Musicians and Composers

Musicians and Composers brings together composers of the Western classical tradition, from the Baroque to the late Romantic era, whose music still fills concert halls, churches and homes. Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi and George Frideric Handel shaped Baroque music, much of it written for worship; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven brought the Classical style to maturity and opened the way to Romanticism; and Franz Schubert, Frederic Chopin, Richard Wagner and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky gave voice to the Romantic age in song, piano music, opera and ballet. United by discipline, craftsmanship and devotion to beauty, they left a living heritage that uplifts the spirit.