* 1571 – Thomas Lupo, English composer and viol player ( d. 1627 )

* 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's " The Lost Chord ", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.

In the wake of the play's US success, the composer Stravinsky invited Thomas to write a libretto for an opera.

* 1899 – Thomas A. Dorsey, American composer ( d. 1993 )

In 1889, one Theo Wangemann, a representative of American inventor Thomas Edison, visited the composer in Vienna and invited him to make an experimental recording.

* 1756 – Thomas Linley the younger, English composer ( d. 1778 )

* 1648 – Thomas Ford, English composer

Arne was the first English composer to experiment with Italian-style all-sung comic opera, with his greatest success being Thomas and Sally in 1760.

* 1927 – Thomas Wilson ( composer ), Scottish composer of classical music ( d. 2001 )

Pius V declared Thomas Aquinas a Doctor of the Church and patronized prominent sacred music composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.

Thomas Alan " Tom " Waits ( born December 7, 1949 ) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor.

* Thomas Campion-16th century composer

Notable Unitarians include Béla Bartók the 20th century composer, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Theodore Parker in theology and ministry, Charles Darwin, Joseph Priestley and Linus Pauling in science, George Boole in mathematics, Susan B. Anthony, John Locke in civil government, and Florence Nightingale in humanitarianism and social justice, Charles Dickens, John Bowring and Samuel Taylor Coleridge in literature, Frank Lloyd Wright in arts, Josiah Wedgwood in industry, Thomas Starr King in ministry and politics, and Charles William Eliot in education.

Image: Karl Friedrich Abel by Thomas Gainsborough. jpg | Portrait of Carl Friedrich Abel, composer and viol master — German-born but residing in England most of his life — posed with his viola da gamba.

* Cameos in the film include science fiction and film industry personalities ( Forrest J. Ackerman, Angelique Pettyjohn, Ward Kimball, Will Ryan ), as well as actual " Big Name " stars ( composer John Massari, a pre -" Miami Vice " Philip Michael Thomas ).

* November 17 – Thomas Ford, English composer ( b. c. 1580 )

** Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer ( d. 1656 )

* Thomas Tomkins of Wales ( 1572 – 1656 ), Cornish-Welsh composer

** Thomas Morley, English composer ( d. 1602 )

** Thomas Crecquillon, Flemish composer ( b. 1490 )

* October – Thomas Morley, English composer ( b. 1557 )

* March 1 – Thomas Campion, English poet and composer ( b. 1567 )

* March 5 – Thomas Arne, English composer of Rule, Britannia!

* November 23 – Thomas Tallis, English composer ( b. c. 1510 )

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 ).

Thomas Tallis ( c. 1505 – 23 November 1585 the Julian calendar, 3 December 1585, by the Gregorian calendar ) was an English composer who occupies a primary place in anthologies of English church music, and is considered one of England's greatest early composers.

Throughout his service to successive monarchs as organist and composer, Tallis avoided the religious controversies that raged around him, though, like William Byrd, he stayed an " unreformed Roman Catholic.

Examples of the genre include compositions by Christopher Tye ( the most prolific composer of In Nomines, with 24 surviving settings ), Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, John Bull, Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Tomkins, William Lawes, and Henry Purcell, among many others.

Notable burials, in and around the church, include: Renaissance composer Thomas Tallis ( d. 1585 ), General James Wolfe ( d. 1759 ), English-born explorer of Canada Henry Kelsey ( d. 1724 ), and actress Lavinia Fenton ( 1760 ).

The famous 40-voice motet Spem in alium by English composer Thomas Tallis, is a setting of a text from the Book of Judith.

* Thomas Tallis ( 1505 – 85 ), an English composer

* The Tallis Scholars, a British early music ensemble named after the composer

Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, also known as the Tallis Fantasia, is a work for string orchestra by the British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.

The work takes its name from the original composer of the melody, Thomas Tallis ( c. 1505 – 1585 ).

** Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, composed in 1910 by British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams

Tallis is nicknamed " Tom " or " Father Tom " because of the historical composer Thomas Tallis, who wrote the Tallis Canon.

Canon Tallis is named after English liturgical composer Thomas Tallis, and of course the name Adam is from Genesis.

That after all his years of effort to become a composer, he should now, now when he was still stoutly replying to the critics of his Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, be so close to a success in music and have to reject it.

And of course the news of who the composer was did finally begin to get around among his closest friends.

How titillating it was to go among people who did not know him as the composer, but who talked in the most glowing terms of the promise of the piece after having heard the first rehearsals.

Certainly its composer was an ascending star on a new world horizon.

and the composer himself was called the `` age of steel pianist ''.

Gershwin was on hand to " supervise " the recording ; however, Shilkret was reported to be in charge and eventually asked the composer to leave the recording studio.

One of his notable pupils was conductor and composer Hans Münch.

Woolfson was a lawyer by profession, but also a composer and pianist.

Woolfson, a songwriter and composer, was working as a session pianist ; he had also composed material for a concept album idea based on the work of Edgar Allan Poe.

The first known instance of Newton's lines joined to music was in A Companion to the Countess of Huntingdon's Hymns ( London, 1808 ), where it is set to the tune " Hephzibah " by English composer John Jenkins Husband.

August Wilhelm Ambros ( November 17, 1816 – June 28, 1876 ) was an Austrian composer and music historian of Czech descent.

Created by the Scottish-born composer, Peter Dodds McCormick, the song was first performed in 1878, but did not gain its status as the official anthem until 1984.

Antonio Salieri ( 18 August 17507 May 1825 ) was a classical composer, conductor and teacher born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, but who spent his adult life and career as a faithful subject of the Habsburg monarchy.

As a student of Florian Leopold Gassmann, and a protégé of Gluck, Salieri was a cosmopolitan composer who wrote operas in three languages.

Antonio began his musical studies in his native town of Legnago ; he was first taught at home by his older brother Francesco Salieri ( a former student of the violinist and composer Giuseppe Tartini ), and he received further lessons from the organist of the Legnago Cathedral, Giuseppe Simoni, a pupil of Padre Giovanni Battista Martini.

It was through Pacini that Salieri gained the attention of the composer Florian Leopold Gassmann, who, impressed with his talents and concerned for his future, took the young orphan to Vienna where he personally directed and paid for the remainder of his musical education.

It was toward the end of this extended period of study that Gassmann was called away on a new opera commission and a gap in the theater's program allowed for Salieri to make his debut as a composer of a completely original opera buffa.

Salieri's first full opera was composed during the winter and carnival season of 1770 ; Le donne letterate and was based on Molière's Les Femmes Savantes ( The Learned Ladies ) with a libretto by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini a dancer in the court ballet, and a brother of the famous composer.

Armida was translated into German and widely performed, especially in the northern German states, where it helped to establish Salieri's reputation as an important and innovative modern composer It would also be the first opera to receive a serious preparation in a piano and vocal reduction by Carl Friedrich Cramer in 1783.

Sacred music was not a high priority for the composer during this stage of his career, but he did compose an Alleluia for chorus and orchestra in 1774, perhaps for his own wedding, or in thanksgiving for it.

Gluck feared that the Parisian critics would denounce the opera by a young composer known mostly for comic pieces and so the opera was originally billed in the press as being a new work by Gluck with some assistance from Antonio Salieri, then shortly before the premiere of the opera the Parisian press reported that the work was to be partly by Gluck and partly by Salieri, and finally after popular and critical success were won on stage the opera was acknowledged in a letter to the public by Gluck as being wholly by the young Antonio.