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[…]

Carl Heinrich Maria Orff (July 10, 1895 – March 29, 1982) was a German composer, pedagogue, and cultural figure[…]

Carl August Nielsen (June 9, 1865 – October 3, 1931) was Denmark’s most significant classical composer of the late[…]

Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826) stands among the pivotal figures of early Romantic music in Germany. A composer, conductor,[…]

Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (October 9, 1835 – December 16, 1921) was a French composer, pianist, organist, and conductor whose career[…]

Bohuslav Jan Martinů (December 8, 1890 – August 28, 1959) was a prolific Czech composer whose wide-ranging output and[…]