Renaissance

Byrd, William (www.naxos.com/composerinfo/bio27115.htm)
Desprez Josquin (www.medieval.org/emfaq/composers/josquin.html)
DuFay, Guillame (www.vanderbilt.edu/Blair/Courses/MUSL242/dufayel.htm)
Dunstable, John (www.sfbach.org/repertoire/dunstablej.html)
Gabrieli, Giovanni (www.goldbergweb.com/en/history/composers/10946.php)
Gesualdo, Carlo (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Gesualdo/)
Machaut, Guillaume de (www.medieval.org/emfaq/composers/machaut.html)
Monteverdi, Claudio (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio_Monteverdi/)
Morley, Thomas (www.answers.com/topic/thomas-morley/)
Ockeghem, Johannes (www.medieval.org/emfaq/composers/ockeghem.html)
Weelkes, Thomas (www.musicaltimes.co.uk/archive/0202/weelke.html)

Baroque

Bach, Johann Sebastian (www.baroquemusic.org/bqxjsbach.html)
Bach, Johann Sebastian (www.jsbach.org/)
Buxtehude, Dietrich (www.hoasm.org/VIB/Buxtehude.html)
Corelli, Arcangelo (www.baroquemusic.org/bqxcorelli.html)
Corelli, Arcangelo ( www.hoasm.org/VIIIA/Corelli.html)
François, Couperin (www.baroquemusic.org/bqxcoup.html)
Durante, Francesco (www.duranteproject.com/)
Frescobaldi, Girolamo (www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/frescobaldi.html)
Gluck, Christoph, Willibald (www.nndb.com/people/288/000093009/)
Handel, George Frideric (www.classicalarchives.com/handel.html)
Lully, Jean Baptiste (www.naxos.com/composerinfo/bio22610.htm)
Marais, Marin (www.musicolog.com/marais.asp)
Pachelbel, Johann (http://www.pachelbel.us/)
Pergolesi, Giovanni (www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9786055)
Purcell, Henry (www.steenslid.com/music/purcell/)
Purcell, Henry ( www.baroquemusic.org/bqxpurcell.html)
Rameau, Jean Philippe (www.britannica.com/eb/article-9062590/Jean-/)
Rameau, Jean Philippe (www.hoasm.org/VIIF/Rameau.html)
Scarlatti, Alessandro (www.baroquemusic.org/bqxascarl.html)
Scarlatti, Alessandro (www.scarlattiproject.com/)
Scarlatti, Domenico (www.hoasm.org/VIIIC/ScarlattiD.html)
Telemann, George Philipp (www.uni-magdeburg.de/magdeburg/telemann_eng.html)
Telemann, George Philipp ( www.classicalmusic.suite101.com/article.cfm/georg_philipp_telemann)
Telemann, George Philipp (www.baroquemusic.org/bqxtel.html)
Vivaldi, Antonio (www.lessontutor.com/bf_vivaldi.html)
Vivaldi, Antonio (www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/vivaldi.html)

Classical

Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (members.aol.com/basfawlty/cpe_bach.htm)
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/bachcpe.html)
Bach, Johann Christian (www.britannica.com/eb/article-9011639/Johann-Christian-Bach)
Bach, Johann Christian (www.karadar.com/Dictionary/bach_christian.html)
Bach, Johann Christian (www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/bachjc.html)
Beethoven, Ludwig Von (www.lvbeethoven.com/index_En.html)
Beethoven, Ludwig Von (home.swipnet.se/zabonk/cultur/ludwig/beetbio.htm)
Beethoven, Ludwig Von (www.raptusassociation.org/)
Beethoven, Ludwig Von (www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/beethoven.html)
Haydn, Franz Joseph ( w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/haydnj.html)
Haydn, Franz Joseph ( home.wxs.nl/~cmr/haydn/)
Haydn, Franz Joseph (www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/haydnfj.html)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus ( www.mozartproject.org/)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/mozartwa.html)
Salieri, Antonio ( classicalmusic.suite101.com/article.cfm/antonio_salieri)
Salieri, Antonio (www.nndb.com/people/965/000091692/)
Schubert, Franz Peter ( w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/schubert.html)
Schubert, Franz Peter (www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/schubert.html)
Stamitz, Carl Philip ( www.mozartforum.com/Contemporary%20Pages/Carl_Stamitz_Contemp.htm/)
Stamitz, Johann Wenzel Anton (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Stamitz/)
Weber, Karl Maria von (208.11.77.182/database/w/Weber.html)

