| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Baynon, Arthur |
|
1889 |
1954 |
British Organis and composer |
| Beach, Amy Marcy Cheney |
|
1867 |
1944 |
American pianist and composer |
| Beach, Curtis |
Beach, Seth Curtis |
1837 |
1932 |
American Unitarian minister, author, poet and hymnist. |
| Beadell, Robert |
|
1925 |
1994 |
American composer whose professional life as a composer spanned forty-five years and included myriad awards, commissions, and performances The scope of his writing included small instrumental ensembles, film scores, voice, chorus, band, piano, and orchestral works, many of which are heavily influenced by jazz. |
| Beahm, Jacquelyn |
Beahm, Jacquelyn 'Jackie' Yvette Stoops |
1930 |
1988 |
American pianist, piano teacher, arranger |
| Beal, Joe |
Beal, Joseph Carleton |
1900 |
1967 |
Massachusetts-born public relations professional and composer of Jingle Bell Rock with James Ross Boothe |
| Beale, William |
|
1784 |
1854 |
Organist, singer and composer chiefly of Glees |
| Beaton, Patricia |
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Ex member of Canberra Choral Society |
| Beaumont, Joseph |
|
1616 |
1699 |
English clergyman, academic and poet. |
| Beck, Andy |
Bek, David Campbell. |
1970 |
|
American singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. |
| Beck, John Ness |
|
1930 |
1987 |
Composer and arranger of choral music. He was best known for his very popular and accessible settings of traditional Sacred music |
| Becker, V. E. |
Becker, Valentin Eduard |
1814 |
1890 |
A German Composer of popular male choruses. He also wrote several masses and two operas |
| Beckwith, John |
|
1927 |
|
Canadian composer, writer, pianist and teacher |
| Beddoes, T. L. |
Beddoes, Thomas Lovell |
1803 |
1849 |
English writer, dramatist and Poet |
| Bede the Venerable [Saint], |
Venerable Bede |
673 |
735 |
English monk at the monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth and its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow. Bede was a skilled linguist and translator, and his work made the Latin and Greek writings of the early Church Fathers much more accessible to his fellow Anglo-Saxons, contributing significantly to English Christianity. |
| Bedford, Ruth |
|
1882 |
1963 |
Australian poet, playwright and fiction writer. Bedford wrote a number of poems for various Australian newspapers, especially The Sydney Morning Herald, where her poetry appeared over a 30-year period. In 1931, Ruth Bedford established the Sydney PEN Centre in collaboration with her friend, the poet Dorothea Mackellar |
| Beebe, Hank |
|
1926 |
|
American Composer of musical plays for community theaters and churches |
| Beedome, Thomas |
|
|
1641 |
English poet. He appears to have died at an early age, and of his life nothing is known. author of a short volume of verses, posthumously published in 1641 under the title of Poems Divine and Humane. |
| Beery, Lon |
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American chorus director at Spry Middle School in Webster, New York, where he directs six choruses totaling 500 students. Dr. Beery has composed or arranged over 50 published choral pieces which appear in the catalogues of Alfred, BriLee, and others. |
| Beethoven, Ludwig van |
|
1770 |
1827 |
German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. |
| Beeton, Isobella Mary |
Mayson, Isobella mary |
1836 |
1865 |
English journalist, editor and writer. Her name is particularly associated with her first book, the 1861 work Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management. She was born in London and, after schooling in Islington, north London, and Heidelberg, Germany, she married Samuel Orchart Beeton, an ambitious publisher and magazine editor. Mrs Beeton had become used as a generic name for a domestic authority. She is considered a strong influence in the shaping of a middle-class identity of Victorian London |
| Behan, Dominic |
Ó Beacháin, Doiminic |
1928 |
1989 |
Irish songwriter, singer, short story writer, novelist and playwright who wrote in both Irish and English. He was the most influential songwriters of the 20th Century |
| Behnke, John A. |
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John Behnke is a frequent organ recitalist, handbell clinician, and festival director. He enjoys composing and arranging having over 475 handbell, choral, and organ compositions in print |
| Behnke, Martin |
|
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American Musician, trombonist, jazz composer and music arranger |
| Belafonte, Harry |
Bellanfanti, Harold George "Harry" Jr |
1927 |
|
Singer-songwriter, actor, social activist. In March 2014, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Berklee College of Music in Boston. |
| Bell, D. Geoffrey |
|
|
|
20th century Canadian composer. Fourteen of his choral works have been published. His complete catalogue includes instrumental solos, music for ensembles and choral scores |
| Bell, H. Idris |
Bell, Harold Idris (Sir) |
1879 |
1967 |
scholar of Welsh literature |
| Bell, J. |
Bell, James; Mullins, james; Velvit, Jimmy |
1941 |
|
American singer and music arranger, chiefly of R&B, Soul and Smooth Jazz |
| Bell, John L. |
Bell, John lamberton |
1949 |
|
Scottish hymn writer. A Church of Scotland minister, he is a member of the Iona Community, a broadcaster, and former student activist. He was Rector of Glasgow Univeristy from 1977-1980. John Bell was the Convener (and music editor) of the committee which drafted the Church of Scotland's Church Hymnary (Fourth Edition).(2005) |
| Bell, W. H. |
Bell, William Henry |
1873 |
1946 |
English composer, conductor and lecturer. |