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Composers from London

  • Andrew Lloyd WebberAndrew Lloyd Webber was born on the 22nd of March 1948 at Westminster Hospital in London. His father William worked as a composer and organist while his…
  • George Frideric HandelIn 1685, a boy named George Frideric Handel was born in the city of Halle within the Duchy of Magdeburg. His father Georg Händel worked as a barber-surgeon…
  • William ByrdWilliam Byrd was born in London, likely around 1540. No birth record survives for the third surviving son of Thomas Byrd and his wife Margery.
  • Donald SwannDonald Ibrahim Swann entered the world on the 30th of September 1923 in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire. His father Herbert Alfredovich Swann was a Russian doctor…