contains:
154 composers
last updated: 26th Mar 2001
under construction
| Christian Names | Surname | Date of Birth | Date of Death | Nationality | Notes/Links | ||||||
| Kees | van Baaren | 22 | Oct | 1906 | 2 | Sep | 1970 | Dutch | |||
| Cristofori | Babbi | 1745 | 1814 | Italian | |||||||
| Gregorio | Babbi | 1770c | 1815c | Italian | |||||||
| Milton Byron | Babbitt | 10 | May | 1916 | American | ||||||
| William | Babell | 1690c | 23 | Sep | 1723 | English | |||||
| Victor | Babin | 13 | Dec | 1908 | 1 | Mar | 1972 | American | |||
| Ippolito | Baccusi | 1550c | 1609 | Italian | |||||||
| Grazyna | Bacewicz | 5 | Feb | 1909 | 17 | Jan | 1969 | Polish | The z in Grazyna should have a circle on top of it | ||
| Follow link for... | Bach family | German | |||||||||
| August Wilhelm | Bach | 4 | Oct | 1796 | 15 | Apr | 1869 | German | |||
| Sixt | Bachmann | 18 | Jul | 1754 | 18 | Oct | 1825 | German | |||
| Johann Caspar | Bachofen | 26 | Dec | 1695 | 23 | Jun | 1755 | Swiss | |||
| Bénigne | de Bacilly | 1625c | 27 | Sep | 1960 | French | |||||
| Sven-Erik | Bäck | 16 | Sep | 1919 | Swedish | ||||||
| Ernst | Bacon | 26 | May | 1898 | 16 | Mar | 1990 | American | |||
| Carlo Agostino | Badia | 1672 | 23 | Sep | 1738 | Italian | |||||
| Henk | Badings | 17 | Jan | 1907 | 26 | Jun | 1987 | Dutch | |||
| Charles Ernest, | Baron de Bagge | 14 | Feb | 1722 | 24 | Mar | 1791 | French | |||
| Pierre Marie François de Sales | Baillot | 1 | Oct | 1771 | 15 | Sep | 1842 | French | |||
| Luigi | de Baillou | 1735c | 1809c | Italian | |||||||
| Simon | Bainbridge | 30 | Aug | 1952 | English | ||||||
| William | Baines | 26 | Mar | 1899 | 6 | Nov | 1922 | English | |||
| Edgar Lelie | Bainton | 14 | Feb | 1880 | 8 | Dec | 1956 | English | |||
| Tadeusz | Baird | 26 | Jul | 1928 | 2 | Sep | 1981 | Polish | |||
| Sir Edward Cuthbert | Bairstow | 22 | Aug | 1874 | 1 | May | 1946 | English | |||
| Tommaso | Baj | 1650c | 22 | Dec | 1714 | Italian | |||||
| David Nathaniel | Baker | 21 | Dec | 1931 | American | ||||||
| Bálint | Bakfark | 1507 | Aug | 1576 | Hungarian | ||||||
| Mily Alexeyevich | Balakirev | 2 | Jan | 1837 | 29 | May | 1910 | Russian | |||
| Andrey Melitonovich | Balanchivadze | 1 | Jun | 1906 | Georgian | ||||||
| Sándor | Balassa | 20 | Jan | 1935 | Hungarian | ||||||
| Hans | Balatka | 26 | Feb | 1825 | 17 | Apr | 1899 | Czech | |||
| Claude-Bénigne | Balbastre | 22 | Jan | 1727 | 9 | May | 1799 | French | |||
| Lodovico | Balbi | 1545c | 15 | Dec | 1604b | Italian | |||||
| John | Baldwin | 1560b | 28 | Aug | 1615 | English | |||||
| Michael Willian | Balfe | 15 | May | 1808 | 20 | Oct | 1870 | Irish | |||
| Claude André François | Ballif | 22 | May | 1924 | French | ||||||
| Esther Williamson | Ballou | 17 | Jul | 1915 | 12 | Mar | 1973 | American | |||
