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Performing Arts

Musicians & Composers

Babbitt, Milton Byron
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel
Bach, Johann Christian
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann
Bacharach, Burt
Baez, Joan
Baker, Chet
Baker, Dame Janet
Baker, Josephine
Balakirev, Mily Alekseyevich
Balfe, Michael William
Band, The
Bantock, Sir Granville
Barber, Samuel
Barbirolli, Sir John
Bard
Barenboim, Daniel
Barry, John (1933- )
Bartók, Béla
Bartoli, Cecilia
Basie, Count
Bassey, Dame Shirley
Battle, Kathleen
Bax, Sir Arnold Edward Trevor
Beach, Amy Marcy
Beach Boys, The
Beatles, The
Bechet, Sidney
Bee Gees, The
Beecham, Sir Thomas
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Beiderbecke, Bix
Belafonte, Harry
Bellini, Vincenzo
Bendl, Karel
Bennet, John
Bennett, Sir Richard Rodney
Bennett, Sir William Sterndale
Bennett, Tony
Benoît, Pierre Léonard Léopold
Benson, George
Béranger, Pierre Jean de
Berg, Alban
Berganza (Vargas), Teresa
Berio, Luciano
Berkeley, Sir Lennox Randall Francis
Berlin, Irving
Berlioz, (Louis) Hector
Bernac, Pierre
Berners, Lord
Bernstein, Elmer
Bernstein, Leonard
Berry, Chuck
Berwald, Franz
Bhosle, Asha
Biggs, E(dward George) Power
Billings, William
Binchois, Gilles
Bing, Sir Rudolf
Birtwistle, Sir Harrison
Bishop, Sir Henry Rowley
Bizet, Georges
Björk
Blacher, Boris
Blakey, Art
Bland, James A.
Bliss, Sir Arthur Edward Drummond
Blitzstein, Marc
Bloch, Ernest
Blondie
Blow, John
Blur
Boccherini, Luigi Rodolfo
Böhm, Karl
Boieldieu, François-Adrien
Boito, Arrigo
Bolan, Marc
Bon Jovi
Borodin, Alexander Porfiryevich
Boulanger, Lili Juliette Marie Olga
Boulanger, Nadia Juliette
Boulez, Pierre
Boult, Sir Adrian
Bowie, David
Boy George
Boyce, William
Brahms, Johannes
Brain, Dennis
Brassens, Georges
Bream, Julian Alexander
Brel, Jacques
Brendel, Alfred
Brian, Havergal
Brico, Antonia
Bridge, Frank
Britten, (Edward) Benjamin, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh
Brooks, Garth
Brown, Earle Appleton
Brown, James
Brubeck, Dave
Bruch, Max
Bruckner, (Josef) Anton
Brüggen, Frans
Buena Vista Social Club
Bull, John (composer)
Bülow, Hans Guido von
Bumbry, Grace
Burney, Charles
Busch, Ernst
Bush, Alan Dudley
Busnois, Antoine
Busoni, Ferruccio Benvenuto
Butterworth, George Sainton Kaye
Buxtehude, Dietrich
Byrd, William (c. 1543-1623)
Byrds, The

Caballé, Montserrat
Caccini, Giulio
Cage, John Milton, Jr.
Cahn, Sammy
Caldwell, Sarah
Callas, Maria
Calloway, Cab(ell)
Campion, Thomas
Canteloube (de Malaret), Marie-Joseph
Cardew, Cornelius
Carissimi, Giacomo
Carmichael, Hoagy
Carpenters, The
Carreras, José
Carter, Elliott Cook, Jr.
Carter Family
Caruso, Enrico
Carver, Robert
Casals, Pablo
Casella, Alfredo
Cash, Johnny
Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario
Cavalli, Pier Francesco
Chabrier, (Alexis) Emmanuel
Chaliapin, Feodor Ivanovich
Challender, Stuart
Charles, Ray
Charpentier, Gustave
Charpentier, Marc-Antoine
Chaurasia, Hariprasad
Chausson, Ernest Amédée
Chávez, Carlos
Cher
Cherubini, Luigi
Chevalier, Albert
Chevalier, Maurice
Chieftains, The
Chopin, Frédéric François
Christoff, Boris
Cimarosa, Domenico
Clapton, Eric Patrick
Clark, Petula
Clarke, Jeremiah
Clash, The
Clementi, Muzio
Cliff, Jimmy
Cline, Patsy
Clinton, George (musician)
Coates, Eric
Cobain, Kurt
Cobham, Billy
Cochran, Eddie
Cocker, Joe
Cohen, Leonard
Cole, Nat King
Coleman, Ornette
Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel
Collins, Albert
Collins, Phil
Coltrane, John William
Combs, Sean ("Puffy")
Cooder, Ry(land Peter)
Cooke, Sam
Copland, Aaron
Corea, Chick
Corelli, Arcangelo
Cornysh, William
Cortot, Alfred Denis
Costello, Elvis
Couperin, François
Couperin, Louis
Coward, Sir Noel Pierce
Cowell, Henry Dixon
Crawford (Seeger), Ruth Porter
Crosby, Stills, Nash (and Young)
Crowded House
Crumb, George
Cruz, Celia
Cui, César Antonovich
Cure, The
Curzon, Sir Clifford Michael
Czerny, Carl

