Composers Posters & Prints Index, pg 1/7
for the music and social studies classrooms, home schoolers, and music theme decor.

A composer is someone who writes music, particularly in musical notation that allows others to perform the music, thus distinguishing a composer from a musician who improvises or plays a musical instrument.

Gregorio Allegri
b. 1582; Italy
d. 2-7-1652

Italian composer Gregorio Allegri's a cappella religious music Miserere is one of the most often-recorded examples of late Renaissance music, however from the time of its composure the Vatican forbade copies of the Miserere in order to create an air of mystery around the music. Then, in 1770, a 14 year old Mozart was able to transcribed it faithfully from memory after hearing the music only twice (the first "bootleg" copy?).

Daniel François Esprit Auber was a French composer of operas
b. 1-29-1782; France
d. 5-13-1871

• more F. Rumpf Composer posters
• Auber: Overtures and Rare Ballets

Johann Sebastian Bach Posters
b. 3-21-1685; d. 7-28-1750, German classical baroque composer and organist

selection of Bach posters

Bela Bartok
b. 3-25-1881; Hungary
d. 9-26-1945

Bela Bartok, a Hungarian composer, pianist and one of the founders of the field of ethnomusicology - a collector of Eastern European and Middle Eastern folk music, is considered one of the greatest composers of the 20th century.

• Bartok Album

Ludwig von Beethoven Fine-Art Print
baptised 12-17-1770;
d. 3-26-1827; German classical composer

selection of Beethoven posters

Vincenzo Bellini
b. 11-3-1801; Italy
d. 9-23-1835

Vincenzo Bellini, a child prodigy from a highly musical family, was a noted composer of Bel canto (beautiful singing) opera. His opera 'Norma' is considered the height of Bel canto, a vocal technique featuring extensive ornamentation of fast scales and cadenzas.

• 'Norma' poster

Irving Berlin
b. 5-11-1888; Russia
d. 9-22-1989; New York

• Top Hat poster

Hector Berlioz
b. 12-11-1803; France
d. 3-8-1869

Berlioz was a French Romantic composer; among his compositions are Symphonie Fantastique, Grande Messe des Morts (Requiem), and the opera Les Troyes.

• Memoirs of Hector Berlioz

Leonard Bernstein
b. 8-25-1918; Massachusetts
d. 10-14-1990; New York

Leonard Bernstein was a conductor, composer, author, speaker and pianist. He is best known for his Young People's Concert for the New York Philharmonic, the musicals West Side Story and On the Town, and the operetta Candide.

Saint Hildegard von Bingen
b. 1098; Germany
d. 9-17-1179

About eighty of Hildegard's compositions have survived, one of the largest repertoires among medieval composers. Her music is described as monophonic - one melodic line with limited instrumentals and characterised by soaring soprano vocalizations. She is also the first composer whose biography is known.

Saint Hildegard von Bingen was a "polymath" (person with varied knowledge and learning), who in addition to being the first composer whose biography is known, was also an "abbess, artist, author, counselor, linguist, naturalist, teacher, scientist, philosopher, physician, herbalist, poet, activist, and visionary".

• Hildegard: Feather on the Breath of God (Audio CD)
• more women posters

Georges Bizet
b. 10-25-1838; France
d. 6-3-1875

Georges Bizet, a French composer of the Romantic era, is best known for his popular opera 'Carmen'.

• Listen to samples of Carmen and L' Arlesienne Suites

Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray was a French Composer & Musicologist
b. 2-2-1840; France
d. 7-4-1910

Johannes Brahms Poster
b. 5-7-1833; Hamburg, Germany,
d. 4-3-1897; Vienna

selection of Johannes Brahms posters

Max Karl August Bruch
b. 1-6-1838; Germany
d. 10-20-1920
Bruch was a German composer in the Romantic tradition best known for his violin compositions such as Concerto No. 1 in G minor, op. 26.