Agustín Pío Barrios was a Paraguayan virtuoso classical guitarist and composer, largely regarded as one of the greatest performers and arguably the most prolific composer for the guitar. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Alonso Mudarra was a Spanish Renaissance composer and vihuela player. Source: es.wikipedia.org.
Alvaro Carrillo Alarcón was a Mexican popular music composer and songwriter. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Andreas Peter Berggreen was a Danish composer, organist, and pedagogue. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Annie Jessie Fortescue Harrison also known as Lady Arthur Hill, was an English composer of songs and piano pieces. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
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Antoine Meissonnier, also known as Meissonnier the Elder to distinguish him from his younger brother Joseph, is a French classical guitarist , arranger , composer and music publisher . Source: fr.wikipedia.org.
Anton (or Antonio) Diabelli was an Austrian music publisher, editor and composer. Best known in his time as a publisher, he is most familiar today as the composer of the waltz on which Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his set of thirty-three Diabelli Variations. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Antonio D. R. Borghese (also spelled Borghesi or Borghesy), was a composer and a theorist. Source: imslp.org.
Antonio Cano Curriela was a Spanish guitarist and composer. Source: es.wikipedia.org.
Benard Ighner was an American jazz singer, musician, songwriter and record producer. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Bernhard Flies was a German amateur composer and a doctor of medicine. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Bernie Baum was a songwriter who worked extensively with Elvis Presley. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Bill Martin was a Scottish songwriter, music publisher and impresario. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Birger Sjöberg was a Swedish poet, novelist and songwriter. Source: sv.wikipedia.org.
Reverend Bjarni Þorsteinsson was an Icelandic priest and composer, best known for having collected Icelandic folk songs and later receiving a professorship for his work. Source: is.wikipedia.org.
Burton Lane was an American composer primarily known for his theatre and film scores. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was a German composer and musician of the Baroque and Classical eras. He was the fifth child and second surviving son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Carl Jonas Love Almqvist was a Swedish author, teacher, priest, romantic economic critic, and composer. Source: sv.wikipedia.org.
Carl Michael Bellman was a Swedish poet. His best known works are the poetry cycles Fredmans epistlar and Fredmans sånger. Source: sv.wikipedia.org.
Carlos Gardel was a French-born Argentine singer, songwriter, composer and actor. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
César Portillo de la Luz was a Cuban musician, lyricist and composer. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Cesare Negri was an Italian dancer and choreographer. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Charles Gounod was a French composer. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse was a Danish composer during the Danish Golden Age. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Daniel Alomía Robles was a Peruvian composer and ethnomusicologist. He is best known for composing the song "El Cóndor Pasa" in 1913 as part of a zarzuela — a musical play that alternates between spoken and sung parts — of the same name. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Daniel E. Kelley was a musician and entertainer, who after moving to Kansas in 1872, wrote the music for "Home on the Range", which became the state song. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Daniel Fortea i Guimerà was a Spanish guitarist, composer, and music educator. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Oreste Eugène de Maurizi was a composer and musician known for his work in the early 20th century.
Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a Russian and American film composer and conductor. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Dionisio Aguado y García was a Spanish classical guitarist and composer of the late Classical and early Romantic periods. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky was a Soviet composer, conductor, pianist and pedagogue of Russian gentry descent. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer. He is classified primarily as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1924 through the rest of his life. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
George Alexander Aberle, known as eden ahbez, was an American songwriter and recording artist. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Emil Thoroddsen was a composer, pianist, playwright, artist, art critic, and translator. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Pantaleón Enrique Joaquín Granados Campiña, commonly known as Enrique Granados in Spanish or Enric Granados in Catalan, was a Spanish composer of classical music, and concert pianist from Catalonia, Spain. His most well-known works include Goyescas, the Spanish Dances, and María del Carmen. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Ernesto Júlio de Nazareth was a Brazilian composer and pianist, especially noted for his creative maxixe and choro compositions. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Erroll Louis Garner was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his swing playing and ballads. His instrumental ballad "Misty", his best-known composition, has become a jazz standard. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Evert Taube was a Swedish author, composer, troubadour and artist. Source: sv.wikipedia.org.
Eyþór Þorláksson was an Icelandic guitarist, guitar teacher, arranger and composer. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Ferdinando Maria Meinrado Francesco Pascale Rosario Carulli was an Italian composer for classical guitar and the author of the influential Méthode complète pour guitare ou lyre, op. 27 (1810), which contains music still used by student guitarists today. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Fernando Ferandiere was a Spanish composer, guitarist and classical guitarist. Source: es.wikipedia.org.
