| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Bigard, Albany Leon |
Bigard, Barney |
1906 |
1980 |
American composer or co-composer with Duke Ellington |
| Biggs, John |
|
1932 |
|
American composer and arranger. His relationship with the Ventura County Master Chorale has been fruitful in the last few years. The ensemble has performed small pieces of his and premiered his large-scale "Mass for a New Age" two years ago. |
| Billings, William |
|
1746 |
1800 |
Regarded as the first American choral composer. |
| Billingsley, Alan |
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American writer/arranger producer and studio musician in Los Angeles. He has also arranged , orchestrated and performed with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Alan is now a free-lance writer for Hal Leonard Corporation and also orchestrates musicals and produces accompaniment tape tracks. |
| Billups, Kenneth Brown |
|
1918 |
1985 |
African-American Choral Director, Music Arranger |
| Binge, Robert |
|
1910 |
1979 |
British composer and arranger of light music |
| Binge, Ronald |
|
1910 |
1979 |
British composer and arranger of light music. After the end of the Second world war, Mantovani offered Binge the job of arranging and composing for his new orchestra. However, he later tired of writing arrangements and turned to composing original works and film scores |
| Bingham, Clifton |
The Cockiolly Bird |
1859 |
1913 |
The author of numerous verses for children's picture books in the late Victorian and Edwardian period was better known as the writer of the lyrics of many popular sentimental songs, the most famous of which was "Love's Old Sweet Song". He was also a bookseller and editor or newspapers and books |
| Bingham, Judith |
|
1952 |
|
Judith Bingham is an English composer and mezzo-soprano singer. |
| Binney, Malcolm |
|
1944 |
|
Composer and conductor, mainly of Wind bands |
| Binyon, Robert Laurence |
|
1869 |
1943 |
British poet, mostly known for for the poem "For the Fallen" |
| Bird, Hubert C. |
|
1939 |
|
American composer, conductor, teacher and tenor soloist |
| Birge, Edward B. |
|
1968 |
|
American Music Teacher and Arranger |
| Bishop, Henry |
|
1786 |
1855 |
English composer. He is most famous for the songs "Home! Sweet Home!" and "Lo! Here the Gentle Lark." He was the composer or arranger of some 120 dramatic works, |
| Bizet, Georges |
Bizet, Alexandre César Léopold |
1838 |
1875 |
French composer of the romantic era. |
| Björn, Frank |
Fabric, Bent; Fabricius-Bjerre, Bent |
1924 |
|
Danish pianist and composer most famous for the song Alleycat. Pseudonym for Bent Fabricius-Bjerre, most commonly known as Bent Fabric |
| Bjørklund, Amund |
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Espionage is a New York-based Norwegian songwriting and music production team consisting of Espen Lind and Amund Bjørklund. They co-wrote many songs for various pop artists. |
| Black, Don |
|
1938 |
|
Black is perhaps best-known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, and for the James Bond theme songs he co-wrote with composer John Barry: |
| Blackburn, Bryan |
|
1928 |
2004 |
Writer |
| Blackley, Terry J. |
|
|
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American band director and teacher of music. In 1980, Blackley was named Dean of Fine Arts at Fullerton College. Blackley was chosen as the Associate Director of the 800 piece All American College Marching Band for The Opening Ceremonies of the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, Los Angeles. |
| Blackwell, David |
|
1961 |
|
freelancer composer, editor, and journalist. He has worked extensively with choirs, and is co-editor of In the Mood: 17 Popular Classics for Choirs (OUP, 1995) and Carols for Choirs book 5 (OUP, 2011), and has published a number of choral octavos. He has published a number of choral compositions and arrangements and was co-editor of In the Mood: 17 Jazz Classics for Choirs (OUP, 1995) and Carols for Choirs 5 (OUP, 2011). He is also co-editor of OUP’s series of new hymn settings for organ. |
| Blair, Elizabeth |
|
|
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Early 20th century Australian composer |
| Blair, Hugh |
|
1864 |
1932 |
English musician, composer and organist. |
| Blair, Norman MacPhail |
Elwin, Maurice; O'Keefe, Donald |
1896 |
1975 |
Scottish born singer who wrote music under many pseudonyms. He moved to England and Norman's obituary in the local Hampstead paper in 1975 describes him as, one of the most recorded artists in the world and that he had made hundreds of 78rpm recordings under many pseudonyms. His death was registered in Hampstead in December 1975 and he was buried in Hampstead Cemetery. |
| Blake, Howard |
|
1938 |
|
English composer whose career has spanned over 50 years and produced more than 650 works. Blake's most successful work is his soundtrack for Channel 4’s 1982 film The Snowman including the song "Walking in the Air". He is increasingly recognised for his classical works including concertos, oratorios, ballets, operas and many instrumental pieces. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians states: ‘Howard Blake has achieved fame as pianist, conductor and composer.’ |
| Blake, William |
|
1757 |
1827 |
English poet, engraver, and painter. |
| Bland, James A. |
|
1854 |
1911 |
African-American musician and song writer. |
| Blane, Ralph |
|
1914 |
1995 |
American composer, lyricist, and performer. |
| Blangini, Guiseppe Marco Maria Felice |
|
1781 |
1841 |
Italian musical composer. |
| Bleckner, Andrew |
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American composer whose concert music is inspired by sacred texts and African drumming. Currently, Mr. Bleckner serves as Resident Composer for the Philadelphia chorus Singing City. |