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Name	Born	Died	Information
Braam, Michiel more...	17 May 1964 Nijmegan, The Netherlands		Dutch jazz-pianist and composer
Bracanin, Philip Keith more...	1942 Australia		Australian composer and ethnomusicologist
Brackx, Joachim more...	1975 Oostende, Belgium		Belgian composer, teacher and live-electronics specialist
Bradbury, William B. more...	6 Oct. 1816 York, Maine, USA	8 Jan. 1868 Montclair, New Jersey, USA	American composer of Gospel songs and hymns
Brade, William	c. 1560 England	1630 Hamburg, Germany	worked mainly in Germany; a noted viol-player and composer of dance-music for instrumental ensemble
Bradford, Perry more...	14 Feb. 1893 Montgomery, AL., USA	22 Apr. 1970 New York, NY, USA	jazz pianist, bandleader and composer of over 1000 popular songs
Bradley, Jan more...			English percussionist and composer who is a member of the 4-MALITY Percussion Quartet
Bradley, Scott more...	26 Nov. 1891 Russellville, Arkansas, US	27 Apr. 1977 Chatsworth, California, US	composer of animation film music, for example, many of the scores for the MGM produced Tom and Jerry animations. Together with the composers Max (Maximilian Raoul Walter) Steiner (1888-1971) and Carl Stalling (1892-1972), Bradley developed the 'click-track' as a means of synchronising the recorded music to the action on the screen
Bradsky, Wenzel Theodor	17 Jan. 1833 Rakovnik	10 Aug. 1881 Rakovnik	Czech composer
Brady, R. Timothy more...	Atlanta, USA		American composer who was a co-winner of the 2007 Opera Vista Festival competition with his 40-minute chamber opera Edalat Square
Brady, Tim (Timothy Wesley John) more...	11 Jul. 1956 Montreal, Canada		Canadian composer and guitarist
Braein, Edvard Fliflet	23 Aug. 1924 Kristiansund, Norway	30 Apr. 1976 Oslo, Norway	Norwegian composer
Braga, (Antônio) Francisco more...	15 Apr. 1868 Rio de Janeiro	14 Mar. 1945 Rio de Janeiro	Brazilian composer
Braga, Ernani more...	15 Apr. 1868 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	14 Mar. 1945 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	studied at the Imperial Conservatory and later at the Paris Conservatoire under Massenet, a result of a scholarship stemming from a competition for the composition of a new Brazilian national anthem (which he did not win). He moved to Germany in 1896 and was heavily influenced by the techniques of Wagner. His compositons are mostly orchestral and are in a late Romantic European style
Braga, Gaetano	9 Jun. 1829 Abruzzi, Italy	21 Nov. 1907 Milan, Italy	violoncellist; wrote operas and a 'cello method as well as the popular vocal piece, Serenade
Braga Santos, (José Manuel) Joly more...	14 May 1924 Lisbon, Portugal	18 Jul. 1988 Lisbon, Portugal	Portuguese composer and conductor, who was born and died in Lisbon. He wrote six symphonies
Braham, David more...	1838 London, England	11 Apr. 1905 New York, NY, USA	violinist, musical director and composer who worked for many years with the vaudeville team of Harrigan and Hart
Braham, John (originally: John Abraham)	1774 London, UK	1856 London, UK	tenor vocalist; composed operas and many popular songs including The Death of Nelson
Braham, Philip more...	1881	1934	musical director at Wembley Studios and composer of the song Limehouse Blues (1922)
Brahem, Anouar more...	20 Oct. 1957 Halfaouine, Tunisia		Tunisian ud player, singer and composer
Brahms, Johannes more...	7 May 1833 Hamburg, Germany	3 Apr. 1897 Vienna, Austria	aided by Lizst and Joachim, and extolled by Schumann; he composed 4 symphonies, various concertos, much chamber music as well as works for choir, in both romantic and classical styles
Brakel, Christopher more...	1977 Minnesota, USA		American composer who has taught composition, electronic music, and music theory at the Eastman School of Music and the University of Iowa. His primary teachers include Robert Morris, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Allan Schindler, David Gompper, Jeremy Dale Roberts, Ladislav Kubik and Alex Lubet. Participation in masterclasses with Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Charles Wuorinen, John Corigliano, David Felder, Bernard Rands, and James Dashow has provided additional musical insight
Bram, Thuring more...	1944 Basel, Switzerland		Swiss composer
Brambach, Caspar Joseph	14 Jul 1833 Oberdollendorf, nr. Königswinter	19 Jun. 1902 Oberdollendorf	German composer
Brambilla, Marietta	1807 Milan, Italy	1875 Milan, Italy	made her debut in London in 1827 and later taught in Milan. A published composer of piano pieces and songs
Brambilla, Paolo	9 Jul. 1787 Milan	1838 Milan, Italy	Italian composer
Branca, Glenn more...	6 Oct. 1948 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA		a highly-influential avant-garde composer and guitarist known for his use of volume, alternate tuned guitars, repetition, droning, and the harmonic series
Brand, Dollar (see Ibrahim, Abdullah)
Brand, Max more...	26 Apr. 1896 Lvov	5 Apr. 1980 Langenzersdorf, nr. Vienna, Austria	Russian-born composer
Brandao, Paulo more...	1950 Lisbon, Portugal		Portuguese composer
Brandeis, Johann Karl more...	16 May 1910 Brno, Czech Republic	27 May 1988 Limburgerhof, near Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany	German composer, doctor of chemistry, autodidact in music. He composed 3 symphonies and other orchestral works, pieces for solo piano and classical guitar, 60 songs, string quartets, and other chamber music, part of which was broadcast at the German radio in the 1960s. The early pieces were written in late romantic styles, the later pieces in atonal styles [information provided by Hans Brandeis]
Brandenstein (von), Caroline			student of the German composer Abt Vogler (1749-1814), she composed of works for violin and piano. Her Sonata in D was recorded in the 1970s in Germany
Brandes, Wilhelmine	1756 Germany	1788 Germany	composer of songs, arias and piano pieces
Brandl, Johann I Evangelist more...	14 Nov. 1760 Kloster Rohr, nr. Regensburg	25 May 1837 Karlsruhe	German composer
Brandoukoff (or Brandukov), Anatole (Anatoly Andreyevich) more...	-6 Jan. 1859 Moscow, Russia	16 Feb. 1930 Moscow, Russia	he was Fitzenhagen's pupil in the Imperial Conservatoire in Moscow from September, 1870, to May, 1878, and received as an acknowledgment on his departure, a gold medal together with an honourable diploma. His first journey was to Switzerland, where he gave concerts in Berne and Geneva with success. He afterwards went to Paris in 1879, appeared there and in other French towns, and then proceeded to London. He everywhere experienced favourable receptions. He gave concerts with extraordinary success during the winter of 1887-1888 at Moscow and St. Petersburg. He chose Paris as his permanent residence, where he is greatly appreciated not only as a solo player, but also as a quartet player. He composed a Concerto and a number of compositions for cello [picture: Anatolo Brandoukoff]
Brandt, Jan more...	1554 Poznan, Poland	27 May 1602 Lwów	entering the Jesuit order in 1571, he was ordained seven years later, before travelled to Rome to undertake further theological research and studies. In 1584 he returned to his native country to carry out administrative duties as a member of the convents of Cracow, Pultusk, Poznan and Vilnius. He was agasin in Rome between 1599 and 1601, after which he returned to Poland as the appointed superior of the Jesuit College at Lwów; in this position he remained until his death. Only recently has evidence come to light point to his work as composer
Brandts Buys, Henri François Robert	20 Apr. 1850 Deventer, The Netherlands	16 Oct. 1905 Ede The Netherlands	Dutch composer
Brandts Buys, Jan Willem Frans	12 Sep. 1868 Zutphen The Netherlands	8 Dec. 1939 Salzburg, Austria	Dutch-born composer
Brandts Buys, Ludwig Felix	1847 Deventer, The Netherlands	1917 Velp, The Netherlands	organist, conductor, son of Cornelis Alijander, brother of Henri
Brandts Buys, Marius Adrianus	9 Nov. 1874 Zutphen, The Netherlands	21 Jul. 1944 Velp, The Netherlands	Dutch composer
Branesti, Gheorghe Popescu more...			19th century Romanian composer particularly of religious music
Branning, Brett more...	17 Oct. 1980		American compose for music for games and for film
Branscombe, Gena (Mrs. John Tenney) more...	1881 Picton, Ontario, Canada	26 Jul. 1977 New York City, USA	pupil of Humperdinck; choral conductor and composer of choral and orchestral music
Brant, Henry Dreyfus more...	15 Sep. 1913 Montreal, Canada	26 Apr. 2008 Santa Barbara, California, USA	one of the youngest of the pre-Second World War American experimental composers, who would win a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for one of his orchestral works. He orchestrated Charles Ives's Concord Sonata as the Concord Symphony (1994), a monumental task that lasted over 30 years
