Musicians and Makers

George Gershwin was born Jacob Gershwine on September 26, 1898. He died on July 11, 1937 and was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical…

Felix Mendelssohn was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor born on the 3 February 1809. His works were prominent in the early Romantic period and one of his most…

Jean-Philippe Rameau  (25 September 1683 – 12 September 1764) was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the 18th century. He replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the…

Raoul Feuillet. Raoul Auger  Feuillet (c.1660–1710) was a French dance notator, publisher and choreographer most well-known today for his Chorégraphie, ou l'art de décrire la danse (Paris, 1700) which described…

Charles Dibdin. Charles Dibdin was a British composer, musician, dramatist, novelist and actor. With over 600 songs to his name, for many of which he wrote both the lyrics and…

George  Handel, born Georg Friederich Händel, was born in 1685 in Halle-upon-Saale, Duchy of Magdeburg (then part of Brandenburg-Prussia), to Georg Händel and Dorothea Taust. His father, aged sixty-three when…

Muzio Clementi. Muzio Filippo Vincenzo Francesco Saverio Clementi was an Italian-born English composer, pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer. Encouraged to study music by his father, he…