WJane Arden was a British film director, actress, screenwriter, songwriter and poet. Her writings for stage and television also attracted attention in the 1950s.
WGiuseppe 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.
WEdwin 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.
WRobert Allen Cole was an American composer, actor, playwright, and stage producer and director.
WEmīls 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.
WHugo Distler was a German organist, choral conductor, teacher and composer.
WWilliam Flanagan was an American composer of the mid-twentieth century.
WJulian 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.
WFriedrich Theodor Fröhlich was a Swiss early Romantic composer.
WGiuseppe Gallignani was an Italian composer, conductor and music teacher.
WPrenk 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.
WLouis Koemmenich was an American composer and conductor who took his own life in 1922.
WJean-Baptiste Krumpholz was a Czech composer and harpist.
WOtto Mahler was a Bohemian-Austrian musician and composer who died by suicide at the age of twenty-one.
WRobin Humphrey Milford was an English composer.
WUnto 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.
WOskar Nedbal was a Czech violist, composer, and conductor of classical music.
WAdolphe 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.
WCarlo 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.
WErnest Pingoud was a Finnish composer.
WOsvaldo Nicolás Ferraro de los Ríos better known as Waldo de los Ríos was an Argentine composer, conductor and arranger.
WJakub Šimon Jan Ryba was a Czech teacher and composer of classical music. His most famous work is Czech Christmas Mass "Hey, Master!".
WEgodahage 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.
WIsidor 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.
WRezső Seress was a Hungarian pianist and composer. Some sources give his birth name as Rudolf ("Rudi") Spitzer.
WCount 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.
WOscar Spirescu was a Romanian conductor, composer and pianist who took his own life in 1918.
WArthur Goring Thomas was an English composer.
WHarris 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.