Composers

This is a list of composers of the various periods you have seen to the right.₁

Notker Balbulus (c.840-912) - Medieval Period
Odo of Cluny (c.878-942) - Medieval Period
Guido da Arezzo (c.991-c.1033) - Medieval Period
Hermann of Reichenau (1013-1054) - Medieval Period
Guillaume d'Aquitaine (1071-1126) - Medieval Period
Petrus Abaelardus (1079-1142) - Medieval Period
Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) - Medieval Period, see Church Music and Hymns (article reference)
Bernart de Ventadorn (c.1130-a.1230) - Medieval Period
Léonin (1135-1201) - Medieval Period
Pérotin (1160-1225) - Medieval Period, see Music Notation History (article reference)
Philippe le Chancelier (c.1160-1236) - Medieval Period
Pierre de Molins (1170-c.1220) - Medieval Period
Walther von der Vogelwide (c.1170-c.1230) - Medieval Period
Alfonso el Sabio (1221-1284) - Medieval Period
Adam de la Halle (c.1235-1288) - Medieval Period
Petrus de Cruce (c.1260-a.1302) - Medieval Period
Philippe de Vitry (1291-1361) - Medieval Period
Guillaume de Machaut (c.1300-1377) - Medieval Period
Francesco Landini (c.1325-1397) - Medieval Period
Johannes Ciconia (c.1335-1412) - Medieval/Renaissance Periods
Jacopo da Bologna Bologna (c.1340-c.1386) - Medieval Period
Zacara da Teramo (c.1350-c.1413) - Medieval/Renaissance Periods
Leonel Power (c.1370-1445) - Medieval/Renaissance Periods
Oswald von Wolkenstein (c.1376-1445) - Medieval/Renaissance Periods
John Dunstaple (c.1390-1453) - Renaissance Period
Guillaume Dufay (1397-1474) - Renaissance Period
Gilles Binchois (c.1400-1460) - Renaissance Period
Johannes Ockeghem (c.1410-1497) - Renaissance Period
Gilles Joye (c.1424-1483) - Renaissance Period
Antoine Busnois (c.1430-1492) - Renaissance Period
Alexander Agricola (c.1446-1506) - Renaissance Period
Heinrich Isaac (c.1450-1517) - Renaissance Period
Loyset Compère (c.1450-1518) - Renaissance Period
Josquin des Prez (c.1450-1521) - Renaissance Period
Jacob Obrecht (c.1457-1505) - Renaissance Period
Jean Mouton (c.1459-1522) - Renaissance Period
Antoine Brumel (c.1460-c.1513) - Renaissance Period
Pierre de la Rue (c.1460-1518) - Renaissance Period
Robert Fayrfax (1464-1521) - Renaissance Period
William Cornysh (1465-1523) - Renaissance Period
Francisco de Penalosa (c.1470-1528) - Renaissance Period
Philippe Verdelot (c.1475-c.1550) - Renaissance Period
Martin Luther (1483-1546) - Renaissance Period
Jacquet of Mantua (1483-1559) - Renaissance Period
Clément Janequin (c.1485-1558) - Renaissance Period
Robert Carver (c.1485-c.1570) - Renaissance Period
Ludwig Senfl (c.1486-1543) - Renaissance Period
John Taverner (c.1490-1545) - Renaissance Period
Claudinde Sermisy (c.1490-1562) - Renaissance Period
Adrian Willaert (c.1490-1562) - Renaissance Period
Constanzo Festa (c.1495-1545) - Renaissance Period
Nicolas Gombert (c.1495-c.1560) - Renaissance Period
Francesco Canova da Milano (1497-1543) - Renaissance Period
Cristóbal de Morales (c.1500-1553) - Renaissance Period
Jacques Arcadelt (1505-1568) - Renaissance Period
Christopher Tye (c.1505-1572) - Renaissance Period
Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585) - Renaissance Period, see Third Mode Melody (hymn)
Balint Bakfark (c.1507-1576) - Renaissance Period
Jacob Clemens non papa (c.1510-c.1555) - Renaissance Period
Antonio de Cabezon (1510-1566) - Renaissance Period
Jean Maillard (c.1510-c.1570) - Renaissance Period
Diego Ortiz (c.1510-c.1570) - Renaissance Period
John Sheppard (c.1515-1559) - Renaissance Period
Cypriano de Rore (c.1516-1565) - Renaissance Period
Philippe de Monte (1521-1603) - Renaissance Period
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-1594) - Renaissance Period
Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599) - Renaissance Period
William Mundy (c.1529-1591) - Renaissance Period
David Peebles (1530-1579) - Renaissance Period
Claude Le Jeune (1530-1600) - Renaissance Period
Guillaume Costeley (c.1530-1606) - Renaissance Period
Andrea Gabrieli (c.1532-1585) - Renaissance Period
Orlande de Lassus (c.1532-1594) - Renaissance Period
Giaches de Wert (1535-1596) - Renaissance Period
William Byrd (c.1540-1623) - Renaissance/Baroque Periods, see Pavan: The Earle of Salisbury (keyboard)
Hernando de Cabezon (1541-1602) - Renaissance Period
Luzzasco Luzzaschi (c.1545-1607) - Renaissance/Baroque Periods
Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548-1611) - Renaissance/Baroque Periods
Eustache du Caurroy (c.1549-1609) - Renaissance/Baroque Periods
Emilio de'Cavalieri (c.1550-1602) - Renaissance Period
Orazio Vecchi (1550-1605) - Renaissance Period
Giulio Caccini (1551-1618) - Renaissance/Baroque Periods
Luca Marenzio (c.1553-1599) - Renaissance Period
Alonso Lobo (c.1555-1617) - Renaissance/Baroque Periods
Thomas Morley (1557-1603) - Renaissance Period
Giovanni Gabrieli (c.1557-1612) - Renaissance/Baroque Periods
Carlo Gesualdo (1560-1613) - Renaissance/Baroque Periods
Peter Philips (1560-1628) - Renaissance/Baroque Periods
Hieronymus Praetorius (1560-1629) - Renaissance/Baroque Periods
Jacopo Peri (1561-1633) - Renaissance/Baroque Periods
