Meet the Composers

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The composers highlighted here represent some of the major schools of song: German Romantic lieder, French modernism, and 20th-century English-language art song. Within the page dedicated to each composer are links to biographical information, online scores and multimedia, and suggestions for further reading and research.

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

John Alden Carpenter (1876-1951)

Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847)

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

Ned Rorem (1923- )