Chronicle of the composers
See also: Portal: Music , eras of music , music history , list of classical composers , ordered list of lists of composers by country , list of composers , list of jazz and improvisation musicians
Composers born until 1500
- around 810 - around 865 Kassia
- 1098–1179 Hildegard von Bingen
- around 1150 - around 1201 Léonin
- 1150 / 65-1200 / 25 Pérotin
- around 1170 - around 1230 Walther von der Vogelweide
- 1237–1286 Adam de la Halle
- 1291-1361 Philippe de Vitry
- 1300 / 05-1377 Guillaume de Machaut
- 1325-1397 Francesco Landini
- around 1395 - after 1457 Hermann Edlerawer
- around 1395 - 1441 Jacobus Vide
- before 1400 - 1474 Guillaume Dufay
- around 1400 - 1460 Gilles Binchois
- around 1420/25 - 1497 Johannes Ockeghem
- around 1445 - 1505 Adam von Fulda
- 1446 (1455/60) -1506 Alexander Agricola
- around 1450 - 1517 Heinrich Isaac
- 1450 / 55-1521 Josquin Desprez
- around 1455 - 1507/11 Johannes Ghiselin
- around 1455 - after 1517 Gaspar van Weerbeke
- 1457 / 58–1505 Jacob Obrecht
- around 1460 - after 1513 Antoine Brumel
- 1460 / 70-1518 Pierre de la Rue
- 1480 / 85–1527 / 32 Philippe Verdelot
- around 1490 - 1543 Ludwig Senfl
- around 1490 - 1562 Adrian Willaert
- 1490–1545 Costanzo Festa
- 1490-1545 John Taverner
- 1500–1553 Cristóbal de Morales
See also: early music , renaissance music
Composer born 1501–1600
- around 1505 - 1585 Thomas Tallis
- 1510–1566 Antonio de Cabezón
- around 1510/15 - after 1570 Tielman Susato
- 1514 / 15–1594 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
- 1515 / 16-1565 Cyprian de Rore
- around 1520 - 1565 Sigmund Hemmel
- 1521–1603 Philippe de Monte
- around 1530 - 1600 Claude Le Jeune
- 1532–1594 Orlando di Lasso
- 1532 / 33–1585 Andrea Gabrieli
- 1533-1604 Claudio Merulo
- 1543-1623 William Byrd
- around 1544 - after 1590 Maddalena Casulana Mezari
- 1545-1607 Luzzasco Luzzaschi
- 1548–1611 Tomás Luis de Victoria
- 1551-1618 Giulio Caccini
- 1553 / 54-1599 Luca Marenzio
- 1557-1613 Giovanni Gabrieli
- 1557 / 58-1602 Thomas Morley
- 1561-1633 Jacopo Peri
- 1562-1640 Giles Farnaby
- 1563-1626 John Dowland
- 1566-1613 Carlo Gesualdo
- 1567–1643 Christoph Demantius
- 1567-1643 Claudio Monteverdi
- 1568–1634 Adriano Banchieri
- around 1570 - around 1630 Salamone Rossi
- 1571–1630 Giovanni Battista Fontana
- 1571–1621 Michael Praetorius
- 1572-1656 Thomas Tomkins
- 1574-1638 John Wilbye
- 1575 - after 1646 Vittoria Raffaella Aleotti
- 1576–1623 Thomas Weelkes
- 1581–1634 Johann Staden
- 1582–1652 Gregorio Allegri
- 1583–1643 Girolamo Frescobaldi
- 1583-1625 Orlando Gibbons
- 1585–1672 Heinrich Schütz
- 1586–1630 Johann Hermann Schein
- 1587–1654 Samuel Scheidt
See also: early music , renaissance music
Composer born 1601–1700
- 1602–1676 Francesco Cavalli
- 1604–1651 Heinrich Albert
- 1604–1673 Johann Bach
- 1605-1674 Giacomo Carissimi
- 1611–1675 Andreas Hammerschmidt
- 1615–1692 Heinrich Bach
- around 1616 - 1674 Matthias Weckmann
- around 1617 - 1684 Johann Rosenmüller
- 1623–1680 Johann Heinrich Schmelzer
- around 1626 - 1661 Louis Couperin
- 1628–1665 Samuel Capricornus
- 1632–1687 Jean-Baptiste Lully
- 1632-1692 Giovanni Battista Vitali
- 1636–1707 Daniel Speer
- around 1637 - 1707 Dieterich Buxtehude
- 1641–1717 Wolfgang Caspar Printz
- 1642–1703 Johann Christoph Bach I
- around 1643 - 1704 Marc-Antoine Charpentier
