British composer profiles.
A biographical dictionary and chronology of past British composers 1800-1979
A biographical dictionary and chronology of past British composers 1800-1979
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| Adams, Thomas Julian (b. 1824 d. 1887) | piano, conductor |
| Addinsell, Richard (b. 1904 d. 1977) | composer |
| Albert (b. 1819 d. 1861) | composer, piano |
| Albert, Eugen (b. 1864 d. 1932) | composer, compositore |
| Alcock, Walter Galpin (b. 1861 d. 1947) | organ, organ teacher |
| Alexander, Arthur (b. 1891 d. 1975) | piano |
| Allen, George Benjamin (b. 1822 d. 1897) | composer, singer |
| Allon, Henry Erskine (b. 1864 d. 1897) | composer |
| Ames, John Carlowitz (b. 1860 d. 1924) | piano, composer |
| Anderton, Howard Orsmond (b. 1861 d. 1934) | violin, composer |
| Anson, Hugo Vernon (b. 1894 d. 1958) | composer |
| Archer, Frederick (b. 1838 d. 1901) | organ, conductor |
| Arkwright, Marian Ursula (b. 1863 d. 1922) | composer |
| Armes, Philip (b. 1836 d. 1908) | organ, composer |
| Ashton, Algernon (Bennett Langton) (b. 1859 d. 1937) | composer, teacher |
| Aspull, George (b. 1813 d. 1832) | piano, composer |
| Austin, Ernest (b. 1874 d. 1947) | composer |
| Austin, Frederic (b. 1872 d. 1952) | baritone, vocals |
| Bache, Francis Edward (b. 1833 d. 1858) | composer, piano |
| Baines, William (b. 1899 d. 1922) | composer, piano |
| Bainton, Edgar Leslie (b. 1880 d. 1956) | composer, teacher |
| Bairstow, Edward Cuthbert (b. 1874 d. 1946) | composer, organ |
| Balfe, Michael William (b. 1808 a. 19th century |
composer, singer |
| Baly, William (b. 1825 d. 1891) | conductor, composer |
| Banister, Henry Charles (b. 1831 d. 1897) | composer, teacher |
| Bantock, Granville (b. 1868 d. 1946) | composer, professor |
| Barker, Laura Wilson (b. 1819 d. 1905) | violin, composer |
| Barlow, David Frederick (b. 1927 d. 1975) | composer, teacher |
| Barnby, Joseph (b. 1838 d. 1896) | conductor, composer |
| Barnes, Frederick Edwin Lucy (b. 1858 d. 1880 a. 1879-1880) | organ, choir master |
| Barnett, John (b. 1802 d. 1890) | composer |
| Barnett, John Francis (b. 1837 d. 1916) | composer, conductor |
| Bate, Stanley (b. 1911 d. 1959) | composer, piano |
| Bath, Hubert Charles (b. 1883 d. 1945) | composer, director |
| Bax, Arnold (Edward Trevor) (b. 1883 d. 1953) | composer, musicisti |
| Bedford, Herbert (b. 1867 d. 1945) | composer, writer |
| Bell, William Henry (b. 1873 d. 1946) | composer, teacher |
| Benbow, Charles Edwin (b. 1904 d. 1967) | piano, composer |
| Benedict, Julius (b. 1804) | composer, compositore |
| Benjamin, Arthur (Leslie) (b. 1893 d. 1960) | composer, musicisti |
| Bennett, George John (b. 1863 d. 1930) | organ, percussion |
| Bennett, William Sterndale (b. 1816 d. 1875) | composer |
| Berger, Francesco (b. 1834 d. 1933) | piano, composer |
| Berners, Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson (b. 1883 d. 1950) | composer, writer |
| Best, William Thomas (b. 1826 d. 1897) | organ |
| Bexfield, William Richard (b. 1824 d. 1853) | composer, organ |
