| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Muhal Richard Abrams |
Pianist |
19-Sep-1930 |
|
Levels and Degrees of Light |
| John Adams |
Composer |
15-Feb-1947 |
|
Nixon in China |
| Fred E. Ahlert |
Composer |
19-Sep-1892 |
20-Oct-1953 |
I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter |
| Isaac Albéniz |
Composer |
29-May-1860 |
18-May-1909 |
Iberia |
| Tomaso Albinoni |
Composer |
8-Jun-1671 |
17-Jan-1751 |
Adagio in G minor |
| Maryanne Amacher |
Composer |
25-Feb-1943 |
22-Oct-2009 |
Sound Characters (Making the Third Ear) |
| Joachim Andersen |
Musician |
29-Apr-1847 |
7-May-1909 |
Danish flautist and composer for flute |
| Leroy Anderson |
Composer |
29-Jun-1908 |
18-May-1975 |
The Syncopated Clock |
| George Antheil |
Composer |
8-Jul-1900 |
12-Feb-1959 |
Le Ballet mécanique |
| Craig Armstrong |
Composer |
1959 |
|
Classical and film composer |
| Malcolm Arnold |
Composer |
21-Oct-1921 |
23-Sep-2006 |
The Bridge on the River Kwai |
| Edward Artemiev |
Composer |
30-Nov-1937 |
|
Electroacoustic composer, scored Solaris |
| Daniel-François-Esprit Auber |
Composer |
29-Jan-1782 |
12-May-1871 |
La Muette de Portici |
| Georges Auric |
Composer |
15-Feb-1899 |
24-Jul-1983 |
Theme for Moulin Rouge |
| Milton Babbitt |
Composer |
10-May-1916 |
29-Jan-2011 |
Music for Synthesizer |
| Johann Sebastian Bach |
Composer |
21-Mar-1685 |
28-Jul-1750 |
Baroque composer |
| Burt Bacharach |
Pianist |
12-May-1929 |
|
Incomparable composer of lounge music |
| Angelo Badalamenti |
Composer |
22-Mar-1937 |
|
Scored several David Lynch films |
| Mily Balakirev |
Composer |
21-Dec-1836 |
16-May-1910 |
Russian nationalist composer |
| Samuel Barber |
Composer |
9-Mar-1910 |
23-Jan-1981 |
Adagio for Strings |
| Warren Barker |
Composer |
16-Apr-1923 |
3-Aug-2006 |
Composer for 77 Sunset Strip |
| John Barry |
Composer |
3-Nov-1933 |
30-Jan-2011 |
Film composer, James Bond, Out of Africa |
| Bela Bartok |
Composer |
25-Mar-1881 |
26-Sep-1945 |
Hungarian composer |
| Arnold Bax |
Composer |
8-Nov-1883 |
3-Oct-1953 |
Symphonist, Tone Poet |
| Ludwig van Beethoven |
Composer |
17-Dec-1770 |
26-Mar-1827 |
Prominent composer |
| Vincenzo Bellini |
Composer |
3-Nov-1801 |
23-Sep-1835 |
I Puritani di Scozia |
| Richard Rodney Bennett |
Composer |
29-Mar-1936 |
|
The Mines of Sulphur |
| Alban Berg |
Composer |
9-Feb-1885 |
24-Dec-1935 |
Violin Concerto |
| Arthur Berger |
Composer |
15-May-1912 |
7-Oct-2003 |
Ideas of Order |
| Luciano Berio |
Composer |
24-Oct-1925 |
27-May-2003 |
Italian Avant-garde composer |
| Lennox Berkeley |
Composer |
12-May-1903 |
26-Dec-1989 |
Stabat Mater |
| Irving Berlin |
Composer |
11-May-1888 |
22-Sep-1989 |
White Christmas, God Bless America |
| Hector Berlioz |
Composer |
11-Dec-1803 |
8-Mar-1869 |
French romantic composer |
| Elmer Bernstein |
Composer |
4-Apr-1922 |
18-Aug-2004 |
Scored The Magnificent Seven |
| Leonard Bernstein |
Conductor |
25-Aug-1918 |
14-Oct-1990 |
Conductor, New York Philharmonic |
| Georges Bizet |
Composer |
25-Oct-1838 |
3-Jun-1875 |
Carmen |
| Boris Blacher |
Composer |
19-Jan-1903 |
30-Jan-1975 |
Die Nachtschwalbe |
| Ran Blake |
Pianist |
20-Apr-1935 |
|
Third Stream composer |
| Carla Bley |
Pianist |
11-May-1938 |
|
Pianist and composer |
| Arthur Bliss |
Composer |
2-Aug-1891 |
28-Mar-1975 |
Morning Heroes |
| Marc Blitzstein |
Composer |
2-Mar-1905 |
22-Jan-1964 |
The Cradle Will Rock |
| Ernest Bloch |
Composer |
24-Jul-1880 |
15-Jul-1959 |
Schelomo |
| John Blow |
Composer |
23-Feb-1649 |
1-Oct-1708 |
Venus and Adonis |
| Luigi Boccherini |
Composer |
19-Feb-1743 |
28-May-1805 |
Cello Concerto in B-flat |
| Jerry Bock |
Composer |
23-Nov-1928 |
3-Nov-2010 |
Fiorello! |
| Arrigo Boito |
Composer |
24-Feb-1842 |
10-Jun-1918 |
Mefistofele |
