Biographies: Notable Composers and Conductors
Updated August 5, 2020 |
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Notable Composers and Conductors
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- 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
- Handel, 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
- Rostropovich, 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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