Hildegard von Bingen 1098-1179
Guillaume de Machaut 1300-1377
Claudio Monteverdi 1567-1643
Barbara Strozzi 1619-1677
Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre 1665-1729
Antonio Vivaldi 1678-1741
George Frideric Handel 1685-1759
Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750
Ignatius Sancho 1729-1780
Joseph Haydn 1732-1809
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges 1745-1799
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791
Ludwig van Beethoven 1770-1827
Franz Schubert 1797-1828
Clara & Robert Schumann C: 1819-1896 R: 1810-1856
Giuseppe Verdi 1813-1901
Johannes Brahms 1833-1897
Lili‘uokalani 1838-1917
Chiquinha Gonzaga 1847-1935
Gustav Mahler 1860-1911
Erik Satie 1866-1925
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
Harry T. Burleigh 1866-1949
Scott Joplin 1868-1917
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
Samuel Coleridge Taylor 1875-1912
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Florence Price 1887-1953
Lili & Nadia Boulanger L: 1893-1918 N: 1887-1979
William Grant Still 1895-1978
Shirley Graham Du Bois 1896-1977
George Gershwin 1898-1937
John Cage 1912-1992
Leonard Bernstein 1918-1990
Galina Ustvolskaya 1919-2006
Astor Piazzolla 1921-1992
George Crumb 1929-2022
Tōru Takemitsu 1930-1996
Young-ja Lee 1931-
Louis W. Ballard 1931-2007
John Williams 1932-
Pauline Oliveros 1932-2016
Arvo Pärt 1935-
Philip Glass 1937-
Roscoe Mitchell 1940-
Julius Eastman 1940-1990
Meredith Monk 1942-
Tania León 1943-
Nobuo Uematsu 1959-
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