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621) - Renaissance/Baroque Periods
Jean Titelouze (c.1562-1633) - Renaissance/Baroque Periods
John Bull (c.1562-1628) - Renaissance/Baroque Periods
John Dowland (1563-1626) - Renaissance/Baroque Periods
Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612) - Renaissance/Baroque Periods, see O Sacred Head Now Wounded (hymn)
Alessandro Piccinini (1566-c.1638) - Renaissance/Baroque Periods
Manuel Cardoso (1566-1650) - Renaissance/Baroque Periods
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) - Renaissance/Baroque Periods
Michael Praetorius (c.1571-1621) - Renaissance/Baroque Periods
John Wilbye (1574-1638) - Renaissance/Baroque Periods
Thomas Weelkes (1576-1623) - Renaissance/Baroque Periods
Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652) - Baroque Period
Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) - Baroque Period
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643) - Baroque Period
Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672) - Baroque Period
Alessandro Grandi (1586-1630) - Baroque Period
Johann Schein (1586-1630) - Baroque Period
Samuel Scheidt (1587-1654) - Baroque Period
John Jenkins (1592-1678) - Baroque Period
Jacques Champion de Chambonnieres (c.1601-1672) - Baroque Period
William Lawes (1602-1645) - Baroque Period
Christopher Simpson (c.1602-1669) - Baroque Period
Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676) - Baroque Period
Giacomo Carissimi (1605-1674) - Baroque Period
Johann Jakob Froberger (1616-1667) - Baroque Period
Matthias Weckmann (c.1616-1674) - Baroque Period
Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677) - Baroque Period
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (c.1620-1680) - Baroque Period
Matthew Locke (c.1621-1677) - Baroque Period
Antonio Cesti (1623-1669) - Baroque Period
Giovanni Legrenzi (1626-1690) - Baroque Period
Jean-Henri d'Anglebert (1629-1691) - Baroque Period
Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) - Baroque Period
Dieterich Buxtehude (1639-1707) - Baroque Period
Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe (c.1640-1700) - Baroque Period
Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704) - Baroque Period, see Prelude from the Te Deum (piano arrangement)
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644-1704) - Baroque Period
John Blow (1649-1708) - Baroque Period
Johann Jakob Walther (1650-1717) - Baroque Period
Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) - Baroque Period, see Pachelbel's Canon in D (piano arrangement)
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) - Baroque Period
Georg Phillipp Muffat (1653-1704) - Baroque Period
Marin Marais (1656-1728) - Baroque Period
Michel Richard Delalande (1657-1726) - Baroque Period
Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709) - Baroque Period
Henry Purcell (1659-1695) - Baroque Period, see Funeral Music for Queen Mary (piano arrangement)
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) - Baroque Period
Francois Couperin (1668-1733) - Baroque Period
Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751) - Baroque Period
Jeremiah Clarke (c.1674-1707) - Baroque Period
Christian Petzold (1677-1733) - Baroque Period, see Minuet from the A.M.Bach notebooks (keyboard)
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) - Baroque Period, see Autumn from The Four Seasons (Violin Concerto)
Georg Phillipp Teleman (1681-1767) - Baroque/Classical Periods
Johann David Heinichen (1683-1729) - Baroque Period
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) - Baroque/Classical Periods
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) - Baroque Period, see Prelude No.1 from the Well-Tempered Clavier(keyboard)
Guiseppe Matteo Alberti (1685-1751) - Baroque Period
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) - Baroque/Classical Periods
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) - Baroque/Classical Periods, see Hornpipe from the Water Music(orchestral)
Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762) - Baroque/Classical Periods
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689-1755) - Baroque Period
Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770) - Baroque/Classical Periods
Johan Helmich Roman (1694-1758) - Baroque/Classical Periods
Pietro Locatelli (1695-1764) - Baroque/Classical Periods
Johann Joachim Quantz (1697-1773) - Baroque/Classical Periods
Johann Adolf Hasse (1699-1783) - Baroque/Classical Periods
Giovanni Battista Sammartini (c.1700-1775) - Baroque/Classical Periods
Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785) - Baroque/Classical Periods
Pietro Domenico Paradisi (1707-1791) - Baroque/Classical Periods
Charles Avison (b.1709-1770) - Baroque/Classical Periods
Michel Correte (1709-1795) - Baroque/Classical Periods
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736) - Baroque Period
Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778) - Baroque/Classical Periods, see The song "Rule, Britannia!" (piano arrangement)
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784) - Baroque/Classical Periods
