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Timelines of Composers

The following list presents some 1100 composers arranged into a timeline based purely on their date of birth. For convenience sake, the list has been divided into nine sections with general, and somewhat arbitrary, descriptive headings. The divisions simply break the list up into more manageable sections, and serve as a reminder as to what "period" the composer may be associated with. The divisions are not meant to provide distinct stylistic definitions. Any individual composer, especially on the boundaries, may be misclassified.

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Table of Contents for This File

     Medieval - 11th though 14th Centuries
     Early Renaissance - 15th Century
     High Renaissance - 16th Century
     Early Baroque - Late 16th and 17th Centuries
     High Baroque - Late 17th and Early 18th Centuries
     Classical/Romantic - Late 18th Century
     Romantic - Early 19th Century
     Romantic/Modern - Late 19th Century
     Modern - 20th Century

Medieval - 11th though 14th Centuries

  • Petrus Abaelardus (1079 - 1142)
  • Hildegard von Bingen (1098 - 1179)
  • Pérotin Magister (c. 1155 - c. 1250)
  • Léonin Magister (fl. c. 1150 - 1201?)
  • Philippe Le Chancelier (c. 1165 - 1236)
  • Walter von Der Vogelweide (c. 1170 - c. 1230)
  • Alfonso X "El Sabio" (1221 - 1284)
  • Philippe de Vitry (1291 - 1361)
  • Pierre Des Molins (fl. c. 1375)
  • Ghirardello da Firenza (fl. c. 1375)
  • Lorenzo da Firenza (fl. c. 1375)
  • Jacopo da Bologna (fl. c. 1375)
  • Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300 - 1377)
  • Francesco Landini (1325 - 1397)
  • Pycard (fl. c. 1390)
  • Franchois Lebertoul (fl. c. 1400)
  • Johannes Ciconia (c. 1335 - 1411)

Early Renaissance - 15th Century

  • Leonel Power (? - 1445)
  • Walter Frye (fl. c. 1450)
  • John Dunstable (c. 1380 - 1453)
  • Guillaume Dufay (1400 - 1474)
  • Johannes Brassart (c. 1405 - c. 1450)
  • John Browne (? - 1498)
  • Johannes Ockeghem (1420 - 1497)
  • Antoine Busnoys (1430 - 1492)
  • Richard Hygons (c. 1435 - c. 1509)
  • Josquin Des Préz (1440 - 1521)
  • Alexander Agricola (c. 1446 - 1506)
  • Edmund Turges (c. 1450 - ?)
  • Walter Lambe (c. 1450 - after 1499)
  • Robert Wylkynson (c. 1450 - 1515 or later)
  • Heinrich Isaac (c. 1450 - 1517)
  • Jacob Obrecht (1457 or 1458 - 1505)
  • Jean Mouton (1459 - 1522)
  • Gijon (fl. c. 1460 - 1500)
  • Francisco de la Torre (fl. c. 1460 - 1500)
  • Juan de Triana (fl. c. 1460 - 1500)
  • Antoine Brumel (c. 1460 - c. 1515)
  • Pierre de la Rue (1460 - 1518)
  • Robert Fayrfax (1464 - 1521)
  • Richard Davy (c. 1465 - c. 1507)
  • William Cornysh (c. 1465 - 1523)
  • Juan Del Encina (1468 - 1529)

High Renaissance - 16th Century

  • Francisco de Penalosa (1470 - 1528)
  • Luis de Narvaez (fl. c. 1540)
  • Giovanni Battista Conforti (fl. c. 1550)
  • Jean l'Heritier (1480 - 1552)
  • Gasparo Alberti (c. 1480 - c. 1560)
  • Robert Carver (1484 - 1568)
  • Nicholas Ludford (1485 - 1557)
  • Clement Janequin (1485 - 1558)
  • Ludwig Senfl (c. 1486 - c. 1543)
  • Costanzo Festa (c. 1490 - 1545)
  • John Taverner (c. 1490 - 1545)
  • Nicolas Gombert (c. 1490 - c. 1556)
  • Adrian Willaert (c. 1490 - 1562)
  • Francesco da Milano (1497 - 1543)
  • Heliodoro de Paiva (c. 1500 - 1552)
  • Philippe Verdelot (c. 1500 - before 1552)
  • Christóbal de Morales (c. 1500 - 1553)
  • Marco da l'Aquila (fl. c. 1505 - 1555)
  • Jacques Arcadelt (1505 - 1568)
  • Christopher Tye (c. 1505 - 1572)
  • Thomas Tallis (c. 1505 - 1585)
  • Bálint Bakfark (1507 - 1576)
  • Johannes Lupi (1510 - 1539)
  • Jacobus Clemens Non Papa (c. 1510 or 1515 - c. 1555 or 1556)
  • Guillaume Morlaye (c. 1510 - c. 1558)
  • Antonio de Cabezón (c. 1510 - 1566)
  • Andrea di Cannaregio Gabrieli (1510 - 1586)
  • Giuseppe Guami (1510 - 1586)
  • John Sheppard (c. 1515 - c. 1559)
  • Antonio Carreira (c. 1515 - c. 1590)
  • Cipriano de Rore (c. 1516 - c. 1565)
  • John Black (c. 1520 - 1587)
  • Vincenzo Galilei (1520 - 1591)
  • Giovanni Perluigi Palestrina (1525 - 1594)
  • Francesco Guerrero (1527 - 1599)
  • Claude Le Jeune (1528 - 1600)
  • Alberto da Ripa (1529 - 1551)
  • David Peebles (fl. c. 1530 - 1579)
  • William Mundy (c. 1530 - before 1591)
  • Rodrigo de Ceballos (c. 1530 - 1591)
  • Guillaume Boni (c. 1530 - c. 1594)
  • Fabrizzio Caroso (c. 1530 - after 1600)
  • Pietro Paolo Borrono (fl. c. 1531 - 1549)
  • Hernando Franco (1532 - 1585)
  • Roland de Lassus (1532 - 1594)
  • Claudio Merculo (1533 - 1604)
  • Francesco Soto de Langa (1534 - 1619)
  • Giaches de Wert (1535 - 1596)
  • Robert Whyte (1538 - 1574)
  • Giovanni Paolo Paladini (fl. c. 1540 - 1560)
  • Giovanni Leonardo Primavera (1540 - 1585)
  • Gioseffo Guami (1540 - 1611)
  • Hernando de Cabezón (1541 - 1602)
  • William Byrd (1543 - 1623)
  • Anthony Holborne (? - 1602)
  • Jacob Polonais (c. 1545 - 1605)
  • Tamas Luis de Victoria (c. 1548 - 1611)
  • François-Eustache Du Caurroy (1549 - 1609)

