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1. George Frideric Handel George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) was a famous German composer who spent much of his life in England. He wrote operas and oratorios (including the oratorio, the Messiah). He also wrote the well-known Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks. Han...
2. Franz Schubert Franz Schubert (1797-1828) was a German composer. His works included his Lieder (or songs for solo voice with accompaniment, often piano), of which he wrote more than 500. Two examples were Der Erlkonig (The Elf King) and Gretchen am Spinnrade (Gret...
3. Ludwig Van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was probably the greatest of all classical musicians of all time. His passionate and fiery music continues to inspire people across the world. He began to play in public when he was 22 years old. In 1796 he went to B...
4. Giacomo Meyerbeer Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864) was a opera composer born in Germany. His operas included Robert le diable (Robert the Devil), Les Huguenots (The Huguenots), Ein Feldlager in Schlesien (A Field Camp in Schlesien), Le prophete (The Prophet), L'Etoile d...
5. Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was a German composer and keyboard player. Some of his great works of music include the Brandenburg Concertos; the St Matthew Passion; The Well-Tempered Clavier; and The Goldberg Variations. During his lifetime...
6. Felix Mendelssohn Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47) was a German composer. His works included the incidental music to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream; several overtures (such as the Hebrides overture); 5 symphonies (such as the Scottish and the Italian); oratorios...
7. Richard Strauss Richard Strauss (1864-1949) was a German composer of the late Romantic period and early modern period of classical music. His work showed great dramatic and orchestral talent. His works works mostly symphonic poems and operas, although he also wrote...
8. Robert Schumann Robert Schumann (1810-56) was a German composer of the Romantic era of classical music. His works included collections of piano pieces, Carnaval and Kreisleriana, four symphonies (including the Spring and the Rhenish Symphonies), three string quarte...
9. Johannes Brahms Johannes Brahms (1833-97) was a German composer and pianist. His works included four symphonies, piano and violin concertos, choral and orchestral compositions, chamber music, and a Requiem. Much of his music is notable for its rhapsodies with stro...
10. Hildegard Von Bingen Hildegard Von Bingen (1098-1179) was a German nun, mystic, composer and writer. She was an abbess and founded her own convent. She was also greatly involved in the political and cultural affairs of her period. She wrote many works (a medical encycl...
11. Richard Wagner Richard Wagner (1813-83) was a German opera composer. His great operas included Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg), and Parsifal . He also wrote the opera cycle, D...
12. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-88) was a German composer. He was the second son of Johann Sebastian Bach. His works included music for the clavier, for example, sonatas and other solos, such as the set Mit veranderten Reprisen (1760-1768) and those...
13. Georg Philipp Telemann Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) was a German composer of Baroque music. Telemann was a hugely prolific composer. His works included many motets, 44 passions, 600 overtures, and 40 operas, as well as many oratorios, sonatas, and suites, and much k...
14. Frederick Delius Frederick Delius (1862–1934) was an German-English composer. His works included the orchestral pieces Brigg Fair (1907), On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring (1912), and North Country Sketches (1914); the opera A Village Romeo and Juliet (1907...
15. 40-Minute German 40-Minute German - Speaking even a few word of German will make your life a lot easier when in Germny. This downloadable audio file provides the opportunity to hear and practise the German language. The phrases are kept short and simple so that by l...
16. Carl Orff Carl Orff (1895-1982) was a German composer and educator. His works included the oratorio Carmina Burana (1937) (based on medieval Latin secular poems), the cantata Catulli Carmina (The Songs of Catullus) (1943), the dramatic works Antigone (1949) a...
17. Karlheinz Stockhausen Karlheinz Stockhausen (born 1928) is an avant-garde German composer and musical theorist. He uses serial music techniques, and writes electronic music and aleatory (controlled chance) music. His works include Kreuzspiel (1948); Kontrapunkte No. 1 (195...
18. Carl Maria von Weber Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826) was a German composer, conductor, pianist and critic, one of the first important composers of the Romantic school. He greatly influenced the development of German romantic opera. His works include three operatic mast...
19. Engelbert Humperdinck Engelbert Humperdinck (1854–1921) was a German composer. His works included the opera, Hänsel und Gretel (1893). A side note: the popular British-American pop singer of the 1960s and 1970s, Engelbert Humperdinck, whose hits included "Release...
20. Paul Hindemith Paul Hindemith (1895–1963) was a German-American composer. His works included a symphony based on his opera Mathis der Maler (1938); operas such as Cardillac (1926) and Neues vom Tage (1929); the children's opera Wir bauen eine Stadt (1931); Lud...