Composer Sir Edward Elgar lived at Plas Gwyn in Hereford between 1904 and 1911, writing some of his most famous works during that time.

Edward Elgar Composer

In 1983 Edward Cowie was made Composer in Residence, the first such appointment to a major British orchestra.

Composer Edward Elgar composed a cantata titled The Black Knight.

Composer Edward Shearmur wrote the film's lavish orchestral score in the style of Hollywood's golden-age composers, and the film's end-title sequence featured a new recording of the Oscar-winning standard " Over the Rainbow " sung by American jazz singer Jane Monheit, which were all featured on Sony Classical's original motion picture soundtrack recording.

Nominated for “ Nika ” Award for Best Composer ( Edward Artemiev ) Russia, 1993.

Composer / filmmaker Edward Douglas formed Midnight Syndicate in 1996 shortly after releasing a micro-budget, direct-to-video horror film called The Dead Matter ( 1996 ) which he directed and scored and would later remake.

The SCO has commissioned more than a hundred new works, from composers including Sir Peter Maxwell Davies ( the SCO's Composer Laureate ), Mark-Anthony Turnage, Judith Weir, Sally Beamish, Karin Rehnqvist, Lyell Cresswell, James MacMillan, Hafliði Hallgrímsson, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Stuart MacRae and Edward Harper.

Composer John Farmer, who was in Oxford's service at the time, dedicated The First Set of Divers & Sundry Ways of Two Parts in One to him in 1591, noting in the dedication his patron's love of music.

Composer and conductor Ronnie Hazlehurst, who had also produced themes for such series as Are You Being Served ?, Yes Minister and Only Fools and Horses created the theme for the show.

* Composer Joe Hisaishi was commissioned to rework and extend his original synthesizer-composed 39-minute soundtrack into a 90-minute piece for symphony orchestra in an effort to make the film more accessible to US audiences who are accustomed to a more substantial musical accompaniment.

Composer and conductor Odaline de la Martinez, who became the first woman to conduct at a BBC Proms concert, received her MMus in composition in 1977.

Composer Ferde Grofe depicted the birthplace of the Mississippi River and the Native Americans who reside there in his popular classical epic the Mississippi Suite.

Composer Ruslan Mamat, who pioneered the modern Dangdut, credited Ace of Base for the tempo reference.

A review originally published by the New York Herald on Sunday, 13t January 1901 entitled German Composer who Writes American Cakewalk Music describes " is knowledge of bass and counterpoint is thorough, and his standard compositions bear the stamp of harmonic lore, which makes his proclivity for the writing of the popular style of music the more remarkable.

* Andrew Sega was a Software Engineer / Composer who went on to work for Digital Anvil.

* Martin Galway was a Sound Designer / Composer and Audio Technician who went on to work at Digital Anvil.

* Composer Antonín Dvořák wrote a symphonic poem entitled Vodník about this creature, who is also a character in his opera Rusalka.

Composer Ferruccio Busoni originally explored these scales in his A New Esthetic of Music and their number and variety were later clarified by J. Murray Barbour who also proposed the application of the procedure to scales of more or less than seven degrees, including pentatonic scales.

Composer Gabriel Yared, who went on to win BAFTA Awards and an Oscar for his other scores, composed the music for Romero.

It had also made inroads with film and television editors who have traditionally used Avid Technology's Media Composer.

ROBERT BONFIGLIO is playing contemporary music as well with American Composer, Paul Moravec, who just won the Pulitzer Prize for Composition, writing an American Harmonica Concerto for him.

Composer Leroy Anderson, who penned such classics as " Sleigh Ride " and " Blue Tango ", wrote a piece entitled " Governor Bradford March " that was premiered on July 6, 1948 at a concert by the Boston Pops Orchestra under the direction of Arthur Fiedler.

Composer Herbert Howells dedicated his Piano Quartet " to the hill at Chosen and Ivor Gurney who knows it ", referring to Churchdown Hill.

Composer Walter Murphy, who has worked on the series since its inception, returned to compose the music for " Excellence in Broadcasting ".

Composer Charles Strouse and lyricist Lee Adams, ( who had previously collaborated on the score to Bye Bye Birdie, among others ) wanted to write a musical version of the 1950 movie, All About Eve.

Çağatay is also a Turkish name which is originally derived from Chughtai ; the most notable being known as Turkish Music Composer Ali Rıfat Çağatay, Turkish composer and Mustafa Çağatay, who served as a former prime minister of Northern Cyprus

In 1628 Tomkins was named " Composer of King's Music in ordinary " at an annual salary of £ 40, succeeding Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger who died in March that year.

The role of the Composer has been sung there most often by a mezzo-soprano ( at least 64 times ), including, besides Kerstin Meyer, who sang the role 6 times, Tatiana Troyanos ( 19 appearances from 1976 to 1988 ), Susanne Mentzer ( 20 appearances from 1993 to 2003 ), Susan Graham ( 5 appearances in the fall of 2005 ) and Sarah Connolly ( 5 appearances in the winter of 2010 ).

He also won the prestigious Best Composer Award ( COMPOSERAWARD 2006 ), assigned to Željko by all composers who participated in that festival.

Susie Ibarra ( born Anaheim, California, November 15, 1970 ) is a Contemporary Composer and Percussionist who has worked and recorded with jazz, classical, world, and Indigenous musicians.

Composer Tim Larkin, a sound designer and audio director at Cyan who had previously worked on realMyst and Uru: Ages Beyond Myst, was given the task of developing Myst Vs musical score.

* Playwright / Composer Lionel Bart lived the latter part of his life in an apartment on Churchfield Road, citing the area as the closest thing he could find to the community feel of the East London " of old ".

* 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

* Composer Stephen Storace ( 1762 – 1796 ), famous in his day and a friend of Mozart, lived from the late 1780s in Wood End, Hayes

* Curt Sobel, Composer, Film Music Editor and Supervisor, grew up in Oak Park and lived on Northfield and Harding.

Composer Klaus Egge, born 1906 in Gransherad, also lived in Notodden.

Margaretta Scott, English actor of stage, film and television ( 1912 – 2005 ) lived in the village with her husband Composer John Wooldridge, daughter actor Susan Wooldridge and son theatre producer Hugh Wooldridge during the 1950s.

Composer Caleb Bedville was born in Ystradgynlais and lived there prior to emigrating to Scranton, Pennsylvania.

* Composer Béla Bartók lived in the house opposing the mansion between 1889 and 1892 ; his mother worked here as a teacher.

Eric Coates ( 1886 – 1957 ) the English Composer lived and worked in Selsey.

Composer David Fanshawe lived near Ramsbury until his death in July 2010.

Composer and pianist Robert Schumann lived for the last two years of his life in his Endenich house on Magdalenenstraße.