A Directory of Composers for Organ.

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Else Aarne (Elze Paemurru): d. 14th June 1995, Tallinn, Estonia
Arvid Aarsnes:  b. 1920

Else Bernsten Aas:  b. 1922
Louis (Luigi) Abbiate was indeed a cellist who worked and taught in Paris. He was born in Monaco and died in Vence, Alpes-Maritimes, France.

Marguérite Eugenie Rosal Achard:  b. 26th Mar 1874, Paris, France

Dieter Acker:  d. 27th May 2006, Munich, Germany
David Adkins: b. 1958

José Manuel Adrán Cambón: (ordained priest 1934) b. 1909, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; d. 6th Mar 2004, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Robert Louis Aeschlimann was born in Paris 26th Dec 1893 and so was French. He was blind.
Kees Alblas:  b. 1980, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Eduardo Armando Alemann:  d. d. 25th July 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Gerhard T. Alexis:  b. 12th Apr 1889, Swaburg, NE, USA; d. 31st May 1927, St.Paul, MN, USA

Román Alís Flores:  d. 29th Oct 2006, Madrid, Spain
Donald Allured:  b. 14th Sep 1922, Lansing, MI, USA

Georges Aloy:  b. 25th Dec 1947, Lyon, France

Owen Alstott:  b. 1947
(Ernst) Richard Altmann:  d. c. 1942 in the Riga concentration camp.
Henri François Amiguet:  d. 2004
Everett Amos: b. 1937
Robert Theodore Anderson: d. 29th May 2009, Honolulu, HI, USA

Auguste Andlauer:  b. 29th May 1845, Andlau, Alsace

Edouard Ignace Andlauer was the brother of Auguste Andlauer and uncle of Louis Marie François Andlauer.
Edouard Andrès:  d. 4th July 2004, Colmar, Alsace
Erhard Anger:  d. 1999
Jules d’Aoust:  b. 1817; d. 21st Jan 1885 or 1886, Paris, France

Jean Michel d’Archambeau:  d. Aug 1899, Verviers, Belgium
Rachel Archibald:  b. 1911
Richard Arnell:  d. 10th Apr 2009

Sir Malcolm Arnold:  d. 23rd Sep 2006, Norwich, Norfolk, England
Jules Arnoud:  b. 10th June 1847, Paris, France; d. July 1890

Robert James Ashfield:  d. 29th Dec 2006, Gillingham, Kent, UK
Igor Mikhailovich Asseyev:  d. 1996

(Frederick) Pyke Atkins: b. 1830, Cromhall, Gloucestershire, England; d. 5th Dec 1897, Cardiff, Wales
Thomas Edward Purdie Attewell: d. 22nd Dec 1949, Cuckfield, Sussex, England

Ange-Marie Auzende:  b. 18th Jan 1850, Marseille, France

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William Steel Bailey:  b. 5th May 1889, Beverly, MA, USA; d. 5th Sep 1965, Columbus, OH, USA
'Bainville' was almost certainly François Bainville, b. 1st Apr 1725; d. 26th Sep 1788
(William) Henry Baker:  b. 1871, Birmingham, England; d. 31st Mar 1940, Baltimore, MD, USA

Andrei Balanchivadze:  b. 1st June 1906; d. 28th Apr 1992, Tbilisi, Georgia, USSR

Romano Ballarin:  b. 1905
Elisabeth Ballon:  b. 21st July 1947, Saint-Germain-en Laye, France

Bernhard Balluff:  b. 1875, Ratzenried, Germany (brother of Franz Balluff)
Ramón Barce Benito:  d. 14th Dec 2008, Madrid, Spain

Paul Rufus Barclay:  b. 1859 or 1860, Westbury, Wiltshire, England

Michael R. Barker:  b. 1961
John George Barnett was born in England, moved to Boston 1845 and may have been related to J. F. Barnett.
William H. Barnett:  b. 1809 or 1810, Leeds, Yorkshire, England

Edgar Alden Barrell:  b. 16th June 1871, Lawrence, MA; d. 13th Aug 1923
Bernard C. Barrell:  d. 2nd Jan 2005
Odeardo Barri:  b. 13th Sep 1846, Dublin, Ireland; d. Jan 1920, London, England

Kenneth Barritt:  d. 1997
Walter E Bartlett:  b. 1860 or 1861, Oddington, Gloucestershire, England
Turibio Baruzzi:  b. 29th Nov 193, Fontamlica, Bologna, Italy

Miroslav Barvík:  d. 2nd Mar 1998, Brno, Czech Republic
Louis Bärwolf (Baerwolf):  d. Jan 1899, Brussels, Belgium

Anita Denniston Bassett:  b. 14th Apr 1923, Hollywood, CA, USA
James Batchelder:  b. 1840 or 1841, Norwich, Norfolk, England
Samuel Bath:  b. 1863 or 1864, Hanover Square, London, England

Lajos Bátori:  b. 20th Dec 1846, Pest;  d. 21st Apr 1920, Budapest, Hungary

John Henry Batten:  b. 1870 or 1871, Broadstairs, Kent, England

(Henry) Harford Battley: b. 1846 or 1847, Islington, London was a  Commercial Clerk in a Tobacco Broker in 1881. By 1901 he was a newspaper publisher in Canterbury.
Alfred Baum:  b. 23rd Sep 1904, Zürich;  d. 30th Sep 1993, Uster, Switzerland. He was organist of the Neumünster Church in Zürich from 1923 to 1980.
(Frank) Lincoln Bax:  b. 1872 or 1873, Manchester, Lancashire, England

Frederick Nathaniel Baxter:  d. 1925
Maurice Béché:  b. 26th June 1895, Paris, France

Günther Hugo Becker:  d. 24th Jan 2007, Bad Lippspringe, Germany
Lucien Becker:  b. 14th Dec 1872, Strasbourg, Alsace

Jean Baptiste Beghon:  b. 1886, Mons, Belgium; d. 1964, Hamburg, PA, USA
Charles F. Behr:  b. 1867 or 1868, Portsmouth, Hants, UK

Jacques Bekkers:  b. 3rd July 1912, Baarn, The Netherlands
Louis-Noël Belaubre:  b. 27th Dec (1932)
Félix Bélédin was the brother of Albert Jules Louis Bélédin and was cathedral organist in Lyon from 1841 to 1874. His dates were b. 1822, Péronne, Somme; d. 17th Feb 1895, Cuire-lès-Lyons, Rhône, France

James J. Bell:  b. 27th May 1887, Mansfield, MO, USA
Victor Bellemant (sometimes Bellement) was b. 18th Feb 1845, Roye, Somme; d. 1870, near Paris
Carlos Alberto Bellisomi:  b. 1933, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Josse-François-Joseph Benaut:  b. c. 1743, Gullegem, Flanders; d. 13th July 1794, Paris, France
Edward Stewart Bengough:  b. 24th July 1839, Cotham, Bristol

Warren Benson:  d. 6th Oct 2005, Rochester, NY, USA
Edwin G Bentall: b. 1948, Newbury, Berkshire. 1901 Census confirms first name as Edwin.
William Bentham:  b. 1872 or 1873, Clayton Le Moors, Lancashire, England
Primo Beraldo: d. 2006

Albert W. Berg:  b. 1825; d. 1906

Roar Berg:  b. 3rd June 1969, Levanger, Norway
Erik Valdemar Bergman:  d. 24th Apr 2006
Edward D. Berryman:  b. 8th Feb 1920, Omaha, NE, USA; d. 20th Aug 2008, Minneapolis, USA
Carlo Bersezio:  b. 26th Mar 1871, Turin, Italy
Eugène Berthemet:  b. 6th Aug 1848, Paris, France; d. 9th May 1894, Paris, France
Camille Besse was organist of Notre-Dame-de-la-Réal in Perpignan from c. 1920 to c. 1950 and was female.

George Edward Beverst:  d. 10th Feb 2007, Warren, MI, USA
Frank Michael Beyer:  d. 20th Apr 2008, Berlin, Germany

Hugo Beyer:  b. 1836

Antonio Bibalo:  d. 20th June 2008, Larvik, Norway

Valentin Bibik: d. 2003
George Ernest Bicknell: b. 1877
Marshall Bidwell:  b. 1893, Great Barrington, MA, USA
Allen George Biester:  b. 18th June 1940, Philadelphia, PA

Pierre Bigot:  d. 23rd Mar 2008, Saint-Malo, France
Friedrich Billig:  d. 26th Oct 1902, Erfurt, Germany

Jean-Baptiste Bischoff :  b. 23rd Jan 1849, Rouffach, Alsace; d. 6th Mar 1896, Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Roberta Bitgood:  d. 15th Apr 2007 New London, CT, USA

Joseph Emanuel Toussaint Bizet:  b. 11th Aug 1876, Parmain, Yvellines; d. 12th June 1961, France
Leendert Blaauw:  b. 25th Dec 1881, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; d. 16th May 1967, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands

Philip Blackburn:  b. 15th October, Cambridge, England and so not American.

Vilém Blažek:  b. 2nd Apr 1900, Kromìøíž; d. 7th Dec 1974, Brno, Czechoslovakia
J. Blanc is actually Jean Antoine Blanc b. 21st Jan 1793, Barcelona, Spain; d. 23rd Dec 1869, Lons-le-Saunier, Jura, France
Emile-Robert Blanchet;  b. 17th July 1877; d. 27th Mar 1943

Herman Blekkenhorst:  b. 23rd Aug 1914; d. 13th Jan 2008
Ferdinand Blumentritt:  b. 1841, Prague, Bohemia; d. 9th June 1893, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
John Burke Boatner Snr:  b. 1939

Cecilia Clare Bocard:  b. 1899, New Albany, IN, USA

Alan James Boehmer:  b. 1941
Edwin Boggetti was not a pseudonym, he was a composer living in Wandsworth, London, and was born in Yorkshire in 1861 or 1862.

Gottfried Bohnenblust:  b. 14th Sep 1883, Berne; d. 7th Mar 1960, Geneva, Switzerland

Paolo Bonaguri:  b. 1927, Forlì, Italy
Jean-Baptiste Bonfils:  d. d. 26th Nov 2007, Rennes, France

(Francis) Eugene Bonn:  d. May 1935

Poul Børch:  d. 2nd Jan 2007
Matti Borg:  b. 1956
Samu Borsay: b. 1860, Uzon, Transylvania so Romanian and not Hungarian.
Carlo Bossini:  b. 1898, Capovalle, Italy; d. 1980, Brescia, Italy

(Joseph) Octave Adolphe Bouault:  b. 21st July 1862, Dijon; d. c.1895

Dom Marcel Bouchère:  b. 1898, Saint-Hilaire-de-Mortangne, Vendée; d. 1972, Labenne, Landes, France
Michel Boulnois:  d. 30th Nov 2008, Provins, Seine-et-Marne, France

Kate Boundy:  b. 1865 or 1866, Exeter, Devon, England

Arthur Boyse:  b. 1858 or 1859, Kempston, Bedfordshire, England

Giampaolo Bracali:  d. 16th Dec 2006, New York, USA
Lyman F. Bracket:  b. 30th Sep 1852, Charlestown, MA, USA; d. 8th May 1937, Roslindales, MA, USA

John Christopher Bradshaw:  d. 1950

Henry D. Brant:  d. 26th Apr 2008, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Hagbard Brase:  b. 25th Sep 1877, Råda, Vastergotland, Sweden, d. 18th Mar 1953, Lindsborg, KS, USA
Jolyon Brettingham-Smith:  d. 17th May, Berlin, Germany

Eugène Henri Joseph de Bricqueville:  b. 18th May 1854, Avignon; d. 20th May 1933, Versailles, France
(Richard) Forsey Brion:  b. 1848, Guildford, Surrey, England; d. 4th Jan 1890, London. He also used the pseudonym Claude Dupré.
Henry P. G. Brooke:  b. 1836 or 1837, Lincoln, England

Louis Arthur Brookes:  b. 1869 or 1870, Worcester, England
Carter M. Brown:  b. 21st July 1905; d. 8th Jan 2003

James C. Brown:  d. 21st Dec 2004, Bridlington, Yorkshire, UK

Uzee Brown Jr.:  b. 1950, Cowpens, SC, USA
Rudolf Bruči:  d. 30th Oct 2002, Novi Sad, Serbia

Chanoine Emile Bruneau:  b. 1879; d. 22nd Dec 1952; mdc of the cathedral in Blois from 1900 until his death.

