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• Josquin des PrezComposer · October 14, 2026

  The most celebrated composer of the Renaissance - "the master of the notes."

• Giovanni Pierluigi da PalestrinaComposer · October 14, 2026

  The Roman master whose serene polyphony became the model of sacred music.

• William ByrdComposer · October 14, 2026

  Elizabethan England's greatest composer - and a Catholic writing in secret.

• Claudio MonteverdiComposer · October 14, 2026

  The composer who bridged the Renaissance and Baroque - and wrote the first great opera.

• Johann PachelbelComposer · October 14, 2026

  The organist behind the most famous canon in the world - and a link in the Bach family story.

• Felix MendelssohnComposer · October 14, 2026

  A prodigy as gifted as Mozart, who revived Bach and wrote the Wedding March.

• Edvard GriegComposer · October 14, 2026

  Norway's national voice, master of the miniature, and the composer of the Mountain King.

• Erik SatieComposer · October 14, 2026

  The eccentric of Montmartre whose spare, dreamy piano music was decades ahead of its time.

• George GershwinComposer · October 14, 2026

  The songwriter who brought jazz into the concert hall.

• Gustav HolstComposer · October 14, 2026

  The composer of The Planets - a teacher, a trombonist, and a mystic.

• Thomas TallisComposer · October 14, 2026

  The Tudor composer who served four monarchs - and wrote a motet for forty voices.

• Henry PurcellComposer · October 14, 2026

  England's greatest Baroque composer, whose "Dido's Lament" is one of music's great farewells.

• Georg Philipp TelemannComposer · October 14, 2026

  The most famous German composer of his day - and one of the most prolific in history.

• Gioachino RossiniComposer · October 14, 2026

  The king of Italian comic opera - who stopped writing operas at 37.

• Hector BerliozComposer · October 14, 2026

  The wildest Romantic of them all, and the great pioneer of the modern orchestra.

• Georges BizetComposer · October 14, 2026

  The composer of Carmen, who died believing it had failed.

• Edward ElgarComposer · October 14, 2026

  The self-taught outsider who became the voice of Edwardian England.

• Jean SibeliusComposer · October 14, 2026

  Finland's national composer, master of the symphony - and of a thirty-year silence.

• Ralph Vaughan WilliamsComposer · October 14, 2026

  The folk-song collector who gave English music its pastoral voice - and its symphonies.

• Béla BartókComposer · October 14, 2026

  The Hungarian modernist who found his voice in the folk music of the villages.