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Notable Composers and Conductors

  • Abbado, Claudio, Italian conductor
  • Adams, John, American composer
  • Böhm, Karl, Austrian conductor
  • Babbitt, Milton, American composer
  • Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel, German composer
  • Bach, Johann Sebastian, German composer and organist
  • Barber, Samuel, American composer
  • Barbirolli, Sir John, English conductor and cellist
  • Bartók, Béla, Hungarian composer
  • Beach, Mrs. H. H. A., American composer and pianist
  • BedÅich, Czech composer
  • Beecham, Sir Thomas, English conductor
  • Beethoven, Ludwig van, German composer
  • Bellini, Vincenzo, Italian opera composer
  • Berg, Alban, Austrian composer
  • Berio, Luciano, Italian composer
  • Berlioz, Louis-Hector, French romantic composer
  • Bernstein, Leonard, American composer
  • Billings, William, American hymn composer
  • Bing, Rudolf, Austrian operatic manager
  • Bizet, Georges, French operatic composer
  • Bloch, Ernest, Swiss-American composer
  • Boccherini, Luigi, Italian composer and cellist
  • Bolcom, William, American composer
  • Boulanger, Nadia, French conductor and musician
  • Boulez, Pierre, French composer and conductor
  • Boult, Sir Adrian, English conductor
  • Brahms, Johannes, German composer
  • Britten, Benjamin, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh, English composer
  • Bruckner, Anton, Austrian composer
  • Byrd, William, English composer
  • Cage, John, American composer
  • Caldwell, Sarah, American opera director and conductor
  • Carpenter, John Alden, American composer
  • Carter, Elliott Cook, Jr., American composer
  • Chávez, Carlos, Mexican composer and conductor
  • Cherubini, Luigi, Italian composer
  • Chopin, Frédéric Franí§ois, Polish and French composer
  • Clementi, Muzio, Italian composer
  • Copland, Aaron, American composer
  • Corelli, Arcangelo, Italian composer and violinist
  • Corigliano, John Paul, American composer
  • Cowell, Henry Dixon, American composer and pianist
  • Crumb, George Henry, American composer
  • Damrosch, Frank Heino, German-American conductor and educator
  • Damrosch, Walter Johannes, German-American conductor and composer
  • Davies, Sir Peter Maxwell, English composer and conductor
  • Davis, Sir Colin Rex, English conductor
  • Debussy, Claude Achille, French composer
  • Del Tredici, David, American composer
  • Delibes, Léo, French composer
  • Delius, Frederick, English composer
  • Dohnányi, Ernst von, Hungarian composer
  • Donizetti, Gaetano, Italian composer
  • Dorati, Antal, Hungarian-American conductor
  • Duparc, Henri, French composer
  • DvoÅák, Antoní­n, Czech composer
  • Elgar, Sir Edward William, English composer
  • Falla, Manuel de, Spanish composer
  • Feldman, Morton, American modernist composer
  • Fiedler, Arthur, American conductor
  • Floyd, Carlisle, American composer
  • Foss, Lukas, American composer
  • Franck, César Auguste, Belgian-French composer and organist
  • Franz, Robert, German composer
  • Furtwängler, Wilhelm, German conductor
  • Górecki, Henryk Mikolaj, Polish composer
  • Gabrieli, Andrea, Italian organist and composer
  • Ginastera, Alberto, Argentinean composer
  • Giulini, Carlo Maria, Italian conductor.
  • Glass, Philip, American composer
  • Gluck, Christoph Willibald von, German-born operatic composer
  • Gounod, Charles Franí§ois, French composer
  • Grieg, Edvard Hagerup, Norwegian composer
  • andel, George Frideric, English composer
  • Hanson, Howard, American composer
  • Harrison, Lou, American composer
  • Haydn, Franz Joseph, Austrian composer
  • Henschel, Sir George, German-English conductor
  • Henze, Hans Werner, German composer
  • Hindemith, Paul, German-American composer and violist
  • Hovhaness, Alan, American composer
  • Humperdinck, Engelbert, German composer and teacher
  • Ives, Charles, American composer and organist
  • KÅenek, Ernst, Austrian-American composer
  • Karajan, Herbert von, Austrian conductor
  • Khachaturian, Aram Ilich, Russian composer
  • Klemperer, Otto, German conductor
  • Kodály, Zoltán, Hungarian composer
  • Kostelanetz, André, American pianist and conductor
  • Koussevitzky, Serge, Russian-American conductor
  • Lachenmann, Helmut, German composer
  • Lasso, Orlando di, Franco-Flemish composer
  • Lehár, Franz, Hungarian composer of operettas
  • Leinsdorf, Erich, American conductor
  • Leppard, Raymnond John, English conductor
