Iconic Composers

David Lee Csicsko is an award-winning artist and designer whose distinctive artwork, stained glass, and mosaics beautify train stations, hospitals, churches and universities across the Midwest and East Coast. His many credits include designing the Obamas' White House Christmas in 2012. David's lively illustrations can also be seen in The Skin You Live In from the Chicago Children's Museum, now in its 16th printing, as well as in LGBTQ+ Icons and Science People. Through his use of color, bold graphics and playful patterns, David Lee Csicsko celebrates the richness and diversity of life.

Featured composers include:

Hildegard von Bingen (Germany) Guillaume de Machaut (France) Claudio Monteverdi (Italy) Barbara Strozzi (Italy) Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (France) Antonio Vivaldi (Italy) Johann Sebastian Bach (Germany) George Frideric Handel (Germany) Ignatius Sancho (Slave Ship in the Atlantic Ocean) Joseph Haydn (Austria) Joseph Bologne (Guadeloupe) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Austria) Ludwig von Beethoven (Germany) Franz Schubert (Austria) Clara and Robert Schumann (Germany) Richard Wagner (Germany) Giuseppe Verdi (Italy) Johannes Brahms (Germany) Lili'uokalani (USA) Chiquinha Gonzaga (Brazil) Gustav Mahler (Bohemia) Claude Debussy (France) Erik Satie (France) Harry Burleigh (USA) Scott Joplin (USA) Arnold Schoenberg (Austria) Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (UK) Maurice Ravel (France) Igor Stavinsky (Russia) Florence Price (USA) Lili and Nadia Boulanger (France) William Grant Still (USA) Shirley Graham DuBois (USA) George Gershwin (USA) John Cage (USA) Leonard Bernstein (USA) Galina Ustvolskaya (Russia) Astor Piazzolla (Argentina) George Crumb (USA) Toru Takemitsu (Japan) Pauline Oliveros (USA) Arvo Part (Estonia) Philip Glass (USA) Louis W. Ballard (USA) Roscoe Mitchell (USA) Julius Eastman (USA) Meredith Monk (USA) Tania Leon (Cuba) Nobuo Uematsu (Japan) Young-Ja Lee (South Korea)