- 1643–1722 Johann Adam Reincken
- 1644–1704 Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
- 1652-1724 John Abell
- 1652–1730 André Danican Philidor
- 1653–1713 Arcangelo Corelli
- 1653–1704 Georg Muffat
- 1653–1706 Johann Pachelbel
- 1655–1700 Johann Beer
- 1656-1728 Marin Marais
- 1657–1714 Philipp Heinrich Erlebach
- 1658–1709 Giuseppe Torelli
- 1659-1695 Henry Purcell
- around 1660 - 1741 Johann Joseph Fux
- around 1660 - 1707 Gaspard le Roux
- 1660–1722 Johann Kuhnau
- 1660-1725 Alessandro Scarlatti
- 1663-1745 Tomaso Antonio Vitali
- 1664-1760 Michele Mascitti
- 1665–1697 Nicolaus Bruhns
- 1668–1733 François Couperin
- 1671–1751 Tomaso Albinoni
- 1672 / 73–1751 Georg Caspar Schürmann
- around 1674 - 1707 Jeremiah Clarke
- 1674–1739 Reinhard Keizer
- 1675–1742 Evaristo Dall'Abaco
- 1676–1749 Johann Bernhard Bach the Elder
- 1678-1741 Antonio Vivaldi
- 1679–1745 Jan Dismas Zelenka
- 1681–1764 Johann Mattheson
- 1681–1767 Georg Philipp Telemann
- 1683–1764 Jean-Philippe Rameau
- 1684–1755 Francesco Durante
- 1684–1756 Johann Theodor Roemhildt
- 1685–1750 Johann Sebastian Bach
- 1685–1743 Lodovico Giustini
- 1685–1759 Georg Friedrich Handel
- 1685–1757 Domenico Scarlatti
- 1687–1762 Francesco Geminiani
- 1688–1758 Johann Friedrich Fasch
- around 1690 - after 1766 Carlo Tessarini
- 1690–1757 Fortunato Chelleri
- 1691–1761 Francesco Feo
- 1692–1770 Giuseppe Tartini
- 1696–1765 Johann Melchior Molter
- 1697–1773 Johann Joachim Quantz
- 1699–1783 Johann Adolph Hasse
- around 1700 - 1750 Antonio Brioschi
- 1700–1743 Johann Bernhard Bach the Younger
- 1700–1775 Giovanni Battista Sammartini
See also: early music , baroque music
Composer born 1701–1750
- 1703–1741 Joseph-Hector Fiocco
- 1703–1784 Johann Gottlieb Graun
- 1703–1755 Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer
- 1706–1785 Baldassare Galuppi
- 1706–1784 Giovanni Battista Martini
- 1708–1776 Johann Adolf Scheibe
- 1709–1789 Franz Xaver Richter
- 1709–1758 Wilhelmine von Bayreuth
- 1710–1784 Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
- 1710–1736 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
- 1711-1779 William Boyce
- 1712–1786 Friedrich II of Prussia
- 1712-1795 Sayat Nova
- 1712-1786 John Stanley
- 1713–1780 Johann Ludwig Krebs
- 1714–1788 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- 1714–1787 Christoph Willibald Gluck
- 1714–1785 Gottfried August Homilius
- 1715–1777 Georg Christoph Wagenseil
- 1717–1757 Johann Stamitz
- 1719–1787 Leopold Mozart
- 1720–1787 Bernhard Joachim Hagen
- 1722–1795 Georg Anton Benda
- 1723–1787 Carl Friedrich Abel
- 1727–1789 Armand-Louis Couperin
- 1728–1804 Johann Adam Hiller
- 1728–1788 Johann Gottfried Müthel
- 1728–1800 Niccolò Piccinni
- 1729–1777 Anton Cajetan Adlgasser
- 1729–1783 Antonio Soler
- around 1730–1790 Domenico Gallo (exact dates of life uncertain)
- 1730-1786 Antonio Sacchini
- 1732–1809 Joseph Haydn
- 1734–1829 François-Joseph Gossec
- 1737–1806 Michael Haydn
- 1739–1813 Johann Baptist Vanhal
- 1739/40 - after 1767 Anna Bon di Venezia
- 1740-1816 Giovanni Paisiello
- 1741-1813 André Grétry
- 1741–1801 Andrea Lucchesi
- 1741–1815 Johann Gottfried Wilhelm Palschau
- 1743-1805 Luigi Boccherini
- 1744–1812 Marianna Martines
- 1745–1777 Maxim Berezovsky
- 1745–1801 Carl Stamitz
- 1747–1775 Marian Paradeiser
- 1748–1797 Christoph Rheineck
- 1748–1823 Theodor von Schacht
