The brainchild of iSummaries founder, Lan England, Classical Genius reveals the lives and music of the most renowned classical composers of all time. Each composer biography has been meticulously researched and written by Indiana University Jacobs School of Music scholar, Marcia Dangerfield, with help from talented research assistants Jennifer Smull, M.A.; Julian Livingston; and James Lowery, Ph.D. The individual composer biographies are brought to life through the beautiful narration of William Sargent, veteran stage and television actor. The music heard on Classical Genius is licensed through Naxos of America.

The Classical Genius Composer series includes biographies on the following composers:

Part 1 - The Baroque Era
CD 1 Johann Sebastian Bach
CD 2 George F. Handel and Antonio Vivaldi

Part II - The Classical Era
CD 3 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
CD 4 Joseph Haydn
CD 5 Ludwig Van Beethoven
CD 6 Franz Schubert

Part III - The Romantic Era
CD 7 The First Romantics: Franz Liszt, Hector Berlioz, and Niccolo Paganini
CD 8 Felix Mendelssohn
CD 9 Frederic Chopin
CD 10 Robert Schumann
CD 11 Richard Wagner
CD 12 Italian Opera: Gioacchino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, and Giacomo Puccini

Part IV - The Modern Era
CD 13 Johannes Brahms
CD 14 Peter Tchaikovsky
CD 15 The Russian Kuchka: Alexander Borodin, Modest Mussorgsky, and Nicholas Rimsky-Korsakov
CD 16 Central Europe: Georges Bizet, Edvard Grieg, and Johann Strauss II
CD 17 The Czechs in Prague: Bedrich Smetana and Antonin Dvorak
CD 18 The Expressionists: Charles Camille Saint-Saens, Ottorino Respighi, Jean Sibelius, and Paul Dukas

Part V - The Twentieth Century
CD 19 The Americans: Philip Sousa, George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, and Samuel Barber
CD 20 The Symphonists: Anton Bruckner, Gustav Mahler, and Richard Strauss
CD 21 The Impressionists: Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel
CD 22 The Futurists: Igor Stravinsky, Bela Bartok, and Erik Satie
CD 23 Soviet Russia: Sergei Rachmaninoff, Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich
CD 24 Mid Twentieth Century: Arnold Schoeneberg, Edward Elgar, Alexander Nikolayevich Scariabin, Paul Hindemith, Oliver Messiaen, Benjamin Britten, Sir Malcom Arnold, Hanryk Mikolaj Gorecki, John Cage, and Micheal Nyman