How interesting about Schroeder! It seems that there is much more to him than I had thought - though I greatly admired what I did know of his music.

Junior Foggiatto 1x? December 2020

While we are adding people we can add our friend and colleague that sang with us for many years, sadly this is the first year we have not organised an anniversary Requiem Mass,

Mr Denis Smith 24th November 2016

Catherine Ennis, †24/12/2020
who has died from cancer aged 65, was organist and director of music at St Lawrence Jewry in the City of London for the past 35 years; she was not only a rare woman in a male dominated-profession, but was also a Catholic working in the Anglican tradition.
https://www.rco.org.uk/news_displaystory.php?newsid=340

Holger Peter Sandhofe, unknown, 2004 or 2005
Robert W. Krick, January 11, 1998
Rick Foegler, January 24, 2017
Daniel Andrew Bradley, Sr., February 4, 2017
Fr Ralph March, O Cist, February 6, 2016
James Healey Willan, CC, Mus. Doc., FRCO, February 16, 1968
Richard T. Proulx, February 18, 2010
Richard Hillert, February 18, 2010
Theodore Marier, KCSG, February 24, 2001
Gail Walton, February 24, 2010
Fr. Lawrence Heiman, C.PP.S., February 26, 2012
Nicholas Gale, March 10, 2015
Victor Louis Repetto, March 14, 2014
Paul Salamunovich, April 3, 2014
Msgr. Martin Hellriegel, April 10, 1981
Carroll T. Andrews, April 14, 2014
Msgr. Richard Schuler, April 20, 2007
Gerald T. Conroy, April 22, 1964
Msgr. Edgar "Allen" Arbour, April 29 2017
Sr. Thomas More (Mary Berry), May 1, 2008
William Ferris, May 16, 2000
Don Barrett, May 17, 2012
Dr. Robert J. Schaffer, May 20, 2014
Meri Dell Ridge, June 5, 2017
Fr Urban Schnaus, OSB, June 6, 2003
Fr. Columba Kelly, O.S.B., June 9, 2018
H.O. Hinton, ~ June 14, 2014
D. James Morre, June 16, 2016
Dr. Lucy E. Carroll, June 19, 2015
Prof. Dr. Richard Merrittstein-Timmins, June 19, 2018
Calvert Shenk, July 9, 2005
Marie Kleiman, July 23, 2018
Thomas M. Kuras, July 26, 1997
Bill Wilson, August 6, 2015
Kenneth P. Blue, September 9, 2014
Roger Wagner, KCSG, September 17, 1992
Stephen Reen, September 24, 2018
Charles Culbreth, September 27, 2018
Martin G. Dumler, M.Mus., October 19, 1958
Felix Goebel-Komala, November 3, 2016
Dr. Helmut Roehrig, November 6, 2017
Domenico Cardinal Bartolucci, November 11, 2013
Lois Agnes Kane, November 21, 2006
Fr. William Faber, November 26, 1863
Harold R. Conti, December 14, 2003
Rev. Joseph Roff, 1910-1993
Sister Theophane Hytrek, 1915-1992
Rev. Lucien Deiss, 1921-2007
Omer Westendorf, 1916-1997
Illiam Ferris, 1937-2000

aged 28

My goodness! You say she died suddenly, and illustrate this with the fact that she sang for Easter. Do you know the cause of death?

Updated list (as of June 8, 2022), moved from earlier page (with dates added for most liturgical/sacred musicians who passed away after 1900):

JANUARY
Fr. Michael Haller, January 4, 1915
Fr. Elmer Pfeil, January 7, 1976
Robert W. Krick, January 11, 1998
Fr. Valentine Young, OFM, January 17, 2020
Roberto Remondi, January 22, 1928
Rick Foegler, January 24, 2017
Hubert Gruender, January 25, 1940
Francis Poulenc, January 30, 1963

FEBRUARY
Daniel Andrew Bradley, Sr., February 4, 2017
Fr Ralph March, O Cist, February 6, 2016
Eric Thiman, February 13, 1975
James Healey Willan, CC, Mus. Doc., FRCO, February 16, 1968
Richard T. Proulx, February 18, 2010
Richard Hillert, February 18, 2010
Edward Elgar, February 23, 1934
Herbert Howells, February 23, 1983
Theodore Marier, KCSG, February 24, 2001
Gail Walton, February 24, 2010
Fr. Lawrence Heiman, C.PP.S., February 26, 2012
C. Alexander Peloquin, February 27, 1997

