Explore the unique stories of some of the world’s most famous composers. Within each composer biography, we have suggested a piece that we think you should hear, so open Spotify, YouTube, or any other music-streaming platform and type the composer’s last name + the title of our suggested piece in the search window to find a great recording. We hope you enjoy our Composer Library.
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Adams, John
Anderson, Leroy
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Bartok, Bela
Beach, Amy
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Bernstein, Leonard
Bizet, Georges
Bologne, Joseph
Britten, Benjamin
Buxtehude, Dietrich
Chávez, Carlos
Chopin, Frédéric
Coleman, Valerie
Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel
Copland, Aaron
Costa Lima, Paulo
Crawford Seeger, Ruth
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Price, Florence
Prokofiev, Sergei
Puccini, Giacomo
Ravel, Maurice
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai
Rodgers, Richard & Hammerstein, Oscar
Rossini, Giachino
Rota, Giovanni Nino
Rutter, John
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Sarasate, Pablo de
Schubert, Franz
Schumann, Clara
Schumann, Robert
Sibelius, Jean
Sierra, Arlene
Simon, Carlos
Shostakovich, Dmitri
Smetana, Bedřich
Smyth, Ethel
Sousa, John Philip
Stravinsky, Igor
Still, William Grant
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich
Tower, Joan
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