William Boyce (1711-1779) - Baroque/Classical Periods
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) - Baroque/Classical Periods
Charles John Stanley (1712-1786) - Baroque/Classical Periods
Niccolò Jommelli (1714-1774) - Baroque/Classical Periods
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) - Baroque/Classical Periods
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) - Baroque/Classical Periods, see March from the A.M.Bach notebooks(keyboard)
Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz (1717-1757) - Baroque/Classical Periods
Giuseppe Scarlatti (c.1718-1777) - Baroque/Classical Periods
Leopold Mozart (1719-1787) - Baroque/Classical Periods, see Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (son)
Johann Ernst Bach II (1722-1777) - Baroque/Classical Periods
Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1767) - Baroque/Classical Periods
Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (1727-1756) - Baroque Period
Armand-Louis Couperin (1727-1789) - Baroque/Classical Periods
Niccolo Piccini (1728-1800) - Baroque/Classical Periods
Antonio Soler (b.1729-1783) - Baroque/Classical Periods
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732-1795) - Classical Period
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) - Classical Period, see Piano Sonata No.31 (1st movement) (piano)
Francois Joseph Gossec (1734-1829) - Classical/Romantic Periods
Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782) - Classical Period, see Johann Sebastian Bach (father)
Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (1736-1809) - Classical Period
Josef Myslivecek (1737-1781) - Classical Period
Michael Haydn (1737-1806) - Classical Period, see Joseph Haydn (brother)
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739-1799) - Classical Period
Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816) - Classical Period
André Ernest Modeste Grétry (1741-1813) - Classical Period
Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) - Classical Period, see Minuet from his String Quintet in E (String Quintet)
Carl Stamitz (1745-1801) - Classical Period
William Billings (1746-1826) - Classical Period
Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801) - Classical Period
Antonio Salieri (1750-1825) - Classical Period
Muzio Clementi (1752-1832) - Classical/Romantic Periods
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) - Classical Period, see Eine Kleine Nachtmusic (1st movement) (string orchestra)
Joseph Martin Kraus (1756-1792) - Classical Period
Francois Devienne (1759-1803) - Classical Period
Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760-1812) - Classical Period
Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842) - Classical/Romantic Periods
Franz William Tausch (1762-1817) - Classical Period
Étienne Nicolas Méhul (1763-1817) - Classical Period
Franz Ignaz Danzi (1763-1826) - Classical Period
Franz Xaver Süssmayr (1766-1803) - Classical Period
Carlos Baguer (1768-1808) - Classical Period
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) - Classical/Romantic Periods, see 5th Symphony (1st movement) (orchestral)
Anton Reicha (1770-1836) - Classical/Romantic Periods
Gaspare Spontini (1774-1837) - Classical/Romantic Periods
Vaclav Tomasek (1774-1850) - Classical/Romantic Periods
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffman (1776-1822) - Classical Period
Fernando Sor (1778-1839) - Classical/Romantic Periods, see Mazurka in D, Op32 No.3 (guitar piece)
Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1851) - Classical/Romantic Periods
Antonio Diabelli (1781-1858) - Classical/Romantic Periods
John Field (1782-1837) - Classical/Romantic Periods, see Frederic Chopin
Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840) - Classical/Romantic Periods, see Franz Liszt
Louis Spohr (1784-1859) - Classical/Romantic Periods
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826) - Classical Period
Friedrich Kuhlau (1786-1832) - Classical/Romantic Periods
Jan Vaclav Vorisek (1791-1825) - Classical Period
Carl Czerny (1791-1857) - Classical/Romantic Periods
Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864) - Classical/Romantic Periods
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) - Classical/Romantic Periods
Lowell Mason (1792-1872) - Classical/Romantic Periods, see Joy to the World (Christmas Carol)
Franz Berwald (1796-1868) - Classical/Romantic Periods
Franz Schubert (1797-1828) - Classical/Romantic Periods, see Scherzo from "Death and the Maiden" (String Quartet)
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) - Classical/Romantic Periods
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) - Romantic Period, see Horror in Music (article reference)
Johann Strauss I (1804-1849) - Romantic Period
Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857) - Romantic Period
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) - Romantic Period, see Venetian Boat Song No.1 (piano work)
Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) - Romantic Period, see The Minute Waltz (piano work)