D'Indy, (Paul Marie Théodore) Vincent
D'Oyly Carte, Richard
Dagar
Dallapiccola, Luigi
Damrosch, Walter Johannes
Dankworth, Sir John Philip William
Davies, Sir Peter Maxwell
Davis, Anthony
Davis, Miles Dewey
Davis, Sammy, Jr.
Davis, Sir Andrew
Davis, Sir Colin Rex
De La Soul
Debussy, (Achille) Claude
Deep Purple
Del Mar, Norman René
Delerue, Georges
Delibes, (Clément Philbert) Léo
Delius, Frederick
Deller, Alfred
Dello Joio, Norman
Denisov, Edison Vasilyevich
Dering, Richard
Dessau, Paul
Diabelli, Anton
Diamond, David Leo
Diamond, Neil
Diddley, Bo
Dikshitar, Muttuswami
Dion, Celine
Dire Straits
Dittersdorf, Karl Ditters Von
Dodds, Johnny
Dohnányi, Christoph von
Dohnányi, Ernst von
Domingo, Plácido
Domino, Fats
Donizetti, Gaetano
Doors, The
Doráti, Antal
Dorsey, Tommy
Dowland, John
Drake, Nick
Du Pré, Jacqueline
Dufay, Guillaume
Dukas, Paul Abraham
Dunstable, John
Duparc, (Marie Eugène) Henri
Dupré, Marcel
Duran Duran
Durey, Louis Edmond
Duruflé, Maurice
Dussek, Jan Ladislav
Dusty, Slim
Dutilleux, Henri
Dvořák, Antonín
Dylan, Bob

Eagles, The
East, Michael
Eckstine, Billy
Eisler, Hanns
Elgar, Sir Edward William
Ellington, Duke
Elman, Mischa
Eminem
Emmett, Daniel Decatur
Enesco, Georges
Eno, Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle
Enya
Estefan, Gloria
Eurythmics, The
Evans, Bill John
Evans, Gil
Evans, Sir Geraint Llewellyn
Everly Brothers, The
Ewing, Maria Louise

Gabriel, Peter
Gabrieli, Andrea
Gabrieli, Giovanni
Gade, Niels Wilhelm
Galli-Curci, Amelita
Galuppi, Baldassare
Galway, Sir James
Garbarek, Jan
Gardel, Carlos
Garden, Mary
Gardiner, Sir John Eliot
Garrett, Lesley
Garrett, Peter
Gatti-Casazza, Giulio
Gaye, Marvin
Geldof, Bob
Geminiani, Francesco
Genesis (rock band)
Gerhard, Roberto
Gershwin, George
Gesualdo, Don Carlo
Getz, Stan(ley)
Gheorghiu, Angela
Gibbons, Orlando
Gieseking, Walter Wilhelm
Gigli, Beniamino
Gil, Gilberto
Gilbert, Sir William Schwenck
Gilels, Emil Grigoryevich
Gillespie, Dizzy
Ginastera, Alberto Evaristo
Giulini, Carlo Maria
Glanville-Hicks, Peggy
Glass, Philip
Glazunov, Aleksandr Konstantinovich
Glennie, Dame Evelyn
Glière, Reinhold Moritzevich
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich
Glitter, Gary
Gluck, Christoph Willibald
Gobbi, Tito
Goehr, (Peter) Alexander
Goldmark, Karl
Goldschmidt, Berthold
Goldsmith, Jerry
Goodman, Benny
Goodman, Isador
Goossens, Sir (Aynsley) Eugene
Gordon, Dexter
Gordy, Berry
Górecki, Henryk Mikołaj
Gossec, François-Joseph
Gottschalk, Louis Moreau
Gould, Glenn Herbert
Gould, Morton
Gounod, Charles François
Grainger, Percy Aldridge
Granados y Campiña, Enrique Costanzo
Grappelli, Stephane
Grateful Dead, The
Green, Al
Grétry, André Ernest Modeste
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup
Griffes, Charles Tomlinson
Grofé, Ferde
Grumiaux, Arthur, Baron Grumiaux
Gubaidulina, Sofia Asgatovna
Guido d'Arezzo
Gurney, Ivor
Guthrie, Woody