- 1749-1801 Domenico Cimarosa
- 1750-1825 Antonio Salieri
- 1750–1789 Anton Stamitz
Composer born 1751–1800
- 1751-1825 Dmitri Bortnyansky
- 1752-1832 Muzio Clementi
- 1752–1814 Johann Friedrich Reichardt
- 1754–1825 Peter von Winter
- 1756–1792 Joseph Martin Kraus
- 1756–1791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- 1757-1831 Ignaz Pleyel
- 1757–1841 Alessandro Rolla
- 1758–1832 Carl Friedrich Zelter
- 1759–1833 Maria Rosa Coccia
- 1759–1831 Franz Krommer
- 1760–1842 Luigi Cherubini
- 1760–1812 Johann Ladislaus Dussek
- 1761–1838 Ludwig Abeille
- 1761-1800 Jewstignei Fomin
- 1762–1797 Carl Christian Agthe
- 1763–1826 Franz Danzi
- 1763–1845 Johann Simon Mayr
- 1764–1836 Hélène de Montgeroult
- 1765–1799 Johann Georg Distler
- 1766–1803 Franz Xaver Süßmayr
- 1767–1831 Joseph Ignaz Schnabel
- 1769–1843 Johann Georg Lickl
- 1770–1827 Ludwig van Beethoven
- 1770–1836 Anton Reicha
- 1770–1839 Jan August Vitásek
- 1771–1858 Johann Baptist Cramer
- 1772–1847 Johann Wilhelm Wilms
- 1773–1812 Joseph Wölfl
- 1774–1842 Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse
- 1775–1834 François-Adrien Boieldieu
- 1776-1822 ETA Hoffmann
- 1777–1839 Carl Ludwig Heinrich Berger
- 1778–1837 Johann Nepomuk Hummel
- 1778–1839 Fernando Sor
- 1779–1835 Ignaz Schuster
- 1780–1849 Conradin Kreutzer
- 1781-1858 Anton Diabelli
- 1781-1829 Mauro Giuliani
- 1782-1837 John Field
- 1782–1840 Niccolò Paganini
- 1783–1852 Georg Jakob Strunz
- 1784-1853 George Onslow
- 1784–1838 Ferdinand Ries
- 1784–1862 Leopold Schefer
- 1784-1859 Louis Spohr
- 1785–1869 Albert Methfessel
- 1786–1832 Friedrich Kuhlau
- 1786–1826 Carl Maria von Weber
- 1787-1851 Alexander Aljabjew
- 1788–1867 Simon Sechter
- 1789–1826 Friedrich Ernst Fesca
- 1789–1860 Friedrich Silcher
- 1790-1848 Niccolo Vaccai
- 1791–1857 Carl Czerny
- 1791–1864 Giacomo Meyerbeer
- 1791–1844 Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart
- 1792–1868 Gioacchino Rossini
- 1793–1832 Bernhard Klein
- 1794–1868 Anselm Hüttenbrenner
- 1795–1861 Heinrich Marschner
- 1796–1868 Franz Berwald
- 1796–1869 Carl Loewe
- 1797-1848 Gaetano Donizetti
- 1797–1828 Franz Schubert
- 1798–1870 Alexei Lwow
- 1798–1859 Carl Gottlieb Reissiger
- 1799–1862 Jacques Fromental Halévy
- 1799–1862 Alexei Werstowski
See also: Viennese Classic
Composer born 1801–1850
- 1801-1835 Vincenzo Bellini
- 1801-1858 Alexander Gurilev
- 1801–1866 Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda
- 1801-1851 Albert Lortzing
- 1802-1870 Charles-Auguste de Bériot
- 1803–1869 Hector Berlioz
- 1803–1890 Franz Lachner
- 1804-1857 Mikhail Glinka
- 1804–1849 Johann Strauss father
- 1805–1900 Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann
- 1806–1826 Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga
- 1807–1895 Ignaz Lachner
- 1808–1870 Michael William Balfe
- 1809–1847 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
- 1810–1836 Norbert Burgmüller
- 1810–1849 Frédéric Chopin
- 1810–1873 Ferdinand David
- 1810-1893 Ferenc Erkel
- 1810–1849 Otto Nicolai
- 1810-1856 Robert Schumann
- 1811–1893 Vinzenz Lachner
- 1811–1886 Franz Liszt
- 1812–1883 Friedrich von Flotow
- 1813–1869 Alexander Dargomyschski
- 1813–1888 Charles Valentin Alkan
- 1813–1901 Giuseppe Verdi
- 1813–1883 Richard Wagner
- 1814–1889 Adolf Henselt
- 1815-1892 Robert Franz
- 1815–1883 Robert Volkmann
