Important classical music links you should know

Here are some good answers to a few of the most common questions (click the links) about classical music resources on the internet:

• Where can you educate yourself about classical music?
• Is there a quick crash course in classical music? 
• Where can you download classical music?
  
• Where are the classical podcast directories (see also)
• Where can you listen to classical music streaming online?
• Where can I begin to learn music theory online?
  

Who are the most important composers to know, and how can you find their music to listen to?

Here's a list of over five dozen of the most referenced and otherwise significant composers. Clicking the last name link will take you to a page where you can click the name that appears in bold red to download and listen to music by the composer:

1. Wagner, Richard
2. Bach, Johann Sebastian
3. Debussy, Claude
4. Stravinsky, Igor
5. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
6. Beethoven, Ludwig van
7. Liszt, Franz
8. Schoenberg, Arnold
9. Chopin, Fryderyk
10. Schumann, Robert
11. Brahms, Johannes
12. Mendelssohn, Felix
13. Strauss, Richard
14. Haydn, Franz Joseph
15. Rossini, Gioachino
16. Ravel, Maurice
17. Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da
18. Berlioz, Hector
19. Corelli, Arcangelo
20. Gluck, Christoph WRvon
21. Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich
22. Bartók, Béla
23. Mahler, Gustav
24. Monteverdi, Claudio
25. Webern, Anton
26. Weber, Carl Maria von
27. Handel, George Frideric
28. Lully, Jean-Baptiste
29. Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay
30. Fauré, Gabriel
31. Mussorgsky, Modest
32. Franck, Cesar
33. Meyerbeer, Giacomo
34. Berg, Alban
35. Satie, Erik
36. Schubert, Franz
37. Verdi, Giuseppe
38. Scriabin, Alexander
39. Dukas, Paul
40. Gounod, Charles
41. Borodin, Alexander
42. Hindemith, Paul
43. Vivaldi, Antonio
44. Massenet, Jules
45. Sibelius, Jean
46. Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel
47. Cage, John
48. Bellini, Vincenzo
49. Reger, Max
50. Varèse, Edgard
51. Grieg, Edvard
52. Paganini, Niccolò
53. Glinka, Mikhail
54. Gershwin, George
55. Chabrier, Emmanuel
56. Scarlatti, Alessandro
57. Hasse, Johann Adolf
58. Frescobaldi, Girolamo
59. Lasso, Orlando di
60. Sammartini, Giovanni Battista
61. Buxtehude, Dieterich
62. Busoni, Ferruccio
63. Gabrieli, Giovanni
64. Couperin, François
65. Balakirev, Mily
66. Prokofiev, Sergei
67. Salieri, Antonio
68. Josquin Desprez
69. Dvorák, Antonin
70. Stanford, Charles Villiers

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