| Thomas | Baltzar | 1630c | Jul | 1663 | German | ||||||
| Joan Albert | Ban | 1597c | 27 | Jul | 1644 | Dutch | |||||
| Adriano | Banchieri | 3 | Sep | 1568 | 1634 | Italian | |||||
| John | Banister | 1625c | 3 | Oct | 1679 | English | |||||
| Don | Banks | 25 | Oct | 1923 | 5 | Sep | 1980 | Australian | |||
| Sir Granville | Bantock | 7 | Aug | 1868 | 16 | Oct | 1946 | English | |||
| Kreimir | Baranovic | 25 | Jul | 1894 | 17 | Sep | 1975 | Croatian | The c in Barabovic should have a / on top of it | ||
| Bartolomeo | Barbarino | 1617 | Italian | ||||||||
| Emanuele | Barbella | 14 | Apr | 1718 | 1 | Jan | 1777 | Italian | |||
| Samuel | Barber | 9 | Mar | 1910 | 23 | Jan | 1981 | American | |||
| Melchiore | de Barberiis | 1545cfl | 1550cfl | Italian | |||||||
| Francisco Asenjo | Barbieri | 3 | Aug | 1823 | 17 | Feb | 1894 | Spanish | |||
| Lajos | Bárdos | 1 | Oct | 1899 | 18 | Nov | 1986 | Hungarian | |||
| Woldemar | Bargiel | 3 | Oct | 1828 | 23 | Feb | 1897 | German | |||
| Sabine | Baring-Gould | 28 | Jan | 1834 | 2 | Jan | 1924 | English | |||
| Elaine Radoff | Barkin | 15 | Dec | 1932 | American | ||||||
| David Frederick | Barlow | 20 | May | 1927 | 9 | Jun | 1975 | English | |||
| Fred | Barlow | 2 | Oct | 1881 | 3 | Jan | 1951 | French | |||
| Samuel L.M. | Barlow | 1 | Jun | 1892 | 19 | Sep | 1982 | American | |||
| Wayne Brewster | Barlow | 6 | Sep | 1912 | American | ||||||
| Sir Joseph | Barnby | 12 | Aug | 1838 | 28 | Jan | 1896 | English | |||
| Christian | Barnekow | 28 | Jul | 1837 | 20 | Mar | 1913 | Danish | |||
| John | Barnett | 15 | Jul | 1802 | Apr | 1890 | English | ||||
| John Francis | Barnett | 16 | Oct | 1837 | 24 | Nov | 1916 | English | |||
| Ernst Gottlieb | Baron | 17 | Feb | 1696 | 12 | Apr | 1760 | German | |||
| Jean | Barraqué | 17 | Jan | 1928 | 17 | Aug | 1973 | French | |||
| Henry | Barraud | 23 | Apr | 1900 | French | ||||||
| Jean | Barrière | 1705c | 6 | Jun | 1747 | French | |||||
| Gerald | Barry | 28 | Apr | 1952 | Irish | ||||||
| Francesco | Barsanti | 1690 | 1772 | Italian | |||||||
| András | Bartay | 7 | Apr | 1799 | 4 | Oct | 1854 | Hungarian | |||
| Girolamo | Bartei | 1565c | 1618c | Italian | |||||||
| François-Hippolyte | Barthélemon | 27 | Jul | 1741 | 20 | Jul | 1808 | French | |||
| Pierre | Bartholomée | 5 | Aug | 1937 | still alive | Belgian | |||||
| John | Bartlet | 1606fl | 1610fl | English | |||||||
| Béla | Bartók | 25 | Mar | 1881 | 26 | Sep | 1945 | Hungarian | |||
| Bartolino da Padova | 1365fl | 1405fl | Italian | ||||||||
| Bartolomeo da Bologna | 1410fl | 1425fl | Italian | ||||||||
| Bartolomeo degli Organi | 24 | Dec | 1474 | 12 | Dec | 1539 | Italian | ||||
| Bruno | Bartolozzi | 8 | Jun | 1911 | 12 | Dec | 1980 | Italian | |||
