✰5 Classical Music Composers to Know

Ⅰ. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)

The German composer and pianist Ludwig van Beethoven is widely regarded as the greatest composer who ever lived.
He expanded the Classical traditions of Joseph Haydn, one of his teachers, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and
experimented with personal expression, a characteristic that influenced the Romantic composers who succeeded him.
His life and career were marked by progressive deafness, yet the malady did not prevent him from composing some of
his most important works during the last 10 years of his life when he was nearly unable to hear

Ⅱ. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and organist of the Baroque period. His contemporaries admired him
for his talent as a musician but thought his compositions were old-fashioned. A rediscovery of his work in the early
19th century led to the so-called Bach revival, in which he came to be seen as one of the greatest composers of all
time. His most-celebrated compositions include Brandenburg Concertos, The Well-Tempered Clavier, BWV 846–893,
Suites for Unaccompanied Cello, BWV 1007–1012, Orchestral Suites, BWV 1066–1069, and Mass in B Minor, BWV
232.