Tag: Biography
Benjamin Britten Benjamin Britten (1913-76), British composer. He studied music under the composer Frank Bridge and later at the Royal College of Music, London. In the 1930s Britten wrote …
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (1906-82), Soviet statesman. A qualified land surveyor and metallurgist, he served as a political officer in the Red Army during World War II. …
Bertolt Brecht Bertolt Brecht(1898-1956), German dramatist and poet; He served in the Medical Corps in World War I but later abandoned medicine for the theater. The play Drums in …
Marlon Brando Marlon Brando (1924), US film actor. His career began in the theatre, where he was an outstanding success as the violent Stanley Kowalsky in Tennessee Williams’s A …
Constantin Brancusi Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957), Romanian abstract sculptor. Born into a peasant family, he learnt the craft of woodcarving before beginning formal studies in sculpture. From 1904 he lived …
Louis Braille Louis Braille (1809-52), French teacher of the blind and inventor of the Braille alphabet. Braille blinded himself with a knife at the age of three while cutting …
Johannes Brahms Johannes Brahms (1833-97). German composer. He came from a poor family and was working as a music teacher when he met the Hungarian violinist Eduard Remenyi and …
Tycho Brahe Tycho Brahe (1546-1601). Danish astronomer. Brahe developed a passionate interest in astronomy after witnessing the total eclipse of the sun on 25 August 1560. His own observations …
