Topics: Musicians : Composers
Musical composers, more usually of "classical" music, belong here.
Bach, Johann Sebastian
This category lists pages and sites about the German composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). He helped define the Baroque period and is possibly the greatest master of musical counterpoint who ever lived.
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Bizet, Georges Alexandre César Léopold
This category lists pages and sites about the Romantic composer Georges Bizet (1838-1875). Known best for his operas, including Carmen, he also wrote symphonic and incidental music, overtures, and works for piano and voice.
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Borodin, Aleksandr Porfir'yevich
This category lists pages and sites about the Russian composer Aleksandr Porfir'yevich Borodin (1833-87) who was also a chemist and physician.
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Brahms, Johannes
This category lists pages and sites about the German Romantic composer Johannes Brahms who was born in Hamburg in 1833 and died in Vienna, Austria in 1897.
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Chopin, Frederic
This category lists pages and sites about the Romantic period composer Frederic (Fryderyk) Francois Chopin, who was born in 1810 in Poland and died in 1849 in France, where he spent much of his adult life.
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Classical
The word 'classical' really has two meanings: firstly, it is used when music is described as belonging to one of two broad categories, for example 'pop' and 'classical'.
Beethoven, Ludwig van,
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus,
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Corelli, Arcangelo
This category lists pages and sites about the Italian Baroque composer and violinist Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713).
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Donizetti, Domenico Gaetano Maria
This category lists pages and sites about the Italian Romantic composer Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) who wrote chamber, piano, and church music as well as various songs.
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Early
Music composed before approximately 1500 is often called 'Medieval' music. After this, during the 16th Century, there became a great interest in learning and culture, and it was an age of exploration and discovery.
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Elgar, Edward, Sir
This category lists pages and sites about the English late Romantic composer Edward Elgar who was born in 1857 and died in 1934.
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Ellington, Duke
This category lists pages and sites about the Jazz and orchestral composer and pianist Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (1899-1974) who is among the most admired and influential musicians and composers in the history of American music.
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Gershwin, George
This category lists pages and sites about George Gershwin (1898 - 1937), born in New York to Russian-Jewish parents.
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Handel, George Frederic
This category lists pages and sites about the British composer George Frederic Handel (Georg Friedrich Händel, 1685-1759) who was born in Germany, studied in Italy, and moved to England in 1710, where he stayed for the rest of his life.
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Haydn, Franz Joseph
This category lists pages and sites about Austrian composer Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809). Popularly known as the "Father of the Symphony" much of his life was spent in the service of the Esterházy princes; his many instrumental and sacred works are considered the foundation of the Viennese school of composition.
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Holst, Gustavus Theodore
This category lists pages and sites about the composer Gustav Holst (1874-1934) who was born, lived and died in England.
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Liszt, Franz Joseph
This category lists pages and sites about Ferencz Liszt, born in Raiding, Hungary on 22 October, 1811.
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Mahler, Gustav
This category lists pages and sites about the Austrian composer and conductor Gustav Mahler, born into a poor Jewish family in the town of Kaliste in Bohemia.
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Mendelssohn, Felix
This category lists pages and sites about the composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847) who was grandson of Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn.
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Rachmaninov, Sergei Vasilyevich
This category lists pages and sites about Romantic composer Sergei Rachmaninov ("Sergey" and "Rachmaninoff" are common variant spellings), born in Novgorod, Russian in 1873.
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Ravel, Joseph Maurice
This category lists pages and sites about the composer Maurice Ravel who was born in the Basque region of France in 1875.
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Rimsky-Korsakov, Nicolai Andreyevich
This category lists pages and sites about Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, a Russian composer, one of five Russian composers known as The Five, and was later a teacher of harmony and orchestration.
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Romantic
For Classical composers who composed during the Romantic period (1810-1890).
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Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio
This category lists pages and sites about the Italian Romantic period opera composer Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868).
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Schubert, Franz Peter
This category lists pages and sites about Austrian composer Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828). During much of his life, his hundreds of Lieder and song-cycles attracted the most attention, but he also wrote symphonies, theater music, and religious music.
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Schumann, Robert Alexander
This category lists pages and sites about German composer Robert Schumann (1810-1856). He most fully entered the realm of the Romantic period in his piano compositions, while his symphonies more closely followed the dictates of the Classical era.
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Sibelius, Jean
This category lists pages and sites about the Finnish Romantic composer Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) born in Hameenlinna, a small garrison north of Helsinki.
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Strauss, Johann, Jr.
This category lists pages and sites about Strauss, Johann II (b Vienna, 1825; d Vienna, 1899).
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Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilych
This category lists pages and sites about composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) who was the single greatest force in bringing Russian music to the world at large.
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Verdi, Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco
This category lists pages and sites about the composer Giuseppe Verdi, born in La Roncole, Parma, Italy in 1813.
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Vivaldi, Antonio
This category lists pages and sites about the Italian Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi was born in 1648.
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Wagner, Wilhelm Richard
This category lists pages and sites about German composer (Wilhelm) Richard Wagner born in Leipzig in 1813 was the son of a civic clerk, who died soon after the composer's birth.
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Walker, George Theophilus
This category lists pages and sites about the American composer George Theophilus Walker (born June 27, 1922).
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