| Binge, Ronald (b. 1910 d. 1979) | composer, piano accordion |
| Bliss, Arthur (b. 1891 d. 1975) | composer, professor |
| Borowski, Felix (b. 1872 d. 1956) | composer, critic |
| Boughton, Rutland (b. 1878 d. 1960) | composer, writer |
| Bowen, York (Edwin) (b. 1884 d. 1961) | composer, piano |
| Brent-Smith, Alexander (b. 1889 d. 1950) | composer |
| Brewer, Alfred Herbert (b. 1865 d. 1928) | organ, conductor |
| Brian, Havergal (b. 1876 d. 1972) | composer |
| Bridge, Frank (b. 1879 d. 1941) | composer, musician |
| Bridge, Frederick [John Frederick] (b. 1844 d. 1924) | organ, composer |
| Bridge, Joseph Cox (b. 1853 d. 1929) | organ, composer |
| Bridgewater, Ernest Leslie (b. 1893 d. 1975) | conductor, composer |
| Bright, Dora Estella (b. 1863 d. 1951) | piano, composer |
| Britten, Benjamin [Eduard Benjamin] (b. 1913) | composer, Komponist |
| Broome, William Edward (b. 1868 d. 1932) | conductor, organ |
| Bryson, Ernest (b. 1867 d. 1942) | composer |
| Buck, Percy (Carter) (b. 1871 d. 1947) | writer on music, editor |
| Bullock, Ernest (b. 1890 d. 1979) | composer, organ |
| Bunning, Herbert (b. 1863 d. 1937) | composer, conductor |
| Burrows, Benjamin (b. 1891 d. 1966) | organ, composer |
| Butterworth, George Sainton Kaye (b. 1885 d. 1916) | composer, folk music collector |
| Calkin, John Baptiste (b. 1827 d. 1905) | composer, organ |
| Carse, Adam (von Ahn) (b. 1878 d. 1958) | collector, historian of instruments |
| Cellier, Alfred (b. 1844 d. 1891) | composer, organ |
| Center, Ronald (b. 1913 d. 1973) | composer, piano |
| Chagrin, Francis (b. 1905 d. 1972) | composer, conductor |
| Chipp, Edmund Thomas (b. 1823 d. 1886) | organ, composer |
| Chisholm, Erik (b. 1904 d. 1965) | conductor, administrator |
| Christopher, Cyril Stanley (b. 1897 d. 1979) | composer, organ |
| Clark, Frederick Scotson (b. 1840 d. 1883) | alto saxophone, cast |
| Clarke, James Hamilton (Smee) (b. 1840 d. 1912) | organ, conductor |
| Cliffe, Frederic (b. 1857 d. 1931) | piano, organ |
| Clutsam, George H. (b. 1866 d. 1951) | piano, composer |
| Coates, Eric (b. 1886 d. 1957) | choreographer, composer |
| Cockshott, Gerald Wilfred (b. 1915 d. 1979) | composer |
| Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel (b. 1875 d. 1912) | composer |
| Collins, Anthony (Vincent Benedictus) (b. 1893 d. 1963) | conductor, viola |
| Collisson, William Alexander Houston (b. 1865 d. 1920) | piano, composer |
| Corder, Frederick (b. 1852 d. 1932) | conductor, composer |
| Costa, Michael (Andrew Agnus) (b. 1808 d. 1884) | conductor, composer |
| Coward, Henry (b. 1849 d. 1944) | choir master, conductor |
| Coward, James M. (b. 1824 d. 1880) | composer |
| Cowen, Frederic Hymen (b. 1852) | piano, conductor |
| Creser, William (b. 1844 d. 1933) | organ, composer |
| Cummings, William Hayman (b. 1831 d. 1915) | administrator, church musician |
| Cundell, Edric (b. 1893 d. 1961) | conductor, composer |
| Cusins, William (George) (b. 1833 d. 1893) | piano, organ |
| Dale, Benjamin (James) (b. 1885 d. 1943) | composer, music educator |
