Erik Satie was one of the most original and influential composers in the history of Western music. Born in[…]

Emmanuel Chabrier was one of the most original and influential French composers of the Romantic era. Although he achieved[…]

Émile Waldteufel was one of the most celebrated composers of dance music in nineteenth-century Europe. Best remembered today for[…]

Edward Elgar was one of the most important composers in British musical history. Born during the Victorian era and[…]

Edvard Grieg stands among the most celebrated composers of the Romantic era and remains Norway’s most internationally recognized musical[…]

Édouard Lalo was one of the most distinctive voices of nineteenth-century French music. Although he achieved widespread recognition relatively[…]

Duarte Lobo (Latinized as Eduardus Lupus) was a leading Portuguese composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras.[…]

Domenico Zipoli (born in Prato, Tuscany, in 1688; died Córdoba, 1726) was an Italian Baroque composer, organist, and Jesuit[…]

Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (October 26, 1685 – July 23, 1757) was an Italian-born composer and keyboard virtuoso whose experiments[…]

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (September 25, 1906 – August 9, 1975) was one of the most influential and complex composers[…]

Dietrich Buxtehude (also spelled Dieterich; c. 1637–May 9, 1707) was one of the most important figures of North German[…]

Darius Milhaud (born September 4, 1892; died June 22, 1974) was a French composer, conductor, and teacher whose vast[…]

Cyril Meir Scott (27 September 1879 – 31 December 1970) was an English composer, pianist, writer and poet whose[…]

Conradin Kreutzer (also spelled Kreuzer) was a German composer, conductor, and kapellmeister active in the first half of the[…]