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A

Jalal Abbasov: Azerbaijan composer born in 1957
Peter Ablinger - German language site: Austrian composer.
Mark Adamo: Mark Adamo's recent premieres include Little Women, his first opera.
John Adams
John Luther Adams: American composer living in Alaska
Richard Adams: founder and artistic director of Opus 21, a not-for-profit performing arts ensemble
Thomas Adès: English composer
Kati Agócs: Canadian composer.
Robert Aitken: Canadian composer/flutist
Carol Alban
Robert Aldridge: American composer whose awards include those from the Guggenheim Foundation (2002), the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2000), National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Isaac Albéniz: An essay by Yale Fineman, , Music Librarian, University of Maryland College Park; mfiles.co.uk biography
Franghiz Ali-Zadeh - Azerbaijani composer: Classical Composers database - works list, short bio, & photo; Sikorski bio
Aaron Alon: BA in music from the University of Chicago & MM from the Cleveland Institute
Fikret Amirov - Azerbaidzhan composer: brief bio & comprehensive work list
Gilbert Amy: Franch-language bio
Julian Anderson: British composer, studied with Tristan Murail
Louis Andriessen - Dutch minimalist: Comprehensive works list
George Antheil: Composer of The Ballet Méchanique
Francesco Antonioni: Italian composer.
Denis ApIvor: Music & Vision; Obituary
Jon Appleton: American composer who teaches at Dartmouth.
Richard Arnest: American composer. Holds degrees in composition from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and the University of Hawaii. His teachers included Morton Feldman, Ingolf Dahl, Jonathon Kramer and Neil McKay.
Malcolm Arnold: 1921-2006
Danny Ashkenazi
Clarice Assad: pianist, vocalist and composer.
Lera Auerbach: Russian-born female composer. Onno van Rijen bio & work list. wikipedia article. Her personal homepage was not working on 23/Nov/2007
Georges Auric: Lenin imports bio; mfiles.co.uk bio

B

Peter Bacchus: American flutist and composer, living and teaching in Madrid.
C.P.E. Bach
J. S. Bach
Bach bibliography: maintained by Yo Tomita
Bach Central Station: A directory of J.S. Bach Resources on the Internet
P.D.Q. Bach: 1807 - 1742(?)
Henk Badings
Karin Bailey: Australian composer
Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev
Angelo Baldalamenti: highly regarded for his award winning scoring work in film and television.
Roumen Balyozov: Bulgarian composer
Mason Bates: Awarded both a Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome and an American Academy in Berlin Prize
Dennis Báthory-Kitsz: Home of the 365-Day Composition Project and more
Eve Beglarian: Michigan-born composer.
Lorens Blinov: Tatarstan composer and poet
Samuel Barber: classical.net bio; Schirmer bio
Gerald Barry - Irish composer: Contemporary Music Centre bio; Oxford University Press bio
Amy Beach
Robert Beaser: In 1982, when the New York Times wrote that he possessed a "lyrical gift comparable to that of the late Samuel Barber
Dan Becker
David Bedford: born in London in 1937 of a musical family, composer of a wide range of compositions form School Opera to pieces for orchestra and chorus.
Gordon Beeferman: Composer and panist. Works performed by the New York City Opera VOX showcase, the Minnesota Orchestra, Albany Symphony, Quartet New Generation recorder collective, eighth blackbird et al. Flute works include Transparent Paths (2005) for flute/picc/alto, elec. guitar, cello and percussion; and Reliquary (2005) For flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin/viola, cello, percussion, and piano (c.20')
Beethoven

Beethoven Bibliography Database at San Jose State University

The Beethoven Bibliography Database is a research project of the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies at San Jose State University. The database, begun in 1990, is funded by SJSU, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Beethoven Society, and other contributors.

The Beethoven Center

The Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, San José State University
George Benjamin: English composer
Warren Benson 1924-2005
Alban Berg
Berio

The Living Composer Project

IRCAM

French language site
Eva Belgarian
Berlioz

Commemorating the Bicentenary of the Birth of Hector Berlioz

The Hector Berlioz Website

updated news on everything which concerns Berlioz: performances of his music worldwide, events to celebrate the composer's forthcoming bicentenary, bibliography, discography, reviews of live performances and other contributions from regular visitors to the site.

