For a list of violin composers before Mozart
dowland 1563 piccinini 1566 monteverdi 1567 cima 1570 fontana 1571 praetorius 1571 frescobaldi 1583 schutz 1585 castello 1590 marini 1594 buonamente 1595 uccellini 1603 bertali 1605 cazzati 1616 rosenmuller 1619 schmelzer 1620? Isabella Leonarda 1620 locke 1621 legrenzi 1626 mealli 1630 vitali 1632 lully 1632 buxtehude 1637 myslivecek 1737 viviani 1638 stradella 1639 hacquart 1640 biber 1644 albertini 1644 bassani 1647 corelli 1653 pachelbel 1653 muffat 1653 westhoff 1656 marais 1656 torelli 1658 purcell 1659 scarlatti 1660 fux 1660 perti 1661 mascitti 1664 Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre 1665 rebel 1666 couperin 1668 pandolfi 1669 caldara 1670 matteis 1670 caldara 1670 albinoni 1671 bonporti 1672 venturini 1675 Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco 1675 vivaldi 1678 castrucci 1679 mossi 1680 telemann 1681 valentini 1681 mattheson 1681 rameau 1683 durante 1684 manfredini 1684 js bach 1685 handel 1685 b marcello 1686 porpora 1686 geminiani 1687 pisendel 1687 veracini 1690 tartini 1692 leo 1694 Johan Helmich Roman 1694 locatelli 1695 navara 1695 leclair 1697 gibbs 1698 carbonelli 1700 sammartini 1700 richard jones 1700? zuccari 1703 graun 1704 gb martini 1706 galuppi 1706 scheibe 1708 pergolesi 1710 arne 1710 cpe bach 1714 gluck 1714 giardini 1716 Gaspard Fritz 1716 stamitz 1717 leopold mozart 1719 hellendaal 1721 nardini 1722 gavinies 1728 haydn 1732 boccherini 1743 cambini 1746 clementi 1752 viotti 1755 fiorillo 1755 shaw 1755 wolfgang mozart 1756 lindley 1756

To gain a better understanding of the chronology violinist composers and soloists
that came after Mozart,
list including the year each was born:

Corelli 1653 Vivaldi 1678 Bach 1685 Tartini 1692 Locatelli 1695 Leopold Mozart 1719 Hellendaal 1721 Nardini 1722 Gavinies 1728 Haydn 1732 Boccherini 1743 Cambini 1746 Clementi 1752 Viotti 1755 Fiorillo 1755 Shaw 1755 Wolfgang Mozart 1756 Lindley 1756 Pleyel 1757 Dussek 1760 Brooks 1760 Kerutzer 1766 Wesley 1766 Beethoven 1770 Balliot 1771 Paer 1771 Rode 1774 Hummel 1778 La Font 1781 Paganini 1782 Spohr 1784 Ries 1784 Weber 1786 Lipinski 1790 Czerny 1791 Rossini 1792 Schubert 1797 Rolla 1798 Beroit 1802 Berlioz 1803 Saint-Lubin 1805 Ole Bull 1810 Mendelssohn 1809 Ferdinand David 1810 Chopin 1810 Robert Schumann 1810 Liszt 1811 Massart 1811 Ernst 1812 Thalberg 1812 Alkan 1813 Wagner 1813 Sivori 1815 Alard 1815 Dancla 1817 Bazzini 1818 Clara Schumann 1819 Vieuxtemps 1820 Franck 1822 Raff 1822 Lalo 1823 Smetana 1824 Bruckner 1824 Rubinstein 1829 Goldmark 1830 Joachim 1831 Brahms 1833 Accolay 1833 Borodin 1833 Zarzycki 1834 Wieniawksi 1835 Saint Saens 1835 Cui 1835 Balakirev 1837 Bruch 1838 Tchaikovsky 1840 Rieding 1840 Svendsen 1840 Dvorak 1841 Massenet 1842 Grieg 1843 Sarasate 1844 Rimsky-Korsakov 1844 Wilhelmj 1845 Auer 1845 Faure 1845 Marsick 1847 Seitz 1848 Godard 1849 D'Indy 1851 Sauret 1852 Sevcik 1852 Foote 1853 Janacek 1854 Moszkowski 1854 Chausson 1855 Sinding 1856 Taneyev 1856 Elgar 1857 Hubay 1858 Ysaye 1858 Paderewski 1860 Mahler 1860 Arensky 1861 Catoire 1861 Debussy 1862 Delius 1862 Strauss 1864 Ropartz 1864 Sibelius 1865 Glazunov 1865 Nielsen 1865 Busoni 1866 Novacek 1866 Satie 1866 Maud Powell 1867 Drdla 1868 Conus 1869 Pfitzner 1869 Lekeu 1870 Vierne 1870 Godowsky 1870 Scriabin 1872 Vaughan Williams 1872 Rachmaninoff 1873 Reger 1873 Flesch 1873 Suk 1874 Ives 1874 Holst 1874 Schoenberg 1874 Ravel 1875 Kreisler 1875 Gliere 1875 Coleridge-Taylor 1875 Karlowicz 1876 Falla 1876 Dohnanyi 1877 Medtner 1880 Bloch 1880 Kubelik 1880 Thibaud 1880 Enescu 1881 Bartok 1881 Stravinsky 1882 Szymanowski 1882 Kodaly 1882 Huberman 1882 Ponce 1882 Grainger 1882 Kocian 1883 Webern 1883 Bax 1883 Gruenberg 1884 Suk 1885 Berg 1885 Achron 1886 Kochanski 1887 Villa-Lobos 1887 Persinger 1887 Spalding 1888 Dinicu 1889 Zimbalist 1889 Martinu 1890 Respighi 1891 Prokofiev 1891 Elman 1891 Dushkin 1891 Adolf Busch 1891 Szigeti 1892 Myaskovsky 1893 Von Vecsey 1893 Piston 1894 Hindemith 1895 Tedesco 1895 Korngold 1897 Ben-Haim 1897 Gershwin 1898 Poulenc 1899 Seidel 1899 Copland 1900 Prihoda 1900 Krenek 1900 Heifetz 1901 Walton 1902 Francescatti 1902 Khachaturian 1903 Galamian 1903 Kabalevsky 1904 Milstein 1904 Morini 1904 Campoli 1906 Spivakovsky 1906 Shostakovich 1906 Oistrakh 1908 Elliott Carter 1908 Goldberg 1909 Gingold 1909 Bacewicz 1909 Barber 1910 Barsukov 1912 Cage 1912 Britten 1913 Khrennikov 1913 Lutosławski 1913 Menuhin 1916 Dutilleux 1916 Shumsky 1917 Szeryng 1918 Ricci 1918 Rochberg 1918 Bernstein 1918 Neveu 1919 Vainberg 1919 Stern 1920 Grumiaux 1921 Gitlis 1922 Hassid 1923 Kogan 1924 Martzy 1924 Bunin 1924 Stikovetsky 1925