This website is a portal to the Great Composers' enduring gift to the world. Our love for classical music is the driving force behind this endeavor.
The main objective of this website is to present the user the catalogued music writen by the great composers. Not their music scores, but the listings of their music production.
Their music is what they left us so that humankind could enjoy a whole new world of pure beauty.
By searching through the lists of their work we can find a title of interest such as a name, an opus number or music category. Then we can search for it, find it, and listen to it.
Once we know what we want to hear we can find it in YouTube, buy a cd, ask Alexa or Google to play it for us (for example: "Alexa, play Chopin Ballade number 1 in G minor," or "Beethoven Opus 111.") Or better yet, attend a live performance (there is no electronic technology that can match our own ears to capture the realm of the sound of music.)
Many of us already know some of the music of the great composers, but through these listings you have access to all of it. Furthermore, you'll be surprised with the amount of music produced by the great composers as well as the variety of their output.
Maybe you can remember famous works of music such as: Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor for organ, or Mozart's 40th Symphony, or one of his piano concertos, or Beethoven's Moonlight piano sonata ...
You'll find in these listings that JS Bach produced more than 1200 works, among them 241 works for organ. Mozart more than 622 works, among them 41 Symphonies and 27 piano concertos. Beethoven more than 125 works, among them 32 piano sonatas.
In the same way you'll find names of composers that wrote hundreds of works that you may not be aware existed.
In addition, these pages also provide access to important classical music topics. Plus, they greatly facilitate tasks such as gathering information and research.
By providing links to the internet's already vast amount of information. From where we extract listings of the composer's creative works. Most of this information comes from Wikipedia.org.
For instance, a complete list of all the music a given composer ever wrote, or the years a composer lived, or lists of composer's nationalities, or the mystery behind every professional musician: the gift of music or perfect pitch, is now just one click away.
Composers listed in the Home and Timeline pages were chosen based on the subjective matter of music itself. However, complete lists including thousands of composers of all periods of music are found in the RELATED page.
Biographies can be found on the same page; unfortunately, these are usually too brief. They provide a rather sparce outline of the lives of these remarkable men and women.
Many of their life stories are nothing short of fascinating e.g., "Chevalier_de_Saint-Georges".
Beethoven's deafness is another such story. How is it possible that Beethoven, perhaps the most important composer of all time, was completely deaf by the time he created his greatest works?
Their stories may require further exploration through biographical books - "Life of Beethoven" by Romain Rolland - or some remarkable films: "Amadeus," "Immortal Beloved," "Impromptu."