- George Frideric Handel
George Frideric Handel was a German-born British Baroque composer who was a leading composer of concerti grossi, operas and oratorios. Born in Germany as Georg Friederich Händel, he dwelt during most of his adult life in England, becoming a subject of the British crown on 22 January 1727. His most famous works are "Messiah", an oratorio set to texts from the King James Bible, "Water Music" and "Music for the Royal Fireworks". - Edward Elgar
Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (2 June 1857 - 23 February 1934) was an English Romantic composer. Several of his first major orchestral works, including the "Enigma Variations" and the "Pomp and Circumstance Marches", were greeted with acclaim. He also composed oratorios, chamber music, symphonies and instrumental concertos. He was appointed Master of the King's Musick in 1924. - Johann Pachelbel
Johann Pachelbel (baptized September 1, 1653 - March 3, 1706) was a German Baroque composer, organist and teacher who brought the south German organ tradition to its peak. He composed a large body of sacred and secular music, and his contributions to the development of the chorale prelude and fugue have earned him a place among the most important composers of the middle Baroque. - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (March 8, 1714 - December 14, 1788) was a German musician and composer, the second of five sons of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach. He was one of the founders of the Classical style, composing in the Rococo and Classical periods. - Felix Mendelssohn
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born and known generally as Felix Mendelssohn (February 3, 1809 - November 4, 1847) was a German composer and conductor of the early Romantic period. 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, … - Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms (May 7, 1833 - April 3, 1897) was a German composer of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, he eventually settled in Vienna, Austria. - Camille Saint-Saëns
Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (9 October 1835 - 16 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor, and pianist, known especially for his orchestral works "The Carnival of the Animals", "Danse Macabre", and Symphony No. 3 ("Organ Symphony"). - Herbert Howells
Herbert Norman Howells CH (17 October, 1892 - 23 February, 1983) was an English composer, organist, and teacher. - Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt was a Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer of the Romantic period. He was a renowned performer throughout Europe during the 19th century, noted especially for his showmanship and great skill with the piano. Today, he is considered to be one of the greatest pianists in history, despite the fact that no recordings of his playing exist. Liszt is frequently credited with re-defining piano playing itself, and his influence is still visible today, … - Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist. He entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 11, and numbered Paul Dukas, Maurice Emmanuel, Charles-Marie Widor and Marcel Dupré among his teachers. He was appointed organist at the church of La Trinité in Paris in 1931, a post he held until his death. On the fall of France in 1940 Messiaen was made a prisoner of war, … - Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann (June 8, 1810 - July 29, 1856) was a German composer and pianist. He was one of the most famous Romantic composers of the nineteenth century, as well as a famous music critic. An intellectual as well as an aesthete, his music reflects the deeply personal nature of Romanticism. Introspective and often whimsical, his early music was an attempt to break with the tradition of classical forms and structure which he thought too restrictive. - Dieterich Buxtehude
Dieterich Buxtehude (c. 1637-9 May 1707) was a German-Danish organist and a highly regarded composer of the Baroque period. His organ works comprise a central part of the standard organ repertoire and are frequently performed at recitals and church services. He wrote in a wide variety of vocal and instrumental idioms, and his style strongly influenced many composers, including Johann Sebastian Bach. - César Franck
César Auguste Jean Guillaume Hubert Franck, a composer, organist and music teacher of Belgian and German origin who lived in France, was one of the great figures in classical music in the second half of the 19th century. - Josef Rheinberger
Josef Gabriel Rheinberger was a Liechtensteinian organist and composer. When only seven years old Rheinberger was organist at Vaduz Parish Church, and his first composition was performed the following year. In 1851 he entered the Munich Conservatorium, where he later became professor of pianoforte playing, and subsequently professor of composition. When the Munich Conservatorium dissolved he was appointed "répétiteur" at the Court Theatre, … - Julius Reubke
Julius Reubke (March 23 1834 - June 3 1858) was a German composer, pianist and organist. In his short life - he died at the age of 24 - he composed the "Sonata on the 94th Psalm", one of the greatest organ works in the repertoire. - Sigfrid Karg-Elert
Sigfrid Karg-Elert (November 21 1877-April 9 1933) was a German composer of considerable fame in the early twentieth century, best known for his choral lieder, chamber music, and compositions for piano, organ, and harmonium. Born in Oberndorf am Neckar, Germany, he studied music at the Leipzig Conservatory, where he would become a staff member in 1919. Notable influences of his work include composers Claude Debussy, Aleksandr Scriabin, and Arnold Schoenberg. - Niels Wilhelm Gade
Niels Wilhelm Gade (February 22, 1817 - December 21, 1890) was a Danish composer, conductor, violinist, organist and teacher. He is considered the most important Danish musician of his day. - Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg (the anglicized form of Schönberg - Schoenberg changed the spelling officially when he left Germany and re-converted to Judaism in 1933), (September 13, 1874 - July 13, 1951) 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. - Louis-Claude Daquin
Louis-Claude Daquin (or d'Acquin), (July 4, 1694 - June 15, 1772) was a French composer of Jewish birth writing in the Baroque and Galant styles. He was a virtuoso organist and harpsichordist. Louis-Claude Daquin was born in Paris, to a converted Jewish family from Carpentras originating from Italy (where their name was D'Acquino). One of his great-uncles was a professor of Hebrew at the College de France. - Carl Nielsen
