Listening Library

Composers

American, b. 1947

British, b. 1971

British, 1709-1770

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

German, 1714-1788

Johann Sebastian Bach

German, 1685-1750

Hungarian, 1881-1945

Ludwig van Beethoven

German, 1770-1827

Austrian, 1885-1935

Italian, 1925-2003

French, 1803-1869

French, 1843-1902

French, 1838-1875

British, 1711-1779

Johannes Brahms

German, 1833-1897

British, 1879-1941

Benjamin Britten

British, 1913-1976

German, 1838-1920

American, b. 1908

Mexican, b. 1974

Chinese, b. 1953

Luigi Cherubini

Italian, 1760-1842

British, b. 1980

Michael Colgrass

Canadian, b. 1932

American, 1900-1990

American, b. 1941

Arcangelo Corelli

Italian, 1653-1713

Michael Daugherty

American, b. 1954

Peter Maxwell Davies

British, b. 1934

French, 1879-1961

Donnacha Dennehy

Irish, b. 1970

American, 1928-1996

Maurice Duruflé

French, 1902-1986

Antonín Dvořák

Czech, 1841-1904

British, 1857-1934

Romanian, 1881-1955

Manuel de Falla

Spanish, 1876-1946

Gabriel-Urbain Fauré

French, 1845-1924

Gabriela Lena Frank

American, b. 1972

Giovanni Gabrieli

Italian, 1551-1612

Francesco Geminiani

Italian, 1687-1762

George Gershwin

American, 1898-1937

Osvaldo Golijov

Argentine, b. 1960

Norwegian, 1843-1907

George Frideric Handel

British, 1685-1759

Franz Joseph Haydn

Austrian, 1732-1809

German, 1895-1963

Arthur Honegger

Swiss, 1892-1955

Alberto Iglesias

Spanish, b. 1955

American, 1874-1954

American

Dmitri Kabalevsky

Russian, 1904-1987

Georgian, b. 1935

American, 1920-1998

American, 1919-2009

British, b. 1952

Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Austrian, 1897-1957

Austrian, 1900-1991

György Kurtág

Hungarian, b. 1926

American, b. 1950

Magnus Lindberg

Finnish, b. 1958

Hungarian, 1811-1886

Pietro Locatelli

Italian, 1695-1764

Peruvian, b. 1978

Arthur Vincent Lourié

Russian, 1892-1966

Austrian, 1860-1911

Gian Francesco Malipiero

Italian, 1925-1973

Baltasar Martínez y Compañón

Spanish, 1738-1797

Swiss, 1890-1974

Felix Mendelssohn

German, 1809-1847

French, 1892-1974

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Austrian, 1756-1791

German, 1653-1704

Danish, 1865-1931

Estonian, b. 1935

Giovanni B. Pergolesi

Italian, 1710-1736

Astor Piazzolla

Argentine, 1921-1992

American, 1894-1976

Francis Poulenc

French, 1899-1963

Sergei Prokofiev

Russian, 1891-1953

British, 1659-1695

French, 1875-1937

Ottorino Respighi

Italian, 1879-1936

Silvestre Revueltas

Mexican, 1899-1940

American, b. 1923

Gioachino Rossini

Italian, 1792-1868

Alessandro Scarlatti

Italian, 1660-1725

Domenico Scarlatti

Italian, 1685-1757

Maria Schneider

American, b. 1960

Alfred Schnittke

Russian, 1934-1998

Arnold Schoenberg

Austrian, 1874-1951

Austrian, 1878-1934

Austrian, 1797-1828

Robert Schumann

German, 1810-1856

Dmitri Shostakovich

Russian, 1906-1975

Finnish, 1865-1957

Richard Strauss

German, 1864-1949

Igor Stravinsky

Russian, 1882-1971

Japanese, 1930-1996

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Russian, 1840-1893

Georg Philipp Telemann

German, 1681-1767

Michael Tippett

British, 1905-1998

Giuseppe Torelli

Italian, 1658-1709

Latvian, b. 1946

Francesco Maria Veracini

Italian, 1690-1768

Italian, 1813-1901

Heitor Villa-Lobos

Brazilian, 1887-1959

Antonio Vivaldi

Italian, 1678-1741

Carl Maria von Weber

German, 1786-1826

Austrian, 1883-1945

German, 1900-1950

American, 1907-1980

Christian Woehr

American, b. 1951

Bernd Alois Zimmermann

German, 1918-1970