Composers are generally grouped together into Eras, mainly Baroque 1600-1750, Classical 1750-1820, Romantic 1820-1900 and Modern 1900-present. These are general categories, and tend to relate not only to when the composers important works were written, but also the style. Some composers works bridge the Eras, so use the categories simply as an outline.




Composers List by Musical Era


The Composers below in Bold have Blog Postings.
I am working on transferring the rest to the blog, so stay tuned :)


Renaissance Period 1400-1600

Thomas Tallis - English [1505-1585]


Baroque Period 1600-1750

Thomas Giovanni Albinoni - Venetian [1671-1751]
Johann Sebastian Bach - German [1685-1750]
Johann Friedrich Fasch - German [1688-1758]
George Frideric Handel - German [1685-1759
Johann Pachelbel - German [1653-1706]
Jean-Philippe Rameau - French [1683-1764]
Domenico Scarlatti - Italian [1685-1757]
Antonio Vivaldi - Venetian [1678-1741]


Classical Period 1750-1820

Ludwig van Beethoven - German [1770-1827]
Franz Berwald - Swedish [1796-1868]
Joseph Haydn - Austrian [1732-1809]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Austrian [1756-1791]
Gioachino Antonio Rossini - Italian [1792-1868]
Franz Schubert - Austrian [1797-1828]


Romantic Period 1820-1900

Hector Berlioz - French [1803-1869]
Franz Berwald - Swedish 1796-1868]
Georges Bizet - French [1838-1875]
Alexander Borodin - Russian [1833-1887]
Johannes Brahms - German [1833-1897]
Anton Bruckner - Austrian [1824-1896]
Frédéric Chopin - French [1810-1849]
Paul Dukas - French [1865-1935]
Antonin Dvorak - Czech [1841-190]
Cesar Franck - Belgian/French [1822-1890]
Charles Gounod - French [18[18-1893]
Franz Liszt - Hungarian [1811-1886]
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy - German [1809-1847]
Modest Mussorgsky - Russian [1839-1881]
Jacques Offenbach - French [1819-[1880]
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov - Russian [1844-1908]
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns - French [1835-1921]
Robert Schumann - German [1810-1856]
Johann Strauss II and family - Austrian [1825-1899]
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Russian [1840-1893]
Wilhelm Richard Wagner - German [1813-1883]


Modern Period 1900-present

Samuel Barber - American [1910-1981]
Bela Bartok - Hungarian [1881-1945]
Aaron Copland - American [1905-1990]
Claude Debussy - French [1862-1918]
George Gershwin - American [1898-1937]
Ferde Grofe - American [1892-1972]
Gustav Holst - English [1874-1934]
Aram Khachaturian - Russian-Armenian [1903-1978]
Gustav Mahler - Austrian [1860-1911]
Carl Neilsen - Danish [165-1931]
Sergei Prokofiev - Russian [1891-1953]
Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninov - Russian[1873-1943]
Maurice Ravel - French [1875-1937
Ottorino Respighi - Italian [1879-1936]
Erik Satie - French [1866-1925]
Dmitri Shostakovich - Russian [1906-1975]
Jean Sibelius - Finnish [1865-1957]
Richard Strauss - German [1864-1949]
Igor Stravinsky - Russian [1882-1971]
Ralph Vaughan Williams - English [1872-1958]


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