| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Burris, Jim |
Burris, James Henry |
1874 |
1923 |
African American lyricist |
| Burroughs, Bob |
|
1937 |
|
composer and arranger of church music |
| Burrows, Donald |
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|
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20th century Professor of Music at UK Open University, and Novello editor |
| Burrows, Mark |
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writer, composer, and clinician whose works are published by many major houses. |
| Burt, Alfred S. |
Burt, Alfred Shaddick |
1920 |
1954 |
American jazz musician who is best known for composing the music for fifteen Christmas carols between 1942 and 1954. |
| Burt, Bates G. |
Burt, Bates Gilbert (Rev) |
1878 |
1948 |
He started the tradition of writing family Christmas carols, a tradition which was continued by his son Alfred and grandneice Abbie Burt Betinis |
| Burton, Daniel |
|
1944 |
|
American composer and performer on organ, piano, harpsichord and harp |
| Burwell, Cliff |
|
1898 |
1977 |
American pianist and songwriter. |
| Bush, Geoffrey |
|
1920 |
1998 |
British composer, organist and scholar of 20th-century English music. |
| Bush, Nancy |
|
|
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Married to Alan Bush, composer, writer of his biography. She wrote the lyrics of songs for Alan and the libretti for three of his four full-length operas, as well as translating songs and choral works by other composers, including Bartok, Eisler, Kodaly, Mahler and Moussorgsky. |
| Busto, Javier |
Javier Busto Sagrado |
1949 |
|
Spanish choral music composer and conductor. |
| Buszin, Walter |
|
1898 |
1973 |
American Theologian, church musician , a hymnologist, a liturgiologist, a writer, an editor, a teacher, a preacher, a church organist and choir director |
| Butcher, M. A. |
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Australian Music arranger |
| Buti, Francesco |
|
1604 |
1682 |
Italian Abbot and doctor of law, he moved to Paris and Settling in Paris , he became the confidant of Cardinal Jules Mazarin , and had the task of organizing and overseeing court performances. He brought to the French capital the musicians Luigi Rossi , Francesco Cavalli and Carlo Caprioli. For Rossi he wrote the libretti for three works Orfeo ( 1647 ), the wedding of Peleus and Thetis ( 1654 ) and Hercules lover ( 1662 ). |
| Butler, Eugene Sanders |
|
1935 |
|
American composer, conductor, educator and church musician. |
| Butler, J. Melvin |
|
|
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American Composer, organist, writer and editor of music. Professor at Stanford University Department of Music |
| Butterley, Nigel |
Butterley, Nigel Henry Cockburn |
1935 |
|
Australian composer and pianist. |
| Butterworth, Hezekiah |
|
1839 |
1905 |
American writer of books for young people, and a poet. |
| Button, H. Elliott |
Button, Henry Eliot |
1861 |
1925 |
Composer, arranger and Music Editor |
| Buxtehude, Dietrich |
|
1637 |
1707 |
Danish-German organist and composer of the Baroque period. |
| Buxton, John |
|
1912 |
1989 |
English Literary critic, biographer, poet and editor. |
| Byrd, J. R. |
|
|
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American singer-songwriter |
| Byrd, William |
|
1543 |
1623 |
English composer of the Renaissance who wrote both Anglican and Catholic music. |
| Byron (Lord), George Gordon |
|
1788 |
1824 |
English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. |
| Byron, May |
Byron, Mary Clarissa "May"; Gillington, M.C. |
1861 |
1936 |
British writer and poet |
| Byrt, John |
|
1939 |
|
British conductor, scholar and composer. Early in his career he directed the Schola Cantorum of Oxford and was conductor of Musica Reservata. He made the first recording of Tavernerʼs Missa Corona Spinea and has broadcast Gesualdo madrigals, Byrd propers and West Gallery Carols for the BBC. |