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Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
André Campra (1660-1744)
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
George Frideric Händel (portrait, 1756, by Thomas Hudson) (1685-1759)
Jean-Marie Leclair (1697-1764)
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736)
Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1714-1787)
Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739-1799)
Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816)
André Modeste Grétry (1741-1813)
Joseph Schuster (1748-1812)
at the keyboard
Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
mature
at the piano
Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Gaspare Spontini (1774-1851)
François Adrien Boieldieu
(1775-1834)
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
(1776-1822)
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
(1782-1871)
Louis Spohr (1784-1859)
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
and wearing a fur collar
Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1846)
Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
after a good meal
and looking serious
Heinrich Marschner (1795-1861)
Saverio Mercadante (1795-1870)
Giovanni Pacini (1796-1867)
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Jacques Halévy (1799-1862)
Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)
and once more with his trusty white scarf
Albert Lortzing (1801-1851)
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Adolphe Adam (1803-1856)
Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857)
Michael Balfe (1808-1870)
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Otto Nicolai (1810-1849)
Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896)
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Friedrich von Flotow (1812-1883)
William Vincent Wallace (1812-1865)
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
ca. 1850
wearing a bow tie
piercing eyes
serious portrait
smiling?
serious portrait
standing
from a pen-and-ink sketch by Giovanni Boldine, 1886
the same sketch used on a postage stamp
and his funeral procession
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Alexander Dargomizhsky (1813-1869)
Charles Gounod (1818-1893)
and seated
Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880)
Franz von Suppé (1819-1895)
Emilio Arrieta (1823-1894)
Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884)
Johann Strauss Jr. (1825-1899)
Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894)
and older
Karl Goldmark (1830-1915)
Amilcare Ponchielli (1834-1886)
Camille Saint-Saëns
(1835-1921)
and at the organ
Léo Delibes (1836-1891)
Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
Max Bruch (1838-1920)
Modest Mussorgsky (painting, Ilya Repin, 1881) (1839-1881)
and a photograph
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
(1840-1893)
Hermann Goetz
(1840-1876)
Antonín Dvořák
(1841-1904)
Emmanuel Chabrier
(1841-1894)
Jules Massenet (1842-1912)
good portrait
relaxing in an armchair
and with a musical quotation from Werther
Arrigo Boito (1842-1918)
and a simliar pose
Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)
Carl Zeller (1842-1898)
Carl Millöcker (1842-1899)
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
(1844-1908)
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Zdeněk Fibich (1850-1900)
André Messager (1853-1929)
Leoš Janácek (1854-1928)
Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921)
Alfredo Catalani (1854-1893)
Ernest Chausson (1855-1899)
Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919)
and with his dog
Wilhelm Kienzl (1857-1941)
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
in white tie
at the piano
with Arturo Toscanini
with a cigarette in a holder
with a cigarette
and again with a cigarette
Dame Ethel Smyth (1858-1944)
Gustave Charpentier (1860-1956)
Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909)
Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek (1860-1945)
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Frederick Delius (1862-1934)
Delius' Florida house, now on the campus
of Jacksonville University
and a closeup of the plaque on the house
Edward German (1862-1936)
Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945)
as a young man
handsome in a three-piece suit
and with hypnotic gaze
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
color portrait
and in profile
Eugen d'Albert (1864-1932)
Francesco Cilea (1866-1950)
and seated, with Tito Schipa
Umberto Giordano (1867-1948)
handsome profile
and with a moustache
Enrique Granados (1867-1916)
Scott Joplin (1868-1917)
Max von Schillings (1868-1933)
Siegfried Wagner (1869-1930)
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949)
Franz Lehár (1870-1948)
Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871-1942)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947)
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Franco Alfano (1875-1954)
Italo Montemezzi (1875-1952)
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876-1948)
profile
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)
Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Robert Stolz (1880-1975)
reading a score
and with his wife Einzi
(all three photos courtesy of Franq De Vos)
Georges Enescu (1881-1955)
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967)
Emmerich Kálmán (1882-1953)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Riccardo Zandonai (1883-1944)
Deems Taylor (1885-1966)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Sir Arthur Bliss (1891-1975)
Douglas Moore (1893-1969)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Jaromir Weinberger (1896-1967)
Howard Hanson (1896-1981)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957)
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Sir William Walton (1902-1983)
Berthold Goldschmidt (1903-1996)
Marc Blitzstein (1905-1964)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-2007)
Bernard Herrmann (1911-1976)
Nino Rota (1911-1979)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Jack Beeson (1921-2010)
Carlisle Floyd (1926- )
Sir André Previn (1929- )
casual, aboard a train (photo courtesy
of cellist Irvin Kauffman)
Tod Machover (1953- )
Tobias Picker (1954- )
Robert Aldridge (1954- )
