List of American Composers - B

B

• Milton Babbitt (1916–2011)
• Burt Bacharach (born 1928)
• Ernst Bacon (1898–1990)
• David Baker (born 1931)
• Robert Baksa (born 1938)
• Leonardo Balada (born 1933)
• George Barati (1913–1996)
• Samuel Barber (1910–1981)
• Wayne Barlow (1912–1996)
• Matthew Barnson (born 1979)
• Marion Bauer (1882–1955)
• Amy Beach (1867–1944)
• Robert Beadell (1925–1994)
• Robert Beaser (born 1954)
• Jeremy Beck (born 1960)
• Johann H. Beck (1856–1924)
• John J. Becker (1886–1961)
• René-Louis Becker (1882–1956)
• Jack Beeson (1921–2010)
• Supply Belcher (1751–1836)
• Robert Russell Bennett (1894–1981)
• Arthur Berger (1912–2003)
• Jonathan Berger (born 1954)
• William Bergsma (1921–1994)
• Irving Berlin (1888–1989)
• Derek Bermel (born 1967)
• Elmer Bernstein (1922–2004)
• Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990)
• William Billings (1746–1800)
• Phillip Bimstein (born 1947)
• Seth Bingham (1882–1972)
• Arthur H. Bird (1856–1923)
• Easley Blackwood, Jr. (born 1933)
• Eubie Blake (1883–1983)
• William Burdine Blake, Sr. (1852–1938)
• Marc Blitzstein (1905–1964)
• Ernest Bloch (1880–1959)
• Dušan Bogdanović (born 1955)
• William Bolcom (born 1938)
• Margaret Bonds (1913–1972)
• Francis Boott (1813–1904)
• David Borden (born 1938)
• Benjamin Boretz (born 1934)
• Paul Bowles (1910–1999)
• Henry Brant (1913–2008)
• Joseph Carl Breil (1870–1926)
• Roger Briggs (born 1952)
• George Frederick Bristow (1825–1898)
• Howard Brockway (1870–1951)
• Earle Brown (1926–2002)
• Dave Brubeck (born 1920)
• George Brunner (born 1951)
• Mark Bucci (1924–2002)
• Dudley Buck (1839–1909)
• Harold Budd (born 1936)
• Frederick Field Bullard (1864–1904)
• Cecil Burleigh (1885–1980)
• Harry Burleigh (1866–1949)

• Howard J. Buss (1951-)