List of classical music composers by era

Lists of classical music
composers by era
Medieval (4761400)
Renaissance (14001600)
Baroque (16001760)
Classical era (17301820)
Romantic era (18151910)
20th century (19002000)
21st century (since 2000)

This is a list of classical music composers by era.

Medieval era

See the List of Medieval composers and Medieval music.

John Dunstaple Leonel Power Oswald von Wolkenstein Johannes Ciconia Solage Jacob Senleches Francesco Landini Jacopo da Bologna Guillaume de Machaut Philippe de Vitry Franco of Cologne Adam de la Halle Guiraut Riquier Alfonso X of Castile Theobald I of Navarre Neidhart von Reuental Peire Cardenal Gautier de Coincy Peire Vidal Walther von der Vogelweide Gaucelm Faidit Pérotin Blondel de Nesle Arnaut Daniel Beatritz de Dia Léonin Bernart de Ventadorn Jaufre Rudel Marcabru Notker the Stammerer Kassia

Renaissance era

See the List of Renaissance composers and Renaissance music.

Orlando Gibbons Michael Praetorius John Cooper (composer) Thomas Campion John Dowland Carlo Gesualdo Philippe Rogier Giovanni Gabrieli Luca Marenzio Giovanni de Macque Tomás Luis de Victoria Luzzasco Luzzaschi William Byrd Giaches de Wert Andrea Gabrieli Orlande de Lassus Claude Le Jeune Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Cipriano de Rore Jacob Clemens non Papa Claude Goudimel Pierre de Manchicourt Thomas Tallis Christopher Tye Cristóbal de Morales John Taverner Adrian Willaert Thomas Crecquillon Nicolas Gombert Clément Janequin Philippe Verdelot Antoine Brumel Antonius Divitis Antoine de Févin Martin Agricola Jean Mouton Heinrich Isaac Josquin des Prez Jacob Obrecht Alexander Agricola Loyset Compère Antoine Busnois Walter Frye Johannes Ockeghem Guillaume Dufay Gilles Binchois Leonel Power Oswald von Wolkenstein

Baroque era

See the List of Baroque composers and Baroque music.

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Baldassare Galuppi Carlos Seixas Riccardo Broschi Johann Joachim Quantz Pietro Locatelli Giuseppe Tartini Leonardo Vinci Johann Friedrich Fasch Francesco Geminiani Nicola Porpora George Frideric Handel Domenico Scarlatti Johann Sebastian Bach Jean-Philippe Rameau Georg Philipp Telemann Jan Dismas Zelenka Antonio Vivaldi Tomaso Albinoni Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer Antonio Caldara Alessandro Scarlatti Henry Purcell Marin Marais Arcangelo Corelli Johann Pachelbel Dieterich Buxtehude Jean-Baptiste Lully Jean-Henri d'Anglebert Barbara Strozzi Johann Jakob Froberger Giacomo Carissimi Antonio Bertali William Lawes Francesco Cavalli Samuel Scheidt Heinrich Schütz Girolamo Frescobaldi Gregorio Allegri Claudio Monteverdi Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck Jacopo Peri

Classical era

See the List of Classical era composers and Classical period (music).

Franz Schubert Gioachino Rossini Louis Spohr John Field (composer) Mauro Giuliani Fernando Sor Johann Nepomuk Hummel Anton Reicha Ludwig van Beethoven Samuel Wesley Anton Eberl Franz Danzi Luigi Cherubini Jan Ladislav Dussek Ignaz Pleyel Joseph Martin Kraus Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Giovanni Battista Viotti Vicente Martín y Soler Muzio Clementi Antonio Salieri Domenico Cimarosa William Billings Carl Stamitz Luigi Boccherini Giovanni Paisiello Andrea Luchesi Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf Michael Haydn Josef Mysliveček Johann Christian Bach Johann Schobert François-Joseph Gossec Joseph Haydn Antonio Soler Tommaso Traetta François-André Danican Philidor Carl Friedrich Abel Pieter Hellendaal Carlo Antonio Campioni Leopold Mozart Johann Stamitz Georg Christoph Wagenseil Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Christoph Willibald Gluck Niccolò Jommelli Wilhelm Friedemann Bach Giovanni Battista Sammartini Domenico Scarlatti

Romantic era

See the List of Romantic-era composers and Romantic music.

