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.
Pydimarri Venkata Subba Rao
Pydimarri Venkata Subba Rao( June 10, 1916 – 1988) was a Telugu author who is best remembered as the composer of the National Pledge of India.
Eric Whitacre
Eric Edward Whitacre (born January2, 1970) is an American composer, conductor, and speaker known for his choral, orchestral, and wind ensemble music.
In March2016, he was appointed as Los Angeles Master Chorale's first artist-in-residence at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
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.
Michelangelo Faggioli
Michelangelo Faggioli( 1666–1733) was an Italian lawyer and celebrated amateur composer of humorous cantatas in Neapolitan dialect.
A founder of a new genre of Neapolitan comedy, he was the composer of the opera buffa" La Cilla" in 1706.
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.
Cloudburst (Whitacre)
Cloudburst is a composition by Eric Whitacre for eight-part choir, with piano and percussion accompaniment, written in 1991 (when the composer was 21) and published in 1995.
The text was adapted from Octavio Paz's poem "El cántaro roto" (The Broken Water-Jar), and inspired by the experience of the composer witnessing a desert cloudburst.
On his website, Whitacre stated that he composed it after approached by Jocelyn K. Jensen in 1991 to write a piece for her high school choir.
The first section is a cappella, notable for its dissonant tone clusters.
Whitacre notates long, sustained notes with text to be spoken at random by each individual singer.
Following the opening section is a baritone solo, which is then followed by the development of a new a cappella theme.
This section continues into a spoken, arrhythmic incantatory solo with background.
In the section titled "The Cloudburst", handbells (which are directed to be hidden from the audience) play a written two bars, and then play at random as the choir crescendos into an aleatoric section, which is signaled by a loud clap of "thunder".
During this time, the choir begins claps, snaps, and thigh smacks in order to imitate the sound of rain.
A thunder sheet, bass drum, handbells, suspended cymbal, wind chimes, and piano contribute to the effect of a thunderstorm.
The storm gradually builds then fades, and the ending of the piece mirrors the beginning section, with the choir arpeggiating as the piano voices block chords.
"Cloudburst" was the title feature of an album by Stephen Layton's chamber choir Polyphony.
The album included other works by Whitacre and was nominated for the 2007 Grammy Award in best Choral Performance.
A concert band version, commissioned for the Indiana All-State Band, was released by Whitacre in 2001.
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.
Karl Wilhelm (conductor)
Karl Wilhelm, also Carl Wilhelm( 5 September 1815, Schmalkalden – 26 August 1873, Schmalkalden) was a German choral director.
He is best known as the composer of the music of the song “ Die Wacht am Rhein. ”
Alexandru Cristea
Alexandru Cristea( 1890 – 1942) was the composer of the music for" Limba Noastră", current national anthem of Moldova.

Question: Which country the composer of song Cloudburst (Whitacre) is from?
Answer: American