| William Bolcom |
Composer |
26-May-1938 |
|
Songs of Innocence and of Experience |
| Aleksandr Borodin |
Composer |
12-Nov-1833 |
27-Feb-1887 |
Prince Igor |
| Giovanni Bottesini |
Musician |
22-Dec-1821 |
7-Jul-1889 |
Cristoforo Colombo |
| Pierre Boulez |
Composer |
26-Mar-1925 |
|
Modern composer and conductor |
| Paul Bowles |
Author |
30-Dec-1910 |
18-Nov-1999 |
The Sheltering Sky |
| William Boyce |
Composer |
7-Feb-1710 |
7-Feb-1779 |
Cathedral Music |
| David Braham |
Composer |
1838 |
11-Apr-1905 |
The Mulligan Guards |
| Johannes Brahms |
Composer |
7-May-1833 |
3-Apr-1897 |
Ein deutsches Requiem |
| Benjamin Britten |
Composer |
22-Nov-1913 |
4-Dec-1976 |
Billy Budd |
| Earle Brown |
Composer |
26-Dec-1926 |
2-Jul-2002 |
Developed open-form scores |
| Max Bruch |
Composer |
6-Jan-1838 |
2-Oct-1920 |
Kol Nidrei |
| Anton Bruckner |
Composer |
4-Sep-1824 |
11-Oct-1896 |
Mass in D Minor |
| Gavin Bryars |
Composer |
16-Jan-1943 |
|
Avant-garde composer |
| John Bull |
Composer |
c. 1562 |
12-Mar-1628 |
English composer and organist |
| Anthony Burgess |
Novelist |
25-Feb-1917 |
25-Nov-1993 |
A Clockwork Orange |
| Charles Burney |
Musicologist |
7-Apr-1726 |
12-Apr-1814 |
History of Music |
| Carter Burwell |
Composer |
19-Nov-1955 |
|
Composer for all Coen Bros films |
| Ferruccio Busoni |
Pianist |
1-Apr-1866 |
27-Jul-1924 |
Fantasia Contrappuntistica |
| Dietrich Buxtehude |
Composer |
c. 1637 |
9-May-1707 |
Baroque period organist |
| William Byrd |
Composer |
1543 |
4-Jul-1623 |
English madrigalist, composer |
| John Cage |
Composer |
5-Sep-1912 |
12-Aug-1992 |
Experimental composer |
| Thomas Campion |
Composer |
12-Feb-1567 |
1-Mar-1620 |
English musical poet, Bookes of Ayres |
| Elliott Carter |
Composer |
11-Dec-1908 |
|
The Defence of Corinth |
| Robert Casadesus |
Pianist |
7-Apr-1899 |
19-Sep-1972 |
French pianist/composer |
| Alfredo Casella |
Composer |
25-Jul-1883 |
5-Mar-1947 |
Rejuvinated Vivaldi |
| Francesco Cavalli |
Composer |
14-Feb-1602 |
14-Jan-1676 |
Didone |
| Gustave Charpentier |
Composer |
25-Jun-1860 |
18-Feb-1956 |
Louise |
| Rhys Chatham |
Composer |
19-Sep-1952 |
|
An Angel Moves Too Fast To See |
| Carlos Chávez |
Composer |
13-Jun-1899 |
2-Aug-1978 |
Sinfonía de Antígona |
| Luigi Cherubini |
Composer |
14-Sep-1760 |
15-Mar-1842 |
The Water Carrier |
| Frederic Chopin |
Composer |
22-Feb-1810 |
17-Oct-1849 |
Composer for the piano |
| Domenico Cimarosa |
Composer |
17-Dec-1749 |
1-Jan-1801 |
Il Matrimonio segreto |
| Muzio Clementi |
Composer |
24-Jan-1752 |
10-Mar-1832 |
Gradus ad Parnassum |
| George M. Cohan |
Composer |
3-Jul-1878 |
5-Nov-1942 |
Yankee Doodle Dandy |
| Cy Coleman |
Composer |
14-Jun-1929 |
18-Nov-2004 |
Hey, Big Spender |
| Alice Coltrane |
Jazz Musician |
27-Aug-1937 |
12-Jan-2007 |
Musician and widow of John Coltrane |
| Aaron Copland |
Composer |
14-Nov-1900 |
2-Dec-1990 |
Fanfare for the Common Man |
| Arcangelo Corelli |
Violinist |
17-Feb-1653 |
8-Jan-1713 |
Concerti Grossi |
| François Couperin |
Composer |
10-Nov-1668 |
12-Sep-1733 |
L'Art de Toucher le Clavecin |
| Henry Cowell |
Composer |
11-Mar-1897 |
10-Dec-1965 |
New Musical Resources |
| Johann Baptist Cramer |
Pianist |
24-Feb-1771 |
16-Apr-1858 |
Études |
| George Crumb |
Composer |
24-Oct-1929 |
|
1968 Pulitzer Prize for Music |
| Carl Czerny |
Pianist |
20-Feb-1791 |
15-Jul-1857 |
Pianist, composer of piano exercises |
| Vincent d'Indy |
Composer |
27-Mar-1851 |
1-Dec-1931 |
Symphonie Cévenole |
| Luigi Dallapiccola |
Composer |
3-Feb-1904 |
19-Feb-1975 |
Canti di Prigionia |
| Félicien-César David |
Composer |
13-Apr-1810 |
29-Aug-1876 |
Le Désert |
| Mario Davidovsky |
Composer |
4-Mar-1934 |
|
Synchronisms |
| Reginald De Koven |
Composer |
3-Apr-1859 |