DMOZ open directory links
Derek Bermel: a composer of chamber, symphonic, dance, theater, and pop works
Johanna Magdalena Beyer: 1889-1944
Vanraj Bhatia: Popular composer in India
Lisa Bielawa: her music explores the ritual and phenomenological nature of music-making and listening — from the website
Gilles Binchois: http://www.hoasm.org/IIID/Binchois.html; http://www.stevenestrella.com/composers/index.html?composerfiles/binchois1460.html
Snorri Sigfus Birgisson: Icelandic composer
Harrison Birtwistle: Boosey bio; http://www.braunarts.com/birtwistle/
John Bischoff
Georges Bizet
Allan Blank: Professor Emeritus at Virginia Commonwealth University where he taught from 1978-1996
Lorens Blinov: Tatarstan composer and poet
Marc Blitzstein
Greg Boardman
Philippe Bodin: "Born in France and living in New York City, Philippe Bodin is a composer of unusually lyrical contemporary classical music which has garnered notice for its formal clarity and driving rhythmic energy."
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
Per Boland
Paul Bonneau: French-language site
Robert Bonotto
Alexander Porfirievich Borodin
Evangelos Boudounis: Greek guitarist and composer
Pierre Boulez: Ircam bio (Fench language)
Martin Boykan: American composer. Studied composition with Walter Piston, Aaron Copland, and Paul Hindemith
Benjamin C.S. Boyle: PHD U. Pennsylvania. "tuneful work with charm, power, and an occasional chilling frisson of the gothic" - from the website.
Eugène Bozza
David Braham
Daniel Bradshaw: Hawiian-born American composer
Robert J. Bradshaw: Composer based in New England
Brahms

Brahms

Brahms's Lied and Song Texts
Glenn Branca
Henry Brant - 1913-2008
Uri Brener: Composer/pianist/bassoonist born in Moscow.
Benjamin Britten: The Britten-Pears Foundation; The Britten-Pears Library; Stanford University Opera biography
Earle Brown: 1926-2002
David Bruce: British composer.
Herbert Brun
Peter Bruun: Danish composer
Ton Bruynel: Dutch composer - site mainly in Dutch - includes works list
John Bull
Halsey Burgund: Boston, Massachusetts composer with projects in the works with many local arts organizations
Steven Burke: American composer. Music published by Carl Fischer and is a faculty member at Sarah Lawrence College
Dietrich Buxtehude
William Byrd: Biography from Classical.net; Full list of works (from Stainer & Bell); List of midi files
Don Byron: Clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, arranger, and social critic /dd>

C

John Cage
Christopher Caliendo: composer, recording artist, performer and publisher
Ronald Caltabiano: American composer, Associate Director, School of Music and Dance at San Francisco State University
Robert Capanna: works performed throughout the U.S. executive director of the Settlement Music School, Philadelphia, PA
Robert Carl: American composer who teaches at the University of Hartford
Andrew Carter
Elliot Carter: Classical.net biography; Schirmer biography
Ryan Carter: American composer.
Dimitri Cervo: Brazilian composer and pianist
George Whitefield Chadwick: principal composer of the Second New England School
Evan Chambers: Louisiana-born composer, currently Associate Professor of Composition at the University of Michigan.
Dorothy Chang: American composer
Derek Charke: Canadian composer and flutist
Marc-Antoine Charpentier: French language site
Chen Yi: Living Composers; Presser.com
Mary Ellen Childs
Unsuk Chin: Chinese female composer, published by Bossey & Hawkes
Martin Choloniewski: Faculty member of Krakow, Poland's Electro-acoustic Music Studio (currently as an Assistant Professor of Composition)
Chopin: The Frederick Chopin Society in Warsaw
Ghenadie Ciobanu - French language site
Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis: Lithuanian composer and painter, 1875-1911
Stephen Chatman: Canadian composer
Marek Choloniewski: born 1953, in Krakow, Poland
Rebecca Clarke: 1886-1979.
Ian Clarke: Personal website; Miyazawa website
David Cleary: Composer, critic, cellist
Anna Clyne: English composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music.
Valerie Coleman: Flutist/composer who performs with Imani Winds (page also includes a .pdf file that lists her compositions)
Aaron Copland
Anthony Cornicello: American composer
John Corigliano: Schirmer bio; Sony Classics bio
Marcello Coronel: Argentinian guitarist, composer.
Roland Coryn
Peter Coukis
George Crumb
Ian Crutchley: Canadian composer. Teaches at Mount Allison Univeristy, Sackville, New Brunswick
Caesar Cui
Andrew Culver
Sebastian Currier: Flash-laden website
Joe Cutler: Head of Composition at the Birmingham Conservatoire (England)
Brian Current: Canadian composer, Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the 2003 Barlow Prize. The site requires Flash so is not what you might call accessible.