Fernando Germani was a Italian classical organist, composer and educator. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Fernando Sor was a Spanish classical guitarist and composer of the late Classical era and early Romantic era. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Filippo Gragnani was an Italian guitarist and composer. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Francesco Molino (also known as François Molino) was an Italian guitarist, violinist, and composer. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Francisco de Asís Tárrega y Eixea was a Spanish composer and classical guitarist of the late Romantic period. He is known for such pieces as Capricho Árabe and Recuerdos de la Alhambra. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Franz Hünten, also known as François Hünten, was a German pianist and composer of salon music. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Franz Xaver Gruber was an Austrian primary school teacher, church organist and composer in the village of Arnsdorf, who is best known for composing the music to "Stille Nacht" ("Silent Night"). Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period who wrote primarily for solo piano. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Fridolf Lundberg was a Swedish conductor and composer. Source: sv.wikipedia.org.
Friðrik Bjarnason was an Icelandic composer and educator. He became one of the best-known and most popular composers of the Icelandic nation of his time, composing around 200 songs. Source: www.mbl.is.
Friedrich Silcher was a German composer, mainly known for his lieder (songs), and an important Volkslied collector. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Fritz Jöde was a German music educator and one of the leading figures in the youth music movement. Source: de.wikipedia.org.
George Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concerti. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Gabriel Urbain Fauré was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th-century composers. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Francisco Bartolomé Sanz Celma, better known as Gaspar Sanz, was a Spanish composer, guitarist, and priest born to a wealthy family in Calanda in the comarca of Bajo Aragón, Spain. Source: es.wikipedia.org.
Georg Philipp Telemann was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. He is one of the most prolific composers in history, at least in terms of surviving works. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
George Edward Bruns was an American composer of music for film and television. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned jazz, popular and classical music. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
George Rodway Poulton was an English-born American musician and composer. Best rememberd today for Aura Lea (1861). Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Alton Glen "Glenn" Miller was an American big band conductor, arranger, composer, trombonist, and recording artist before and during World War II, when he was an officer in the US Army Air Forces. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel was a German composer of the Baroque era. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Gunnar Wennerberg was a Swedish poet, composer and politician. Source: sv.wikipedia.org.
Harold Arlen (born Hyman Arluck) was an American composer of popular music, who composed over 500 songs, a number of which have become known worldwide. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor, arranger, pianist and flutist. Often cited as one of the greatest composers in the history of film, he won four Academy Awards, a Golden Globe, and twenty Grammy Awards, plus a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Henry Purcell was an English composer and organist of the middle Baroque era. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael was an American musician, composer, songwriter, actor, author and lawyer. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Hugh Martin was an American musical theater and film composer, arranger, vocal coach, and playwright. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Wilhelm Grosz sometimes credited as Hugh Williams, was an Austrian composer, pianist, and conductor, who from 1934, worked in the UK, before moving to the USA in 1938. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Irving Berlin (born Israel Isidore Beilin) was a Russian-born American composer and songwriter. His music forms a large part of the Great American Songbook. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Irving Louis Burgie, sometimes known professionally as Lord Burgess, was an American musician and songwriter, regarded as one of the greatest composers of Caribbean music. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual was a Spanish virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Ísólfur Pálsson was an Icelandic composer, organist, instrument maker and music teacher. Source: www.ismus.is.
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Jacinto Guerrero was a prolific composer of zarzuelas and revues, as well as some orchestral compositions. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
James Lord Pierpont was an American composer, songwriter, arranger, organist, and Confederate States soldier. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Jean-Baptiste Lully was an Italian-French composer, dancer and instrumentalist, who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
James Francis McHugh was an American composer. One of the most prolific songwriters from the 1920s to the 1950s, he is credited with over 500 songs. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
João Teixeira Guimaraes commonly known as João Pernambuco was a Brazilian composer, guitarist and viola player, considered a fundamental figure in the structuring of the solo guitar in Brazil and one of the main names in the history of choro. Source: pt.wikipedia.org.
Joaquín Malats y Miarons was a Spanish pianist and composer. He studied with Juan Bautista Pujol at the Barcelona Municipal Conservatory of Music. After debuting at the age of fourteen (1886), he furthered his studies at the Paris Conservatory, where he won first prize for piano and the Diémer Prize in 1903. Source: ca.wikipedia.org.
