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  Alcock, John (b. 1715 d. 1806) |   organ, composer |
  Aldrich, Henry (b. 1648 d. 1710) |   divine, scholar |
  Anderson, William (b. 1799 d. 1873) |   clergyman, writer |
  Arne, Michael (b. 1740 d. 1786) |   composer |
  Arne, Thomas Augustine (b. 1710 d. 1778) |   composer, violin |
  Ashley (b. 1769 d. 1818) |   violin |
  Ashley, Charles Jane (b. 1773 d. 1843) |   cello |
  Ashley, John (b. 1734 d. 1805) |   musician, conductor |
  Ashley, John James (b. 1772 d. 1815) |   singer, organ |
  Ashwell, Thomas (b. 1478 d. 1513 a. 1530) |   composer |
  Aston, Hugh (b. 1485 d. 1558) |   composer, organ |
  Atterbury, Luffman (b. 1740 d. 1796 a. 18th century |
  composer, musician |
  Attey, John (d. 1640 a. 1622) |   lute, composer |
  Avison, Charles (b. 1710 d. 1770) |   composer, conductor |
  Ayrton, William (b. 1777 d. 1858) |   composer, writer |
  Babell, William (b. 1690 d. 1723) |   violin, composer |
  Bacon, Richard Mackenzie (b. 1776 d. 1844) |   journalist, inventor |
  Baildon, Joseph (b. 1727 d. 1774 a. 1760-1780) |   composer, singer |
  Balfe, Michael William (b. 1808 a. 19th century |
  composer, singer |
  Baltzar, Thomas (b. 1630 d. 1663) |   violin, composer |
  Banister, John (b. 1625 d. 1679) |   composer, violin |
  Barnard, John (a. 1641) |   composer, clergyman |
  Barnett, John (b. 1802 d. 1890) |   singer, composer |
  Barrett, John (b. 1676 d. 1719 a. 1710) |   cast, child of the Chapel |
  Barsanti, Francesco (b. 1690 d. 1772) |   composer, musician |
  Barthelemon, Francois Hippolyte (b. 1741 d. 1808) |   violin, composer |
  Bartleman, James (b. 1769 d. 1821) |   bassist |
  Bartlett, John (a. 1606-1610) |   composer, musician |
  Bates, Joah (b. 1740 d. 1799) |   civil servant, organ |
  Bateson, Thomas (b. 1580 d. 1620) |   organ, composer |
  Batten, Adrian (b. -1599 d. 1637) |   composer, singing man at Westminster |
  Battishill, Jonathan (b. 1738 d. 1801) |   organ, composer |
  Beddome, Benjamin (b. 1717 d. 1795) |   clergyman, hymn writer |
  Bennet, John (a. 1600) |   musician, composer |
  Bennett, William Sterndale (b. 1816 d. 1875) |   composer |
  Bertini, Henri Jerome (b. 1798 d. 1876) |   musicien, piano |
  Best, William Thomas (b. 1826 d. 1897) |   organ |
  Bevin, Elway (b. 1554 d. 1639) |   composer, theorist |
  Bexfield, William Richard (b. 1824 d. 1853) |   composer, organ |
  Bianchi, Francesco (b. 1752) |   composer, compositore |
  Billington, Elisabeth (b. 1769) |   Musikerin, singer |
  Birchensha, John (b. CAD2> d. 1681 a. 1672) |   theorist, composer |
  Bishop, Henry Rowley (b. 1786 d. 1855) |   composer |
  Bishop, John (b. 1665 d. 1737) |   author, director |
  Blagrave, Thomas (d. 1688) |   musician |
  Blagrove, Henry Gamble (b. 1811 d. 1872) |   violin |
  Blitherman, William (d. 1591) |   organ, composer |
  Blow, John (b. 1649 d. 1708) |   child of the Chapel, composer |
  Boyce, William |   |
  Brade, William (a. 1615) |   violin, composer |
  Braham, John (b. 1774 d. 1856) |   singer |
  Brewer, Thomas (b. 1611 d. -1670) |   violin, composer |
  Britton, Thomas (b. 1644 d. 1714) |   music patron, amateur musician |
  Browning, Robert (b. 1812 d. 1889) |   cast, poet |
  Bryne, Albertus (b. 1621 d. 1671) |   organ, composer |
  Bunting, Edward (b. 1773 d. 1843) |   collector of Irish folk songs, organ |
  Burney, Charles (b. 1726 d. 1814) |   composer, storiografo |
  Busby, Thomas (b. 1755 d. 1838) |   writer, musician |
  Butler, Charles (b. 1560 d. 1647 a. 1636) |   priest, amateur musician |
  Byrd, William (b. 1538 d. 1623) |   |