D

Jean-Henri D'Anglebert: organist to the Duke of Orléans and to the Jacobins in the rue St. Honoré
Alexander Dargomyzhsky 1813-1869: Russian composer
Jonathan Dawe: American composer. Awards include a recording grant from The Copland Fund for New Music, a Koussevitzky Music Foundation Commission (Library of Congress), a NYSCA commission grant, a Fromm Foundation Grant
Paquito D'Rivera: Winner of a National Medal of Arts
Francesco da Milano 1497-1543
Marc-André Dalbavie: currently lectures on instrumentation at the Paris Conservatory, and is also composer-in-residence of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra.
Richard Danielpour
Aleksandr Dargomyzhsky
Michael Daugherty
Mario Davidovsky: Collage New Music bio; AGNI article - Boston University
Anthony Davis: internationally known composer of operatic, symphonic, choral, and chamber works
Juan Crisostomo de Arraga Balzola: Spanish composer 1806-1826
Reinbert de Leeuw: Dutch composer, conductor, author
Roderik de Man: Dutch composer. The website only works in Internet Explorer.
Sergio Roberto de Oliveira: Brasilian composer with an extensive catalog of chamber works for flute in various combinations
Luis De Pablo: Ircam bio (French language); Music on the web bio (English language)
Juan Antonio de Ribera: French-language bio
Fabrizio De Rossi Re: Italian composer b. 1960
Claudin de Sermisy c1490 - 1562: WBAI's Here of a Sunday Morning bio; Wikipedia bio
Claude Debussy
David Del Tredici
Frederick Delius
Harution Dellalian - 1937-1990: Armenian composer
Beth Denisch: currently is Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music and on the faculty at Northeastern University
Edison Denisov
Donnacha Dennehy: Irish composer.
Dennis DeSantis: composer, sound designer, and percussionist
Paul Desenne: Venezuelan composer
David Diamond
Robert Dick
James Dillon: English composer.
Lawrence Dillon: Composer in Residence at the North Carolina School of the Arts
Avner Dorman: one of Israel's most widely performed living composers
Andrew Downes: David Wright's biography; Lynwood Music presents website - works list, biography, etc.
Riccardo Drigo: Composer most noted for ballet music in late 19th century Russia
Alexandra Du Bois: first winner of the Kronos Quartet's Under-30 project
Maurice Duruflé: English Language site; Association Maurice et Marie-Madeleine Duruflé
Tan Dun: named musician of the year (1997) by the New York Times
Pascal Dusapin: Ircam bio; Musique nouvelle en liberté bio
Henri Dutilleux

E

Hanns Eisler
Viktor Ekimovsky: Russian composer of stage, orchestral, chamber, and piano works.
Edward Elgar: home page of the Elgar Society and the Elgar Foundation
José Elizando
George Enescu

George Enescu

French language site

George Enescu

Timeline, biography, online links and more
Peter Eötvös: Hungarian composer
Karlheinz Essl: Austrian composer
Eric Ewazen: American composer with degrees from Eastman and Juilliard. His teachers include Milton Babbitt, Samuel Adler, Warren Benson, Joseph Schwantner and Gunther Schuller.

F

Dimitris Fampas: Greek guitarist, composer, professor (1921 - 1996)
Ferenc Farkas: Hungarian composer - taught Gyorgy Ligeti among other claims to fame
Robert Farnon: "a giant of British light music"
Gareth Farr: Australian composer b. 1968. Studies at Eastman School of Music. Site requires Flash, so is inaccessible to text browsers.
Arthur Farwell
Gabriel Fauré
Jindrich Feld: Czech composer
Morton Feldman: mortonfeldman.com; Morton Feldman page
David Felder: American composer b. 1953 "a Gustav Mahler for the 21st century"
Dror Feiler: Israeli composer. Tochnit-aleph page; Wikipedia bio
Agustín Fernández: Bolivian composer now living in England
Brian Ferneyhough: English composer, teaching at Stanford University. Published by Peters.
Vivian Fine bibliography
Keith Fitch: American composer born in Indiana, who teaches at Mannes College in New York City.
Cynthia Folio: Associate Professor and chair of music theory at Temple University
Arthur Foote
Malcolm Forsyth: Canadian composer. "(Forsyth's) music is an eclectic mix of elements of South African and North American folk music, a mix which produces a very personal style." (from the website)
Stephen Foster
Lucas Foss
Paul Fowler: American composer who studied at Ithaca College and the University of Michigan. "Tapu'at" premiered by the New York Youth Symphony in 2007.
Jean Françaix

Hommage à Jean Françaix

French language site including biography, recordings etc.

Jean Françaix

Radio France site with biographical information and a list of "Oeuvres Marquantes"
Luca Francesconi: studied piano at the Conservatory of Milan and composition with Azio Corghi, Karlheinz Stockhausen (in Rome), Luciano Berio (at Tanglewood) and jazz in Boston.
César Franck: http://library.thinkquest.org/22673/franck.html?tqskip1=1; http://30.1911encyclopedia.org/F/FR/FRANCK_CESAR.htm - Despite some typos, an interesting look from 1911.
Dai Fujikura
Beat Furrer: Austrian composer. German-language biograhy here