Early Baroque - Late 16th and 17th Centuries

  • Adrian Le Roy (fl. c. 1550 - 1580)
  • Leonardo Meldart Fiamengo (fl. c. 1550 - 1600)
  • Fabrizio Dentice (fl. c. 1550 - 1600)
  • Pomponio Nenna (c. 1550 - before 1613)
  • Pedro de Cristo (c. 1550 - 1618)
  • Giovanni Gabrieli (1553 - 1612)
  • Alonso Lôbo (c. 1555 - 1617)
  • Gabriele Villani (c. 1555 - 1625)
  • Manuel Rodrigues Coelho (c. 1555 - c. 1635)
  • Thomas Morley (1557 - c. 1603)
  • Conte Alfonso Fontanelli (1557 - 1622)
  • Don Carlo Gesualdo (1560 - 1613)
  • Peter Philips (1560 - 1628)
  • William Brade (1560 - 1630)
  • Dario Castello (c. 1560 - c. 1640)
  • Hieronymus Praetorius (1560 - 1629)
  • John Angus (fl. c. 1562 - 1595)
  • Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562 - 1621)
  • John Bull (1562 - 1628)
  • John Dowland (1563 - 1626)
  • Sebastian Aguilera de Heredia (1565 - 1627)
  • Ascanio Mayone (1565 - 1627)
  • Giles Farnaby (1565 - 1640)
  • Duarte Lobo (1565 - 1646)
  • Alessandro Piccinini (1566 - 1638)
  • Frei Manuel Cardoso (1566 - 1650)
  • Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643)
  • Girolamo Conversi (fl. c. 1570 - 1590)
  • Diomedes Cato (c. 1570 - after 1615)
  • Giovanni Paolo Cima (1570 - 1622)
  • Alphonso Ii Ferrabosco (c. 1570 - 1628)
  • Bartolme de Selma (1570 - 1638)
  • Thomas Lupo (1571 - 1627)
  • Filips de Magalhaes (1571 - 1652)
  • Michael Praetorius (1571 - 1621)
  • Daniel Bacheler (1572 - 1618)
  • Thomas Tomkins (1572 - 1656)
  • Francisco de Peraza (fl. c. 1575 - c. 1600)
  • Thomas Weelkes (c. 1575 - 1623)
  • William Simmes (c. 1575 - c. 1625)
  • John Coprario (c. 1575 - 1626)
  • Estevao Lopes Morago (c. 1575 - after 1630)
  • Estevao de Brito (1575 - 1641)
  • Giovanni Maria Trabaci (1575 - 1647)
  • Ennemond Gaultier (1575 - 1651)
  • Francisco Correa de Arauxo (c. 1576 - 1654)
  • Thomas Ford (1580 - 1648)
  • Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger (c. 1580 - 1651)
  • Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1582 - 1648)
  • Gregorio Allegri (1582 - 1652)
  • Thomas Simpson (1582 - 1628)
  • Robert Johnson (c. 1583 - c. 1633)
  • Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583 - 1643)
  • Orlando Gibbons (1583 - 1625)
  • Heinrich Schütz (1585 - 1672)
  • Johann Hermann Schein (1586 - 1630)
  • Samuel Scheidt (1587 - 1654)
  • Francesco Turini (1589 - 1656)
  • Nicholas Strogers (fl. c. 1590 - 1620)
  • Juan Gutierrez de Padilla (c. 1590 - 1664)
  • Jacques Gaultier (c. 1592 - after 1652)
  • John Jenkins (1592 - 1678)
  • Tarquinio Mercula (1594 - 1665)
  • Heinrich Scheidemann (1595 - 1663)
  • Biagio Marini (c. 1597 - c. 1660)
  • Luigi Rossi (1598 - 1653)
  • Bernardo Storace (fl. c. 1660)
  • John O'Keover (c. 1600 - c. 1663)
  • Etienne Moulinie (1600 - 1669)
  • Denis Gaultier (1600 - 1672)
  • Girolamo Fantini (1602 - ?)
  • William Lawes (1602 - 1645)
  • Jacques Champion de Chambonnieres (1602 - c. 1672)
  • Don Marco Uccellini (1603 - 1680)
  • François Du Fault (1604 - 1670)
  • Joao Lourenco Rebelo (1610 - 1661)
  • Luigi Battiferri (1610 - 1682)
  • Henri Dumont (1610 - 1684)
  • Michel Lambert (1610 - 1696)
  • Pablo Bruna (1611 - 1679)
  • Francesco Lopez Capillas (1612 - 1673)
  • Christopher Simpson (c. 1615 - 1669)
  • Johann Jakob Froberger (1616 - 1667)
  • Joan Cererols (1618 - 1680)
  • Matthias Weckmann (c. 1619 - 1674)
  • Johann Rosenmuller (c. 1619 - 1684)
  • Anthoni Van Noordt (1620 - 1675)
  • Matthew Locke (1621 - 1677)
  • Dietrich Becker (1623 - 1679)
  • Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1623 - 1680)
  • Jan Adam Reincken (1623 - 1722)
  • Jacques Gallot (c. 1625 - 1696)
  • Louis Couperin (1626 - 1661)
  • Charles Mouton (1626 - 1710)
  • Johann Caspar Kerll (1627 - 1693)
  • Lelio Colista (1629 - 1680)
  • Johann Michael Nicolai (1629 - 1685)
  • Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632 - 1687)
  • Andres de Sola (1634 - 1696)
  • Sieur de Sainte-Colombe (c. 1635 - c. 1690)
  • Jean-Henri d'Anglebert (1635 - 1691)
  • Esaias Reusner (1636 - 1679)
  • John Baston (fl. c. 1700)
  • Cesare Bendinelli (fl. c. 1700)
  • Gaspard Le Roux (? - 1707)
  • Dietrich Buxtehude (1637 - 1707)
  • Bernardo Pasquini (1637 - 1710)
  • Diogo Dias Melgas (1638 - 1700)
  • Pavel Josef Vejvanovsky (1640 - 1693)
  • Carolus Harquart (1640 - 1701)
  • Alessandro Stradella (1642 - 1682)
  • Johann Anton Losy van Losymthal (c. 1643 - 1721)
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1644 - 1704)
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644 - 1704)
  • Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles (1644 - 1712)
  • John Blow (1648 - 1708)
  • Nicola Matteis (? - 1714)
  • Giovanni Maria Capelli (1648 - 1726)
  • Pieter Bustijn (? - 1729)

