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Johann Tobias Krebs (July 7, 1690 - February 11, 1762), was a German organist and composer. Krebs was born near Weimar, and died in the same area. He is known as student of Johann Gottfried Walther and Johann Sebastian Bach. He is believed to be the composer of the Eight Short Preludes and Fugues previously attributed to J.S. Bach.

Jon Appleton (born Jon Howard Appleton, 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is a composer, author and the Arthur R. Virgin Professor of Music at Dartmouth College and Visiting Professor of Music at Stanford University. He was educated at Reed College, the University of Oregon and Columbia University. With Homer Keller, he set up the electronic music studio at the University of Oregon. A composer of both instrumental and electro-acoustic music, Appleton is best known in the United States for the...

Francis Edward Bache (September 14, 1833 - August 24, 1858) was an English musician and composer. Born at Birmingham, he studied violin under Alfred Mellon and composition under William Sterndale Bennett, continuing his musical education at Leipzig in 1853. He also played the organ and composed for piano. Considering the early age at which he died, his compositions are fairly numerous, and the best, a trio for piano and strings, was long held in high esteem. Two operetta, a piano concerto and a...

Knud Jeppesen (August 15 1892 - June 14 1974) was a Danish composer, musicologist and writer on the history of music. His study of Palestrina is internationally recognized. The Style of Palestrina and the Dissonance. 2nd ed., London, 1946.

Robert D. Watson is a keyboard player, producer and composer, best known for his work with the rock bands Daniel Amos and The Swirling Eddies (credited as Arthur Fhardy). Watson has also worked with Donna Summer, The Platters, The Surfaris, Tonio K. and others. In 1982, prior to joining Daniel Amos, Watson recorded a solo single, "Something's Going On Here"/"The Graylands", under the name Body & Soul. 800 copies of the single were pressed. These songs feature rare lead vocals by Watson. ...

Scott Bradley (November 26, 1891 in Russellville, Arkansas - April 27, 1977 in Chatsworth, California) was an American composer, pianist and conductor. He is most famous for scoring the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) theatrical cartoons, including those starring Tom and Jerry, Droopy Dog, Barney Bear, and the many one-shot works of Tex Avery. Bradley was a conservatory-trained composer and English horn player who studied under Arnold Schoenberg. He first composed cartoon scores in the early 1930...

Robert (Wilfred Levick) Simpson (2 March 1921 – 21 November 1997) was an English composer and long-serving BBC producer and broadcaster. He is best known for his orchestral and chamber music (including 11 symphonies and 15 string quartet), and for his writings on the music of Beethoven, Bruckner, Nielsen and Sibelius. He studied composition under Herbert Howells. Remarkably for a composer who was still alive, a Robert Simpson Society was formed in 1980 by individuals concerned that Simpson's...

Charles Tournemire (Bordeaux, January 22 1870 – Arcachon, November 3 1939), was a French composer and organist, most famous for his improvisations. While he could play the conventional organ literature expertly, he rarely played anything in his titular post other than his own improvised works. His improvisations were consistently brilliant, and most often rooted in Gregorian thematic material. His output contains many organ works, eight symphonies (one of them choral), and several chamber works...

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (born April 30, 1939, in Miami, Florida) is an American composer, the first female composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Her early works are marked by atonal exploration, but by the late 1980s she had matured to a post-modernist, neo-romantic style. She has been called "one of America’s most frequently played and genuinely popular living composers." Zwilich began her studies as a violinist, earning a B.M. from Florida State University in 1960. She moved to New York...

Paul Lincke (November 7, 1866 – September 4, 1946) was a German composer. His march Berliner Luft is the hymn of Berlin. The march Berliner Luft comes from Lincke's 1899 operetta "Frau Luna" about a trip to the moon in a hot air balloon where an adventurous party of prominent Berliners meet Frau Luna and her court. Other Lincke operettas include "Im Reiche des Indra" and "Lysistrata." The latter includes the song "Glühwürmchen," translated and arranged in the 1940s by Johnny Mercer as "Glow...

Michael Arne (1740 or 1741 - January 14, 1786) was the son of the composer Thomas Arne and was himself a composer. His best-known work is the song Lass with the Delicate Air, which appeared in 1762.

Ulf Grahn (born January 17, 1942) is a Swedish born composer living in the United States. Grahn, UlfGrahn, UlfGrahn, Ulf

Chris Smith (October 12, 1879 – October 4, 1949) was a United States composer and performer. Smith was born in Charleston, South Carolina; he started traveling with Medicine Shows when young and went into Vaudeville where he performed in an acts with Elmer Bowman and Jimmie Durante. He also wrote music for Bert Williams. Smith composed many tunes, including such hits as Ballin' The Jack, Down In Honky Tonk Town, Good Morning, Carie, The Camel Walk, and Junk Man Rag.

Maurice Greene (August 12, 1696 - December 1, 1755) was an English composer and organist. Born in London, the son of a clergyman, Greene became a choirboy at St Paul's Cathedral under Jeremiah Clarke and Charles King. He studied the organ under Richard Brind, and after Brind died, Greene became organist at St Paul's. With the death of William Croft in 1727, Greene became organist at the Chapel Royal, and in 1730 he became professor of music at Cambridge University. In 1735 he was appointed...

Charles John Stanley (January 17, 1712 – May 19, 1786) was an English composer and organist. Stanley, who was blind from an early age, studied music with Maurice Greene and held a number of organist appointments in London, such as St Andrew's, Holborn from 1726. He was a friend of George Frideric Handel, and following Handel's death, Stanley joined first with John Christopher Smith and later with Thomas Linley to continue the series of oratorio concerts Handel had established, and succeeded...