Branteghem, Lucien van	8 Jan. 1910 Ostende, Belgium	13 Jan. 1994	composer and musicilogist
Brasolini (or Brassolini), Domenico	fl. 1707		Italian composer born in Rovigo
Brassart, Johannes more...	c.1400 probably Lowaige, Limburg	before 22 Oct. 1455 Liège, Belgium	Burgundian composer of the early Renaissance. Of his output, only sacred vocal music has survived, and it typifies early 15th century practice
Brassens, Georges more...	22 Oct. 1921 Sète, France	29 Oct. 1981 Saint-Gély-du-Fesc, France	a French singer-songwriter
Brassin, Louis more...	24 Jun. 1840 Aix-la-Chapelle	17 May 1884 St Peterburg, Russia	composer
Braten Berg, Kirsten more...	1950 Arendal, Norway		Nordic folk revivalist and folk singer
Bratton, John Walter more...	21 Jan. 1867 USA	7 Feb. 1947 Brooklyn, New York, USA	American composer and theatrical producer. He is best remembered for his 1907 composition Teddy Bears' Picnic
Braun, Jean Daniel more...	second half of 17th century Germany	c.1740 France	German born composer
Braun, Peter Michael more...	12 Feb. 1936 Germany		German composer
Braun, Yehezkel more...	1922 Breslau, Germany		Israeli composer
Braufels, Walter	19 Dec. 1882 Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany	19 Mar. 1954 Cologne, Germany	virtuoso pianist; composer of neo-romantic works particularly operas
Braunschweig Wolfenbuttel, Sophie von more...	20 Aug. 1613 Güstrow, Germany	12 Jul. 1676 Lüchow, Germany	German composer and peot
Brav, Dr. Ludwig more...			composer of House We Live In, whose work spans the era of silent films to at least two World War II documentaries. Brav working with Giuseppe Becce and Hans Erdmann produced the encyclopedic Allgemeines Handbuch der Filmmusik in 1927, an anthology of film music. He wrote the music for the feature film Am Rande der Sahara (1930)
Bravnicar, Matija	24 Feb. 1897 Tolmin, Slovenia	25 Nov. 1977 Ljubljana	Slovenian composer
Braxton, Anthony more...	4 Jun. 1945 USA		American composer, saxophonist, clarinettist, flautist, pianist and philosopher
Brayssing, Gregoire more...	1520	1580	German composer; his works are found in the fourth book published by Le Roy and Ballard
Brazinskas, Algimantas more...	1954 Vilnius, Lithuania		Lithuanian pianist and composer
Brecht, (Eugen) Berthold (Friedrich) more...	10 Feb. 1898 Augsburg, Bavaria	14 Aug. 1956 East Berlin, Germany	German poet, playwright, and theatre director
Brecht, George (born George MacDiarmid) more...	27 Aug. 1926 New York, USA	5 Dec. 2008 Cologne, Germany	composer and Fluxus artist who changed his name in 1945
Brecker, Michael more...	29 Mar. 1949 Philadelphia, PA, USA	13 Jan. 2007 New York, USA	American jazz saxophonist and composer
Brecker, Randal (Randy) more...	27 Nov. 1945 Philadelphia, USA		American trumpeter, flugelhornist, arranger and composer. He is a highly sought after performer in the genres of jazz, rock, and R&B
Bredemeyer, Reiner more...	2 Feb. 1929 Velez, Colombia		Colombian composer
Brederode (Bredero), Gerbrand Adriaenszoon (Adriaanszoon) more...	1585 Amsterdam, The Netherlands	1618 Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Dutch poet
Brediceanu, Tiberiu	2 Apr. 1877 Lugoj, Transylvania	19 Dec. 1968 Bucharest	Romanian composer
Bree, Johannes Bernardus [Jean Bernard] van more...	29 Jan. 1801 Amsterdam	14 Feb. 1857 Amsterdam	Dutch composer
Bregovic, Goran more...	22 Mar. 1950 Sarajevo, Yugoslavia		musician from Bosnia and Herzegovina and one of the most recognizable modern composers of the Balkans. He calls himself a Yugoslav
Brehme, Hans (Ludwig Wilhelm) more...	10 Mar. 1904 Potsdam	10 Nov. 1957 Stuttgart	German composer
Brehy, Pierre (Petrus) Hercule more...	1673 Brussels, Belgium	1737 Brussels, Belgium	Belgian composer
Breil, Joseph Carl	29 Jun. 1870 Pittsburgh	23 Jan. 1926 Los Angeles	American composer
Brel, Jacques more...	8 Apr. 1929 Brussels, Belgium	9 Oct. 1978 Bobigny, France	popular singer and composer
Brémond, François more...	1 Nov. 1844 Nîmes, France	15 Jul. 1925 Houilles, nr. Paris, France	French horn player and tenor who composed études and solos for the French horn
Brendler, (Frans Fredric) [Franz Friedrich] Eduard	4 Nov. 1800 Dresden, Germany	16 Aug. 1831 Stockholm, Sweden	German composer
Breni, Tomaso	1603 Lucca	c.1650	Italian composer
Brennan, John Wolf more...	1954 Dublin, Ireland		Irish composer
Brenta, Gaston	10 Jun. 1902 Schaarbeek, Brussels	30 May 1969 Schaarbeek	Belgian composer
Brentner, Johann Joseph Ignaz more...	3 Nov. 1689 Dobøany near Pilsen	28 Jun. 1742 Dobøany near Pilsen	Bohemian organist and composer
Brero, Giulio Cesare	20 Dec. 1908 Milan, Italy	18 Dec. 1973 Milan, Italy	Italian composer
Brescianello (or Bressonelli), Giuseppe Antonio more...	c.1690 Florence	4 Oct. 1758 Stuttgart, Germany	Italian composer
Bresgen, Cesar more...	16 Oct. 1913 Florence, Italy	7 Apr. 1988 Salzburg, Austria	Austrian composer
Bretan, Nicolae more...	6 Apr. 1887 Nasaud	1 Dec. 1968 Cluj	Romanian composer
Bretón y Hernández, Tomás more...	29 Dec. 1850 Salamanca	2 Dec. 1923 Madrid, Spain	Spanish composer
Breuker, Willem more...	4 Nov. 1944 Amsterdam, The Netherlands		Dutch jazz bandleader, composer, arranger, saxophonist, and bass clarinetist
Breunich (or Breunig, Brauenig, Bräunich, Breuenich), Johann Michael		after 1756 Dresden, Germany	German composer
Breval, Jean-Baptiste Sebastien more...	6.11.1753 Paris	18.3.1823 Colligis, Aisne	French composer
Brevik, Tor	22 Jan. 1932 Oslo, Norway		Norwegian composer
Bréville, Pierre (Eugène Onfroy) de more...	21 Feb. 1861 Bar-le-Duc	24 Sep. 1949 Paris, France	French composer
Brewaeys, Luc more...	25 Aug. 1959 Mortsel, Belgium		Belgian conductor and composer of mostly orchestral and chamber works
Brewer, Herbert more...	1865 Gloucester, England	1928 Gloucester, England	English composer and organist
Brewer, Michael (Mike) more...			Music Director at Chethams, Britain's largest music school for gifted children for twenty years. He has been prominent in the country's choral life, as conductor of award winning choirs (he won the worldwide competition 'Let the Peoples Sing' twice) and as musical director of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain and Laudibus. Latterly he has worked regularly as adjudicator, guest conductor and workshop clinician worldwide. His annual tours include South East Asia, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, and he also has a busy programme of workshops and concerts in Britian and Europe
Brewer, Thomas	1611 England		composer of catches and music for viols
Brewster, H.	fl. 1771-1772		English composer of songs
Brewster-Jones, (Josiah) Hooper	28 Jun. 1887 Bute, S. Australia	1949 Adelaide	Australian composer
Brian, (William) Havergal more...	29 Jan. 1876 Dresden, Staffs.	28 Nov. 1972 Shoreham, England	organist and prolific composer of symphonies, 32, operas and songs who was not widely performed until the last few years of his very long life
Briccetti, Thomas	14 Jan. 1936 Mt Kisco, N.Y., USA		American composer
Briccialdi, Giulio more...	2 Mar. 1818 Terni, Italy	17 Dec. 1881 Florence, Italy	Italian flautist and composer
Briceño, Luis de more...	fl. 1626		published Metodo mui failissimo para aprender a taner la Guitarra a lo Espanol (1626)
Bricusse, Leslie more...	29 Jan. 1931 England		British lyricist and composer
Bridge, Frank more...	26 Feb. 1879 Brighton, UK	10 Jan. 1941 Eastbourne, UK	English viola player and pupil of Stanford; highly effective writer for strings and for the voice, later a teacher of Benjamin Britten
Bridge, (John) Frederick	5 Dec. 1844 Birmingham, UK	18 Mar. 1824 London, UK	a composer and conductor, Bridge served as a boy chorister; organist at Rochester Cathedral; Manchester Cathedral (1869-75); Professor of Harmony at Owens College, Manchester (1872-5); and deputy organist at Westminster Abbey (1875-82). He was knighted in 1897
Bridge, Joseph (Cox)	16 Aug. 1853 Rochester, Kent	29 Mar. 1929 St Albans, England	English composer
Bridges, George	fl 1724		psalmodist and publisher of 'A new book of psalmody' (1724)
Bridgewater, (Ernest) Leslie more...	1893 Halesowen, Worcs., UK	1975	originally destined to become a schoolmaster, he studied at the Birmingham School of Music, and also in London, and made his first broadcast in 1927, with a trio playing chamber music from Newcastle. He was also the composer of incidental music for film and stage and wrote a popular piano concert
Brief, Todd more...	1953
Briegel, Wolfgang Carl more...	May 1626 Königsberg, nr. Coburg	19 Nov. 1712 Darmstadt, Germany	German composer