G

Giovanni Gabrieli
Michael Galasso: Composer and violinist, he has frequently collaborated with Robert Wilson
Kyle Gann: Composer of microtonal music with complex tempo structures
Stacy Garrop: inaugural winner of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Elaine Lebenbom Memorial Award.
Valery Gergiev
George Gershwin: gershwin.com - needs current browser, Flash and broadband connection; GershwinFan.com - more forgiving access. Lots of info
Stefano Gervasoni: Italian-born composer. He is professor of Composition at the Paris Conservatory.
Orlando Gibbons
Gilbert and Sullivan archive
Jon Gibson: known primarily to the world at large as a composer and multi-wind instrumentalist, affiliated with Philip Glass for many years
Kenneth Girard: American composer of works for piano and for various chamber ensembles
Philip Glass
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Heiner Goebbels: German composer, born in 1952. Works distributed by Ricordi.
Jay Goldberg: Young American composer making a big splash
Elliot Goldenthal: Film, concert, and stage composer
Osvaldo Golijov: 2003 Grammy award nominations in the category of “Best Chamber Music Performance,” for Yiddishbuk and in the category of “Best Classical Contemporary Composition” for Yiddishbuk Inscriptions for String Quartet.
Michael Gordon: Nicaraguan composer who studied at Yale
Eugene Goossens
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Ida Gotkovsky: French composer of some renown.
Percy Aldridge Grainger
Enrique Granados 1867 - 1916
Matthew Greenbaum: Studied with Stefan Wolpe & Mario Davidovsky. Teaches at Temple University.
Marcel Grandjany: Wikipedia bio. German-language Wikipedia bio is here.
Mark Gresham
Edvard Grieg: A collection of links to information about Grieg on the internet
Charles Tomlinson Griffes: the most famous American representative of musical Impressionism. Died at the age of 35.
Charles Griffin: American composer based in New York City.
Gérard Grisey: Ricordi dates; French language site
Sofia Gubaidulina: Schirmer bio - Soviet composer of the post-Stalin era; Works list
Antonio Guerreiro: Brazilian composer's interview with Dr. Tom Moore
Félix-Alexandre Guilmant: Good works list, not much of a biography.
Trevor Gureckis: New Haven, CT composer

H

Perttu Haapanen: Finnish composer.
Georg Friedrich Haas
Kimmo Hakola: Finnish composer
Händel: The American Handel Society; Händel on the Web
Geoff Hannan: British composer
Howard Hanson: News - List of Works - Biography - Discography - Audio Clips from Carl Fischer
Stephen Hatfield: Canadian composer, conductor, clinician, workshop leader, lecturer
John Harbison
Stephen Hartke: Hartke's music reflects the diversity of his musical background, from medieval and renaissance polyphony to very personal syntheses of diverse elements from non-Western and popular music (from his website)
Karl Amadeus Hartmann
Lou Harrison (1917 - 2003): New Albion Artists bio; New Music Box links
Stephen Hartke
Jonathan Harvey: "a truly global reputation, particularly for his work in the field of electro-acoustic music"
Franz Joseph Haydn: Haydn — For enthusiasts of Franz Josef Haydn (Listserv); The New Franz Joseph Haydn website
Jake Heggie: Composer of, among other things, the music for the film "Dead men walking."
Anthony Philip Heinrich (1781-1861): Foremost American composer of his day.
Robert Helps
Hans Werner Henze: Chester-Novello bio; Schirmer bio; Schott bio - German language site
Fred Hersch: pianist/composer
George Higgs: American composer living in Ireland
Gustav Holst: gustavholst.info; Holst birthplace museum
Sungji Hong: Korean composer
Arthur Honneger: arthur-honneger.com - French language site; www.classical.net bio
Katherine Hoover
Huang Ruo: Chinese composer
Lance Hulme: American Music Center artist member
Richard Hundley: American composer, "a sort of American Poulenc" (James Keller, Musical America 1991)
Derek Hurst: Fromm commission recipient living in Somerville, MA
Lee Hyla: Boston-based composer

I

Jacques Ibert
Charles Ives
Andrew Imbrie: American composer

J

Leoš Janáček
Michael Jarrell: Swiss composer - the above link is to a French language site (IRCAM)
Zoltan Jeney: Hungarian composer, b. 1943. Work list, no bio.; Wikipedia bio
Willem Jeths: Dutch composer b. 1959
Gunnar Johansen: Pianist, Composer, Scholar, Humanist and Founder of the Leonardo Academy
Betsy Jolas
Scott Joplin
Josquin: http://www.josquin.com/; http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/josquin.html
Brooke Joyce: has composed music for a variety of chamber ensembles, orchestras and soloists, but his first love is music for the theater