High Baroque - Late 17th and Early 18th Centuries

  • Petronio Franceschini (1650 - 1680)
  • Bernardo Clavijo del Castillo (fl. c. 1650 - c. 1700)
  • Antonio de Salazar (c. 1650 - 1715)
  • Johann Jacob Walther (1650 - 1717)
  • Robert de Visee (c. 1650 - c. 1725)
  • Domenico Gabrieli (1651 - 1690)
  • Arcangelo Corelli (1653 - 1713)
  • Georg Muffat (1653 - 1704)
  • Johann Pachelbel (1653 - 1706)
  • Pablo Nassarre (1654 - 1730)
  • Vincenz Lubeck (1654 - 1740)
  • Marin Marais (1656 - 1728)
  • Michel-Richard Delalande (1657 - 1726)
  • Giuseppe Torelli (1658 - 1709)
  • Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695)
  • Sybrant Van Noordt, Jr. (1660 - 1705)
  • Johann Kuhnau (1660 - 1722)
  • Sebastian Duron (1660 - 1716)
  • Alessandro Scarlatti (1660 - 1725)
  • Andre Campra (1660 - 1744)
  • Jean-Fery Rebel (1661 - 1747)
  • Georg Bohm (1661 - 1733)
  • Friederich Wilhelm Zachow (1663 - 1712)
  • Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (c. 1664 - 1729)
  • Johann Christoph Pez (1664 - 1716)
  • Nikolaus Bruhns (1665 - 1697)
  • Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (1665 - 1746)
  • Charles François Dieupart (1667 - 1740)
  • Antonio Lotti (1667 - 1740)
  • Michel Pignolet de Monteclair (1667 - 1737)
  • Jean Hyacinthe Theodore Gilles (1668 - 1705)
  • François Couperin (1668 - 1733)
  • Miquel Lopez (1669 - 1723)
  • Louis Marchand (1669 - 1732)
  • Antonio Caldara (1670 - 1736)
  • David Kellner (1670 - 1748)
  • Giovanni Bononcini (1670 - 1747)
  • Tomaso Albinoni (1671 - 1750)
  • Antoine Forqueray (1672 - 1745)
  • Francesco Mancini (1672 - 1737)
  • Andre-Cardinal Destouches (1672 - 1749)
  • Francesco Antonio Bonporti (1672 - 1748)
  • Jeremiah Clarke (1674 - 1707)
  • Jacques Hotteterre (1674 - 1762)
  • Michel de la Barre (c. 1675 - 1743 or 1744)
  • Johann Georg Reinhardt (1676 - 1742)
  • Louis-Nicolas Clerambault (1676 - 1749)
  • Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741)
  • Johann Georg Pisendel (1678 - 1755)
  • Georg Friedrich Kauffmann (1679 - 1735)
  • Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679 - 1745)
  • Camilla de Rossi (c. 1680 - c. 1740)
  • Giuseppe Valentini (c. 1680 - 1740)
  • Jean-Baptiste Loeillet (1680 - 1730)
  • Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767)
  • Johann Mattheson (1681 - 1764)
  • Jean-François Dandrieu (1682 - 1738)
  • Jean-Joseph Mouret (1682 - 1738)
  • Christoph Graupner (1683 - 1760)
  • Johann David Heinichen (1683 - 1729)
  • Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683 - 1764)
  • Alessandro Marcello (1684 - 1750)
  • Francesco Durante (1684 - 1755)
  • Giuseppe Matteo Alberti (1685 - 1751)
  • John Reading (1685 - 1764)
  • Louis Antoine Dornel (c. 1685 - 1765)
  • George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
  • Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (1685 - 1757)
  • Le Sieur de Machy (fl. c. 1686 - 1692)
  • Benedetto Marcello (1686 - 1739)
  • Nicola Antonio Porpora (1686 - 1768)
  • Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1686 - 1750)
  • Francesco Xaverio Geminiani (1687 - 1762)
  • Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688 - 1758)
  • Giovanni Lorenzo Somis (1688 - after 1770)
  • Ferdinand Zellbell (1689 - 1765)
  • Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689 - 1755)
  • William Babell (c. 1690 - 1723)
  • Paolo Benedetto Bellinzini (c. 1690 - 1757)
  • Jean Jacques-Christophe Naudot (1690 - 1762)
  • Thomas Roseingrave (1690 - 1766)
  • Pietro Baldassare (1690 - 1768)
  • Francesco Barsanti (1690 - 1772)
  • Gottfried Heinrich Stolzel (1690 - 1749)
  • Francesco Maria Veracini (1690 - 1768)
  • Gottlieb Theophil Muffat (1690 - 1770)
  • Unico Wilhelm Van Wassenaer (1692 - 1766)
  • Giuseppe Tartini (1692 - 1770)
  • Christoph Forster (1693 - 1745)
  • Johann Samuel Endler (1694 - 1762)
  • Louis-Claude Daquin (1694 - 1772)
  • Johan Helmich Roman (1694 - 1758)
  • Giuseppe Sammartini (1695 - 1750)
  • Pietro-Antonio Locatelli (1695 - 1764)
  • Pierre Fevrier (1696 - 1764)
  • Konrad Friedrich Hurlebusch (1696 - 1765)
  • Johann Melchior Molter (1696 - 1765)
  • Maurice Greene (1696 - 1755)
  • Johann Joachim Quantz (1697 - 1773)
  • Jean Marie l'aine Léclair (1697 - 1764)
  • François Francoeur (1698 - 1787)
  • Joseph Gibbs (1698 - 1788)
  • Johann Adolph Hasse (1699 - 1783)

