Chronological list of German classical composers

The following is a chronological list of classical music composers who lived in, worked in, were German citizens, or who grew up and made their careers in Germany.

Medieval

• Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179)

Renaissance

• Caspar Othmayr (1515–1553)
• Valentin Haussmann (1560–1614)
• Hans Leo Hassler (1564–1612)
• Johannes Ghro (1575–1627)

Baroque

• Michael Praetorius (1571–1621)
• Andreas Hakenberger (1574–1627)
• Heinrich Schütz (1585–1672)
• Samuel Scheidt (1587–1653)
• Johann Schop (1590–1667)
• Johann Pachelbel (1653–1706)
• Christian Friedrich Witt (1660–1717)
• Georg Caspar Schürmann (1672 or 1673–1751)
• Georg Friedrich Kauffmann (1679–1735)
• Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767)
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
• George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)
• Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688–1758)
• Johann Christian Hertel (1697–1754)
• Johann Joachim Quantz (1697–1773)
• Johann Gottlieb Graun (1703–1771)
• Carl Heinrich Graun (1704–1759)

Classical era

• Johan Agrell (1701–1765)
• Johann Ernst Eberlin (1702–1762)
• Johann Gottlieb Janitsch (1708–c. 1763)
• Christoph Schaffrath (1709–1763)
• Wilhelm Friedmann Bach (1710–1784)
• Frederick II of Prussia (1712–1786)
• Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713–1780)
• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788)
• Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787)
• Gottfried August Homilius (1714–1785)
• Johann Schobert (1720?–1767)
• Joseph Anton Xaver Auffmann (1720–1773)
• Bernhard Joachim Hagen (1720–1787)
• Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht (1722–1794)
• Carl Friedrich Abel (1723–1787)
• Johann Wilhelm Hertel (1727–1789)
• Hermann Friedrich Raupach (1728–1778)
• Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729–1774)
• Johann Gottfried Seyfert (1731–1772)
• Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
• Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732–1795)
• Johann Christian Fischer (1733–1800)
• Ernst Christoph Dressler (1734–1779)
• Johann Christian Bach (1735–1782)
• Anton Schweitzer (1735–1787)
• Johann Gottfried Eckhardt (1735–1809)
• Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel (1738–1822)
• Ernst Eichner (1740–1777)
• Johann Peter Salomon (1745–1815)
• Johann Wilhelm Hässler (1747–1822)
• Theodor von Schacht (1748–1823)
• Johann Friedrich Edelmann (1749–1794)
• Kaspar Demmler (1750–1803)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
• Joseph Martin Kraus (1756–1792)
• Thaddäus Wolfgang von Dürnitz (1756–1807)
• Franz Danzi (1763–1826)
• Simon Mayr (1763–1845)

Romantic/Post-romantic

• Peter Anton Kreusser (1765–1831)
• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
• Friedrich Jeremias Witt (1770–1836)
• Ferdinand Ries (1784–1838)
• Louis Spohr (1784–1859)
• Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner (1785–1849)
• Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826)
• Johann Peter Pixis (1788–1874)
• Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864)
• Johann Carl Gottfried Löwe (1796–1869)
• Fanny Mendelssohn (1805–1847)
• Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)

• Otto Nicolai (1810-1849)
• Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
• Ferdinand Hiller (1811–1885)
• Emilie Mayer (1812–1883)
• Richard Wagner (1813–1883)
• Friedrich Robert Volkmann (1815–1883)
• Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880)
• Clara Schumann (1819–1896)
• Peter Cornelius (1824-1874)
• Carl Reinecke (1824–1910)
• Albert Dietrich (1829–1908)
• Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
• Franz Wohlfahrt (1833–1884)
• Max Bruch (1838–1920)
• August Friedrich Martin Klughardt (1847–1902)
• Philipp Scharwenka (1847–1917)
• Fritz Seitz (1848–1918)
• Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921)
• Paul Klengel (1854–1935)
• Max Wagenknecht (1857–1922)
• Julius Klengel (1859–1933)
• Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
• Paul Lincke (1866-1946)
• Hans Pfitzner (1869–1949)
• Max Reger (1873–1916)

Modern/Post-modern/Contemporary

• Richard Wetz (1875–1935)
• Eduard Künneke (1885-1953)
• Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886–1954)
• Rudi Stephan (1887–1915)
• Carl Orff (1895–1982)
• Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)
• Herbert Eimert (1897–1972)
• Kurt Weill (1900-1950)
• Werner Egk (1901–1983)
• Stefan Wolpe (1902–1972)
• Boris Blacher (1903–1975)
• Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1905–1963)
• Martin Scherber (1907–1974)
• Berthold Goldschmidt (1903–1996)
• Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918–1970)
• Fritz Geißler (1921–1984)
• Bertold Hummel (1925–2002)
• Hans Werner Henze (1926–2012)
• Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007)
• Helmut Lachenmann (born 1935)
• Aribert Reimann (born 1936)
• Michael von Biel (born 1937)
• Hans-Joachim Hespos (born 1938)
• Nicolaus A. Huber (born 1938)
• Johannes Fritsch (1941–2010)
• Wolfgang Rihm (born 1952)
• Hans-Jürgen von Bose (born 1953)
• Hans Zimmer (born 1957)