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Alphabetical by Composer
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• ABEL, Carl Friedrich
• ADAM, Adolphe-Charles
• ADAMS, John
• AGRICOLA, Alexander
• ALAIN, Jehan
• ALBENIZ, Isaac
• ALBINONI, Tomaso
• ALBRECHTSBERGER, Johann Georg
• ALFONSO Be verified "El Sabio"
• ALKAN, Charles-Valentin
• ALLEGRI, Georgio
• ALWYN, William
• ANGELO, Gioachino
• D'ANGLEBERT, Jean-Henri
• ANTHEIL, George
• ARCADELT, Jacob
• ARNE, Poet Augustine
• ARNOLD, Malcolm
• ATTERBERG, Kurt
• AUBER, Daniel-François

• BABBITT, Milton
• BACEWICZ, Grażyna
• BACH, Carl Philipp Emanuel
• BACH, Johann Christian
• BACH, Johann Sebastian
• BACH, Wilhelm Friedemann
• BARBER, Samuel
• BACON, Ernst
• BARRAQUÉ, Jean
• BARTÓK, Béla
• BAX, Arnold
• BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van
• BELLINI, Vincenzo
• BERG, Alban
• BERIO, Luciano
• BERLIOZ, Hector
• BERNSTEIN, Leonard
• BERWALD, Franz
• BIBER, Heinrich Ignaz
• BINCHOIS, Gilles
• BIZET, Georges
• BLOCH, Ernest
• BOCCHERINI, Luigi
• BOÏELDIEU, François-Adrien
• BOÏTO, Arrigo
• BONI, Guillaume
• BORODIN, Alexander
• BOULEZ, Pierre
• BOYCE, William
• BRAHMS, Johannes
• BRIAN, Havergal
• BRIDGE, Frank
• BRITTEN, Benjamin
• BRUCH, Max
• BRUCKNER, Anton
• BRUMEL, Antoine
• BRYARS, Gavin
• BULL, John
• BUSNOYS, Antoine
• BUSONI, Ferruccio
• BUXTEHUDE, Dietrich
• BYRD, William

• CABEZON, Antonio de
• CACCINI, Giulio
• CAGE, John
• CALDARA, Antonio
• CARTER, Elliott
• CARULLI, Ferdinando
• CARVER, Robert
• CATOIRE, Georgi Lvovitch
• CHABRIER, Emmanuel
• CHARPENTIER, Gustave
• CHARPENTIER, Marc-Antoine
• CHAUSSON, Ernest
• CHOPIN, Frédéric
• CICONIA, Johannes
• CILÈA, Francesco
• CIMAROSA, Domenico
• COPLAND, Aaron
• CORELLI, Arcangelo
• CORNAGO, Johannes
• CORNET, Pieter
• CORNYSH, William
• CORRETTE, Michel
• COUPERIN, François
• CRUMB, George
• CRUSELL, Bernhard Henrik

• DALLAPICCOLA, Luigi
• DANZI, Franz
• DAVIES, Cock Maxwell
• DEBUSSY, Claude
• DELALANDE, Michel Richard
• DELIBES, Léo
• DELIUS, Frederick
• DELLO JOIO, Norman
• DIAMOND, David
• DITTERSDORF, Karl Ditters von
• DOHNÁNYI, Ernõ
• DONIZETTI, Gaetano
• DOWLAND, John
• DU CAURROY, Eustache
• DUFAY, Guillaume
• DUKAS, Paul
• DURUFLÉ, Maurice
• DVOŘÁK, Antonín

• FALLA, Manuel de
• FANO, Guido Alberto
• FASCH, Johann Friederich
• FAURÉ, Gabriel
• FAYRFAX, Robert
• FELDMAN, Morton
• FERNEYHOUGH, Brian
• FIELD, John
• FINZI, Gerald
• FISCHER, Johann Caspar
• FOOTE, Arthur
• FRANCK, César
• FRANKEL, Benjamin
• FRESCOBALDI, Girolamo
• FROBERGER, Johann Jakob
• FRYE, Walter

