Active Years: 1881-1945
Position: Hungarian composer and musicologist.
Career Highlights: Mikrosmos, concerto for orchestra, String quartets.
Career Totals: 1 opera, 2 ballets, many choral works based on folk songs, 10 concertos, 6 string quartets, dozens of solo piano works.
Scouting Report: Bartok was always interested in folk song, both of his native Hungary, and from other countries around the [...]

Active Years: 1910-1981
Position: American Composer
Career Highlights: Adagio for Strings, Violin Concerto, Piano Concerto, Vanessa.
Career Totals: Three operas; two ballets; two symphonies; one each of string quartet, violin concerto, cello concerto, cello sonata, piano concerto and piano sonata; three “essays” for orchestra; miscellaneous orchestral and chamber pieces; dozens of songs and other vocal works.
Scouting Report: The [...]

Active Years: 1685-1750
Position: Greatest composer and organist of the Baroque Era.
Career Highlights: Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, B minor Mass, Brandenburg Concertos.
Career Totals: Over 200 cantatas and other choral works, 17 concertos, hundreds of works for solo keyboard and organ.
Scouting Report: Known as an incredible improviser, he was rumored to have composed entire pieces [...]