Opera Composers 1-20
19 entries in the Opera Composers compendium.
Opera Composers 1-20 — Era Chart
Gaetano DonizettiItalian composer best known for his operas, of which he wrote about 75 from 1816 to 1845.César FranckFrench Romantic composer, organist, and teacher of lasting influence.Gilbert and SullivanVictorian theatrical duo of librettist and composer.Arthur SullivanEnglish composer of Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas.Alexander GlazunovRussian composer who led the Saint Petersburg Conservatory through revolution.Charles GounodFrench Romantic composer of Faust and Roméo et Juliette.Enrique GranadosSpanish and Catalan composer and pianist, known for Goyescas.Jules MassenetFrench composer of operas, several premiered by the Opéra-Comique.Jacques OffenbachGerman-born French composer of operettas and The Tales of Hoffmann.Camille Saint-SaënsFrench Romantic composer, organist, and musical prodigy.Bedřich SmetanaCzech composer whose life and works are celebrated at the Bedřich Smetana Museum in PragueJohn Philip SousaAmerican composer and conductor known as 'The March King'.Johann Strauss IAustrian composer of light music, known as "The Waltz King", who popularized the waltz in Carl Maria von WeberGerman composer crucial to German Romantic opera.Hugo WolfAustrian composer known for intense, expressive Lieder.Manuel de FallaSpanish composer and pianist of the first half of the 20th century.Gustav HolstEnglish composer of The Planets and influential teacher.Leoš JanáčekCzech composer who fused Moravian folk music with modern speech melodies.Alexander ScriabinRussian composer and pianist, innovator of dissonant musical language.
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