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.

Table of contents

1 Medieval era 2 Renaissance era 3 Baroque era 4 Classical era 5 Romantic era 6 20th century classical music

Medieval era

Up to around 1500. See also Medieval music.

• Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1179)
• Guido of Arezzo (c.995-c.1050)
• Franciscus Andrieu (14th century)
• Gilles Binchois (c.1400-1460)
• Antoine Brumel (c.1475-c.1520)
• Johannes Ciconia (c.1335 - 1411)
• Guillaume Dufay, (c.1400-1474)
• Francesco Landini (1325-1397)
• Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377)
• Johannes Ockeghem (c.1430-c.1495)
• Philipe de Vitry (1291-1361)
• Oswald von Wolkenstein (1377 - 1445)
• Martinus Fabri (14th century)
• Matheus de Perusio (c.1380 - c.1410)

Renaissance era

From about 1500 to 1600. See also Renaissance music.

• Martin Agricola (1466-1506)
• William Byrd (1543-1623)
• Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620)
• John Dowland (1563-1626)
• Guillaume Dufay (c.1400-1474)
• Andrea Gabrieli (c.1510-1586)
• Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612)
• Carlo Gesualdo (c.1561-1613)
• Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
• Heinrich Isaac (c.1450-1517)
• Josquin Des Prez (c.1440-1521)
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525 - 1594)
• Jacopo Peri (1561-1633)
• Michael Praetorius (1571/1572-1621)
• Thomas Tallis (c.1505 - 1585)
• John Taverner (c.1490 - 1545)
• Vicente Lusitano (16th century)

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)

20th century classical music

See list of 20th century classical composers and 20th century classical music.