- 1816–1876 August Wilhelm Ambros
- 1817–1907 Charles Dancla
- 1817-1893 Eduard Franck
- 1817–1890 Niels Wilhelm Gade
- 1818-1893 Charles Gounod
- 1819–1898 Louis Théodore Gouvy
- 1819–1880 Jacques Offenbach
- 1819–1896 Clara Schumann
- 1819–1895 Franz von Suppè
- 1820–1881 Henri Vieuxtemps
- 1821–1885 Friedrich Kiel
- 1822–1890 César Franck
- 1822–1882 Joachim Raff
- 1823-1892 Edouard Victor Antoine Lalo
- Bedřich Smetana from 1824–1884
- 1824–1896 Anton Bruckner
- 1824–1874 Peter Cornelius
- 1824–1910 Carl Reinecke
- 1825–1904 Richard Hol
- 1825–1899 Johann Strauss
- 1826–1871 Vincent Adler
- 1827–1870 Josef Strauss
- 1828–1897 Woldemar Bargiel
- 1829–1869 Louis Moreau Gottschalk
- 1829–1894 Anton Rubinstein
- 1830–1913 Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf
- 1830–1915 Karl Goldmark
- 1830–1911 Robert Radecke
- 1831–1907 Joseph Joachim
- 1832-1914 Ivan Zajc
- 1833-1887 Alexander Borodin
- 1833-1897 Johannes Brahms
- 1834–1886 Amilcare Ponchielli
- 1835–1918 César Cui
- 1835–1913 Felix Draeseke
- 1835–1918 Richard Faltin
- 1835–1914 before Jenko
- 1835–1881 Nikolai Rubinstein
- 1835–1921 Camille Saint-Saëns
- 1835–1880 Henryk Wieniawski
- 1836-1891 Léo Delibes
- 1836–1898 Emil Hartmann
- 1837-1910 Mili Balakirev
- 1837–1922 Hans Sommer
- 1837–1915 Émile Waldteufel
- 1838–1875 Georges Bizet
- 1838–1920 Max Bruch
- 1838–1910 Wendelin Weißheimer
- 1839–1881 Modest Mussorgsky
- 1839–1901 Josef Gabriel Rheinberger
- 1840–1876 Hermann Goetz
- 1840–1911 Johan Svendsen
- 1840-1893 Pyotr Tchaikovsky
- 1841-1894 Emmanuel Chabrier
- 1841–1904 Antonín Dvořák
- 1842–1912 Jules Massenet
- 1842–1899 Karl Millöcker
- 1842–1900 Arthur Sullivan
- 1843–1907 Edvard Grieg
- 1843–1923 Asger Hamerik
- 1843–1900 Heinrich von Herzogenberg
- 1844–1925 Eugène Gigout
- 1844–1908 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- 1844–1908 Pablo de Sarasate
- 1844–1937 Charles-Marie Widor
- 1845–1924 Gabriel Fauré
- 1846–1907 Ignaz Brüll
- 1847–1902 Joachim Andersen
- 1847–1927 Robert Fuchs
- 1847–1902 August Klughardt
- 1848–1918 Hubert Parry
- 1849-1895 Benjamin Godard
- 1849–1904 Arnold Krug
- 1850–1900 Zdeněk Fibich
- 1850–1918 Alexander Taneyev
Composer born 1851–1900
- 1851–1931 Vincent d'Indy
- 1852–1921 Hans Huber
- 1852-1924 Charles Villiers Stanford
- 1854-1893 Alfredo Catalani
- 1854–1931 George Chadwick
- 1854–1921 Engelbert Humperdinck
- 1854–1928 Leoš Janáček
- 1854-1932 John Philip Sousa
- 1854–1909 Francisco Tárrega
- 1855-1899 Ernest Chausson
- 1855–1914 Anatoly Lyadow
- 1856–1941 Christian Sinding
- 1856–1948 George Templeton Strong
- 1856–1915 Sergei Taneyev
- 1857–1944 Cécile Chaminade
- 1857–1934 Edward Elgar
- 1857–1941 Wilhelm Kienzl
- 1857-1919 Ruggero Leoncavallo
- 1858-1924 Giacomo Puccini
- 1858-1884 Hans Rott
- 1858-1944 Ethel Smyth
- 1858–1931 Eugène Ysaÿe
- 1859–1951 Josef Bohuslav Foerster
- 1859–1935 Michail Ippolitow-Ivanov
- 1859–1924 Sergei Lyapunow
- 1860–1909 Isaac Albéniz
- 1860–1956 Gustave Charpentier
- 1860-1908 Edward MacDowell
- 1860–1911 Gustav Mahler
- 1860–1945 Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek
- 1860–1903 Hugo Wolf
- 1860–1944 Felix Woyrsch
- 1861–1906 Anton Arensky
- 1861–1911 Wilhelm Berger
- 1861–1907 Ludwig Thuille
- 1862–1897 Léon Boëllmann
- 1862–1918 Claude Debussy
- 1862–1934 Frederick Delius
- 1862–1921 Alphons Diepenbrock