Romantic

Bellini, Vincenzo ( www.wqxr.com/cgi-bin/iowa/cla/learning/grove.html?record=907)
Bellini, Vincenzo (www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/bellini.html )
Berlioz, Hector ( www.hberlioz.com/)
Berlioz, Hector (library.thinkquest.org/22673/berlioz.html)
Bizet, Georges ( w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/bizet.html)
Brahms, Johannes ( www.johannesbrahms.org/)
Bruckner, Joseph Anton ( w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/bruckner.html)
Bruckner, Joseph Anton (www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/bruckner.html)
Chopin, Frederic (www.chopin.pl/spis_tresci/index_en.html)
Chopin, Frederic (www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/chopin.html)
Debussy, Claude (http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/debussy.html)
De Falla, Manuel (www.naxos.com/composerinfo/bio26040.htm)
De Falla, Manuel (www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/falla.html)
Delius, Frederick ( www.delius.org.uk/)
Donizetti, Gaetano (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaetano_Donizetti)
Dukas, Paul (www.britannica.com/eb/article-9031395/Paul-)
Dukas, Paul (www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/dukas.html)
Dvorak, Antonin (www.classicalarchives.com/bios/codm/dvorak.html)
Dvorak, Antonin (www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/dvorak.html)
Faure, Gabriel ( w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/faure_bio.html)
Faure, Gabriel (www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/faure.html)
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Glinka)
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich (www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/glinka.html )
Gounod, Charles ( www.charles-gounod.com/vi/index.htm)
Gounod, Charles (www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/gounod.html)
Grieg, Edvard (www.mnc.net/norway/EHG.htm)
Grieg, Edvard (www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/grieg.html)
Liszt, Franz ( www.d-vista.com/OTHER/franzliszt2.html)
Mahler, Gustav (www.maurice-www.gustav-mahler.org/english/)
Mahler, Gustav (www.mfiles.co.uk/composers/Gustav-Mahler.htm)
Mascagni, Pietro (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_Mascagni)
Mascagni, Pietro (www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/mascagni.html)
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix (www.classicalarchives.com/bios/mendelssohn_bio.html)
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix (www.classicalarchives.com/mendelssohn.html)
Meyerbeer, Giacomo (www.nndb.com/people/290/000093011/)
Meyerbeer, Giacomo (www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/meyerbeer.html)
Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich (www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/9981/muss.html)
Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich (www.naxos.com/composerinfo/bio20130.htm)
Offenbach, Jacques ( www.boosey.com/pages/cr/composer/composer_main.asp?composerid=2909)
Offenbach, Jacques (www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/offenbach.html)
Paganini, Niccolo (www.paganini.com/nicolo/nicindex.htm)
Paganini, Niccolo (www.yngwie.org/music/Paganini.html)
Paganini, Niccolo (www.thirteen.org/publicarts/violin/paganini.html)
Puccini, Giacomo ( www.edinboro.edu/cwis/music/Cordell/comp-puccini.html)
Rachmaninoff, Sergei (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Rachmaninoff)
Rachmaninoff, Sergei (home.flash.net/~park29/rachmaninoff.htm)
Ravel, Maurice ( w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/ravel.html)
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (www.geocities.com/Vienna/3606/)
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (www.russianlaw.net/RK/NARK.htm)
Rossini, Gioacchino ( w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/rossini.html)
Saint-Saens, Camille (library.thinkquest.org/22673/saint-saens.html)
Saint-Saens, Camille (www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/st-saens.html)
Schumann, Robert ( www.essentialsofmusic.com/composer/schumann_r.html)
Schumann, Robert ( w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/schumann_r.html)
Scriabin, Alexander ( www.scriabinsociety.com/)
Scriabin, Alexander (www.naxos.com/composerinfo/bio24840.htm)
Sibelius, Jean ( virtual.finland.fi/netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=26178)
Sibelius, Jean (www.sibelius.fi/english/index.htm)
Sibelius, Jean ( home.flash.net/~park29/sibelius.htm)
Sibelius, Jean (web.abo.fi/fak/hf/musik/Sibelius/EN/)
Strauss, Richard (people.unt.edu/dmeek/rstrauss.html)
Strauss, Richard (www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/straussr.html)
Sullivan, Sir Arthur Seymour (www.1911encyclopedia.org/Sir_Arthur_Seymour_Sullivan)
Sullivan, Sir Arthur Seymour (math.boisestate.edu/GaS/other_sullivan/html/index.html)
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich (www.balletmet.org/Notes/Tchaikovsky.html)
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich ( www.mfiles.co.uk/composers/Peter-Ilyich-Tchaikovsky.htm)
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich (www.nndb.com/people/833/000087572/)
Wagner, Richard (www.wagneroperas.com/indexwagnerbioportal.html)
Wagner, Richard ( www.island-of-freedom.com/WAGNER.HTM)
Wagner, Richard (http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/wagner.html)
Wolf, Hugo (www.nndb.com/people/043/000103731/)
Wolf, Hugo ( encyclopedia.jrank.org/WIL_YAK/WOLF_HUGO_1860_1903_.html)
Wolf, Hugo (www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/wolf.html)

