Topic summary
German classical music
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Music of Germany.
German classical music is one of the most performed in the world; German composers include some of the most accomplished, influential, and popular in history, among them Georg Friedrich Händel, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Carl Maria von Weber, Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Richard Wagner, Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss, Carl Orff and Paul Hindemith, many of whom were among the composers who created the field of German opera.