PBS
Classics for Kids: Composers Timeline
Travel back in time with this composer timeline. This site allows you to choose a composer based on the time period. Learn about the composer and listen to examples of the composer's works of music.
PBS
Classics for Kids: Composers Timeline
This is a timeline of composers; take an interactive journey through our timeline of classical music composers and see what was happening during the composers' lives and how it influenced their music.
Classical Net
Classical Net: Timeline of Famous Composers 1600 to Present
PDF document showing composers in various musical eras from the Baroque period to modern times.
Classical Net
Classical Net: Timeline of Famous Composers: 1100 1700
A PDF timeline of composers in the Gothic, Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods.
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Classical Net : Johann Georg Pisendel
A survey of the life and works of Johann Georg Pisendel (1687-1755), the German Baroque violinist-composer.
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Classical Net: Arcangelo Corelli
This site from Classical Net is a very short bio but with a listing of Corelli's more popular works. A good reference to find the acual music.
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Classical Net: Basic Repertoire List: Georg Philipp Telemann
Listing of recorded music. Good reference for recordings as well as understanding how prolific Telemann was!
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Benjamin Britten
Classical Net offers links, resources, and lists of works on Benjamin Britten (1913-1976 CE), one of Britain's greatest composers.
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Johann Christian Bach
This profile of the 11th son of J. S. Bach surveys his life as a successful court musician and composer in Italy and England.
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Aaron Copland
A good biography, with a good list of works, make this worthwhile, with links to related composers and at least one work, "Appalachian Spring."
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Franz Joseph Haydn
A short biography of Austrian composer Franz Joseph Haydn. There are numerous links on Haydn at the bottom of the page.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Muzio Clementi
A classical composer, and acknowledged as the first to write specifically for the piano.
Olga, Helen, Yuri and Sergey Mataev
Olga's Gallery: Modest Musorgsky
Olga's Gallery features a portrait of Modest Musorgsky.
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Unverified Portrait of Bach, by Johann Ernst Rentsch, 1712
This site is a tribute to the great composer. Includes some biographical history, pictures of the places he performed, and commentary on his works.
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Inkpot: Johann Sebastian Bach
This site is a tribute to the great composer. Includes some biographical history, pictures of the places he performed, and commentary on his works.
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Auf Wiedersehen!
This site is a tribute to the great composer. Includes some biographical history, pictures of the places he performed, and commentary on his works.
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Statue of Bach
This site is a tribute to the great composer. Includes some biographical history, pictures of the places he performed, and commentary on his works.
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Leonard Bernstein: A Tribute to Lenny
Essay offers a tribute to Leonard Bernstein and his work as an American composer and conductor. Inlcludes links to sites of relevant books, links to the musicals "West Side Story" and "On the Town", and more.
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Leonard Bernstein: A Tribute to Lenny
Essay offers a tribute to Leonard Bernstein and his work as an American composer and conductor. Inlcludes links to sites of relevant books, links to the musicals "West Side Story" and "On the Town", and more.
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Leonard Bernstein: A Tribute to Lenny
Essay offers a tribute to Leonard Bernstein and his work as an American composer and conductor. Inlcludes links to sites of relevant books, links to the musicals "West Side Story" and "On the Town", and more.
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Leonard Bernstein: A Tribute to Lenny
Essay offers a tribute to Leonard Bernstein and his work as an American composer and conductor. Inlcludes links to sites of relevant books, links to the musicals "West Side Story" and "On the Town", and more.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Ludwig Van Beethoven
A German composer and pianist. He is considered to have been the most crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in classical music.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1756-1791) German composer of the Classical era. Some of his most famous works are The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute, Requiem, Twelfth Mass, and Ave Verum.
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Scott Joplin
A fairly extensive biography of the ragtime music legend with links and bibliography.