Briggs, David more...	1962 England		English organist and composer
Briggs, Karen more...	1963 New York City, USA		American violinist and improviser
Briggs, Tom more...			award-winning composer of concert music for wind ensemble, chamber groups and educational methods for percussion instruments. Tom's career spans over 30 years of performing in configurations from solo 4-mallet vibraphone to full symphony orchestra and encompassing classical, modern European music as well as jazz styles ranging from traditional to swing to bop to contemporary
Bright, Dora (Estelle)	1863 Sheffield, England	1951 Babbington, Somerset, England	pianist; composer of piano concertos and chamber music
Brill, Charles more...			composer best known for his broadcasts on British radio who wrote some music for film
Brillon (de Jouy), Anne Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt	1744 France	1824 France	a celebrated pianist and composer
Brindle, Reginald Smith	1917 England		pupil of Pizzetti and Dallapiccola; works include Homage to H.G. Wells for orchestra and Cantata da Requiem
Brindus, Nicolae	16 Apr. 1935 Bucharest, Romania		Romanian composer
Brinkmann, Minna	1831 Germany		a composer of many light works. In die Feine was published in several editions
Briquet (né Jehan de Villeroye) more...	fl. 1401		composer member of Charles VI's Court of Love, a sort of literary society whose members occupied themselves, in the late trouvère tradition, with both music and poetry
Brisbane, Alan (see Benjamin, Arthur)
Briseño, Severiano more...	1920 San José de las Canoas, San Luis Potosí, México	1988	Mexican composer
Brissac, Jules (see MacFarren, Mrs. John)
Brisson, Mlle. M	1785 Paris, France		composed and published works for violin, harp and piano
Bristow, George Frederick	19 Dec. 1825 Brooklyn, USA	13 Dec. 1898 New York. USA	American violinist who was also a pianist and composer, as well as a singing teacher in the New York State Schools
Britain, Radie	17 Mar. 1903 Silverton, nr. Amarillo, Texas, USA	23 May 1994 Palm Desert, Calif., USA	American composer
Brito, Estêvão de more...		1641 Málaga, Spain	Spanish composer who was maestro de capilla at Badajoz Cathedral and then maestro de capilla at Málaga Cathedral from 1613 until he died in 1641
Britten, Edward Benjamin more...	22 Nov. 1913 Lowestoft, England	4 Dec. 1976 Aldeburgh, England	pianist, conductor and composer; his skill in writing for the voice, in particular, produced extraordinary works including Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, Les Illuminations, folk-song arrangements and numerous operas, including Peter Grimes, Albert Herring, Turn of The Screw and Billy Budd as well as powerful works including voice with orchestra including the War Requiem and Spring Symphony. He also wrote concertos for violin, for cello, 3 string quartets and many fine works for use in church. In the opinion of many, he was probably the finest British composer of the twentieth century, if not since Henry Purcell
Brivio, Giuseppe Ferdinando		c.1758 Milan, Italy	Italian composer born in Milan
Brixi, Frantisek Xaver	1732 Bohemia	1771	organist; composer of church and instrumental music including the Christmas pastorelles Pastores Loquebantur" and Transeamus usque Bethlehem
Brixi, Jan Josef more...	1712	1762
Brixi, imon Brixi more...	1693	1735	Prague composer and organist
Brixi, Václav Norbert (Jeroným) more...	1738	1803
Brixi, Viktorin more...	1716	1762
Brkanovic, Ivan more...	27 Dec. 1906 Skaljare, Boka Kotorska	20 Feb. 1987 Zagreb	Yugoslavian composer
Brncic Isaza, Gabriel more...	6 Feb. 1942 Santiago de Chile, Chile		Chilean composer now based in Spain
Broadhurst, Dugan more...	1966 USA		American composer
Brockless, Brian more...	21 Jan. 1926 London, UK	18 Dec. 1995 England	English composer, organist and conductor
Brockway, Howard A.	1870 Brooklyn, USA	1951 New York, USA	American pianist; composer of orchestral and chamber works
Brod, Henri more...	13 Jun. 1799	6 Apr. 1839 Paris, France	Frehch oboeist who composed solos and concertos for oboe
Brod, Max more...	27 May 1884 Prague, Czechoslovakia	20 Dec. 1968 Tel Aviv, Israel	Austrian (later Czech) author, composer, and journalist of Jewish origin, who with his wife settled in Palestine (later Israel) in 1939
Broder, Alois more...	1961		German composer
Broderip, John	1719	1770	organist at Wells cathedral and composer of anthems and psalm tunes
Broderip, Robert	1758	1808	son of John Broderip, Robert was organist at Mayor's Chapel, Bristol (1780-1808), and at St Michael, Bristol (1793-1808). He published a collection of psalm tunes jointly with his father
Brodsky, Adolph	21 Mar. 1851 Taganrog, Russia	22 Jan. 1929 Manchester, England	Russian violinist, conductor, editor and teacher who premiered Tchaikovsky's violin concerto
Brodszky, Nicholas [Slug] more...	1905 Odessa, Russia	1985 Hollywood, CA, USA	composer described by Lionel Salter as being "...a notorious 'near-illiterate.' "Slug" Brodszky needed to have 'collaborators'". These were seldom credited
Broeck, Henri Van den	30 Mar. 1944 Ypres, Belgium		Belgian composer, violinist and teacher
Broeck, Leo van den	26 Oct. 1896 Anvers, Belgium	18 Jan. 1968 Anvers	Belgian composer, pianist and teacher
Broek, Piet van den	6 Mar. 1916 Chaam (Pays-Bas)		Belgian composer and teacher
Broes, Mlle. D	1791 Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Paris	composer and pupil of Fetis in 1805 and Klengel in 1810, she won honours for her piano playing
Brogi, Renato more...	25 Feb. 1873 Sesto Fiorentino	25 Aug. 1924 San Domenico di Fiesole, Florence	Italian composer
Brollo (de Bruollis), Bartolomeo more...	fl. 1420-1450		Italian composer probably associated with Venice
Bromhead, Jerome de more...	1945 Waterford, Ireland		Irish composer
Bronner, Georg [Jürgen]	bap. 17 Feb. 1667 Hamburg, Germany	bur. 8. Mar. 1720 Hamburg, Germany	German composer
Bronner, Gerhard more...	23 Oct. 1922 Vienna, Austria	19 Jan. 2007 Vienna, Austria	Austrian composer, writer, musician and a cabaret artist, known for his contribution to Austrian culture in the post-World War II period
Bronner, Till more...	6 May 1971 Viersen, Germany		German trumpeter and crooner
Brons, Carel more...	1 Jan. 1931 Groningen, The Netherlands	16 May 1983 Hilversum, The Netherlands	Dutch composer
Bronsart von Schellendorf (or Schellendorff), Ingeborg (née Starck) more...	24 Aug. 1840 St Peterburg, Russia	17 Jun. 1913 Munich, Germany	Russian-born composer, second wife of Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf (or Schellendorff)
Bronsart von Schellendorf (or Schellendorff), Hans more...	11 Feb. 1830 Germany	3 Nov. 1913 Munich, Germany	classical musician and composer who studied under Franz Liszt
Brook, Michael more...	1952 Toronto, Canada		Canadian composer and guitarist
Brookmeyer, Bob more...	19 Dec. 1929 Kansas City, Missouri, USA		American jazz valve trombonist, pianist, and arranger
Brooks, Harry more...	20 Sep. 1895 Homestead, PA, USA	1970 USA	composer of some hit songs including his co-composition, with Thomas "Fats" Waller and Andy Razaf, Ain't Misbehavin
Brooks, Harvey more...	17 Feb. 1899 Philadelphia, PA, USA	17 Jun. 1968 Los Angeles, CA, USA	Ragtime pianist who had an important influence on Duke Ellington and and popular composer
Brooks, Richard more...	1942		American composer
Brooks, Shelton more...	4 May 1886 Amesburg, Ontario, Canada	6 Sep. 1975	composer of Sophie Tucker's theme song The Last of the Red Hot Mamas (originally written in 1910), the instrumental Walking the Dog (1916) and the jazz standard The Darktown Strutter's Ball (1917)
Brooks, William more...	17 Dec. 1943		William Brooks is Assistant Professor of Composition at the University of Illinois, where he also directs the Contemporary Chamber Players and Contemporary Chamber Singers. Brooks has distinguished himself as a composer, tenor and conductor of vocal and instrumental ensembles in the United States and Great Britain. In addition, he has published many chapters and articles on subjects including John Cage, Charles Ives, American musical theatre, vocal music, popular music and musical instruments
Broome, John	fl 1725		a Chilterns psalmodist who published 'Michael Broom's collection of church musick' (1725) with Michael Broom
Broome, Michael	1700	1775	an itinerant psalmodist who later became parish clerk of St Philip, Birmingham. He was a prolific publisher of psalm-tunes, hymns and anthems
Broome, William Edward	1868 Manchester, England	10 May 1932 Toronto, Canada	English-born composer
Broonzy, (William Lee Conley) Big Bill more...	26 Jun. 1898 Scott County, Mississippi, USA	14 Aug. 1958 USA	prolific American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist.