Classical/Romantic - Late 18th Century

  • Giovanni Benedetto Platti (c. 1700 - 1763)
  • Thomas Chilcot (c. 1700 - 1766)
  • Michel Blavet (1700 - 1748)
  • Giovanni Battista Sammartini (1701 - 1775)
  • Johan Joachim Agrell (1701 - 1765)
  • John Travers (1703 - 1758)
  • Johann Gottlieb Graun (1703 - 1771)
  • Joseph-Hector Fiocco (1703 - 1741)
  • Giovanni-Battista Pescetti (c. 1704 - c. 1766)
  • Carl Heinrich Graun (1704 - 1759)
  • Jose Antonio Carlos de Seixas (1704 - 1742)
  • František Antonín Ignac Tuma (1704 - 1774)
  • Joseph-Nicholas-Pancrace Royer (1705 - 1755)
  • Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
  • Baldassare Galuppi (1706 - 1785)
  • Carlo Cecere (1706 - 1761)
  • Pietro Domenico Paradisi (1707 - 1791)
  • Jean Barriere (1707 - 1747)
  • Johann Baptist Georg Neruda (1708 - 1780)
  • Johann Adolph Scheibe (1708 - 1776)
  • Johann Gottlieb Janitsch (1708 - 1763)
  • Christoph Schaffrath (1709 - 1763)
  • Michel Corrette (1709 - 1795)
  • Charles Avison (1709 - 1770)
  • František Benda (1709 - 1786)
  • Franz Xaver Richter (1709 - 1789)
  • Jean-Noel Hamal (1709 - 1778)
  • Salvatore Lanzetti (c. 1710 - c. 1780)
  • John Parry (1710 - 1782)
  • Johann Georg Rollig (1710 - 1790)
  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710 - 1736)
  • Thomas Augustine Arne (1710 - 1778)
  • Arvid Niclas von Hopken (1710 - 1778)
  • Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710 - 1784)
  • William Boyce (1711 - 1779)
  • Ignaz Jakob Holzbauer (1711 - 1783)
  • John Hebden (1712 - 1765)
  • John Stanley (1712 - 1786)
  • Frederich The Great (1712 - 1786)
  • Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713 - 1780)
  • Per Brant (1714 - 1767)
  • Gottfried August Homilius (1714 - 1785)
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714 - 1788)
  • Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck (1714 - 1787)
  • Jacques Duphly (1715 - 1789)
  • Georg Christoph Wagenseil (1715 - 1777)
  • James Nares (1715 - 1783)
  • Hinrich Philip Johnsen (1716 - 1779)
  • Gaspard Fritz (1716 - 1783)
  • Felice De' Giardini (1716 - 1796)
  • Rudolf Straube (1717 - 1785)
  • Georg Matthias Monn (1717 - 1750)
  • Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz (1717 - 1757)
  • Carl Heinrich Biber (1718 - 1749)
  • Johan Nicolaas Lentz (1719 or 1720 - 1782)
  • Antoine Mahaut (1719 - after 1775)
  • Johann Georg Leopold Mozart (1719 - 1787)
  • Johann Christoph Altnikol (1719 - 1759)
  • Anders Wesstrom (1720 - 1781)
  • Thomas Vincent (1720 - 1783)
  • Johann Friedrich Agricola (1720 - 1774)
  • Pieter Hellendaal (1721 - 1799)
  • Johann Philipp Kirnberger (1721 - 1783)
  • John Garth (1722 - 1810)
  • Johann Ernst Bach (1722 - 1777)
  • Pietro Nardini (1722 - 1793)
  • Jiri Antonín Benda (1722 - 1795)
  • Christiaan Ernst Graaf (1723 - 1803)
  • Carl Friedrich Abel (1723 - 1787)
  • Giovanni Battista Cirri (1724 - 1808)
  • William Walond (1725 - 1770)
  • Joseph Franz Xaver Dominik Stalder (1725 - 1765)
  • Josef Starzer (1726 - 1787)
  • Claude-Benigne Balbastre (1727 - 1799)
  • Armand-Louis Couperin (1727 - 1789)
  • Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (1727 - 1756)
  • Johann Wilhelm Hertel (1727 - 1789)
  • Johann Gottfried Muthel (1728 - 1788)
  • Franz Xaver Pokorny (1728 - 1794)
  • Padre Antonio Francisco Javier Jose Soler (1729 - 1783)
  • John Burton (1730 - 1785)
  • Antonio Maria Gasparo Gioachino Sacchini (1730 - 1786)
  • Capel Bond (1730 - 1790)
  • František Xaver Dusek (1731 - 1799)
  • Franz Xaver Brixi (1732 - 1771)
  • Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809)
  • Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732 - 1795)
  • Johann Christian Fischer (1733 - 1800)
  • Johann Philipp Christian Schulze (1733 - 1827)
  • François-Joseph Gossec (1734 - 1829)
  • Johann Ernst Altenburg (1734 - 1801)
  • Karl Leopold Rollig (1735 - 1804)
  • Jean Gabriel Meder (c. 1735 - 1805)
  • Johann Christian Bach (1735 - 1782)
  • Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (1736 - 1809)
  • Josef Myslivecek (1737 - 1781)
  • Johann Michael Haydn (1737 - 1806)
  • Carlo Besozzi (1738 - 1791)
  • Philip Hayes (1738 - 1797)
  • Constantin Reindl (1738 - 1799)
  • Jakub Golabek (1739 - 1789)
  • Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-George (c. 1739 - 1799)
  • Jan Krtitel Vanhal (1739 - 1813)
  • Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739 - 1799)
  • Johann Schobert (1740 - 1767)
  • Giovanni Paisiello (1740 - 1816)
  • Anton Zimmermann (1741 - 1781)
  • Andre-Ernest-Modeste Gretry (1741 - 1813)
  • Giovanni Battista Marella (fl. c. 1800)
  • Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741 - 1801)
  • Johann Baptist Krumpholtz (1742 - 1790)
  • Luigi Boccherini (1743 - 1805)
  • Francesco Petrini (1744 - 1819)
  • Marianne Anna Catharina Martinez (1744 - 1812)
  • Maddelena Laura Lombardini Sirmen (1745 - 1818)
  • Johann Peter Saloman (1745 - 1815)
  • Carl Philipp Stamitz (1745 - 1801)
  • Jan Vaclav Stich-Punto (1746 - 1803)
  • Jan Adam František Mica (1746 - 1811)
  • Johann Friedrich Peter (1746 - 1813)
  • Giuseppe Maria Gioachino Cambini (1746 - 1825)
  • James Hook (1746 - 1827)
  • Nicolas Scherrer (c. 1747 - 1821)
  • Johann Abraham Peter Schulz (1747 - 1800)
  • Leopold Jan Antonín Kozeluh (1747 - 1818)
  • Joseph Fiala (1748 - 1816)
  • Theodor Freiherr von Schacht (1748 - 1823)