Robert Schumann (1810-1856) - Romantic Period, see Traumerei from "Scenes of Childhood" (piano work)
Ole Bull (1810-1880) - Romantic Period, see Edvard Grieg (relative by marriage)
Franz Liszt (1811-1886) - Romantic Period
Sigismond Thalberg (1812-1871) - Romantic Period
Richard Wagner (1813-1883) - Romantic Period, see The "Bridal Chorus" (piano arrangement)
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) - Romantic Period
Niels Wilhelm Gade (1817-1890) - Romantic Period
Louis James Alfred Lefebure-Wely (1817-1896) - Romantic Period
Charles Gounod (1818-1893) - Romantic Period, see Brenard Herrmann
Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) - Romantic Period, see Humour in Music (article reference)
Franz von Suppé (1819-1895) - Romantic Period
Clara Schumann (1819-1896) - Romantic Period, see Robert Schumann (husband)
Henri Vieuxtemps (1820-1881) - Romantic Period
César Franck (1822-1890) - Romantic Period
Édouard Lalo (1823-1892) - Romantic Period
Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884) - Romantic Period, see Antonin Dvorak
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) - Romantic Period, see Gustav Mahler
Johann Strauss II (1825-1899) - Romantic Period, see The Blue Danube Waltz (piano arrangement)
Stephen Foster (1826-1864) - Romantic Period
Josef Strauss (1827-1870) - Romantic Period
Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869) - Romantic Period
Hans von Bulow (1829-1894) - Romantic Period
Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894) - Romantic Period
Karl Goldmark (1830-1915) - Romantic Period
Joseph Joachin (1831-1907) - Romantic Period
Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) - Romantic Period, see Modest Mussorgsky
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) - Romantic Period, see Intermezzo in A Op.118 No.2 (piano piece)
Henryk Wieniawski (1835-1880) - Romantic Period
Eduard Strauss (1835-1916) - Romantic Period
César Cui (1835-1918) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) - Romantic/Modern Periods, see The Swan from "Carnival of the Animals" (cello and 2 pianos)
Léo Delibes (1836-1891) - Romantic Period
Mily Balakirev (1837-1910) - Romantic Period, see Modest Mussorgsky
Georges Bizet (1838-1875) - Romantic Period, see The Top from "Children's Games" (piano duet)
Max Bruch (1838-1920) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) - Romantic Period, see Promenade from "Pictures at an Exhibition" (piano suite)
John Knowles Paine (1839-1906) - Romantic Period
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) - Romantic Period, see The Sugar Plum Fairy from "The Nutcracker" (ballet music)
Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894) - Romantic Period
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) - Romantic Period, see Slow Movement from the "New World Symphony"(orchestral)
Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) - Romantic Period, see Onward Christian Soldiers (hymn)
Edvard Grieg (1842-1907) - Romantic Period, see Wedding Day at Troldhaugen (piano piece)
Jules Massenet (1842-1912) - Romantic Period
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) - Romantic Period
Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908) - Romantic Period
Carl Bohm (1844-1920) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Robert Fuchs (1847-1927) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Hubert Parry (1848-1918) - Romantic/Modern Periods, see Jerusalem (song)
Henri Duparc (1848-1933) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Alexander Taneyev (1850-1918) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Vincent d'Indy (1851-1931) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Francisco Tárrega (1852-1909) - Romantic Period
Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Andre Charles Messager (1853-1929) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Moritz Moszkowski (1854-1925) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Leos Janacek (1854-1928) - Romantic/Modern Periods
John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Ernest Chausson (1855-1899) - Romantic Period
Anatoly Lyadov (1855-1914) - Romantic Period
Julius Röntgen (1855-1932) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Sergei Taneyev (1856-1915) - Romantic Period
Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Edward Elgar (1857-1934) - Romantic/Modern Periods, see Nimrod from "The Enigma Variations" (piano arrangement)
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Eugene Ysaye (1858-1931) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Victor Herbert (1859-1924) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Sergei Lyapunov (1859-1924) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Hugo Wolf (1860-1903) - Romantic Period
Edward MacDowell (1860-1908) - Romantic Period
Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909) - Romantic Period, see Asturias (Leyenda) (piano)
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) - Romantic Period, see Extract from Symphony No.1 (2nd movement) (orchestral)