Brophy, Gerard more...	1953		Australian composer
Broqua, Alfonso more...	11 Dec. 1876 Montevideo, Uruguay	24 Nov. 1946 Paris, France	composer who studied with Carlos Chavez in Mexico City before moving to Paris in 1903
Broschi ("Farinelli"), Carlo more...	24 Jan. 1705 Puglia, Italy	15 Jul. 1782 Bologna, Italy	brother of the composer Ricardo Broschi and pupil of Niccolò Porpora, in whose operas he sang (173437) in London. Having won fame in France and Italy, he became (1737) official singer to Philip V of Spain and renounced his public career. His sole duty was to sing the same four songs each night to the king, from whom he received an astronomical fee. He enjoyed a highly favored position in Spain gradually assuming other duties, both for Philip and his successor, Ferdinand VI. He was in charge of a scheme to divert the River Tagus; he redesigned the royal opera house, and he produced a long series of opulent stagings of operas for which he recruited the best Italian singers and composers. His influence on the court was enormous, but never, it seems, sinister. When he finally retired (1759) to the villa he had built outside Bologna he remained popular. His visitors book contained the names Gluck, Mozart, Casanova, the Emperor Joseph II, and many others. Farinelli not only sang, but he also played keyboard instruments and the viola d'amore. He occasionally composed, writing the text and music of a farewell to London aria, and an aria for Ferdinand VI, as well as keyboard sonatas
Broschi, Riccardo more...	c. 1698 Naples, Italy	1756 Madrid, Spain	Riccardo Broschi was Farinelli's brother, not a composer of the first rank but an able technician. His opera Idaspe, written for Carnival in Venice in 1730 and starring his brother, contains an extraordinary aria, Qual guerriero in campo armato, that required Farinelli to explore all three octaves in a series of leaps, trills, and slides that would have been unthinkable for any other singer. Later, in London, Broschi wrote another aria, Son qual nave che agitata, that was designed to show off his brother's messa di voce. This was the technique, beloved of castrati, that began with a pianissimo note, swelled it to a climax, then slowly allowed it to die away. Even if we allow for a little exaggeration in reports that Farinelli could hold such a note for a whole minute, it must have been an amazing effect. But the messa di voce that introduced Son qual nave was only the beginning: it went straight into fourteen consecutive bars of vocalises, ending with "an interminable trill" - and all of it performed "without any obvious signs of breathing"
Brossard, Sébastien de	1655 Dompierre, France	1730 Meaux, France	French church musician and composer; a compiler of an early dictionary of music
Brosse, Dirk more...	18 Feb. 1960 Heusden, Ghent, Belgium		Flemish Belgian composer and conductor
Brotons, Salvador more...	1959 Barcelona, Spain		he followed his music studies at the Barcelona Higher Music Conservatorie, where he graduated in flute, composition and orchestra conductorship. In 1985 he moved to the United States, where he obtained a doctorate in music at the Florida State University. He has written a number of works for orchestra, chamber and voice, and has been awarded over ten composition prizes, among which it is worth citing the Reina Sofia Prize. Even if he is still interested in composition, his main activity is at the moment orchestra conductorship. He has conducte several orchestras and ensembles both in Spain and the United States. At present he lives in Portland, where he conduct the Portland State University Orchestra
Brott, Alexander	14 Mar. 1915 Montreal, Canada	1 Apr. 2005 Montreal, Canada	violinist, university teacher and conductor whose output comprises over a hundred works, many of them for orchestra and often stimulated by an external poetic idea, as in the violin concerto Cupid's Quandary or cello concerto Evocative Provocations (both 1975). The titles reveal his sense of fun, among them Trivial Trifles for strings (1984), Three Acts for Four Sinners for saxophone quartet (1961), Spasms for Six for percussion sextet (1971) and Saties-Faction for string quartet (1972). A seven-volume anthology of recordings of his music was issued by Radio Canada in 1985
Brounoff, Platon G.	10 May 1863 Elizabethgrad, Russia	11 Jul. 1924 New York, USA	Russian-born composer, educator, author and pianist
Brouwer, Leo more...	1 Mar. 1939 Havana, Cuba		guitarist, conductor and composer; composer of film scores, chamber ensembles and, outstandingly, for guitar
Brouwer, Margaret more...	1940		she received a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin College and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Indiana University. Her composition teachers have included Donald Erb, George Crumb, Harvey Sollberger and Frederick Fox. Brouwer is currently Head of the composition department at The Cleveland Institute of Music and has also served as Composer-in-Residence with the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra. Her works have been performed by the St. Louis, Juilliard, and Roanoke Symphony Orchestras, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the Chestnut Brass Company. Her Clarinet Concerto was recorded by Richard Stoltzman, clarinet, with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra on the MMC label
Brown, Arthur Henry	Brentwood, 1830	Brentwood, 1926	organist; composer of almost 900 hymns
Brown, Clifford more...	30 Oct. 1930 Wilminton, Delaware, USA	26 Jun. 1956 USA	influential and highly rated American jazz trumpeter. He died aged 25, leaving behind only four years' worth of recordings. Nonetheless, he had a considerable influence on later jazz trumpet players, including Donald Byrd, Lee Morgan, Booker Little, Freddie Hubbard, Valery Ponomarev, and Wynton Marsalis
Brown, Earle	America, 1926		pioneer of alternative forms of music notation; works include 25 Pages for from 1 to 25 pianos and Available Forms II for 98 specified instruments divided between 2 conductors
Brown, Elizabeth more...	5 Nov. 1953 USA		American flautist and composer
Brown, James more...			Canadian composer/guitarist. His playing draws influence from both classical and jazz traditions and has been praised for his fluent technique, lyrical tone, and daring melodic invention
Brown, James more...	18 Aug. 1923 Ipswich, England	21 Dec. 2004 East Riding, England	English composer
Brown (or Browne), John more...	c.1480	1505	composer represented by several pieces in the Eton choirbook, not to be confused with John Browne (or Bronne) listed as a royal trumpeter between 1505 and 1514
Brown, L. Russell more...	29 Jun. 1940 Newark, NJ, USA		composer of such hits as Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round The Old Oak Tree and Knock Three Times