K

Dmitri Kabalevsky: Works list; Biographical sketch
Pál Kadosa: Wikipedia bio; Pronounciation guide
Maurizio Kagel: German-Argentinean composer.
Arthur Kampela: Brazilian composer with a Ph.D. in composition from Columbia University.
Gija Kancheli: German language bio of this Soviet era Russian composer; Music under Soviet rule bio and worklist
Eugen Kapp: Headed the Union of Estonian Composers under the Soviet Russian government
Nikolai Karetnikov: Works list
Sigfrid Karg-Elert: Beware, the link to the English section takes you to the German section.
Juri Kasparov: Russian composer whose music is widely performed & published by Leduc, among others.
Daniel Kellogg: Prize-winning composer who studied at Curtis
Aaron Jay Kernis
Aram Khachaturian: Khachaturian Virtual Museum; Armenian composer
Earl Kim: Current as of July, 1999
Victor Kissine: Soviet-era (b. 1953) composer
Michael Klingbeil: Studied with Tristan Murail, Heinrich Taube, Stan Link, Gary Lee Nelson and Pieter Snapper.
Oliver Knussen: "one of the most respected figures in British contemporary music"
Komitas -: a.k.a. Soghomon Soghomonyan, founder of Armenian classical music. Site also available in Russian and Armenian
Jo Kondo: has written more than eighty compositions, ranging from solo pieces to orchestral and electronic works.
Anders Koppel: Danish composer
Shirish Korde: studied jazz and composition at the Berklee College of Music, and completed advanced studies in analysis and composition at the New England Conservatory with Robert Cogan, Donald Martino and Ernst Oster.
Nicolai Korndrof: Russian composer living in Canada since 1991
Erich W. Korngold: More than anybody else, Erich Wolfgang Korngold deserved to be called the Father of Modern Film Music.
Christos Koulendros: B.M., Berklee College of Music; M.A., Tufts University. Consultant, Tufts. University. Commissions from: M.I.T. Concert Band, Arlington/Belmont Chamber Chorus and Philharmonic. Winner, Hellenic orchestral composition competition. Associate, St. Botolph Club.
Friedrich Kuhlau
György Kurtág: Hungarian composer, composer of, among other things, a woodwind quintet; Boosey bio; Central Europe Review; Karder.com - German language
Kristin P. Kuster

L

Joan La Barbara: explores the human voice as a multi-faceted instrument expanding traditional boundaries, creating works for multiple voices, chamber ensembles, music theater, orchestra and interactive technology
Helmut Lachenman
Angel Lam: "Her music ranges from the delicate depiction of a drop of water for an unconventional instrumentation--guitar, harp, vibraphone, crotales and double bass, to the telling of a forgotten hero from ancient China written for large orchestra and narration"
David Lang: American composer.
Rued Langgaard: Danish composer 1893-1952.
Vanessa Lann: American composer living in the Netherlands
Libby Larsen: Some educational resources including an area "for kids."
Osvaldo Lacerda: (Portugese language site)
Ernesto Lecuona: "Cuba's greatest composer"
Yinam Leef: While firmly rooted in Western musical tradition, Leef has combined in his music certain elements which are particular to Middle-Eastern sound-environment: melodic fragments, rhythmic or temporal aspects of music, or the relation to time and form. (From the website.)
Giovanni Lees: Italian language site of this pianist/composer with midi & pdf files available of his compositions
Leonard Lehrman: editor of The Marc Blitzstein Songbook. runs the Long Island Composers Archive.
Tania León: Cuban composer.
Fred Lerdahl: American composer born in Madison, WI.
Philippe Leroux: French composer, teaches composition (music electronic) at IRCAM.
Arthur Levering: a modern composer of classical music, living in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Rome, Italy
Magnus Lindberg: Finnish Music Center; Schirmer bio
Lowell Liebermann
György Ligeti: Sony classical; http://www.gyoergy-ligeti.de/ (German language); IRCAM (French language)
Herbert Lindholm - Finnish composer
UNT Lully Project
Witold Lutaslawski: Chester-novello; culture.pl

