Composers
The composers who shaped music history — their lives and featured stories.
Austria
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1756 – 1791
4 stories
France
Claude Debussy
1862 – 1918
4 stories
Russia
Sergei Rachmaninoff
1873 – 1943
3 stories
United Kingdom
Edward Elgar
1857 – 1934
2 stories
Russia
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1840 – 1893
2 stories
Poland
Frédéric Chopin
1810 – 1849
2 stories
Arvo Pärt
b. 1935
1 stories
Italy
Antonio Vivaldi
1678 – 1741
1 stories
Czechia
Antonín Dvořák
1841 – 1904
1 stories
Igor Stravinsky
1 stories
France
Gabriel Fauré
1845 – 1924
1 stories
United States
Steve Reich
b. 1936
1 stories
Russia
Sergei Prokofiev
1891 – 1953
1 stories
Dmitri Shostakovich
1906 – 1975
1 stories
Italy
Niccolò Paganini
1 stories
Italy
Pietro Mascagni
1863 – 1945
1 stories
Germany
Felix Mendelssohn
1809 – 1847
1 stories
France
Francis Poulenc
1899 – 1963
1 stories
Hungary
Franz Liszt
1811 – 1886
1 stories
Germany
Johannes Brahms
1833 – 1897
1 stories
Austria
Johann Strauss II
1825 – 1899
1 stories
Germany
Ludwig van Beethoven
1770 – 1827
1 stories
Robert Schumann
1 stories
Hector Berlioz
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United States
George Gershwin
1898 – 1937
No stories yet
France
Maurice Ravel
1875 – 1937
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Germany
Richard Georg Strauss
1864 – 1949
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