| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Sargent, [Sir] Malcolm |
Sargent, Sir Harold Malcolm Watts |
1895 |
1967 |
English conductor, organist and composer widely regarded as Britain's leading conductor of choral works. The musical ensembles with which he was associated included the Ballets Russes, the Huddersfield Choral Society, the Royal Choral Society, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, and the London Philharmonic, Hallé, Liverpool Philharmonic, BBC Symphony and Royal Philharmonic orchestras |
| Sargent, Brian |
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Author, Arranger and editor particularly of Mediaeval music |
| Sarjeant, J. |
Sarjeant, James |
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Early 20th century Composer |
| Sartori, Francesco |
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1957 |
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Italian composer and trumpet player best known for composing "Con te partirò" ("With you, I will leave") with Lucio Quarantotto for Andrea Bocelli. |
| Sasanfar, Justine |
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Justine Sasanfar is a pianist, teacher, and writer based in Tallahassee, Florida |
| Sassoon, Siegfried |
Sassoon, Siegfried Loraine |
1886 |
1967 |
English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches, and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war |
| Sateren, Leland B. |
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1913 |
2007 |
Emeritus Professor of Music and director of the Augsburg Choir. As a longtime member of the American Choral Directors Association, Minnesota Composers Forum, and the Hymn Society of America, he is esteemed as a major contributor to the musical culture of America. He has over 300 published choral works, several collections, books, monographs, articles for professional journals, and hymn arrangements |
| Saunders, Anthony |
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Music arranger |
| Saunders, J. Michael |
|
1989 |
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American composer, conductor, and music educator. |
| Saunders, Max |
|
1903 |
1983 |
NZ born British composer, conductor of TV scores and songs |
| Saunders, Neil |
|
1918 |
1995 |
Composer of classical vocal music |
| Saygun, Ahmed Adnan |
|
1907 |
1991 |
Turkish composer |
| Scandello, Antonio |
|
1517 |
1580 |
Italian composer, born in Bergamo. He worked as musician at the court of the Electors of Saxony in Dresden. In 1549 he became court-bandmaster, and in 1568 Kapellmeister. His music combines elements of the Italian Renaissance with German musical traditions. |
| Scarlatti, Alessandro |
|
1660 |
1725 |
Alessandro Scarlatti was an Italian Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. He was the father of two other composers, Domenico Scarlatti and Pietro Filippo Scarlatti. |
| Scarlatti, Domenico |
|
1685 |
1757 |
Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. He is classified primarily as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style |
| Scelsa, Greg |
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Americans Greg Scelsa and Steve Millang, may be one of children's music's best-kept secrets. Greg & Steve are a musical group based in Los Angeles, California. They found that their music had a positive effect on children with disorders such as autism. For the next several years, they performed their music program for different schools. In 1975, they decided to form a record company, Youngheart Records |
| Schafer, Raymond Murray |
|
1933 |
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Canadian composer, writer, music educator and environmentalist |
| Schalk, Carl |
|
1929 |
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American Lutheran author, editor, lecturer and composer of choral music and hymns. His eighty plus hymns and carols appear in the hymnas of more than thirty denominations |
| Schaller, Paul |
|
1924 |
2009 |
American clarinettist, author and music arranger |
| Scheel, Josef Gallus |
|
1879 |
1946 |
German composer, chiefly of sacred music |
| Scheidt, Samuel |
|
1587 |
1654 |
Organist, choir director and teacher noted in particular for his develpment of organ and vocal music |
| Schein, Johann Hermann |
|
1586 |
1630 |
German Kapelmeister and composer chiefly of sacred works |
| Schering, Arnold |
|
1877 |
1941 |
Musicologist and arranger |
| Schertzinger, Victor |
|
1888 |
1941 |
American violinist, conductor, composer, songwriter, film director, film producer, screenwriter |
| Schickele, Peter |
Bach, P. D. Q. |
1935 |
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American composer, Professor and Musical comedian. P.D.Q. Bach (1807-1742) is a fictitious composer, invented by the musical satirist Peter Schickele |
| Schiller, Friedrich |
|
1759 |
1805 |
German poet, philosopher, historian and dramatist |
| Schlegal, K. Von |
Schlegel, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von |
1772 |
1829 |
German poet, literary critic, philosopher, philologist and indologist. With his older brother, August Wilhelm Schlegel, he was one of the main figures of the Jena romantics. He was a zealous promoter of the Romantic movement and inspired Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Adam Mickiewicz and Kazimierz Brodziński. |
| Schmidt, Aloys |
|
1788 |
1866 |
German composer, pianist and music teacher. In 1824 he was appointed court composer in Munich. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Giessen. |
| Schmidt, Harvey |
Schmidt , Harvey Lester |
1929 |
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American composer for musical theatre and illustrator. He is best known for composing the music for the longest running musical in history, The Fantasticks, which ran off-Broadway from 1960 - 2002. |
| Schmitt, Ralf |
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African choral music specialist. He has a passion for the preservation of traditional South African folk music and has arranged and recorded several traditional South African songs. Ralf has conducted the National Youth Choir of South Africa on two occasions, and holds the position of artistic director at the Mzansi Youth Choir. |