| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Vautor, Thomas |
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1590 |
1625 |
English musician and poet. Vautor received his Bachelors of Music from Oxford in 1616 and served a number of years for the Duke of Buckingham. A number of his madrigals were composed in the 1590s though his later works in the madrigal volume tend to be more old-fashioned |
| Veazie, G.A. |
Veazie, George Augustus |
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American teacher and composer. In 1855, his occupation is listed as "tuner." In 1860, 1870, 1880, and 1900, he was a music teacher. superintendent of music in the Chelsea public schools. In 1910, he was a music editor. He was a composer of light operas and a member of the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music. |
| Vecchi, Orazio |
Vecchi, Horatio |
1550 |
1605 |
Italian composer of the late Renaissance. He is most famous for his madrigal comedies, particularly L'Amfiparnaso. |
| Veldmans, Flip |
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1949 |
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Dutch composer/arranger |
| Velona, Tony |
|
1920 |
1986 |
American Songwriter, author and composer. |
| Vené, R. |
Vené, Ruggero |
1897 |
1961 |
20th century composer and music arranger |
| Verdelot, Philippe |
|
1480 |
1530 |
French composer of the Renaissance, who spent most of his life in Italy. He is commonly considered to be the father of the Italian madrigal, and certainly was one of its earliest and most prolific composers; in addition he was prominent in the musical life of Florence |
| Verdi, Giuseppe |
Verdi , Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco |
1813 |
1901 |
Italian composer of operas. |
| Verdonck, Cornelis |
|
1563 |
1625 |
Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. He was one of the last members of the Franco-Flemish school of polyphony, and was a notable composer of madrigals in a style that blended both Italian and native Netherlandish idioms. |
| Very, Jones |
|
1813 |
1880 |
American transcendental poet |
| Viadana, Ludovico Grossi Da |
Viadana, Lodovico |
1560 |
1627 |
Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (usually Lodovico Viadana, though his family name was Grossi, Italian composer, teacher, and Franciscan friar of the Order of Friars Minor Observants. He was the first significant figure to make use of the newly developed technique of figured bass, one of the musical devices which was to define the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras in music. |
| Vick, Lloyd |
|
1915 |
2014 |
Australian composer and Music educator. Vick's compositions include many choral works written at the request of Professor Frank Pooler, Master of Choral Studies at Long Beach State University, California, USA. Vick wrote organ works for Robert Boughen, and piano works for Piers Lane |
| Vick, Marjorie |
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Australian poet/lyricist |
| Victoria, Tomás Luis de |
De Victoria, Tomas Luis; De Vittoria, Tomas Luis; Vittoria, Tomas Luis de |
1548 |
1611 |
The most famous composer in 16th-century Spain, and was one of the most important composers of the Counter-Reformation, along with Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Orlando di Lasso. Victoria was not only a composer, but also an accomplished organist and singer as well as a Catholic priest. |
| Vida, |
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The name of a quartet of 4 professional female vocalists |
| Vierne, Louis |
|
1870 |
1937 |
French organist and composer. His output for organ includes six organ symphonies, 24 Fantasy Pieces (which includes his famous Carillon de Westminster), and 24 Pieces in Free Style, among other works. There are also several chamber works (sonatas for violin and cello, a piano quintet and a string quartet for example), vocal and choral music, and a Symphony in A minor for orchestra. |
| Villa-Lobos, Heitor |
|
1887 |
1959 |
Brazilian composer, described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music" He wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works, totaling over 2000 works by his death |
| Villaume, John |
Villaume, John Waldemar |
1907 |
1994 |
Australian Composer. He spent most of his life performing, conducting, and teaching. He was a fine pianist and choral conductor, but not a prolific composer. |
| Vincent, Robert |
|
1981 |
|
Liverpool based blues and country music singer-songwriter |
| Vine, Carl |
|
1954 |
|
Australian composer of contemporary classical music, conductor, academic and artistic director. From 2000 he has been the Artistic Director of Musica Viva Australia |
| Vine, John |
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Music arranger |
| Virgil, |
Publius Vergilius Maro |
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Greatest of Roman poets |
| Virigli, Lavinio |
Virigli, Mgr. Lavinio |
1902 |
1976 |
Deputy director of the St. John Lateran Chapel in Rome. Composer of sacred music |
| Vivaldi, Antonio |
|
1675 |
1741 |
Italian Baroque composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher and cleric. He is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe |
| Vivanco, Sebastián de |
|
1551 |
1622 |
Spanish priest and composer of the Renaissance |
| von Bunsen, , Christian Karl Josias (Baron) |
Baron von Bunsen, Christian Karl Josias; Baron von Bunsen, Karl |
1791 |
1860 |
German diplomat and scholar. |
| von Chézy, Helmina |
von Klencke, Wilhelmine Christiane |
1783 |
1856 |
German journalist, poet and playwright. She is known for writing the libretto for Carl Maria von Weber's opera Euryanthe (1823) and the play Rosamunde, for which Franz Schubert composed incidental music. |
| Von Eichendorff, Joseph |
Joseph, baron von Eichendorff |
1788 |
1857 |
German poet and novelist, considered one of the great German Romantic lyricists. |
| Von Schlegel, Katharina |
|
1697 |
1768 |
Notable woman of the German revival movement of the late 17th and early 18th century |
| Von Zinzendorf, Nicolaus Ludwig |
|
1700 |
1760 |
German religious and social reformer and bishop of the Moravian Church. |