16-Jan-1920 |
Oh, Promise Me |
| Claude Debussy |
Composer |
22-Aug-1862 |
25-Mar-1918 |
French Impressionist composer |
| Georges Delerue |
Composer |
12-Mar-1925 |
20-Mar-1992 |
French film composer |
| Léo Delibes |
Composer |
21-Feb-1836 |
16-Jan-1891 |
Lakmé |
| Frederick Delius |
Composer |
29-Jan-1862 |
10-Jun-1934 |
Over the Hills and Far Away |
| Ernst von Dohnányi |
Composer |
27-Jul-1877 |
9-Feb-1960 |
Opus 25 |
| Gaetano Donizetti |
Composer |
29-Nov-1797 |
8-Apr-1848 |
Lucia di Lammermoor |
| Thomas A. Dorsey |
Musician |
1-Jul-1899 |
23-Jan-1993 |
The father of gospel music |
| John Dowland |
Composer |
c. 1562 |
21-Jan-1626 |
Lachrimae, Lutenist |
| Guillaume Dufay |
Composer |
c. 1400 |
27-Nov-1474 |
Composer of the Burgundian school |
| Paul Dukas |
Composer |
1-Oct-1865 |
17-May-1935 |
The Sorcerer's Apprentice |
| Vernon Duke |
Composer |
10-Oct-1903 |
16-Jan-1969 |
April in Paris |
| Tan Dun |
Composer |
18-Aug-1957 |
|
Heaven, Earth, Mankind |
| Marcel Dupré |
Organist |
3-May-1886 |
30-May-1971 |
French organist and composer |
| Francesco Durante |
Composer |
15-Mar-1684 |
13-Aug-1755 |
Pastoral Mass |
| Louis Durey |
Composer |
27-May-1888 |
3-Jul-1979 |
Carillons |
| Antonin Dvorak |
Composer |
8-Sep-1841 |
1-May-1904 |
From the New World |
| Hanns Eisler |
Composer |
6-Jul-1898 |
6-Sep-1962 |
German radical composer |
| Edward Elgar |
Composer |
2-Jun-1857 |
23-Feb-1934 |
Pomp and Circumstance |
| Georges Enesco |
Composer |
19-Aug-1881 |
4-May-1955 |
Oedipe |
| Sammy Fain |
Composer |
17-Jun-1902 |
6-Dec-1989 |
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing |
| Percy Faith |
Musician |
7-Apr-1908 |
9-Feb-1976 |
Easy listening arranger and composer |
| Manuel de Falla |
Composer |
23-Nov-1876 |
14-Nov-1946 |
La Vida Breve |
| Gabriel Fauré |
Composer |
12-May-1845 |
4-Nov-1924 |
Requiem |
| Morton Feldman |
Composer |
12-Jan-1926 |
3-Sep-1987 |
Coptic Light |
| John Field |
Composer |
26-Jul-1782 |
23-Jan-1837 |
Irish composer of Nocturnes |
| Vivian Fine |
Composer |
28-Sep-1913 |
20-Mar-2000 |
Drama for Orchestra |
| Lukas Foss |
Conductor |
15-Aug-1922 |
1-Feb-2009 |
Director, Buffalo Philharmonic, 1963-71 |
| César Franck |
Composer |
10-Dec-1822 |
8-Nov-1890 |
Symphonic Variations |
| Girolamo Frescobaldi |
Composer |
1583 |
1-Mar-1643 |
Italian organist and composer |
| Hugo Friedhofer |
Composer |
3-May-1901 |
17-May-1981 |
The Best Years of Our Lives |
| Rudolf Friml |
Composer |
7-Dec-1884 |
12-Nov-1972 |
The Vagabond King |
| Johann Joseph Fux |
Composer |
c. 1660 |
13-Feb-1741 |
Gradus ad Parnassum |
| Giovanni Gabrieli |
Composer |
1557 |
12-Aug-1612 |
Italian composer at St. Mark's |
| Baldassare Galuppi |
Composer |
18-Oct-1706 |
3-Jan-1784 |
Il Filosofo di Campagna |
| Carlo Gesualdo |
Composer |
c. 1560 |
8-Sep-1613 |
Composer of madrigals, murdered his wife |
| Gordon Getty |
Business |
20-Dec-1934 |
|
Heir to the Getty Oil fortune |
| Orlando Gibbons |
Composer |
1583 |
5-Jun-1625 |
Late Tudor composer and organist |
| W. S. Gilbert |
Composer |
18-Nov-1836 |
29-May-1911 |
Gilbert & Sullivan |
| Patrick Gilmore |
Composer |
25-Dec-1829 |
24-Sep-1892 |
The Father of The American Band |
| Philip Glass |
Composer |
31-Jan-1937 |
|
Einstein on the Beach |
| Aleksandr Glazunov |
Composer |
29-Jul-1865 |
21-Mar-1936 |
Raymonda |
| Mikhail Glinka |
Composer |
21-May-1804 |
3-Feb-1857 |
Ruslan and Lyudmila |
| Christoph Willibald Gluck |
Composer |
2-Jul-1714 |
15-Nov-1787 |
Orfeo ed Eurydice |
| Jerry Goldsmith |
Composer |
10-Feb-1929 |
21-Jul-2004 |
Prominent soundtrack composer |
| Mack Gordon |
Composer |
21-Jun-1904 |
28-Feb-1959 |
Chattanooga Choo Choo |
| Jay Gorney |
Composer |
12-Dec-1896 |
14-Jun-1990 |
Brother, Can You Spare A Dime? |
| Charles Gounod |
