This is a list of classical music composers by era. With the exception of the overview, the Modernist era has been combined with the Postmodern.
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from:1400 till:1474 color:Ren text: Dufay
from:1400 till:1460 color:Ren text: Binchois
from:1415 till:1497 color:Ren text: Ockeghem
from:1430 till:1492 color:Ren text: Busnois
from:1435 till:1511 color:Ren text:Tinctoris
Jehan le Taintenier or Jean Teinturier (Latinised as Johannes Tinctoris; also Jean de Vaerwere; – 1511) was a Renaissance music theorist and composer from the Low Countries. Up to his time, he is perhaps the most significant European writer ...
from:1445 till:1506 color:Ren text:Agricola
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* Sextus Calpurnius Agricola, Roman governor of the mi ...
from:1450 till:1521 color:Ren text: Josquin des Prez
from:1450 till:1517 color:Ren text:Isaac
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from:1452 till:1518 color:Ren text: da la Rue
from:1457 till:1505 color:Ren text:Obrecht Obrecht is a patronymic surname. Obrecht was a Germanic given name derived from Od-brecht, meaning "famed for his heritageNotable people with the surname include:
* Jacob Obrecht (c. 1457/58 – 1505), Flemish Renaissance composer
*Hermann Obrecht ...
from:1475 till:1558 color:Ren text: Janequin
from:1490 till:1545 color:Ren text: Taverner
from:1490 till:1562 color:Ren text: Willaert
from:1495 till:1560 color:Ren text: Gombert
from:1500 till:1555 color:Ren text:Morales
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* Bartolomé Mo ...
from:1500 till:1561 color:Ren text: de Milan
from:1505 till:1585 color:Ren text: Tallis
from:1507 till:1568 color:Ren text:Arcadelt
Jacques Arcadelt (also Jacob Arcadelt; 14 October 1568) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance, active in both Italy and France, and principally known as a composer of secular vocal music. Although he also wrote sacred vocal music, he wa ...
from:1525 till:1594 color:Ren text:Palestrina
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from:1532 till:1594 color:Ren text:Lassus
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from:1543 till:1623 color:Ren text:Byrd Byrd commonly refers to:
* William Byrd (c. 1540 – 1623), an English composer of the Renaissance
* Richard E. Byrd (1888–1957), an American naval officer and explorer
Byrd or Byrds may also refer to:
Other people
* Byrd (surname), includin ...
from:1548 till:1611 color:Ren text:Victoria
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* Victoria, Seychelle ...
from:1551 till:1618 color:Bar text: Caccini
from:1554 till:1612 color:Ren text: G Gabrieli
from:1562 till:1621 color:Bar text: Sweelinck
from:1563 till:1626 color:Ren text: Dowland
from:1566 till:1613 color:Ren text: Gesualdo
from:1567 till:1643 color:Bar text:Monteverdi
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from:1571 till:1621 color:Bar text:Praetorius Praetorius, Prätorius, Prætorius was the name of several musicians and scholars in Germany.
In 16th and 17th century Germany it became a fashion for educated people named " Schulze," " Schultheiß," or " Richter" (which means "judge"), to Latini ...
from:1585 till:1672 color:Bar text: Schütz
from:1602 till:1676 color:Bar text: Cavalli
from:1616 till:1667 color:Bar text: Froberger
from:1632 till:1687 color:Bar text:Lully
Jean-Baptiste Lully ( , , ; born Giovanni Battista Lulli, ; – 22 March 1687) was an Italian-born French composer, guitarist, violinist, and dancer who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style. Best known for his operas, he ...
from:1637 till:1707 color:Bar text:Buxtehude
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from:1643 till:1704 color:Bar text: Charpentier
from:1653 till:1713 color:Bar text: Corelli
from:1653 till:1706 color:Bar text:Pachelbel
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from:1659 till:1695 color:Bar text:Purcell
Henry Purcell (, rare: September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer.
Purcell's style of Baroque music was uniquely English, although it incorporated Italian and French elements. Generally considered among the greatest Eng ...
