Vítězslava Kaprálová
A brilliant composer and conductor whose brief life blazed across Czech music.
Adolfo Mejía Navarro
A Colombian composer who carried Caribbean color and rhythm into classical music.
Florence
Price
A bold American composer whose music blends spirituals with classical form.
Maurice
Ravel
A French composer whose war service cast new shadows across his life and music.
Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins
An American prodigy whose genius flourished despite a lifetime of enslavement.
Agathe Backer Grøndahl
A brilliant Norwegian composer and pianist whose music deserves a place beside Grieg’s.
Edmund
Dédé
A New Orleans composer whose bold music found freedom and acclaim in France.
Dora
Pejačević
A Croatian composer whose bold, rich music helped shape her nation’s modern voice.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
A Russian composer and pianist whose sweeping music carried longing across exile.
Élisabeth-Claude
Jacquet de La Guerre:
A Trailblazer of the
French Baroque
In the glittering but rigid world of Louis XIV’s France, few musicians could hope to shape the musical culture of Versailles. Fewer still were women. Yet Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre did exactly that, building a career as a virtuoso performer and composer whose music bridged the elegance of the French court and the daring energy of Italian style.
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