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 )

* 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.

Composer Richard Parker and his wife Priscilla live an ordinary suburban life until they meet their new neighbors Eddy and Kay Otis.

** 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.

Arranged and adapted by the Composer A and G ( 1909 )

* 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

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

** Golden Laurel – Best Composer: Alfred Newman