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Composers & Music History
Composer biographies sourced from Wikipedia — 77 core composers dated and grouped by era, and a long tail of nearly 12,000 more.
- Composers
- 11,988
- Dated & grouped by era
- 77
Composers by era
The core repertoire, dated and grouped. Every name below also has its notable works listed on its own page — and each era links through to every composer of that period in the library.
Medieval3 featured of 88
Renaissance7 featured of 526
Baroque8 featured of 562
Classical3 featured of 501
Early Romantic3 featured of 449
Romantic18 featured of 831
- Alexander Borodin1833–1887
- Anton Bruckner1824–1896
- Antonín Dvořák1841–1904
- Bedrich Smetana1824–1884
- Camille Saint-Saëns1835–1921
- César Franck1822–1890
- Edvard Grieg1843–1907
- Felix Mendelssohn1809–1847
- Franz Liszt1811–1886
- Frédéric Chopin1810–1849
- Giuseppe Verdi1813–1901
- Hector Berlioz1803–1869
- Johannes Brahms1833–1897
- Modest Mussorgsky1839–1881
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov1844–1908
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky1840–1893
- Richard Wagner1813–1883
- Robert Schumann1810–1856
Late Romantic9 featured of 1270
20th Century18 featured of 1875
- Aaron Copland1900–1990
- Alban Berg1885–1935
- Alberto Ginastera1916–1983
- Anton Webern1883–1945
- Arnold Schoenberg1874–1951
- Béla Bartók1881–1945
- Benjamin Britten1913–1976
- Bohuslav Martinů1890–1959
- Charles Ives1874–1954
- Darius Milhaud1892–1974
- Dmitri Shostakovich1906–1975
- Francis Poulenc1899–1963
- George Gershwin1898–1937
- Heitor Villa-Lobos1887–1959
- Igor Stravinsky1882–1971
- Manuel de Falla1876–1946
- Olivier Messiaen1908–1992
- Sergei Prokofiev1891–1953