Name | Born | Died | Information |
Boatner, Edward Hammond | 13 Nov. 1898 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA | 16 Jun. 1981 New York, USA | Boatner became known as a successful singer, composer and educator. He was instructor at his own academy, the Edward Boatner Studio. Wade in the Water and City Called Heaven were two of over 200 spirituals he set for solo voice and piano |
Bobic, Davor more... | 1968 Varazdin, Croatia | | studied composition, orchestration and the accordion at the Ukraine State "Tchaikovsky" Conservatory in Kiev. He has written for a wide range of musical forms from piano miniatures to massive symphonic works as well as musical pieces for the theatre. A recent work, Vukovar Requiem, was performed by 270 musicians at the Zagreb Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall and broadcast live on the national TV. He is currently assistant professor at the Osijek Musical Academy and a director of Varazdin Concert Management |
Bobinski (or Bobinsky), Heinrich (Henryk, Genrikh) Antonov | 19 Jan. 1861 Warsaw, Poland | 24 Apr. 1941 Warsaw, Poland | Polish pianist and composer |
Bobowsky, Wojciech (see Ufki, Ali) | | | |
Bobri, Vladimir more... | 13 May 1898 | 1987 | a painter, composer and guitar historian who helped found the Society of the Classic Guitar in 1936. In 1948 became editor of Guitar Review |
Bobrowicz, Jan Nepomucen more... | 12 May 1805 Krakow, Poland | 2 Nov. 1881 | Polish guitarist and composer |
Bocanegra, Juan Perez more... | c.1598 Spain | after 1631 Lima, Peru | Spanish composer of liturgical music |
Bocca, Bruno more... | | | composer of electroacoustic music |
Boccadoro, Carlo more... | 1963 Macerata, Italy | | Italian composer who lives in Milan |
Boccherini, (Ridolfo) Luigi more... | 19 Feb. 1743 Lucca, Italy | 28 May 1805 Madrid, Spain | cellist and composer of string chamber music similar in style to his contemporary, Haydn |
Bocchi, Lorenzo | fl. early 18th-century | | the Italian cellist and composer Lorenzo Bocchi does not merit an entry in any modern music dictionary, yet he was a figure of some importance in Scottish and Irish musical life in the 1720s. He was probably the first person to play the cello in Scotland and Ireland, and was involved in early attempts to establish regular concerts in Edinburgh and Dublin. He was an associate of Allan Ramsay senior, and seems to have been involved in the operatic experiments in Edinburgh that were to lead to the first Scottish opera, Ramsay's The Gentle Shepherd. He played an important role in the early history of music publication in Ireland, and had a hand in the first printed collection of Irish tunes, published by Neal in 1724. He may also have been responsible for bringing to Ireland the material for the parallel collection of Scots tunes that Neal published in the same year |
Boccosi, Bio more... | 1912 Italy | 28 Jun. 2006 Italy | sometime owner of Italian musical instrument maker Farfisa and from 1960 of music publisher Edizioni Bèrben [founded in Modena on 1946 by Mr. Ber(lini) Ben(edetto)]; also a writer on, and composer of music for the accordion |
Bochkoltz-Falconi, Anna | 1820 Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany | 1879 | a singer and teacher who produced a number of songs and vocal studies |
Bochmann, Christopher Consitt more... | 8 Nov. 1950 Chipping North, Oxon | | studied at New College, Oxford, with David Lumsden, Kenneth Leighton and Robert Sherlaw Johnson, and privately with Nadia Boulanger and Richard Rodney Bennett. After four years working in Britain, he spent two years at the Escola de Música in Brasília. Since 1980 he has lived and worked in Portugal where he is now Head of Composition at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (he was Director from 1995 to 2001). He has conducted the Lisbon Youth Orchestra since 1984 Dr. Bochmann's email addresses are bochmann@netcabo.pt and christopherbochmann@hotmail.com |
Bochmann, Werner more... | 17 May 1900 Meerane, Germany | 3 Jun. 1993 Schliersee/Oberbayern, Germany | German composer noted particularly for his film music |
Bochsa, Nicolas Charles more... | 9 Aug. 1789 Montmedy, France | 6 Jan. 1856 Sydney, Australia | one of the most celebrated harpists of the XIXth century. His life has been a series of adventures of all kinds. He composed operas for the Opera-Comique in Paris, and hundreds of pieces for harp, methods [information provided by Michel Faul] |
Bock, Jerry more... | 23 Nov. 1928 New Haven, CT, USA | 3 Nov. 2010 Mount Kisco, NY, USA | American composer whose hits include Too Close For Comfort and the score for the play Fiorello |
Böcklin von Böcklinsau, Franz Friedrich Siegmund August von, Reichsfreiherr zu Rust | 28 Sep. 1745 Strasbourg | 2 Jun. 1813 Ettenheim | German composer |
Bockshorn (Capricorius), Samuel Friedrich more... | 1628 Zerzice, Bohemia | 1665 Stuttgart, Germany | South-German violinist and composer |
Bocquet, Anne (Marguerite) more... | early 17th century | after 1660 | French lutenist and composer who published in France in 1663 |
Bocxstaele, Jean van | 16 Sep. 1818 Ghent, Belgium | 5 Sep. 1867 Ghent, Belgium | composer and organist |
Böddecker, Philipp Friedrich more... | 5 Aug. 1607 Hagenau, Germany | 1683 Stuttgart, Germany | South-German violinist and composer |
Bodel, Jean (or Jehan) more... | c. 1167 | 1210 | Old French poet who wrote a number of chansons de geste as well as many fabliaux. He lived in Arras |
Bodin, Lars Gunnar more... | 1935 Stockholm, Sweden | | has composed exclusively electroacoustic music since the 60s, pioneer of Sound Art in Sweden and director of the Studio EMS in Stockholm for more than 10 years |
Bodinus, Sebastian more... | c. 1700 Bittstädt, Saxe-Gotha | 19 Mar. 1759 Pforzheim, Germany | German composer about whom very little is known |
Bodorová, Sylvie more... | 1954 Ceske Budejovice, Czechoslovakia | | Czech composer |
Body, Jack more... | 1944 New Zealand | | His music covers most genres, including solo and chamber music, orchestral music, music-theatre, music for dance and film as well as electroacoustic music. He has also worked in experimental photography and computer-controlled sound-image installations, having received commissions from several public galleries. A fascination with the music and cultures of Asia, particularly Indonesia, has been a strong influence on his music. As an ethnomusicologist his published recordings include music from Indonesia and China. A recent landmark publication he edited was South of the Clouds, field recordings of Prof Zhang Xingrong (Yunnan Art Institute), of instrumental music of the minorities of South West China (Ode Records, 2003) |
