Jane Arden (director)W
Jane Arden (director)

Jane Arden was a British film director, actress, screenwriter, songwriter and poet. Her writings for stage and television also attracted attention in the 1950s.

Francesco Bianchi (composer)W
Francesco Bianchi (composer)

Giuseppe Francesco Bianchi was an Italian opera composer. Born at Cremona, Lombardy, he studied with Pasquale Cafaro and Niccolò Jommelli, and worked mainly in London, Paris and in all the major Italian operatic centres of Venice, Naples, Rome, Milan, Turin, Florence.

Edwin Pearce ChristyW
Edwin Pearce Christy

Edwin Pearce Christy was an American composer, singer, actor and stage producer. He is more commonly known as E. P. Christy, and was the founder of the blackface minstrel group Christy's Minstrels.

Bob Cole (composer)W
Bob Cole (composer)

Robert Allen Cole was an American composer, actor, playwright, and stage producer and director.

Emīls DārziņšW
Emīls Dārziņš

Emīls Dārziņš was a Latvian composer, conductor and music critic. Dārziņš' work bears a distinct romantic character, with a strong trend towards national themes. His main musical authorities and influences were Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Jean Sibelius. Dārziņš musical contribution is mainly to vocal music, but he also composed orchestral music, though only one piece, "Melanholiskais valsis" has survived. His only opera, "Rožainās dienas" remained unfinished after his early death at the age of 34.

Hugo DistlerW
Hugo Distler

Hugo Distler was a German organist, choral conductor, teacher and composer.

William Flanagan (composer)W
William Flanagan (composer)

William Flanagan was an American composer of the mid-twentieth century.

Julian FontanaW
Julian Fontana

Julian Fontana was a Polish pianist, composer, lawyer, author, translator, and entrepreneur, best remembered as a close friend and musical executor of Polish composer Frédéric Chopin.

Friedrich Theodor FröhlichW
Friedrich Theodor Fröhlich

Friedrich Theodor Fröhlich was a Swiss early Romantic composer.

Giuseppe GallignaniW
Giuseppe Gallignani

Giuseppe Gallignani was an Italian composer, conductor and music teacher.

Prenk JakovaW
Prenk Jakova

Prenk Jakova was an Albanian composer, musician, and author of Mrika (1958), which is considered the first Albanian opera. A native of Shkodër, he studied under Martin Gjoka and Zef Kurti, and he was also an alumnus of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. A virtuoso clarinetist he worked as a music teacher for most of his life and distinguished himself as the mentor of the four most important composers of classical music from northern Albania: Çesk Zadeja, Tish Daija, Tonin Harapi, and Simon Gjoni. Jakova was the director of the music band and of the House of Culture of Shkodër. Besides Mrika, Jakova also composed Skënderbeu, another opera which premiered in 1968.

Louis KoemmenichW
Louis Koemmenich

Louis Koemmenich was an American composer and conductor who took his own life in 1922.

Jean-Baptiste KrumpholzW
Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz

Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz was a Czech composer and harpist.

Otto MahlerW
Otto Mahler

Otto Mahler was a Bohemian-Austrian musician and composer who died by suicide at the age of twenty-one.

Robin MilfordW
Robin Milford

Robin Humphrey Milford was an English composer.

Unto MononenW
Unto Mononen

Unto Uuno Mononen was a Finnish songwriter and musician. He is best known for his numerous tango compositions including the famous Finnish tango song, "Satumaa". His first name was originally Uuno.

Oskar NedbalW
Oskar Nedbal

Oskar Nedbal was a Czech violist, composer, and conductor of classical music.

Adolphe NourritW
Adolphe Nourrit

Adolphe Nourrit was a French operatic tenor, librettist, and composer. One of the most esteemed opera singers of the 1820s and 1830s, he was particularly associated with the works of Gioachino Rossini and Giacomo Meyerbeer.

Carlo PedrottiW
Carlo Pedrotti

Carlo Pedrotti was an Italian conductor, administrator and composer, principally of opera. An associate of Giuseppe Verdi's, he also taught two internationally renowned Italian operatic tenors, Francesco Tamagno and Alessandro Bonci.

Ernest PingoudW
Ernest Pingoud

Ernest Pingoud was a Finnish composer.

Waldo de los RíosW
Waldo de los Ríos

Osvaldo Nicolás Ferraro de los Ríos better known as Waldo de los Ríos was an Argentine composer, conductor and arranger.

Jakub Jan RybaW
Jakub Jan Ryba

Jakub Šimon Jan Ryba was a Czech teacher and composer of classical music. His most famous work is Czech Christmas Mass "Hey, Master!".

Ananda SamarakoonW
Ananda Samarakoon

Egodahage George Wilfred Alwis Samarakoon known as Ananda Samarakoon was a Sri Lankan composer and musician. He composed the Sri Lankan national anthem "Sri Lanka Matha" and is considered the father of artistic Sinhala music and founder of the modern Sri Lankan Geeta Sahitya. He committed suicide in 1962, possibly driven by unauthorized changes to lyrics in a composition.

Isidor SeissW
Isidor Seiss

Isidor Wilhelm Seiss was a German composer, conductor, pianist, piano pedagogue and philanthropist. His surname also appears as Seiß, and his first name also appears as Isidore.

Rezső SeressW
Rezső Seress

Rezső Seress was a Hungarian pianist and composer. Some sources give his birth name as Rudolf ("Rudi") Spitzer.

Luka SorkočevićW
Luka Sorkočević

Count Luka Sorkočević was composer from the Republic of Ragusa. His music has been preserved, like other Sorkočević family possessions, in the archives of the Dubrovnik Franciscan convent. He is known as the first Croatian symphonist.

Oscar SpirescuW
Oscar Spirescu

Oscar Spirescu was a Romanian conductor, composer and pianist who took his own life in 1918.

Arthur Goring ThomasW
Arthur Goring Thomas

Arthur Goring Thomas was an English composer.

Harris WulfsonW
Harris Wulfson

Harris Wulfson was an American composer, instrumentalist and software engineer in Brooklyn, New York. His work employed algorithmic processes and gestural controllers to explore the boundary where humans encounter their machines.