Index to Short Biographies of Poets & Composers - M

Edward MacDowell, Composer, Arranger (USA)

Friedrich Gotthelf Machaon, Bach's Pupil (Saxony, Germany)

Johann Wilhelm Machts, Musician, Official in law firm, Copyist, Bach's Pupil (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany)

Roman Maciejewski, Composer, Arranger (Germany)

Bruno Maderna, Composer (Italy / Germany)

Jan Maegaard, Composer ((Denmark)

Joachim Magdeburg, Poet (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany)

Gustav Mahler, Composer, Arranger (Bohemia)

Adam Ephraim Mahn, Theology Student, Bach's Pupil (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany)

Stephan Mahu, Composer (Germany)

Guy Maier, Arranger (USA)

Johann Major, Hymn-Writer (Thuringia, Germany)

Fritz Malata, Arranger (Austria / Germany)

Gian-Francesco Malipiero, Composer (Italy)

William Malloch, Composer, Arranger (USA)

Thomas Mancinus, Composer (Mecklenburg, Germany)

Dietrich Manicke, Composer (Saxony, Germany)

Leopold Mannes, Composer, Arranger (USA)

Franco Mannino, Composer, Arranger (Italy)

Purcell J. Mansfield, Composer, Arranger (England)

Alessandro Marcello, Composer (Italy)

Benedetto Marcello, Composer (Italy)

Samuel Marckfelner, Composer (Bohemia/Slovakia) [Missing Biography]

Igor Markevitch, Composer, Arranger (Ukraine / Italy / France)

Miklós Maros, Composer (Hungary)

Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, Music Critic, Music Theorist, Composer, Copyist, Bach's Pupil (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany)

Christian Friedrich Marschner, Pastor, Bach's Pupil (Saxony, Germany)

Giuseppe Martucci, Composer, Arranger (Italy)

Adolf-Bernhard Marx, Composer, Arranger (Brazil)

Burle Marx, Composer, Arranger (Brazil / USA)

Christian Friedrich Maser, Bach's Pupil (Saxony, Germany)

William Mason, Composer, Arranger (USA)

Katsuya Matsubara, Arranger (Japan)

Nikolaus Matthes, Composer (Germany)

Johann Mattheson, Composer, Music Theorist (Hamburg, Germany)

Gottfred Matthison-Hansen, Composer, Denmark

Rabanus Maurus, Hymn-Writer (Germany)

Sally Mays, Arranger (Australia)

Clark McAlister, Music Editor, Arranger (USA)

Harl McDonald, Composer, Arranger (USA)

Nikolai Mednikoff, Arranger (Russia / USA

Frédéric Meinders, Composer, Arranger (The Netherlands)

Benjamin Gotthold Meiner, Bach's Pupil (Saxony, Germany)

Gottlob Samuel Meiner, Bach's Pupil (Brandenburg, Germany)

Christian Gottlob Meißner, Musician, Bach's Pupil (Saxony, Germany)

Christoph Friedrich Meißner, Copyist, Bach's Pupil (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany)

Johann Friedrich Meister, Composer (Lower Saxony, Germany)

Daniel R. Melamed, Musicologist (USA)

Philipp Melanchthon, Hymn-Writer (Baden-Württemberg, Germany)

Erkki Melartin, Composer, Arranger (Finland)

Alois Melichar, Composer, Arranger (Austria)

Johann Nicolaus Mempel, Kantor, Copyist, Bach's Pupil? (Thurinigia, Germany)

Christian Friedrich Hunold (Menantes), Librettist (Thuringia, Germany)

Johann Gottlob Mende, Bach's Pupil (Saxony, Germany)

Arnold Ludwig Mendelssohn, Composer (Silesia, Germany)

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Composer (Saxony, Germany)

Christian Heinrich Mentzel, Bach's Pupil (Saxony, Germany)

Friedrich Mergner, Composer (Germany)

P.J. Merola, Arranger (USA)

Victor Merzhanov, Arranger (Russia)

Johann Gottlieb Mesenberger, Bach's Pupil? (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany)

Wolfgang Meuslin, Hymn-Writer (France)

Johann Matthäus Meyfart, Hymn-Writer (Thuringia, Germany)

Tobias Michael, Composer, Thomaskantor (Saxony, Germany)

Hans Friedrich Micheelsen, Composer (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)

Wilhelm Middelschulte, Composer (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)

Oscar Milani, Arranger (Argentina)

Maurice Miles, Arranger (England)

Frank Millward, Composer, Arranger (Australia)

Dimitri Mitropoulos, Composer, Arranger (Greece / USA)

Johann Christian Mittenzwei, Kantor, Language Professor, Bach's Pupil (Saxony, Germany)

Lorenz Christoph Mizler von Kolof, Composer, Musical Scholar, Bach's Pupil (Baden-Württemberg, Germany)

Roland L. Moehlmann, Arranger (USA)

Robert Moevs, Composer (USA)

Philipp Mohler, Composer (Rhineland-Palatinate, , Germany)

Friedrich Christian Samuel Mohrheim, Kapellmeister, Copyist, Bach's Pupil (Thuringia, Germany)

Martin Moller, Hymn-Writer (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany)

Johann Melchior Molter, Composer (Thuringia, Germany)

Auguste Friderica de Monjou / Louise Catherine de Monjou, Singers, Bach's Pupils? (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany)

Gabriela Montero, Arranger (Venezuela)

Emanuel Moór, Composer, Arranger (Hungary)

Domenico Morgante, Musicologist (Italy)

Peter Morhard, Composer (Germany ?)

Johann Christoph Morhart, , Bach's Pupil (Lower Saxony, Germany)

François Morel, Composer (Canada)

Nicolaus Gottlieb Möser, School Owner, Bach's Pupil (Saxony, Germany)

Felix Mottl, Composer, Arranger (Austria)

David Earl Moyer, Arranger (USA) [Missing Biography]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer, Arranger (Austria)

Johann Mühlmann, Hymn-Writer (Saxony, Germany)

Johann Adolph Mulert, Pastor, Bach's Pupil (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany)

Johannes Stomius (Mulinus), Composer (Bavaria, Germany)

August Eberhard Müller, Composer, Thomaskantor (Hannover, Germany)

Heinrich Müller, Hymn-Writer (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)

Heinrich Müller, Hymn-Writer (Bavaria, Germany)

Johann Christian Müller, Bach's Pupil (Saxony, Germany)

Johann Gottfried Müller, Schoolmaster, Bach's Pupil (Saxony, Germany)

Johann Michael August Müller, Teacher, Pastor, Bach's Pupil (Saxony, Germany)

Paul Müller-Zürich, Composer (Switzerland)

William Murdoch, Arranger (Australia)

Johann Gottfried Müthel, Composer, Organ, Keyboard, Copyist, Bach's Pupil (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany / Latvia)

Herbert Murrill, Composer, Arranger (England)

Georg Mylius, Poet (Prussia)

Prepared by Aryeh Oron (May 2003 - April 2025)