Composer |
17-Jun-1818 |
18-Oct-1893 |
Faust |
| Percy Grainger |
Composer |
8-Jul-1882 |
20-Feb-1961 |
Country Gardens |
| Enrique Granados |
Composer |
27-Jul-1867 |
24-Mar-1916 |
Goyescas |
| Johnny Green |
Composer |
10-Oct-1908 |
15-May-1989 |
Body and Soul |
| André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry |
Composer |
8-Feb-1741 |
24-Sep-1813 |
Richard Coeur de Lion |
| Edvard Grieg |
Composer |
15-Jun-1843 |
4-Sep-1907 |
Norway's greatest composer |
| Charles Griffes |
Composer |
17-Sep-1884 |
8-Apr-1920 |
The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan |
| Albert Hague |
Composer |
13-Oct-1920 |
12-Nov-2001 |
Redhead |
| Fromental Halévy |
Composer |
27-May-1799 |
17-Mar-1862 |
La Juive |
| Marvin Hamlisch |
Composer |
2-Jun-1944 |
6-Aug-2012 |
The Way We Were |
| George Frideric Handel |
Composer |
23-Feb-1685 |
14-Apr-1759 |
Messiah |
| W. C. Handy |
Composer |
16-Nov-1873 |
29-Mar-1958 |
Father of the Blues |
| Howard Hanson |
Composer |
28-Oct-1896 |
26-Feb-1981 |
Symphony No. 4 |
| Lou Harrison |
Composer |
14-May-1917 |
2-Feb-2003 |
Musical wayfarer |
| Hamilton Harty |
Conductor |
4-Dec-1879 |
19-Feb-1941 |
Principal Conductor, The Hallé, 1920-34 |
| Johann Adolph Hasse |
Composer |
25-Mar-1699 |
16-Dec-1783 |
Sesostrato |
| Joseph Haydn |
Composer |
31-Mar-1732 |
31-May-1809 |
Symphony No. 102 in B-flat Major |
| Michael Haydn |
Composer |
14-Sep-1737 |
10-Aug-1806 |
Missa Hispanica |
| Pierre Henry |
Composer |
9-Dec-1927 |
|
Electronic music pioneer |
| Hans Werner Henze |
Composer |
1-Jul-1926 |
|
Boulevard Solitude |
| Victor Herbert |
Composer |
1-Feb-1859 |
24-May-1924 |
Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life |
| Jerry Herman |
Composer |
10-Jul-1931 |
|
Hello Dolly! |
| Bernard Herrmann |
Composer |
29-Jun-1911 |
24-Dec-1975 |
Scored Psycho, Citizen Kane |
| Hildegard von Bingen |
Religion |
16-Sep-1098 |
17-Sep-1179 |
Scivias seu Visiones |
| Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson |
Composer |
23-Apr-1958 |
|
Icelandic film composer |
| Paul Hindemith |
Composer |
16-Nov-1895 |
28-Dec-1963 |
Mathis der Maler |
| E. T. A. Hoffmann |
Author |
24-Jan-1776 |
25-Jun-1822 |
Das Fräulein van Scuderi |
| Gustav Holst |
Composer |
21-Sep-1874 |
25-May-1934 |
The Planets |
| Arthur Honegger |
Composer |
10-Mar-1892 |
27-Nov-1955 |
Pacific 231 |
| Francis Hopkinson |
Author |
2-Oct-1737 |
9-May-1791 |
The Ballad of the Kegs |
| James Horner |
Composer |
14-Aug-1953 |
|
Scored Titanic |
| William Horsley |
Composer |
15-Nov-1774 |
12-Jun-1858 |
English composer of glees |
| Jacques Ibert |
Composer |
15-Aug-1890 |
5-Feb-1962 |
Escales |
| John Ireland |
Composer |
13-Aug-1879 |
12-Jun-1962 |
The Holy Boy |
| Charles Ives |
Composer |
20-Oct-1874 |
19-May-1954 |
Third Symphony (The Camp Meeting) |
| Leo Janácek |
Composer |
3-Jul-1854 |
12-Aug-1928 |
Her Foster Daughter |
| Maurice Jarre |
Composer |
13-Sep-1924 |
29-Mar-2009 |
Score to Lawrence of Arabia |
| Joseph Joachim |
Violinist |
28-Jun-1831 |
15-Aug-1907 |
Virtuoso violinist, Joachim Quartet |
| Norman Dello Joio |
Composer |
24-Jan-1913 |
24-Jul-2008 |
Meditation on Ecclesiastes |
| Mauricio Kagel |
Composer |
24-Dec-1931 |
18-Sep-2008 |
Absurdist composer |
| Michael Kamen |
Composer |
15-Apr-1948 |
18-Nov-2003 |
Prolific film composer and conductor |
| John Kander |
Composer |
18-Mar-1927 |
|
Top Broadway composer |
| Jerome Kern |
Composer |
27-Jan-1885 |
12-Nov-1945 |
Show Boat |
| Aram Khachaturian |
Composer |
24-May-1903 |
1-May-1978 |
Gayane |
| Leon Kirchner |
Composer |
24-Jan-1919 |
17-Sep-2009 |
Quartet No. 3 |
| Zoltán Kodály |
Composer |
16-Dec-1882 |
6-Mar-1967 |
Psalmus Hungaricus |
| Franz Kotzwara |
Composer |
1730 |
2-Feb-1793 |
The Battle of Prague |