20th Century

Amram, David (www.davidamram.com/index.php)
Amram, David (www.edition- peters.com/php/artist_details.php?artist=AMRAM§ion=composer)
Arnold, Sir Malcolm (www.malcolmarnold.co.uk/index.php)
Arnold, Sir Malcolm (www.musicweb-international.com/arnold/arnold.htm)
Barber, Samuel ( www.schirmer.com/default.aspx?TabId=2419&State_2872=2&ComposerId_2872=72)
Barber, Samuel (www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/composer/barber.html)
Bartok, Bela (www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/belabartok.html)
Bartok, Bela ( w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/bartok.html)
Bax, Sir Arnold Trevor ( www.britannica.com/eb/article-9013837/Sir-Arnold-Bax)
Bax, Sir Arnold Trevor (www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/bax.html)
Bernstein, Leonard ( www.leonardbernstein.com/)
Bernstein, Leonard (www.leonardbernstein.com/lifeswork/biography/)
Bernstein, Leonard (www.classicalnotes.net/features/bernstein.html)
Benjamin, Britten (www.its.caltech.edu/~tan/Britten/)
Benjamin, Britten (opera.stanford.edu/Britten/bio.html)
Copland, Aaron (www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/copland.html)
Copland, Aaron (www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/copland_a.html)
Elgar, Edward (www.geocities.com/Vienna/4056/)
Elgar, Edward ( www.elgar.org/welcome.htm)
Gershwin, George ( www.gershwin.com/)
Gershwin, George (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gershwin)
Gould, Morton ( www.schirmer.com/default.aspx?TabId=2419&State_2872=2&ComposerId_2872=565)
Gould, Morton (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Gould)
Grainger, Percy ( www.percygrainger.net)
Grainger, Percy ( www.bardic-music.com/Pag.htm)
Hindemith, Paul (www.hindemith.org/E/summary.htm)
Hindemith, Paul (www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/hindmith.html)
Holst, Gustav ( www.gustavholst.info/)
Honegger, Arthur (www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/honegger.html)
Hovhaness, Alan ( www.hovhaness.com/)
Hovhaness, Alan (www.bruceduffie.com/hovx.html)
Hovhaness, Alan (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Hovhaness)
Ives, Charles ( www.charlesives.org/)
Ives, Charles (www.musicweb-international.com/Ives/)
Kodaly, Zoltan (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zolt%C3%A1n_Kod%C3%A1ly)
Menotti, Gian Carlo ( www.schirmer.com/default.aspx?TabId=2419&State_2872=2&ComposerId_2872=1039)
Menotti, Gian Carlo (www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/menotti.html)
Milhaud, Darius (www.musicaltimes.co.uk/archive/obits/197408milhaud.html)
Piazzolla, Astor ( www.piazzolla.org/)
Piazzolla, Astor (www.todotango.com/English/creadores/apiazzolla.html)
Previn, Andre ( www.schirmer.com/Default.aspx?TabId=2419&State_2872=2&composerId_2872=1249)
Rorem, Ned ( www.nedrorem.com/)
Rorem, Ned (www.sai-national.org/phil/composers/nrorem.html)
Shostakovich, Dimitri (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich)
Shostakovich, Dimitri (www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/shostakovich.html)
Sousa, John Philip ( www.dws.org/sousa/)
Sousa, John Philip (www.naxos.com/composerinfo/bio24864.htm)
Stravisky, Igor (w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/stravinsky.html)
Stravisky, Igor (www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/stravinsky.html)
Tippett, Michael ( www.michael-tippett.com/)
Tippett, Michael (www.gmn.com/composers/composer.asp?id=40)
Villa-Lobos, Heitor ( www.villalobos.ca/)
Villa-Lobos, Heitor (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heitor_Villa-Lobos)
Walton, William ( www.williamwalton.net/)
Walton, William ( www.waltontrust.org.uk/)
Williams, John (www.johnwilliams.org/reference/biography.html)
Williams, John (www.johnwilliamscomposer.com/)
Williams, Ralph Vaughn ( www.rvwsociety.com/)
Williams, Ralph Vaughn (www.agentsmith.com/rvw.php)
Zimmermann, Bernd Alois (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernd_Alois_Zimmermann)
Zimmermann, Bernd Alois (www.ubu.com/sound/zimmermann.html)

