| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Nagy, Oliver |
|
1912 |
2000 |
Hungarian composer, conductor and writer about music Teacher at the Budapest Academy of Music. |
| Nairn, Rosemary |
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South Australian choir director, adjudicator, music educator |
| Nairne [Lady], |
Nairne [Lady]; Oliphant, Caroline |
1766 |
1845 |
Scottish poet |
| Naissoo, Uno |
|
1928 |
1980 |
Estonian composer. Worked as a teacher of musicology at the Tallinn Music School (1952-80) and at the Tallinn Conservatory (1979-80) where he also was a teacher of light music. Songs with jazz influence take an important place among his works, but he has also written serious music for symphony orchestra and numerous choir songs. |
| Nance, Richard |
|
1955 |
|
American musician. He is professor of music and conductor of the Choir of the West at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington USA. |
| Nanino, Giovanni Maria |
Nanini, Giovanni Maria |
1545 |
1607 |
Italian composer and teacher of the late Renaissance. He was a member of the Roman School of composers, and was the most influential music teacher in Rome in the late 16th century. He was the older brother of composer Giovanni Bernardino Nanino. |
| Naplan, Allan E. |
|
1972 |
|
Allan Naplan’s choral works have been heard at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Carnegie Hall, The White House, and in the 2002 Academy Award nominated documentary, SING!. A two-time winner of the Guild of Temple Musicians “Young Composers Award” for his original settings of Mi Chamocha and Yitgadal, Naplan’s music for children’s choirs is regarded as standard repertoire for choral ensembles throughout America and the world. |
| Narverud, Jacob |
|
1986 |
|
American Composer, Arranger, and Conductor. Jacob is the Founder/Artistic Director of the Tallgrass Chamber Choir, a professional ensemble comprised of musicians from across the Great Plains. |
| Nash, Frederick Ogden |
Nash, Ogden |
1902 |
1971 |
American author, lyricist and poet well known for his light verse |
| Nash, T. |
Nash, Ted |
1960 |
|
Performer, conductor, jazz-composer and saxophonist, arranger and educator. |
| Nashe, Thomas |
|
1567 |
1601 |
English Elizabethan pamphleteer. He was a playwright, poet, and satirist. He is best known for his novel The Unfortunate Traveller. |
| Nasim |
Nasim., Daya Shankar Kaul |
1811 |
1845 |
Urdu poet |
| Natel, Jean-Marc, |
|
1942 |
|
French lyricist for Les Misérables. he has written songs for a variety of artists and recently some of his poetry has been set to music by Franck Pourcel. |
| Nauhaus, Gerd |
|
1942 |
|
German musicologist and music editor, expert in works of Robert and Clara Schumann |
| Naumann, E. |
Naumann, Ernst |
1832 |
1910 |
German organist, composer particularly of chamber music, sacred music and songs, conductor and music editor. |
| Naylor, Charles |
|
|
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Music Arranger and editor for Banks Music |
| Neale, John Mason |
|
1818 |
1866 |
A church of England priest, writer of religeous tracts, sermons, pamphlets and books. He also wrote many hymns many of which he translated into English |
| Neaum, Michael |
|
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British accompanist for the Cantamus Girls Choir. He has also worked with nationally and internationally renowned singers, taken Master Classes in accompaniment and he has broadcast frequently on radio and television. Many of his skilful arrangements for female voice, published by Goodmusic Publications, Banks of York, Oxford University Press and Alliance Music Publications are being performed by choirs world-wide. Much of his time nowadays is spent in coaching singers and accompanists |
| Needham, Alicia Adelaide |
|
1863 |
1945 |
Irish born composer and songwriter. Over 200 of her songs were published in London between 1894 and 1922 |
| Neidlinger, W. H. |
Neidlinger, William Harold |
1863 |
1924 |
American Child psychologist, composer, organist and conductor of choral groups. In addition to songs for children Neidlinger wrote Christmas pieces, two comic operas, a cantata and a large catalogue of solo songs. |
| Neilson, John Shaw |
|
1872 |
1942 |
Australian poet |
| Nelhybel, Vaclav |
|
1919 |
1996 |
Czech born American composer of band music |
| Nelson, Greg |
|
1948 |
|
Music producer from Nashville, Tennessee. Nelson headed Spirit Records, a division of Sparrow Records, and went on to co-found Refuge Records in 1980. He is a well-known composer in Christian music |
| Nelson, Havelock J. |
|
1917 |
1996 |
Irish composer and conductor who co-founded the Dublin Orchestral Players in 1939, He Has extensive list of compositions and arrangements for orchestra, chamber ensemble, choir and voice, in addition to incidental music for radio plays Some 150 movies and television. |
| Nelson, Ronald A. |
|
1928 |
2014 |
American musician who served for 37 years as Director of Music at Westwood Lutheran Church in suburban Minneapolis, where he has been named Cantor Emeritus and now serves as choir member. Since his retirement he devotes his time to composing, guest conducting, and serving as organist for Chapel Services at Becketwood, |
| Nelson, Steve |
|
1955 |
|
American vibraphonist and composer. Steve is currently a member of Dave Holland's Band and Quintet, the Lewis Nash Trio, and Mulgrew Miller's Wingspan. |
| Nemo, Henry |
|
1909 |
1999 |
American musician, songwriter and actor in Hollywood films |
| Neruda, Pablo |
Basoalto, Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes |
1904 |
1973 |
pen name and later legal name of Chilean poet-diplomat and politician. He wrote over 145 poems and in In 1971 Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature. |
| Nesheim, Paul |
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American professor of music at Augustana University where he conducts the Augustana Choir and Chamber Choir, and teaches courses in choral conducting, choral methods, voice, and church music. |
| Nesta, Francis J. |
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Music teacher, composer, arranger at Keystone High School Knox, Pennsylvania, United States |