Sir Henry Walford Davies was an English composer, organist, conductor and educator who held the title Master of the King's Music from 1934 until 1941.
Henri Constant Gabriel Pierné was a French composer, conductor, pianist and organist.
Grażyna Bacewicz was a Polish composer and violinist. She is the second Polish female composer to have achieved national and international recognition, the first being Maria Szymanowska in the early 19th century.
Hilding Constantin Rosenberg was a Swedish composer and conductor. He is commonly regarded as the first Swedish modernist composer, and one of the most influential figures in 20th-century classical music in Sweden.
Lera Auerbach is a Soviet-born American classical composer and concert pianist.
Arnold Atkinson Cooke was a British composer.
Laura Valborg Aulin was a Swedish pianist and composer. Two works by Aulin, String Quartet E Minor, Op. 17 and String Quartet F Minor are the most important Swedish music compositions in that genre from the 1880s.
Marco Enrico Bossi was an Italian organist, composer, improviser and teacher.
Herman David Koppel, known in Denmark as Herman D. Koppel, was a composer and pianist of Jewish origin. Born in Copenhagen, he fled the Nazis with his family in 1943. He wrote 13 symphonies, numerous concertos, and 20 string quartets.
Benjamin C. S. Boyle is an American composer, pianist, and music theorist.
Emil Hartmann was a Danish composer of the romantic period, fourth generation of composers in the Danish Hartmann musical family.
Gustav Carl Helsted was a Danish organist and composer.
Helen Tobias-Duesberg was an Estonian-American composer.
Hélène-Gabrielle Fleury-Roy was a French composer and one of the first few women to win the prize for the Prix de Rome musical composition competition.
Hilda Sehested was a Danish composer.
Frederick Thorvald Hansen was a Danish trumpeter and composer. As a boy, he learned to play the piano, organ, violin, and later trumpet: with Peter Johan Waldemar Petersen, Danish trumpeter (1824-1901)². In 1867, Hansen joined the Tivoli Concert hall Orchestra and in 1884 he was hired as a solo trumpeter in the Royal Danish Orchestra. At the same time, he played viola and violin in various chamber ensembles. Hansen was for many years organist substitute for cathedral organist J. P. E. Hartmann in the Church of Our Lady. He also composed and has written a number of smaller pieces for piano and trumpet, but also other things such some Progressive End Exercises for Trumpet in F. In 1893 he joined the Royal Danish Academy of Music to teach trumpet there.
Klaudia Pasternak is a Polish contemporary composer and opera conductor, who has twice been nominated for the prestigious Paszport Polityki.
Susan Spain-Dunk was an English violinist/violist and composer.
Svea Goeta Nordblad Welander was a Swedish composer, organist, teacher, and violist, who was born in Linhamm, Malmo, to a family of nine children. In 1914, she began working as cinema pianist to save money for further education. She studied in Malmo and later in Copenhagen. Her teachers included John Heinze, Henrik Knudsen, Lars-Erik Larsson, and Sten Broman. She became a member of the Society of Swedish Composers.
Camillo Schumann was a German late Romantic composer and organist.
Photo in KB. Famous Danish Women, 1934. KIM-new 21/1990. Private Archives in KB.
