A network of musical meetings
Documented historical encounters between classical composers
Explore the social graph of classical music. Drag, zoom, and discover who met whom across four centuries.
→See composer lifespans and meetings plotted across four centuries of musical history.
→Six stories hidden in the network — from Liszt's extraordinary reach to the famous composers who never met.
→Watch the social network grow year by year, from Vivaldi's birth in 1678 to Britten's death in 1976.
→Where did composers meet? See Paris, Vienna, and other musical capitals on an interactive map.
→Follow the teacher-student chains that transmitted musical knowledge across generations.
→From Haydn telling Mozart's father "your son is the greatest composer known to me" to Paganini's legendary gift to Berlioz—this project maps the personal connections that shaped Western classical music.