Perhaps best remembered for his musical forays into the world of atonality, Arnold Schoenberg remains at the focal point of this particular Web site, sponsored by the Arnold Schoenberg Center. The site contains an amazing amount of material on the composer, ranging from an extended biographical essay to a complete listing of his compositions, complete with first performance date, location, and...

Felix Mendelssohn was a musical jack-of-all trades and he was renowned in his lifetime as an exquisite pianist, conductor, and of course, composer. To mark the bicentennial of his birth in 1809, the Library of Congress's Music Division has created this collection of primary source material related to Mendelssohn's life and accomplishments. A good place to start here is the section containing...

Mozart opined of opera that the words must serve the music, and of course, the same dictum applies to the songs, cantatas, hymns, masses, oratorios, and other vocal works of J.S. Bach. That said, this site will be of considerable use to both scholars and aficionados as it offers reliable translations of the complete corpus of Bach's vocal compositions, introductory histories of the works in...