Francesco Maria Veracini (February 1, 1690 - October 31, 1768) was an Italian composer and violinist, perhaps best known for his violin sonatas and violin concertos.

Friedrich Daniel Rudolf Kuhlau (September 11 1786 - March 12 1832) was a German-Danish composer during the Classical and Romantic periods. Born in Germany, after losing his right eye in a street accident at the age of seven, he studied piano in Hamburg. His father, grandfather, and uncle were military oboists. Even though Kuhlau was born to a poor family, his parents managed to pay for pianoforte lessons.

Florent Schmitt (September 28 1870, Blamont, Meurthe et Moselle - August 17 1958 Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French composer. He entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1889, studying under Albert Lavignac, Theodore Dubois, Jules Massenet, and Gabriel Fauré. In 1900 Schmitt won the Prix de Rome on his fourth attempt. Schmitt wrote 138 works with opus numbers. He composed examples of most of the major forms of music, except for opera.

Tor Aulin was a Swedish violinist, conductor and composer. Aulin studied music at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm (1877-1883) and then in the Conservatory of Berlin (1884-1886) with Émile Sauret and Philipp Scharwenka. From 1889 to 1892 Aulin served as concertmaster of the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm. He went on to conduct the principal symphony orchestras of Stockholm and Gothenburg. In 1887 he formed the Aulin Quartet, the full-time quartet in Sweden.

Silvia Marcovici is a Romanian classical violinist. Born in Bacău, Romania, she studied at the Conservatory in Bucharest. Her international debut was at the age of sixteen when she performed in The Hague under Bruno Maderna. In 1969, she won the first prize in the Marguerite Long/Jacques Thibaut Competition in Paris, as well as the special prize of Rainier III, Prince of Monaco. In 1970, she was the winner of the first prize in the George Enescu Competition in Bucharest.

Joseph Guy Ropartz was a French composer and conductor. His compositions included five symphonies, three violin sonatas, cello sonatas, six string quartets, a piano trio and string trio (both in A minor), several operas, a number of choral works and other music including a "Prelude, Marine et Chansons" for flute, harp and string trio. He was born and died in the Côtes-d'Armor (born in Guingamp, died in Lanloup-par-Plouha).

Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (August 12, 1644 - May 3, 1704) was a Bohemian-Austrian composer and violinist.

Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (August 10, 1889, Great Baddow, Essex - May 12, 1960, Chelmsford) was an English composer. He studied with Edward Dent at Trinity College, Cambridge, and with Charles Wood and Ralph Vaughan Williams at the Royal College of Music, where he himself taught composition and music theory from 1921 to 1939. From 1937 to 1952, he also served as the Vice President of the British Federation of Music Festivals.

Hermann Levi was a German orchestral conductor. Born in Gießen, he was the son of a Jewish rabbi. He was educated at Gießen and Mannheim, and came to Vincenz Lachner's notice. From 1855 to 1858 Levi studied at the Leipzig conservatorium, and after a series of travels which took him to Paris, he obtained his first post as music director at Saarbrücken, which post he exchanged for that at Mannheim in 1861.

Bernard (George) Stevens, born 2 March 1916 in London, died 6 January 1983 in Colchester, England was a significant British composer. He studied English and Music at the University of Cambridge with E. J. Dent, then at the Royal College of Music with R.O. Morris and Gordon Jacob from 1937 to 1940. His op.l, a violin sonata, attracted the attention of Max Rostal, who commissioned a Violin Concerto, which Stevens wrote while on army service.

Johan Gustav Emil Sjögren was a Swedish composer. Born on June 16, 1853 in Stockholm, Sjögren entered the Stockholm Conservatory at the age of seventeen and later continued his studies at the Berlin Conservatory. From 1890, he served as the organist at the Sankt Johannes kyrka in Stockholm until shortly before his death on March 1, 1918. Sjögren is remembered best for his lieder and piano music. Other noteworthy works include three preludes and fugues for organ, …

Salamone Rossi (ca. 1570 - 1630) was an Italian violinist and composer. He was a transitional figure between the late Italian Renaissance period and early Baroque. As a young man, Rossi, who was Jewish, acquired a reputation as a talented violinist. He was then hired (in 1587) as a court musician in Mantua, where records of his activities as a violinist survive. Rossi served at the court of Mantua, by request of the duchess Isabella d'Este Gonzaga, …

Nikolai Andreyevitch Roslavets was a significant Russian and also Ukrainian modernist composer of the period just before and just after the October Revolution. Though influential in the early years of the USSR as a champion of progressive Western composers, his music was politically suppressed at the end of the 1920s and he spent most of the remainder of his career virtually a ‘non-person’.

Rubin Goldmark (August 15, 1872 (New York City) - March 6, 1936 (New York City)) was an American composer, pianist, and educator. He studied composition with Robert Fuchs at the Vienna Conservatory, and later with Antonín Dvořák at the National Conservatory in New York. Goldmark taught composition at the National Conservatory and at the College Conservatory in Colorado, and spent the last twelve years of his life as head of the composition department at Juilliard.