James (Dom Gregory) Brusey:  d. 30th Mar 2001, Fort Augustus, Scotland
William R. Brusick:  b. 1959, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA

Herbert Buffington:  b. 1958, Atlanta, GA, USA

Revd. John Bulmer:  b. 1837 or 1838, South Hylton, Durham, England
Cardon V. Burnham:  b. 25th Feb 1927, Kewaunee, IL; d. 19th Feb 2005, Oconomowoc, WI, USA
Kenneth Glencairn Burns:  d. 28th Dec 1933, Christchurch, Hampshire, England
John Freckleton Burrowes (the son): b. 1830, Marylebone, London, London

Stephen Burtonwood: b. 1951

Leonard Butler: b. 1869, Dorking, Surrey, England

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Sister Mary David Callahan:  b. 24th July 1923, Oil City, PA; d. 15th Mar 2005, Erie, PA, USA
José Cornelio Camacho:  b. 16th Sep 1831, Mexico City; d. 11th Nov 1918, Mexico City

Charles Mario Camilleri:  d. 3rd Jan 2009, Naxxar, Malta

Pompeo Camps:  d. 2nd Nov 1997, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Aldo Cantarini:  b. 26th Jan 1886, Desenzano del Garda, Italy

Constança Capdeville: d. 5th Feb 1992, Caxias, Portugal
Patrick Cardy:  d. 24th Mar 2005, Ottawa, Canada
Bruce Carleton was a pseudonym of Rob Roy Peery.

Charles Davis Carter:  b. 1857; d. 1940.  Father of noted theatre organist Gaylord Carter (1905-2000)

Gaetano Casati:  b. 1825, Florence, Italy; d. 1904
Manuel Castillo Navarro:  d  1st Nov 2005, Seville, Spain

Carmelo Castorina:  b. 23rd Apr 1937, Castelfidardo, Italy

Jean Catoire: d. 9th Nov 2005

Susan Caudill:  b. 1952
Pietro Cavallo:  d. 1891
Robert Cavarra: d. 8th Feb 2008, Denver, CO, USA

Paul Chappel:  b. 18th Nov 1967, Dundas, Ontario, Canada
Bruno Charnay:  b. 25th Oct 1960, Grenoble
John Cheshire: d. 26th Sep 1910, New York, USA

Thomas Chesterton was a pseudonym of James Mansfield.
Antonio Chissotti:  b. 1814, Casale Monferrato; d. Oct 1886, Bergentino, Italy

Walter Chitty:  b. 1842 or 1843, London, England
Bernhard Anders Christensen:  d. 20th Mar 2004
Henning Christiansen:  d. 10th Dec 2008

Artur Cieślak:  b. 30th Dec 1968, Szczecin, Poland

Elmiro Ciociano:  b. 24th Mar 1928, Camerota, Italy; d. 12th Nov 1977, Camerota, Italy
(Thomas) Merton Clark:  b. 1851 or 1852, Lambeth, London

Edouard Claude:  d. 13 June 1960, France
Ralph E. Clewell:  b. 10th Mar 1892; d. 9th Dec 1987, Summit, OH, USA
Adrienne Clostre (Clostre-Biset):  d. 5th Aug 2006, Serrières, Ardèche, France

Douglas Marsden Coates: d. 1974 and worked for the Midland Bank
David John Coldwell:  b. 1870 or 1871, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England

Arnold Atkinson Cooke: d. 13th Aug 2005, Five Oaks Green, Kent, UK

Léon Copin:  b. 1854; d. 1923- an organist in Valenciennes
Carlo Cordara:  b. 14th Mar 1866, Turin; d. 10th Mar 1930, Florence, Italy
Silvius/Silvio Coscia:  d. Sep 1977, Middlesex, MA, USA

Pierre Cortellezzi:  b. 1926, Pont-Saint-Vincent, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France

Aniello Costabile:  b. 19th Mar 1886, Torre del Greco, Naples, Italy
(Cecil) Wesley Councell:  b. 1877
Henri Coupé:  b. 7th Sep 1827, Bottelare, Belgium; d. 19th June 1890, Ghent, Belgium

(Paul) Louis Courtard:  b. 8th Aug 1848, Paris, France

Mark Courtney:  b. 1965
Claude Ernest Cover:  b. 13th Mar 1870, Sherburn-in-Elmet, Yorkshire; d. 17th Feb 1944, Galashiels, Scotland

James Munro Coward:  b. 1853 or 1854, London, England
John Rowland Cowell:  b. 24th Apr 1922, Springhouse, Pennsylvania; d. 4th Mar 2007, Seattle, WA, USA

Thomas Craddock:  b. 1837 or 1838, Egloshayle, Wadebridge, Cornwall, England
Robert E. Crane: d. 21st Dec 2003, Madison, WI, USA

Philip Cranmer:  d. 1st July 2006, UK

J. Cras:  b. 13th Sep 1785, Malines; d. 4th Nov 1871, Malines, Belgium
Charles Robert Cressey:  b. 7th Dec 1854, Gorham, ME, USA; d. 19th Jan 1929

Giovanni Cressi:  b. 1849; d. 1878
Robert F. Crone:  d. 1977

Jean Baptiste de Croze, mdc of the cathedral in Marseille, d. 1891
Viktor Clariß Czajanek:  b. 21st July 1876, Friedeck, Moravia; d. 25th Sep 1952, Frohnleiten, Graz, Austria
Léandre Czerniewski: b. 1842

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Niels Danielsen:  b. 1976
Benjamin Darnault:  d. 20th Mar 1885, Paris, France

James A. Dasher:  b. 21st Nov 1897, Valdosta, GA, USA
Jean Edouard Dattas:  b. 23rd June 1919, Paris, France

Alexandre Gustave Daussoigne-Méhul: d. May 1902, Liège, Belgium
Frederick S. Davenport:  b. 1839, Boston, MA; d. 1924
Scott Davenport is a pseudonym of John M. Rasley

Thomas Christian David:  d. 22nd Jan 2006, Vienna, Austria

Anne Armstrong Davis: b. 1958

Daniel Paul Davis:  b. 1953
Richard Dawre:  b. 1848; d. 4th Oct 1891, London, UK
Alfred H. Day:  b. 1859, London; d. 13th Nov 1907, South Africa
(Harry) Brooks Day:  b. 1858, New Hampshire, USA; d. 3rd July 1921, Peterboro, NH, USA

Henri Defosse:  b. 28th Mar 1883, Nogent-sur-Seine, France; d. 1956
Friedhelm Deis:  d. 25th Aug 2008, Hattingen, Germany

(Charles Arène) Félix Delahache:  b. 18th Apr 1834, Beauvais, Oise; d. 8th Apr 1923, Beauvais, France

Eugène Delauney:  b. 14th Apr 1839, Avranches, France
Georges Delaye:  b. 15th Feb 1863, St. Petersburg, Russia; d. 22nd Nov 1949, Geneva, Switzerland

Gustavo Delgado Parra:  b. 1962

Norman Joseph Dello Joio:  d. 24th July 2008, East Hampton, NY, USA
Albert Delvaux:  d. 16th May 2007, Jette, Belgium

Charles H. Demorest:  b. 3rd Jan 1886, Madelia, MN, USA

Stefania Adalbjörg Björnson Denbow: d. 18th Oct 2008, Athens, OH, USA
George Denham was organist of St. Matthew’s in Canonbury, London, in 1884 and of St. Luke’s in Ramsgate from 1888.

Maurits Alfons Deroo:  d. 4th Mar 1988, Assenede, Belgium

Karel Reginald De Schrijver:  d. 15th Sep 1992, Antwerp, Belgium
Gabriel Pierre Fortuné Desmoulins:  d. 1903
René Dieudonné Denne-Baron:  b. 1st Nov 1804, Paris, France; d. 11th Nov 1865, Paris, France
Germain Desbonnet:  d. 20th June 2007, Brittany, France

David L. Diamond: d. 13th June 2005, Brighton, Rochester, NY, USA

Don Michael Dicie:  b. 1941

Vincezo di Donato:  b. 15th Aug 1887, Rome, Italy
Donald Hugo Dijkhuijzen:  d. 1897

William Augustus Muhlenberg Diller:  b. 1836, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Charles L. Dirr:  b. 1936
J. Airlie Dix:  b. 1862; d. 8th Dec 1911, composer of popular songs and organist of Kentish Town Parish Church and St. Mark’s in Old Street, London.
John Wayne Dixon:  b. 1945, Sydney, Australia

Sigurd Djupvik: b. 25th May 1923; d. 15th Sep 2005
Tsvetan Dobrev:  b. 14th Mar 1956, Kazanlak, Bulgaria
Frederick Arthur William Docker:  d. 6th June 1946, Tring, Hertfordshire, England

Ernest Donajowski:  d. 2nd Apr 1922

Leonardus Doortmont:  b. 13th Jan 1856, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tim Doran:  b. 1954

Hans-Peter Dott:  b. 21st Dec 1952, Koblenz, Germany

Alice L. Doty:  b. 1862
James M. Doughty:  b. 1846 or 1847, Margate, Kent, England
Jaap Dragt:   d. 5th Jan 2003

(William) Ralph Driffill:  b. 8th Dec 1870, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England; d. 24th Apr 1922, Barnet, Hertfordshire, England

Zarko Dropulic: b. 14th Nov 1946, Opuzen, Croatia

Emilio Antonio Dublanc: d. 1990, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Alfred H. Dudley:  b. 1875 or 1876, Chester, England

Evan Duggan:  b. 1951
Rowland Dunham:  b. 18th Apr 1885

George Albert Charles Dunkley:  b. 1938, Toronto, Canada
Edouard Dumas:  b. 26th Jan 1827, Paris, France

(Thomas) Hume Dunlop:  b. 1881 or 1882, Bootle, Lancashire, England

Claude Dupré was the pseudonym of (Richard) Forsey Brion (see above)

Edouard Louis Camille Dupuy was Swiss b.  1770, Neuchâtel; d. 3rd Apr 1822, Stockholm, Sweden having worked in Denmark, France and Sweden.
Sidney Caldwell Durst:  b. 7th Sept 1870, Ohio, USA; d. 30th Mar 1957, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Johan Duyck:  b. 1954, Bruges, Belgium

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Petr Eben:  d. 24th Oct 2007, Prague, Czech Republic
Adolf Eckardt:  d. 1934. He was organist of the Pauluskirche in Essen.

Helmut Eder:  d. 8th Feb 2005, Salzburg, Austria

George Henry Lloyd Edwards:  b. 1858 or 1859, Poplar, London and so is English
Oliver Henry Edwards:  d. 1979

Hans Walter Egel:  b. 14th June 1878, Mannheim; d. 1914. Worked in South Africa. N.B. Middle name is Walter not Wilhelm.