  Callcott, John Wall (b. 1766 d. 1821) |   composer, theorist |
  Carey, George Saville (b. 1743 d. 1807) |   poet, dramatist |
  Carey, Henry (b. 1689 d. 1743) |   composer, dramatist |
  Carlton, Richard (b. 1558 d. 1638 a. 1577) |   madrigalist, composer |
  Carter, Thomas [Charles Thomas] (b. 1740 d. 1804) |   composer |
  Chappell, William (b. 1809 d. 1888) |   music publisher, musical |
  Child, William (b. 1606 d. 1697) |   composer, organ |
  Clarke, Jeremiah (b. 1674 d. 1707) |   composer, organ |
  Clarke, John (b. 1770 d. 1836) |   organ, composer |
  Clarke, Stephen (b. 1735 d. 1797) |   composer, organ |
  Clayton, Thomas (a. 1706) |   composer |
  Clayton, Thomas (a. 1706) |   composer |
  Clementi, Muzio (b. 1752) |   composer, compositeur |
  Clifford, James (b. 1622 d. 1698) |   divine, musician |
  Coleman, Charles (b. 1605 d. 1664) |   arranger, cast |
  Coleman, Edward (d. 1669) |   counter tenor, composer |
  Cooke, Benjamin (b. 1734 d. 1793) |   organ, composer |
  Cooke, Henry (b. 1615 d. 1672) |   singer, choir trainer |
  Cooke, Robert (b. 1768 d. 1814) |   organ, musician |
  Cooke, Thomas Simpson (b. 1782 d. 1848) |   singer, instrumentalist |
  Coperario, Giovanni |   |
  Corkine, William (a. 1610-1612) |   composer |
  Cornysshe, William (d. 1524) |   musician |
  Costeley, Guillaume [also: William] (b. 1531 d. 1606) |   composer, musicien |
  Cosyn, Benjamin (b. 1570 d. 1652) |   composer |
  Courteville, Raphael (a. 1687-circa1735) |
  organ, composer |
  Craig, Adam (b. 1667 d. 1741) |   editor, composer |
  Danby, John (b. 1757 d. 1798) |   musician |
  Davy, John (b. 1763 d. 1824) |   composer |
  Day, Alfred (b. 1810 d. 1849) |   music theorist |
  Dering, Richard (b. 1580 d. 1630) |   composer, organista |
  Dibdin, Charles (b. 1745 d. 1814) |   composer, poet |
  Doubleday, John (b. 1799 d. 1856) |   printer, copyist |
  Dowland, John (b. 1563 d. ?) |   composer, lutenist |
  Draghi, Giovanni Battista (a. 1673-1707) |   musician, compositore |
  Dragonetti, Domenico (b. 1763 d. 1846) |   double bass, musicisti |
  Dufferin, Helen Selina (b. 1807 d. 1867) |   composer |
  Dunstable, John (b. 1390 d. 1453) |   composer, musician |
  Dupuis, Thomas Sanders [Saunders] (b. 1730 d. 1796) |   composer, organ |
  Dussek, Jean Louis (b. 1761 d. 1812) |   |
  Dussek, Katerina Veronika Anna (b. 1769 d. 1833) |   music teacher, composer |
  Ebdon, Thomas (b. 1738 d. 1811) |   organ, conductor |
  Eccles, John (b. 1668 d. 1735) |   composer |
  Elliotson, John (b. 1791 d. 1868) |   physician, Mesaerist |
  Elvey, George Job (b. 1816) |   organ, composer |
  Evelyn, John (b. 1620 d. 1706) |   cast, civil servant |
  Fairfax, Robert (d. 1529) |   musician |
  Farmer, John (a. 1591-1601) |   madrigalist, composer |
  Farmer, Thomas (d. 1688 died: 1688) |   composer, violin |
  Ferrabasco, Alfonso (d. 1628) |   lutenist, composer |
  Ferrabosco, Alfonso (a. 1544-1587) |   composer |
  Field, John (b. 1782 d. 1837) |   composer, compositore |
  Ford, Thomas (d. 1648) |   composer |
  Fountaine, Andrew (b. 1676 d. 1753) |   Virtuoso |
  Galuppi, Baldassare (b. 1706 d. 1785) |   composer, compositore |
  Gamble, John (d. 1657 died: 1687) |   composer, cornet |
  Geminiani, Francis (b. 1687 d. 1762) |   musicisti |
  Giardini, Felice (b. 1716 d. 1796) |   composer, violin |
  Gibbons, Christopher (b. 1615 d. 1676) |   organ, composer |
  Gibbons, Orlando (b. 1583 d. 1625) |   composer, organ |
  Giles, Nathaniel (b. 1558 d. 1634) |   gentleman of the Chapel, organ |
  Giordani, Giuseppe (b. 1743 d. 1798) |   composer, compositore |