| Édouard Lalo |
Composer |
27-Jan-1823 |
22-Apr-1892 |
Le Roi d'Ys |
| Constant Lambert |
Composer |
23-Aug-1905 |
21-Aug-1951 |
Rio Grande |
| Burton Lane |
Composer |
2-Feb-1912 |
5-Jan-1997 |
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever |
| Jean Langlais |
Composer |
15-Feb-1907 |
8-May-1991 |
Organist and composer |
| Orlando di Lasso |
Composer |
1530 |
14-Jun-1594 |
Psalmi Davidis Poenitentiales |
| Michel Legrand |
Composer |
24-Feb-1932 |
|
Film composer, The Windmills of Your Mind |
| Franz Lehár |
Composer |
30-Apr-1870 |
24-Oct-1948 |
The Merry Widow |
| Ruggero Leoncavallo |
Composer |
8-Mar-1857 |
9-Aug-1919 |
Pagliacci |
| Oscar Levant |
Pianist |
27-Dec-1906 |
14-Aug-1972 |
Panelist, Information Please |
| György Ligeti |
Composer |
28-May-1923 |
12-Jun-2006 |
Lontano, Lux Aeterna |
| Franz Liszt |
Composer |
22-Oct-1811 |
31-Jul-1886 |
Hungarian composer |
| Horace Liveright |
Publisher |
10-Dec-1886 |
24-Sep-1933 |
Publisher of the Modern Library series |
| Jay Livingston |
Composer |
28-Mar-1915 |
17-Oct-2001 |
Que Sera Sera |
| Andrew Lloyd Webber |
Composer |
22-Mar-1948 |
|
Evita |
| Frank Loesser |
Composer |
29-Jun-1910 |
28-Jul-1969 |
Guys and Dolls |
| Carl Loewe |
Composer |
30-Nov-1796 |
20-Apr-1869 |
German composer of ballads |
| Frederick Loewe |
Composer |
10-Jun-1901 |
14-Feb-1988 |
My Fair Lady |
| Alvin Lucier |
Composer |
14-May-1931 |
|
I Am Sitting In A Room |
| Jean-Baptiste Lully |
Composer |
28-Nov-1632 |
22-Mar-1687 |
Founder of French opera |
| Witold Lutoslawski |
Composer |
25-Jan-1913 |
7-Feb-1994 |
Aleatoric composer |
| Edward MacDowell |
Composer |
18-Dec-1860 |
23-Jan-1908 |
American piano composer |
| Bruno Maderna |
Composer |
21-Apr-1920 |
13-Nov-1973 |
Avant-garde composer |
| Gustav Mahler |
Composer |
7-Jul-1860 |
18-May-1911 |
Das Lied von der Erde |
| Gian Francesco Malipiero |
Composer |
18-Mar-1882 |
1-Aug-1973 |
Rispetti e Strambotti |
| Henry Mancini |
Composer |
16-Apr-1924 |
14-Jun-1994 |
Moon River |
| Karen Mantler |
Composer |
1966 |
|
Composer, musician and champion of Arnold |
| Cliff Martinez |
Composer |
5-Feb-1954 |
|
Composer for Steven Soderbergh films |
| Pietro Mascagni |
Composer |
7-Dec-1863 |
2-Aug-1945 |
Cavalleria Rusticana |
| Jules Massenet |
Composer |
12-May-1842 |
13-Aug-1912 |
Manon |
| Johann Mattheson |
Composer |
28-Sep-1681 |
17-Apr-1764 |
German baroque composer, theorist |
| Felix Mendelssohn |
Composer |
3-Feb-1809 |
4-Nov-1847 |
Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Gian-Carlo Menotti |
Composer |
7-Jul-1911 |
1-Feb-2007 |
The Saint of Bleecker Street |
| Olivier Messiaen |
Composer |
10-Dec-1908 |
27-Apr-1992 |
Turangalîla-Symphonie |
| Giacomo Meyerbeer |
Composer |
5-Sep-1791 |
2-May-1864 |
Robert le Diable |
| Darius Milhaud |
Composer |
4-Sep-1892 |
22-Jun-1974 |
The Creation of the World |
| Vic Mizzy |
Composer |
9-Jan-1916 |
17-Oct-2009 |
Addams Family theme |
| Jimmy Monaco |
Composer |
13-Jan-1885 |
16-Oct-1945 |
You Made Me Love You |
| Meredith Monk |
Singer |
20-Nov-1942 |
|
Vocalist and "interdisciplinary performance" artist |
| Claudio Monteverdi |
Composer |
15-May-1567 |
29-Nov-1643 |
Vespro della Beata Vergine |
| Douglas Stuart Moore |
Composer |
10-Aug-1893 |
25-Jul-1969 |
The Devil and Daniel Webster |
| John Moran |
Composer |
1965 |
|
Composer of The Manson Family opera |
| Thomas Morley |
Composer |
c. 1557 |
Oct-1602 |
Laboravi in Gemitu Meo |
| Ennio Morricone |
Composer |
10-Nov-1928 |
|
Scored The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Composer |
27-Jan-1756 |
5-Dec-1791 |
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik |
| Modest Mussorgsky |
Composer |
9-Mar-1839 |
16-Mar-1881 |
Boris Godunov |
| Conlon Nancarrow |
Composer |
