Ludwig van Beethoven16 December 1770, Austrian, German
Composer
Frédéric Chopin01 March 1810, Polish
Composer
Claude Debussy22 August 1862, French
Composer
Richard Wagner22 May 1813, German
Composer, conductor, theatre director
Franz Liszt22 October 1811, German, Hungarian
Composer, pianist, conductor and teacher
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky17 June 1882, American
Composer
Maurice Ravel07 March 1875, French
Composer
Erik Satie17 May 1866, French
Musician
Giuseppe Garibaldi04 July 1807, Italian
Italian Nationalist
Johannes Brahms07 May 1833, German
Composer and pianist
Sergei Prokofiev23 April 1891, Ukrainian
Composer and pianist
Camille Saint-Saëns09 October 1835, French
Composer, Organist, Pianist
Giuseppe Verdi10 October 1813, Italian
Composer
Giacomo Puccini22 December 1858, Belgian, Italian
Composer
Gustavus Theodore von Holst21 September 1874, British
Composer
Jean Sibelius08 December 1865, Finnish
Composer
Edward Elgar02 June 1857, British
Composer
John Philip Sousa06 November 1854, American
Conductor, Composer
Clara Wieck Schumann13 September 1819, German
Musician & Composer
Edgard Varese22 December 1883, American
Composer
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov18 March 1844, Russian
Composer
Modest Mussorgsky21 March 1839, Russian
Composer
William Herschel15 November 1738, German, British
Astronomer, Composer
E. T. A. Hoffmann24 January 1776, Prussian
Author
Georges Bizet25 October 1838, French
Composer
Carl Orff10 July 1895, German
Composer
Bedrich Smetana02 March 1824, Austrian, Czech
Composer
Charles Ives20 October 1874, American
Composer
Anton Bruckner04 September 1824, Austrian
Composer
Nadia Boulanger16 September 1887, French
Musician
Vincenzo Bellini03 November 1801, Italian
Opera Composer
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Paul Hindemith16 November 1895, German
Composer
Alban Berg09 February 1885, Austrian
Composer
Arthur Sullivan13 May 1842, British
Composer
Isaac Albeniz29 May 1860, Spanish
Pianist
Max Bruch06 January 1838, German
Composer and Conductor
Mikhail Glinka01 June 1804, German, Russian
Composer
Ferruccio Busoni01 April 1866, German, Italian
Composer
Hugo Wolf13 March 1860, Slovenian
Composer
Max Reger19 March 1873, German
Composer
Sigmund Romberg29 July 1887, American
Composer
Adolf von Henselt12 May 1814, German
Composer
Irving Berlin11 May 1888, American, Russian
Street artist, Composer, Pianist, Songwriter,
Jack Frost25 November 1893, American
Composer
Sergey Prokofiev23 April 1891, Russian
Composer
Felix Mendelssohn03 February 1809, German
Composer
Ernest II21 June 1818, German
Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
Clara Schumann13 September 1819, German
Pianist, Composer, Music educator
Jelly Roll Morton20 October 1890, American
Pianist, Bandleader, Composer, Conductor, Jazz
E.T.A. Hoffmann24 January 1776, Prussian
Prussian author
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor15 August 1875, British
Composer, Pianist, Conductor
Alexander Scriabin06 January 1872, Russian
Composer, Pianist, University teacher
Ivor Novello15 January 1893, British
Actor, Playwright, Composer, Writer, Screenwriter,
James Pierpont25 April 1822, American
composer, lyricist, songwriter
Alexander Borodin12 November 1833, Russian
Composer, Chemist
Fanny Crosby24 March 1820, American
Poet
Jacques Offenbach20 June 1819, German, French
Composer, Cellist, Conductor, Impresario
Jerome Kern27 January 1885, American
Composer, Songwriter, Film score composer, Coin
Adolphe Adam24 July 1803, French
Composer
Max Steiner10 May 1888, Austrian, American
Conductor, Composer, Musician, Screenwriter, Film
W. C. Handy16 November 1873, American
Trumpeter, Composer, Songwriter, Autobiographer,
Sidney Bechet14 May 1897, American
Composer, Clarinetist, Saxophonist, Jazz musician
Houston Stewart Chamberlain09 September 1855, German, British
Racial theorist, Writer, Politician, Philosopher,
Fanny Mendelssohn14 November 1805, German
Composer, Pianist
Carl Maria von Weber18 November 1786, German
Composer
Alma Mahler31 August 1879, Austrian, American
Composer
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti22 December 1876, Italian
Poet, Writer, Playwright, Composer, Science
Francisco Tárrega21 November 1852, Spanish
Guitarist, Composer, Classical guitarist, Pianist
Mack Sennett17 January 1880, Canadian, American
Actor
Erich Wolfgang Korngold29 May 1897, Austrian, Czech, American
Composer, Pianist, Conductor, Film score composer
Arthur Freed09 September 1894, American
Film producer, Composer, Screenwriter, Actor,
Fritz Kreisler02 February 1875, Austrian, American
Composer, Violinist
Paul Whiteman28 March 1890, American
Bandleader
Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy16 December 1847, French
Military personnel, Spy, Composer
Tristan Tzara16 April 1896, French
Art collector, Poet, Writer, Diplomat, Film
Engelbert Humperdinck01 September 1854, German, Indian
Composer
Cosima Wagner24 December 1837, German
Composer, Writer, Director
Carl Czerny21 February 1791, Austrian
pianist, composer, musicologist, music theorist
Mykola Leontovych13 December 1877, Ukrainian
Composer
E.Y. Harburg08 April 1896, American
Lyricist
Lorenz Hart02 May 1895, American
Lyricist, Composer, Playwright, Songwriter,
Ottorino Respighi09 July 1879, Italian
Composer, Conductor, Musicologist, Music educator,
Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov01 April 1883, Russian
composer, conductor, choir director, music
Jules Massenet12 May 1842, French
Composer, Musicologist, Music educator, University
Anton Rubinstein28 November 1829, Russian
Composer, Pianist, Conductor, Musicologist, Music
Theodore Hook22 September 1788, British
Man of Letters
Vartapet Komitas26 September 1869, Armenian
Darius Milhaud04 September 1892, French
Classical composer, Conductor, Autobiographer,
Mily Balakirev31 December 1836, Russian
composer, conductor, educationist, musicologist
Léo Delibes21 February 1836, French
Composer, Musicologist, University teacher
Agustín Lara30 October 1897, Mexican
Composer, Singer, Actor, Songwriter
Lili Boulanger21 August 1893, French
Composer
Harry Partch24 June 1901, American
Composer
Efrem Zimbalist21 April 1889, American
Composer, Conductor, Music educator, Violinist,