* February 6 or August 7 – Henry Litolff, keyboard virtuoso and composer ( d. 1891 )

Henry Charles Litolff ( 5 February 1818 – 5 – 6 August 1891 ) was a piano virtuoso, composer of Romantic music and music publisher.

In August 1969, a few days after the band headlined at a free concert in New York's Central Park, they performed in what Grace Slick called an early " morning maniac music " slot at the Woodstock festival, for which the group was joined by noted British session keyboard player Nicky Hopkins.

* Dvorak Simplified Keyboard, an alternative to the QWERTY keyboard layout, named after its creator, August Dvorak

Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow or Zachau ( 14 November 1663, Leipzig – 7 August 1712, Halle ) was a German musician and composer of vocal and keyboard music.

* August 4 – Gottfried Silbermann, German constructor of keyboard instruments, 70

There he took keyboard and basso continuo lessons with Gottfried August Homilius.

The band soon became labeled a black metal supergroup, consisting of Kristoffer " Garm " Rygg on vocals, Carl August Tidemann on guitar, Skoll on bass, and the two other original members, Hellhammer on drums, and Steinar Sverd Johnsen as main composer / keyboard player.

The band's lineup as of 2009 consists of Gray on vocals, guitarist Stuart Swanlund ( died August 4, 2012 ), keyboard player and flutist Marcus James Henderson, guitarist Rick Willis, bassist Pat Elwood, and drummer B. B.

It was written by keyboard player Rod Argent and recorded at Abbey Road Studios in August 1967.

Stephen Bradley ( born August 23, 1972 ) plays the trumpet, keyboard, and sings in the band No Doubt.

Candida Doyle ( born Candida Mary Doyle, 25 August 1963, Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland ) is a keyboard player and occasional backing vocalist with the band Pulp, which she joined in 1984.

Innovator, inventor, performer and guitar virtuoso Les Paul also died on August 12, 2009 at the age of 94.

During the regencies of Anna Amalia ( 1758 – 1775 ) and her son Carl August ( 1809 – 1828 ), Weimar became an important cultural centre of Europe, having been home to such luminaries as Goethe, Schiller, and Herder ; and in music the piano virtuoso Hummel ( a pupil of Mozart ), Liszt, and Bach.

* August 31 – Lionel Hampton ( 94 ), vibraphone virtuoso

Curtis Ousley ( February 7, 1934 – August 13, 1971 ), who performed under the stage name King Curtis, was an American saxophone virtuoso known for rhythm and blues, rock and roll, soul, funk and soul jazz.

René-Charles " Zino " Francescatti ( August 9, 1902-September 17, 1991 ) was a French virtuoso violinist.

And in 2005 he performed in three separate productions: in June he played an anthropomorphic shark in Adam Bock's Swimming in the Shallows ; in August he appeared as Bo Decker in a production of William Inge's classic Bus Stop ; and in December he was the tragic piano virtuoso Beethoven in the Peanuts spoof Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead.

Grigoraş Ionică Dinicu (; April 3, 1889 – March 28, 1949 August 5, 1948 ) was a Romanian composer and violinist or violin virtuoso.

Orhan Gencebay ( born August 4, 1944 in Samsun, Turkey as Orhan Kencebay ) is a Turkish musician, bağlama virtuoso, composer, singer, arranger, music producer, music director, and actor.

August Wilhelm Ambros ( November 17, 1816 – June 28, 1876 ) was an Austrian composer and music historian of Czech descent.

Antonio Salieri ( 18 August 17507 May 1825 ) was a classical composer, conductor and teacher born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, but who spent his adult life and career as a faithful subject of the Habsburg monarchy.

The composer Manuel Robles and the poet Bernardo de Vera y Pintado fulfilled this mandate and their " National Song " debuted on 20 August 1820 in the Domingo Arteaga theater, although other historians claim that it was played and sung during the festivities of September 1819.

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich ( 25 September 1906 – 9 August 1975 ) was a Soviet Russian composer and pianist and a prominent figure of 20th century music.

* 1702 – Carl August Thielo, Danish composer ( d. 1763 )

* 1714 – Gottfried August Homilius, German composer ( d. 1785 )

Ira Gershwin ( December 6, 1896 – August 17, 1983 ) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century.

Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007 ) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important ( Barrett 1988, 45 ; Harvey 1975b, 705 ; Hopkins 1972, 33 ; Klein 1968, 117 ) but also controversial ( Power 1990, 30 ) composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries.

Karl Amadeus Hartmann ( 2 August 1905 – 5 December 1963 ) was a German composer.

* 1752 – Ludwig August Lebrun, German oboist and composer ( d. 1790 )

* 1816 – August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer ( d. 1876 )

Tori Amos ( born Myra Ellen Amos ; August 22, 1963 ) is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer.

Sir Frederick William Herschel, KH, FRS ( Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel ; 15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822 ) was a German-born British astronomer, technical expert, and composer.

* August 12 – Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian composer ( d. 1690 )

* August 25 – Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor ( d. 1990 )

* August 17 – Zvi Keren, American-born Israeli pianist, musicologist and composer ( d. 2008 )

* August 5 – Eugen Suchoň, Slovak composer ( b. 1908 )

* August 21 – Ichiro Fujiyama, Japanese composer and singer ( b. 1911 )

* August 21 – Constant Lambert, British composer ( b. 1905 )

* August 3 – Manuel Esperón, Mexican musician and composer ( d. 2011 )

* August 13 – Jules Massenet, French composer ( b. 1842 )

* August 29 – Jan Ekier, Polish pianist and composer

* August 2 – Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer ( b. 1863 )

* August 13 – David Tudor, American pianist and composer ( b. 1926 )

* August 3 – Alfred Schnittke, Russian-born composer ( b. 1934 )