Boeck, Auguste de more... | 9 May 1865 Merchtem, nr. Brussels | 9 Oct. 1937 Merchtem | Dutch composer |
Boedijn, Gerard more... | 19 Nov. 1893 Hoorn, The Netherlands | 23 Sep. 1972 Hoorn, The Netherlands | Dutch composer |
Boehe, Ernst more... | 1880 Munich, Germany | 1938 Ludwigshaken, Germany | German conductor and composer |
Boehmer, Konrad more... | 1941 Berlin, Germany | | German-born, Dutch-based composer and teacher. From 1961-1963 he was active at the electronic music studios of the WDR (West German Broadcasting Company) in Cologne. In 1966 he moved to the Netherlands and worked until 1968 at the Institute of Sonology at Utrecht University. He then became music editor of the Dutch weekly newspaper Vrij Nederland and in 1972 professor of music history and new music theory at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, where since 1994 he has been director of the Institute of Sonology |
Boeke, Kees more... | 1950 Amsterdam, The Netherlands | | Dutch recorder player, cellist and composer. Since 1990, he is Professor of Recorder and Early Music at the Hochschule fur Musik und Theater in Zurich, Switzerland, and at the Institut fur Alte Musik in Trossingen, Germany |
Boekel, Meindert more... | 15 Sep. 1915 Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 2 May 1989 Hilversum, The Netherlands | Dutch composer and conductor |
Boëllmann, Léon | 1862 Ensisheim | 1897 Paris, France | organist; writer of music for organ and a set of symphonic variations for 'cello and orchestra |
Boëly, Alexandre Pierre François | Versailles, 1785 | Paris, 1858 | organist; one of the first French organists to appreciate and perform Bach, he was to influence César Franck as well as writing for various keyboard instruments |
Boehm, Ilkka von more... | 27 Jun. 1972 Helsinki, Finland | | Finnish composer who studied music theory from 1992, and composition as a main subject from 1998 with Olli Kortekangas and Erkki Jokinen. He was a finalist at the Queen Elisabeth Composition for Composers, Brussels 2003 |
Boer, Brian de (see DeBoer, Brian) | | | |
Boer, Eduard de (see Comitas, Alexander) | | | |
Boer, John de more... | | | native American flute player, composer and teacher |
Boero, Felipe | 1 May 1884 Buenos Aires | 9 Aug. 1958 Buenos Aires | Argentinean composer |
Boesch, Rainer more... | 1938 Männedorf, Switzerland | 31 Jan. 2014 Switzerland | pianist and composer, co-founder of the Swiss Center for Computer Music and teacher at the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze in Geneva and the Conservatory of Paris |
Boesmans, Philippe more... | 17 May 1936 Tongeren, Limburg | 10 Apr. 2022 Brussels, Belgium | Belgian composer most known for his operas |
Boësset, Antoine (Boisset) | c. 1585 | 1643 Paris, France | his music lacked the dramatic power of Lully and he was to be eclipsed by his rival |
Boësset, Jean-Baptiste (de), Sieur de Dehault | 1614 Paris, France | 1685 Paris, France | French composer |
Boeswillwald, Pierre more... | 1934 Toulon, France | | recording engineer and composer, participated in the Bourges Institute activities from its beginning, and is presently Electroacoustic Music professor at the Conservatory of Amiens |
Boetto, Bernard more... | 20th century | | noted arranger and composer of music for flute and piccolo |
Boetzelaer, Josina Anna Petronella van (née van Aerssen) | 1733 The Hague, The Netherlands | 1797 Ijsselstein The Netherlands | composer of arias, with connections to the court of Willem V |
Bogatïryev, Anatoly (Vasilyevich) | 13 Aug. 1913 Vitebsk | | Russian composer |
Bogdanov-Berezovsky, Valerian (Mikhaylovich) | (17 Jul. 1903 Starozhilovka, nr. St Peterburg | 13 May 1971 Moscow, Russia | Russian composer |
Bogdanovic, Dusan more... | 1955 Belgrade, Serbia | | Serbian-born American composer and classical guitarist |
Bogle, Eric | 1946 | | Scottish singer-songwriter now living in Australia known for The Band Played Maltzing Matilda, William McBride (also known as No Man's Land), Now I'M Easy and Safe in the Harbour |
Boguslawski, Eduard | 22 Sep. 1940 Chorzów, nr. Katowice, Poland | | pupil of Haubeenstock-Ramati; works include Intonations for orchestra |
Bohác, Josef | 25 Mar. 1929 Vienna, Austria | | Austrian composer |
Bohdanowicz, Basili more... | c.1754 East Malopolska, Poland | c.1814 Vienna, Austria | Polish composer |
Bohlin, Jonas | 1963 Sweden | | trained at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and has composed music in a wide range of genres including a chamber opera, three orchestral works and a number of chamber music pieces. His music has been performed in many countries, these include the U.S., Germany, Estonia and Italy, in addition to the Scandinavian countries. Jonas is a composer of the younger generation with a predilection for crossing boundaries between different art genres |
Böhm (or Boehm), Georg more... | 2 Sep. 1661 Thuringa, Germany | 18 May 1733 Lüneburg, Germany | contemporary of J.S. Bach who composed suites, passions, preludes and fugues and is notable for his development of the chorale partita |
Böhm (or Boehm), Karl | 1844 Berlin, Germany | 1920 Berlin, Germany | composer of music for piano, violin and voice |
Böhm (or Boehm), Rainer more... | | | he started with piano lessons at the age of 4 and is considered to be one of the best German jazz pianists. Between 1997 and 2001 he studied at the UNIVERSITY OF MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS in Mannheim and received several international prizes and distinctions. Between 1998 and 2001 he played in the concert formation of the Bundesjazzorchester under the direction of Peter Herbolzheimer and south European tour. |
Böhm (or Boehm), Theobald more... | 9 Apr. 1794 Munich, Germany | 25 Nov. 1881
| Bavarian inventor and musician, who perfected the modern flute and its improved fingering system, which has not changed since his time. In addition, he was a virtuoso flautist and was a Bavarian Court Musician as well as a celebrated composer for the flute |
Böhme, Oskar more... | 24 Feb. 1870 Potschappel, Germany | c. 1938 | German composer and trumpeter |
Böhner, (Johann) Ludwig [Louis] more... | 8 Jan. 1787 Töttelstadt, Gotha | 8 Jan. 1787 Töttelstadt, Gotha | German composer |
Bohnke, Emil more... | 11 Oct. 1888 Zdunska Wola, Poland | 11 May 1928 Pasewalk | viola player, composer and conductor who worked in Berlin |
Boïeldieu, (François-)Adrien more... | 16 Dec. 1775 Rouen, France | 8 Oct. 1834 Jarcy, nr. Grosbois, France | pupil of Cherubini; a composer of operas including The Caliph of Bagdad and La Dame blanche |
