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Businesses (7)
- Boosey & Hawkes Ltd, music publisher and musical instrument manufacturer London
- Francis, Day & Hunter Ltd., music publishers, London London
- Otto Haas, music antiquarian firm London
- King's Theatre London
- May & May, antiquarian and second-hand music dealers Semley, Wiltshire
- Novello & Co Ltd, music publishers London
- Theatre Royal, Drury Lane London
Organisations (11)
- Abbey Glee Club
- Composers Guild of Great Britain London
- Corporation for Regulating the Art and Science of Music
- Farnham Music Festival Farnham, Surrey
- Institute of Armenian Music
- Liverpool Opera Company Liverpool, Lancashire
- Melodists' Club, for the promotion of melody and ballad composition
- Society of Recorder Players
- Royal Philharmonic Society, London London
- British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Arrangers
- The Handel Society (London) London
Persons (339)
- Adams, Thomas (1785-1858), organist and composer
- Alcock, Sir Walter Galpin (1861-1947) Knight, organist and composer
- Ampenoff, Rufina (fl 1993), employee of Boosey & Hawkes Ltd
- Anderson, George Frederick (1860-1937), composer
- Apivor, Denis (b 1916) Composer
- Arnell, Richard Anthony Sayer (1917-2009), composer
- Arnold, Sir Malcolm Henry (1921-2006) Knight, composer
- Arundell, Dennis (1898-1988), opera producer, writer and performer Finchley, Middlesex
- Atkins, Sir Ivor Algernon (1869-1953) Knight, organist and composer
- Attwood, Thomas (1765-1838) Organist and Composer
- Augener, George P W (1830-1915), music publisher
- Babell, William (? 1690-1723) Musician
- Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750), German organist, composer and Master Contrapuntist
- Bach, Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst (1759-1845), German organist, pianist and composer
- Bache, Francis Edward (1833-1858) Musician
- Baines, William (1899-1922), composer
- Balfe, Michael William (1808-1870), composer
- Bantock, Sir Granville Ransome (1868-1946) Knight, composer
- Bardwell, William (1915-1994), composer
- Barker, Laura (1819-1905), composer
- Barns, Ethel (1880-1948) afterwards Phillips, Composer and Violinist
- Barthelemon, Francois Hippolyte (1741-1808), violinist and composer France
- Bartholdy, Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn- (1809-1847), composer Hamburg, Germany;Berlin, Germany
- Bartholomew, William (1793-1867) Chemist, Painter and Musician
- Bartok, Bela (1881-1945), Hungarian composer Hungary
- Bax, Sir Arnold Edward Trevor (1883-1953), Knight, composer
- Beecham, Sir Thomas (1879-1961) 2nd Baronet Conductor and Composer
- Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827), German composer and pianist Germany
- Benjamin, Arthur (1893-1960) composer
- Bennett, George John (1863-1930), composer, organist and conductor
- Bennett, Sir William Sterndale (1816-1875) Knight, composer
- Benson, Arthur Christopher (1862-1925), writer
- Beresford, Charles William de la Poer (1846-1919) Baron Beresford, MP, Admiral
- Berg, Alban Maria Johannes (1885-1935), Austrian composer Vienna, Austria
- Berkeley, Sir Lennox Randal Francis (1903-1989) Knight, composer
- Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869), composer and conductor
- Binyon, Robert Laurence (1869-1943), poet art historian and critic
- Birtwistle, Sir Harrison (b 1934) Knight, composer
- Bishop, Sir Henry Rowley (1786-1855) Knight, composer
