Music: History, Composers, and Performers: Biographies
- Theodorakis, Mikis
- Abbado, Claudio
- Abreu, José Antonio
- Adam De La Halle
- Adam Le Bossu
- Adam, Adolphe Charles
- Adams, John, American Composer
- Adès, Thomas
- Adler, Larry
- Albanese, Licia
- Albéniz, Isaac
- Alberti, Domenico
- Albinoni, Tomaso
- Albrechtsberger, Johann Georg
- Alkan, Charles Henri Valentin
- Alsop, Marin
- Alypius
- Amacher, Maryanne
- Ameling, Elly
- Anderson, Marian
- Ansermet, Ernest
- Antheil, George
- Arcadelt, Jacob
- Arensky, Anton Stepanovich
- Aretinus, Guido
- Aristoxenus Of Tarentum
- Arne, Thomas Augustine
- Arrau, Claudio
- Asawa, Brian Laurence
- Auber, Daniel-François-Esprit
- Auer, Leopold
- Babbitt, Milton
- Baccaloni, Salvatore
- Bach
- Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel
- Bach, Johann Christian
- Bach, Johann Sebastian
- Badings, Henk
- Baker, Dame Janet
- Balakirev, Mili Alekseyevich
- Balfe, Michael William
- Barber, Samuel
- Barbirolli, Sir John
- Barenboim, Daniel
- Barrère, Georges
- Bartók, Béla
- Bartoli, Cecilia
- Basselin, Olivier
- Battle, Kathleen
- Bauer, Harold
- Bax, Sir Arnold Edward Trevor
- Beach, Amy
- Beecham, Sir Thomas
- Beeson, Jack
- Beethoven, Ludwig Van
- Bellini, Vincenzo
- Benda, Georg Anton
- Benevoli, Orazio
- Bennett, Sir William Sterndale
- Berg, Alban
- Bergmann, Carl
- Bergonzi, Carlo
- Berio, Luciano
- Berlioz, Louis-Hector
- Bernstein, Leonard
- Berwald, Franz
- Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Von
- Biggs, E. Power
- Billings, William
- Binchois, Gilles
- Bing, Rudolf
- Bishop, Sir Henry Rowley
- Bispham, David Scull
- Bizet, Georges
- Björling, Jussi
- Blacher, Boris
- Bliss, Sir Arthur
- Blitzstein, Marc
- Bloch, Ernest
- Blow, John
- Boccherini, Luigi
- Böhm, Karl
- Boieldieu, François Adrien
- Boito, Arrigo
- Bolcom, William
- Bond, Carrie Jacobs
- Bononcini
- Bononcini, Giovanni Battista
- Bononcini, Giovanni Maria
- Bononcini, Marc Antonio
- Bori, Lucrezia
- Borodin, Aleksandr Porfirevich
- Bortniansky, Dmitri Stepanovich
- Boulanger, Nadia
- Boulez, Pierre
- Boult, Sir Adrian
- Boyce, William
- Bradbury, William Batchelder
- Brahms, Johannes
- Brain, Dennis
- Bream, Julian Alexander
- Brendel, Alfred
- Britten, Benjamin, Baron Britten Of Aldeburgh
- Broschi, Carlo
- Bruch, Max
- Bruckner, Anton
- Bull, Ole Bornemann
- Bülow, Hans Guido, Freiherr Von
- Buononcini
- Burleigh, Henry Thacker
- Burlin, Natalie Curtis
- Burney, Charles
- Busch, Adolf
- Busoni, Ferruccio Benvenuto
- Buxtehude, Dietrich
- Byrd, William, English Composer
- Caballé, Montserrat
- Caccini, Francesca
- Caccini, Giulio
- Cadman, Charles Wakefield
- Cage, John Milton, Jr.
- Caldara, Antonio
- Caldwell, Sarah
- Callas, Maria Meneghini
- Calvé, Emma
- Cambert, Robert
- Campian, Thomas
- Campion, Thomas
- Carissimi, Giacomo
- Carpenter, John Alden
- Carreño, Teresa
- Carter, Elliott Cook, Jr.
