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The Romantic era of Western Classical music spanned the 19th century to the early 20th century, encompassing a variety of musical styles and techniques. Part of the broader Romanticism movement of Europe, Ludwig van Beethoven, Gioachino Rossini and Franz Schubert are often seen as the dominant transitional figures composers from the preceding Classical era. Many composers began to channel nationalistic themes, such as Mikhail Glinka, The Five and Belyayev circle in Russia; Frédéric Chopin in Poland; Carl Maria von Weber and Heinrich Marschner in Germany; Edvard Grieg in Norway; Jean Sibelius in Finland; Giuseppe Verdi in Italy; Carl Nielsen in Denmark; Pablo de Sarasate in Spain; Ralph Vaughan Williams and Edward Elgar in England; Mykola Lysenko in Ukraine; and Bedřich Smetana and Antonín Dvořák in what is now the Czech Republic.
A European-wide debate took place, particularly in Germany, on what the ideal course of music was, following Beethoven's death. The New German School—primarily Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner—promoted progressive ideas, in opposition to more conservative composers such as Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann.
Note that this list is purely chronological, and includes a substantial number of composers, especially those born after 1860, whose works cannot be conveniently classified as "Romantic", or those whose early compositions did begin in the Romantic style but later developed beyond it in the 20th century.
Name | Date born | Date died | Nationality | Comments |
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Ludwig van Beethoven | 1770 | 1827 | German | composer and pianist, regarded by many as the first Romantic-era composer, most famous for Symphony No. 5 and Für Elise among others |
Ferdinando Carulli | 1770 | 1841 | Italian | composer for the guitar, wrote concertos and chamber music |
Édouard Du Puy | 1770 | 1822 | Swiss | composer, singer, director and violinist |
Peter Hänsel | 1770 | 1831 | German-Austrian | composer and violinist |
James Hewitt | 1770 | 1827 | American | composer, conductor and music publisher |
Anton Reicha | 1770 | 1836 | Czech-French | composer who experimented with irregular time signatures in his keyboard fugues, composed a large number of significant works for wind quintet |
Christian Heinrich Rinck | 1770 | 1846 | German | composer and organist |
Jan August Vitásek | 1770 | 1839 | Bohemian | composer |
Friedrich Witt | 1770 | 1836 | German | composer and cellist |
Johann Baptist Cramer | 1771 | 1858 | English | musician of German origin |
Ferdinando Paer | 1771 | 1839 | Italian | composer |
Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia | 1772 | 1806 | German | member of the Prussian royal family, soldier, and composer. At the time of his premature death in the Battle of Saalfeld, he left behind 13 published works, many of which are imbued with a greater expressive depth than the Classical style which was then still prevalent |
Maria Frances Parke | 1772 | 1822 | English | composer, pianist and soprano |
François-Louis Perne | 1772 | 1832 | French | composer and musicographer |
Josef Triebensee | 1772 | 1846 | Bohemian | composer and oboist |
Johann Wilhelm Wilms | 1772 | 1847 | Dutch-German | composer, best known for writing Wien Neêrlands Bloed , which served as the Dutch national anthem from 1815 to 1932 |
Sophie Bawr | 1773 | 1860 | French | composer, writer and playwright |
Pietro Generali | 1773 | 1832 | Italian | composer of operas and vocal music |
Wenzel Thomas Matiegka | 1773 | 1830 | Czech | composer |
Bartolomeo Bortolazzi | 1773 | 1820 | Italian | mandolin and guitar virtuoso and composer |
Pierre Rode | 1774 | 1830 | French | composer and violinist |
Gaspare Spontini | 1774 | 1851 | Italian | opera composer and conductor, famous for La vestale |
Václav Tomášek | 1774 | 1850 | Czech | composer and music teacher |
Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse | 1774 | 1842 | Danish | composer in the Danish Golden Age |
Johann Anton André | 1775 | 1842 | German | composer and music publisher |
François-Adrien Boieldieu | 1775 | 1834 | French | composer |
João Domingos Bomtempo | 1775 | 1842 | Portuguese | composer, pianist and pedagogue |
Bernhard Crusell | 1775 | 1838 | Finnish | composer and clarinet player |
Sophia Dussek | 1775 | 1831 | Scottish | composer of Italian descent, singer, pianist and harpist |
François de Fossa | 1775 | 1849 | French | composer and guitarist |
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann | 1776 | 1822 | German | composer, author of fantasy and horror, jurist, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist |
Joseph Küffner | 1776 | 1856 | German | composer and musician |
Philipp Jakob Riotte | 1776 | 1856 | German | composer |
Ignaz von Seyfried | 1776 | 1841 | Austrian | composer, musician and conductor |
Ludwig Berger | 1777 | 1839 | German | composer, pianist and piano teacher |
Pauline Duchambge | 1778 | 1858 | French | composer and pianist |
Johann Nepomuk Hummel | 1778 | 1837 | Austrian | composer and pianist, his music bridged the Classical era of music and Romantic era of music |
Sigismund von Neukomm | 1778 | 1858 | Austrian | composer and pianist |
Fernando Sor | 1778 | 1839 | Spanish | composer for the classical guitar who is credited with elevating the guitar to the level of concert instrument |
Rochus Dedler | 1779 | 1822 | German | composer |
William Knyvett | 1779 | 1856 | British | composer and singer |
Louise Reichardt | 1779 | 1826 | German | composer and songwriter |
Luigi Antonio Calegari | 1780 | 1849 | Italian | opera composer |
Conradin Kreutzer | 1780 | 1849 | German | composer and conductor |
Louis François Dauprat | 1781 | 1868 | French | composer, horn player and music professor at the Conservatoire de Paris |
Anton Diabelli | 1781 | 1858 | Austrian | composer, music publisher and editor |
Mauro Giuliani | 1781 | 1828 | Italian | composer and virtuoso guitarist |
Anthony Heinrich | 1781 | 1861 | American | composer |
Sophie Lebrun | 1781 | 1863 | German | composer and pianist |
François-Joseph Naderman | 1781 | 1835 | French | composer, harpist and teacher |
Daniel Auber | 1782 | 1871 | French | opera composer, noted for La muette de Portici |
Carlo Coccia | 1782 | 1873 | Italian | opera composer |
John Field | 1782 | 1837 | Irish | composer and pianist, notable for cultivating the nocturne |
Niccolò Paganini | 1782 | 1840 | Italian | composer and virtuoso violinist, wrote the 24 Caprices for violin, five concerti for violin, string quartets and works for violin and guitar |
Charlotta Seuerling | 1782 | 1828 | Swedish | composer, concert singer, harpsichordist and poet |
Friedrich Dotzauer | 1783 | 1860 | German | composer and cellist |
Teresa Belloc-Giorgi | 1784 | 1855 | Italian | composer and contralto |
Martin-Joseph Mengal | 1784 | 1851 | Belgian | composer and instructor |
Francesco Morlacchi | 1784 | 1841 | Italian | composer |
George Onslow | 1784 | 1853 | Anglo-French | composer |
Ferdinand Ries | 1784 | 1838 | German | composer, friend and pupil of Ludwig van Beethoven |
Louis Spohr | 1784 | 1859 | German | composer, violinist and conductor, renowned for chamber music and compositions for violin and harp |
Bettina von Arnim | 1785 | 1859 | German | composer, writer and novelist |
Marie Bigot | 1785 | 1820 | French | composer and piano teacher |
Alexandre Pierre François Boëly | 1785 | 1858 | French | composer, organist and pianist |
Isabella Colbran | 1785 | 1845 | Spanish | composer and opera singer |
Catherina Cibbini-Kozeluch | 1785 | 1858 | Austrian | composer of Bohemian ancestry and pianist |
Friedrich Kalkbrenner | 1785 | 1849 | German | composer, pianist and piano teacher |
Karol Kurpiński | 1785 | 1857 | Polish | composer, conductor and pedagogue |
Henry Bishop | 1786 | 1855 | English | composer |
Friedrich Kuhlau | 1786 | 1832 | German-Danish | composer |
Pietro Raimondi | 1786 | 1853 | Italian | composer |
Friedrich Schneider | 1786 | 1853 | German | composer, pianist, organist and conductor |
Carl Maria von Weber | 1786 | 1826 | German | composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant Romantic opera composers |
Alexander Alyabyev | 1787 | 1851 | Russian | composer, conductor and pianist |
Franz Xaver Gruber | 1787 | 1863 | Austrian | school teacher, church organist and composer, best known for his Christmas carol, Silent Night |
