| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Ascher, Kenneth |
Kenneth Lee "Kenny" Ascher |
1944 |
|
American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger who is active in jazz, rock, classical, and musical theater genres |
| Ashford, Nickolas |
|
1942 |
2011 |
Nick Ashford was part of the singing-songwriting duo Ashford & Simpson with his wife Valerie Simpson. |
| Ashman, Howard |
|
1950 |
1991 |
American playwright and lyricist |
| Asmussen, Svend |
|
1916 |
2017 |
Danish jazz violinist known as "The Fiddling Viking". A Swing style virtuoso, he played and recorded with many of the greats of Jazz, including Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and Stephane Grappelli. |
| Asola, Giammateo |
Gian Matteo, Giovanni Matteo; Asula, Asulae |
1532 |
1609 |
Italian composer of the late Renaissance. He was a prolific composer of sacred music, mostly in a conservative style, although he may have been one of the first composers to write a part for basso continuo. |
| Aston, Peter G. |
|
1938 |
2013 |
English composer, academic and conductor perhaps best known for his choral works. Although best known for his liturgical choral works, his output included chamber works for voices and instruments, choral and orchestral works and an opera for children. He is probably best known for his Communion and Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in F. |
| Aston, Tilly |
|
1873 |
1947 |
Australian Poet |
| Atherton, Jacqueline |
|
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Australian composer/author/Teacher. Former member of Australian Voices |
| Atkins, Ivor [Sir] |
|
1869 |
1953 |
Choirmaster and organist at Worcester Cathedral from 1897 to 1950. He is well known for editing Allegri's Miserere with the famous top-C part for the treble. He is also well known for The Three Kings, an arrangement of a song by Peter Cornelius as a choral work for Epiphany.He composed songs, church music, service settings and anthems. With Edward Elgar he prepared an edition of Bach's St. Matthew Passion. |
| Atkinson, Elizabeth J. |
|
1951 |
|
Pianist/organist of Foundry United Methodist Church in Virginia Beach, VA. Her choral compositions have been performed and premiered by numerous churches and music groups. |
| Attaignant, Pierre |
|
1494 |
1552 |
French music printer, active in Paris. Compositions by Attaignant have been used in contemporary popular music |
| Attaway, William |
|
1911 |
1986 |
American writer and songwriter |
| Atterbury, Luffman |
|
1735 |
1796 |
carpenter, builder and musician |
| Attwood, Thomas |
|
1765 |
1838 |
An English composer and organist. |
| Atwood, Scott |
|
|
|
American arranger and composer (Alliance Music Publications); he is also an experienced clinician, presenter, adjudicator, and consultant |
| Auber, Daniel-Francois-Esprit |
|
1782 |
1871 |
French Composer |
| Auden, W. H. |
Auden, Wystan Hugh |
1907 |
1973 |
Anglo-American poet, born in England, an American citizen (from 1946) |
| Audran, Edmond |
Audran, Achille Edmond |
1840 |
1901 |
French composer best known for several internationally successful operettas |
| Auric, Georges |
|
1899 |
1983 |
French composer, film composer and music critic |
| Austin, Dallas |
|
1970 |
|
American songwriter, record producer, and musician, |
| Austin, Ernest |
|
1874 |
1947 |
prolific composer of songs, covering a wide spectrum of mood, from serious Shakespearean settings to ballads of both sentimental and robust natures |
| Austin, William James |
|
1949 |
|
New York City poet, writer, musician, visual artist, and academic. |
| Autry, Gene |
|
1907 |
1998 |
American performer who gained fame as a singing cowboy on the radio, in movies, and on television for more than three decades beginning in the early 1930s |
| Averay, Juliet |
|
|
|
Lyricist/Librettist |
| Averre, Richard E. |
|
1921 |
2001 |
American composer particularly of Christmas carols |
| Avshalamov, Jacob |
|
1919 |
2013 |
Composer and Music Professor |
| Axtens, Florence E. |
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early 20th century Australian teacher, writer and composer |
| Azelton, Phil |
|
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American Choral conductor, Composer and Arranger. Before heading the choral music department at Van Nuys High School in California, Phil spent many years behind the scenes in film music production in all the major studios in Hollywood. Now semi-retired, he sings regularly with a madrigal group, a vocal jazz sextet, a nine-voice swing choir (which he directs), a large concert choir, and is the music director for his home church in Pacific Palisades. |