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This_server Samuel Barber see also Samuel Barber  
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This_server Ludwig Van Beethoven by David Wright
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This_server Arthur Benjamin
This_server  Niels Viggo Bentzon
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This_server  Felix Blumenfeld
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This_server BRUCKNER SYMPHONIES
This_server Elliot Carter
This_server Enrique Mario Casella
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This_serverGál  Hans
This_serverRoberto Gerhard  see also article by Guy Rickards
This_serverGeorge Gershwin  Compilation of Gershwin CD reviews
 This_server  Don Carlo Gesualdo a scurrilous life story
This_server Berthold Goldschmidt
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This_server Sofia Gubaidulina
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Alfred Hill
Vagn Holmboe
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This_server Hans Huber
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This_server Giya Kancheli
This_server Nikolai Kapustin
This_server Korngold: Compilation of CD reviews
This_server Jean-Marie Leclair
This_server Gyorgy Ligeti
This_server Fernando Lopes-Graça
This_server Sergei Lyapunov
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This_server Martinu - see Dvorak Society see also Martinu
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George Antheil
J. S. Bach
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Ernst Bacon
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Frederic Chopin
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Maurice Duruflé
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Gabriel Fauré
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John Fernström
Elena Firsova
Nicolas Flagello
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Kenneth Fuchs
Don Carlo Gesualdo (In Italian)  Gesualdo Consort
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Gliere
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Edvard Grieg
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Alan Hovhaness :Complete catalogue of works   see also www.hovhaness.com
Klaus Huber
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Charles Ives Society
Leoš Janácek
André Jolivet
John Joubert
Giya Kancheli
Viteszlava Kapralova
Louis Karchin
Nigel Keay
Ernst Krenek
Rued Langgaard
Orlando di Lasso
Vanessa Lann
Thomas Oboe Lee
Jón Leifs
Ulrich Leyendecker
Douglas Lilburn (New Zealand Composer)
Liszt Memorial Centre and Museum Budapest
Alexander Lokshin
Otto Luening  Discography
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Agustín Barrios Mangoré
Igor Markevitch
Frank Martin
Martinu Foundation
Joseph Marx
George F McKay
Nicolas Medtner
Olivier Messiaen Malcolm Ball
Eric Moe
Oskar Morawetz
Mozart Foundation
Lior Navok
Carl Nielsen
Per Nørgård
Norwegian Composers: [ Niels Abel | Roald Amundsen | Christian Anfinsen | Bernt Balchen | Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson | Leif Ericson | Kirsten Flagstad | Ragnar Frisch | Ivar Giaever | Edvard Grieg | Sonja Henie | Thor Heyerdahl | Henrik Ibsen | Sissel Kyrkjebø | Ernest O. Lawrence | Walter Mondale | Edvard Munch | Fridtjof Nansen | Lars Onsager | Knute Rockne | Marta Sandal | Eric Sevareid | Jan Stenerud | Liv Ullmann | Sigrid Undset | Thorstein Veblen | Earl Warren ]
Sir Andrzej Panufnik
Arvo Pärt archive
Krzysztof Penderscki
 Wayne Peterson
Allan Pettersson  and Pettersson Society
Francis Poulenc
Serge Prokofiev
The Prokofiev Archive at Goldsmith's College, University of London
Puccini Comparative reviews by Ian Lace: Boheme Rondine  Manon Lescaut
Rachmaninoff Society Page Rachmaninoffworld
Joachim Raff
Maurice Ravel
Max Reger
Richard Rendleman
Phillip Rhodes
Wallingford Riegger
Nikolai RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
George Rochberg
Joaquin Rodrigo
Joseph-Guy Ropartz
The Concert music of Miklós RÓZSA
Harald Sæverud
Chevalier de Saint-Georges
Erik Satie
Scarlatti
Alfred Schnittke (German Language) see also This_server S&H
Othmar Schoeck
Arnold Schoenberg      see also Schoenberg Links page
Schoenberg streaming audio
Erwin (Ervín Gustavovic) Schulhoff
Franz Schreker Foundation
Franz Schubert
William SCHUMAN
Robert Schumann
 Peter Sculthorpe
Mayas Seiber also site
Franz Schmidt
 Dimitri Shostakovich   Shostakovich Society
The DSCH Journal
Ian McDonald's "Music under Soviet Rule"  includes Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Vainberg, Ustvolskaya and                                                                           Kancheli
Alfred Schnittke (German Language)
Sibelius Society (UK)
Jean Sibelius Forum
Alexander Siloti
Dmitri Smirnov
Kaikhosru Sorabji
South Indian Music Carnatic Tamil etc
Richard Strauss Richard Strauss  Musicweb Reviews: Elektra  Salome
Stravinsky
Lepo Sumera
Eino Tamberg
Alexandre Tansman

Georg Philip Telemann
Mikis Theodorakis
Tchaikovsky
Rudolf Tobias
Henri Tomasi
Michael Torke
Eduard Tubin  Tubin Society
Viktor Ullmann Foundation
Galina Ustvolskaya
Moishei Vainberg
Giuseppe Verdi
Matthijs Vermeulen
 Louis Vierne
Villa-Lobos web site    Villa-Lobos Museum
Carl Vine
Richard Wagner Archive
Wagner on the web
Emile Waldteufel
William Wallace
William Walton
Silvius Leopold Weiss
Charles Wuorinen and also
Iannis Xenakis
Eric Zeisl

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J S Bach

Bach ( Our own Kirk McElhearn)

Bach (Hanford and Koster)
Bach (David Grossman)
Bach (AlexandreH. Hohmann)
Bach Archive and Bibliography (Jan koster) - complements the site above
Bach - Tim Smith's page - Northern Arizona University
Bach's World Tim Smith's brief biographies of approx 70 contemporaries of Bach.
www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Steinitz-Paul.htm
www.bachlive.co.uk/history.htm

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L v Beethoven

Beethoven(William Lane - comprehensive site)
All about Beethoven
Beethoven on-line
The Beethoven Depot

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Hector Berlioz

Hector Berlioz (Monir Tayeb and Michel Austin)
Hector Berlioz (MatthewTepper)



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Johannes Brahms


American Brahms Society
Brahms Web Source (Mary Ingraham)
Brahms - A Collective

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Frederic Chopin


Chopin Foundation of New York
Chopin Society London

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George Gershwin

The George Gershwin Educational Fanpage
The Official Gershwin Web site

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G F Handel

G F Handel org
Handel(Alexandre Hohmann)

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A Dvorak

Dvorak Museum Prague

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F Schubert

The Schubert Institute(UK)
Société Franz-Schubert (France)
Tomoko Yamamoto's Schubert pages
Berman Schubert page

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