Composer Links
(This page is currently being reorganized. For contemporary American composers, see New Music Links.)
Strauss, Mahler, the Fin de Siècle
Elegant Richard Strauss site maintained by the composer's grandsons, Richard and Christian. Be sure to see the video of Strauss playing Daphne at the piano (click on "Videos," then "Composer and Conductor"). The great man died a few weeks after this film was made.
Schoenberg, Debussy, Atonality
The Arnold Schoenberg Center in Vienna has one of the most amazing music sites in existence. An increasingly large percentage of Schoenberg's manuscripts and correspondence is open to all prying eyes. Includes Schoenberg WebRadio, which is sure to be gobbled up by Clear Channel.
Stravinsky, Bartók, Janácek, Ravel, Les Six
Janácek opera site. Janácek Archive and Museum, Brno.
Bartok Museum, Budapest.
Maurice Ravel pages.
Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York.
American Composers from Ives to Ellington
James B. Sinclair's catalogue of the works of Charles Ives. See also the The Charles Ives Society.
Mr. George Gershwin.
Sibelius
Sibelius information pages.
Site for Sibelius's home Ainola.
Twentieth-century British composers: Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Bax, Holst, Havergal Brian, Robert Simpson
Berlin in the Twenties
The Kurt Weill Foundation publishes the Kurt Weill Newsletter.
A Hanns Eisler site, with biography and audio samples.
The Franz Schreker Foundation.
Music in the Soviet Union
Tendentious but informative Shostakovich site maintained by Allan Ho, with voluminous contributions by the late Ian MacDonald.
The pages of the Prokofiev Society include back issues of the Three Oranges Journal. See also the Prokofiev Page.
Informative site devoted to a reconstruction of Prokofiev's ballet Pas d'acier.
Music in New Deal America
Extensive selections from the Aaron Copland archive at the Library of Congress. There is a matching site for Leonard Bernstein. See also Copland House and the official Bernstein site.
Andrea Olmstead's Roger Sessions site, with complete versions of her out-of-print Sessions books.
At this University of Virginia site you can view the complete 1938 Resettlement Administration film The River, with music by Virgil Thomson.
Sites for Marc Blitzstein, Ruth Crawford, and Bernard Herrmann
Postwar Avant-Garde
Everything you need to know about Karlheinz Stockhausen, and more.
Luigi Nono archive.
Good collection of John Cage links.
Chris Villars' comprehensive Morton Feldman pages. The University of Buffalo's Feldman archive. Courtesy of Other Minds, Cage and Feldman in conversation.
Benjamin Britten
Ligeti, Messiaen, the Avant-Garde of the Sixties
Boston University's Messiaen Project, anticipating the composer's centenary in 2008.
György Ligeti page at Sikorski.
An official Frank Martin site.
Minimalism
La Monte Young's MELA Foundation.
Official sites for Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass
Music since 1980
English scene: Jonathan Harvey, Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies
American scene: John Adams, Ned Rorem, Bang on a Can
Eastern Europe: Arvo Pärt
A Galina Ustvolskaya site has a priceless picture of Ustvolskaya being applauded by Mstislav Rostropovich and Reinbert de Leeuw.
Audio streams of American composers of many eras can be heard at Art of the States.