  • Domenico Cimarosa (1749 - 1801)
  • Antonio Rosetti (1750 - 1792)
  • Johann Matthias Sperger (1750 - 1812)
  • Antonio Salieri (1750 - 1825)
  • Anton Thadaus Johann Nepomuk Stamitz (1750 - 1796)
  • Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel (1750 - 1817)
  • Dmitry Stepanovich Bortniansky (1751 - 1825)
  • Johann Samuel Schroeter (1752 - 1788)
  • John Marsh (1752 - 1828)
  • Muzio Clementi (1752 - 1832)
  • Edward Jones (1752 - 1824)
  • Ludwig August Lebrun (1752 - 1790)
  • Justin Heinrich Knechtl (1752 - 1817)
  • Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752 - 1814)
  • Anton Stadler (1753 - 1812)
  • Etienne Solere (1753 - 1817)
  • Jean-Baptiste Sebastien Breval (1753 - 1823)
  • Bazvli Bohdanowicz (1754 - 1819)
  • Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754 - 1812)
  • Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755 - 1824)
  • Federigo Fiorillo (1755 - 1823)
  • Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
  • Thomas Linley (1756 - 1778)
  • Joseph Martin Kraus (1756 - 1792)
  • Pavel Vranicky (1756 - 1808)
  • Ignaz Joseph Pleyel (1757 - 1831)
  • François Devienne (1759 - 1803)
  • Franz Vincenz Krommer (1759 - 1831)
  • Mateo Antonio Perez Albeniz (1760 - 1831)
  • Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760 - 1812)
  • Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini (1760 - 1842)
  • Jose Galles (1761 - 1836)
  • Antonín Vranicky (1761 - 1820)
  • Jan Nepomuchene Wanski (1762 - after 1800)
  • Franz Wilhelm Tausch (1762 - 1817)
  • Adalbert Gyrowetz (1763 - 1850)
  • Domenico Dragonetti (1763 - 1846)
  • Franz Danzi (1763 - 1826)
  • Etienne-Nicolas Mehul (1763 - 1817)
  • Franz Xaver Süssmayr (1766 - 1803)
  • Samuel Wesley (1766 - 1837)
  • Anton Eberl (1766 - 1807)
  • Bedřich Dionys Weber (1766 - 1842)
  • Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766 - 1831)
  • Filippo Gragnani (1767 - 1812)
  • Franz Alexander Possinger (1767 - 1827)
  • Leonhard von Call (1767 - 1815)
  • Andreas Jacob Romberg (1767 - 1821)
  • Carlos Baguer (1768 - 1808)
  • Johann Georg Heinrich Backofen (1768 - 1839)
  • Francesco Molino (1768 - 1847)
  • Carel Anton Fodor (1768 - 1846)
  • Hyacinthe Jadin (1769 - 1800)
  • Ferdinando Carulli (1770 - 1841)
  • Anton Reicha (1770 - 1836)
  • Friedrich Witt (1770 - 1836)
  • Peter Hansel (1770 - 1831)
  • Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
  • John Baptist Cramer (1771 - 1858)
  • Thomas Bystrom (1772 - 1839)
  • Johan Willem Wilms (1772 - 1847)
  • Antonio Casimir Cartellieri (1772 - 1807)
  • Prince Louis Ferdinand Of Prussia (1772 - 1806)
  • Carl Ludwig Lithander (1773 - 1843)
  • François-Rene Gebauer (1773 - 1844)
  • Vaclav Jan Krtitel Tomasek (1774 - 1850)
  • Thomas Busby (1775 - 1838)
  • William Crotch (1775 - 1847)
  • François de Paule Jacques Raymond de Fossa (1775 - 1849)
  • Bernhard Henrik Crusell (1775 - 1838)
  • François-Adrien Boieldieu (1775 - 1834)
  • Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776 - 1822)
  • Johann Evangelist Fuss (1777 - 1819)
  • Fredrik Emanuel Lithander (1777 - 1823)
  • William Russell (1777 - 1813)
  • Fernando Sor (1778 - 1839)
  • Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm (1778 - 1858)
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778 - 1837)
  • Franciszek Lessel (1780 - 1838)
  • François-Joseph Dizi (1780 - c. 1840)
  • Conradin Kreutzer (1780 - 1849)
  • Jean-François-Joseph Naderman (1781 - 1835)
  • Louis-François Dauprat (1781 - 1868)
  • Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani (1781 - 1829)
  • Anton Diabelli (1781 - 1858)
  • Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (1782 - 1871)
  • John Field (1782 - 1837)
  • Niccolo Paganini (1782 - 1840)
  • Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer (1783 - 1860)
  • Ferdinand Ries (1784 - 1838)
  • François-Joseph Fetis (1784 - 1871)
  • Ludwig Spohr (1784 - 1859)
  • Dionisio Aguado (1784 - 1849)
  • Andre Georges Louis Onslow (1784 - 1853)
  • Vincenzo Gambaro (1785 - 1824)
  • Karol Kazimierz Kurpinski (1785 - 1857)
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner (1785 - 1849)
  • Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee (1786 - 1868)
  • Daniel Friedrich Rudolph Kuhlau (1786 - 1832)
  • George Frederick Pinto (1786 - 1806)
  • Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst Freiherr von Weber (1786 - 1826)
  • Archduke Of Austria Rudolph (1788 - 1831)
  • Friedrich Silcher (1789 - 1860)
  • Luigi Legnani (1790 - 1877)
  • Karol Lipinski (1790 - 1861)
  • Louis-Ferdinand Herold (1791 - 1833)
  • Carl Czerny (1791 - 1857)
  • Jan Vaclav Hugo Vorisek (1791 - 1825)
  • Franz Xaver Mozart (1791 - 1844)
  • Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner (1791 - 1856)
  • Andreas Spath (1792 - 1876)
  • Gioachino Antonio Rossini (1792 - 1868)
  • Philip Cipriani Hambly Potter (1792 - 1871)
  • Anton Bernhard Furstenau (1792 - 1852)
  • Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles (1794 - 1870)
  • Heinrich August Marschner (1795 - 1861)
  • Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante (1795 - 1870)
  • Franz Adolf Berwald (1796 - 1868)
  • Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828)
  • Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (1797 - 1848)
  • Carl Gottlieb Reissiger (1798 - 1859)
  • Henri-Jerome Bertini (1798 - 1876)

