List of Romantic-era composers

This is a list of Romantic-era composers. Note that this list is purely chronological, and also includes a substantial number of composers, especially those born after 1860, whose works cannot be conveniently classified as "Romantic".

Late Classical-era/early Romantic-era composers (born 1770–99)

Name Date born Date died Nationality Comments
Ludwig van Beethoven17701827Germancomposer and pianist, regarded by many as the first Romantic-era composer, most famous for Symphony No. 5 and Für Elise among others.
Ferdinando Carulli17701841Italiancomposer for the guitar, wrote concertos and chamber music.
Édouard Du Puy17701822Swisscomposer, singer, director and violinist.
Peter Hänsel17701831German-Austriancomposer and violinist.
James Hewitt17701827Americancomposer, conductor and music publisher.
Anton Reicha17701836Czech-Frenchcomposer who experimented with irregular time signatures in his keyboard fugues, composed a large number of significant works for wind quintet.
Christian Heinrich Rinck17701846Germancomposer and organist.
Jan August Vitásek17701839Bohemiancomposer.
Friedrich Witt17701836Germancomposer and cellist.
Johann Baptist Cramer17711858Englishmusician of German origin.
Ferdinando Paer17711839Italiancomposer.
Maria Frances Parke17721822Englishcomposer, pianist and soprano.
François-Louis Perne17721832Frenchcomposer and musicographer.
Josef Triebensee17721846Bohemiancomposer and oboist.
Johann Wilhelm Wilms17721847Dutch-Germancomposer, best known for writing Wien Neêrlands Bloed, which served as the Dutch national anthem from 1815 to 1932.
Sophie Bawr17731860Frenchcomposer, writer and playwright.
Pietro Generali17731832Italiancomposer of operas and vocal music.
Václav Tomáš Matějka17731830Czechcomposer.
Bartolomeo Bortolazzi17731820Italianmandolin and guitar virtuoso and composer.
Pierre Rode17741830Frenchcomposer and violinist.
Gaspare Spontini17741851Italianopera composer and conductor, famous for La vestale.
Václav Tomášek17741850Czechcomposer and music teacher.
Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse17741842Danishcomposer in the Danish Golden Age.
Johann Anton André17751842Germancomposer and music publisher.
François-Adrien Boieldieu17751834Frenchcomposer.
João Domingos Bomtempo17751842Portuguesecomposer, pianist and pedagogue.
Bernhard Crusell17751838Finnishcomposer and clarinet player.
Sophia Dussek17751847Scottishcomposer of Italian descent, singer, pianist and harpist.
François de Fossa17751849Frenchcomposer and guitarist.
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann17761822Germancomposer, author of fantasy and horror, jurist, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist.
Joseph Küffner17761856Germancomposer and musician.
Philipp Jakob Riotte17761856Germancomposer.
Ignaz von Seyfried17761841Austriancomposer, musician and conductor.
Ludwig Berger17771839Germancomposer, pianist and piano teacher.
Pauline Duchambge17781858Frenchcomposer and pianist.
Johann Nepomuk Hummel17781837Austriancomposer and pianist, his music bridged the Classical era of music and Romantic era of music.
Sigismund von Neukomm17781858Austriancomposer and pianist.
Fernando Sor17781839Spanishcomposer for the classical guitar who is credited with elevating the guitar to the level of concert instrument.
William Knyvett17791856Britishcomposer and singer.
Louise Reichardt17791826Germancomposer and songwriter.
Luigi Antonio Calegari17801849Italianopera composer.
Conradin Kreutzer17801849Germancomposer and conductor.
Louis François Dauprat17811868Frenchcomposer, horn player and music professor at the Conservatoire de Paris.
Anton Diabelli17811858Austriancomposer, music publisher and editor.
Mauro Giuliani17811828Italiancomposer and virtuoso guitarist.
Anthony Heinrich17811861Americancomposer.
Sophie Lebrun17811863Germancomposer and pianist.
François-Joseph Naderman17811835Frenchcomposer, harpist and teacher.
Daniel Auber17821871Frenchopera composer, noted for La muette de Portici.
Carlo Coccia17821873Italianopera composer.
John Field17821837Irishcomposer and pianist, notable for cultivating the nocturne.
Niccolò Paganini17821840Italiancomposer and virtuoso violinist, wrote the 24 Caprices for violin, five concerti for violin, string quartets and works for violin and guitar.
Charlotta Seuerling17821828Swedishcomposer, concert singer, harpsichordist and poet.
