Composers In Birth Order

List of great classical music composers in order of birth. With this list, once you get into the baroque, classical and romantic periods you can see how some of the most famous composers fit into the timeline of history.

First Name	Last Name	Birth	Death	Period/Style	Nationality
John	Dunstable	1380	1453	Late Middle-Ages	English
Guillaunme	Dufay	1400	1474	Late Middle-Ages	Burgundian
Johannes	Ockeghem	1410	1497	Renaissance	Flemish
Josquin des	Prez	1445	1521	Renaissance	Flemish
Jacob	Obrecht	1450	1505	Renaissance	Flemish
Clement	Janequin	1485	1558	Renaissance	French
Adrian	Willaert	1490	1562	Renaissance	Flemish
Luis	Milan	1500	1561	Renaissance	Spanish
Thomas	Tallis	1505	1585	Renaissance	English
Andrea	Gabrieli	1510	1586	Renaissance	Italian
Antonio de	Cabezon	1510	1566	Renaissance	Spanish
Giovanni da	Palestrina	1525	1594	Renaissance	Italian
Orlando di	Lasso	1532	1594	Renaissance	Flemish
Giovanni	Gabrieli	1533	1612	Renaissance	Italian
William	Byrd	1543	1623	Renaissance	English
Giulio	Caccini	1545	1618	Baroque	Italian
Tomás Luis de	Victoria	1548	1611	Renaissance	Spanish
Thomas	Morley	1557	1602	Renaissance	English
Jacobo	Peri	1561	1633	Baroque	Italian
John	Bull	1562	1628	Renaissance	English
Claudio	Monteverdi	1567	1643	Baroque	Italian
Girolano	Frescobaldi	1583	1643	Baroque	Italian
John	Dowland	1585	1625	Renaissance	English
Orlando	Gibbons	1585	1625	Renaissance	English
Heinrich	Schütz	1585	1672	Baroque	German
Johann Herman	Schein	1586	1630	Baroque	German
Samuel	Scheidt	1587	1654	Baroque	German
Jacques Champion de	Chambonnières	1602	1672	Baroque	French
Giacomo	Carrissimi	1605	1674	Baroque	Italian
Johann Jakob	Froberger	1616	1667	Baroque	German
Jean-Baptiste	Lully	1632	1687	Baroque	French
Dietrich	Buxtehude	1637	1707	Baroque	German
John	Blow	1649	1708	Baroque	English
Heinrich von	Biber	1653	1706	Baroque	German
Johann	Pachelbel	1653	1706	Baroque	German
Arcangelo	Corelli	1653	1717	Baroque	Italian
Guisseppe	Torelli	1658	1709	Baroque	Italian
Henry	Purcell	1659	1695	Baroque	English
Alessandro	Scarlatti	1660	1725	Baroque	Italian
François	Couperin	1668	1733	Baroque	French
Tomaso Giovanni	Albinoni	1671	1751	Baroque	Italian
Antonio	Vivaldi	1678	1741	Baroque	Italian
Georg	Telemann	1681	1767	Baroque	German
Jean~Philippe	Rameau	1683	1764	Baroque	French
Johann Sebastian	Bach	1685	1750	Baroque	German
George Frideric	Handel	1685	1759	Baroque	German
Domenico	Scarlatti	1685	1757	Baroque	Italian
Wilhelm Friedemann	Bach	1710	1784	Post-Baroque Early-Classical	German
Christoph	Gluck	1714	1787	Post-Baroque Classical	German
Carl Philipp Emanuel	Bach	1714	1788	Post-Baroque Early-Classical	German
Franz Joseph	Haydn	1732	1809	Classical	German
Johann Christian	Bach	1735	1782	Post-Baroque Early-Classical	German
Luigi	Boccherini	1743	1805	Classical	Italian
Muzio	Clementi	1752	1832	Classical	Italian
Giovanni Battista	Viotti	1755	1824	Classical	Italian
Wolfgang Amadeus	Mozart	1756	1791	Classical	German
Ludwig van	Beethoven	1770	1827	Classical PreRomantic	German
John	Field	1782	1837	PreRomantic	Irish
Nicolò	Paganini	1782	1840	PreRomantic	Italian
