John Eliot Gardiner

British Conductor and Early Music Specialist

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

German Baritone and Lieder Specialist

Arcangelo Corelli

Baroque Italian Composer and Violinist

Louis Spohr

German Romantic Composer and Violinist

Alexander Glazunov

Russian Romantic Era Composer and Conductor

György Ligeti

Hungarian-Austrian Avant-Garde Composer

Sir William Walton

British classical composer and conductor

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber

Baroque Austrian Composer and Violinist

Charles Ives

Innovative American Modernist Composer

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Prestigious American Orchestra

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Italian Renaissance Composer and Choirmaster

Václav Neumann

Czech Conductor and Violinist

Karl Böhm

Austrian Conductor and Opera Maestro

Jules Massenet

French Romantic Composer

Zoltán Kodály

Hungarian Composer and Ethnomusicologist

Johann Strauss Jr.

Austrian Waltz King and Composer

Pierre Boulez

Influential French composer and conductor

Manuel de Falla

Spanish Classical Composer and Pianist

Nino Rota

Italian Film Composer and Pianist

The Moscow Symphony Orchestra

Russian Classical Music Ensemble

Jean-Baptiste Lully

17th-Century French Baroque Composer and Musician

Jacques Offenbach

French composer and cellist

André Previn

Renowned American Pianist and Conductor

Johann Pachelbel

Baroque German Composer and Organist

Aram Khatchaturian

Soviet-Armenian Classical Composer and Conductor

Jan Dismas Zelenka

Baroque Czech Composer and Musician

Johann Christian Bach

German Classical Era Composer and Musician

Niels Wilhelm Gade

Danish Romantic Composer and Conductor

Leslie Howard

British Classical Pianist and Composer

Ernst von Dohnányi

Hungarian Composer and Pianist

L'Orchestre De La Suisse Romande

Swiss Symphony Orchestra

Luigi Cherubini

Italian Classical Composer and Musician

Emil Gilels

Soviet-Russian Classical Pianist

Erwin Schulhoff

Czech Avant-Garde Composer and Pianist

Ignaz Pleyel

Austrian classical composer and piano manufacturer

Jean Marie Leclair

Baroque French Violinist and Composer

Hans Pfitzner

German Romantic Composer and Conductor

Bruno Walter

Renowned Austrian-born Conductor

Igor Strawinsky

Russian-born composer of orchestral and ballet ...

Marcel Dupré

French organist and composer

Seiji Ozawa

Japanese Conductor and Classical Music Maestro

John Rutter

British Choral Composer and Conductor

Thomas Tallis

Renaissance English Composer and Choral Master

Édouard Lalo

French Romantic Composer and Violinist

Kurt Masur

Renowned German Conductor

Mike Oldfield

British multi-instrumentalist and composer

Steve Hackett

British progressive rock guitarist

Anton Reicha

Czech-born Classical Composer and Music Theorist

Albert Roussel

French Composer and Music Educator

Kurt Weill

German-American Composer and Theater Innovator

Anton Stepanovich Arensky

Russian Romantic Composer and Pianist

René Jacobs

Belgian Opera Conductor and Countertenor

Christoph Eschenbach

German Classical Pianist and Conductor

Herbert Howells

British classical composer and organist

Miklós Rózsa

Hungarian-American Film Composer and Conductor

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Japanese Composer and Electronic Music Pioneer

Henri Dutilleux

Influential French Composer

Christoph Graupner

Baroque German Composer and Harpsichordist

Bach,j.s.

Joaquin Turina

Spanish Classical Composer and Pianist