Friedrich Dotzauer17831860Germancomposer and cellist.
Teresa Belloc-Giorgi17841855Italiancomposer and contralto.
Martin-Joseph Mengal17841851Belgiancomposer and instructor.
Francesco Morlacchi17841841Italiancomposer.
George Onslow17841853Anglo-Frenchcomposer.
Ferdinand Ries17841838Germancomposer, friend and pupil of Ludwig van Beethoven.
Louis Spohr17841859Germancomposer, violinist and conductor, renowned for chamber music and compositions for violin and harp.
Alexandre Pierre François Boëly17851858Frenchcomposer, organist and pianist.
Bettina von Arnim17851859Germancomposer, writer and novelist.
Catherina Cibbini-Kozeluch17851858Austriancomposer of Bohemian ancestry and pianist.
Isabella Colbran17851845Spanishcomposer and opera singer.
Karol Kurpiński17851857Polishcomposer, conductor and pedagogue.
Marie Bigot17851820Frenchcomposer and piano teacher.
Henry Bishop17861855Englishcomposer.
Friedrich Kuhlau17861832German-Danishcomposer.
Pietro Raimondi17861853Italiancomposer.
Carl Maria von Weber17861826Germancomposer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant Romantic opera composers.
Alexander Alyabyev17871851Russiancomposer, conductor and pianist.
Michele Carafa17871872Italianopera composer.
Johann Peter Pixis17881874Germancomposer and pianist.
Simon Sechter17881867Austrianprolific composer, renowned music theorist, teacher, organist and conductor.
Elena Asachi17891877Romaniancomposer of Austrian birth, pianist and singer.
Nicolas-Charles Bochsa17891856Frenchcomposer and musician.
Friedrich Ernst Fesca17891826Germancomposer of instrumental music and violinist.
Maria Agata Szymanowska17891831Polishcomposer and virtuoso pianist.
Harriet Browne17901858Englishcomposer and writer.
Isaac Nathan17901864Englishcomposer, musicologist, journalist and self-publicist known as "the father of Australian music".
Carl Czerny17911857Austriancomposer, teacher and pianist.
Ferdinand Hérold17911833Frenchoperatic composer.
Giacomo Meyerbeer17911864Germancomposer for grand opera (Il crociato in Egitto, Les Huguenots, L'Africaine).
Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart17911844Austrian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher and youngest child of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Carlo Evasio Soliva17911853Swiss-Italiancomposer.
Jan Václav Voříšek17911825Czechcomposer, pianist and organist.
Gioachino Rossini17921868Italianprolific opera composer, best known for The Barber of Seville.
Hedda Wrangel17921833Swedishcomposer.
Cipriani Potter17921871Englishcomposer, teacher and pianist.
Gertrude van den Bergh17931840Dutchcomposer and pianist.
Bernhard Klein17931832Germancomposer.
Caroline Ridderstolpe17931878Swedishcomposer and singer.
Princess Amalie of Saxony17941870Germancomposer.
Ignaz Moscheles17941870Czechcomposer and piano virtuoso, head of the Leipzig Conservatory after Felix Mendelssohn.
Heinrich Marschner17951861Germancomposer, considered to be the most important composer of German opera between Carl Maria von Weber and Richard Wagner.
Saverio Mercadante17951870Italiancomposer.
Nikolaos Mantzaros17951872Italian-Greekcomposer.
Franz Berwald17961868Swedishcomposer, little known in his lifetime, but his works, including his four symphonies are better known today.
Helene Liebmann17961835Germancomposer and pianist.
Carl Loewe17961869Germancomposer, baritone singer and conductor.
Mathilda d'Orozco17961863Swedishcomposer, noble, salonist, poet, writer, singer, amateur actress and harpsichordist.
Giovanni Pacini17961867Italiancomposer.
Emilie Zumsteeg17961857Germancomposer, pianist, songwriter and choir conductor.
Luigi Castellacci17971845Italianvirtuoso on the mandolin and guitar, instrumental composer and author of popular French romances with guitar and piano accompaniments.
Gaetano Donizetti17971848Italianopera composer, known for Lucia di Lammermoor and L'elisir d'amore among others.
Franz Schubert17971828Austriancomposer, best known for his more than 600 lieder, chamber music, piano works and symphonies.
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff17971848Germancomposer and writer.
Antonio Rolla17981837Italiancomposer and violin and viola virtuoso.
Olivia Buckley17991847Englishcomposer, harpist and organist.
Maria Fredrica von Stedingk17991868Swedishcomposer and courtier.
Fromental Halévy17991862Frenchcomposer.
Oscar I of Sweden17991859Swedishcomposer and king of Sweden and Norway.

