musician

Definitions of musician

n someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession)

Synonyms:: instrumentalist, player

Examples:: show 127 examples...; hide 127 examples...; Marian Anderson
United States contralto noted for her performance of spirituals (1902-1993); Louis Armstrong
United States pioneering jazz trumpeter and bandleader (1900-1971); Johann Sebastian Bach
German baroque organist and contrapuntist; composed mostly keyboard music; one of the greatest creators of western music (1685-1750); Pearl Mae Bailey
United States singer (1918-1990); Bela Bartok
Hungarian composer and pianist who collected Hungarian folk music; in 1940 he moved to the United States (1881-1945); Charles Edward Berry
United States rock singer (born in 1931); Marc Blitzstein
United States pianist and composer of operas and musical plays (1905-1964); Anton Bruckner
Austrian organist and composer of romantic music (1824-1896); William Byrd
English organist and composer of church music; master of 16th century polyphony; was granted a monopoly in music printing with Thomas Tallis (1543-1623); Maria Meneghini Callas
Greek coloratura soprano (born in the United States) known for her dramatic intensity in operatic roles (1923-1977); Enrico Caruso
outstanding Italian operatic tenor (1873-1921); Pablo Casals
an outstanding Spanish cellist noted for his interpretation of Bach's cello suites (1876-1973); Johnny Cash
United States country music singer and songwriter (1932-2003); Maurice Chevalier
French actor and cabaret singer (1888-1972); Frederic Francois Chopin
French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school (1810-1849); Arcangelo Corelli
Italian violinist and composer of violin concertos (1653-1713); Francois Couperin
French composer of music for organ and a member of a family of distinguished organists (1668-1733); Harry Lillis Crosby
United States singer and film actor (1904-1977); Karl Czerny
Austrian virtuoso pianist and composer of many works for the piano; studied with Beethoven and was a teacher of Liszt (1791-1857); Miles Dewey Davis Jr.
United States jazz musician; noted for his trumpet style (1926-1991); Maria Magdalene von Losch
United States film actress (born in Germany) who made many films with Josef von Sternberg and later was a successful cabaret star (1901-1992); Placido Domingo
Spanish operatic tenor noted for performances in operas by Verdi and Puccini (born in 1941); Antoine Domino
United States rhythm and blues pianist and singer and composer (born in 1928); John Dowland
English lutenist and composer of songs for the lute (1563-1626); Bob Dylan
United States songwriter noted for his protest songs (born in 1941); Edward Kennedy Ellington
United States jazz composer and piano player and bandleader (1899-1974); Georges Enesco
Romanian violinist and composer (1881-1955); Manuel de Falla
Spanish composer and pianist (1876-1946); Eileen Farrell
United States operatic soprano noted for the clarity and power of her voice (1920-2002); Ella Fitzgerald
United States scat singer (1917-1996); Judy Garland
United States singer and film actress (1922-1969); John Birks Gillespie
United States jazz trumpeter and exponent of bebop (1917-1993); Benjamin David Goodman
United States clarinetist who in 1934 formed a big band (including black as well as white musicians) and introduced a kind of jazz known as swing (1909-1986); Stephane Grappelli
French jazz violinist (1908-1997); Woodrow Wilson Guthrie
United States folk singer and songwriter (1912-1967); William John Clifton Haley Jr.
United States rock singer who was one of the first to popularize rock'n'roll music (1925-1981); Lionel Hampton
United States musician who was the first to use the vibraphone as a jazz instrument (1913-2002); George Harrison
English rock star; lead guitarist of the Beatles (1943-2001); Coleman Hawkins
United States jazz saxophonist (1904-1969); James Marshall Hendrix
