| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Bartholomew, Marshall Moore |
|
1885 |
1978 |
American Composer, Professor of Choral conducting at Yale University |
| Bartholomew, William |
|
1793 |
1867 |
English libretist, composer, and writer. |
| Bartle, Jean Ashworth |
|
1947 |
|
Canadian choral conductor, teacher, and Founder/Conductor Laureate of the Toronto Children's Chorus. |
| Bartlett, Clifford |
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Clifford read English Literature at Cambridge, was a librarian for 20 years (over half with the BBC Music Library) and has been involved in various UK early music organizations for forty years. He has reviewed music, books and CDs monthly from 1976 in Early Music News and began his own magazine Early Music Review in 1994. He was the owner of Kings Music |
| Bartlett, John |
Bartlet, John |
|
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English Renaissance composer. Bartlet's only publication was A Booke of Ayres with a Triplicitie of Musicke, published in 1606 |
| Bartók, Bela |
|
1881 |
1945 |
Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century |
| Basler, Paul |
Basler, Paul David Joshua |
1963 |
|
American Composer of Choral and Instrumental Music |
| Bass, Randol Alan |
|
1953 |
|
American Composer and Arranger. He was one of the early leaders of Austin Symphonic Band and was its music director from 1983-1985.n He is the music director and conductor for the Metropolitan Winds of Dallas |
| Bassano, Giovanni |
|
1561 |
1617 |
Italian Venetian School composer and cornettist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. |
| Bassett, Clarence |
|
1936 |
2005 |
American composer of doo-wop and R & B |
| Basy, Alexander |
|
1883 |
1937 |
Russian Impresario who came to USA in 1905 and organized the Russian Grand Opera Company. |
| Batchelder, James |
|
1841 |
1917 |
19th Century music composer, author and arranger. Professor of music and church organist in Manchester, |
| Batchelor, Phyllis |
|
1915 |
1999 |
Australian Pianist, composer and teacher. In June 1993 Phyllis Batchelor received the Honour Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in recognition of her services to the performing arts. She continued to teach and compose smaller works until her death in 1999. |
| Bateson, John |
|
|
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20th century music arranger |
| Bateson, Thomas |
|
1570 |
1630 |
English writer of madrigals in the early 17th century |
| Bath, Hubert Charles |
|
1883 |
1945 |
British film composer, music director, and conductor. |
| Batt, Mike |
Batt, Michael Phillip |
1949 |
|
British songwriter, musician, producer, director, conductor and Deputy Chairman of the British Phonographic Industry. |
| Batten, Adrian |
|
1591 |
1637 |
English organist and Anglican church composer. |
| Battishill, Jonathan |
|
1738 |
1801 |
English composer, keyboard player, and concert tenor |
| Bäuerle, Hermann |
|
1869 |
1936 |
German Pastor, organist and composer |
| Bauld, Alison |
|
1944 |
|
Australian composer |
| Baum, Bernie |
|
1929 |
1993 |
Songwriter who worked extensively with Elvis Presley. |
| Baumfree, Isabella |
Sojourner Truth |
1797 |
1883 |
African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. |
| Bausano, William |
|
|
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Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities University of Miami Music department, is conductor of the Chamber Singers and Choraliers. |
| Bax, Arnold |
Bax, Arnold Edward Trevor (Sir) |
1883 |
1953 |
English Composer |
| Baxter, J. K. |
Baxter, James Keir |
1926 |
1972 |
Poet whose mastery of versification and striking imagery made him one of New Zealand’s major modern poets. |
| Baxter, James Keir |
|
1926 |
1972 |
New Zealand Poet |
| Bayco, Fredric |
Baycock, Frederick [birth name], Desslin, Guy, Boyce Frederick, Keane, Peter, Field William |
1913 |
1970 |
British composer whose His best known composition is Elizabethan Masque (1957), which early in the second Elizabethan era sought to recapture the ceremony and etiquette of the first. |
| Bayford, Dudley |
Bayford, Dudley Escott |
|
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20th Century Music Composer and Arranger |
| Baylis, Richard |
Baylis, Richard Christopher |
1978 |
|
C64 Musician and coder of demos and games |