Brown, Nacio Herb more...	22 Feb. 1896 Deming, New Mexico, USA	1964 San Francisco, CA, USA	composer of hits songs such as You Were Meant for Me, Singin' in the Rain and Good Morning
Brown, Ray more...	13 Oct. 1926 Pittsburgh, PA, USA	2 Jul. 2002 Indianapolis, IN, USA	American jazz musician and composer
Brown, Rayner more...	23 Feb. 1912 Des Moines, Iowa, USA	1999 Los Angeles, USA	American organist and composer
Brown, Sebastian Howard	1903		organ and music teacher in Middlesex, UK, he published his Wedding Music for Dan and Thelma in 1965
Browne, Denis (see Browne, William Charles Denis)
Browne, James Alexander more...	1838	1914	composer
Browne, John (see Brown, John)
Browne, John Lewis	18 May 1864 London, England	23 Oct. 1933 Chicago, USA	English composer
Browne, William Charles Denis more...	3 Nov. 1888 Leamington, UK	4 Jun 1915 Krithia, Gallipoli	William Denis Browne is best remembered today for his friendship with Rupert Brooke and his moving account of his death and burial while en route to Gallipoli in 1915. The long shadow cast by Brookes powerful personality and his enduring fame has obscured Brownes own considerable achievements as a composer, performer and critic before the war. It has only been in recent years that Browne, on the basis of only four songs composed between 1909 and 1913, has enjoyed a small revival of interest in his life and work that reaches beyond his friendship with Brooke
Brownsmith, (Reginald) Douglas	1902	1965 Bexhill-on-Sea, UK	his first big success as a composer came in 1927 when Down the Mall written in collaboration with Tony Lowry - was published. The newly-formed BBC Dance Orchestra under Henry Hall made its first broadcast (and Columbia recordings) in March 1932, and Douglas Brownsmith was one of a fine team of arrangers, working alongside his colleague Tony Lowry and famous names such as Phil Cardew, Sid Phillips, Peter Yorke, Ronnie Munro and the American Van Phillips. One of his compositions, Hush Hush Hush Here Comes The Bogey Man (credited on the label to Lowton and Benson, actually Messrs. Lowry and Brownsmith) was on the other side of the famous Henry Hall record of Teddy Bears Picnic. Douglas also wrote under the pseudonyms Ray Benson and Douglas Hamilton which hid the true identity of the composer of other popular songs such as Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (recorded by Jack Payne and the BBC Dance Orchestra) and Wrap Your Arms Around Me (recorded by Henry Hall). It appears that Douglas also occasionally wrote lyrics as well as music: he is reported to have collaborated with Philip Braham, composer of the famous Limehouse Blues. During the 1930s Douglas purchased and ran the only bakery in the village of Ticehurst, which he eventually sold and exchanged for a small restaurant in Bexhill-on-Sea
Brubeck, (David Warren) Dave more...	6 Dec. 1920 Concord, California, USA	5 Dec. 2012 Norwalk, Connecticut, USA	an American jazz pianist who has written a number of jazz standards, including In Your Own Sweet Way and The Duke. Brubeck's style ranges from refined to bombastic, reflecting his mother's attempts at classical training and his improvisational skills. Much of his music employs unusual time signatures
Brubeck, Howard R.	11 Jul. 1916 Concordia, California, USA	16 Feb. 1993 Escondido, California, USA	older brother of Dave Brubeck; composer and arranger
Bruce, (Frank) Neely	21 Jan. 1944 Memphis, Tenn. USA		American composer
Bruce, Robert	1915 Scotland		a member of the progrssive-tonality school of composers whose music is Haydnesque, having no affiliation with trends or fashions, or any avant-garde pretensions
Bruch, Max (Karl August) more...	6 Jan. 1838 Cologne, Germany	20 Oct. 1920 Friedenau, Germany	conductor; composer of many popular orchestral works including 3 violin concertos (no. 1 in G minor is particularly well-known), 3 symphonies and Kol Nidrei for 'cello and orchestra
Bruck, Arnold von (or Brugk, Prugg, de Prugkh, von Prigkh, Arnoldus Brugensis) more...	c.1500 Bruges, Belgium	6 Feb. 1554 Linz an den Donau, Upper Austria	one of the most regarded German composers of his time and wrote countless secular and church songs. His Lutheran chorale settings show that he was really belong to the Reformation, and that he remained faithful to the old faith. His surviving compositions include sacred Latin works in the style of Josquin and sacred and secular songs in German, evidence of his pre-eminent position as a composer in the Austrian territories of his day
Brucken-Fock, Gerard von more...	1859 Koudekerke, The Netherlands	1935 Aerdenhout, The Natherlands	Dutch composer
Bruckner, Anton more...	4 Sep. 1824 Ansfelden, Austria	11 Oct. 1896 Vienna, Austria	an Austrian composer whose mature music was written at the end of the Romantic era. Bruckner's reputation is based on his symphonies, masses, and motets. The symphonies in particular are famous for their rich harmonic language and complex polyphony, although they have gained detractors (especially in English-speaking countries) owing to their large size and the fact that many of them exist in several different versions. Due to their scale, massive sonorities and imposing structure, the symphonies have often been referred to as cathedrals of sound
Brudieu, Joan more...	c. 1520 nr. Limoges, France	1591 Urgel, Spain	French-born choirmaster and composer who from 1539 worked at the cathedral in Urgel
Brugensis, Arnoldus (see Bruck, Arnold von)
Brüggemann, Kurt more...	30 Mar. 1908 Berlin, Germany		German composer
Brüggen, Frans more...	30 Oct. 1934 Amsterdam, Holland		Dutch recorder player, flautist and latterly conductor. Composer of three studies for recorder
Brugk, Hans Melchior more...	24 Nov. 1909 Munich, Germany	14 Sep. 1999 Brannenburg am Inn	German composer
Bruhier, Antoine more...	fl. 1514-1518		Northern-European composer of the sixteenth century
Bruhns, Nikolaus (or Nicolaus)	1665 Germany	1697	pupil of Buxtehude, organist and composer of church music. He was also a good violinist and is famously known for accompanying himself on the organ pedals
Bruin, Bram more...	1912	1968	Dutch organist and composer
Bruinen, Paul more...			Dutch composer
Bruins, Theo more...	25 Nov. 1929 Arnhem, The Netherlands	8 Jan. 1993 Haarlem, The Netherlands	Dutch pianist and composer
Bruk, Fridrich more...	18 Sep. 1937 Ukraine		Ukrainian composer who settled in Finland in 1973 and has taught at various Finnish music institutes
Brulé, Gace more...	c.1160	after 1213	French trouvère, a native of Champagne
Brüll, Ignaz	7 Nov. 1846 Prossnitz, Austria	17 Sep. 1907 Vienna, Austria	Moravian-born pianist; composer of 10 operas, 2 piano concertos, orchestral works and chamber music
Brumby, Colin James more...	18 Jun. 1933 Melbourne, Australia		composed a symphony; concertoes for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, organ, piano, violin, viola, cello; chamber works; instrumental works; songs; choral music; operas etc.
