Although it is impossible to rank the value of various composers, the following is a list of links to 101 of the most important composers in Western music.  Heading this list are the 10 most influential (in the autho'r opinion) composers.  The remaining 91 can be found in alphabetical order on this page, or by year of birth on the next page (Click Here).  Biographical and musical information on each composer can be accessed by clicking on their respective names.
Please note that because this site is under construction, not all files on individual composers are complete.

• Albeniz


• Bach's Sons


• Barber


• Bartok


• Bellini


• Berg


• Berlioz


• Bernstein


• Bizet


• Bloch


• Boccherini


• Borodin


• Britten


• Bruch


• Bruckner


• Busoni


• Byrd


• Chopin


• Clementi


• Copland


• Couperin


• Debussy


• Delius

• Donizetti


• Dukas


• Dvorak


• Elgar


• Falla


• Faure


• Field


• Franck


• Gershwin


• Glass


• Glinka


• Gluck


• Gounod


• Grieg


• Hindemith


• Holst


• Hummel


• Humperdinck


• Ives


• Janacek


• Kodaly


• Lalo


• Leoncavallo

• Liszt


• Lully


• MacDowell


• Mahler


• Mascagni


• Massenet


• Mendelssohn


• Messiaen


• Milhaud


• Monteverdi


• Mussorgsky


• Nielsen


• Offenbach


• Orff


• Paganini


• Palestrina


• Poulenc


• Prokofiev


• Puccini


• Purcell


• Rakhmaninov


• Ravel


• Respighi

• Rimsky-Korsakov


• Rossini


• Saint-Saens


• Scarlatti


• Schoenberg


• Schumann


• Scriabin


• Shostakovich


• Sibelius


• Smetana


• Strauss Family


• Strauss, R.


• Stravinsky


• Tallis


• Telemann


• Tippett


• Vaughn Williams


• Vivaldi


• Walton


• Weber


• Webern


• Wolf