Boieldieu, (Adrien-)Louis(-Victor) | 3 Nov. 1815 Paris, France | 9 Jul. 1883 Quincy, France | French composer |
Boito, Arrigo (really: Enrico) | 1842 Padua, Italy | 1918 Milan, Italy | librettist (Verdi's Othellor and Falstaff) and composer of operas |
Boiko, Rostislav Grigoryevic more... | 1931 | | Russian composer |
Bois, Alexandra du more... | 16 Aug. 1981 Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA | | American composer |
Bois, Rob du more... | 28 May 1934 The Netherlands | | Dutch composer |
Boismortier, Joseph Bodin de | 23 Dec. 1689 Thionville, France | 28 Oct. 1755 Roissy-en-Brie, France | French composer of operas, cantatas and orchestral suites |
Boisvallee, François de more... | 1929 France | 1973 France | French composer |
Boïto, Arrigo [Enrico] more... | 24 Feb. 1842 Padua, Italy | 10 Jun. 1918 Milan, Italy | Italian composer |
Bojesen, Michael more... | 1960 Denmark | | Danish conductor and composer |
Bok, Gordon more... | 31 Oct. 1939 Pennsylvania, USA | | singer/songwriter who grew up in Camden, Maine. Bok's solo work is made up of songs, some traditional and some recently written, featuring his deep, low singing voice. He accompanies himself with acoustic guitar. His collaborative work covers similar material but with vocal harmony and a greater variety of instrumentation. Bok plays the 12 string guitar, a difficult instrument to master because of the complexity of fingering and the physical finger strength and dexterity required. He also plays an unusual instrument he calls a cellamba, which is essentially a cello fitted with frets |
Bokanowski, Michele more... | 9 Aug. 1943 Cannes, France | | electroacoustic music composer |
Bolcom, William Elden more... | 26 May 1938 Seattle, WA, USA | | piano soloist, accompanist and writer. He was a composition pupil of Darius Milhaud. His works include 8 string quartets, Dark Music for kettledrums and 'cello and Dynamite Tonite for actors and 11 instruments. He was the recipient of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for music |
Boldemann, Laci | 24 Apr. 1921 Helsinki, Finland | 18 Aug. 1969 Munich, Germany | Finnish composer |
Boleyn, Ann(e) | 1507 | 1536 London, UK | one of the beheaded wives of Henry VIII of England, her song Death, O Rocke me on Slepe survives |
Bollen, Jan Bas more... | 1961 Amsterdam, The Netherlands | | Dutch violinist and composer of mostly stage and chamber works |
Bolling, Claude more... | 10 Apr. 1930 Cannes, France | | French jazz pianist, composer and arranger |
Bologna, Bartolomeo da more... | fl. 1405-1427 | | a north Italian composer of the early quattrocento, the transitional period between the late medieval style of the trecento and the early Renaissance |
Bologna, Jacopo da more... | fl. 1340-1360 | | Italian composer and musical theorist of the trecento, the period sometimes known as the Italian ars nova. He was one of the first composers of this group, making him a contemporary of Gherardello da Firenze and Giovanni da Firenze. He is mostly known for his madrigals but also composed several cacce and caccia/madrigal hybrids |
Bölsche, Franz more... | 20 Aug. 1869 Wengenstedt bei Magdeburg, Germany | 23 Oct. 1935 Oeynhausen, Germany | German composer and teacher |
Bölsche, Jacob more... | | 1684 | organist and composer who worked in Brunswick, Germany |
Bolt, Klaas more... | 6 Mar. 1927 The Netherlands | 11 Apr. 1990 The Netherlands | a Dutch organist and improviser |
Bolzoni, Giovanni | 15 May 1841 Parma, Italy | 21 Feb. 1919 Turin, Italy | Italian composer |
Boman, Petter Conrad | 6 Jun. 1804 Stockholm, Sweden | 17 Mar. 1861 Stockholm, Sweden | Swedish composer |
Bomtempo, Joao Domingos more... | 28 Dec, 1775 Lisbon, Portugual | 18 Aug. 1842 Lisbon, Portugual | Portuguese classical pianist, composer and pedagogue |
Bon (di Venezia), Anna more... | 1739/40 Russia | after 1767 possibly Hildburghausen, Germany | an Italian composer and singer. Her parents were successful, her mother as an opera singer and her father as a stage designer, and eventually all three were hired at the court of Prince Nikolaus von Esterhazy. By 1767, Anna married a tenor named Mongeri and was living in Hildburghausen. There is no reliable information on Anna Bon after that date |
Bon, Maarten more... | 1933 The Netherlands | 2003 The Netherlands | pianist, composer and arranger |
Bon, Willem Frederik more... | 15 Jun. 1940 Amersfoort, The Netherlands | 14 Apr. 1983 Nijeholtpade, The Netherlands | Dutch composer |
Bonamoni, Gio. | fl. 19th century | | little is known apart from the fact that this composer was probably working in the Verona area. His Pastorale is written onto the internal opening of a single folded sheet. The piece is part of a bequest to the church and the covering page is headed by a pencilled inscription 'in memory of Lorenzo Papa 20/10/886' |
Bonard | | | a composer found in the fifth book by Adrian Le Roy and his brother-in-law, Robert Ballard |
Bonavia, Ferruccio | 1877 Trieste, Italy | 1950 London, UK | violinist; composed chamber music for strings |
Bonawitz (or Bonewitz), Johann Heinrich | 12 Apr. 1839 Dürkheim am Rhein, Germany | 15 Aug. 1917 London, England | German pianist and composer, of Polish origin, Bonawitz immagrated to America at an early age. He organised symphony concerts in New York City and produced two operas in Philadelphia during the 1870s, The Bride of Messina and Ostrolenka. He composed other operas and moved to Vienna and then to London where he founded the Mozart Society [entry prompted by Howard D. Klosterman, M.D.] |
Bond, Capel | | 1790 | composer of anthems and organist at Coventry Cathedral (1752-90) |
Bond, Carrie Jacobs more... | 11 Aug. 1862 Janesville, WI, USA | 28 Dec. 1946 Hollywood, CA, USA | composer of popular sentimental songs including The End of A Perfect Day and A Cottage in God's Garden |
Bond, Hugh | | 1792 | organist of St. Mary Arches, Exeter and composer of hymns and anthems |
Bond, Victoria | 6 May 1945 Los Angeles, USA | | American composer |
Bondarenko, Andrey more... | 1946 White Russia | | Belarusian priest and composer of hymns and church music |
Bondevente (see Boniventi) | | | |
Bondeville, Emmanuel (Pièrre Georges) de more... | 29 Oct. 1898 Rouen, France | 26 Nov. 1987 Paris, France | French composer |
Bondon, Jacques (Laurent Jules Désiré) | 6 Dec. 1927 Boulbon, Bouches-du-Rhône | | French composer |