Haitink, Bernard
Halévy, Jacques François Fromental Élie
Haley, Bill
Hallyday, Johnny
Hammerstein, Oscar
Hampton, Lionel
Hancock, Herbie
Handel, George Frideric
Handy, W(illiam) C(hristopher)
Hanson, Howard
Harnoncourt, Nikolaus
Harris, Emmylou
Harris, Roy
Harrison, George
Hart, Lorenz
Harvey, Jonathan David
Hawkins, Coleman
Haydn, (Franz) Joseph
Haydn, (Johann) Michael
Hayes, Isaac
Heath, Ted
Heifetz, Jascha
Henderson, (James) Fletcher
Hendricks, Barbara
Hendrix, Jimi
Henry, Pierre
Henze, Hans Werner
Herbert, Victor
Herman, Woody
Herrmann, Bernard
Hess, Dame Myra
Hildegard of Bingen
Hindemith, Paul
Hines, Earl “Fatha”
Hoffmann, E(rnst) T(heodor) A(madeus)
Hogwood, Christopher
Holiday, Billie
Hollies, The
Holliger, Heinz
Holly, Buddy
Holmboe, Vagn
Holst, Gustav Theodore
Honegger, Arthur
Hooker, John Lee
Horne, Lena Calhoun
Horowitz, Vladimir
Hotteterre, Jacques-Martin
Houston, Whitney
Hovhaness, Alan
Howells, Herbert Norman
Howlin' Wolf
Humfrey, Pelham
Hummel, Johann Nepomuk
Humperdinck, Engelbert
Hussain, Zakir
Huygens, Constantijn

I	Ibert, Jacques François Antoine Ibrahim, Abdullah Iggy Pop Iglesias, Julio India, Sigismondo d' INXS Ippolitov-Ivanov, Mikhail Mikhailovich Ireland, John Nicholson Isaac, Heinrich Islam, Yusuf Ives, Burl Ives, Charles E(dward)

Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Laine, Dame Cleo
Lalo, (Victor Antoine) Édouard
Lambert, (Leonard) Constant
Landini, Francesco
Landowska, Wanda Louise
lang, k. d.
Langgaard, Rued Immanuel
Lanza, Mario
Larrocha, Alicia de
Larsson, Lars-Erik
Lasso, Orlando di
Last Poets, The
Lauder, Sir Harry
Lawes, Henry and William
Lead Belly
Lecuona, Ernesto
Led Zeppelin
Lee, Peggy
Legrand, Michel
Lehár, Franz
Lehmann, Lilli
Lehmann, Lotte
Leiber and Stoller
Leinsdorf, Erich
Lemper, Ute
Lennon, John Winston
Leoncavallo, Ruggero
Leonhardt, Gustav Maria
Léonin
Leppard, Raymond John
Leschetizky, Theodor
Levine, James Lawrence
Lewis, Jerry Lee
Liberace, Wladziu Valentino
Ligeti, György
Lilburn, Douglas Gordon
Lind, Jenny
Linley, Thomas
Lipatti, Dinu
Liszt, Franz
Little Richard
Lloyd, George
Lloyd Webber, Andrew, Lord Lloyd Webber of Sydmonton
Locke, Matthew
Loesser, Frank Henry
Loewe, Frederick
Lomax, John and Alan
Long, Marguerite Marie-Charlotte
Luening, Otto Clarence
Lully, Jean-Baptiste
Lutosławski, Witold
Lutyens, (Agnes) Elisabeth
Lyadov, Anatol Konstantinovich
Lynn, Dame Vera

