【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)
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
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
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. -

A. 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 Vivaldi 1678 Castrucci 1679
Mossi 1680 Richard Jones 1680
Telemann 1681 Valentini 1681 Mattheson 1681
Rameau 1683 Durante 1684 Manfredini 1684
Handel 1685 J.S. Bach 1685 D. Scarlatti 1685 Lodovico Giustini 1685
B. Marcello 1686 Porpora 1686
Geminiani 1687 Pisendel 1687
J.F. Fasch 1688 Jakob Klein 1688
Veracini 1690 Brescianello 1690 Gottlieb Muffat 1690
Tartini 1692 Leo 1694 Johan Helmich Roman 1694
Giuseppe Baldassare Sammartini 1695 Locatelli 1695 Navara 1695
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 Scheibe 1708 Georg Gebel 1709
Pergolesi 1710 Arne 1710
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 Nardini 1722
Müthel 1728 Gavinies 1728

【Classical era】1730 - 1820

Haydn 1732 J.C. Bach 1735 Carl Fasch 1736 Myslivecek 1737
Boccherini 1743 G.B.I. Grazioli 1746 Cambini 1746 Cimarosa 1749
Clementi 1752 Viotti 1755 Fiorillo 1755 Thomas Shaw 1755
W.A. Mozart 1756 Lindley 1756
Puccini 1758 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
Anton Diabelli 1781
Saverio Mercadante 1795

☀【Early Romantic Era】Composers born 1800 - 1819

Charles-Valentin Alkan 1813

☀【Middle Romantic Era】Composers born 1820 - 1839

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

Niels Gade 1817
Cornelius Gurlitt 1820
Henryk Wieniawski 1835
Pietro Mascagni 1863
Gerald Finzi 1901