- Caruso, Enrico
- Casadesus, Robert
- Casals, Pablo (Pau)
- Casella, Alfredo
- Cavalieri, Lina
- Cavalli, Pietro Francesco
- Chabrier, Alexis Emmanuel
- Chadwick, George Whitefield
- Chaliapin, Feodor Ivanovich
- Chaminade, Cécile Louise Stéphanie
- Chapin, Schuyler Garrison
- Charpentier, Gustave
- Chausson, Ernest Amédée
- Chávez, Carlos
- Cherubini, Luigi
- Chopin, Frédéric François
- Cimarosa, Domenico
- Clementi, Muzio
- Cliburn, Van
- Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel
- Colonne, Édouard
- Converse, Frederick Shepherd
- Copland, Aaron
- Corelli, Arcangelo
- Corelli, Franco
- Corigliano, John Paul
- Cornelius, Peter
- Cortot, Alfred Denis
- Couperin, François
- Cowell, Henry Dixon
- Crawford, Ruth
- Crespin, Régine
- Creston, Paul
- Crumb, George Henry
- Cui, César Antonovich
- Czerny, Karl
- D'indy, Vincent
- D'urfey, Thomas
- Dallapiccola, Luigi
- Damrosch, Frank Heino
- Damrosch, Leopold
- Damrosch, Walter Johannes
- Dargomijsky, Aleksandr Sergeyevich
- David, Félicien César
- Davies, Sir Peter Maxwell
- Davis, Sir Colin Rex
- De Larrocha, Alicia
- De Los Angeles, Victoria
- Debussy, Claude Achille
- Del Tredici, David
- Delibes, Léo
- Delius, Frederick
- Deller, Alfred
- Dent, Edward Joseph
- Des Prés, Josquin
- Dessau, Paul
- Destinn, Emmy
- Dett, Robert Nathaniel
- Diabelli, Antonio
- Diamond, David
- Dibdin, Charles
- Dittersdorf, Karl Ditters Von
- Dohnányi, Christoph Von
- Dohnányi, Ernst Von
- Domingo, Plácido
- Donizetti, Gaetano
- Dorati, Antal
- Dowland, John
- Dragonetti, Domenico
- Dudamel, Gustavo
- Dufay, Guillaume
- Dukas, Paul
- Dunstable, John
- Duparc, Henri
- Dusek, Jan Ladislav
- Dutilleux, Henri
- Dvořák, Antonín
- Eisler, Hanns
- Elgar, Sir Edward William
- Elman, Mischa
- Enesco, Georges
- Eschenbach, Christoph
- Falla, Manuel De
- Farinelli, Carlo Broschi
- Farrar, Geraldine
- Farrell, Eileen
- Fauré, Gabriel Urbain
- Feldman, Morton
- Ferrier, Kathleen
- Festa, Costanzo
- Fétis, François Joseph
- Feuermann, Emanuel
- Fiedler, Arthur
- Field, John
- Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich
- Flagstad, Kirsten
- Fleming, Renée
- Flotow, Friedrich Von
- Floyd, Carlisle
- Foote, Arthur William
- Foss, Lukas
- Franck, César Auguste
- Franz, Robert
- Fremstad, Olive Nayan
- Frescobaldi, Girolamo
- Friml, Rudolf
- Froberger, Johann Jakob
- Furtwängler, Wilhelm
- Gabrieli, Andrea
- Gabrilowitsch, Ossip
- Gade, Niels Vilhelm
- Galilei, Vincenzo
- Galli-Curci, Amelita
- Galuppi, Baldassare
- García, Manuel Del Popolo Vicente
- Garden, Mary
- Gardiner, Sir John Eliot
- Gatti-Casazza, Giulio
- Gaul, Alfred Robert
- Geminiani, Francesco
- Gerhardt, Elena
- Gershwin, George
- Gesualdo, Carlo
- Gibbons, Orlando
- Gieseking, Walter
- Gigli, Beniamino
- Gilbert, Alan
- Gilman, Lawrence
- Ginastera, Alberto
- Giordano, Umberto
- Giulini, Carlo Maria
- Glass, Philip
- Glazunov, Aleksandr Konstantinovich
- Glière, Reinhold Moritzovich
- Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich
- Gluck, Alma
- Gluck, Christoph Willibald Von
- Goldman, Edwin Franko
- Goldmark, Karl
- Goldmark, Rubin
- Gombert, Nicolas
- Górecki, Henryk Mikolaj
- Gossec, François Joseph
- Gottschalk, Louis Moreau
- Gould, Glenn
- Gounod, Charles François
- Graham, Susan
- Grainger, Percy Aldridge
- Granados, Enrique
- Graun, Carl Heinrich
