One famous contemporary composer is Peter Schickele, who is the creator of PDQ Bach. His works are extremely witty, and some of them are brilliant. He is well worth a listen. I heard Schickele live at Connecticut College many years ago. He played many of his standards, and at one point his pianist assistant played the piano (flawlessly) in complete darkness. Nice effect, although I have long since forgotten how this tied in with the piece.
Gilbert and Sullivan
Composer.
Mozart.
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Claudio Monteverdi
It is a spiritual with no known composer.
composer
Charlemagne is not known for being a composer. It is possible Charlemagne composed some music during his lifetime, but I have found no reference to it.
Steve Reich is best known for being an American composer who influenced many groups and who was a pioneering composer of minimal music. He was born October 3, 1936.
Antonio Vivaldi
Mozart was best known for being a great composer and a great music writer.
Gay NUTS
Composer.
He was not known for being a comedian, but he probably was pretty smart.
No, he's best known as a composer. He was already quite successful by the time he began to go deaf.
The late Thomas Arne was known for being a very accomplished British composer. Thomas Arne is best known for his patriotic composition called "Rule, Britannia!".
Mozart.
The composer known by all those names is Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. He was an Italian Renaissance composer known for his sacred polyphonic music.