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Index to Short Biographies

This section of the Bach Cantatas Website (BCW) contains short biographies of:
- Hymn-Writers, whose Chorale Texts were used in Bach's Vocal Works
- Librettists, whose texts were used in Bach's Vocal Works
- Composers of Chorale Melodies used in Bach's Vocal Works
- Composers, who used in their compositions Chorale Melodies used in Bach's vocal works
- Composers/Arrangers, who transcribed Bach's works for piano
- Composers, belonging to the Bach Family
- Thomaskantors
If you would like to contribute a biography of a poet/composer noted with
Missing Biography, and/or to expand/correct existing biography, please send it to me in accordance with the guidelines at: How to contribute

 

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Name

Category

Works / Country

Georg Ludwig Agricola

Composer

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Agricola

Hymn-Writer

Saxony, Germany

Johann Friedrich Agricola

Composer

Saxony, Germany

Martin Agricola

Composer, Theorist

Lower Silesia, Germany

Emanuel Abraham Aguilar

Composer, Arranger

England

Johann Rudolf Ahle

Composer

Thuringia, Germany

Joseph Ahrens

Composer

Germany

Olivier Alain

Composer, Arranger

France

Jean-Delphin Alard

Composer, Arranger

France

Eugen d'Albert

Composer, Arranger

Scotland / Germany

Heinrich Albert

Composer, Poet

Saxony, Germany

Johann Friedrich Alberti

Composer

Schleswig, Germany

Erasmus Alberus

Hymn-Writer

Germany

William Albimoor

Composer, Arranger

Belgium

Johann Georg Albinus

Hymn-Writer

Saxony, Germany

Markgraf Albrecht von Brandenburg

Hymn-Writer

Brandenburg, Germany

William Albright

Composer

USA

Charles-Valentin Alkan

Composer, Arranger

France

Johann Christoph Altnikol

Composer

Silesia, Germany

Ambrosius [Ambrose of Milan]

Hymn-Writer

Germany / Italy

Conrad Ansorge

Composer, Arranger

Silesia, Germany

Fernando Aranda

Composer, Arranger

Spain

Paul Arma

Composer, Arranger

Hungary / France

Andreas Armsdorff

Composer

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Arndt

Hymn-Writer

Germany

Gottfried Arnold

Hymn-Writer

Saxony, Germany

Christian Heinrich Aschenbrenner

Composer

Germany

Matthäus Avenarius [Missing Biography]

Hymn-Writer

?

Philipp Avenarius

Composer

Saxony, Germany

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Name

Category

Works / Country

Victor Babin

Arranger

 

Bach Family: Sorted by Name | Sorted by Number | Family Tree | Family History

Anna Magdalena (Wilcken) Bach

J.S. Bach's 2nd wife

Saxony, Germany

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach [46]

Composer

Thuringia, Germany

Caspar Bach [3/56]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Caspar Bach [3/58]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Christoph Bach [5]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Ernst Carl Gottfried Bach [81]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Ernst Christian Bach [82]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Georg Christoph Bach [10]

Composer

Thuringia, Germany

George Michael Bach [74]

Musician

Saxony, Germany

Gottfried Heinrich Bach [48]

Musician

Saxony, Germany

Gottlieb Friedrich Bach [76]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Heinrich Bach [3/62]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Heinrich Bach [6]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Johann(es) [Hans] Bach [2]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Johann(es) Bach [3/59]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Johann(es) [Hans] Bach [4]

Composer

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Bach [67]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Aegidius Bach [8]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Aegidius Bach [36]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Ambrosius Bach [11]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Andreas Bach [44]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Balthasar Bach [71]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Bernhard Bach [18]

Composer

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Bernhard Bach [41]

Composer

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Christian Bach [7]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Christian Bach [32]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Christian Bach [50]

Composer

Saxony, Germany / England

Johann Christian Bach [77]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Christoph Bach [13]

Composer

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Christoph Bach [12]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Christoph Bach [22]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Christoph Bach [17]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Christoph Bach [28]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Christoph Bach [19]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Christoph Bach [26]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Christoph Bach [42]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach [49]

Musician

Saxony, Germany

Johann Christoph Georg Bach [83]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Elias Bach [39]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Ernst Bach [25]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Ernst Bach [34]

Composer

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Friedrich Bach [29]

