Musicians

Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland was one of the most appreciated American classical composers of the twentieth century. He innovatively blended popular forms of American music ...

Alban Berg
Often termed as the classicist of modern music, Alban Berg was one of the key founders of the Second Viennese School in the early years of 20th century. Berg ...

Aleksandr Scriabin
Esoteric, imaginative, and idiosyncratic, Aleksandr Scriabin’s contribution to the world of music is peerless. A mystic and an eccentric, Scriabin’s music and ...

Anton Bruckner
Anton Bruckner, one of the most brilliant and admired composers of the nineteenth century, was known for symphonies, masses and motets, which even today ...

Anton Webern
Though the entire collection of his works does not exceed more than three hours of performance time, Anton Webern stands tall among the 20th century’s most ...

Antonín Dvořák
Antonín Dvořák, the greatest Czech and Romantic composer of all time, is known for creating some of the most beautiful symphonies in the history of music. ...

Arnold Schoenberg
"I believe what I do and do only what I believe; and woe to anybody who lays hands on my faith. Such a man I regard as an enemy and no quarter given…” These ...

Bedrich Smetana
Titled as “father of Czech music,” Bedøich Smetana was a famous Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style in Czech. His style of ...

Bela Bartok
Bela Viktor Janos Bartok was a famous Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered to be one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. He ...

Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten was an English composer, conductor and pianist whose name has gone down in history as one of the best musicians of the past century. ...

Benny Goodman
Benjamin David “Benny” Goodman, better known as “Benny Goodman”, was a leading jazz clarinet player and an outstanding bandleader of the Swing Era (1935-1945). ...

Buddy Bolden
Charles Joseph “Buddy” Bolden, the renowned cornetist, was among the finest jazz musicians the world has ever had. Credited as the ‘Father of Jazz”, Bolden was ...

Carl Orff
Carl Orff was a distinguished German composer of the 20th-century, best known for his cantata — “Carmina Burana”. Although much of his standing as a musician ...

Carlos Chavez
Carlos Antonio de Padua Chavez y Ramirez alias Carlos Chavez was a Mexican composer, conductor, music theorist, educator and journalist. He had an unusual ...

Cesar Franck
Cesar-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck was a leading composer, pianist, organist and an inspiring music teacher who lived in Paris and created dynamic and ...

Charles Gounod
Charles Gounod was one of the most brilliant French composers of the 19th century, in the same league as Jules Massenet and Jacques Meyerbeer. Gounod had a ...

Charles Ives
Charles Ives is dubbed as one of America’s greatest composers. He was amongst the most prominent American artists of his time. An optimistic, idealistic, and ...

Charlie Parker
A short life of thirty-four years, amazing talent, groundbreaking works, yet relatively unknown among the music lovers — this is the sad but the cruel story of ...

Clara Wieck Schumann
Clara Josephine Wieck Schumann was an immensely talented German musician, one of the leading pianists of the Romantic era. Though often identified only as the ...

Claude Debussy
Claude-Achille Debussy was a remarkable French composer and one of the most leading figures associated with the domain of impressionist music along with ...

Dieterich Buxtehude
Dieterich Buxtehude was a prominent composer and organist of the Baroque period. Although his early years remained a mystery, he went on to make a mark with ...

Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie was a perfect blend of innovation and inspiration. He was one of those rare artists that history could ever produce. Gillespie was ...

Dmitry Shostakovich
Dmitry Shostakovich, the renowned Russian composer, is best known for his long body of works, which includes several operas, 15 symphonies, numerous chamber ...

Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy ‘Duke’ Ellington was regarded as one of the greatest jazz composers and a prolific performer of his time. Most of his musical works on ...

Edgard Varese
Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varese alias Edgar Varese was a French music composer, who spent a larger part of his life in USA. He is known for his sonic ...

Edward MacDowell
Edward Alexander MacDowell was the first American composer to attain international fame, wowing both critics and audiences. Like other composers of his time, ...

Elliott Carter
Elliott Carter is recognized as one of the most important and popular American composers of the classical music tradition all around the globe. Elliott Carter ...