Bonds, Margaret | 3 Mar. 1913 Chicago, Illinois, USA | 26 Apr. 1972 Los Angeles, California, USA | Bonds received her bachelors and masters degrees in music from Northwestern University, with additional study at the Juilliard School. The pianist was the first African American to perform with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. An educator and composer, Bonds wrote works for the theatre, ballet, orchestra, and piano, but the majority were art and popular songs. Her best known is the setting of the spiritual, Hes Got the Whole World in His Hand, commissioned by Leontyne Price in 1963. She also wrote the music for Shakespeare in Harlem (1960) |
Bondt, Cornelius de more... | 1953 | | Dutch composer |
Bonefaas, Jan more... | Jan 1926 Rotterdam, The Netherlands | 20 Feb. 2004 The Netherlands | Dutch organist and composer |
Bonelli, Aurelio more... | c.1569 | c.1620 | Italian composer |
Bonewitz, Johann Heinrich (see Bonawitz, Johann Heinrich | | | |
Bonfá, Luis (Luiz) more... | 17 Oct. 1922 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 12 Jan. 2001 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | bosa nova pioneer, guitarist & composer who wrote the soundtrack to Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus) (1959) |
Bonfichi, Paolo | 6 Oct. 1769 Livraga, nr. Lodi, Italy | 29 Dec. 1840 Lodi, Italy | Italian composer |
Bonhomme, Pierre more... | 1555 Liège, Belgium | 1617 probably Liège, Belgium | Belgian composer |
Boni, Guillaume more... | c.1530 Auvergne, France | 1594 Toulouse, France | he is notable for two published collections of vocal music: Sonnets de Ronsard (1576), and Primus Liber Modulorum, a collection of motets for five, six, and seven voices published by Le Roy and Ballard in 1573 |
Boni, (Pietro Giuseppe) Gaetano | fl. 1700-1720 | | Italian composer |
Boniche, Elie "Lili" more... | 29 Apr. 1922 Algiers, Algeria | 6 Mar. 2008 Paris, France | singer, guitarist and composer, one of the last of a generation of Jewish Algerian musicians, and enriched the classical "Arab-Andalusian" music of his native Algeria in the late 1930s and 1940s. A natural composer, he forged his own unique oeuvre, combining the North African style with French chanson, Latin American and other influences and singing in a mixture of French and Arabic, which he dubbed "francarabe" |
Bonini, Francesco | fl. 1646 | | Italian composer born in Rome |
Bonini, Severo more... | 23 Dec. 1582 Florence, Italy | 5 Dec. 1663 Florence, Italy | Italian composer, organist and writer on music |
Bonis, Mélanie (Mel) more... | 1858 Paris, France | 1937 Sarcelles, France | French composer married to Albert Domange |
Bonito, Delia | fl. 1723 | | composer who worked in Naples, Italy |
Boniventi (or Bonevente, Bonavente, Benevent), Giuseppe | c.1670-73 Venice, Italy | after 1727 Venice, Italy | Italian composer |
Bonnal, (Joseph-)Ermend more... | Jul. 1880 Bordeaux, France | 14 Aug. 1944 Bordeaux, France | disciple of Fauré, French composer, symphonic orchestra conductor and church organist. He loved popular instrumental music and dances from the Belle-Epoque era, and wrote some piano solos, mainly in the Ragtime idiom, under the pseudonym of Guy Marylis |
Bonner, Eugene Macdonald | 1889 Washington, North Carolina, USA | | American composer, noted critic and sometime music editor of The Outlook |
Bonnet, Joseph (Élie Georges Marie) | 1884 Bordeaux, France | 1944 Quebec, Canada | student of Guilmant from 1901 to 1906, he became organist of the Church of Saint Eustache in Paris in March 1906 and won the first price for organ at the conservatory in July 1906. Bonnet was a close friend of Guilmant. He wrote a composition (Lamento) in memoriam of Guilmant's wife, and another piece (Pie Jesu) in memoriam of Guilmant. Bonnet succeeded Guilmant in 1911 as the organist of the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire in Paris. Bonnet was very famous as a concert organist, and he also published a lot of older organ music. The first Schott edition of Guilmant's works after his death was edited by Bonnet, in co-operation with Eaglefield Hull and Lemare |
Bonno (or Bon, Bonno), Giuseppe [Josephus, Josef] (Johannes Baptizta) more... | 29 Jan. 1711 Vienna, Austria | 15 Apr. 1788 Vienna, Austria | Austrian composer who was Kapellmeister to the Prince of Saxe-Hildburghausen and a prominent figure in Viennese musical life in his day when his works were often performed |
Bononcini, Giovanni Maria | 1642 Modena, Italy | 1678 Modena, Italy | composer and author of a treatise on music |
Bononcini, Giovanni Battista | 18 Jul. 1670 Modena, Italy | 9 Jul. 1747 Vienna, Austria | son of above; one of Handel's most successful rivals in the opera houses of London (1720-1732) as well as composing a funeral anthem for the Duke of Marlborough and several masses. He had to leave London after being proved a plagiarist, his career ending in Vienna where he died in poverty |
Bononcini, Marc Antonio (really: Antonio Maria) | 18 Jun. 1677 Modena, Italy | 8 Jul. 1726 Modena, Italy | like his brother (above) he was a successful composer of operas |
Bononia, Bartholomeus de (or Bartolomeo da Bologna) more... | fl. 15th century | | Italian composer, who, in one source (c.1410), is described as a Benedictine brother |
Bonporti, Antonio Francesco (Buonporti) | 1672 Trent, Italy | 1749 Padua, Italy | composer of instrumental music; it is believed that Bach took the term 'Invention' from Bonporti's Ten 'Inventions' for Violin and Figured Bass |
Bons, Joel more... | 24 Dec. 1952 Amsterdam, The Netherlands | | Dutch composer and guitarist |
Bonsel, Adriaan more... | 4 Aug. 1918 Hilversum, The Netherlands | | Dutch flautist and composer |
Bonsor, Brian more... | 21 Aug 1926 Hawick, Scotland | | who is very much in the debt of recorder ensembles for the many arrangements he makes for them and the catchy dance movements he has composed, things like Beguine, Rumba, Tango, Hoe-Down and Fiesta |
Bontempi (or Angelini, Angelini-Bontempi), Giovanni Andrea more... | c.1624 Perugia, Italy | 1 Jul. 1705 Brufa, Torgiano, nr. Perugia, Italy | Italian composer |
Boogaard, Bernard van den more... | 17 Jan. 1952 Castricum, The Netherlands | | Dutch composer |
Boogers, Nathalie more... | 23 Nov. 1970 The Netherlands | | Dutch composer |
Boogman, Wim more... | 1955 Gelderse Ijssel, The Netherlands | | Dutch composer |
Boom, Johan [Jan] van | 15 Oct. 1807 Utrecht, The Netherlands | 19 Mar. 1872 Stockholm, Sweden | Dutch composer |
Boon, Dante more... | 1973 The Netherlands | | Dutch pianist and composer |
Booren, Jo van den more... | 14 Mar. 1935 Maastricht, The Netherlands | | Dutch composer and conductor |
Boorn-Coclet, Henriette | 15 Jan. 1866 Liège, Belgium | 6 Mar. 1945 Liège, Belgium | Belgian composer and teacher |
Booth, Josiah more... | 1852 | 1929 | organist and composer, particularly of hymns |
