world's greatest musicians

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In the preparation of this site the aim has been to make the list of musicians include a selection of those that will be most useful for the general reader or student as well as for the musician. To this end the following classes have been particularly emphasized: great composers; noted artists and performers; successful teachers; musicians who have made inventions or improvements in the instruments they represent; musical critics and writers; all musicians who are important in the history of music; and representatives of special schools or epochs of music.

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A

Albeniz, Isaac
Alberti, Domenico
Albinoni, Tomasso

Allegri, Gregorio
Arne, Michael
Arne, Thomas Augustine

B

Bach, Johann Christoph
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Bach, Karl Philipp Emanuel
Bach, Wilhelm Friedmann
Balakirev, Mily Alexejevitch

Beethoven, Ludwig van
Bellini, Vincenzo
Benda, Georg
Boito, Arrigo
Borodin, Alexander Porphyrjevitch

Brahms, Johannes
Bruch, Max
Bruckner, Anton
Busoni, Ferruccio Benvenuto
Buxtehude, Dietrich
Byrd, William

C

Caccini, Giulio
Caffarelli, Gaetano. Majoriano
Carissimi, Giacomo
Chabrier, Alexis Emmanuel
Charpentier, Marc Antoine
Chausson, Ernest
Cherubini, Luigi
Chopin, Frederic François
Cimarosa, Domenico
Clementi, Muzio

Corelli, Archangelo
Couperin, François

D

Debussy, Claude Achille
Delibes, Clement Philibert Leo
Devienne, François
Dittersdorf, Karl Ditters von
Donizetti
Dowland, John
Dukas, Paul
Dvorak, Antonin

E

Elgar, Edward William

F

Farinelli, Carlo Broschi
Fasch, Carl Friedrich Christian

Faure, Gabriel Urbain
Ferrabosco, Alfonso (I)
Ferrabosco, Alfonso (II)
Fischer, Johann
Franck, Cesar Auguste
Frescobaldi, Girolamo
Fux, Johann Josef

G

Gabrieli, Andrea
Gabrieli, Giovanni
Galuppi, Baldassare
Gasparini, Francesco

Geminiani, Francesco
Gialdini, Gialdino
Glinka, Michael Ivanovitch
Gluck, Christoph Wilibald, Ritter von
Goldberg, Johann Gottlieb
Goldberg, Joseph Pasquale
Gounod, Charles François
Grieg, Edvard Hagerup
Guarnerius, Giuseppe Antonio

H

Haffner, Johann Christian Friedrich

Handel, George Frederick
Hasler, Hans Leo von
Haydn, Franz Joseph
Haydn, Johann Michael
Holst, Edward
Hummel, Ferdinand
Hummel, Johann Nepomuk
Humperdinck, Engelbert

I

Indy, Paul Marie Theodore Vincent d'
Isouard, Niccolo

J

Jacobi, Georges

Joachim, Joseph

K

Kramer, Leopold
Kreutzer, Rodolphe
Krommer, Franz
Kubelik, Jan

L

Lalande, Michel Richard de
Lalo, Eduard Victor Antoine
Lebrun, Ludwig August
Leclair, Jean Marie
Legrenzi, Giovanni
Leoncavallo, Ruggiero

Liszt, Franz
Locatelli, Pietro
Lully, Jean Baptiste de

M

Mahler, Gustav
Marais, Marin
Marcello, Benedetto
Mascagni, Pietro
Massenet, Jules Frederic Emile
Mehul, Etienne Nicolas

Mendelssohn, Felix Bartholdy
Mercadante, Francesco Saverio
Metastasio, Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura
Meyerbeer, Giacomo
Molloy, James Lyman
Monteverde, Claudio
Moussorgsky, Modeste Petrovich

Mozart, Leopold
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

N

Nevin, Arthur
Niccolini, Giuseppe

Nikisch, Arthur

O

Offenbach, Jacques

P

Pabst, Paul
Pachelbel, Johann
Pachelbel, Wilhelm Hieronymus
Paderewski, Ignace

P (cont.)

Paganini, Niccolo
Paisiello, Giovanni
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da
Pepusch, John Christopher
Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista
Piccinni, Luigi
Praetorius, Hieronymus
Praetorius, Michael

Puccini, Giacomo
Purcell, Henry

Q

Quinault, Jean Baptiste Maurice

R

Rachmaninoff, Sergei Vasselievitch
Raimondi, Pietro
Reinecke, Carl
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolas Andrejevitch
Rubinstein, Anton Gregorovitch
Rubinstein, Nicolaus

S

Sabbatini, Luigi Antonio
Saint-Saens, Camille
Salieri, Antonio
Sammartini, Giovanni Battista
Sarasate, Pablo de
Scarlatti, Alessandro
Scarlatti, Domenico

Schubert, Franz Peter
Schumann, Clara Josephine (Wieck)
Schumann, Robert Alexander
Schutz, Heinrich
Scriabine, Alexander
Sibelius, Jean
Smetana, Friedrich
Stamitz, Karl
Stradella, Alessandro
Stradivari, Antonio
Strauss, Eduard
Strauss, Johann, sr.

Strauss, Johann, jr.
Strauss, Joseph
Strauss, Richard
Suk, Josef
Suppe, Franz von
Sweelinck, Jan Pieter

T

Tartini, Giuseppe
Telemann, Georg Philipp
Torelli, Giuseppe

Tschaikowsky, Peter Iljitch

U

Uccellini, Don Marco
Ugolini, Vincenzo

V

Veracini, Francesco Maria

Verdi, Giuseppe
Vieuxtemps, Henri
Viotti, Giovanni Battista
Vitali, Giovanni Battista

Vivaldi, Antonio

W

Wagner, Richard Wilhelm
Weber, Carl Marie von
Widor, Charles Marie
Wolf, Hugo

X

Ximenes, Franziskus de Cineros

Y

Ysaye, Eugene

Z

Zelenka, Jan Dismas

Text: The Imperial History and Encyclopaedia of Music