This is a list of composers of theClassical music era , roughly from 1730 to 1820. Prominent classicist composers[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] includeGeorg Christoph Wagenseil ,Georg Matthias Monn ,Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf ,Johann Baptist Wanhal ,Christoph Willibald Gluck ,Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach ,Johann Stamitz ,Joseph Haydn ,Johann Christian Bach ,Antonio Salieri ,Muzio Clementi ,Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ,Luigi Boccherini ,Johann Nepomuk Hummel ,Ludwig van Beethoven ,Gioachino Rossini ,Gaspare Spontini ,Niccolò Paganini andFranz Schubert .
As with thelist of Romantic composers , this is a purely chronological catalogue and includes figures not usually thought of as Classical-period composers, such asJohann Sebastian Bach andGeorg Frideric Handel , as well as figures more often regarded as belonging to the early Romantic era, such asCarl Maria von Weber andGaetano Donizetti .
Early Galante era composers – Transition from Baroque to Classical (born before 1710)[ edit ] Composers in the Baroque/Classical transitional era, sometimes seen as the beginning of theGalante era , include the following listed by their date of birth:
Early Classical era/Later Galante era composers (born 1710–1730)[ edit ] Middle Classical era composers (born 1730–1750)[ edit ] Capel Bond (1730–1790)Pasquale Errichelli (1730–1785)Tommaso Giordani (c. 1730–1806)William Jackson (1730–1803)Antonín Kammel (1730–1784)Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti (1730–1795)Giovanni Meneghetti [it ] (c. 1730–1794)Georg von Pasterwitz (1730–1803)Antonio Sacchini (1730–1786)Christian Cannabich (1731–1798)František Xaver Dušek (1731–1799)Elisabetta de Gambarini (1731–1765)Gaetano Pugnani (1731–1798)Théodore-Jean Tarade (1731–1788)Carlo Giuseppe Toeschi [de ] (1731–1788)Pierre Vachon (1731–1803)Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732–1795)František Xaver Brixi (1732–1771)Giuseppe Demachi (1732 – c. 1791)Thomas Erskine ,Earl of Kellie (1732–1781)Johann Christian Kittel (1732–1809)Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)Gian Francesco de Majo , or "Ciccio " (1732–1770)Josina van Aerssen , orJosina van Boetzelaer (1733–1787)Thomas Sanders Dupuis (1733–1796)Anton Fils , orFiltz (1733–1760)Johann Christian Fischer (1733–1800)Istvánffy Benedek [hu ] (1733–1778)Hungarian form of Benedek Istvánffy Thomas Linley the elder (1733–1795)Giacomo Tritto (1733–1824)Franz Ignaz Beck (1734–1809)Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet Charpentier (1734–1794)Benjamin Cooke (1734–1793)François-Joseph Gossec (1734–1829)Karl von Ordóñez (1734–1786)Jean-Baptiste Rey (1734–1810)Luka Sorkočević (1734–1789)Ignazio Spergher [it ] (1734–1808)Johann Christian Bach (1735–1782)John Bennett (c. 1735–1784)Giovanni Battista Cervellini [it ] (1735–1801)John Collett (c. 1735?–1775)([7] ) Johann Gottfried Eckard (1735–1809)Mme Papavoine (born c. 1735; fl. 1755–61)Anton Schweitzer (1735–1787)Johann Schobert (c. 1735–1767)Ernst Wilhelm Wolf (1735–1792)Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (1736–1809)Hélène-Louise Demars (born c. 1736)Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch (1736–1800)Ignaz Fränzl (1736–1811)Johann Christoph Kellner (1736–1803)Antonio Tozzi (1736–1812)Élisabeth de Haulteterre (fl. 1737–1768)Josef Mysliveček (1737–1781)Michael Haydn (1737–1806)Philippe-Jacques Meyer (1737–1819)Friedrich Schwindl [de ] (1737–1786)Philip Hayes (1738–1797)William Herschel (1738–1822)Leopold Hofmann (1738–1793)Jean-François Tapray [fr ] (1738–1819)Anna Bon di Venezia (c. 1739 – after 1767)Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739–1799)Friedrich Wilhelm Rust (1739–1796)Johann Baptist Wanhal (1739–1813)Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1739–1807)Mlle Guerin (born c. 1739, fl. 1755)Agata della Pietà (fl. c. 1740 – c. 1800)Michael Arne (1740–1786)Samuel Arnold (1740–1802)Joseph Corfe (1740–1820)([8] ) Ernst Eichner (1740–1777)Luigi Gatti (1740–1817)Guillaume Lasceux (1740–1831)Elisabeth Olin (1740–1828)Giovanni Paisiello (1740–1816)Samuel Webbe the elder (1740–1816)Johann André (1741–1799)François Hippolyte Barthélemon (1741–1808)Alexandro Marie Antoin Fridzeri (1741–1819)André Ernest Modeste Grétry (1741–1813)Franz Xaver Hammer (1741–1817)Honoré Langlé (1741–1807)Andrea Luchesi (1741–1801)Jean Paul Egide Martini (1741–1816)Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741–1801)Václav Pichl (1741–1804)Henri-Joseph Rigel (1741–1799)Giacomo Rust (1741–1786)Luigi Tomasini (1741–1808)Anton Zimmermann (1741–1781)Jean-Baptiste Davaux (1742–1822)Romanus Hoffstetter (1742–1815)Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz (1742–1790)Simon Le Duc (Leduc) (1742–1777)Vasily Pashkevich (1742–1797)Anton Ferdinand Tietz (1742–1811)Maria Carolina Wolf (1742–1820)Antoine-Laurent Baudron (1742-1830)Luigi Boccherini (1743–1805)Carlo Franchi (c. 1743 – after 1779)Giuseppe Gazzaniga (1743–1818)Franz Nikolaus Novotny (1743–1773)Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova (1743–1810)João Pedro de Almeida Mota (1744–1817)Josef Bárta (c. 1744–1787)Joseph Beer (1744–1811)Anne Louise Brillon de Jouy (1744–1824)Gaetano Brunetti (1744–1798)Marianna von Martines (1744–1812)Yekaterina Sinyavina (died 1784)Johann Michael Bach III (1745–1820)Joseph Bengraf , orJózsef Bengráf (1745–1791)([9] ) Maxim Berezovsky (c. 1745–1777)Joseph Bologne ,Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745–1799)João de Sousa Carvalho (1745 – c. 1799)Georg Druschetzky (1745–1819)Nicolas-Jean Lefroid de Méreaux (1745–1797)Johann Peter Salomon (1745–1815)Maddalena Laura Sirmen (1745–1818)Carl Stamitz (1745–1801)Ferdinando Gasparo Turrini [it ] (1745 – c. 1820)Jan Nepomuk Vent [nl ] , orJohann Wendt (1745–1801)Jan Stefani (1746–1829)Marie Emmanuelle Bayon Louis (1746–1825)William Billings (1746–1800)Giuseppe Cambini (1746 – c. 1825)James Hook (1746–1827)Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith (1746–1820)Johann Friedrich Peter (1746–1813)Giovanni Punto , orJan Václav Stich (1746–1803)Joseph Quesnel (1746–1809)Johann Wilhelm Hässler (1747–1822)Ivan Mane Jarnović , orGiovanni Mane Giornovichi (1747–1804)Ivan Khandoshkin (1747–1804)Leopold Kozeluch (1747–1818)Justin Morgan (1747–1798)Carl Marianus Paradeiser (1747–1775)Johann Abraham Peter Schulz (1747–1800)Joachim Albertini , orGioacchino Albertini (1748–1812)Francesco Azopardi (1748–1809)Josef Fiala (1748–1816)Étienne-Joseph Floquet (1748–1785)Emanuel Aloys Förster (1748–1823)John Mahon (c. 1748–1834)Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748–1798)Theodor von Schacht (1748–1823)William Shield (1748–1829)Joseph Schuster (1748–1812)Henriette Adélaïde Villard Beaumesnil (1748–1813)Domenico Cimarosa (1749–1801)Jean-Louis Duport (1749–1819)Jean-Frédéric Edelmann (1749–1794)Johann Nikolaus Forkel (1749–1818)Antonín Kraft (c. 1749–1820)Georg Joseph Vogler (1749–1814)Polly Young , also known asMaria Barthélemon (1749–1799)Marija Zubova (1749–1799) Late Classical era composers (born 1750–1770)[ edit ] Classical/Romantic transition composers (born 1770–1799)[ edit ] Timeline of Classical composers (partial)[ edit ]
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