- Bliss, Sir Arthur Edward Drummond (1891-1975), Knight, composer Barnes, Surrey
- Blow, John (1648-1708), composer
- Boehm, Theobald (1794-1881) Flautist and Composer
- Boughton, Rutland (1878-1960) Composer
- Bowen, Edwin York (1884-1961) Composer and Pianist
- Boyce, William (1710-1779), musician London
- Bradshaw, Susan (1931-2005), pianist
- Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897), composer and pianist Hamburg, Germany;Vienna, Austria
- Brewer, Sir Alfred Herbert (1865-1928), Knight, organist and composer
- Brian, Havergal (1876-1972), composer Dresden, Staffordshire
- Bridge, Sir John Frederick (1844-1924) Knight Organist Composer and Musical Antiquary
- Britten, Edward Benjamin (1913-1976) Baron Britten of Aldeburgh, composer Lowestoft, Suffolk;Aldeburgh, Suffolk
- Britton, Dorothy Guyver (1922-2015), Lady Bouchier, MBE, writer and composer Yokohama, Japan;United States of America
- Brodsky, Adolf (1851-1929) Russian Violinist
- Browne, William Charles Denis (1888-1915), composer
- Bryars, Gavin (b1943), composer Goole, Yorkshire
- Bunting, Edward (1773-1843) Musician
- Burgon, Geoffrey (1941-2010), composer
- Burney, Charles (1726-1814), musician and author Shrewsbury, Shropshire
- Busch, William (1901-1945), composer
- Bush, Alan Dudley (1900-1995), composer
- Busoni, Ferruccio Benvenuto (1866-1924) Composer
- Butt, Dame Clara (1872-1936), singer
- Byrd, William (c1540-1623), musical composer London
- Cahill, Teresa (b 1944), singer
- Caine, Sir Thomas Henry Hall (1853-1931) Knight, novelist
- Callcott, John Wall (1766-1821) Composer
- Campbell, Colin Macleod (1890-1953) composer and conductor
- Cardew, Cornelious (1936-1981), composer
- Carr, Howard Ellis (1880-1960), composer
- Carte, Richard D'Oyly (1844-1901), theatre impresario
- Chagrin, Francis (1905-1972) Anglo-Romanian composer
- Charles, Harry Wolseley (1880-1962), composer and musical director Dublin, County Dublin;London
- Chopin, Frederic Francois (1810-1849), composer and pianist
- Cianchettini, Pio (1799-1851) Composer and Pianist
- Cimarosa, Domenico (1749-1801), Italian composer Naples, Italy
- Clark, Edward (d 1962) Composer and Conductor
- Clayton, Thomas (fl 1706) composer
- Cohen, Harriet (1896-1967), pianist
- Cole, William (1909-1997), conductor and composer
- Coleman, Ellen (1884-1973) Composer
- Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel (1875-1912), composer
- Colvin, Sir Sidney (1845-1927) Knight, art and literary critic
- Cooper, Joseph Thomas (1819-1879), composer
- Costa, Sir Michael (1810-1884) Knight Composer
- Cottrau, Giulio (1831-1916) Composer
- Coward, Sir Henry (1849-1944) Knight Musician
- Cowen, Sir Frederic Hymen (1852-1935) Knight, composer and conductor
- Croft, William (1677-1727), organist and composer
- Crotch, William (1775-1847) Composer
- Cummings, William Hayman (1831-1915) Musician
- Curzon, Sir Clifford Michael (1907-1982) Knight Pianist
- Cusins, Sir William George (1833-1893), Knight composer and musician
- Dale, Benjamin James (1885-1943) Composer
- Dale, Gordon (1935-2001), composer
- Darnton, Philip Christian (1905-1981) Composer
- D'Astorga, Emanuele Gioacchino Cesare Rincon (1680-1757) Baron Italian Composer
- Davies, Sir Henry Walford (1869-1941), Knight, composer, organist and broadcaster
- Davies, Hugh (1943-2005), composer, instrument maker and musicologist
- Davies, Sir Peter Maxwell (1934-2016) Knight, composer and conductor
- Davy, John (1763-1824) composer
- Debussy, Achille-Claude (1862-1918), French composer Paris, France