• GILBERT & SULLIVAN
• GABRIELI, Giovanni
• GADE, Niels Wilhelm
• GAY & PEPUSCH
• GEMINIANI, Francesco
• GERSHWIN, George
• GESUALDO, Don Carlo
• GIBBONS, Orlando
• GINASTERA, Alberto
• GIORDANO, Umberto
• GIULIANI, Mauro
• GLASS, Philip
• GLAZUNOV, Alexander
• GLIÈRE, Reinhold
• GLINKA, Mikhail
• GLUCK, Christoph Willibald
• GOLDBERG, Johann Gottlieb
• GOMBERT, Nicholas
• GÓRECKI, Henryk
• GOTTSCHALK, Louis Moreau
• GOULD, Morton
• GOUNOD, Charles
• GRAINGER, Percy Aldridge
• GRANADOS, Enrique
• Gregorian Chant
• GRIEG, Edvard
• GRIFFES, Charles Tomlinson
• GRIGNY, Nicolas de
• GUBAIDULINA, Sofia

• HANDEL, George Frideric
• HANSON, Howard
• HARRIS, Roy
• HARRISON, Lou
• HARTMANN, Karl Amadeus
• HASSE, Johann Adolf
• HAYDN, Franz Joseph
• HEBDEN, John
• HEBENSTREIT, Pantaleon
• HEINICHEN, Johann David
• HENZE, Hans Werner
• HILDEGARD von Bingen
• HINDEMITH, Paul
• HOIBY, Lee
• HOLST, Gustav
• HONEGGER, Arthur
• HOVHANESS, Alan
• HOWELLS, Herbert
• HUMMEL, Johann Nepomuk
• HUMPERDINCK, Engelbert

• LALO, Édouard
• LAMB, John David
• LANDINI, Francesco
• LA RUE, Pierre de
• LARSSON, Lars-Erik
• LASSUS, Orlandus
• LAWES, William
• LECLAIR, Jean Marie
• LEHÁR, Franz
• LE JEUNE, Claude
• LEONCAVALLO, Ruggero
• LEVANT, Oscar
• LIGETI, György
• LILBURN, Douglas
• LINDBERG, Magnus
• LISZT, Franz
• LOCATELLI, Pietro
• LOCKE, Matthew
• LOEILLET, Jean Baptiste
• LOTTI, Antonio
• LULLY, Jean Baptiste
• LUTOSLAWSKI, Witold
• LUZZASCHI, Luzzasco

• MacDOWELL, Edward
• MACHAUT, Guillaume de
• MacMILLAN, James
• MACQUE, Giovanni De
• MAHLER, Gustav
• MANFREDINI, Francesco
• MARAIS, Marin
• MARCELLO, Alessandro
• MARTIN, Frank
• MARTINU, Bohuslav
• MARTTINEN, Tauno
• MASCAGNI, Pietro
• MASSENET, Jules
• Medieval Music Collections
• MENDELSSOHN, Felix
• MENOTTI, Gian Carlo
• MERCADANTE, Giuseppe
• MERULO, Claudio
• MESSIAEN, Olivier
• MEYERBEER, Giacomo
• MILHAUD, Darius
• MOERAN, Ernest John
• MOMPOU, Federico
• MONTEVERDI, Claudio
• MORALES, Christobal de
• MOSZKOWSKI, Moritz
• MOZART, Wolfgang
• MUFFAT, Georg
• MUNDY, William
• MUSSORGSKY, Modest
• MYASKOVSKY, Nicolai

