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Classical Music Composers

Notable classical music composers throughout history.

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Composer
Born
Died
Country
Philippe Verdelot1,552France
Wincenty of Kielcza1,2011,262Poland
Johannes Cesaris1,3011,401France
Francesco Landini1,3351,397Republic of Florence
Záviš of Zápy1,3501,411
John Dunstaple1,3901,454Kingdom of England
Piotr of Grudziądz1,3921,480Kingdom of Poland
Guillaume Dufay1,3971,474Kingdom of France
Johannes Brassart1,4001,455
Mikołaj Radomski1,4001,450Poland
Johannes Regis1,4251,496France
Antoine Busnois1,4301,492Kingdom of France
Firminus Caron1,430France
Heinrich Isaac1,4501,517County of Flanders
Philippe Basiron1,4501,491France
Juan Cornago1,4501,500Spain
Jacobus Barbireau1,4551,491France
Georg Liban1,464Poland
Richard Davy1,4651,507United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Andrea Antico1,4701,540Republic of Venice
Marchetto Cara1,4701,525Republic of Venice
Antonius Divitis1,4751,526
Adrian Willaert1,4801,562County of Flanders
Sebastian z Felsztyna1,4801,543Poland
Benedictus Appenzeller1,4801,558
Noel Bauldeweyn1,4801,530
Jean Richafort1,4801,547
Nikolaus Decius1,4851,546Holy Roman Empire
Clément Janequin1,4851,558France
Mikołaj z Chrzanowa1,4851,562Kingdom of Poland
Franciscus Bossinensis1,4851,535
Marco Antonio Cavazzoni1,4851,559Republic of Venice
Ludwig Senfl1,4861,543Prince-Bishopric of Basel
Nicolaus Cracoviensis1,4881,550Kingdom of Poland
Claudin de Sermisy1,4901,562France
Gregor Peschin1,5001,547
Francesco Corteccia1,5021,571
Jacquet de Berchem1,5051,565France
Thomas Crecquillon1,5051,557Habsburg Netherlands
Ghiselin Danckerts1,5101,565Habsburg Netherlands
Girolamo Cavazzoni1,5101,577
Juan Bermudo1,5101,565Spain
Pierre Certon1,5151,572France
Antonio Scandello1,5171,580
Wacław of Szamotuły1,5201,560Kingdom of Poland
Ludwig Daser1,5261,589Germany
Elias Ammerbach1,5301,597Holy Roman Empire
Guillaume Costeley1,5311,606France
Mikołaj Gomółka1,5351,609Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Marc'Antonio Ingegneri1,5351,592Republic of Venice
Esteban Daza1,5371,591Spain
Ghinolfo Dattari1,5371,617
Jakub Polak1,5401,605Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
William Byrd1,5431,623Kingdom of England
Eustache Du Caurroy1,5491,609France
Tomasz Szadek1,5501,612Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Wojciech Długoraj1,5501,619Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Francis Cutting1,5501,595England
Girolamo Diruta1,5541,610
Diomedes Cato1,5551,628Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Giovanni Gabrieli1,5571,612Republic of Venice
John Dowland1,5631,626Kingdom of England
Thomas Fritsch1,5631,619Germany
Kryštof Harant1,5641,621
Thomas Campion1,5671,620Kingdom of England
Adriano Banchieri1,5681,634
Wincenty Lilius1,5701,636Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
John Cooper1,5701,626United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Martin Peerson1,5721,651Kingdom of England
Andreas Hakenberger1,5741,627Germany
Stefano Bernardi1,5771,637Republic of Venice
Johann Stobäus1,5801,646Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Caterina Assandra1,5801,618
Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger1,5801,651Republic of Venice
Johann Staden1,5811,634Germany
Gregorio Allegri1,5821,652Papal States