- Delibes, Clement Philibert Leo (1836-1891), French composer
- Delius, Frederick (1862-1934) Musical Composer
- Dibdin, Charles (1745-1814) Dramatist and Songwriter
- Dibdin, Henry Edward (1813-1866), musician
- Dieren, Bernard Van (1884-1936) Dutch composer
- Dodgson, Stephen (1924-2013), composer
- Dohnanyi, Erno (1877-1960) Pianist and Composer
- Dolmetsch, Eugene Arnold (1858-1940) Musician and Instrument Maker
- Donizetti, Domenico Gaetano Maria (1797-1848), Italian composer Italy
- Dowland, John (c1563-1626), lutenist and composer London;Paris, France
- Dunhill, Thomas Frederick (1877-1946) Composer
- Dyment, Christopher (fl 1970-2016), author
- Dyson, Sir George (1883-1964), Knight, organist and composer Halifax, Yorkshire
- Edwards, Frederick George (1853-1909), musician, journalist and author
- Elgar, Sir Edward William (1857-1934) 1st Baronet Composer Broadheath, Worcestershire
- Elias, Brian (b 1948), composer
- Elvey, Sir George Job (1816-1893) Knight Organist and Composer
- Feygin, Leonid (c1920-2010), composer
- Fleming, Christopher Kaye Le (b 1908) Composer
- Fletcher, Percy Eastman (1879-1932) Composer
- Flowers, George French (1811-1872) Organist, Singing Teacher and Composer
- Fogg, Eric (1903-1939) Composer
- Foulds, John (1880-1939) Composer
- Frankel, Benjamin (1906-1973) composer
- Fuller-Maitland, John Alexander (1856-1936), music critic and historian
- Gadsby, Henry Robert (1842-1907), Organist and Composer
- Gavin, Barrie (b 1935), television director
- Gellhorn, Peter (1912-2004), conductor, composer and pianist Germany
- Gerhard, Roberto Juan Rene (1896-1970) Composer
- German, Sir Edward (1862-1936), Knight, composer
- Gibbs, Joseph (1699-1788) Organist and Composer
- Glock, William Frederick (1908-2000), Music Critic
- Goossens, Eugene (1893-1962) Knight, conductor and musical Critic
- Goss, Sir John (1800-1880) Knight Musician
- Gow, Dorothy (1893-1982) Composer
- Grainger, Percy Aldridge (1882-1961), composer and pianist
- Gray, Cecil William Turpie (1895-1951), music critic and composer Scotland
- Greene, Maurice (1695-1755) Organist and Composer
- Grieg, Edvard Hagerup (1843-1907), Norwegian composer Norway
- Hahn, Reynaldo (1874-1947), composer
- Hall, John Gerald (fl1900-1999), composer
- Hall, Marie (1884-1956), Violinist
- Handel, George Frederick (1685-1759), musical composer Halle, Germany;London
- Harrison, Beatrice (1892-1965), cellist
- Harrison, May (1890-1959), violinist
- Harwood, Basil (1859-1949) Musician and Composer
- Haydn, Franz Joseph (1732-1809) Austrian Composer
- Haydn, Johann Michael (1737-1806), Austrian organist and composer Austria
- Henschel, Sir George (1850-1934) Knight, singer
- Herrmann, Bernard (1911-1975), composer of film scores
- Herschel, Sir William (1738-1822) Knight, astronomer and musician
- Heseltine, Philip Arnold (1894-1930), musician and composer
- Hess, Dame Julia Myra (1890-1965), Pianist, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
- Heward, Leslie (1897-1943) Conductor and Composer
- Hindemith, Paul (1895-1963), German composer and violist Frankfurt, Germany
- Hipkins, Alfred James (1826-1903) Antiquary and Musicologist
- Hogwood, Christopher Jarvis Haley (1941-2014), conductor and musicologist
- Holbrooke, Josef Charles (1878-1958), musician
- Holbrooke, Joseph (fl 1878-1916) Composer
- Hollander, Benno (1853-1942) Dutch Musician
- Holmes, Edward (?1797-1859) Organist and Musicologist
