From Beethoven to Wagner: The best composers of all time ©Getty Images Some of the most recognizable music in the world was written by composers centuries ago, yet the legacy of their music lives on.

Pianist and composer Clara Schumann is said to have ... His wife Cosima began running the festival by 1908. Wagner's great-granddaughter, Katharina Wagner, has been festival director since 2008.

and of composers like Rimsky-Korsakov in the orchestration. But running through the two suites is the influence of Wagner. Parts of the suite are so Wagnerian they could be deleted scenes from the ...