1. Albèniz Isaac
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... contemporary Spanish music and created a distinctive style by using national rhythms and harmonies. Although he wrote several operas, including a King Arthur to English words, songs and orchestral works, ...

2. Adams, James B.
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Adams, James B. Life James B. Adams was rather obscure, and he wasn’t famous either. He was an English composer, and he is so unknown that no one even knows when he was born. For that ...

3. Addinsell , Richard
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Addinsell , Richard Life English composer chiefly remembered for his Warsaw Concerto composed for the film Dangerous Moonlight (1941) and as accompanist to Joyce Grenfell. Addinsell studied ...

4. Arne, Thomas
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Arne, Thomas Life One of the leading English composers of his time, and also a violinist, Arne wrote a great deal of theatre music, attempting to establish English opera, as well as composing ...

5. Arnold, Samuel
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... the Chapel Royal. He began writing for the stage in 1764, and quickly developed a grand reputation, especially with the English opera "The Maid of the Hill" in 1765. The Maid of the Hill is largely considered ...

6. Bach, Johann Christian
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Composer Bach, Johann Christian Image Life Johann Christian Bach is commonly called the "English Bach", and was the youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach und Magdalene. He was born in Leipzig, ...

7. Bach, Johann Sebastian
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Composer Bach, Johann Sebastian Image Life Johann Sebastian Bach   (father of Carl Philip Emanuel, Johann Christian and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach) was the most significant member of the Bach ...

8. Baker, Kenny
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Composer Baker, Kenny Life Born Withersnea, England, UK, 1 March 1921, influential and highly accomplished English trumpeter and flugelhorn exponent, Baker embraces most jazz styles and is known ...

9. Balakirev, Alexejewich
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... literally "the mighty handful", but better known in English as the Mighty Five, which included César Cui, Mussorgsky, Borodin and Rimsky-Korsakov. Balakirev was the only one of the group to begin as a ...

10. Bantock, Granville
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Bantock, Granville Life Granville Bantock played an important part in the development and promotion of English music, both as a conductor and as a teacher and educational administrator. ...

11. Bax, Arnold
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... charm and power. He occupied an important place in English music during his lifetime. He was knighted in 1937. Works Apart from his piano music, his orchestral tone-poems of Celtic implication, ...

12. Beethoven, Ludwig van
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Beethoven, Ludwig van Image Life The eldest son of a singer in the Kapelle of the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne and grandson of the Archbishop's Kapellmeister. Beethoven settled in ...

13. Bennett, William Sterndale
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Bennett, William Sterndale (1816 - 1875) Image Life English composer who wrote most of his works while he was studying in Leipzig where he became a close friend of Robert Schumann ...

14. Berkeley, Michael
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Berkeley, Michael (b. 1948) Life English composer, son of Lennox Berkeley. He studied composition, singing and piano at the Royal Academy of Music, but it was not until his late twenties, ...

15. Bernstein, Leonard
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... The Age of Anxiety, is based on the work of the English poet W.H. Auden. The Jeremiah Symphony of 1942, with its mezzo-soprano solo, represents a religious vein in Bernstein's music. This was followed, ...

16. Binchois, Gilles de Bins
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

... of the greatest composers of his age, together with the French composer Dufay and the English composer Dunstable. Binchois joined the court of the Duke of Burgundy who had the most lavish private musical ...

17. Birtwistle, Harrison
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Birtwistle, Harrison (b. 1934) Life Born Accrington, 15 July 1934, English composer. He studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music (1952-5), where Davies and Goehr were fellow students, ...

18. Bliss, Arthur
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Bliss, Arthur (1891 - 1975) Life Sir Arthur Bliss, Master of the Queen's Music in Great Britain from 1953 until his death, eventually followed the late romantic tradition of Elgar in English ...

19. Blow, John
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Blow, John (1649 – 1708) Life English composer. He was organist and choirmaster at Westminster Abbey and the Chapel Royal and the teacher of Henry Purcell. He wrote more than 100 anthems ...

20. Boughton, Rutland
(Type: Composer | Section: Composers Biographies)

Composer Boughton, Rutland (1878 - 1960) Life Rutland Boughton was born in Aylesbury on January 23rd, 1878. His father was a grocer, in a small and not very thriving way of business, and there ...