United States guitarist whose innovative style with electric guitars influenced the development of rock music (1942-1970); Woodrow Charles Herman
United States jazz musician and bandleader (1913-1987); Dame Myra Hess
English pianist (1890-1965); Charles Hardin Holley
United States rock star (1936-1959); Lena Calhoun Horne
United States singer and actress (born in 1917); Marilyn Horne
United States operatic mezzo-soprano (born 1934); Vladimir Horowitz
Russian concert pianist who was a leading international virtuoso (1904-1989); Julio Iglesias
Spanish singer noted for his ballads and love songs (born in 1943); Mahalia Jackson
United States singer who did much to popularize gospel music (1911-1972); Michael Joe Jackson
United States singer who began singing with his four brothers and later became a highly successful star during the 1980s (born in 1958); Michael Philip Jagger
English rock star (born in 1943); Joseph Joachim
Hungarian violinist and composer (1831-1907); Asa Yoelson
United States singer (born in Russia) who appeared in the first full-length talking film (1886-1950); Janis Joplin
United States singer who died of a drug overdose at the height of her popularity (1943-1970); Riley B King
United States guitar player and singer of the blues (born in 1925); Fritz Kreisler
United States violinist (born in Austria) (1875-1962); Wanda Landowska
United States harpsichordist (born in Poland) who helped to revive modern interest in the harpsichord (1879-1959); Sir Harry MacLennan Lauder
Scottish ballad singer and music hall comedian (1870-1950); Huddie Leadbetter
United States folk singer and composer (1885-1949); John Lennon
English rock star and guitarist and songwriter who with Paul McCartney wrote most of the music for the Beatles (1940-1980); Jerry Lee Lewis
United States rock star singer and pianist (born in 1935); Swedish Nightingale
Swedish soprano who toured the United States under the management of P. T. Barnum (1820-1887); Franz Liszt
Hungarian composer and piano virtuoso (1811-1886); Madonna Louise Ciccone
United States pop singer and sex symbol during the 1980s (born in 1958); Robert Nesta Marley
Jamaican singer who popularized reggae (1945-1981); Dino Paul Crocetti
United States singer (1917-1995); Sir James Paul McCartney
English rock star and bass guitarist and songwriter who with John Lennon wrote most of the music for the Beatles (born in 1942); John McCormick
United States operatic tenor (born in Ireland) (1884-1945); Helen Porter Mitchell
Australian operatic soprano (1861-1931); Lauritz Lebrecht Hommel Melchior
United States operatic tenor (born in Denmark) noted for his Wagnerian roles (1890-1973); Sir Yehudi Menuhin
British violinist (born in the United States) who began his career as a child prodigy in the 1920s (1916-1999); Ethel Merman
United States singer who appeared in several musical comedies (1909-1984); Thelonious Sphere Monk
United States jazz pianist who was one of the founders of the bebop style (1917-1982); James Douglas Morrison
United States rock singer (1943-1971); Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe Morton
United States jazz musician who moved from ragtime to New Orleans jazz (1885-1941); Marta Brigit Nilsson
Swedish operatic soprano who played Wagnerian roles (born in 1918); Jessye Norman
United States operatic soprano (born in 1945); Joseph Oliver
United States jazz musician who influenced the style of Louis Armstrong (1885-1938); Roy Orbison
United States composer and rockabilly tenor popular in the 1950s (1936-1988); Ignace Jan Paderewski
Polish pianist who in 1919 served as the first Prime Minister of independent Poland (1860-1941); Niccolo Paganini
Italian violinist and composer of music for the violin (1782-1840); Charles Christopher Parker
United States saxophonist and leader of the bop style of jazz (1920-1955); Luciano Pavarotti
Italian tenor (born in 1935); Edith Giovanna Gassion
