The Great Composers

Your essential guide to all the great composers from Bach to Wagner
Beethoven
The musical revolutionary
Mozart
Has talent, will travel
Great composers
From New England schoolboy to the most performed composer in the USA
Great composers
A composer of many colours

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Great composers
The 'great Bach' who inspired Haydn and Mozart
Martinu
Cosmopolitan Dreamer
Dubbed by Voltaire 'our hero of the semiquavers', Rameau amazed and enchanted 18th-century French audiences. Why hasn't he achieved the public recognition he deserves?
César Franck
Exploited as a child performer by his unprincipled father, Franck was a late developer when it came to composition, writing his most famous works a few years before his death.
Engelbert Humperdinck
Germany's fairy-tale composer