【Composer】Prolific & Influential Composers

【Masterpiece】Medieval & Renaissance

【Lists of Classical Music Composers by Era】

Medieval (476 - 1400)
Renaissance (1400 - 1600)
Baroque (1600 - 1760)
Classical era (1730 - 1820)
Romantic (1815 - 1910)
Modernist era (1890 - 1950)
Postmodernist era (Since 1930)
20th century (1900 - 2000)
21st century (After 2000)



【Medieval】c.476 - c.1400

Alfonso X 1221
Bologna 1340


【Renaissance】c.1400 - c.1600

Verdelot 1480
Christopher Tye 1505 Thomas Tallis 1505 Bakfark 1507
Giacomo Gorzanis 1520
Lassus 1530
Alessandro Striggio 1536
Giovanni Gabrieli 1553 Alonso Lobo 1555
Jacopo Peri 1561 Dowland 1563
Piccinini 1566 Monteverdi 1567 Cima 1570
Fontana 1571 Praetorius 1571
Nicolas Vallet 1583 Frescobaldi 1583 Schutz 1585


【Early Baroque】c.1590 - c.1625

Castello 1590
Marini 1594 Buonamente 1595
Uccellini 1603 Bertali 1605
Cazzati 1616 Barbara Strozzi 1619 Rosenmüller 1619
Schmelzer 1620~23 Isabella Leonarda 1620
Locke 1621


【High Baroque】c.1625 - c.1660

Legrenzi 1626 Pandolfi Mealli 1630
G.B. Vitali 1632 Lully 1632
Buxtehude 1637 Viviani 1638 Stradella 1639
C. Hacquart 1640
Biber 1644 Albertini 1644
P. Hacquart 1645 G.B. Bassani 1647
Johann Jakob Walther 1650
Corelli 1653 Pachelbel 1653 Georg Muffat 1653
Robert De Visée 1655
Westhoff 1656 Marais 1656 Torelli 1658 Purcell 1659


【Late Baroque】c.1660 - c.1725
- Synonymously with the succeeding Rococo movement. -

Alessandro Scarlatti 1660 Fux 1660 Giovanni Henrico Albicastro 1660
Perti 1661 T.A. Vitali 1663 Mascitti 1664
Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre 1664 Nicolaus Bruhns 1665
Rebel 1666 Couperin 1668 A. Marcello 1669 D. Kellner 1670
Caldara 1670 Matteis 1670 Albinoni 1671 Bonporti 1672
Venturini 1675 Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco 1675
Johann Bernhard Bach 1676 Johann Ludwig Bach 1677
Vivaldi 1678 J.D. Zelenka 1679 Castrucci 1679
Mossi 1680 Richard Jones 1680
F.B. Conti 1681 Telemann 1681 Mattheson 1681 Valentini 1681
Rameau 1683 Durante 1684 Manfredini 1684
Handel 1685 J.S. Bach 1685
Domenico Scarlatti 1685 Lodovico Giustini 1685
B. Marcello 1686 Porpora 1686
Geminiani 1687 Pisendel 1687
J.F. Fasch 1688 Jakob Klein 1688
Jacques Aubert 1689
Veracini 1690 Brescianello 1690 Gottlieb Muffat 1690
Tartini 1692
Antonín Reichenauer 1694 Leo 1694 Johan Helmich Roman 1694
Giuseppe Baldassare Sammartini 1695
Locatelli 1695 Navara 1695
Andrea Zani 1696
Leclair 1697 Gibbs 1698 Carbonelli 1699 / 1700
Giovanni Battista Sammartini 1700
C. Zuccari 1703 J.G. Graun 1703 C.H. Graun 1704
G.B. Martini 1706 Galuppi 1706 Carlo Cecere 1706
Scheibe 1708
Georg Gebel 1709 Christoph Schaffrath 1709 Franz Benda 1709
Pergolesi 1710 Arne 1710 Wilhelm Friedemann Bach 1710
Gaetano Latilla 1711 Hebden 1712
C.P.E. Bach 1714 Gluck 1714
Giardini 1716 Gaspard Fritz 1716
J. Stamitz 1717 Georg Matthias Monn 1717
L. Mozart 1719 Hellendaal 1721
Johann Ernst Bach 1722 Nardini 1722 Jiri Antonin Benda 1722
Giovanni Battista Gervasio 1725
Müthel 1728 Gavinies 1728

【Classical Era】1730 - 1820

Gaetano Pugnani 1731 Haydn 1732
J.C.F. Bach 1732 Erik Ferling 1733 J.C. Bach 1735
Carl Fasch 1736 Myslivecek 1737
J.B. Vanhal 1739 G.G. Paisiello 1740 Luigi Gatti 1740
Boccherini 1743 G.B.I. Grazioli 1746 Cambini 1746
Carlo Tessarini 1747 Cimarosa 1749 Rosetti 1750
Clementi 1752
Viotti 1755 Fiorillo 1755 Thomas Shaw 1755
W.A. Mozart 1756 Thomas Linley Jr. 1756
J.C.F. Haeffner 1759
Johann Georg Lickl 1769

☀【Classical Era / Romantic Era】Composer born 1770 - 1799

Ludwig van Beethoven 1770 Édouard Du Puy 1770
Domenico Puccini 1772 Anton Diabelli 1781
Paganini 1782 John Field 1782
Friedrich Kalkbrenner 1785
Saverio Mercadante 1795 Franz Berwald 1796
Franz Schubert 1797 Gaetano Donizetti 1797

☀【Early Romantic Era】Composers born 1800 - 1819

【Romantic】1815 - 1910
- List of Romantic Era Composers -

Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński 1807
Felix Mendelssohn 1809
Chopin 1810 Robert Schumann 1810
Richard Wagner 1813 Giuseppe Verdi 1813 Alkan 1813
Niels Gade 1817
Antonio Bazzini 1818 Charles Gounod 1818
Clara Schumann 1819

☀【Middle Romantic Era】Composers born 1820 - 1839

Cornelius Gurlitt 1820 Édouard Lalo 1823
Bedrich Smetana 1824 Anton Bruckner 1824
Carl Filtsch 1830
Johannes Brahms 1833 Alexander Borodin 1833
Henryk Wieniawski 1835 Camille Saint-Saens 1835
Max Bruch 1838 Georges Bizet 1838

☀【Late Romantic Era】Composers born 1840 - 1910

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840
Gabriel Fauré 1845 Henri Duparc 1848
Leos Janacek 1854 Giacomo Puccini 1858
Hugo Wolf 1860 Gustav Mahler 1860
Pietro Mascagni 1863 Erik Satie 1866
Manuel de Falla 1876
Ottorino Respighi 1879 Hamilton Harty 1879
Nikolai Medtner 1880
Bohuslav Martinů 1890
Gerald Finzi 1901