MARCH
Nicholas Gale, March 10, 2015
Charles-Marie Widor, March 12, 1937
Victor Louis Repetto, March 14, 2014
Chanoine Nicolas-Mammès Couturier, March 24, 1911

APRIL
Paul Salamunovich, April 3, 2014
Madame Marilyn Mason, April 4, 2019
Rachael Ward, April 5, 2021
Igor Stravinsky, April 6, 1971
Msgr. Martin Hellriegel, April 10, 1981
J. Vincent Higginson (aka Cyr de Brant), April 11, 1994
Carroll T. Andrews, April 14, 2014
Sir Richard R. Terry, April 18, 1938
August Huybrechts, April 19, 2020
Msgr. Richard Schuler, April 20, 2007
Gerald T. Conroy, April 22, 1964
Olivier Messaien, April 27, 1992
Msgr. Edgar "Allen" Arbour, April 29 2017

MAY
Sr. Thomas More (Mary Berry), May 1, 2008
Jean Langlais, May 8, 1991
William Ferris, May 16, 2000
Don Barrett, May 17, 2012
Gregory Paul Latz, May 17, 2019
John (Jack) Minor Conner, May 19, 2022
Dr. Robert J. Schaffer, May 20, 2014
Holger Peter Sandhofe, May 24, 2005
Gustav Holst, May 25, 1934
John Singenberger, May 29, 1924

JUNE
Louis Vierne, June 2, 1937
Fr. Jonathan Robinson, June 3, 2020
Meri Dell Ridge, June 5, 2017
Fr Urban Schnaus, OSB, June 6, 2003
Fr. Columba Kelly, O.S.B., June 9, 2018
Théodore Dubois, June 11, 1924
Huland "H.O." Hinton, June 13, 2014
D. James Morre, June 16, 2016
Charles Edwin Wyeth, June 18, 2020
Dr. Lucy E. Carroll, June 19, 2015
Prof. Dr. Richard Merrittstein-Timmins, June 19, 2018
Jehan Alain, June 20, 1940
Robert F Stich, June 24, 2003

JULY
Oreste Ravanello, July 2, 1938
Ciro Grassi, July 2, 1952
Calvert Shenk, July 9, 2005
Rev. Joseph Roff, July 10, 1993
Camil van Hulse, July 16, 1988
Msgr Arthur Bastress, July 16, 2020
Muriel Hickey, July 19, 2019
Marie Kleiman, July 23, 2018
Thomas M. Kuras, July 26, 1997

AUGUST
Fr. Carlo Rossini, August 6, 1975
Bill Wilson, August 6, 2015
Noel Goemanne, August 7, 2014
Sr. M Theophane Hytrek, OSF, August 13, 1992
Peter Piel, August 21, 1904
Ralph Vaughan Williams, August 26, 1958
Laszlo Dobszay, August 26, 2011

SEPTEMBER
Kenneth P. Blue, September 9, 2014
Henry McDowell Jr., September 11, 2017
Roger Wagner, KCSG, September 17, 1992
Leo C. Nestor, September 22, 2019
Stephen Reen, September 24, 2018
Ryan Dingess, September 25, 2020
Charles Culbreth, September 27, 2018
Melchiorre Mauro-Cottone, September 29, 1938

OCTOBER
Hermann Schroeder, October 7, 1984
Rev. Lucien Deiss, October 9, 2007
Martin G. Dumler, M.Mus., October 19, 1958
Omer Westendorf, October 22, 1997

NOVEMBER
Felix Goebel-Komala, November 3, 2016
Dr. Helmut Roehrig, November 6, 2017
Domenico Cardinal Bartolucci, November 11, 2013
Rebecca McLoughlin, November 18, 2019
Lois Agnes Kane, November 21, 2006
Pietro Alessandro Yon, November 22, 1943
Sir Stephen Cleobury, November 22 2019
Bp. Robert Morlino, November 24, 2018
Denis Smith, November 24, 2016
Colin Mawby, November 24, 2019
Fr. William Faber, November 26, 1863

DECEMBER
Benjamin Britten, December 4, 1976
Harold R. Conti, December 14, 2003
Junior Foggiatto, December 15, 2020
Camille Saint Saens, December 16, 1921
Joseph Ahrens, December 21, 1997
Catherine Ennis, December 24, 2020
Everett Titcomb, December 31, 1968


Other liturgical/sacred musicians, without dates of passing, mostly of historical interest (before the 20th century):