| František | Bartoš | 13 | Jun | 1905 | 21 | May | 1973 | Czech | |||
| Jan Zdenek | Bartoš | 4 | Jun | 1908 | 1 | Jun | 1981 | Czech | |||
| Vasyl' Oleksandrovich | Barvynsky | 20 | Feb | 1888 | 9 | Jun | 1963 | Ukranian | |||
| Henricus | Baryphonus | 17 | Sep | 1581 | 13 | Jan | 1655 | German | |||
| Count William | Basie | 21 | Aug | 1904 | 26 | Apr | 1984 | American | |||
| Francesco | Basili | 31 | Jan | 1767 | 25 | Mar | 1850 | Italian | |||
| Philippe | Basiron | 6 | Feb | 1497b | French? | ||||||
| Giovanni Battista | Bassani | 1657c | 1 | Oct | 1716 | Italian | |||||
| Giovanni | Bassano | 1558c | 1617 | Italian | |||||||
| Leslie | Bassett | 22 | Jan | 1923 | American | ||||||
| Johannes Gijsbertus | Bastiaans | 31 | Oct | 1812 | 16 | Feb | 1875 | Dutch | |||
| Giannotto | Bastianelli | 20 | Jun | 1883 | 22 | Sep | 1927 | Italian | |||
| John | Baston | 1711fl | 1733fl | English | |||||||
| Gabriel | Bataille | 1575c | 17 | Dec | 1630 | French | |||||
| Stanley Richard | Bate | 12 | Dec | 1913 | 19 | Oct | 1959 | English | |||
| William | Bates | 1750cfl | 1780cfl | English | |||||||
| Thomas | Bateson | 1573c | Mar | 1630 | English | ||||||
| Luca | Bati | 1550c | 17 | Oct | 1608 | Italian | |||||
| Charles | Bâton | 1754a | French | ||||||||
| Adrian | Batten | 1 | Mar | 1591b | 1637 | English | |||||
| Luigi | Battiferri | 1605c | 1682c | Italian | |||||||
| Jonathan | Battishill | May | 1738 | 10 | Dec | 1801 | English | ||||
| Yves Marie | Baudrier | 11 | Feb | 1906 | 9 | Nov | 1988 | French | |||
| Marion Eugenie | Bauer | 15 | Aug | 1897 | 9 | Aug | 1955 | American | |||
| Alison (Margaret) | Bauld | 7 | May | 1944 | still alive | Australian | |||||
| Noel | Bauldeweyn | 1480c | 1530 | Flemish | |||||||
| Karl Friedrich | Baumgarten | 1740c | 1824 | German | |||||||
| Wilhelm | Baumgartner | 15 | Nov | 1820 | 17 | Mar | 1867 | Swiss | |||
| Jürg | Baur | 11 | Nov | 1918 | German | ||||||
| Sir Arnold Edward Trevor | Bax | 8 | Nov | 1883 | 3 | Oct | 1953 | English | |||
| François | Bayle | 27 | Apr | 1932 | French | ||||||
| Irwin Allen | Bazelon | 4 | Jun | 1922 | American | ||||||
| François Emmanuel-Joseph | Bazin | 4 | Sep | 1816 | 2 | Jul | 1878 | French | |||
| Antonio | Bazzini | 11 | Mar | 1818 | 10 | Feb | 1897 | Italian | |||
| Amy Marcy | Beach | 5 | Sep | 1867 | 27 | Dec | 1944 | American | née Cheney, aka Mrs HHA Beach | ||
| Jean-Jacques | Beauvarlet-Charpentier | 28 | Jun | 1734 | 6 | May | 1794 | French | |||
| Alfred Julius | Becher | 27 | Apr | 1803 | 23 | Nov | 1848 | German | |||
| Conrad | Beck | 16 | Jun | 1901 | 31 | Oct | 1989 | Swiss | |||
| Franz Ignaz | Beck | 20 | Feb | 1734 | 31 | Dec | 1809 | German | |||
| Dietrich | Becker | 1623 | 1679 | German | |||||||