- 1863–1932 Hugo Kaun
- 1863–1945 Pietro Mascagni
- 1863–1937 Gabriel Pierné
- 1863–1948 Jāzeps Vītols
- 1864–1932 Eugen d'Albert
- 1864–1956 Alexander Grechaninov
- 1864–1935 Johan Halvorsen
- 1864–1949 Richard Strauss
- 1865–1935 Paul Dukas
- 1865–1936 Alexander Glasunow
- 1865–1931 Carl Nielsen
- 1865–1957 Jean Sibelius
- 1866–1931 Waldemar von Baußnern
- 1866–1924 Ferruccio Busoni
- 1866–1901 Vasily Kalinnikow
- 1866–1925 Erik Satie
- 1867-1944 Amy Beach
- 1867–1948 Umberto Giordano
- 1867–1916 Enrique Granados
- 1867-1917 Scott Joplin
- 1867–1950 Charles Koechlin
- 1867–1942 Wilhelm Peterson-Berger
- 1868-1946 Granville Bantock
- 1868–1933 Max von Schillings
- 1869–1949 Hans Pfitzner
- 1869–1937 Albert Roussel
- 1869–1935 Komitas Vardapet
- 1869–1930 Siegfried Wagner
- 1870–1943 Paul Büttner
- 1870–1939 Cornelis Dopper
- 1870-1960 Alfred Hill
- 1870–1948 Franz Lehár
- 1870-1894 Guillaume Lekeu
- 1870–1939 Charles Tournemire
- 1870–1937 Louis Vierne
- 1871–1950 Vojtěch Říhovský
- 1871–1927 Wilhelm Stenhammar
- 1871–1942 Alexander von Zemlinsky
- 1872–1960 Hugo Alfvén
- 1872–1944 Paul Graener
- 1872–1915 Alexander Scriabin
- 1872-1958 Ralph Vaughan Williams
- 1872–1956 Sergei Wassilenko
- 1873–1953 Joseph Jongen
- 1873–1949 Henri Rabaud
- 1873–1943 Sergei Rachmaninoff
- 1873–1916 Max Reger
- 1874–1934 Gustav Holst
- 1874-1954 Charles Ives
- 1874–1939 Franz Schmidt
- 1874–1951 Arnold Schönberg
- 1874–1935 Josef Suk
- 1875–1911 Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
- 1875–1912 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
- 1875–1956 Reinhold Glière
- 1875–1959 Albert Ketèlbey
- 1875–1962 Fritz Kreisler
- 1875–1937 Maurice Ravel
- 1875–1935 Richard Wetz
- 1876–1954 Hakon Børresen
- 1876–1972 Havergal Brian
- 1876–1963 Gustav Bumcke
- 1876–1946 Manuel de Falla
- 1876–1960 Christian Friedrich Koennecke
- 1876–1939 Ludolf Nielsen
- 1876–1971 Carl Ruggles
- 1876–1948 Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
- 1877–1960 Ernst von Dohnányi
- 1877–1957 Alexander Goedicke
- 1877–1933 Sigfrid Karg-Elert
- 1877–1899 Ernst Mielck
- 1878–1959 Fritz Brun
- 1878–1934 Franz Schreker
- 1879-1941 Frank Bridge
- 1879–1941 Philippe Gaubert
- 1879–1960 Joseph Haas
- 1879–1962 John Ireland
- 1879-1936 Ottorino Respighi
- 1879–1961 Johanna Senfter
- 1879–1950 Julius Weismann
- 1880–1959 Ernest Bloch
- 1880–1945 Rudolf Karel
- 1880–1951 Nikolai Medtner
- 1880–1968 Ildebrando Pizzetti
- 1880–1945 Ludwig Rochlitzer
- 1881–1945 Béla Bartók
- 1881–1955 George Enescu
- 1881-1984 Paul Le Flem
- 1881–1950 Nikolai Myaskovsky
- 1881–1948 Hermann Zilcher
- 1882–1967 Zoltán Kodály
- 1882–1973 Gian Francesco Malipiero
- 1882–1948 Manuel Ponce
- 1882–1951 Artur Schnabel
- 1882–1971 Igor Stravinsky
- 1882–1937 Karol Szymanowski
- 1882–1949 Joaquín Turina
- 1883-1953 Arnold Bax
- 1883–1946 Maximilian Steinberg
- 1883–1965 Edgar Varèse
- 1883–1945 Anton Webern
- 1884–1961 York Bowen
- 1885–1935 Alban Berg
- 1885–1948 Üzeyir Hacıbəyov
- 1885–1923 Dora Pejačević
- 1885–1974 Egon Wellesz
- 1886–1979 Rebecca Clarke
- 1886–1971 Marcel Dupré
- 1886–1954 Wilhelm Furtwängler
- 1886–1946 Heinrich Kaminski
- 1886–1957 Othmar Schoeck
- 1887–1974 Kurt Atterberg
- 1887–1947 Leevi Madetoja
- 1887–1971 Heinz Tiessen
- 1887–1964 Ernst Toch
- 1887–1971 Max Trapp
- 1887-1952 Fartein Valen
- 1887–1959 Heitor Villa-Lobos
