#  Meet the Composers 

 



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Photograph by *L*u*z*a*, available under a [Creative Commons license](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en)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)](/ludwig-van-beethoven)

[Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)](/johannes-brahms)

[Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)](/benjamin-britten)

[John Alden Carpenter (1876-1951)](/john-alden-carpenter)

[Aaron Copland (1900-1990)](/aaron-copland)

[Claude Debussy (1862-1918)](/claude-debussy)

[Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)](/gabriel-faur%C3%A9)

[Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)](/edvard-grieg)

[Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)](/gustav-mahler)

[Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847)](/felix-mendelssohn-bartholdy)

[Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)](/maurice-ravel)

[Ned Rorem (1923- )](/ned-rorem)

[Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)](/arnold-schoenberg)

[Franz Schubert (1797-1828)](/franz-schubert)

[Robert Schumann (1810-1856)](/robert-schumann)

[Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953)](/ruth-crawford-seeger)

[Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)](/hugo-wolf)