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List of classical music composers
This is an alphabetical list of classical music composers sorted by eras. Not all composers fit neatly into one and only one category: some, such as Monteverdi, wrote in the style of more than one era.
See: list of composers for composers of other genres of music.
See also classical music.
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Medieval era
See also Medieval music#Medieval composers.
- Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1179)
- Guido of Arezzo (c.995 - c.1050)
- Leonin (late 12th century)
- Pérotin (late 12th, early 13th century)
- François Andrieu (14th century)
- Johannes Ciconia (c.1335 - 1411)
- Francesco Landini (1325 - 1397)
- Guillaume de Machaut (1300 - 1377)
- Philippe de Vitry (1291 - 1361)
- Martinus Fabri (14th century)
- Matteo da Perugia (c.1380 - c.1410)
Renaissance era
See also List of Renaissance composers and Renaissance music.
- Martin Agricola (1466 - 1506)
- Filippo Azzaiolo (16th century)
- Gilles Binchois (c.1400 - 1460)
- Antoine Brumel (c.1475 - c.1520)
- William Byrd (1543 - 1623)
- Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620)
- John Cooper (c.1570 - 1626)
- Josquin Des Prez (c.1440 - 1521)
- John Dowland (1563 - 1626)
- Guillaume Dufay (c.1400 - 1474)
- Costanzo Festa (c.1495 - 1545)
- Andrea Gabrieli (c.1510 - 1586)
- Giovanni Gabrieli (1557 - 1612)
- Carlo Gesualdo (c.1561 - 1613)
- Orlando Gibbons (1583 - 1625)
- Claude Goudimel (c.1510 - 1572)
- Nicolas Gombert (c.1490 - c.1560)
- Tobias Hume (c.1569 - 1645)
- Heinrich Isaac (c.1450 - 1517)
- Orlandus Lassus (c.1532 - 1594)
- Vicente Lusitano (16th century)
- Luzzasco Luzzaschi (c.1545 - 1607)
- Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643)
- Hans Newsidler (born 1508-1509, died Feb 2, 1563)
- Jacob Obrecht (c.1450 - 1505)
- Johannes Ockeghem (c.1410 - 1497)
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525 - 1594)
- Michael Praetorius (1571/1572 - 1621)
- Vincenzo Ruffo (c.1510 - 1587)
- Thomas Tallis (c.1505 - 1585)
- John Taverner (c.1490 - 1545)
- Philippe Verdelot (c.1475 - c.1550)
- Thomás Luis de Victoria (1548 - 1611)
- Oswald von Wolkenstein (1377 - 1445)
Baroque era
See also Baroque music and List of Baroque composers.
- Evaristo Abaco (1675 - 1742)
- Tomaso Albinoni (1671 - 1751)
- Domenico Alberti (1710 - 1740)
- Gregorio Allegri (1582 - 1652)
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
- Heinrich Ignaz Biber (1644 - 1704)
- Dietrich Buxtehude (1637 - 1707)
- Antonio Caldara (1670 - 1736)
- Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620)
- Marc Antoine Charpentier (c1643 - 1704)
- Jeremiah Clarke (c.1674 - 1707)
- John Cooper (c.1570 - 1626)
- Arcangelo Corelli (1653 - 1713)
- François Couperin (1668 - 1733)
- John Dowland (1563 - 1626)
- Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688 - 1758)
- Johann Caspar Fischer (c.1670 - 1746)
- Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583 - 1643)
- Baldassare Galuppi (1706 - 1785)
- Francesco Geminiani (1687 - 1762)
- Orlando Gibbons (1583 - 1625)
- Maurice Greene (1696 - 1755)
- George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759)
- Tobias Hume (c.1569 - 1645)
- Richard Leveridge (c.1670 - 1758)
- Pietro Locatelli (1695 - 1764)
- Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632 - 1687)
- Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643)
- Jean-Joseph Mouret (1682 - 1738)
- Johann Pachelbel (1653 - 1706)
- Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710 - 1736)
- Michael Praetorius (1571/1572 - 1621)
- Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695)
- Johann Joachim Quantz (1697 - 1773)
- Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683 - 1764)
- Tommaso Redi (circa 1675 - 1738)
- Alessandro Scarlatti (1660 - 1725)
- Domenico Scarlatti (1685 - 1757)
- Samuel Scheidt (1587 - 1654)
- Heinrich Schütz (1585 - 1672)
- Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562 - 1621)
- Jacopo Peri (1561 - 1633)
- Giuseppe Tartini (1692 - 1770)
- Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767)
- Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741)
- Count Unico Wilhelm von Wassenaar (1692 - 1766)
- Silvius Leopold Weiss (1686 - 1750)
- Jan Zach (1699 - 1773)
- Domenico Zipoli (1688 - 1726)
Classical era
See also Classical music era#Composers of the Classical era.
