Alban Berg

Alban Berg

Alban Maria Johannes Berg (February 9, 1885 – December 24, 1935) was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School and produced compositions that combined Mahlerian Roma ... [1885-1935] More info
Lord Berners

Lord Berners

Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners (18 September 1883 – 19 April 1950), also known as Gerald Tyrwhitt, was a British composer of classical music, novelist, painter and aesthete. ... [1883-1950] More info
Boris Blacher

Boris Blacher


Boris Blacher was born on 19 January 1903 in Niutschuang, Manchuria, where his Russo-Asian-Estonian father worked for a bank; his mother was German. The family moved to the Siberian city ... [1903-1975] More info
Marc Blitzstein

Marc Blitzstein

Marc Blitzstein was born in Philadelphia on March 2, 1905, the son of affluent parents. His musical gifts were apparent at an early age; he had performed a Mozart Piano Concerto by the time he ... [1905-1964] More info
Paul Bowles

Paul Bowles

Paul Frederic Bowles (Jamaica, NY, 1910 - Tangier, Marocco, 1999), composer and writer.
In the late 1920s and early 30s he studied with Aaron Copland, Virgil Thompson (New York) and Nadia Boulang ... [1910-1999] More info
Max Brand

Max Brand

Max Brand was born in 1896 in Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine) and moved with his parents to Vienna around 1900. After attending several private schools he studied composition with Franz Schreker fr ... [1896-1980] More info
Emil František Burian

Emil František Burian

Emil František Burian (1904-1959) had talents in many directions which went far beyond music. He was active as a stage director, actor, theatre director, writer, publisher, filmmaker and conce ... [1904-1959] More info
Max Butting

Max Butting

Max Butting was the son of an ironmonger and of a piano teacher. He received his first musical instruction from his mother and later from the organist Arnold Dreyer. After attending secondary school ... [1888-1976] More info