Carl August Nielsen (June 9, 1865 - October 3, 1931) was a conductor, violinist, and the most internationally known composer from Denmark. He is especially admired for his six symphonies and his concerti for violin, flute and clarinet. - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (April or May, 1562-October 16, 1621) was a Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue whose work straddled the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras. He was born in Deventer and died in Amsterdam. Many of his family were musicians-principally organists-and he is known to have studied with Jan Willemszoon Lossy as well as Zarlino, the famous composer and theorist, in Venice. - Marcel Dupré
Marcel Dupré, was a French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue. - Peter Maxwell Davies
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, CBE (b. 8 September 1934), is an English composer and conductor. - Jehan Alain
Jehan Ariste Alain (February 3, 1911 - June 20, 1940) was a French organist and composer. - Louis Vierne
Louis Victor Jules Vierne, (October 81870-June 21937) was a French organist and composer. - Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (August 14, 1892 - October 15, 1988) was a British Parsi composer, music journalist and pianist. One of his most famous works, Opus Clavicembalisticum is considered one of the hardest pieces ever written for any instrument. - Iain Farrington
Iain Farrington is a British pianist, organist, composer and arranger. He works regularly with some of the country's leading singers, instrumentalists and choirs, both in concert and as a répétiteur, as well as giving solo recitals. He studied piano accompaniment at the Royal Academy of Music, London with Michael Dussek and Andrew West. He was Organ Scholar at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle and Organ Scholar at St John's College, Cambridge. - Samuel Wesley
Samuel Wesley was an English organist and composer in the late Georgian period. - Nicolas de Grigny
Nicolas de Grigny was a French organist and one of the leading French organ composers of his time. Contrapuntally more complex than most (if not all) music of the era, Grigny's work stands at the pinnacle of French baroque organ music. His only rivals in terms of both musical science and religious inspiration were François Couperin and Louis Marchand. He was born in Reims in 1672 into a family of musicians: his grandfather, one of his uncles, … - Simon Preston
Simon Preston (born 4 August 1938, Bournemouth, England) is an English organist, conductor, and composer. Originally a chorister at King's College, Cambridge, he studied the organ with C. H. Trevor before returning to King's as organ scholar. He was sub-organist of Westminster Abbey from 1962-67, and organist of Christ Church, Oxford from 1970 before returning to Westminster as Organist and Master of the Choristers in 1981. - Samuel Sebastian Wesley
Samuel Sebastian Wesley (14 August 1810 - 19 April 1876) was an English organist and composer. He was born in London, the son of the composer Samuel Wesley and his partner Sarah Suter, and grandson of Charles Wesley. After singing in the choir of the Chapel Royal as a boy, he embarked on a career as a musician, becoming organist of Hereford Cathedral in 1832. He moved to Exeter Cathedral three years later, and subsequently held appointments at Leeds Parish Church, … - Arthur Wills
Dr. Arthur Wills (b. 1926) was Director of Music at Ely Cathedral from 1958 to 1990, and also held a Professorship at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1964 until 1992. He has toured extensively as a recitalist in Europe, North America, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong, and has broadcast, appeared on TV and made many recordings, both as a soloist and with the Ely Choir. His secular music includes seven song cycles, and an opera, "Winston and Julia", … - Joseph Jongen
Joseph Jongen was a Belgian organist, composer, and music educator. Jongen was born in Liège. On the strength of an amazing precocity for music, he was admitted to the Liège Conservatoire at the extraordinarily young age of seven, and there he spent the next sixteen years. The admission board was not disappointed. Jongen won a First Prize for Fugue in 1891, an honors diploma in piano the next year, and another for organ in 1896. - Charles-Marie Widor
Charles-Marie Jean Albert Widor (February 21, 1844 - March 12, 1937) was a French organist, composer and teacher. - Maurice Duruflé
Maurice Duruflé was a French composer, organist, and pedagogue. - François Couperin
François Couperin (November 10, 1668 - September 11, 1733) was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. François Couperin was known as "Couperin le Grand" (Couperin the Great) to distinguish him from the other members of the musically talented Couperin family. - Charles Camilleri
Charles Camilleri is a Maltese composer, long acknowledged as Malta's national composer. At a very early age, indeed as a teenager, had already composed a number of works based on folk music and legends of his native Malta. His work-list includes the now famous "Malta Suite", "Maltese Dances", "A Maltese Overture - Din l-Art Helwa", operas in Maltese, a ballet based on the Knights of Malta and the oratorio "Pawlu ta' Malta". - Charles-Valentin Alkan
Charles-Valentin Alkan (November 30 1813-March 29 1888) was a French composer and one of the greatest virtuoso pianists of his day. His compositions for solo piano include some of the most difficult ever written, and performers who can master them are few and far between. His attachment to his Jewish origins is displayed both in his life and his work. - Zoltan Paulinyi
Zoltan Paulinyi, brazilian composer, modern and baroque violinist, one of the founders of MUSICOOP String Orchestra. After undergraduating in Physics at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (1999), he started to dedicate his life to music, both in performance and teaching. - Marco Enrico Bossi
Marco Enrico Bossi was an Italian organist and composer. Bossi was born in Salò, province of Brescia. His father was organist of the Duomo (Large Parish Church) in Salo, which has a one-manual organ built by Fratelli Serassi in 1865 (opus 684), and restored in 2000/1. He was Director of the Musical High School (Liceo Musicale) of Venice from 1895 to 1902, of Bologna from 1902 to 1911, and of Rome from 1916 to 1925. He died at sea while returning to Italy from New York.
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