| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Larkin, Michael |
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1951 |
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American educator at Music School, Delaware. As a composer, Dr. Larkin has over 250 choral and keyboard compositions in print |
| Larsen, Libby |
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1950 |
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American composer |
| Larson, Jonathan |
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1960 |
1996 |
American composer |
| Larson, Lloyd |
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1954 |
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American free-lance composer/arranger with a masters degree in church music |
| Larsson, Lars-Erik |
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1908 |
1986 |
Swedish composer of music ranging from the late Romantic to techniques derived from Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-note system, but original in method. |
| Larter, Evelyn R. |
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Scottish born composer living in United States. As a composer, Evelyn writes anthems for her own small church choir, and instrumental and vocal solo hymn arrangements. She is published by Lorenz, Abingdon Press, Augsburg Fortress Publications and St James Music Press. Evelyn currently serves as Dean of the SouthWest Jersey Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. She also serves on the faculty of the Csehy Summer School of Music at Houghton College, NY State every year, teaching piano an |
| Lassus, Roland di |
Lasso, Orlando di; Lassus, Orlando di |
1532 |
1594 |
Netherlandish or Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance |
| Laster, James H. |
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1934 |
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Professor Emeritus at Shenandoah Conservatory of Shenandoah University, musical director for over fifty music theatre productions . Dr. Laster holds membership in The American Guild of Organists, and is a member of ASCAP. |
| Latchaw, Bob |
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American author, teacher, composer Bob teaches music at Mead Middle School in Mead, Colorado |
| Latham, Robert |
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Welsh teacher, choral director, composer and adjudicator. His school choirs were regularly invited by the BBC to feature in both TV and Radio programmes, while he was also much sought after as a conductor of adult choral, operatic, and instrumental groups in the city of Bristol. On his return from a year as Choral Director in an American High School, he further developed his skills as a composer and arranger for choral groups. |
| Latorre, Ricardo Fernandez de |
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Very little is known about Ricardo Fernández de la Torre, except that he was a priest who composed this Misa Flamenca in Barcelona before 1971, in which the guitar links the Roman Rite of the Catholic Mass with the flamenco repertoire. |
| Laughlin, James |
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1914 |
1997 |
American poet and literary book publisher who founded New Directions Publishing. |
| Lauridsen, Morten Johannes |
|
1943 |
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American composer. A National Medal of Arts recipient (2007), he was composer-in-residence of the Los Angeles Master Chorale (1994–2001) and has been a professor of composition at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music for more than 40 years. |
| Laurie, Margaret |
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British musicologist, editor and music author. Dr. Laurie has recently retired from the post of Music Librarian at Reading University, Great Britain. She is Chairwoman of the Purcell Society Committee and has edited Purcell’s secular solo songs and most of his operas, including Dido and Aeneas, for the Purcell Society Edition. |
| Lauterwasser, Helmut |
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21st century German musicologist |
| Lavater, Louis |
|
1867 |
1953 |
Australian poet and a scholar, a writer of essays and short stories, a composer and a teacher of music ,founder of the Australian Guild of Composers |
| Lavender, Cheryl |
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American music educator, composer, author and clinician. Having taught music for 37 years at the elementary, middle, high and university levels, Cheryl maintains an active writing and speaking schedule through Hal Leonard Corporation. |
| Lawes, William |
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1602 |
1645 |
English composer and musician. Court musician to Charles !st |
| Lawrence, David |
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British composer and conductor. current Community Choir Director at the London Symphony Orchestra. As Principal Conductor of Young Voices, David directs massed choirs in an annual series of concerts with some choirs incorporating more than 8,000 singers. He continues to work with Sinfonia Viva as their Choral Advisor, project leader, and conductor. |
| Lawrence, Michael |
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Music arranger,orchestrator and film maker. Prior to producing films, Mr. Lawrence composed original music for over a dozen films, including Julian Krainin's Emmy Award-winning documentary The Other Americans, which won more awards than any other television documentary in 1969, and was honored with a special screening at the White House. |
| Lawson, Gordon |
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1931 |
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Scottish composer and teacher with more than 150 compositions to his name |
| Lawson, Henry |
|
1867 |
1922 |
Australian short story writer and balladist |
| Lawson, Philip |
|
1957 |
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Grammy award-winning composer and arranger, mostly of a cappella and sacred music. For 18 years he was a baritone with the King's Singers and the group's principal arranger for the last fifteen years of that period |
| Lawton, Annie |
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Author and editor of many sight singing books |
| Lazareno, Manuel |
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20th century Musicologist, and arranger |
| Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan |
Le Fanu, Joseph Thomas Sheridan |
1814 |
1873 |
Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels |
| Le Fleming, Christopher Kaye |
Fleming, Christopher Le |
1908 |
1985 |
English composer, studied at Brighton School of Music and at the Royal School of Church Music in London. He then held many teaching posts. He wrote several orchestral works, incidental music to plays, choral music, piano pieces, and songs. |
| Le Gallienne, Dorian |
LeGallienne, Dorian |
1915 |
1963 |
Australian composer and music critic |
| Le Huray, Peter |
|
1930 |
1992 |
English musicologist, musician teacher and scholar |
| Le Jeune, Claude |
|
1530 |
1600 |
Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. He was the primary representative of the musical movement known as musique mesurée, and a significant composer of the "Parisian" chanson, |