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from:1660 till:1725 color:Bar text: A Scarlatti
from:1668 till:1733 color:Bar text: F Couperin
from:1671 till:1751 color:Bar text:Albinoni
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (8 June 1671 – 17 January 1751) was an Italian composer of the Baroque era. His output includes operas, concertos, sonatas for one to six instruments, sinfonias, and solo cantatas. While famous in his day as an opera comp ...
from:1678 till:1741 color:Bar text:Vivaldi
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music. Regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, Vivaldi's influence during his lifetime was widesprea ...
from:1681 till:1767 color:Bar text:Telemann
Georg Philipp Telemann (; – 25 June 1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes. After studying in Magdeburg, Zellerfeld, and Hilde ...
from:1683 till:1764 color:Bar text:Rameau
Jean-Philippe Rameau (; – ) was a French composer and music theorist. Regarded as one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the 18th century, he replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera and ...
from:1685 till:1750 color:Bar text:JS Bach
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from:1685 till:1757 color:Bar text: D Scarlatti
from:1685 till:1759 color:Bar text: Handel
from:1699 till:1783 color:Bar text: Hasse
from:1710 till:1736 color:Bar text: Pergolesi
from:1714 till:1787 color:Cla text:Gluck
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from:1714 till:1788 color:Cla text: CPE Bach
from:1717 till:1757 color:Cla text: Stamitz
from:1729 till:1783 color:Bar text:Soler
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from:1732 till:1809 color:Cla text:Haydn
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from:1735 till:1782 color:Cla text: JC Bach
from:1750 till:1825 color:Cla text: Salieri
from:1751 till:1825 color:Cla text:Bortniansky
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from:1752 till:1832 color:Cla text:Clementi Clementi may refer to:
People
* Aldo Clementi (1925–2011), Italian composer
* Cecil Clementi (1875–1947), British colonial administrator and Governor of Hong Kong
* Cecilia Clementi, Italian-American scientist
* David Clementi (born 1949), B ...
from:1756 till:1791 color:Cla text: Mozart
from:1761 till:1842 color:cla text: Cherubini
from:1770 till:1827 color:Cla text:Beethoven
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from:1782 till:1837 color:Rom text:Field
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from:1782 till:1840 color:Rom text: Paganini
from:1786 till:1826 color:Rom text: Weber
from:1791 till:1857 color:Rom text: Czerny
from:1792 till:1868 color:Rom text: Rossini
from:1797 till:1828 color:Rom text:Schubert
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from:1797 till:1848 color:Rom text:Donizetti
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from:1803 till:1869 color:Rom text: Berlioz
from:1809 till:1847 color:Rom text:Mendelssohn
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from:1810 till:1849 color:Rom text: Chopin
from:1810 till:1856 color:Rom text:Schumann
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from:1811 till:1886 color:Rom text:Liszt
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from:1813 till:1883 color:Rom text:Wagner
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from:1813 till:1901 color:Rom text:Verdi
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from:1819 till:1880 color:Rom text: Offenbach
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from:1822 till:1890 color:Rom text: Franck
from:1824 till:1884 color:Rom text: Smetana
from:1824 till:1896 color:Rom text:Bruckner
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from:1825 till:1899 color:Rom text: Johann Strauss II
from:1833 till:1897 color:Rom text:Brahms
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from:1833 till:1887 color:Rom text:Borodin
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from:1835 till:1921 color:Rom text: Saint-Saëns
from:1838 till:1875 color:Rom text:Bizet
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from:1839 till:1881 color:Rom text:Mussorgsky
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from:1840 till:1893 color:Rom text:Tchaikovsky
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from:1841 till:1904 color:Rom text: Dvořák
from:1843 till:1907 color:Rom text: Grieg
from:1844 till:1908 color:Rom text:Rimsky-Korsakov
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from:1845 till:1924 color:Rom text: Fauré
from:1857 till:1934 color:Rom text:Elgar
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from:1858 till:1931 color:Rom text: Ysaÿe
from:1858 till:1924 color:Rom text:Puccini
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from:1860 till:1911 color:Rom text:Mahler
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from:1862 till:1934 color:Rom text: Delius
from:1862 till:1918 color:Mod text:Debussy
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from:1864 till:1949 color:Rom text: Richard Strauss
from:1865 till:1957 color:Mod text:Sibelius
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from:1867 till:1916 color:Rom text: Granados
from:1872 till:1958 color:Rom text:Vaughan Williams
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from:1873 till:1943 color:Rom text:Rachmaninoff
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from:1874 till:1951 color:Mod text: Schoenberg
from:1874 till:1934 color:Mod text:Holst
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from:1874 till:1954 color:Mod text:Ives
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from:1875 till:1937 color:Mod text:Ravel