27-Oct-1912 |
10-Aug-1997 |
Studies for Player Piano |
| Carl Nielsen |
Composer |
9-Jun-1865 |
3-Oct-1931 |
The Four Temperaments |
| Hermann Nitsch |
Performance Artist |
29-Aug-1938 |
|
6-Tage-Spiel des Orgies Mystries Theater |
| Luigi Nono |
Composer |
29-Jan-1924 |
8-May-1990 |
Il Canto Sospeso |
| Ivor Novello |
Composer |
15-Jan-1893 |
6-Mar-1951 |
Keep the Home Fires Burning |
| Michael Nyman |
Composer |
23-Mar-1944 |
|
Minimalist/soundtrack composer and pianist |
| Jacques Offenbach |
Composer |
20-Jun-1819 |
5-Oct-1880 |
Inventor of the the opérette |
| Pauline Oliveros |
Composer |
2-Jun-1932 |
|
Composer, Deep Listener |
| Carl Orff |
Composer |
10-Jul-1895 |
29-Mar-1982 |
Carmina Burana |
| Johann Pachelbel |
Musician |
1-Sep-1653 |
3-Mar-1706 |
Canon in D Major |
| Ignace Paderewski |
Pianist |
18-Nov-1860 |
29-Jun-1941 |
Polish pianist and composer |
| Niccolo Paganini |
Violinist |
27-Oct-1782 |
27-May-1840 |
Italian violinist and composer |
| Giovanni Paisiello |
Composer |
9-May-1740 |
5-Jun-1816 |
Il Barbiere di Siviglia |
| Charlemagne Palestine |
Pianist |
14-Aug-1945 |
|
Strumming Music |
| Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina |
Composer |
c. 1525 |
2-Feb-1594 |
Italian Renaissance composer |
| Arvo Pärt |
Composer |
11-Sep-1935 |
|
Choral composer |
| Harry Partch |
Composer |
24-Jun-1901 |
3-Sep-1974 |
Hobo composer, built his own instruments |
| Krzysztof Penderecki |
Composer |
23-Nov-1933 |
|
Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima |
| Giovanni Battista Pergolesi |
Composer |
4-Jan-1710 |
16-Mar-1736 |
La Serva Padrona |
| Jacopo Peri |
Composer |
20-Aug-1561 |
12-Aug-1633 |
Dafne, the first opera |
| Oscar Peterson |
Jazz Musician |
15-Aug-1925 |
24-Dec-2007 |
Maharajah of the keyboard |
| Stu Phillips |
Composer |
9-Sep-1929 |
|
Television composer, Knight Rider |
| Walter Piston |
Composer |
20-Jan-1894 |
12-Nov-1976 |
Symphony No. 3 |
| Amilcare Ponchielli |
Composer |
31-Aug-1834 |
16-Jan-1886 |
La Gioconda |
| Cole Porter |
Composer |
9-Jun-1891 |
15-Oct-1964 |
I've Got You Under My Skin |
| Francis Poulenc |
Composer |
7-Jan-1899 |
30-Jan-1963 |
Les dialogues des Carmélites |
| Josquin Des Prez |
Composer |
c. 1445 |
27-Aug-1521 |
Master Renaissance composer |
| Sergei Prokofiev |
Composer |
23-Apr-1891 |
5-Mar-1953 |
Peter and the Wolf |
| Giacomo Puccini |
Composer |
22-Dec-1858 |
29-Nov-1924 |
Madame Butterfly |
| Henry Purcell |
Composer |
c. 1659 |
21-Nov-1695 |
Dido and Aeneas |
| Sun Ra |
Jazz Musician |
22-May-1914 |
30-May-1993 |
Jazz musician from Saturn |
| Sergei Rachmaninov |
Composer |
20-Mar-1873 |
28-Mar-1943 |
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini |
| Ralph Rainger |
Composer |
7-Oct-1901 |
23-Oct-1942 |
Thanks For The Memory |
| Jean-Philippe Rameau |
Composer |
25-Sep-1683 |
12-Sep-1764 |
Hippolyte et Aricie |
| Maurice Ravel |
Composer |
7-Mar-1875 |
28-Dec-1937 |
Bolero |
| Alan Rawsthorne |
Composer |
2-May-1905 |
24-Jul-1971 |
Theme and Variations for Two Violins |
| Alfred Reed |
Composer |
25-Jan-1921 |
17-Sep-2005 |
Russian Christmas Music |
| Steve Reich |
Composer |
3-Oct-1936 |
|
Minimalist composer, Different Trains |
| Ottorino Respighi |
Composer |
9-Jul-1879 |
18-Apr-1936 |
Belfagor |
| Harry Revel |
Composer |
21-Dec-1905 |
3-Nov-1958 |
Poor Little Rich Girl |
| Nelson Riddle |
Composer |
1-Jun-1921 |
6-Oct-1985 |
Bandleader, orchestral arranger |
| Josef Anton Riedl |
Composer |
11-Jun-1929 |
|
Glas-Spiele |
| Terry Riley |
Composer |
24-Jun-1935 |
|
In C |
| Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov |
Composer |
6-Mar-1844 |
8-Jun-1908 |
The Flight of the Bumblebee |
| Richard Rodgers |
Composer |
28-Jun-1902 |
30-Dec-1979 |
Rodgers and Hammerstein |
| Sigmund Romberg |