Juan Bautista Comes1,5821,643Crown of Aragon
Orlando Gibbons1,5831,625Kingdom of England
Antoine Boësset1,5871,643France
Adam Jarzębski1,5901,648Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Francesco Manelli1,5941,667
Biagio Marini1,5941,663Republic of Venice
Tarquinio Merula1,5951,665
Marcin Mielczewski1,6001,651Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Franciszek Lilius1,6001,657Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Adam of Wągrowiec1,6001,629Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Marcin Gremboszewski1,6001,655Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Bartłomiej Pękiel1,6011,670Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Jacek Różycki1,6011,704Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Marco Scacchi1,6021,662
Heinrich Albert1,6041,651
Zacharias Zarevutius1,6051,667
Francesco Sacrati1,6051,650
William Child1,6061,697Kingdom of England
Leonora Baroni1,6111,670Papal States
Aldegonde Desmoulins1,6111,692France
Francesco Corbetta1,6151,681
Maurizio Cazzati1,6161,678Duchy of Mantua
Johann Erasmus Kindermann1,6161,655Holy Roman Empire
Kaspar Förster1,6161,673Germany
Henry Cooke1,6161,672United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Giuseppe Tricarico1,6231,697
Dietrich Becker1,6231,679Germany
Jacopo Melani1,6231,676
Jacques Gallot1,6251,690France
Giovanni Legrenzi1,6261,690Republic of Venice
Robert Cambert1,6281,677Kingdom of France
Gustaf Düben1,6281,690Sweden
Francesco Lucio1,6281,658Republic of Venice
Nikolay Diletsky1,6301,690Tsardom of Russia
Q9444921,6311,702France
Jean-Baptiste Lully1,6321,687Kingdom of France
Daniel Speer1,6361,707
Philipp Jakob Rittler1,6371,690
Pavel Josef Vejvanovský1,6391,693
Cristoforo Caresana1,6401,709Republic of Venice
Wolfgang Printz1,6411,717Germany
Johann Christoph Bach I1,6421,703Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
Mikuláš Wentzely1,6431,722
Johann Ambrosius Bach1,6451,695Germany
Andreas Werckmeister1,6451,706Germany
Giovanni Maria Capelli1,6481,726
Pascal Collasse1,6491,709France
Joachim Neander1,6501,680Holy Roman Empire
Benedykt Cichoszewski1,6501,738Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Romanus Weichlein1,6521,706
Johann Pachelbel1,6531,706Germany
Arcangelo Corelli1,6531,713Papal States
John Abell1,6531,724Kingdom of Great Britain
Michel Richard Delalande1,6571,726France
Jan Ignác František Vojta1,6571,701
Gaetano Greco1,6571,728Kingdom of Naples
Alessandro Scarlatti1,6601,725
Gottfried Finger1,6601,730
Johann Sigismund Kusser1,6601,727Holy Roman Empire
Antonio Martín y Coll1,6601,734Spain
Luigi Mancia1,660
Giuseppe Vignola1,6621,712
Nicolas Bernier1,6641,734France
Michele Mascitti1,6641,760France
Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre1,6651,729France
Nicolaus Vetter1,6661,734Germany
Johann Heinrich Buttstett1,6661,727Germany
Jean-Féry Rebel1,6661,747France
Kryštof Karel Gayer1,6681,734
Louis Marchand1,6691,732France
Turlough O'Carolan1,6701,738Ireland
František Ludvík Poppe1,6701,730
Antoine Forqueray1,6711,745France
Francesco Antonio Bonporti1,6721,749
Johann Christoph Kridel1,6721,733
Reinhard Keiser1,6741,739Germany
Pierre-César Abeille1,6741,740Kingdom of France
John Barrett1,6741,735
Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari1,6771,754Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Antonio Maria Bononcini1,6771,726Duchy of Modena and Reggio