Ignace Jan Paderewski (1860-1941) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Gustave Charpentier (1860-1956) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Anton Arensky (1861-1906) - Romantic Period
Felipe de Jesus Villanueva (1862-1893) - Romantic Period
Claude Debussy (1862-1918) - Romantic/Modern Periods, see Clair de Lune from "Suite Bergamasque" (piano work)
Frederick Delius (1862-1934) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) - Romantic/Modern Periods, see 2001: A Space Odyssey (film soundtrack review)
Theophile Ysaye (1865-1918) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Paul Dukas (1865-1935) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Vasily Kalinnikov (1866-1901) - Romantic Period
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Erik Satie (1866-1925) - Romantic/Modern Periods, see Gymnopedie No.1 (piano piece)
Enrique Granados (1867-1916) - Romantic Period
Scott Joplin (1868-1917) - Romantic/Modern Periods, see The Entertainer (piano rag)
Albert Roussel (1869-1937) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Charles Tournemire (1870-1939) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Franz Lehár (1870-1948) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) - Romantic Period
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Max Reger (1873-1916) - Romantic Period
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) - Romantic/Modern Periods, see Prelude in Gm (piano work)
Gustav Holst (1874-1934) - Romantic/Modern Periods, see I Vow to Thee My Country (hymn)
Josef Suk (1874-1935) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Franz Schmidt (1874-1939) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Sergei Koussevitzky (1874-1951) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Charles Ives (1874-1954) - Romantic/Modern Periods, see Humour in Music (article reference)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) - Romantic Period
Walter Courvoisier (1875-1931) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) - Romantic/Modern Periods, see Claude Debussy
Reinhold Gliere (1875-1956) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Pablo Casals (1876-1973) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Erno Dohnanyi (1877-1960) - Romantic/Modern Periods, see Humour in Music (article reference)
Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Frank Bridge (1879-1941) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Joseph Canteloube (1879-1957) - Romantic/Modern Periods
John Ireland (1879-1962) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Ernest Bloch (1880-1959) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Kenneth J. Alford (1881-1945) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Bela Bartok (1881-1945) - Romantic/Modern Periods, see Folk Music and Songs (article reference)
Nikolai Miaskovsky (1881-1950) - Romantic/Modern Periods
George Enescu (1881-1955) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Arthur Marshall (1881-1968) - Romantic/Modern Periods, see Swipesy (piano rag)
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Manuel Ponce (1882-1948) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Joaquin Turina (1882-1949) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Arthur Schnabel (1882-1951) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Percy Grainger (1882-1961) - Romantic/Modern Periods, see Recording of the Grieg Piano Concerto (pianist)
Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) - Romantic/Modern Periods, see Horror in Music (article reference)
Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882-1973) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Anton Webern (1883-1945) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Arnold Bax (1883-1953) - Romantic/Modern Periods, see Malcolm Arnold
Edgard Varese (1883-1965) - Romantic/Modern Periods
George Butterworth (1885-1916) - Romantic Period
Alban Berg (1885-1935) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Alexander Albrecht (1885-1958) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Heinrich Kaminski (1886-1946) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Wilhelm Furtwangler (1886-1954) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Eric Coates (1886-1957) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Marcel Dupre (1886-1971) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Bernard van Dieren (1887-1936) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Sigmund Romberg (1887-1951) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Enrnst Toch (1887-1964) - Romantic/Modern Periods
Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) - Romantic/Modern Periods, see Gabriel Faure article (photograph)
Max Steiner (1888-1971) - Romantic/Modern Periods, see Gone with the Wind Collection (album review)
Irving Berlin (1888-1989) - Romantic/Modern Periods, see Ragtime Music (article reference)
Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) - Romantic/Modern Periods, see Film Music History (article reference)
Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959) - Modern Period
