Composer Lifetimes

Hildegard von Bingen

(1098-1179) – Early 12^th Century

Adam de la Halle

(1235-1288) – Mid 13^th Century

Phillippe de Vitry

(1291-1361) – Early 14^th Century

Guillaume de Machaut

(1300-1377) – Early 14^th Century

John Dunstable

(1380-1453) – Early 15^th Century

Guillaume Dufay

(1400-1474) – Early/Mid 15^th Century

Johannes Ockeghem

(1410-1497) – Mid/Late 15^th Century

Josquin des Prez

(1440-1521) – Late 15^th/Early 16^th Century

John Taverner

(1490-1545) – Early 16^th Century

Giovanni Palestrina

(1525-1594) – Mid 16^th Century

William Byrd

(1543-1623) – Late 16^th/Early 17^th Century

Thomas Morley

(1557-1603) – Late 16^th Century

John Dowland

(1563-1626) – Late 16^th/Early 17^th Century

Claudio Monteverdi

(1567-1643) – Late 16^th/Early 17^th Century

Heinrich Schutz

(1585-1672) – Early/Mid 17^th Century

Giacomo Carissimi

(1605-1674) – Mid 17^th Century

Barbara Strozzi

(1619-1663) – Mid 17^th Century

Jean-Baptiste Lully

(1632-1687) – Late 17^th Century

Diderik Buxtehude

(1637-1707) – Late 17^th Century

Archangelo Corelli

(1653-1713) – Late 17^th Century

Henry Purcell

(1659-1695) – Late 17^th Century

Allesandro Scarlatti

(1660-1725) – Late 17^th/Early 18^th Century

Francois Couperin

(1668-1733) – Late 17^th/Early 18^th Century

Antonio Vivaldi

(1678-1741) – Early 18^th Century

Georg Phillipe Telemann

(1681-1767) – Early Mid/18^th Century

Georg Friedrich Handel

(1685-1759) – Early/Mid 18^th Century

Johann Sebastian Bach

(1685-1750) – Early 18^th Century

Jean-Phillipe Rameau

(1683-1764) – Early/Mid 18^th Century

Giovanni Battista Samartini

(1701-1775) – Mid 18^th Century

Franz Joseph Haydn

(1732-1809) – Late 18^th Century

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

(1756-1791) – Late 18^th Century

Ludwig van Beethoven

(1770-1827) – Late 18^th/Early 19^th Century

Carl Maria von Weber

(1786-1826) – Early 19^th Century

Franz Schubert

(1797-1828) – Early 19^th Century

Gioachino Rossini

(1792-1868) – Early/Mid 19^th Century

Hector Berlioz

(1803-1869) – Early/Mid 19^th Century

Felix Mendelssohn

(1809-1847) – Early 19^th Century

Robert Schumann

(1810-1849) – Early 19^th Century

Frederich Chopin

(1810-1849) – Early 19^th Century

Gaetano Donizetti

(1797-1848) – Early 19^th Century

Franz Liszt

(1811-1886) – Mid/Late 19^th Century

Richard Wagner

(1813-1883) – Mid/Late 19^th Century

Giuseppe Verdi

(1813-1901) – Mid/Late 19^th Century

Bedrich Smetana

(1824-1884) – Mid/Late 19^th Century

Anton Bruckner

(1824-1884) – Mid/Late 19^th Century

Johann Strauss

(1825-1899) – Mid/Late 19^th Century

Johannes Brahms

(1833 – 1897) – Late 19^th Century

Camille Saint-Saëns

(1835-1921) – Late19^th/Early 20^th Century

Georges Bizet

(1838-1875) – Mid 19^th Century

Peter I. Tchaikovsky

(1840-1893) – Late 19^th Century

Antonin Dvorak

(1841-1904) – Late 19^th Century

Giacomo Puccini

(1858-1924) – Late 19^th/Early 20^th Century

Gustav Mahler

(1860-1911) – Late 19^th Century

Claude Debussy

(1862-1918) – Late 19^th/Early 20^th Century

Richard Strauss

(1864-1949) – Late 19^th/Early 20^th Century

Ralph Vaughan Williams

(1872-1958) – Early 20^th Century

Sergei Rachmaninov

(1873-1943) – Early 20^th Century

Bela Bartok

(1881-1945) – Early 20^th Century

Arnold Schoenberg

(1874-1951) – Early 20^th Century

Maurice Ravel

(1875-1937) – Early 20^th Century

Igor Stravinsky

(1882-1971) – Early/Mid 20^th Century

Alban Berg

(1885-1935) – Early 20^th Century

Paul Hindemith

(1895-1963) – Early/Mid 20^th Century

Aaron Copland

(1900-1990) – Mid/Late 20^th Century

Dmitri Shostakovich

(1906-1975) – Mid 20^th Century