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Smetana
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Vivaldi
Richard Wagner

FAMOUS COMPOSERS

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1714-88 - German
Johann Christian Bach 1735-82 - German 
Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750 - German ***/
Bach Archive Leipzig
J S Bach repertoire information from Classical Net
J.S.Bach Homepage - created by Jan Hanford & Jan Koster
Samuel Barber 1910-81 - U.S. .
Béla Bartók 1881-1945 - Hungarian
Ludwig van Beethoven 1770-1827 - German ***/
Vincenzo Bellini 1801-35 - Italian
Alban Berg 1885-1935 - Austrian .
Hector Berlioz 1803-69 - French . - Hector Berlioz - Doug Asselberg's comprehensive list of works & bibliography - Hector Berlioz - Phillip Rutherford's Homepage
Leonard Bernstein 1918-90 - U.S
Georges Bizet 1838-75 - French  ***/
Ernest Bloch 1880-1959 - Swiss-U.S
Luigi Boccherini 1743-1805 - Italian .
Alexander Borodin 1833-87 - Russian
Pierre Boulez
Johannes Brahms 1833-97 - German  .***/
Benjamin Britten 1913-76 - British . - Britten Archive/
Anton Bruckner 1824-96 - Austrian
Ferruccio Busoni 1866-1924 - Italian
Dietrich Buxtehude 1637-1707 - Danish.
William Byrd 1543-1623 - British
John Cage - 1912-1992 Autobiographical statement and annotated discography from Albion Records./
Emmanuel Chabrier 1841-94 - French .
Gustave Charpentier 1860-1956 - French .
Frédéric Chopin 1810-49 - Polish
Aaron Copland 1900-90 - U.S. 
Claude Debussy 1862-1918 - French
Léo Delibes 1836-91 - French
Norman Dello Joio  1913 - U.S. .
Gaetano Donizetti 1797-1848 - Italian .
Paul Dukas 1865-1935 - French
Antonin Dvorak 1841-1904 - Czech. 
Edward Elgar 1857-1934 - British .
Manuel de Falla 1876-1946 - Spanish
Gabriel Faurè 1845-1924 - French 
Friedrich von Flotow 1812-83 - German - Martha.
Cesar Franck 1822-90 - Belgian - Symphony in D minor , Violin Sonata.
George Gershwin 1898-1937 - U.S -Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris, Porgy and Bess.
Umberto Giordano 1867-1948 - Italian - Opera Andrea Chènier.
Philip Glass on the web
Alexander K. Glazunoff 1865-1936 - Russian - Raymonda, Violin Concerto.
Mikhail Glinka 1804-57 - Russian - A Life for the Tsar, Ruslan and Ludmilla.
Christoph W. Gluck 1714-87 - German  - Alceste, Iphigènie en Tauride.
Charles Gounod 1818-93 - French - Faust, Romeo and Juliet.
Edvard Grieg 1843-1907 - Norvegian  - Peer Gynt Suite, Concerto in A minor for piano.
George Frideric Handel 1685-1759 -  German .-British Messiah, Water Music. *** - George Frederic Handel - Handels House - Museum 
Howard Hanson 1896-1981 - U.S.  - Symphonies
Roy Harris 1898-1979 - U.S -  Symphonies,wind quintet
Joseph Haydn 1732-1809 -  Austrian - Symphonies , chamber music, oratorios.
Paul Hindemith 1895-1963 - U.S - Mathis der Maler.
Gustav Holst 1874-1934 - British - The Planets.
Arthur Honegger 1892-1955 - French - Judith, Le Roi David, Pacific 231.
Alan Hovhaness  1911 - U.S - Symphonies, Magnificat.
Engelbert Humperdinck 1854-1921 - German  Opera Hansel and Gretel.
Charles Ives 1874-1954  - U.S. - Concord Sonata, 4 symphonies.
Aram Khachaturian 1903-78 - Russian - Ballets, piano pieces, Sabre Dance.
Zoltán Kodaly 1882-1967 - Hungarian - Háry János, Psalmus Hungaricus.
Fritz Kreisler 1875-1962 - Austrian - Caprice Viennois, Tambourin Chinois.
Rodolphe Kreutzer 1766-1831 - French - Etudes for violin.
Edouard Lalo 1823-92 - French - Symphonie Espagnole.
Ruggero Leoncavallo 1857-1919 - Italian  - Opera Pagliacci.
Franz Liszt 1811-86 - Hungarian - 20 Hungarian rhapsodies, symphonic poems.
Witold Lutoslawski 1913-94 - Polish - Orchestral and chamber works, Concerto for Orchestra, Funeral Music.
Edward MacDowell  1861-1908  -, U.S. - To a Wild Rose.
Gustav Mahler 1860-1911 - Austrian - Das Lied von der Erde.
Pietro Mascagni 1863-1945 - Italian - Opera Cavalleria Rusticana.
Jules Massenet 1842-1912 -  French -  Opera Manon, Le Cid, Thaïs.
Felix Mendelssohn 1809-47 -  German  A Midsummer Night's Dream, Songs Without Words, violin concerto.
Gian-Carlo Menotti 1911 -  Italian.-U.S. The Medium, The Consul, Amahl and the Night Visitors.
Olivier Messiaen - 1908-1992 - French
Giacomo Meyerbeer 1791-1864 -  German  Les Huguenots.
Claudio Monteverdi  1567-1643 - Italian - Opera, masses, madrigals.
Modest Moussorgsky 1839-81 - Russian - Opera Boris Godunov, Pictures at an Exhibition.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756-91, Austrian  *** - Mozart Project - Seve Boerner
Jacques Offenbach 1819-80 - French
Carl Orff 1895-1982 -  German  .
Johann Pachelbel 1653-1706 -  German
Ignacy Paderewski  1860-1941
Niccolò Paganini 1782-1840 - Italian
Palestrina c 1525-94 -  Italian .
Amilcare Ponchielli  1834-86 - Italian.
Francis Poulenc 1899-1963 - French
Sergei Prokofiev 1891-1953 - Russian
Giacomo Puccini, 1858-1924, Italian .
Henry Purcell, 1659-95, British
Sergei Rachmaninov, 1873-1943, Russian
Maurice Ravel, 1875-1937, French -  Bolèro, Daphnis et Chloè, Piano Concerto in D for Left Hand Alone.
Max Reger
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 1844-1908 -  Russian - Golden Cockerel, Capriccio Espagnol, Scheherazade, Russian Easter Overture, Flight of the Bumblebee.
Gioacchino Rossini 1792-1868 - Italian  - Rossini  - Opera Barber of Seville, Othello, William Tell.
Camille Saint-Saëns 1835-1921 -  French -  Carnival of Animals (The Swan), Samson and Delilah, Danse Macabre.
Alessandro Scarlatti 1660-1725 - Italian - Cantatas, oratorios, operas.
Domenico Scarlatti 1685-1757 -  Italian - Harpsichord works. ***
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951 - Austrian -  Pelleas and Melisande, Pierrot Lunaire, Verklärte Nacht.
Clara Schumann - Austrian - from David Kenneth Smith:
Franz Schubert 1797-1828 - Austrian -  Chamber music , lieder, symphonies (Unfinished). ***
Schubert Institute Vienna - Das Franz-Schubert-Institut, further and cultivate the art of the German Lied. Offers intensive summer courses
William Schuman 1910-92 - U.S. - Credendum, New England Triptych.
Robert Schumann 1810-56 - German  Die Frauenliebe und Leben, Traümeri. ***
Aleksandr Scriabin 1872-1915 - Russian.
Dimitri Shostakovich 1906-75 - Russian 
Jean Sibelius 1865-1957 - Finnish
Bedrich Smetana 1824-84 - Czech. .
John Phillip Sousa
Karlheinz Stockhausen 1928 - German .
Richard Strauss, 1864-1949 - German  - Richard Strauss - by David Meek
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971 - Russian 
Peter I. Tchaikovsky 1840-93 - Russian ***
Virgil Thomson 1896-1989 - U.S. .
Ralph Vaughan Williams 1872-1958 - British.
Giuseppe Verdi, 1813-1901 Italian ***
Heitor Villa-Lobos 1887-1959 - Brazilian 
Antonio Vivaldi 1678-1741 - Italian .
Richard Wagner 1813-83 - German *** - Richard Wagner
Carl Maria von Weber 1786-1826 - German .
Kurt Weill /

