Richard Albert Hundley (September 1, 1931 – February 25, 2018) was an American pianist and composer of art songs for voice and piano.
Hundley never went abroad to study, but credited his development as a songwriter to his three years in the Metropolitan Opera chorus and the longer time he spent as accompanist for Zinka Milanov's lessons.
As a result, Anneliese Rothenberger, Rosalind Elias, Anna Moffo, Teresa Stratas, Lili Chookasian, John Reardon, and Betty Allen began performing his songs on stage.
In 1962 when soprano Eileen DiTullio sang two of his songs, Softly the Summer and Spring, in a concert at The Town Hall in New York City.
The American art song specialist Paul Sperry began performing and advocating Hundley's music in the late 1960s.