| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Pace, Adger M |
|
1882 |
1959 |
American composer. He wrote and contributed to more than 3,500 gospel songs. Beginning in 1920, he served for 37 years as Music Editor for all Vaughan publications. He was also a notable songwriter--composing more than a thousand songs in his career. - |
| Pachelbel, Johann |
|
1653 |
1706 |
German composer, organist and teacher who brought the south German organ tradition to its peak. He composed a large body of sacred and secular music, and his contributions to the development of the chorale prelude and fugue have earned him a place among the most important composers of the middle Baroque era |
| Paden, Kenneth |
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Music Arranger |
| Padilla, Juan Gutiérrez de |
|
1590 |
1664 |
Spanish composer in what is modern Mexico. The majority of his vast output (over 700 pieces survive) include sacred motets, often for double choir, in the Renaissance style |
| Page, Kate Stearns |
|
1873 |
1963 |
Author and composer, mostly of children's music |
| Page, N. Clifford |
|
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A somewhat obscure figure in the music world, N. Clifford Page is best known as an Irish arranger of popular melodies and light classical pieces for small orchestras and bands He worked in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. |
| Page, Nick |
|
1952 |
|
Boston-based song leader, composer, and author who is dedicated to teaching people of all ages that they are capable of great miracles through the simple yet powerful, act of singing. He is the founder and Artistic Director of The Mystic Chorale. He also works extensively with children and with educators, both classroom teachers and music specialists. |
| Page, Robert |
|
1927 |
|
Professor of Music and Director of Choral Studies at Carnegie Mellon University, active conductor and involved in the arts, particularly choral. |
| Paich, David Frank |
|
1954 |
|
American musician, songwriter, singer |
| Pain, Barry |
Pain, Barry Eric Odell |
1864 |
1928 |
English journalist, poet and writer. He was known as a writer of parody and lightly humorous stories. |
| Pakenham, Simona |
Pakenham, Simona Vere |
1916 |
2014 |
Actress and writer who chronicled the English colony that established itself in Dieppe after the Napoleonic wars and also wrote an early biography of the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. |
| Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da |
|
1524 |
1594 |
Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. He had a lasting influence on the development of church music, and his work has often been seen as the culmination of Renaissance polyphony. |
| Paliashvili, Zakaria |
|
1871 |
1933 |
Georgian composer. He is regarded as a founder of Georgian classical music. He is probably best known for his vocal music, which includes choruses and songs |
| Palmer, Anthony J. |
|
1932 |
2013 |
American Music professor and composer |
| Palmer, Geoffrey Molyneux |
|
1882 |
1957 |
Irish composer, mainly of operas and vocal music, among them the first musical settings of poems by James Joyce. |
| Palmer, King |
Palmer, Cedric King |
1913 |
1999 |
English pianist, broadcaster, music arranger and teacher |
| Palmer, Willard A. |
|
1917 |
1996 |
American musician, composer, scholar and music educator |
| Palmgren, Selim |
|
1878 |
1951 |
Finnish composer, pianist and conductor |
| Pancorbo, Manuel |
|
1966 |
|
Contemporary Spanish arranger and editor |
| Pantycelyn, William |
Pantycelyn, William Williams; Williams, William |
1717 |
1791 |
Wales' most famous hymn writer. As a writer of both poetry and prose, he is today considered one of the greatest literary figures of Wales. He was, however, equally distinguished in the world of religion, as one of the key leaders of the 18th century Welsh Methodist revival, along with Howell Harris and Daniel Rowland. |
| Papathanassiou, Vangelis Odysseas. |
Vangelis |
1943 |
|
Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, pop rock, and orchestral music. He is best known for his Academy Award–winning score for the film Chariots of Fire, composing scores for the films Antarctica, Blade Runner, Missing, 1492: Conquest of Paradise, and Alexander, |
| Paranjoti, Victor |
|
1906 |
1967 |
Is known for his role in promoting choral music in India in the middle of the 20th century. He was also the founder president of the Association of the Business Communicators of India (ABCI) |
| Parish, Mitchell |
Pashelinsky, Michael Hyman |
1900 |
1993 |
Lithuanian born American lyricist. He wrote for Hoagy Carmichael, and for many Broadway productions |
| Park, Phil |
|
1907 |
1978 |
Composer and lyricist particular of Musical Theatre |
| Park, Simon |
|
1946 |
|
British composer for Television and film |
| Parker 111, John |
|
|
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American lyricist chiefly for sacred music |
| Parker, Alice |
|
1925 |
|
American composer, arranger and conductor. Many of her arrangements were done in cooperation with Robert Shaw. |
| Parker, Henry |
|
|
1470 |
A Carmelite Friar of the Convent at Doncaster |
| Parker, Horatio William |
|
1863 |
1919 |
American composer, organist and teacher. He was a central figure in musical life in New Haven, Connecticut in the late 19th century, and is best remembered as the undergraduate teacher of Charles Ives while the composer attended Yale University. |
| Parker, Ross |
Parker, Albert Rostron |
1914 |
1974 |
English pianist, composer, lyricist, and actor. He is best known for co-writing the songs "We'll Meet Again" and "There'll Always Be an England". |