List of Austrian composers
This is a list of Austrian composers.
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- Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (1736–1809) – Classical-era composer of preludes, fugues and sonatas for the piano
- Elkan Bauer (1852-1942) – 20th-century composer; wrote popular waltzes
- Alban Berg (1885–1935) – 20th-century composer; member of the Second Viennese School
- Anton Bruckner (1824–1896) – composer of nine large-scale symphonies, sacred works and organ works; church organist
- Carl Czerny (1791–1857) – composer; teacher of Ludwig van Beethoven; known for his piano exercises and pedagogy
- Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739–1799) – Classical-era composer and violinist
- Johann Fux (1660–1741) – composer, influential theorist on Renaissance counterpoint
- Heinz Karl Gruber (born 1943) – composer, bassist and singer
- Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) – Classical-era composer; composed 104 symphonies, as well as numerous string quartets and other chamber music, operas and sacred works
- Michael Haydn (1737–1806) – Classical-era composer; younger brother of Joseph Haydn
- Leopold Hoffman (1738–1793) – Classical-era composer
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837) – composer and pianist; music bridged the Classical and Romantic periods
- Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962) – 20th-century violinist and composer
- Joseph Franz Karl Lanner (1801–1843) – early-Romantic-era dance-music composer; one-time colleague of Johann Strauss I
- Bruno Liberda (born 1953) – composer; student of Roman Haubenstock-Ramati; contemporary classical music; first electronic music ever to be performed in the Vienna State Opera
- Gustav Mahler (1860–1911) – late-Romantic composer of large-scale and sometimes programmatic symphonies; born in Bohemia in a German-speaking community, a subject of the Habsburg Empire; music director in Vienna in the 1890s and 1900s
- Jacques de Menasce (1905-1960) became an American in 1941
- Leopold Mozart (1719–1787) – Classical-era composer, violinist, author of influential treatise on playing the violin
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) – composer of operas, piano concertos, chamber music, symphonies and sacred works; son of Leopold Mozart
- Kurt Overhoff (1902–1986) – composer and conductor
- Maria Theresa von Paradis (1759–1824) – Classical-era composer; inspiration for the Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-flat major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Walter Rabl (1873–1940) – Viennese composer, conductor and teacher of vocal music
- Carl Georg Reutter (1708–1772) – Baroque-era court composer
- Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1623–1680) – composer and violinist; first German-speaking composer to publish solo violin and b.c. sonatas in the Italian style (Sonatae unarum fidium seu a violino solo, 1664)
- 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
- Franz Schubert (1797–1828) – Classical-/Romantic-era composer; regarded as the first significant lieder writer; composer of many instrumental works as well
- Robert Stolz (1880–1975) – conductor and composer of operettas, film music and songs
- Eduard Strauss (1835–1916) – dance-music composer; brother of Johann Strauss II
- Johann Strauss I (1804–1849) – early-Romantic-era dance-music composer
- Johann Strauss II (1825–1899) – Romantic-era composer of waltzes and polkas, wrote The Blue Danube waltz
- Josef Strauss (1827–1870) – dance-music composer; brother of Johann Strauss II
- Franz von Suppé (1819-1895) – Composer of light opera
- Franz Xaver Süssmayr (1766–1803) – Classical-era composer; student of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Georg Christoph Wagenseil (1715–1777) – Classical-era composer, harpsichordist, and organist
- Anton Webern (1883–1945) – 20th-century composer, member of the Second Viennese School; used the twelve-tone technique in addition to the style known as serialism
- Egon Joseph Wellesz (1885–1974) – 20th-century composer, teacher, musicologist; pupil of Arnold Schoenberg and student of Byzantine music
- Erich Zeisl (1905–1959) – Modernist Jewish Viennese composer of symphonies, ballets, choral music, operas, and film scores; fled Nazis for America in 1938
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