Georges Bizet Camille Saint-Saëns Henryk Wieniawski Julius Reubke Johannes Brahms Alexander Borodin Francis Edward Bache Karl Goldmark Anton Rubinstein Louis Moreau Gottschalk Josef Strauss Johann Strauss II Anton Bruckner Bedřich Smetana César Franck Clara Schumann Jacques Offenbach Charles Gounod Robert Volkmann Giuseppe Verdi Charles-Valentin Alkan Richard Wagner Franz Liszt Robert Schumann Frédéric Chopin Norbert Burgmüller Otto Lindblad Felix Mendelssohn Michael William Balfe Fanny Mendelssohn Johann Strauss I Hector Berlioz Mikhail Glinka Vincenzo Bellini Gaetano Donizetti Franz Schubert Carl Loewe Franz Berwald Giacomo Meyerbeer Carl Czerny Carl Maria von Weber Louis Spohr Daniel Auber Niccolò Paganini John Field (composer) Anthony Philip Heinrich Fernando Sor Johann Nepomuk Hummel Ludwig van Beethoven Ottorino Respighi Joseph Canteloube Reinhold Glière Franz Schmidt Josef Suk Sergei Rachmaninoff Alexander Scriabin Wilhelm Stenhammar Amy Beach Enrique Granados Ferruccio Busoni Vasily Kalinnikov Jean Sibelius Alexander Glazunov Paul Dukas Carl Nielsen Albéric Magnard Richard Strauss Edward German Gustave Charpentier Gustav Mahler Hugo Wolf Sergei Lyapunov Giacomo Puccini Edward Elgar Christian Sinding Anatoly Lyadov Ernest Chausson George Whitefield Chadwick Leoš Janáček Engelbert Humperdinck (composer) Charles Villiers Stanford Hans Huber (composer) Alexandre Luigini Hubert Parry Robert Fuchs Augusta Holmès Charles-Marie Widor Gabriel Fauré Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Edvard Grieg Arrigo Boito Arthur Sullivan Johann Fuchs Antonín Dvořák Johan Svendsen John Stainer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

20th century

See the List of 20th-century classical composers by birth date and 20th-century classical music. See also the List of 21st-century classical composers.

George Benjamin (composer) Tan Dun Kaija Saariaho Tristan Murail John Adams (composer) John Tavener Paul Lansky Brian Ferneyhough Frank Zappa Nikolai Kapustin Philip Glass Steve Reich Helmut Lachenmann La Monte Young Giya Kancheli Arvo Pärt Terry Riley Peter Maxwell Davies Harrison Birtwistle Alfred Schnittke Henryk Górecki Krzysztof Penderecki Per Nørgård Mauricio Kagel Sofia Gubaidulina George Crumb Ennio Morricone Einojuhani Rautavaara Karlheinz Stockhausen Jean Barraqué Pierre Henry Hans Werner Henze György Kurtág Morton Feldman Pierre Boulez Luciano Berio György Ligeti Lukas Foss Iannis Xenakis Bruno Maderna Galina Ustvolskaya Leonard Bernstein Alberto Ginastera Milton Babbitt Henri Dutilleux Witold Lutosławski Benjamin Britten Conlon Nancarrow John Cage Gian Carlo Menotti Pierre Schaeffer Samuel Barber Grażyna Bacewicz Elliott Carter Olivier Messiaen Dmitri Shostakovich Giacinto Scelsi Michael Tippett Luigi Dallapiccola Aram Khachaturian Harry Partch Alexander Mosolov Kurt Weill Aaron Copland Silvestre Revueltas Francis Poulenc George Gershwin Virgil Thomson Howard Hanson Carl Orff Paul Hindemith Alois Hába Darius Milhaud Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji Arthur Honegger Sergei Prokofiev Bohuslav Martinů Heitor Villa-Lobos Luigi Russolo Alban Berg Edgard Varèse Anton Webern Arnold Bax Igor Stravinsky Zoltán Kodály Karol Szymanowski Béla Bartók Ernest Bloch Maurice Ravel Charles Ives Arnold Schoenberg Gustav Holst Ralph Vaughan Williams Erik Satie Jean Sibelius Carl Nielsen Richard Strauss Claude Debussy Gustav Mahler Leoš Janáček

21st century

See also