Composer

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Friedrich Bach [35]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Georg Bach [78]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach [47]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Günther Bach [15]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Günther Bach [33]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Heinrich Bach [43]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Heinrich Bach [53]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Jacob Bach [3/68]

Composer

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Jacob Bach [16]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Jacob Bach [23]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany / Sweden

Johann Lorenz Bach [38]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Ludwig Bach [3/72]

Composer

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Michael Bach [14]

Composer

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Michael Bach [30]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Nicolaus Bach [9]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Nicolaus Bach [27]

Composer

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Philipp Bach [85]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Samuel Bach [31]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Sebastian Bach [24]

Composer

Thuringia, Germany
BWV 315, BWV 345, BWV 384

Johann Stephan Bach [3/70]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Johann Valentin Bach [21]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Lips [Philippus] Bach [65]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Maria Barbara Bach

J.S. Bach's 1st wife

Thuringia, Germany

Melchior Bach [3/60]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Nicolaus Bach [3/61]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Nicolaus Ephraim Bach [73]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Philipp Christian Georg Bach [80]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Samuel Anton Bach [75]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Tobias Friedrich Bach [40]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Tobias Friedrich Bach [79]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Veit Bach [1]

Musician

Thuringia, Germany

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach [45]

Composer

Thuringia, Germany

Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach [84]

Composer

Thuringia, Germany

Sigismund Bachrich

Composer, Arranger

Hungary

Henk Badings

Composer

Java / Holland

Selmar Bagge

Composer, Arranger

Germany

Henry Charles Banister

Composer, Arranger

England

Granville Bantock

Composer, Arranger

England

Hans Barth

Composer, Arranger

Germany

Richard Bartmuß

Composer

Saxony, Germany

Béla Bartók

Composer, Arranger

Hungary

James Bastien

Arranger

USA

Harold Bauer

Arranger

England / USA

Max Georg Baumann

Composer

Germany

Jürg Baur

Composer

Germany

Arnold Bax

Composer, Arranger

England

John Bayless

Composer, Arranger

USA

Albert Becker

Composer

Germany

Carl Ferdinand Becker

Composer, Writer

Saxony, Germany

Cornelius Becker

Hymn-Writer

Saxony, Germany

Gustav Louis Becker

Arranger

USA

Alfred von Beckerath

Composer

Germany

Christopher à Becket-Williams

Composer, Arranger

England

Bram Beekman

Composer

Holland

Martin Behm

Hymn-Writer

Silesia, Germany

Ján Levoslav Bella

Composer

Slovakia

Vladimir Belov

Arranger

Russia

William Sterndale Bennett

Composer, Arranger

England

Ralph Berkowitz

Composer, Arranger

USA

Boris Berlin

Arranger

Russia / Canada

Friedrich Wilhelm Berner

Composer

 

Lord Berners

Arranger

 

Christoph Bernhard

Composer

 

Henri Bertini

Composer, Arranger

 

Maurice Besly

Composer, Arranger

 

Kaspar Bienemann

Hymn-Writer

BWV 73, BWV 156

Peter Billam

Composer, Arranger

 

Anton Bilotti

Composer, Arranger

 

Sigismund von Birken

Hymn-Writer

Bohemia, Germany

Georges Bizet

Composer

 

Arthur Bliss

Composer, Arranger

 

Robert Blum

Composer

 

Martin Traugott Wilhelm Blumner

Composer

 

Erwin Bodky

Arranger

 

Alexandre Pierre François Boëly

Composer

France

Moissaye Boguslawski

Composer, Arranger

 

Georg Böhm

Composer

 

Ulrich Bogislaus von Bonin

Poet

Pomerania, Prussia, Germany

Johan Van Boom

Composer, Arranger

 

Colin Booth

Arranger

 

Helmut Bornefeld

Composer

 

Leonard Borwick

Arranger

 

Louis Bourgeois

Composer

 

Guy Bovet

Composer

 

Jeanne Bovet

Arranger

 

York Bowen

Composer, Arranger

 

Mario Braggiotti

Composer, Arranger

 

Johannes Brahms

Composer

Germany

Johannes Brassart

Composer

 

Louis Brassin

Composer, Arranger

 

Alexander Braudo

Arranger

 

Walter Braunfels

Composer, Arranger

 

Georg Friedrich Breithaupt [Missing Biography]

Hymn-Writer

BWV 492

Rudolf Breithaupt

Arranger

 

Frank Bridge

Composer, Arranger

 

