Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868) was the most celebrated Italian opera composer of his generation and one of the central architects[…]

Émile Waldteufel (1837–1915) was France’s pre-eminent composer of salon and ballroom music in the late 19th century, a Parisian[…]

Carlo Gesualdo, the Prince of Venosa, was a man of stark contradictions. A composer of sublime and forward-looking music,[…]

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788) was the most innovative and widely admired composer between the late Baroque and high[…]

Charles-François Gounod (1818–1893) was a French composer whose melodic instinct shaped some of the most enduring works of 19th-century[…]

César Auguste Jean Guillaume Hubert Franck (1822-1890) was a prominent French Romantic composer, organist, pianist, and music teacher of[…]

Cécile Louise Stéphanie Chaminade (1857–1944) was a French composer-pianist whose songs, salon miniatures, and orchestral scores made her an[…]

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804–1857) is widely regarded as the founder of the Russian nationalist school in classical music—the first[…]

Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini (February 19, 1743 – May 28, 1805) was an Italian composer and virtuoso cellist of the[…]

Joseph Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) was one of the most influential French composers of the late 19th and early 20th[…]

Leroy Anderson (June 29, 1908 – May 18, 1975) was a celebrated American composer, pianist, and organist, best known[…]

Reinhold Moritzevich Glière (1875–1956) stands as a pivotal figure in the landscape of Russian and Soviet classical music. Born[…]

Richard Storrs Willis (1819–1900) was an American composer, music critic, and editor best remembered for “Carol,” the tune most[…]

Vítězslav Novák (1870–1949) was a central figure of early-20th-century Czech music: a pupil of Antonín Dvořák, a leading proponent[…]