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. ”
Robert Hunter (lyricist)
Robert C. Christie Hunter( born Robert Burns, June 23, 1941 – September 23, 2019) was an American lyricist, singer- songwriter, translator, and poet, best known for his work with the Grateful Dead.
Born near San Luis Obispo, California, Hunter spent some time in his childhood in foster homes, as a result of his father's abandoning his family, and took refuge in reading and writing.
He attended university in Connecticut for a year before returning to Palo Alto, where he became friends with Jerry Garcia.
Garcia and Hunter began a collaboration that lasted through the remainder of Garcia's life.
Garcia and others formed the Grateful Dead in 1965, and some time later began working with lyrics that Hunter had written.
Garcia invited him to join the band as a lyricist, and Hunter contributed substantially to many of their albums, beginning with" Aoxomoxoa" in 1969.
Over the years Hunter wrote lyrics to a number of the band's signature pieces, including" Dark StarRippleTruckin' China Cat Sunflower", and" Terrapin Station".
Hunter was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the Grateful Dead in 1994, and is the only non-performer to be inducted as a member of a band.
Upon his death," Rolling Stone" described him as" one of rock's most ambitious and dazzling lyricists".
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.
Jerry Garcia
Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for his work as the lead guitarist and as a vocalist with the band the Grateful Dead, which came to prominence during the counterculture era in the 1960s.
Although he disavowed the role, Garcia was viewed by many as the leader or "spokesman" of the group.
As one of its founders, Garcia performed with the Grateful Dead for their entire 30-year career (1965–1995).
Garcia also founded and participated in a variety of side projects, including the Saunders–Garcia Band (with longtime friend Merl Saunders), the Jerry Garcia Band, Old & In the Way, the Garcia/Grisman acoustic duo, Legion of Mary, and the New Riders of the Purple Sage (which Garcia co-founded with John Dawson and David Nelson).
He also released several solo albums, and contributed to a number of albums by other artists over the years as a session musician.
He was well known for his distinctive guitar playing, and was ranked 13th in "Rolling Stone"s "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" cover story in 2003.
In the 2015 version of the list he was ranked at #46.
Garcia was also renowned for his musical and technical ability, particularly his ability to play a variety of instruments, and his ability to sustain long improvisations with the Grateful Dead.
Garcia believed that improvisation took stress away from his playing and allowed him to make spur of the moment decisions that he would not have made intentionally.
In an interview with "Rolling Stone", Garcia noted that "my own preferences are for improvisation, for making it up as I go along.
The idea of "picking", of eliminating possibilities by deciding, that's difficult for me".
Garcia's improvisation techniques were widely lauded for their ability to span genres, as well as his ability to employ modal guitar playing.
He was particularly a proponent of using the Mixolydian mode, a scale which utilised a flattened 7th note.
Later in life, Garcia struggled with diabetes, and in 1986 went into a diabetic coma that nearly cost him his life.
Although his overall health improved somewhat after that, he continued to struggle with obesity, smoking, and longstanding heroin and cocaine addictions.
He was staying in a California drug rehabilitation facility when he died of a heart attack in August 1995 at the age of 53.
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.
China Cat Sunflower
"China Cat Sunflower" is a song performed by the Grateful Dead which was first recorded for their third studio album "Aoxomoxoa".
The lyrics were written by Robert Hunter and the music composed by Jerry Garcia.
The song was typically sung by Jerry Garcia.
The first live recording of this song appeared on "Europe '72", paired (as was typical) with "I Know You Rider".
Lyrically, this song has many literary references, including Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland", George Herriman's "Krazy Kat", and Dame Edith Sitwell's "Polka".
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: Which country the composer of song China Cat Sunflower is from?
Answer: American