| Name | Born | Died | Information |
| Boatner, Edward Hammond | 13 Nov. 1898
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA | 16 Jun. 1981
New York, USA | Boatner became known as a successful singer, composer and educator. He was instructor at his own academy, the Edward Boatner Studio. Wade in the Water and City Called Heaven were two of over 200 spirituals he set for solo voice and piano |
Bobic, Davor
more... | 1968
Varazdin, Croatia | | studied composition, orchestration and the accordion at the Ukraine State "Tchaikovsky" Conservatory in Kiev. He has written for a wide range of musical forms from piano miniatures to massive symphonic works as well as musical pieces for the theatre. A recent work, Vukovar Requiem, was performed by 270 musicians at the Zagreb Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall and broadcast live on the national TV. He is currently assistant professor at the Osijek Musical Academy and a director of Varazdin Concert Management |
| Bobinski (or Bobinsky), Heinrich (Henryk, Genrikh) Antonov | 19 Jan. 1861
Warsaw, Poland | 24 Apr. 1941
Warsaw, Poland | Polish pianist and composer |
| Bobowsky, Wojciech (see Ufki, Ali) | | | |
Bobri, Vladimir
more... | 13 May 1898 | 1987 | a painter, composer and guitar historian who helped found the Society of the Classic Guitar in 1936. In 1948 became editor of Guitar Review |
Bobrowicz, Jan Nepomucen
more... | 12 May 1805
Krakow, Poland | 2 Nov. 1881 | Polish guitarist and composer |
Bocanegra, Juan Perez
more... | c.1598
Spain | after 1631
Lima, Peru | Spanish composer of liturgical music |
Bocca, Bruno
more... | | | composer of electroacoustic music |
Boccadoro, Carlo
more... | 1963
Macerata, Italy | | Italian composer who lives in Milan |
Boccherini, (Ridolfo) Luigi
more... | 19 Feb. 1743
Lucca, Italy | 28 May 1805
Madrid, Spain | cellist and composer of string chamber music similar in style to his contemporary, Haydn |
| Bocchi, Lorenzo | fl. early 18th-century | | the Italian cellist and composer Lorenzo Bocchi does not merit an entry in any modern music dictionary, yet he was a figure of some importance in Scottish and Irish musical life in the 1720s. He was probably the first person to play the cello in Scotland and Ireland, and was involved in early attempts to establish regular concerts in Edinburgh and Dublin. He was an associate of Allan Ramsay senior, and seems to have been involved in the operatic experiments in Edinburgh that were to lead to the first Scottish opera, Ramsay's The Gentle Shepherd. He played an important role in the early history of music publication in Ireland, and had a hand in the first printed collection of Irish tunes, published by Neal in 1724. He may also have been responsible for bringing to Ireland the material for the parallel collection of Scots tunes that Neal published in the same year |
Boccosi, Bio
more... | 1912
Italy | 28 Jun. 2006
Italy | sometime owner of Italian musical instrument maker Farfisa and from 1960 of music publisher Edizioni Bèrben [founded in Modena on 1946 by Mr. Ber(lini) Ben(edetto)]; also a writer on, and composer of music for the accordion |
| Bochkoltz-Falconi, Anna | 1820
Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany | 1879 | a singer and teacher who produced a number of songs and vocal studies |
Bochmann, Christopher Consitt
more... | 8 Nov. 1950
Chipping North, Oxon | | studied at New College, Oxford, with David Lumsden, Kenneth Leighton and Robert Sherlaw Johnson, and privately with Nadia Boulanger and Richard Rodney Bennett. After four years working in Britain, he spent two years at the Escola de Música in Brasília. Since 1980 he has lived and worked in Portugal where he is now Head of Composition at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa (he was Director from 1995 to 2001). He has conducted the Lisbon Youth Orchestra since 1984
Dr. Bochmann's email addresses are bochmann@netcabo.pt and christopherbochmann@hotmail.com |
Bochmann, Werner
more... | 17 May 1900
Meerane, Germany | 3 Jun. 1993
Schliersee/Oberbayern, Germany | German composer noted particularly for his film music |
Bochsa, Nicolas Charles
more... | 9 Aug. 1789
Montmedy, France | 6 Jan. 1856
Sydney, Australia | one of the most celebrated harpists of the XIXth century. His life has been a series of adventures of all kinds. He composed operas for the Opera-Comique in Paris, and hundreds of pieces for harp, methods
[information provided by Michel Faul] |
Bock, Jerry
more... | 23 Nov. 1928
New Haven, CT, USA | 3 Nov. 2010
Mount Kisco, NY, USA | American composer whose hits include Too Close For Comfort and the score for the play Fiorello |
| Böcklin von Böcklinsau, Franz Friedrich Siegmund August von, Reichsfreiherr zu Rust | 28 Sep. 1745
Strasbourg | 2 Jun. 1813
Ettenheim | German composer |
Bockshorn (Capricorius), Samuel Friedrich
more... | 1628
Zerzice, Bohemia | 1665
Stuttgart, Germany | South-German violinist and composer |
Bocquet, Anne (Marguerite)
more... | early 17th century | after 1660 | French lutenist and composer who published in France in 1663 |
| Bocxstaele, Jean van | 16 Sep. 1818
Ghent, Belgium | 5 Sep. 1867
Ghent, Belgium | composer and organist |
Böddecker, Philipp Friedrich
more... | 5 Aug. 1607
Hagenau, Germany | 1683
Stuttgart, Germany | South-German violinist and composer |
Bodel, Jean (or Jehan)
more... | c. 1167 | 1210 | Old French poet who wrote a number of chansons de geste as well as many fabliaux. He lived in Arras |
Bodin, Lars Gunnar
more... | 1935
Stockholm, Sweden | | has composed exclusively electroacoustic music since the 60s, pioneer of Sound Art in Sweden and director of the Studio EMS in Stockholm for more than 10 years |
Bodinus, Sebastian
more... | c. 1700
Bittstädt, Saxe-Gotha | 19 Mar. 1759
Pforzheim, Germany | German composer about whom very little is known |
Bodorová, Sylvie
more... | 1954
Ceske Budejovice, Czechoslovakia | | Czech composer |
Body, Jack
more... | 1944
New Zealand | | His music covers most genres, including solo and chamber music, orchestral music, music-theatre, music for dance and film as well as electroacoustic music. He has also worked in experimental photography and computer-controlled sound-image installations, having received commissions from several public galleries. A fascination with the music and cultures of Asia, particularly Indonesia, has been a strong influence on his music. As an ethnomusicologist his published recordings include music from Indonesia and China. A recent landmark publication he edited was South of the Clouds, field recordings of Prof Zhang Xingrong (Yunnan Art Institute), of instrumental music of the minorities of South West China (Ode Records, 2003) |