Jakob Egli:  b. 31st Mar 1876, Fischenthal, Zürich, Switzerland

Max Eham:  d. 27th July 2008, Munich, Germany
Hermene W. Eichorn:  d. 3rd Oct 2001, Guildford, NC, USA
Philipp Peter Eiffert:  d. 1792
Karl Friedrich Einert:  b. 1798

(Joseph) Stanislaus Elliot:  b. 1849 or 1850, London, England
Robert Bernard Elliott:  b. 1869 or 1870, Poplar, London, England
Willard Somers Elliot:  b. 18th July 1926, Fort Worth, TX; d. 7th June 2000, Fort Worth, TX

Carl Gottlieb Elsäßer:  b. 7th June 1817, Höfingen, Stuttgart, d. 5th Jan 1885, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
Ernst G. Elsässer:  b. 11th Feb 1880, Würzburg, Germany

George Herbert Ely: b. 1866; d.7th Sep 1958, best known as a novelist for boys. He was co-author under the pseudonym Herbert Strange.
Thomas Ely:  b. 1869 or 1870, London, England

Dorothy Radde Emery:  d. 23rd July 1978, Lancaster, PA, USA
Olive P. Endres:  d. 26th Feb 1995, Dane, WI, USA

Louis Engel:  d. 1894, London
Valentin Engel:  b. 11th Oct 1859, Stromberg; d. 6th May 1946, Eltville, Germany

Hans Engelmann:  b. 16th June 1872, Berlin; d. 5th May 1914, USA
Giuseppe Giorgio Englert:  d. 29th Mar 2007, Paris, France

Gisbert Enzian:  b. 1847, Soest, The Netherlands
Donald James Erb: d. 12th Aug 2008, Cleveland Heights, OH, USA

Balthasar Erben:  b. 1626, Danzig; bur. 3rd Oct 1686, Danzig, Germany
Christopher Eva: b. 28th July 1957, Norway
Robert Bruce Evans:  d. 10th Mar 2005

Pálmar Thórarinn Eyjólfsson:  b. 1921

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Clotaire Facon:  b. 1870, Wavrin, France

Adriën Henri Fagel:  b. 1871; d. 1936
Walter Peake Fairclough:  b. 1857 or 1858, Codnor, Derbyshire, England

Rolande Falcinelli: d. 11th June 2006, Pau, France
Yuri Alexandrovich Falik:  d. 23rd Jan 2009, St.Petersburg, Russia

Adam Falkiewicz:  d. 21st May 2007

Louis Simon Fanart: b. 7th Apr 1807, Reims, France; d. 6th Sep 1883, Reims, France
David Andross Farquhar:  d. 8th May 2007, Wellington, New Zealand

Arpád Fasang:  b. 30th (not 29th) June 1912, Cracow, Poland; d. 12th Mar 2001, Budapest, Hungary

Guido Fässler: d. 1995
Sister Magdalen Fautch:  d. 1st Feb 2005, Spokane, WA, USA, Yugoslavia
Franco Fedeli:  b. 8th June 1894, Orvieto, Italy
Jindřich Feld:  d. 8th July 2007
Jan Reindert Adriaan Felderhof:  d. 4th Mar 2006, Laren, The Netherlands

William Maag Felton:  b. 12th Mar 1887, Philadelphia, PA, USA; d. 16th May 1942, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Louis Feltz:  b. 2nd Feb 1816, Huttenheim, Alsace; d. 22nd Dec 1891, Hattstadt, Alsace, France

(Joseph) Matthias Field:  b. 1846 or 1847, Brimrod, Rochdale, Lancashire, England

Robert Fieldwick:  b. 6th Nov 1839, Camberwell, London, England; d. 1913
Siegfried Fink:  d. 3rd May 2006, Würzburg, Germany

Edwin Mark Flavell:  b. 1856 or 1857, Staffordshire, England
Heinrich Rudolph Fleischer:  d. 28th Feb 2006, Crystal, MN, USA

Geoffrey Edward Flowers: b. 1910
(H.) Alan Floyd:  b. 1888, Harrisburg, PA, USA

Heinrich Flügge:  b. 31st July 1885, Hannover, Germany
J. Cliffe Forrester:  d. 1941
Walter von Forster:  d. 24th Nov 2002, Hersching am Ammersee, Germany
Robert E. Fort:  d. 29th Jan 2009, DeLand, FL, USA

Tarzicija Fosić: b. 7th Oct 1895, Molve, d. 11th Nov 1958, Osijek
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Marje Fowler:  d. 6th Jan 1998, Orange, CA, USA

(Albert) Godwin Fowles:  b. 1842 or 1843, Isle of Wight, England

Gerard Franck:  d. 15th July 2006, Venlo, The Netherlands
Jaroslav Francl: d. 19th June 1990, Prague, Czechoslovakia
(Haerluf Valdemar) Bo Frandsen:  d. 1985

Siegfried (Sigfrid) Walter Franz:  d. 18th Mar 1998, Hamburg, Germany
Gerald F. Frazee: b. 18th Mar 1896, Wilmington, MA; d. Dec 1980, Norfolk, MA, USA
Lamar Friend was a pseudonym of Peter Pindar Stearns.

Victor Erwin Freudenburg:  b. 1927
Almann Friisholm:  b. 1882

Franz Fuchs (The Younger): d. 1988

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Lauren Gadd: b. 1953
Robert Gajda was b. 28th May 1890 in Lipinach and was a priest in Mikołów - Borowa Wieś from 1946 until his death in 1952. He composed 39 Opp.
Charles Galetar:  b. 1943

Priamo Gallisay: b. 19th Oct 1853, Nuoro, Sardinia; d. 30th July 1930, Ozieri, Sardinia
Giovanni Prospero Galloni:  b. 1811, Piacenza; d. 1896, Piacenza, organist of Piacenza Cathedral.

Roberto García Morillo:  d. 26th Oct 2003

Jesús García Románo:  d. 1984
Hippolyte Xavier Garimond:  b. 10th July 1820, Montpellier, France
Johan Hendrik Garms:  b. 3rd Dec 1867, Amsterdam; d. 27th July 1933, Velsen, The Netherlands

Stéphane Gaurion:  b. 6th June 1843, Paris; d. 1889, Paris, France

Gabriel Gauthier:  d. 1875
Henk C. de Gelder: b. 1948, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Marcel Gennaro:  b. 1888
Harald Genzmer:  d. 16th Dec 2007, Munich, Germany

Kevin Anthony Gabriel George:  b. 1963
René Ernest Gerber:  d. 21st Nov 2006, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

William H. Gerrish:  d. 1924

Getze, J. A. was Jacob Alfred Getze
Luigi Giacomini (Padre Callisto):  b. 10th Apr 1920, Sant'Agata Feltria, Pesaro/Urbino; d. 6th Nov 2005, Castel San Pietro, Emilia Romagna, Italy
Thomas Edward Gieschen:  d. 25th Apr 2006, Chicago, IL, USA

Russell Snively Gilbert:  b. 5th May 1890, Mount Carmel, PA, USA
Barry Maxwell Gilholy was organist of Newry Church in Ireland and was Irish.

Carla J. Giomo:  b. 1963
Henrik Glahn:  d. 16th Aug 2006
R. Sara Glick:  b. 1938

Vigilio Guidi:  b. 18th July 1878, Bibbiena, Arezzo, Italy; d. 1957 or 1960
Werner Wolf Glaser:  d. 29th Mar 2006, Västerås, Sweden

Lucien Gustave Georges Goethals:  d. 12th Dec 2006, Ghent, Belgium
Theodor Ernst Goldberg:  d. 1st Mar 1934, Rathewalde, Germany

Friedrich Goldmann:  d. 24th July 2009, Berlin, Germany
Burton Gene Goldstein:  b. 17th Aug 1950, New York, USA

Alice Gomez:  b. 1960
Eugenio Gomez:  b. 1802, Alcanices, Zamora, Spain; d. 23rd May 1871, Seville, Spain

Viktor Goncharenko:  b. 1959
(Marie) Hélène Gonthier:  b. 3rd Sep 1865, Paris; d. 23rd Feb 1893, Paris, France
Edward L. Good:  b. 1961

Forrest Goodenough:  b. 27th July 1918, South Bend, IN; d. 14th Aug 2004, Gravette, AR, USA
Floris Gortenmulder: b. 1906
Abbé Emile Alphonse Goupil:  b. 29th Dec 1875, Paris, France

William F. Grace:  b. 1876 or 1877, Romsey, Hampshire, England
Dietmar Gräf:  b. 1st June 1943, Marienbad, Germany

Frederick Graf:  b. 12th Sep 1914; d. 24th Nov 2000, Bethlehem, PA, USA. Delete his first name it was not David, he was Frederick W. Graf.
Robert V. Graham:  d. 9th Dec 1992, San Diego, CA, USA
Alfred F. Grainger:  b. 1859 or 1860, Walworth, London, England
William Parks Grant:  d. 1988, Oxford, MS, USA
Eduardo Federico Guillermo Grau: d. 2006
Anita Graves:  b. 20th Sep 1920, Lincoln, IL; d. 16th Sep 2007, USA
Carlo Graziani-Walter is indeed the correct spelling of his name.
Ralph Charles Johnstone Greaves:  d. 1966

Alfred M. Greenfield:  b. 14th Mar 1902, St. Paul, MN; d. 14th Jan 1983, Princeton, NJ, USA

Charles John Grey:  b. 1850, Diss, Norfolk, England
Leidulv Grimsmo:  d. 1998
Geert Gringhuis:  d. 18th Aug 1970

Birger Thorvald Grinsted:  b. 1st Dec 1909, Copenhagen, Denmark

Eric William Gritton:  d. 1981
John William Gritton;  b. 1850 or 1851, London, England

Uwe Gronostay:  d. 29th Nov 2008, Berlin, Germany
Jules de Groote:  d. 27th Feb 1952, St.Pieters-Jette, Belgium

Frederick Locksley Groton:  b. 21st July 1880, Pongateague, VA, USA

Eugen Grüel:  d. 4th Jan 1927, Potsdam, Germany

Paul Guettmann:  b. 1895; d. Mar 1984
Lucien Marie Guittard:  d. 1946

Berkley Guse:  b. 1965
Volker Gwinner:  d. 7th May 2004, Bremen, Germany

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Willem (Wilhelm) De Haan:  b. 24th Sep 1849, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; d. 26th Sep 1930, Berlin, Germany
Eilert Hægeland:  d. 13th Feb 2004

Walther Haffner (note correct spelling of first name):  d. 2002
Robert George Hailing:  d. 1943, Edinburgh, Scotland
Robert Hainworth:  b. 1843, Enfield, Middlesex, England
Edward Hake:  b. 1830 or 1831, Exeter, Devon, England
Walter E. Hall:  b. 1858 or 1859, Nantwich, Cheshire, England
Hans Peter Haller:  d. 16th Apr 2006

Hermann Haller:  d. 13th Aug 2002, Küsnacht, Switzerland

Lionel William Halse:  b. June 1894, Bridlington; d. 17th Oct 1917 (of wounds from WWI)
Carl F. Halter:  b. 10th Oct 1916, Cleveland, OH, USA; d. 30th Nov 1989, River Forest, IL, USA
Carolyn Gillespie Hamlin:  b. 1937

Victor Eugène Hammerel:  b. 1844 or 1847, France; d. 1917, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Henry Herbert Hancock:  b. 1869, Withall, Cornwall, England
Jan Haneška (Hans Haneschka):  b. 25th Oct 1869, Warnsdorf, North Bohemia
(Frederick) Harold Hankins:  b. 18th Feb 1865, Marylebone, London; d. 19th Feb 1936

Lewis R. Hann:  b. 4th Jan 1865, Kentish Town, London; d. 30th Jan 1937
Roger Hannahs: b. 2nd Apr 1918

Cor Hansum:  b. 1922, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Edward Hardy: b. 17th Feb 1883, Salford, Lancashire, England. Moved to USA in 1915
Clement Antrobus Harris:  b. 2nd Apr 1862, York; d. 12th Feb 1942
Patricia Lou Harris: b. 1939

Johann Samuel Harsow: d. 1792, Berlin, Germany
Harry H. Harter:  b. 9th Mar 1916, Alameda, CA, USA

Hugo Hartmann: b. 12th Mar 1862, Portschweiten; d. 19th June 1907, Marienburg, Prussia. He was the composer of the West Prussian National Anthem in 1902.

