Sir John Goss (1800–1880) was one of Victorian England’s defining composers for the Anglican church—an organist, teacher, and writer whose music helped shape the sound[…]

Johann Gottfried Walther (September 18, 1684 – March 23, 1748) was a prominent German music theorist, organist, composer, and lexicographer of the Baroque era. He[…]

John Philip Sousa (1854–1932) was the United States’ preeminent bandmaster and the most famous composer of American marches. Dubbed “The March King,” he shaped the[…]

Johann Friedrich Fasch (April 15, 1688 – December 5, 1758) was a German composer, violinist, and Kapellmeister whose music sits at the hinge between the[…]

Carl Joachim Andersen (April 29, 1847 – May 7, 1909) was a Danish flutist, conductor, and composer whose etudes helped define modern flute technique. A[…]

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764) stands as the towering French composer and music theorist of the later Baroque, the figure who revitalized French opera after Lully and[…]

Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632–1687) was the dominant musical force at the court of Louis XIV and the chief architect of the French Baroque style. An Italian-born[…]

Few nineteenth-century composers shaped popular musical theater as decisively as Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880). A German-born French composer, virtuoso cellist, conductor, and theater manager, Offenbach helped[…]

Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) reshaped 20th-century music with an imagination that moved from the raw, rhythm-driven energy of his early Russian ballets to lucid neoclassicism and,[…]

Henry Purcell (c. 1659–1695) is widely regarded as the most important English composer of the later 17th century. Working in London across church, court, and[…]