  • Levine, James, American conductor
  • Ligeti, György, Hungarian composer.
  • Liszt, Franz, Hungarian composer and pianist
  • Litton, Andrew, American music director, conductor
  • Lully, Jean Baptiste, French operatic composer
  • Maazel, Lorin Varencove, American conductor
  • Mahler, Gustav, Austrian composer and conductor
  • Mason, Lowell, American composer and music educator
  • Masur, Kurt, German conductor
  • Mehta, Zubin, Indian conductor
  • Mendelssohn, Felix, German composer
  • Menotti, Gian-Carlo, Italian composer
  • Messiaen, Olivier, French composer and organist
  • Milhaud, Darius, French composer
  • Monteux, Pierre, French-American conductor
  • Monteverdi, Claudio, Italian composer
  • Moussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, Russian composer
  • Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, Austrian composer
  • Muti, Riccardo, Italian conductor
  • Nielsen, Carl, Danish composer
  • Nono, Luigi, Italian composer
  • Offenbach, Jacques Levy, French composer
  • Orff, Carl, German composer and educator
  • Ormandy, Eugene, American conductor
  • Ozawa, Seiji, Japanese conductor
  • Pärt, Arvo, Estonian composer
  • Pachelbel, Johann, German organist and composer
  • Paisiello, Giovanni, Italian composer
  • Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da, Italian composer
  • Piccinni or Piccini, Niccolí², Italian composer of operas
  • Piston, Walter, American composer and teacher
  • Poulenc, Francis, French composer and pianist
  • Previn, Sir André, American conductor
  • Prokofiev, Sergei Sergeyevich, Russian composer
  • Puccini, Giacomo, Italian composer of operas
  • Purcell, Henry, English composer and organist
  • Rachmaninoff, Sergei Vasilyevich, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor
  • Rameau, Jean Philippe, French composer and theorist
  • Rattle, Sir Simon, British conductor
  • Ravel, Maurice, French composer
  • Reger, Max, German composer
  • Reich, Steve, American composer
  • Reiner, Fritz, American conductor
  • Rimsky-Korsakov, Nicolai Andreyevich, Russian composer
  • Romberg, Sigmund, Hungarian-American composer
  • Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio, Italian operatic composer
  • Rostropoich, Mstislav
  • Saint-Saí«ns, Charles Camille, French composer
  • Salonen, Esa-Pekka, Finnish conductor and composer
  • Sargent, Sir Malcolm, English conductor
  • Satie, Erik, French composer
  • Scarlatti, Alessandro, Italian composer
  • Schutz, Heinrich, German composer
  • Scherchen, Hermann, German conductor
  • Schnittke, Alfred, Russian composer
  • Schoenberg, Arnold, Austrian composer
  • Schubert, Franz Peter, Austrian composer
  • Schuman, William, American composer
  • Schumann, Robert Alexander, German composer
  • Shaw, Robert Lawson, American conductor
  • Shostakovich, Dmitri, Russian composer
  • Sibelius, Jean Julius Christian, Finnish composer
  • Slatkin, Leonard, American conductor
  • Smyth, Dame Ethel Mary, English composer
  • Sokoloff, Nicolai, American conductor and violinist
  • Solti, Sir Georg, English conductor
  • Stockhausen, Karlheinz, German composer
  • Stokowski, Leopold, American conductor
  • Strauss, Austrian musician family
  • Strauss, Richard, German composer
  • Stravinsky, Igor Fedorovich, Russian-American composer
  • Sullivan, Sir Arthur Seymour, English composer
  • Szell, George, American conductor and pianist
  • Takemitsu, Toru, Japanese composer
  • Tavener, Sir John Kenneth, English composer
  • Taylor, Deems, American composer and music critic
  • Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich, Russian composer
  • Telemann, Georg Philipp, German composer
  • Thomas, Michael Tilson, American conductor
  • Tippett, Sir Michael, English composer
  • Toscanini, Arturo, Italian conductor
  • Varí¨se, Edgard, French-American composer
  • Vaughan Williams, Ralph, English composer
  • Verdi, Giuseppe, Italian composer of opera
  • Villa-Lobos, Heitor, Brazilian composer
  • Vivaldi, Antonio, Italian composer
  • Wagner, Richard, German composer
  • Walter, Bruno, German-American conductor
  • Weber, Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von, German composer and pianist
  • Weill, Kurt, German-American composer
  • Weingartner, Felix, Austrian conductor and composer
  • Wolf, Hugo, Austrian composer
  • Wuorinen, Charles, American composer
  • Xenakis, Yannis, Greek-French composer

 

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