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Todd Machover: widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of his generation
Edward MacDowell: head of the music department of Columbia University from 1896 to 1904
Steven Mackey: composition professor at Princeton University
James Macmillan: Scottish composer
Edward J. Madden: American singer-songwriter
Trygve Madsen - Norwegian composer: Radio Prague interview
Jon Magnussen: Artist-in-Residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
Gustav Mahler: Classical Music Pages bio; International Mahler Society; Mahler Archives - online database created and maintained by The Chicago Mahlerites and the Colorado MahlerFest for the benefits of the global Mahlerian community
Kiril Makan: MIT music faculty member. Non-flash site here.
Arvydas Malcys: Lithuanian composer
Philippe Manoury: French composer. IRCAM bio. University of California at San Diego bio.
Tigran Mansurian - Armenian composer born in Beirut.: Other minds' bio; The Living Composer Project bio & contact info & work list
Bruno Mantovani: French language bio
Marin Marais
Ingram Marshall
Frank Martin: French and English version. Contains: an introduction, a concise biography, a survey of compositions, information on the Société Frank Martin and more
Ingram Marshall: American composer
Bohuslav Martinu
Mija Masaoka: musician, composer, sound artist
Benedict Mason: Winner of the Guido d'Arezzo Prize, and the Benjamin Britten Competition in 1988. Subsequent awards include a Fulbright Fellowship, the Paul Fromm Award (1995) and the Third Britten Award (1996) for Rilke Songs.
Charles Mason: American composer. Rome prize winner, among other things.
Jules Massenet: With th disappearance of julesmasseneet.com, the Wikipedia article now has the most information. Works list is here.
Nicholas Maw
Missy Mazzoli: Boston University grad (worked with John Harbison, Richard Cornell, Charles Fussell and Martin Amlin) and Fulbright Fellow for study in the Netherlands with Louis Andriessen, Martijn Padding and Richard Ayres.
Cecilia McDowell: English composer born in 1951.
Ned McGowan: Flutist/composer, working in Amsterdam.
Catherine McMichael
Thomas Meadowcroft: Australian composer.
Nikolai Medtner
Joyce Mekeel
Marc Mellits: Unfortunately low-contrast text to background makes reading difficult
Olivier Messiaen: French-language site including biography, discography, works list and bibliography
Darius Milhaud
Minoru Miki: Japanese composer.
Misato Mochizuki: Female Japanese composer
Eric Moe: b. 1954 American composer. Studied at UC - Berkeley and Princeton. Teaches at the Univeristy of Pittsburgh.
Bernhard Molique
Stephen Montague: American composer based in London.
Stanislaw Moniuszko: 19th century Polish composer
Timothy Moore: English composer whose compositional style was influenced by jazz.
Meredith Monk
Stephen Montague: American-born British composer
Paul Moravec: An American composer whose music has earned many distinctions, including the 2004 Pulizer price, the Prix de Rome from the American Academy in Rome (1984-85), a 1994 Composers Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Bellagio Center Residency Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation (1993)
John Moran: Composer and choreographer
Robert Moran: Official website; Classical Music Archives; Moran Database
Paul Moravec: Winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in music. Biography, picture, CDs, works, and concerts.
Jocelyn Morlock: Canadian composer of mostly chamber and vocal works (from the website)
Alexandr Morduhovich: winner of diplomas at the international and All-Russian Contests, the senior lecturer of the Magnitogorsk State Conservatory (MaGK)
Jerome Moross: Best known as a composer of movie and television scores
Mike Mower: English composer.
Reinaldo Moya: Venezualian composer
Mozart
Modest Mussorgsky
Niko Muhly: Young composer (at least he was in 2007) whose works have been played at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, etc.
Tristan Murail: Ircam bio (French language); Wikipedia bio (with works list)
Thea Musgrave: American composer
Olli Mustonen: Finnish-born pianist/composer
Josef Myslivechek: Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader

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Zurab Nadarejshvili: Composer from the Georgian Republic
Nakami Naito: Japanese female composer
Colon Nancarrow: http://www.kylegann.com/index2.html - Works list, chronology & annotated complete works; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conlon_Nancarrow
Ram Narayan: Indian composer
Onute Narbutaite: The most prominent Lithuanian woman composer (from the website). Richard Taruskin calls her music "gorgeously lyrical and utterly haunting." (The New York Times, 18/April/2004: AR 31.)
Lior Navok: Israeli composer b. 1971.
Vaclav Nelhybel
Carl Nielsen: Danish composer, 1865-1931
Anders Nilsson: Swedish composer born in 1954.
Arne Nordheim: Norwegian composer
Farangis Nurulla Khoja: Pianist/composer from a Tajikistan. "Her work is inspired by both Asian and European sources. She followed courses in Dushanbe (Tajikistan), and later in Göteborg (Sweden) with Ole Lutzow-Holm, and in San Diego with Brian Ferneyhough and Roger Reynolds." http://resonances2002.ircam.fr/bio.php3?id_article=105.
Michael Nyman: English composer

O

Fernando Obradors
Helmut Oehring: German-language homepage
Maurice Ohana: French language site (English version "Under construction" on July 24, 2004
Pauline Oliveros
Leo Ornstein: "from about 1910 to 1925 - Leo Ornstein was the five foot four giant of modern music in America"
Juan Orrego-Salas: Chilean composer and Founder of the Latin American Music Center at Indiana University
Moto Osada
Eric Ostling: a composer and performer living in the Boston area

P

Johann Pachelbel: http://www.hoasm.org/VIB/Pachelbel.html; http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/pachelbel.html
Alexendra Pakhnytova: Russian language site
Palestrina: New Advent; New Grove Concise; Oxford University Press
Hubert Parry: English composer 1848-1918
Arvo Pärt: Estonian composer.; http://www.arvopart.info/; musicolog.com
Pierre Paubon: French language site with a brief biography.
Stephen Paulus
Joe Pehrson: Director of Composers' Concordance, New York, NY
Georgs Pelecis: Latvian composer of whose music Richard Taruskin says "He writes music . . . [that] shows that consonance is by no means to be equated with pleasantness." (The New York Times, 18/April/2004: AR 27.)
Krzysztof Penderecki: http://www.penderecki.de/ (German language)
Joshua Penman: Wide-ranging interests focus on mysticism, spirituality, and the possibilities of ambient soundscapes.
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004): African American Composer & Conductor
Pérotin: Pérotin; Pérotin - Created by Joseph Allen Sifferd; Discography
Vincent Persichetti
Andrzej Panufnik
Piazzola.org: The Center for Astor Piazzola on the Internet.
Astor Piazzola: and the Fundacion Piazzola.
Tobias Picker: recipient of numerous awards and honors including the Bearns Prize (Columbia University), a Charles Ives Scholarship, and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.
Gabriel Pierné
Daniel Pinkham - 1923-2006
Paul Pinto: New York composer, vocalist, and conductor. Champion of new music.
Matthias Pintscher: German composer
Walter Piston
Seppo Pohjola: Finnish composer
Rachel Portman
Francis Poulenc
Bob Pritchard: Canadian composer, writes acoustic, electroacoustic, and interactive works
Sergei Prokofiev: www.prokief.org/; The Serge Prokofiev Foundation; www.siue.edu
Eduardo del PUEYO BEGUE: Spanish language site
Uljas Pulkkis: Finnish composer born in 1975
Kevin Puts: Composer-in-Residence for the Fort Worth Symphony

