List of classical music composers by era
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This is a list of classical music composers by era.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> With the exception of the overview, the Modernist era has been combined with the Postmodern. Composers with a career spanning across more than one time period are colored in between their two respective eras.
Overview
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Preset = TimeHorizontal_AutoPlaceBars_UnitYear
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id:ren value:rgb(0.88,1,1) legend:Renaissance
id:transbar value:rgb(0.815,1,0.875)
id:bar value:rgb(0.75,1,0.75) legend:Baroque
id:transcla value:rgb(0.875,1,0.75)
id:cla value:rgb(1,1,0.75) legend:Classical
id:transrom value:rgb(1,0.85,0.75)
id:rom value:rgb(1,0.75,0.75) legend:Romantic
id:transmod value:rgb(1,0.75,0.5)
id:mod value:rgb(1,0.75,0) legend:Modernist
id:transpos value:rgb(1,0.525,0.4)
id:pos value:rgb(1,0.3,0.8) legend:Post-1945
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- BackgroundColors = canvas:tan2
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at:1600 color:darkGray layer:back
at:1700 color:darkGray layer:back
at:1800 color:darkGray layer:back
at:1900 color:darkGray layer:back
at:2000 color:darkGray layer:back
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from:1130 till:1200 color:Med text:Bernart
from:1135 till:1201 color:Med text:Léonin
from:1160 till:1230 color:Med text:Pérotin
from:1170 till:1230 color:Med text:Walther
from:1180 till:1207 color:Med text:Raimbaut
from:1245 till:1306 color:Med text:Adam
from:1291 till:1361 color:Med text:Philippe from:1300 till:1377 color:Med text:Machaut from:1325 till:1397 color:Med text:Landini from:1370 till:1412 color:Med text:Ciconia
from:1380 till:1445 color:transren text:Power from:1390 till:1453 color:transren text:Dunstaple
barset:break from:1400 till:1474 color:Ren text:Du Fay
from:1400 till:1460 color:Ren text:Binchois
from:1415 till:1497 color:Ren text:Ockeghem
from:1430 till:1492 color:Ren text:Busnois
from:1435 till:1511 color:Ren text:Tinctoris
from:1445 till:1506 color:Ren text:Agricola
from:1450 till:1521 color:Ren text:Josquin
from:1450 till:1517 color:Ren text:Isaac
from:1452 till:1518 color:Ren text:La Rue
from:1457 till:1505 color:Ren text:Obrecht
from:1475 till:1558 color:Ren text:Janequin
from:1490 till:1545 color:Ren text:Taverner
from:1490 till:1562 color:Ren text:Willaert
from:1495 till:1560 color:Ren text:Gombert
from:1500 till:1555 color:Ren text:Morales
from:1505 till:1585 color:Ren text:Tallis
from:1507 till:1568 color:Ren text:Arcadelt
from:1525 till:1594 color:Ren text:Palestrina
from:1532 till:1594 color:Ren text:Lassus
from:1543 till:1623 color:transbar text:Byrd
from:1548 till:1611 color:transbar text:Victoria
from:1551 till:1618 color:transbar text:Caccini
from:1554 till:1612 color:transbar text:G Gabrieli
from:1562 till:1621 color:transbar text:Sweelinck
from:1563 till:1626 color:transbar text:Dowland from:1566 till:1613 color:transbar text:Gesualdo
barset:break
from:1567 till:1643 color:transbar text:Monteverdi
from:1570 till:1601 color:Ren text:Farmer
from:1571 till:1621 color:transbar text:Praetorius
from:1585 till:1672 color:Bar text:Schütz
from:1602 till:1676 color:Bar text:Cavalli
from:1616 till:1667 color:Bar text:Froberger
from:1632 till:1687 color:Bar text:Lully
from:1637 till:1707 color:Bar text:Buxtehude
from:1643 till:1704 color:Bar text:Charpentier
from:1653 till:1713 color:Bar text:Corelli
from:1653 till:1706 color:Bar text:Pachelbel
from:1659 till:1695 color:Bar text:Purcell
from:1660 till:1725 color:Bar text:A Scarlatti
from:1668 till:1733 color:Bar text:F Couperin
from:1671 till:1751 color:Bar text:Albinoni
from:1678 till:1741 color:Bar text:Vivaldi
from:1681 till:1764 color:transcla text:Mattheson
from:1681 till:1767 color:Bar text:Telemann
from:1683 till:1764 color:Bar text:Rameau
from:1685 till:1750 color:Bar text:JS Bach
from:1685 till:1757 color:Bar text:D Scarlatti
from:1685 till:1759 color:Bar text:Handel
from:1699 till:1783 color:transcla text:Hasse
from:1700 till:1775 color:transcla text:Sammartini
from:1710 till:1736 color:Bar text:Pergolesi
from:1714 till:1787 color:Cla text:Gluck
from:1714 till:1788 color:transcla text:CPE Bach
from:1717 till:1750 color:transcla text:Monn
from:1717 till:1757 color:transcla text:J Stamitz
from:1729 till:1783 color:transcla text:Soler
from:1732 till:1809 color:Cla text:Haydn
from:1735 till:1782 color:Cla text:JC Bach
from:1739 till:1799 color:Cla text:Dittersdorf
from:1743 till:1805 color:Cla text:Boccherini
from:1745 till:1801 color:Cla text:C Stamitz
from:1745 till:1799 color:Cla text:Saint-Georges
from:1750 till:1825 color:Cla text:Salieri
from:1752 till:1832 color:Cla text:Clementi
from:1756 till:1791 color:Cla text:Mozart
from:1756 till:1792 color:Cla text:JM Kraus
from:1761 till:1842 color:transrom text:Cherubini
from:1770 till:1836 color:transrom text:Reicha
barset:break
from:1770 till:1827 color:transrom text:Beethoven
from:1778 till:1839 color:transrom text:Sor
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from:1782 till:1840 color:Rom text:Paganini
from:1786 till:1826 color:Rom text:Weber
from:1791 till:1857 color:transrom text:Czerny
from:1792 till:1868 color:transrom text:Rossini
from:1797 till:1828 color:transrom text:Schubert
from:1797 till:1848 color:Rom text:Donizetti
from:1801 till:1835 color:Rom text:Bellini
from:1803 till:1869 color:Rom text:Berlioz
from:1804 till:1857 color:Rom text:Glinka
from:1809 till:1847 color:Rom text:Mendelssohn
from:1810 till:1849 color:Rom text:Chopin
from:1810 till:1856 color:Rom text:R Schumann
from:1811 till:1886 color:Rom text:Liszt
from:1813 till:1883 color:Rom text:Wagner
from:1813 till:1901 color:Rom text:Verdi
from:1819 till:1880 color:Rom text:Offenbach
from:1819 till:1896 color:Rom text:C Schumann
from:1822 till:1890 color:Rom text:Franck
from:1824 till:1884 color:Rom text:Smetana
from:1824 till:1896 color:Rom text:Bruckner
from:1825 till:1899 color:Rom text:J Strauss II
from:1833 till:1897 color:Rom text:Brahms
from:1833 till:1887 color:Rom text:Borodin
from:1835 till:1921 color:Rom text:Saint-Saëns
from:1838 till:1920 color:Rom text:Bruch
from:1838 till:1875 color:Rom text:Bizet
from:1839 till:1881 color:Rom text:Mussorgsky from:1840 till:1893 color:Rom text:Tchaikovsky
from:1841 till:1904 color:Rom text:Dvořák
from:1842 till:1912 color:Rom text:Massenet
from:1843 till:1907 color:Rom text:Grieg
from:1844 till:1908 color:Rom text:Rimsky-Korsakov
from:1845 till:1924 color:transmod text:Fauré
from:1857 till:1934 color:Rom text:Elgar
from:1858 till:1924 color:Rom text:Puccini
from:1860 till:1909 color:transmod text:Albéniz
from:1860 till:1911 color:transmod text:Mahler
barset:break
from:1862 till:1918 color:Mod text:Debussy
from:1864 till:1949 color:transmod text:R Strauss
from:1865 till:1957 color:transmod text:Sibelius
from:1866 till:1925 color:Mod text:Satie from:1867 till:1916 color:Rom text:Granados
from:1868 till:1903 color:Rom text:Joplin
from:1872 till:1915 color:transmod text:Scriabin
from:1872 till:1958 color:transmod text:Vaughan Williams
from:1873 till:1943 color:Rom text:Rachmaninoff
from:1874 till:1951 color:Mod text:Schoenberg
from:1874 till:1934 color:transmod text:Holst
from:1874 till:1954 color:Mod text:Ives
from:1875 till:1937 color:Mod text:Ravel
from:1876 till:1946 color:Mod text:de Falla
from:1881 till:1945 color:Mod text:Bartók
from:1882 till:1971 color:Mod text:Stravinsky
from:1883 till:1945 color:Mod text:Webern
from:1885 till:1935 color:Mod text:Berg
from:1883 till:1965 color:Mod text:Varèse
from:1891 till:1953 color:Mod text:Prokofiev
from:1895 till:1963 color:Mod text:Hindemith
from:1898 till:1937 color:Mod text:Gershwin
from:1899 till:1963 color:Mod text:Poulenc
from:1900 till:1990 color:transpos text:Copland
from:1906 till:1975 color:Mod text:Shostakovich
from:1908 till:2012 color:transpos text:Carter
from:1908 till:1992 color:transpos text:Messiaen
from:1910 till:1981 color:transpos text:Barber
