Composers & Musicians
37 entries in the Composers & Musicians compendium.
Composers & Musicians — Era Chart
Giovanni Pierluigi da PalestrinaItalian composer of late Renaissance sacred music.Glenn GouldCanadian pianist renowned for Bach interpretations and eccentricities.Guillaume Du FayLeading European composer of early Renaissance music.Guillaume de MachautFrench composer and poet, central figure of ars nova.György LigetiAvant-garde composer known for micropolyphony and film music adaptations.Hank WilliamsAmerican composer and conductor known for iconic film scores.Hector BerliozFrench romantic composer, conductor and critic.Henry PurcellEnglish Baroque composer and organist of the middle Baroque era.Herbert von KarajanAustrian conductor, Berlin Philharmonic leader for 34 years.Hildegard of BingenBenedictine abbess, polymath, and visionary of the High Middle Ages.Irving BerlinRussian-born American songwriter and composer whose music forms a large part of the Great Jean SibeliusFinnish composer of the late Romantic and early modern periods.Johann Strauss IIAustrian composer known as 'The Waltz King'.John CageAmerican composer known for 4′33″ and chance-controlled music.John ColtraneAmerican jazz saxophonist and composer who pioneered modal and free jazz.Joni MitchellCanadian musician whose 1979 album *Mingus* is a jazz-centric collaboration with Charles MJosquin des PrezFranco-Flemish composer central to Renaissance polyphony.Julie AndrewsDame Julie Andrews (born Julia Elizabeth Wells, 1 October 1935) is an English actress, sinJulio IglesiasSpanish recording artist, all-time best-selling Latino artist, one of the best-selling musKraftwerkWidely considered innovators and pioneers of electronic music, Kraftwerk was among the firLata MangeshkarIndian playback singer with an eight-decade career.Leonard BernsteinFirst American-born conductor to receive international acclaim.Little RichardAmerican pianist, singer and performer; final studio album of new recordings released befoLuciano PavarottiItalian operatic tenor and member of the Three Tenors.Modest MussorgskyRussian composer of The Five, innovator of national music.Mstislav RostropovichCellist who expanded the repertoire and championed human rights.Nadia BoulangerFrench teacher who shaped 20th-century music and broke conducting barriers.Nikolai Rimsky-KorsakovRussian composer who shaped the nationalist style and trained generations.Nirvana (band)American rock band that popularized alternative rock.Pablo CasalsCatalan cellist who revived Bach's Cello Suites and opposed Franco.Paco de LucíaSpanish flamenco guitarist who expanded the genre's boundaries.Philip GlassAmerican composer of repetitive structures and minimalist works.Prince (musician)Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016) was an American musician, singer, sonQueen (band)Queen are a British rock band that started in London in 1970. The original members were FrRavi ShankarIndian sitar virtuoso who globalized Indian classical music.Richard StraussGerman composer and conductor of tone poems and operas.Ralph Vaughan WilliamsEnglish composer who broke from German-dominated style.
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