ABC
R.F.M. Akerman; Jacob Arcadelt; Fr. Gregorio Allegri; Johann Sebastian Bach; Margaret Zender Beaulieu; Louis and Wm. Berge; Gilles Binchois; Frank N. Birtchnell; John B. Blockley; Carl Bloom; Bro. Bonitus; Peter von Brachel; E. M. Bray; Anton Bruckner; Fr. Jacques Brydaine; William Byrd; Antonio de Cabezon; Claudio Casciolini; Marc-Antoine Charpentier; Fr. Auguste Cherion; Sr. Mary Cherubim; Luigi Cherubini; James G. Clark; Bartolomeo Cordans; Fr. D. G. Corner; Francois Couperin; Fr. Giovanni Croce; Fr. James B. Curry;

DEFG
Lorenzo Dobici; Charles A. Donelson; Sr. Mary Alexis Donnelly; William Dressler; Guillaume Dufay; Maurice Durufle; Juan Esquivel; Caspar Ett; César Franck; Melchior Franck; Johann Adam Feinsberg (AKA Jean-Adam Guilain); Max Fichtner; Girolamo Frescobaldi; Giovanni Gabrieli; Sr. Mary Antonio Gallagher; Orlando Gibbons; Charles Gounod; Nicolas de Grigny; Francisco Guerrero; Guido of Arezzo;

HIJKL
Victor Hammerel; Fr. Jacob Handl; Thoro Harris; Hans Leo Hassler; Franz Joseph Haydn; Henri Freidrich Hemy; Melchior Ludwig Herold; Ludwig Imgrund; Jaquet de Mantua; Josquin des Prez; Juan de Arratia; Johann Kaspar Kerll; Bernhard Kothe; Fr. Louis Lambilotte; Orlando di Lassus; Fr. Leonin; J. M. Loretz; Antonio Lotti; Clinton D. Lowden;

MNOPQ
Guillaume de Machaut; Fr. William Maher; Fr. Giovanni Battista Martini; Joseph Miel; Claudio Merulo; Fr. Theodore A. Metcalf; Arthur de Meulemeester; Claudio Monteverdi; Nicola Montani; Cristobal Morales; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Vincent F. Novello; Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina; Robert Parsons; Giovanni Battista Pergolesi; Perotin; Fr. Peter Philips; Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni; Lester Price; Heinrich Proch; Henry Purcell; Mary, Queen of Scots;

RST
Josef Gabriel Rheinberger; John Richardson; Rev. F. Robinson; George F. Root; Francesco Roselli; Antonio Salieri; Jacob H. Schloeder; Wilhem Schultes (Schulthes); Heinrich Schütz; Johannes Schweitzer; Fr. John Selner; Howard E. Smith; Jonathan Spilman; Johann Stadlmayr; Sir John Stainer; Fr. Francis Stanfield; Thomas Tallis; Giuseppe Tartini; Delfino Thermignon; Jean Titelouze; Thomas Tomkins; Augustus E. Tozer;

UVWXYZ
Fr. Lodovico Viadana; Fr. Tomas Luis da Victoria; John Francis Wade; Mary E. Walsh; Sr. Mary Paul Warde; Samuel Webbe Sr.; Samuel Webbe Jr.; Thomas Weelkes; Anthony Werner; Heinrich Werner; Frederick Whitefield; H. Whitehead; Fr. Ignatius Wilkens; J. Williams; Fr. Alfred Young; Jan Dismas Zelenka;

Thanks, Felicia. I just added Camil van Hulse, July 16, 1988 to the list above.

Pray for John (Jack) Minor Conner - organist, choir director, recitalist
active most recently in the NY, NJ area.

Bachelor of Music from Catholic University of America
Master of Music from University of Southern California
Spoleto Festival, Charleston, SC
Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, DC
Princeton, NJ
etc.

born 1937, died May 19, 2022

Fr. Elmer Pfeil, +1/7/1976, Director of Music St Francis Major Seminary, Milwaukee 1948-1981

Unless, I missed it, I don't see my teacher Marilyn Mason1925-2019.
Taught for 67 years at Univ. of Michigan!

In researching various hymns, I have come across a number of composers. Many of these composers have more than one hymn associated to their name, I just listed the hymns I have spent in researching. I'm sure some of them have already been listed.

