Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736) compressed a lifetime of invention into just six creative years. Born in Jesi in the Papal States and dead by his[…]

Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868) was the most celebrated Italian opera composer of his generation and one of the central architects of 19th-century bel canto. In a[…]

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

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

César Auguste Jean Guillaume Hubert Franck (1822-1890) was a prominent French Romantic composer, organist, pianist, and music teacher of Belgian birth. His profound influence on[…]

Cécile Louise Stéphanie Chaminade (1857–1944) was a French composer-pianist whose songs, salon miniatures, and orchestral scores made her an international celebrity around 1900. She was[…]

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

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

Reinhold Moritzevich Glière (1875–1956) stands as a pivotal figure in the landscape of Russian and Soviet classical music. Born Reinhold Ernest Glier on January 11,[…]

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