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Ivor Novello
Welsh composer and actor (1893-1951)
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Hal Shaper
South African songwriter
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David Arnold
English film composer
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John McCabe
English composer and pianist
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Malcolm Arnold
English composer, conductor
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Nitin Sawhney
British Indian musician, producer and composer
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Les Reed
British songwriter, arranger, musician and light-orchestra leader
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Herbert Kretzmer
English journalist and lyricist
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Mike Hawker
English songwriter
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Robert Farnon
Canadian-born composer, conductor, musical arranger and trumpet player
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Peter Sinfield
British poet, musician and record producer
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Anne Dudley
English composer and pop musician
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Bobby Lamb
Irish musician
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Burt Bacharach
American composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist
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Benny Andersson
Swedish musician, composer, record producer
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
English composer and impresario of musical theatre (born 1948)
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Harrison Birtwistle
British composer
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Judith Weir
British composer
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Phil Pickett
English composer, musician, vocal arranger, producer and artist manager
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Patrick Doyle
Scottish composer
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Leslie Bricusse
English composer, lyricist and playwright, most prominently working in musicals and also cinema theme music (born 1931)
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Craig Armstrong
British composer
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Stanley Black
British composer
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Léo Ferré
French-born Monégasque poet and singer
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Stanley Myers
British film composer
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Nick Coler
musician
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Peter Sarstedt
Musician chronicling noblesse oblige
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Paul Rodgers
English-Canadian singer-songwriter
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Bruce Woolley
English singer-songwriter
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Don Black
English lyricist
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Johnny Green
American conductor, arranger, composer, pianist; Harvard AB 1928, achieved early fame as a songwriter and orchestra leader in the 1920s and 1930s
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Rudolf Friml
Czech composer
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Jimmy Kennedy
Northern Irish songwriter, lyricist
