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

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

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

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

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

Conradin Kreutzer (also spelled Kreuzer) was a German composer, conductor, and kapellmeister active in the first half of the nineteenth century. Although his wide-ranging output[…]

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

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

Clara Schumann (née Clara Josephine Wieck) occupies a singular place in 19th-century music history: a world-class concert pianist who helped define the modern piano recital,[…]

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