Active Years: 1943-today
Position: Conductor
Career Highlights: All operas by Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Puccini, Strauss; French repertoire includes Les Troyens, Pelleas, Carmen; 20th century works include Porgy and Bess, City of Mahogony, Lulu, Moses und Aron and Francesca da Rimini.
Career Totals: Piano soloist with Cincinnati Symphony at age 10; 1964-70 Assistant Conductor of Cleveland Orchestra under Szell; [...]

Active Years: 1895-1934 (born 1874)
Position: English Composer
Career Highlights: The Planets, The Hymn of Jesus, Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda
Career Totals: Four operas, thirty-six orchestral works, four pieces for string orchestra, eighteen chamber pieces, over one hundred choral works, more than seventy hymns and songs, film music, and a number of keyboard pieces.
Scouting Report: If [...]

Active Years: 1915-1963 (born 1895)
Position: German Composer
Career Highlights: Mathis de Mahler, Violin Concerto, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed, The Swan Turner Viola Concerto
Career Totals: Seven operas, three ballets, three symphonies, over thirty-five other orchestral pieces, six string quartets, approximately thirty choral works, many other chamber works, many songs and sonatas.
Scouting Report: Paul Hindemith [...]

Active Years: 1732-1809
Position: Distinguished Austrian composer.
Career Highlights: Farewell Symphony (subtitled the Michael Jordan theme song), Surprise Symphony, (also subtitled the Michael Jordan theme song), Emperor String Quartet, and Creation Oratorio.
Career Totals: Over 1000 works, including 125 or so symphonies, 77 or so quartets, several operas, approximately 53 keyboard sonatas, and hundreds of songs.
Scouting Report: The [...]

Active Years: 1934-today
Position: Mezzo-Soprano (began career as Soprano).
Career Highlights: Marie in Wozzeck, Orpheus (Gluck), Fides in Le Prohpete, Mignon, Cenerentola, Carmen, Arsace in Semiramide, Adalgisa in Norma, Tancredi, Rosina, Il Bardi Siviglia, La Donna del Lago.
Career Totals: American opera debut at San Francisco in 1960. She was hailed by the Italian Rossini [...]

Active years: 1685-1759
Position: German composer and keyboardist
Career Highlights: Messiah, Water Music
Career Totals: 35 operas, several oratorios, many works for organ and other keyboard instruments, dozens of string sonatas.

Scouting Report: After a rocky early career, with many trips to the minor leagues, both artistic and financial, Handel finally made it to the Bigs when he moved [...]

Active Years: 1898-1937
Position: American pianist, composer, and conductor.
Career Highlights: Porgy and Bess, Rhapsody in Blue
Career Totals: Dozens of musicals and film scores, 2 operas, scores of songs, various chamber music, orchestral pieces, and solo piano works.
Scouting Report: Gershwin began as a song writer for Broadway shows, never became proficient at reading music and always thought [...]

Active Years: Most of Elgar’s successful works were composed between 1890 and his wife’s death in 1920. He was born in 1857 and died in 1934.
Position: British Composer
Career Highlights: Enigma Variations, Cockaigne Overture, Cello Concerto, Pomp and Circumstances
Career Totals: Two symphonies, two concertos, many shorter symphonic works, dozens of choral works, songs.
Scouting Report: In his [...]

Active Years: 1913-1984
Position: Baritone
Career Highlights: Germont in La Traviata, Wozzeck, Rossini’s Figaro, Simon Boccanegra, Iago in Otello, Rigoletto, Falstaff, Don Giovanni, Gianni Schicchi, Scarpia in Tosca, Tanio in Pagliacci, Jack Rance in La Fanciulla del West.
Career Totals: 1935 bebut in Gubbio, Italy; 1937 Rome debut as Germont, becoming a regular for 25 years; first major [...]

Active Years: 1865-1904 (born 1841)
Position: Czech composer
Career Highlights: “New World” Symphony, Cello Concerto, Piano Quintet in A, “Dumky” Piano Trio, Rusalka, Stabat Mater, String Quintet in E Flat, “American” string quartet.
Career Totals: 9 Symphonies, 3 concertos, 14 operas, 3 string quintets, 14 string quartets, 2 piano quartets, 2 piano quintets, 6 piano trios, 2 masses, [...]