Michele Carafa | 1787 | 1872 | Italian | opera composer |
Johann Peter Pixis | 1788 | 1874 | German | composer and pianist |
Simon Sechter | 1788 | 1867 | Austrian | prolific composer, renowned music theorist, teacher, organist and conductor |
Elena Asachi | 1789 | 1877 | Romanian | composer of Austrian birth, pianist and singer |
Nicolas-Charles Bochsa | 1789 | 1856 | French | composer and musician |
Friedrich Ernst Fesca | 1789 | 1826 | German | composer of instrumental music and violinist |
Maria Szymanowska | 1789 | 1831 | Polish | composer and virtuoso pianist |
Harriet Browne | 1790 | 1858 | English | composer and writer |
Isaac Nathan | 1790 | 1864 | English | composer, musicologist, journalist and self-publicist known as "the father of Australian music" |
Carl Czerny | 1791 | 1857 | Austrian | composer, teacher and pianist |
Ferdinand Hérold | 1791 | 1833 | French | operatic composer |
Giacomo Meyerbeer | 1791 | 1864 | German | composer for grand opera ( Il crociato in Egitto , Les Huguenots , L'Africaine ) |
Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart | 1791 | 1844 | Austrian | composer, pianist, conductor, teacher and the youngest child of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Carlo Evasio Soliva | 1791 | 1853 | Swiss-Italian | composer |
Jan Václav Voříšek | 1791 | 1825 | Czech | composer, pianist and organist |
Francis Johnson | 1792 | 1844 | American | composer, bugler and violinist |
Gioachino Rossini | 1792 | 1868 | Italian | prolific opera composer, best known for The Barber of Seville among other operas |
Hedda Wrangel | 1792 | 1833 | Swedish | composer |
Cipriani Potter | 1792 | 1871 | English | composer, teacher and pianist |
Gertrude van den Bergh | 1793 | 1840 | Dutch | composer and pianist |
Bernhard Klein | 1793 | 1832 | German | composer |
Caroline Ridderstolpe | 1793 | 1878 | Swedish | composer and singer |
Princess Amalie of Saxony | 1794 | 1870 | German | composer |
Ignaz Moscheles | 1794 | 1870 | Czech | composer and piano virtuoso, head of the Leipzig Conservatory after Felix Mendelssohn |
Heinrich Marschner | 1795 | 1861 | German | composer, considered to be the most important composer of German opera between Carl Maria von Weber and Richard Wagner |
Saverio Mercadante | 1795 | 1870 | Italian | composer |
Nikolaos Mantzaros | 1795 | 1872 | Italian-Greek | composer |
Helene Liebmann | 1795 | 1835 | German | composer and pianist |
Franz Berwald | 1796 | 1868 | Swedish | composer, little known in his lifetime, but his works, including his four symphonies are better known today |
Carl Loewe | 1796 | 1869 | German | composer, baritone singer and conductor |
Mathilda d'Orozco | 1796 | 1863 | Swedish | composer, noble, salonist, poet, writer, singer, amateur actress and harpsichordist |
Giovanni Pacini | 1796 | 1867 | Italian | composer |
Emilie Zumsteeg | 1796 | 1857 | German | composer, pianist, songwriter and choir conductor |
Luigi Castellacci | 1797 | 1845 | Italian | virtuoso on the mandolin and guitar, instrumental composer and author of popular French romances with guitar and piano accompaniments |
Gaetano Donizetti | 1797 | 1848 | Italian | opera composer, known for Lucia di Lammermoor and L'elisir d'amore among others |
Franz Schubert | 1797 | 1828 | Austrian | composer, best known for his more than 600 lieder, chamber music, piano works and symphonies |
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff | 1797 | 1848 | German | composer and writer |
Antonio Rolla | 1798 | 1837 | Italian | composer and violin and viola virtuoso |
Olivia Buckley | 1799 | 1847 | English | composer, harpist and organist |
Marie von Stedingk | 1799 | 1868 | Swedish | composer and courtier |
Fromental Halévy | 1799 | 1862 | French | composer |
Oscar I of Sweden | 1799 | 1859 | Swedish | composer and king of Sweden and Norway |
Alexey Verstovsky | 1799 | 1862 | Russian | composer, musical bureaucrat and rival of Mikhail Glinka |
Repertoire key: B=In Classical Net's basic Timeline of Major Composers 1600–present [1]
Name | Date born | Date died | Nationality | Comments |
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Jan Kalivoda | 1801 | 1866 | Czech | composer, conductor and violinist |
Vincenzo Bellini | 1801 | 1835 | Italian | opera composer, known for I Puritani , Norma and La sonnambula among others |
Tomasz Padura | 1801 | 1871 | Ukrainian-Polish | poet of the so-called Ukrainian school, musician-torbanist and composer-songwriter |
Charles Auguste de Bériot | 1802 | 1870 | Belgian | composer and violinist |
Jean-Baptiste Duvernoy | 1802 | 1880 | French | composer and pianist |
Amédée Méreaux | 1802 | 1874 | French | composer, his works are somewhat known for their immense difficulties |
Bernhard Molique | 1802 | 1869 | German | composer and violinist |
Cesare Pugni | 1802 | 1870 | Italian | prolific composer of ballet music |
José Zapiola Cortés | 1802 | 1885 | Chilean | composer and politic |
Eliza Flower | 1803 | 1846 | English | composer |
Friedrich Theodor Fröhlich | 1803 | 1836 | Swiss | composer, composed over 300 pieces for piano |
Adolphe Adam | 1803 | 1856 | French | composer, best known for his ballet score, Giselle |
Hector Berlioz | 1803 | 1869 | French | composer, famous for his programmatic symphony, Symphonie Fantastique |
Isidora Zegers | 1803 | 1869 | Spanish-Chilean | composer and pianist |
Henri Herz | 1803 | 1888 | Austrian | composer and pianist |
Franz Lachner | 1803 | 1890 | German | composer and conductor, brother of Ignaz Lachner and Vinzenz Lachner |
Louise Farrenc | 1804 | 1875 | French | composer of three symphonies and many chamber works including the earliest known sextet for piano and wind quintet (1852) |
Mikhail Glinka | 1804 | 1857 | Russian | nationalist composer whose works include the opera, A Life for the Tsar |
Johann Strauss I | 1804 | 1849 | Austrian | dance music composer, famous for Radetzky March |
Fanny Mendelssohn | 1805 | 1847 | German | composer and pianist, sister of Felix Mendelssohn, mainly known for her vocal compositions and chamber music |
Leopold von Zenetti | 1805 | 1892 | Austrian | composer, mainly known for being one of Anton Bruckner's masters |
Napoléon Coste | 1805 | 1883 | French | virtuoso guitarist, teacher and composer |
Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga | 1806 | 1826 | Spanish | composer who died at nineteen and by which time he had already been nicknamed the "Spanish Mozart" for his Symphony in D and three string quartets |
Johann Kaspar Mertz | 1806 | 1856 | Hungarian | composer, known for his guitar pieces |
Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller | 1806 | 1874 | German | composer and pianist |
Carlo Curti | 1807 | 1872 | Italian | cellist, performer and educator at Royal School of Music in Parma who composed cello and piano music |
Ignaz Lachner | 1807 | 1895 | German | conductor, composer and organist, a prolific composer, notable for his chamber music such as his string quartets and trios |
Elias Parish Alvars | 1808 | 1849 | English | harpist and composer |
Michael William Balfe | 1808 | 1870 | Irish | conductor and composer, remembered for his opera, The Bohemian Girl |
Sebastián Iradier | 1809 | 1865 | Spanish | composer, best known for La Paloma |
Felix Mendelssohn | 1809 | 1847 | German | conductor, music-director, composer and pianist, brother of Fanny Mendelssohn, best known for Wedding March from A Midsummer Night's Dream |
Otto Lindblad | 1809 | 1864 | Swedish | composer |
Frédéric Chopin | 1810 | 1849 | Polish-French | composer and virtuoso pianist, his works includes nocturnes, ballade, scherzos, etudes and a number of Polish dances such as mazurkas, polonaises and waltzes. |
Ferenc Erkel | 1810 | 1893 | Hungarian | composer of grand opera |
Otto Nicolai | 1810 | 1849 | German | opera composer and conductor, best known for The Merry Wives of Windsor |
Norbert Burgmüller | 1810 | 1836 | German | composer and brother of Friedrich Burgmüller, praised by Robert Schumann |
Robert Schumann | 1810 | 1856 | German | composer and pianist, husband of Clara Schumann, a significant lieder writer, a prolific composer, wrote many short piano pieces, four symphonies, concerti and chamber music |
Ludwig Schuncke | 1810 | 1834 | German | composer and pianist |
Ferdinand David | 1810 | 1873 | German | composer and violinist |
Vinzenz Lachner | 1811 | 1893 | German | composer, brother of Franz Lachner and Ignaz Lachner |
