Paul Abraham Dukas was a French composer, critic, and teacher whose career bridged the Romantic and early modern periods of Western classical music. Although he[…]

Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai was one of the most intriguing figures in early Romantic music. Known primarily for his comic opera The Merry Wives of[…]

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (March 21, 1839 – March 28, 1881) was a Russian composer whose music, marked by bold originality and a powerful sympathy for[…]

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (May 21 [June 1, New Style], 1804 – February 3 [February 15], 1857) is widely regarded as the founder of Russian national[…]

Marin Marais (1656–1728) stands among the most celebrated figures of the French Baroque. A virtuoso of the viola da gamba and a prolific composer, Marais[…]

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–February 24, 1704) stands among the most accomplished and versatile French composers of the late 17th century. Working in a period dominated by[…]

Luigi Cherubini (born Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini; 1760–1842) was an Italian-born composer who spent most of his professional life in France and whose[…]

Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini (February 19, 1743 – May 28, 1805) was an Italian composer and cellist whose graceful, melodically rich music epitomizes the lighter, courtly[…]

Ludwig (often called Louis) Spohr (April 5, 1784 – October 22, 1859) was a German violinist, conductor, teacher, and composer whose career bridged the Classical[…]

Lester Albert Trimble (August 29, 1923 – December 31, 1986) was an American composer, critic, teacher, and arts administrator whose career bridged creative composition and[…]