Tag: Biography
Aubrey Beardsley Aubrey Beardsley, (1872-98), British illustrator. His, stylized black and white drawings, which were influenced by Japanese painting, are typical of the Art Nouveau style. His use of …
Charles Baudelaire Charles Baudelaire, (1821-67), French poet. He be-came addicted to hashish and opium in his youth and contracted the syphilis of which he eventually died. In 1842 he …
Count Basie Count Basie, real name William Basie (1904-1984). Black US jazz bandleader. He studied the piano as a child and joined Bennie Moten’s big band in the …
Bela Bartok Bela Bartok (1881-1945). Hungarian composer and pianist. Having first appeared in public at the age of ten, he became a concert pianist as a young man. …
James Matthew Barrie James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937). Scottish dramatist and novelist. He is best known for the children’s fairy-tale play Peter Pan (1904), which developed from a series …
Dr Thomas John Barnardo Dr Thomas John Barnardo (1845-1905). British philanthropist. He studied medicine in London and founded the first ‘Dr Barnardo’s Home’ for destitute children in Stepney …
Christiaan Barnard Christiaan Barnard (1922). South African surgeon. After much practical research into heart surgery at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, he performed the first human …
Daniel Barenboim Daniel Barenboim (1942- ). Israeli pianist and conductor. Barenboim was born in Argentina and studied in Salzburg, Paris, and Rome. He made his debut at the …
