Composers: Baroque, Classical, & Romantic  

Baroque 1600-1760

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)

George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)

Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741)

George Philipp Telemann (1681–1767)

Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1713)

Henry Purcell (1659–1695)

Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757)

Johann Pachelbel (1653–1706)

Classical 1730-1820

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Antonio Salieri (1750-1825)

Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)

Muzio Clementi (1752-1832)

Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805)

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)

Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782)

Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805

Gioachino Rossini  (1792-1868)

Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)

Early Romantic era composers (born 1800-1819)

Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)

Franz Liszt (1811–1886)

Johann Strauss I (1804–1849)

Hector Berlioz (1803–1869)

Middle Romantic era composers (born 1820-1839)

Anton Bruckner (1824–1896)

Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884)

Johann Strauss II (1825–1899)

Josef Strauss (1827–1870)

Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)

Georges Bizet (1838–1875)

Late Romantic era composers (born 1840-1859)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)

Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904)

Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908)

Leoš Janáček (1854–1928)

John Philip Sousa (1854–1932)

Edward Elgar (1857–1934)

Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924)

Romantic era/20th century transition composers (born 1860-1880)

Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)

Claude Debussy (1862–1918)

Richard Strauss (1864–1949)

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)

Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)