Repertoire key: B=In Classical Net's basic Timeline of Major Composers 1600–present[1]

Early Romantic-era composers (born 1800–19)

Name Date born Date died Nationality Comments
Vincenzo Bellini18011835Italianopera composer, known for I Puritani, Norma and La sonnambula among others.
Tomasz Padura18011871Ukrainian-Polishpoet of the so-called Ukrainian school, musician-torbanist and composer-songwriter.
Jean-Baptiste Duvernoy18021880Frenchcomposer and pianist.
Amédée Méreaux18021874Frenchcomposer, his works are somewhat known for their immense difficulties.
Cesare Pugni18021870Italianprolific composer of ballet music.
Eliza Flower18031846Englishcomposer.
Adolphe Adam18031856Frenchcomposer, best known for his ballet score, Giselle.
Hector Berlioz18031869Frenchcomposer, famous for his programmatic symphony, Symphonie Fantastique.
Henri Herz18031888Austriancomposer and pianist.
Franz Lachner18031890Germancomposer and conductor, brother of Ignaz Lachner and Vinzenz Lachner.
Louise Farrenc18041875Frenchcomposer of three symphonies and many chamber works including the earliest known sextet for piano and wind quintet (1852).
Mikhail Glinka18041857Russiannationalist composer whose works include the opera, A Life for the Tsar.
Johann Strauss I18041849Austriandance music composer, famous for Radetzky March.
Fanny Mendelssohn18051847Germancomposer and pianist, sister of Felix Mendelssohn, mainly known for her vocal compositions and chamber music.
Leopold von Zenetti18051892Austriancomposer, mainly known for being one of Anton Bruckner's masters.
Napoléon Coste18051883Frenchvirtuoso guitarist, teacher and composer.
Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga18061826Spanishcomposer 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 Mertz18061856Hungariancomposer, known for his guitar pieces.
Friedrich Burgmüller18061874Germancomposer and pianist.
Carlo Curti18071872Italiancellist, performer and educator at Royal School of Music in Parma who composed cello and piano music.
Ignaz Lachner18071895Germanconductor, composer and organist, a prolific composer, notable for his chamber music such as his string quartets and trios.
Michael William Balfe18081870Irishconductor and composer, remembered for his opera, The Bohemian Girl.
Sebastián Iradier18091865Spanishcomposer, best known for La Paloma.
Felix Mendelssohn18091847Germanconductor, music-director, composer and pianist, brother of Fanny Mendelssohn, best known for Wedding March from A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Otto Lindblad18091864Swedishcomposer.
Frédéric Chopin18101849Polishcomposer and virtuoso pianist, his output includes nocturnes, ballade, scherzos, etudes and a number of Polish dances such as mazurkas, polonaises and waltzes (including Minute Waltz).
Ferenc Erkel18101893Hungariancomposer of grand opera.
Otto Nicolai18101849Germanopera composer and conductor, best known for The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Norbert Burgmüller18101836Germancomposer and brother of Friedrich Burgmüller, praised by Robert Schumann.
Robert Schumann18101856Germancomposer 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 Schuncke18101834Germancomposer and pianist.
Ferdinand David18101873Germancomposer and violinist.
Vinzenz Lachner18111893Germancomposer, brother of Franz Lachner and Ignaz Lachner.
Franz Liszt18111886Hungariancomposer and virtuoso pianist, wrote a number of symphonic poems and extended piano technique, best known for his Hungarian Rhapsodies and other solo piano works, one of the most influential and distinguished piano composers of the Romantic era.
Ferdinand Hiller18111885Germancomposer, conductor, writer and music-director, close friend of Felix Mendelssohn.
Wilhelm Taubert18111891Germanpianist, composer and conductor whose early works received praise from Felix Mendelssohn.
Ambroise Thomas18111896Frenchcomposer, best known for his two operas, Mignon and Hamlet.
Spyridon Xyndas18121896Greekopera composer and guitarist.
Sigismond Thalberg18121871Austriancomposer and one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era.
Louis-Antoine Jullien18121860Frenchconductor and composer of light music, king of promenade concerts in England.
Emilie Mayer18121883Germancomposer of eight symphonies as well as overtures, lieder and numerous chamber works.
Friedrich von Flotow18121883Germancomposer, chiefly remembered for his opera, Martha.
Alexandre Dubuque18121898Russian-Frenchcomposer, known for teaching.
Johann Rufinatscha18121893Austriancomposer.
Alexander Dargomyzhsky18131869Russiancomposer.
Semen Hulak-Artemovsky18131873Ukrainianopera composer, singer (baritone), actor and dramatist.
George Alexander Macfarren18131887Englishmajor opera composer, best known for Robin Hood, She Stoops to Conquer and Helvellyn, also known as a teacher.
Stephen Heller18131888Hungariancomposer, highly affected the late Romantic composers.
Richard Wagner18131883Germanmajor opera composer, best known for his cycle of four operas, Der Ring des Nibelungen.
Ernst Haberbier18131869Germancomposer.
Giuseppe Verdi18131901Italianmajor opera composer, best known for Nabucco, Rigoletto, La Traviata, Aida and Otello.
Charles-Valentin Alkan18131888Frenchcomposer and virtuoso pianist.
Andonios Liveralis18141842Greekopera composer and conductor.
Giuseppe Lillo18141863Italiancomposer, best known for his operas among which is worth noting Odda di Bernaver and Caterina Howard.
Adolf von Henselt18141889Germancomposer and pianist.
Josephine Lang18151880Germancomposer and pianist.
Ferdinand Praeger18151891Germancomposer and pianist.
Robert Volkmann18151883Germancomposer, companion of Johannes Brahms.
Józef Władysław Krogulski18151842Polishcomposer and pianist.
William Sterndale Bennett18161875Englishcomposer, conductor and editor.
Charles Dancla18171907Frenchviolinist, composer and teacher.
Émile Prudent18171863Frenchpianist and composer.
Károly Thern18171886Hungariancomposer, conductor and teacher.
Niels Gade18171890Danishcomposer, violinist and organist.
Henry Litolff18181891Britishpianist, composer and music publisher, best known for his five Concerto Symphoniques.
Charles Gounod18181893Frenchcomposer, best known for his two operas, Faust and Roméo et Juliette.
Antonio Bazzini18181897Italianviolinist, composer and teacher, best known for The Dance of the Goblins.
Alexander Dreyschock18181869Czechpianist and composer.
Jacques Offenbach18191880Frenchopera and operetta composer, known for The Tales of Hoffmann and Orpheus in the Underworld.
Franz von Suppé18191895Austriancomposer and conductor, notable for his operetta, Light Cavalry.
Stanisław Moniuszko18191872Polishcomposer, best known as the Father of Polish National Opera.
Clara Schumann18191896Germancomposer and pianist, wife of Robert Schumann, one of the leading pianists of the Romantic era.
Vatroslav Lisinski18191854Croatiancomposer, famous for his first Croatian opera, Love and Malice and his second Croatian opera, Porin.

