Image Credits
All composer portraits on this site are either in the public domain or used under free licences (Creative Commons / Free Art Licence) via Wikimedia Commons. We are grateful to the photographers and institutions who share their work. If you spot an error, please contact us.
| Composer | Photograph | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| Hans Zimmer | ColliderVideo | CC BY 3.0 |
| Ludovico Einaudi | Pawel Maryanov | CC BY 2.0 |
| Max Richter | Raph_PH | CC BY 2.0 |
| Howard Shore | Sam Santos / Canadian Film Centre | CC BY 2.0 |
| John Williams | Lindseysharpe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Joe Hisaishi | citykane | CC BY 2.0 |
| Alexandre Desplat | Harald Krichel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Danny Elfman | Sachyn | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Ramin Djawadi | Unknown09111 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Kris Bowers | John Sears | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Ennio Morricone | Olivier Strecker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| James Horner | FERT98 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Steven Price | AMFM Studios | CC BY 3.0 |
| Simon Franglen | Amy Martin Photography | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Olafur Arnalds | Carstor | CC BY 4.0 |
| Nils Frahm | Smial | Free Art Licence |
| Yann Tiersen | Paul (Goerlitz) | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| Philip Glass | Pasquale Salerno | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| Carl Orff | Orff-Zentrum Muenchen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Benjamin Britten | Szalay Zoltan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Arvo Part | Woesinger | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| Angelo Badalamenti | Lafayette High School | Public domain |
| Astor Piazzolla | Wikimedia Commons | Public domain |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Joseph Karl Stieler (1820) | Public domain |
| Antonio Vivaldi | Anonymous (c.1723) | Public domain |
| Frederic Chopin | Daguerreotype (c.1849) | Public domain |
| Franz Liszt | Herman Biow (1843) | Public domain |
| Sergei Rachmaninoff | Library of Congress (1921) | Public domain |
| Niccolo Paganini | John Whittle (1836) | Public domain |
| Johann Sebastian Bach | Elias Gottlob Haussmann (1748) | Public domain |
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Emile Reutlinger (c.1888) | Public domain |
| Johann Strauss II | Fritz Luckhardt (1876) | Public domain |
| Giovanni Battista Pergolesi | attr. Domenico Antonio Vaccaro | Public domain |
Licence deeds at creativecommons.org/licenses. Public-domain works are free of known copyright restrictions.