| Dare, Margaret Marie (b. 1902 d. 1976) | cello, composer |
| Darke, Harold (Edwin) (b. 1888 d. 1976) | composer, organ |
| Davenport, Francis William (b. 1847 d. 1925) | composer, writer on music |
| Davidson, Malcolm Gordon (b. 1891 d. 1947) | composer |
| Davies, Evan Thomas (b. 1878 d. 1969) | composer, organ |
| Davies, Hubert (b. 1893 d. 1965) | violin, composer |
| Davies, Walford [Henry Walford] (b. 1869 d. 1941) | organ, composer |
| Davison, James William (b. 1813 d. 1885) | critic |
| Delius, Frederick (Theodore Albert) (b. 1862 d. 1934) | composer, musician |
| Demuth, Norman (b. 1898 d. 1968) | composer, writer on music |
| Dieren, Bernard (b. 1887 d. 1936) | composer, writer |
| Dolezalek, Jan Emanuel (b. 1780 d. 1858) | composer, instrumentalist |
| Dolmetsch, Rudolph (Arnold) (b. 1906 d. 1942) | harpsichord, viol |
| Drysdale, Learmont [George John Learmont] (b. 1866 d. 1909) | composer |
| Duarte, John William (b. 1919) | guitar, composer |
| Duncan, William Edmonsdtone (b. 1866 d. 1920) | composer, piano |
| Dunhill, Thomas Frederick (b. 1877 d. 1946) | composer, professor |
| Dunlop, Isobel (b. 1901 d. 1975) | violin, composer |
| Dykes, John Bacchus (b. 1823 d. 1876) | composer, musician |
| Dyson, George (b. 1883 d. 1964) | composer, musician |
| Edwards, Henry John (b. 1854 d. 1933) | organ, piano |
| Elgar, Edward (William) (b. 1857) | composer, compositore |
| Ellerton, John Lodge (b. 1801 d. 1873) | composer |
| Ellicott, Rosalind Frances (b. 1857 d. 1924) | composer, piano |
| Elvey, George (Job) (b. 1816 d. 1893) | organ, composer |
| Faning, Eaton (b. 1850 d. 1927) | teacher, choir conductor |
| Farjeon, Harry (b. 1878 d. 1948) | lyricist, producer |
| Farmer, John (b. 1836 d. 1901) | teacher, composer |
| Farrar, Ernest Bristow (b. 1885 d. 1918) | composer |
| Fenney, William J. (b. 1891 d. 1957) | composer |
| Finck, Herman (b. 1872 d. 1939) | composer, conductor |
| Finzi, Gerald (b. 1901 d. 1956) | composer |
| Fitzwilliam, Edward Francis (b. 1824 d. 1857) | composer |
| Flood, W.H. Gratton [William Henry Grattan] (b. 1859 d. 1928) | music historian, organ |
| Flowers, George French (b. 1811 d. 1872 a. 1844-1847) | organ, composer |
| Fogg, Eric [Charles William Eric] (b. 1903 d. 1939) | composer |
| Forbes, Henry (b. 1804 d. 1859) | organ, piano |
| Ford, Ernest (A. Clair) (b. 1858 d. 1919) | composer, conductor |
| Forrester, James Cliffe (b. 1860 d. 1941) | composer |
| Foss, Hubert James (b. 1899 d. 1953) | publisher, writer on music |
| Foster, Arnold (Wilfred Allen) (b. 1896 d. 1963) | conductor, composer |
| Foster, Myles Birket (b. 1851 d. 1922) | organ, composer |
| Foulds, John Herbert (b. 1880 d. 1939) | composer, folklorist |
| Frankel, Benjamin (b. 1906 d. 1973) | composer |
| Friskin, James (b. 1886 d. 1967) | piano, composer |
| Gabriel, Mary Ann Virginia (b. 1825 d. 1877) | composer |
| Gadsby, Henry Robert (b. 1842 d. 1907) | composer, musician |
| Gardiner, Henry Balfour (b. 1877 d. 1950) | composer |
| Garratt, Percival Maurice (b. 1877 d. 1953) | composer, piano |