Middle Romantic-era composers (born 1820–39)

Name Date born Date died Nationality Comments
Henri Vieuxtemps18201881Belgiancomposer and violinist.
Giovanni Bottesini18211889Italianconductor, composer and double bass virtuoso.
Josip Runjanin18211878Croatiancomposer.
Emilie Hammarskjöld18211854Swedishcomposer, concert pianist and organist.
Joachim Raff18221882Swiss-born Germancomposer, best known for eleven symphonies, most of them program music.
César Franck18221890Belgian-born Frenchcomposer, noted for his Symphony in D minor, also a significant composer for the organ.
Luigi Arditi18221903Italiancomposer, violinist and conductor.
Édouard Lalo18231892Frenchcomposer, remembered for his Symphonie Espagnole for violin and orchestra and his Cello Concerto.
Theodor Kirchner18231903Germancomposer and pianist, he wrote over 1,000 piano pieces.
Kurmangazy Sagyrbayuly18231896Kazakhstanicomposer.
Anton Bruckner18241896Austriancomposer of nine large-scale symphonies (one incomplete) and two more unacknowledged.
Bedřich Smetana18241884Czechnationalist composer, best known for his cycle of six symphonic poems, Má vlast and his opera, The Bartered Bride.
Carl Reinecke18241910Germancomposer, conductor and pianist, best known for his attachment to classical forms and conducted Gewandhausorchester for nearly 35 years.
Jean-Baptiste Arban18251889Frenchcomposer 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 II18251899Austriancomposer 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 Hol18251904Dutchorgan composer.
Stephen Foster18261864Americancomposer 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 Hallström18261901Swedishopera composer.
Ludwig Minkus18261917Austriancomposer of ballet music.
Prince Gustav, Duke of Uppland18271852Swedishcomposer and the second son of Oscar I of Sweden.
Josef Strauss18271870Austriancomposer and younger brother of Johann Strauss II.
Adolphe Blanc18281885Frenchcomposer of chamber music.
Adrien Barthe18281898Frenchcomposer.
Eduard Rohde18281883Germancomposer and organist.
Johann Dubez18281891Austriancomposer and mandolinist.
Jacques Blumenthal18291908Germancomposer.
Patrick Gilmore18291892Irish-born Americancomposer and bandleader, best known for his song, When Johnny Comes Marching Home.
Louis Moreau Gottschalk18291869Americancomposer, famous for performing his own romantic piano works.
Anton Rubinstein18291894Russianconductor, composer and pianist.
Karl Goldmark18301915Hungariancomposer.
Hans von Bülow18301894Germanconductor, composer and virtuoso pianist.
Theodor Leschetizky18301915Polishpianist, professor and composer.
Ivan Larionov18301889Russiancomposer, writer and folklorist.
Kornelije Stanković18311865Serbiancomposer.
Jan Gerard Palm18311906Curaçaoancomposer, best known for his mazurkas, waltzes, danzas, tumbas, fantasies and serenades.
Hiromori Hayashi18311896Japanesecomposer, known for the Japanese national anthem, Kimigayo.
Joseph Joachim18311907Hungariancomposer, violinist, conductor and teacher.
Eduardo Mezzacapo18321898Italianmandolin virtuoso, composer and teacher, known for Aubade for Mandolin, Violin and Guitar and Tarantella "Napoli".
August Söderman18321876Swedishcomposer, best known for his lieder and choral works.
Ivan Zajc18321914Croatiancomposer, conductor, director and teacher, best known for his opera, Nikola Šubić Zrinski and his Croatian patriotic song, U boj, u boj.
Francis Edward Bache18331858Englishcomposer and organist.
Alexander Borodin18331887Russianchemist and nationalist composer, part of the Russian Five, wrote the opera, Prince Igor.
Johannes Brahms18331897Germancomposer, 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 Ponchielli18341886Italianopera composer, known for La Gioconda.
Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska18341861Polishcomposer.
Julius Reubke18341858Germanpiano and organ composer, known for Sonata on the 94th Psalm.
Peter Benoit18341901Flemishcomposer.
Giuseppe Branzoli18351909Italianmandolinist, violinist, composer and music historian.
Felix Draeseke18351913Germancomposer.
Camille Saint-Saëns18351921Frenchmusic critic, composer, pianist and an exceptional organist, best known for his biblical opera, Samson et Dalila.
Henryk Wieniawski18351880Polishcomposer and violinist, famous for two concertos and character pieces of exceptional difficulty.
Eduard Strauss18351916Austriancomposer and younger brother of Johann Strauss II and Josef Strauss.
César Cui18351918Russianarmy officer, music critic and composer of the Russian Five.
Davorin Jenko18351914Slovenian-born Serbiancomposer and conductor.
Friedrich Baumfelder18361916Germanpiano, choral, and orchestra composer, in his day known for his 'Tirocinium musicae' and today known for his 'Melody in F major'.
Léo Delibes18361891Frenchcomposer, one of the first significant ballet composers since the Baroque music, known for Coppélia, Sylvia, and Lakmé.
Antônio Carlos Gomes18361896Brazilianopera 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 Tammelin18361915Swedishcomposer, concert pianist and opera singer.
Julius Weissenborn18371888Germanbassoonist, composer and music teacher, famous for his Practical Bassoon School.
Émile Waldteufel18371915Frenchcomposer of light music.
Mily Balakirev18371910Russiannationalist composer and the leader of the Russian Five.
Georges Bizet18381875Frenchcomposer, best known for his final opera, Carmen.
Max Bruch18381920Germancomposer, known for his Violin Concerto No. 1, Scottish Fantasy and Kol Nidrei for cello and orchestra.
Modest Mussorgsky18391881Russiannationalist composer and the member of the Russian Five, best known for his piano suite, Pictures at an Exhibition.
John Knowles Paine18391906Americanfirst native-born American composer to acquire international fame for his large-scale orchestral music.
Josef Rheinberger18391901Germancomposer and organist, born in Liechtenstein, primarily noted for his organ music including 20 sonatas.