Jacques Ibert (1890-1962) - Modern Period
Frank Martin (1890-1974) - Modern Period
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) - Modern Period
Arthur Bliss (1891-1975) - Modern Period
Arthur Honegger (1892-1955) - Modern Period
Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) - Modern Period
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983) - Modern Period
Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) - Modern Period
Ivor Novello (1893-1951) - Modern Period
Arthur Benjamini (1893-1960) - Modern Period
Douglas Moore (1893-1969) - Modern Period
Alois Haba (1893-1973) - Modern Period
Frederico Mompou (1893-1987) - Modern Period
Andres Segovia (1893-1987) - Modern Period
Peter Warlock (1894-1930) - Modern Period
Walter Piston (1894-1976) - Modern Period
Robert Russell Bennett (1894-1981) - Modern Period
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) - Modern Period
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968) - Modern Period
William Grant Still (1895-1978) - Modern Period
Carl Orff (1895-1982) - Modern Period, see Horror in Music (article reference)
Jaromir Weinberger (1896-1967) - Modern Period
Howard Hanson (1896-1981) - Modern Period
Roger Sessions (1896-1985) - Modern Period
Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) - Modern Period
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) - Modern Period, see The Sea Hawk and Deception (film scores – review)
Henry Cowell (1897-1965) - Modern Period
Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986) - Modern Period
George Gershwin (1898-1937) - Modern Period, see Andre Previn
Hanns Eisler (1898-1962) - Modern Period
Roy Harris (1898-1979) - Modern Period
Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940) - Modern Period
Victor Young (1899-1956) - Modern Period, see Around the World in 80 Days (film score review)
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) - Modern Period
Carlos Chavez (1899-1978) - Modern Period
Dimitri Tiomkin (1899-1979) - Modern Period, see The Alamo
Georges Auric (1899-1983) - Modern Period
Randall Thompson (1899-1984) - Modern Period
Kurt Weill (1900-1950) - Modern Period
George Antheil (1900-1959) - Modern Period
Aaron Copland (1900-1990) - Modern Period
Ernst Krenek (1900-1991) - Modern Period
Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) - Modern Period
Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) - Modern Period
Alfred Newman (1901-1970) - Modern Period
Hugo Friedhofer (1901-1981) - Modern Period
Edmund Rubbra (1901-1986) - Modern Period
Joaquim Rodrigo (1901-1999) - Modern Period
Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) - Modern Period, see Stephen Sondheim
Bronislau Kaper (1902-1983) - Modern Period
William Walton (1902-1983) - Modern Period, see Ron Goodwin
Maurice Durufle (1902-1986) - Modern Period
Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978) - Modern Period, see 2001: A Space Odyssey (film soundtrack review)
Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989) - Modern Period
Berthold Goldschmidt (1903-1996) - Modern Period
Erik Chisholm (1904-1965) - Modern Period
Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975) - Modern Period
Richard Addinsell (1904-1977) - Modern Period
Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904-1987) - Modern Period
Goffredo Petrassi (1904-2003) - Modern Period
Walter Leigh (1905-1942) - Modern Period
Constant Lambert (1905-1951) - Modern Period
Matyas Seiber (1905-1960) - Modern Period
Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1905-1963) - Modern Period
Marc Blitzstein (1905-1964) - Modern Period
Alan Rawsthorne (1905-1971) - Modern Period
William Alwyn (1905-1985) - Modern Period
Dag Ivar Wiren (1905-1986) - Modern Period
Michael Tippett (1905-1998) - Modern Period
Franz Waxman (1906-1967) - Modern Period
Benjamin Frankel (1906-1973) - Modern Period
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) - Modern Period, see Symphonies Concert Series
Elisabeth Lutyens (1906-1983) - Modern Period
Imogen Holst (1907-1984) - Modern Period
Henk Badings (1907-1987) - Modern Period
Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994) - Modern Period
Miklos Rozsa (1907-1995) - Modern Period, see A Visit with Miklos Rozsa (photographs)
Leroy Anderson (1908-1975) - Modern Period, see Humour in Music (article reference)
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) - Modern Period
Jean Coulthard (1908-2000) - Modern Period
Elliott Carter (1908-2012) - Modern Period
Miguel Bernal Jimenez (1910-1956) - Modern Period
Ronald Binge (1910-1979) - Modern Period
Samuel Barber (1910-1981) - Modern Period, see Georges Delerue
Alex North (1910-1991) - Modern Period, see A Streetcar Named Desire (film score review)
William Schuman (1910-1992) - Modern Period, see Franz Waxman overview (article reference)
Rolf Liebermann (1910-1999) - Modern Period
Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975) - Modern Period, see Psycho (film score review)
Nino Rota (1911-1979) - Modern Period
Gustaf Allan Pettersson (1911-1980) - Modern Period