Jeffrey Brian Hartmann:  b. 1961, Vermillion, SD, USA
William Warder Harvey:  b. 1860 or 1861, Andover, Hampshire, England
Josef (not Joseph) Haselbach:  d. 21st Aug 2002

Vernon Clayton Haskins: d. 21st Jan 1962, Alameda, CA, USA
Paul Willibald Alexis Hassenstein:  d. 22nd Jan 1927, Berlin, Germany
Ray Hastings:  b. 21st Feb 1890, Bainbridge, NY, USA
Louis Henri François Dumontier:  d. 1st Aug 2006, Rennes, France

Charles Arthur Havens:  b. 23rd June 1842, Essex County, NY, USA; d. 8th Nov 1925, Chicago, IL, USA

Roberto Hazon:  d. 2006

Robert H. Heath:  b. 1842 or 1843, Torquay, Devon, England
Wallace D. Heaton: d. 21st Mar 1990, Saint Johns, FL, USA
Walter Heaton:  d. 5th Mar 1933, Reading, PA, USA

Chastey William George Hector:  b. 1876 or 1877, Crediton, Devon, England
Arpad Hegedus:  b. 15th Oct 1909; d. Mar 1988
Wolfgang Hein; d. 1999

Bodil Helsted:  b. 23rd Mar 1880 and was female
Adolf Hempel:  d. 1946

Raymond S. Henry:  b. 1931
Ignaz Herbst:   d. 23rd Oct 1954, Vienna, Austria
Joseph Herl: b. 1959

Hans Hermann:  b. 17th Aug 1870, Leipzig, Germany; d. 18th May 1931, Berlin, Germany

Venancio Herrasti y Bernal:  b. 1816, Arechavaleta, Guipúzcoa, Spain; d. 1864
Eduard Hesse:  b. 25th Aug 1850, Gross Gottern, Thuringia, Germany

(Julius) Friedrich Wilhelm Hesse:  d. 5th Apr 1881, Berlin, Germany

Frigyes Hidas: d. 7th Mar 2007, Budapest, Hungary
Victor G. Hildner:  b. 28th Apr 1917

Esther S. Higgins:  b. 29th Oct 1903, Elmer, NJ; d. Jan 1994, Gloucester, NJ, USA
Kevin J. Hildebrand:  b. 1973, Berrien Springs, MI, USA
Revd. Lionel Hildyard:  b. 1860 or 1861 Bury, Lancashire, England
Everett Jay Hilty:  d. 1st Nov 2006, Manhattan, KS, USA

Francina Hinlopen:  d. 29th Dec 2004, Hilversum, The Netherlands
Matthias Hippe:  d. 30th Sep 2004
Franz Hirtler:  d. 2002

Mads Høck:  b. 1968
Alan Hoddinott:  d. 12th Mar 2008, Swansea, Wales, UK

John W. Hodgkinson:  d. 1929

Henry Oswald Hodgson: b. 1886; d. 21st Aug 1975, Nottingham, England
Theodore Hoeck:  His dates may have been b. 12th Dec 1900, d. Apr 1970

Roman Hofer:  b. 1942, Basle, Switzerland

Laura Hoffman:  b. 1948, Lynchburg, VA, USA
Gotthelf Hoffmann:  b. 1844; d. 1924

Wolfgang Hofmann:  b. 6th Sep 1922; d. 19th Mar 2003
Max Hohnerlein:  b. 16th Mar 1865, Kupferzell, Ohringen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Bent Peder Holbech:  b. 7th Nov 1947, Rønne, Denmark
(Edward) Hardess Hollingham: b. 1887, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Charles Ellingworth Holmes:  b. 1844, Fulstone, New Mill, Yorkshire, England

George Augustus Holmes:  d. 1943

George Sydenham Holmes:  d. 1946

Francis H. Hopper: b. 1910

Herbert Horrocks:  d. 1980
Joel Horspool: b. 1852 or 1853, Southwell, Nottinghamshire, England
(Albert) Percy Howe: d. 11th Aug 1970, Brighton, Sussex, England

(Alan George) Ferrers Howell: was a Cambridge classical scholar and author b. 1855

Hudson Howell:  b. 1916

Ludwig (Louis) Huber:  d. 1812
George H. Hucke:  b. 1867 or 1868, St. Pancras, London, England
John W. Hudson: b. 1856 or 1857, Hull, Yorkshire, England
Hugh Hughes:  b. 1876; d. 1946

J. Millward Hughes:  d. 1928

Herman Frits Faas Huls:  b. 10th Feb 1915, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Homer Corliss Humphrey:  b. 1st Aug 1880, Yarmouth, ME, USA
Reginald Heber Hunt:  d. 1982
Russell Vaughn Hupp:  b. 11th Feb 1908, South Bend, IN, USA

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Frank Idle:  d. 29th May 1944, Poole, Dorset, England
Maurice Imbert:  d. 1981
Carlo Inico:  b. 1863, Caravaggio, Lombardy, Italy; d. 1947, Montichiari, Brescia, Italy

(Maia de Carvalho) Najla Jabor d. 9th Mar 2001, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Friedrich August Leberecht Jacob:  d. 1884
Bedrich Janacek:  d. 3rd June 2007, Lund, Sweden

Stefan Jänke: b. 1975

Gene J. Janssen: b. 1940, Plymouth County, Iowa, USA
Charles Arthur Jarman; b. 7th Apr 1882, Macdonaldtown, Sydney, Australia; d. 5th June 1968, Hammondville, Sydney, Australia

Sarah Jarrell is a pseudonym of Hugh Samuel Livingston jnr.
Sandra W. Jarrell:  b. 1944

Dom Jules Cécilien Jeannin:  b. 6th Feb 1866, Marseille; d. 15th Feb 1933, Hautecombe, Savoie, France
Josef Jedlička:  b. 4th Dec 1828, Petrovice, Prague; d. 19th May 1896, Prague

Donald C. Jellicoe:  b. 1876 or 1877, Ealing, London, England
(Donald) Martin Jenni:  d. 21st June 2006, USA

Stanko Jericijo:  d. 26th Jan 2007, Gorica, Slovenia
Lennart Jernestrand:  d. 26th Nov 2007

Joseph Frantz Jetel (Jettel):  b. 1813; d. 1865
Grant Johannesen:  d. 27th Mar 2005, near Munich, Germany

Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson:  d. 1st Jan 2005, Reykjavik, Iceland
Hallvard Johnsen:  d. 6th Nov 2003

Norman Frederic Byng Johnson:  b. 1877 or 1878, Belper, Derbyshire, England
Winston A. Johnston:  b. 1914, Hupeh Province, China; d. 4th Feb 2008, Seattle, WA, USA

Walter Russell Johnston:  b. Leith, Scotland; d. 8th Aug 1900, New York, USA. He was in the USA and an organist in Brooklyn by the age of 8.
Clydwyn ap Aeron Jones:  b. 27th June 1913, Gaiman, Chubut; d. 2008

Daniel Jones (composer of Fantasie, Aria, Chorale and Fugue Op.8) was an American pianist b. 29th Oct 1892, Johnstown, PA, USA; d. 3rd May 1932.

Robert Alexander Jones:  b. 1939
Walter Howe Jones:  b. 8th Oct 1862, Hastings, MN; d. 2nd Apr 1933, Pasadena, CA, USA
Richard Alan Jordan:  b. 1953

Ernest F. Jores:  b. 5th Apr 1873, Süchteln, Germany; d. 1950, Montpelier, VT
Eberhard Jörg:  d. 10th Jan 2006
Brent Jorgensen:  b. 1958

Gundorph Jørgensen:  d. 1937, organist in Brahetrolleborg
André Jorrand:  d. 15th Dec 2007

Dominique Joubert:  b. 1955, Chinon, Touraine

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Jeronimas Kacinskas:  15th Sep 2005, Boston, MA, USA

Mauricio Raul Kagel:  d. 18th Sep 2008, Cologne, Germany
Viktor Kalabis:  d. 28th Sep 2006, Prague, Czech Republic

(Martin) William Karlins:  d. 11th May 2005, Northbrook, IL, USA

Frederick James Karn:  d. 2nd Dec 1940, Cranleigh, Surrey, England
Paul E. Karvonen:  d. 12th Sep 1991

(Alexandre) Ladislav Kaczynski was French  - b. 31st July 1853, Paris

Edwin Theodore Karhu:  17th May 1911, Ashtabula, OH, USA; d. 19th Apr 1991, Oklahoma, USA
Frederick James Karn:  d. 1940

Frederick Keats:  b. 1869, England; d. 29th Jan 1936, Elizabeth, NJ, USA
Joseph J. Keeler:  b. 3rd July 1913; d. 22nd Sep 1996
Wilhelm Keller: d. 4th June 2008, Salzburg, Austria
Lana Kelley-Ness:  b. 1947

Gerald Eugene Kemner:  d. 26th Jan 2007, Shawnee, KS, USA
Talivaldis Keninš:  b. 22nd Apr 1919, Liepāja, Latvia; d. 21st Jan 2008, Toronto, Canada
Richard H. Kerr:  d. 23rd June 1999, Tioga, NY, USA

Mary Ellen Kerrick:  b. 1942
Henri Kerval was the pseudonym of Henri Kunkelmann, a pupil of César Franck.
Arend J. Kettelarij:  b. 1963

Richard Kieserling:  b. 24th Feb 1873, Chicago, IL; d. 1st Oct 1932, Cincinatti, OH, USA
Paul Kieviet:  b. 1961

Horace Estabrook Kimball:  b. 18th Sep 1839, Clyde, NY, USA; d.19th Nov 1901, Orange, NJ, USA, He was a journalist by profession.

Gordon King:  b. 1938
Urban Lorenz Kirnberger:  d. 8th Apr 1892, Leipzig, Germany

Ernest Oldfield Kiver: 7th Feb 1945, Warlingham, Surrey, England

Giselher Wolfgang Klebe:  d. 5th Oct 2009, Detmold, Germany
Hermann Kleemeyer:  d. 14th July 1941, Göttingen, Germany

Walter Mihai (aka Michael) Klepper: d. 9th Aug 2008, Geinsheim am Rhein, Germany
Oscar Klose:  b. 8th May 1859; 17th Nov 1924, Görlitz, Germany

Julius Klump:  b. 1927, d. 17th Dec 1927, Illenau, Germany
Ernst Gernot Klussmann:  d. 21st Jan 1975, Hamburg, Germany
Marcelo Koc:  d. 26th Oct 2006, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Erland von Koch:  d. 31st Jan 2009

Gerrit Koele:  b. 1967, The Netherlands

Jan Koetsier:  d. 28th Apr 2006, Munich, Germany
Paul Koepke:  His dates may have been b. 10th Jan 1918; d. 2nd May 2000

Wolfgang Köhler:  d. 21st Oct 2003

Nicolai Filaretovich (k/a Mykola) Kolessa:  d. 2006
Johannes Bernardus Kolkman:  b. 1854; d. 1920

Leslie Kondorossy:  d. 22nd Apr 1989, Cuyahoga, OH, USA

Štepán Koníček:  d. 26th May 2006, Prague, Czech Republic

Arjan Koning:  b. 16th Mar 1962, Doorwerth, The Netherlands

Thomas Herman Koppel:  d. 25th Feb 2006, Puerto Rico
James Walter Kosnik:  b. 1949

Marian Kouzan:  d. 12th Apr 2005, Framont, France
André (né Andor Andràs) Kovách:  d. 31st Aug 2005, Lausanne, Switzerland

Gerhard Krapf:  d. 2nd July 2008, Edmonton, Canada
Rudolph Joseph Kremer:  d. 26th July 2005, USA