Composer |
29-Jul-1887 |
9-Nov-1951 |
The New Moon |
| Harold Rome |
Composer |
27-May-1908 |
26-Oct-1993 |
I Can Get It for You Wholesale |
| Ned Rorem |
Composer |
23-Oct-1923 |
|
Paris Diary |
| Gioacchino Rossini |
Composer |
29-Feb-1792 |
13-Nov-1868 |
William Tell Overture |
| Nino Rota |
Composer |
3-Dec-1911 |
10-Apr-1979 |
Film composer, The Godfather |
| Anton Rubinstein |
Pianist |
16-Nov-1829 |
8-Nov-1894 |
The Tower of Babel |
| Pete Rugolo |
Composer |
25-Dec-1915 |
16-Oct-2011 |
Jazz and television composer |
| Luigi Russolo |
Author |
30-Apr-1885 |
6-Feb-1947 |
Authored the manifesto The Art of Noises |
| Camille Saint-Saëns |
Composer |
9-Oct-1835 |
16-Dec-1921 |
Samson et Dalila |
| Antonio Salieri |
Composer |
18-Aug-1750 |
7-May-1825 |
Tarare |
| Giuseppe Sarti |
Composer |
28-Dec-1729 |
28-Jul-1802 |
I Due Litiganti |
| Erik Satie |
Composer |
17-May-1866 |
1-Jul-1925 |
Messe des Pauvres |
| Alessandro Scarlatti |
Composer |
2-May-1660 |
24-Oct-1725 |
Mitridate Eupatore |
| Domenico Scarlatti |
Composer |
26-Oct-1685 |
23-Jul-1757 |
Composed 555 sonatas |
| Victor Schertzinger |
Film Director |
8-Apr-1890 |
26-Oct-1941 |
Road to Singapore |
| Harvey Schmidt |
Composer |
12-Sep-1929 |
|
The Fantasticks |
| Artur Schnabel |
Pianist |
17-Apr-1882 |
15-Aug-1951 |
Pianist and classical composer |
| Dieter Schnebel |
Composer |
14-Mar-1930 |
|
Avant-garde composer |
| Arnold Schoenberg |
Composer |
13-Sep-1874 |
13-Jul-1951 |
Emancipated dissonance |
| Franz Schubert |
Composer |
31-Jan-1797 |
19-Nov-1828 |
Symphony in C Major |
| William Schuman |
Composer |
4-Aug-1910 |
15-Feb-1992 |
Symphony No. 6 |
| Clara Schumann |
Pianist |
13-Sep-1819 |
20-May-1896 |
Romantic pianist and composer |
| Robert Schumann |
Composer |
8-Jun-1810 |
29-Jul-1856 |
Toccata |
| Arthur Schwartz |
Composer |
4-Nov-1900 |
3-Sep-1984 |
That's Entertainment |
| Aleksandr Scriabin |
Composer |
25-Dec-1871 |
14-Apr-1915 |
Prometheus: The Poem of Fire |
| Roger Sessions |
Composer |
28-Dec-1896 |
16-Mar-1985 |
Concerto for Orchestra |
| David Shire |
Composer |
3-Jul-1937 |
|
It Goes Like It Goes |
| Dmitri Shostakovich |
Composer |
25-Sep-1906 |
9-Aug-1975 |
Symphony No. 7 |
| Jean Sibelius |
Composer |
8-Dec-1865 |
20-Sep-1957 |
The Swan of Tuonela |
| Noble Sissle |
Composer |
10-Jul-1889 |
17-Dec-1975 |
Shuffle Along |
| Nicolas Slonimsky |
Musicologist |
27-Apr-1894 |
25-Dec-1995 |
Preeminent musicologist |
| Bedrich Smetana |
Composer |
2-Mar-1824 |
12-May-1884 |
My Country |
| Stephen Sondheim |
Composer |
22-Mar-1930 |
|
West Side Story |
| John Philip Sousa |
Composer |
6-Nov-1854 |
6-Mar-1932 |
Stars and Stripes Forever |
| Carl Stalling |
Composer |
10-Nov-1891 |
29-Nov-1972 |
Composer for hundreds of Looney Tunes |
| Max Steiner |
Composer |
10-May-1888 |
28-Dec-1971 |
Gone With the Wind |
| Joseph W. Stern |
Composer |
11-Jan-1870 |
31-Mar-1934 |
My Mother Was a Lady |
| Karlheinz Stockhausen |
Composer |
22-Aug-1928 |
5-Dec-2007 |
Influential avant-garde composer |
| Stephen Storace |
Composer |
4-Apr-1762 |
19-Mar-1796 |
The Haunted Tower |
| Alessandro Stradella |
Composer |
1642 |
28-Feb-1682 |
S. Giovanni Battista |
| Johann Strauss, Sr. |
Composer |
14-Mar-1804 |
24-Sep-1849 |
Täuberl-Walzer |
| Johann Strauss |
Composer |
25-Oct-1825 |
3-Jun-1899 |
The Blue Danube |
| Richard Strauss |
Composer |
11-Jun-1864 |
8-Sep-1949 |
Also sprach Zarathustra |
| Igor Stravinsky |
Composer |
17-Jun-1882 |
6-Apr-1971 |
The Rite of Spring |
| Billy Strayhorn |
Composer |
29-Nov-1915 |
31-May-1967 |
Take the A Train |
| Charles Strouse |
Composer |
7-Jun-1928 |
|
Bye Bye Birdie |
| Arthur Sullivan |
Composer |
13-May-1842 |
22-Nov-1900 |
Gilbert & Sullivan |
| George Szell |
Conductor |
7-Jun-1897 |
