The Old Master Painter
"The Old Master Painter" is a song composed by Beasley Smith with lyrics by Haven Gillespie about a spiritual rendering of a sunset which evokes God.
Published in 1949, it has since been recorded by many different artists, including Jackie Paris, Richard Hayes, Frank Sinatra, Snooky Lanson, Peggy Lee, Phil Harris and Mel Tormé.
In 1966, the Beach Boys recorded the song as "My Only Sunshine" in medley with "You Are My Sunshine" during sessions for their unfinished concept album "Smile".
Benoit Benoni-Auran
Benoît Benoni- Auran( 1859 in Monteux- 1944) was a Provençal master painter.
Alexander Courage
Alexander Mair" Sandy" Courage Jr.( December 10, 1919
May 15, 2008) was an American orchestrator, arranger, and composer of music, primarily for television and film.
He is best known as the composer of the theme music for the original" Star Trek" series.
Alonso Mudarra
Alonso Mudarra( c. 1510 – April 1, 1580) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance, and also played the vihuela, a guitar- shaped string instrument.
He was an innovative composer of instrumental music as well as songs, and was the composer of the earliest surviving music for the guitar.
Petrus de Domarto
Petrus de Domarto( fl. c. 1445– 1455) was a Franco- Flemish composer of the Renaissance.
He was a contemporary and probable acquaintance of Ockeghem, and was the composer of at least one of the first unified mass cycles to be written in continental Europe.
Camilo Egas
Camilo Egas( 1889- September 18, 1962) was an Ecuadorian master painter and teacher, who was also active in the United States and Europe.
Lord Anthony Crichton-Stuart
Lord Anthony Crichton- Stuart( born 14 May 1961) is an art historian, and former head of old master paintings at Christie's in New York, where he worked from 1991 until 2006.
He is now an independent art dealer in New York, specialising in Old Master Paintings.
He, and his wife Alison, have three children; Flora Grace, Eliza Rose and Arthur Alec.
He is the younger son of John Crichton- Stuart, 6th Marquess of Bute; as such, he is styled as a lord.
He is a descendant of Bernard Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard and Beatrice Mills Forbes, an American socialite who was the daughter of Ogden Mills and a descendant of the Livingston family and the Schuyler family from New York.
He was educated at Ampleforth College& St Chad's College, Durham University.
His areas of specialty include Dutch and Flemish 17th- century paintings, and he has been active in the Old Master Paintings market for over twenty years, having worked first for the Brod Gallery in London from 1984 – 86, and then joining the Old Master Paintings department in Christie's London in 1987.
He has been involved in the rediscovery and sale at auction of works by Joachim Wtewael, Bernardo Bellotto, Carlo Dolci, Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo and Ludovico Carracci.
Alexandru Cristea
Alexandru Cristea( 1890 – 1942) was the composer of the music for" Limba Noastră", current national anthem of Moldova.
Beasley Smith
John Beasley Smith (September 27, 1901 – May 14, 1968) was an American composer and big band musician.
"
That Lucky Old Sun", one of his better known works, was covered by many well-known artists.
He often worked with Haven Gillespie and toured the nation with his group, "Beasley Smith and His Orchestra".
Beasley Smith was born in McEwen, Tennessee.
His parents were teachers.
The family moved to Nashville when he was in elementary school.
While in high school at Hume-Fogg in downtown Nashville, he formed an instrumental duo with fellow piano prodigy Francis Craig.
They were later roommates at Vanderbilt University.
Smith left college after two years to become a musician.
He formed his first band around 1922, and by 1925 the Beasley Smith Orchestra was entertaining regularly at the Andrew Jackson Hotel in downtown Nashville.
From 1927-1933, the group toured nationally.
On October 5, 1925, both Smith and Craig performed with their bands during the opening-day broadcasts of radio station WSM.
Wearying of the road, Smith accepted the job of music director at WSM in 1933.
He starred on such radio shows as "Mr. Smith Goes to TownSunday Down South" and "Tin Pan Valley."
Lead vocalists who worked with Smith's band during his heyday included Snooky Lanson, Dottie Dillard, Kitty Kallen, and Dinah Shore.
When Nashville started to become a recording center in the 1940s, Smith and Owen Bradley were key figures in assembling musicians for studio sessions.
Smith began to blossom as a songwriter in the 1940s.
He and Owen Bradley co-wrote "Night Train to Memphis" with Marvin Hughes.
Roy Acuff sang the original version in 1942, and the upbeat song has been recorded consistently ever since.
Beasley Smith and Francis Craig co-wrote "
Beg Your Pardon," and it became the 1948 follow-up hit to "Near You" for Craig's band.
"
That Lucky Old Sun" (1949), co-written with Haven Gillespie was a million-seller for Frankie Laine and is now considered a pop-music standard.
In 1953, Smith left WSM to become the A&R director and musical arranger for Dot Records.
He and Dot founder, Randy Wood, also incorporated the Randy-Smith Music Publishing Company.
Beasley Smith had written more than 100 songs by the time of his death in Nashville, Tennessee in 1968.
In 1983, Beasley Smith was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Walter Robinson (composer)
Walter Robinson is an African American composer of the late 20th century.
He is most notable for his 1977 song" Harriet Tubman", which has been recorded by folk musicians such as Holly Near, John McCutcheon, and others.
He is also the composer of several operas.

Question: Where was the place of death of the composer of song The Old Master Painter?
Answer: Nashville