| Garrett, George Mursell (b. 1834 d. 1897) | composer, organ |
| Gatty, Nicholas Comyn (b. 1874 d. 1946) | organ, critic |
| Gaul, Alfred Robert (b. 1837 d. 1913) | composer, organ |
| Geehl, Henry Ernest (b. 1881 d. 1961) | composer, conductor |
| Gerhard, Roberto (b. 1896 d. 1970) | composer, Komposition |
| German, Edward (b. 1862 d. 1936) | composer, director |
| Gladstone, Francis Edward (b. 1845 d. 1928) | organ, composer |
| Godfrey, Arthur (Eugene) (b. 1868 d. 1939) | composer, arranger |
| Goossens, Eugene (b. 1893 d. 1962) | composer, conductor |
| Goss, John (b. 1800 d. 1880) | composer, organ |
| Grainger, Percy (Aldridge) (b. 1882 d. 1961) | composer, Klavier |
| Gray, Alan (b. 1855 d. 1935) | composer, organ |
| Green, Russell (Harry Colman) (b. 1908 d. 1975) | composer, organ |
| Greenbaum, Hyam (b. 1901 d. 1942) | music director, viola |
| Greenwood, John Darnforth Herman (b. 1889 d. 1975) | composer, guitar |
| Grimshaw, Arthur Edward (b. 1864 d. 1913) | composer, organ |
| Gurney, Ivor Bertie (b. 1890 d. 1937) | composer, poet |
| Hadley, Patrick (Arthur Sheldon) (b. 1899 d. 1973) | composer |
| Hadow, William Henry (b. 1859 d. 1937) | writer on music, music educator |
| Harris, Clement (Hugh Gilbert) (b. 1871 d. 1897) | piano, composer |
| Harris, William Henry (b. 1883 d. 1973) | organ, choir master |
| Harrison, Julius (Alan Greenway) (b. 1885 d. 1963) | conductor, composer |
| Harty, Hamilton [Herbert Hamilton] (b. 1879 d. 1941) | composer, piano |
| Harwood, Basil (b. 1859 d. 1949) | organ, composer |
| Hatton, John Liptrot (b. 1808 d. 1886) | composer |
| Hawley, Stanley (b. 1887 d. 1916) | piano, composer |
| Hay, Edward Norman (b. 1889 d. 1943) | organ, composer |
| Haynes, Walter Battison (b. 1859 d. 1900) | composer, organ |
| Head, Michael Dewar (b. 1900 d. 1976) | composer, singer |
| Heap, Charles Swinnerton (b. 1847 d. 1900) | conductor, composer |
| Heath, John Rippiner (b. 1887 d. 1950) | composer |
| Hely-Hutchinson, Victor [Christian Victor] (b. 1901 d. 1947) | composer, piano |
| Heming, Michael (b. 1920 d. 1942) | composer |
| Herbert, Victor (August) (b. 1859 d. 1924) | composer, conductor |
| Hervey, Arthur (b. 1855 d. 1922) | composer, author |
| Heward, Leslie (Hays) (b. 1897 d. 1943 a. 1924) | conductor, composer |
| Hiles, Henry (b. 1826 d. 1904) | organ, composer |
| Hiles, John (b. 1810 d. 1881) | organ |
| Hinton, Arthur (b. 1869 d. 1941) | composer |
| Holbrooke, Joseph [Josef] (b. 1878 d. 1958) | composer |
| Hollins, Alfred (b. 1865 d. 1942) | Klavier, organ |
| Holmes, Alfred (b. 1837 d. 1876) | violin, composer |
| Holmes, Henry (b. 1839 d. 1905) | violin, composer |
| Holmes, William Henry (b. 1812 d. 1885) | piano, composer |
| Holst, Gustav [Gustavus Theodore von] (b. 1874 d. 1934) | composer, librettista |
| Hopkins, Edward (John) (b. 1818 d. 1901) | organ, composer |
| Hopkins, John (b. 1929) | composer, conductor |
| Horsley, Charles Edward (b. 1822 d. 1876) | composer, writer |
| Hughes, Edward John (b. 1888 d. 1967) | composer |
