* The Australian composer Nigel Butterley set the verse in his 2008 choral work " Beni Avshalom ", commissioned by the Sydney Chamber Choir

Steven Suskin wrote: The " fascinating extended musical scenes, with extended choral work, ... immediately marked Sondheim as the most distinctive theatre composer of his time.

The symphony was the first example of a major composer using voices in a symphony ( thus making it a choral symphony ).

The Italian composer Luigi Dallapiccola used some of the text in his choral work Canti di prigionia ( 1938 ).

An example is the 40-part choral motet Love You Big as the Sky by British composer Peter McGarr ( commissioned for the Tallis Festival 2007 ).

* The British composer Granville Bantock produced a choral setting of FitzGerald's translation 1906-1909.

David's life and teachings have inspired a choral work by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins, Dewi Sant.

* September 26 – William Billings, American choral composer ( b. 1746 )

His Symphony No. 9 takes the unprecedented step ( for a symphony ) of including parts for vocal soloists and choir in the last movement, making it a choral symphony ( however, a minor composer, Daniel Steibelt had written a piano concerto with a choral finale four years earlier, in 1820 ).

* Michael Howard ( musician ) ( 1922 – 2002 ), English choral conductor, organist and composer

* Richard Harrison Smith ( born 1937 ), choral conductor, arranger and composer

Britten's interests as a composer were wide-ranging ; he produced important music in such varied genres as orchestral, choral, solo vocal ( much of it written for his life partner, tenor Peter Pears ), chamber and instrumental, as well as film music.

* In Flanders Fields, choral piece by composer Bradley Nelson, commissioned by Fresno State Chamber Singers and Chico State Chamber Singers of California State University

He emerged as a soloist from this choral tradition, largely as a result of the admiration of the composer Michael Tippett, who heard him while at Canterbury and recognized the unique beauty of his voice.

* American choral music composer Mark Daniel Merritt ( 1961 -) lived in Noank during his childhood.

* Malcolm Dalglish, hammered dulcimer player, composer, and choral director

The Morgan State University Choir was led for more than three decades by the late Dr. Nathan Carter, celebrated conductor, composer, and arranger, is one of the nation ’ s most prestigious university choral ensembles.

* Jester Hairston, composer, choral conductor and actor

" He used musical themes to represent specific characters ; in this manner he more closely followed the practice of French composer Hector Berlioz in his choral symphony Roméo et Juliette than that of Liszt.

His major choral work Summer's Last Will and Testament ( after the play of the same name by Thomas Nashe ), one of his most emotionally dark works, proved unfashionable in the mood following the death of George V, but Alan Frank hailed it at the time as Lambert's " finest work ".< ref > Lambert himself considered he had failed as a composer, and completed only two major works in the remaining sixteen years of his life.

The Ukrainian carol most known to the Western World is the Carol of the Bells, composed by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych, and premiered on December 1916 by a choral group made up of students at Kiev University.

The hymn was set to music in 1865 by the Corfiot operatic composer Nikolaos Mantzaros, who composed two choral versions, a long one for the whole poem and a short one for the first two stanzas ; the latter is the one adopted as the National Anthem of Greece.

In his time, he was known primarily as a choral composer.

An ' operatic spectacle ' was based on the strip, with music by Victor Herbert ( composer of Babes in Toyland ) and lyrics by Harry B. Smith.

In 1913, Lardner provided lyrics for " That Old Quartet " for composer Nathaniel D. Mann.

In rare cases, the composer writes everything except the dance arrangements-music, lyrics, and libretto, as Lionel Bart did for Oliver !.

Today the composer ( past or present ) of the musical score to an opera or operetta is usually given top billing for the completed work, and the writer of the lyrics relegated to second place or a mere footnote, a notable exception being Gertrude Stein, who received top billing for Four Saints in Three Acts.

This arrangement was issued on their second LP, In the Wake of Poseidon, although for copyright reasons it was renamed " The Devil's Triangle " and Robert Fripp claimed authorship, with Holst receiving no composer credit. A third progressive-rock band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, performed an arrangement of " Jupiter " with lyrics which they entitled " Joybringer ". Black Metal / Viking Metal band Bathory arranged a section of " Jupiter " as the melody of the song " Hammerheart ", from the album Twilight of the Gods.

American educator Seymour Eaton wrote the children's book series The Roosevelt Bears, while composer John Bratton wrote " The Teddy Bear Two Step " which, with the addition of Jimmy Kennedy's lyrics, became the song " The Teddy Bears ' Picnic ".

* 2008: Monte-Cristo by Roman Ignatyev ( composer ) and Yuli Kim ( lyrics ), Moscow

* Vonnegut collaborated with US composer Dave Soldier for a CD titled Ice-9 Ballads, featuring nine songs with lyrics taken from Cat's Cradle.

The show's original pilot episode featured a calypso theme song by future film composer John Williams, and different lyrics.

This is popular lullaby, and was composed ( lyrics and music ) by Sigurd Barrett ( born 1967 ), pianist, composer and host of a Children ’ s TV programme in Denmark, and by fellow musician Steen Nikolaj Hansen.

* Sidney Homer, American composer of " A Plantation Ditty " ( lyrics by Frank Lebby Stanton )

In 2005, Miller's life story was turned into a musical, Six Pictures Of Lee Miller, with music and lyrics by British composer Jason Carr.

The composer was violinist Alexei Lvov, and the lyrics were by the court poet Vasily Zhukovsky.

Lionel Bart ( 1 August 1930 – 3 April 1999 ) was a writer and composer of British pop music and musicals, best known for creating the book, music and lyrics for Oliver!

The town was quite famously featured in the early-20th-century song " Torna a Surriento " ( Come Back to Sorrento ) with lyrics by Giambattista De Curtis, brother of the song's composer, Ernesto De Curtis.

The concept of persona in music was introduced by Edward T. Cone in his The Composer's Voice ( 1974 ), that dealt with the relation between the lyrical self of a song's lyrics and its composer.

Future international superstar, the French-Canadian Celine Dion, then only famous in the French-speaking world, was the winner of this Eurovision with the song, " Ne partez pas sans moi ", composed by Swiss-Turkish composer Atilla Şereftuğ with lyrics by Nella Martinetti.

American composer Phil Kline set Rumsfeld's lyrics to music in " Rumsfeld's Songs ", a song cycle released on Zippo Songs ( 2004 ).

In addition, when Gabriel put lyrics to a piece of music written by one of the other band members ( such as Banks ' " The Lamia " and Hackett's " Here Comes the Supernatural Anaesthetist ") the composer would often insist on adjusting the lyrics to better fit the music, an action Gabriel did not take kindly to.

Brown also wrote many of the songs for the satirical comedy show Spitting Image in the late 1980s and the entirety of the 1990s, originally providing just lyrics and eventually taking over permanently from Philip Pope as house composer and musical director.

Wood also asserts that the lyrics of at least one song by Shakespeare's regular collaborator, composer Robert Johnson, are related to Double Falsehood, indicating that Theobald had access to a genuine original text.

Another large hit came from his adaptation of " El Cocuy Que Alumbra " (' The Firefly That Shines ') from the Venezuelan parranda band Un Solo Pueblo, which was renamed " A Correr Sabana " once set to new lyrics written by renowned salsa composer Tite Curet Alonso.

Per Allan Magnus Claësson Uggla ( pronounced ; born June 18, 1954 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish artist, composer, actor, and occasional radio host known for his satirical lyrics.