He is known as the composer of the Dionysiaca, an epic tale of the god Dionysus, and the Metabole, a paraphrase of the Gospel of John.

Reagon's work as a scholar and composer is reflected in publications on African American culture and history, including: a collection of essays entitled If You Don ’ t Go, Don ’ t Hinder Me: The African American Sacred Song Tradition ( University of Nebraska Press, 2001 ); We Who Believe In Freedom: Sweet Honey In The Rock: Still on the Journey, ( Anchor Books, 1993 ); and We'll Understand It Better By And By: Pioneering African American Gospel Composers ( Smithsonian Press, 1992 ).

He was also the author of many tracts and composer of many Gospel songs, including I See a Crimson Stream of Blood.

In the mid-1920s, Masao Koga, a Korean-expat composer in Japan, mixed traditional Korean music with Gospel music that American Evangelists introduced in the 1870s.

Currently he lives in New Zealand and works as a singer, composer, author and workshop leader, in the areas of vocal arranging and Gospel Music.

She started her own publishing house, Martin and Morris Music, Inc., with Kenneth Morris ( 8 / 28 / 1917-1988 ), Gospel music publisher, arranger, composer, and innovator, was born in New York.

* 1879 – John Ireland, English composer ( d. 1962 )

William Walker ( composer ) | William Walker, the composer who first joined John Newton's verses to " New Britain ", to create the song that has become " Amazing Grace "

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.

* 1946 – John Rubinstein, American actor, composer, director

* 1949 – John Altman, British film composer

Fern Hill has been set to music by the American composer John Corigliano, for SATB chorus with orchestral accompaniment.

* 1938 – John Harbison, American composer

Hugh Le Caine, John Hanert, Raymond Scott, composer Percy Grainger ( with Burnett Cross ), and others built a variety of automated electronic-music controllers during the late 1940s and 1950s.

* 1947 – John Coolidge Adams, American composer

* 1721 – John Reid, British army general and composer ( d. 1807 )

* Sir John in Love, 1924 – 1928, an opera by composer Ralph Vaughan Williams based upon The Merry Wives of Windsor.

* 1876 – John Alden Carpenter, American composer ( d. 1951 )

* 1938 – John Corigliano, American composer

American avant-garde composer John Zorn released an album called Grand Guignol by Naked City in 1992, in a reference to " the darker side of our existence which has always been with us and always will be ".

* John Young ( composer ) ( born 1962 ), New Zealand-born composer

* 1962 – John Ireland, English composer ( b. 1879 )

* 1952 – John Tesh, American composer

* 1782 – John Field, Irish composer ( d. 1837 )

* 1712 – John Stanley, English composer ( d. 1786 )

* 1886 – John J. Becker, American composer ( d. 1961 )

* 1676 – John Weldon, English musician and composer ( d. 1736 )

John Dowland ( 1563 – buried 20 February 1626 ) was an English Renaissance composer, singer, and lutenist.

John Coolidge Adams ( born February 15, 1947 ) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer with strong roots in minimalism.

At first, these processes seemed so strange and unprecedented that they were taken as evidence of sheer incompetence .... Now it is recognized that Bruckner's unorthodox structural methods were inevitable .... Bruckner created a new and monumental type of symphonic organism, which abjured the tense, dynamic continuity of Beethoven, and the broad, fluid continuity of Wagner, in order to express something profoundly different from either composer, something elemental and metaphysical.

The horrifying events of World War II seemed to bring the composer — who had grown old, tired, and a little jaded — into focus.

Ashley stated that he wondered since Tourette's Syndrome had to do with " sound-making and because the manifestation of the syndrome seemed so much like a primitive form of composing whether the syndrome was connected in some way to his obvious tendencies as a composer ".

Strayhorn's relationship with Ellington was always difficult to pin down: Strayhorn was a gifted composer and arranger who seemed to flourish in Duke's shadow.

Executive producer Henri Belolo recalls that he saw the YMCA sign while walking down the street with composer Jacques Morali, who seemed to know the institution fairly well: " Henri, let me tell you something.

" The composer himself seemed to second this view long after the fact, in a conversation with author Chinghiz Aitmatov in the late 1960s.

At first this idea seemed wild to the composer, according to his memoirs.

Much is written in the concertato style imported from northern Italy, though it would have seemed tame to a Venetian composer.

" The composer seemed to know it would be his last attempt at the symphonic form, and he wrote the work almost as a type of " history " of his own career: virtuoso piano passages, brilliant orchestral writing characteristic of the Romantic period, and the sound of a cathedral-sized pipe organ.

He was interested in literature and was also a classical music composer.

However, as Sutcliffe says, Foss, a modest composer and gifted pianist, " was not particularly interested in education ; he was passionately interested in music.

The internet was also a factor in the celebrations, with the comprehensive hberlioz. com site ( which has been online since 1997 ) being an easily available source of information to anyone interested in the composer.

Suggestions were made, despite initial skepticism on the part of the composer, that Boito would be interested in creating a new libretto based upon the play.

Shortly before Christmas 2002, composer Ralph Siegel asked her if she would be interested in competing in the national finals again with a song he had written with lyricist Bernd Meinunger.

At her original audition, show's composer Andrew Lloyd Webber had asked whether she would be interested if he wrote anything he thought appropriate for her voice.

The composer, always interested in Erben's stories, read the libretto and composed his opera quite rapidly, with the first draft begun on 22 April 1900 and completed by the end of November.

The American composer and bassist Edgar Meyer was so interested in this work that in 1995 he wrote a double concerto for double bass, cello and orchestra that, while very different in style, closely mirrors the structure of Mozart's Sinfonia concertante.

Alexander Rybak winner of the contest in 2009 representing Norway, said that he's interested to have a comeback as a composer for his birth country Belarus.

He was interested in motorcycles, and was working as a toll collector at the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel when he responded to an advertisement by composer Jacques Morali seeking " macho " singers and dancers.

As a composer, film musician, and as a person interested in other musical cultures, Orhan Gencebay is one of the major exponents of Turkish music in the 20th century.

Guglielmo was particularly interested in sacred vocal music, and is known particularly to music historians for his extensive correspondence with the composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.