Romantic - Early 19th Century

  • Alois Beerhalter (1800 - 1852)
  • Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti (1800 - 1878)
  • Johannes Bernardus Van Bree (1801 - 1857)
  • Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda (1801 - 1866)
  • Joseph Franz Karl Lanner (1801 - 1843)
  • Vincenzo Bellini (1801 - 1835)
  • Charles-Auguste de Beriot (1802 - 1870)
  • Wilhelm Bernard Molique (1802 - 1869)
  • Franz Lachner (1803 - 1890)
  • Adolphe-Charles Adam (1803 - 1856)
  • Louis-Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869)
  • Giacomo Panizza (1804 - 1860)
  • Leopold Eugen Mechura (1804 - 1870)
  • Johann Strauss I (1804 - 1849)
  • Jeanne-Louise Farrenc (1804 - 1875)
  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804 - 1857)
  • Théodore Labarre (1805 - 1870)
  • Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann (1805 - 1900)
  • Fanny Cacilia Mendelssohn Hensel (1805 - 1847)
  • Juan Crisostomo Jacobo Antonio de Arriaga (1806 - 1826)
  • Napoleon Coste (1806 - 1883)
  • Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806 - 1856)
  • Adrien-François Servais (1807 - 1866)
  • Elias Parish-Alvers (1808 - 1849)
  • Auguste-Joseph Franchomme (1808 - 1884)
  • Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847)
  • Frederic Chopin (1810 - 1849)
  • Felicien Cesar David (1810 - 1876)
  • Robert Alexander Schumann (1810 - 1856)
  • Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai (1810 - 1849)
  • Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810 - 1876)
  • Ferenc Erkel (1810 - 1893)
  • Ludwig Schuncke (1810 - 1834)
  • Vincenz Lachner (1811 - 1893)
  • Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas (1811 - 1896)
  • Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
  • Ferdinand Hiller (1811 - 1885)
  • Sigismond Thalberg (1812 - 1871)
  • Julius Rietz (1812 - 1877)
  • Alexander Dargomyzhsky (1813 - 1869)
  • Sir George Alexander Macfarren (1813 - 1887)
  • Stephen Heller (1813 - 1888)
  • Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883)
  • Giuseppe Fortunino Frencesco Verdi (1813 - 1901)
  • Charles-Henri Valentin Alkan (1813 - 1888)
  • Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (1814 - 1865)
  • Adolph von Henselt (1814 - 1889)
  • Mihaly Mosonyi (1814 - 1870)
  • Herman Severin Lovenskiold (1815 - 1870)
  • Friedrich Robert Volkmann (1815 - 1883)
  • Henry Hugh Pierson (1815 - 1873)
  • Johannes Verhulst (1816 - 1891)
  • Sir William Sterndale Bennett (1816 - 1875)
  • Manuel Saumell (1817 - 1870)
  • Niels Wilhelm Gade (1817 - 1890)
  • Henry Charles Litolff (1818 - 1891)
  • Charles François Gounod (1818 - 1893)
  • Felix Godefroid (1818 - 1897)
  • Franz von Suppé (1819 - 1895)
  • Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819 - 1872)
  • Jacques Offenbach (1819 - 1880)
  • Louis Theodore Gouvy (1819 - 1898)
  • Clara Wieck Schumann (1819 - 1896)
  • Henri Vieuxtemps (1820 - 1881)
  • Gustaf Adolf Heinze (1820 - 1904)
  • Friedrich Kiel (1821 - 1885)
  • Albert Franz Doppler (1821 - 1883)
  • Giovanni Bottesini (1821 - 1889)
  • Giulio Regondi (1822 - 1872)
  • Josef Joachim Raff (1822 - 1882)
  • Cesar-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck (1822 - 1890)
  • Edouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo (1823 - 1892)
  • Edmund Thomas Chipp (1823 - 1886)
  • Bedřich Friedrich Smetana (1824 - 1884)
  • Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke (1824 - 1910)
  • Anton Joseph Bruckner (1824 - 1896)
  • Johann Strauss II (1825 - 1899)
  • George Frederick Bristow (1825 - 1898)
  • John Thomas (1826 - 1913)
  • Stephen Collins Foster (1826 - 1864)
  • Josef Strauss (1827 - 1870)
  • Woldemar Bargiel (1828 - 1897)
  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829 - 1869)
  • Albert Hermann Dietrich (1829 - 1908)
  • Anton Rubinstein (1829 - 1894)
  • Peter Arnold Heise (1830 - 1879)
  • Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf (1830 - 1913)
  • Karl Goldmark (1830 - 1915)
  • Theodor Leschetizky (1830 - 1915)
  • Joseph Joachim (1831 - 1907)
  • Fredrick Vilhelm Ludwig Norman (1831 - 1885)
  • Charles Lecocq (1832 - 1918)
  • Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
  • Alexander Porfirievich Borodin (1833 - 1887)
  • James Waterson (1834 - 1893)
  • Albert Heinrich Zabel (1834 - 1910)
  • Julius Reubke (1834 - 1858)
  • Peter Benoit (1834 - 1901)
  • Amilcare Ponchielli (1834 - 1886)
  • Cesar Cui (1835 - 1918)
  • Eduard Strauss (1835 - 1916)
  • Henryk Wieniawski (1835 - 1880)
  • Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921)
  • Clement-Philibert-Léo Delibes (1836 - 1891)
  • Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836 - 1911)
  • Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev (1837 - 1910)
  • Felix Alexandre Guilmant (1837 - 1911)
  • Charles-Emile Waldteufel (1837 - 1915)
  • Max Bruch (1838 - 1920)
  • Georges Alexandre-Cesar-Leopold Bizet (1838 - 1875)
  • Alexis Vicomte de Castillon (1838 - 1873)
  • John Knowles Paine (1839 - 1906)
  • Dudley Buck (1839 - 1909)
  • Josef Gabriel Ritter von Rheinberger (1839 - 1901)
  • Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839 - 1881)
  • Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)
  • Louis Brassin (1840 - 1884)
  • Johan Severin Svendsen (1840 - 1911)
  • Hermann Goetz (1840 - 1876)
  • Donato Lovreglio (1841 - 1907)
  • Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier (1841 - 1894)
  • Antonín Dvořák (1841 - 1904)
  • Karl Tausig (1841 - 1871)
  • Antoníno Pasculli (1842 - 1924)
  • Jules-Emile-Frederic Massenet (1842 - 1912)
  • Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan (1842 - 1900)
  • Asger Hamerik (1843 - 1923)
  • Carl Michael Ziehrer (1843 - 1922)
  • Heinrich von Herzogenberg (1843 - 1900)
  • Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843 - 1907)
  • Jan Levoslav Bella (1843 - 1936)
  • Charles-Marie-Jean-Albert Widor (1844 - 1937)
  • Pablo Martin Meliton de Sarasate (1844 - 1908)
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908)
  • Claude Paul Taffanel (1844 - 1908)
  • Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
  • Hendrik Waelput (1845 - 1885)
  • Iosif Ivanovici (1845 - 1902)
  • Alphonse Hasselmans (1845 - 1912)
  • Gabriel-Urbain Fauré (1845 - 1924)
  • Alexander Andreyevich Arkhangelsky (1846 - 1924)
  • Robert Fuchs (1847 - 1927)
  • Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka (1847 - 1917)
  • Ignatio Cervantes (1847 - 1905)
  • Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie (1847 - 1935)
  • Augusta Mary Anne Holmes (1847 - 1903)
  • Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848 - 1918)
  • Benjamin Louis Paul Godard (1849 - 1895)