Boeck, Auguste de
more... | 9 May 1865
Merchtem, nr. Brussels | 9 Oct. 1937
Merchtem | Dutch composer |
Boedijn, Gerard
more... | 19 Nov. 1893
Hoorn, The Netherlands | 23 Sep. 1972
Hoorn, The Netherlands | Dutch composer |
Boehe, Ernst
more... | 1880
Munich, Germany | 1938
Ludwigshaken, Germany | German conductor and composer |
Boehmer, Konrad
more... | 1941
Berlin, Germany | | German-born, Dutch-based composer and teacher. From 1961-1963 he was active at the electronic music studios of the WDR (West German Broadcasting Company) in Cologne. In 1966 he moved to the Netherlands and worked until 1968 at the Institute of Sonology at Utrecht University. He then became music editor of the Dutch weekly newspaper Vrij Nederland and in 1972 professor of music history and new music theory at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, where since 1994 he has been director of the Institute of Sonology |
Boeke, Kees
more... | 1950
Amsterdam, The Netherlands | | Dutch recorder player, cellist and composer. Since 1990, he is Professor of Recorder and Early Music at the Hochschule fur Musik und Theater in Zurich, Switzerland, and at the Institut fur Alte Musik in Trossingen, Germany |
Boekel, Meindert
more... | 15 Sep. 1915
Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 2 May 1989
Hilversum, The Netherlands | Dutch composer and conductor |
| Boëllmann, Léon | 1862
Ensisheim | 1897
Paris, France | organist; writer of music for organ and a set of symphonic variations for 'cello and orchestra |
| Boëly, Alexandre Pierre François | Versailles, 1785 | Paris, 1858 | organist; one of the first French organists to appreciate and perform Bach, he was to influence César Franck as well as writing for various keyboard instruments |
Boehm, Ilkka von
more... | 27 Jun. 1972
Helsinki, Finland | | Finnish composer who studied music theory from 1992, and composition as a main subject from 1998 with Olli Kortekangas and Erkki Jokinen. He was a finalist at the Queen Elisabeth Composition for Composers, Brussels 2003 |
| Boer, Brian de (see DeBoer, Brian) | | | |
| Boer, Eduard de (see Comitas, Alexander) | | | |
Boer, John de
more... | | | native American flute player, composer and teacher |
| Boero, Felipe | 1 May 1884
Buenos Aires | 9 Aug. 1958
Buenos Aires | Argentinean composer |
Boesch, Rainer
more... | 1938
Männedorf, Switzerland | 31 Jan. 2014
Switzerland | pianist and composer, co-founder of the Swiss Center for Computer Music and teacher at the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze in Geneva and the Conservatory of Paris |
Boesmans, Philippe
more... | 17 May 1936
Tongeren, Limburg | 10 Apr. 2022
Brussels, Belgium | Belgian composer most known for his operas |
| Boësset, Antoine (Boisset) | c. 1585 | 1643
Paris, France | his music lacked the dramatic power of Lully and he was to be eclipsed by his rival |
| Boësset, Jean-Baptiste (de), Sieur de Dehault | 1614
Paris, France | 1685
Paris, France | French composer |
Boeswillwald, Pierre
more... | 1934
Toulon, France | | recording engineer and composer, participated in the Bourges Institute activities from its beginning, and is presently Electroacoustic Music professor at the Conservatory of Amiens |
Boetto, Bernard
more... | 20th century | | noted arranger and composer of music for flute and piccolo |
| Boetzelaer, Josina Anna Petronella van (née van Aerssen) | 1733
The Hague, The Netherlands | 1797
Ijsselstein
The Netherlands | composer of arias, with connections to the court of Willem V |
| Bogatïryev, Anatoly (Vasilyevich) | 13 Aug. 1913
Vitebsk | | Russian composer |
| Bogdanov-Berezovsky, Valerian (Mikhaylovich) | (17 Jul. 1903
Starozhilovka, nr. St Peterburg | 13 May 1971
Moscow, Russia | Russian composer |
Bogdanovic, Dusan
more... | 1955
Belgrade, Serbia | | Serbian-born American composer and classical guitarist |
| Bogle, Eric | 1946 | | Scottish singer-songwriter now living in Australia known for The Band Played Maltzing Matilda, William McBride (also known as No Man's Land), Now I'M Easy and Safe in the Harbour |
| Boguslawski, Eduard | 22 Sep. 1940
Chorzów, nr. Katowice, Poland | | pupil of Haubeenstock-Ramati; works include Intonations for orchestra |
| Bohác, Josef | 25 Mar. 1929
Vienna, Austria | | Austrian composer |
Bohdanowicz, Basili
more... | c.1754
East Malopolska, Poland | c.1814
Vienna, Austria | Polish composer |
| Bohlin, Jonas | 1963
Sweden | | trained at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and has composed music in a wide range of genres including a chamber opera, three orchestral works and a number of chamber music pieces. His music has been performed in many countries, these include the U.S., Germany, Estonia and Italy, in addition to the Scandinavian countries. Jonas is a composer of the younger generation with a predilection for crossing boundaries between different art genres |
Böhm (or Boehm), Georg
more... | 2 Sep. 1661
Thuringa, Germany | 18 May 1733
Lüneburg, Germany | contemporary of J.S. Bach who composed suites, passions, preludes and fugues and is notable for his development of the chorale partita |
| Böhm (or Boehm), Karl | 1844
Berlin, Germany | 1920
Berlin, Germany | composer of music for piano, violin and voice |
Böhm (or Boehm), Rainer
more... | | | he started with piano lessons at the age of 4 and is considered to be one of the best German jazz pianists. Between 1997 and 2001 he studied at the UNIVERSITY OF MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS in Mannheim and received several international prizes and distinctions. Between 1998 and 2001 he played in the concert formation of the Bundesjazzorchester under the direction of Peter Herbolzheimer and south European tour. |
Böhm (or Boehm), Theobald
more... | 9 Apr. 1794
Munich, Germany | 25 Nov. 1881
| Bavarian inventor and musician, who perfected the modern flute and its improved fingering system, which has not changed since his time. In addition, he was a virtuoso flautist and was a Bavarian Court Musician as well as a celebrated composer for the flute |
Böhme, Oskar
more... | 24 Feb. 1870
Potschappel, Germany | c. 1938 | German composer and trumpeter |
Böhner, (Johann) Ludwig [Louis]
more... | 8 Jan. 1787
Töttelstadt, Gotha | 8 Jan. 1787
Töttelstadt, Gotha | German composer |
Bohnke, Emil
more... | 11 Oct. 1888
Zdunska Wola, Poland | 11 May 1928
Pasewalk | viola player, composer and conductor who worked in Berlin |
Boïeldieu, (François-)Adrien
more... | 16 Dec. 1775
Rouen, France | 8 Oct. 1834
Jarcy, nr. Grosbois, France | pupil of Cherubini; a composer of operas including The Caliph of Bagdad and La Dame blanche |