French cabaret singer (1915-1963); Alice-Josephine Pons
United States coloratura soprano (born in France) (1904-1976); Rosa Melba Ponselle
United States soprano (1897-1981); Francis Poulenc
French pianist and composer (1899-1963); Elvis Aron Presley
United States rock singer whose many hit records and flamboyant style greatly influenced American popular music (1935-1977); Mary Leontyne Price
United States operatic soprano (born 1927); Henry Purcell
English organist at Westminster Abbey and composer of many theatrical pieces (1659-1695); Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff
composer and piano virtuoso born in Russia (1873-1943); Paul Bustill Robeson
United States bass singer and an outspoken critic of racism and proponent of socialism (1898-1976); Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein
Russian composer and pianist (1829-1894); Arthur Rubinstein
United States pianist (born in Poland) known for his interpretations of the music of Chopin (1886-1982); Lillian Russell
United States entertainer remembered for her roles in comic operas (1861-1922); Charles Camille Saint-Saens
French pianist and composer (1835-1921); Artur Schnabel
United States composer (born in Austria) and pianist noted for his interpretations of the works of Mozart and Beethoven and Schubert (1882-1951); Clara Josephine Schumann
German pianist and composer of piano music; renowned for her interpretation of music, especially the music of her husband Robert Schumann (1819-1896); Ernestine Schumann-Heink
United States operatic contralto (1861-1936); Albert Schweitzer
French philosopher and physician and organist who spent most of his life as a medical missionary in Gabon (1875-1965); Peter Seeger
United States folk singer who was largely responsible for the interest in folk music in the 1960s (born in 1919); Andres Segovia
Spanish guitarist who made classical guitar a concert instrument (1893-1987); Rudolf Serkin
United States concert pianist (born in Czechoslovakia) (1903-1991); Ravi Shankar
Indian sitar player who popularized classical Indian music in the West (born in 1920); Arthur Jacob Arshawsky
United States clarinetist and leader of a swing band (1910-2004); Belle Miriam Silverman
United States operatic soprano (born in 1929); Paul Simon
United States singer and songwriter (born in 1942); Francis Albert Sinatra
United States singer and film actor (1915-1998); Bessie Smith
United States blues singer (1894-1937); Kathryn Elizabeth Smith
United States singer noted for her rendition of patriotic songs (1909-1986); Richard Starkey
rock star and drummer for the Beatles (born in 1940); Isaac Stern
United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920); Barbra Joan Streisand
United States singer and actress (born in 1942); Dame Joan Sutherland
Australian operatic soprano (born in 1926); Thomas Tallis
English organist and composer of church and secular music; was granted a monopoly in music printing with William Byrd (1505-1585); Arthur Tatum
United States jazz pianist who was almost completely blind; his innovations influenced many other jazz musicians (1910-1956); Renata Tebaldi
Italian operatic soprano (born in 1922); Dame Kiri Janette Te Kanawa
New Zealand operatic soprano (born in 1944); Helen Traubel
United States operatic soprano (1903-1972); Sarah Vaughan
United States jazz singer noted for her complex bebop phrasing and scat singing (1924-1990); Antonio Lucio Vivaldi
Italian baroque composer and violinist (1675-1741); Thomas Wright Waller
United States jazz musician (1904-1943); Ethel Waters
United States actress and singer (1896-1977); Hiram King Williams
United States country singer and songwriter (1923-1953); Tammy Wynetter Pugh
United States country singer (1942-1998); Lester Willis Young
United States jazz tenor saxophonist (1909-1959); Efrem Zimbalist
United States violinist (born in Russia) (1889-1985); Pinchas Zukerman
Israeli violinist (born in 1948)