Joaquín Turina Pérez was a Spanish composer of classical music. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Joaquín "Quinito" Valverde Sanjuán was a Spanish composer of zarzuelas. He was the son of Joaquín Valverde Durán, also a zarzuela composer, and was usually called Quinito Valverde to distinguish him from his father. Now he is perhaps best known for a short song called "Clavelitos" (Little Carnations), which has been recorded by many sopranos. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Johan Christian Gebauer was a Danish composer, organist and music theorist. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Johann Abraham Peter Schulz Source: de.wikipedia.org.
Johann Kaspar Mertz was a guitarist and composer from the Austrian Empire. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Johann Mattheson was a German composer, critic, lexicographer and music theorist. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
John Dowland was an English Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
John Francis Wade was an English hymnist. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
John Winston Ono Lennon was an English musician and activist. He gained global fame as the founder, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
John Loesberg enjoyed many early experiences of an eclectic variety of musical genres. He was well used to hearing individual members of his family singing and listening to music ranging from light opera (Grandma) to Gregorian chant (the daily rehearsing at home of Grandad, who sang in the church choir), and his rebellious uncle playing his free jazz music (too) loudly. Not to mention Dad playing the tenor banjo and Mum crooning some 1930s pop songs. It would have been hard to fit them all together into a band, one might say. In between, John learned the basics of folk guitar, which he used to accompany the many American, Scottish and Irish folksongs he learned—a lot of them taken down from natives of those places who often gathered and played informally in Europe's hostels and music venues. After four years of drifting throughout Europe, he settled in Ireland in 1969, where he taught folk guitar and collected Irish folksongs. These eventually appeared in a plain little volume that was to mark the beginning of the Ossian Publications imprint of Irish and Scottish traditional music in print and audio for the following 25 years. A lifelong interest in ‘serious’ music of all periods ran alongside his immersion in all aspects of folk music. Eventually, John took to transcribing and arranging for guitar, as well as working on scores of early and classical music for voice with guitar accompaniment for recital purposes.
John Alfred Mandel was an American composer, multi-instrumentalist, and arranger of popular songs, film music and jazz. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Jose Maria Barroso was Mexican/American cellist, guitarist and music teacher. Source: composers-classical-music.com.
José Ferrer Esteve de Fujadas (in 19th-century France known as "Joseph Ferrer") was a Spanish guitarist and composer. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Josep Gallés i Salabert also known as Jose Gallés was a Catalan composer and organist. His best known compositions are the 23 sonatas for keyboard. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Joseph Kosma was a Hungarian composer who immigrated to France. His most famous composition is the standard Autumn Leaves. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Joseph Küffner was a German musician and composer who, among other achievements, contributed significantly to the guitar repertory, including chamber music. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Author of various Spanish song books.
Jule Styne (born Julius Kerwin Stein) was an English-American songwriter and composer widely known for a series of Broadway musicals, including several famous frequently-revived shows that also became successful films: Gypsy, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Funny Girl. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Kobi Oshrat is an Israeli composer and conductor. He composed and conducted the winning entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1979 "Hallelujah". Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Count Ludovico Giuseppe Antonio Filippo Roncalli, or simply Count Ludovico, was an Italian composer. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Lorenzo Barcelata was a Mexican composer Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Louis Guglielmi known by his pen name Louiguy, was a French musician. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz y Fonseca was a Spanish harpist and composer for lute and guitar. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Luigi Rinaldo Legnani was an Italian virtuoso guitarist, singer, composer and luthier. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Luis de Milán (also known as Lluís del Milà or Luys Milán) was a Spanish Renaissance composer, vihuelist, and writer on music. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Luis de Narváez was a Spanish composer, writer, and vihuela player. His name also appears spelled Luys de Narváez. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Luiz Floriano Bonfá was a Brazilian guitarist and composer. He was best known for the music he composed for the film Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro, 1959). Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Mabel Wayne (born Mabel Wimpfheimer) was an American musician, composer, and screenwriter. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Manning Sherwin was an American composer. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Manuel Penella Moreno was a Spanish composer. Source: es.wikipedia.org.
Martin Luther was a German priest, theologian, author, hymnwriter, professor, and former Augustinian friar. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Marvin Frederick Hamlisch was an American composer and conductor. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Matteo Carcassi was an Italian guitarist, teacher and composer. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Joseph Maurice Ravel was a French composer, pianist and conductor. Source: fr.wikipedia.org.
Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani was an Italian guitarist, cellist, singer, and composer. He was a leading guitar virtuoso of the early 19th century. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Robert Reiniger Meredith Willson was an American flautist, composer, conductor, musical arranger, bandleader, playwright, and writer. He is perhaps best known for writing the book, music, and lyrics for the 1957 hit Broadway musical The Music Man and "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas". Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Michael Praetorius was a German composer, organist, and music theorist. He was one of the most versatile composers of his age, being particularly significant in the development of musical forms based on Protestant hymns. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Michel Jean Legrand was a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, jazz pianist, and singer. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Monty Norman was a British film score composer and singer. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Maurício Alberto Kaisermann better known by his stage name Morris Albert, is a Brazilian singer and songwriter. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Claude Antoine Jean Georges Napoléon Coste was a French classical guitarist and composer. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini was an Italian violinist and composer. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Nino Oliviero was an Italian composer. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Giovanni "Nino" Rota Rinaldi was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Olof Åhlström was a Swedish councilor of war, organist, composer and music publisher. Source: sv.wikipedia.org.
Orlando di Lasso was a composer of the late Renaissance. One of the leading composers of the later Renaissance. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Oscar Chilesotti was an Italian musicologist and violin maker. Source: it.wikipedia.org.
Paul Desmond (born Paul Emil Breitenfeld) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer and proponent of cool jazz. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Sir James Paul McCartney is an English musician. He gained fame with the Beatles, for whom he was the bassist and keyboardist, and shared primary songwriting and lead vocal duties with John Lennon. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Paul Frederic Simon is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, known for his solo work and his collaborations with Art Garfunkel. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Quintín Esquembre Sáez was a Spanish composer, guitarist and finally cellist of the National Orchestra of Madrid. Source: es.wikipedia.org.
Ralph Blane was an American composer, lyricist, and performer. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Riziero "Riz" Ortolani was an Italian composer, conductor, and orchestrator, predominantly of film scores. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Robert de Visée was a French lutenist, guitarist, theorbist and viol player at the court of the kings Louis XIV and Louis XV, as well as a singer and a composer for lute, theorbo and guitar. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Robert Alexander Schumann was a German composer, music critic , and conductor. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Samuel Cohen, known professionally as Sammy Cahn, was an American lyricist, songwriter, and musician. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Santiago Lope Gonzalo was a Spanish conductor and composer of paso dobles. Source: es.wikipedia.org.
Saverio Seracini was an Italian composer, guitarist and conductor. Source: it.wikipedia.org.
Scott Joplin was an American composer and pianist. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Sigfús Einarsson was an Icelandic composer. Source: is.wikipedia.org.
Sigfús Ólafsson was an Icelandic musican. Source: glatkistan.com.
Sigvaldi Kaldalóns was an Icelandic composer and physician. Source: is.wikipedia.org.
Silvius Leopold Weiss was a German composer and lutenist. He was one of the most important and most prolific composers of lute music in history and one of the best-known and most technically accomplished lutenists of his day. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Stanley Myers was an English composer and conductor. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Stephen Collins Foster known as "the father of American music", was an American composer known primarily for his parlour and folk music during the Romantic period. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Stevland Hardaway Morris, known as Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Son of Eythor Thorlaksson. Icelandic system developer, guitarist, arranger and composer. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
János Németh of Vadosfai and Zsidi, stage name Elemér Szentirmay was a Hungarian composer. He was one of the few composers whom Béla Bartók appreciated and Zoltán Kodály studied and recommended for study. Source: hu.wikipedia.org.
Thomas Haynes Bayly was an English poet, songwriter, dramatist and writer. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Thomas Robinson was an important composer and music teacher of the English Renaissance around 1603. He taught and wrote music for lute, cittern orpheoreon, pandora, viola da gamba, and voice. Source: de.wikipedia.org.
Thorbjørn Egner was a Norwegian playwright, songwriter and illustrator known principally for his books, plays and musicals for children. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor, Baron Thielemans, known professionally as Toots Thielemans, was a Belgian jazz musician. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Traditional music is music passed down through generations within a culture, reflecting its history, values, and identity, often learned informally and using unique local instruments and styles, serving to connect people to their heritage through storytelling, celebration, or daily life.
Turner Layton born John Turner Layton, Jr., was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Venancio García Velasco was a Spanish guitarist, teacher and composer. He studied Music and Guitar at the Conservatories of León, Seville, and Madrid, graduating with highest honors. Source: venanciogarciavelasco.jimdofree.com.
Victor August Herbert was an American composer, cellist and conductor of English and Irish ancestry and German training. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Vincent Millie Youmans was an American Broadway composer and producer. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Vincenzo Galilei was an Italian lutenist, composer, and music theorist and the father of the astronomer Galileo. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
José Gomes de Abreu, better known as Zequinha de Abreu, was a Brazilian musician and composer. Source: en.wikipedia.org.