| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| 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 |
|
1931 |
|
English composer, lyricist, and playwright, most prominently working in musicals and also film theme songs. |
| Bridge, Frank |
|
1879 |
1941 |
English composer, violist and conductor. Teacher of Benjamin Britten |
| Bridge, J. |
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| Bridge, John Frederick |
Bridge, Frederick |
1844 |
1924 |
English organist, composer, teacher and writer. |
| Bridge, Joseph Cox |
Bridge, Joseph C. |
1853 |
1929 |
Organist, Composer and Music Director |
| Bridges, Robert |
|
1873 |
1988 |
Lyricist and Poet |
| Briedis, Susan |
|
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Australian music teacher, arranger and choral conductor |
| Brier, James |
|
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Late 19th and early 20th century British composer, school music teacher based in Bradford and editor of the British Bandsman |
| Briggs, David |
|
1962 |
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English concert organist and composer now based in north America. Most recently Artist in Residence at the Cathedral of St John the Divine, New York. |
| Briggs, Ernest |
|
1905 |
1967 |
Australian poet, broadcaster and critic, |
| Briggs, George Wallace |
|
1875 |
1959 |
English hymn writer and Anglican clergyman. |
| Briggs, Kerensa |
|
1991 |
|
Kerensa Rosie Joanne Briggs (born 1991) is a British composer, primarily of choral and organ music. In 2022 she began a three-year term as composer-in-residence with the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus in Missouri, USA. |
| Bright, John |
|
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Australian Poet/lyricist |
| Brimhall, John |
|
1928 |
2003 |
American musical arranger and author of books on music composition, theory, and performance. |
| Brinsmead, Daniel |
|
1988 |
|
Australian composer and baritone |
| Britten, Benjamin |
|
1913 |
1976 |
was the greatest English composer of his time, and the first of his generation to enjoy a wide international reputation. With the great success of Peter Grimes (1945) he effectively reinvented English opera and was a pioneer of music for film and radio |
| Britton, David |
|
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1992 |
American Organist |
| Broadbent, Harold |
|
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British violist and early 20th century composer |
| Broadhurst, Cecil |
|
1908 |
1981 |
Canadian artist, songwriter, actor and playwright, who had a passionate interest in and love for all things Western |
| Broadstock, Brenton |
|
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Brenton Broadstock is now one of Australia's most well established, respected and successful mid-generation composers. In 1994 he was named 'Best Composer' (Melbourne) in the Herald Sun; he has won several National Critics' Circle 'Sounds Australian Awards' and numerous Australian Performing Rights Association Awards. |
| Broadwood, Lucy E. |
|
1857 |
1929 |
Known mainly as a collector of folk songs |
| Brock, Connie |
|
|
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American lyricist |
| Brodszky, Nicholas |
|
1905 |
1958 |
Russian born composer of Hollywood Musicals |
| Broeker, Jay |
|
1960 |
|
US music teacher and composer/arranger |
| Brogan, Louise |
|
1897 |
1970 |
American poet. She was appointed the fourth Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress in 1945. As poetry editor of The New Yorker magazine for nearly 40 years, Bogan played a major role in shaping mainstream poetic sensibilities of the mid-20th Century. |
| Brooke, Harold |
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Early 20th Century Director of Novello's and the conductor of a small choir in the City of London. |
| Brooke, M |
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Early 20th century Australian lyricist |