Boott, Francis more... | 1813 Boston, Mass. USA | 1904 Cambridge, Mass. USA | American composer, who studied in Florence, particularly known for his songs |
Borch, Gaston Louis Christopher | 8 Mar. 1871 Guines, Pas de Calais, France | 14 Feb. 1926 Stockholm, Sweden | French-born composer |
Borchman, Alexander | 28 Mar. 1872 Moscow, Russia | 13 Nov. 1940 Moscow, Russia | Russian physician and composer |
Borck, Edmund von more... | 22 Feb. 1906 Wroclaw | 16 Feb. 1944 nr. Nettuno | Polish composer |
Borda, Luis more... | 18 Jul. 1955 Licoln, Argentina | | Argentinean guitarist and composer |
Borden, David more... | 25 Dec. 1938 Boston, Massachusetts, USA | | American composer of minimalist music |
Bordes, Charles (Marie Anne) more... | 12 May 1863 La Roche-Corbon, nr. Vouvray-sur-Loire, France | 8 Nov. 1909 Toulon, France | organist; composed music for piano and orchestra as well as publishing collections of old church tunes and Basque folk tunes |
Bordewijk-Roepman, Johanna (Suzanna Hendrina) | 4 Aug. 1892 Rotterdam, The Netherlands | 8 Oct. 1971 's Gravenhage, The Netherlands | Dutch composer |
Borek, Krzysztof more... | | c. 1570 Cracow, Poland | Polish composer and singer in Cracow during the 16th century. Also there is documental evidence that he was a Rorantist prefect during the period 1556-1572. He may have died in Cracow, possibly around the early 1570s |
Boretti, Giovanni Antonio | c.1640 Rome, Italy | 17 Dec. 1672 Venice, Italy | Italian composer |
Borges (Requena), Raúl more... | 4 Feb. 1882 Caracas, Venezuela | 24 Nov. 1967 Caracas, Venzuela | renowned Venezuelan pedagogue, guitarist and composer, mentor of several generations of Venezuelan guitarists |
Borghese (or Borghesi, Borghesy), Antonio D. R. | fl. 1776-1786 | | Italian composer born in Rome |
Borghi, Giovanni Battista more... | 25 Aug. 1738 Camerino, Macerata | 25 Feb. 1796 Loreto, Italy | Italian composer |
Borgo, Elliot del more... | 27 Oct. 1938 Port Chester, New York, USA | | American composer for winds and strings. He is also in demand as a guest conductor. Del Borgo's primary instrument is percussion, which is apparent in his works composed as they focus much around the intricate percussion parts using an immense variety of instruments and complex rhythms. His style of writing has a rhythmic atonal quality |
Borgström, Hjalmar more... | 23 Mar. 1864 Christiania, Norway | 5 Jul. 1925 Oslo, Norway) | Norwegian composer |
Borkovec, Pavel | 10 Jun. 1894 Prague | 22 Jul. 1972 Prague | Czecg composer |
Borkowski, Bohdan | 7 Nov. 1852 Teczynek, nr. Kraków, Poland | 6 Nov. 1901 Warsaw, Poland | Polish composer |
Borkowski, Carsten more... | 21 Jun. 1965 Lübeck, Germany | | German composer |
Borlenghi, Enzo | 20 Mar. 1908 Riva sul Garda, Italy | | Italian composer |
Borlet, (Johan Robert Trebor) more... | fl. 1380-1409 | | author of the ballad En seumeillant written to celebrate the conquest of Sardinia by Juan I of Aragon (1389) who may be the same as Trébol (Trebol being an anagram of Borlet) a French composer who was in the service of Martin V of Aragon in 1409. His Hé tres doulz roussignol belongs to the genre of the bird imitation piece. Another unascribed version of the same piece (Ma tredol rosignol) is quite different in mood and style; the nightingale in the first, 4-part, piece is gentle and pensive while that in the second, in 3 parts, is gay and extrovert |
Born, Bertran de more... | 1140 Autafort, France | by 1215 Dalon Abbey | a baron from the Limousin in France, and one of the major Occitan troubadours of the twelfth century. His uvre consists of about forty-seven works, thirty-six unanimously attributed to him in the manuscripts, and eleven uncertain attributions |
Born lo Filhs, Bertran de more... | c.1179 Autafort, France | 1233 | a Limousin knight and troubadour, he wrote two sirventes and has three other works attributed to him. He was the son of the famous troubadour Bertran de Born and his first wife, Raimonda, born shortly after their marriage in 1179 |
Borne, François more... | 1840 France | 1920 | French composer (it is possible that Fernand le Borne and Francois Borne are one and the same person). Borne was professeur de flûte at the Conservatoire in Toulouse at the end of the nineteenth century. He was well known in the early twentieth century as an essayist on flute design and is credited in part with the invention of many devices to improve the Boehm-system flute still in use today, including the split-E mechanism found on many modern flutes. |
Bornelh, Giraut de more... | c.1138 France | 1215 | also known as Guiraut de Borneil(l), was a troubadour, born to a lower class family in the Limousin, probably in Bourney, near Excideuil. Connected with the castle of the Viscount of Limoges, his skill earned him the nickname of Master of the Troubadours |
Bornschein, Franz Carl | 10 Feb. 1879 Baltimore, USA | 8 Jun. 1948 Baltimore, USA | American composer |
Borodin, Alexander Porphyrjevich (Borodine) more... | 12 Nov. 1833 St. Petersburg, Russia | 27 Feb. 1887 St. Petersburg, Russia | illegitimate son of a prince, medical doctor and professor of chemistry, pupil of Balakirev; was a member of 'The Five', writing 2 symphonies with a third completed by Glazunov, 2 string quartets, songs, piano music and an opera, Prince Igor, also left unfinished but completed by Rimsky-Korsakov |
Boroni (or Baroni, Borroni, Buroni, Burroni), Antonio | 1738 Rome, Italy | 21 Dec. 1792 Rome. Italy | Italian composer |
Borowski, Felix | 10 Mar. 1872 Burton, England | 6 Sep. 1965 Chicago, USA | English-born violinist who composed for orchestra, chamber groups and voice |
Borradori, Pietro more... | 1965 Milan, Italy | | Italian composer |
Børresen, (Aksel Ejnar) Hakon more... | 2 Jun. 1876 Copenhagen, Denmark | 6 Oct. 1954 Copenhagen, Denmark | Danish composer |
Borri (or possibly Borzio), Carlo | fl. 1670 | | Italian composer |
Borris, Siegfried | 4 Nov. 1906 Berlin, Germany | 23 Aug. 1987 Berlin, Germany | German composer |
Borroff, Edith | 1925 | | was born into a musical family, she entered the American Conservatory of Music (Chicago) when she was 16, earning both Bachelor and Master of Music degrees there. In 1958 she received a Ph. D. in Music History from the University of Michigan. In 1973, Borroff joined the faculty of SUNY-Binghamton, where she taught until her retirement in 1992. She has authored more than 15 books and over 100 papers and articles on a wide range of historical and theoretical topics |
Borrono, Pietro Paolo more... | c.1490 Milan, Italy | c.1563 Milan, Italy | Italian lutenist and composer |