Late Romantic-era composers (born 1840–59)

Name Date born Date died Nationality Comments
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky18401893Russiancomposer, best known for his three ballets, The Nutcracker, Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty, his opera, Eugene Onegin, his 1812 Overture, his Piano Concerto No. 1, his Violin Concerto and his seven symphonies.
John Stainer18401901Englishcomposer and organist.
Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray18401910Frenchcomposer.
Johan Svendsen18401911Norwegiancomposer, conductor and violinist.
Louis Brassin18401884Belgianpianist, composer and music educator, best known for his piano transcription of the Magic Fire Music from Wagner's Die Walküre.
Emmanuel Chabrier18411894French 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 Pedrell18411922Spanishcomposer of opera, zarzuela and church music who taught and influenced Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados and Manuel de Falla.
Giovanni Sgambati18411914Italiancomposer, conductor and pianist.
Antonín Dvořák18411904Czechcomposer, best known for New World Symphony.
Giuseppe Silvestri18411921Italiancomposer and mandolin virtuoso.
Arrigo Boito18421918Italiancomposer and librettist, known as a composer for his opera, Mefistofele.
Mykola Lysenko18421912Ukrainiancomposer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist.
Johann Nepomuk Fuchs18421899Austriancomposer, conductor, teacher and editor.
Jules Massenet18421912Frenchcomposer, best known for his two operas, Manon and Werther and the Méditation for violin from the opera, Thaïs.
Arthur Sullivan18421900Englishcomposer, known for his operettas in collaboration with William Schwenck Gilbert.
Calixa Lavallée18421891Canadiancomposer, known for the Canadian national anthem, O Canada.
Émile Bernard18431902Frenchcomposer and organist, known for his Divertissement For Doubled Wind Quintet.
Edvard Grieg18431907Norwegiancomposer, known for his 1875 incidental music, Peer Gynt.
David Popper18431913Czechcomposer and virtuoso cellist, known for his 40 etudes, 4 concertos and Hungarian Rhapsody for cello and orchestra.
Paul Taffanel18441908French flautist, conductor and instructor, regarded as the founder of the French Flute School.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov18441908Russiancomposer and the member of the Russian Five, best known for Flight of the Bumblebee from The Tale of Tsar Saltan.
Pietro Armanini18441895Italiancomposer, 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 Sarasate18441908Spanishvirtuoso violinist and composer, best known for Zigeunerweisen, Carmen Fantasy and his showpieces for the violin.
Charles-Marie Widor18441937Frenchcomposer, known for his works for the organ.
Friedrich Nietzsche18441900Germanphilologist, philosopher, cultural critic, poet and composer.
Ion Ivanovici18451902Romaniancomposer, known for his waltz, Waves of the Danube.
Gabriel Fauré18451924Frenchcomposer, known for his chamber music and his Requiem among other pieces.
Ignaz Brüll18461907Austriancomposer and pianist, famous for his opera, Das goldene Kreuz.
Luigi Denza18461922Italianopera composer, composed and played for mandolin and guitar.
Ferdinando de Cristofaro18461890Italianmandolin virtuoso, pianist, composer and music teacher.
Zygmunt Noskowski18461909Polishcomposer, conductor and teacher.
Robert Fuchs18471927Austriancomposer and music teacher.
Chiquinha Gonzaga18471935Braziliancomposer, pianist, and conductor.
Augusta Holmès18471903Frenchcomposer of Irish descent.
Philipp Scharwenka18471917German-Polishcomposer and music teacher, brother of Xaver Scharwenka.
Henri Duparc18481933Frenchcomposer, noted for seventeen melodies.
Hubert Parry18481918Englishcomposer, wrote choral song, Jerusalem.
Benjamin Godard18491895Frenchcomposer and violinist.
Ernesto Köhler18491907Italianflautist and composer, known by flautists for his instructional work, Progress In Flute Playing.
C. A. Bracco18501903Italianmandolinist, violinist, composer and conductor, known for I mandolini a congresso.
Zdeněk Fibich18501900Czech composer, best known for his two operas, Šárka and The Bride of Messina.
Xaver Scharwenka18501924German-Polishcomposer, pianist and music teacher, brother of Philipp Scharwenka.
Alexandre Luigini18501906Frenchcomposer and conductor.
Max Josef Beer18511908Austriancomposer.
Josif Marinković18511931Serbiancomposer.
Vincent d'Indy18511931Frenchcomposer, teacher of Erik Satie and Darius Milhaud among others.
Francisco Tárrega18521909Spanishcomposer and virtuoso classical guitarist, known as 'the Father of modern classical guitar playing'.
Hans Huber18521921Swisscomposer.
Charles Villiers Stanford18521924Irishcomposer.
Ciprian Porumbescu18531883Romaniancomposer.
Teresa Carreño18531917Venezuelancomposer and pianist.
Engelbert Humperdinck18541921Germanopera composer, influenced by Richard Wagner, famous for Hänsel und Gretel.
Leoš Janáček18541928Czechcomposer, known for his two operas, Káťa Kabanová and Jenůfa and his two orchestral pieces, Sinfonietta and Taras Bulba.
Alfredo Catalani18541893Italiancomposer, known for his two operas, Loreley and La Wally.
Moritz Moszkowski18541925Germancomposer and pianist who wrote prolifically for the piano, also composed a piano concerto and a violin concerto.
John Philip Sousa18541932Americancomposer and conductor known as "The March King", best known for The Stars and Stripes Forever among other marches.
Bernard Zweers18541924Dutchcomposer.
George Whitefield Chadwick18541931Americancomposer.
Ernest Chausson18551899Frenchcomposer, influenced by César Franck and Richard Wagner, seen as a bridge from them to Claude Debussy.
Jean Pietrapertosa18551940Italian-Frenchcomposer and mandolin virtuoso.
Julius Röntgen18551932German-Dutchcomposer, influenced by Johannes Brahms, close friend to Edvard Grieg.
Anatoly Lyadov18551914Russiancomposer, teacher and conductor.
Arnold Mendelssohn18551933Germancomposer and music teacher.
Stevan Mokranjac18561914Serbiancomposer.
Giuseppe Martucci18561909Italiancomposer and music teacher.
Sergei Taneyev18561915Russiancomposer, pianist and music teacher.
Christian Sinding18561941Norwegiancomposer.
Edward Elgar18571934Englishcomposer, 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 Chaminade18571944Frenchcomposer and pianist.
Ruggero Leoncavallo18571919Italianopera composer, known almost exclusively for Pagliacci.
Giacomo Puccini18581924Italianopera composer, known for La bohème, Tosca and Madama Butterfly.
Jenő Hubay18581937Hungarianviolinist, composer and music teacher, also known by his German name Eugen Huber.
Eugène Ysaÿe18581931Belgiancomposer and virtuoso violinist, known for his solo sonatas for violin.
Carlo Curti18591926Italian composer, conductor and instrumentalist on xylophone and mandolin, wrote mandolin method. Also, he conducted the first Mexican Typical Orchestra (Orquesta Típica Mexicana).
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov18591935Russiancomposer, conductor and teacher.
Victor Herbert18591924Irish-born Americancomposer, cellist and conductor, best known for his 1903 operetta, Babes in Toyland.
Sergei Lyapunov18591924Russiancomposer and pianist.
Per Lasson18591883Norwegiancomposer, brother of Norwegian painter, Oda Krohg.

