Subcategories - Composers, Songwriters
- Aaron Copland
- Adam de la Halle
- Alban Berg
- Aleksandr Borodin
- Alessandro Scarlatti
- Amahl and the Night Visitors Premieres on American Television
- Andrea Gabrieli
- Andrés Segovia
- Anton Bruckner
- Anton von Webern
- Antonio Vivaldi
- Arcangelo Corelli
- Armstrong First Records with His Hot Five Group
- Arnold Schoenberg
- ASCAP Forms to Protect Writers and Publishers of Music
- ASCAP Is Founded to Protect Musicians’ Rights
- August Strindberg
- Bach Pioneers Modern Music
- Bartók and Kodály Begin to Collect Hungarian Folk Songs
- The Beatles
- The Beatles Release Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
- The Beatles Revolutionize Popular Music
- Béla Bartók
- Benjamin Britten
- Benny Goodman
- Berg’s Lulu Opens in Zurich
- Berg’s Wozzeck Premieres in Berlin
- Bernstein Joins Symphonic and Jazz Elements in West Side Story
- Berry’s “Maybellene” Popularizes Rock and Roll
- Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys Define Bluegrass Music
- Billie Holiday Begins Her Recording Career
- Boulanger Takes Copland as a Student
- Brecht and Weill Collaborate on Mahagonny Songspiel
- Carl Maria von Weber
- César Franck
- Charles Gounod
- Charles Ives
- Charlie Parker
- Christoph Gluck
- Claude Debussy
- Claudio Monteverdi
- Cole Porter
- Darius Milhaud
- Davis’ Birth of the Cool Recordings Spawn 1950’s Cool Jazz
- Davis’ Bitches Brew Vitalizes Jazz-Rock Fusion
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Duke Ellington
- Dylan Performs with Electric Instruments
- Edgard Varèse
