Profiles the lives of twenty composers and musicians, ranging from Vivaldi, Mozart, and Bach to Gershwin, Gilbert and Sullivan, and Woody Guthrie.

Antonio Vivaldi -- Johann Sebastian Bach -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- Frédéric Chopin -- Giuseppe Verdi -- Clara Schumann -- Stephen Foster -- Johannes Brahms -- Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky -- William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan -- Erik Satie -- Scott Joplin -- Charles Ives -- Igor Stravinsky -- Nadia Boulanger -- Sergei Prokofiev -- George Gershwin -- Woody Guthrie.