William Croft1,6781,727Kingdom of Great Britain
Jan Dismas Zelenka1,6791,745Kingdom of Bohemia
Pietro Castrucci1,6791,752
Giuseppe Maria Buini1,6801,739
Giampaolo De Dominici1,6801,758
Giuseppe Matteo Alberti1,6851,751Papal States
George Frideric Handel1,6851,759Holy Roman Empire
Gunther Jacob1,6851,734
Georg Gebel1,6851,750Germany
Andrea Stefano Fiorè1,6861,732
Johann Balthasar Christian Freisslich1,6871,764Germany
Francesco Barsanti1,6901,772Kingdom of Great Britain
Francesco Ciampi1,690
Martin Berteau1,6911,771France
Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer1,6921,766Dutch Republic
Geminiano Giacomelli1,6921,740
František Antonín Míča1,6941,744
Johan Helmich Roman1,6941,758Swedish Empire
Ceslav Vanura1,6941,736
Václav Haas1,6941,768
Pietro Locatelli1,6951,764Republic of Venice
Pierre Février1,6961,760France
Jean-Marie Leclair1,6971,764France
Ignác Hubatka1,6971,745
František Jiránek1,6981,778
Gaetano Maria Schiassi1,6981,754
Tomáš Norbert Koutník1,6981,775
Jakob Adlung1,6991,762Germany
Giuseppe Ferdinando Brivio1,6991,758
Jakub Wachter1,7001,741
Francesco Brusa1,7001,768Republic of Venice
Giuseppe Carcani1,7031,779
František Tůma1,7041,774
Giovanni Battista Costanzi1,7041,778
Giovanni Battista Pescetti1,7041,766Republic of Venice
Giovanni Andrea Fioroni1,7041,778
Anton Habermann1,7041,787
Henri-Jacques de Croes1,7051,786Habsburg Netherlands
Rinaldo di Capua1,7051,780
Andrea Basili1,7051,777
Václav Matyáš Gurecký1,7051,743
Antonio Pampani1,7051,775
Andrea Bernasconi1,7061,784
František Václav Habermann1,7061,783
Václav Jan Kopřiva1,7081,789
Egidio Duni1,7081,775
Franz Benda1,7091,786Kingdom of Prussia
Carlo Cotumacci1,7091,785
Josef Antonín Gurecký1,7091,769
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach1,7101,784Holy Roman Empire
Josef Antonín Sehling1,7101,756
Pietro Pulli1,7101,759
Nicola Conti1,7101,754
Jean-Joseph de Mondonville1,7111,772France
Ignaz Holzbauer1,7111,783
Antonín Gerber1,7111,792
Lorenz Christoph Mizler1,7111,778Germany
Anton Jiránek1,7121,761
Silvestr Weltz1,7121,774
Karel Habermann1,7121,766
Jan Zach1,7131,773
Mateusz Zwierzchowski1,7131,768Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Johann Georg Benda1,7131,752
Nivard Sommer1,7131,758
Christoph Willibald von Gluck1,7141,787Kingdom of Bohemia
Václav Haan1,7141,765
Johann Friedrich Doles1,7151,797Germany
Antoine Dard1,7151,784Kingdom of France
Václav Vodička1,7151,774
Jacques Duphly1,7151,789France
Josef Seger1,7161,782
Jan Tomáš Kuzník1,7161,786
Johann Stamitz1,7171,757Electoral Palatinate
Pietro Chiarini1,7171,765
Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg1,7181,795Germany
Josef Schreier1,718Czech Republic
Lorenzo Gibelli1,7181,812
Jan Kasper Pierszynski1,7181,758Poland
Jan Krumlovský1,7191,763
Mateu Soler i Ramos1,7201,799
Johann Kirnberger1,7211,783Germany
Anton Neumann1,7211,776
Pietro Nardini1,7221,793Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Domenico Ferrari1,7221,780Habsburg monarchy
Gregorio Sciroli1,7221,781
Dismas Hataš1,7241,777
Jan Adam Galina1,7241,773
Jiří Ignác Linek1,7251,791
Georg Simon Loehlein1,7251,781Germany
Karl Kohaut1,7261,784
Joseph Anton Steffan1,7261,797
Emerich Václav Petřík1,7271,798
Johann Gottlieb Goldberg1,7271,756Kingdom of Prussia
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