Evgeny Kirillovich Golubev (February 16 1910, Moscow - December 25 1988, Moscow) was a Russian Soviet composer. He was taught by Nikolai Myaskovsky, and his students included Alfred Schnittke, who studied with him from 1953 until 1958. His own compositions included at least twenty-four string quartets, seven symphonies, three piano concertos the last dedicated to and recorded by Tatiana Nikolayeva, concertos for violin, cello and viola, …

John Barnett was an English composer and writer on music.

Adolf Fredrik Lindblad was a Swedish composer, mainly remembered for his songs. Lindblad composed one opera, "Frondörerna" ("The rebels"), two symphonies, in C and D major, and chamber music including two string quintets, three violin sonatas and seven string quartets. The main source of his popularity during his lifetime was the more than two hundred songs he composed. The mentor, and would-be lover, of Jenny Lind, …

Yrjö Kilpinen was a Finnish composer. He was born in Helsinki, and in 1907 he started his studies in the Helsingin Musiikkiopisto (later named Sibelius Academy). In 1910 Kilpinen moved to Vienna to continue his studies and from 1913 to 1914 he studied in Berlin. Kilpinen is most famous for composing 790 works in the Lieder style. Among his other works were six piano sonatas, a violin sonata and a cello sonata.

Karel or Karl Bendl (born April 16, 1838 in Prague; died September 20, 1897 in Prague) was a Czech composer. He studied at the organ school, where he met and befriended Dvorak one year before graduating with honors in 1858. By then he had already composed a number of small choral works. In 1861 his "Poletuje holubice" won a prize and at once became a favorite with the local choral societies.

Domenico Alberti (around 1710 - 1740) was an Italian singer, harpsichordist and composer whose works bridge the Baroque and Classical periods. Alberti was born in Venice and studied music with Antonio Lotti. He wrote operas, songs and sonatas for keyboard instruments, for which he is best known today. These sonatas frequently employ a particular kind of arpeggiated accompaniment in the left hand which is now known as the "Alberti bass".

Gerard Hengeveld (1910 - October 28, 2001) was a Dutch classical pianist, music composer and educationalist. He is especially known for his compositions of study material for piano. Other compositions include two piano concertos, a violin sonata, and a sonata for cello. Hengeveld was an able interpreter and performer of the music of Bach for piano and harpsichord. He gave regular concerts in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Some of his concerts were captured on record.

Antoine Dauvergne was a French composer and violinist. Dauvergne served as master of the "Chambre du roi", director of the Concert Spirituel from 1762 to 1771, and director of the "Opéra" three times between 1769 and 1790. Dauvergne contributed both as a performer and composer to the classical music at the court at Versailles. The name of Dauvergne is first and foremost associated with the beginnings of French comic opera ("opéra-comique").

Maksym Sozontovych Berezovsky (Ukrainian: Максим Созонтович Березовський, "Maksym Sozontovych Berezovskyi"; Polish: "Berezowski"; c 1745–1777) was a Ukrainian-Russian composer, opera singer, and violinist. His first name sometimes is transliterated as "Maxim". Berezovsky was the first Ukrainian or Russian composer to be recognized throughout Europe and the first to compose an opera, symphony, and violin sonata.

Ruben Mattias Liljefors was a Swedish composer and conductor. Liljefors studied in Uppsala with Ivar Eggert Hedenblad until 1895, and subsequently in Leipzig with Salomon Jadassohn until 1899. Later he attended the Stockholm Conservatory. He completed his education with Felix Draeseke, Max Reger, and Hermann Ludwig Kutzschbach. From 1902 to 1911, he conducted the choir and orchestra of the Gothenburg Philharmonic Society.

Djuro Zivkovic (1975) is one of Serbia's most distinguished composers of his generation, whose music has been performed, broadcast and recorded worldwide. Since 2000 he lives and works in Stockholm. He studied composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm under Pär Lindgren and Bent Sørensen at the same college, while also taking classes with Magnus Lindberg. He has written solo, chamber, choral and orchestral music as well as electro acoustic music.

Boris Parsadanian (May 14, 1925 - 1997) was an Armenian-Estonian composer. Born in Kislozavod, Armenia, his initial studies were conducted under Litinsky at the Studio of the Armenian House of Culture. His studies were interrupted by World War 2, for which he was decorated for his service. He resumed his post-war studies as a violin student at the Gnessin School in Moscow until his graduation in 1950.

Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński was a Polish composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher. His works include two piano concertos (in E minor and in C minor, recorded in the past on Olympia and on Muza), a violin sonata (1907), and a piano trio in G minor (probably written 1892-4), a tragedy "Protesilas i Laodamia" (1902, librettist 'S. Wyspiańskiego), and a symphony in C minor.

Zara Aleksandrovna Levina (Simferopol February 5 1906 - Moscow, June 27 1976) was a pianist and composer. She was from a Jewish family. Zara Levina studied piano in the Odessa Conservatory, which she passed with a gold metal. She graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1932, where she had studied piano and composition. In her early age, Zara Levina admired the composers: Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Prokofiev, Beethoven and Schumann.

Giovanni Henrico Albicastro was the pseudonym of Johann Heinrich von Weissenburg, a talented amateur of music who published his compositions pseudonymously. Albicastro came from the village of Bieswangen, near Pappenheim in central Bavaria, not far from the village of Weissenburg ("White Castle", thus "Albicastro").