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Index to Short Biographies of Poets & Composers - B |
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Johann Baal, Composer (Bavaria, Germany) [Missing Biography] |
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Victor Babin, Arranger (Russia) |
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Bogdan Bácanu, Arranger (Romania) |
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Grażyna Bacewicz, Composer (Poland) |
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Bach Family: Sorted by Name | Sorted by Number | Family Tree | Family History |
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Anna Magdalena (Wilcken) Bach, J.S. Bach's 2nd wife, Bach's Pupil (Saxony, Germany) |
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach [46] (C.P.E. Bach), Composer, Bach's Pupil (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Caspar Bach [3/56], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Caspar Bach [3/58], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Christoph Bach [5], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Ernst Carl Gottfried Bach [81], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Ernst Christian Bach [82], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Georg Christoph Bach [10], Composer (Thuringia, Germany) |
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George Michael Bach [74], Musician (Saxony, Germany) |
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Gottfried Heinrich Bach [48], Musician, Bach's Pupil (Saxony, Germany) |
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Gottlieb Friedrich Bach [76], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Heinrich Bach [3/62], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Heinrich Bach [6], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann(es) [Hans] Bach [2], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann(es) Bach [3/59], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann(es) [Hans] Bach [4], Composer (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Bach [67], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Aegidius Bach [8], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Aegidius Bach [36], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Ambrosius Bach [11], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Andreas Bach [44], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann August Bach, Law Professor, Bach's Pupil (Saxony, Germany) |
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Johann Balthasar Bach [71], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Bernhard Bach [18], Composer (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Bernhard Bach [41], Composer, Organ, Copyist, Bach's Pupil (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Christian Bach [7], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Christian Bach [32], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Christian Bach [50], Composer, Bach's Pupil (Saxony, Germany / England) |
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Johann Christian Bach [77], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Christoph Bach [13], Composer (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Christoph Bach [12], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Christoph Bach [22], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Christoph Bach [17], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Christoph Bach [28], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Christoph Bach [19], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Christoph Bach [26], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Christoph Bach [42], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach [49], Composer, Bach's Pupil (Saxony, Germany) |
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Johann Christoph Georg Bach [83], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Elias Bach [39], Kantor, School Inspector, Copyist, Bach's Pupil (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Ernst Bach [25], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Ernst Bach [34], Composer, Organ, Lawyer, Bach's Pupil (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Friedrich Bach [29], Composer (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Friedrich Bach [35], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Georg Bach [78], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach [47], Musician, Bach's Pupil (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Günther Bach [15], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Günther Bach [33], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Heinrich Bach [43], Organ, Kantor, Copyist, Bach's Pupil (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Heinrich Bach [53], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Jacob Bach [3/68], Composer (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Jacob Bach [16], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Jacob Bach [23], Musician (Thuringia, Germany / Sweden) |
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Johann Lorenz Bach [38], Composer, Kantor, Copyist, Bach's Pupil (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Ludwig Bach [3/72], Composer (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Michael Bach [14], Composer (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Michael Bach [30], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Michael Bach (13), Composer (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Nicolaus Bach [9], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Nicolaus Bach [27], Composer (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Philipp Bach [85], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Samuel Bach [31], Organ, Painter, Lawyer, Bach's Pupil (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Sebastian Bach [24], Composer, Thomaskantor (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Stephan Bach [3/70], Musici(Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Valentin Bach [21], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Lips [Philippus] Bach [65], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Maria Barbara Bach, J.S. Bach's 1st wife (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Melchior Bach [3/60], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Nicolaus Bach [3/61], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Nicolaus Ephraim Bach [73], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Philipp Christian Georg Bach [80], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Samuel Anton Bach [75], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Tobias Friedrich Bach [40], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Tobias Friedrich Bach [79], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Veit Bach [1], Musician (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Wilhelm Friedemann Bach [45] (W.F. Bach), Composer, Bach's Pupil (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach [84], Composer (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Johann Caspar Bachofen, Composer (Switzerland) |
