Johann Eccard

Johann Eccard

male, deceased (1611)
K. G. A. von Winterfeld, Crepundia sacra Helmboldi, cantata, reformation, polyphonic, thuringia
Johann Eccard (1553-1611) was a German composer of church music born at Mühlhausen in Thuringia, Germany. At the age of eighteen he went to M...

Gilbert Bécaud

male, deceased (2001)
Et Maintenant, nathalie, French Resistance, singer, singer-songwriter, French…cantata
Gilbert Bécaud was a French singer, composer and actor, known as "Monsieur 100,000 Volts" for his energetic performances. His best-known hits are p...
Hamish Maccunn

Hamish Maccunn

male, deceased (1916)
Academic of the Royal College of Music, Alumni of the Royal College of Music, from Inverclyde, overture, Classical composer, royal opera house…cantata
Hamish MacCunn (March 22, 1868 - August 2, 1916), Scottish romantic composer, was born in Greenock, the son of a shipowner, and was educated at the...
Alexander Arutiunian

Alexander Arutiunian

male, 89 years old
quintet, Stalin Prize winner, Brass instrument, From Yerevan, USSR State Prize, Moscow Conservatory…cantata
Alexander Grigorevich Arutiunian (b. Yerevan, Armenia, September 23 1920) is an Armenian composer and pianist. In 1949, he was awarded the USSR...
Gordon Crosse

Gordon Crosse

male, 72 years old
Oxford University, first class honours, Op., The New World, Sadler's Wells Opera, Worshipful Company of Musician…cantata
Gordon Crosse (born December 1, 1937) is an English composer and music technologist. Crosse was born in Bury, Lancashire and in 1961 graduated from...

Henry Smart

male, deceased (1879)
English classical organist, bertha, composer, haymarket theatre, Blackburn, Organist…cantata
Henry Thomas Smart (October 26, 1813 - July 6, 1879) was an English organist and composer. Smart was born in London, a nephew of the conductor Sir...
Henry Rowley Bishop

Henry Rowley Bishop

male, deceased (1855)
composer, musical theater, covent garden, drury lane, ballet, royal opera house…cantata
Henry Rowley Bishop (born November 18, 1786 in London; died April 30, 1855) was an English musical composer. He received his artistic training from...
Alfred Bruneau

Alfred Bruneau

male, deceased (1934)
story, Messidor, French, realism, Classical composer, opera…cantata
Louis-Charles-Bonaventure-Alfred Bruneau (3 March 1857, in Paris-15 June 1934, in Paris) was a French composer who played a key role in the...
Richard Arnell

Richard Arnell

male, 92 years old
St John Dykes, cantata, Ford Motor Company, Trinity College of Music, BBC, ballet
Richard Arnell (born September 15, 1917 in Hampstead, London) is an English composer of classical music. Arnell studied at the Royal College of...
Louis Gallet

Louis Gallet

male, deceased (1898)
libretto, La princesse jaune, mignon, Opera librettist, opera, cantata
Louis Gallet was an inexhaustible French writer of operatic librettos, plays, romances, memoirs, pamphlets, and innumerable articles, who is...