TIME LINE OF MAJOR CLASSICAL COMPOSERS
- 1300
- PHILIPPE DE VITRY
French, 1291-1361
- GUILLAUME DE MACHAUT
French, c1300-c1377
- FRANCESCO LANDINI
Italian, c1325-1397
- 1400
- GUILLAUME DUFAY
French, c1400-1474
- JOHANNES OCKEGHEM
Franco-Flemish, c1410-1497
- JOSQUIN DES PREZ
French, 1440-1521
- GILLES BINCHOIS
French, c1400-1460
1500- GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI DE PALESTRINA
Italian, 1529-1594
- ORLANDE DE LASSUS
Franco-Flemish, 1532-1594
- WILLIAM BYRD
English, 1543-1623
- TOMAS LUIS DE VICTORIA
Spanish, 1548-1611
- LUCA MARENZIO
Italian, 1554-1599
- GIOVANNI GABRIELI
Italian, 1555-1612
- CARLO GESUALDO
Italian, c1560-1612
- CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Italian, 1567-1643
1600- JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY
French, 1632-1687
- HENRY PURCELL
English, 1659-1695
- FRANCOIS COUPERIN
French, 1668-1733
- ANTONIO VIVALDI
Italian, 1678-1741
- GEORGE PHILIPP TELEMANN
German, 1681-1767
- JEAN-PHILLIPPE RAMEAU
French, 1683-1764
- JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
German, 1685-1750
- DOMENICO SCARLATTI
Italian, 1685-1757
- GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
German/English, 1685-1759
1700- CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD VON GLUCK
German, 1949-1787
- FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN
Austrian, 1732-1809
- WILLIAM BILLINGS
American, 1746-1800
1750- MUZIO CLEMENTI
Italian, 1752-1832
- WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Austrian, 1756-1791
- LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
German, 1770-1827
- CARL MARIA VON WEBER
German, 1786-1826
- GIACOMO MEYERBEER
German/French 1791-1864
- GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Italian, 1792-1868
- FRANZ SCHUBERT
Austrian, 1797-1828
- GAETANO DONIZETTI
Italian, 1787-1848
1800- VINCENZO BELLINI
Italian, 1801-1835
- HECTOR BERLIOZ
French, 1803-1869
- FELIX MENDELSSOHN
German, 1809-1847
- FREDERIC CHOPIN
Polish, 1810-1856
- ROBERT SCHUMANN
German, 1810-1856
- FRANZ LISZT
Hungarian, 1811-1886
- GIUSEPPE VERDI
Italian, 1813-1901
- RICHARD WAGNER
German, 1813-1883
- CHARLES GOUNOD
French, 1818-1893
- JACQUES OFFENBACH
German/French, 1818-1880
- CESAR FRANCK
French, 1822-1890
- ANTON BRUCKNER
Austrian, 1824-1896
1825- JOHANN STRAUSS, JR.
Austrian, 1825-1899
- ALEXANDER BORODIN
Russian, 1833-1887
- JOHANNES BRAHMS
German, 1833-1897
- CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
French, 1835-1921
- LEO DELIBES
French, 1836-1891
- GEORGES BIZET
French, 1836-1875
- MODESTE MUSSORGSKY
Russian, 1839-1881
- PYOTR IL'YICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Russian, 1840-1893
- ANTONIN DVORAK
Czech, 1841-1904
- ARTHUR SULLIVAN
English, 1842-1900
- JULES MASSENET
French, 1842-1912
- EDVARD GRIEG
Norwegian, 1843-1907
- NICOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Russian, 1844-1908
- GABRIEL FAURE
French, 1845-1924
1850- JOHN PHILIP SOUSA
American, 1854-1932
- EDWARD ELGAR
English, 1857-1934
- GIACOMO PUCCINI
Italian, 1858-1924
- VICTOR HERBERT
German/American, 1859-1924
- GUSTAV MAHLER
Austrian, 1860-1911
- EDWARD MACDOWELL
American, 1860-1908
- CLAUDE DEBUSSY
French, 1862-1918
- RICHARD STRAUSS
German, 1864-1949
- JEAN SIBELIUS
Finnish, 1865-1957
- RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
English, 1872-1958
- SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
Russian/American, 1873-1943
- GUSTAV HOLST
English, 1874-1934
- CHARLES IVES
American, 1874-1954
- ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Austrian/American, 1874-1951
1875- MAURICE RAVEL
French, 1875-1937
- BELA BARTOK
Hungarian, 1881-1945
- IGOR STRAVINSKY
Russian/American, 1882-1971
- ALBAN BERG
Austrian, 1885-1935
- SERGE PROKOFIEV
Russian, 1891-1953
- GEORGE GERSHWIN
American, 1898-1937
- FRANCIS POULENC
French, 1899-1963
1900- AARON COPLAND
American, 1900-1990
- KURT WEILL
German/American, 1900-1950
- DMITRY SHOSTAKOVICH
Russian, 1906-1975
- SAMUEL BARBER
American, 1910-1981
- BENJAMIN BRITTEN
English, 1913-1976
- LEONARD BERNSTEIN
American, 1918-1990