Ma, Yo-Yo
Maal, Baaba
Maazel, Lorin
MacDermot, Galt
MacDowell, Edward Alexander
Machaut, Guillaume de
Machito
Mackerras, Sir (Alan) Charles
Maconchy, Dame Elizabeth
Maderna, Bruno
Madness
Madonna (pop star)
Mahler, Alma
Mahler, Gustav
Makeba, Miriam
Malcolm, George John
Malipiero, (Gian) Francesco
Mancini, Henry
Mangeshkar, Lata Dinanath
Manilow, Barry
Mansur, Mallikarjun Bhimarayappa
Marais, Marin
Marcello, Benedetto
Marenzio, Luca
Marley, Bob
Marriner, Sir Neville
Marriott, Steve
Marsalis, Branford
Marsalis, Wynton
Martin, Frank
Martinů, Bohuslav
Mascagni, Pietro
Masekela, Hugh Ramopolo
Mason
Massenet, Jules Émile Frédéric
Massive Attack
Masur, Kurt
Mathis, Johnny
Mayall, John
Mayfield, Curtis
McCabe, John
McCartney, Sir (James) Paul
McCormack, John
McIntyre, Sir Donald Conroy
McPartland, Jimmy
Mehta, Zubin
Melba, Dame Nellie
Melchior, Lauritz Lebrecht Hommel
Melly, (Alan) George Heywood
Mendelssohn, Felix
Mengelberg, (Josef) Willem
Menotti, Gian-Carlo
Menuhin, Yehudi, Baron Menuhin of Stoke d'Abernon
Mercer, Johnny
Messiaen, Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles
Metheny, Pat
Metner, Nikolai Karlovich
Meyerbeer, Giacomo
Michael, George
Michelangeli, Arturo Benedetti
Midler, Bette
Midnight Oil
Mighty Sparrow
Milhaud, Darius
Miller, Glenn
Mills Brothers
Milstein, Nathan
Mingus, Charlie
Minogue, Kylie Ann
Mitchell, Joni
Mitropoulos, Dimitri
Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ)
Moeran, Ernest John
Mompou, Federico
Monk, Thelonious Sphere
Monroe, Bill
Montand, Yves Ivo Livi
Monteux, Pierre
Monteverdi, Claudio Giovanni Antonio
Montgomery, Wes
Moore, Gerald
Moreira, Airto and Purim, Flora
Morley, Thomas
Morricone, Ennio
Morrison, Van
Morrissey
Morton, Jelly Roll
Moscheles, Ignaz
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Muhammad Abd al-Wahhab
Mulligan, Gerry
Munch, Charles
Munrow, David
Musgrave, Thea
Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich
Muti, Riccardo
Mutter, Anne-Sophie

O	O'Connor, Sinéad O'Keefe, Johnny Ó Riada, Seán Oasis (rock band) Obrecht, Jacob Ockeghem, Johannes Offenbach, Jacques Ogdon, John Andrew Howard Oistrakh, David Fyodorovich Oldfield, Mike Oliver, King Orbison, Roy Orff, Carl Ormandy, Eugene Osmonds, The

Pachelbel, Johann
Paderewski, Ignace Jan
Paganini, Nicolò
Paige, Elaine
Paisiello, Giovanni
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da
Panufnik, Sir Andrzej
Parker, Charlie
Parker, Horatio William
Parrott, Andrew
Parry, Sir (Charles) Hubert Hastings
Pärt, Arvo
Partch, Harry
Parton, Dolly
Pavarotti, Luciano
Pears, Sir Peter Neville Luard
Penderecki, Krzysztof
Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista
Peri, Jacopo
Perkins, Carl Lee
Perlman, Itzhak
Pérotin
Persichetti, Vincent
Peterson, Oscar Emmanuel
Petrucciani, Michel
Pettersson, (Gustaf) Allan
Pfitzner, Hans Erich
Philips, Peter
Piaf, Edith
Piatigorsky, Gregor
Piazzolla, Ástor
Pickett, Wilson
Pierce, Webb
Pierné, (Henri Constant) Gabriel
Pilkington, Francis
Pine, Courtney Fitzgerald
Pink Floyd
Pinza, Ezio
Piston, Walter Hamor
Pixinguinha
Pizzetti, Ildebrando
Pogues, The
Pollini, Maurizio
Pomus and Shuman
Ponce, Manuel María
Ponchielli, Amilcare
Porter, Cole
Poulenc, Francis
Pousseur, Henri Léon Marie Thérèse
Powell, Bud
Praetorius, Michael
Presley, Elvis Aaron
Previn, André
Price, (Mary) Leontyne
Primrose, William
Prince
Prokofiev, Sergei Sergeyevich
Puccini, Giacomo
Puente, Tito
Purcell, Henry
Purunthara Das

Q	Quantz, Johann Joachim Queen (rock band)

