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[…]

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[…]

Charles-Valentin Alkan (born Charles-Henri-Valentin Morhange; November 30, 1813 – March 29, 1888) was a French composer and virtuoso pianist whose music occupies a singular and[…]

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 Belgium, Franck spent the greater part[…]

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

Arvo Pärt is one of the most influential and recognizable voices in contemporary classical music. His breakthrough development of the “tintinnabuli” technique in the 1970s[…]

Antônio Carlos Gomes (1836–1896) was one of the most celebrated Brazilian classical composers of the nineteenth century and the first from the Americas to achieve[…]

Anton Bruckner stands as one of the most original and visionary symphonic composers of the nineteenth century. His music—marked by monumental structures, spiritual intensity, and[…]

Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (later known as Amy Beach or Mrs. H. H. A. Beach) stands as one of the most important American composers of[…]

Alexander Scriabin stands as one of the most innovative and enigmatic figures in Western classical music. A Russian composer and pianist active during the late[…]