Post Romantic-era composers (born 1860–79)

Name Date born Date died Nationality Comments
Isaac Albéniz18601909Spanishcomposer, known for nationalist piano works such as Iberia and a 'set of 12 piano pieces'.
Valborg Aulin18601928Swedishpianist and composer.
Gustave Charpentier18601956Frenchcomposer, best known for his opera, Louise.
Gustav Mahler18601911Austriancomposer, one of the most important late-Romantic/early-Modernist composers, his works include nine innovative large-scale and sometimes programmatic symphonies and many lieder.
Edward MacDowell18601908Americancomposer, best known for his piano concertos and piano suites, his works include his most popular short piece, "To a Wild Rose".
Hugo Wolf18601903Austriancomposer of lieder, influenced by Richard Wagner.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski18601941Polishpianist and composer.
Anton Arensky18611906Russiancomposer, pianist and music teacher.
Spyridon Samaras18611917Greekopera composer, widely known for his composition of the song, "Olympic Hymn".
Wilhelm Berger18611911Germancomposer, pianist and conductor.
Georgy Catoire18611926Russiancomposer.
Václav Suk18611933Czech-born Russiancomposer, violinist and conductor.
Euphemia Allen18611948Britishcomposer, known for her song, Chopsticks.
Claude Debussy18621918Frenchcomposer, one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, best known for Clair de Lune from Suite bergamasque.
Frederick Delius18621934Englishcomposer, used chromaticism in many of his compositions.
Edward German18621936Englishcomposer of Welsh descent, known for his three comic operas, Merrie England, A Princess of Kensington and Tom Jones.
Alberto Williams18621952Argentinecomposer and conductor.
Emil von Sauer18621942Germancomposer, pianist, editor and teacher.
Pietro Mascagni18631945Italianopera composer, known for Cavalleria Rusticana.
Horatio Parker18631919American
Horatio Parker
composer, organist and teacher.
Gabriel Pierné18631937Frenchcomposer, conductor and organist.
Ricardo Castro18641907Mexicancomposer, works include piano music.
Alberto Nepomuceno18641920Braziliancomposer.
Clarence L. Partee18641915Americancomposer for banjo, mandolin and guitar.
Guy Ropartz18641955Frenchcomposer and conductor.
Richard Strauss18641949Germancomposer, known for Also Sprach Zarathustra (based on the book, Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche), wrote many symphonic poems, operas and lieder.
Paul Dukas18651935Frenchcomposer, known for his piece of program music, The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
Eduardo di Capua18651917Italiancomposer, known for his song, "’O sole mio".
Herbert J. Ellis18651903Englishmusician (banjo, mandolin and guitar), wrote method books, more than 1000 compositions.
Paul Gilson18651942Belgianmusician and composer.
Alexander Glazunov18651936Russiancomposer, influenced by Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt.
Albéric Magnard18651914Frenchcomposer.
Carl Nielsen18651931Danishcomposer, renowned for his six symphonies and concerti.
Jean Sibelius18651957Finnishcomposer 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 Kalinnikov18661901Russiancomposer of two symphonies.
Tor Aulin18661914Swedishviolinist, conductor and composer.
Ferruccio Busoni18661924Italiancomposer and pianist, known for his opera, Turandot and his many transcriptions and arrangements of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Francesco Cilea18661950Italiancomposer, particularly known for his two operas, L'arlesiana and Adriana Lecouvreur.
Vladimir Rebikov18661920Russiancomposer and pianist.
Erik Satie18661925Frenchcomposer and pianist, best known for Les Trois Gymnopédies.
Johann Strauss III18661939Austriancomposer, son of Eduard Strauss.
Learmont Drysdale18661909Scottishcomposer.
Samuel Maykapar18671938Russiancomposer.
Amy Beach18671944Americancomposer and pianist.
Umberto Giordano18671948Italianopera composer.
Enrique Granados18671916Spanishcomposer and pianist, known for his piano works and chamber music.
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger18671942Swedishcomposer, wrote symphonies, operas, vocal and piano music.
Charles Koechlin18671950Frenchcomposer, teacher and writer on music.
Scott Joplinc. 1867/18681917Americancomposer and pianist known as "The Ragtime King", best known for Maple Leaf Rag and The Entertainer among other ragtime compositions.
Granville Bantock18681946Britishcomposer.
Hermann Bischoff18681936Germancomposer.
Hamish MacCunn18681916Scottishcomposer, conductor and teacher.
Vittorio Monti18681922Italiancomposer, violinist and conductor, most famous for Csárdás.
José Vianna da Motta18681948Portuguesepianist, teacher and composer, most famous for Symphony ‘À Pátria’, Op. 13.
Juventino Rosas18681894Mexicancomposer, known for his song, "Sobre las Olas".
Jan Brandts Buys18681933Dutch-Austriancomposer.
Tokichi Setoguchi18681941Japanesecomposer, music educator, conductor and clarinetist, famous for Warship March.
Seth Weeks18681953Americancomposer, music educator, jazz bandleader and mandolinist.
Demetrios Lialios18691940Greekcomposer of chamber music.
Julius Conus18691942Russiancomposer and violinist.
Albert Roussel18691937Frenchcomposer.
Armas Järnefelt18691958Finnishcomposer and conductor.
Harry Lawrence Freeman18691954Americanopera composer, conductor, impresario and teacher, best known for his African-American opera, Voodoo.
Alfred Hill18691960Australian-New Zealandcomposer, conductor and teacher.
Leopold Godowsky18701938Polishcomposer, pianist and teacher.
Zygmunt Stojowski18701946Polishcomposer and pianist.
Franz Lehár18701948Hungariancomposer, mainly known for his operettas.
Florent Schmitt18701958Frenchcomposer.
Luigi von Kunits18701931Serbian-born Austriancomposer and conductor, founder of the Pittsburg and Toronto symphony orchestras.
Guillaume Lekeu18701894Belgiancomposer, known for his violin sonata.
Nobu Kōda18701946Japanesecomposer, violinist and music teacher.
Alfredo D'Ambrosio18711914Italianviolinist and composer.