- Graupner, Christoph
- Graupner, Gottlieb
- Gretchaninov, Aleksandr Tichonovich
- Grétry, André Ernest Modeste
- Grieg, Edvard Hagerup
- Griffes, Charles Tomlinson
- Grisi, Giulia
- Grove, Sir George
- Gruber, Franz
- Gruenberg, Louis
- Guido D'arezzo
- Guillaume De Machaut
- Guilmant, Félix Alexandre
- Hadley, Henry Kimball
- Hahn, Reynaldo
- Hale, Philip
- Halévy, Jacques François Fromental Élie
- Hallé, Sir Charles
- Hammerstein, Oscar
- Hammerstein, Oscar, 2D
- Hammond, John Henry
- Hampson, Thomas
- Handel, George Frideric
- Hanson, Howard
- Harnoncourt, Nikolaus
- Harris, Roy
- Harrison, Lou Silver
- Hart, Lorenz Milton
- Hasse, Johann Adolph
- Hastings, Thomas, American Composer
- Hauer, Josef Matthias
- Haydn, Franz Joseph
- Haydn, Michael
- Hayes, Roland
- Heifetz, Jascha
- Heller, Stephen
- Henry, Pierre Georges
- Henschel, Sir George
- Hensel, Fanny Cäcilie Mendelssohn
- Henselt, Adolf Von
- Henze, Hans Werner
- Herbert, Victor
- Hérold, Louis Joseph Ferdinand
- Hess, Dame Myra
- Hindemith, Paul
- Hofmann, Joseph
- Hogwood, Christopher Jarvis Haley
- Holden, Oliver
- Holst, Gustav
- Honegger, Arthur
- Horne, Marilyn
- Horowitz, Vladimir
- Hovhaness, Alan
- Hucbald
- Hummel, Johann Nepomuk
- Humperdinck, Engelbert
- Hunt Lieberson, Helen
- Hvorostovsky, Dmitri Aleksandrovich
- Ibert, Jacques
- Indy, Vincent D'
- Ippolitov-Ivanov, Mikhail Mikhailovich
- Ireland, John, English Composer
- Isaac, Heinrich
- Iturbi, José
- Ives, Charles
- Janáček, Leoš
- Jannequin, Clément
- Jansons, Mariss
- Jeritza, Maria
- Joachim, Joseph
- Johnson, Edward
- Johnson, John Rosamond
- Jommelli, Niccolò
- Josquin Desprez
- Kabalevsky, Dmitri
- Karajan, Herbert Von
- Kelley, Edgar Stillman
- Kellogg, Clara Louise
- Kennedy, Nigel
- Kern, Jerome
- Khachaturian, Aram Ilich
- Khan, Ali Akbar
- Khatchatourian, Aram Ilich
- Kipnis, Alexander
- Kirchner, Leon
- Klemperer, Otto
- Knussen, Oliver
- Kodály, Zoltán
- Koechlin, Charles
- Korngold, Erich Wolfgang
- Kostelanetz, André
- Koussevitzky, Serge
- Kraus Trujillo, Alfredo
- Krehbiel, Henry Edward
- Kreisler, Fritz
- Křenek, Ernst
- Kreutzer, Rodolphe
- Kubelík, Jan
- Kuhnau, Johann
- La Halle, Adam De
- Lachenmann, Helmut
- Lalo, Édouard Victor Antoine
- Landini, Francesco
- Landowska, Wanda
- Lang Lang
- Lasso, Orlando Di
- Lassus, Orlandus
- Lassus, Roland De
- Law, Andrew
- Leclair, Jean-Marie
- Lecuona, Ernesto
- Lehár, Franz
- Lehmann, Lilli
- Lehmann, Lotte
- Leinsdorf, Erich
- Leoncavallo, Ruggiero
- Leonhardt, Gustav
- Leppard, Raymond John
- Lesueur, Jean François
- Levine, James
- Lieberson, Peter
- Ligeti, György
- Lind, Jenny
- Liszt, Franz
- Lloyd Webber, Andrew
- Locatelli, Pietro
- Loeffler, Charles Martin
- Lortzing, Gustav Albert
- Ludwig, Christa
- Lully, Jean Baptiste
- Lutosławski, Witold
- Ma, Yo-Yo
- Maazel, Lorin Varencove
- Macdowell, Edward Alexander
- Machaut, Guillaume De
- Maderna, Bruno
- Mahler, Gustav
- Malibran, Maria Felicità
- Malipiero, Gian Francesco
- Mannes, David
- Marchesi, Mathilde
- Marenzio, Luca
- Mario
- Marriner, Sir Neville
- Marschner, Heinrich August
- Martin, Frank
- Martinelli, Giovanni
- Martini, Giovanni Battista
- Martinů, Bohuslav
- Mascagni, Pietro
- Mason, Daniel Gregory
- Mason, Lowell
- Massenet, Jules
- Masur, Kurt
- Mathews, Max Vernon
- Mccormack, John