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) - Modern Period
Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-2007) - Modern Period
John Cage (1912-1992) - Modern Period, see Mike Batt
David Raksin (1912-2004) - Modern Period
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) - Modern Period, see Shostakovich and Britten (album review)
Peggy Stuart Coolidge (1913-1981) - Modern Period
Jerome Moross (1913-1983) - Modern Period
Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994) - Modern Period
Morton Gould (1913-1996) - Modern Period
Henry Brant (1913-2008) - Modern Period
William Lloyd Webber (1914-1982) - Modern Period, see Andrew Lloyd Webber (son)
Gail Thompson Kubik (1914-1984) - Modern Period
Andrzej Panufnik (1914-1991) - Modern Period
Humphrey Searle (1915-1982) - Modern Period
Earl Wild (1915-2010) - Modern Period
Karl-Birger Blomdahl (1916-1968) - Modern Period
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983) - Modern Period
Lionel Newman (1916-1989) - Modern Period
Vic Mizzy (1916-2009) - Modern Period
Milton Babbitt (1916-2011) - Modern Period
Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013) - Modern Period
Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) - Modern Period
Robert Farnon (1917-2005) - Modern Period
Robert Ward (1917-2013) - Modern Period
Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918-1970) - Modern Period
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) - Modern Period, see West Side Story (film musical score review)
Bruno Maderna (1920-1973) - Modern Period
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) - Modern Period
Robert Simpson (1921-1997) - Modern Period
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006) - Modern Period
Jerry Fielding (1922-1980) - Modern Period
Ron Grainer (1922-1981) - Modern Period, see Doctor Who Music (article reference)
Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) - Modern Period
Elmer Bernstein (1922-2004) - Modern Period
Neal Hefti (1922-2008) - Modern Period
Dudley Simpson (1922-) - Modern Period, see Doctor Who Music (article reference)
Jarel Goeyvaerts (1923-1993) - Modern Period
Mel Powell (1923-1998) - Modern Period
Gyorgy Ligeti (1923-2006) - Modern Period, see 2001: A Space Odyssey (film soundtrack review)
Arthur Butterworth (1923-) - Modern Period
Ned Rorem (1923-) - Modern Period
Luigi Nono (1924-1990) - Modern Period
Lejaren Hiller (1924-1994) - Modern Period
Henry Mancini (1924-1994) - Modern Period, see The Ultimate Pink Panther (album review)
Laurence Rosenman (1924-2008) - Modern Period
Maurice Jarre (1924-2009) - Modern Period, see Lawrence of Arabia (film score review)
Georges Delerue (1925-1992) - Modern Period
Boris Tchaikovsky (1925-1996) - Modern Period
James Bernard (1925-2001) - Modern Period
Luciano Berio (1925-2003) - Modern Period
Ron Goodwin (1925-2003) - Modern Period
Marius Constant (1925-2004) - Modern Period, see Bernard Herrmann
Louis Barron (1925-2008) - Modern Period, see Forbidden Planet (film score review)
Tristram Cary (1925-2008) - Modern Period, see Electronic Music (article reference)
Pierre Boulez (1925-) - Modern Period, see Richard Rodney Bennett
Mikis Theodorakis (1925-) - Modern Period
Hans Werner Henze (1926-2012) - Modern Period
George Martin (1926-) - Modern Period, see Live and Let Die (film score review)
John Morris (1926-) - Modern Period, see The Elephant Man (film score review)
Laurence Rosenthal (1926-) - Modern Period
Dominick Argento (1927-) - Modern Period
Laurie Johnson (1927-) - Modern Period, see The New Avengers (television score – review)
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) - Modern Period
Burt Bacharach (1928-) - Modern Period, see The Blob (theme song – review)
Ennio Morricone (1928-) - Modern Period, see The Mission (film score review)
Thea Musgrave (1928-) - Modern Period
Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-) - Modern Period
Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988) - Modern Period
Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004) - Modern Period, see The Omen (film score review)
George Crumb (1929-) - Modern Period
Henri Pousseur (1929-) - Modern Period
Andre Previn (1929-) - Modern Period
Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996) - Modern Period
Robert Ashley (1930-) - Modern Period
Stephen Sondheim (1930-) - Modern Period, see West Side Story (film musical score review)
Malcolm Williamson (1931-2003) - Modern Period
Wojciech Kilar (1932-) - Modern Period
Francis Lai (1932-) - Modern Period
Michel Legrand (1932-) - Modern Period
Lalo Schifrin (1932-) - Modern Period
Rodion Shchedrin (1932-) - Modern Period, see Humour in Music (article reference)
John Williams (1932-) - Modern Period, see Jaws (film score review)
Paul Giovanni (1933-1990) - Modern Period, see The Wicker Man (film score review)
Henryk Gorecki (1933-2010) - Modern Period
Luis Bacalov (1933-) - Modern Period, see Le Juge and Le Transfuge (film scores – review)
John Barry (1933-2011) - Modern Period, see Out of Africa (film score review)