- Holst, Gustav Theodore (1874-1934), composer Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
- Hook, James (1746-1827) Composer
- Hopkins, Edward John (1818-1901) Organist at Temple Church London
- Hopkinson, Cecil (1898-1977), music bibliographer
- Howard, John Leslie (b 1948), composer Australia
- Howes, Frank Stewart (1891-1974) Musician Critic and Writer
- Hurd, Michael John (1918-2006), composer
- Hurlstone, William Yeates (1876-1906) Composer and Pianist
- Hutchings, Arthur James Bramwell (1906-1989), musical scholar and composer
- Hutchinson, Victor Hely- (1901-1947) Composer Director of Music of Bbc
- Ireland, John Nicholson (1879-1962) Composer
- Isaacs, Edward (1881-1953), pianist and composer
- Jacob, Benjamin (1778-1829) Composer and Organist
- Jeans, Lady Susanne (1911-1993), concert organist
- Jeffreys, John (1927-2010), composer
- Joachim, Joseph (1831-1907), violinist
- Josephs, Wilfred (1927-1997), composer Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland
- Julian, John (1839-1913) Canon of York Hymnologist
- Kennedy, Spruhan (fl1900-1999), pianist and composer
- Kent, James (1700-1776) Organist and Composer
- Kentner, Louis Philip (1905-1987) Pianist and Composer
- Kingsley, Walter (1887-1982), singer
- Lacy, Michael Rophino (1795-1867) Violinist and Composer
- Lambert, Constant (1903-1951) Musician and Composer
- Lampe, John Frederick (? 1703-1751) Bassoonist and Composer
- Lawes, Henry (1596-1662), English musician and composer Dinton, Wiltshire;London
- Lawes, William (1602-1645), musician and composer Salisbury, Wiltshire;London;Rowton, Cheshire
- LeFanu, Nicola (b 1947), composer
- Leigh, Walter (1905-1942) Composer
- Leo, Leonardo (1694-1744) Composer
- Linley, Thomas (1756-1778) violinist and composer
- Linley, William (1771-1835), composer and author London;India
- Lloyd, George Walter Selwyn (1913-1998), composer St Ives, Cornwall
- Locke, Matthew (c 1621-1677), English composer and music theorist Exeter, Devon;Netherlands
- Lucas, Edward Verrall (1868-1938), author and publisher
- Lucas, Leighton (1903-1982), composer
- Lucas, Mary Anderson (1882-1952) Composer
- Ludford, Nicholas (c1485-1557), musical composer London
- Lully, Jean-Baptiste (1632-1687), French composer Florence, Italy;Paris, France
- Lumley, Benjamin (1811-1875) Solicitor, Author and Theatre Manager
- Lutyens, Agnes Elisabeth (1906-1983), composer London
- Maccunn, Hamish (1868-1916) composer
- MacDowell, Edward Alexander (1861-1908), pianist and composer
- Macfarren, Sir George Alexander (1813-1887), Knight, musical composer
- Mackenzie, Sir Alexander Campbell (1847-1935), Knight, composer
- Maclean, Alexander Morvaren (1872-1936), composer and conductor
- Maiden, Cullen (fl1940-2015), singer and poet
- Majorossy, Aladar (fl 1935-1980) Hungarian Composer
- Manns, Sir August (1825-1907), Knight, conductor
- Mar, Norman Rene Del (1919-1994) Conductor
- Marcello, Benedetto (1686-1739), composer
- Martin, Sir William Fanshawe (1801-1895) 4th Baronet, Admiral
- Martland, Steve (b1959), composer
- Mathieson, James Muir (1911-1975), musical director, composer and conductor
- Maw, John Nicholas (b 1935), composer
- Mayer, John (1930-2004), composer Calcutta, India;London
- Mayerl, William Joseph (1902-1959), Pianist and Composer
- McBurney, Gerard (b1954), composer Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- McCabe, John (b 1939), composer and pianist
- Mearns, James (1855-1922) Hymnologist
- Medtner, Nicolay (1880-1951) composer and pianist