Brumel, Antoine more...	c.1460 nr. Chartres, France	1512/1513 probably Italy	French composer. He was one of the first renowned French members of the Franco-Flemish school of the Renaissance, and, after Josquin Desprez, was one of the most influential composers of his generation
Brümmer, Ludger more...	1958 Werne, Germany		German composer
Brun, Fritz more...	18 Aug. 1878 Lucerne, Switzerland	29 Nov. 1959 Morcote, Switzerland	One of the most prominent celebrities in the Swiss music scene in the first half of the twentieth century. After studying music in Cologne, Berlin and London, he initially taught piano in various cities, including Berne, where, in 1909, he became chairman of the Berne Musical Society. He composed ten symphonies in the tradition of Brahms and Bruckner
Brün, Herbert Julius more...	1918 Berlin, Germany	6 Nov. 2000 Urbana, Ill, USA	Brun helped introduce the use of electronics and computers in creating music and wrote modern music for various instruments, but he also became a central figure in the melding of electronics and computer technology with music, and his teaching and writings in English and German influenced that development. He left Germany for Palestine in 1936 and studied piano composition in Tel Aviv and at the Jerusalem Conservatory of Music. He took more music courses at Columbia in the late 1940s. From 1950 he lived in Israel and Germany, writing for the theatre, radio and television. He also lectured on Bavarian Radio in Munich and at summer courses in Darmstadt. He also conducted research in Paris, Cologne and Munich on the use of electro-acoustic and electronic sound production in composing music, and he repeatedly toured the United States. In 1963 he was offered the professorship at Urbana, which allowed him to expand his study of computer systems as another resource in his work. While continuing to write pieces for traditional instruments, he used computers to generate sound, which he integrated into his compositions. He wrote widely on the function of computers in music and on the place of music in society and politics
Bruna, Pablo more...	22 Jun. 1611 Spain	27 Jun. 1679 Spain	Spanish composer and organist notable for his blindness (suffered after a childhood bout of smallpox), which resulted in his being known as "El ciego de Daroca" ("the blind man of Daroca")
Bruneau, (Louis Charles Bonaventure-)Alfred	3 Mar. 1857 Paris, France	15 Jun. 1934 Paris, France	'cellist and student of Massenet. He composed operas (2 based on libretti by Zola), the best known is Le Réve, and 3 choral symphonies
Brunelli, Antonio more...	c.1575 Bagnarea, Italy	c.1630 Pisa, Italy	Italian organist and composer
Brunetti, Antonio more...	1767 Italy	after 1845 Italy	Italian composer
Brunetti (or Bruneti), Gaetano (Caetano, Cayetano) more...	1744 possibly Fano	16 Dec. 1798 Colmenar de Orejo, nr. Madrid, Spain	Spanish composer
Brunetti, Giovan Gualberto	24 Apr. 1706 Pistoia, Italy	20 May 1787 Pisa, Italy	Italian composer
Brunetti, Giuseppe	c.1735-45 Naples, Italy	after 1780	Italian composer
Bruni, Antonio Bartolomeo more...	28 Jan. 1757 Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy	5 Aug. 1821 Cuneo, Piedmont, Italy	Italian composer
Bruning O.F.M., Eliseus Fr. more...	1892	1958	a member of the community of Friars Minor of Venray in Holland, musicologist and composer of liturgical music
Brunswick, Mark	6 Jan. 1902 New York, America	25 May. 1971 London, UK	works include a choral symphony Eros and Death and an opera The Master Builder (after Ibsen)
Bruno, Mauro A.	25 Nov. 1923 Boston, Massachusetts, USA	3 Oct. 2002 Burbank, California, USA	trumpeter, arranger and composer who wrote the music for the TV series Barnaby Jones, Streets of San Francisco and Police Woman
Brusa, Elisabetta more...	3 Apr. 1954 Milan, Italy		Italian composer
Brusa, (Giovanni) Francesco	c.1700 Venice, Italy	after 1768	Italian composer
Brusselmans, Michel more...	12 Feb. 1886 Paris, France	20 Sep. 1960 Brussels, Belgium	French-born Belgian composer
Brussilovsky (or Brusilovsky), Yevgeni (Evgeny) Grigor'yevich	12 Nov. 1905 Rostov-on-Don, Russia	9 May. 1981 Moscow, Russia	inspired by Kazakh folk music which he collected and incorporated into many of his works which included 5 operas and 6 symphonies
Brustad, Bjarne more...	3 Apr. 1895 Christiania	22 May 1978 Oslo, Norway	Norwegian composer
Bruun, Peter more...	1968		Danish composer
Bruynel, Ton more...	1934 Utrecht, The Netherlands	1998 Mailly, France	Dutch composer
Bruzdowicz, Joanna more...	17 May 1943 Warsaw, Poland		studied at the Warsaw Music High School, at the State Higher School of Music (composition with Kazimierz Sikorski and piano with Irena Protasiewicz and Wanda Osakiewicz); she earned her M.A. in 1966. She traveled to Paris to continue her studies on a scholarship from the French government and became a student of Nadia Boulanger, Oliver Messiaen and Pierre Schaeffer (1968-70). While in Paris, she joined the electro acoustic Groupe de Recherches Musicales and wrote her doctoral thesis Mathematics and Logic in Contemporary Music at the Sorbonne. After completing her studies in France, she settled in Belgium and established herself as a composer there (she recently moved to southern France)
Bryant, Ray more...	24 Dec. 1931 Philadelphia, PA, USA		American jazz pianist and composer
Bryars, Gavin more...	16 Jan. 1943 Goole, England		English composer and double bassist. He has been active in, or has produced works in, a variety of styles of music, including jazz, free improvisation, minimalism, experimental music, avant-garde and neoclassicism
Brzowski, Jósef	1803 Warsaw, Poland	3 Dec. 1888 Warsaw, Poland	Polish composer
Bucalossi, Ernest more...	1859	1933	in his day, know particularly for his characteristic piece Grasshopper's Dance, a jaunty little number popular with light orchestras. His name also to be found on the covers of those many arrangements of tunes from Savoy-related operettas - Ruddygore Lancers, Haddon Hall Waltz and Polka, Queen of My Heart and Other Melodies from Cellier's Dorothy, etc. In 1883 the Daily Telegraph described it as "the brightest and funniest opera that has been produced in London for years." This operetta-inclined musician was however P. (for Procida) Bucalossi and was possibly the father of the Grasshopper's Dance man and from his name perhaps Italian by birth. It is by no means easy to disentangle which Bucalossi wrote what. The once popular waltz-song Ciribiribin has been attributed to Ernest, but it may originally have been by Procida
Bucalossi, Procida more...		1933	father of Ernest Bucalossi who was also a composer of light music
Bucchi, Valentino	29 Nov. 1916 Florence, Italy	9 May 1976 Florence, Italy	pupil of Dallapiccola;composer of orchestral, operatic and film music
Bucci, Mark	26 Feb. 1924 New York, USA		American composer
Buchardo, Carlos Lopez more...	12 Oct. 1881 Buenos Aires, Argentina	21 Apr. 1948 Buenos Aires, Argentina	Argentinean composer whose work is inspired by native music
Bucharoff (or Bukaroff, Buchhalter, Bugalter), Simon (Semion)	20 Apr. 1881 Berdichev, Ukraine	24 Nov. 1955 Chicago, Illinois, USA	Ukrainian pianist and composer
Buchner, Hans more...	26 Oct. 1483	Mar. 1538	German organist and composer
Bucht, Gunnar	5 Aug. 1927 Stocksund		Swedish composer
Buck, Dudley	10 Mar. 1839 Hartford, Conn., USA	6 Oct. 1909 Orange, N.J., USA	organist and composer who studied in Germany; he wrote choral works, chamber music and an opera Deseret
Buck, Ole more...	1 Feb. 1945 Copenhagen, Denmark		Danish composer
Buck, Percy Carter	1871 London	1947 London	organist; composer of organ and choral music
Buck, Zechariah	1798 Norwich, UK	1879 Newport, Essex, UK	organist and choir-trainer; minor composer
Buchanan, Mabel			composed the song Throughout the Years for the 1944 British film Give Me The Stars
Buckenham, John	fl 1741		psalmodist of Bramfield, Suffolk who published 'The psalm-singer's devout exercise' (1741)
Buckinx, Boudewijn more...	28 Mar. 1945 Lommel, Belgium		Belgian composer
Buckley, John more...	1951 Templeglantine, Co. Limerick, Ireland		Irish composer who also lecturers in composition and is on the staff of St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra. He is a member of Aosdána, Irelands state-sponsored academy of creative artists.
Buckley (Bulkley), Olivia Dussek	mid 1790s London	after 1845	skilled writer for the harp and piano. Published two books in 1846
Buczynski, Walter	17 Dec. 1933 Toronto, Canada		Canadian composer
Budashkin, Nikolai (or Nikolay) Pavlovich more...	6 Aug. 1910 Lubakhovka, Kaluga, Russia	1988	Russian composer performer and conductor. The winner of many awards, Budashkin also worked on the balalaika music for the film Dr. Zhivago. He worked extensively with Ossipov Balalaika Orchestra (Moscow), for which he composed and made many arrangements
Budd, Harold more...	24 May 1936 Los Angeles, California, USA		an American ambient/avant-garde composer
Budd, Roy more...	14 Mar. 1947 London, UK	7 Aug. 1993 London, UK	Jazz pianist and composer particularly noted for his music for film
Budón, Osvaldo more...	1965 Concordia, Entre Ríos, Argentina		Argentinean composer
Budriunas, Antanas more...	1902 Pabirze, Lithuania	1966 Vilnius, Lithuania	Lithuanian composer
Budriunas, Bronius more...	1909 Pabirze, Lithuania	1994 Los Angeles, California, USA	Lithuanian composer
Budriunas, Motiejus more...	1898 Pabirze, Lithuania	1969 Memmingen, Germany	Lithuanian composer
Budzynski, Bartlomiej more...	1962		Polish composer
Buenaventura, Alfredo Santos	14 Oct. 1929 Santa Maria, Bulacan		composer
Buenaventura, Antonio	10 May 1904 Baliuag, Bulacan		composer
Buffardin, Pierre-Gabriel more...	1690 Provence, France	1768	a French flautist and composer in the late Baroque period
Buggenhout, Émile van	1825 Brussels, Belgium	1885 Brussels, Belgium	composer, clarinetist and conductor
Buhl, David more...	late 18th/early 19th century		composer of the military trumpet calls for the French army
Buini (or Bovina, Buina), Giuseppe Maria	c.1680 Bologna, Italy	13 May 1739 Alessandria	Italian composer
Buini, Matteo	fl. 1748-49		Italian composer
Bujarski, Zbigniew more...	1933 Muszyna, Poland		Polish composer and composition teacher. He studied composition at the State College of Music in Cracow under Stanislaw Wiechowicz. In 1961 he received a honorary mention at the Young Polish Composers' Competition organized by the Polish Composers' Union and in 1964 he won the 2nd Prize at the Grzegorz Fitelberg Composers' Competition.