Quincy Jones (1933-) - Modern Period, see Q on producing (book review)
Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-) - Modern Period, see Jonny Greenwood
Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998) - Modern Period
Harrison Birtwistle (1934-) - Modern Period
Mario Davidovsky (1934-) - Modern Period
Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-) - Modern Period
Dave Grusin (1934-) - Modern Period
Christian Wolff (1934-) - Modern Period
Avro Part (1935-) - Modern Period
Terry Riley (1935-) - Modern Period
Peter Schickele (1935-) - Modern Period, see Humour in Music (article reference)
La Monte Young (1935-) - Modern Period
Cornelius Cardew (1936-1981) - Modern Period
Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012) - Modern Period, see Doctor Who Music (article reference)
Carl Davis (1936-) - Modern Period, see The Best of Bond (conductor, album review)
Anthony Payne (1936-) - Modern Period, see Edward Elgar
Steve Reich (1936-) - Modern Period, see Humour in Music (article reference)
Jack Nitzsche (1937-2000) - Modern Period
Angelo Badalamenti (1937-) - Modern Period
Philip Glass (1937-) - Modern Period, see Koyaanisqatsi (film score review)
David Shire (1937-) - Modern Period
David del Tredici (1937-) - Modern Period
Howard Blake (1938-) - Modern Period
John Corigliano (1938-) - Modern Period
Charles Wuorinen (1938-) - Modern Period
Michael Small (1939-2003) - Modern Period
Wendy Carlos (1939-) - Modern Period, see Electronic Music (article reference)
Heinz Holliger (1939-) - Modern Period
John McCabe (1939-) - Modern Period
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (1939-) - Modern Period
Frank Zappa (1940-1993) - Modern Period
Giorgio Moroder (1940-) - Modern Period
Geoffrey Burgon (1941-2010) - Modern Period, see Doctor Who Music (article reference)
Emmanuel Nunes (1941-2012) - Modern Period
Pino Donaggio (1941-) - Modern Period
Paul Alan Levi (1941-) - Modern Period
Bill Conti (1942-) - Modern Period
Paul McCartney (1942-) - Modern Period, see Live and Let Die (soundtrack review)
Marco Tomas (1942-) - Modern Period
Eric Idle (1943-) - Modern Period
Ilaiyaraaja (1943-) - Modern Period
Morten Lauridsen (1943-) - Modern Period
Bill McGlaughlin (1943-) - Modern Period
Randy Newman (1943-) - Modern Period, see Toy Story 3 (film score review)
Jean-Claude Petit (1943-) - Modern Period
Joanna Bruzdowicz (1943-) - Modern Period
Gavin Bryars (1943-) - Modern Period
Vangelis (1943-) - Modern Period, see Blade Runner (film score review)
Jeff Wayne (1943-) - Modern Period, see The War of the Worlds (musical album review)
Udo Zimmermann (1943-) - Modern Period
Marvin Hamlisch (1944-2012) - Modern Period, see The Sting (film soundtrack review)
Peter Eotvos (1944-) - Modern Period
Christopher Gunning (1944-) - Modern Period
Karl Jenkins (1944-) - Modern Period, see Horror in Music (article reference)
Michael Nyman (1944-) - Modern Period, see The Piano (film score review)
Mike Post (1944-) - Modern Period
John Tavener (1944-2013) - Modern Period, see Nicola Benedetti (album review)
Basil Poledouris (1945-2006) - Modern Period, see Conan the Barbarian (film score review)
Shirley Walker (1945-2006) - Modern Period
Bruce Broughton (1945-) - Modern Period, see Young Sherlock Holmes (film score review)
John Rutter (1945-) - Modern Period
Howard Shore (1946-) - Modern Period, see The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (film score review)
Mark Snow (1946-) - Modern Period
John Adams (1947-) - Modern Period
Roy Budd (1947-1993) - Modern Period, see Mama Dracula (film score review)
Ry Cooder (1947-) - Modern Period
Randy Edelman (1947-) - Modern Period
Michael Kamen (1948-2003) - Modern Period, see Open Range (film score review)
Michael Berkeley (1948-) - Modern Period
John Carpenter (1948-) - Modern Period
Brian Eno (1948-) - Modern Period
Jean Michel Jarre (1948-) - Modern Period, see Maurice Jarre (father)
Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948-) - Modern Period, see The Phantom of the Operan (film musical score review)
Mike Batt (1949-) - Modern Period
Trevor Jones (1949-) - Modern Period
Mark Knopfler (1949-) - Modern Period
Alan Menken (1949-) - Modern Period
Ira Newborn (1949-) - Modern Period
Christopher Rouse (1949-) - Modern Period
Gabriel Yared (1949-) - Modern Period, see Music by Gabriel Yared (DVD documentary review)
George Fenton (1950-) - Modern Period, see Deep Blue (film score review)
Brad Fiedel (1951-) - Modern Period
James Newton Howard (1951-) - Modern Period, see The Village (film score review)
Mark Isham (1951-) - Modern Period, see Crash (film score review)
Gustavo Santaolalla (1951-) - Modern Period, see Brokeback Mountain (film score review)
Harold Faltermeyer (1952-) - Modern Period
Joe Hisaishi (1952-) - Modern Period, see Ni No Kuni (video game score review)
Oliver Knussen (1952-) - Modern Period
Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952-) - Modern Period

Composers

This is a list of composers of the various periods you have seen to the right.1

This is a list of composers of the various periods you have seen to the right.₁