Franz Abt ("Wenn die Schwalben heimwärts ziehn") (biography)

Roy Acuff ("King of the Hillbillies")

Louis Armstrong (biography)

Thomas Augustine Arne ("Rule, Brittania!")

Gene Autry (autobiography)

Johann Christian Bach (son of J. S. Bach)

Edward E. Bagley ("National Emblem March")

Michael William Balfe (biography)

William "Count" Basie (biography)

Ludwig van Beethoven* (biography)

Irving Berlin (biography)

Michel Blavet (Concerto for Flute, 2 Violins & Bass in Aminor - 1.Allegro)

Dimitry Stepanovich Bortnyansky (The Russian Masonic Anthem)(The Story)

Barnee Breeskin ("Hail to the Redskins!")

Robert Burns ("Auld Lang Syne")

Major General Daniel Butterfield ("Taps") (The True Story)

Charles Wakefield Cadman (biography)

Luigi Cherubini (biography)

Louis Nicolas Clérambault (Suite du Premier Ton - Grand Plein Jeu)

Roy Clark (biography)

George M. Cohan (biography)

Nat King Cole (biography)

Duke Ellington (biography)

Benjamin Franklin (composing for his glass "armonica")

Frederick the Great, King of Prussia (artist and composer)

George Gerswin (biography)

François Giroust (1738-1799) (a brief biographical sketch "Le Déluge - Rituel maçonnique funèbre")

Charles Francis Gounod (biography in French)

Oliver Norvell Hardy (biography)

A. Holmes-Dallimore ("Except the Lord Build the House" & al.)

Johan Napomuk Hummel (biography in German)

Al Jolson (biography)

Reginald de Koven (biography)

Franz Lizst (biography)

Albert Hay Malotte ("The Lord's Prayer")

Etienne Nicolas Mehul ("La Chasse du Jeune Henri") (biography in French)

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy ("The Wedding March")

Giacomo Meyerbeer (biography)

Jacques-Christophe Naudot (Some biographical information)

Andreas Pflüger ("Masonic Music")

Ignaz Joseph Pleyel ("Pleyel's Hymn")

Roy Rogers ("Happy Trails")

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle ("La Marseillaise") (biography)

Sigmund Romberg (biography)

Red Skelton ("Red's White and Blue March")

John Stafford Smith ("The Star Spangled Banner")

Arsène Souffriau (born 1926 in Belgium)

Sir Arthur Sullivan ("Onward, Christian Soldiers")

Meredith Willson ("The Music Man")

Paul Whiteman (biography)

Blavet, Clérambault, Jean-Philippe Rameau, and Naudot composed masonic music. Blavet, Clérambault and Naudot were members of the fraternity. Their masonic music is available on 'Musiques Maconniques' (EMI Classics 7243 5 69567 2 8).

Samuel Wesley, brother of hymn writer Charles, was the first Grand Organist of the United GL of England.

There are several papers published in "Ars Quatour Coronatorum" on this topic.

* Beethoven and several others on this list are taken from a list published by the Masonic Services Association; their masonic connection may not be accurate.

Contributors to this page include:

Brother Neil Wynes Morse
Brother George Helmer
Brother Gary A. Fields
Brother Touvia (Teddy) Goldstein
Brother Mark R. Sandstrom
Brother John Shroeder
Brother Grady Lee Honeycutt
Brother Barnes A. Sharritt, Jr.
Brother Christian Stalder