- Karl Friedrich Abel (1723 - 1787)
- Domenico Alberti (1710 - 1740)
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714 - 1788)
- Johann Christian Bach (1735 - 1782)
- Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710 - 1784)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
- Maksym Berezovsky (c.1745 - 1777)
- William Billings (1746 - 1800)
- Luigi Boccherini (1743 - 1805)
- Giuseppe Bonno (1711 - 1788)
- Dmytro Bortniansky (1751 - 1825)
- William Boyce (1710 - 1779)
- Carlo Antonio Campioni (1720 - 1788)
- Ferdinando Carulli (c.1770 - 1841)
- Luigi Cherubini (1760 - 1842)
- Domenico Cimarosa (1749 - 1801)
- Franz Danzi (1763 - 1826)
- Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739 - 1799)
- Jacques Duphly (1715 - 1789)
- John Field (composer) (1782 - 1837)
- Baldassare Galuppi (1706 - 1785)
- Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714 - 1787)
- André Grétry (1741 - 1813)
- Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809)
- Michael Haydn (1737 - 1806)
- Pieter Hellendaal (1721 - 1799)
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778 - 1837)
- Joseph Martin Kraus (1756 - 1792)
- Leopold Mozart (1719 - 1787)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
- Josef Myslivecek (1737 - 1781)
- Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710 - 1736)
- François-André Danican Philidor (1726 - 1795)
- Antonio Rosetti (c1750 - 1792)
- Antonio Salieri (1750 - 1825)
- Giovanni Battista Sammartini (ca. 1700 - 1775)
- Johann Schobert (c.1735 - 1767)
- Antonio Soler (1729 - 1783)
- Fernando Sor (1778 - 1839)
- Georg Christoph Wagenseil (1715 - 1777)
Romantic era
See also Romantic music#Composers of the romantic era.
- Adolphe-Charles Adam (1803 - 1856)
- Isaac Albéniz (1860 - 1909)
- Hugo Alfvén (1872 - 1960)
- Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813 - 1888)
- Anton Stepanovich Arensky (1861 - 1906)
- Daniel Auber (1782 - 1871)
- Francis Edward Bache (1833 - 1858)
- Mily Balakireff (1837 - 1910)
- Michael William Balfe (1808 - 1870)
- Amy Beach (1867 - 1944)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
- Vincenzo Bellini (1801 - 1835)
- Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869)
- Franz Berwald (1796 - 1868)
- Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875)
- Arrigo Boito (1842 - 1918)
- Alexander Borodin (1833 - 1887)
- Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877 - 1952)
- Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
- Max Bruch (1838 - 1920)
- Anton Bruckner (1824 - 1896)
- Ignaz Brüll (1846 - 1907)
- Norbert Burgmüller (1810 - 1836)
- Ferruccio Busoni (1866 - 1924)
- Joseph Canteloube (1879 - 1957)
- Ferdinando Carulli (c.1770 - 1841)
- Alexis Chabrier (1841 - 1894)
- George Whitefield Chadwick (1854 - 1931)
- Cécile Chaminade (1857 - 1944)
- Gustave Charpentier (1860 - 1956)
- Ernest Chausson (1855 - 1899)
- Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
- Francesco Cilea (1866 - 1950)
- Frederick Converse (1871 - 1940)
- César Cui (1835 - 1918)
- Carl Czerny (1791 - 1857)
- Eugen D'Albert (1864 - 1932)
- Edouard Deldevez (1817 - 1897)
- Léo Delibes (1836 - 1891)
- Frederick Delius (1862 - 1934)
- Luigi Denza (1846-1922)
- Vincent d'Indy (1851 - 1931)
- Ernö Dohnányi (1877 - 1960)
- Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848)
- Alexander Dreyschock (1818 - 1869)
- Paul Dukas (1865 - 1935)
- Antonin Dvorák (1841 - 1904)
- Edward Elgar (1857 - 1934)
- Ferenc Erkel (1810 - 1893)
- Manuel de Falla (1876 - 1946)
- Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924)
- Zdenek Fibich (1850 - 1900)
- John Field (1782 - 1837)
- César Franck (1822 - 1890)
- Johann Fuchs (1842 - 1899)
- Robert Fuchs (1847 - 1927)
- Niels Wilhelm Gade (1817 - 1890)
- Edward German (1862 - 1936)
- Alexander Glazunov (1865 - 1936)
- Reinhold Glière (1875 - 1956)
- Mikhail Glinka (1803 - 1857)
- Alexander Goedicke (1877 - 1957)
- Karl Goldmark (1830 - 1915)
- Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829 - 1869)
- Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893)
- Enrique Granados (1867 - 1916)
- Alexander Grechaninov (1864 - 1956)
- Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907)
- Reynaldo Hahn (1874 - 1947)
- Anthony Philip Heinrich (1781 - 1861)