| Boieldieu, (Adrien-)Louis(-Victor) | 3 Nov. 1815
Paris, France | 9 Jul. 1883
Quincy, France | French composer |
| Boito, Arrigo (really: Enrico) | 1842
Padua, Italy | 1918
Milan, Italy | librettist (Verdi's Othellor and Falstaff) and composer of operas |
Boiko, Rostislav Grigoryevic
more... | 1931 | | Russian composer |
Bois, Alexandra du
more... | 16 Aug. 1981
Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA | | American composer |
Bois, Rob du
more... | 28 May 1934
The Netherlands | | Dutch composer |
| Boismortier, Joseph Bodin de | 23 Dec. 1689
Thionville, France | 28 Oct. 1755
Roissy-en-Brie, France | French composer of operas, cantatas and orchestral suites |
Boisvallee, François de
more... | 1929
France | 1973
France | French composer |
Boïto, Arrigo [Enrico]
more... | 24 Feb. 1842
Padua, Italy | 10 Jun. 1918
Milan, Italy | Italian composer |
Bojesen, Michael
more... | 1960
Denmark | | Danish conductor and composer |
Bok, Gordon
more... | 31 Oct. 1939
Pennsylvania, USA | | singer/songwriter who grew up in Camden, Maine. Bok's solo work is made up of songs, some traditional and some recently written, featuring his deep, low singing voice. He accompanies himself with acoustic guitar. His collaborative work covers similar material but with vocal harmony and a greater variety of instrumentation. Bok plays the 12 string guitar, a difficult instrument to master because of the complexity of fingering and the physical finger strength and dexterity required. He also plays an unusual instrument he calls a cellamba, which is essentially a cello fitted with frets |
Bokanowski, Michele
more... | 9 Aug. 1943
Cannes, France | | electroacoustic music composer |
Bolcom, William Elden
more... | 26 May 1938
Seattle, WA, USA | | piano soloist, accompanist and writer. He was a composition pupil of Darius Milhaud. His works include 8 string quartets, Dark Music for kettledrums and 'cello and Dynamite Tonite for actors and 11 instruments. He was the recipient of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for music |
| Boldemann, Laci | 24 Apr. 1921
Helsinki, Finland | 18 Aug. 1969
Munich, Germany | Finnish composer |
| Boleyn, Ann(e) | 1507 | 1536
London, UK | one of the beheaded wives of Henry VIII of England, her song Death, O Rocke me on Slepe survives |
Bollen, Jan Bas
more... | 1961
Amsterdam, The Netherlands | | Dutch violinist and composer of mostly stage and chamber works |
Bolling, Claude
more... | 10 Apr. 1930
Cannes, France | | French jazz pianist, composer and arranger |
Bologna, Bartolomeo da
more... | fl. 1405-1427 | | a north Italian composer of the early quattrocento, the transitional period between the late medieval style of the trecento and the early Renaissance |
Bologna, Jacopo da
more... | fl. 1340-1360 | | Italian composer and musical theorist of the trecento, the period sometimes known as the Italian ars nova. He was one of the first composers of this group, making him a contemporary of Gherardello da Firenze and Giovanni da Firenze. He is mostly known for his madrigals but also composed several cacce and caccia/madrigal hybrids |
Bölsche, Franz
more... | 20 Aug. 1869
Wengenstedt bei Magdeburg, Germany | 23 Oct. 1935
Oeynhausen, Germany | German composer and teacher |
Bölsche, Jacob
more... | | 1684 | organist and composer who worked in Brunswick, Germany |
Bolt, Klaas
more... | 6 Mar. 1927
The Netherlands | 11 Apr. 1990
The Netherlands | a Dutch organist and improviser |
| Bolzoni, Giovanni | 15 May 1841
Parma, Italy | 21 Feb. 1919
Turin, Italy | Italian composer |
| Boman, Petter Conrad | 6 Jun. 1804
Stockholm, Sweden | 17 Mar. 1861
Stockholm, Sweden | Swedish composer |
Bomtempo, Joao Domingos
more... | 28 Dec, 1775
Lisbon, Portugual | 18 Aug. 1842
Lisbon, Portugual | Portuguese classical pianist, composer and pedagogue |
Bon (di Venezia), Anna
more... | 1739/40
Russia | after 1767
possibly Hildburghausen, Germany | an Italian composer and singer. Her parents were successful, her mother as an opera singer and her father as a stage designer, and eventually all three were hired at the court of Prince Nikolaus von Esterhazy. By 1767, Anna married a tenor named Mongeri and was living in Hildburghausen. There is no reliable information on Anna Bon after that date |
Bon, Maarten
more... | 1933
The Netherlands | 2003
The Netherlands | pianist, composer and arranger |
Bon, Willem Frederik
more... | 15 Jun. 1940
Amersfoort, The Netherlands | 14 Apr. 1983
Nijeholtpade, The Netherlands | Dutch composer |
| Bonamoni, Gio. | fl. 19th century | | little is known apart from the fact that this composer was probably working in the Verona area. His Pastorale is written onto the internal opening of a single folded sheet. The piece is part of a bequest to the church and the covering page is headed by a pencilled inscription 'in memory of Lorenzo Papa 20/10/886' |
| Bonard | | | a composer found in the fifth book by Adrian Le Roy and his brother-in-law, Robert Ballard |
| Bonavia, Ferruccio | 1877
Trieste, Italy | 1950
London, UK | violinist; composed chamber music for strings |
| Bonawitz (or Bonewitz), Johann Heinrich | 12 Apr. 1839
Dürkheim am Rhein, Germany | 15 Aug. 1917
London, England | German pianist and composer, of Polish origin, Bonawitz immagrated to America at an early age. He organised symphony concerts in New York City and produced two operas in Philadelphia during the 1870s, The Bride of Messina and Ostrolenka. He composed other operas and moved to Vienna and then to London where he founded the Mozart Society
[entry prompted by Howard D. Klosterman, M.D.] |
| Bond, Capel | | 1790 | composer of anthems and organist at Coventry Cathedral (1752-90) |
Bond, Carrie Jacobs
more... | 11 Aug. 1862
Janesville, WI, USA | 28 Dec. 1946
Hollywood, CA, USA | composer of popular sentimental songs including The End of A Perfect Day and A Cottage in God's Garden |
| Bond, Hugh | | 1792 | organist of St. Mary Arches, Exeter and composer of hymns and anthems |
| Bond, Victoria | 6 May 1945
Los Angeles, USA | | American composer |
Bondarenko, Andrey
more... | 1946
White Russia | | Belarusian priest and composer of hymns and church music |
| Bondevente (see Boniventi) | | | |
Bondeville, Emmanuel (Pièrre Georges) de
more... | 29 Oct. 1898
Rouen, France | 26 Nov. 1987
Paris, France | French composer |
| Bondon, Jacques (Laurent Jules Désiré) | 6 Dec. 1927
Boulbon, Bouches-du-Rhône | | French composer |
| Bonds, Margaret | 3 Mar. 1913
Chicago, Illinois, USA | 26 Apr. 1972