| Hullah, John (Pyke) (b. 1812 d. 1884) | composer, composer |
| Hurlstone, William Yeates (b. 1876 d. 1906) | composer, piano |
| Iliffe, Frederick (b. 1847 d. 1928) | composer, organ |
| Ireland, John (Nicholson) (b. 1879 d. 1962) | composer, piano |
| Irving, Ernest [Kelville Ernest] (b. 1878 d. 1953) | conductor, composer |
| Isaacs, Edward (Maurice) (b. 1881 d. 1953) | piano, lecturer |
| Ivimey, John William (b. 1868 d. 1961) | organ, choir master |
| Jackson, William (b. 1815 d. 1866) | composer |
| Jacobson, Maurice (b. 1896 d. 1976) | piano, composer |
| Jenkins, Cyril (b. 1889 d. 1978) | bandmaster, composer |
| Jenkins, David (b. 1848 d. 1915) | composer, conductor |
| Jessett, Michael (b. 1932 d. 1979) | broadcaster, singer |
| Jewson, Frederick Bowen (b. 1823 d. 1891) | piano, composer |
| Johnstone, Maurice (b. 1900 d. 1976) | administrator, composer |
| Jones, Arthur Barclay (b. 1869 d. 1943) | piano, composer |
| Jones, Sidney [James Sidney] (b. 1861 d. 1946) | composer |
| Kennedy-Fraser, Marjorie (b. 1857 d. 1930) | singer, folksong collector |
| Ketelbey, Albert William (b. 1875 d. 1959) | composer, conductor |
| Knight, Joseph Philip (b. 1812 d. 1887) | songwriter |
| Lahee, Henry (b. 1826 d. 1912) | organ, composer |
| Lambert, Constant [Leonard Constant] (b. 1905 d. 1951) | composer, conductor |
| Lambeth, Henry Albert (b. 1822 d. 1895) | composer, organ |
| Lamond, Frederick Archibald (b. 1868 d. 1948) | Klavier, piano |
| Lang, Craig Sellar (b. 1891 d. 1971) | composer |
| Lara, Isidore (b. 1858 d. 1935) | composer, viola |
| Lazarus, Henry (b. 1815 d. 1895) | clarinet, basset horn |
| Lehmann, Liza (Nina Mary Frederica) (b. 1862 d. 1918) | composer, Sanger |
| Leigh, Walter (b. 1905 d. 1942) | composer |
| Leslie, Henry (David) (b. 1822 d. 1896) | choir conductor, composer |
| Levey, William Charles (b. 1837 d. 1894) | composer, conductor |
| Lewis, Idris (b. 1889 d. 1952) | writer, composer |
| Ley, Henry George (b. 1887 d. 1962) | organ, piano |
| Litolff, Henry Charles (b. 1818 d. 1891) | composer, piano |
| Lloyd, Charles Harford (b. 1849 d. 1919) | organ, composer |
| Lloyd, David (John) (b. 1883 d. 1948) | composer, teacher |
| Lloyd, John Morgan (b. 1880 d. 1960) | composer |
| Loder, Edward (James) (b. 1813 d. 1865) | composer |
| Loder, Kate (Fanny) (b. 1825 d. 1904) | piano, composer |
| Luard-Selby, Bertram (b. 1853 d. 1918) | organ, composer |
| Lucas, Charles (b. 1808 d. 1869) | cello, conductor |
| Lyon, James (b. 1872 d. 1949) | composer |
| MacCunn, Hamish (b. 1868 d. 1916) | composer, music director |
| Macfarren, George (Alexander) (b. 1813 d. 1887) | composer |
| Macfarren, Walter (Cecil) (b. 1826 d. 1905) | piano, composer |
| Macirone, Clara Angela (b. 1821 d. 1914) | composer, piano |
| Mackenzie, Alexander (Campbell) (b. 1847) | composer, conductor |
| Maclean, Alick [Alexander Morvaren] (b. 1872 d. 1936) | composer, conductor |
| Maclean, Charles Donald (b. 1843 d. 1916) | music director at Eton College, organ |
| MacPherson, Charles (b. 1870 d. 1927) | composer, organ |