Abraham Krul:  b. 20th Jan 1861
Wincenty Kruzinski: d. 1928

Augustin Rudolf Kubizek:  d. 24th Mar 2009, Vienna, Austria
Andrzej Roman Kurylewicz:  d. 13th Apr 2007, Konstancin-Jeziorna, Poland

Ernst Kutzer:  d. 14th Oct 2008
Norbert Mateusz Kuznik: d. 15th Apr 2006, Rybnik, Poland

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Wladimir Labler:  b. 22nd Mar 1847, Prague, Bohemia; d. 1st July 1914, Barcola, Italy
Jules Laboreau: b. 27th Oct 1827, Paris; d. 7th July 1878, Paris, France. Organist of Saint-Laurent in Paris from c. 1846 until his death
Emile Lachmann:  b. 1851
Louis Lack:  d. May 1881, Brittany
G. F. Alice Lagarde was the pseudonym of Giuseppe Ferrata (1865-1928) already in the book.
Nicodemo Lago:  b. 1802; d. 1892
Harold Charles Lake:  b. 1878, Plymouth, Devon, England
Hubert Weldon Lamb:  d. 27th July 1987, Blue Hill, ME, USA
Günter Lampe:  d. 19th Sep 2003, Weimar, Germany
Wolfgang Lampert:  b. 1954
(Johann) Joseph Landolt:  b. 15th Oct 1846, Nafels, Glarus, Switzerland; d. 18th Nov 1920, Basle, Switzerland
Charles Woodworth Landon:  b. 17th June 1856, Lakeville, CT, USA; d. 7th Nov 1918, New Orleans, MS, USA
Lu Ann Liles Lane:  b. 1961
Hans Lang:  d. 17th July 1968, Munich, Germany
Abram Winne Lansing:  b. 26th Aug 1861, Cohoes, NY, USA; d. 25th Jan 1928
John Larkin:  d. 5th Aug 2001, Hamilton, OH, USA
(Juan) Antón Larrauri Riego:  d. 21st Dec 2000, Spain
Auguste Larriu: b. 17th Dec 1840, was a notary and lawyer in Oloron, France
Ethan Rosenkilde Larsen:  d. 2005
Willem de Latin:  b. 22nd Sep 1876, Antwerp, Belgium; d. 24th Nov 1942, Antwerp, Belgium
Frederick Locke Lawrence:  b. 19th Jan 1869, Springfield, VT, USA
William John de Wolf Leavitt:  b. 28th June 1841, Boston, MA, USA; d. Jan 1893, Boston, MA, USA
Michelle Leclerc:  b. 30th Apr 1939, Sens, Burgundy; d. 12th Sep 2006
Lenormand:  Maurice and Henri were brothers and their father, also Henri Lenormand (1899-1936), was himself cathedral organist in Mâcon.

Bruno Lescarret:  b. 1964
Gérard Letellier:  b. 21st Dec 1935, Sèvres, France
Frank Lewin:  d. 18th Jan 2008, Princeton, NJ, USA

Walter Henry Lewis:  b. 31st Mar 1866, Manchester, NH, USA

Santiago Lichius:  d. 1973
William Henry Liddle:  b. 1851; d. 17th July 1916, Basingstoke

György Sandor Ligeti:  d. 12th June 2006, Vienna, Austria
Eugene M. Lindusky:  b. 27th July 1924, St. Paul, MN, USA; d. 27th July 2005, Snohomish, WA, USA
Klaus Linkenbach:  d. 6th Aug 2000
Robert Linnarz:  d. 1931

Giulia Lissoni:  b. 1902, Novara, Italy and is probably female

Francisco Llácer Plá:  d. 2002, Valencia, Spain

Franz Anton Lobinger:  b. 14th Nov 1797, Kilb, Austria; d. 6th Jan 1888, Krems, Austria
Rolf Looser:  d. 10th Jan 2000

John Edwin Windsor Lord:  b. 5th Nov, 1862, Rossendale, Lancashire, England
Giuseppe Lorenzi:  b. 1783; d. 1870

John (né Jean) M. Loretz:  b. 1840, Mulhouse, Alsace and so is French/American.

Johannes Henricus Löser:  b. 28th June 1850, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Hans Georg Lotz:  d. 2001, Hamburg, Germany
Marie Auguste Louys: b. 1841; d. 1896
John J. Lucania:  b. 1952

Stěpán Lucký:  d. 2006

Vilho Rafael Luolajan-Mikkola:  d. 14th Nov 2005

Keith Lusted:  b. 27th Apr 1926, Cedar Rapids, IA, USA; d. 20th Feb 2008, Baltimore, MD, USA
Henri Lütgen:   d. 1883, London, England

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Teo Macero:  d. 19th Feb 2008, Riverhead, NY, USA
Enrique Macías Alonso:  June 18th 1958; d. 1995
Robert Guyn McBride:  d. 1st July 2007, USA
Mary McDonald:  b. 1956
John Henry Macfarlane:  d. 23rd Jan 1916, Bath, UK. Organist of St. James' in Bath from 1869 until retirement in 1898.
Robert H. McIver:  b. 1948
Malcolm McKelvey:  d. 29th Dec 2005, Cheltenham, UK
Hugh A. Mckinnon: b. 20th May 1891
William Richard James McLean:  d. 10th July 1932
John Stewart McLennan jnr.: d. 10th Oct 1996, Tyringham, MA, USA
Ronald McMahon:  b. 1937
Harry McMurray:  b. 1939
Robert McNulty:  b. 1937
Keith MacRoberts is a pseudonym of John M. Rasley
Leonard Beecher McWhood:  b. 5th Dec 1870, Brooklyn, NY; d. 4th Dec 1939, Hanover, NH, USA
Rudolf Mäder:  b. 22nd Nov 1859, Zürich; d. 8th Nov 1935, Bulach, Switzerland
Claude Madden:  b. 1869; d. 1928, Seattle, WA, USA
James Pemberton Maddock:  b. c. 1855, Waterloo, Liverpool, UK
Miroslav Magdaleníc:  d. 25th Nov 1969, Zagreb, Yugoslavia
Sébastien Maigne: b. 1967
Shoko Maitai was born in Harbing, China, in 1935. He is male and not female.
Katherine Ann Majkrzak (née Torkelson): b. 1959
John H. Major:  b. 1868 or 1869, Reigate, Surrey, England
Georges-Ernest Malézieux:  b. 2nd Feb 1872, Paris, France; d. 30th July 1945, Paris, France
Tomasz Szczepan Malina:  d. 1969
Wilhelm Malkmus: b. 1849
(Jean Camille) Eugène Manescau:  b. 1869, Pau, Bas-Pyrénées, France
Magnar Mangersnes b. 1938
Léon Manière:  b. 1885
Adrian Mann:  b. 1949
Franco Mannino:  d. 1st Feb 2005, Rome, Italy
James Mansfield:  b. 1927
Bert Månsson:  b. 1941
Paul Otto Manz:  d. 28th Oct 2009, St. Paul, MN, USA
Francesco Manzoni:  b. 1931, Bergamo, Italy
Piotr Marczewski:  b. 13th Aug 1938, Lódz, Poland
Victor Marchot:  b. 1857; d. 18th Jan 1895, Liège, Belgium
Ada B. Marcus:  One source gives her dates as b. 8th July 1921; d. 29th Oct 1997.
Robert C. Marek:  d. 8th Dec 1995, Clay, SD, USA
Luis Leandro Mariani:  d. 1925
Hendrik G. Marinus:  b. 1st Jan 1831, Haarlem; d. 8th Jan 1885, The Hague, The Netherlands
Vilim Markovič:  d.  1st June 1992, Zagreb, Croatia
Eugene F. Marks: b. 1st Feb 1866, Augusta, GA, USA; d. 9th Jan, 1947, Augusta, GA, USA
Harold K. Marks:  b. 12th May 1886, Emmaus, PA, USA; d. 6th Nov 1981, Allentown, PA, USA
Edouard Marlois:  b. 4th July 1847, Montreuil sur Mer, Pas de Calais; d. 28th Jan 1881, London, England
(Chapman Frederick) Dendy Marshall b. 1872; d. 1945 was indeed the writer about British postal history and railways. He was a barrister by profession.
Philip Marshall:  d. 16th July 2005
John Marson:  b. 19th Sep 1932, Derby, UK; d. 4th Feb 2007

Abbé Robert Marthouret:  b. 27th July 1924, Saint-Foy-lès-Lyon; d. 24th Apr 1999, Lyon, France

Camille Martin:  b. 1844; d. 1923

J.Emile Martin: b. 18th June 1850, Nancy, France; d. July 1916, Nancy, France
Reginald Wesley Martin:  b. 1885, Forest Gate, Essex, England; d. 27th Nov 1963, Berryville, AK, USA

Tauno Olavi Marttinen:  d. 18th July, 2008
Willem Mathlener:  d. 1st May 1996, Pretoria, South Africa
Alfred Maultasch: d. 5th Sep 2006, Salzburg, Austria

Maw, Nicholas:  d. 19th May 2009, USA
Krzysztof Antoni Mazur:  d. 9th Sep 2000

Charles John Blood Meacham:  b. 1851, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England; d. 16th Jan 1930, Edgbaston, Birmingham
Tilo Medek:  d. 3rd Feb 2006, Remagen-Oberwinter, Germany

Daniel Meier: b. 1934, Pau; d. 25th July 2004, Béarn, France.

(Pater) Daniel Oskar Meier (b. 1921): d. 25th July 2004, Einsiedeln, Switzerland. N.B. By coincidence the two Daniel Meier’s died on the same day.

Carl Friedrich Meißner:  b. 10th Dec 1818, Prüstäblich, Liepzig, Germany

Wilfred Howard Mellers:  d. 17th May 2008, Scrayingham, North Yorkshire, England
Elizabeth E. Meloy:  d. 10th Apr 1991

Harry Melville:  b. 1875 or 1876, Leeds, Yorkshire, England

Giancarlo Menotti:  d. 1st Feb 2007, Monte Carlo, Monaco

Rutherford Hayes Merriam:  d. 25th Jan 1963, Fremont, OH, USA
Merritt (probably England):  This was Thomas Merritt b. 26th Oct 1863, Illogan, Cornwall; d. 17th Apr 1908, Illogan, Cornwall
Rose Mesham:  b. 1842 or 1843, Bedford, England

Abbé Jean-Marie Mesmacque:  b. 26th Aug 1929, Arques, Pas-de-Calais, France
Karl Messlinger:  b. 1902; d. 1973

John W. Metcalf:  b. 10th Dec 1856, Waverley, IL; d. July 1926 (therefore American and not English)

Valentín Metón:  b. 1810, Tafalla, Spain; d. 8th Sep 1860
Pierre Métral:  d. 1996

Erich Metze:  b. 28th Oct 1891, Nový Svĕt, Bohemia
Leonhard Metzner:  d. 1984
Auguste Mey:  d. 1873, Paris
Achille (k/a Father Denys) Mézard:  b. 1852, Savigny-sur-Orge, France
Raymond Micha:  d. 11th July 2006, Stavelot, Belgium

Pedro Michaca Valenzuela:  b. 26th Nov 1897, Canatlán, Mexico; d. 16th July 1976, Mexico City

Juliette Millette (Sister Henri-de-la-Croix):  d. 10th Oct 1992

Ingmar Milveden:  d. 16th Sep 2007, Uppsala, Sweden
George Minns:  b. 1855 or 1856, Norwich, England
Francis Miroglio:  d. 29th July 2005, Paris, France
Monsignor Gerard Mizgalski: b. 1907, d. 1977
Geert Jurjen Moed:  b. 1913, d. 1976
Robert Walter Moevs:  d. 10th Dec 2007, La Crosse, WI, USA

Romano Moioli:  b. 30th Mar 1878, Milan; d. 13th Jan 1958, Milan, Italy
Lily Wadhams Moline: b. 13th Oct 1878
Léon Herman René Moonen:  b. 22nd Feb 1842, Paris, France