Borstlap, John more... | 1950 | | Dutch composer and writer on music |
Bortkiewicz, Sergei more... | 28 (Old Style 16) Feb. 1877 Kharkov, Ukraine | 25 Oct. 1952 Vienna, Austria | Bortkiewicz' style was very much influenced by Chopin, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, early Scriabin, Rachmaninoff and Russian folklore. He was unaffected by the musical trends of the 20th century. He never saw himself as a modernist |
Bortnyansky (or Bortniansky, Bortnianski, Bortnjanski), Dmitri (Stepanovich) | 28 Oct. 1751 Glukhov, Ukraine, Russia | 10 Oct. 1825 St. Petersburg, Russia | sent to Italy to be trained as a singer by Catherine the Great; composer of church music and some instrumental works and operas in the Italian style |
Bortolotti, Mauro | 26 Nov. 1926 Narni, Terni | | Italian composer |
Börtz, Daniel more... | 8 Aug. 1943 Osby, Hässleholm | | Swedish composer |
Borup-Jorgensen, Axel more... | 1924 Hjrring, Denmark | | Danish composer |
Borzio (or Bortio, possibly Borri), Carlo | fl. 1676 | | Italian composer born in Lodi near Milan |
Bos, Ruud more... | 8 Feb. 1936 Amsterdam, The Netherlands | | Dutch composer |
Bosanac, Franjo | c. 1490 Bosnia | unknown | early Croatian composer |
Bosch, Pieter Jozef van den | 1736 Hoboken, Belgium | 19 Feb. 1803Anvers | Belgian composer and organist |
Boschetti, Giovanni Boschetto | before 1616 Viterbo | 22 May 1622 Loreto, Italy | Italian composer |
Boscovich, Alexander Uriah | 1908 Romania | 5 Nov. 1964 Israel | works include a violin concerto, an oboe concerto, Semetic Suite for orchestra or piano and songs |
Bose, Fritz more... | 1906 | 1975 | German ethnomusicologist |
Bose, Hans-Jürgen von more... | 24 Dec. 1953 Munich, Germany | | German composer |
Bosmans, Henriette more... | 6 Dec. 1895 Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 2 Jul. 1952 Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Dutch composer |
Bossi, (Marco) Enrico more... | 25 Apr. 1861 Salò, Lake Garda, Italy | 20 Feb. 1925 died at sea | organist; noted composer for his instrument, also a composer of operas and oratorios |
Bossi, (Rinaldo) Renzo | 9 Apr. 1883 Como, Italy | 2 Apr. 1965 Milan, Italy | son of above; important composer and teacher of composition |
Bosveld, Jan more... | 5 Feb. 1963 Rheden, The Netherlands | | Dutch composer |
Bott, Jean Joseph | 9 Mar. 1826 Kassel | 28 Apr. 1895 New York, USA | German composer |
Böttcher, Eberhard more... | 1934 Berlin, Germany | | German-born composer who lives in Norway |
Bottée de Toulmon, Auguste | 15 May 1797 Paris, France | 22 Mar. 1850 Paris, France | French composer |
Bottegari, Cosimo more... | 1554 | 1620 | Italian singer and lutenist |
Bottenberg, Wolfgang more... | 9 May 1930 Frankfurt, Germany | | German composer |
Bottesini, Giovanni | 22 Dec. 1821 Lombardy, Italy | 7 Jul. 1889 Parma, Italy | virtuoso double-bass player; wrote many fine works for this neglected instrument, also operas and oratorios, as well as leading a successful career as an opera conductor |
Botti, Susan more... | 1962 | | American singer and composer. In 2005, Susan Botti won the Prix de Rome (musical composition) and spent eleven months in residency at the American Academy in Rome |
Boubee, Albert more... | 1850 Naples, Italy | 1909 London, U.K. | Italian born cellist and composer. In 1867 Boubee chose London as his residence, where he became completely naturalised, though from time to time he has accepted engagements abroad. He worked on several occasions with the orchestras at Spa and Scarborough, and travelled in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark as a concert player, but he devotes himself chiefly to the sphere of work which he has made for himself in the English capital. Of his Cello compositions, which consist of several solo pieces, the best known in England is La Gymnastique du Violoncelliste |
Boublil, Alain more... | 1941 Tunisia | | librettist, best known for his collaborations with the composer Claude-Michel Schönberg |
Bouchard, Linda more... | 21 May 1957 Val-d'Or, Quebec, Canada | | French-Canadian composer |
Boucher, Roger | 13 Jun. 1885 Neubourg, France | 1916 Charleroi | a pupil of Guilmant and Widor, he became organist of the Eglise Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin in Paris. Roger Boucher died at the Battle of Charleroi in 1916. He published only one composition, a Cantabile for organ in book two of Les Maitres Contemporains de l'Orgue published in 1911 |
Boucourechliev, André | 1925 Bulgaria | | composer of chamber music who became naturalised French in 1956 |
Boufil (Bouffil, Bouffils, Bonfil), Jacques Jules more... | 14 May 1783 Muret, France | 1868 | French clarinetist and composer |
Boughton, Rutland more... | 23 Jan. 1878 Aylesbury, England | 25 Jan. 1960 London, England | composer most famous for his opera, The Immortal Hour |
Bouhalassa, Ned more... | 25 Aug. 1962 Le Mans, France | | a composer of electroacoustic music, film scores, and television scores |
Bouin, Jean-François more... | fl. early 18th-century | | composer of Les folies d'Espagne avec 18 variations pour un violon, une flute, un haubois, un pardessus de violle, une veille ou une musette (flute a bec soprano ou tenor) accompagnement de clavecin ou de guitare (1739) |
Boulanger, Georges more... | 18 Apr. 1893 Tulcea, Romania | 3 JUn. 1958 Olivios City, Argentina | violinist (a pupil of Leopold Auer), teacher and composer particular of light music including Avant de Mourir, which was, later, known as My Prayer. In 1958, this work remained at the top of the American broadcasting stations´ ranking over a 21-week period. His composing style combined gypsy music, Balkan folklore and Viennese waltzes |
Boulanger, Lili (properly: Marie-Juliette) more... | 21 Aug. 1893 Paris, France | 15 Mar. 1918 Mézy, Seine-et-Oise, France | studied with her sister (above) and others, the first woman to win the 'Prix de Rome'; like her sister, a composer of symphonic poems, a cantata Faust and Helen, and choral works written before her early death |
Boulanger, Nadia more... | 16 Sep. 1887 Paris, France | 22 Oct. 1979 Paris, France | composer and conductor, herself a student of Gabriel Fauré, began her teaching career as an Assistant Professor of Harmony at the Paris Conservatory in 1909. She was appointed Professor of Harmony at l'école normale de musique de Paris in 1919. When the American Conservatory was founded in Fountainebleau in 1921, she became Professor of Composition and Orchestration; in addition to her normal schedule, she received, in her home on rue Ballu, an untold number of students from around the world |
