* 1815 – Robert Volkmann, German composer ( d. 1883 )

* 1915 – Robert Strassburg, American composer ( d. 2003 )

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.

* 1927 – Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer ( b. 1847 )

* 1975 – Robert Lopez, American composer

* 1847 – Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer ( d. 1927 )

* 1927 – Robert Allen, pianist and composer of popular songs ( d. 2000 )

In Search of the Pharaohs is a 30-minute cantata for narrator, junior choir and piano by composer Robert Steadman, commissioned by the City of London Freemen's School, which uses extracts from Carter's diaries as its text.

* 1925 – Robert Beadell, American composer ( d. 1994 )

* 1810 – Robert Schumann, German composer ( d. 1856 )

* 1917 – Robert Farnon, Canadian conductor and composer ( d. 2005 )

* 1574 – Robert Fludd, English composer and writer ( d. 1637 )

* 1954 – Robert Carl, American composer

* 1920 – Robert Mann, American violinist, composer, and conductor ( Juilliard String Quartet )

* 1954 – Robert Beaser, American composer

Canadian composer / saw player Robert Minden pays tribute to him on his website.

The composer Krzysztof Penderecki wrote regularly for the musical saw, including several obbligato parts in his comic opera Ubu Rex, and Canadian composer Robert Minden has written extensively for the musical saw.

* 1927 – Robert Drasnin, American musician and composer

* Robert Morris ( composer ) ( born 1943 ), British-American composer

The drink was named in honor of the premiere of Rob Roy, an operetta by composer Reginald De Koven and lyricist Harry B. Smith loosely based upon Scottish folk hero Robert Roy MacGregor.

* 1917 – Robert Ward, American composer

* Robert Morton ( – 1479 ), English composer of the early Renaissance.

* September 13 – Robert Ward, American composer ( d. 1994 )

" In response to these accusations of anti-Semitism, composer and Oberlin College professor Conrad Cummings wrote a letter to the editor defending " Klinghoffer " as " the closest analogue to the experience of Bach's audience attending his most demanding works ," and noted that, as someone of half-Jewish heritage, he " found nothing anti-Semitic about the work.

* William Cummings ( chorister ), composer and organist.

* Conrad Cummings ( born 1948 ), US composer

" The Golden Gate, an opera in two acts with music by Conrad Cummings and libretto from the novel-in-verse by Vikram Seth adapted by the composer " is currently ( 2010 ) in development by LivelyWorks and American Opera Projects and receives a staged workshop production at the Rose Studio at Lincoln Center in New York City in January 2010.

Hamdallah Mustawfi, composer of the 14th century work The Geographical Part of the Nuzhat-al-Qulub writes that:

My Father Knew Charles Ives ( 2003 ): Adams writes, " My Father Knew Charles Ives is musical autobiography, an homage and encomium to a composer whose influence on me has been huge.

* Boodschappenlijstje van een gifmengster ( 2000 ) ( text by the composer ) for vocalist ( also writes ), voice ( may be performed as Shopping List of a Poisoner by Nicoline Gatehouse

However, jazz historian, musician, and composer Gunther Schuller writes about Morton's " hyperbolic assertions " that there is " no proof to the contrary " and that Morton's " considerable accomplishments in themselves provide reasonable substantiation ".

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

" Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians writes of Novello that he was " until the advent of Andrew Lloyd Webber, the 20th-century's most consistently successful composer of British musicals.

If a composer writes a large action cue, and no woodwinds are used, the orchestrator will often add woodwinds by doubling the brass music up an octave.

While expanding the form to a unified cycle of symphonic poems, Smetana created what Macdonald terms " one of the monuments of Czech music " and, Clapham writes, " extended the scope and purpose of the symphonic poem beyond the aims of any later composer ".

Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt, CM, OM ( born February 17, 1957 ) is a Canadian singer, composer, harpist, accordionist and pianist who writes, records and performs world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern themes.

Saxophonist Dexter Gordon called Dameron the " romanticist " of the bop movement, while reviewer Scott Yanow writes that Dameron was the " definitive arranger / composer of the bop era ".

The musicologist Denis Arnold writes, " He was already a very successful opera composer and with his duties at the Mendicanti he must have had enough to do.

He writes, “ Women by nature are highly emotional beings, have achieved nothing as composers .” He acknowledges that composers do possess a highly developed emotional faculty but that in music it is not the “ productive factor .” Furthermore, he asserts, “ It is not the actual feeling of the composer ” that evokes feelings in a listener, but “ the purely musical features of a composition .” Regarding the listener, he includes a lengthy discussion of the science of hearing and its limitations.

Michael Torke (; born September 22, 1961 ) is an American composer who writes music influenced by jazz and minimalism.

As Hamelin writes in his preface to this étude, the idea to combine these came from the composer Alistair Hinton, the finale of whose Piano Sonata No. 5 ( 1994 – 95 ) includes a substantial section entitled " Alkanique ".

In many cases, a composer comes up with a chorus or a theme first and writes the preceding verse, introduction and exposition to match.

I would suggest ... that the true designation of her voice is mezzo-soprano, and any composer who writes for her should use the mezzo-soprano range for the thematic material of his music, while still exploiting, as it were incidentally and from time to time, notes which lie within the more peripheral areas of this remarkably rich voice.

As he writes in the preface to Testimony, Volkov's interviews with Shostakovich consisted of questions to which the composer provided " brief " and " reluctant " answers, and which Volkov compiled in a " mound of shorthand notes.

The British composer Gordon Downie writes in a highly abstract modernist idiom and in writings links this type of modernism with Marxist concerns.

Besides his work as a musician and composer, Jah Wobble also writes occasional book reviews for The Independent.

As to the heroine of the title, the composer changed her name to ‘ Freda ’ in both full and vocal scores ( although in the full score he occasionally forgets himself and writes ‘ Thelma ’ instead of ‘ Freda ’).

"... the primary form of mathematical communication is not description but injunction ... Music is a similar art form, the composer does not even attempt to describe the set of sounds he has in mind, much less the set of feelings occasioned through them, but writes down a set of commands which, if they are obeyed by the performer, can result in a reproduction, to the listener, of the composer's original experience.

Film score composer is a general term referring to an individual who writes music for film.

Shchedrin weaves together all the threads of this plot into an absorbing musical fabric ”… It is joyful to witness a composer who writes real music and not simply an assortment of sounds which attract the attention to their creator simply because he is celebrated and famous … How many times I had the occasion of witnessing how certain haughty composers with their rhetorical pretensions to creating their so-called ‘ music of the future ’ disappeared without a trace, notwithstanding the titanic efforts of their frantic followers.

So when Cope's program writes a delightful turn of musical phrase, who is the artist: the composer being emulated, Cope's software, or David Cope himself?

George Fenton ( born 19 October 1950 ) is a British composer best known for his work writing film scores and music for television, although he also writes music for the theatre.