The Greatest Composers Index
(Arranged by last name)
Clicking on the composer's name will open up his sampler page. Therein can be found a cross-section representative of the composer's works. Clicking on a work will play it.
Johann S. Bach (1685-1750 Germany)
Samuel Barber (1910-1981 U.S.A.)
Ludwig Beethoven (1770-1827 Germany)
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869 France)
Leonard Bernstein (1918-90 U.S.A.)
Georges Bizet (1838-1875 France)
Alexander Borodin (1833-1887 Russia)
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897 Germany)
Benjamin Britten (1913-76 England)
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896 Ger-Austria)
Frederic Chopin (1810-1849 Poland-Fran)
Aaron Copland (1900-1990 U.S.A.)
Claude Debussy (1862-1918 France)
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904 Czech.)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934 England)
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946 Spain)
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924 France)
Charles Gounod (1818-1893 France)
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907 Norway)
Georg F. Handel (1685-1759 Germ-Engl.)
Franz Josef Haydn (1732-1809 Austria)
Gustav Holst (1874-1934, England)
Aram Khatchaturian (1903-78, Armenia)
Franz Lehar (1870-1948 Austro-Hungary)
Franz Liszt (1811-1886 Austro-Hungary)
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911 Austro-Hung.)
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847 Germany)
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643 Italy)
Wolfgang A. Mozart (1756-1791 Austria)
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881 Russia)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953 Russia)
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924 Italy)
Henry Purcell (1659-1695 England)
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943 Russia)
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764 France)
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937 France)
Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936 Italy)
N. Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908 Russia)
Franz Schubert (1797-1828 Austria)
Robert Schumann (1810-1856 Germany)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975 Russia)
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957 Finland)
Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884 Czech.)
Johann Strauss, Jr. (1825-99, Austria)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949 Germany)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971 Russia)
Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893 Russia)
Georg Telemann (1681-1767 Germany)
Ralph V-Williams (1872-1958 England)
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901 Italy)
Antonin Vivaldi (1678-1741 Italy)