Franz Liszt | 1811 | 1886 | Hungarian | composer and virtuoso pianist, one of the most influential and distinguished piano composers of the Romantic era and the rival of Robert Schumann and Clara Schumann, wrote a number of symphonic poems and extended piano technique, best known for his Hungarian Rhapsodies and other solo piano works |
Ferdinand Hiller | 1811 | 1885 | German | composer, conductor, writer and music-director, close friend of Felix Mendelssohn. Robert Schumann dedicated his Piano Concerto to him in 1845. |
Wilhelm Taubert | 1811 | 1891 | German | pianist, composer and conductor whose early works received praise from Felix Mendelssohn |
Ambroise Thomas | 1811 | 1896 | French | composer, best known for his two operas, Mignon and Hamlet |
Spyridon Xyndas | 1812 | 1896 | Greek | opera composer and guitarist |
Sigismond Thalberg | 1812 | 1871 | Austrian | composer and one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era |
Louis-Antoine Jullien | 1812 | 1860 | French | conductor and composer of light music, king of promenade concerts in England |
Emilie Mayer | 1812 | 1883 | German | composer of eight symphonies as well as overtures, lieder and numerous chamber works |
Friedrich von Flotow | 1812 | 1883 | German | composer, chiefly remembered for his opera, Martha |
Alexandre Dubuque | 1812 | 1898 | Russian-French | composer, known for teaching |
Johann Rufinatscha | 1812 | 1893 | Austrian | composer |
Alexander Dargomyzhsky | 1813 | 1869 | Russian | composer |
Semen Hulak-Artemovsky | 1813 | 1873 | Ukrainian | opera composer, singer (baritone), actor and dramatist |
George Alexander Macfarren | 1813 | 1887 | English | major opera composer, best known for Robin Hood, She Stoops to Conquer and Helvellyn, also known as a teacher |
Stephen Heller | 1813 | 1888 | Hungarian | composer, highly affected the late Romantic composers |
Richard Wagner | 1813 | 1883 | German | major opera composer, friend of Franz Liszt, best known for his cycle of four operas, Der Ring des Nibelungen |
Ernst Haberbier | 1813 | 1869 | German | composer |
Giuseppe Verdi | 1813 | 1901 | Italian | major opera composer, best known for Nabucco , Rigoletto , La Traviata , Aida , Otello and Don Carlos |
Charles-Valentin Alkan | 1813 | 1888 | French | composer and virtuoso pianist |
Antonios Liveralis | 1814 | 1842 | Greek | opera composer and conductor |
Giuseppe Lillo | 1814 | 1863 | Italian | composer, best known for his operas among which is worth noting Odda di Bernaver and Caterina Howard |
Adolf von Henselt | 1814 | 1889 | German | composer and pianist |
Josephine Lang | 1815 | 1880 | German | composer and pianist |
Ferdinand Praeger | 1815 | 1891 | German | composer and pianist |
Robert Volkmann | 1815 | 1883 | German | composer, companion of Johannes Brahms |
Józef Władysław Krogulski | 1815 | 1842 | Polish | composer and pianist |
William Sterndale Bennett | 1816 | 1875 | English | composer, conductor and editor |
Charles Dancla | 1817 | 1907 | French | violinist, composer and teacher |
Émile Prudent | 1817 | 1863 | French | pianist and composer |
Károly Thern | 1817 | 1886 | Hungarian | composer, conductor and teacher |
Niels Gade | 1817 | 1890 | Danish | composer, violinist and organist |
Henry Litolff | 1818 | 1891 | British | pianist, composer and music publisher, best known for his five Concerto Symphoniques |
Charles Gounod | 1818 | 1893 | French | composer, best known for his two operas, Faust and Roméo et Juliette |
Antonio Bazzini | 1818 | 1897 | Italian | violinist, composer and teacher, best known for The Dance of the Goblins |
Alexander Dreyschock | 1818 | 1869 | Czech | pianist and composer |
Jacques Offenbach | 1819 | 1880 | French | opera and operetta composer, known for The Tales of Hoffmann and Orpheus in the Underworld |
Franz von Suppé | 1819 | 1895 | Austrian | composer and conductor, notable for his operetta, Light Cavalry |
Stanisław Moniuszko | 1819 | 1872 | Polish | composer, best known as the Father of Polish National Opera |
Clara Schumann | 1819 | 1896 | German | composer and pianist, wife of Robert Schumann, one of the leading pianists of the Romantic era |
Vatroslav Lisinski | 1819 | 1854 | Croatian | composer, famous for his first Croatian opera, Love and Malice and his second Croatian opera, Porin |
Name | Date born | Date died | Nationality | Comments |
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Henri Vieuxtemps | 1820 | 1881 | Belgian | composer and violinist |
Giovanni Bottesini | 1821 | 1889 | Italian | conductor, composer and double bass virtuoso |
Josip Runjanin | 1821 | 1878 | Croatian | composer |
Emilie Holmberg | 1821 | 1854 | Swedish | composer, concert pianist and organist |
Joachim Raff | 1822 | 1882 | Swiss-born German | composer, best known for eleven symphonies, most of them program music |
César Franck | 1822 | 1890 | Belgian-born French | composer, noted for his Symphony in D minor , also a significant composer for the organ |
James Lord Pierpont | 1822 | 1893 | American | composer, best known for Jingle Bells |
Luigi Arditi | 1822 | 1903 | Italian | composer, violinist and conductor |
Édouard Lalo | 1823 | 1892 | French | composer, remembered for his Symphonie espagnole for violin and orchestra and his Cello Concerto |
Theodor Kirchner | 1823 | 1903 | German | composer and pianist, he wrote over 1,000 piano pieces |
Kurmangazy Sagyrbaev | 1823 | 1896 | Kazakhstani | composer |
Anton Bruckner | 1824 | 1896 | Austrian | composer of nine large-scale symphonies (one incomplete) and two more unacknowledged |
Frederick Ellard | 1824 | 1874 | Australian | composer |
Bedřich Smetana | 1824 | 1884 | Czech | nationalist composer, best known for his cycle of six symphonic poems, Má vlast and his opera, The Bartered Bride |
Carl Reinecke | 1824 | 1910 | German | composer, conductor and pianist, best known for his attachment to classical forms and conducted Gewandhausorchester for nearly 35 years |
Jean-Baptiste Arban | 1825 | 1889 | French | composer and virtuoso cornetist, wrote the "Grande méthode complète pour cornet à pistons et de saxhorn" now referred to as the "Trumpeter's Bible" |
Johann Strauss II | 1825 | 1899 | Austrian | composer known as "The Waltz King", son of Austrian dance music composer Johann Strauss I and elder brother of Josef Strauss and Eduard Strauss, best known for Blue Danube Waltz and his opera, Die Fledermaus |
Richard Hol | 1825 | 1904 | Dutch | organ composer |
Stephen Foster | 1826 | 1864 | American | composer and songwriter known as "the father of American music", best known for "Oh! Susanna", "Camptown Races", "Old Folks at Home", "My Old Kentucky Home", "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair", "Old Black Joe" and "Beautiful Dreamer" |
Ivar Hallström | 1826 | 1901 | Swedish | opera composer |
Ludwig Minkus | 1826 | 1917 | Austrian | composer of ballet music |
Prince Gustaf, Duke of Uppland | 1827 | 1852 | Swedish | composer and the second son of Oscar I of Sweden |
Josef Strauss | 1827 | 1870 | Austrian | composer and younger brother of Johann Strauss II |
Adolphe Blanc | 1828 | 1885 | French | composer of chamber music |
Adrien Barthe | 1828 | 1898 | French | composer |
Eduard Rohde | 1828 | 1883 | German | composer and organist |
Johann Dubez | 1828 | 1891 | Austrian | composer and mandolinist |
Jacques Blumenthal | 1829 | 1908 | German | composer |
Patrick Gilmore | 1829 | 1892 | Irish-born American | composer and bandleader, best known for his song, When Johnny Comes Marching Home |
Louis Moreau Gottschalk | 1829 | 1869 | American | composer, famous for performing his own romantic piano works |
Anton Rubinstein | 1829 | 1894 | Russian | conductor, composer and pianist |
Pavlos Carrer | 1829 | 1896 | Greek | composer, famous for composing the first Greek operas |
Karl Goldmark | 1830 | 1915 | Hungarian | composer |
Hans von Bülow | 1830 | 1894 | German | conductor, composer and virtuoso pianist |
Theodor Leschetizky | 1830 | 1915 | Polish | pianist, professor and composer |
Ivan Larionov | 1830 | 1889 | Russian | composer, writer and folklorist |
Kornelije Stanković | 1831 | 1865 | Serbian | composer |
Jan Gerard Palm | 1831 | 1906 | Curaçaoan | composer, best known for his mazurkas, waltzes, danzas, tumbas, fantasies and serenades |
Célestin Lavigueur | 1831 | 1885 | Canadian | opera composer |
Hiromori Hayashi | 1831 | 1896 | Japanese | composer, known for the Japanese national anthem, Kimigayo |
Joseph Joachim | 1831 | 1907 | Hungarian | composer, violinist, conductor and teacher |