Types:: show 70 types...; hide 70 types...; accompanist, accompanyist
a person who provides musical accompaniment (usually on a piano); accordionist
a musician who plays the accordion; bandsman
a player in a band (especially a military band); bassist
a musician who play the bass viol; bassoonist
a musician who plays the bassoon; bell ringer
someone who plays musical handbells; carillonneur
a musician who plays a carillon; cellist, violoncellist
someone who plays a violoncello; clarinetist, clarinettist
a musician who plays the clarinet; flautist, flute player, flutist
someone who plays the flute; gambist
a musician who performs upon the viola da gamba; guitar player, guitarist
a musician who plays the guitar; harmoniser, harmonizer
a musician who sings or plays in harmony; harper, harpist
someone who plays the harp; harpsichordist
someone who plays the harpsichord; hornist
a musician who plays a horn (especially a French horn); jazz musician, jazzman
a musician who plays or composes jazz music; keyboardist
a musician who plays a keyboard instrument; koto player
a musician who plays the koto; lutanist, lutenist, lutist
a musician who plays the lute; oboist
a musician who plays the oboe; organist
a person who plays an organ; percussionist
a musician who plays percussion instruments; pianist, piano player
a person who plays the piano; bagpiper, piper
someone who plays the bagpipe; recorder player
someone who plays the recorder; rhythm and blues musician
a performer (and sometimes composer) of rhythm and blues music; rock 'n' roll musician, rocker
a performer or composer or fan of rock music; saxist, saxophonist
a musician who plays the saxophone; singer, vocaliser, vocalist, vocalizer
a person who sings; sitar player
a musician who plays the sitar; soloist
a musician who performs a solo; trombone player, trombonist
a musician who plays the trombone; cornetist, trumpeter
a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet; vibist, vibraphonist
a musician who plays the vibraphone; fiddler, violinist
a musician who plays the violin; violist
a musician who plays the viola; alto
a singer whose voice lies in the alto clef; alto saxophonist, altoist
a musician who plays the alto saxophone; baritone, barytone
a male singer; bass, basso
an adult male singer with the lowest voice; bugler
someone who plays a bugle; canary
a female singer; caroler, caroller
a singer of carols; castrato
a male singer who was castrated before puberty and retains a soprano or alto voice; chorister
a singer in a choir; contralto
a woman singer having a contralto voice; balladeer, crooner
a singer of popular ballads; cymbalist
a performer on the cymbals; drummer
someone who plays a drum; folk singer, jongleur, minstrel, poet-singer, troubadour
a singer of folk songs; hummer
a singer who produces a tune without opening the lips or forming words; lieder singer
a singer of lieder; madrigalist
a singer of madrigals; opera star, operatic star
singer of lead role in an opera; pipe major
the chief piper in a band of bagpipes; rapper
someone who performs rap music; recitalist
a musician who gives recitals; rock star
a famous singer of rock music; songster
a person who sings; soprano
a female singer; syncopator
a musician who plays syncopated jazz music (usually in a dance band); tenor
an adult male with a tenor voice; tenor saxophonist, tenorist
a musician who plays the tenor saxophone; thrush
a woman who sings popular songs; torch singer
a singer (usually a woman) who specializes in singing torch songs; voice
(metonymy) a singer; warbler
a singer; usually a singer who adds embellishments to the song; xylophonist
someone who plays a xylophone; yodeller
a singer who changes register rapidly (popular is Swiss folk songs)