- Mccracken, James Eugene
- Mehta, Zubin
- Méhul, Étienne Nicolas
- Melba, Dame Nellie
- Melchior, Lauritz
- Mendelssohn, Fanny
- Mendelssohn, Felix
- Mengelberg, Willem
- Menotti, Gian-Carlo
- Menuhin, Yehudi
- Mercer, Johnny
- Merrill, Robert
- Messiaen, Olivier
- Meyerbeer, Giacomo
- Miaskovsky, Nikolai Yakovlevich
- Milhaud, Darius
- Milnes, Sherrill Eustace
- Milstein, Nathan
- Mitropoulos, Dimitri
- Monk, Meredith Jane
- Monteux, Pierre
- Monteverdi, Claudio
- Moore, Douglas Stuart
- Morley, Thomas
- Morricone, Ennio
- Moscheles, Ignaz
- Mottl, Felix
- Moussorgsky, Modest Petrovich
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
- Muffat, Georg
- Muir, Alexander
- Münch, Charles
- Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich
- Muti, Riccardo
- Nancarrow, Conlon
- Nelsons, Andris
- Nevin, Ethelbert Woodbridge
- Newman, Ernest
- Nézet-Séguin, Yannick
- Nicolai, Otto
- Nielsen, Carl
- Nikisch, Arthur
- Nilsson, Birgit
- Nono, Luigi
- Nordica, Lillian
- Norman, Jessye
- Noseda, Gianandrea
- Oberlin, Russell Keys
- Obrecht, Jacob
- Ockeghem, Johannes
- Offenbach, Jacques Levy
- Oistrakh, David Feodorovich
- Okeghem, Jean D'
- Oliveros, Pauline
- Onslow, George
- Orff, Carl
- Ormandy, Eugene
- Ozawa, Seiji
- Pachelbel, Johann
- Pachmann, Vladimir De
- Paderewski, Ignace Jan
- Paganini, Niccolò
- Paine, John Knowles
- Paisiello, Giovanni
- Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi Da
- Parker, Horatio William
- Pärt, Arvo
- Partch, Harry
- Patti, Adelina
- Pavarotti, Luciano
- Pears, Sir Peter
- Peerce, Jan
- Penderecki, Krzysztof
- Pepusch, John Christopher
- Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista
- Peri, Jacopo
- Perlman, Itzhak
- Persichetti, Vincent
- Peters, Roberta
- Pfitzner, Hans
- Piatigorsky, Gregor
- Piazzolla, Ástor Pantaleón
- Piccinni, Niccolò
- Pierné, Henri Constant Gabriel
- Pinza, Ezio
- Piston, Walter
- Pizzetti, Ildebrando
- Ponchielli, Amilcare
- Pons, Lily
- Ponselle, Rosa
- Porpora, Niccolò Antonio
- Poulenc, Francis
- Pousseur, Henri
- Powell, John
- Praetorius, Michael
- Previn, Sir André
- Price, Leontyne
- Primrose, William
- Prokofiev, Sergei Sergeyevich
- Puccini, Giacomo
- Purcell, Henry
- Quantz, Johann Joachim
- Rachmaninoff, Sergei Vasilyevich
- Raff, Joseph Joachim
- Rameau, Jean Philippe
- Ramey, Samuel
- Rampal, Jean-Pierre
- Rattle, Sir Simon
- Rautavaara, Einojuhani
- Ravel, Maurice
- Reger, Max
- Reich, Steve
- Reinecke, Carl
- Reiner, Fritz
- Reinmar Von Zweter
- Respighi, Ottorino
- Reszke, Jean De
- Reyer, Ernest
- Rheinberger, Josef
- Richter, Sviatoslav
- Rimsky-Korsakov, Nicolai Andreyevich
- Robeson, Paul
- Rodgers, Richard Charles
- Rodrigo, Joaquín
- Romberg, Sigmund
- Root, George Frederick
- Rore, Cipriano De
- Rorem, Ned
- Rosenthal, Moriz
- Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio
- Rostropovich, Mstislav
- Roussel, Albert
- Rubinstein, Anton Grigoryevich
- Rubinstein, Arthur
- Rudel, Julius
- Ruggles, Carl
- Sacchini, Antonio Maria Gasparo
- Saint-Saëns, Charles Camille
- Salieri, Antonio
- Salonen, Esa-Pekka
- Samaroff, Olga
- Sammartini, Giovanni Battista
- Sarasate, Pablo De
- Sargent, Sir Malcolm
- Satie, Erik
- Sawallisch, Wolfgang
- Scarlatti, Alessandro
- Scarlatti, Domenico
- Scharwenka, Franz Xaver
- Schenker, Heinrich
- Scherchen, Hermann
