Pre-Victorian Composers

• Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839)
• Ludwig von Beethoven (1770-1827)
• Charles Dibdin (1745-1814)
• George Frederic Handel (1685-1759)

Victorian and Edwardian Composers

• Music in the Era of Queen Victoria
• Stephen Adams (1844-1913)
• Michael W. Balfe (1808-70)
• John Barnett (1802-90)
• James Bland (1854-1911)
• Carrie Jacobs Bond
• Claribel [Charlotte Alington Barnard, née Pye] (1830-69)
• Sir Frederic Hymen Cowen (1852-1935)
• Harry Dacre
• Reginald De Koven
• Dolores — or Elizabeth — Dickson (1819—78)
• Paul Dresser (U.S.A)
• Lady Dufferin, née Helen Sheridan (1807-67)
• Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
• Stephen Foster (U.S.A. 1826—64)
• Virginia Gabriel (1825—77)
• Edward German
• Percy Grainger
• Charles K. Harris (U.S.A>)
• Scott Joplin
• Maria Lindsay (Mrs. J. Worthington Bliss)
• Edward James Loder (1813-65)
• Samuel Lover (1797-1868)
• Felix McGlennon

Victorian and Edwardian Composers continued

• James Lynam Molloy (1837-1909)
• Sydney Nelson (1800—62)
• Ethelbert Nevin
• Caroline Norton (1808-77)
• Hubert Parry
• Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
• Roger Quilter
• Henry Russell (1812—1900)
• Lady John Scott, née Alicia Spottiswoode (1810-1900)
• Alice Mary Smith (1839-84)
• Dame Ethel Smyth
• Arthur Somervell
• Charles Villiers Stanford
• Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
• Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)
• William Vincent Wallace (1812-65)
• Maude Valerie White
• Julia Wolf

Critics and Theorists

• The Rev. Hugh Reginald Haweis

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