Composer biographies.

Composer biographies on PBS's Great Performances web site.

Felix Mendelssohn was a musical jack-of-all trades and he was renowned in his lifetime as an exquisite pianist, conductor, and of course, composer. To mark the bicentennial of his birth in 1809, the Library of Congress's Music Division has created this co

Use your audio recorder to collect environmental sounds from the neighborhood, then create a piece of music from these sounds. Next, go to the studio and use the multitrack editor to combine the sounds into a new piece of music.

An online presentation of selected music manuscripts, photographs, printed music, historical recordings of the Sousa Band, copies of programs and press clippings, and more from the Sousa Collection at the Library of Congress.

This is an interactive website for us to share share our tips and suggestions for refining and expressing our musical ideas. As you compose and find things that work for you, please post them here.

Available in English and French, this personal site is devoted to the music, life and works of this great figure. Created, funded and authored by two British academics, the site gives a panoramic view of Berlioz’s life and art, and seeks to recreate the

This website details and provides examples of the Cranbrook Composers' Workshop, a student composition project.

Frank Loesser was able to use his remarkable songwriting talents to create such classic Tin Pin Alley songs as “Once in Love with Amy”, “Standing on the Corner”, and of course, “Luck Be a Lady Tonight”. His career spanned four decades, and he