- Milner, Anthony Francis Dominic (1925-2002), composer Bristol, Gloucestershire;London;Spain
- Minshull, Ray (1934-2007), musician and record producer
- Mitchell, Donald (b 1925) musicologist, publisher and administrator
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791), Austrian composer Austria
- Needler, Henry (1685-1760), musician and music transcriber
- Neukomm, Sigismund Ritter von (1778-1858), Austrian composer and pianist Austria
- Newman, Sidney Thomas Mayhow (1906-1971) Professor of Music
- Novello, Vincent (1781-1861), organist, composer and publisher
- Offenbach, Jacques (1819-1880), French composer Germany;Paris, France
- Oldman, Cecil Bernard (1894-1969) Principal Keeper of Printed Books British Museum
- Oliphant, Thomas (1799-1873) composer
- Oliver, Stephen Michael Harding (1950-1992), composer
- O'Neill, Adine (1875-1947), pianist
- O'Neill, Norman (1875-1934) Composer
- Ornstein, Leo (b 1895) American Composer and Pianist
- Orr, Charles Wilfred (1893-1976), composer
- Overend, Marmaduke (d 1790) Organist and Composer
- Parry, Sir Charles Hubert Hastings (1848-1918) Knight Composer and Musical Writer
- Pepusch, John Christopher (1667-1752) Professor of music, composer
- Perabo, Johann Ernst (1845-1920) Pianist
- Phillips, Sir Claude (1846-1924) Knight Art Critic
- Pitfield, Thomas Baron (1903-1999), composer
- Pitt, Percy (1870-1932), composer and conductor London
- Poston, Elizabeth (1905-1987), composer
- Prout, Ebenezer (1835-1909) Organist and Composer
- Purcell, Henry (c1659-1695), composer
- Pye, Kellow John (1812-1901), organist
- Quilter, Roger Cuthbert (1877-1953), composer
- Rainier, Ivy Priaulx (1903-1986), South African composer
- Randegger, Alberto Igenio (1832-1911) Composer and Conductor
- Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937) French Musical Composer
- Rawsthorne, Alan (1905-1971) Composer
- Reeve, William (1757-1815), theatre composer
- Reissiger, Karl Gottlieb (1798-1859), composer
- Richardson, Vaughan (? 1670-1729), organist and composer
- Richter, Hans (1843-1916) German Conductor
- Robinson, Stanford (1904-1984) conductor
- Rokewode, John Gage (1786-1842), antiquary and topographer
- Rootham, Cyril Bradley (1875-1938) Musician
- Rosenthal, Harold David (1917-1987) editor of Opera
- Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio (1792-1868), Italian operatic composer
- Rubbra, Charles Edmund Duncan (1901-1986), pianist and composer
- Russell, William (1777-1813) Organist, Pianist and Composer
- Saens, Charles Camille Saint- (1835-1921) French Pianist Organist and Composer
- Salaman, Charles Kensington (1814-1901) Musical Composer
- Sargent, Harold Malcolm Watts (1895-1967), Knight Conductor
- Saxton, Robert (b 1953), composer
- Schoenberg, Arnold Franz Walter (1874-1951), Austrian composer Vienna, Austria;United States of America
- Schubert, Franz Peter (1797-1828), Austrian composer Vienna, Austria
- Schutz, Heinrich (1585-1672) German Composer
- Scott, Cyril Meir (1879-1970), composer
- Searle, Humphrey (1915-1982) Composer
- Seiber, Matyas Gyorgy (1905-1960), composer Budapest, Hungary
- Shaw, Christopher (1924-1995), pianist and composer
- Shaw, Martin Fallas (1875-1958), composer
- Shira, Francesco (1809-1883), composer
- Sibelius, Jean Julius Christian (1865-1957), Finnish composer Finland
- Simpson, Robert Wilfred Levick (1921-1997) composer
- Smart, Sir George Thomas (1776-1867) Knight Musician and Orchestral Conductor
- Smith, John Malcolm (1932-2011), music librarian and administrator