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from:1876 till:1946 color:Mod text: de Falla
from:1881 till:1945 color:Mod text: Bartók
from:1882 till:1971 color:Mod text: Stravinsky
from:1883 till:1965 color:Ava text: Varèse
from:1891 till:1953 color:Mod text:Prokofiev
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from:1895 till:1963 color:Mod text:Hindemith
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from:1897 till:1957 color:Rom text: Korngold
from:1899 till:1963 color:Mod text: Poulenc
from:1900 till:1990 color:Mod text: Copland
from:1901 till:1974 color:Ava text: Partch
from:1901 till:1981 color:Rom text: Friedhofer
from:1902 till:1983 color:Rom text:Walton Walton may refer to:
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from:1906 till:1975 color:Mod text:Shostakovich
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from:1907 till:1995 color:Mod text: Rózsa
from:1908 till:1992 color:Mod text:Messiaen
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from:1910 till:1981 color:Mod text:Barber
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from:1910 till:1991 color:Mod text:North
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from:1911 till:1975 color:Mod text: Herrmann
from:1912 till:1992 color:Ava text:Cage
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from:1913 till:1994 color:Mod text: Lutosławski
from:1913 till:1976 color:Mod text:Britten
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from:1916 till:1999 color:Ava text:Moondog
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from:1922 till:2001 color:Ava text: Xenakis
from:1923 till:2006 color:Ava text: Ligeti
from:1925 till:2016 color:Ava text:Boulez
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Born in Mon ...
from:1928 till:2007 color:Ava text:Stockhausen
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from:1928 till:2016 color:Mod text:Rautavaara
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from:1929 till:2019 color:Ava text: Crumb
from:1929 till:2004 color:Ava text:Goldsmith
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from:1931 till:2019 color:Ava text: Gubaidulina
from:1932 till:2019 color:Mod text: Williams
from:1932 till:2019 color:Mod text: Shchedrin
from:1934 till:1998 color:Ava text: Schnittke
from:1934 till:2019 color:Mod text: Birtwistle
from:1935 till:2019 color:Min text: Riley
from:1935 till:2019 color:Min text:Young
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from:1935 till:2019 color:Min text: Pärt
from:1936 till:2019 color:Min text:Reich
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from:1937 till:2019 color:Min text:Glass
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from:1946 till:2019 color:Mod text:Shore
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from:1947 till:2019 color:Min text: Adams
Medieval era
''See
List of Medieval composers
Medieval music generally refers the music of Western Europe during the Middle Ages, from approximately the 6th to 15th centuries. The first and longest major era of Western classical music, medieval music includes composers of a variety of sty ...
and
Medieval music.''
Renaissance era
''See
List of Renaissance composers and
Renaissance music.''
Baroque era
''See
List of Baroque composers
Composers of the Baroque era, ordered by date of birth:
Transition from Renaissance to Baroque (born 1500–49)
Composers in the Renaissance/Baroque transitional era include the following (listed by their date of birth):
* Philippe de Monte (15 ...
and
Baroque music.
Turlough O'Carolan 1670-1738
Classical era
''See
List of Classical era composers and
Classical period (music).''
Romantic era
''See
List of Romantic-era composers
The Romantic era of Western Classical music spanned the 19th century to the early 20th century, encompassing a variety of musical styles and techniques. Part of the broader Romanticism movement of Europe, Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert ...
and
Romantic music.''
James Scott Skinner 1843-1927
20th century/contemporary/modern/postmodern
''See
List of 20th-century classical composers by birth date and
20th-century classical music.''
''See also
List of 21st-century classical composers
This is a list of 21st-century classical composers, sortable by name, year of birth and year of death.
The list includes composers who have made classical music since 2001. The 21st century is defined by the calendar rather than by any unifying ...
.''
21st century/postmodern
{{Main article, List of 21st-century classical composers, 21st-century classical music
See also
*
List of composers by name
This is a list of composers by name, alphabetically sorted by surname, then by other names. The list of composers is by no means complete. It is not limited by classifications such as genre or time period; however, it includes only music composers ...
*
Lists of composers
This is a list of lists of composers grouped by various criteria.
Name
* List of composers by name
Women
*List of female composers by name
*List of female composers by birth date
*List of Australian female composers
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Women in Music
Women in music include women as composers, songwriters, instrumental performers, singers, conductors, music scholars, music educators, music critics/music journalists, and in other musical professions. Also, it describes music movements (e. ...
External links
Clickable and searchable version of graphical composers timeline with groups
Composers by era
Classical
Composers, classical
Composers, classical
History of classical music
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