Composers

Over time we’ll cover lots of composers. You can search for a specific composer simply by using the search tool (the magnifying glass) at the top left of the home page.

But if you’d like to get more of a handle (no pun intended) on the composers we’ve covered and listen to a sample of their music, then you can find the full list in alphabetical order below.

For each composer here we have their name in alphabetical order, dates, modern country in which they were born and a link to the piece we selected:

• Evaristo Felice dall’Abaco 1675-1742 Italy link to page

• Feodor Akimenko 1876 - 1945 Ukraine link to page

• Jacques Aubert 1689-1753 France link to page

• Johann Christian Bach 1735-1782 Germany link to page

• Ludwig van Beethoven 1770 - 1827 Germany link to page

• Hildegard von Bingen 1098 - 1179 Germany link to page

• Dmitrij Bortnjanskij 1751 - 1825 Ukraine link to page

• Giuseppe Brescianello 1690-1758 Italy link to page

• Antonio Brioschi 1690-1756 Italy link to page

• John Browne 1450 -1505 England link to page

• Max Bruch 1838-1920 Germany link to page

• Placidus von Camerloher 1718 - 1782 Germany link to page

• José Avelino Canongia 1784-1842 Portugal link to page

• Teresa Carreno 1853 - 1917 Venezuela link to page

• Antonio Cartellieri 1772 - 1807 Poland link to page

• Alfredo Catalani 1854-1893 Italy link to page

• Pavel Chesnokov 1877-1944 Russia link to page

• Loyset Compère 1445 - 1518 France link to page

• Yuly Eduardovich Konyus 1869-1942

• William Cornysh 1463-1523 England link to page

• Michel Corrette 1707 - 1795 France link to page

• Cesar Cui 1835-1918 Lithuania link to page

• Francis Cutting 1550-1596 England link to page

• Florian Johann Deller 1729 - 1773 Austria link to page

• Josquin Desprez 1450-1521 Belgium link to page

• Beatriz de Dia 1140-1212 France link to page

• Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński 1807- 1867 Ukraine link to page

• Ernst von Dohnányi 1877 - 1960 Slovakia link to page

• Guillaume Dumanoir 1615 - 1697 France link to page

• Johann Gottfried Eckard 1735 - 1809 Germany link to page

• Giles Farnaby 1563 - 1640 England link to page

• Gabriel Fauré 1845-1924 France link to page

• William Fenton 1715-1769 England link to page

• Giuseppe Ferlendis 1755 -1810 Italy link to page

• Petronio Franceschini 1651-1681 Italy link to page

• Baldassare Galuppi 1706-1785 Italy link to page

• Reinhold Glière 1875 - 1956 Ukraine link to page

• Carl Heinrich Graun 1704-1759 Germany link to page

• Giovanni Antonio Guido 1675-1729 Italy link to page

• Gustaf Petersson Hägg 1867 - 1925 Sweden link to page

• Johann David Heinichen 1683-1729 Germany link to page

• Johann Gottlieb Janitsch 1708-1763 Poland link to page

• Septimus Kelly 1881 - 1916 Australia link to page

• Karel Kohaut 1726-1784 Austria link to page

• Yuly Eduardovich Konyus 1869-1942 Russia link to page

• St. John Koukouzelis 1270-1340 Turkey link to page

• Johann Ludwig Krebs 1713 - 1780 Germany link to page

• Roland de Lassus 1532-1594 Belgium link to page

• Helene Liebmann 1795-1869 Germany link to page

• Joan Sanxo i Lliteres 1772-1830 Spain link to page

• Vicente Lusitano 1520 - 1561 Portugal link to page

• Sergei Lyapunov 1859 - 1924 Russia link to page

• John Marsh 1752 - 1828 England link to page

• Marianna Martines 1744-1812 Austria link to page

• Emilie Mayer 1812 - 1883 Germany link to page

• Fanny Mendelssohn 1805-1847 Germany link to page

• Emil Mlynarski 1870 - 1935 Lithuania link to page

• Iwan Muller 1786 - 1854 Estonia link to page

• Johann Gottfried Müthel 1728 - 1788 Germany link to page

• Nikolai Myaskovsky 1881 - 1950 Poland link to page

• Jan Lohelius Oehlschlägel 1724-1788 Czechia link to page

• Marbrianus de Orto 1460-1529 Belgium link to page

• Magnus Ortwein 1845-1919 Italy link to page

• Elias Parish-Alvars 1808-1849 England link to page

• Arvo Pärt 1935 - Estonia link to page

• John Plummer 1410-1483 England link to page

• Nicola Porpora 1686 - 1768 Italy link to page

• Gaetano Pugnani 1731 - 1798 Italy link to page

• Giovanni Punto 1746-1803 Czechia link to page

• Henry Purcell 1659 - 1695 England link to page

• Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873 - 1943 Russia link to page

• Mikołaj z Radomia 1400-1450 Poland link to page

• Louis-Charles Ragué 1744-1793 Belgium link to page

• Rudolph Joseph Rainier 1788 - 1831 Italy link to page

• Napoléon Henri Reber 1807-1880 France link to page

• Jean Richafort 1480 - 1547 Belgium link to page

• Francesco Ricupero 1740 -1806 Italy link to page

• Pedro Rimonte 1565-1627 Spain link to page

• Camille Saint-Saëns 1835 - 1921 France link to page

• Domenico Scarlatti 1685 - 1757 Italy link to page

• Johann Schmelzer 1623 - 1680 Austria link to page

• Heinrich Schütz 1585-1672 Germany link to page

• Ludwig Senfl 1486-1543 Switzerland link to page

• John Sheppard 1515-1558 England link to page

• Maddalena Laura Sirmen 1745-1818 Italy link to page

• Fredrik Sixten 1962- Sweden link to page

• Alice Smith 1839-1884 England link to page

• Barbara Strozzi 1619 - 1677 Italy link to page

• Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck 1562-1621 Netherlands link to page

• Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson 1847-1927 Iceland link to page

• Sigismond Thalberg 1812-1871 Switzerland link to page

• Vaclav Jan Tomasek 1774-1850 Czechia link to page

• Elizabeth Turner 1720-1756 England link to page

• Johann Baptist Vanhal 1739-1813 Czechia link to page

• Guiseppi Verdi 1813 - 1901 Italy link to page

• Henri Vieuxtemps 1820 - 1888 Belgium link to page

• Jāzeps Vītols 1863 - 1948 Latvia link to page

• Antonio Vivaldi 1678-1741 Italy link to page

• Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana 1590-1662 Italy link to page

• Walther von Vogelweide 1170-1230 Germany link to page

• Georg Joseph Vogler 1749 - 1814 Germany link to page

• Sylvius Leopold Weiss 1687 - 1750 Poland link to page

• Charles-Marie Widor 1844 - 1937 France link to page

• Henryk Wieniawski 1835-1880 Poland link to page

• Johann Wilhelm Wilms 1772 - 1847 Germany link to page

• Peter von Winter 1754 - 1825 Germany link to page