  Greene, Maurice (b. 1696 d. 1755) |   organ, composer |
  Halle, Charles (b. 1819 d. 1895) |   piano, composer |
  Hamilton, James (b. 1814 d. 1867) |   minister, hymnist |
  Harrison, Anne (b. 1625 d. 1680) |   lutenist, singer |
  Herd, David (b. 1732 d. 1810) |   collector of old Scots songs, ballad collector |
  Hill, Rowland (b. 1744 d. 1833) |   preacher, hymnist |
  Hilton, John (b. 1599 d. 1657) |   organ, composer |
  Holmes, Edward (b. 1797 d. 1859) |   critic, organ |
  Hook, James (b. 1746 d. 1827) |   organ, composer |
  Hope, Thomas (b. 1770 d. 1831) |   Virtuoso, author |
  Horsley, Charles Edward (b. 1822 d. 1876) |   composer, writer |
  Horsley, William (b. 1774 d. 1858) |   composer |
  Hullah, John (Pyke) (b. 1812 d. 1884) |   composer, composer |
  Humfrey, Pelham (b. 1647 d. 1674) |   lute, composer |
  Incledon, Charles Benjamin (b. 1763 d. 1826) |   tenor |
  Ive, Simon (b. 1600 d. 1662) |   musician, composer |
  Jackson, William (b. 1730 d. 1803) |   |
  Jordan, Dorothea Bland (b. 1762 d. 1816) |   actress, singer |
  Julian, Louis Antoine (b. 1812 d. 1860) |   conductor |
  Kalkbrenner, Frederic Wilhelm Michael (b. 1785 a. 1830-1831) |   Komponist, piano |
  Kelly, Michael (b. 1762 d. 1826) |   cantante, tenor |
  Kent, James (b. 1700 d. 1776) |   cathedral musician, composer |
  King, Charles (b. 1687 d. 1748) |   cast, cathedral musician |
  Lampe, John Frederick (b. 1703 d. 1751) |   composer, bassoon |
  Lanier, Nicholas (b. 1588 d. 1666) |   |
  Lawes, Henry (b. 1596 d. 1662) |   composer, gentleman of the Chapel |
  Lawes, William (b. 1582 d. 1645) |   composer, musician |
  Leveridge, Richard (b. -1671 d. 1758) |   bass, vocals |
  Lind, Jenny (b. 1820 d. 1887) |   sangerinde, sopran |
  Linley, Thomas (b. 1733 d. 1795) |   composer, harpsichord |
  Linley, Thomas (b. 1756 d. 1778) |   violin, composer |
  Locke, Matthew (b. -1622 d. 1677) |   composer |
  Loder, Edward (James) (b. 1813 d. 1865) |   composer |
  Lover, Samuel (b. 1797 d. 1868) |   poet-musician, writer |
  Lucas, Charles (b. 1808 d. 1869) |   cello, conductor |
  Macfarren, George Alexander (b. 1813 d. 1887) |   composer |
  Macfarren, Walter Cecil (b. 1826 d. 1905) |   piano, composer |
  Mainzer, Joseph (b. 1801 d. 1851) |   organ, music teacher |
  Malibran, Maria-Felicia Garcia (b. 1808 d. 1836 a. 19th century |
  cantatrice, mezzo-soprano |
  Marbeck, John (d. 1585) |   musician, theologian |
  Mazzinghi, Joseph (b. 1765 d. 1844) |   composer |
  Morley, Thomas (b. 1557) |   composer, editor |
  Mornington, Garret Colley Wesley (b. 1735 d. 1781) |   composer |
  Nares, James (b. 1715 d. 1783) |   composer |
  Novello, Clara (Anastasia) (b. 1818 d. 1908 a. 1830-1831) |   soprano, prima donna |
  Novello, Vincent (b. 1781 d. 1861) |   organ, conductor |
  Parish, Eli (b. 1816 d. 1849) |   harp, composer |
  Pinto, George Frederick (b. 1785 d. 1806) |   composer, violin |
  Potter, Cipriani [Philip Cipriani Hambly] (b. 1792 d. 1871) |   composer, piano |
  Purcell, Henry (b. 1658 d. 1695) |   composer |
  Reeves, John Sims (b. 1818 d. 1882) |   singer, Autobiographer |
  Robinson, Robert (b. 1735 d. 1790) |   minister, hymn writer |
  Simeon of Durham (a. 1130) |   Precentor, historical compiler |
  Skinner, John (b. 1721 d. 1807) |   lyricist, songwriter |
  Torry, Thomas Gordon Anderson (b. 1805 d. 1856) |   clergyman, songwriter |
  Travers, John (b. 1703 d. 1758) |   organ, composer |
  Watts, Isaac (b. 1674 d. 1748) |   hymn writer, miscellaneous writer |
  Wesley, Charles (b. 1707 d. 1788) |   divine, hymn writer |