Composer and pianist Duke Ellington and US President Richard Nixon in front of the Steinway art case piano owned by the White House

* Richard Popplewell LVO 1958 – 1966 ( subsequently Organist, Choirmaster & Composer HM Chapel Royal )

Composer Richard Stein ( 1909 – 1992 ) sued Paul for plagiarism, charging that Paul's " Johnny ( Is the Boy for Me )" was taken from Stein's 1937 song " Sanie cu zurgălăi " ( Romanian for " Sleigh with Bells ").

* The Composer, Ariadne auf Naxos ( Richard Strauss ) -- trouser role

Composer Alvin Curran ( born December 13, 1938 ), is the co-founder, with Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum, of Musica Elettronica Viva, and a former student of Elliott Carter.

Jerry Ross ( né Jerold Rosenberg March 9, 1926 – November 11, 1955 ) was an American lyricist and composer whose works with Richard Adler for the musical theater include The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees, winners of Tony Awards in 1955 and 1956 respectively in both the " Best Musical " and " Best Composer and Lyricist " categories.

** The Composer, Ariadne auf Naxos ( Richard Strauss )

* Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos: " the Composer " is sung by a mezzo-soprano

Composer Duke Ellington, pictured receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Richard Nixon, is often held to be one of the most influential musical figures of the 20th century.

Lear started her opera career as a member of the Städtische Oper Berlin in Richard Strauss ' Ariadne auf Naxos playing the Composer, a lead role which she would later play at a number of leading opera houses.

* Richard Danielpour – Composer

* 10 x 120min ZDF TV Dramas for Emmy-Nominated Composer Richard Blackford

Thompson went on to collaborate with composers such as Richard Marx to pen Josh Groban's first hit record " To Where You Are ", Composer Steve Dorff for the Celine Dion hit " Miracle ", Andreas Carlsson for " Drowning " by the Backstreet Boys, and others including her many collaborations as lyricist to composer David Foster's musical compositions.

* 2003: Mr. J Richard Dunscombe, Composer, USA

Her breakthrough performances as the Composer in Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos ( to the Ariadne of Régine Crespin ) in Aix-en-Provence in 1966, and as Octavian in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier ( to the Marschallin of Lisa della Casa ) at Covent Garden in London in 1968, effectively launched her international career.

* Composer Zdeněk Fibich separates from his wife, the contralto Betty Fibichová, and goes to live with his former student and lover Anežka Schulzová.

* Composer Zdeněk Fibich marries operatic contralto Betty Hanušová, sister of his first wife Růžena Hanušová.

Danish Composer Carl Nielsen was thinking about a new symphony in 1914, and in May he wrote to his wife ( who was in Celle ):

* Composer Henry Hugo Pierson goes to live in Germany.

* Strauss, Ariadne auf Naxos – Composer ( Böhm, live 1967, Melodram )

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.

* 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 Benjamin Britten accepts a life peerage, only a few months before his death.

He received many of America's most prestigious cultural awards, and at the end of his life was proclaimed Honorary Composer Laureate of the State of California.

On 12 February 1813 Beer received the first of the string of honours he was to accumulate throughout his life when he was appointed ' Court Composer ' by Grand Duke Ludwig of Hesse-Darmstadt.

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

Morris's other books include Theodore Rex ( 2001 ), the second in what is now a three-volume chronicle of the life of Theodore Roosevelt ; Beethoven: The Universal Composer ( 2005 ); and the final book in his Theodore Roosevelt trilogy, Colonel Roosevelt ( 2010 ), which City Journal called " one of the best biographies in modern literature ".

Composer Michael John LaChiusa wrote a musical, " Queen of the Mist ", based on Taylor's life.

Composer Guy Moon considered working for the show the " hardest thing I've done in my life " due to the producers ' demands for epic music: " They want a big orchestra with a good synth rig ...

From 1985 until his death he served as the Chairman of the BMI Student Composer Awards, the international competition for young classical composers.

Composer John Cage was affiliated with the University from the 1950s until his death in 1992.

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

He went on to serve at the court of Charles I until 1633, becoming “ Composer for Lute and Voices ”.

Matthews was Associate Composer with the LSO from 1992 until 1999.

LeBaron began teaching at the California Institute of the Arts in 2001 after having taught ( from 1997 ) at the University of Pittsburgh, and serving as composer-in-residence in Washington, DC, sponsored by Meet the Composer, from 1993 until 1996 ( Edwards 2001 ).

From 1991 until 1998, Media Composer 1000, 4000 and 8000 systems were Macintosh-only, and based on the NuVista videoboard by Truevision.

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.

Nearly three decades before directly collaborating with Stockhausen, they designed the cover of the book Stockhausen: Conversations with the Composer ( ed.

Composer Jean Mouton was most likely in charge of the musical production by Francis I ; the French royal chapel had one of the finest choirs in Europe, and contemporary accounts indicated that they " delighted their hearers.

In 1996, BBC Radio 3 featured him as the Composer of the Week, allowing many people a first opportunity to hear his music ( they did so again in 2006 ).

Initially composing TV themes for shows and commercial buffers as they were needed, Johnston gravitated towards becoming complete Composer, Director and Producer of Music for the company.