Eduardo Mezzacapo | 1832 | 1898 | Italian | mandolin virtuoso, composer and teacher, known for Aubade for Mandolin, Violin and Guitar and Tarantella "Napoli" |
August Söderman | 1832 | 1876 | Swedish | composer, best known for his lieder and choral works |
Ivan Zajc | 1832 | 1914 | Croatian | composer, conductor, director and teacher, best known for his opera, Nikola Šubić Zrinski and his Croatian patriotic song, U boj, u boj |
Francis Edward Bache | 1833 | 1858 | English | composer and organist |
Alexander Borodin | 1833 | 1887 | Russian | chemist and nationalist composer, part of the Russian Five, wrote the opera, Prince Igor |
Johannes Brahms | 1833 | 1897 | German | composer, one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period, best known for his four symphonies, Violin Concerto, two piano concertos, and A German Requiem |
Amilcare Ponchielli | 1834 | 1886 | Italian | opera composer, known for La Gioconda |
Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska | 1834 | 1861 | Polish | composer |
Julius Reubke | 1834 | 1858 | German | piano and organ composer, known for Sonata on the 94th Psalm |
Peter Benoit | 1834 | 1901 | Belgian | composer |
Giuseppe Branzoli | 1835 | 1909 | Italian | mandolinist, violinist, composer and music historian |
Felix Draeseke | 1835 | 1913 | German | composer |
Camille Saint-Saëns | 1835 | 1921 | French | music critic, composer, pianist and an exceptional organist, best known for his biblical opera, Samson et Dalila |
Henryk Wieniawski | 1835 | 1880 | Polish | composer and violinist, famous for two concertos and character pieces of exceptional difficulty |
Eduard Strauss | 1835 | 1916 | Austrian | composer and younger brother of Johann Strauss II and Josef Strauss |
César Cui | 1835 | 1918 | Russian | army officer, music critic and composer of the Russian Five |
Davorin Jenko | 1835 | 1914 | Slovenian-born Serbian | composer and conductor |
Friedrich Baumfelder | 1836 | 1916 | German | piano, choral, and orchestra composer, in his day known for his 'Tirocinium musicae' and today known for his 'Melody in F major' |
Léo Delibes | 1836 | 1891 | French | composer, one of the first significant ballet composers since the Baroque music, known for Coppélia , Sylvia , and Lakmé |
Abdu al-Hamuli | 1836 | 1901 | Egyptian | composer and singer |
Antônio Carlos Gomes | 1836 | 1896 | Brazilian | opera composer, praised by Franz Liszt and Giuseppe Verdi whose Il Guarany premiered at La Scala in 1870, a first opera ballo for the composer from the New World |
Bertha Tammelin | 1836 | 1915 | Swedish | composer, concert pianist and opera singer |
Julius Weissenborn | 1837 | 1888 | German | bassoonist, composer and music teacher, famous for his Practical Bassoon School |
Tigran Chukhajian | 1837 | 1898 | Turkish-Armenian | composer, conductor, public activist and the founder of the first opera institution in the Ottoman Empire |
Émile Waldteufel | 1837 | 1915 | French | composer of light music |
Mily Balakirev | 1837 | 1910 | Russian | nationalist composer and the leader of the Russian Five |
Gordon Saunders | 1837 | 1912 | English | composer of songs, church music and organ music, professor at the Trinity College of Music |
Georges Bizet | 1838 | 1875 | French | composer, best known for his final opera, Carmen |
Max Bruch | 1838 | 1920 | German | composer, known for his Violin Concerto No. 1 , Scottish Fantasy and Kol Nidrei for cello and orchestra |
Henri Ghys | 1839 | 1908 | French | pianist, conductor and composer |
Modest Mussorgsky | 1839 | 1881 | Russian | nationalist composer and the member of the Russian Five, best known for his orchestral tone poem, Night on Bald Mountain and his piano suite, Pictures at an Exhibition |
Eduard Nápravník | 1839 | 1916 | Czech | conductor and composer |
John Knowles Paine | 1839 | 1906 | American | first native-born American composer to acquire international fame for his large-scale orchestral music |
Josef Rheinberger | 1839 | 1901 | German | composer and organist, born in Liechtenstein, primarily noted for his organ music including 20 sonatas |
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | 1840 | 1893 | Russian | composer, best known for his three ballets, The Nutcracker , Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty , the opera Eugene Onegin , Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy , 1812 Overture , Piano Concerto No. 1 , Violin Concerto and his six symphonies |
John Stainer | 1840 | 1901 | English | composer and organist |
Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray | 1840 | 1910 | French | composer |
Johan Svendsen | 1840 | 1911 | Norwegian | composer, conductor and violinist |
Louis Brassin | 1840 | 1884 | Belgian | pianist, composer and music educator, best known for his piano transcription of the Magic Fire Music from Wagner's Die Walküre |
Emmanuel Chabrier | 1841 | 1894 | French | composer who influenced Maurice Ravel, Les Six, Jean Françaix and many other French composers, known for the opera, L'étoile and the rhapsody, España |
Felip Pedrell | 1841 | 1922 | Spanish | composer of opera, zarzuela and church music who taught and influenced Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados and Manuel de Falla |
Giovanni Sgambati | 1841 | 1914 | Italian | composer, conductor and pianist |
Antonín Dvořák | 1841 | 1904 | Czech | composer, best known for his New World Symphony |
Giuseppe Silvestri | 1841 | 1921 | Italian | composer and mandolin virtuoso |
Arrigo Boito | 1842 | 1918 | Italian | composer and librettist, known as a composer for his opera, Mefistofele |
Josef Labor | 1842 | 1924 | Austrian | composer, pianist, organist and teacher |
Mykola Lysenko | 1842 | 1912 | Ukrainian | composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist |
Johann Nepomuk Fuchs | 1842 | 1899 | Austrian | composer, conductor, teacher and editor |
Jules Massenet | 1842 | 1912 | French | composer, best known for his two operas, Manon and Werther and the Méditation for violin from the opera, Thaïs |
Arthur Sullivan | 1842 | 1900 | English | composer, known for his operettas in collaboration with William Schwenck Gilbert |
Calixa Lavallée | 1842 | 1891 | Canadian | composer, known for the Canadian national anthem, O Canada |
Émile Bernard | 1843 | 1902 | French | composer and organist, known for his Divertissement For Doubled Wind Quintet |
Edvard Grieg | 1843 | 1907 | Norwegian | composer, best known for his 1875 incidental music, Peer Gynt and the Piano Concerto in A minor |
David Popper | 1843 | 1913 | Czech | composer and virtuoso cellist, known for his 40 etudes, 4 concertos and Hungarian Rhapsody for cello and orchestra |
Paul Taffanel | 1844 | 1908 | French | flautist, conductor and instructor, regarded as the founder of the French Flute School |
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | 1844 | 1908 | Russian | composer and the member of the Russian Five, best known for Flight of the Bumblebee from The Tale of Tsar Saltan and his symphonic poem Scheherazade |
Pietro Armanini | 1844 | 1895 | Italian | composer, virtuoso mandolinist and teacher, known for his performances and two dances, La cigale polka pour (The Grasshopper Polka) and L'éventail polka-mazurka (The Range Mazurka) |
Pablo de Sarasate | 1844 | 1908 | Spanish | virtuoso violinist and composer, best known for Zigeunerweisen , Carmen Fantasy and his showpieces for the violin |
Charles-Marie Widor | 1844 | 1937 | French | composer, known for his works for the organ |
Friedrich Nietzsche | 1844 | 1900 | German | philologist, philosopher, cultural critic, poet and composer |
Ion Ivanovici | 1845 | 1902 | Romanian | composer, known for his waltz, Waves of the Danube |
Gabriel Fauré | 1845 | 1924 | French | composer, known for his chamber music and his Requiem among other pieces |
Oscar Hammerstein I | 1846 | 1919 | German-born American | opera composer, businessman and impresario |
Albert Mando | 1846 | 1912 | American | composer, conductor and music educator |
Ignaz Brüll | 1846 | 1907 | Austrian | composer and pianist, famous for his opera, Das goldene Kreuz |
Luigi Denza | 1846 | 1922 | Italian | opera composer, composed and played for mandolin and guitar |
Ferdinando de Cristofaro | 1846 | 1890 | Italian | mandolin virtuoso, pianist, composer and music teacher |
Zygmunt Noskowski | 1846 | 1909 | Polish | composer, conductor and teacher |
Robert Fuchs | 1847 | 1927 | Austrian | composer and music teacher |
Chiquinha Gonzaga | 1847 | 1935 | Brazilian | composer, pianist, and conductor |
