| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Brooks, Joseph |
|
1938 |
2011 |
American screenwriter, director, producer, and composer. |
| Brooks, Phillips |
|
1835 |
1893 |
American Episcopal clergyman and author, long the Rector of Boston's Trinity Church and briefly Bishop of Massachusetts, and particularly remembered as lyricist of the Christmas hymn, "O Little Town of Bethlehem". |
| Brooks, Walter W. |
|
1832 |
1907 |
Professor of Music and an organist based in Birmingham. |
| Brower, G. Ackley |
Brower, Grover Ackley |
1884 |
|
American composer and teacher |
| Brown, A. Peter |
|
1943 |
2003 |
American Musicologist and music editor. Brown accepted a position with the musicology faculty of Indiana University School of Music in 1974. Brown remained an active faculty member until his death in 2003. Brown’s name is most closely associated with that of the composer Josef Haydn, writing and co-authoring no less than four books on the composer as well as the critical score for Haydn’s Die Schöpfung. |
| Brown, Arthur Henry |
|
1830 |
1926 |
English organist and music editor particularly church music |
| Brown, Christopher |
|
1943 |
|
Composer, particularly of Choral music |
| Brown, Frank E. |
|
1908 |
|
Music arranger |
| Brown, Ian |
|
|
|
Australian arranger |
| Brown, John Mackay |
|
1921 |
1996 |
Scottish poet, author and dramatist, whose work has a distinctly Orcadian character. He is considered one of the great Scottish poets of the 20th century. |
| Brown, Les |
Brown, Lester Raymond |
1912 |
2001 |
Lester Raymond Brown was an American jazz musician who led the big band Les Brown and His Band of Renown for over six decades from 1938 to 2000 |
| Brown, Lew |
Brownstein, Louis |
1893 |
1958 |
Russian born Lyricist for popular songs in the United States. |
| Brown, Margaret Wise |
|
1910 |
1952 |
American writer of children's books, including Goodnight Moon |
| Brown, Nacio Herb |
|
1896 |
1964 |
American writer of popular songs, movie scores, and Broadway theatre music in the 1920s through the early 1950s. |
| Brown, Rita Mae |
|
1944 |
|
American writer and feminist |
| Brown, Thomas Edward |
Brown, T. E. |
1830 |
1897 |
English Poet |
| Brown, Timothy |
|
|
|
American Composer of a wide array of compositions which includes orchestral, ballet, choral, chamber works, and over three hundred publications written specifically for the piano for “pedagogical purposes.” |
| Browne, Michael Denis |
|
1940 |
|
English born American poet, librettist and Teacher. As a librettist, he has written many texts for music, working for many years with composer Stephen Paulus. |
| Browne, Thomas [Sir] |
|
1605 |
1682 |
17th century poet |
| Browning, Elizabeth Barrett |
|
1806 |
1861 |
English poet |
| Browning, Paul |
|
|
|
American musicologist, author and Music Editor. Pseudonym of Paul Wittke, senior editor for G.Schirmer for more than 40 years |
| Brownsey, Lois |
|
|
|
American composer with many choral works published |
| Brubeck, David Warren |
Brubeck, Dave |
1920 |
2012 |
Jazz pianist and composer |
| Bruch, Max |
Bruch, Max Christian Friedrich; Bruch, Max Karl August |
1838 |
1920 |
German Romantic composer and conductor who wrote over 200 works |
| Bruckner, Anton |
|
1824 |
1896 |
Austrian composer known for his symphonies, masses, and motets |
| Brudieu, Joan |
|
1520 |
1591 |
Catalan Spanish composer. |
| Brumby, Colin |
|
1933 |
2017 |
Australian Composer |
| Brumel, Antoine |
|
1460 |
1513 |
French composer. He was one of the first renowned French members of the Franco-Flemish school of the Renaissance, and, after Josquin des Prez, was one of the most influential composers of his generation. |
| Brunelle, C. |
Brunelle, Carolyn |
1946 |
|
Canadian Poet |
| Brunelle, Philip |
|
1943 |
|
American choral scholar, conductor and organist |