Donald Lee Moore:  b. 30th Nov 1910, Mooresville, NC, USA; d. 2000. He was a funeral director by profession.
Robert C. Moore:  b. 1962

Timothy Moore:  d. 1st Feb 2003

Jozef Gratiaan Moorkens:  d. 23rd Sep 1973, Deurne, Belgium
Abbé Wulfran Moreau:  b. 2nd May 1827, Poitiers, d. 25th Oct 1905, Poitiers, France

Olof Johan Morén:  d. 1898

Jean-Marc Morin:  b. 1951
Giuseppe Moschetti:  b. 9th Mar 1908, Florence; d. 18th Aug 1963, Allentown, PA, USA

Albert Joseph Alphonse (né Albertus Josephus Alphonsus) Mosmans:  d. 1942, ‘s Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands

Alphonse Willem Joseph (né Alphonsus Guiliëlmus Josephus) Mosmans:  d. 1953, ‘s Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Arthur Miles Moss:  This was the Revd. Arthur Miles Moss b. 1873; d. 7th Jan 1948, clergyman and entomologist who was also a notable amateur artist, musician, organist and an organ-builder who worked in Brazil and Peru.
Richard A. Moss:  b. 1864 or 1865, Wigan, Lancaster, England

Franklin J. Mountford:  b. 1863 or 1864, Birmingham, England
John G. Mountford:  b. 1846 or 1847, Birmingham, England
José Tomas Múgica:  b. 10th Feb 1883, Tolosa, Spain

Erica Muhl:  b. 26th Oct 1961, Los Angeles, CA, USA

(Klaas) Jan Mulder:  d. 1st Nov 2008, Kampen, The Netherlands
Walther Müller (NB. correct spelling of first name):  d. 18th Aug 1962, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Sydney Mumford:  b. 1872, Ashtead, Surrey; d. 1949 (not 1950), Suffolk, UK

Brian K. Muzas:  b. 1974
Asbjørn Myrås:  b. 1942

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Ray Naessén: d. 26th Dec 2004, Khao Lak, Thailand - in the Tsunami disaster

Billy Nalle:  d. 7th June 2005, Fort Myers, FL, USA
Walter H. Nash:  b. 20th Apr 1896, Washington, DC, USA
Dieter Nathow:  d. 18th May, 2004, Magdeburg, Germany

Franz Nava was the pseudonym of Edward Francis Rimbault (b. 13th June, 1816, Soho, London, d. 26th Sep 1876, Regent’s Park, London)

Peter Navarro Alonso (NB correct spelling):  b. 1973

Avedis Nazarian:  b. 7th Jan 1930, Kharpert, Armenia, and now an Italian citizen.

Henri Neale was the pseudonym of Hermanus Jacobus Joseph (k/a Herman) Nieland.

John Neat:  d. 1949

Věroslav Neumann:  d. 28th Nov 2006, Prague, Czech Republic
Aaron Weeton Newell:  b. 6th May 1842, Wigan, Lancashire, England
Dika Newlin:  d. 22nd July 2006, Richmond, VA, USA
Joseph Niedhammer:  b. 8th Mar 1851, Wachenheim, Germany

Jaap Niewenhuijse: b. 6th Nov 1941, Middelburg, Zeeland, The Netherlands; d. 16th Aug 2008, The Netherlands
Lazar Nikolov:  d. 7th Feb 2005, Sofia, Bulgaria

Henry Cotter Nixon:  d. 25th Dec 1907, Bromley, Kent, UK

Erik Norby:  d. 16th Jan 2007
Hugo Norden:  d. Aug 1986

Ruth Norman:  d. 10th Oct 2007, Bethesda, MD, USA
Hubert H. Norsworthy:  b. 1885 or 1886, Millom, Cumberland, England
Charles Henry Nottingham: d. 1915, Croydon, England
Zdzislaw Nowacki:  Two sources give different date so either b. 1925; d. 1965 or b. 1922 d. 1966.

Karl Nußbaumer:  b. 28th June 1875, Salzburg, Austria

Remigio Nussio:  d. 2000

Joseph Percival Nutter:  d. 1950
(Henry) Alfred Oake:  b. 1856 or 1857, Southampton, Hampshire, England
Kate Ockleston-Lippa (née Ockleston):  b. 1854 or 1855, Tabley, Cheshire, England
André Jean Laurent (Andreas Johann Lorenz) Oechsner:  d. 19th Dec 1886, Le Havre, France

John Ogasapian:  d. 11th July 2005, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Lennart Olsson:  d. 1997

Gert Oost:  d. 30th Mar 2009, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Henk Ophoff: b. 1962

Erich Opitz:  d. 28th Dec 2001, Klagenfurt, Austria

Piotr Orliński:  b. 2nd Aug 1976, Wyrzysk, Poland
Robin Orr:  d. 9th Apr 2006, Cambridge, UK
Gunhild Oscarson:  b. 1926, Hammenhög, Sweden

Jens-Peter Ostendorf:  d. 7th Mar 2006
Karl Osterlund:  b. 1956
Albert H. Oswald: b. 1878 or 1879, Hetton-Le-Hole, Co. Durham, England

Hans Günther Franz Otte:  d. 25th Dec 2007, Bremen, Germany
Rudolf Karl Julius Otto:  b. 27th Apr 1829, Berlin, Germany; d. 18th Dec 1905 Berlin, Germany
Dewey Owens; b. 3rd May 1925, Hickory, NC; d. 3rd Oct 2006, USA
Harrison Oxley:  d. 6th Apr 2009

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Elze Paemurru (Else Aarne): d. 14th June 1995, Tallinn, Estonia
Claude Pahud: b. 1947
Ross Pancoast, b. 7th May 1908
Dorothy Papadakos: b. 1950

Henry Papale:  b. 1937
Georges Adolphe Papin:  b. 26th Nov 1860, Paris; d. 1914, Colombes, France
Rick Parks: b. 12th Nov 1944, Wheeler, TX, USA

Jan Pasveer:  d. 15th Jan 2005, Zaandam, The Netherlands

Brian E. Paulis:  b. 1960
Sibley Gilbert Pease:  b. 22nd May 1888, Toledo, OH, USA

Wesley Pease was a pseudonym of Peter Pindar Stearns.
Helge Flemming Pedersen:  b. 3rd Jan 1938, Copenhagen, Denmark

Richard Maurice Peek: d. 28th Nov 2005, Charlotte, NC, USA
Revd. Frederick Peel b. 1839 or 1840, Leeds, Yorkshire, was a music graduate of Oxford University and vicar of St. Paul’s in Heslington, Yorkshire.
Maria Teresa Pelegrí i Marimon:  d. 1995
Miroslav Pelikán:  d. 19th May 2006, Prague, Czech Republic

Gustav Frédéric Pellereau: b. 24th Oct 1834 or 1836, Boulogne-sur-Mer; d. 1900 - he was organist of Saint-Nicolas in Boulogne-sur-Mer from 1871 until his death
Maria de Almeida Penalva:  b. 1930
Zenobia Perry:  b. 3rd Oct 1914, d. 17th Jan 2004, Greene, OH, USA

Henri Perry-Biagioli:  d. 27th June 1907, Paris, France

Josef Peter:  b. 27th Aug 1870, Lucerne, Switzerland
Rheinhard Peter:  d. 1993
Lynn L. Petersen:  b. 1962
Gerald Peterson is a pseudonym of Lani Smith

David Howard Pettit:  b. 1953
Allan Robert Petker:  b. 1955
Andrei Pavlovich Petrov:  d. 15th Feb 2006, St.Petersburg, Russia

Jules Philipot:  b. 24th Jan 1824, Paris, France
Madalyn Akers Phillips:  b. 1889, Hutchinson, KS, USA

Edgar Phipps:  b. 1867 or 1868, Devonport, Devon, England

Karen Emmett Phipps:  b. 1940
Percy William Pilcher:  d. 3rd May 1937

Ignacy Pilecki:  b. 1867; d. 1928
Suzanne Louise Pillevesse:  b. 8th Mar 1835, Paris, France, d. 1895
François Pierre Alfred Pilot:  b. 7th Sep 1846, Paris; d. Dec 1888, Paris, France

Daniel Pinkham:  d. 18th Dec 2006, Natick, MA, USA
Manuel Pinilla:  b. 1874

Frédéric Pinoël: b. 1856
Alois Simandl Piños:  d. 19th Sep 2008, Brno, Czech Republic
Joseph Pinson:  b. 6th Oct 1937, Clarksville, TX, USA

Maurice Pirenne:  d. 14th Mar 2008, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands

Marcel Pitoy:  d. 1956

Robert Andrew Pitton:  b. 21st May 1921; d. 8th Dec 2007, Columbus, OH, USA
Roland Ploeger:  d. 2004

Abbé Hippolyte-Joseph Ply:  b. 13th June 1836, Flavy-le-Martel, Aisne, France
Jon Polifrone: d. 11th Mar 2006, Maywood,Chicago, IL, USA
Joseph (k/a John) Henry Pollard:  b. 1827 or 1828, Creston, Devon, England
Anthony Cecil Hungerford Pollen: b. 1860 or 1861, London; d. 5th Oct 1940, Birmingham
Zoltán Pongrácz: d. 3rd Apr 2007, Budapest, Hungary
Johan Silvester Ponten:  d. 1928

Hans Poort: b. 2nd May 1954, Kerkrade, The Netherlands
James B. Porter:  b. 29th July 1909, d. Mar 1988, Montgomery, OH, USA

Léo Pouget:  b. 1875; d. 21st Jan 1930

Henri Pousseur:  d. 6th Mar 2009, Brussels, Belgium
Owen H. Powell:  b. 1849 or 1850, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England

William Sidney Pratten:  b. 18th Mar 1820, Bristol; d. 25th Feb 1882

William Preston:  b. 1852 or 1853, Kilsby, Leicestershire, England
Maria Luisa de Mattos Priolli:  d. 2000

Urs Probst:  b. 1941; d. 2005
Robert E. Proctor:  b. 1921

Johannes Pröger:  d. 1992

Rudolf Freiherr von Proházka:  b. 23rd Feb 1864, Prague; d. 24th Mar 1936, Prague
John Propitius:  b. 1953

Richard Proulx: b. 4th Apr 1937
Norrris A. Pynn:  b. 1st Jan 1912, La Crosse, WI; d. Oct 1968
Adolphe Querm:  b. 1823, Sainte-Marie aux Mines; d. 22nd Aug 1869, Strasbourg, Alsace

