List of classical music composers
This is an alphabetical list of classical music composers sorted by eras.
See: list of composers for composers of other genres of music.
See also: Classical music.
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Medieval era
Up to around 1500. See also Medieval music.Renaissance era
From about 1500 to 1600. See also Renaissance music.Baroque era
''From about 1600 to 1750. See also Baroque music.
- Karl Friedrich Abel (1725 - 1787)
- Tomaso Albinoni (1674 - 1754)
- Domenico Alberti (1710 - 1740)
- Gregorio Allegri (1582 - 1652)
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714 - 1788)
- Johann Christian Bach (1735 - 1782)
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
- Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710 - 1784)
- Heinrich Ignaz Biber (1644 - 1704)
- William Billings (1746-1800)
- Dietrich Buxtehude (1637 - 1707)
- Carlo Antonio Campioni (1720 - 1788)
- Marc Antoine Charpentier, (1634 - 1704)
- Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
- François Couperin (1668 - 1733)
- Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688 - 1758)
- Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583 - 1643)
- Baldassare Galuppi (1706 - 1785)
- Francesco Geminiani (1687 - 1762)
- Maurice Greene (1696 - 1755)
- George Friderich Händel, (1685 - 1759)
- Richard Leveridge (c.1670 - 1758)
- Pietro Locatelli (1695 - 1764)
- Jean-Baptiste Lully, (1632 - 1687)
- Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643)
- Johann Pachelbel (1653 - 1706)
- Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695)
- Johann Joachim Quantz (1697 - 1773)
- Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683 - 1764)
- Alessandro Scarlatti (1660 - 1725)
- Domenico Scarlatti (1685 - 1757)
- Heinrich Schütz, (1585 - 1672)
- Antonio Soler (1729 - 1783)
- Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562 - 1621)
- Giuseppe Tartini (1692 - 1770)
- Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767)
- Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741)
- Count Unico Wilhelm von Wassenaar (1692-1766}
- Jan Zach (1699-1773)
Classical era
''From about 1750 to 1820. See also Classical music era.
- Juan Crisostomo de Arriaga (1806 - 1826)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
- Luigi Boccherini (1743 - 1805)
- Luigi Cherubini (1760 - 1842)
- Domenico Cimarosa (1749 - 1801)
- Franz Danzi (1763 - 1826)
- John Field (1782 - 1837)
- Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714 - 1798)
- Joseph Haydn, (1732 - 1809)
- Michael Haydn (1737 - 1806)
- Pieter Hellendaal (1721 - 1799)
- Joseph Martin Kraus (1756 - 1792)
- Leopold Mozart, (1719-1787)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
- Josef Myslivecek (1737-1781)
- Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840)
- François-André Danican Philidor (1726-1795)
- Antonio Salieri (1750 - 1825)
- Johann Schobert (c.1735 - 1767)
- Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
- Fernando Sor (1778-1839)
- Louis Spohr (1784 - 1859)
Romantic era
From about 1820 to 1900. See also Romantic music.
- Adolphe-Charles Adam (1803 - 1856)
- Isaac Albéniz (1860 - 1909)
- Daniel François Esprit Auber (1782 - 1871)
- Francis Edward Bache (1833 - 1858)
- Michael William Balfe (1808 - 1870)
- Amy Beach (1867 - 1944)
- Vincenzo Bellini (1801 - 1835)
- Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869)
- Franz Berwald (1796 - 1868)
- Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875)
- Arrigo Boito (1842-1918)
- Alexander Borodin (1833 - 1887)
- Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
- Max Bruch (1838 - 1920)
- Anton Bruckner (1824 - 1896)
- Nobert Burgmüller (1810 - 1836)
- Ferruccio Busoni (1866 - 1924)
- Joseph Canteloube (1879 - 1857)
- Whitefield Chadwick (1854 - 1931)
- Gustave Charpentier (1860 - 1956)
- Pablo Casals
- Ernest Chausson (1855 - 1899)
- Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
- Carl Czerny (1791 - 1857)
- Léo Delibes (1836 - 1891)
- Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848)
- Paul Dukas (1865 - 1935)
- Antonin Dvorák (1841 - 1904)
- Manuel de Falla
- Gabriel Fauré, (1845 - 1924)
- César Franck (1822 - 1890)
- Niels Wilhelm Gade (1817 - 1890)
- Edward German (1862 - 1936)
- Alexander Glazunov (1865 - 1936)
- Reinhold Gliere (1875 - 1956)
- Mikhail Glinka (1803 - 1857)
- Karl Goldmark (1830 - 1915)
- Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829 - 1869)
- Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893)
- Enrique Granados
- Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907)
- Hans Huber (1852 - 1921)
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778 - 1837)
- Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921)
- Vasily Kalinnikov (1866 - 1901)
- Franz Lehár (1870-1948)
- Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1858 - 1919)
- Otto Lindblad (1809 - 1864)
- Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
- Carl Loewe (1796 - 1869)
- Fanny Mendelssohn (1805 - 1847)
- Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847)
- Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791 - 1864)
- Modest Mussorgsky
- Jacques Offenbach (1819 - 1880)
- Hubert Parry, (1848 - 1918)
- Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924)
- Max Reger (1873 - 1916)
- Ottorino Respighi (1879 - 1936)
- Julius Reubke (1834 - 1858)
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908)
- Gioacchino Rossini (1792 - 1868)
- Anton Rubinstein (1829 - 1894)
- Camille Saint-Saëns, (1835-1921)
- Pablo Sarasate (1844-1908)
- Erik Satie (1866 - 1925)
- Franz Schmidt (1874-1939)
- Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
- Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
- Alexander Scriabin (1872 - 1915)
- Christian Sinding (1856-1941)
- Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884)
- John Stainer (1840-1901)
- Charles Villiers Stanford (1852 - 1924)
- Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871 - 1927)
- Johann Strauss, I, (1804-1849)
- Johann Strauss, II, (1825-1899)
- Joseph Strauss (1827 - 1870)
- Arthur Sullivan (1842 - 1900)
- Francisco Tarrega (1852-1909)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
- Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)
- Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883)
- Carl Maria von Weber (1786 - 1826)
- Charles-Marie Widor (1845 - 1937)
- Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903)
- Eugene Ysaÿe (1858 - 1931)