Giacomo Balla18711958Italianfuturist composer and artist.
Zacharia Paliashvili18711933Georgian 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 Hadley18711937Americancomposer and conductor, known for the opera, Cleopatra's Night.
Oreste Ravanello18711938Italiancomposer, known for works for choir and for organ.
Wilhelm Stenhammar18711927Swedishcomposer, conductor and pianist.
Alexander von Zemlinsky18711942Austriancomposer and music teacher, his students include Arnold Schoenberg and Erich Wolfgang Korngold.
Stanislav Binički18721942Serbiancomposer.
Hugo Alfvén18721960Swedishcomposer, known for Swedish Rhapsody, works include choral music and five symphonies.
Julius Fučík18721916Czechcomposer and conductor of military bands, known for Entrance of the Gladiators.
Rubin Goldmark18721936Americancomposer, pianist, educator and nephew of Karl Goldmark.
Alexander Scriabin18721915Russiancomposer and pianist, known for his harmonically adventurous piano sonatas and theatrically orchestral works.
Ralph Vaughan Williams18721958Englishcomposer, his works include nine symphonies, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis and other orchestral poems.
Salvator Léonardi18721938Italiancomposer, performer and teacher, known for Souvenir de Catania, Souvenir de Napoli, Souvenir de Sicile and Angeli e Demoni.
William Henry Bell18731946Englishcomposer, conductor and lecturer.
Leo Fall18731925Austriancomposer of operettas.
Pascual Marquina Narro18731948Spanishprolific orchestral and operatic composer.
Sergei Rachmaninoff18731943Russiancomposer, conductor and virtuoso pianist, wrote three symphonies, four piano concertos, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and solo piano music.
Max Reger18731916Germanprolific composer, known for his Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart.
Reynaldo Hahn18741947Venezuelancomposer, known for his strikingly beautiful and unabashedly tonal melodies.
Gustav Holst18741934Englishcomposer, best known for his orchestral suite, The Planets.
Charles Ives18741954Americancomposer, member of the American Five, best known for The Unanswered Question and his Concord Sonata.
Arnold Schoenberg18741951Austrian-Americancomposer, 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 Suk18741935Czechcomposer and violinist.
Franz Schmidt18741939Austriancomposer, influenced by Anton Bruckner and Johannes Brahms.
Reinhold Glière18751956Russiancomposer.
Julián Carrillo18751965Mexicancomposer, conductor, violinist and music theorist.
Fritz Kreisler18751962Austriancomposer and virtuoso violinist, known for his sweet sound, composed short showpieces for the violin.
Richard Wetz18751935Germancomposer, influenced by Anton Bruckner.
Maurice Ravel18751937Frenchcomposer, best known for Boléro.
Franco Alfano18751954Italiancomposer and pianist.
Albert Ketèlbey18751959Englishcomposer, conductor and pianist.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor18751912Englishcomposer, known for his trilogy of cantatas, The Song of Hiawatha.
Alexander Koshetz18751944Ukrainianchoral conductor, arranger, composer, ethnographer, writer, musicologist and lecturer.
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis18751911Lithuanianpainter and composer.
Henriette Renié18751956Frenchharpist and composer.
Edgar Bara18761962Frenchmandolinist and composer, conducted mandolin orchestra.
John Alden Carpenter18761951Americancomposer.
Manuel de Falla18761946Spanishcomposer, best known for The Three-Cornered Hat.
Flor Alpaerts18761954Belgiancomposer, notable students include the two composers, Denise Tolkowsky and Ernest Schuyten.
Mieczysław Karłowicz18761909Polishcomposer, his style is of late-Romantic and nationalist character.
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti18761944Italianfuturist composer, poet, and editor.
Fermo Dante Marchetti18761940Italiancomposer, best known for the song, "Fascination".
Ludolf Nielsen18761939Danishcomposer, violinist, conductor and pianist.
Carl Ruggles18761971Americancomposer, painter and the member of the American Five, best known for his orchestral work, Sun-Treader.
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari18761948Italiancomposer and music teacher, known for his comic operas.
Nakao Tozan18761956Japaneseperformer and prolific composer, known for his works of the Tozan school.
Petar Krstić18771957Serbiancomposer and conductor.
Antonio Russolo18771942Italianfuturist composer and brother of Luigi Russolo.
Ernő Dohnányi18771960Hungarianconductor, composer and pianist.
Elisabeth Kuyper18771953Dutchcomposer and conductor.
Paul Ladmirault18771944Frenchcomposer.
Mykola Leontovych18771921Ukrainiancomposer, 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 Bortkiewicz18771952Ukrainiancomposer and pianist.
Isidor Bajić18781915Serbiancomposer, conductor, pedagogue and publisher.
Gabriel Dupont18781914Frenchcomposer, known for his operas and chamber music.
Joseph Holbrooke18781958Englishcomposer, conductor and pianist.
Franz Schreker18781934Austrianconductor, composer and music teacher, primarily a composer of operas.
Teiichi Okano18781941Japanesecomposer.
Frank Bridge18791941Englishcomposer, best known as the teacher of Benjamin Britten; compositions include Oration for cello and orchestra, The Sea for orchestra and four string quartets.
Viggo Brodersen18791965Danishcomposer and pianist.
Joseph Canteloube18791957Frenchcomposer, primarily known for Chants d'Auvergne.
Hamilton Harty18791941Irishcomposer and conductor, best known for An Irish Symphony.
John Ireland18791962Englishcomposer, whose Piano Concerto is representative.
Alma Mahler18791964Austriancomposer and wife of Gustav Mahler.
Otto Olsson18791964Swedishcomposer.
Ottorino Respighi18791936Italiancomposer, known for his three symphonic poems, The Fountains of Rome, The Pines of Rome, and Roman Festivals.
Rudolf Sieczyński18791952Austriancomposer.
Cyril Scott18791970Englishcomposer, writer and poet.
Rentarō Taki18791903Japanesecomposer and pianist.

