfvén, Hugo |
|
1872 |
1960 |
Swedish Violinist, Conductor and Composer |
| Alison, Richard |
|
1592 |
1606 |
English composer. His particular interest was in writing consort music |
| Allan, Lewis |
Meeropol, Abel |
1903 |
1986 |
Abel Meeropol was an American writer, teacher and song-writer, best known under his pseudonym Lewis Allan and as the adoptive father of the young sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Meeropol wrote the anti-lynching poem, "Strange Fruit", which was first published in the Marxist publication The New Masses and was subsequently set to music. |
| Allan, Robert |
|
1774 |
1841 |
Scottish poet |
| Allaway, Ben |
|
1958 |
|
20/21st century US composer. His work reflects a passion for cross-cultural experiences as well as the great choral traditions. |
| Allegri, Domenico |
|
1585 |
1629 |
Italian composer and singer of the early Baroque Roman School and was a younger brother of the more famous Gregorio Allegri. Allegri is mainly famous as being one of the first to include specific instrumental accompaniments to sacred vocal music on a small scale |
| Allegri, Gregorio |
|
1582 |
1652 |
Italian composer of the Roman School and brother of Domenico Allegri; he was also a priest and a singer. |
| Allen, Barclay |
|
1918 |
1966 |
American pianist and bandleader. |
| Allen, Deborah |
Thurmond, Deborah Lynn |
1953 |
|
American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist |