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This is a list of classical music composers by era.

Medieval era

John Dunstaple Leonel Power Oswald von Wolkenstein Johannes Ciconia Solage Jacob Senleches Francesco Landini Jacopo da Bologna Guillaume de Machaut Philippe de Vitry John Kukuzelis Denis, King of Portugal Franco of Cologne Adam de la Halle Guiraut Riquier Alfonso X of Castile Theobald I of Navarre Neidhart von Reuental Peire Cardenal Gautier de Coincy Peire Vidal Walther von der Vogelweide Gaucelm Faidit Pérotin Vaqueiras Blondel de Nesle Arnaut Daniel Beatritz de Dia Léonin Bernart de Ventadorn Jaufre Rudel Hildegard von Bingen Marcabru Abelard William IX of Aquitaine Adam of Saint Victor Adémar de Chabannes William of Volpiano Odo of Cluny Hucbald Stephen of Liège Tuotilo Notker the Stammerer

Renaissance era

Orlando Gibbons Michael Praetorius John Cooper (composer) Claudio Monteverdi Thomas Campion Gaspar Fernandes Hans Leo Hassler John Dowland Carlo Gesualdo Philippe Rogier Hieronymus Praetorius Giovanni Gabrieli Thomas Morley Alonso Lobo Luca Marenzio Giovanni de Macque Tomás Luis de Victoria Luzzasco Luzzaschi William Byrd Giaches de Wert Andrea Gabrieli Orlande de Lassus Claude Le Jeune Costanzo Porta Francisco Guerrero (composer) Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Cipriano de Rore Jacob Clemens non Papa Claude Goudimel Pierre de Manchicourt Hans Newsidler Thomas Tallis Christopher Tye Cristóbal de Morales Costanzo Festa John Taverner Adrian Willaert Thomas Crecquillon Nicolas Gombert Clément Janequin Philippe Verdelot Antoine Brumel Antonius Divitis Antoine de Févin Martin Agricola Pedro de Escobar Pierre de La Rue Jean Mouton Heinrich Isaac Josquin des Prez Jacob Obrecht Alexander Agricola Loyset Compère Antoine Busnois Walter Frye Johannes Ockeghem Guillaume Dufay Gilles Binchois John Dunstable Leonel Power Oswald von Wolkenstein

Baroque era

Jean-Joseph de Mondonville Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Baldassare Galuppi Carlos Seixas Johann Adolf Hasse Riccardo Broschi Johann Joachim Quantz Pietro Locatelli Giuseppe Tartini Leonardo Vinci Johann Friedrich Fasch Francesco Geminiani Nicola Porpora Silvius Leopold Weiss George Frideric Handel Domenico Scarlatti Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Gottfried Walther Jean-Philippe Rameau Johann David Heinichen Georg Philipp Telemann Jan Dismas Zelenka Antonio Vivaldi Tomaso Albinoni Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer Antonio Caldara Turlough O'Carolan François Couperin Alessandro Scarlatti Henry Purcell Michel Richard Delalande Marin Marais Arcangelo Corelli Johann Pachelbel Heinrich Ignaz Biber Dieterich Buxtehude Marc Antoine Charpentier Jean-Baptiste Lully Jean-Henri d'Anglebert Johann Heinrich Schmelzer Barbara Strozzi Johann Jakob Froberger Giacomo Carissimi Antonio Bertali William Lawes Francesco Cavalli Samuel Scheidt Heinrich Schütz Girolamo Frescobaldi Gregorio Allegri Claudio Monteverdi Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck Jacopo Peri

Classical era

Franz Schubert Gioachino Rossini Louis Spohr John Field (composer) Mauro Giuliani Fernando Sor Johann Nepomuk Hummel Anton Reicha Ludwig van Beethoven Samuel Wesley Anton Eberl Franz Danzi Luigi Cherubini Jan Ladislav Dussek Ignaz Pleyel Joseph Martin Kraus Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Giovanni Battista Viotti Vicente Martín y Soler Muzio Clementi Antonio Salieri Domenico Cimarosa William Billings Carl Stamitz Chevalier de Saint-Georges Luigi Boccherini Giovanni Paisiello André Ernest Modeste Grétry Andrea Luchesi Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf Michael Haydn Josef Mysliveček Johann Christian Bach Johann Schobert François-Joseph Gossec Joseph Haydn Antonio Soler Tommaso Traetta François-André Danican Philidor Carl Friedrich Abel Pieter Hellendaal Carlo Antonio Campioni Leopold Mozart Johann Stamitz Georg Christoph Wagenseil Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Christoph Willibald Gluck Niccolò Jommelli Wilhelm Friedemann Bach Giovanni Battista Sammartini Domenico Scarlatti

Romantic era

Modest Mussorgsky Georges Bizet Max Bruch Mily Balakirev Léo Delibes Camille Saint-Saëns César Cui Henryk Wieniawski Amilcare Ponchielli Julius Reubke Johannes Brahms Alexander Borodin Francis Edward Bache Karl Goldmark Anton Rubinstein Louis Moreau Gottschalk Josef Strauss Johann Strauss II Anton Bruckner Bedřich Smetana Edouard Lalo César Franck Clara Schumann Franz von Suppé Jacques Offenbach Charles Gounod Niels Wilhelm Gade Robert Volkmann Giuseppe Verdi Charles-Valentin Alkan Richard Wagner Franz Liszt Robert Schumann Frédéric Chopin Carl Otto Nicolai Norbert Burgmüller Otto Lindblad Felix Mendelssohn Michael William Balfe Juan Crisostomo de Arriaga Fanny Mendelssohn Johann Strauss I Hector Berlioz Mikhail Glinka Adolphe-Charles Adam Vincenzo Bellini Gaetano Donizetti Franz Schubert Carl Loewe Franz Berwald Gioacchino Rossini Giacomo Meyerbeer Carl Czerny Carl Maria von Weber Louis Spohr Daniel Auber Niccolò Paganini John Field (composer) Anthony Philip Heinrich Fernando Sor Johann Nepomuk Hummel Ludwig van Beethoven
Nikolai Medtner Ottorino Respighi Joseph Canteloube Reinhold Glière Franz Schmidt (composer) Josef Suk Sergei Rachmaninoff Alexander Scriabin Wilhelm Stenhammar Franz Lehar Amy Beach Enrique Granados Ferruccio Busoni Vasily Kalinnikov Jean Sibelius Alexander Glazunov Paul Dukas Carl Nielsen Albéric Magnard Richard Strauss Edward German Anton Stepanovich Arensky Gustave Charpentier Isaac Albeniz Gustav Mahler Hugo Wolf Sergei Lyapunov Eugene Ysaye Giacomo Puccini Ruggiero Leoncavallo Edward Elgar Christian Sinding Sergei Taneyev Anatoly Lyadov Ernest Chausson George Whitefield Chadwick John Philip Sousa Engelbert Humperdinck (composer) Leoš Janáček Charles Villiers Stanford Hans Huber (composer) Francisco Tarrega Franz Xaver Scharwenka Alexandre Luigini Hubert Parry Robert Fuchs Augusta Holmès Charles-Marie Widor Gabriel Fauré Pablo Sarasate Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov James Scott Skinner Edvard Grieg Arrigo Boito Arthur Sullivan Johann Nepomuk Fuchs (composer) Antonín Dvořák Johan Svendsen John Stainer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

20th century

George Benjamin (composer) James MacMillan Magnus Lindberg Tan Dun Kaija Saariaho Wolfgang Rihm Kalevi Aho Tristan Murail John Adams (composer) John Tavener Paul Lansky Brian Ferneyhough Horaţiu Rădulescu Frank Zappa Jonathan Harvey John Corigliano Nikolai Kapustin Philip Glass Steve Reich Cornelius Cardew Helmut Lachenmann La Monte Young Giya Kancheli Arvo Pärt Terry Riley Peter Maxwell Davies Harrison Birtwistle Alfred Schnittke Henryk Górecki Krzysztof Penderecki Rodion Shchedrin Per Nørgård Mauricio Kagel Sofia Gubaidulina Tōru Takemitsu George Crumb Peter Sculthorpe Edison Denisov Ennio Morricone Einojuhani Rautavaara Karlheinz Stockhausen Jean Barraqué Pierre Henry Hans Werner Henze György Kurtág Morton Feldman Pierre Boulez Luciano Berio Luigi Nono György Ligeti Lukas Foss Iannis Xenakis Bruno Maderna Galina Ustvolskaya Leonard Bernstein Bernd Alois Zimmermann Alberto Ginastera Milton Babbitt Henri Dutilleux Witold Lutosławski Benjamin Britten Conlon Nancarrow John Cage Gian Carlo Menotti Pierre Schaeffer Samuel Barber Grażyna Bacewicz Elliott Carter Olivier Messiaen Dmitri Shostakovich Giacinto Scelsi Michael Tippett Luigi Dallapiccola Aram Khachaturian William Walton Harry Partch Alexander Mosolov Kurt Weill Aaron Copland Silvestre Revueltas Carlos Chávez Francis Poulenc George Gershwin Henry Cowell Virgil Thomson Howard Hanson Carl Orff Paul Hindemith Alois Hába Darius Milhaud Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji Arthur Honegger Sergei Prokofiev Bohuslav Martinů Heitor Villa-Lobos Luigi Russolo Alban Berg Edgard Varèse Anton Webern Arnold Bax Igor Stravinsky Zoltán Kodály Karol Szymanowski Percy Grainger Georges Enescu Béla Bartók Ernest Bloch Manuel de Falla Maurice Ravel Charles Ives Arnold Schoenberg Gustav Holst Ralph Vaughan Williams Alexander Zemlinsky Albert Roussel Erik Satie Jean Sibelius Carl Nielsen Richard Strauss Frederick Delius Claude Debussy Gustav Mahler Leoš Janáček
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