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. ”
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.
I'm Old Fashioned
"I'm Old Fashioned" is a 1942 song composed by Jerome Kern, with lyrics written by Johnny Mercer.
It was written for the film "
You Were Never Lovelier" (1942), where it was introduced by Nan Wynn who dubbed for Rita Hayworth as part of a song and dance routine with Fred Astaire.
According to Mueller: "Constructed sparsely in a kind of theme and variations form (ABA'A")
it is particularly notable for the appealing way the strains link up – especially for the poised and dramatic transitions between the A' and A" strains".
Mercer recalled working with the older Kern, and how Kern reacted to the lyrics for "I'm Old FashionedWe
hit it off right away.
I was in such awe of him
, I think he must have sensed that.
He was very kind to me, treated me more like a son than a collaborator.
And when he thought I had a great lyric he said, 'Eva, Eva, come down here', and he kissed me on the cheek and
he said, 'Eva, I want you to hear this lyric'.
Well, of course I was thrilled that he liked it that much, you know.
'I'm Old Fashioned', that one was."
The first recording was made in 1942 by Astaire with John Scott Trotter and his orchestra (Decca 18490).
It was then sung by Judy Garland, Dinah Shore, Julie Andrews, Andy Williams, Blossom Dearie, The King Sisters, and since the 1980s by artists like Cassandra Wilson, Maria João (both as up-tempo tunes), Stacey Kent and Victoria Williams.
It was also part of the early crossover attempt by classical soprano Eileen Farrell in 1960 with her album "
I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues".
Jessye Norman followed her example in 1984 ("With a Song in My Heart").
Beside the vocalists "I'm Old Fashioned" has been recorded by John Coltrane as a sensitive hard bop ballad in 1957 for his album "Blue Train", featuring trombonist Curtis Fuller, Lee Morgan on trumpet and Kenny Drew on piano.
Trumpeter and singer Chet Baker recorded the song several times, at first in 1958 on the album "(Chet Baker Sings)
It Could Happen to You".
On the British tv series Are You Being Served, Mrs. Slocombe hums and sings this song in the episode The Apartment (1979).
Nevertheless, the song has been predominantly interpreted by pianists like
George Shearing, Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck, Jimmy Rowles, Al Haig, Ahmad Jamal, Phineas Newborn Jr., Hank Jones, Tommy Flanagan, Kenny Drew, Marian McPartland, Cedar Walton, Sadao Watanabe, McCoy Tyner, Joanne Brackeen, and Brad Mehldau.
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.
Jerome Kern
Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music.
One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as "Ol' Man RiverCan't Help
Lovin'
Dat ManA Fine RomanceSmoke Gets in Your EyesThe Song
Is YouAll the Things
You
AreThe Way
You Look TonightLong Ago (and Far Away)" and
"Who?".
He collaborated with many of the leading librettists and lyricists of his era, including George Grossmith Jr., Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Dorothy Fields, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin and Yip Harburg.
A native New Yorker, Kern created dozens of Broadway musicals and Hollywood films in a career that lasted for more than four decades.
His musical innovations, such as 4/4 dance rhythms and the employment of syncopation and jazz progressions, built on, rather than rejected, earlier musical theatre tradition.
He and his collaborators also employed his melodies to further the action or develop characterization to a greater extent than in the other musicals of his day, creating the model for later musicals.
Although dozens of Kern's musicals and musical films were hits, only "Show Boat" is now regularly revived.
Songs from his other shows, however, are still frequently performed and adapted.
Many of Kern's songs have been adapted by jazz musicians to become standard tunes.
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.
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.
Just an Old Fashioned Girl
" Just An Old Fashioned Girl" is a popular song written by Marve A. Fisher and best known in its 1956 recording by Eartha Kitt.
The song was recorded with Henri René and his orchestra, and was included on Kitt's RCA album" Thursday's Child" which she recorded between December 1955 and April 1956.
Reviewer William Ruhlmann refers to the song as a" novelty ... to exploit Kitt's promiscuous gold- digger image, as she wooed millionaires and their money."
In 1958 the song was issued as a single in the UK, but failed to chart.
It became a minor chart hit in Australia in 1963.
" Just An Old Fashioned Girl" became a cornerstone of Eartha Kitt's stage act, as her popularity developed around the world at the same time as her novel and provocative image became less of an attraction to US audiences.
It became her signature tune in Britain, so much so that it is prominently mentioned in" The Cycling Tour," a Series 3 episode of" Monty Python's Flying Circus".
Some of the song's lyrics have been included in directories of quotations:
I'm just an old fashioned girl with an old fashioned mind< br>
Not sophisticated, I'm the sweet and simple kind< br>
I want an old fashioned house, with an old fashioned fence< br> And an old fashioned millionaire.
The song's lyricist and composer, Marvin A." Marve" Fisher( June 21, 1907 – September 1, 1957), was an Illinois- born and Los Angeles- based writer of comic and novelty songs, including" Ring Those Christmas Bells", recorded by Peggy Lee and others, which Fisher co-wrote with Gus Levene.
He is sometimes confused with another songwriter, Marvin Fisher( 1916 – 1993), who wrote" When Sunny Gets Blue" and" Destination Moon", and was the son of Fred Fisher.
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.

Question: What nationality is the composer of song I'M Old Fashioned?
Answer: American