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Anton Rubinstein

Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein(November 28 [O.S. November 16] 1829 – November 20 [O.S. November 8] 1894) was a Russian-Jewish pianist, composer and conductor. As a pianist he was regarded as a rival of Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst the great keyboard virtuosos. He also founded the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, which, together with Moscow Conservatory founded by his brother Nikolai Rubinstein, helped establish a reputation for musical skill among the subjects of the Tsar of Russia.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart) (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers.

Franz Liszt

Franz Listz

Franz Liszt (October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886) was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.

Carl Orff

(b Munich, 10 July 1895; d Munich, 29 March 1982). German composer and music educator.

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Sergei Rachmninoff

Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff ; 1 April 1873 – 28 March 1943) was a Russian[2] composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music.[3] Early influences of Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and other Russian composers gave way to a thoroughly personal idiom that included a pronounced lyricism, expressive breadth, structural ingenuity, and a tonal palette of rich, distinctive orchestral colors

Felix Mendelssohn

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born, and generally known in English-speaking countries, as Felix Mendelssohn[n 1] (3 February 1809 – 4 November 1847) was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period

Johann Heinrich Rolle

Johann Heinrich Rolle (Quedlinburg 23 December 1716 – Magdeburg 29 December 1785) was a German baroque composer.[1][2][3] He is remembered mainly for his oratorios.[

Manuel Ponce

Manuel María Ponce Cuéllar (8 December 1882 – 24 April 1948) was a Mexican composer active in the 20th century. His work as a composer, music educator and scholar of Mexican music connected the concert scene with a usually forgotten tradition of popular song and Mexican folklore. Many of his compositions are strongly influenced by the harmonies and form of traditional songs.

Johann Gottfried Muthel

Johann Muethel

Johann Gottfried Müthel (January 17, 1728 – July 14, 1788) was a German composer and noted keyboard virtuoso. Along with C.P.E. Bach, he represented the Sturm und Drang style of composition.
As far as is known, he was the first to use the term fortepiano in a published work, in the title of his Duetto für 2 Clavier, 2 Flügel, oder 2 Fortepiano (1771), which reflects the rising popularity of the fortepiano at that time.

Jean-Joseph de Mondonville

Jean-Joseph de Mondonville (December 25, 1711 (baptised) – October 8, 1772), also known as Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville, was a French violinist and compose

Jean-Baptiste Lully

Jean-Baptiste de Lully 28 November 1632 – 22 March 1687) was an Italian-born French composer who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France. He is considered the chief master of the French Baroque style. Lully disavowed any Italian influence in French music of the period. He became a French subject in 1661.

Antonio Lolli

Antonio Lolli (ca. 1725 – 10 August 1802) was an Italian violinist and composer.

Guillaume Lekeu

Guillaume Lekeu (January 20, 1870 – January 21, 1894) was a Belgian composer of classical music.

Ignaz Moschelles

Ignaz Moscheles

Ignaz Moscheles (23 May 1794 – 10 March 1870) was a Bohemian composer and piano virtuoso, whose career after his early years was based initially in London, and later at Leipzig, where he succeeded his friend and sometime pupil Felix Mendelssohn as head of the Conservatoire.

Moritz Moszkowski

(b Breslau, 23 Aug 1854; d Paris, 4 March 1925). German pianist, composer and conductor of Polish descent.

Gabriel Pierne

(b Metz, 16 Aug 1863; d Ploujean, Finistère, 17 July 1937). French composer and conductor. His parents were musicians: his baritone father introduced him to singing and his mother to the piano.

Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (18 March [O.S. 6 March] 1844,[a 1] – 21 June [O.S. 8 June] 1908) was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five.[a 2] He was a master of orchestration. His best-known orchestral compositions—Capriccio Espagnol, the Russian Easter Festival Overture, and the symphonic suite Scheherazade—are considered staples of the classical music repertoire, along with suites and excerpts from some of his 15 operas. Scheherazade is an example of his frequent use of fairy tale and folk subjects.

George Onslow

(b Clermont-Ferrand, 27 July 1784; d Clermont-Ferrand, 3 Oct 1853). French composer of English descent. His father Edward Onslow came to France in 1781

Francesco Manfredini

017 Francesco Manfredini

Francesco Manfredini. (b Pistoia, 22 June 1684; d Pistoia, 6 Oct 1762). Italian composer. His father, Domenico, was a trombonist at Pistoia Cathedral from 1684. Francesco studied music at Bologna in his youth, taking violin lessons from Torelli and lessons in counterpoint (at that time virtually synonymous with composition) from Perti.

Johann Melchior Molter

Johann Melchior Molter (10 February 1696 – 12 January 1765) was a German baroque composer and violinist.

Johann Joachim Quantz

Johann Joachim Quantz (30 January 1697 – 12 July 1773) was a German flutist, flute maker and composer.

Modest Mussorgsky

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky 21 March [O.S. 9 March] 1839, Karevo – 28 March [O.S. 16 March] 1881, Saint Petersburg), one of the Russian composers known as ‘The Five’, was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music.

Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (Russian: Серге́й Серге́евич Проко́фьев)[1] (27 April 1891[2] – 5 March 1953)[3] was a Russian composer, pianist[4][5] and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century.

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

Fanny Cäcilie Mendelssohn (14 November 1805 – 14 May 1847), later Fanny Hensel, was a German pianist and composer, the sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn and granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. She was the grandmother of the philosopher Paul Hensel and the mathematician Kurt Hensel

Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia

Louis Ferdinand of Prussia

Friedrich Ludwig Christian, commonly known as Louis Ferdinand (November 18, 1772 – October 10, 1806), was a prince of Prussia and a soldier in the Napoleonic Wars.

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