Bulbul-oglu, Polad	1945		one of the most famous singers of popular music in the former Soviet Union. He is also a talented composer and currently has been assigned as Minister of Culture in Azerbaijan
Bull, John more...	c. 1562/63 probably Radnorshire, England	12 Mar. 1628 Antwerp, The Netherlands	organ builder, organist and virtuoso on the virginals for which he composed fine music one work in particular possibly the original inspiration for God Save the Queen
Bull, Ole	1810 Norway	1880	virtuoso violinist; composer of 2 violin concertos and an ethusiast for Norwegian folk-music and Grieg
Bullant (or Bulant, Bullanto, Bullault, Bullandt), Antoine	c.1750 nr. Amiens, France	c. Jun. 1821 St Peterburg, Russia	French-born composer
Buller, John more...	7 Feb. 1927, London, UK	12 Sep. 2004 Sherborne, Dorset	composer and surveyor, John Buller was a late starter as a composer. It was not until he was approaching 50 that he first came to prominence with music that was unashamedly intellectual, both in construction and in the texts he chose to set, and with a powerful dramatic charge that was communicated directly to his audiences. His opera based on Euripides' The Bacchae - Buller preferred Bakxai which suggests the original Greek - was premiered at the English National Opera in 1992 leading Guy Rickards, writing in Tempo, to write: "I believe John Buller's Bakxai (The Bacchae) to be the finest British opera since Britten's Curlew River . . . Buller has made Bakxai intelligible to a modern audience, intensely dramatic and utterly compelling"
Bullock, Ernest more...	15 Sep 1890 Wigan, UK	24 May 1979 Aylesbury, UK	organist; composer of organ music, part-songs and fanfares for state occasions
Bülow, Hans Guido Freiherr von more...	8 Jan. 1830 Dresden, Germany	12 Feb. 1894 Cairo, Egypt	German conductor, virtuoso pianist, and composer of the Romantic era. He was one of the most famous conductors of the 19th century, and his activity was critical for establishing the successes of several major composers of the time, including Richard Wagner
Bungert, (Friedrich) August	14 Mar. 1845 Mülheim an der Ruhr	26 Oct. 1915 Leutesdorf am Rhein	German composer
Bunin, Revol Samuilovich more...	6 Apr. 1924 Moscow, Russia	4 Jul. 1976 Moscow, Russia	Russian composer who has composed for film
Buonamici, Giuseppe	1846 Florence, Italy	1914 Florence, Italy	pianist, pupil of Liszt and von Bülow, teacher and composer, director of the Società Cherubini in Florence, and editor of pianoforte literature, including an edition of Beethoven's sonatas
Burde-Ney, Jeanette Milder	1799 Austria		composer who was also an excellent vocal teacher
Burgess, Anthony (pseudonym of John Anthony Burgess Wilson) more...	25 Feb. 1917 Manchester, UK	22 Nov. 1993 St. John's Wood, London, UK	novelist, critic and composer
Burghauser, Jarmil [Hájku, Michal]	21 Oct. 1921 Pisek		composer
Burghersh, Lord John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmoreland	3 Feb. 1784 London, England	16 Oct. 1859 Wansford, Northants., England	English composer
Burgmüller, (Johann) August Franz	28 Apr 1766 Magdeburg, Germany	21 Aug 1824 Düsseldorf, Germany	a theatre director in Weimar, and other locations. This German composer, father of Norbert and Friedrich (see below), wrote songs, works for church, and works for the theatre
Burgmüller, (August Joseph) Norbert more...	8 Feb 1810 Düsseldorf, Germany	7 May 1836 Aix-en-Chapelle (Aachen)	died young (drowned during an epileptic seizure at the spa in Aachen) leaving a considerable quantity of symphonic and other music
Burgmüller, (Johann) Friedrich (Franz) more...	4 Dec 1806 Regensburg, Germany	13 Feb 1874 Beaulieu, Seine-et-Oise	brother of above; wrote mainly piano music for children but also composed supplementary numbers for the ballet Giselle (mainly by Adam) as well as his own ballet The Peri
Burgon, Geoffrey more...	15 Jul. 1941 Hampshire, UK	21 Sep. 2010 nr. Stroud, UK	prolific composer who has worked successfully in television, for example, the music for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy starring Alec Guiness
Burian, Emil Frantisek more...	11 Jun 1904 Pilsen, Czechoslovakia	9 Aug 1959 Prague, Czech Republic	composer of many vocal works using his invention, 'voice band', in which vowels are used forconcords and consonants for discords; also composer of operas, ballets and chamber music
Burke, Joseph A. (Joe) more...	18 Mar. 1884 Philadelphia, NY, USA	9 Jun. 1950 Upper Darby, PA, USA	prolific composer who co-wrote Tip-Toe Through the Tulips for Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929)
Burkhalter, Dominik	1975 Zurch, Switzerland		Swiss bandleader, composer and drummer
Burkhard, Paul	21 Dec. 1911 Zürich, Switzerland	6 Sep. 1977 Tösstal, Zell	Swiss composer of operettas and other light music including O My Papa!
Burkhard, Willy	17 Apr. 1900 Bienne, Switzerland	18 Jun. 1955 Zürich, Switzerland	pupil of Karg-Elert and influenced by Hindemith; composer of orchestral, chamber and choral music including Protestant oratorios, as well as an opera Die Schwarze Spinne
Burkhardt, Max	28 Sep. 1871 Löbau	12 Nov. 1934 Berlin, Germany	German composer
Burleigh, Cecil	1885 Wyoming, USA		violinist; composer of works for his instrument
Burleigh, Henry Thacker	2 Dec. 1866 Erie, Pennsylvania, USA	12 Sep. 1949 Stamford, Connecticut, USA	pupil of Dvorák; Black baritone; arranger of Negro spirituals and a composer
Burney, Charles more...	7 Apr 1726 Shrewsbury, UK	12 Apr 1814 Chelsea, London, UK	organist and minor composer; father of remarkable children (Fanny and Sarah (both successful novelists), Admiral James (a writer on South Sea exploration who accompanied James Cook on one of his voyages) and Charles Burney, jnr, the Greek scholar) who wrote about his travels through Europe, from which pages we can gauge contemporary taste and the reputation of the performers and composers of his day
Burns, Ralph (Jose P.) more...	29 Jun. 1922 Newton, MA, USA	21 Nov. 2001 Los Angeles, CA, USA	jazz composer, transcriber and arranger who won an Academy Award in 1972 for Cabaret
Burns, Wilfred more...	28 Jun. 1917 Eardisley, Herefordshire, England	25 Sep. 1990 West Clandon, Surrey, England	freelance film composer and musical director
Burt, Francis more...	28 Apr 1926 England		pupil of Ferguson and Blacher; works include 2 string quartets, an opera Volpone and Iambics for orchestra
Burtch, Mervyn more...	7 Nov 1929 Ystrad Mynach, Wales	12 May 2015 Wales	Welsh composer
Burton, Stephen Douglas	24 Feb. 1943 Whittier, Calif. USA		American composer
Bury (or Buri), Bernard de	20 Aug. 1720 Versailles, France	19 Nov. 1785 Versailles, France	French composer
Busby, Bob more...	1901 Maidenhead, England		composer of music for film
Busby, Thomas	1755 London	1838 London	organist; composer of choral works and writer of a music dictionary (1806) written with the assistance of Samuel Arnold (1740-1802)
Busca, Lodovico	fl. 1670-1700		Italian composer born in Turin
Busch, Carl	1862 Bjerre, Denmark	1943 Kansas City, USA	composer of choral music
Busch, Adolf Georg Wilhelm	1891 Germany	1952	violinist; composer of orchestral works
Busch, William	1901 London, UK	1945 Woolacombe, Devon	pianist; composer of concertos, chamber music and songs
Bush, Alan Dudley more...	22 Dec. 1900 England	31 Oct. 1995 Watford, England	his strong Communist sympathies have coloured much of his music including his operas Wat Tyler and Men of Blackmoor, his piano concerto and his string quartet Dialectic. Alan Bush s musical activities during the Second World War inevitably tend to focus on his political views and the BBC's banning of his music because of his championship of 'the People s Convention'. Vaughan Williams' much publicised support of him resulted in the BBC rescinding the ban, and Bush's First Symphony, which had been written between June 1939 and August 1940 and published almost immediately, finally received its first performance at a Promenade Concert on 27 July 1942. Bush's programme is political rather than descriptive, as the programme note for the Prom. made clear: "It has a programme rooted in its composer s political or more accurately, sociological views, its keynotes being aspiration in the Prologue and respectively greed, frustration, and liberation in the three movements." The symphony is of particular note as being the watershed between the composer's complex 'thirties' European style and his later more populist folk-related idiom. Bush uses a twelve-tone theme in his first two movements, but adopts an undisguised C major in the finale to underline the sense of achievement. The Times critic wrote "the juxtaposition of keys, modes, and tonality is interesting; the musical logic though often baffling does somehow cohere, and there were points of vivid orchestration...". The Daily Telegraph critic added: "Extreme effects of colour abound, force and vigour being at times perilously near violence". When the score had been first published, Kaikhosru Sorabji wrote "the musical substance has a splendid, close-fibred texture of hard-thought ideas, behind which, all the time, is the drive and impulse of that elevated excitement of the soul that is independent of the reason that is the satisfaction of the intellect or of the emotion that is the satisfaction of the heart, because the greater includes the less and transcends both."