John Brimhall

Arranger

 

Benjamin Britten

Composer

 

Georg Bronner

Composer

 

Arnold von Bruck

Composer

 

Johannes Bruckner

Thomaskantor

 

Nicolaus Bruhns

Composer

 

Adolf Brunner

Composer

 

Christian Brunnmann [Missing Biography]

Hymn-Writer

BWV 435

Karl Debrois van Bruyck [Missing Biography]

Composer, Arranger

 

Constantin Bugeanu

Composer, Arranger

 

Hans von Bülow

Composer, Arranger

 

Carl Burchard [Missing Biography]

Arranger

 

Joachim a Burck

Hymn-Writer, Composer

BWV 309

Willy Burkhard

Composer

 

Franz Joachim Burmeister

Hymn-Writer

BWV 60

Richard Burmeister

Composer, Arranger

 

Ferruccio Busoni

Composer

Italy

Crato Bütner

Composer

 

Johann Heinrich Buttstett

Composer

 

Dietrich Buxtehude

Composer

 

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Name

Category

Works / Country

Sethus Calvisius

Composer, Thomaskantor

BWV 253, BWV 335, BWV 433

Sune Carlsson

Composer, Arranger

 

Roberto Carnevale

Arranger

 

Adam Carse

Composer, Arranger

 

Alphonse Cary [Missing Biography]

Arranger

 

Tristram Cary

Composer, Arranger

 

Alfredo Casella

Composer, Arranger

 

Georgy Catoire

Composer, Arranger

 

Abram Chasins

Arranger

 

Ivan Cherlitski

Composer, Arranger

 

Camille Chevillard

Composer, Arranger

 

Artur Cimirro

Composer, Arranger

 

Johann Christoph Clauder

Librettist

BWV 215

Aldo Clementi

Composer

 

Harriet Cohen

Arranger

 

Johann Georg Conradi

Composer

 

Caspar Copus

Composer

 

Peter Cornelius

Composer

Germany

Alfred Cortot

Arranger

 

Benjamin Costello

Arranger

 

Bartholomäus Crasselius

Hymn-Writer

BWV 452

Harold Craxton

Composer, Arranger

 

Johann Crüger

Hymn-Writer, Composer

Brandenburg, Germany

Edric Cundell

Composer, Arranger

 

Ernesto de Curtis

Composer

Italy

Carl Czerny

Composer, Arranger

 

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Name

Category

Works / Country

Simon Dach

Hymn-Writer

Prussia, Germany

Wolfgang Dachstein

Composer

BWV 267

David Dahl

Composer

 

Harold Darke

Composer, Arranger

 

Johann Nepomuk David

Composer

 

Edward Harold Davies

Arranger

 

Frederick Dawson

Arranger

 

Enrico De Angelis-Valentini

Composer, Arranger

 

Girolamo De Simone

Composer, Arranger

 

Nikolaus Decius

Hymn-Writer, Composer

BWV 401

Constantin Christian Dedekind

Composer

 

Siegfried Wilhelm Dehn

Composer

 

David Del Tredici

Composer

 

Élie-Miriam Delaborde

Composer, Arranger

 

Johann Christoph Demantius

Poet, Composer

BWV 19, BWV 70

David Denicke

Hymn-Writer

BWV 39, BWV 77, BWV 153

Edison Denisov

Composer

 

Emil Dercks

Composer

 

Roger Donald Dickerson

Composer

 

Sixt Dietrich

Composer

 

Johann Dilliger

Composer

 

Hugo Distler

Composer

 

Curt Doebler

Composer

 

Erich Doflein

Arranger

 

Johann Friedrich Doles

Composer, Thomaskantor

 

Josef-Friedrich Doppelbauer

Composer

 

Roy Douglas

Composer, Arranger

 

Felix Draeseke

Composer

 

Adam Drese

Hymn-Writer, Composer

Thuringia, Germany

Wolfgang Christoph Dreßler

Poet

Bavaria, Germany

Anatoly Drozdov

Composer, Arranger

 

Andreas Düben

Composer

 

Théodore Dubois

Composer, Arranger

 

François-René Duchâble

Arranger

 

Benedictus Ducis

Composer

 

Guillaume Dufay

Composer

 

Henri Duparc

Composer, Arranger

 

Auguste Dupont

Composer, Arranger

 

Marcel Dupré

Composer

 

Maurice Duruflé

Composer, Arranger

 

