Kenneth J. Alford, born Frederick Joseph Ricketts on February 21, 1881, in Ratcliff, London, is celebrated as one of[…]

Karol Maciej Szymanowski (born October 3, 1882 — died March 29, 1937) stands as one of Poland’s most important[…]

Julius Engelbert Röntgen (1855–1932) stands as a significant, though often overlooked, figure in the annals of classical music. A[…]

Josef Suk (January 4, 1874 – May 29, 1935) was a Czech composer, violinist, and teacher whose music bridged[…]

Sir John Goss (1800–1880) was one of Victorian England’s defining composers for the Anglican church—an organist, teacher, and writer[…]

Johann Gottfried Walther (September 18, 1684 – March 23, 1748) was a prominent German music theorist, organist, composer, and[…]

John Philip Sousa (1854–1932) was the United States’ preeminent bandmaster and the most famous composer of American marches. Dubbed[…]

Johann Friedrich Fasch (April 15, 1688 – December 5, 1758) was a German composer, violinist, and Kapellmeister whose music[…]

Carl Joachim Andersen (April 29, 1847 – May 7, 1909) was a Danish flutist, conductor, and composer whose etudes[…]

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764) stands as the towering French composer and music theorist of the later Baroque, the figure who[…]

Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632–1687) was the dominant musical force at the court of Louis XIV and the chief architect of[…]

Few nineteenth-century composers shaped popular musical theater as decisively as Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880). A German-born French composer, virtuoso cellist,[…]

Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) reshaped 20th-century music with an imagination that moved from the raw, rhythm-driven energy of his early[…]

Henry Purcell (c. 1659–1695) is widely regarded as the most important English composer of the later 17th century. Working[…]