| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Boyd, Bobby C. |
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American Songwriter |
| Boyd, J. |
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Music arranger |
| Boyd, Jackson |
Boyd, Jack |
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American music arranger |
| Boyle, Malcolm C. |
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1902 |
1976 |
British organist and composer. |
| Bracanin, Philip K. [Dr.] |
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Philip Bracanin is an Australian of Dalmatian parentage. Currently (2003) head of School of Music at University of Queensland |
| Brady, Nicholas |
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1659 |
1726 |
British Composer |
| Brahe, May |
Mervyn Banks, Mary Hannah Brahe, Donald Crichton, Stanley Dickson, Alison Dodd, Stanton Douglas, Eric Faulkner, Wilbur B. Fox, Henry Lovell, Mary Hanna Morgan, and George Pointer, Dickson, M.H. |
1884 |
1956 |
Australian composer, best known for her songs and ballads. Brahe published under her married name and nine pseudonyms. |
| Brahms, Johannes |
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1833 |
1897 |
German composer and pianist |
| Brandl, Johann Evangelist |
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1760 |
1837 |
German composer and violinist . |
| Brandon, Herbert J. |
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1878 |
1945 |
British Lyricist |
| Brandon, Hugh |
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1906 |
1984 |
Australian musician and educationalist |
| Branscombe, Edward |
Salmon, George |
1889 |
1931 |
English-born singer, composer, variety artist, entrepreneur, businessman who toured Australia with "The Dandies" several times, as well as New Zealand and Americas |
| Brash, James |
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1881 |
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Scottish born Composer, Music adjudicator Music examiner throughout Australia and New Zealand. He was a foundation member of APRA and the Music Teachers Association |
| Bratton, John W. |
Bratton, John Walter |
1867 |
1947 |
American Tin Pan Alley composer and theatrical producer who became popular during the era known as the Gay Nineties. |
| Brauel, Henning |
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1940 |
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German Composer. Music arranger and editor |
| Braz, Michael |
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American Pianist, music educator, composer, and clinician. Professor of Music at Georgia Southern University |
| Brébeuf, St. Jean de |
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seventeenth-century French missionary who worked primarily with the Huron people |
| Brecht, Berthold |
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1898 |
1956 |
German playwright |
| Bredenbach, Ingo |
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1959 |
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German organist and musician |
| Brennan, B. |
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Music Arranger |
| Brennan, Christopher |
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1870 |
1932 |
Australian Poet |
| Brent-Smith, Alexander |
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1889 |
1950 |
English music educationist, author, and composer. For twenty-one years he was director of music at Lancing College in Sussex and his music was represented on several occasions at the Three Choirs Festivals. |
| Brenton, H. E. |
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Early 20th century music arranger |
| Brereton, John Le Gay |
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1871 |
1933 |
Australian poet |
| Breton, Nicholas |
Brittain, Nicholas; Britton, Nicholas |
1545 |
1626 |
Breton was a prolific author of considerable versatility and gift, popular with his contemporaries, and forgotten by the next generation. His work consists of religious and pastoral poems, satires, and a number of miscellaneous prose tracts |
| Brett, Philip |
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1937 |
2002 |
British-born American musicologist, musician and conductor. He was particularly known for his scholarly studies on Benjamin Britten and William Byrd and for his contributions to the development of lesbian and gay musicology. At the time of his death, he was Distinguished Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles |
| Brewer, Alfred Herbert |
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1865 |
1928 |
English composer of church music and organist. |
| Brewer, Mike |
Brewer, Michael C. |
1945 |
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A former British music teacher and choral conductor. He was the founding musical director of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain |
| Brian, Havergal |
Brian, William |
1876 |
1972 |
British classical composer. a large body of orchestral music including overtures, suites, tone-poems, concertos, and 32 symphonies |
| Bricusse, Leslie |
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1931 |
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English composer, lyricist, and playwright, most prominently working in musicals and also film theme songs. |