Henri Dutilleux

Composer

 

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Name

Category

Works / Country

Johann Georg Ebeling

Composer, Hymn-Writer

BWV 422

Paul Eber

Hymn-Writer

BWV 16, BWV 28, BWV 127, BWV 130, BWV 431, BWV 432

Daniel Eberlin

Composer

 

Jakob Ebert

Hymn-Writer

BWV 67, BWV 116, BWV 143

Johann Eccard

Hymn-Writer, Composer

Thuringia, Germany

Helmut Eder

Composer

 

Richard Edwards

Composer

 

Heinrich Elmenhorst

Poet

Mecklenburg, Germany

Robert Hall Elmore

Composer

India / USA

Walter Emery

Arranger

 

Lehman Engel

Composer, Arranger

 

Johann Balthasar Erben

Composer

 

Daniel Erich

Composer

 

Gunnar Eriksson

Composer, Arranger

Sweden

Erhart Ermatinger

Composer

 

Hermann Erpf

Composer, Arranger

 

John Erskine

Arranger

 

Caspar Ett

Composer

 

Jacob van Eyck

Composer

 

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Name

Category

Works / Country

Heinrich Faber

Composer, Music Theorist

 

Jakob Fabricius

Hymn-Writer

BWV 42

Werner Fabricius

Composer

 

Immanuel Gottlob Friedrich Faißt

Composer

 

Johann Friedrich Fasch

Composer

 

Reinhard Febel

Composer, Arranger

 

Samuel Feinberg

Composer, Arranger

 

William Felton

Composer, Arranger

 

Eugenio Fels

Composer, Arranger

 

Mario Feninger

Composer, Arranger

 

Howard Ferguson

Composer, Arranger

 

Kurt Fiebig

Composer

 

Wolfgang Figulus

Composer, Thomaskantor

 

Heinrich Finck

Composer

 

Hermann Finck

Composer

 

Fidelio Fritz Finke

Composer

 

Sergio Fiorentino

Arranger

 

Edwin Fischer

Arranger

 

Josef Fischhof [Missing Biography]

Composer, Arranger

 

Paul Fleming

Hymn-Writer

BWV 13, BWV 44, BWV 97

Johannes Flittner [Missing Biography]

Hymn-Writer, Composer

Germany

Christian Flor

Composer

 

Gustav Flügel [Missing Biography]

Composer

 

Bruno Fontaine [Missing Biography]

Composer, Arranger

 

Arthur Foote

Composer, Arranger

 

Theophil Forchhammer

Composer

 

Georg Forster

Hymn-Writer, Composer

BWV 392, BWV 393, BWV 394, BWV 395

Cecil Forsyth

Composer, Arranger

 

Johann Philipp Förtsch

Composer

 

Wolfgang Förtsch [Missing Biography]

Composer

 

Hubert Foss

Composer, Arranger

 

Arnold Foster

Composer, Arranger

 

Johann Franck

Hymn-Writer

Brandenburg, Germany

Johann Wolfgang Franck

Composer

 

Melchior Franck

Composer

 

Michael Franck

Poet, Composer

Thuringia, Germany

Salomo Franck

Librettist

BWV 12 (?), BWV 21 (?), BWV 31, BWV 67 (?), BWV 70 (adapted), BWV 70a, BWV 72, BWV 80, BWV 80a, BWV 132, BWV 147, BWV 147a, BWV 152, BWV 155, BWV 158 (?), BWV 161, BWV 162, BWV 163, BWV 164, BWV 165, BWV 168, BWV 172 (?), BWV 182 (?), BWV 185, BWV 186 (adapted), BWV 186a, BWV 208

Friedrich Wilhelm Franke

Composer

 

Robert Franz

Composer, Arranger

 

Isadore Freed

Composer, Arranger

 

Johann Balthasar Christian Freißlich

Composer

 

Cornelius Freundt (Bonamicus)

Composer

 

Emil Frey

Composer, Arranger

 

Walter Frey

Arranger

 

Johann Anastasius Freylinghausen

Composer

 

Johann Burchard Freystein

Hymn-Writer

BWV 115

Ignaz Friedman

Composer, Arranger

 

Rudolph Friedrich von Schultt

Poet

BWV 506

Julia Patientia von Schultt

Poet

BWV 507

James Friskin

Arranger

 

Ahasverus Fritsch

Poet, Composer

BWV 57, BWV 123, BWV 398, BWV 399, BWV 485

Herbert Fryer

Composer, Arranger

 

