Meikyoku to Dai Sakkyokka Monogatari
Japanese title: 名曲と大作曲家物語
Type: OVA
Source: Original
Episodes: 8
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jul 25, 1989 to Aug 25, 1990
Duration: 22 min per ep
Rating: G - All Ages
Producers: Walkers Company
Themes: Historical, Music

Brief lives of some composers, including Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart, Chopin, Vivaldi, Johann Strauss, and Tchaikovsky. Bizarrely, the obscure Stephen Foster, composer of "Beautiful Dreamer" and Jeanie with the Light-Brown Hair, gets a whole episode to himself, probably thanks to being top of the hit parade when Commodore Perry's gunboat diplomacy opened Japan in 1853, while Bach and Handel are forced to share.

(Source: The Anime Encyclopedia)