Augusta Holmès | 1847 | 1903 | French | composer of Irish descent |
Philipp Scharwenka | 1847 | 1917 | German-Polish | composer and music teacher, brother of Xaver Scharwenka |
Henri Duparc | 1848 | 1933 | French | composer, noted for seventeen melodies |
Hubert Parry | 1848 | 1918 | English | composer, wrote choral song, Jerusalem |
Benjamin Godard | 1849 | 1895 | French | composer and violinist |
Ernesto Köhler | 1849 | 1907 | Italian | flautist and composer, known by flautists for his instructional work, Progress in Flute Playing |
Calogero Adolfo Bracco | 1850 | 1903 | Italian | mandolinist, violinist, composer and conductor, known for I mandolini a congresso |
Zdeněk Fibich | 1850 | 1900 | Czech | composer, best known for his two operas, Šárka and The Bride of Messina |
Xaver Scharwenka | 1850 | 1924 | German-Polish | composer, pianist and music teacher, brother of Philipp Scharwenka |
Alexandre Luigini | 1850 | 1906 | French | composer and conductor |
Max Josef Beer | 1851 | 1908 | Austrian | composer |
Josif Marinković | 1851 | 1931 | Serbian | composer |
Vincent d'Indy | 1851 | 1931 | French | composer, teacher of Erik Satie and Darius Milhaud among others |
Francisco Tárrega | 1852 | 1909 | Spanish | composer and virtuoso classical guitarist, known as 'the Father of modern classical guitar playing' |
Hans Huber | 1852 | 1921 | Swiss | composer |
Charles Villiers Stanford | 1852 | 1924 | Irish | composer |
Ciprian Porumbescu | 1853 | 1883 | Romanian | composer |
Teresa Carreño | 1853 | 1917 | Venezuelan | composer and pianist |
Arthur Foote | 1853 | 1937 | American | composer and the member of the Second New England School |
Engelbert Humperdinck | 1854 | 1921 | German | opera composer, influenced by Richard Wagner, famous for Hänsel und Gretel |
Leoš Janáček | 1854 | 1928 | Czech | composer, known for his operas Káťa Kabanová and Jenůfa and his orchestral pieces Sinfonietta and Taras Bulba |
Alfredo Catalani | 1854 | 1893 | Italian | composer, known for his two operas, Loreley and La Wally |
Moritz Moszkowski | 1854 | 1925 | German | composer and pianist who wrote prolifically for the piano, also composed a piano concerto and a violin concerto |
John Philip Sousa | 1854 | 1932 | American | composer and conductor known as "The March King", best known for The Stars and Stripes Forever among other marches |
Bernard Zweers | 1854 | 1924 | Dutch | composer |
George Whitefield Chadwick | 1854 | 1931 | American | composer |
Ernest Chausson | 1855 | 1899 | French | composer, influenced by César Franck and Richard Wagner, seen as a bridge from them to Claude Debussy |
Jean Pietrapertosa | 1855 | 1940 | Italian-French | composer and mandolin virtuoso |
Julius Röntgen | 1855 | 1932 | German-Dutch | composer, influenced by Johannes Brahms, close friend to Edvard Grieg |
Anatoly Lyadov | 1855 | 1914 | Russian | composer, teacher and conductor |
Arnold Mendelssohn | 1855 | 1933 | German | composer and music teacher |
Stevan Mokranjac | 1856 | 1914 | Serbian | composer |
Jacob J. Sawyer | 1856 | 1885 | American | composer |
Giuseppe Martucci | 1856 | 1909 | Italian | composer and music teacher |
Frank White Meacham | 1856 | 1909 | American | composer and arranger of Tin Pan Alley, best known for his popular march, American Patrol |
Sergei Taneyev | 1856 | 1915 | Russian | composer, pianist and music teacher |
Christian Sinding | 1856 | 1941 | Norwegian | composer |
Edward Elgar | 1857 | 1934 | English | composer, wrote oratorios, chamber music, concertos and symphonies, best known for his Enigma Variations , Salut d'Amour , Cello Concerto and his Pomp and Circumstance Marches |
Cécile Chaminade | 1857 | 1944 | French | composer and pianist |
Ruggero Leoncavallo | 1857 | 1919 | Italian | opera composer, known almost exclusively for Pagliacci |
Edwin Eugene Bagley | 1857 | 1922 | American | composer, most famous for composing the march, National Emblem |
Mathilde Kralik | 1857 | 1944 | Austrian | composer, pupil of Anton Bruckner |
Giacomo Puccini | 1858 | 1924 | Italian | opera composer, known for La bohème , Tosca and Madama Butterfly |
Jenő Hubay | 1858 | 1937 | Hungarian | violinist, composer and music teacher, also known by his German name Eugen Huber |
Eugène Ysaÿe | 1858 | 1931 | Belgian | composer and virtuoso violinist, known for his solo sonatas for violin |
Hans Rott | 1858 | 1884 | Austrian | composer and organist, favorite student of Anton Bruckner and praised by Gustav Mahler |
Carlo Curti | 1859 | 1922 | Italian | composer, conductor and instrumentalist on xylophone and mandolin, wrote mandolin method. Also, he conducted the first Mexican Typical Orchestra (Orquesta Típica Mexicana) |
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov | 1859 | 1935 | Russian | composer, conductor and teacher |
Victor Herbert | 1859 | 1924 | Irish-born American | composer, cellist and conductor, best known for his 1903 operetta, Babes in Toyland |
Sergei Lyapunov | 1859 | 1924 | Russian | composer and pianist |
Per Lasson | 1859 | 1883 | Norwegian | composer, brother of Norwegian painter, Oda Krohg |
Name | Date born | Date died | Nationality | Comments |
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Isaac Albéniz | 1860 | 1909 | Spanish | composer and virtuoso pianist, known for nationalist piano works such as Iberia and a 'set of 12 piano pieces' |
Valborg Aulin | 1860 | 1928 | Swedish | female pianist and composer |
Gustave Charpentier | 1860 | 1956 | French | composer, best known for his opera, Louise |
Gustav Mahler | 1860 | 1911 | Austrian | composer, one of the most important late-Romantic/early-Modernist composers, his works include ten innovative large-scale and sometimes programmatic symphonies and many lieder |
Edward MacDowell | 1860 | 1908 | American | composer, best known for his piano concertos and piano suites, his works include his most popular short piece, "To a Wild Rose" |
Hugo Wolf | 1860 | 1903 | Austrian | composer of lieder, influenced by Richard Wagner |
Ignacy Jan Paderewski | 1860 | 1941 | Polish | pianist and composer |
Anton Arensky | 1861 | 1906 | Russian | composer, pianist and music teacher |
Spyridon Samaras | 1861 | 1917 | Greek | opera composer, widely known for his composition of the "Olympic Hymn" |
Wilhelm Berger | 1861 | 1911 | German | composer, pianist and conductor |
Georgy Catoire | 1861 | 1926 | Russian | composer |
Václav Suk | 1861 | 1933 | Czech-born Russian | composer, violinist and conductor |
Stéphan Elmas | 1862 | 1937 | Armenian | composer, pianist and teacher |
Claude Debussy | 1862 | 1918 | French | composer, one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, best known for Clair de Lune from Suite bergamasque |
Frederick Delius | 1862 | 1934 | English | composer, used chromaticism in many of his compositions |
Edward German | 1862 | 1936 | English | composer of Welsh descent, known for his three comic operas, Merrie England , A Princess of Kensington and Tom Jones |
Alberto Williams | 1862 | 1952 | Argentine | composer and conductor |
Emil von Sauer | 1862 | 1942 | German | composer, pianist, editor and teacher |
Pietro Mascagni | 1863 | 1945 | Italian | opera composer, known for Cavalleria Rusticana |
Horatio Parker | 1863 | 1919 | American | composer, organist and teacher |
Gabriel Pierné | 1863 | 1937 | French | composer, conductor and organist |
Ricardo Castro | 1864 | 1907 | Mexican | composer, works include piano music |
Alexander Gretchaninov | 1864 | 1956 | Russian | composer |
Sakunosuke Koyama | 1864 | 1927 | Japanese | composer and music teacher |
Alberto Nepomuceno | 1864 | 1920 | Brazilian | composer |
Clarence L. Partee | 1864 | 1915 | American | composer for banjo, mandolin and guitar |
Guy Ropartz | 1864 | 1955 | French | composer and conductor |
Richard Strauss | 1864 | 1949 | German | composer, known for Also Sprach Zarathustra (based on the book, Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche), wrote many symphonic poems, operas and lieder |
Paul Dukas | 1865 | 1935 | French | composer, known for his piece of program music, The Sorcerer's Apprentice |
Eduardo di Capua | 1865 | 1917 | Italian | composer, known for his song, "'O sole mio" |
Herbert J. Ellis | 1865 | 1903 | English | musician (banjo, mandolin and guitar), wrote method books, more than 1000 compositions |
Paul Gilson | 1865 | 1942 | Belgian | musician and composer |
Alexander Glazunov | 1865 | 1936 | Russian | composer, influenced by Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt |
Albéric Magnard | 1865 | 1914 | French | composer |
Carl Nielsen | 1865 | 1931 | Danish | composer, renowned for his six symphonies and concerti |
Jean Sibelius | 1865 | 1957 | Finnish | composer of seven symphonies and the Violin Concerto in D minor, known also for the symphonic poems include Finlandia , En saga , Lemminkäinen (which includes the Swan of Tuonela ), The Oceanides , and Tapiola |
Vasily Kalinnikov | 1866 | 1901 | Russian | composer of two symphonies |
Tor Aulin | 1866 | 1914 | Swedish | violinist, conductor and composer |
Ferruccio Busoni | 1866 | 1924 | Italian | composer and pianist, known for his opera, Turandot and his many transcriptions and arrangements of Johann Sebastian Bach |
Francesco Cilea | 1866 | 1950 | Italian | composer, particularly known for his two operas, L'arlesiana and Adriana Lecouvreur |
Amanda Aldridge | 1866 | 1956 | British | composer, opera singer and teacher |
Vladimir Rebikov | 1866 | 1920 | Russian | composer and pianist |
Erik Satie | 1866 | 1925 | French | composer and pianist, best known for Les Trois Gymnopédies |
Georg Schumann | 1866 | 1952 | German | composer, older brother of Camillo Schumann; no relation to Robert Schumann |
Johann Strauss III | 1866 | 1939 | Austrian | composer, son of Eduard Strauss |
Learmont Drysdale | 1866 | 1909 | Scottish | composer |
Samuel Maykapar | 1867 | 1938 | Russian | composer |
Amy Beach | 1867 | 1944 | American | composer and pianist |
Umberto Giordano | 1867 | 1948 | Italian | opera composer |
Enrique Granados | 1867 | 1916 | Spanish | composer and pianist, known for his piano works and chamber music |
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger | 1867 | 1942 | Swedish | composer, wrote symphonies, operas, vocal and piano music |
Charles Koechlin | 1867 | 1950 | French | composer, teacher and writer on music |
Scott Joplin | c. 1867/1868 | 1917 | American | composer and pianist known as "The Ragtime King", best known for Maple Leaf Rag and The Entertainer among other ragtime compositions |
Oskar Merikanto | 1868 | 1924 | Finnish | musician and composer |
Granville Bantock | 1868 | 1946 | British | composer |
Hermann Bischoff | 1868 | 1936 | German | composer |
Hamish MacCunn | 1868 | 1916 | Scottish | composer, conductor and teacher, most famous for The Land of the Mountain and the Flood |
Vittorio Monti | 1868 | 1922 | Italian | composer, violinist and conductor, most famous for Csárdás |
José Vianna da Motta | 1868 | 1948 | Portuguese | pianist, teacher and composer, most famous for Symphony 'À Pátria', Op. 13 |
Juventino Rosas | 1868 | 1894 | Mexican | composer, known for his song, "Sobre las Olas" |
Jan Brandts Buys | 1868 | 1933 | Dutch-Austrian | composer |
Tokichi Setoguchi | 1868 | 1941 | Japanese | composer, music educator, conductor and clarinetist, famous for Warship March |
Seth Weeks | 1868 | 1953 | American | composer, music educator, jazz bandleader and mandolinist |
Siegfried Wagner | 1869 | 1930 | German | opera composer, conductor and the son of Richard Wagner |
Demetrios Lialios | 1869 | 1940 | Greek | composer of chamber music |
Julius Conus | 1869 | 1942 | Russian | composer and violinist |
Albert Roussel | 1869 | 1937 | French | composer |
Armas Järnefelt | 1869 | 1958 | Finnish | composer and conductor |
Harry Lawrence Freeman | 1869 | 1954 | American | opera composer, conductor, impresario and teacher, best known for his African-American opera, Voodoo |
Alfred Hill | 1869 | 1960 | Australian-New Zealand | composer, conductor and teacher |
John Nicholas Klohr | 1869 | 1956 | American | composer of band music, most famous for The Billboard March |
Leopold Godowsky | 1870 | 1938 | Polish | composer, pianist and teacher |
Zygmunt Stojowski | 1870 | 1946 | Polish | composer and pianist |
Oscar Straus | 1870 | 1954 | Austrian | composer, no relation to the musical Strauss family of Vienna (Johann Strauss I, Johann Strauss II, Josef Strauss, Eduard Strauss and Johann Strauss III) |
Franz Lehár | 1870 | 1948 | Hungarian | composer, mainly known for his operettas |
Florent Schmitt | 1870 | 1958 | French | composer |
Luigi von Kunits | 1870 | 1931 | Serbian-born Austrian | composer and conductor, founder of the Pittsburg and Toronto symphony orchestras |
Guillaume Lekeu | 1870 | 1894 | Belgian | composer, known for his violin sonata |
Louis Vierne | 1870 | 1937 | French | composer and organist, titular organist of Notre-Dame de Paris |
Nobu Kōda | 1870 | 1946 | Japanese | composer, violinist and music teacher |
Frederick Converse | 1871 | 1940 | American | composer |
Alfredo D'Ambrosio | 1871 | 1914 | Italian | violinist and composer |
Giacomo Balla | 1871 | 1958 | Italian | futurist composer and artist |
Zacharia Paliashvili | 1871 | 1933 | Georgian | composer, known for the eclectic fusion of Georgian folk songs and stories with 19th century Romantic classical themes. He was the founder of the Georgian Philharmonic Society and later, the head of the Tbilisi State Conservatoire |
Henry Kimball Hadley | 1871 | 1937 | American | composer and conductor, known for the opera, Cleopatra's Night |
Oreste Ravanello | 1871 | 1938 | Italian | composer, known for works for choir and for organ |
Wilhelm Stenhammar | 1871 | 1927 | Swedish | composer, conductor and pianist |
Alexander von Zemlinsky | 1871 | 1942 | Austrian | composer and music teacher, his students include Arnold Schoenberg and Erich Wolfgang Korngold |
Stanislav Binički | 1872 | 1942 | Serbian | composer |
Hugo Alfvén | 1872 | 1960 | Swedish | composer, known for Swedish Rhapsody, works include choral music and five symphonies |
Julius Fučík | 1872 | 1916 | Czech | composer and conductor of military bands, known for Entrance of the Gladiators |
Rubin Goldmark | 1872 | 1936 | American | composer, pianist, educator and nephew of Karl Goldmark |
Alexander Scriabin | 1872 | 1915 | Russian | composer and pianist, known for his harmonically adventurous piano sonatas and theatrically orchestral works, characteristic period compositions include his Op. 1 to Op. 30 works |
Ralph Vaughan Williams | 1872 | 1958 | English | composer, his works include nine symphonies, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis and other orchestral poems |
Salvator Léonardi | 1872 | 1938 | Italian | composer, performer and teacher, known for Souvenir de Catania, Souvenir de Napoli, Souvenir de Sicile and Angeli e Demoni |
Camillo Schumann | 1872 | 1946 | German | composer, younger brother of Georg Schumann; no relation to Robert Schumann |
William Henry Bell | 1873 | 1946 | English | composer, conductor and lecturer |
Leo Fall | 1873 | 1925 | Austrian | composer of operettas |
Pascual Marquina Narro | 1873 | 1948 | Spanish | prolific orchestral and operatic composer |
Sergei Rachmaninoff | 1873 | 1943 | Russian | composer, conductor and virtuoso pianist, wrote three symphonies, four piano concertos, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and solo piano music |
Max Reger | 1873 | 1916 | German | prolific composer, known for his Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart |
Reynaldo Hahn | 1874 | 1947 | Venezuelan | composer, known for his strikingly beautiful and unabashedly tonal melodies |
Gustav Holst | 1874 | 1934 | English | composer, best known for his orchestral suite, The Planets |
Charles Ives | 1874 | 1954 | American | composer, member of the American Five, best known for The Unanswered Question and his Concord Sonata |
Arnold Schoenberg | 1874 | 1951 | Austrian-American | composer, whose early works (e.g. Verklärte Nacht ) are influenced by Richard Wagner, but subsequently developed atonalism and serialism with such watershed works as Moses und Aron |
Josef Suk | 1874 | 1935 | Czech | composer and violinist |
Franz Schmidt | 1874 | 1939 | Austrian | composer, influenced by Anton Bruckner and Johannes Brahms |
Eugénie-Victorine-Jeanne Alombert | 1874 | 1964 | French | composer and pianist |
Reinhold Glière | 1875 | 1956 | Russian | composer |
Julián Carrillo | 1875 | 1965 | Mexican | composer, conductor, violinist and music theorist |
Fritz Kreisler | 1875 | 1962 | Austrian | composer and virtuoso violinist, known for his sweet sound, composed short showpieces for the violin |
Richard Wetz | 1875 | 1935 | German | composer, influenced by Anton Bruckner |
Maurice Ravel | 1875 | 1937 | French | composer, best known for Boléro |
Franco Alfano | 1875 | 1954 | Italian | composer and pianist |
Albert Ketèlbey | 1875 | 1959 | English | composer, conductor and pianist |
