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Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg , was an Austrian and later American composer. Many of Schoenberg's works are associated with the expressionist movements in early 20th-century German poetry and art, and he was among the first composers to embrace atonal motivic development. Schoenberg is best known as the innovator of the twelve-tone technique, a compositional technique involving tone rows. He was also a painter, an important music theorist, and an influential teacher of composition. More »
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland was an American composer of concert and film music. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as “the dean of American composers.” Copland's music achieved a difficult balance between modern music and American folk styles, and the open, slowly changing harmonies of many of his works are said to evoke the vast American landscape. He incorporated percussive orchestration, changing meter, polyrhythms, polychords and tone rows. More »
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler was a Bohemian-Austrian composer and conductor. Mahler was best known during his own lifetime as one of the leading orchestral and operatic conductors of the day. He has since come to be acknowledged as among the most important post-romantic composers. With the exceptions of an early piano quartet and ''Totenfeier'', the original tone-poem version of the first movement of the second symphony, Mahler's entire output consists of only two genres: symphony and song. More »
Felix Mendelssohn
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born and known generally as Felix Mendelssohn was a German composer and conductor of the early Romantic period. He was born to a notable Jewish family, being the grandson of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. His work includes symphonies, concertos, oratorios, piano and chamber music. After a long period of relative denigration due to changing musical tastes in the late 19th century, his creative originality is now being recognized and re-evaluated,... More »
George Gershwin
George Gershwin was an American composer. He wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works in collaboration with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin. George Gershwin composed both for Broadway and for the classical concert hall. He also wrote popular songs with success. Many of his compositions have been used on television and in numerous films, and many became jazz standards. The jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald recorded many of the Gershwins' songs on her 1959 Gershwin Songbook ... More »
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein was an American conductor, composer, and pianist. He was the first conductor born in the United States of America to receive world-wide acclaim, and is known for both his conducting of the New York Philharmonic, including the acclaimed ''Young People's Concerts'' series, and his multiple compositions, including ''West Side Story'', ''Candide'' and ''On the Town.'' He is known to baby boomers primarily as the first classical music conductor to make many television... More »
Anton Rubinstein
:''This article is about the 19th century Russian pianist and composer. For the 20th century Polish pianist with a similar name, see Arthur Rubinstein''. Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein , was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor. As a pianist he was regarded as a rival to Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst the greatest keyboard virtuosi. More »
Alexander von Zemlinsky
Alexander Zemlinsky or Alexander von Zemlinsky, was an Austrian composer, conductor, and teacher. More »
Darius Milhaud

Darius Milhaud was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of ''Les Six'' - also known as the ''Groupe des Six'' - and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are particularly noted as being influenced by jazz and for their use of polytonality . Born to a Jewish family in Aix-en-Provence, Milhaud studied in Paris at the Paris Conservatory where he met his fellow group members Arthur Honegger and Germaine Tailleferre. More »

Giacomo Meyerbeer
Giacomo Meyerbeer was a noted German-born opera composer, and the first great exponent of Grand Opera. More »
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