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Meet Hildur Guðnadóttir – the star composer of Joker and Chernobyl
Cellist and composer Hildur Guðnadóttir has forged a career spanning classical, film and electronics – but she’s always been drawn to unsettling themes, as she tells Claire Jackson
Murder and music: the haunting genius of Carlo Gesualdo
Meet Carlo Gesualdo: musician and murderer
Elisabetta de Gambarini: the fabulous talent, violent marriage and tragic death of a trailblazing composer
Stephen Pritchard relates the sparkling talent, entrepreneurial drive and shameful treatment of an unheralded 18th-century musical pioneer
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Jonny Greenwood: from Radiohead to some of cinema's most unsettling scores
Jonny Greenwood is perhaps best known as being the lead guitarist/keyboardist of the rock band Radiohead. For over 15 years, though, Greenwood has established himself as an inventive and award-winning film composer
George Gershwin: he forged a new musical language for 20th-century America
Whether it's Broadway songs or jazz-influenced pieces for the concert hall, George Gershwin is regarded as one of the greatest melodists of the 20th century
Philip Glass: the pioneering American composer who took us to the wilder shores of Minimalism and beyond
Meet Philip Glass: so much more than a Minimalist
Charles Gounod: Was the composer of Faust devilishly good, or a one-hit wonder?
Feted in his own era, the French composer Charles Gounod deserves to be remembered for more than the small handful of his works that are familiar today, says Roger Nichols
Grieg: Norway's greatest composer
Meet Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg, the voice of the fjords
Gibbons, Orlando
A guide to the great 16th and 17th century English composer, Orlando Gibbons
Glière, Reinhold
Was Glière a Tchaikovsky throwback - or one of the early 20th century's greatest melodists?
Ginastera, Alberto
Initially famous for evoking the landscape and culture of his Argentinian homeland, Ginastera’s music went on to embrace much besides, explains Terry Blain
Gipps, Ruth
Prodigiously gifted and fearlessly determined, Ruth Gipps’s significant impact on British music is still to be fully appreciated, argues Leah Broad
Granados, Enrique
A composer of many colours
Grainger, Percy
Expect the unexpected
Gluck, Christoph Willibald
Powerful music dramatist, crucial operatic innovator