| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Boyce, Ethel |
|
1963 |
1936 |
British Composer |
| Boyce, R. Fisher |
|
1887 |
1968 |
American farmer and musician mainly known for "Beutiful Star of Bethlehem |
| Boyce, William |
|
1711 |
1779 |
English organist and composer particularly of ,church music |
| Boyd-Jones, Ernest |
|
|
|
19th/20th century lyricist chiefly known for Musical Theatre |
| Boyd, Anne |
|
1946 |
|
Australian composer and professor of music at the University of Sydney. |
| Boyd, Bobby C. |
|
|
|
American Songwriter |
| Boyd, J. |
|
|
|
Music arranger |
| Boyd, Jackson |
Boyd, Jack |
|
|
American music arranger |
| Boyle, Malcolm C. |
|
1902 |
1976 |
British organist and composer. |
| Bracanin, Philip K. [Dr.] |
|
|
|
Philip Bracanin is an Australian of Dalmatian parentage. Currently (2003) head of School of Music at University of Queensland |
| Brady, Nicholas |
|
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 |
|
1833 |
1897 |
German composer and pianist |
| Brandl, Johann Evangelist |
|
1760 |
1837 |
German composer and violinist . |
| Brandon, Herbert J. |
|
1878 |
1945 |
British Lyricist |
| Brandon, Hugh |
|
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 |
|
1881 |
|
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 |
|
1940 |
|
German Composer. Music arranger and editor |
| Braz, Michael |
|
|
|
American Pianist, music educator, composer, and clinician. Professor of Music at Georgia Southern University |
| Brébeuf, St. Jean de |
|
|
|
seventeenth-century French missionary who worked primarily with the Huron people |
| Brecht, Berthold |
|
1898 |
1956 |
German playwright |
| Bredenbach, Ingo |
|
1959 |
|
German organist and musician |
| Brennan, B. |
|
|
|
Music Arranger |
| Brennan, Christopher |
|
1870 |
1932 |
Australian Poet |
| Brent-Smith, Alexander |
|
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. |
|
|
|
Early 20th century music arranger |
| Brereton, John Le Gay |
|
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 |