List of Classical-era composers

Lists of classical composers
by era and century
Medieval (500–1400)
Renaissance (1400–1600)
Baroque (1600–1760)
Classical (1730–1820)
Romantic (1815–1910)
Modernist (1890–1950)
Postmodernist (since 1930)
20th century (1901–1999)
21st century (since 2000)

This is a list of composers of the Classical music era, roughly from 1730 to 1820. Prominent classicist composers[1][2][3] include Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Georg Matthias Monn, Baldassare Galuppi, Giovanni Battista Martini, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Johann Baptist Wanhal, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Carl Friedrich Abel, Thomas Arne, William Boyce, John Stanley, Domenico Cimarosa, Johann Stamitz, Franz Xaver Richter, Ignaz Holzbauer, Johann Gottlieb Graun, Carl Heinrich Graun, Franz Benda, Georg Anton Benda, Joseph Haydn, Johann Christian Bach, Antonio Salieri, Muzio Clementi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Luigi Boccherini, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Luigi Cherubini, Ludwig van Beethoven, Gioachino Rossini, Gaspare Spontini, Niccolò Paganini and Franz Schubert.

As with the list of Romantic composers, this is a purely chronological catalogue and includes figures not usually thought of as Classical-period composers, such as Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Frideric Handel, as well as figures more often regarded as belonging to the early Romantic era, such as Carl Maria von Weber and Gaetano Donizetti.

Early Galante era composers – Transition from Baroque to Classical (born before 1710)

Composers in the Baroque/Classical transitional era, sometimes seen as the beginning of the Galante era, include the following listed by their date of birth:

Early Classical era/Later Galante era composers (born 1710–1730)

Middle Classical era composers (born 1730–1750)

Late Classical era composers (born 1750–1770)

Classical/Romantic transition composers (born 1770–1799)

Timeline of Classical composers (partial)

See also

References

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