- Adolf von Henselt (1814 - 1889)
- Victor Herbert (1859 - 1924)
- Henri Herz (1803 - 1888)
- Joseph Holbrooke (1878 - 1958)
- Augusta Holmès (1847 - 1903)
- Hans Huber (1852 - 1921)
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778 - 1837)
- Engelbert Humperdinck (1854 - 1921)
- Henry Holden Huss (1862 - 1953)
- Vasily Kalinnikov (1866 - 1901)
- Friedrich Kiel (1827 - 1881)
- Erich Korngold (1897 - 1957)
- Theodor Kullak (1818 - 1882)
- Édouard Lalo (1823 - 1892)
- Josef Lanner (1801 - 1843)
- Franz Lehár (1870 - 1948)
- Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1858 - 1919)
- Anatol Liadov (1855 - 1914)
- Otto Lindblad (1809 - 1864)
- Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
- Henry Charles Litolff (1818-1891)
- Charles Martin Loeffler (1861 - 1935)
- Carl Loewe (1796 - 1869)
- Albert Lortzing (1801 - 1851)
- Alexandre Luigini (1850 - 1906)
- Sergei Lyapunov (1859 - 1924)
- Mykola Lysenko (1842 - 1912)
- Edward MacDowell (1860 - 1908)
- Alexander Campbell Mackenzie (1847 - 1935)
- Albéric Magnard (1865 - 1914)
- Giuseppe Martucci (1856 - 1909)
- Joseph Marx (1882 - 1964)
- Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912)
- Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (1880 - 1951)
- Fanny Mendelssohn (1805 - 1847)
- Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847)
- Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791 - 1864)
- Ignaz Moscheles (1794 - 1870)
- Moritz Moszkowski (1854 - 1925)
- Modest Mussorgsky (1839 - 1881)
- Carl Otto Nicolai (1810 - 1849)
- Jacques Offenbach (1819 - 1880)
- Georges Onslow (1784 - 1853)
- Frederick Ouseley (1825 - 1889)
- Ignacy Paderewski (1860 - 1941)
- Niccolò Paganini (1782 - 1840)
- John Knowles Paine (1839 - 1906)
- Horatio Parker (1863 - 1919)
- Hubert Parry (1848 - 1918)
- Gabriel Pierné (1863 - 1937)
- Henry Hugo Pierson (1815 - 1873)
- Amilcare Ponchielli (1834 - 1886)
- Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924)
- Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943)
- Max Reger (1873 - 1916)
- Anton Reicha (1770 - 1836)
- Ottorino Respighi (1879 - 1936)
- Julius Reubke (1834 - 1858)
- Ferdinand Ries (1784 - 1838)
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908)
- Gioacchino Rossini (1792 - 1868)
- Anton Rubinstein (1829 - 1894)
- Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921)
- Pablo Sarasate (1844 - 1908)
- Emil von Sauer (1862 - 1942)
- Franz Xaver Scharwenka (1850 - 1924)
- Ernest Schelling (1876 - 1939)
- Franz Schmidt (1874 - 1939)
- Othmar Schoeck (1886 - 1957)
- Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
- Clara Schumann (1819 - 1896)
- Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
- Alexander Scriabin (1872 - 1915)
- Déodat de Séverac (1872 - 1921)
- Fritz Seitz (1848 - 1918)
- Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957)
- Christian Sinding (1856 - 1941)
- Bedrich Smetana (1824 - 1884)
- Fernando Sor (1778 - 1839)
- Louis Spohr (1784 - 1859)
- John Stainer (1840 - 1901)
- Charles Villiers Stanford (1852 - 1924)
- Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871 - 1927)
- Sigismond Stojowski (1879 - 1946)
- Eduard Strauss (1835 - 1916)
- Johann Strauss, I (1804 - 1849)
- Johann Strauss, II (1825 - 1899)
- Josef Strauss (1827 - 1870)
- Josef Suk (1874 - 1935)
- Arthur Sullivan (1842 - 1900)
- Franz von Suppé (1819 - 1895)
- Johan Svendsen (1840-1911)
- Sergei Taneyev (1856 - 1915)
- Francisco Tarrega (1852 - 1909)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)
- Ambroise Thomas (1811 - 1896)
- Donald Francis Tovey (1875 - 1940)
- Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)
- José Vianna da Motta (1868 - 1948)
- Louis Vierne (1870 - 1937)
- Robert Volkmann (1815 - 1883)
- Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883)
- Emile Waldteufel (1837 - 1915)
- Carl Maria von Weber (1786 - 1826)
- Felix Weingartner (1863 - 1942)
- Charles-Marie Widor (1845 - 1937)
- Henryk Wieniawski (1835 - 1880)
- Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903)
- Haydn Wood (1882 - 1959)
- Eugène Ysaÿe (1858 - 1931)
20th century classical music
- See list of 20th century classical composers, 20th century classical music, list of 21st century classical composers.
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