Composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz convinced the company to make the novel into a musical instead.

* Stephen Oliver ( born 1950 ) Composer

" Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim has characterized Heyward's lyrics for " Summertime " and " My Man's Gone Now " as " the best lyrics in the musical theater ".

* 1973 – Reyn Ouwehand, Dutch Composer

* Gilbert Michl ( 1750 – 1828 ): Composer and Abbot of Steingaden

* A bust and plaque located at his last residence, in New York City at 309 W. 57th Street, inscribed: " The Great Hungarian Composer / Béla Bartók / ( 1881 – 1945 ) / Made His Home In This House / During the Last Year of His Life ".

* 1981 – Gustavo Dudamel, Venezuelan Composer / Conductor

* 1970 – Joy Nilo, Filipino Composer

* Rosa-A Horse Drama: The Death of a Composer ( 1993 – 94 ) ( libretto by Peter Greenaway ) Opera for 2 sopranos, tenor, 2 baritones, female speaker, 8 mixed voices, orchestra.

* 1892 – Sayed Darwish, Egyptian Singer and Composer ( d. 1923 )

* 1868 – Scott Joplin, Ragtime Composer ( d. 1917 )

* 2005 – Takanori Arisawa, Japanese Composer ( b. 1951 )

* 1953 – David Wright, Composer and producer, co-founder of AD Music

* July 8 – Composer Joseph Haydn awarded an honorary doctorate of music at Oxford University.

* February 5 – Luc Ferrari, French Composer ( d. 2005 )

* January 6 – Vittorio Monti, Italian Composer ( d. 1922 )

* June 20 – Vittorio Monti, Italian Composer ( b. 1868 )

* May 11 – Carl Otto Nicolai, German Composer and Conductor ( b. 1810 )

* February 14 – Fernando Sor, Spanish Composer & Guitarist ( d. 1839 )

* Albert Hay Malotte – Composer ( Music Score )

* Johannes Matthias Sperger ( 1750 – 1812 ) Composer

* George Dallas Sherman ( 1844 – 1927 ) Composer of " Salute to Burlington "

" The Enlisted Composer: Samuel Barber's Career 1942 – 1945 ".

*‘ Carl Nielsen, a Danish Composer ’, Music Review, vii ( 1946 ), pp 170 – 77

* Composer Ernest John Moeran ( 1894 – 1950 ) was born in Heston.

* Composer William Byrd ( 1539 / 40-1623 ), " the father of English music ", lived as a Catholic recusant in Hayes and Harlington 1578 – 88 ; a primary school in the area bears his name

** Golden Laurel – Best Composer: Alfred Newman

George Bloch ( Composer, France ),

Shlomo Dubnov ( Composer, Israel / USA ),

Composer Constant Lambert ( 1936 ) compares Stravinsky's choice of " the drabbest and least significant phrases " in L ' Histoire du Soldat to Gertrude Stein's in " Helen Furr and Georgine Skeene " ( 1922 ), specifically: " veryday they were gay there, they were regularly gay there everyday.

Composer Baird Hersey and his group Prana with Krishna Das ( overtone singing and Hindu mantra ), Canadian songwriter Nathan Rogers has become an adept throat singer and teaches Tuvan Throat Singing in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

The video quality of the Avid / 1 ( and later Media Composer systems from the late 1980s ) was somewhat low ( about VHS quality ), due to the use of a very early version of a Motion JPEG ( M-JPEG ) codec.

Composer Carl Davis created a new orchestral score for the film in the 1980s ( quoting the theme associated with Melisande in Axt's original setting ), and it was restored and released on video in the late 1980s as part of the MGM and British television Thames Silents project.

Composer Augusta Holmès ( Dalila ), painter Henri Regnault ( Samson ), and Romain Bussine ( High Priest ) rendered their roles from part books.

* Tzvi Avni ( born Hermann Jakob Steinke, 2 September 1927 in Saarbrücken ), Israeli Composer

Constantin Silvestri-Conductor, Composer, Pianist with a Foreword by Yehudi Menuhin ( Lord Menuhin of Stoke D ' Abernon ), 70 illustrations, 304 pp. ISBN 1-900496-12-7 ( Kitzinger, London )

** Penny Tai ; 戴佩妮 ( 1978 -; Haifeng, Guangdong ; born in Malaysia ; Hakka pronunciation: Dai Pui Nee ), Singer-songwriter ; Best Composer, Golden Melody Awards, 2006

* Constant Lambert ( 1905-1951 ), Composer, conductor and critic: Sitter in 24 portraits ( National Portrait Gallery )

Composer Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach ( 1732 – 1795 ), a son of J. S.

Babbitt said his own title for the article was " The Composer as Specialist " ( as it was later published several times, including in Babbitt 2003, 48 – 54 ), and " The editor, without my knowledge and — therefore — my consent or assent, replaced my title by the more ' provocative ' one: ' Who Cares if You Listen?

Composer and rabbi Shlomo Carlebach began his outreach work as a representative of Chabad ( he later moved away from the movement ), Avraham Fried is also an adherent.

* The Herb Alpert School of Music: DMA Composer-Performer, Composition, Composition for New Media / Experimental Sound Practices ( ESP ) ( MFA ), Performer / Composer, Performer / Composer: African American, Improvisational Music ( MFA ), Music Technology ( BFA and MFA ), Performance, Musical Arts ( BFA ), World Music ( BFA and MFA )