Los Angeles, California, USA | Bonds received her bachelors and masters degrees in music from Northwestern University, with additional study at the Juilliard School. The pianist was the first African American to perform with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. An educator and composer, Bonds wrote works for the theatre, ballet, orchestra, and piano, but the majority were art and popular songs. Her best known is the setting of the spiritual, Hes Got the Whole World in His Hand, commissioned by Leontyne Price in 1963. She also wrote the music for Shakespeare in Harlem (1960) |
Bondt, Cornelius de
more... | 1953 | | Dutch composer |
Bonefaas, Jan
more... | Jan 1926
Rotterdam, The Netherlands | 20 Feb. 2004
The Netherlands | Dutch organist and composer |
Bonelli, Aurelio
more... | c.1569 | c.1620 | Italian composer |
| Bonewitz, Johann Heinrich (see Bonawitz, Johann Heinrich | | | |
Bonfá, Luis (Luiz)
more... | 17 Oct. 1922
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 12 Jan. 2001
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | bosa nova pioneer, guitarist & composer who wrote the soundtrack to Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus) (1959) |
| Bonfichi, Paolo | 6 Oct. 1769
Livraga, nr. Lodi, Italy | 29 Dec. 1840
Lodi, Italy | Italian composer |
Bonhomme, Pierre
more... | 1555
Liège, Belgium | 1617
probably Liège, Belgium | Belgian composer |
Boni, Guillaume
more... | c.1530
Auvergne, France | 1594
Toulouse, France | he is notable for two published collections of vocal music: Sonnets de Ronsard (1576), and Primus Liber Modulorum, a collection of motets for five, six, and seven voices published by Le Roy and Ballard in 1573 |
| Boni, (Pietro Giuseppe) Gaetano | fl. 1700-1720 | | Italian composer |
Boniche, Elie "Lili"
more... | 29 Apr. 1922
Algiers, Algeria | 6 Mar. 2008
Paris, France | singer, guitarist and composer, one of the last of a generation of Jewish Algerian musicians, and enriched the classical "Arab-Andalusian" music of his native Algeria in the late 1930s and 1940s. A natural composer, he forged his own unique oeuvre, combining the North African style with French chanson, Latin American and other influences and singing in a mixture of French and Arabic, which he dubbed "francarabe" |
| Bonini, Francesco | fl. 1646 | | Italian composer born in Rome |
Bonini, Severo
more... | 23 Dec. 1582
Florence, Italy | 5 Dec. 1663
Florence, Italy | Italian composer, organist and writer on music |
Bonis, Mélanie (Mel)
more... | 1858
Paris, France | 1937
Sarcelles, France | French composer married to Albert Domange |
| Bonito, Delia | fl. 1723 | | composer who worked in Naples, Italy |
| Boniventi (or Bonevente, Bonavente, Benevent), Giuseppe | c.1670-73
Venice, Italy | after 1727
Venice, Italy | Italian composer |
Bonnal, (Joseph-)Ermend
more... | Jul. 1880
Bordeaux, France | 14 Aug. 1944
Bordeaux, France | disciple of Fauré, French composer, symphonic orchestra conductor and church organist. He loved popular instrumental music and dances from the Belle-Epoque era, and wrote some piano solos, mainly in the Ragtime idiom, under the pseudonym of Guy Marylis |
| Bonner, Eugene Macdonald | 1889
Washington, North Carolina, USA | | American composer, noted critic and sometime music editor of The Outlook |
| Bonnet, Joseph (Élie Georges Marie) | 1884
Bordeaux, France | 1944
Quebec, Canada | student of Guilmant from 1901 to 1906, he became organist of the Church of Saint Eustache in Paris in March 1906 and won the first price for organ at the conservatory in July 1906. Bonnet was a close friend of Guilmant. He wrote a composition (Lamento) in memoriam of Guilmant's wife, and another piece (Pie Jesu) in memoriam of Guilmant. Bonnet succeeded Guilmant in 1911 as the organist of the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire in Paris. Bonnet was very famous as a concert organist, and he also published a lot of older organ music. The first Schott edition of Guilmant's works after his death was edited by Bonnet, in co-operation with Eaglefield Hull and Lemare |
Bonno (or Bon, Bonno), Giuseppe [Josephus, Josef] (Johannes Baptizta)
more... | 29 Jan. 1711
Vienna, Austria | 15 Apr. 1788
Vienna, Austria | Austrian composer who was Kapellmeister to the Prince of Saxe-Hildburghausen and a prominent figure in Viennese musical life in his day when his works were often performed |
| Bononcini, Giovanni Maria | 1642
Modena, Italy | 1678
Modena, Italy | composer and author of a treatise on music |
| Bononcini, Giovanni Battista | 18 Jul. 1670
Modena, Italy | 9 Jul. 1747
Vienna, Austria | son of above; one of Handel's most successful rivals in the opera houses of London (1720-1732) as well as composing a funeral anthem for the Duke of Marlborough and several masses. He had to leave London after being proved a plagiarist, his career ending in Vienna where he died in poverty |
| Bononcini, Marc Antonio (really: Antonio Maria) | 18 Jun. 1677
Modena, Italy | 8 Jul. 1726
Modena, Italy | like his brother (above) he was a successful composer of operas |
Bononia, Bartholomeus de (or Bartolomeo da Bologna)
more... | fl. 15th century | | Italian composer, who, in one source (c.1410), is described as a Benedictine brother |
| Bonporti, Antonio Francesco (Buonporti) | 1672
Trent, Italy | 1749
Padua, Italy | composer of instrumental music; it is believed that Bach took the term 'Invention' from Bonporti's Ten 'Inventions' for Violin and Figured Bass |
Bons, Joel
more... | 24 Dec. 1952
Amsterdam, The Netherlands | | Dutch composer and guitarist |
Bonsel, Adriaan
more... | 4 Aug. 1918
Hilversum, The Netherlands | | Dutch flautist and composer |
Bonsor, Brian
more... | 21 Aug 1926
Hawick, Scotland | | who is very much in the debt of recorder ensembles for the many arrangements he makes for them and the catchy dance movements he has composed, things like Beguine, Rumba, Tango, Hoe-Down and Fiesta |
Bontempi (or Angelini, Angelini-Bontempi), Giovanni Andrea
more... | c.1624
Perugia, Italy | 1 Jul. 1705
Brufa, Torgiano, nr. Perugia, Italy | Italian composer |
Boogaard, Bernard van den
more... | 17 Jan. 1952
Castricum, The Netherlands | | Dutch composer |
Boogers, Nathalie
more... | 23 Nov. 1970
The Netherlands | | Dutch composer |
Boogman, Wim
more... | 1955
Gelderse Ijssel, The Netherlands | | Dutch composer |
| Boom, Johan [Jan] van | 15 Oct. 1807
Utrecht, The Netherlands | 19 Mar. 1872
Stockholm, Sweden | Dutch composer |
Boon, Dante
more... | 1973
The Netherlands | | Dutch pianist and composer |
Booren, Jo van den
more... | 14 Mar. 1935
Maastricht, The Netherlands | | Dutch composer and conductor |
| Boorn-Coclet, Henriette | 15 Jan. 1866
Liège, Belgium | 6 Mar. 1945
Liège, Belgium | Belgian composer and teacher |
Booth, Josiah