Anthony Werner (O Salutaris)
Arthur de Meulemeester (St. Gerard)
Augustus E. Tozer (Draw Nigh, Draw Nigh Emmanuel)

Bro. Bonitus (Dear Guardian of Mary)

Carl Bloom (Prayer for a Soldier)
Ch. Gounod (What a Sea of Tears and Sorrows)
Charles A. Donelson (Sweetest Mother)
Clinton D. Lowden (No Room for the King)

Fr. D. G. Corner, O.S.B. (Who is She Ascends so High)
E. M. Bray (Mary How Sweetly Falls that Word)
Fr. Alfred Young (Lead Us Great Teacher Paul)
Fr. Francis Stanfield (Sweet Sacrament Divine)
Fr. Jacques Brydaine (Jesus My God Behold at Length)
Fr. James B. Curry (Good Night, Sweet Jesus)
Fr. John Selner (Like the Dawning)
Fr. Louis Lambillotte, S.J. (Ave Maris Stella)
Fr. Theodore A. Metcalf (O Sacred Heart! O Love Divine!)
Fr. William Maher, S.J. (To Jesus Heart All Burning)

Frank N. Birtchnell (O Take Me To Thy Sacred Heart)
Franz Joseph Haydn (Only Thee My Jesus)
Frederick Whitefield (I Need Thee Gracious Jesus)

G.B. Pergolesi (God of Mercy and Compassion)
George F. Root (Like a Strong and Raging Fire)

H. Whitehead (Hail Holy Joseph Hail)
Heinrich Proch (Peace Be Still Our God Is Dwelling)
Henri Freidrich Hemy (Hail Queen of Heaven the Ocean Star)
Howard E. Smith (Christmas Bells Ring On)

J. M. Loretz (Let a Pious Prayer Be Said)
J. Williams (O Sacred Heart, What Shall I Render Thee)
Jacob H. Schloeder (The Divine Praises)
James G. Clark (He Is Looking Through the Lattice)
John B. Blockley (Sacred Heart! In Accents Burning)
John Francis Wade (Adeste Fideles)
John Richardson (By the Blood That Flowed From Thee)
Jonathan Spilman (O Purest of Creatures)
Joseph Miel (Jesus, My Lord, My God, My All)

Lester Price (Christmas Bells)
Lorenzo Dobici (Soul of My Savior)
Louis and Wm. Berge (Blest Guardian Angel)
Ludwig Imgrund (Hide Thou Me, a local musician in Cleveland, Ohio)
Luigi Cherubini (Veni Jesu Amor Mi)

Margaret Zender Beaulieu (The Christ Child)
Mary E. Walsh (Bring Flowers of the Rarest)
Melchior Ludwig Herold (Hail Holy Queen Enthroned Above)

Nicola A. Montani (O Dearest Love Divine)

R. R. Terry (What a Sea of Tears and Sorrows)
R. Remondi (O Sacrum Convivium)
R.F.M. Akerman (Little White Guest)
Rev. F. Robinson (The Sun Is Shining Brightly)

Samuel Webb (Behold, Behold He Cometh)
Sir John Stainer (Jesus, Gentlest Savior)
Sr. Mary Cherubim (Hosanna To The Son of David)
Sr. Mary Alexis Donnelly (Jesus Keep Me Close To Thee)
Sr. Mary Antonio Gallagher (Dear Heart of My Saviour)
Sr. Mary Paul Warde (Our Lady of Mercy)

Theodore Dubois (Adoramus te Christe)
Thoro Harris (Tidings of His Birth)

Victor Hammerel (Sweet Heart of Jesus, My God, My Friend)
Vincent F. Novello (Who Is She Ascends So High)

William Dressler (Holy Mary, Mother Mild)

CHGiffen

Here are a few more that have composed music for the church. The music from the sisters are lesser known but I think are significant.

Dr. J. Lewis Browne (O Salutaris Hostia, Director of music in Chicago Schools, Caecilia Magazine 1933)

Sr. M. Florentine P.H.J.C (Our Lady of Fatima, In Praise of Mary, Mass settings, Caecilia Magazine 1955)

Sr. Marie Kirby, O.S.F. (Mary, All Beautiful, Caecilia Magazine 1955)

Sr. Regina Dolores Devanney, S.S.J. (Heart of Jesus Hear)

Albert H. RoSewig (Ave Maris Stella, Various Mass settings, Litanies, and Benediction music)

James A. Reilly (McLaughlin & Reilly Co., Caecilia Magazine)

Mother J. Sweetman, R.S.C.J (Eithne Joan Sweetman) (O Come to the Throne of Grace)

M. Labat (Regina Coeli)

Theodore La Hache (various Mass settings, Mass in G used by the choir of St. Mary's when I sang)