PastMasters Public Domain Composers
Early Composers (died prior to 1925)
all works in public domain except certain unpublished
materials or recent unique arrangements.
Adam, Adolphe
Albeniz, Issac
Arne, Thomas
Auber, Daniel-Francois
Bach , Johann Sebastian
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Berlioz, Hector
Bizet, Georges
Boieldieu, Francois
Borodin, Alexander
Boyce, William
Brahms, Johannes
Breton, Tomas
Bruckner, Anton
Chabrier, Emmanuel
Chopin, Frederic
Clarke , Jeremiah
Corelli , Arcangelo
Croft , William
Debussy, Claude
Delibes, Leo
Donizetti, Gaetano
Dvorak, Antonin
Emmett, Daniel
Faure, Gabriel
Flotow , Freidrich von
Foster, Stephen C.
Franck, Cesar
Fucik , Julius
Gabrieli, Giovanni
Ganne, Louis
Gilmore, Patrick
Glinka, Mikhail
Gounod, Charles
Granados , Enrique
Grieg, Edvard
Handel, George Frideric
Haydn, Franz Josef
Herbert, Victor
Herold, Louis
Kalinnikov, Vasily
Komzak , Karel
Lalo, Edouard
Leo , Leonardo
Leoncavallo, Ruggiero
Liszt, Franz
Mahler, Gustav
Marcello , Alessandro
Massenet, Jules
Mendelssohn, Felix
Meyerbeer, Giacomo
Millocker,
Mozart , Leopold
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Muir, Alexander
Mussorgsky, Modest
Nicolai, Otto
Offenbach, Jacques
Pergolesi, Giovanni
Planquette , Jean Robert
Ponchielli, Amilcare
Puccini, Giacomo
Purcell , Henry
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nicholai
Rossini, Gioacchino
Rubinstein, Anton
Saint-Saens, Camille
Sammartini, Giuseppe
Scarlatti, Dominico
Schubert, Franz
Schumann, Robert
Smetana, Bedrich
Sor, Fernando
Spohr , Ludwig
Strauss (various)
Sullivan, Arthur
Suppe, Franz von
Taffanel, Paul
Tartini, Giuseppe
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilitch
Telemann , Georg Philipp
Thomas, Ambroise
Torelli , Giuseppi
Verdi, Giuseppe
Visee, Robert de
Vivaldi, Antonio
Wagner, Joseph Franz
Wagner, Richard
Waldteufel, Emil
Weber, Carl Maria von
Weiss, Sylvius Leopold
Transitional Composers
with at least some works published prior to 1925. (or for Urugary
Round Agreement composer died prior to 1946, or work first performed
prior to 1925)
Alford, Kenneth J
Alfven, Hugo
Bartok, Bela
Berlin, Irving
Canteloube, Joseph
Chaminade, Cecile
Cohan, George
Delius, Frederick
Dukas, Paul
Elgar, Edward
Enesco, Georges
de Falla, Maunel
Gaubert, Philippe
Halvorsen, Johan
Ippolitov-Ivanov, Mikhail
Ives, Charles
Janacek, Leos
Kodaly, Zoltan
Kreisler , Fritz
Lehar, Franz
Mascagni, Pietro
Moszkowsk, Moritzi
Prokofiev, Serge
Ravel, Maurice
Resphighi, Ottorino
Reznicek, Emil
Sibelius, Jean
Sousa, John Philip
Strauss, Richard
Stravisnsky, Igor
PM Catalog of Public Domain Music