Ludwig van Beethoven is the most famous classical composer of the western world. Beethoven is remembered for his powerful and stormy compositions, and for continuing to compose and conduct even after he began to go deaf at age 28

Johann Pachelbel most likely the greatest one-hit wonder of all time, mainly known for Pachelbel's Canon, also known as Canon in D major. It was written in or around 1680 as a piece of chamber music for three violins and basso continuo, but has since been arranged for a wide variety of ensembles. The piece was lost after his death till discovered and first published in the 1920s, first recorded in 1940

Vincent van Gogh Dutch post-impressionist artist best known and most reproduced paintings The Starry Night. In autumn 1888, while staying in Arles, he executed a painting commonly known as Starry Night Over the Rhone. Almost a year later, mid June 1889, he announced "a new study of a starry sky"

Paul Gauguin was a leading Post-Impressionist artist. Best known as a painter, his bold experimentation with coloring led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his painting, The Yellow Christ (Le Christ jaune) 1889, oil on canvas