| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Brett, Philip |
|
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 |
|
1865 |
1928 |
English composer of church music and organist. |
| Brewer, Mike |
Brewer, Michael C. |
1945 |
|
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 |
|
|
|
Late 19th and early 20th century British composer, school music teacher based in Bradford and editor of the British Bandsman |
| Briggs, David |
|
1962 |
|
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 |
|
|
|
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 |
|
|
1992 |
American Organist |
| Broadbent, Harold |
|
|
|
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 |
|
|
|
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 |
|
|
|
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. |