Kaspar Füger

Hymn-Writer

BWV 40, BWV 110

Anis Fuleihan

Composer, Arranger

 

Luca Fumagalli

Composer, Arranger

 

Friedrich Funcke

Composer

 

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Name

Category

Works / Country

Herbert Gadsch [Missing Biography]

Composer

 

Johannes Galliculus

Composer, Thomaskantor

 

Gottfried Galston

Arranger

 

Rudolph Ganz

Composer, Arranger

 

Lucien Garban

Arranger

 

Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi

Composer

Italy

Severus Gastorius

Composer

 

Henry Geehl

Composer, Arranger

 

Christian Geist

Composer

 

Paul Gerhardt

Hymn-Writer

Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Justus Gesenius

Hymn-Writer

BWV 77

Bartholomäus Gesius [Gesaius]

Hymn-Writer, Composer

BWV 272, BWV 287, BWV 342, BWV 414

Frédéric Gevers

Arranger

 

Johannes Gigas

Hymn-Writer

BWV 114

William Gillock

Composer, Arranger

 

Pater S. J. Jakob Gippenbusch

Composer

 

Leopold Godowsky

Composer, Arranger

 

Franzpeter Goebels

Arranger

 

Alexander Goedicke

Composer, Arranger

 

Walter Goehr

Composer, Arranger

 

William B. Goldberg

Composer, Arranger

 

Boris Goldovsky

Arranger

 

Aynsley Eugène Goossens

Composer, Arranger

 

Alexander Wilhelm Gottschalg

Composer, Arranger

 

Johann Christoph Gottsched

Librettist

BWV 198, BWV Anh 13, BWV Anh 196

Ludwig Götze

Thomaskantor

 

Charles Gounod

Composer, Arranger

 

Hermann Grabner

Composer

 

Wolfgang Graeser

Composer, Arranger

 

Percy Grainger

Composer, Arranger

 

Johann Gramann (Poliander)

Hymn-Writer

BWV 17, BWV 28, BWV 29, BWV 51, BWV 167, BWV 225, BWV 231

Enrique Granados

Composer, Arranger

 

Carl Heinrich Graun

Composer

 

Christoph Graupner

Composer

 

Matthias Greiter

Composer

 

August Eduard Grell

Composer

 

Charles Tomlinson Griffes

Composer

 

Nathanael Gottfried Gruner

Composer

 

Friedrich Grützmacher

Composer, Arranger

 

Georg Grünwald

Hymn-Writer

BWV 86

Alexandre Guilmant

Organ

France

Adam Gumpelzhaimer

Composer

 

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Name

Category

Works / Country

Michael Habermann

Composer, Arranger

 

Konrad Hagius (von Hagen)

Composer

 

Paul Hallmann

Composer

 

Iain Hamilton

Composer, Arranger

 

Andreas Hammerschmidt

Composer, Hymn-Writer

BWV 380

Johann Nicolaus Hanff

Composer

 

Ilmari Hannikainen

Composer, Arranger

 

Sten Hanson

Composer

 

Johann Gottlob Harrer

Composer, Thomaskantor

 

Roy Harris

Composer, Arranger

 

William Henry Harris

Composer, Arranger

 

Johannes Hartung [Missing Biography]

Composer

 

Nikolaus Hasse

Composer

 

Peter Hasse

Composer

 

Hans Leo Hassler

Composer

 

Carl August Haupt

Composer

Silesia, Germany

Christian Friedrich Haupt [Missing Biography]

Librettist

BWV Anh 9

Moritz Hauptmann

Composer, Thomaskantor

 

Michael Haydn

Composer

 

Johann Heermann

Hymn-Writer

BWV 5, BWV 13, BWV 24, BWV 25, BWV 45, BWV 71, BWV 89, BWV 102, BWV 107, BWV 136, BWV 148, BWV 156, BWV 163, BWV 194, BWV 199

Melchior Heger

Thomaskantor

 

Peter Heilbut

Composer, Arranger

 

Anton Heiller

Composer

 

Johann Michael Heineccius

Librettist

BWV 63 (?)