- 1888–1982 Anatoly Alexandrov
- 1888–1928 Emil Bohnke
- 1888–1958 Gerard Bunk
- 1888–1976 Max Butting
- 1888–1979 Louis Durey
- 1889-1960 Cecil Armstrong Gibbs
- 1890–1987 Hans Gál
- 1890–1974 Frank Martin
- 1890–1959 Bohuslav Martinů
- 1891–1975 Arthur Bliss
- 1891–1959 Egon Kornauth
- 1891–1953 Sergei Prokofiev
- 1892–1955 Arthur Honegger
- 1892–1982 Philipp Jarnach
- 1892–1974 Darius Milhaud
- 1892–2002 Leo Ornstein
- 1892–1985 Hilding Rosenberg
- 1892–1988 Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
- 1892–1983 Germaine Tailleferre
- 1893–1952 Rued Langgaard
- 1893–1987 Frederic Mompou
- 1894–1979 Paul Dessau
- 1894–1950 Ernest John Moeran
- 1894–1976 Walter Piston
- 1894–1942 Erwin Schulhoff
- 1895–1968 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
- 1895–1977 Johann Nepomuk David
- 1895–1982 Jakov Gotovac
- 1895–1963 Paul Hindemith
- 1895–1991 Wilhelm Kempff
- 1895–1982 Carl Orff
- 1896–1973 Walter Abendroth
- 1896–1958 Eduard Erdmann
- 1897-1965 Henry Cowell
- 1897–1969 Ottmar Gerster
- 1897–1966 Hermann Heiss
- 1897–1957 Erich Wolfgang Korngold
- 1897–1992 Harald Sæverud
- 1898–1962 Hanns Eisler
- 1898–1937 George Gershwin
- 1898–1944 Viktor Ullmann
- 1899–1944 Hans Krása
- 1899–1963 Francis Poulenc
- 1899–1965 Otto Reinhold
- 1899-1965 Leo Spies
- 1899–1978 Pantscho Wladigerow
- 1899–2001 Grete von Zieritz
- 1900–1959 George Antheil
- 1900-1995 Alan Bush
- 1900–1990 Aaron Copland
- 1900–1955 Isaak Dunajewski
- 1900–1991 Ernst Krenek
- 1900–1973 Alexander Wassiljewitsch Mossolow
- 1900–1950 Kurt Weill
See also: Romantic music
Composer born 1901–1950
- 1901–1972 Hans Erich Apostel
- 1901-1983 Werner Egk
- 1901–1956 Gerald Finzi
- 1901-1970 Alfred Newman
- 1901-1999 Joaquín Rodrigo
- 1901-1986 Edmund Rubbra
- 1901–1953 Ruth Crawford Seeger
- 1902-1981 Hans Chemin-Petit
- 1902–1986 Maurice Duruflé
- 1902–1997 Paul Kurzbach
- 1902–1963 Vissarion Schebalin
- 1902–1981 Werner Trenkner
- 1902-1983 William Walton
- 1902–1972 Stefan Wolpe
- 1903–1978 Aram Khachaturyan
- 1903–1986 Stephan Cosacchi
- 1903–1996 Berthold Goldschmidt
- 1903-2006 Mykola Kolessa
- 1903–1978 Karl Kraft
- 1904–1977 Richard Addinsell
- 1904-1975 Luigi Dallapiccola
- 1904–1972 Balys Dvarionas
- 1904–1987 Dmitri Kabalewski
- 1904–1972 Gavriil Popov
- 1904–1984 Hermann Schroeder
- 1904–1985 Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling
- 1904–1973 Kurt Thomas
- 1905–1977 Otto Abel
- 1905-1985 William Alwyn
- 1905-1992 Boris Arapov
- 1905–1963 Karl Amadeus Hartmann
- 1905–1956 Erich Itor Kahn
- 1905–1942 Walter Leigh
- 1905–1988 Ernst Hermann Meyer
- 1905–1971 Alan Rawsthorne
- 1905-1998 Michael Tippett
- 1905–1982 Eduard Tubin
- 1906-2005 Arnold Cooke
- 1906–1985 Paul Creston
- 1906–1989 Philip Herschkowitz
- 1906–1983 Jānis Ivanovs
- 1906-1976 Sara Lewina
- 1906–1990 Peter Mieg
- 1906–1984 Alexander Moyzes
- 1906–1991 Boris Papandopulo
- 1906–1975 Dmitri Shostakovich
- 1906–1973 Johannes Paul Thilman
- 1907–1987 Wolfgang Fortner
- 1907–1987 Karl Höller
- 1907–1991 Jean Langlais
- 1907–1978 Curt Mahr
- 1907–1974 Martin Scherber
- 1908-2012 Elliott Carter
- 1908–1942 Hugo Distler
- 1908–1956 Gunnar de Frumerie
- 1908-2000 Marin Goleminov
- 1908–1994 Kurt Hessenberg
- 1908–1956 Lars-Erik Larsson
- 1908–1976 Nina Makarova
- 1908–1992 Olivier Messiaen
- 1908–1989 Aleida Montijn
- 1908–1990 Nikolai Rakow