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Sigismund Bachrich, Composer, Arranger (Hungary) |
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Nicolas Bacri, Composer (France) |
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Ludovic Bács, Composer, Arranger (Hungary / Romania) |
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Henk Badings, Composer (Java / The Netherlands) |
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Nikolai Badinski, Composer (Bulgaria) |
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Peter Baekgaard, Arranger (Denmark) |
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Walter Baer, Composer (Switzerland) |
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Selmar Bagge, Composer, Arranger (Germany) |
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Jason Bahr, Composer (USA) |
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Frederic Balazs, Composer, Arranger (Hungary / USA) |
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Richard Bales, Composer, Arranger (USA) |
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Andrew Balio, Arranger (USA) |
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Alison Balsom, Arranger (England) |
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Johann Nathanael Bammler, Kantor, Copyist, Bach's Pupil (Saxony, Germany) |
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Henry Charles Banister, Composer, Arranger (England) |
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Granville Bantock, Composer, Arranger (England) |
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Michael Bapzien, Hymn-Writer (Germany) |
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Cinzia Barbagelata, Arranger (Italy) |
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Helmut Barbe, Composer (Germany) |
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Samuel Barber, Composer, Arranger (USA) |
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John Barbirolli, Arranger (England) |
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Otto Barblan, Composer (Switzerland) |
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Johann Friedrich Barisien, Civil Servant, Bach's Pupil (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Georg Heinrich Barth, Pastor, Bach's Pupil (Saxony, Germany) |
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Christian Samuel Barth, Oboe, Composer, Bach's Pupil (Saxony, Germany) |
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Karl Friedrich Barth, Kantor, Copyist, Bach's Pupil, Thomaskantor (Saxony, Germany) |
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Hans Barth, Composer, Arranger (Germany) |
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Georg Christian Bärtichen, Bach's Pupil (Saxony, Germany) |
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Richard Bartmuß, Composer (Saxony, Germany) |
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Béla Bartók, Composer, Arranger (Hungary) |
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Giovanni Battista Bassani, Composer (Italy) |
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James Bastien, Arranger (USA) |
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Harold Bauer, Arranger (England / USA) |
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Johann David Bauer. Bach's Pupil (Saxony, Germany) |
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Alfred Baum, Composer, Arranger (Switzerland) |
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Herbert Baumann, Composer (Germany) |
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Johann Friedrich Baumann, Bach's Pupil (Saxony, Germany) |
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Johann Jacob Baumann, Organ, Teacher, Rector, Bach's Pupil (Saxony, Germany) |
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Max Georg Baumann, Composer (Germany) |
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Johann Christoph Baumgarten, Organ, Bach's Pupil (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Jürg Baur, Composer (Germany) |
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Arnold Bax, Composer, Arranger (England) |
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John Bayless, Composer, Arranger (USA) |
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Christian Beck, Rector, Bach's Pupil (Saxony, Germany) |
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Gottfried Beck, Bach's Pupil (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Albert Becker, Composer (Germany) |
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Carl Ferdinand Becker, Composer, Writer (Saxony, Germany) |
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Cornelius Becker, Hymn-Writer (Saxony, Germany) |
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Gustav Louis Becker, Arranger (USA) |
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Johann Becker, Organ, Teacher, Composer, Bach's Pupil (Hesse, Germany) |
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René-Louis Becker, Composer (France / USA) |
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Alfred von Beckerath, Composer (Germany) |
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Christopher à Becket-Williams, Composer, Arranger (England) |
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Pierre Michel Bédard, Composer (Canada / France) |
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Robert Leech Bedell, Composer, Arranger (USA) |
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Gwilym Edward Beechey, Composer, Arranger (England) |
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Bram Beekman, Composer (The Netherlands) |
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Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer (Germany) |
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Karol Beffa, Composer, Arranger (France) |
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Martin Behm, Hymn-Writer (Silesia, Germany) |
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David Behme, Hymn-Writer (Silesia, Germany) |
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Siegfried Behrend, Composer, Arranger (Germany) |
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Jack Behrens, Composer (USA / Canada) |
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Ján Levoslav Bella, Composer (Slovakia) |
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Ralph Bellairs, Composer, Arranger (England) |
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Johann Gottfried Heinrich Bellermann, Composer, Music Theorist (Germany) |
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Vladimir Belov, Arranger (Russia) |
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Franz Benda, Composer (Bohemia) |
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Paul Ben-Haim, Composer, Arranger (Germany / Israel) |
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André Bénichou, Arranger (France) |
