Great Composers
Knowledge Cards
Featuring images from the US
Library of Congress collection.
This selection of 48 knowledge cards
(all printed in black and white)
spans four centuries and encompasses
diverse musical genres. Each two-sided
card features an image of the composer
on one side and a biographical essay on
the other (see below for samples).

The composers featured in this set are: Aaron Copland, Igor Stravinsky and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (shown above), Carl Orff, Leonard Bernstein, Felix Mendelssohn, Camille Saint-Saens, Johannes Brahms, Hector Berlioz, Clara Schumann, Bela Bartok, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Edward MacDowell, Robert Schumann, Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi, Johann Sebastian Bach, Samuel Barber, Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, Irving Berlin, Johann Strauss, Nadia Boulanger, Jean Sibelius, John Philip Sousa, Ethel Smyth, Richard Strauss, Maurice Ravel, Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Frederic Chopin, Carlos Chavez, Elliott Carter, Richard Rodgers, John Cage, Benjamin Britten, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Henry Purcell, Antonin Dvorak, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, George Handel, Claude Debussy, Henry Cowell, Arnold Schoenberg, Bernard Herrmann, Charles Ives, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Elizabeth de la Guerre, Virgil Thomson

See also:
Language of Music Knowledge Cards

Classical Music Terms Knowledge Cards