contains: 154 composers
last updated: 26th Mar 2001
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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  
Krešimir 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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