Boulez, Pierre more... | 26 Mar. 1925 Montbrison, France | 5 Jan. 2016 France | pupil of Messiaen; a composer of advanced music derived originally from extended twelve-tone techniques but later including the exploration of mathematical relationships, as well a being an outstanding orchestral conductor of music from all periods |
Boulnois, Joseph (-Élie-Louis-Eugène) | 28 Jan. 1884 Verneuil, France | 20 Oct. 1918 Chalaines, France | French composer and organist who was killed in the Battle of Chalaines during the First World War [error in entry pointed out by Newton Carter] |
Boulogne, Joseph more... | 25 Dec. 1745 Guadeloupe | 10 Jun. 1799 Paris, France | the Chevalier de Saint-Georges (sometimes spelled Saint-George), composer, conductor and violinist, one of the most important figures in the Paris musical scene in the second half of the eighteenth century, he was also famous as a swordsman and equestrian. Known as the 'Black Mozart' or the 'Voltaire of music' he was one of the earliest musicians of the European classical type known to have African ancestry [entry prompted by W. Shawn Gray and Robert Jackson] |
Bouman, Antonius Johannes Alphonsus more... | 18 Oct. 1854 Den Bosch, The Netherlands | 23 Mar. 1906 Wassenaar, The Netherlands | Studied violoncello (from 1868) with O.Eberle and W. Bargiel in Rotterdam. As pensionnaire (at the expense of the King) he studied (from 1873) with A. Lindner in Hannover, Fr. Grützmacher in Dresden, Joseph. Servais in Bruxelles and lastly in 1876 in Paris with L. Jacquard. Lived in Pau (1877), then for three years in London(concerts in Alexandra Palace and Covent Garden). Returned 1881 to live in Utrecht as teacher and performer. Summer 1891 he became solo-cellist of the Berliner Philharmoniker and lived in Berlin until summer 1893. Lived in The Hague and became teacher at the Royal Conservatoire of Music and also at the Rotterdam Toonkunst Music School after the death of his teacher O. Eberle. [information supplied by René C.G. Bouman, Utrecht The Netherlands, email rcg.bouman@xs4all.nl] |
Bouman, Hendrick more... | 1951 The Netherlands | | Dutch harpsichordist, conductor and composer of music written in the baroque and classical idioms of the 17th & 18th centuries |
Bouman, Leon Carolus more... | 1852 | 1919 | Dutch composer |
Bouman, Paul more... | 26 Aug. 1918 Hamburg, Minnesota, USA | | American organist, choral director and composer |
Bourdon, Émile more... | 15 Feb. 1884 La Palisse, Allier, France | 11 Jul. 1974 Combloux, France | French composer and organist, Emile Bourdon studied with Guilmant until 1911. For health reasons he had to leave the conservatory in 1911 to stay in a sanatorium. He lived as an organist in Monaco, where he played the Mutin organ of the Cathedral, inaugurated by himself on April 8, 1922. He was professor for organ at the Conservatory in Nice until 1951. Emile Bourdon retired as cathedral organist in 1968. Marcel Dupré and Emile Bourdon were close friends |
Bourdon, Petrus more... | | | composer whose work appears in Harmonice Musices Odhecaton A (1501), the first book printed by Ottaviano Petrucci, using the invention of music printing with moveable type |
Bourdon, Rosario more... | 6 Mar. 1885 Longueuil, near Montreal, Canada | 24 Apr. 1961 New York, USA | Canadian conductor, cellist, arranger, composer and record company executive, who was naturalized a US citizen in 1922 |
Bourgault-Ducoudray, Louis (Albert) | 2 Feb. 1840 Nantes, France | 4 Jul. 1910 Paris, France | choral conductor; also a composer of choral works and operas |
Bourgeois, Derek more... | 16 Oct. 1941 Kingston, London, England | 6 Sep. 2017 England | he has composed nineteen symphonies, fourteen concertos, several other extended orchestral works, seven major works for chorus and orchestra, two operas and a musical. As well as a considerable quantity of chamber, vocal and instrumental music, he has composed twelve extended works for Brass Band and six symphonies for Symphonic Wind Band. He has also written a considerable amount of music for television productions |
Bourgeois, Loys (Louis) more... | 1510/15 France | 1559 or later | a French composer and music theorist of the Renaissance. He is most famous as the one most responsible for the tunes in the Genevan Psalter, the source for the hymns of both the Reformed Church in England and the Pilgrims in America. In the original versions by Bourgeois, the music is monophonic, in accordance with the dictates of John Calvin, who disapproved not only of counterpoint but of any multiple parts; Bourgeois though did also provide four-part harmonizations, but they were reserved for singing and playing at home. Many of the four-part settings are syllabic and chordal, a style which has survived in many Protestant church services to the present day. In addition, the Protestant doxology known as the Old 100th, one of the most famous melodies in all of Christendom, is commonly attributed to him |
Bourges (de), Clementine | 1561 Lyons | | ranked high among the intellectual leaders of the time, including for her musical skill. Said to have been a master of many instruments and published in the organ collection of J. Paix |
Bourges, Philippon de (see Basiron, Philippe) | | | |
Bourgogne (de), Marie | 1457 | 1482 | French composer |
Bourguignon, Francis de | 29 May 1890 St. Gilles, Brussels, Belgium | 11 Apr. 1961 Brussels, Belgium | composer and pianist; compositions include piano concertos, songs and chamber music, many exploring polytonality |
Bourne, Ena | 1883 Australia | 1974 England | active in England from around 1912 as a concert and recording artiste, her compositions included lighter piano pieces: Caprice, Humoreske, Petite Valse Caprice, A Little Song, Cradle Song and performed by the composer in Doncaster in November 1915, Gavotte and Scherzo |
Bousquet, Georges | 12 Mar. 1818 Perpignan, France | 15 Jun. 1854 St. Cloud, nr. Paris, France | French composer |
Bousset, Jean-Baptiste | 1662 Dijon, France | 3 Oct. 1725 Paris, France | French composer |
Bouteiller, Pierre more... | c.1655 France | c.1717 France | he is known to have been director of music at the cathedral of Troyes in Champagne in 1687. Seven years later he held the same post in Châlons-sur-Marne. After a short stay back in Troyes he went to Paris in 1698, where he established himself as a player of the viola da gamba and other instruments. In 1704 a Te Deum by Bouteiller was performed in Paris, but this work has disappeared |
Boutmy, Guillaume more... | 15 Jun. 1723 Brussels, Belgium | 22 Jan. 1791 Brussels, Belgium | Belgian composer, organist and keyboard player |
