List of Austrian composers
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- Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, (1623 – 1680), Austrian composer,
- Johann Fux, (1660 - 1741), Austrian composer, influential theorist on Renaissance counterpoint
- Carl Georg Reutter (1708–1772), Baroque era court composer
- Georg Christoph Wagenseil (1715–1777), Classical composer, harpsichordist, and organist
- Leopold Mozart (1719–1787), Classical era composer, violinist, author of influential treatise on playing the violin.
- Joseph Haydn (1732–1809), influential classical era composer, wrote 104 symphonies as well as numerous string quartets and other chamber music, operas, and sacred works
- Michael Haydn (1737 - 1806), Composer, brother of Joseph Haydn
- Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (1736–1809), Classical composer of preludes, fugues, and sonatas for the piano
- Michael Haydn (1737–1806), Classical composer and younger brother of Joseph Haydn
- Leopold Hoffman (1738–1793), Classical composer
- Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739–1799), Classical era composer and violinist
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), son of Leopold, influential composer of operas, piano concertos, chamber music, symphonies, sacred works, and much else.
- Maria Theresa von Paradis (1759–1824), Classical composer and inspiration for Mozart's "Piano Concerto No 18 in B."
- Franz Xaver Süssmayr (1766–1803), Classical era composer, student of Mozart
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837), pianist and composer whose music bridged the Classical and Romantic periods
- Carl Czerny (1791–1857), composer, student of Beethoven, known for his piano exercises and pedagogy.
- Franz Schubert (1797–1828), Classical/Romantic composer, regarded as the first significant lieder writer, composer of many instrumental works as well.
- Johann Strauss I (1804–1849), Early Romantic dance music composer
- Anton Bruckner (1824–1896), composer of nine large-scale symphonies, sacred works, and organ works; church organist.
- Johann Strauss II (1825–1899), Romantic composer of waltzes and polkas, wrote The Blue Danube waltz
- Josef Strauss (1827 - 1870), brother of Johann Strauss II, and a talented composer of dance-genre music.
- Eduard Strauss (1835 – 1916), brother of Johann Strauss II, and a talented composer of dance-genre music.
- Gustav Mahler (1860–1911), Late Romantic composer of large-scale and sometimes programmatic symphonies (note: born in Bohemia in a German-speaking community, a subject of the Hapsburg Empire; music director in Vienna in the 1890s and 1900s)
- Walter Rabl,(1873-1940)
- Franz Schmidt (1874–1939), 20th century composer of symphonies and operas, cellist and pianist
- Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951), 20th century modernist composer, founder of the Second Viennese School, developer of the twelve tone technique
- Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962), 20th century virtuoso violinist and composer
- Anton Webern (1883–1945), 20th century composer, student in the Second Viennese School, used the twelve tone technique in addition to the style known as serialism
- Alban Berg (1885–1935), 20th century composer, student in the Second Viennese School
- Egon Joseph Wellesz (1885–1974), 20th century composer, teacher, musicologist, pupil of Arnold Schoenberg and student of Byzantine music
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