Composition Composers

• Bach, Johann Sebastian
• Bartok, Bela
• Beethoven, Ludwig van
• Berg, Alban
• Berlioz, Hector
• Bernstein, Leonard
• Boccherini, Luigi
• Brahms, Johannes
• Bruckner, Anton
• Buxtehude, Dietrich
• Byrd, William
• Cage, John
• Chopin, Frederic
• Copland, Aaron
• de Falla, Manuel
• Debussy, Claude
• Donizetti, Gaetano
• Dorati, Antal
• Dowland, John
• Dvorak, Antonin
• Enescu, George

• Fauré, Gabriel
• Gershwin, George
• Glass, Philip
• Gounod, Charles
• Grieg, Edvard
• Handel, George Frideric
• Haydn, Joseph
• Hindemith, Paul
• Ives, Charles
• Janacek, Leos
• Khachaturian, Aram
• Kodaly, Zoltan
• Liszt, Franz
• Loewe, Frederick (Fritz)
• Mahler, Gustav
• Mendelssohn, Felix
• Messiaen, Olivier
• Miller, Glenn@
• Monteverdi, Claudio
• Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
• Nielsen, Carl

• Niles, John Jacob
• Offenbach, Jacques
• Orff, Carl
• Pachelbel, Johann
• Paderewski, Ignacy Jan
• Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da
• Part, Arvo
• Poulenc, Francis
• Prokofiev, Sergei
• Puccini, Giacomo
• Purcell, Henry
• Rachmaninoff, Sergei
• Ravel, Maurice
• Rodrigo, Joaquin
• Rossini, Gioachino
• Satie, Erik
• Scarlatti, Alessandro
• Schoenberg, Arnold
• Schubert, Franz
• Schumann, Robert
• Scriabin, Alexander

• Shostakovich, Dmitry
• Sibelius, Jean
• Smetana, Bedrich
• Sor, Fernando
• Sousa, John Philip
• Stockhausen, Karlheinz
• Strauss Family
• Strauss, Richard
• Stravinsky, Igor
• Tallis, Thomas
• Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich
• Telemann, Georg Philipp
• Verdi, Giuseppe
• Villa-Lobos, Heitor
• Vivaldi, Antonio
• Wagner, Richard
• Webern, Anton
• Weill, Kurt

• Baroque Period
• Classical Period
• Modern
• Renaissance Period
• Romantic Period

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• Boosey and Hawkes  - Music publisher; provides profiles, discographies, and audio visual samples of a very wide range of composers.
• Classical Composers Database  - Provides all sorts of information about classical composers, with a searchable database of composers.
• Composer Master Index  - Provides information about composers' lives and works, with lists of recommended recordings; organized alphabetically and chronologically.
• Composers of African Descent  - Lists of Africans, African Americans, Afro-European, and other African descent composers.
• Composers-Classical-Music  - Contains a list of composers with their dates and places, searchable from a-z.
• Dr. Estrella’s Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers  - Contains a dictionary of composers with brief biographies and links.
• Essentials of Music  - Provides composer profiles, with a brief overview of periods in the development of classical music, audio samples, and details of recordings.
• Mfiles – Composers  - Contains list of composers of classical and film music, with biographies, reviews, and music files provided.
• Music of Freemasonry  - Dedicated to the history of freemasonry in music. Offers a collection of biographies of composers who were masons, and a guide to their compositions.
• Naxos - Composers  - Offers biographical profiles and samples of all the composers on the Naxos label; organized alphabetically and by period.
• The OREL Foundation  - Provides information about composers whose works and careers were suppressed by the Third Reich, as a resource for research and performance. Includes profiles and a library of resources.
• The Peter Schickele / P.D.Q. Bach Website  - Biography, concert schedule and sound clips of musicologist and radio host Schickele, and works of the fictional composer PDQ Bach, whose works include Concerto for Horn and Hardart, Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice, Fanfare for the Common Cold, and Pervertimento for Bagpipes, Bicycle and Balloons.
• Rameau, Jean-Philippe  - Biographical note, including Rameau's work in Paris, operas, and treatise on harmony.
• Takach, Timothy C  - Professional composer provides biography, details of works and current projects.
• Torres Maldonado, Javier  - Official site with biography, works, texts, pdf scores, recordings, compact discs, interviews, and videos.
• Torres-Santos, Raymond  - Composer, conductor, pianist and arranger, presents biography, catalog of works and photo gallery.