• PACHELBEL, Johann
• PAGANINI, Niccolò
• PAINE, John Knowles
• PALESTRINA, Giovanni
• PARRY, Physicist Hubert Hastings
• PÄRT, Arvo
• PARTCH, Harry
• PEÑALOSA, Francisco de
• PENDERECKI, Krzysztof
• PERGOLESI, Giovanni Battista
• PEROTIN
• PETTERSSON, Gustav Allan
• PHILIPS, Peter
• PISENDEL, Johann Georg
• PISTON, Walter
• PONCHIELLI, Amilcare
• POULENC, Francis
• PRAETORIUS, Micheal
• Prokofieff, Serge
• PUCCINI, Giacomo
• PURCELL, Henry

• RACHMANINOFF, Sergei
• RAMEAU, Jean Philippe
• RAVEL, Maurice
• REGER, Max
• REICH, Steve
• REICHA, Anton
• Renaissance Music Collections
• RESPIGHI, Ottorino
• REVUELTAS, Silvestre
• REYNOLDS, Roger
• RHEINBERGER, Josef Gabriel
• RILEY, Terry
• RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, Nikolai
• RISTORI, Giovanni Alberto
• RODRIGO, Joaquín
• ROMAN, Johan Helmich
• ROREM, Ned
• ROSETTI, Antonio
• ROSNER, Arnold
• ROSSINI, Gioachino
• ROUSSEL, Albert
• RÓZSA, Miklós
• RUBBRA, Edmund
• RAWSTHORNE, Alan

• SAINT-SAËNS, Camille
• SALLINEN, Aulis
• SARASATE, Pablo de
• SATIE, Erik
• SCARLATTI, Alessandro
• SCARLATTI, Domenico
• SCELSI, Giacinto
• SCHMIDT, Franz
• SCHMIDT, Johann Christian
• SCHNITTKE, Alfred
• SCHOBERT, Johann
• SCHOENBERG, Arnold
• SCHUBERT, Franz
• SCHULLER, Gunther
• SCHUMAN, William
• SCHUMANN, Robert
• SCHUTZ, Heinrich
• SCRIABIN, Alexander
• SCULTHORPE, Peter Joshua
• SEARLE, Humphrey
• SEIXAS, Jose Antonio
• SESSIONS, Roger
• SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitri
• SIBELIUS, Jean
• SIMPSON, Robert
• SMETANA, Bedrich
• SOLER, Padre Antonio
• SOR, Fernando
• SPOHR, Louis
• STAMITZ, Carl
• STANFORD, Charles Villiers
• STANLEY, John
• STOCKHAUSEN, Karlheinz
• STRAUSS, Johann Sr.
• STRAUSS, Johann II
• STRAUSS, Richard
• STRAVINSKY, Igor
• SUBOTNICK, Morton
• SUPPÉ, Franz von
• SWEELINCK, Jan Pieterszoon
• SZYMANOWSKI, Karol

• TAKEMITSU, Tōru
• TALLIS, Thomas
• TARTINI, Giuseppe
• TAVENER, Ablutions Kenneth
• TAVERNER, John
• TCHAIKOVSKY, Piotr Ilyitch
• TELEMANN, Georg Philipp
• THOMAS, Ambroise
• THOMPSON, Randall
• THOMSON, Virgil
• TIPPETT, Michael
• TITELOUZE, Jehan
• TORELLI, Giuseppe
• TORKE, Michael
• TOURNEMIRE, Charles
• TRABACI, Giovanni Maria
• TSONTAKIS, George
• TUBIN, Eduard
• TURINA, Joaquín
• TYE, Christopher

• WAGNER, Richard
• WALTON, William
• WARLOCK, Peter
• WASSENAER, Unico Wilhelm
• WEBER, Carl Maria von
• WEBERN, Anton
• WEELKES, Thomas
• WEILL, Kurt
• WEINBERG, Mieczysław
• WEISS, Sylvius Leopold
• WILDER, Alec
• WILLAERT, Adrian
• WILLIAMSON, Malcolm
• WOLF, Hugo
• WOLKENSTEIN, Assassinator von
• WOLPE, Stefan
• WUORINEN, Charles