Bush, Geoffrey more...	23 Mar. 1920 London, England		composer of operas, 2 symphonies and numerous other orchestral and chamber works
Busnois (Antoine de Busne) more...	c.1430 possibly Béthune, nr. Pas de Calais, France	6 Nov. 1492 Bruges, Belgium	French composer and poet of the early Renaissance Burgundian School. While also noted as a composer of sacred music, such as motets, he was one of the most renowned 15th-century composers of secular chansons. He was the leading figure of the late Burgundian school after the death of Guillaume Dufay
Busoni, Ferruccio (Dante Michelangelo Benvenuto) more...	1 Apr. 1866 Empoli, Italy	27 Jul. 1924 Berlin, Germany	virtuoso pianist; composer of 4 operas, orchestral, chamber and vocal music as well as numerous transcriptions, in particular, of the works of Bach. He was an anti-Romantic detesting Wagner
Busser (or Büsser), Henri-Paul	16 Jan. 1872 Toulouse, France	30 Dec. 1973 Paris, France	pupil of Gounod, Franck and Widor; composed 7 operas, orchestral and choral works
Bussotti, Sylvano more...	1 Oct. 1931 Florence, Italy		a composer who employs high individualised graphic notation; works include The Rara Requiem for voices and chamber orchestra and the stage work The Passion according to Sade for voice, instruments and narrator
Bussey de			works by him were contained in the fifth book by Le Roy and Ballard
Bustini, Alessandro	24 Dec. 1876 Rome	23 Jun. 1970 Rome, Italy	Italian composer
Butler, Jerry more...	1904 Ramsgate, Kent, England		singer/songwriter, a member of the Impressions
Butler, T. 'O'Brien' (Whitwell)	3 Nov. 1861 Cahersiveen, Eire	7 May 1915 at sea	T. O'Brien Butler was the pen name of the Irish composer Thomas Whitwell Butler. He is best remembered for his opera Muirgheis written in 1903 which was the first libretto to be written in the Irish language. He was lost in the sinking of the Lusitania [additional information provided by Aidan Butler]
Butler, Thomas Hamly	c.1755 London, England	1823 Edinburgh, Scotland	English composer
Butler, Thomas Whitwell (see Butler, T. 'O'Brien' (Whitwell))
Butterley, Nigel Henry more...	13 May 1935 Sydney, Australia		pupil of Rainier and regarded as one of the leading composers of his generation. His output includes the orchestral Meditations of Thomas Traherne (1968) and From Sorrowing Earth (1991), a violin concerto, four string quartets and other chamber music, vocal choral, piano and other instrumental works, and the opera Lawrence Hargrave Flying Alone (1988). Among recent major works are The Woven Light, a cycle of poems of Kathleen Raine for soprano and orchestra (1994), and Spell of Creation (2000) for soloists, choir and orchestra. His radiophonic choral work In the Head the Fire was awarded the Italia Prize in 1966
Butterworth, Arthur more...	4 Aug. 1923 New Moston, Manchester, England	20 Nov. 2014 nr Skipton, England	trumpeter and composer of several symphonies, other orchestral works and chamber music, as well as many works for brass band
Butterworth, George (Sainton Kaye) more...	1885 London, UK	1916 killed in action in France	composer of music of great delicacy who was active in the English folk song and dance movement
Buttier, Mlle			she had works published in Paris between 1727 and 1732
Butting, Max	6 Oct. 1888 Berlin, Germany	13 Jul. 1976 Berlin, Germany	German composer
Buttykay, Ákos (de Gálszécs et Buttka)	22 Jul. 1871 Halmeuj	26 Oct. 1935 Debrecen	Hungarian composer
Buus, Jacques (or Jacob) more...	c. 1500 Ghent, Belgium	late Aug. 1565 Vienna, Austria	a Franco-Flemish composer and organist of the Renaissance, and an early member of the Venetian School. He was one of the earliest composers of the ricercar, the predecessor to the fugue, and he was also a skilled composer of chansons
Buxtehude, Dietrich (Diderik) more...	1637 Oldesloe, Denmark	9 May 1717 Lübeck, Germany	organist; one of the greatest German influences on J.S. Bach, visited by both Bach and Handel; composer of fine organ music and church cantatas. Not only the year, but also the country of his birth is uncertain and disputed. Since he spent his early years in Helsingborg in Scania, at the time part of Denmark, he is by some considered a Danish composer. Others, however, claim that he was born at Oldesloe in Holstein, (Germany), which at that time also was under the rule of the Danish king, and regarded as part of the Danish kingdom
Buzarovski, Dimitrije more...	1952 Skopje, Macedonia		Bachelor of Music in Performance (piano - 1972, University Cyril and Methodius) Bachelor of Music in Theory and Composition (1973 - University Cyril and Methodius) master's degree : in composition (1976, University of Arts, Belgrade); doctor's degree: in Philosophy (1984, Aesthetics of music, University Cyril and Methodius, Philosophy Dpt.); postdoctoral : research as a Fulbright Fellow at Boston University Philosophy Dept. (1985-86), subject: History of Aesthetics of Music (1992) at Arizona State University (research project on music education), research as a Fulbright Fellow at Arizona State University College of Business, subject : textbook "Business Basics for Music Managers"(1999-2000); composer of over 70 works
Buzzolla, Antonio	2 Mar. 1815 Adria, nr. Rovigo	20 Mar. 1871 Venice, Italy	Italian composer
Byrd, Bretton more...	1904 Ramsgate, Kent, England		prolific composer, pianist and music director
Byrd, William more...	late 1539/1540 London, England	4 Jul. 1623 Stondon, Essex, UK	one of the most celebrated English composers of the Renaissance. His entire life was marked by contradictions, and as a true Renaissance man he cannot be easily categorised. He lived until well into the seventeenth century without writing music in the new Baroque fashion, but his superbly constructed keyboard works marked the beginning of the Baroque organ and harpsichord style (corrected with the assistance of Richard Turbet)
Byström, Oscar Fredrik Bernadotte	13 Oct. 1821 Stockholm	22 Jul. 1909 Stockholm	Swedish composer
Byström, Thomas	1772 Helsinki, Finland	1839	initially pursuing a military career, he studied at the Artillery and Sappers Military Academy in St Petersburg in 178791 and moved to Sweden in 1793. Apparently he was a skilled pianist, since after being discharged from the Army he taught the piano and initially also the organ at the Swedish Music Academy from 1818 to 1833. His surviving compositions include three Violin Sonatas, some piano works and a handful of solo songs. These were probably written at a relatively early stage in his career, in the 1790s and early 1800s
Byttering (also Bytering, Bytteryng, or Biteryng; possible first name Thomas) more...	fl. c. 14001420		an English composer during the transitional period from Medieval to Renaissance styles. Five of his compositions have survived, all of them in the Old Hall Manuscript