Karl Maria von	Weber	1786	1826	PreRomantic	German
Giacomo	Meyerbeer	1791	1864	Early-Romantic	German
Gioacchino	Rossini	1792	1868	Early-Romantic	Italian
Franz	Schubert	1797	1828	Classical Early-Romantic	German
Gaetano	Donizetti	1797	1848	Early-Romantic	Italian
Vincenzo	Bellini	1801	1835	Early-Romantic	Italian
Adolphe	Adam	1803	1856	Early-Romantic	French
Hector	Berlioz	1803	1869	Early-Romantic	French
Mikhail	Glinka	1804	1857	Early-Romantic	Russian
Felix	Mendelssohn	1809	1847	Early-Romantic	German
Robert	Schumann	1810	1856	Early-Romantic	German
Frédéric	Chopin	1810	1849	Early-Romantic	Polish
Franz	Liszt	1811	1886	Early-Romantic	Hungarian
Richard	Wagner	1813	1883	Early-Romantic	German
Giuseppe	Verdi	1813	1901	Early-Romantic	Italian
Charles François	Gounod	1818	1893	Early-Romantic	French
Jacques	Offenbach	1819	1880	Early-Romantic	French
César	Franck	1822	1890	Middle-Romantic	French
Edouard	Lalo	1823	1892	Middle-Romantic	French
Bedrich	Smetana	1824	1884	Middle-Romantic	Czech
Anton	Bruckner	1824	1896	Middle-Romantic	German
Johann	Strauss	1825	1899	Middle-Romantic	German
Johannes	Brahms	1833	1897	Middle-Romantic	German
Alexander	Borodin	1833	1887	Middle-Romantic	Russian
Camille	Saint~Saëns	1835	1921	Middle-Romantic	French
César	Cui	1835	1918	Middle-Romantic	Russian
Léo	Delibes	1836	1891	Middle-Romantic	French
Mily	Balakirev	1837	1910	Middle-Romantic	Russian
Georges	Bizet	1838	1875	Middle-Romantic	French
Max	Bruch	1838	1920	Middle-Romantic	German
Modest	Mussorgsky	1839	1881	Middle-Romantic	Russian
Peter Ilyitch	Tchaikovsky	1840	1893	Middle-Romantic	Russian
Antonin	Dvorák	1841	1904	Middle-Romantic	Czech
Emmanuel	Chabrier	1841	1894	Middle-Romantic	French
Jules	Massenet	1842	1912	Middle-Romantic	French
Edvard	Grieg	1843	1907	Middle-Romantic	Norwegian
Nikolai	Rimsky~Korsakov	1844	1908	Middle-Romantic	Russian
Gabriel	Fauré	1845	1924	Late-Romantic	French
Leos	Janácek	1854	1928	20th-Century	Czech
Ernest	Chausson	1855	1899	Late-Romantic	French
Sir Edward	Elgar	1857	1934	Late-Romantic	English
Ruggero	Leoncavallo	1858	1919	Late-Romantic	Italian
Giacomo	Puccini	1858	1924	Late-Romantic	Italian
Gustav	Mahler	1860	1911	Late-Romantic	German
Isaac	Albéniz	1860	1909	Late-Romantic	Spanish
Edward	MacDowell	1861	1908	Late-Romantic	American
Frederick	Delius	1862	1934	20th-Century	English
Claude	Debussy	1862	1918	20th-Century	French
Richard	Strauss	1864	1949	Late-Romantic	German
Carl	Nielsen	1865	1931	20th-Century	Danish
Jean	Sibelius	1865	1957	20th-Century	Finnish
Paul	Dukas	1865	1935	20th-Century	French
Alexander	Glazunov	1865	1936	Late-Romantic	Russian
Erik	Satie	1866	1925	20th-Century Neoclassical	French
Albert	Roussel	1869	1937	20th-Century Neoclassical	French
Ralph Vaughan	Williams	1872	1958	20th-Century	English
Max	Reger	1873	1916	20th-Century Neobaroque	German
Sergei	Rachmaninoff	1873	1943	20th-Century Neoromantic	Russian
Charles Edward	Ives	1874	1954	20th-Century	American
Gustav	Holst	1874	1934	20th-Century	English
Arnold	Schoenberg	1874	1951	20th-Century	German
Maurice	Ravel	1875	1937	20th-Century	French
Reinhold	Glière	1875	1956	20th-Century Neoromantic	Russian
Carl	Ruggles	1876	1971	20th-Century	American