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Johann Joachim Quantz
Roger Quilter - 1877 - 1953: Roger Quilter - Home page; Boosey bio

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David Rakowski: Composer and digital font maker
Shulamit Ran: Israeli composer.
Einojuhani Rautavaara - Finnish composer b. 1928: Finnish information center; Virtual Finland bio, cv, etc.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Einojuhani Rautavaara: Finnish composer
Maurice Ravel
Alfred Reed: American composer 1921-2005
Steve Reich
Frederic Rzewski: American composer now teaching in Brussels.
Wolfgang Rihm
Dennis Riley: American composer 1943-1999. Work list here.
Terry Riley
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakoff
George Rochberg
Ana Maria Rodriguez
Johan Helmich Roman (1694 - 1758): Swedish composer
Ned Rorem
Christopher Rouse: Winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize in Music
Daniel Bernard Roumain: Hip-hop-inspired composer who is composer-in-residence for the Orchestra at St. Luke's. Unfortunately the website does not display well in Mozilla-based browsers. I.E. IE only. :(
Morris Rosenzweig: New Orleans LA composer b. 1952
Antonio Rosetti - a.k.a. Franz Anton Rösler: Bach cantata.com bio; Mozart forum bio
Daniel Bernard Roumain: "composer, performer, violinist, and band-leader who seamlessly blends funk, rock, hip-hop and classical music into a new, personal sonic vision"
Albert Roussel
Anton Rubenstein
Poul Ruders: Danish. Composer of an opera based on Margaret Atwood's The Handmaiden's Tale.; Edition Wilhelm Hansen bio; Schirmer bio
Carl Ruggles (1876-1971): The Carl Ruggles Page; Theodore Presser bio
Huang Ruo: Chinese composer "already known to the musical worlds of two continents as a promising young composer and scholar."
Alejandro Rutty: His output includes work in avant-garde music, standard classical repertoire, Argentine traditional music, and innovative community-based projects (quoting the website)
Bill Ryan: leads Grand Valley State University's (Allendale, MI) new music group.