Modern

Adams, John ( earbox.com/)
Adams, John ( www.schirmer.com/default.aspx?TabId=2419&State_2872=2&ComposerId_2872=10)
Babbitt, Milton (www-camil.music.uiuc.edu/Projects/EAM/babbitt.html)
Babbitt, Milton (www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/babbitt.html)
Berg, Alban (www.geocities.com/al6an6erg/albanberg.html)
Berg, Alban (www.deccaclassics.com/music/composers/berg.html)
Boulez, Pierre (www.britannica.com/eb/article-9015923/Pierre-Boulez)
Boulez, Pierre ( www.universaledition.com/truman/en_templates/view.php3?f_id=861&spr=en)
Boulez, Pierre (www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/boulez.html)
Brant, Henry ( www.jaffe.com/brant.html)
Brant, Henry (www.carlfischer.com/fischer/brantbio.html)
Cage, John (www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/cage_j.html)
Franke, Bernd (www.berndfranke.de/english/e_biographie.htm)
Philip, Glass ( www.philipglass.com)
Philip, Glass ( www.chesternovello.com/Default.aspx?TabId=2431&State_2905=2&composerId_2905=540)
Messiaen, Oliver (www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/messiaen.html)
Messiaen, Oliver (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_Messiaen)
Partch, Harry (www.composerjohnbeal.com/Partch.html)
Partch, Harry ( www.harrypartch.com/)
Reich, Steve ( www.stevereich.com/)
Reich, Steve (www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/reich.html)
Schoenberg, Arnold ( library.thinkquest.org/27110/noframes/composers/schoenberg.html)
Schoenberg, Arnold ( www.schirmer.com/default.aspx?TabId=2419&State_2872=2&ComposerId_2872=1390 )
Varese, Edward (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgard_Var%C3%A8se)
Varese, Edward (www-camil.music.uiuc.edu/Projects/EAM/Varese.html)
Webern, Anton von ( www.antonwebern.com/)
Webern, Anton von (graham.main.nc.us/~bhammel/MUSIC/webern.html)

