Ray Austin was born on May 26, 1915, in New York City, New York, USA.

He was an American composer known for Jerusalem, Jerusalem (1979) and Musical Merry-Go-Round #1 (1948).

He died on June 24, 1998, in Pasadena, California, USA.

Rev. James Cooper Antliff was born on February 1, 1844, in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, son of Rev. William Antliff (1813-1884).

He was a Methodist clergyman. He was educated at Haslingden Wesleyan School, Edinburgh University (M.A., 1873; B.D., 1874) and Victoria University (Honoris Causa D.D., 1887). Antliff was a Professor of Hebrew and Apologetics at the Wesleyan Theological College, Montreal, for nine years. He also served as a Secretary of the Methodist Church of Canada.

In 1866, he married Fanny H. Holden (1845–1880), and in 1882, he remarried Jane Elizabeth Gooderham (1840–). He died on December 25, 1920, in Montreal, Quebec.

George F. Austin was a provincial land surveyor and land agent in Quebec and Ottawa in the mid- and late 1800s.

In 1878, Clarence Austin wrote the lyrics of the song "Old Ocean's Life Is in Our Veins: Four-Part Song," composed by Henry Leslie (1822-1896) and performed on April 11, 1890, by a choir.

Christopher Aurivillius was born on January 15, 1843, in Forsa, Hälsingland, Sweden.

He was a world-renowned Swedish entomologist, author and educator. Aurivillius worked as a curator at the entomological department of the National Museum of Natural History. In 1895, he was elected to the Academy of Sciences, where he served as its secretary, and the Academy of Agriculture in the same year. He established the Swedish Entomological Institute in the 1890s and contributed to the multi-volume Swedish Insect Fauna. Additionally, he was an eminent educator and served as a member of Stockholm's public school board. Aurivillius published several research papers and books on butterflies, sticklebacks, hoppers, and beetles. He was a member of various domestic and foreign scientific societies, including the Zoological Society of London and the Entomological Society of London. Notably, his brother Carl was also a famous naturalist.

In 1884, he married Agnes Danielsson (1857- ?). He died on July 20, 1928, in Mörby, Stockholm, Sweden.

Born at Lodève, he studied at the Montpellier Conservatory, then at the Paris Conservatoire (1913) and with Vincent d'Indy at the Schola Cantorum (1914–16). He became acquainted with Satie and Cocteau, under whose influence he and five other young French composers (including Milhaud, Honegger, and Poulenc) formed the group Les Six as a reaction against the influence of Wagner and Debussyan impressionism on French music.
During the 1920s Auric wrote several pieces for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, notably Les Matelots (1925), and was one of the pianists in the first performance of Stravinsky's Les Noces. His piano sonata (1930–31) shows the considerable influence that Stravinsky had on his work. His film score for Cocteau's Le Sang d'un poète (1929) marked the beginning of his important contribution to this field, which included the scores for René Clair's À nous la liberté (1932), Cocteau's La Belle et la bête (1946), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), and Moulin Rouge (1952).
After World War II Auric turned again to ballet, his later works including Phèdre (1950) and Coup de feu (1952). He also held a number of administrative posts, among them director of the Paris Opéra and of the Opéra-Comique (1962–68), in which he helped to re-establish French operatic life.

Augener & Co. was a music-publishing business, founded in London, in 1855. It was established by George Augener (1830–1915), a German.

In the late 19th century, Augener & Co.'s catalogue contained about 6,000 works, of which nearly 1,000 were cheap volumes; among these was a comprehensive collection of pianoforte classics edited by Ernst Pauer, as well as an important series of educational works edited by him, by John Farmer, and other well-known musicians. They also published The Monthly Musical Record (circulation about 6000), a journal publishing articles in English musical literature by prominent contributors.

In 1910, after Augener’s retirement, Schott and Co. Ltd. acquired the company, but was expropriated at the outbreak of World War I (1914). However, Schott retained the copyright to the editions they had previously acquired. In 1960–1961, the firm acquired the catalogues of UK publishers Joseph Weekes and Joseph Williams. In 1962, Augener & Co. was sold to Galaxy Music of New York and became a division of Galaxy's UK subsidiary, Galliard Ltd.

Lera Auerbach (Russian: Лера Авербах, born Valeria Lvovna Averbakh, Russian: Валерия Львовна Авербах) was born on October 21, 1973, in Chelyabinsk, Soviet Union.

She is a Soviet-born Austrian American classical composer, conductor, and concert pianist. She was born to a Jewish family in Chelyabinsk, a city in the Ural Mountains. Her mother was a piano teacher, many of whose ancestors had also been musicians. Lera began composing her music at an early age. She received permission to visit the United States on a concert tour in 1991; although she spoke no English, she decided to stay to pursue her musical career. She graduated from New York's Juilliard School in piano. She also studied comparative literature at Columbia University and earned a piano diploma at the Hochschule für Musik Hannover. Auerbach made her Carnegie Hall debut in May 2002, performing her Suite for Violin, Piano and Orchestra with violinist Gidon Kremer conducting the Kremerata Baltica. She has appeared as a solo pianist at such venues as the Great Concert Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Tokyo Opera City, Lincoln Center, Herkulessaal, Oslo Konserthus, Chicago's Theodore Thomas Orchestra Hall and the Kennedy Center.
In 2005, Auerbach received the Hindemith Prize from the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. The same year, she received the Förderpreis Deutschlandfunk and the Bremer Musikfest Prize; she was composer-in-residence in Bremen. She is the youngest composer to be represented by music publisher Internationale Musikverlage Hans Sikorski of Hamburg, Germany. In 2007, she was selected as a member of the Forum of Young Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.