Type of:: performer, performing artist
an entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audience

n artist who composes or conducts music as a profession

Examples:: show 161 examples...; hide 161 examples...; Victor Herbert
United States musician and composer and conductor noted for his comic operas (1859-1924); Yoko Ono
United States musician (born in Japan) who married John Lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933); Carl Orff
German musician who developed a widely used system for teaching music to children (1895-1982); Saint Ambrose
(Roman Catholic Church) Roman priest who became bishop of Milan; the first Church Father born and raised in the Christian faith; composer of hymns; imposed orthodoxy on the early Christian church and built up its secular power; a saint and Doctor of the Church (340?-397); Johann Sebastian Bach
German baroque organist and contrapuntist; composed mostly keyboard music; one of the greatest creators of western music (1685-1750); Samuel Barber
United States composer (1910-1981); Bela Bartok
Hungarian composer and pianist who collected Hungarian folk music; in 1940 he moved to the United States (1881-1945); Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer of instrumental music (especially symphonic and chamber music); continued to compose after he lost his hearing (1770-1827); Vincenzo Bellini
Italian composer of operas (1801-1835); Alban Berg
Austrian composer in Schoenberg's twelve-tone music system (1885-1935); Irving Berlin
United States songwriter (born in Russia) who wrote more than 1500 songs and several musical comedies (1888-1989); Louis-Hector Berlioz
French composer of romantic works (1803-1869); Leonard Bernstein
United States conductor and composer (1918-1990); Georges Bizet
French composer best known for his operas (1838-1875); Marc Blitzstein
United States pianist and composer of operas and musical plays (1905-1964); Ernest Bloch
United States composer (born in Switzerland) who composed symphonies and chamber music and choral music and a piano sonata and an opera (1880-1959); Aleksandr Porfirevich Borodin
Russian composer (1833-1887); Pierre Boulez
French composer of serial music (born in 1925); Johannes Brahms
German composer who developed the romantic style of both lyrical and classical music (1833-1897); Lord Britten of Aldeburgh
major English composer of the 20th century; noted for his operas (1913-1976); Max Bruch
German composer (1838-1920); Anton Bruckner
Austrian organist and composer of romantic music (1824-1896); William Byrd
English organist and composer of church music; master of 16th century polyphony; was granted a monopoly in music printing with Thomas Tallis (1543-1623); John Milton Cage Jr.
United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992); Hoagland Howard Carmichael
United States songwriter (1899-1981); Carlos Chavez
Mexican composer of nationalistic works using themes from Indian folk music (1899-1978); Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Cherubini
Italian composer of church music and operas (1760-1842); Frederic Francois Chopin
French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school (1810-1849); George Michael Cohan
United States songwriter and playwright famous for his patriotic songs (1878-1942); Aaron Copland
United States composer who developed a distinctly American music (1900-1990); Arcangelo Corelli
Italian violinist and composer of violin concertos (1653-1713); Francois Couperin
French composer of music for organ and a member of a family of distinguished organists (1668-1733); Sir Noel Pierce Coward
English dramatist and actor and composer noted for his witty and sophisticated comedies (1899-1973); Karl Czerny
Austrian virtuoso pianist and composer of many works for the piano; studied with Beethoven and was a teacher of Liszt (1791-1857); Claude Achille Debussy
French composer who is said to have created Impressionism in music (1862-1918); Clement Philibert Leo Delibes
French composer of operas (1836-1891); Frederick Delius
English composer of orchestral works (1862-1934); Antoine Domino
United States rhythm and blues pianist and singer and composer (born in 1928); Gaetano Donizetti
Italian composer of operas (1797-1848); John Dowland
English lutenist and composer of songs for the lute (1563-1626); Paul Dukas
French composer (1865-1935); Antonin Dvorak
Czech composer who combined folk elements with traditional forms (1841-1904); Bob Dylan
United States songwriter noted for his protest songs (born in 1941); Sir Edward William Elgar
British composer of choral and orchestral works including two symphonies as well as songs and chamber music and music for brass band (1857-1934); Georges Enesco
Romanian violinist and composer (1881-1955); Manuel de Falla
Spanish composer and pianist (1876-1946); Arthur Fiedler
popular United States conductor (1894-1979); Stephen Collins Foster
United States songwriter whose songs embody the sentiment of the South before the American Civil War (1826-1864); Cesar Franck
French composer and teacher who influenced a generation of composers (1822-1890); George Gershwin
United States composer who incorporated jazz into classical forms and composed scores for musical comedies (1898-1937); Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Russian composer (1804-1857); Christoph Willibald von Gluck
German composer of more than 100 operas (1714-1787); Benjamin David Goodman
United States clarinetist who in 1934 formed a big band (including black as well as white musicians) and introduced a kind of jazz known as swing (1909-1986); Charles Francois Gounod
French composer best remembered for his operas (1818-1893); George Percy Aldridge Grainger
United States composer (born in Australia) who lived in London and collected English folk songs (1882-1961); Edvard Hagerup Grieg