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Kaija Saariaho: Finnish composer. Her works have been performed by the Cleveland Orchestra and others.; http://www.chesternovello.com/Default.aspx?TabId=2431&State_2905=2∓composerId_2905=1350
Marc Sabat: Canadian composer
Camille Saint-Saens: Handel & Haydn bio; www.lessontutor.com
Aulis Sallinen Finnish composer b. 1935: Finnish Information Center; Virtual Finland
Giovanni Salviucci: Italian-language site
Joly Braga Santos: Brazilian composer
Eric Satie
Rebecca Saunders: English composer
Giacinto Scelsi: Italian composer 1905 - 1988.
R. Murray Schafer: Canadian Music Centre bio; Composer21 bio; Philmutic bio
Thomas Schudel: Canadian composer. Flute works include Valentines for solo flute (c. 14"); and A Winter Suite (c. 8")
Judith Shatin: A "timbral explorer [whose] inspirations range from myth and poetry to [animal] calls."
Peter Schickele
Salvatore Sciarrino: French-language bio
Thomas Daniel Schlee: Austrian composer born in 1957
Daniel Schnyder
Othmar Schoeck: Swiss composer 1886-1957
Arnold Schönberg: Complete list of all internet sites.
Schoenberg Archives
Arnold Schönberg Center: Now with streaming radio of Schönberg's music.
Alfred Schnittke: www.schnitke.de - German Language site; Wikipedia bio
Paul Schoenfield: American composer b. 1947 has a degree from Carnegie-Mellon University, as well as a Doctor of Music Arts degree from the University of Arizona
Ruth Schonthal: American composer/pianist. Died July 10, 2006
Franz Schreker: Viennese composer from the early 20th century
Franz Schubert: Franz Schubert; The Schubert Society of the USA
William Schuman
Robert Schumann Research Institute
Benjamin Schweitzer: German composer
Raymond Scott: 1908-1994. Ecletic composer of popular music.
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Roger Sessions (1896-1985): Roger Sessions Society (links don't work - scroll down the page to find the info); Presser bio
Rodion Shchedrin: Russian composer who defines his style as "post avant-garde."; The International Maya Plisetskaya and Rodion Shchedrin Foundation
Alexander Shchetynsky: Ukrainian composer, avant-garde, post-avant-garde, post-modern.; Works list
Bright Sheng: Bright Sheng; University of Michigan (contact info)
Kim D. Sherman
Dmitri Shostakovich
Alan Shulman 1915-2002: American composer, cellist and arranger.
Sibelius Academy Music Resources
Roberto Sierra: American composer
Valentin Silvestrov: Ukranian composer
Christian Sinding 1856-1941: Norwegian composer
Howard Skempton
Harvey Sollberger
Giovanni Sollima: Italian composer of mostly stage, orchestral and chamber works
Sousa Archives for Band Research - University of Illinois Archives
Leo Smit: Leo Smit's career as composer, pianist, conductor, and educator spanned seven decades of musical life in the United States. This website is an online tribute based on an exhibition at the SUNY - Buffalo music library in April, 2000 and includes an introduction, biography covering early years, friends, Buffalo and beyond, a works list and more.
Rob Smith: Currently teaching at the University of Houston's Moores School of Music
Ivan Sokolov (b. 1960): German language bio
Lewis Spratlan: A native of Miami, Lewis Spratlan studied with Mel Powell and Gunther Schuller at Yale, and has taught and conducted at Tanglewood, The Yale Summer School of Music and Art, and Amherst College, where he has been on the faculty since 1970. He was awarded a Pulitzer prize in 2000.
Asha Srinivasan: Indian-American composer.
Carl Stamitz
Charles Villiers Stanford
Bruce Stark: Composer/pianist
Paul Steenhuisen: rather cryptic front page with links to bio, soundfiles, etc.
William Grant Still
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Obituary
Igor Stravinsky 1882–1971: by Jeremy Noble
Henrik Strindberg: Swedish composer
Leslie Stuart: English song composer, pianist, organist and conductor
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Oscar Strasnoy
Steven Stucky: awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his Second Concerto for Orchestra
Morton Subotnick
Georgy Vasilevich Sviridov: Considered either “[o]ne of the most brilliant ‘forgotten’ composers ” or “as an appalling example of generalised kitsch.” Here is the NY Times obit, and a wikipedia article.
Witold Szalonek
Karol Szymanowski

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Miroslav Tadic: Yugoslavian composer/guitarist who teaches at Calarts
Toru Takemitsu
Jody Talbot: English composer highly in demand as a pop arranger
Karen Tanaka
Sergei Taneyev - 1856-1915
Eric Tanguy: French composer born in 1968 (French language site)
Aleksander Tansman: Polish composer; French language site - a bit difficult to read since the diacritical markings are not rendered correctly
Todd Tarantino: professor of Music Theory at the Manhattan School of Music.
Victor Tarnopolski: Russian composer who teaches at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
Pëtr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Classical Music Pages bio; Google directory
Georg Phillip Telemann
Michael Tenzer: Teaches at the University of British Columbia
Augusta Read Thomas: Native New Yorker.
Virgil Thomson: The Virgil Thomson Foundation
John Thow
Frank Ticheli: Professor of Composition at the University of Southern California
Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer: Yugoslavian composer who studied composition with Louis Andriessen & Diderick Wagenaar at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague
Jukka Tiensuu: Finnish composer b. 1948
Boris Tishchenko: Onno van Rijen - chronology and brief biography; Ian MacDonald's Music under Soviet Rule chronology
Giuseppe Torelli: classicalmusic.net; Naxos bio
Ushio Torikai
Joan Tower
Barry Traux: Professor at Simon Fraser University where he teaches courses in acoustic communication and electroacoustic music
Dan Trueman: Conducts PLOrk : The Princeton Laptop Orchestra
David Tudor
Helena Tulve: Estonian composer

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Ken Ueno: Boston area composer who is Assistant Professor and the Director of the Electronic Music Studios at the University of Massachussetts Dartmouth
Chinary Ung: Cambodian-American composer
Galina Ustvolskaya: reclusive composer from St. Petersburg, Russia; The Lady and the Hammer - extensive essay by Ian MacDonald; Works list - compiled by Onno van Rijen

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Moisei Vainberg
Matthew Van Brink: Composer and organist
Michel van der Aa: Dutch composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Peteris Vask: Latvian composer published by Schott
Jacob Ter Veldhuis: non Flash site; Flash site
Nadir Vassena: Swiss composer
Verdi
Sándor Veress: Hungarian composer
Theodoor Verhey: (Dutch language site)
Elizabeth Vercoe: "one of the most inventive composers working in America today" (Washington Post)
Lois Vierk: Illinois-born composer.
Carl Vine: Australian composer
Dan Visconti: "a composer of concert music who draws inspiration from the rich character and improvisatory spirit of American vernacular styles."
Vivaldi Internet Resource
Vladimir Vlasov
Andrei Volkonsky: Manuscripts in the Slonimsky Collection at the Library of Congress (finding aid only)
Oswald von Wolkenstein - midieval German composer/poet: English biography