* June 19 – Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer ( b. 1669 )

* July 24 – Benedetto Marcello, Italian composer ( b. 1686 )

* July 31 ( or August 1 ) – Benedetto Marcello, Italian composer ( d. 1739 )

While Luigi Rossi was his predecessor in developing the chamber-cantata, Carissimi was the composer who first made this form the vehicle for the most intellectual style of chamber-music, a function which it continued to perform until the death of Alessandro Scarlatti, Astorga and Marcello.

Benedetto Giacomo Marcello (; 31 July or 1 August 1686 – 24 July 1739 ) was a Venetian composer, writer, advocate, magistrate, and teacher.

Benedetto Marcello was the brother of Alessandro Marcello, also a notable composer.

The composer Joachim Raff wrote an opera entitled Benedetto Marcello, based loosely on the life of Marcello and Scalfi.

Alessandro's brother was Benedetto Marcello, also a composer, who illegally married his singing student Rosanna Scalfi in 1728.

Although his works are infrequently performed today, Marcello is regarded as a very competent composer.

In 2010 Gerrard released a new album with fellow composer Marcello De Francisci titled " Departum " from Gerrard Records which was followed by the release of three new singles ; " Coming Home "-as featured in Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga ' Hoole, " Entry " and " Come This Way ".

* Samsara ( sequel to Baraka ) composer of original music, with Michael Stearns and Marcello De Francisci

* June 19 – Alessandro Marcello, composer ( born 1669 )

* July 24 – Benedetto Marcello, composer ( born 1686 )

* August 24 – Alessandro Marcello, composer ( died 1747 )

The film starts with colorful 1960s music by composer Anton Abril, accompanied by Marcello Giombini ’ s wordless song Seli ( soprano by Edda Dell ' Orso ) and some psychedelic opening credits.

* Marcello Abbado ( born 1926 ), Italian composer, conductor and pianist

That after all his years of effort to become a composer, he should now, now when he was still stoutly replying to the critics of his Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, be so close to a success in music and have to reject it.

And of course the news of who the composer was did finally begin to get around among his closest friends.

How titillating it was to go among people who did not know him as the composer, but who talked in the most glowing terms of the promise of the piece after having heard the first rehearsals.

Certainly its composer was an ascending star on a new world horizon.

and the composer himself was called the `` age of steel pianist ''.

Gershwin was on hand to " supervise " the recording ; however, Shilkret was reported to be in charge and eventually asked the composer to leave the recording studio.

One of his notable pupils was conductor and composer Hans Münch.

Woolfson was a lawyer by profession, but also a composer and pianist.

Woolfson, a songwriter and composer, was working as a session pianist ; he had also composed material for a concept album idea based on the work of Edgar Allan Poe.

The first known instance of Newton's lines joined to music was in A Companion to the Countess of Huntingdon's Hymns ( London, 1808 ), where it is set to the tune " Hephzibah " by English composer John Jenkins Husband.

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

Created by the Scottish-born composer, Peter Dodds McCormick, the song was first performed in 1878, but did not gain its status as the official anthem until 1984.

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.

As a student of Florian Leopold Gassmann, and a protégé of Gluck, Salieri was a cosmopolitan composer who wrote operas in three languages.

Antonio began his musical studies in his native town of Legnago ; he was first taught at home by his older brother Francesco Salieri ( a former student of the violinist and composer Giuseppe Tartini ), and he received further lessons from the organist of the Legnago Cathedral, Giuseppe Simoni, a pupil of Padre Giovanni Battista Martini.

It was through Pacini that Salieri gained the attention of the composer Florian Leopold Gassmann, who, impressed with his talents and concerned for his future, took the young orphan to Vienna where he personally directed and paid for the remainder of his musical education.

It was toward the end of this extended period of study that Gassmann was called away on a new opera commission and a gap in the theater's program allowed for Salieri to make his debut as a composer of a completely original opera buffa.

Salieri's first full opera was composed during the winter and carnival season of 1770 ; Le donne letterate and was based on Molière's Les Femmes Savantes ( The Learned Ladies ) with a libretto by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini a dancer in the court ballet, and a brother of the famous composer.

Armida was translated into German and widely performed, especially in the northern German states, where it helped to establish Salieri's reputation as an important and innovative modern composer It would also be the first opera to receive a serious preparation in a piano and vocal reduction by Carl Friedrich Cramer in 1783.

Sacred music was not a high priority for the composer during this stage of his career, but he did compose an Alleluia for chorus and orchestra in 1774, perhaps for his own wedding, or in thanksgiving for it.