- Smith, John Stafford (1750-1836), composer and musical antiquary
- Smith, Peggy (1895-1976), artist and peace activist
- Smoldon, William Lawrence (1892-1974), composer, educationist and musicologist
- Smyth, Dame Ethel Mary (1858-1944), composer and Suffragist
- Sorabji, Kaikhosru Shapurji (1892-1988) Composer
- Speyer, Sir Edgar (1862-1932) 1st Baronet, financier and philanthropist
- Speyer, Edward (d 1934) Musician
- Spontini, Gaspare Luigi Pacifico (1774-1851), Italian composer Italy;Paris, France;Berlin, Germany
- Stainer, Sir John (1840-1901) Knight, organist and composer
- Stanford, Sir Charles Villiers (1852-1924), Knight composer and conductor
- Stevens, Bernard George (1916-1983) Composer
- Stevens, Paul James (1923-2012), composer
- Stevenson, Ronald (b 1928), composer
- Stockhausen, Karlheinz (1928-2007), composer
- Stokes, Charles (?1784-1839) Organist and Composer
- Strauss, Johann Baptist (1804-1849), Austrian composer
- Strauss, Richard Georg (1864-1949), German composer Munich, Germany
- Stravinsky, Igor Fyodorovich (1882-1971), Russian composer St Petersburg, Russia;Switzerland;France;Los Angeles, California
- Sullivan, Sir Arthur Seymour (1842-1900) Knight Composer
- Tate, Phyllis (1911-1987), composer
- Taverner, John (c1490-1545), English composer and organist Oxford, Oxfordshire;Boston, Lincolnshire
- Taylor, Desmond Christopher Shawe- (1907-1955), music critic
- Thomas, Arthur Goring (1850-1892) Composer
- Thompson, Eric (d 1992) musician
- Tillett, Michael Stephen (1922-2009), piano accompanist, teacher and amanuensis of Sir Michael Tippett
- Tippett, Sir Michael Kemp (1905-1998) Knight, composer
- Toye, Geoffrey (1889-1942), conductor and composer
- Tudway, Thomas (d 1726) musician
- Vale, Sydney (1931-2008), composer
- Volbach, Fritz (1861-1941) German Composer
- Vyner, Michael (fl 1946-1988) Musician
- Wagner, Wilhelm Richard (1813-1883), German composer Germany
- Walker, Ernest (1870-1949) Author Pianist and Composer
- Walton, Sir William Turner (1902-1983), Knight, composer Oldham, Lancashire
- Wanley, Humfrey (1672-1726), antiquary, archivist, librarian Coventry, Warwickshire;Oxford, Oxfordshire;London
- Warren, Joseph (1804-1881) Musician
- Weatherly, Frederic Edward (1848-1929) barrister and songwriter
- Webern, Anton Friedrich Wilhelm (1883-1945), Austrian composer Vienna, Austria
- Weldon, John (1676-1736) Organist and Composer
- Wesley, Samuel (1766-1837), musician
- Wesley, Samuel Sebastian (1810-1876), organist and composer
- West, John Ebenezer (1863-1929), organist and composer
- Whelen, Christopher (1927-1993), composer
- White, Maude Valerie (1855-1937), composer
- Whitlock, Percy William (1903-1946) Composer
- Williams, Joan Ursula Vaughan (1911-2007), poet and author
- Williams, Ralph Vaughan (1872-1958) composer Down Ampney, Gloucestershire
- Williamson, Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher (1931-2003), composer
- Wishart, Peter (1921-1984), composer
- Wolf, Hugo Philipp Jakob (1860-1903), Austrian composer Austria
- Wood, Charles (1866-1926), composer
- Wood, Sir Henry Joseph (1869-1944) Knight Musical Conductor
- Wood, Hugh, (b1932), composer Parbold, Lancashire
- Young, Douglas (fl 1959-1982) Composer and Pianist
- Zavertal, Ladislas Joseph Philip Paul (1849-1942) Composer and Conductor
- Zinovieff, Peter (c1950-2010), librettist and pioneer of electronic music, founder of Electronic Music Studios
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