Wolff Heintz

Composer

 

Johann Friedrich Helbig

Librettist

BWV 47, BWV 141

Lupus [Wulfaert] Hellinck

Composer

 

Christoph Helm

Librettist

BWV 17, BWV 39, BWV 43, BWV 45, BWV 88, BWV 102, BWV 187 [all suggested by Walther Blankenburg]

Ludwig Helmbold

Hymn-Writer, Composer

BWV 73, BWV 79, BWV 165, BWV 186a

Christian Friedrich Henrici (Picander)

Librettist

BWV 19 (after him), BWV 30 (?), BWV 36 (?), BWV 30a (?), BWV 36a, BWV 36b (?), BWV 36c (?), BWV 84 (?), BWV 101 (?), BWV 120b, BWV 127 (?), BWV 145, BWV 148 (after him), BWV 149, BWV 156, BWV 157, BWV 159, BWV 171, BWV 174, BWV 188, BWV 190 (?), BWV 190a, BWV 193a, BWV 197a, BWV 201, BWV 205, BWV 205a (?), BWV 206 (?), BWV 207 (?), BWV 207a (?), BWV 211, BWV 212, BWV 213, BWV 216, BWV 216a (?), BWV 244, BWV 244a, BWV 247, BWV 248 (?), BWV 249 (?), BWV 249a, BWV 249b, BWV Anh 2 (?), BWV Anh 3, BWV Anh 4, BWV Anh 7 (?), BWV Anh 10, BWV Anh 11, BWV Anh 12, BWV Anh 190

Valerius Herberger

Hymn-Writer

BWV 95

Johann Andreas Herbst

Composer

 

Johannes Hermann

Hymn-Writer, Thomaskantor

BWV 41, BWV 171, BWV 190, BWV 362

Nikolaus Herman

Hymn-Writer, Composer

BWV 31, BWV 67, BWV 95, BWV 151, BWV 266, BWV 375, BWV 376

Johann Daniel Herrnschmidt

Hymn-Writer

Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Philippe Hersant

Composer

 

Heinrich von Herzogenberg

Composer

 

Myra Hess

Arranger

 

Kurt Hessenberg

Composer

 

Johannes Heugel

Composer

 

Angela Hewitt

Arranger

 

Ulrich Hildebrandt [Missing Biography]

Composer

 

Johann Adam Hiller

Composer, Thomaskantor

 

Ewaldt Hintz

Composer

 

Jacob Hintze

Composer

Germany

Johann Hintze

 

BWV 262

John Karl Hirten

Composer

 

Caesar Hochstetter

Arranger

 

Alun Hoddinott

Composer

 

Paul Höffer

Composer

 

Richard Hoffman

Composer, Arranger

 

Balthasar Hoffmann

Librettist

BWV Anh 16

Georg Melchior Hoffmann

Composer

BWV 53, BWV 189

Lee Hoiby

Composer, Arranger

 

Christian Janszon Hollander

Composer

 

Karl Höller

Composer

Germany

Robin Holloway

Composer, Arranger

 

Ernst Christoph Homburg [Hamburg]

Hymn-Writer

Thuringia, Germany

Gottfried August Homilius

Composer

Saxony, Germany

Arthur Honegger

Composer

 

Johann Kaspar Horn

Composer

BWV 347, BWV 348

Mary Howe

Composer, Arranger

 

Herbert Howells

Composer, Arranger

Konrad Hubert

Hymn-Writer

BWV 33

Edwin Hughes

Arranger

 

Walden Hughes

Composer, Arranger

 

Anne Hull

Composer, Arranger

 

Engelbert Humperdinck

Composer, Arranger

 

Hans Humpert

Composer

 

Christian Friedrich Hunold

Librettist

BWV 66a, BWV 134a, BWV 193a (Early version?), BWV 204, BWV Anh 5, BWV Anh 6, BWV Anh 7

Peter Hurford

Composer

 

Heinrich Husmann

Arranger

 

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Name

Category

Works / Country

John Ireland

Composer, Arranger

 

Heinrich Isaac

Composer

 

J A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Name

Category

Works / Country

Benjamin Jacob

Composer, Arranger

 

Maurice Jacobson

Composer, Arranger

 

Salomon Jadassohn

Composer, Arranger

 

Martin Jahn

Hymn-Writer

BWV 147, BWV 154

Clément Janequin

Composer

France

Johan Jeep

Composer

 

Hans Jelmoli

Composer, Arranger

 

Thomas Johnson

Composer, Arranger

 

Sybolt de Jong

Composer, Arranger

 

Josef Jonsson

Composer, Arranger

 

Rafael Joseffy

Composer, Arranger