more... | 1852 | 1929 | organist and composer, particularly of hymns |
Boott, Francis
more... | 1813
Boston, Mass. USA | 1904
Cambridge, Mass. USA | American composer, who studied in Florence, particularly known for his songs |
| Borch, Gaston Louis Christopher | 8 Mar. 1871
Guines, Pas de Calais, France | 14 Feb. 1926
Stockholm, Sweden | French-born composer |
| Borchman, Alexander | 28 Mar. 1872
Moscow, Russia | 13 Nov. 1940
Moscow, Russia | Russian physician and composer |
Borck, Edmund von
more... | 22 Feb. 1906
Wroclaw | 16 Feb. 1944
nr. Nettuno | Polish composer |
Borda, Luis
more... | 18 Jul. 1955
Licoln, Argentina | | Argentinean guitarist and composer |
Borden, David
more... | 25 Dec. 1938
Boston, Massachusetts, USA | | American composer of minimalist music |
Bordes, Charles (Marie Anne)
more... | 12 May 1863
La Roche-Corbon, nr. Vouvray-sur-Loire, France | 8 Nov. 1909
Toulon, France | organist; composed music for piano and orchestra as well as publishing collections of old church tunes and Basque folk tunes |
| Bordewijk-Roepman, Johanna (Suzanna Hendrina) | 4 Aug. 1892
Rotterdam, The Netherlands | 8 Oct. 1971
's Gravenhage, The Netherlands | Dutch composer |
Borek, Krzysztof
more... | | c. 1570
Cracow, Poland | Polish composer and singer in Cracow during the 16th century. Also there is documental evidence that he was a Rorantist prefect during the period 1556-1572. He may have died in Cracow, possibly around the early 1570s |
| Boretti, Giovanni Antonio | c.1640
Rome, Italy | 17 Dec. 1672
Venice, Italy | Italian composer |
Borges (Requena), Raúl
more... | 4 Feb. 1882
Caracas, Venezuela | 24 Nov. 1967
Caracas, Venzuela | renowned Venezuelan pedagogue, guitarist and composer, mentor of several generations of Venezuelan guitarists |
| Borghese (or Borghesi, Borghesy), Antonio D. R. | fl. 1776-1786 | | Italian composer born in Rome |
Borghi, Giovanni Battista
more... | 25 Aug. 1738
Camerino, Macerata | 25 Feb. 1796
Loreto, Italy | Italian composer |
Borgo, Elliot del
more... | 27 Oct. 1938
Port Chester, New York, USA | | American composer for winds and strings. He is also in demand as a guest conductor. Del Borgo's primary instrument is percussion, which is apparent in his works composed as they focus much around the intricate percussion parts using an immense variety of instruments and complex rhythms. His style of writing has a rhythmic atonal quality |
Borgström, Hjalmar
more... | 23 Mar. 1864
Christiania, Norway | 5 Jul. 1925
Oslo, Norway) | Norwegian composer |
| Borkovec, Pavel | 10 Jun. 1894
Prague | 22 Jul. 1972
Prague | Czecg composer |
| Borkowski, Bohdan | 7 Nov. 1852
Teczynek, nr. Kraków, Poland | 6 Nov. 1901
Warsaw, Poland | Polish composer |
Borkowski, Carsten
more... | 21 Jun. 1965
Lübeck, Germany | | German composer |
| Borlenghi, Enzo | 20 Mar. 1908
Riva sul Garda, Italy | | Italian composer |
Borlet, (Johan Robert Trebor)
more... | fl. 1380-1409 | | author of the ballad En seumeillant written to celebrate the conquest of Sardinia by Juan I of Aragon (1389) who may be the same as Trébol (Trebol being an anagram of Borlet) a French composer who was in the service of Martin V of Aragon in 1409. His Hé tres doulz roussignol belongs to the genre of the bird imitation piece. Another unascribed version of the same piece (Ma tredol rosignol) is quite different in mood and style; the nightingale in the first, 4-part, piece is gentle and pensive while that in the second, in 3 parts, is gay and extrovert |
Born, Bertran de
more... | 1140
Autafort, France | by 1215
Dalon Abbey | a baron from the Limousin in France, and one of the major Occitan troubadours of the twelfth century. His uvre consists of about forty-seven works, thirty-six unanimously attributed to him in the manuscripts, and eleven uncertain attributions |
Born lo Filhs, Bertran de
more... | c.1179
Autafort, France | 1233 | a Limousin knight and troubadour, he wrote two sirventes and has three other works attributed to him. He was the son of the famous troubadour Bertran de Born and his first wife, Raimonda, born shortly after their marriage in 1179 |
Borne, François
more... | 1840
France | 1920 | French composer (it is possible that Fernand le Borne and Francois Borne are one and the same person). Borne was professeur de flûte at the Conservatoire in Toulouse at the end of the nineteenth century. He was well known in the early twentieth century as an essayist on flute design and is credited in part with the invention of many devices to improve the Boehm-system flute still in use today, including the split-E mechanism found on many modern flutes. |
Bornelh, Giraut de
more... | c.1138
France | 1215 | also known as Guiraut de Borneil(l), was a troubadour, born to a lower class family in the Limousin, probably in Bourney, near Excideuil. Connected with the castle of the Viscount of Limoges, his skill earned him the nickname of Master of the Troubadours |
| Bornschein, Franz Carl | 10 Feb. 1879
Baltimore, USA | 8 Jun. 1948
Baltimore, USA | American composer |
Borodin, Alexander Porphyrjevich (Borodine)
more... | 12 Nov. 1833
St. Petersburg, Russia | 27 Feb. 1887
St. Petersburg, Russia | illegitimate son of a prince, medical doctor and professor of chemistry, pupil of Balakirev; was a member of 'The Five', writing 2 symphonies with a third completed by Glazunov, 2 string quartets, songs, piano music and an opera, Prince Igor, also left unfinished but completed by Rimsky-Korsakov |
| Boroni (or Baroni, Borroni, Buroni, Burroni), Antonio | 1738
Rome, Italy | 21 Dec. 1792
Rome. Italy | Italian composer |
| Borowski, Felix | 10 Mar. 1872
Burton, England | 6 Sep. 1965
Chicago, USA | English-born violinist who composed for orchestra, chamber groups and voice |
Borradori, Pietro
more... | 1965
Milan, Italy | | Italian composer |
Børresen, (Aksel Ejnar) Hakon
more... | 2 Jun. 1876
Copenhagen, Denmark | 6 Oct. 1954
Copenhagen, Denmark | Danish composer |
| Borri (or possibly Borzio), Carlo | fl. 1670 | | Italian composer |
| Borris, Siegfried | 4 Nov. 1906
Berlin, Germany | 23 Aug. 1987
Berlin, Germany | German composer |
| Borroff, Edith | 1925 | | was born into a musical family, she entered the American Conservatory of Music (Chicago) when she was 16, earning both Bachelor and Master of Music degrees there. In 1958 she received a Ph. D. in Music History from the University of Michigan. In 1973, Borroff joined the faculty of SUNY-Binghamton, where she taught until her retirement in 1992. She has authored more than 15 books and over 100 papers and articles on a wide range of historical and theoretical topics |
Borrono, Pietro Paolo
more... | c.1490
Milan, Italy | c.1563
Milan, Italy | Italian lutenist and composer |
