Musicians & Composers

Composers and musicians whose work is religiously significant across traditions rather than confined to one, Bach, Handel, Mozart, Allegri and Bruch in the Christian sacred-music tradition, Salomone Rossi in Renaissance Jewish liturgical music, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan in Sufi qawwali, Bob Marley within Rastafari and John Coltrane's own late spiritual jazz. A figure belongs here for composing or performing work of direct religious significance, distinct from a religious leader, theologian or founder who happened to also value music.