Gluck feared that the Parisian critics would denounce the opera by a young composer known mostly for comic pieces and so the opera was originally billed in the press as being a new work by Gluck with some assistance from Antonio Salieri, then shortly before the premiere of the opera the Parisian press reported that the work was to be partly by Gluck and partly by Salieri, and finally after popular and critical success were won on stage the opera was acknowledged in a letter to the public by Gluck as being wholly by the young Antonio.

Sir Charles Spencer " Charlie " Chaplin, KBE ( 16 April 188925 December 1977 ) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era.

Daniel Robert " Danny " Elfman ( born May 29, 1953 ) is an American composer, best known for scoring music for television and film and creating The Simpsons main title theme as well as the 1989 Batman movie theme.

In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus ( 1922 – 1979 ), who was also a composer and bandleader whose music fused hard bop with black gospel music, free jazz and classical music ; free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden ( born 1937 ) is best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman and for his role in the 1970s-era Liberation Music Orchestra, an experimental group ; Eddie Gomez and George Mraz, who played with Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson, respectively, and are both acknowledged to have furthered expectations of pizzicato fluency and melodic phrasing, fusion virtuoso Stanley Clarke ( born 1951 ) is notable for his dexterity on both the upright bass and the electric bass, and Terry Plumeri, noted for his horn-like arco fluency and vocal tone.

The Daily Telegraph wrote, " The composer has risen to his opportunity, and we are disposed to account Iolanthe his best effort in all the Gilbertian series.

Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual () ( 29 May 1860, Camprodon – 18 May 1909, Cambo-les-Bains ) was a Spanish pianist and composer best known for his piano works based on folk music idioms.

Despite his reputation as a serious composer of large, complex musical structures, some of Brahms's most widely known and most commercially successful compositions during his life were small-scale works of popular intent aimed at the thriving contemporary market for domestic music-making ; indeed, during the 20th century, the influential American critic B. H. Haggin, rejecting more mainstream views, argued in his various guides to recorded music that Brahms was at his best in such works and much less successful in larger forms.

Many felt " that ' the flower of youth ' and the ' best of the nation ' had been destroyed ," for example such notable casualties as the poets Isaac Rosenberg, Rupert Brooke, and Wilfred Owen, composer George Butterworth and physicist Henry Moseley.

A composer such as Johann Sebastian Bach had control over almost all of the musical resources of a town, whereas Handel would hire the best musicians available.

Paul Desmond ( born Paul Emil Breitenfeld ; November 25, 1924 – May 30, 1977 ) was a jazz alto saxophonist and composer born in San Francisco, best known for the work he did in the Dave Brubeck Quartet and for penning that group's greatest hit, " Take Five ".

While best known as a prolific composer of masses and motets, he was also an important madrigalist.

Giovanni Pacini ( 17 February 17966 December 1867 ) was an Italian composer, best known for his operas.

Johann Peter Schickele ( born July 17, 1935 ) is an American composer, musical educator, and parodist, best known for comedy albums featuring music written by Schickele, but which he presents as being composed by the fictional P. D. Q. Bach.

He is widely regarded as the most important composer in jazz ; he was also a galvanizing bandleader who inspired many of his musicians to produce their best work, while himself being a significant exponent of jazz piano.

Perhaps the best known is the concert piece " Granuaile " ( 1985 ) by Irish composer Shaun Davey.

The original music score was composed by Albert Hay Malotte, an American composer who is best known for his musical setting of The Lord's Prayer, composed in 1935, and introduced on radio that year by John Charles Thomas.

At the time they wrote Iolanthe, both Gilbert and Sullivan were in their peak creative years, and Iolanthe, their seventh work together, drew the best from both composer and author.

Although The Planets remains Holst's most popular work, the composer himself did not count it among his best creations and later in life complained that its popularity had completely surpassed his other works.

The town is best known for its association with the composer Richard Wagner, who lived in Bayreuth from 1872 until his death in 1883.

Hector Berlioz (; 11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869 ) was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts ( Requiem ).

While Berlioz is best known as a composer, he was also a prolific writer, and supported himself for many years by writing musical criticism, utilising a bold, vigorous style, at times imperious and sarcastic.

Carl Orff ( – ) was a 20th-century German composer, best known for his cantata Carmina Burana ( 1937 ).

Richard Christopher Wakeman ( born 18 May 1949 ) is an English keyboard player, composer and songwriter best known for being the former keyboardist in the progressive rock band Yes.

( born March 21, 1959 ) is a Japanese video game composer, best known for scoring the majority of titles in the Final Fantasy series.

Henry Fillmore ( 3 December 1881 – 7 December 1956 ) was an American musician, composer, publisher, and bandleader, best known for his many marches and screamers.

The Academy Award for Original Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.