françois habeneck
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Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both t...
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Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869) was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts (Requiem). Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. H...
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Harriet Smithson
Harriet Smithson (18 March 1800 – 3 March 1854) was an Anglo-Irish Shakespearean actress of the 19th century, best known as the first wife and muse of Hector Berlioz....
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Felix Mendelssohn
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born, and generally known in English-speaking countries, as Felix Mendelssohn (1809 – 1847) was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period.The grandson of the philosopher Moses...
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Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher. He was also the father-in-law of Richard Wagner.Liszt became renowned throughout Europe for his great skill as a performer during the 1800s. He is said to have been the most...
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Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (1792 - 1868) was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces.His best-known operas include the Italian comedies Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barbe...
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Hans Von Bülow
Hans Guido Freiherr von Bülow (January 8, 1830 – February 12, 1894) was a German conductor, virtuoso pianist, and composer of the Romantic era. As one of the most distinguished conductors of the 19th century, his activity was critical for establishing the...
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Niccolò Paganini
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Pauline Viardot
Pauline Viardot (1821 - 1910) was a leading nineteenth-century French mezzo-soprano, pedagogue, and composer of Spanish descent. Born Michelle Ferdinande Pauline García, her name appears in various forms. When it is not simply "Pauline Viardot", it most c...
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Gaspare Spontini
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Adolphe Adam
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Daniel Auber
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Louis Berlioz
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Léon Carvalho
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Luigi Cherubini
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Peter Cornelius
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Félicien David
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Fromental Halévy
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Ernest Legouvé
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Giacomo Meyerbeer
Giacomo Meyerbeer, born Jacob Liebmann Beer (1791 - 1864) was a German opera composer of Jewish birth, "the most frequently performed opera composer during the nineteenth century, linking Mozart and Wagner". With his 1831 opera Robert le diable and its su...
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Marie Recio
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