Borstlap, John
more... | 1950 | | Dutch composer and writer on music |
Bortkiewicz, Sergei
more... | 28 (Old Style 16) Feb. 1877
Kharkov, Ukraine | 25 Oct. 1952
Vienna, Austria | Bortkiewicz' style was very much influenced by Chopin, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, early Scriabin, Rachmaninoff and Russian folklore. He was unaffected by the musical trends of the 20th century. He never saw himself as a modernist |
| Bortnyansky (or Bortniansky, Bortnianski, Bortnjanski), Dmitri (Stepanovich) | 28 Oct. 1751
Glukhov, Ukraine, Russia | 10 Oct. 1825
St. Petersburg, Russia | sent to Italy to be trained as a singer by Catherine the Great; composer of church music and some instrumental works and operas in the Italian style |
| Bortolotti, Mauro | 26 Nov. 1926
Narni, Terni | | Italian composer |
Börtz, Daniel
more... | 8 Aug. 1943
Osby, Hässleholm | | Swedish composer |
Borup-Jorgensen, Axel
more... | 1924
Hjrring, Denmark | | Danish composer |
| Borzio (or Bortio, possibly Borri), Carlo | fl. 1676 | | Italian composer born in Lodi near Milan |
Bos, Ruud
more... | 8 Feb. 1936
Amsterdam, The Netherlands | | Dutch composer |
| Bosanac, Franjo | c. 1490
Bosnia | unknown | early Croatian composer |
| Bosch, Pieter Jozef van den | 1736
Hoboken, Belgium | 19 Feb. 1803Anvers | Belgian composer and organist |
| Boschetti, Giovanni Boschetto | before 1616
Viterbo | 22 May 1622
Loreto, Italy | Italian composer |
| Boscovich, Alexander Uriah | 1908
Romania | 5 Nov. 1964
Israel | works include a violin concerto, an oboe concerto, Semetic Suite for orchestra or piano and songs |
Bose, Fritz
more... | 1906 | 1975 | German ethnomusicologist |
Bose, Hans-Jürgen von
more... | 24 Dec. 1953
Munich, Germany | | German composer |
Bosmans, Henriette
more... | 6 Dec. 1895
Amsterdam, The Netherlands | 2 Jul. 1952
Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Dutch composer |
Bossi, (Marco) Enrico
more... | 25 Apr. 1861
Salò, Lake Garda, Italy | 20 Feb. 1925
died at sea | organist; noted composer for his instrument, also a composer of operas and oratorios |
| Bossi, (Rinaldo) Renzo | 9 Apr. 1883
Como, Italy | 2 Apr. 1965
Milan, Italy | son of above; important composer and teacher of composition |
Bosveld, Jan
more... | 5 Feb. 1963
Rheden, The Netherlands | | Dutch composer |
| Bott, Jean Joseph | 9 Mar. 1826
Kassel | 28 Apr. 1895
New York, USA | German composer |
Böttcher, Eberhard
more... | 1934
Berlin, Germany | | German-born composer who lives in Norway |
| Bottée de Toulmon, Auguste | 15 May 1797
Paris, France | 22 Mar. 1850
Paris, France | French composer |
Bottegari, Cosimo
more... | 1554 | 1620 | Italian singer and lutenist |
Bottenberg, Wolfgang
more... | 9 May 1930
Frankfurt, Germany | | German composer |
| Bottesini, Giovanni | 22 Dec. 1821
Lombardy, Italy | 7 Jul. 1889
Parma, Italy | virtuoso double-bass player; wrote many fine works for this neglected instrument, also operas and oratorios, as well as leading a successful career as an opera conductor |
Botti, Susan
more... | 1962 | | American singer and composer. In 2005, Susan Botti won the Prix de Rome (musical composition) and spent eleven months in residency at the American Academy in Rome |
Boubee, Albert
more... | 1850
Naples, Italy | 1909
London, U.K. | Italian born cellist and composer. In 1867 Boubee chose London as his residence, where he became completely naturalised, though from time to time he has accepted engagements abroad. He worked on several occasions with the orchestras at Spa and Scarborough, and travelled in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark as a concert player, but he devotes himself chiefly to the sphere of work which he has made for himself in the English capital. Of his Cello compositions, which consist of several solo pieces, the best known in England is La Gymnastique du Violoncelliste |
Boublil, Alain
more... | 1941
Tunisia | | librettist, best known for his collaborations with the composer Claude-Michel Schönberg |
Bouchard, Linda
more... | 21 May 1957
Val-d'Or, Quebec, Canada | | French-Canadian composer |
| Boucher, Roger | 13 Jun. 1885
Neubourg, France | 1916
Charleroi | a pupil of Guilmant and Widor, he became organist of the Eglise Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin in Paris. Roger Boucher died at the Battle of Charleroi in 1916. He published only one composition, a Cantabile for organ in book two of Les Maitres Contemporains de l'Orgue published in 1911 |
| Boucourechliev, André | 1925
Bulgaria | | composer of chamber music who became naturalised French in 1956 |
Boufil (Bouffil, Bouffils, Bonfil), Jacques Jules
more... | 14 May 1783
Muret, France | 1868 | French clarinetist and composer |
Boughton, Rutland
more... | 23 Jan. 1878
Aylesbury, England | 25 Jan. 1960
London, England | composer most famous for his opera, The Immortal Hour |
Bouhalassa, Ned
more... | 25 Aug. 1962
Le Mans, France | | a composer of electroacoustic music, film scores, and television scores |
Bouin, Jean-François
more... | fl. early 18th-century | | composer of Les folies d'Espagne avec 18 variations pour un violon, une flute, un haubois, un pardessus de violle, une veille ou une musette (flute a bec soprano ou tenor) accompagnement de clavecin ou de guitare (1739) |
Boulanger, Georges
more... | 18 Apr. 1893
Tulcea, Romania | 3 JUn. 1958
Olivios City, Argentina | violinist (a pupil of Leopold Auer), teacher and composer particular of light music including Avant de Mourir, which was, later, known as My Prayer. In 1958, this work remained at the top of the American broadcasting stations´ ranking over a 21-week period. His composing style combined gypsy music, Balkan folklore and Viennese waltzes |
Boulanger, Lili (properly: Marie-Juliette)
more... | 21 Aug. 1893
Paris, France | 15 Mar. 1918
Mézy, Seine-et-Oise, France | studied with her sister (above) and others, the first woman to win the 'Prix de Rome'; like her sister, a composer of symphonic poems, a cantata Faust and Helen, and choral works written before her early death |
Boulanger, Nadia
more... | 16 Sep. 1887
Paris, France | 22 Oct. 1979
Paris, France | composer and conductor, herself a student of Gabriel Fauré, began her teaching career as an Assistant Professor of Harmony at the Paris Conservatory in 1909. She was appointed Professor of Harmony at l'école normale de musique de Paris in 1919. When the American Conservatory was founded in Fountainebleau in 1921, she became Professor of Composition and Orchestration; in addition to her normal schedule, she received, in her home on rue Ballu, an untold number of students from around the world |