Timeline

Georges BizetCamille Saint-SaënsHenryk WieniawskiJulius ReubkeJohannes BrahmsAlexander BorodinFrancis Edward BacheKarl GoldmarkAnton RubinsteinLouis Moreau GottschalkJosef StraussJohann Strauss IIAnton BrucknerBedřich SmetanaEdouard LaloCésar FranckClara SchumannJacques OffenbachCharles GounodNiels Wilhelm GadeRobert VolkmannGiuseppe VerdiCharles-Valentin AlkanRichard WagnerFranz LisztRobert SchumannFrédéric ChopinCarl Otto NicolaiNorbert BurgmüllerOtto LindbladFelix MendelssohnMichael William BalfeJuan Crisostomo de ArriagaFanny MendelssohnJohann Strauss IHector BerliozMikhail GlinkaAdolphe-Charles AdamVincenzo BelliniGaetano DonizettiFranz SchubertCarl LoeweFranz BerwaldGioacchino RossiniGiacomo MeyerbeerCarl CzernyCarl Maria von WeberLouis SpohrDaniel AuberNiccolò PaganiniJohn Field (composer)Anthony Philip HeinrichFernando SorJohann Nepomuk HummelLudwig van Beethoven
Ottorino RespighiJoseph CanteloubeReinhold GlièreFranz SchmidtJosef SukSergei RachmaninoffAlexander ScriabinWilhelm StenhammarFranz LeharAmy BeachEnrique GranadosFerruccio BusoniVasily KalinnikovJean SibeliusAlexander GlazunovPaul DukasCarl NielsenAlbéric MagnardRichard StraussEdward GermanAnton Stepanovich ArenskyGustave CharpentierIsaac AlbenizGustav MahlerHugo WolfSergei LyapunovEugene YsayeGiacomo PucciniRuggiero LeoncavalloEdward ElgarChristian SindingAnatoly LyadovErnest ChaussonGeorge Whitefield ChadwickLeoš JanáčekEngelbert Humperdinck (composer)Charles Villiers StanfordHans Huber (composer)Francisco TarregaFranz Xaver ScharwenkaAlexandre LuiginiHubert ParryRobert FuchsAugusta HolmèsCharles-Marie WidorGabriel FauréPablo SarasateNikolai Rimsky-KorsakovEdvard GriegArrigo BoitoArthur SullivanJohann FuchsAntonín DvořákJohan SvendsenJohn StainerPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

See also

References

Notes
Sources

  • Classical Net, Timeline of Major Composers 1600-Present (PDF), retrieved 2009-05-06 from Classical Net - Composers and Their Works - Timelines
  • Classical Composers Database: Composers timeline (1800-1900). Retrieved 5 July 2006.
  • Machlis, Joseph and Forney, Kristine. The Enjoyment of Music: Seventh Edition, W.W. Norton & Company, 1995, ISBN 0-393-96643-7
  • Moss, Charles K. Claude Debussy and Impressionism at the Wayback Machine (archived 9 February 2008). Retrieved 17 January 2009.
  • Sadie, Julie Anne and Rhian Samuel. The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers, W.W. Norton & Company, 1995, ISBN 0-333-51598-6

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