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Mahler, Gustav [1860-1911] (Germany/Austria)	Bohemian-born Austrian composer and conductor. He was best known during his own lifetime as one of the leading orchestral and operatic conductors of the day. He has since come to be acknowledged as among the most important late-romantic composers. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer]
Malipiero, Gian Francesco [1882-1973] (Italy)	Italian composer and musicologist. Unlike the other Italian composers he wrote many sympohonies. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer]
Manfredini, Francesco Onofrio [1684-1773] (Italy)	Italian Baroque composer. Much of his music is presumed to have been destroyed after his death; only 43 published works and a handful of manuscripts are known. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer]
Martin, Frank [1890-1974] (Switzerland)	Swiss composer, who lived a large part of his life in the Netherlands. Martin developed his mature style based on a very personal use of twelve tone technique but did not abandon tonality. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer]
Martinu, Bohuslav [1890-1959] (Czech/Slovakia)	Bohemian Czech composer, who wrote six symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal and instrumental works. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer]
Mascagni, Pietro [1863-1945] (Italy)	Italian composer most noted for his 1890 masterpiece opera, Cavalleria rusticana. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer]
Mendelssohn, Fanny [1805-1847] (Germany/Austria)	German pianist and composer, and was the sister of Felix Mendelssohn. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer]
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix [1809-1847] (Germany/Austria)	German composer of the early Romantic period. His work includes symphonies, concerti, oratorios, piano and chamber music. After a long period of relative denigration, his creative originality is now being recognized and re-evaluated. He is now among the most popular composers of the Romantic era. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer]
Messiaen, Olivier [1908-1992] (France)	French composer, organist, and ornithologist. His innovative use of colour, his personal conception of the relationship between time and music, his use of birdsong, and his intent to express religious ideas all combine to make Messiaen's musical style notably distinctive. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer]
Mica, Frantisek Adam [1746-1811] (Czech/Slovakia)	Czech conductor and composer. He conducted many opera performances for royal families. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer]
Milhaud, Darius [1892-1974] (France)	French composer who was a member of Les Six and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are particularly noted as being influenced by jazz and for their use of polytonality. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer]
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [1756-1791] (Germany/Austria)	Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. His more than 600 compositions include works widely acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music, and he is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer]
Nielsen, Carl [1865-1931] (Denmark)	Composer from Denmark, especially admired for his six symphonies and his concertos for violin, flute and clarinet. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer]
Nordgren, Pehr Henrik [1944-2008] (Finland)	Finnish composer who is graduated a Japanese music school and died in 2008. His cooperation with the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra led to an abundance of string and chamber orchestral works. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer]
Novak, Vitezslav [1870-1949] (Czech/Slovakia)	One of the most well-respected Czech composers and pedagogues, almost singlehandedly founding a mid-century Czech school of composition. Stylistically, he was a leading figure in the Neo-Romanticism movement, and his music has been occasionally considered an early example of Czech modernism. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer]
Offenbach, Jacques [1819-1880] (Germany/Austria)	German-born French composer and cellist of the Romantic era and one of the originators of the operetta form. Of German-Jewish ancestry, he was one of the most influential composers of popular music in Europe in the 19th century, and many of his works remain in the repertory. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer]
Onslow, Georges [1784-1853] (France)	French composer whose 36 string quartets and 34 string quintets were held in the highest regard during his lifetime. However, after the First World War, his music fell into oblivion and up until 1984, the bicentennial of his birth, he remained virtually unknown. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer]
Pachelbel, Johann [1653-1706] (Germany/Austria)	German Baroque composer who brought the south German organ tradition to its peak. He composed a large body of sacred and secular music, and his contributions to the development of the chorale prelude and fugue have earned him a place among the most important composers of the middle Baroque era. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer]
Paganini, Niccolo [1782-1840] (Italy)	Italian violinist and composer. He was one of the most celebrated violin virtuosi of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer]
Parry, Hubert [1848-1918] (Britain)	English composer, best known for the choral songs such as Jerusalem in his country. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer]
Part, Arvo [1935-] (Russia/Soviet)	Estonia's most renowned composer, working in a minimalist style that employs tintinnabulation and hypnotic repetitions that is also influenced by the intellectual counterpoint elements of European jazz, but fits a European-American post-modernism rather than an example of so-called world music. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer]
Penderecki, Krzysztof [1933-] (Poland)	Polish composer, who had been one of the most experimental and most cided in Europe, later moved toward more tonal music while staying in the United States. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer]
Pfitzner, Hans [1869-1949] (Germany/Austria)	German composer and self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the opera Palestrina. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer]
Piazzolla, Astor [1921-1992] (Argentina)	Argentine tango composer and bandoneon player. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer]
Pierne, Gabriel [1863-1937] (France)	French composer, conductor, and organist. He wrote several operas and choral and symphonic pieces with Catholic themes, as well as a good deal of chamber music. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer]
Piston, Walter [1894-1976] (America)	American composer, also taught at Harvard. His students include Leroy Anderson, Leonard Bernstein and Elliott Carter. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer]
Pizzetti, Ildebrando [1880-1968] (Italy)	A part of the 'Generation of 1880' along with Respighi and Malipiero that were among the first Italian composers in some time whose primary contributions were not in opera. His works have not been frequently performed; their less than emotional, almost minimalist quality has made them difficult to appreciate. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer]
Poulenc, Francis [1899-1963] (France)	A member of the French group Les Six. He composed music in all major genres, including art song, chamber music, ballet music, and orchestral music. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer]
Prokofiev, Sergei [1891-1953] (Russia/Soviet)	Russian composer who mastered numerous musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer]
Puccini, Giacomo [1858-1924] (Italy)	Italian composer whose operas, including La boheme, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly, are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer]
Purcell, Henry [1659-1695] (Britain)	English Baroque composer who incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements but devised a peculiarly English style of Baroque music. ...read more on Wikipedia [String works by this composer]

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