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Heinz Benker, Composer (Germany) |
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Niels Viggo Bentzon, Composer (Denmark) |
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William Sterndale Bennett, Composer, Arranger (England) |
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Alban Berg, Composer (Austria) |
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Adam Gottlob Siegfried Berger, Rector, Pastor, Bach's Pupil (Saxony, Germany) |
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Johann Gottfried Berger, Bach's Pupil (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany) |
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Erich Bergel, Arranger (Romania / Germany) |
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Joseph Berggrun (Europe/ Egypt / Argentina / USA) |
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Erik Bergman, Composer (Finland) |
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Mats Bergström, Arranger (Sweden) |
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Luciano Berio, Composer, Arranger (Italy) |
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Ralph Berkowitz, Composer, Arranger (USA) |
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Boris Berlin, Arranger (Russia / Canada) |
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Friedrich Wilhelm Berner, Composer (Silesia, Germany) |
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Lord Berners, Composer, Arranger (England) |
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Christoph Bernhard, Composer (Prussia, Germany) |
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Leonard Bernstein, Composer (USA) |
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Johann Samuel Berth, Bach's Pupil (Saxony, Germany) |
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Henri Bertini, Composer, Arranger (England / France) |
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Hans Georg Bertram, Composer (Germany) |
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Maurice Besly, Composer, Arranger (England) |
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Johann Christian Beyer, Lute, Bach's Pupil (Saxony, Germany) |
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Kaspar Bienemann, Hymn-Writer (Bavaria, Germany) |
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Tobias Bigger, Arranger (Germany) |
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Richard Keys Biggs, Composer (USA) |
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Peter Billam, Composer, Arranger (England) |
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Anton Bilotti, Composer, Arranger (USA) |
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Eleonor Bindman, Composer, Arranger (Latvia / USA) |
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Sigismund von Birken, Hymn-Writer (Bohemia, Germany) |
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Christoph Birkmann, Poet, Bach's Pupil (Bavaria, Germany) |
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Harrison Birtwistle, Composer, Arranger (England) |
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Marcel Bitsch, Composer, Arranger (France) |
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Georges Bizet, Composer (France) |
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Michael Blake, Composer (South Africa) |
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Émile-Robert Blanchet, Composer, Arranger (Switzerland) |
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Amando Blanquer Ponsoda, Composer (Spain) |
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Oskar Gottlieb Blarr, Composer, Arranger (Germany) |
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Arthur Bliss, Composer, Arranger (England) |
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Waldemar Bloch, Composer (Austria) |
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Robert Blum, Composer (Switzerland) |
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Heinrich August Blume, Bach's Pupil (Saxony, Germany) |
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Joachim Blume, Composer (Germany) |
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Martin Traugott Wilhelm Blumner, Composer (Germany) |
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Erwin Bodky, Arranger (East Prussia, Germany / USA) |
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Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, Composer (France) |
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Herman Boessenroth, Arranger (USA) |
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Moissaye Boguslawski, Composer, Arranger (USA) |
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Georg Böhm, Composer (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Gottried Böhm, Pastor, Bach's Pupil (Saxony, Germany) |
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Johann Gottfried Böhme, Musician, Tenor, Bach's Pupil (Saxony, Germany) |
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Arrigo Boito, Poet, Composer (Italy) |
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Otto Bolm, Arranger (Germany) |
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Mario di Bonaventura, Arranger (USA) |
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Ulrich Bogislaus von Bonin, Poet (Pomerania, Prussia, Germany) |
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Hermann Bonnus, Hymn-Writer (Lower Saxony, Germany) |
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Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Composer (Italy) |
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Jan (Johan) Van Boom, Composer, Arranger (The Netherlands / Sweden) |
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Colin Booth, Arranger (England) |
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Helmut Bornefeld, Composer (Germany) |
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Jeremiah Bornfield, Composer (USA) |
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Siegfried Borris, Composer (Germany) |
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Leonard Borwick, Arranger (England) |
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Marco Enrico Bossi, Composer (Italy) |
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Johann Gottfried Böttger, Schoolmaster, Bach's Pupil (Saxony, Germany) |
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Nadia Boulanger, Composer (France) |
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Pierre Boulez, Composer (France) |
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Hendrik Bouman, Composer (The Netherlands) |
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Louis Bourgeois, Composer (France) |
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Ivan Bounikoff, Composer, Arranger (Russia) |
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Guy Bovet, Composer (Switzerland) |