Women Composers

Andree, Elfrida (1841-1929) (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfrida_Andr%C3%A9e)
Arrieu, Claude (1903-1990) (www.ambache.co.uk/wArrieu.htm)
Bacewicz, Grazyna (1913-1969) (www.usc.edu/dept/polish_music/composer/bacewicz.html)
Bacewicz, Grazyna (1913-1969) (www.culture.pl/en/culture/artykuly/os_bacewicz_grazyna)
Backer-Grondahl, Agathe (1847-1907) (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agathe_Backer_Gr%C3%B8ndahl)
Bingen, Hildegard von (1098-1179) ( www.fordham.edu/halsall/med/hildegarde.html)
Bingen, Hildegard von (1098-1179) (http://home.infionline.net/~ddisse/hildegar.html)
Caccini, Francesca (1587-1640) (www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/IWW/BIOS/A0083.html)
Caccini, Francesca (1587-1640) (www.hoasm.org/VA/CacciniF.html)
Carwithen, Doreen (1922-?) (www.musicweb-international.com/alwyn/carwith1.htm)
Carwithen, Doreen (1922-?) ( www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2003/Apr03/Carwithen.htm)
Chaminade, Cecile (1857-1944) ( www.web- helper.net/PDMusic/Biographies/ChaminadeCecile/default.asp)
Clarke, Rebecca (1886-1979) ( www.rebeccaclarke.org/)
Colbran, Isabella (1785-1845) (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Colbran)
Diemer, Emma Lou (1927-?) ( www.tritone-tenuto.com/diemer.htm)
Farrenc, Louise (1804-1875) (www.ambache.co.uk/wFarrenc.htm)
Gideon, Miriam (1906-?) (www.naxos.com/composerinfo/bio21270.htm)
Hoover, Katherine (1937-?) (www.sai-national.org/phil/composers/khoover.html)
Howe, Mary (1882-1964) ( www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2003/Nov03/Mary_Howe.htm)
Jacobs-Bond, Carrie (1862-1946) (parlorsongs.org/bios/cjbond/cjbond.asp)
Jaëll, Marie (1846-1925) (www.sandiegomtac.com/jaell.htm)
Kolb, Barbara (1939-?) (www.bmop.org/musicians/composer_bio.aspx?cid=157)
Kolb, Barbara (1939-?) (http://www.amazings.com/articles/article0078.html)
Lang, Josephine (1815-1880) (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Lang)
Larsen, Libby (1950-?) ( www.libbylarsen.com/)
Lefanu, Nicola (1947-?) ( www.chesternovello.com/default.aspx?TabId=2431&State_290 5=2&ComposerId_2905=904)
Lehmann, Liza (1862-1918) (math.boisestate.edu/gas/british/composers/lehmann.html)
Leonarda, Isabella (1620-1704) ( www.answers.com/topic/isabella-leonarda-isabella- calegari?cat=technology)
Leonarda, Isabella (1620-1704) ( www.areditions.com/rr/embellish/2002_16/feature.html)
Lutyens, Elizabeth (1906-1983) (www.musicweb-international.com/lutyens/index.htm)
Mahler, Alma (1879-1964) (www.alma-mahler.at/engl/almas_life/almas_life.html)
Musgrave, Thea (1928-?) (www.theamusgrave.com/index.html)
Paradis, Maria Theresia von (1759-1824) ( www.mozartforum.com/Contemporary%20Pages/Mari a_Theresia_Paradis_Contemp.htm)
Pentland, Barbara (1912-?) ( www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm= TCE&Params=U1ARTU0002763)
Pentland, Barbara (1912-?) (www.musiccentre.ca/apps/index.cfm?fuseaction=composer.FA_dsp_biography&authpeopleid=1016&by=P )
Perry, Julia (1924-1979) (www.darryltaylor.com/alliance/perry.bio.html)
Poston, Elizabeth (1905-1987) ( www.boosey.com/pages/cr/composer/composer_mai n.asp?composerid=4885)
Price, Florence (1887-1953) (chevalierdesaintgeorges.homestead.com/Price.html)
Rainier, Priaulx (1903-1986) (www.musicweb-international.com/rainier/index.htm)
Rainier, Priaulx (1903-1986) ( www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/sept99/rainier.htm)
Richter, Marga (1926-?) (www.leonarda.com/compr.html)
Schonthal, Ruth (1924-?) (www.sai-national.org/phil/composers/rschonth.html)
Schröter, Corona (1751-1802) ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_Elisabeth_Wilhelmine_S chr%C3%B6ter)
Schumann, Clara (1819-1896) (www.geneva.edu/~dksmith/clara/bio.html)
Schumann, Clara (1819-1896) (www.scils.rutgers.edu/~eversr/clara.html)
Seeger, Ruth Crawford (1901-1953) (www.pegseeger.com/html/dio.html)
Sirmen, Maddalena Laura Lombardini (1735-1798) ( www.wqxr.com/cgi- bin/iowa/cla/learning/grove.html?record=5469)
Tailleferre, Germaine (1892-1983) (www.classicalmusicnow.com/Tailleferrebiography.htm)
Strozzi, Barbara (1619-1677) (www.goldbergweb.com/en/history/composers/12095.php)
Strozzi, Barbara (1619-1677) (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Strozzi)
Tailleferre, Germaine (1892-1983) ( classical-composers.suite101.com/article.cfm/germaine_tailleferre)
Talma, Louise (1906-1996) (www.omnidisc.com/Talma.html)
Thomas, Augusta Read (1964-?) (www.augustareadthomas.com/)
Viardot-Garcia, Pauline (1821-1910) (www.paulineviardotgarcia.com/welcome.htm)
White, Maude Valerie (1855-1937) (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maude_Valerie_White)
Zaimont, Judith Lang (1945-?) ( www.jzaimont.com/)
Zaimont, Judith Lang (1945-?) (www.sai-national.org/phil/composers/jzaimont.html)