Randy Newman
Randall Stuart Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer and pianist who is known for his distinctive voice, mordant (and often satirical) pop songs and film scores.
Since the 1980s, Newman has worked mostly as a film composer.
His film scores include "RagtimeAwakeningsThe NaturalLeatherheads"Pleasantville, "Marriage StoryMeet the ParentsCold Turkey" and "Seabiscuit".
He has scored nine Disney-Pixar animated films: "Toy StoryA Bug's LifeToy Story 2Monsters, Inc.
CarsToy Story 3Monsters UniversityCars 3Toy Story 4" and Disney's "The Princess and the Frog" and "James and the Giant Peach."
Newman has received twenty Academy Award nominations in the Best Original Score and Best Original Song categories and has won twice in the latter category, contributing to the Newmans being the most nominated Academy Award extended family, with a collective 92 nominations in various music categories.
He has also won three Emmys, seven Grammy Awards and the Governor's Award from the Recording Academy.
Newman was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002 for classics such as "Short People", and as a Disney Legend in 2007.
He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2013.
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. ”
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.
Robert Letellier
Robert Ignatius Letellier( born 1953, in Durban, South Africa) is a cultural historian and a writer on the history of music, Romantic literature and the Bible.
He received a doctorate in English Romanticism from the University of Salzburg and has published more than one hundred articles and books on subjects including the Bible, eighteenth and nineteenth century novels, especially the works of Sir Walter Scott, and 19th- century music.
Letellier is particularly noted for scholarship on the life and works of the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer.
Letellier's four- volume translation of the composer's diaries has been cited as" the most important work on the composer to be published in English to date".
He has also published several studies of the composer's operas and other works which have played an important part in the revaluation of Meyerbeer, the most popular composer of the 19th century, whose works fell into almost complete neglect in the 20th but are now being rediscovered.
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.
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.
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.
Friends on the Other Side
"Friends on the Other Side" is a song from the 2009 animated film "The Princess and the Frog".
It was written by Randy Newman and is sung by Keith David, the voice of the film's villain, Doctor Facilier.
It depicts Facilier beginning his plan to take over New Orleans by first deceiving Prince Naveen while at the same time, getting his valet, Lawrence, to become his ally.
This song is reprised later in the film when he fails and is dragged into Hell.
Alexandru Cristea
Alexandru Cristea( 1890 – 1942) was the composer of the music for" Limba Noastră", current national anthem of Moldova.
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.

Question: What nationality is the composer of song Friends On The Other Side?
Answer: American