RAY DOTORATOS ~ GARY HAMMOND

Left to right: Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Italian composer of verismo operas;
Middle photos: Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Russian pianist and composer;
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
French composer.

Left to right: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
Russian composer and teacher;
Gioachinno Rossini (1792-1868)
Italian opera composer;
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
French composer and organ virtuoso;
Antonio Salieri (1750-1825)
Italian composer of opera, instrumental, church music.
Teacher of Beethoven, Schubert and Liszt.

Left to right: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Austian composer;
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
German pianist, writer, composer.
Clara Wieck Schumann (1819-1896)
German pianist, wife of Robert;
Dimitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Russian composer;
Johann Strauss, Jr. (1825-1899)
Austrian violinist, conductor, composer.

Left to right: Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
German composer;
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Russian composer;
Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Russian composer;
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
German organist, composer. Engraving (1750)

Left to right: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
British composer;
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Italian opera and choral composer;
Antonio Vivaldi (1675-1741)
Italian violinist, teacher, composer;
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
German opera composer.

Left to right: Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
American composer;
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
American pianist, conductor, composer;
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
English pianist, conductor, opera and oratorio composer;
Max Bruch (1838-1920)
German composer.