Boutmy, Jean Baptiste Joseph more... | 1725 Brussels, Belgium | c.1775 Cleeves, Belgium | Belgian keyboard player and composer |
Boutmy, Josse more... | 1697 Ghent, Belgium | 1779 Brussels, Belgium | organist and harpsichordist of the Austrian Netherlands who established himself in Brussels. He worked in St Gudule's church (1719), with the Prince of Thurn and Taxis (1736) and at the chapel royal of Brussels (1744). Born into a musical family, his grandfather, father, brother and sons were all musicians |
Boutmy, Laurent-François more... | 19 Jun. 1756 Brussels, Belgium | 3 Nov. 1838 Brussels, Belgium | Belgian composer |
Boutry, Roger more... | 27 Feb. 1932 Paris, France | | French composer, teacher, conductor and pianist |
Bouvadinska, Mme | | | she had works published in Paris in 1740 |
Bouvard (or Bouvart), François more... | c.1683 Lyons, France | 2 Mar. 1760 Paris, France | French composer |
Bouwman, Nicolaas Arie more... | 1854 | 1941 | Dutch composer |
Bouzignac, Guillaume more... | before 1592 Narbonne, France | after 1641 | French composer. a leading figure in early 17th-century church music |
Bovet, Hermine | 1842 Germany | | composer of a piano method that went through several editions |
Bovicelli, Giovanni Battista more... | c.1550 Assisi, Italy | after 1594 Italy | Italian composer, singer and music theoretician |
Bovy-Lysberg [Bovy, Lysberg], Charles-Samuel | 1 Feb. 1821 Lysberg, cnr. Geneva, Switzerland | 15 Feb. 1873 Geneva, Switzerland | Swiss composer |
Bowater, Helen more... | 1952 Wellington, New Zealand | | New Zealand composer |
Bowen, Edwin York more... | 22 Feb. 1884 London, UK | 11 Nov. 1961 London, UK | fine pianist and organist who also played of the violin and horn. A composer of conservative romantic works for piano, orchestra and chamber ensembles, including 3 piano concertos |
Bowie, David (born: David Robert Jones) more... | 8 Jan. 1947 London, England | | English musician, actor, producer, arranger and audio engineer |
Bowie, Lester more... | 11 Oct. 1941 Frederick, Maryland, USA | 9 Nov. 1999 Brooklyn, NY, USA | American jazz trumpeter and composer |
Bowles, Paul (Frederic) | 30 Dec. 1910 Jamaica, New York, USA | 18 Nov. 1999 Tangier, Morocco | American-born composer, translator, and author of novels and short stories in which violent events and psychological collapse are recounted in a detached and elegant style. His protagonists are often Europeans or Americans who are maimed by their contact with powerful traditional cultures. Bowles began publishing Surrealist poetry in the Parisian magazine transition at the age of 16. After briefly attending the University of Virginia, he traveled to Paris, where his interests turned to music. In 1929 he returned to New York and began studying musical composition under Aaron Copland. Bowles became a sought-after composer, writing music for more than 30 theatrical productions and films. During this time, he also became a member of the loose society of literary expatriates in Europe and North Africa and started writing short stories. In the late 1940s, he and his wife, writer Jane Bowles, settled in Tangier, Morocco, a city that became his most potent source of inspiration. There, he wrote his first novel, The Sheltering Sky (1949; film, 1990), a harsh tale of death, rape, and sexual obsession. It became a best-seller and made Bowles a leading figure in the city's expatriate artistic community |
Bowman, Euday L. more... | 9 Nov. 1887 Fort Worth, TX, USA | 26 May 1949 New York, NY, USA | orchestral arranger and composer of ragtime compositions, the most famous being Twelfth Street Rag |
Bowman, Kim more... | 1957 Margaret River, Western Australia | | Australian composer based in The Netherlands |
Boxberg, Christian Ludwig | 24 Apr. 1670 Sondershausen | 1 Dec. 1729 Görlitz | German composer |
Boyce, William | bap. 11 Sep. 1711 London, England | 7. Feb. 1779 London, England | pupil of Greene, organist and master of the orchestra of George III; although overtaken by deafness in later life he had by then composed a large quantity of religious and secular music, including 8 symphonies |
Boyd, Anne (Elizabeth) more... | 10 Apr. 1946 Sydney, Australia | | Australian composer and Professor of Music at the University of Sydney |
Boyd, Elisabeth | fl. 1739-1744 | | composer |
Boydell, Brian more... | 17 Mar. 1917 Howth, Ireland | 8 Nov. 2000 Howth, Ireland | Irish composer whose works include orchestral pieces, chamber music, and songs. He was professor of music at Trinity College, Dublin for 20 years, founder of the Dowland Consort, conductor of the Dublin Orchestral Players, and a prolific broadcaster and writer on musical matters |
Boyer, Cyprien | 16 Mar. 1853 Saint-Martial-de-Nabirat, Dordogne, France | 9 Sep. 1926 Perigueux, France | French composer and oranist, Cyprien Boyer was organist of the Petit Séminaire in Bergerac |
Boyer, Peter more... | 1970 Providence, Rhode Island, USA | | American composer |
Boyle, Malcolm more... | 1902 Windsor, England | 1976 | British organist and composer |
Boyleau, Simon more... | fl. 1544-1586 | | French composer of the Renaissance, active in northern Italy. A prolific composer of madrigals as well as sacred music, he was closely connected with the court of Marguerite of Savoy. He was also the earliest documented choirmaster at the church of Santa Maria presso San Celso in Milan |
Boyvin, Jacques more... | c. 1649 Paris, France | 1706 Rouen, France | after practising at the Quinze-Vingt, Boyvin was appointed organist at the cathedral of Rouen after a competitive examination in 1674. He is one of the very few organists outside the capital (but much in contact with Paris) whose compositions are known. In 1700, he wrote a treatise on the art of accompaniment published by Ballard |
Bozay, Attila more... | 11 Aug. 1939 Baltonfuezfoe, Hungary | 14 Sep. 1999 Hungary | works include Outcries for tenor and chamber ensemble, Variations for piano and Symphonic Pieces for orchestra |
Bozic, Darijan | 29 Apr. 1933 Slavonski Brod | | Yugoslavian composer |
Bozza, Eugène (Joseph) more... | 4 Apr. 1905 Nice, France | 28 Sep. 1991 Valenciennes, France | made an early impact at the Paris Conservatoire as a brilliant violinist and conductor, gaining recognition as a composer when he won the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1934. Although he went on to write five symphonies and several operas and ballets, like many French composers he spent much of his life as an academic, becoming head of the Valenciennes Conservatoire in 1948. In this capacity he wrote much of the wind chamber music for which he is now best known |