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Jeanne Bovet, Arranger (Switzerland) |
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Rayner Brown, Composer, Arranger (USA) |
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York Bowen, Composer, Arranger (England) |
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Heinrich Abraham von Boyneburg, Various offices at the court, Bach's Pupil (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Mario Braggiotti, Composer, Arranger (Italy) |
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Johannes Brahms, Composer (Germany) |
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Luise Henriette von Brandenburg, Hymn-Writer (The Netherlands / Brandenburg, Germany) |
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Markgraf Albrecht von Brandenburg, Hymn-Writer (Brandenburg, Germany) |
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Henry Brant, Composer, Arranger (Canada / USA) |
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Johannes Brassart, Composer (Burgundia) |
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Louis Brassin, Composer, Arranger (Belgium) |
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Alexander Braudo, Arranger (Russia) |
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Peter Michael Braun, Composer (Germany) |
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Johann Friedrich Braun, Doctor of Medicine, Bach's Pupil (Germany) |
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Johann Friedrich Braune, Bach's Pupil (Germany) |
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Walter Braunfels, Composer, Arranger (Hesse, Germany) |
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Friedrich Nicolaus Brauns, Composer (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany) |
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Volker Bräutigam, Composer (Germany) |
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Reiner Bredemeyer, Composer (Colombia / Germany) |
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Hans Brehme, Composer (Germany) |
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Peter Breiner, Composer, Arranger (Czechoslovakia) |
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Georg Friedrich Breithaupt, Hymn-Writer (Thuringia, Germany) [Missing Biography] |
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Rudolf Breithaupt, Arranger (Lower Saxony, Germany) |
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Franz-Josef Breuer, Composer (Germany) |
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Heribert Breuer, Composer, Arranger (Germany) |
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Alfred Herbert Brewer, Composer (England) |
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George MacKenzie Brewer, Composer, Arranger (Canada) |
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Frank Bridge, Composer, Arranger (England) |
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David Briggs, Composer, Arranger (England) |
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John Brimhall, Arranger (USA) |
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Arthur Briskier, Arranger (USA) [Missing Biography] |
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George F. Bristow, Composer, Arranger (USA) |
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Benjamin Britten, Composer (England) |
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Barthold Heinrich Brockes, Librettist (Germany) |
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Georg Bronner, Composer (Hamburg, Germany) |
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Richard Brooks, Composer (USA) |
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Grover Ackley Brower, Composer, Arranger (USA) |
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Francis James Brown > Joseph James, Composer, Arranger (USA) |
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Robert J. Brownlow, Composer, Arranger (USA) |
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Chris Brubeck, Composer, Arranger (USA) |
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Dave Brubeck, Composer (USA) |
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Rudolf Bruči, Composer (Yugoslavia) |
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Arnold von Bruck, Composer (Lower Austria) |
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Ferdinand Bruckmann, Composer, Arranger (Germany) |
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Johannes Bruckner, Thomaskantor (Country ?) |
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Nicolaus Bruhns, Composer (Silesia, Germany) |
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Adolf Brunner, Composer (Switzerland) |
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Christian Brunnmann (pseudonym for Martin Hanke), Composer (Counter ?) [Missing Biography] |
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Karl Debrois van Bruyck, Composer, Arranger (Upper Palatinate, Germany) [Missing Biography] |
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Johann Rudolf Buddensieg, Pastor, Bach's Pupil (Saxony, Germany) |
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Constantin Bugeanu, Composer, Arranger (Romania) |
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Richard Buhlig, Arranger (USA) |
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Hans von Bülow, Composer, Arranger (Saxony, Germany) |
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Stanislav Bunin, Arranger (Russia) |
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Carl Burchard, Arranger (Hamburg, Germany) [Missing Biography] |
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Franz Burchart, Hymn-Writer (Thurinigia, Germany) |
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Joachim a Burck, Hymn-Writer, Composer (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany) |
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John Burke, Composer (Canada) |
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Samuel Burckhard, Bach's Pupil (Germany) |
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Willy Burkhard, Composer (Switzerland) |
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Franz Joachim Burmeister, Hymn-Writer (Lower Saxony, Germany) |
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Richard Burmeister, Composer, Arranger (Germany) |
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Ferruccio Busoni, Composer (Italy) |
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Crato Bütner, Composer (Germany) |
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Max Butting, Composer (Germany) |
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Johann Heinrich Buttstett, Composer (Thuringia, Germany) |
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Dietrich Buxtehude, Composer (Schlezwig-Holstein, Germany) |
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Jean-Paul Byloo, Composer (Belgium) |
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Prepared by Aryeh Oron (May 2003 - June 2025) |