- 1908–1981 Geirr Tveitt
- 1909–2007 Harald Genzmer
- 1909-1996 Vagn Holmboe
- 1909–1977 Heinz Röttger
- 1909–2007 Kurt Schwaen
- 1909–2000 Ādolf's sculptures
- 1909–1994 Ignace Strasfogel
- 1910–1981 Samuel Barber
- 1910–1988 Yevgeny Golubew
- 1911–1985 Gábor Darvas
- 1911-2000 Alan Hovhaness
- 1911-2007 Gian Carlo Menotti
- 1911-1980 Allan Pettersson
- 1911–1979 Nino Rota
- 1912-1992 John Cage
- 1912–1992 Parashkew Chadschiev
- 1912–1997 Jean Françaix
- 1912-2004 Volker Gwinner
- 1912-1983 Igor Markevitch
- 1912–1978 Vadim Salmanov
- 1913-1996 George Barati
- 1913–1988 Cesar Bresgen
- 1913–1976 Benjamin Britten
- 1913-2007 Tikhon Khrennikov
- 1913–1998 Johann Cilenšek
- 1913-1998 George Lloyd
- 1913–1994 Witold Lutosławski
- 1913–1995 Aleksi Matschawariani
- 1914–2002 Hermann Haller
- 1914–1996 Rafael Kubelík
- 1914–1991 Andrzej Panufnik
- 1915-2005 David Diamond
- 1915-2005 Kurt Graunke
- 1915–1945 Nico Richter
- 1915–1998 Georgi Swiridow
- 1916-2013 Henri Dutilleux
- 1916–2005 Helmut Eder
- 1916–1999 Einar Englund
- 1916-1983 Alberto Ginastera
- 1916–2000 Karl-Rudi Griesbach
- 1916-2007 Hans Martin
- 1916–2005 Weli Muhadow
- 1916–1995 Nikolai Peiko
- 1916–1944 Zikmund Schul
- 1916-1983 Bernard Stevens
- 1917-2011 John Gardner
- 1918–2010 Jürg Baur
- 1918–1990 Leonard Bernstein
- 1918-1982 Qara Qarayev
- 1918-2005 George Rochberg
- 1919–1945 Gideon Klein
- 1919–1996 Mieczysław Weinberg
- 1920–2012 Alexander Arutjunjan
- 1920–1990 Peter Racine Fricker
- 1920–1999 Rudolf Halaczinsky
- 1920–2001 Gerhard Wohlgemuth
- 1921-2006 Malcolm Arnold
- 1921–1983 Arno Babadschanjan
- 1921–1998 Johannes Driessler
- 1921–1984 Fritz Geissler
- 1921–1996 Joonas Kokkonen
- 1921–1992 Astor Piazzolla
- 1921-1997 Robert Simpson
- 1922–1984 Fikret Amirow
- 1922-2015 Gérard Calvi
- 1922–1966 German Galynin
- 1922-2001 Iannis Xenakis
- 1923-2006 György Ligeti
- 1924-1976 Rewol Bunin
- 1924-1994 Henry Mancini
- 1924–1990 Luigi Nono
- 1924–1998 Dieter Nowka
- 1924–1989 Otar Taktakishvili
- 1925-2003 Luciano Berio
- 1925-2016 Pierre Boulez
- 1925-2004 Marius Constant
- 1925–2015 Andrei Eschpai
- 1925–2002 Bertold Hummel
- 1925–2009 Giselher Klebe
- 1925– Mikis Theodorakis
- 1925–1996 Boris Tchaikovsky
- 1926-2010 Georg Espitalier
- 1926-1987 Morton Feldman
- 1926–2012 Hans Werner Henze
- 1926– György Kurtág
- 1926–2007 Ruth Zechlin
- 1927– Wolfgang Hohensee
- 1927–2017 Wilhelm Killmayer
- 1928–2008 Frank Michael Beyer
- 1928–1971 Manfred Kluge
- 1928-2020 Ennio Morricone
- 1928-2016 Einojuhani Rautavaara
- 1928–2007 Karlheinz Stockhausen
- 1928–2002 Yevgeny Svetlanov
- 1929–1996 Edisson Denissow
- 1929-2004 Jerry Goldsmith
- 1929-2014 Peter Sculthorpe
- 1929–2014 Gerd Zacher
- 1930–1998 Edgar Howhannisjan
- 1930–2009 Günter Kochan
- 1930– Siegfried Kurz
- 1930–2011 Horst Mühlbradt
- 1930–1995 Alexander Pirumov
- 1930–2018 Dieter Schnebel
- 1931–2002 Rostislaw Boiko
- 1931– Sofia Gubaidulina
- 1931-2008 Mauricio Kagel
- 1932– Jaan Rääts
- 1932 - John Williams
- 1933-2011 John Barry
- 1933-2000 Nodar Gabunia
- 1933-2010 Henryk Mikołaj Górecki
- 1933–2020 Krzysztof Penderecki
- 1933-2020 Karl Reinberger
- 1934– Oskar Gottlieb Blarr
- 1934-2016 Peter Maxwell Davies
- 1934– Siegfried Matthus
- 1934–1998 Alfred Schnittke
- 1935– Helmut Lachenmann
- 1935– Arvo Pärt
- 1935 - Terry Riley
- 1936-1981 Cornelius Cardew