Romantic/Modern - Late 19th Century

  • Louise Aldolpha Le Beau (1850 - 1927)
  • Iver Holter (1850 - 1941)
  • Franz Xaver Scharwenka (1850 - 1924)
  • Alexander Sergeievich Taneyev (1850 - 1918)
  • Karel Komzak (1850 - 1905)
  • Zdeněk Fibich (1850 - 1900)
  • Tomas Breton y Hernandez (1850 - 1923)
  • Jan Blockx (1851 - 1912)
  • Paul-Marie-Theodore-Vincent d'Indy (1851 - 1931)
  • Frederick Corder (1852 - 1932)
  • Sir Frederic Hymen Cowen (1852 - 1935)
  • Hans Huber (1852 - 1921)
  • Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852 - 1924)
  • Wilhelm Posse (1852 - 1925)
  • Francesco Tarrega (1852 - 1909)
  • Arthur William Foote (1853 - 1937)
  • Maria Teresa Carreno (1853 - 1917)
  • Andre-Charles-Prosper Messager (1853 - 1929)
  • Juliusz Zarebski (1854 - 1885)
  • Paul Pabst (1854 - 1897)
  • Leoš Janáček (1854 - 1928)
  • Alexander Alexandrovich Kopylov (1854 - 1911)
  • Moritz Moszkowski (1854 - 1925)
  • Engelbert Humperdinck (1854 - 1921)
  • John Philip Sousa (1854 - 1932)
  • George Whitefield Chadwick (1854 - 1931)
  • Amedee-Ernest Chausson (1855 - 1899)
  • Anatoli Liadov (1855 - 1914)
  • Giuseppe Martucci (1856 - 1909)
  • Johann Christian Sinding (1856 - 1941)
  • George Templeton Strong (1856 - 1948)
  • Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev (1856 - 1915)
  • Sir Edward William Elgar (1857 - 1934)
  • Cecile Chaminade (1857 - 1944)
  • Nikolai Artzibushev (1858 - 1937)
  • Georges-Adolphe Hue (1858 - 1948)
  • Eugène Ysaÿe (1858 - 1931)
  • Hans Rott (1858 - 1884)
  • Catharinus Elling (1858 - 1942)
  • Jenő Hubay (1858 - 1937)
  • Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924)
  • Victor Herbert (1859 - 1924)
  • Nikolai Alexandrovich Sokolov (1859 - 1922)
  • Mikhail Mihaylovich Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859 - 1935)
  • Sergei Mikhailovich Liapunov (1859 - 1924)
  • Josef Bohuslav Foerster (1859 - 1951)
  • Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903)
  • Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek (1860 - 1945)
  • Isaac Albeniz (1860 - 1909)
  • Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911)
  • Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860 - 1941)
  • Edward Alexander MacDowell (1860 - 1908)
  • Charles Martin Tornow Loeffler (1861 - 1935)
  • Anton Stepanovich Arensky (1861 - 1906)
  • Frederick (Fritz) Theodor Albert Delius (1862 - 1934)
  • Sir Edward German (1862 - 1936)
  • Maria François Maurice Emmanuel (1862 - 1938)
  • Achille-Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)
  • Alphons Diepenbrock (1862 - 1936)
  • Leon Boellmann (1862 - 1897)
  • Bernhard Stavenhagen (1862 - 1914)
  • Felix Mikhailovich Blumenfeld (1863 - 1931)
  • Joseph Wihtol (1863 - 1948)
  • Henri-Constant-Gabriel Pierné (1863 - 1937)
  • Horatio William Parker (1863 - 1919)
  • Johan Halvorsen (1864 - 1935)
  • Eugene Francis Charles d'Albert (1864 - 1932)
  • Louis Glass (1864 - 1936)
  • Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949)
  • Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz (1864 - 1955)
  • Alberto Nepomuceno (1864 - 1920)
  • Alexander Tikhonovich Gretchaninov (1864 - 1956)
  • Harvey Worthington Loomis (1865 - 1930)
  • Preston Ware Orem (1865 - 1938)
  • Theophile Ysaye (1865 - 1918)
  • August de Boeck (1865 - 1937)
  • Lucien-Denis-Gabriel-Alberic Magnard (1865 - 1914)
  • Carl August Nielsen (1865 - 1931)
  • Paul Gilson (1865 - 1942)
  • Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (1865 - 1936)
  • Paul Dukas (1865 - 1935)
  • Jean (Johan) Julius Christian Sibelius (1865 - 1957)
  • Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov (1866 - 1901)
  • Ferruccio Dante Michelangelo Benvenuto Busoni (1866 - 1924)
  • Erik Alfred-Leslie Satie (1866 - 1925)
  • Charles Wood (1866 - 1926)
  • Francesco Cilèa (1866 - 1950)
  • Jules Mouquet (1867 - 1946)
  • Desire Paque (1867 - 1939)
  • Enrique Granados (1867 - 1916)
  • Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867 - 1944)
  • Charles Koechlin (1867 - 1950)
  • Lodewijk Mortelmans (1868 - 1952)
  • Hamish Maccunn (1868 - 1916)
  • Max von Schillings (1868 - 1933)
  • Sir Granville Ransome Bantock (1868 - 1946)
  • Charles Sanford Skilton (1868 - 1941)
  • Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert (1868 - 1928)
  • Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel (1869 - 1937)
  • Hans Erich Pfitzner (1869 - 1949)
  • Sigismond Stojowski (1869 - 1946)
  • Siegfried Wagner (1869 - 1930)
  • Guillaume Lekeu (1870 - 1894)
  • Charles Arnould Tournemire (1870 - 1939)
  • Leopold Godowsky (1870 - 1938)
  • Louis Vierne (1870 - 1937)
  • Alfred Hill (1870 - 1960)
  • Vítězslav Novak (1870 - 1949)
  • Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871 - 1927)
  • Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871 - 1942)
  • Henry Kimball Hadley (1871 - 1937)
  • Alexander Nikolaevich Scriabin (1872 - 1915)
  • Hugo Alfvén (1872 - 1960)
  • Deodat de Severac (1872 - 1921)
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958)
  • Rudolf Tobias (1873 - 1918)
  • Max Reger (1873 - 1916)
  • Sergei Vasilievitch Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943)
  • Jean-Jules Aimable Roger-Ducasse (1873 - 1954)
  • Henri Rabaud (1873 - 1949)
  • Daniel Gregory Mason (1873 - 1953)
  • Marie-Alphonse-Nicolas-Joseph Jongen (1873 - 1953)