Norwegian composer whose work was often inspired by Norwegian folk music (1843-1907); Woodrow Wilson Guthrie
United States folk singer and songwriter (1912-1967); Jacques Francois Fromental Elie Halevy
French operatic composer (1799-1862); George Frederick Handel
a prolific British baroque composer (born in Germany) remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759); William Christopher Handy
United States blues musician who transcribed and published traditional blues music (1873-1958); Franz Joseph Haydn
prolific Austrian composer who influenced the classical form of the symphony (1732-1809); Woodrow Charles Herman
United States jazz musician and bandleader (1913-1987); Paul Hindemith
German neoclassical composer and conductor who believed that music should have a social purpose (1895-1963); Charles Hardin Holley
United States rock star (1936-1959); Arthur Honegger
Swiss composer (born in France) who was the founding member of a group in Paris that included Erik Satie and Darius Milhaud and Francis Poulenc and Jean Cocteau (1892-1955); Engelbert Humperdinck
German composer of six operas and other incidental music (1854-1921); Jacques Francois Antoine Ibert
French composer (1890-1962); Charles Edward Ives
United States composer noted for his innovative use of polytonality (1874-1954); Joseph Joachim
Hungarian violinist and composer (1831-1907); Scott Joplin
United States composer who was the first creator of ragtime to write down his compositions (1868-1917); Aram Kachaturian
Armenian composer who incorporated oriental folk music (1903-1978); Jerome David Kern
United States composer of musical comedies (1885-1945); Aram Ilich Khachaturian
Russian composer (born in Armenia) whose works are romantic and reflect his interest in folk music (1903-1978); Sergei Aleksandrovich Koussevitzky
United States conductor (born in Russia) who was noted for performing the works of contemporary composers (1874-1951); Leonard Constant Lambert
English composer and conductor (1905-1951); Orlando di Lasso
Belgian composer (1532-1594); Huddie Leadbetter
United States folk singer and composer (1885-1949); Franz Lehar
Hungarian composer of light operas (1870-1948); John Lennon
English rock star and guitarist and songwriter who with Paul McCartney wrote most of the music for the Beatles (1940-1980); Franz Liszt
Hungarian composer and piano virtuoso (1811-1886); Baron Lloyd Webber of Sydmonton
English composer of many successful musicals (some in collaboration with Sir Tim Rice) (born in 1948); Frederick Loewe
United States composer (born in Austria) who collaborated with Lerner on several musicals (1901-1987); Jean Baptiste Lully
French composer (born in Italy) who was the court composer to Louis XIV and founded the national French opera (1632-1687); Edward MacDowell
United States composer best remembered as a composer of works for the piano (1860-1908); Gustav Mahler
Austrian composer and conductor (1860-1911); Jules Emile Frederic Massenet
French composer best remembered for his pop operas (1842-1912); Sir James Paul McCartney
English rock star and bass guitarist and songwriter who with John Lennon wrote most of the music for the Beatles (born in 1942); Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
German musician and romantic composer of orchestral and choral works (1809-1847); Gian Carlo Menotti
United States composer (born in Italy) of operas (born in 1911); Jakob Liebmann Beer
German composer of operas in a style that influenced Richard Wagner (1791-1864); Darius Milhaud
French composer of works that combine jazz and polytonality and Brazilian music (1892-1974); Alton Glenn Miller
United States bandleader of a popular big band (1909-1944); Claudio Monteverdi
Italian composer (1567-1643); Douglas Moore
United States composer of works noted for their use of the American vernacular (1893-1969); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
prolific Austrian composer and child prodigy; master of the classical style in all its forms of his time (1756-1791); Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky
Russian composer of operas and orchestral works (1839-1881); Carl August Nielsen
Danish composer (1865-1931); Jacques Offenbach
French composer of many operettas and an opera (1819-1880); Roy Orbison
United States composer and rockabilly tenor popular in the 1950s (1936-1988); Eugene Ormandy
United States conductor (born in Hungary) (1899-1985); Seiji Ozawa
United States conductor (born in Japan in 1935); Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Italian composer (1526-1594); Walter Piston
United States neoclassical composer (1894-1976); Cole Albert Porter
United States composer and lyricist of musical comedies (1891-1946); Francis Poulenc
French pianist and composer (1899-1963); Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev
Russian composer of ballets and symphonies and operas (1891-1953); Giacomo Puccini
Italian operatic composer noted for the dramatic realism of his operas (1858-1924); Henry Purcell
English organist at Westminster Abbey and composer of many theatrical pieces (1659-1695); Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff
composer and piano virtuoso born in Russia (1873-1943); Jean-Philippe Rameau
French composer of operas whose writings laid the foundation for the modern theory of harmony (1683-1764); Maurice Ravel
French composer and exponent of Impressionism (1875-1937); Stephen Michael Reich
United States composer (born in 1936); Ottorino Respighi
Italian composer remembered for his symphonic poems (1879-1936); Nikolai Andreyevich Rimski-Korsakov
Russian composer of operas and orchestral works; often used themes from folk music (1844-1908); Richard Rodgers