| Günther | Becker | 1 | Apr | 1924 | still alive | German | |||||
| John (Joseph) | Becker | 22 | Jan | 1886 | 21 | Jan | 1961 | American | |||
| John | Beckwith | 9 | Mar | 1927 | still alive | Canadian | |||||
| John 'Christmas' | Beckwith | 25 | Dec | 1749/50 | 3 | Jun | 1809 | English | |||
| David (Vickerman) | Bedford | 4 | Aug | 1937 | still alive | English | |||||
| Johannes | Bedyngham | possibly 1422 | 1459 or 1460 | English | |||||||
| (Notger) Ignaz (Franz) | von Beecke | 28 | Oct | 1733 | 2 | Jan | 1803 | German | |||
| Johann | Beer | 28 | Feb | 1655 | 6 | Aug | 1700 | Austro-German | |||
| Anton | Beer-Walbrunn | 29 | Jun | 1864 | 22 | Mar | 1929 | German | |||
| Jack (Hamilton) | Beeson | 15 | Jul | 1921 | still alive | American | |||||
| Ludwig | van Beethoven | 17 | Dec | 1770 | bap | 26 | March | 1827 | German | ||
| Grant | Beglarian | 1 | Dec | 1927 | still alive | American | |||||
| David | Behrman | 16 | Aug | 1937 | still alive | American | |||||
| (Leon) Bix | Beiderbecke | 10 | Mar | 1903 | 7 | Aug | 1931 | American | |||
| (Johann) Conrad | Beissel | 1 | Mar | 1691 | 6 | Jul | 1768 | American | |||
| Gyula | Beliczay | 10 | Aug | 1835 | 30 | Apr | 1893 | Hungarian | aka Julius von Beliczay | ||
| Ján Levoslav | Bella | 4 | Sep | 1843 | 25 | May | 1936 | Slovak | |||
| Domenico | Belli | ? | 5 | May | 1627 | bur | Italian | ||||
| Girolamo | Belli | 1552 | circa 1620 | Italian | |||||||
| Giulio | Belli | circa 1560 | in or after 1621 | Italian | |||||||
| Vincenzo | Bellini | 3 | Nov | 1801 | 23 | Sep | 1835 | Italian | |||
| Franz | Benda | 22 | Nov | 1709b | 7 | Mar | 1786 | Bohemian | |||
| Georg | Benda | 30 | Jun | 1722b | 6 | Nov | 1795 | Bohemian | |||
| Richard Rodney | Bennett | 29 | Mar | 1936 | English | ||||||
| Sir William Sterndale | Bennett | 13 | Apr | 1816 | 1 | Feb | 1875 | English | |||
| Alban (Maria Johannes) | Berg | 9 | Feb | 1885 | 24 | Dec | 1935 | Austrian | |||
| Luciano | Berio | 24 | Oct | 1925 | Italian | ||||||
| Louis-Hector | Berlioz | 11 | Dec | 1803 | 8 | Mar | 1869 | French | |||
| Leonard | Bernstein | 25 | Aug | 1918 | 14 | Oct | 1990 | American | |||
| Georges Alexandre César Léopold | Bizet | 25 | Oct | 1838 | 3 | Jun | 1875 | French | |||
| Alexander Porfir'yevich | Borodin | 12 | Nov | 1833 | 27 | Feb | 1887 | Russian | |||
| Pierre | Boulez | 26 | Mar | 1925 | French | ||||||
| Johannes | Brahms | 7 | May | 1833 | 3 | Apr | 1897 | German | |||
| Lord Edward Benjamin | Britten | 22 | Nov | 1913 | 4 | Dec | 1976 | English | |||
| (Joseph) Anton | Bruckner | 4 | Sep | 1824 | 11 | Oct | 1896 | Austrian | |||
| Dietrich | Buxtehude | 1637c | 9 | May | 1707 | Danish | |||||
| William | Byrd | 1543 | 4 | Jul | 1623 | English | |||||
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