- 1936–2003 Augustinus Franz Kropfreiter
- 1936-2019 Colin Mawby
- 1936– Steve Reich
- 1936–2019 Hans Zender
- 1937 - Keiko Abe
- 1937 - Philip Glass
- 1937– Rolf Riehm
- 1937–2005 Eduard Schafranski
- 1938 - Gloria Coates
- 1938– John Corigliano
- 1938– Robert Maximilian Helmschrott
- 1938–2015 Bernd Wiesemann
- 1939–2010 Boris Tishchenko
- 1940–2006 Dieter Acker
- 1940-2004 Juraj Beneš
- 1940 - Vladimir Cosma
- 1940–2010 Hans Ulrich Humpert
- 1940-2006 Tilo Medek
- 1940–1979 Vaqif Mustafazadə
- 1941-1992 Stephen Albert
- 1941–2009 Friedrich Goldmann
- 1941– Wilfried Hiller
- 1941–2012 Emmanuel Nunes
- 1942–2020 Volker David Kirchner
- 1942– Paul McCartney
- 1943–2013 Helge Jung
- 1943– Udo Zimmermann
- 1944 - Christopher Gunning
- 1944– Karl Jenkins
- 1944–2008 Pehr Henrik Nordgren
- 1944-2013 John Tavener
- 1945– Robert Denhof
- 1946–1998 Gérard Grisey
- 1946– Howard Shore
- 1946–2001 Giuseppe Sinopoli
- 1946– Mark Snow
- 1947 - John Adams
- 1947– Before that, Kempf
- 1947- Grażyna Pstrokonska-Nawratil
- 1947– Martin Christoph Redel
- 1948–2012 Theo Brandmüller
- 1948– Heinz Chur
- 1948– Bo Holten
- 1949 - Kalevi Aho
- 1949– Thomas Meyer-Fiebig
- 1949–2013 Thomas Schmidt-Kowalski
- 1950 - Andrei Golowin
- 1950-2016 Michel Meynaud
- 1950– Enjott Schneider
- 1950– Carl Verbraeken
See also: New Music , Serial Music
Composer born from 1951
- 1951 - David Graham
- 1952– Max Beckschäfer
- 1952– Heiner Goebbels
- 1952– Franz Martin Olbrisch
- 1952– Wolfgang Rihm
- 1953– Franz Thürauer
- 1953– Hans-Jürgen von Bose
- 1953 - Violeta Dinescu
- 1953– Volker Plangg
- 1953–1997 Uladsimir Soltan
- 1954 - Michael Daugherty
- 1953– Xaver Paul Thoma
- 1955– Michael Denhoff
- 1955– Toshio Hosokawa
- 1955– Friedemann Schmidt-Mechau
- 1955– Andreas Stahl
- 1956 - Tom Sora
- 1957 - Claus Kühnl
- 1957– Detlev Müller-Siemens
- 1957– Markus Stockhausen
- 1957– Hans Zimmer
- 1958 - Marco Di Bari
- 1958 - Oscar van Dillen
- 1958-2017 Michael Hirsch
- 1958– Christophe Looten
- 1959 - James MacMillan
- 1959 - John Palmer
- 1959– Ratko Delorko
- 1959– Stefan Heucke
- 1959– Frank Luchs
- 1959– Bernd Franke
- 1959 - Shigeru Kan-no
- 1959 - Marco Stroppa
- 1960– Reso Kiknadze
- 1960– Hanspeter Kyburz
- 1960– Steffen Schleiermacher
- 1961 - Carlos Stella
- 1961– Helmut Oehring
- 1961– Ludger Stühlmeyer
- 1962 - Rudi Spring
- 1962– Wolfram Wagner
- 1962 - Graham Waterhouse
- 1963 - Nikolaus Schapfl
- 1964 - Mark Andre
- 1964 - Ivan Moody
- 1965– Moritz Eggert
- 1965– Rozalie Hirs
- 1965– Wolfram Graf
- 1965– Juri Khanon
- 1966 - Dragomir Josifov
- 1966– Juliane Klein
- 1967– Klaus Badelt
- 1967– Jens Josef
- 1967– Roman Z. Novak
- 1967– Daniel Theaker
- 1968– Christian Frank
- 1968– Boris Guckelsberger
- 1968– Sven Helbig
- 1969– Enno Poppe
- 1970– Reiko Füting
- 1970– Pyotr Klimov
- 1970– Fazıl Say
- 1970– Robert Brunnlechner
- 1970– Eric Whitacre
- 1971– Matthias Pintscher
- 1973– Robert Gulya
- 1973– Arno Waschk
- 1973– Jörg Widmann
- 1973– Joanna Wozny
- 1974 - Uri Brener
- 1974 - Ramin Djawadi
- 1974 - Bruno Mantovani
- 1975– David Philip Hefti
- 1975 - Rami Chahin
- 1976– Daniel Smutny
- 1977– Mason Bates
- 1977– Eres wood
- 1977– Frederik Magle
- 1979 - Dario Cebic
- 1980– Johannes Kreidler
- 1980 - Dobrinka Tabakova
- 1983– Martin Grütter
- 1984– Christian Lillinger
Graphic overview
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