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Henry William Radford: b. 1870 or 1871, Musselborough and so was Scottish.
Giuseppe Radole:  d. 4th Dec 2007, Trieste, Italy
Horatiu Radulescu:  d. 25th Sep 2008, Paris, France
Alexander Rae:  b. 1831; d. 1909, Australia
Kaljo Raid:  d. 21st Jan 2005, Toronto, Canada
Felton Rapley:  b. 1st Oct 1907, Gosport, Hants, UK
David Raksin:   9th Aug 2004, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Alove Rammaert:  d. 12th Sep 2006, Audergham, Brussels, Belgium
Bernard Fairbrother Ramsey:  d. May 1932, Newbury, Berkshire, UK
Kurt Rapf:  d. 9th Mar 2007, Vienna
George Rathbone:  d. 1951
Joseph Rauch:  d. 1978
George Daniel Rawle:  b. 1865 or 1866, Scotland and so is Scottish not English
Alfred William Rawlings and Charles Arthur Rawlings were brothers. Charles Arthur Rawlings died in 1919 and used 62 pseudonyms. His brother used 28.
Ezra Read:  b. 14th Feb 1862, Willenhall, Staffordshire, England; d. 13th Oct 1922, Shirebrook, Derbyshire, England
Gardner Read:  d. 10th Nov 2005, Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA, USA
Louis Rebbeling:  b. 1827; d. 1882
Herbert Reichelt:  d. 13th Dec 1994
James A, Reichert:  d. 17th Sep 1995, New York, USA
Hermann Regner:  d. 29th Dec 2008, Groβgmain, Salzburg, Austria
Keiler Garrido Rêgo:  b. 16th April 1954, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Franz Reidl:  b. 13th Feb 1853, Kehlheim, Bavaria; d. 22nd Apr 1898, Munich, Germany
Franz Rein:  d. 31st July 1889, Eisleben, Germany
Charles Renard was the pseudonym of Theodore N. Marier.
Bernard Renooij:  d. 9th Apr 2007
Jacob (k/a Jacques) Reuland:  d. 5th Apr 2008
Henry G. Rew:  b. 1845 or 1846, Reading, Berkshire, England
Vernon Rey was one of the pseudonyms of Charles Arthur Rawlings.
William Rhys-Herbert:  b. 3rd Oct 1868, Resolven, Wales; d. 3rd Oct 1921, Chicago, IL, USA
(María) Rosa Ribas Monné:  b. 1944, Barcelona, Spain
Thomas Nelson Rice:  d. 26th Feb 2000, Virginia Beach, VA, USA
Harriette Slack Richardson:  b. 3rd July 1920, Springfield, VT; d. 8th Aug 2006, Springfield, VT, USA
John Elliott Richardson:  b. 1825, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
Eero L. Richmond:  b. 5th Jan 1938, Tacoma, WA, USA
Thomas B. Richner:  d. 12th July 2008, Worcester, MA, USA
Johann Christoph Richter:  b. 15th July 1700, Dresden, Germany; d. 19th Feb 1785, Dresden, Germany
Marion M. Richter:  d. 6th Jan 1996, Dutchess, NY, USA
Willibald Richter: b. 1859 or 1860, Germany; d. 1929, England, active in England from 1881 and in Leicester c. 1900
F. R. Rickman was Frederick R. Rickman
Aloys Rieder:  b. 18th Aug 1836, Steinegg, South Tirol, Austria; d. 22nd Jan 1882, Bruneck, Bolzano, Italy
Stanley T. Rieff:  b. 1881, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Helga Riemann:  b. 8th June 1924, Liepzig, Germany; d. 19th Apr 2004
Heinrich Riethmüller:  d. 8th Dec 2006, Baiersbronn, Germany
Henning Riiser:  d. 2005
Marilyn Rinehart:  b. 1926
Pieter (k/a Piet) Rippen:  d. 2006
Theodore William Ripper:  d. 2nd July 2009, USA
George James Robertson: b. 1854 or 1855 in Scotland so not English.
George Rochberg:  d. 29th May 2005, Bryn Mawr, PA, USA
Uwe Röhl:  d. 12th Aug 2005, Husum, Germany
George William (Georg Wilhelm) Röhner: b. 1806, Saxe-Coburg, Germany; d. 26th Feb 1884, Liverpool, England
Ingarth Rojahn:  b. 4th July 1869; d. 1956, organist of the Vår Frelsers kirke in Haugesund, Norway, from 1901.
James Joseph Romeo:  b. 5th Mar 1955, Rochester, NY, USA
Jirí Ropek:  d. 27th June 2005
Heinrich Rötsch:  d. 11th Oct 1873, Weimar, Germany
Adrien Rougier:  b. 23rd June 1892, Vernaison, Rhône; d. 1st July 1984, Lyon, France
Samuel Round:  b. 1865 or 1866; d. 14th Aug 1898, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Gaston Roussel:  b. 9th Mar 1912; d. 19th Dec 1985
Henry Rowed:  b. 1844; d. 4th Jan 1936 blind from infancy, organist of Millbrook Parish Church in Hampshire for 61 years until retirement in 1919.
Giacomo Rubini:  b. 1888, Romano, Lombardy, Italy
Jacobus Johannes Ruijgrok (Ruygrok):  b. 20th Apr 1862, Haarlem, The Netherlands
Paul Ernst Ruppel:  d. 27th Nov 2006, Nrukirchen-Vluyn, Germany
Benno Rutz:  b. 14th Apr 1870, Wildhaus, St. Gallen, Switzerland; d. 30th June 1939, Austria

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Andreas Peter Michael Sabelon:  b. 1772; d. 1838
(Frank) Perry Saffell:  b. 1875 or 1876, London, England
Gabriel de Saint-Quentin:  b. 1848
 Joaquín Broto Salamero:  d. 13th Feb 2006, Zaragoza, Spain
Eraclio Sallustio:  d. 1998
Herbert Stavely Sammond: b. 1872, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Algernon Salter:  b. 1870, Bath, Somerset; d. 1946, Bath, Somerset, UK
Jan Sanborn:  b. 1937
Raffaele Santoli:  b. 1837
Laetitia Sari:  b. 1822; d. 1893 was the pianist wife of well-known pianist and composer Jean-Henri Ravina (1818-1906)
Humberto Scherhaufer Salvagnin:  b. 8th Jan 1970, São Paulo, Brazil
Leland Bernhard Sateren:  d. 10th Nov 2007, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Marian Sawa:  d. 27th Apr 2005, Warsaw, Poland
Henry S. Sawyer:  b. 10th Sep 1864, New York, USA; d. 29th Mar 1941, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Johannes Teunis Schaddelee:  b. 1879; d. 1934
David Schelat:  b. 1955, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Auguste Schirlé: d. 26th Sep 1971, Montrouge, France
Alfred Schluep:  d. 1939, Herzogenbuchsee, Switzerland
Konrad Schlumpf :  b. 22nd Apr 1824, Peterzell, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Peter Herbert Schmalz:  b. 1947
Martin Schmid:  b. 26th Sep 1694, Baar, d. 10th Mar 1772, Lucerne, Switzerland
Georg Schmidt-Arzberg:  d. 20th June 2006, Erlangen, Germany
Heinz-Walter Schmitz: b. 1944
Ruth E. Schonthal:  d. 10th July 2006, Scarsdale, New York, USA
Guilherme Schubert: d. 1998
Giora Schuster:  d. 2006, Rehovot
Meinrad Schütter:  d. 12th Jan 2006, Küsnacht, Zürich, Switzerland
Joseph Schütz:  d. 6th Nov 1851, Prague, Bohemia
Johann Georg Abraham Schwarz:  b. 1778; d. 25th Nov 1825. He was a musician in Wolfenbüttel.
Franz Johann Schweinsberg:  b. 3rd Dec 1835, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Gilbert Schyvens:  b. 1958
John Scriveyner was a pseudonym of James Mansfield.
S. Wesley Sears:  b. 1876, Huntingdon, PA, USA
Edward Stanley Seder: b.b. 2nd Dec 1891, Tokyo, Japan
John (né Jan) Sedlacek:  b. 10th May 1891, Ivančice, Moravia; d. 15th June 1955, Bloomfield, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Max Seeboth: d. 14th Nov 1967, Washington, DC., USA
Stanley Joseph Seeger:  b. 1930, Dallas, TX, USA
Otto Seelig:  b. 2nd Jan 1866, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; d. 7th Aug 1943, Heidelberg, Germany
John Gordon Seely:  b. 10th Sep 1882, Las Vegas, New Mexico, USA
Henk Seldenthuis: b. 16th May 1912, Zuilen, The Netherlands; d. 17th May 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands  (one source gives b. 1932)
Geoffrey Self:  d. 20th Oct 2008
George William Harris Sellick:  d. 1942
Richard Sennels: d. 10th Jan 2006
Arthur Wycliffe Servanté: b. 23rd Dec 1885
Gregg Sewell:  b. 1953
Jeanne Ellison Shaffer:  d. 9th Apr 2007
Samuel William Shanko (jnr):  b. 25th July 1916, Petersburg, VA, USA; d. 28th Oct 1988, Davidson, TN, USA
Lillian Taitt Sheldon:  b. 10th Sept 1865, Gouverneur, NY; d. 10th Jan 1925, Gouverneur, NY, USA
Calvert Shenk:  d. 9th July 2005, Dearborn Heights, MI, USA
Ernest H. Sheppard: b. 23rd Jan 1888, Brockley, Kent, England (emigrated to USA 1913)
Christopher Shiner: d. 14th June 2003
(Ralph) Deane Shure:  d. Aug 1980, Takoma Park, MD, USA
Churchill Sibley: d. 1938, London, England
F. Mark Siebert:  d. 25th Feb 2005, Springfield, IL, USA
Gary Sieling:  b. 1952, Bedfordshire, England
George James Simmons:  b. 1947
Robert Garson Skinnell:  b. 1949
Walter Skolaude:  b. 20th June 1919, Fressnitz, Steirmark, Austria; d. 19th Sep 1989, Graz
Milan Slavický:  d. 18th Aug 2009, Prague, Czech Republic
Hennie Slettenhaar:  b. 1931
James Smart: b. 1845 or 1846, Madeley, Shropshire, England
Edgar Belmont Smith:  b. 1867
(Frederick William) Boyton Smith: d. 1911. He was brother of the more famous Sydney Smith (1839-1899) noted pianist and piano teacher in London who composed numerous salon style piano pieces.
Otomar Smolík:  b. 16th Nov 1835; d. 10th Oct 1898
George Snowhill:  d. Mar 1973
Edwin Albert Sobey: d. 19th July 1953, Wallasey, Cheshire (NB first name is Edwin not Edward)
Wilhelm Ernst Heinrich Söhnge:  b. 27th May 1909, Worcester, Western Cape, South Africa
Brunhilde Sonntag:  d. 18th Dec 2002
Gabriel Sinsoilliez was b. 1846, Lille, France; d. 15th Feb 1893, Lille, France
Roger William Soresby:  b. 1877 or 1878, Mappleton, Derbyshire, England
Philip de Soyres:  b. 1850 or 1851, Bath, Somerset, was a solicitor by profession.
Ivan Spassov:  d. 22nd Dec 1996, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Marguerita Spencer:  d. 5th May 1993, Saskatoon, Canada
Montague Herbert Spinney:  b. 1888, Newborough, Staffordshire, UK
Jon Spong:  d. 11th Nov 2006, Iowa City, IA, USA
Adolph Heinrich Sponholz:  d. 1851, Rostock, Germany
Heather Spry:  b. 1954; d. 27th July 1996, Toronto, Canada
Broadus Staley:  d. 19th Mar 1993, El Paso, TX, USA
George H. Starmer:  b. 1850 or 1851, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire (not the father of W. W. Starmer, possibly brother)
Douglas Paul Starr:  b. 1952
Odd Stavne:  b. 15th Nov 1942, Rindal, Norway
William Steff-Langston:  b. 1872 or 1873, Thame, Oxfordshire, England
Tullio Stegagno:  b. 1874; d. 1939
William Kossuth Steiner:  b. 9th June 1874, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Franz Xavier Steinhart:  b. 28th June 1864, Neufra Hohenzollern, Baden-Württemberg
Karl Wilhelm Steinhäusen:  d. July 1898, Neuwied, Germany
Martin H. Stellhorn:  b. 1st Nov 1914; d. Apr 1984, Maricopa, AZ, USA
Thomas Wilkinson Stephenson:  d. 1936
André Stolwijk:  b. 1938
Joep Straesser:  d. 22nd Sep 2004, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Newton D. Strandberg:  d. 27th Mar 2001, Montgomery, TX, USA
Tudor Strang:  8th Sep 1855, Philadelphia, PA; d. 29th Apr 1921, Bryn Mawr, PA, USA
Robert Strassburg:  d. 18th Oct 2003, Orange, CA, USA
Jiři Strejc:  b. 17th Apr 1932, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Virginia Strohmeyer-Miles:  b. 1928
Edwin B. Stube (N.B. correct spelling without 'r') b. 1922, NJ, USA
Gerrit Stulp:  b. 1935, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
Macon D. Sumerlin:  d. 6th Feb 2005, Austin, TX, USA
Robert Suter:  d. 11th June 2008, Basle, Switzerland
Kjell Bjarne Svanæs: b. 1944
George Henry Swift:  d. 2nd Nov 1919, London
Harry A. Sykes:  b. 24th Mar 1887, Norristown, PA, USA
Leopold Syre: b. 9th Mar 1887, Bendorf, Germany (moved to Philadelphia 1907)

