Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)

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1. Ludwig van Beethoven

   Author of Ludwig Van Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas Volume 1 (Nos. 1-15), Symphonies Nos. 8 and 9 in Full Score, Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major: Op. 73 ("Emperor") (Dover Miniature Scores)

2. Johann Sebastian Bach

   Author of The Well-Tempered Clavier: Books I and II, Complete, St. Matthew Passion in Full Score, The Six Brandenburg Concertos and the Four Orchestral Suites in Full Score (Dover Orchestral Scores)

3. Frédéric Chopin

   Author of Nocturnes, Chopin - Preludes for the Piano, Vol. 34, Complete Preludes and Etudes for Solo Piano

4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

   Author of Così fan tutte, Later Symphonies (Nos. 35-41) in Full Score, Complete String Quartets

5. Johannes Brahms

   Author of Complete Symphonies (Vienna Gesellschaft Der Musikfreunde Edition), Complete Shorter Works for Solo Piano, Symphony No.4 in E minor, Op.98

6. Robert Schumann

   Author of Album for the Young, Complete Symphonies in Full Score, Chamber Music of Robert Schumann

7. Claude Debussy

   Author of Piano Music 1888-1905, Children's Corner, La Mer (the Sea): Three Symphonic Sketches (Dover Miniature Scores)

8. Giuseppe Verdi

   Author of Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, Un Ballo in Maschera

9. Franz Schubert

   Author of Complete Song Cycles, Complete Sonatas for Pianoforte Solo, Four Symphonies in Full Score

10. Gustav Mahler

    Author of Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 in Full Score (Dover Orchestral Scores), Symphonies Nos. 5 and 6 in Full Score, Symphony No. 7 In Full Score

11. Béla Bartók

    Author of Mikrokosmos (153 Progressive Piano Pieces) Volume 2, Music for string instruments, percussion and celesta [score], Mikrokosmos: Progressive Piano Pieces, Vol. IV: Piano Solo

12. Paul Grabbe

    Author of The Story of One Hundred Symphonic Favorites, The story of orchestral music and its times

13. Joseph Haydn

    Author of The Creation, Symphony No. 104 (Dover Miniature Scores)

14. Igor Stravinsky

    Author of The Rite of Spring in Full Score, Petrushka in Full Score: Original Version, The Firebird in Full Score (Original 1910 Version)

15. Georg Friedrich Händel

    Author of Messiah, Judas Maccabaeus in Full Score

16. Maurice Ravel

    Author of Piano Masterpieces of Maurice Ravel, Daphnis and Chloe in Full Score, Four Orchestral Works in Full Score: Rapsodie Espagnole, Mother Goose Suite, Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales, and Pavane

17. Antonin Dvorak

    Author of Symphony No. 9 (Dover Miniature Scores), Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104

18. Gabriel Fauré

    Author of Requiem, 30 Songs for Voice and Piano (High)

19. Richard Strauss

    Author of Tone Poems in Full Score, Series 2: Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche, also Sprach Zarathustra and Ein Heldenleben, Tone Poems in Full Score, Series 1: Don Juan, Tod Und Verklarung, & Don Quixote

20. Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky

    Author of Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Symphonies in Full Score, Nutcracker Suite in Full Score, Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 and 3 in Full Score