| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Smeets, Leo |
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Dutch teacher and choral and orchestral conductor, choirmaster at the Royal Choral Society, the Perseverance in Valkenswaard. He has worked since 1983 as a lecturer in horn, and is a choral and orchestral conductor and church musician |
| Smend, Friedrich |
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1893 |
1980 |
Theologian, Musicologist and Bach Scholar |
| Smetana, Bedřich |
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1824 |
1884 |
Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style which became closely identified with his country's aspirations to independent statehood. He is thus widely regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music. Internationally he is best known for his opera The Bartered Bride; for the symphonic cycle Má vlast ("My Homeland"), which portrays the history, legends and landscape of the composer's native land; and for his First String Quartet, From My Life. |
| Smisek, Anita |
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1941 |
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American soprano, organist, pianist In 1989, she co-founded Alliance Publications, Inc. with composer Joel Blahnik to publish music for school, church and community ensembles and to promote the works of contemporary composers with a special interest in Czechoslovak music. |
| Smith, Anthony |
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21st century Canberra pianist and composer. Repetiteur for Canberra Choral Society. Anthony was appointed Pianist at The Casals Academy of Music in 2003. As well as teaching his ever-growing piano studio there, he features in almost every concert of the Academy's celebrated Faculty Recital Series. |
| Smith, Brent |
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1978 |
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American singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the band Shinedown. |
| Smith, Byron J. |
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1960 |
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African American associate professor of music at Los Angeles Harbor College, where he specializes in commercial music, teaching music industry courses such as "The Business of Commercial Music," workshops for song writers, and Choir and Commercial piano and voice. He is director/organist of the music ministry at the Grant A.M.E. Church of Los Angeles. He currently holds the office of National President of the National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc. |
| Smith, Charles |
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1948 |
2006 |
American musician who , was the lead guitarist for the group Kool and the Gang, which reached the zenith of its popularity in the 1980s. He was also the author of some of the band’s most memorable songs |
| Smith, Chris |
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1879 |
1949 |
African American composer and performer. Smith composed many tunes, including such hits as "Ballin' The Jack", "Down In Honky Tonk Town", "Good Morning Carrie", "The Camel Walk", and "Junk Man Rag". |
| Smith, Edwin |
Smith, Edwin M. |
1938 |
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Composer of choral and art song music |
| Smith, Eric |
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1904 |
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British composer |
| Smith, Gregg |
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1931 |
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American founder of Gregg Smith Singers - composer, conductor. 400 works large and small including about 50 instrumental works of varying types. About 100 of the 400 works have found their way onto recordings. |
| Smith, Henry |
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Music composer and arranger |
| Smith, John Stafford |
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1750 |
1836 |
British composer, church organist, and early musicologist. He was one of the first serious collectors of manuscripts of works by Johann Sebastian Bach. Stafford Smith is best known for writing the music for The Anacreontic Song, which became the tune for the American patriotic song The Star-Spangled Banner following the War of 1812, and in 1931 was adopted as the national anthem of the United States of America. |
| Smith, Michael Whitaker |
Smith, Michael W.; Smitty |
1957 |
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American Christian Songwriter and performer |
| Smith, Richard B. |
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1901 |
1935 |
American lyricist who wrote the lyrics to the popular song Winter Wonderland, which was composed by Felix Bernard. |
| Smith, W. H. |
Smith, William Henry |
1908 |
1944 |
American composer and arranger best known for his 1939 arrangement of the spiritual "Ride the Chariot" |
| Smith, William Jay |
|
1918 |
2015 |
American poet. He was appointed the nineteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1968 to 1970. |
| Smithers, Don |
Smithers, Don Leroy |
1933 |
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American music historian and performer on natural trumpet and cornetto. He is a pioneer for the revival of the authentic, uncompromised natural trumpet. He became Docent for the History of Music and Musical Performance at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague in 1975. |
| Smoldon, William L. |
Smoldon, William Lawrence |
1892 |
1974 |
British musicolgist and Teacher. He was an authority on medieval liturgical music drama, |
| Smyth, Ethel Mary [Dame] |
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1858 |
1944 |
English composer and suffragette. Her compositions include songs, works for piano, chamber music, orchestral and concertante works, choral works, and operas. In recognition of her work as a composer and writer, Smyth was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1922, becoming the first female composer to be awarded a damehood. Smyth received honorary doctorates in music from the Universities of Durham and Oxford |
| Snyder, Audrey |
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American Hal Leonard Corporation choral composer, arranger and editor. During her many successful years as a public school music teacher she began to write choral music for her own students, publishing her first choral piece in 1978. Since that time Audrey has published numerous original choral compositions and arrangements . She is a highly regarded educator, clinician, editor and producer. |
| Snyder, Eddie |
Snyder, Edward Abraham |
1919 |
2011 |
American composer and songwriter. Snyder is credited with co-writing the English language lyrics and music for Frank Sinatra's 1966 hit, "Strangers in the Night". |
| Snyder, Gary |
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1930 |
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American poet (often associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance), he is also an essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. He has been described as the "poet laureate of Deep Ecology".[2] Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the American Book Award. |
| Soffici, Piero |
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1920 |
2004 |
Italian composer, arranger and conductor. he has written many hit songs like "Stessa Spiaggia, Stesso Mare", "Perdono", "Cento Giorni" and has scored songs for italian artists |
| Soldan, Kurt |
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1891 |
1946 |
Kurt Soldan was an opera conductor, who on behalf of the publisher CF Peters created a range of piano reductions issued from operas and other works of well-known repertoire, which are still widely in use. |
| Soloviev-Sedoy, Vasily |
Soloviev, Vasily |
1907 |
1979 |
Russian classical composer. Originally named Solovyov, when he entered the Russian "Composer's Union" he added the suffix "Sedoi", meaning grey-haired, to avoid confusion with another composer with the same surname. |
| Somers, Harry Stewart |
Somers, Harry |
1925 |
1999 |
One of the most influential and innovative contemporary Canadian composers of the past century. He composed both orchestral and operatic and vocal works. |
| Somervell, Arthur |
|
1863 |
1937 |
English composer, and after Hubert Parry one of the most successful and influential writers of art song in the English music renaissance of the 1890s-1900s. |
| Somerville, R. |
Somerville, Reginald |
1867 |
1948 |
English composer and actor. He is known for writing many drawing-room ballads such as "God Sends the Night", "Yestereve", "Zaida: A Song of the Desert" and "The Lark and the Nightingale", as well as a handful of operas. |