| MacPherson, Stewart [Charles Stewart] (b. 1865 d. 1941) | teacher |
| Mann, Arthur Henry (b. 1850 d. 1929) | musicisti, organ |
| Mark, Jeffrey (b. 1898 d. 1965) | composer |
| Martin, George (Clement) (b. 1844 d. 1916) | organ, composer |
| Martin, George William (b. 1825 d. 1881) | teacher, conductor |
| Matthay, Tobias (Augustus) (b. 1858 d. 1945) | teacher, writer |
| Maunder, John Henry (b. 1858 d. 1920) | composer |
| McEwen, John (Blackwood) (b. 1868 d. 1948) | composer, teacher |
| Miles, Philipp Napier (b. 1865 d. 1935) | composer |
| Milford, Robin (Humphrey) (b. 1903 d. 1959) | composer |
| Milner, Arthur Frederick (b. 1894 d. 1972) | organ, composer |
| Moeran, E.J. [Ernest John] (b. 1894 d. 1950) | composer |
| Monk, Edwin George (b. 1819 d. 1900) | organ, composer |
| Morris, Haydn (b. 1891 d. 1965) | composer |
| Morris, Reginald Owen (b. 1886 d. 1948) | music scholar, teacher |
| Mounsey, Ann (Sheppard) (b. 1811 d. 1891) | organ, teacher |
| Mounsey, Elizabeth (b. 1819 d. 1905) | guitar, organ |
| Mudie, Thomas Molleson (b. 1809 d. 1876) | composer |
| Murrill, Herbert (Henry John) (b. 1909 d. 1952) | composer, administrator |
| Naylor, Edward (Woodall) (b. 1867 d. 1934) | organ, composer |
| Naylor, John (b. 1838 d. 1897) | organ, composer |
| Nicholas, John Morgan (b. 1895 d. 1963) | conductor, composer |
| Nicholl, Horace (Wadham) (b. 1848 d. 1922) | organ, composer |
| Nicholson, Sydney (Hugo) (b. 1875 d. 1947) | organ, church musician |
| Nixon, Henry Cotter (b. 1842 d. 1907) | composer, organ |
| Noble, Tertius [Thomas Tertius] (b. 1867 d. 1953) | church musician, composer |
| O'Leary, Arthur (b. 1834 d. 1919) | piano, composer |
| O'Neill, Norman (Houston) (b. 1875 d. 1934) | conductor, composer |
| Oakeley, Herbert (Stanley) (b. 1830 d. 1903) | composer, organ |
| Orr, Charles Wilfred (b. 1893 d. 1976) | composer |
| Osborne, George Alexander (b. 1806 d. 1893) | composer, piano |
| Ouseley, Frederick Arthur Gore (b. 1825 d. 1889) | church musician, scholar |
| Parratt, Walter George (b. 1841 d. 1924) | organ, teacher |
| Parry, Hubert [Charles Hubert Hastings] (b. 1848 d. 1918) | composer, scholar |
| Parry, Joseph (b. 1841 d. 1903) | composer |
| Peace, Albert Lister (b. 1844 d. 1912) | composer, organ |
| Pearce, Charles William (b. 1856 d. 1928) | composer, organ |
| Phillips, Montague Fawcett (b. 1885 d. 1969) | composer |
| Phillips, William Lovell (b. 1816 d. 1860) | cello, organ |
| Philp, Elizabeth (b. 1827 d. 1885) | composer, piano |
| Philpot, Stephen Rowland (b. 1870 d. 1950) | piano, conductor |
| Pierson, Henry Hugo (b. 1815 d. 1873) | composer, musician |
| Pitt, Percy (b. 1869 d. 1932) | conductor, composer |
| Pittman, Josiah (b. 1816 d. 1886) | organ, church musician |
| Pole, William (b. 1814 d. 1900) | civil engineer, scholar |
| Prentice, Thomas Ridley (b. 1842 d. 1895) | composer, piano |
| Price, Richard Maldwyn (b. 1890 d. 1952) | composer |
| Prout, Ebenezer (b. 1835 d. 1909) | scholar, editor |
| Pye, Kellow John (b. 1812 d. 1901) | piano, composer |
| Quilter, Roger (b. 1877 d. 1953) | composer, musicisti |