Ermanno	Wolf-Ferrari	1876	1948	20th-Century	German-Italian
Manuel de	Falla	1876	1946	20th-Century	Spanish
Ernst von	Dohnanyi	1877	1960	20th-Century Neoromantic	Hungarian
Ottorino	Respighi	1879	1936	20th-Century	Italian
Béla	Bartók	1881	1945	20th-Century	Hungarian
Georges	Enesco	1881	1955	20th-Century	Romanian
Percy	Grainger	1882	1961	20th-Century	Australian
Zoltán	Kodály	1882	1967	20th-Century Neoromantic	Hungarian
Igor	Stravinsky	1882	1971	20th-Century	Russian
Edgar	Varèse	1883	1965	20th-Century	French-American
Anton	Webern	1883	1945	20th-Century	German
Charles Tomlinson	Griffes	1884	1920	20th-Century Impressionist	American
Wallingford	Riegger	1885	1961	20th-Century Experimentalist	American
Alban	Berg	1885	1935	20th-Century	German
Heitor	Villa-Lobos	1887	1959	20th-Century	Brazilian
Nadia	Boulanger	1887	1979	20th-Century	French
Sergei	Prokofiev	1891	1953	20th-Century	Russian
Darius	Milhaud	1892	1974	20th-Century Neoclassical	French
Arthur	Honegger	1892	1955	20th-Century Neoclassical	French-Swiss
Douglas	Moore	1893	1969	20th-Century	American
Walter	Piston	1894	1976	20th-Century	American
Paul	Hindemith	1895	1963	20th-Century	German
Carl	Orff	1895	1982	20th-Century	German
Howard	Hanson	1896	1981	20th-Century	American
Roger	Sessions	1896	1985	20th-Century	American
Henry	Cowell	1897	1965	20th-Century Experimentalist	American
George	Gershwin	1898	1937	20th-Century	American
Roy	Harris	1898	1979	20th-Century	American
Randall	Thompson	1899	1984	20th-Century	American
Francis	Poulenc	1899	1963	20th-Century Neoclassical	French
Georges	Auric	1899	1983	20th-Century Neoclassical	French
Carlos	Chávez	1899	1978	20th-Century	Mexican
Aaron	Copland	1900	1990	20th-Century	American
Kurt	Weill	1900	1950	20th-Century	German
Ruth Crawford	Seeger	1901	1953	20th-Century Experimentalist	American
William	Walton	1902	1983	20th-Century	English
Aram Il'yich	Khachaturian	1903	1978	20th-Century	Russian
Michael	Tippett	1905	1998	20th-Century	English
Andrè	Jolivet	1905	1974	20th-Century Neoprimitive	French
Dmitri	Shostakovich	1906	1975	20th-Century	Russian
Wolfgang	Fortner	1907	1987	20th-Century	German
Elliott	Carter	1908	Pres	20th-Century NewSounds	American
Olivier	Messiaen	1908	1992	20th-Century	French
William	Schuman	1910	1992	20th-Century NewSounds	American
John	Cage	1912	1992	20th-Century NewSounds	American
Benjamin	Britten	1913	1976	20th-Century	English
Milton	Babbitt	1916	Pres	20th-Century NewSounds	American
Leonard	Berstein	1918	1990	20th-Century	American
Iannis	Xenakis	1922	2001	20th-Century	Greek-French
Gyorgy	Ligeti	1923	2006	20th-Century	Hungarian
Pierre	Gyorgy	1923	2006	20th-Century	French
Hans Werner	Henze	1926	Pres	20th-Century	German
Karlheinz	Stockhausen	1928	Pres	20th-Century	German
Georges	Crumb	1929	Pres	20th-Century NewSounds	American
Krzysztof	Penderecki	1933	Pres	20th-Century	Polish
Peter Maxwell	Davies	1934	Pres	20th-Century	English
Philip	Glass	1937	Pres	20th-Century Minimalist	American
John	Tavener	1944	Pres	20th-Century	English
John	Adams	1947	Pres	20th-Century Minimalist	American

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