 

COMPOSERS

Baroque Era c1600-1750
Allessandro Scarlatti - Antonio Vivaldi - Reinhard Keiser - Jean-Baptiste Lully
George Frideric Handel - Johann Sebastian Bach
Classic Era
Joseph Haydn - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Early Ludwig van Beethoven
Romantic Era
Late Ludwig van Beethoven - Franz Schubert  - Robert Schumann - Chopin - Mendelssohn - Johannes Brahms
Bruckner - Mahler - Richard Wagner
Nationalism
Smetana - Dvorak - Grieg - Glinka - Rimski Korsakov - Chopin
Lizst - Strauss
Rossini - Donizetti - Bellini - Giuseppe Verdi - Puccini
20^th century
Claude Debussy - Arnold Schoenberg - Webern - Stravinsky - Prokofiev - Shostakovich - Bella Bartok - Janacek - Aaron Copland - Leonard Bernstein - Charles Ives - John Cage

 
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AUSTRALIAN COMPOSERS

The best source of Australian Composer information is on the Australian Music Centre site

OTHER MUSIC LINKS

YAHOO - Composers
Classical Composers Database - Jos Smeets enormous resource !
AMC - Information about Australian Composers from AMCOZ
CPCC The Center for the Promotion of Contemporary Composers - catalog of new music, recent and upcoming concerts of new music and other information for composers
Composer Timeline
Composers biographies and their works from NAXOS
Composers Indianna University music library
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Classical Composers Biographies - Michael Norrish's homepage has lots of information and links
CIER - Composers in electronic residence - linking Canadian Composers to students around the globe online

FOLK MUSIC LINKS
Wandering Whistler
The Digital Tradition Homepage
Richard Robinson's Tunebook