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Composers whose names start with BI.
B.I (rapper)
Kim Han-bin (; born October 22, 1996), known professionally as B.I () is a South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer. He debuted in the South Korean boy band iKon under YG
Read → RenaissanceBiagio Marini
Biagio Marini (5 February 1594 – 20 March 1663) was an Italian virtuoso violinist and composer in the first half of the seventeenth century. Marini was born in Brescia. He may have studied with his
Read → BaroqueBianca Maria Meda
Bianca Maria Meda (c. 1661 – c. 1732) was an Italian nun and Baroque composer. Life Little is known about Bianca Maria Meda's life, but she was a Benedictine nun at the convent of San Martino del
Read → Post-WarBiancamaria Furgeri
Biancamaria Furgeri (born 6 October 1935) is an Italian organist, music educator and composer. Life Biancamaria Fugeri was born in Rovigo, Italy, and studied at the Conservatorio di Padova and in
Read → Post-WarBidzina Kvernadze
Bidzina Kvernadze (), (29 July 1928, Sighnaghi, Georgia, – 8 July 2010, Tbilisi), was a famous Georgian composer. Bidzina was born in Sighnaghi, the Kakheti region of former Soviet Georgia to
Read → 21st CenturyBig George
George Webley (29 May 1957 – 7 May 2011), better known by the stage name Big George, was a British musician, composer, bandleader and broadcaster who has been described as one of Britain's most
Read → Post-WarBijan Khadem-Missagh
Bijan Khadem-Missagh (; born 26 October 1948) is an Austrian violinist, composer and conductor of Iranian descent. He is the founder and was the artistic director of the International Chamber Music
Read → Post-WarBijan Mofid
Bijan Mofid (; May 31, 1935 – November 12, 1984) was an influential Iranian playwright and stage director. His most famous work, Shahr-e Ghesseh, is an allegorical satire written in the form of a
Read → EntryBijan Olia
Bijan Olia is an Iranian-American composer and songwriter based in Los Angeles. Early life and education Olia was born in Boston, Massachusetts to an Iranian father and an Italian-American mother. He
Read → Post-WarBilge Özgen
Bilge Özgen (born in Viranşehir, Turkey in 1935) is a Turkish composer and lyricist. Özgen graduated from Ankara Boys' Senior Technical School of Teaching in 1959. He received his first music
Read → 21st CenturyBill Brown (composer)
Bill Brown IV (born 1969) is an American composer of music for video games, films, and television productions. He is best known for creating the system sounds and tour software music for Microsoft's
Read → Post-WarBill Fontana
Bill Fontana (born April 25, 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio) is known internationally for his pioneering experiments in sound art. Life and career Fontana attended the New School for Social Research in New
Read → Post-WarBill Hopkins (composer)
George William Hopkins (5 June 1943 – 10 March 1981), known as Bill Hopkins, was a British composer. He also published music criticism, mostly under the name G. W. Hopkins. Biography Hopkins was born
Read → Post-WarBill Justis
William Everett Justis Jr. (October 14, 1926 – July 16, 1982) was an American pioneer rock and roll musician, composer, and musical arranger, best known for his 1957 Grammy Hall of Fame song,
Read → Post-WarBill Lee (musician)
William James Edwards Lee III (July 23, 1928 – May 24, 2023) was an American jazz bassist and composer, known for his collaborations with Bob Dylan and Aretha Franklin, his compositions for jazz
Read → EntryBill MacKay
Bill MacKay is an American composer, guitarist and singer based in Chicago. He grew up in Pittsburgh, PA where he studied with guitarists Joe Negri and Eric Susoeff and in Rochester, NY where he
Read → EntryBill Milbrodt
Bill Milbrodt is a composer and creator of the Car Music Project, a band that plays music on instruments made from car parts. The instruments have names like "exhaustaphone", "tank bass", "doorimba",
Read → Post-WarBill Richards (musician)
Bill Richards (28 March 1923 – 28 February 1995) was a Canadian musician. His compositional output includes several film scores, a Flute Quartet (1964), and a number of fiddle tunes. He recorded two
Read → 20th CenturyBill Russell (composer)
William Russell (February 26, 1905 – August 9, 1992) was an American music historian and modernist composer. Named Russell William Wagner at birth, when he decided to become a classical music
Read → 21st CenturyBill Sherman
Bill Sherman is an American composer, producer, arranger, and orchestrator. He is known for his work on In the Heights, Hamilton, and Sesame Street. Sherman is also a member of Team Supreme that
Read → Post-WarBill Whelan
William Michael Joseph Whelan (born 22 May 1950) is an Irish composer and musician. He is best known for composing a piece for the interval of the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest. The result,
Read → Post-WarBilly Burnette
Dorsey William Burnette III (born May 8, 1953, in Memphis, Tennessee, United States) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter who was part of the band Fleetwood Mac from 1987 to 1996.
Read → Post-WarBilly Goldenberg
William Leon Goldenberg (February 10, 1936 – August 3, 2020) was an American composer and songwriter, best known for his work on television and film. Early life Goldenberg was born on February 10,
Read → 20th CenturyBilly Mayerl
William Joseph Mayerl (31 May 1902 – 25 March 1959) was an English pianist and composer who built a career in music hall and musical theatre. Best known for his syncopated novelty piano solos, he
Read → Post-WarBilly Peterson
Billy Peterson (born Willard Peterson in Minnesota) is an American bass player, songwriter, composer, session musician and producer. Peterson, who grew up in a family of professional musicians,
Read → 20th CenturyBilly Strayhorn
William Thomas Strayhorn (November 29, 1915 – May 31, 1967) was an American jazz composer, pianist, lyricist, and arranger who collaborated with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington for nearly
Read → EntryBiographies of Frédéric Chopin
By the first decades of the 21st century, over a hundred biographies of Frédéric Chopin had been published. Full biographies Book-length biographies of Chopin's entire life include: * ** ** * (first
Read → Post-WarBirgitte Alsted
Birgitte Alsted (born 15 June 1942) is a Danish violinist, teacher and composer. Life and career Alsted was born in Odense, and was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and in Warsaw. She
Read → Post-WarBirgitte Grimstad
Birgitte Grimstad (born 15 December 1935) is a Danish-born Norwegian singer, guitarist, composer and writer. Personal life Grimstad was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, the daughter of Aksel Schiøtz and
Read → 21st CenturyBirke J. Bertelsmeier
Birke Jasmin Bertelsmeier (born 23 April 1981) is a German composer. Life Born on 23 April 1981 in Hilden, Bertelsmeier received piano lessons from Barbara Szczepanska and composition lessons from as
Read → ClassicalBishop Simms
Bishop Simms (1767 – 30 January 1829) was an English organist and composer. Background He was born in 1767, the eldest son of John Simms of Staffordshire. Many of his siblings were also musicians in
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