United States composer of musical comedies (especially in collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II and with Lorenz Hart) (1902-1979); Sigmund Romberg
United States composer (born in Hungary) who composed operettas (1887-1951); Giloacchino Antonio Rossini
Italian composer remembered for his operas (1792-1868); Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein
Russian composer and pianist (1829-1894); Charles Camille Saint-Saens
French pianist and composer (1835-1921); Erik Alfred Leslie Satie
French composer noted for his experimentalism and rejection of Romanticism (1866-1925); Artur Schnabel
United States composer (born in Austria) and pianist noted for his interpretations of the works of Mozart and Beethoven and Schubert (1882-1951); Arnold Schoenberg
United States composer and musical theorist (born in Austria) who developed atonal composition (1874-1951); Franz Seraph Peter Schubert
Austrian composer known for his compositions for voice and piano (1797-1828); Robert Alexander Schumann
German romantic composer known for piano music and songs (1810-1856); Clara Josephine Schumann
German pianist and composer of piano music; renowned for her interpretation of music, especially the music of her husband Robert Schumann (1819-1896); Aleksandr Nikolayevich Scriabin
Russian composer of orchestral and piano music (1872-1915); Andres Segovia
Spanish guitarist who made classical guitar a concert instrument (1893-1987); Roger Huntington Sessions
United States composer who promoted 20th century music (1896-1985); Arthur Jacob Arshawsky
United States clarinetist and leader of a swing band (1910-2004); Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich
Russian composer best known for his fifteen symphonies (1906-1975); Johan Julius Christian Sibelius
Finnish composer (1865-1957); Paul Simon
United States singer and songwriter (born in 1942); Bedrich Smetana
Czech composer (1824-1884); Stephen Sondheim
United States composer of musicals (born in 1930); John Philip Sousa
a United States bandmaster and composer of military marches (1854-1932); Leopold Antoni Stanislaw Stokowski
United States conductor (born in Britain) (1882-1977); Strauss the Elder
Austrian composer of waltzes (1804-1849); Strauss the Younger
Austrian composer and son of Strauss the Elder; composed many famous waltzes and became known as the `waltz king' (1825-1899); Richard Strauss
German composer of many operas; collaborated with librettist Hugo von Hoffmannsthal to produce several operas (1864-1949); Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
composer who was born in Russia but lived in the United States after 1939 (1882-1971); Arthur Seymour Sullivan
English composer of operettas who collaborated with the librettist William Gilbert (1842-1900); George Szell
United States conductor (born in Hungary) (1897-1970); Thomas Tallis
English organist and composer of church and secular music; was granted a monopoly in music printing with William Byrd (1505-1585); Joseph Deems Taylor
United States composer and music critic (1885-1966); Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies (1840-1893); Georg Philipp Telemann
German baroque composer (1681-1767); Virgil Garnett Thomson
United States composer who collaborated with Gertrude Stein (1896-1989); Arturo Toscanini
Italian conductor of many orchestras worldwide (1867-1957); Edgar Varese
United States composer (born in France) whose music combines dissonance with complex rhythms and the use of electronic techniques (1883-1965); Ralph Vaughan Williams
English composer influenced by folk tunes and music of the Tudor period (1872-1958); Guiseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi
Italian operatic composer (1813-1901); Heitor Villa-Lobos
Brazilian composer (1887-1959); Antonio Lucio Vivaldi
Italian baroque composer and violinist (1675-1741); Wilhelm Richard Wagner
German composer of operas and inventor of the musical drama in which drama and spectacle and music are fused (1813-1883); Bruno Walter
German conductor (1876-1962); Sir William Turner Walton
English composer (1902-1983); Baron Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber
German conductor and composer of romantic operas (1786-1826); Kurt Weill
German composer; collaborated with Bertolt Brecht (1900-1950); Hiram King Williams
United States country singer and songwriter (1923-1953); Hugo Wolf
Austrian composer (1860-1903); Sir Henry Joseph Wood
English conductor (1869-1944)

Types:: show 14 types...; hide 14 types...; adapter, arranger, transcriber
a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance; cantor, choirmaster, precentor
the musical director of a choir; composer
someone who composes music as a profession; conductor, director, music director
the person who leads a musical group; virtuoso
a musician who is a consummate master of technique and artistry; contrapuntist
a composer who specializes in counterpoint; bandleader
the leader of a dance band; bandmaster
the conductor of a band; drum major
the leader of a marching band or drum corps; drum majorette, majorette
a female drum major; orchestrator
an arranger who writes for orchestras; psalmist
a composer of sacred songs; ballad maker, songster, songwriter
a composer of words or music for popular songs; symphonist
a composer of symphonies

Type of:: artist, creative person
a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination

n someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession)

n artist who composes or conducts music as a profession

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n someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession)

n artist who composes or conducts music as a profession

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