R.E.M.
Rachmaninov, Sergei Vasilyevich
Radiohead
Rafi, Mohammed
Raimondi, Ruggero
Rainey, Ma
Rainier, Priaulx
Raitt, Bonnie
Rameau, Jean Philippe
Rampal, Jean Pierre
Rattle, Sir Simon Denis
Ravel, Maurice Joseph
Ravenscroft, Thomas
Rawsthorne, Alan
Ray, Johnnie
Redding, Otis
Reed, Lou
Reeves, Jim
Reger, Max
Reich, Steve
Reiner, Fritz
Reinhardt, Django
Respighi, Ottorino
Richard, Sir Cliff
Richie, Lionel
Richter, Hans
Richter, Sviatoslav Teofilovich
Riddle, Nelson Smock
Riegger, Wallingford
Riley, Terry Mitchell
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay Andreyevich
Roach, Max
Robeson, Paul
Robinson, Smokey
Rodgers, Jimmie
Rodgers, Richard
Rodrigo, Joaquín
Rodzinski, Artur
Rolling Stones, The
Rollins, Sonny
Rooley, Anthony
Root, George Frederick
Ross, Diana
Rosseter, Philip
Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio
Rostropovich, Mstislav
Rota, Nino
Rouget de Lisle, Claude Joseph
Roussel, Albert
Roxy Music
Rubbra, Edmund
Rubinstein, Anton Grigoryevich
Rubinstein, Arthur
Ruffin, David
Ruggles, Carl
Run-DMC
Rzewski, Frederic Anthony

Sacher, Paul
Sachs, Hans
Saint-Saëns, (Charles) Camille
Salieri, Antonio
Salonen, Esa-Pekka
Sammartini, Giovanni Battista
Santana, Carlos
Sarasate, Pablo de
Sargent, Sir (Harold) Malcolm Watts
Satie, Erik Alfred Leslie
Scarlatti, Alessandro
Scarlatti, (Giuseppe) Domenico
Schaeffer, Pierre
Schafer, R(aymond) Murray
Schenker, Heinrich
Scherchen, Hermann
Schnabel, Artur
Schnittke, Alfred
Schoenberg, Arnold
Schreier, Peter
Schubert, Franz Peter
Schuman, William Howard
Schumann, Clara Josephine
Schumann-Heink, Ernestine
Schumann, Robert Alexander
Schütz, Heinrich
Schwarzkopf, Dame Elisabeth
Scott, Ronnie
Scriabin, Aleksandr Nikolayevich
Sculthorpe, Peter Joshua
Sedaka, Neil
Seeger, Pete
Segovia, Andrés
Seiji Ozawa
Sessions, Roger Huntington
Sex Pistols, The
Shankar, Ravi
Sharp, Cecil James
Shaw, Artie
Shearing, Sir George Albert
Shin'ichi Suzuki
Shore, Howard
Shostakovich, Dmitri Dmitrievich
Sibelius, Jean
Sills, Beverly
Simon, Paul
Simone, Nina
Simple Minds
Simpson, Robert Wilfred Levick
Sinatra, Frank
Six, Les
Skalkottas, Nikolaos
Slade
Slatkin, Leonard Edward
Sly and the Family Stone
Small Faces, The
Smetana, Bedřich
Smith, Bessie
Smith, Patti
Smiths, The
Smyth, Dame Ethel Mary
Soler, Antonio
Solomon (pianist)
Solti, Sir Georg
Sondheim, Stephen Joshua
Sonic Youth
Sor, Fernando
Sorabji, Kaikhosru Shapurji
Sousa, John Philip
Souzay, Gérard Marcel
Spector, Phil
Spice Girls, The
Spohr, Louis
Springfield, Dusty
Springsteen, Bruce
Stamitz, Johann Wenzel Anton
Stanford, Sir Charles Villiers
Status Quo
Stax Records
Steiner, Max
Stern, Isaac
Stewart, Rod
Sting
Stockhausen, Karlheinz
Stokowski, Leopold Antoni Stanisław
Storace, Stephen John Seymour
Stradella, Alessandro
Straus, Oscar
Strauss
Strauss, Richard
Stravinsky, Igor Fyodorovich
Streisand, Barbra
Strozzi, Barbara
Styne, Jule
Subbulakshmi, M. S.
Subramaniam, L.
Suk, Josef
Sullivan, Sir Arthur Seymour
Sun Ra
Suppé, Franz von
Supremes, The
Sutherland, Dame Joan
Svendsen, Johan Severin
Swathithirunal
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon
Szell, George
Szigeti, Joseph
Szymanowski, Karol Maciej