Enrique Granados
Pantaléon Enrique Costanzo Granados y Campiña was an eminent neo-romantic Spanish composer. As a brilliant composer and pianist of classical music, he is often ...

Erik Satie
Erik Satie — an eccentric, an esteemed music composer and a performing pianist of extremely anti-establishment nature is hailed as a genius in contemporary ...

Ernest Bloch
Ernest Bloch was a Swiss-American composer considered to be one of the most popular personalities of that time. Apart from composing he also worked as a ...

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
Fanny Cäcilie Mendelssohn, who later came to be known as Fanny Hensel, was a German pianist and composer. She was the sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn ...

Fats Waller
Regarded as one of the greatest pianists in the history of jazz music, Fats Waller was a singer, musician and entertainer of exceptional forte. His amazingly ...

Ferruccio Busoni
Ferruccio Busoni was an Italian-born composer, pianist, editor, writer, teacher and conductor. A musician of immense technical abilities, he performed each of ...

Franz Joseph Liszt
Franz Joseph Liszt was a famous Hungarian composer and pianist. His virtuosic pianist skills were far more technically advanced than his contemporaries were. ...

Franz Peter Schubert
The story of Franz Schubert is a perfect example of an ignored genius who was neglected during his lifetime and died in obscurity. In his short life, which ...

Frederick Delius
Frederick Delius succeeded in blending the elements of singular quality with the poetic charisma, perfectly using his creative skills. This composer of German ...

Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin
One of the greatest Romantic musicians of all times, Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin is a name to reckon with in the realms of music. This Polish-born, ...

George Gershwin
George Gershwin was amongst one of the most significant and popular music composers for Broadway musicals. He wrote music for both Broadway and classical ...

Georges Bizet
Georges Bizet was an illustrious French composer, mainly of operas. His career was cut short by his untimely death and he achieved very little success before ...

Germaine Tailleferre
One of the lesser-known band members of Les Six group, not to mention, the only female composer in the troupe, Germaine Tailleferre’s contribution in the ...

Gian Carlo Menotti
One of the bigwigs of twentieth century American opera accredited for bringing in contemporary charm into traditional operas, Gian Carlo Menotti’s standing in ...

Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian romantic composer who is regarded as one of the most influential composers of the 19th century. He ...

Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler is hailed as one of the most prominent and influential symphonic composers belonging to the 19th and early 20th century. His creation principally ...

Gustavus Theodore von Holst
“Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you” — these words exemplify the depth and passion in which Gustav Holst ...

Heitor Villa-Lobos
Heitor Villa-Lobos is certainly one of the most extolled and most loved Brazilian composers of all times. His musical works not only epitomized the variegated ...

Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini is a musician who barely needs any introduction. A man of rare talent, a prolific musician who doled out a slew of television and motion picture ...

Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a pianist, composer and conductor, greatly revered for his contributions to music. He is regarded as one of the most popular ...

Jim Morrison
Jim Morrison gave birth to Rock music, one of the most popular genres of music. Jim is known both as a lead singer for his band ‘Doors’ and also for his ...

Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix is considered as one of the greatest electric guitarists that the musical world has ever witnessed. He composed music combining different genres ...

Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the prominent musicians of the Romantic phase in the 19th century. His birth place being Hamburg, ...

John Cage
John Cage was the most significant and controversial American innovative composer of the 20th century. He is known as the father of indeterminism who was ...

John Coltrane
Regarded as one of the most revolutionary and a widely imitated saxophonist in jazz music, John Coltrane carved a niche for himself in the world of jazz. ...

John Dowland
John Dowland was one of the most stylish English Renaissance composer, singer and lutenist. He is admired even today for some of his astounding melancholy ...

Karl Lawrence King
Karl L. King was an American march music bandmaster and composer, renowned for his work “Barnum and Bailey's Favorite”, one of the most popular circus march ...

Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer who is widely regarded as one among, if not the most influential figure of the world of music in the 20th century. ...

Kurt Weill
A socialist by nature and a music composer by profession, Kurt Julian Weill believed that music should serve a social cause. This is exemplified by the fact ...

Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein, the legendary musician, who inspired an entire generation with his music ensembles and symphony orchestras, was one of the most influential ...

Louis Armstrong
It is said that the greatest test a work of art needs to pass is the test of time. In that case, Louis Armstrong seems to have scored a perfect ton. Such is ...

Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Call him a virtuoso or a pioneer in popular music, Louis Moreau Gottschalk is possibly the first and the last pan-American composer to walk the earth. In a ...

Louis-Hector Berlioz
One of the most original Romantic composers, fondly revered as the master of orchestration, Louis-Hector Berlioz's contribution to the world of music is ...

Manuel de Falla
Manuel de Falla, also known as Manuel María de los Dolores Falla y Matheu, is a renowned Spanish composer of international acclaim. The Spanish composer ...

Maurice Ravel
Known for his popular musical piece ‘Bolero’, Maurice Ravel was one of the most significant composers of the 20th century. Ravel’s pieces were very ...

Michael Tippett
Sir Michael Kemp Tippett was a prolific British composer of the 20th century, a humanitarian and a pacifist. The entire gamut of his work comprises of five ...

Niccolo Paganini
A genius, non-conformist, eccentric, unruly and a vagabond, Niccolò Paganini left an irrefutable mark on the history of instrumental music as well as on 19th ...

Olivier Messiaen
Often acknowledged as a composer whose works show evidences of his deep loyalty towards Catholicism, exoticism and nature, Olivier Messiaen was not only a ...

Paul Hindemith
Paul Hindemith was one of the leading trendsetters of musical modernism. He was a master composer, conductor, violist, educator and theoretician and one of the ...

Percy Grainger
George Percy Aldridge Grainger, better known to the world as Percy Grainger, was an Australian–born composer, arranger and pianist. His chief fame rests as a ...

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a distinguished Russian composer who scripted many symphonies, concertos, operas, ballets, and chamber music, which became an ...

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams was an English composer who had composed many symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music and film scores. He was greatly influenced ...

Richard Rodgers
Richard Rodger, the musician extraordinaire, who helped legitimate American musical as an art form, is a name to reckon with in the musical world. With an ...

Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a highly recognized German composer, conductor, theatre director and polemicist, specially recognized for his ‘operas’ or afterwards ...

Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann, the German composer, aesthete and a renowned music critic was perhaps the most influential composer of the Romantic era. His works often ...

Ruggero Leoncavallo
Ruggero (or Ruggiero) Giacomo Maria Giuseppe Emmanuele Raffaele Domenico Vincenzo Francesco Donato Leoncavallo was an Italian opera composer, pianist and ...

Samuel Barber
Samuel Osborne Barber II was an American composer who was famous for his amazing musical skills. He expressed his passion for music from childhood and even at ...

Scott Joplin
Scott Joplin, “The King of Ragtime”, is often accredited for upgrading and introducing “banjo piano”, a plebian form of entertainment often affiliated to ...

Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was the most prolific Russian composer, pianist and conductor of the twentieth century. He was awarded the Anton Rubinstein Prize ...

Silvestre Revueltas
Regarded as one of the most significant figures of the twentieth-century Mexican music, Silvestre Revueltas Sanchez earned himself a classic position in the ...

Stanley Getz
Regarded as the greatest instrumental soloist of all-time, Stanley Gayetzky, famously known as Stan Getz emerged as one of the most significant musical forces ...

Teresa Carreno
María Teresa Carreño García de Sena alias Teresa Carreno was a renowned pianist, singer, composer, and conductor of Venezuelan origin. She was one of the most ...

Vincenzo Bellini
Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini was a great Italian operatic composer who had a knack for creating vocal melody, which was pure in style and ...

Witold Lutoslawski
An eminent European composer who dominated the second half of twentieth century music, Witold Lutoslawski’s contribution to music industry is something ...

Zoltan Kodaly
A prominent figure in the Hungarian musical world, Zoltan Kodaly is best remembered as a composer, ethnomusicologist and educationist. Along with his ...