Essentials of Music

COMPOSERS

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Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)
Bartók, Béla (1881-1945)
Beach, Amy (1867-1944)
Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827)
Berg, Alban (1885-1935)
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869)
Bernstein, Leonard (1918-1990)
Bizet, Georges (1838-1875)
Boulez, Pierre (1925- )
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)

Cage, John (1912-1992)
Chopin, Frédéric (1810-1849)
Copland, Aaron (1900-1990)
Crumb, George (1929- )

Debussy, Claude (1862-1918)
Du Fay, Guillaume (1397-1474)
Dvorák, Antonín (1841-1904)

Ellington, Duke (1899-1974)

Farmer, John (fl.1591-1601)

Gay, John (1685-1732)

Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759)
Hardin, Lillian (1898-1971)
Haydn, Franz Joseph (1732-1809)
Hensel, Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847)
Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)

Ives, Charles (1874-1954)

Jacquet de la Guerre, Elisabeth-Claude (c.1666-1729)
Joplin, Scott (1868-1917)
Josquin Desprez (c.1440-1521)

Lansky, Paul (1944- )
Larsen, Libby (1950- )
Leoncavallo, Ruggiero (1857-1919)
Ligeti, György (1923- )
Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)
Lutoslawski, Witold (1913-1994)

Machaut, Guillaume de (c.1300-1377)
Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911)
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)
Messiaen, Olivier (1908-1992)
Moniot d'Arras (fl.1213-1239)
Monteverdi, Claudio (1567-1643)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)

Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (c.1525-1594)
Prokofiev, Sergei (1891-1953)
Purcell, Henry (1659-1695)

Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
Reich, Steve (1936- )
Rodgers, Richard (1902-1979)

Schoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951)
Schubert, Franz Peter (1797-1828)
Schumann, Clara Wieck (1819-1896)
Schumann, Robert (1810-1856)
Smetana, Bedrich (1824-1884)
Strauss, Richard (1864-1949)
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971)

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich (1840-1893)

Ung, Chinary (1942- )

Vivaldi, Antonio (1678-1741)
Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)

Wagner, Richard (1813-1883)
Webern, Anton (1883-1945)