Poets

Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897 – 1957) was an Austrian-born American composer and conductor. A child prodigy, he became one of the most important and influential composers in Hollywood history. Paul Schott – a collective pseudonym for the Erich and his father, Julius Korngold. Wikipedia

Juliette Nadia Boulanger (1887 – 1979) was a French music teacher and conductor. She taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the 20th century, and also performed occasionally as a pianist and organist. Wikipedia

Louis-Hector Berlioz (1803 – 1869), was a French composer, critic, and conductor of the Romantic period, known largely for his Symphonie fantastique (1830), the choral symphony Roméo et Juliette (1839), and the dramatic piece La Damnation de Faust (1846). His last years were marked by fame abroad and hostility at home. Britannica

Robert Alexander Schumann (1810 – 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. Wikipedia

Marie-Joseph-Alexandre Déodat de Séverac (1872 – 1921) was a French composer. His works exude subtlety and sophistication in their conservative expressive language, and are quite individual in their frequent use of modal writing and folk qualities. AllMusic

Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883) Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas. Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Wikipedia

Giacomo Puccini (1858 – 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas. Regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, he was descended from a long line of composers, stemming to the late-Baroque era. Wikipedia

Joseph Maurice Ravel (1875 – 1937) was a French composer, pianist, and conductor. He is often associated with impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In the 1920s and 1930s Ravel was internationally regarded as France’s greatest living composer. Wikipedia