  • Alexander Nikolsky (1874 - 1943)
  • Josef Suk (1874 - 1935)
  • Reynaldo Hahn (1874 - 1947)
  • Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (1874 - 1951)
  • Gustav Theodore Holst (1874 - 1934)
  • Charles Edward Ives (1874 - 1954)
  • Franz Schmidt (1874 - 1939)
  • Reinhold Glière (1875 - 1956)
  • Erkki Gustav Melartin (1875 - 1937)
  • Joseph Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937)
  • Albert William Ketèlbey (1875 - 1959)
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875 - 1912)
  • Mikolajus Konstantinas Ciurlionis (1875 - 1911)
  • William Yeates Hurlstone (1876 - 1906)
  • Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876 - 1948)
  • Havergal Brian (1876 - 1972)
  • John Alden Carpenter (1876 - 1951)
  • Flor Alpaerts (1876 - 1954)
  • Manuel de Falla (1876 - 1946)
  • Mieczysław Karlowicz (1876 - 1909)
  • Pavel Chesnokov (1877 - 1944)
  • Thomas Frederick Dunhill (1877 - 1946)
  • Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877 - 1952)
  • Arthur Farwell (1877 - 1952)
  • Blair Fairchild (1877 - 1933)
  • Ernst von Dohnanyi (1877 - 1960)
  • Armand Marsick (1877 - 1959)
  • Roger Cuthbert Quilter (1877 - 1953)
  • Henry Balfour Gardiner (1877 - 1950)
  • Rutland Boughton (1878 - 1960)
  • Franz Schreker (1878 - 1934)
  • Josef Holbrooke (1878 - 1958)
  • M. Tournier (1879 - 1951)
  • Otakar Ostrcil (1879 - 1935)
  • Frank Bridge (1879 - 1941)
  • Philippe Gaubert (1879 - 1941)
  • Ottorino Respighi (1879 - 1936)
  • John Ireland (1879 - 1962)
  • Cyril Meir Scott (1879 - 1970)
  • Sir Herbert Hamilton Harty (1879 - 1941)
  • Nicolai Karlovich Medtner (1880 - 1951)
  • Ernest Bloch (1880 - 1959)
  • Paul Le Flem (1881 - 1984)
  • Béla Bartók (1881 - 1945)
  • Nicolai Yakovlevich Miaskovsky (1881 - 1950)
  • George Enescu (1881 - 1955)
  • Charles Wakefield Cadman (1881 - 1946)
  • Ignaz Friedman (1882 - 1948)
  • Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882 - 1973)
  • Haydn Wood (1882 - 1959)
  • Artur Schnabel (1882 - 1951)
  • Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
  • Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882 - 1961)
  • Karol Szymanowski (1882 - 1937)
  • Manuel Maria Ponce (1882 - 1948)
  • Joaquín Turina (1882 - 1949)
  • Zóltan Kodály (1882 - 1967)
  • Sir George Dyson (1883 - 1964)
  • Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax (1883 - 1953)
  • Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern (1883 - 1945)
  • Arthur Meulemans (1884 - 1966)
  • Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884 - 1920)
  • Artur Lemba (1885 - 1963)
  • Alban Berg (1885 - 1935)
  • George Sainton Kaye Butterworth (1885 - 1916)
  • Joseph Deems Taylor (1885 - 1966)
  • Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886 - 1954)
  • Michel Brusselmans (1886 - 1960)
  • Jef Van Hoof (1886 - 1959)
  • Eric Coates (1886 - 1957)
  • Rebecca Clarke (1886 - 1979)
  • Kurt Schwitters (1887 - 1948)
  • Oskar Lindberg (1887 - 1955)
  • Leevi Madetoya (1887 - 1947)
  • Heitor Villa-Lôbos (1887 - 1959)
  • Heino Eller (1887 - 1970)
  • Kurt Atterberg (1887 - 1974)
  • Alexei Vladimirovich Stanchinsky (1888 - 1914)
  • Grigoras Dinicu (1889 - 1949)
  • Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889 - 1960)
  • Jacques Ibert (1890 - 1962)
  • Bohuslav Martinů (1890 - 1959)
  • Maurice Schoemaker (1890 - 1964)
  • Federico Moreno Torroba (1891 - 1982)
  • Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofieff (1891 - 1953)
  • Marinus de Jong (1891 - 1984)
  • Sir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss (1891 - 1975)
  • Yrjo Kilpinen (1892 - 1959)
  • Arthur Oscar Honegger (1892 - 1955)
  • Ferde Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofe (1892 - 1972)
  • Germaine Tailleferre (1892 - 1983)
  • Laszlo Lajtha (1892 - 1963)
  • Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892 - 1988)
  • Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974)
  • Herbert Howells (1892 - 1983)
  • Martian Negrea (1893 - 1973)
  • Andres Segovia (1893 - 1987)
  • Sir Eugene Goossens (1893 - 1962)
  • Rued Immanuel Langgaard (1893 - 1952)
  • Juliette Marie Olga Lili Boulanger (1893 - 1918)
  • Jean Absil (1893 - 1974)
  • Walter Hamor Piston (1894 - 1976)
  • Ervín Schulhoff (1894 - 1942)
  • Robert Russell Bennett (1894 - 1981)
  • Peter Warlock (1894 - 1930)
  • Ernest John Moeran (1894 - 1950)
  • Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895 - 1968)
  • William Grant Still (1895 - 1978)
  • Gordon Jacob (1895 - 1984)
  • Walter Gieseking (1895 - 1956)
  • Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963)
  • Howard Hanson (1896 - 1981)
  • Virgil Thomson (1897 - 1989)
  • Quincy Porter (1897 - 1966)
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897 - 1957)
  • Alexandre Tansman (1897 - 1986)
  • Roy Harris (1898 - 1979)
  • Hanns Eisler (1898 - 1962)
  • George Gershwin (1898 - 1937)
  • Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963)
  • Alexander Tcherepnin (1899 - 1977)
  • Randall Thompson (1899 - 1984)
  • Edward Kennedy Ellington (1899 - 1974)
  • Carlos Chavez (1899 - 1978)
  • William Levi Dawson (1899 - 1990)
  • Silvestre Revueltas (1899 - 1940)

20th Century

  • Michael Dewar Head (1900 - 1976)
  • Kurt Weill (1900 - 1950)
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