Boulez, Pierre
more... | 26 Mar. 1925
Montbrison, France | 5 Jan. 2016
France | pupil of Messiaen; a composer of advanced music derived originally from extended twelve-tone techniques but later including the exploration of mathematical relationships, as well a being an outstanding orchestral conductor of music from all periods |
| Boulnois, Joseph (-Élie-Louis-Eugène) | 28 Jan. 1884
Verneuil, France | 20 Oct. 1918
Chalaines, France | French composer and organist who was killed in the Battle of Chalaines during the First World War
[error in entry pointed out by Newton Carter] |
Boulogne, Joseph
more... | 25 Dec. 1745
Guadeloupe | 10 Jun. 1799
Paris, France | the Chevalier de Saint-Georges (sometimes spelled Saint-George), composer, conductor and violinist, one of the most important figures in the Paris musical scene in the second half of the eighteenth century, he was also famous as a swordsman and equestrian. Known as the 'Black Mozart' or the 'Voltaire of music' he was one of the earliest musicians of the European classical type known to have African ancestry
[entry prompted by W. Shawn Gray and Robert Jackson] |
Bouman, Antonius Johannes Alphonsus
more... | 18 Oct. 1854
Den Bosch, The Netherlands | 23 Mar. 1906
Wassenaar, The Netherlands | Studied violoncello (from 1868) with O.Eberle and W. Bargiel in Rotterdam. As pensionnaire (at the expense of the King) he studied (from 1873) with A. Lindner in Hannover, Fr. Grützmacher in Dresden, Joseph. Servais in Bruxelles and lastly in 1876 in Paris with L. Jacquard. Lived in Pau (1877), then for three years in London(concerts in Alexandra Palace and Covent Garden). Returned 1881 to live in Utrecht as teacher and performer. Summer 1891 he became solo-cellist of the Berliner Philharmoniker and lived in Berlin until summer 1893. Lived in The Hague and became teacher at the Royal Conservatoire of Music and also at the Rotterdam Toonkunst Music School after the death of his teacher O. Eberle. [information supplied by René C.G. Bouman, Utrecht The Netherlands, email rcg.bouman@xs4all.nl] |
Bouman, Hendrick
more... | 1951
The Netherlands | | Dutch harpsichordist, conductor and composer of music written in the baroque and classical idioms of the 17th & 18th centuries |
Bouman, Leon Carolus
more... | 1852 | 1919 | Dutch composer |
Bouman, Paul
more... | 26 Aug. 1918
Hamburg, Minnesota, USA | | American organist, choral director and composer |
Bourdon, Émile
more... | 15 Feb. 1884
La Palisse, Allier, France | 11 Jul. 1974
Combloux, France | French composer and organist, Emile Bourdon studied with Guilmant until 1911. For health reasons he had to leave the conservatory in 1911 to stay in a sanatorium. He lived as an organist in Monaco, where he played the Mutin organ of the Cathedral, inaugurated by himself on April 8, 1922. He was professor for organ at the Conservatory in Nice until 1951. Emile Bourdon retired as cathedral organist in 1968. Marcel Dupré and Emile Bourdon were close friends |
Bourdon, Petrus
more... | | | composer whose work appears in Harmonice Musices Odhecaton A (1501), the first book printed by Ottaviano Petrucci, using the invention of music printing with moveable type |
Bourdon, Rosario
more... | 6 Mar. 1885
Longueuil, near Montreal, Canada | 24 Apr. 1961
New York, USA | Canadian conductor, cellist, arranger, composer and record company executive, who was naturalized a US citizen in 1922 |
| Bourgault-Ducoudray, Louis (Albert) | 2 Feb. 1840
Nantes, France | 4 Jul. 1910
Paris, France | choral conductor; also a composer of choral works and operas |
Bourgeois, Derek
more... | 16 Oct. 1941
Kingston, London, England | 6 Sep. 2017
England | he has composed nineteen symphonies, fourteen concertos, several other extended orchestral works, seven major works for chorus and orchestra, two operas and a musical. As well as a considerable quantity of chamber, vocal and instrumental music, he has composed twelve extended works for Brass Band and six symphonies for Symphonic Wind Band. He has also written a considerable amount of music for television productions |
Bourgeois, Loys (Louis)
more... | 1510/15
France | 1559 or later | a French composer and music theorist of the Renaissance. He is most famous as the one most responsible for the tunes in the Genevan Psalter, the source for the hymns of both the Reformed Church in England and the Pilgrims in America. In the original versions by Bourgeois, the music is monophonic, in accordance with the dictates of John Calvin, who disapproved not only of counterpoint but of any multiple parts; Bourgeois though did also provide four-part harmonizations, but they were reserved for singing and playing at home. Many of the four-part settings are syllabic and chordal, a style which has survived in many Protestant church services to the present day. In addition, the Protestant doxology known as the Old 100th, one of the most famous melodies in all of Christendom, is commonly attributed to him |
| Bourges (de), Clementine | 1561
Lyons | | ranked high among the intellectual leaders of the time, including for her musical skill. Said to have been a master of many instruments and published in the organ collection of J. Paix |
| Bourges, Philippon de (see Basiron, Philippe) | | | |
| Bourgogne (de), Marie | 1457 | 1482 | French composer |
| Bourguignon, Francis de | 29 May 1890
St. Gilles, Brussels, Belgium | 11 Apr. 1961
Brussels, Belgium | composer and pianist; compositions include piano concertos, songs and chamber music, many exploring polytonality |
| Bourne, Ena | 1883
Australia | 1974
England | active in England from around 1912 as a concert and recording artiste, her compositions included lighter piano pieces: Caprice, Humoreske, Petite Valse Caprice, A Little Song, Cradle Song and performed by the composer in Doncaster in November 1915, Gavotte and Scherzo |
| Bousquet, Georges | 12 Mar. 1818
Perpignan, France | 15 Jun. 1854
St. Cloud, nr. Paris, France | French composer |
| Bousset, Jean-Baptiste | 1662
Dijon, France | 3 Oct. 1725
Paris, France | French composer |
Bouteiller, Pierre
more... | c.1655
France | c.1717
France | he is known to have been director of music at the cathedral of Troyes in Champagne in 1687. Seven years later he held the same post in Châlons-sur-Marne. After a short stay back in Troyes he went to Paris in 1698, where he established himself as a player of the viola da gamba and other instruments. In 1704 a Te Deum by Bouteiller was performed in Paris, but this work has disappeared |
Boutmy, Guillaume
more... | 15 Jun. 1723
Brussels, Belgium | 22 Jan. 1791
Brussels, Belgium | Belgian composer, organist and keyboard player |
