| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Shaw, Martin |
Shaw, Martin Edward Fallas |
1875 |
1958 |
Brother to Geoffrey, English composer, organist, conductor and (in his early life) theatre producer. His over 300 published works include songs, hymns, carols, oratorios, several instrumental works, a congregational mass setting (the Anglican Folk Mass) and four operas including a ballad opera. |
| Shaw, Robert |
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1916 |
1999 |
American conductor most famous for his work with his namesake Chorale, with the Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. |
| Shaw, Watkins |
Shaw, Harold Watkins |
1911 |
1996 |
British musicologist and educator best known for his critical edition of Handel's Messiah compiled between 1957 and 1965, which version has largely supplanted that of Ebenezer Prout in British performance. Shaw was particularly known for his extensive writings on and editing of church music, a field in which he was active for nearly 50 years |
| Shaw, Wilfred |
Shaw, Wilfred Byron |
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Musicologist,composer and editor associated with the University of Michigan |
| Shayne-Baker, Gloria |
Baker, Gloria; Shayne, Gloria |
1923 |
2008 |
American composer and songwriter best known for composing the "Do You Hear What I Hear?" Christmas carol in 1962 with her then husband, Noël Regney |
| Shearer, C. M. |
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American conductor, composer, teacher, and clinician. His choirs have performed for state and national choral and music education organizations; and he has prepared choruses for many choral organisations. During Dr. Shearer’s fifty years as a professional musician, he served as Director of Choral Activities at many Univerities |
| Shearing, George |
|
1919 |
2011 |
British jazz pianist who for many years led a popular jazz group that recorded for Discovery Records, MGM Records and Capitol Records. The composer of over 300 titles, including the jazz standard "Lullaby of Birdland" |
| Sheldon, Charles Monroe |
|
1857 |
1946 |
American preacher and inspirational writer famous as the author of the best-selling novel In His Steps, for 60 years the largest-selling book in the United States after the Bible, with sales estimated at more than 8 million copies |
| Shelley, Brooke |
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Aistralian composer, songwriter and Singer. Brooke's music is mainly classical choral but she also likes Pop music |
| Shelley, Harry Rowe |
|
1858 |
1947 |
American composer, organist (church and concert), and professor of music. According to his New York Times obituary, Shelley "penned church music that won him wide popularity. For sixty years a host of English-speaking peoples throughout the world sang his hymns." |
| Shelley, Percy Bysshe |
|
1792 |
1822 |
English poet |
| Shephard, Richard |
|
1949 |
|
Director of Development for York Minster having previously been the Head Master of York Minster School and Chamberlain of York Minster. He is a Visiting Fellow of the Music Department and a member of the Court of the University of York. He is also Visiting Professor in the Music Department of the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee |
| Sheppard, J. Stanley |
Stanley, Joseph Stanley |
1915 |
2009 |
American Music Teacher and Composer. Was appointed music director of St. Mark's preparatory school in 1942-1976. After his retirement, Mr. Sheppard became organist and choir director of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Southborough, a post he held until 1995. |
| Sheppard, John |
Shepherd, John |
1515 |
1558 |
One of the finest English church composers of the Tudor era, his achievements matched in his generation only by Thomas Tallis. Sheppard’s musical techniques were often conservative (and considered old fashioned in his lifetime) but his music is really quite rich. Sheppard was evidently a key figure in Mary Tudor's programme to supply the Chapel with elaborate polyphony for the Sarum Rite |
| Sheridan, Bonnie |
Bramlett, Bonnie |
1944 |
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American singer and occasional actress known for performing with her husband, Delaney Bramlett, as Delaney & Bonnie. She continues to sing as a solo artist. |
| Sheridan, W. C. |
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Early 20th century music arranger |
| Sherman, Arnold B. |
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American free-lance composer, co-founder of Red River Music and Music and Arts Director at First United Methodist Church in Henderson, Texas. In frequent demand as clinician and guest conductor, he has led choral and handbell workshops, festivals and reading sessions throughout the United States, Canada, England, Japan and the Bahamas. |
| Sherman, Charles H. |
|
1929 |
2018 |
Editor of most of the available music of Michael Haydn, who dedicated his career to the dissemination of his music |
| Sherman, Paul |
Sherman, Paul Anthony |
1933 |
2015 |
English and Drama teacher, journalist and actor in Queensland and Victoria. Awarded OAM for services to Poetry |
| Sherman, Richard M. |
Sherman, Richard Morton |
1928 |
|
American songwriter who specializes in musical film with his brother Robert Bernard Sherman. Some of the Sherman Brothers' best-known writing includes the songs from Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book, Winnie the Pooh, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Slipper and the Rose, the theme park song and "it's a small world (after all)." |
| Sherman, Robert B. |
Sherman, Robert Bernard |
1925 |
2012 |
American songwriter who specializes in musical films with his brother Richard Morton Sherman. Some of Sherman's best known writing includes the songs from Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book, Winnie the Pooh, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Slipper and the Rose and the theme park song, It's a Small World (after all). Robert Bernard Sherman |
| Sherwin, Manning |
|
1902 |
1974 |
20th century American composer for screen and popular theatre. His most enduring composition is the music for "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square", lyrics by Eric Maschwitz, written for New Faces in 1940. |
| Shield, William |
|
1748 |
1829 |
English composer of songs |
| Shields, Valerie |
|
1951 |
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American organist, accompanist, instrumentalist and choir director |
| Shimizu, Osamu |
|
1911 |
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Japanese composer |
| Shimmin, Sydney Gordon |
|
1891 |
1972 |
British Organist of the Chapel Royal, Cheltenham Ladies’ College and Music master at Malvern College |
| Shirl, Jimmy |
|
1909 |
1981 |
Co-writer of "I Believe" in 1953 |
| Shirley, James |
|
1596 |
1666 |
English dramatist and poet |
| Shore, Howard |
|
1946 |
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Canadian composer |
| Shore, Royle |
|
1856 |
1946 |
Editor for Novello. solicitor by profession, and an 'amateur church musician and advocate of plainchant in Anglican use' who for many years acted as honorary organist at St Alban's and St James's Church, Edgbaston (Birmingham). He also served as lecturer in music at Birmingham Cathedral, and as diocesan instructor in plainsong. |