30-Jul-1970 |
Conductor, Cleveland Orchestra, 1946-70 |
| Toru Takemitsu |
Composer |
8-Oct-1930 |
20-Feb-1996 |
A Way A Lone |
| Thomas Tallis |
Composer |
c. 1510 |
23-Nov-1585 |
Miserere Nostri |
| Giuseppe Tartini |
Violinist |
8-Apr-1692 |
26-Feb-1770 |
Trillo del Diavolo |
| Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
Composer |
7-May-1840 |
6-Nov-1893 |
Russia's best known composer |
| Georg Philipp Telemann |
Composer |
14-Mar-1681 |
25-Jun-1767 |
German Baroque composer |
| James Tenney |
Composer |
10-Aug-1934 |
24-Aug-2006 |
A History of 'Consonance' and 'Dissonance' |
| Sigismond Thalberg |
Pianist |
8-Jan-1812 |
27-Apr-1871 |
Virtuoso pianist |
| Alan Thicke |
Actor |
1-Mar-1947 |
|
Growing Pains |
| Virgil Thomson |
Composer |
25-Nov-1896 |
30-Sep-1989 |
Four Saints in Three Acts |
| Harry Tierney |
Composer |
21-May-1890 |
22-Mar-1965 |
Irene |
| Dimitri Tiomkin |
Composer |
10-May-1894 |
11-Nov-1979 |
Wild Is the Wind |
| Thomas Tomkins |
Composer |
1572 |
9-Jun-1656 |
Composer of madrigals |
| David Tudor |
Pianist |
20-Jan-1926 |
13-Aug-1996 |
Avant-garde concert pianist |
| Nobuo Uematsu |
Composer |
21-Mar-1959 |
|
Video game composer, Final Fantasy |
| Piero Umiliani |
Composer |
17-Jul-1926 |
14-Feb-2001 |
Mah Na Mah Na |
| Vladimir Ussachevsky |
Composer |
3-Nov-1911 |
2-Jan-1990 |
Tape music composer |
| Jimmy Van Heusen |
Composer |
26-Jan-1913 |
7-Feb-1990 |
Call Me Irresponsible |
| Edgard Varèse |
Composer |
22-Dec-1883 |
8-Nov-1965 |
Poème électronique |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams |
Composer |
12-Oct-1872 |
26-Aug-1958 |
Sinfonia Antarctica |
| Giuseppe Verdi |
Composer |
9-Oct-1813 |
27-Jan-1901 |
La Traviata |
| Henri Vieuxtemps |
Violinist |
17-Feb-1820 |
6-Jun-1881 |
Belgian violinist and composer |
| Heitor Villa-Lobos |
Composer |
5-Mar-1887 |
17-Nov-1959 |
Bachianas Brasileiras |
| Antonio Vivaldi |
Composer |
4-Mar-1678 |
28-Jul-1741 |
The Four Seasons |
| Richard Wagner |
Composer |
22-May-1813 |
13-Feb-1883 |
Ride of the Valkyries |
| Weasel Walter |
Composer |
1972 |
|
The Flying Luttenbachers |
| William Walton |
Composer |
29-Mar-1902 |
8-Mar-1983 |
Troilus and Cressida |
| Harry Warren |
Composer |
24-Dec-1893 |
22-Sep-1981 |
Forty-Second Street |
| Carl Maria von Weber |
Composer |
18-Nov-1786 |
5-Jun-1826 |
Oberon |
| Eberhard Weber |
Bassist |
22-Jan-1940 |
|
Accomplished German bassist and composer |
| Anton Webern |
Composer |
3-Dec-1883 |
15-Sep-1945 |
Atonal composer |
| Kurt Weill |
Composer |
2-Mar-1900 |
3-Apr-1950 |
The Threepenny Opera |
| Richard A. Whiting |
Composer |
12-Nov-1891 |
10-Feb-1938 |
Ain't We Got Fun? |
| Charles-Marie Widor |
Composer |
21-Feb-1844 |
12-Mar-1937 |
Toccata |
| Henryk Wieniawski |
Violinist |
10-Jul-1835 |
31-Mar-1880 |
Polish violinist and composer |
| John Williams |
Composer |
8-Feb-1932 |
|
Composer for Jaws, E.T. |
| Meredith Willson |
Composer |
18-May-1902 |
15-Jun-1984 |
The Music Man |
| Hugo Wolf |
Composer |
13-Mar-1860 |
22-Feb-1903 |
19th century German songwriter |
| Christian Wolff |
Composer |
8-Mar-1934 |
|
Burdocks |
| Henry Clay Work |
Composer |
1-Oct-1832 |
8-Jun-1884 |
Marching Through Georgia |
| Charles Wuorinen |
Composer |
9-Jun-1938 |
|
Time's Encomium |
| Iannis Xenakis |
Composer |
9-May-1922 |
4-Feb-2001 |
Avant-garde composer |
| Vincent Youmans |
Composer |
27-Sep-1898 |
5-Apr-1946 |
No, No Nanette |
| La Monte Young |
Composer |
14-Oct-1935 |
|
Minimalist composer |
| Frank Zappa |
Composer |
21-Dec-1940 |
4-Dec-1993 |
Joe's Garage |
| Hector Zazou |
Composer |
11-Jul-1948 |
8-Sep-2008 |
Electronic and World music composer |
| Hans Zimmer |
Composer |
12-Sep-1957 |
|
The Buggles |
| John Zorn |
Composer |
2-Sep-1953 |
|
Prolific avant-garde composer |