- Schipa, Tito
- Schnabel, Artur
- Schnittke, Alfred
- Schober, Johann
- Schoenberg, Arnold
- Schubert, Franz Peter
- Schuller, Gunther Alexander
- Schuman, William
- Schumann, Clara
- Schumann, Robert Alexander
- Schumann-Heink, Ernestine
- Schütz, Heinrich
- Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth
- Scotti, Antonio
- Scotto, Renata
- Scriabin, Aleksandr Nikolayevich
- Seeger, Ruth Crawford
- Segovia, Andrés
- Sembrich, Marcella
- Serkin, Peter
- Serkin, Rudolf
- Sessions, Roger
- Shankar, Ravi
- Sharp, Cecil James
- Shaw, Robert Lawson
- Shirley-Quirk, John Stanton
- Shostakovich, Dmitri
- Sibelius, Jean Julius Christian
- Siepi, Cesare
- Sills, Beverly
- Sinding, Christian
- Skriabin, Aleksandr Nikolayevich
- Slatkin, Leonard
- Slezak, Leo
- Smetana, Bedřich
- Smyth, Dame Ethel Mary
- Söderström, Elisabeth Anna
- Sokoloff, Nicolai
- Solti, Sir Georg
- Sondheim, Stephen Joshua
- Sonneck, Oscar George Theodore
- Sontag, Henriette
- Sousa, John Philip
- Sowerby, Leo
- Spohr, Ludwig
- Spontini, Gaspare
- Stainer, Sir John
- Stamitz, Johann
- Stanford, Sir Charles Villiers
- Stern, Isaac
- Still, William Grant
- Stock, Frederick
- Stockhausen, Karlheinz
- Stokowski, Leopold
- Stradella, Alessandro
- Stratas, Teresa
- Straus, Oscar
- Strauss
- Strauss, Eduard
- Strauss, Johann
- Strauss, Josef
- Strauss, Richard
- Stravinsky, Igor Fedorovich
- Suk, Josef
- Sullivan, Sir Arthur Seymour
- Suppé, Franz Von
- Sutherland, Dame Joan
- Swanson, Howard
- Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon
- Szell, George
- Szigeti, Joseph
- Szymanowski, Karol
- Takemitsu, Toru
- Tallis, Thomas
- Tallys, Thomas
- Taneiev, Sergei Ivanovich
- Tannhäuser
- Tartini, Giuseppe
- Tauber, Richard
- Tavener, Sir John Kenneth
- Taverner, John
- Taylor, Deems
- Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich
- Te Kanawa, Dame Kiri
- Tebaldi, Renata
- Telemann, Georg Philipp
- Terfel, Bryn
- Terpander
- Terry, Sir Richard Runciman
- Tetrazzini, Luisa
- Theremin, Leon
- Thomas, Ambroise
- Thomas, John Charles
- Thomas, Michael Tilson
- Thomson, Virgil
- Tibbett, Lawrence
- Tilson Thomas, Michael
- Tippett, Sir Michael
- Toscanini, Arturo
- Tosti, Sir Francesco Paolo
- Tovey, Sir Donald Francis
- Tschaikowsky, Piotr Ilich
- Tucker, Richard
- Ussachevsky, Vladimir
- Van Zweden, Jaap
- Varèse, Edgard
- Vaughan Williams, Ralph
- Verdi, Giuseppe
- Viardot-Garcia, Pauline
- Victoria, Tomás Luis De
- Vieuxtemps, Henri
- Villa-Lobos, Heitor
- Viotti, Giovanni Battista
- Vivaldi, Antonio
- Vogler, Georg Joseph
- Voigt, Deborah Joy
- Wagner, Richard
- Walter, Bruno
- Walther Von Der Vogelweide
- Walton, Sir William Turner
- Watts, Isaac
- Webber, Andrew Lloyd
- Weber, Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst Von
- Webern, Anton Von
- Weelkes, Thomas
- Weill, Kurt
- Weinberger, Jaromir
- Weingartner, Felix
- Wellesz, Egon
- White, Clarence Cameron
- Whiteman, Paul
- Widor, Charles Marie
- Wilbye, John
- Willaert, Adrian
- Williams, Ralph Vaughan
- Witherspoon, Herbert
- Wolf, Hugo
- Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno
- Wolpe, Stefan
- Wuorinen, Charles Peter
- Xenakis, Yannis
- Youmans, Vincent
- Ysaÿe, Eugène
- Zimbalist, Efrem
- Zimmermann, Bernd Alois
- Zukerman, Pinchas
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