Composer

Thea Musgrave (born Edinburgh, Scotland 27 May 1928)

Antonín Dvořák (born Nelahozeves, near Karlupy, Bohemia 8 September 1841; died Prague 1 May 1904)

Henryk Górecki (born Czernica, Poland 6 December 1933; died Katowice, Poland 12 November 2010)

British composer and conductor Arthur Sullivan was the leading musical figure of the Victorian era.  

George Gershwin was one of leading American composers in the first part of the twentieth century.

Alban Berg (born Vienna 9 February 1885; died Vienna 24 December 1935)

Franz Lehár (born Komáron, Hungary 30 April 1870; died Bad Ischl 24 October 1948)

(born Pesaro 29 February 1792; died Passy 13 November 1868) Gioachino Antonio Rossini was the most significant Italian composer of…

Richard Strauss was the most significant German opera composer of the first half of the twentieth century.

During his brief career, Bizet composed in several musical genres, including some thirty operas, many of which remained unfinished.