| Rankl, Karl Franz (b. 1898 d. 1968) | conductor, composer |
| Rawsthorne, Alan (b. 1905 d. 1971) | composer, conductor |
| Raynor, John (b. 1909 d. 1970) | composer |
| Reay, Samuel (b. 1822 d. 1905) | composer, organ |
| Redman, Reginald (b. 1892 d. 1972) | organ, conductor |
| Reed, William Henry (b. 1876 d. 1942) | violin, teacher |
| Reizenstein, Franz (Theodor) (b. 1911 d. 1968) | composer, piano |
| Richards, Brinley [Henry Brinley] (b. 1819 d. 1885) | piano, composer |
| Richardson, Alan (b. 1904 d. 1978) | composer, piano |
| Roberton, Hugh Stevenson (b. 1874 d. 1952) | conductor, music educator |
| Roberts, Caradog (b. 1878 d. 1935) | organ, conductor |
| Roberts, John Henry (b. 1848 d. 1924) | composer, teacher |
| Roberts, John Varley (b. 1841 d. 1920) | organ, composer |
| Robinson, Fanny Arthur (b. 1831 d. 1879) | piano, teacher |
| Rockel, Joseph Leopold (b. 1838 d. 1923) | teacher, composer |
| Rodwell, George (Herbert Bonaparte) (b. 1800 d. 1852) | composer, playwright |
| Rogers, Roland (b. 1847 d. 1927) | organ, choir master |
| Ronald, Landon (b. 1873 d. 1938) | composer, conductor |
| Rootham, Cyril (Bradley) (b. 1875 d. 1938) | organ, teacher |
| Rowley, Alec (b. 1892 d. 1958) | teacher, composer |
| Russell, Henry (b. 1812 d. 1900) | composer, piano |
| Sanderson, Wilfred Ernest (b. 1878 d. 1935) | choir master, songwriter |
| Santley, Charles (b. 1834 d. 1922) | baritone, composer |
| Scott, Cyril (Meir) (b. 1879 d. 1970) | cast, choreographer |
| Scott, Francis George (b. 1880 d. 1958) | composer |
| Seiber, Matyas (Gyorgy) (b. 1905 d. 1960) | composer, Komposition |
| Shakespeare, William (b. 1849 d. 1931) | singer, teacher |
| Sharpe, Herbert Francis (b. 1861 d. 1925) | piano, composer |
| Shaw, Geoffrey (Turton) (b. 1879 d. 1943) | composer, composer |
| Shaw, Martin (Fallas) (b. 1875 d. 1958) | composer |
| Slater, Gordon Archibald (b. 1896 d. 1979) | organ, choir master |
| Smart, Henry Thomas (b. 1813 d. 1879) | organ, composer |
| Smith, Alice Mary (b. 1839 d. 1884) | composer |
| Smith, Leo [Joseph Leo] (b. 1881 d. 1952) | composer, cello |
| Smith, Sydney [Edward Sydney] (b. 1839 d. 1889) | composer, piano |
| Smyth, Ethel (Mary) (b. 1858 d. 1944) | composer |
| Somervell, Arthur (b. 1863 d. 1937) | composer, music educator |
| Spark, William (b. 1823 d. 1897) | organ, composer |
| Speaight, Joseph (b. 1868 d. 1947) | violin, composer |
| Speer, Charlton Templeman (b. 1859 d. 1921) | organ, piano |
| Speer, William Henry (b. 1863 d. 1937) | organ, composer |
| Squire, William Henry (b. 1871 d. 1963) | cello, composer |
| Stainer, John (b. 1840 d. 1901) | musicologist, composer |
| Stanford, Charles Villiers (b. 1852) | composer, conductor |
| Stanton, Walter Kendall (b. 1891 d. 1978) | composer, music educator |
| Statham, Heathcote (Dicken) (b. 1889 d. 1973) | organ, conductor |
| Steggall, Charles (b. 1826 d. 1905) | organ, composer |
| Steggall, Reginald (b. 1867 d. 1938) | organ, composer |
| Stephen, David (b. 1869 d. 1946) | piano, organ |