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor | 1875 | 1912 | English | composer, known for his trilogy of cantatas, The Song of Hiawatha |
Alexander Koshetz | 1875 | 1944 | Ukrainian | choral conductor, arranger, composer, ethnographer, writer, musicologist and lecturer |
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis | 1875 | 1911 | Lithuanian | painter and composer |
Henriette Renié | 1875 | 1956 | French | harpist and composer |
Josef Hofmann | 1876 | 1957 | Polish-American | composer and pianist |
Edgar Bara | 1876 | 1962 | French | mandolinist and composer, conducted mandolin orchestra |
John Alden Carpenter | 1876 | 1951 | American | composer |
Manuel de Falla | 1876 | 1946 | Spanish | composer, best known for The Three-Cornered Hat |
Flor Alpaerts | 1876 | 1954 | Belgian | composer, notable students include the two composers, Denise Tolkowsky and Ernest Schuyten |
Mieczysław Karłowicz | 1876 | 1909 | Polish | composer, his style is of late-Romantic and nationalist character |
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti | 1876 | 1944 | Italian | futurist composer, poet, and editor |
Fermo Dante Marchetti | 1876 | 1940 | Italian | composer, best known for the song, "Fascination" |
Ludolf Nielsen | 1876 | 1939 | Danish | composer, violinist, conductor and pianist |
Carl Ruggles | 1876 | 1971 | American | composer, painter and the member of the American Five, whose representative Romantic-period work is the lieder Ich fühle deinen Odem |
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari | 1876 | 1948 | Italian | composer and music teacher, known for his comic operas |
Nakao Tozan | 1876 | 1956 | Japanese | performer and prolific composer, known for his works of the Tozan school |
Petar Krstić | 1877 | 1957 | Serbian | composer and conductor |
Antonio Russolo | 1877 | 1942 | Italian | futurist composer and brother of Luigi Russolo |
Ernst von Dohnányi | 1877 | 1960 | Hungarian | conductor, composer and pianist |
Elisabeth Kuyper | 1877 | 1953 | Dutch | composer and conductor |
Paul Ladmirault | 1877 | 1944 | French | composer |
Mykola Leontovych | 1877 | 1921 | Ukrainian | composer, choral conductor and teacher, known for his arrangement of the carol "Shchedryk", known in English as "Carol of the Bells" or as "Ring Christmas Bells" |
Sergei Bortkiewicz | 1877 | 1952 | Russian | composer and pianist |
Isidor Bajić | 1878 | 1915 | Serbian | composer, conductor, teacher and publisher |
Gabriel Dupont | 1878 | 1914 | French | composer, known for his operas and chamber music |
Joseph Holbrooke | 1878 | 1958 | English | composer, conductor and pianist |
Franz Schreker | 1878 | 1934 | Austrian | conductor, composer and music teacher, primarily a composer of operas |
Teiichi Okano | 1878 | 1941 | Japanese | composer |
Frank Bridge | 1879 | 1941 | English | composer, best known as the teacher of Benjamin Britten, characteristic period compositions include Suite for String Orchestra and his Capriccio Nos. 1 and 2 |
Viggo Brodersen | 1879 | 1965 | Danish | composer and pianist |
Adolf Wiklund | 1879 | 1950 | Swedish | composer, conductor and pianist |
Joseph Canteloube | 1879 | 1957 | French | composer, primarily known for Chants d'Auvergne |
Hamilton Harty | 1879 | 1941 | Irish | composer and conductor, best known for An Irish Symphony |
John Ireland | 1879 | 1962 | English | composer, whose Piano Concerto is representative |
Carmela Mackenna | 1879 | 1962 | Chilean | composer and pianist |
Alma Mahler | 1879 | 1964 | Austrian | composer and wife of Gustav Mahler |
Otto Olsson | 1879 | 1964 | Swedish | composer |
Ottorino Respighi | 1879 | 1936 | Italian | composer, known for his three symphonic poems, Fountains of Rome , Pines of Rome , and Roman Festivals |
Rudolf Sieczyński | 1879 | 1952 | Austrian | composer |
Cyril Scott | 1879 | 1970 | English | composer, writer and poet |
Rentarō Taki | 1879 | 1903 | Japanese | composer and pianist |
Nikolai Medtner | 1880 | 1951 | Russian | composer and pianist |
Clarence Cameron White | 1880 | 1960 | American | neoromantic composer and concert violinist |
Emilios Riadis | 1880 | 1935 | Greek | composer, famous for his song cycles |
Béla Bartók | 1881 | 1945 | Hungarian | composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist |
Kenneth J. Alford | 1881 | 1945 | English | composer of marches for band, most famous for Colonel Bogey March |
Igor Stravinsky | 1882 | 1971 | Russian | composer, pianist and conductor, best known for his three ballets, The Firebird , Petrushka and The Rite of Spring and his characteristic Romantic-style compositions include Symphony in E-flat, Scherzo fantastique and Fireworks |
Maximilian Steinberg | 1883 | 1946 | Russian | composer, whose musical language was influenced by Glazunov and Rimsky-Korsakov's late Romanticism before developing into socialist realism by the late 1920s, characteristic period compositions include his Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 and his Fantaisie dramatique |
Arnold Bax | 1883 | 1953 | English | composer, poet and author, best known for his orchestral music |
Manolis Kalomiris | 1883 | 1962 | Greek | composer and founder of the Greek National School of Music |
Enrique Soro | 1884 | 1954 | Chilean | composer and pianist |
Edwin York Bowen | 1884 | 1961 | English | composer and pianist |
Charles Tomlinson Griffes | 1884 | 1920 | American | composer, known for his musical impressionism |
Alfonso Leng | 1884 | 1974 | Chilean | composer and dentist |
Marios Varvoglis | 1885 | 1967 | Greek | composer |
Dimitrios Levidis | 1885 | 1951 | Greek | composer |
Nagayo Motoori | 1885 | 1945 | Japanese | composer |
Pedro Humberto Allende | 1885 | 1957 | Chilean | composer and pianist who serves as the first Chilean impressionist composer |
Kōsaku Yamada | 1886 | 1965 | Japanese | composer and conductor |
Kurt Atterberg | 1887 | 1974 | Swedish | composer and conductor |
Carlos Isamitt | 1887 | 1974 | Chilean | composer, painter and musicologist |
Nadia Boulanger | 1887 | 1979 | French | composer, pianist and organist |
Max Steiner | 1888 | 1971 | Austrian-born American | composer and conductor who emigrated to America and became one of Hollywood's greatest musical composers |
Philip Greeley Clapp | 1888 | 1954 | American | educator, conductor, pianist and composer of classical music |
Sverre Jordan | 1889 | 1972 | Norwegian | composer and conductor |
Morishige Takei | 1890 | 1949 | Japanese | composer, guitarist and mandolinist |
Sergei Prokofiev | 1891 | 1953 | Russian | composer, pianist and conductor, best known for his ballet, Romeo and Juliet , his characteristic Romantic works include his Piano Sonata No. 1 in F Minor and his 4 Etudes |
Darius Milhaud | 1892 | 1974 | French | composer, conductor and teacher |
Ferde Grofé | 1892 | 1972 | American | composer, arranger, pianist and instrumentalist, best known for Grand Canyon Suite |
Sayed Darwish | 1892 | 1923 | Egyptian | composer, arranger and singer |
Lili Boulanger | 1893 | 1918 | French | composer and the first female winner of the Prix de Rome prize |
Rued Langgaard | 1893 | 1952 | Danish | composer and organist |
Tamezō Narita | 1893 | 1945 | Japanese | composer |
Michio Miyagi | 1894 | 1956 | Japanese | composer and musician, famous for his koto playing |
William Grant Still | 1895 | 1978 | American | composer known as "The Dean of Afro-American Composers" |
Carl Orff | 1895 | 1982 | German | composer and music educator, best known for his cantata, Carmina Burana |
Eva Jessye | 1895 | 1992 | American | composer, conductor and singer |
Leo Ornstein | c. 1895 | 2002 | Ukrainian-American | composer and pianist, though had a reputation as an avant-garde composer during his youth, he has composed characteristic Romantic-period works including Scherzino in B Minor, the piano suite Seeing Russia with Teacher, and 9 Miniatures |
Virgil Thomson | 1896 | 1989 | American | composer and critic |
Henry Cowell | 1897 | 1965 | American | composer, writer, pianist, publisher, teacher and the husband of Sidney Robertson Cowell |
Erich Wolfgang Korngold | 1897 | 1957 | Moravian-born American | composer and conductor |
George Gershwin | 1898 | 1937 | American | composer and pianist known as "The New York Citizen", best known for Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris as well as his opera, Porgy and Bess |
Mischa Levitzki | 1898 | 1941 | American | composer and pianist of Romantic-style works |
