Musicians & Composers 1-19
16 entries in the Musicians & Composers compendium.
Musicians & Composers 1-19 — Era Chart
Leonard BernsteinFirst American-born conductor to receive international acclaim.Little RichardAmerican pianist, singer and performer; final studio album of new recordings released befoLuciano PavarottiItalian operatic tenor and member of the Three Tenors.Modest MussorgskyRussian composer of The Five, innovator of national music.Mstislav RostropovichCellist who expanded the repertoire and championed human rights.Nadia BoulangerFrench teacher who shaped 20th-century music and broke conducting barriers.Nikolai Rimsky-KorsakovRussian composer who shaped the nationalist style and trained generations.Nirvana (band)American rock band that popularized alternative rock.Pablo CasalsCatalan cellist who revived Bach's Cello Suites and opposed Franco.Paco de LucíaSpanish flamenco guitarist who expanded the genre's boundaries.Philip GlassAmerican composer of repetitive structures and minimalist works.Prince (musician)Often credited as one of the greatest musicians of his generation, he pioneered the MinneaQueen (band)Their earliest works were influenced by progressive rock, hard rock and heavy metal, but tRavi ShankarIndian sitar virtuoso who globalized Indian classical music.Richard StraussGerman composer and conductor of tone poems and operas.Ralph Vaughan WilliamsEnglish composer who broke from German-dominated style.
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