Boutmy, Jean Baptiste Joseph
more... | 1725
Brussels, Belgium | c.1775
Cleeves, Belgium | Belgian keyboard player and composer |
Boutmy, Josse
more... | 1697
Ghent, Belgium | 1779
Brussels, Belgium | organist and harpsichordist of the Austrian Netherlands who established himself in Brussels. He worked in St Gudule's church (1719), with the Prince of Thurn and Taxis (1736) and at the chapel royal of Brussels (1744). Born into a musical family, his grandfather, father, brother and sons were all musicians |
Boutmy, Laurent-François
more... | 19 Jun. 1756
Brussels, Belgium | 3 Nov. 1838
Brussels, Belgium | Belgian composer |
Boutry, Roger
more... | 27 Feb. 1932
Paris, France | | French composer, teacher, conductor and pianist |
| Bouvadinska, Mme | | | she had works published in Paris in 1740 |
Bouvard (or Bouvart), François
more... | c.1683
Lyons, France | 2 Mar. 1760
Paris, France | French composer |
Bouwman, Nicolaas Arie
more... | 1854 | 1941 | Dutch composer |
Bouzignac, Guillaume
more... | before 1592
Narbonne, France | after 1641 | French composer. a leading figure in early 17th-century church music |
| Bovet, Hermine | 1842
Germany | | composer of a piano method that went through several editions |
Bovicelli, Giovanni Battista
more... | c.1550
Assisi, Italy | after 1594
Italy | Italian composer, singer and music theoretician |
| Bovy-Lysberg [Bovy, Lysberg], Charles-Samuel | 1 Feb. 1821
Lysberg, cnr. Geneva, Switzerland | 15 Feb. 1873
Geneva, Switzerland | Swiss composer |
Bowater, Helen
more... | 1952
Wellington, New Zealand | | New Zealand composer |
Bowen, Edwin York
more... | 22 Feb. 1884
London, UK | 11 Nov. 1961
London, UK | fine pianist and organist who also played of the violin and horn. A composer of conservative romantic works for piano, orchestra and chamber ensembles, including 3 piano concertos |
Bowie, David (born: David Robert Jones)
more... | 8 Jan. 1947
London, England | | English musician, actor, producer, arranger and audio engineer |
Bowie, Lester
more... | 11 Oct. 1941
Frederick, Maryland, USA | 9 Nov. 1999
Brooklyn, NY, USA | American jazz trumpeter and composer |
| Bowles, Paul (Frederic) | 30 Dec. 1910
Jamaica, New York, USA | 18 Nov. 1999
Tangier, Morocco | American-born composer, translator, and author of novels and short stories in which violent events and psychological collapse are recounted in a detached and elegant style. His protagonists are often Europeans or Americans who are maimed by their contact with powerful traditional cultures. Bowles began publishing Surrealist poetry in the Parisian magazine transition at the age of 16. After briefly attending the University of Virginia, he traveled to Paris, where his interests turned to music. In 1929 he returned to New York and began studying musical composition under Aaron Copland. Bowles became a sought-after composer, writing music for more than 30 theatrical productions and films. During this time, he also became a member of the loose society of literary expatriates in Europe and North Africa and started writing short stories. In the late 1940s, he and his wife, writer Jane Bowles, settled in Tangier, Morocco, a city that became his most potent source of inspiration. There, he wrote his first novel, The Sheltering Sky (1949; film, 1990), a harsh tale of death, rape, and sexual obsession. It became a best-seller and made Bowles a leading figure in the city's expatriate artistic community |
Bowman, Euday L.
more... | 9 Nov. 1887
Fort Worth, TX, USA | 26 May 1949
New York, NY, USA | orchestral arranger and composer of ragtime compositions, the most famous being Twelfth Street Rag |
Bowman, Kim
more... | 1957
Margaret River, Western Australia | | Australian composer based in The Netherlands |
| Boxberg, Christian Ludwig | 24 Apr. 1670
Sondershausen | 1 Dec. 1729
Görlitz | German composer |
| Boyce, William | bap. 11 Sep. 1711
London, England | 7. Feb. 1779
London, England | pupil of Greene, organist and master of the orchestra of George III; although overtaken by deafness in later life he had by then composed a large quantity of religious and secular music, including 8 symphonies |
Boyd, Anne (Elizabeth)
more... | 10 Apr. 1946
Sydney, Australia | | Australian composer and Professor of Music at the University of Sydney |
| Boyd, Elisabeth | fl. 1739-1744 | | composer |
Boydell, Brian
more... | 17 Mar. 1917
Howth, Ireland | 8 Nov. 2000
Howth, Ireland | Irish composer whose works include orchestral pieces, chamber music, and songs. He was professor of music at Trinity College, Dublin for 20 years, founder of the Dowland Consort, conductor of the Dublin Orchestral Players, and a prolific broadcaster and writer on musical matters |
| Boyer, Cyprien | 16 Mar. 1853
Saint-Martial-de-Nabirat, Dordogne, France | 9 Sep. 1926
Perigueux, France | French composer and oranist, Cyprien Boyer was organist of the Petit Séminaire in Bergerac |
Boyer, Peter
more... | 1970
Providence, Rhode Island, USA | | American composer |
Boyle, Malcolm
more... | 1902
Windsor, England | 1976 | British organist and composer |
Boyleau, Simon
more... | fl. 1544-1586 | | French composer of the Renaissance, active in northern Italy. A prolific composer of madrigals as well as sacred music, he was closely connected with the court of Marguerite of Savoy. He was also the earliest documented choirmaster at the church of Santa Maria presso San Celso in Milan |
Boyvin, Jacques
more... | c. 1649
Paris, France | 1706
Rouen, France | after practising at the Quinze-Vingt, Boyvin was appointed organist at the cathedral of Rouen after a competitive examination in 1674. He is one of the very few organists outside the capital (but much in contact with Paris) whose compositions are known. In 1700, he wrote a treatise on the art of accompaniment published by Ballard |
Bozay, Attila
more... | 11 Aug. 1939
Baltonfuezfoe, Hungary | 14 Sep. 1999
Hungary | works include Outcries for tenor and chamber ensemble, Variations for piano and Symphonic Pieces for orchestra |
| Bozic, Darijan | 29 Apr. 1933
Slavonski Brod | | Yugoslavian composer |
Bozza, Eugène (Joseph)
more... | 4 Apr. 1905
Nice, France | 28 Sep. 1991
Valenciennes, France | made an early impact at the Paris Conservatoire as a brilliant violinist and conductor, gaining recognition as a composer when he won the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1934. Although he went on to write five symphonies and several operas and ballets, like many French composers he spent much of his life as an academic, becoming head of the Valenciennes Conservatoire in 1948. In this capacity he wrote much of the wind chamber music for which he is now best known |