8 Composers You NEED to Know

Who was Joseph Boulogne?

• An Italian composer who wrote songs about unifying the nation and fled to Switzerland for fear of persecution

• A son of a planation owner and slave who became a virtuosic composer and is rumored to have made Mozart jealous

• The first composer to write a concerto for violins

Florence Price is known for...

• Being the first woman to write an opera

• Being the first African-American woman to have her works performed by a major orchestra 

This composer wrote over 400 works, most of which were originally published under her brother's name.

• Amy Beach

• Fanny Mendelssohn

• Florence Price

• Mary Howe

One of the best known and most played ragtime composers

• J.S. Bach

• Louis Armstrong

• Felix Mendelssohn

• Scott Joplin

Composer made famous for composing for Louis XIV

• Jean-Baptiste de Lully

• JC Bach

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Vivaldi

The only woman in the group of French composers known as Les Six

• Lili Boulanger

• Germaine Tailleferre

• Amy Beach

• Marguerite Jean

Who was the first woman to win le Prix de Rome

• Lili Boulanger

• Mary Howe

• Anna Mozart

• Clara Schumann

This person was first American woman to write and publish a symphony

• Amy Beach

• Mary Howe

• Fanny Mendelssohn

• Elizabeth Johnson