from:1912 till:1992 color:transpos text:Cage
from:1913 till:1976 color:transpos text:Britten from:1913 till:1994 color:transpos text:Lutosławski
from:1916 till:2011 color:transpos text:Babbitt
from:1922 till:2001 color:transpos text:Xenakis
from:1923 till:2006 color:transpos text:Ligeti
from:1925 till:2016 color:transpos text:Boulez
from:1926 till:1987 color:transpos text:Feldman
from:1928 till:2007 color:transpos text:Stockhausen
from:1929 till:2022 color:transpos text:Crumb
from:1931 till:2024 color:transpos text:Gubaidulina
from:1933 till:2020 color:transpos text:Penderecki
from:1933 till:2010 color:transpos text:Górecki
from:1934 till:1998 color:transpos text:Schnittke from:1934 till:2022 color:transpos text:Birtwistle
from:1935 till:2024 color:transpos text:Lachenmann
from:1935 till:2024 color:pos text:Pärt
from:1936 till:2024 color:pos text:Reich
from:1937 till:2024 color:pos text:Glass
from:1939 till:2021 color:pos text:L Andriessen
from:1943 till:2024 color:pos text:Ferneyhough
from:1947 till:2024 color:pos text:Adams
from:1952 till:2023 color:pos text:Saariaho
from:1952 till:2024 color:pos text:Rihm
from:1961 till:2024 color:pos text:Chin
from:1968 till:2024 color:pos text:O Neuwirth from:1971 till:2024 color:pos text:Adès
</timeline>
Medieval era
See List of Medieval composers and Medieval music.
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</timeline>
Renaissance era
See List of Renaissance composers and Renaissance music.
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- from:1520 till:1580 text:"Gerard van Turnhout" #no article
from:1525 till:1594 text:"Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina" color:ita $bold from:1528 till:1595 text:"Francisco Guerrero" color:esp from:1528 till:1601 text:"Costanzo Porta" color:ita from:1530 till:1600 text:"Claude Le Jeune" color:ff from:1532 till:1594 text:"Orlande de Lassus" color:ff $bold from:1533 till:1586 text:"Andrea Gabrieli" color:ita from:1536 till:1596 text:"Giaches de Wert" color:ff
- from:1540 till:1603 text:"Johannes de Fossa" #no article
- from:1543 till:1575 text:"Ivo de Vento" #no article
from:1543 till:end text:"William Byrd" color:eng $bold #till 1623
- from:1543 till:1594 text:"Balduin Hoyoul" #no article
from:1545 till:end text:"Luzzasco Luzzaschi" color:ita #till 1607 from:1548 till:end text:"Tomás Luis de Victoria" color:esp $bold #till 1611 from:1549 till:end text:"Giovanni de Macque" color:ff from:1553 till:1599 text:"Luca Marenzio" color:ita from:1555 till:end text:"Alonso Lobo" color:esp #till 1617 from:1557 till:1602 text:"Thomas Morley" color:eng from:1557 till:end text:"Giovanni Gabrieli" color:ita $bold #till 1612 from:1560 till:end text:"Hieronymus Praetorius" color:de #till 1629 from:1561 till:1596 text:"Philippe Rogier" color:ff from:1561 till:end text:"Carlo Gesualdo" color:ita #till 1613 from:1563 till:end text:"John Dowland" color:eng #till 1626 from:1564 till:end text:"Hans Leo Hassler" color:de #till 1612 from:1566 till:end text:"Gaspar Fernandes" color:esp #till 1629 from:1567 till:end text:"Thomas Campion" color:eng $bold #till 1620 from:1567 till:end text:"Claudio Monteverdi" color:ita $bold #till 1643 from:1570 till:end text:"John Cooper" color:eng #till 1626 from:1571 till:end text:"Michael Praetorius" color:de from:1583 till:end text:"Orlando Gibbons" color:eng #till 1625
</timeline>
Baroque era
See List of Baroque composers and Baroque music.
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Classical era
See List of Classical era composers and Classical period (music).
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Romantic era
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20th century/contemporary/modern/postmodern
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21st century/postmodern
References
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- History of music
- List of composers by name
- Lists of composers
- List of burial places of classical musicians
- Women in Music
- List of best-selling sheet music