| Stephen, Edward (d. 1885) | minister, composer |
| Stephens, Charles Edward (b. 1821 d. 1892) | composer, piano |
| Still, Robert (b. 1910 d. 1971) | composer |
| Stirling, Elizabeth (b. 1819 d. 1895 a. 1856) | composer, organ |
| Storer, John (b. 1858 d. 1930) | organ, composer |
| Sullivan, Arthur (Seymour) (b. 1842) | author, composer |
| Swinstead, Felix Gerald (b. 1880 d. 1959) | piano, composer |
| Thirwall, John Wade (b. 1809 d. 1876) | composer, violin |
| Thomas, Arthur Goring (b. 1850 d. 1892) | composer |
| Thomas, Harold (b. 1834 d. 1885) | piano, organ |
| Thomas, John (b. 1826 d. 1913) | harp, composer |
| Thomson, John (b. 1805 d. 1841) | music scholar, composer |
| Thorne, Edward Henry (b. 1834 d. 1916) | organ, composer |
| Tovey, Donald (Francis) (d. 1940) | music scholar, composer |
| Turnbull, Percy Purvis (b. 1902 d. 1976) | composer, piano |
| Turpin, Edmund (Hart) (b. 1835 d. 1907) | organ, editor |
| Vaughan Thomas, David (b. 1873 d. 1934) | cast, choreographer |
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph (b. 1872 d. 1958) | composer, compositore |
| Vinter, Gilbert (b. 1909 d. 1969) | military musician, bandmaster |
| Waddington, Sydney Reine (b. 1869 d. 1953) | teacher, composer |
| Walker, Ernest (b. 1870 d. 1949) | teacher, writer on music |
| Wallace, Vincent [William Vincent] (b. 1812 d. 1865) | composer |
| Walmisley, Thomas Attwood (b. 1814 d. 1856) | composer, organ |
| Walsworth, Ivor (b. 1909 d. 1978) | composer |
| Walthew, Richard Henry (b. 1872 d. 1951) | composer, piano |
| Warlock, Peter (b. 1894 d. 1930) | writer on music, composer |
| Warner, Harry Waldo (b. 1874 d. 1945) | viola, composer |
| Waters, Charles Frederick (b. 1898 d. 1975) | composer, organ |
| Waterson, James (b. 1834 d. 1893 a. 1878) | bandsman, composer |
| Wellesz, Egon (Joseph) (b. 1885 d. 1974) | composer, musicologist |
| Wesley, Samuel Sebastian (b. 1810 d. 1876) | composer, organ |
| Westbrook, William Joseph (b. 1831 d. 1894) | organ, composer |
| Westlake, Frederick (b. 1840 d. 1898) | piano, composer |
| Westrop, Henry John (b. 1812 d. 1879) | composer, violin |
| White, Felix Harold (b. 1884 d. 1945) | piano, composer |
| White, Maud Valerie (b. 1855 d. 1937) | composer, writer |
| Whittaker, William Gillies (b. 1876 d. 1944) | scholar, choir conductor |
| Whyte, Ian (b. 1901 d. 1960) | conductor, composer |
| Willan, Healey [James Healey] (b. 1880 d. 1968) | composer, teacher |
| Williams, Bryn (b. 1924 d. 1976) | composer |
| Williams, Charles Francis Abdy (b. 1855 d. 1923) | organ, writer on music |
| Williams, Grace (Mary) (b. 1906 d. 1977) | composer |
| Williams, John Gerrard (b. 1888 d. 1947) | composer |
| Wingham, Thomas (b. 1846 d. 1893) | piano, composer |
| Wolstenholme, William (b. 1865 d. 1931) | organ, composer |
| Wood, Charles (b. 1866 d. 1926) | composer, teacher |
| Wood, Haydn (b. 1882 d. 1959) | author, composer |
| Wood, Thomas (b. 1892 d. 1950) | composer, writer |
| Wurm, Mary (b. 1860 d. 1938) | Dirigent, Klavier |
| Wylde, Henry (b. 1822 d. 1890) | conductor, composer |