The Classical Period was an era of classical music between roughly 1750 and 1820.
Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content. Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all human societies. Definitions of music vary widely in substance and approach. While scholars agree that music is defined by a small number of specific elements, there is no consensus as to what these necessary elements are. Music is often characterized as a highly versatile medium for expressing human creativity. Diverse activities are involved in the creation of music, and are often divided into categories of composition, improvisation, and performance. Music may be performed using a wide variety of musical instruments, including the human voice. It can also be composed, sequenced, or otherwise produced to be indirectly played mechanically or electronically, such as via a music box, barrel organ, or digital audio workstation software on a computer.
Romantic music is a stylistic movement in Western Classical music associated with the period of the 19th century commonly referred to as the Romantic era. It is closely related to the broader concept of Romanticism—the intellectual, artistic, and literary movement that became prominent in Western culture from about 1798 until 1837.
A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, most often for orchestra. Although the term has had many meanings from its origins in the ancient Greek era, by the late 18th century the word had taken on the meaning common today: a work usually consisting of multiple distinct sections or movements, often four, with the first movement in sonata form. Symphonies are almost always scored for an orchestra consisting of a string section, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments which altogether number about 30 to 100 musicians. Symphonies are notated in a musical score, which contains all the instrument parts. Orchestral musicians play from parts which contain just the notated music for their own instrument. Some symphonies also contain vocal parts.
A concerto is, from the late Baroque era, mostly understood as an instrumental composition, written for one or more soloists accompanied by an orchestra or other ensemble. The typical three(music)|movement]] structure, a slow movement preceded and followed by fast movements, became a standard from the early 18th century.
Sonata, in music, literally means a piece played as opposed to a cantata, a piece sung. The term evolved through the history of music, designating a variety of forms until the Classical era, when it took on increasing importance. Sonata is a vague term, with varying meanings depending on the context and time period. By the early 19th century, it came to represent a principle of composing large-scale works. It was applied to most instrumental genres and regarded—alongside the fugue—as one of two fundamental methods of organizing, interpreting and analyzing concert music. Though the musical style of sonatas has changed since the Classical era, most 20th- and 21st-century sonatas still maintain the same structure.
Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers, with one performer to a part. However, by convention, it usually does not include solo instrument performances.
Sonata form is a musical structure generally consisting of three main sections: an exposition, a development, and a recapitulation. It has been used widely since the middle of the 18th century.
A piano trio is a group of piano and two other instruments, usually a violin and a cello, or a piece of music written for such a group. It is one of the most common forms found in classical chamber music. The term can also refer to a group of musicians who regularly play this repertoire together; for a number of well-known piano trios, see below.
German Romanticism was the dominant intellectual movement of German-speaking countries in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, influencing philosophy, aesthetics, literature, and criticism. Compared to English Romanticism, the German variety developed relatively early, and, in the opening years, coincided with Weimar Classicism (1772–1805).
The rondo is a musical form that contains a principal theme which alternates with one or more contrasting themes, generally called "episodes", but also occasionally referred to as "digressions" or "couplets". Some possible patterns include: ABACA, ABACAB, ABACBA, or ABACABA.
Germany claims some of the most renowned composers, singers, producers and performers of the world. Germany is the largest music market in Europe, and third largest in the world.
Program music or programmatic music is a type of instrumental art music that attempts to musically render an extramusical narrative. The narrative itself might be offered to the audience through the piece's title, or in the form of program notes, inviting imaginative correlations with the music. A well-known example is Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf.
A piano concerto, a type of concerto, is a solo composition in the classical music genre which is composed for piano accompanied by an orchestra or other large ensemble. Piano concertos are typically virtuosic showpieces which require an advanced level of technique. Piano concertos are typically written out in music notation, including sheet music for the pianist, orchestral parts, and a full score for the conductor.
20th-century classical music is art music that was written between the years 1901 and 2000, inclusive. Musical style diverged during the 20th century as it never had previously, so this century was without a dominant style. Modernism, impressionism, and post-romanticism can all be traced to the decades before the turn of the 20th century, but can be included because they evolved beyond the musical boundaries of the 19th-century styles that were part of the earlier common practice period. Neoclassicism and expressionism came mostly after 1900. Minimalism started later in the century and can be seen as a change from the modern to postmodern era, although some date postmodernism from as early as about 1930. Aleatory, atonality, serialism, musique concrète, and electronic music were all developed during the century. Jazz and ethnic folk music became important influences on many composers during this century.
American classical music is music written in the United States in the Classical music tradition, which originated in Europe. In many cases, beginning in the 18th century, it has been influenced by American folk music styles; and from the 20th century to the present day it has often been influenced by American folk music and sometimes jazz.
The modern form of the piano, which emerged in the late 19th century, is a very different instrument from the pianos for which earlier classical piano literature was originally composed. The modern piano has a heavy metal frame, thick strings made of top-grade steel, and a sturdy action with a substantial touch weight. These changes have created a piano with a powerful tone that carries well in large halls, and which produces notes with a very long sustain time. The contrast with earlier instruments, particularly those of the 18th century is very noticeable. These changes have given rise to interpretive questions and controversies about performing earlier literature on modern pianos, particularly since recent decades have seen the revival of historical instruments for concert use.
Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. It is sometimes distinguished as Western classical music, as the term "classical music" can also be applied to non-Western art musics. Classical music is often characterized by formality and complexity in its musical form and harmonic organization, particularly with the use of polyphony. Since at least the ninth century it has been primarily a written tradition, spawning a sophisticated notational system, as well as accompanying literature in analytical, critical, historiographical, musicological and philosophical practices. A foundational component of Western culture, classical music is frequently seen from the perspective of individual or groups of composers, whose compositions, personalities and beliefs have fundamentally shaped its history.
The transition from the classical period of European Art music, which lasted around 1750 to 1820, to Romantic music, which lasted around 1800 to 1910.
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