Composers
The composers who shaped music history — their lives and featured stories.
Austria
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1756 – 1791
France
Claude Debussy
1862 – 1918
Poland
Frédéric Chopin
1810 – 1849
France
Gabriel Fauré
1845 – 1924
Russia
Sergei Prokofiev
1891 – 1953
Hungary
Franz Liszt
1811 – 1886
Russia
Alexander Scriabin
1872 – 1915
Finland
Jean Sibelius
1865 – 1957
France
Maurice Ravel
1875 – 1937
Germany
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685 – 1750
Germany
Richard Georg Strauss
1864 – 1949
Russia
Sergei Rachmaninoff
1873 – 1943
United Kingdom
Edward Elgar
1857 – 1934
Russia
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1840 – 1893
Italy
Antonio Vivaldi
1678 – 1741
Czechia
Antonín Dvořák
1841 – 1904
United States
Steve Reich
b. 1936
Italy
Pietro Mascagni
1863 – 1945
Germany
Felix Mendelssohn
1809 – 1847
France
Francis Poulenc
1899 – 1963
Germany
Johannes Brahms
1833 – 1897
Austria
Johann Strauss II
1825 – 1899
Germany
Ludwig van Beethoven
1770 – 1827
France
Erik Satie
1866 – 1925
United States
George Gershwin
1898 – 1937
Germany
Johann Pachelbel
1653 – 1706
Dmitri Shostakovich
1906 – 1975
Italy
Niccolò Paganini
Igor Stravinsky
Robert Schumann