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Jenö Takács:  d. 14th Nov 2005, Eisenstadt, Austria
Joseph Tal:  d. 25th Aug 2008
H.W.Tauscher:  b. 1760; d. 1843
Alfred Taylor (of Doncaster):  b. 1855, York, UK; d. 1915
Nettie Greer Taylor, a Black woman composer,  b. 5th Dec 1925, Portland, OR, USA
Robert Taylor: d. 7th Dec 1915, Brighton, Sussex, UK
Clifford O. Taylor: d. Sep 1987
Albert E. Tebbutt:  b. 1878 or 1879, Haddenham, Cambridgeshire, England
(Joseph Jean) Auguste Teppe:  b. 27th June 1838, Cras-sur-Reyssouze, Ain; d. 15th Apr 1906, Saint-André-le-Panoux (now Saint-André-sur-Vieux-Jonc), Ain, France
Gustav Adolf Theill:  d. 29th Nov 1997, Cologne, Germany (he was a physician by profession).
Alexandra Thomson:  married a New Zealand army officer, d. 15th Oct 1907, Coldstream, New Zealand
Berthold George Thorne:  b. 1873 or 1874, Radipole, Dorset, England
Friedrich Thorselius:  b. 16th May 1845, Ransberg, Sweden; d. 1st May 1905, Linköping, Sweden
Robert W. Thygerson:  b. 1931 (the name is not a pseudonym).
George Richard Tibbits:  d. 6th July 2008
Jan Frederik Tierie:  b. 4th Apr 1870, Wageningen; d. 17th Aug 1949, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
William T. Timmings:  b. 4th July 1895, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England (and so an English emigrant to the USA)
Emiel Jozef (k/a Jef) Tinel:  d. 25th May 1972, Ghent, Belgium
Gordon Tocher:  b. 30th Dec 1957, Inverness, Scotland
Louis Toebosch: d. 22nd May 2009, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Ernst Otto Toller:  d. 9th Dec 1897, Altenburg, Germany
Dominic Tranzillo:  b. 28th July 1909; d. Nov 1989
Arthur Trickett:  b. 1850 or 1851, Coventry, Warwickshire, England
Paul Trillat:  b. 1853, Lyon; d. Mar 1909, Lyon, France
Albert Jacob Johann Troskie:  b. 7th Oct 1942, Adelaide, South Africa
Danny John Uhl:  b. 1948
Rafael Ustariz:  b. 1754, Falces, Navarra, Spain; d. June 1802

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Raphael Valerio: b. 25th July 1919, New York, USA and so is American
Berry Van Berkum:  b. 18th Dec 1960, The Netherlands
Jacques van de Baan:  b. 1971
Wouter van den Broek: b. 1953, The Netherlands
Petrus van den Burg: b. 31st Mar 1856, Amersfoort, The Netherlands; d. 22nd Mar 1936, Pretoria, South Africa
Rev. Matthias Vanden Elsen:  b. 1870, The Netherlands; d. 8th July 1957, USA
Franciscus Johannes van der Heijden:  b. 2nd Sep 1848, Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Florentijn (k/a Floris) Jan van der Mueren:  d. 23rd Dec 1966, Louvain, Belgium
Leander Van der Steen:  b. 1973
Frans van Doorn:  d. 18th May 1995, The Netherlands
Jan van Gijn ( 1947) is sinds 1980 organist van de Grote Kerk te Apeldoorn. Daarvoor was hij veertien jaar ( sinds januari 1966) organist van de Immanuelkerk te Rotterdam-Pr.Alexanderpolder.
Jan van Gijn:  b. 1947
Constant van Haute: b. 1834, Kortemark, Flanders; d, 1910, Aardooie, Belgium
Johannes Antonius Stephanus van Schaik:  b. 3rd Dec 1862, Utrecht; d. 14th June 1927, Culemborg, The Netherlands
Hendrik van Schoor:  b. 7th Aug 1887, Antwerp; d. 30th Oct 1954, Antwerp, Belgium
Gerrit van de Werfhorst:  b. 1964, Oosterwolde, The Netherlands
Kenneth Varner:  b. 1954
François Vercken:  b. 8th Apr 1928, Paris; d. 11th Dec 2005, Paris, France
Oscar Louis Vermeire:  b. 14th Sep 1882, Roubaix, France; d. 1935
Riccardo Viagrande:  b. 1976
Viallon, F. was Pierre Marie (k/a Justinien) Viallon, b. 31st Mar 1806, Lyon; d. 4th Feb 1874, Paris, France
Dirk (k/a Dirkie) Izak Cattigui de Villiers:  b. 1st Nov 1921, Simonstown, South Africa
William Skinner Vinning:  b. 1840 or 1841, Newton Abbott, Devon, UK
Berthe di Vito-Delvaux;  d. 2nd April 2005
Alois Volkmer was not a pseudonym. He was b. 1857 in Silesia, Germany, lived in Liverpool, UK, in 1881 and also worked in Sout Africa. d. 23rd Mar 1899
Cor Vos:  b. 1932
Dube de Vries: b. 1943, Urk, The Netherlands
Samo Vremšak: d. 2004, Kamnik, Slovenia

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Nicholas-Joseph Wackenthaler:  b. 6th Dec 1840 Séléstat, Alsace; d. 19th May 1913, Dijon, France
Peter Wade was a pseudonym of William Southcombe Lloyd Webber.
Beauchamp Charles Wainwright:  b. 1860; d. 12th Apr 1895, Geraldton, Western Australia
James W. Wallis:  b. 1841 or 1842, Chelsea, London, UK
Alarich Wallner:  d. 28th Feb 2005, Austria
Lucius Weathersby: d. 17th Mar 2006, Springfield, MA, USA
Gilbert Weeks: b. 5th Jan 1903; d. Feb 1970, Tompkins, NY, USA
Max Wagenknecht: b. 1857; d. 1922
Johann (Jan) Waňaus:  b. 12th July 1837, Komárov, Bohemia; d. 20th Dec 1893, Prague
Henry Buckland Weatherdon:  b. 1887 or 1888, Stoke Newington, London, UK
Friedrich (k/a Frederic) Weber:  d. 16th Feb 1909, Highbury Grange, London, UK
Johan Eduard Weegenhuise:  d. 15th Dec 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Carl Heinrich Weegmann:  b. in Germany; d. 1900, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Paul Wehage:  b. 2nd Apr 1963, Grand Forks, ND, USA
David Weirich:  b. 1959
Bartholomaus Weissthoma:  b. 21st Aug 1639, Eichstätt, Bavaria; d. 11th May 1721, Eichstätt, Bavaria, Germany
Samuel Edison Wellman:  b. 15th May 1951, Anderson, IN, USA
Dorothy Wells:  b. 27th May 1926, Sidney, OH, USA; d. 2nd May 2008, Kettering, OH, USA
Kristian Wendelborg:  b. 1863; d. 1938
Hermann Richard Wenzel:  b. 16th Dec 1863, Großschönau, Saxony; d. 17th June 1944, Großschönau, Saxony. He was not related to Ernst Ferdinand Wenzel.
Hans Jürgen Wenzel:  d. 8th Aug 2009, Halle, Saale, Germany
George H. Westbury:  b. 1841 or 1842, Andover, Hampshire, England; d. 1923
Craig Westendorf:  b. 22nd Sep 1953, Waterloo, IA, USA
Kate Westrop:  b. 1839 or 1840, St. Pancras, London, England
Graham Whettam: d. 17th Aug 2007, Woolaston, Gloucestershire, England
Weldon Lavon Whipple:  b. 1949
Don Lee White:  b. 1930, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Peter Gilbert White:  d. 3rd April 2007
Richard White:  b. 1947, Brooklyn, NY, USA
John Wiegand: was an imigrant from Germany. b. 28th Oct 1841, Homberg; d. 15th Mar 1923, Savannah, GA, USA
Gerrit Wielenga:  b. 1926
(Alexander) Gordon Wilcox:  b. 26th Feb 1909, Revere, MA, USA
Jacques Wildberger:  d. 23rd Aug 2006, Riehen, Switzerland
Alice Crane Williams:  d. 1964, Cleveland, OH, USA
Thomas D. Williams: b. 5th June 1865, Wysox, PA, USA; d. 3rd June 1936, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Sharon J. Willis: b. 1949, Ohio
James W. Wilson:  6th Aug 2005, Loughlinstown, Co Dublin, Ireland
(Charles) Mortimer Wiske:  b. 12th Jan 1853, Bennington, VT, USA; d. 9th July 1934, Lewiston, ME, USA
Heinrich Wismeyer:  d. 1985
Richard Wissmann:  b. 20th Mar 1879, Kussnacht, Switzerland; d. 31st Oct 1945, Lucerne, Switzerland
Albertus Johannus De Wit:  b. 19th Oct 1861, Berkel, The Netherlands
Dirk Hermanus Witte:  b. 29th June 1885, Zaandam; d. 15th Nov 1932, Amsterdam
Egbert Woelderink:  b. 25th Jan 1914; d. 26th Oct 1997
Harry Radcliffe Woledge:  b. 1865 or 1866, Helston, Cornwall, UK
Erna Woll: d. 7th Apr 2005, Friedberg near Augsburg, Germany
Mej Wolthuis:  b. 21st June 1863, Middelstum, The Netherlands
Larry Robert Wolz:  b. 1st Sep 1951, Odessa, TX, USA
Carl Paige Wood:  b. 20th Dec 1885, Taunton, MA, USA
(Francis) Herbert Woodhouse: b. 24th Aug 1920, York, England; d. 21st Aug 2006, Sydney, Australia
Benjamin Worrell:  b. 6th Feb 1871, Clayton, IN, USA; d. 29th Dec 1949, Maywood, IL, USA
Neil Wright:  b. 1956
Eugene Wilfred Wyatt:  b. 23rd Aug 1880, Lee, Kent; d. d. 20th July 1927, Croydon, Surrey. He emigrated to the USA in 1909 and in 1920 was a "Real Estate Agent" in Maryland.
Stanley Wyllie:  b. 1st Aug 1921, Portsmouth, Hants, UK
Alec Wyton:  d. 18th Mar 2007, Ridgefield, CT, USA

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X/Y/Z
Laurel Everett Yeamans:  b. 11th July 1890, La Grange, OH; d. 4th July 1937, Oberlin, OH, USA
Charles Yocum Jnr.:  b. 1935
Ovid Young: b. 10th May 1940, Portsmouth, OH, USA
Franciszek Zachara:  d. 2nd Feb 1966, Tallahasse, FL, USA
Toni Zahnbrecher: b. 26th Feb 1959, Traunstein, Germany
Bruno Zahner:   d. 31st Oct 2007, Kreuzlingen, Switzerland
Daniel Zander:  d. 16th Feb 1905, Neustrelitz, Germany
Oreste Zanetti:  d. 1st March 2006, San Vittore, Italy
Piero Luigi Zangelmi:  d. 2004, Ameglia, La Spezia, Italy
Ruth Zechlin:  d. 4th Aug 2007, Munich, Germany
Friedrich Zehm:  d. 4th Dec 2007, Wiesbaden, Germany
Herman Zengerink: d. 27th Jan 2005
Hector Zioli:  b. 1918, Rosario, Argentina
Hans Rudolf Zöbeley:  d. 5th Dec 2007, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Alfred Hans Zoller:  b. 6th Oct 1928, Ulm, Germany; d. 14th Oct 2006, Reutti, Ulm, Germany
André Zumbach:  d. 2004
Emil Zwissler:  d. 3rd June 1912

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