Domenico Bellando (1868-1922) was an Italian organist, teacher and composer, best known as a composer of music for church services, piano pieces and songs.
Domenico Bellando was born in Genoa in 1868. Details of his early musical education are obscure. At the age of 17 he was appointed organist of Genoa's Metropolitan Cathedral, a post he retained for 27 years. In 1904 he was appointed the head of organ studies at Genoa's Conservatorio Niccolò Paganini. [1]
Louis-James Alfred Lefébure-Wély was a French organist and composer. He played a major role in the development of the French symphonic organ style and was closely associated with the organ builder Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, inaugurating many new Cavaillé-Coll organs.
Hendrik Franciscus Andriessen was a Dutch composer and organist. He is remembered most of all for his improvisation at the organ and for the renewal of Catholic liturgical music in the Netherlands. Andriessen composed in a musical idiom that revealed strong French influences. He was the brother of pianist and composer Willem Andriessen and the father of the composers Jurriaan Andriessen and Louis Andriessen and of the flautist Heleen Andriessen.
Benedictus Buns, Benedictus à sancto Josepho, was a Carmelite priest and composer.
Jesús Guridi Bidaola was a Spanish Basque composer who was a key player in 20th-century Spanish and Basque music. His style fits into the late Romantic idiom, directly inherited from Wagner, and with a strong influence from Basque culture. Among his best-known works are the zarzuela El Caserío, the opera Amaya, the orchestral work Ten Basque Melodies and his organ works, where the Triptych of the Good Shepherd can be highlighted.
Joseph Callaerts was a Belgian organist, carillonneur, composer and music teacher. He was an important member of the Belgian school of organ playing.
Friedrich Lux was a German conductor, composer and organist.
Antoine Louis Joseph Gueyrand Fernand Fouant de La Tombelle was a French organist and composer.
Ciro Grassi was an Italian composer, organist and teacher.
Johann Baptist Krall was an Austrian composer, conductor, music editor/arranger, and member of the board of directors of the Wiener Singverein of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde.
Jean-Marie Plum was a Belgian composer and organist.
Marius André Gueit was a 19th-century French organist, cellist and composer.
Achille Philip, was a French organist and composer.
Pierre Camonin was a French organist, composer and improviser.
Antoine Louis Raffy was a French composer of church music and organist.
Georges Jacob was a French organist, improviser and composer.
Jacques-Louis Battmann was a 19th-century French organist and composer.
Camillo Schumann was a German late Romantic composer and organist.
Max Oesten 1843–1917, was a German pianist, organist and prolific composer, although nowadays his work is generally overlooked.
Dom Gregory Murray OSB was a British monk of Downside Abbey, and an organist and composer. His over-riding interest as a musician was to provide music that would enhance the Roman Catholic liturgy.