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[…]

Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized May 15, 1567 — November 29, 1643) stands among the pivotal figures who bridged[…]

Achille-Claude Debussy (August 22, 1862 – March 25, 1918) was a French composer whose innovations in harmony, timbre, form,[…]

Clara Schumann (née Clara Josephine Wieck) occupies a singular place in 19th-century music history: a world-class concert pianist who[…]

Christoph Willibald Gluck (July 2, 1714–November 15, 1787) stands among the most consequential figures in 18th-century music—not because he[…]

Charles-Marie Widor (1844–1937) stands as one of the defining figures of the French organ tradition in the late nineteenth[…]

Charles-Valentin Alkan (born Charles-Henri-Valentin Morhange; November 30, 1813 – March 29, 1888) was a French composer and virtuoso pianist[…]

Charles-François Gounod (June 17, 1818 – October 18, 1893) was one of the most influential French composers of the[…]

César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck stands as one of the most influential figures in late nineteenth-century French music. Though born in present-day[…]

Cécile Louise Stéphanie Chaminade (August 8, 1857 – April 1944) was a French pianist and composer who achieved remarkable[…]

Carlo Gesualdo, prince of Venosa and count of Conza (c. 1566–1613), occupies a singular place in music history: a[…]

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (March 8, 1714 – December 14, 1788) was one of the most influential composers of[…]