Composers and Lyricists

Read about the life and times of composers of yesterday and today. Integrate this material into your lesson plans to enrich student learning.

• Johann Sebastian Bach
• Ludwig van Beethoven
• Irving Berlin
• Frédéric Chopin
• Brent Michael Davids
• Antonín Dvorák
• Duke Ellington
• George Gershwin
• Morton Gould
• Edvard Grieg
• Woody Guthrie
• G.F. Handel
• Franz Joseph Haydn
• Libby Larsen
• Jonathan Larson
• Alan Jay Lerner
• Vic Mizzy
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Modest Mussorgsky
• Johann Pachelbel
• Sergey Prokofiev
• Henry Purcell
• Gioacchino Rossini
• Robert Schumann
• Pete Seeger
• John Philip Sousa
• Igor Stravinsky
• John Williams
• Meredith Willson
• Paul Winter
• Andrew York
• Eugene Zador