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Classical Music

The Composers

Every voice behind the 100 dots. 57 composers across five centuries.

57
Composers
100
Works
42
Eras

Renaissance

Thomas Tallis
1505–1585
Context only→

Baroque

Antonio Vivaldi
1678–1741
1 work→
George Frideric Handel
1685–1759
1 work→
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685–1750
6 works→

Classical

Joseph Haydn
1732–1809
1 work→
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1756–1791
3 works→

Romantic

Franz Liszt
1811–1886
2 works→
Frédéric Chopin
1810–1849
2 works→
Robert Schumann
1810–1856
1 work→

Modernist

Dmitri Shostakovich
1906–1975
2 works→

American Modernist

Aaron Copland
1900–1990
2 works→
Leonard Bernstein
1918–1990
1 work→

Modernist (Russian)

Alexander Scriabin
1872–1915
Context only→
Sergei Prokofiev
1891–1953
1 work→

Late Romantic (Austro-German)

Anton Bruckner
1824–1896
1 work→

Late Romantic (Bohemian)

Antonín Dvořák
1841–1904
1 work→

Sacred Minimalist

Arvo Pärt
1935–present
4 works→
Henryk Górecki
1933–2010
2 works→
John Tavener
1944–2013
1 work→

Modernist (English)

Benjamin Britten
1913–1976
2 works→

Late Romantic (French)

Camille Saint-Saëns
1835–1921
1 work→
César Franck
1822–1890
1 work→

Impressionist/Modernist

Claude Debussy
1862–1918
4 works→
Maurice Ravel
1875–1937
4 works→

Romantic (Norwegian)

Edvard Grieg
1843–1907
Context only→

Late Romantic (English)

Edward Elgar
1857–1934
1 work→

Proto-Minimalist

Erik Satie
1866–1925
1 work→

Early Romantic

Felix Mendelssohn
1809–1847
1 work→
Franz Schubert
1797–1828
3 works→
Hector Berlioz
1803–1869
1 work→

French Modernist

Francis Poulenc
1899–1963
1 work→

Late Romantic→Impressionist

Gabriel Fauré
1845–1924
2 works→

Late Romantic (Opera)

Georges Bizet
1838–1875
1 work→
Giacomo Puccini
1858–1924
1 work→

High Romantic (Opera)

Giuseppe Verdi
1813–1901
1 work→

Late Romantic

Gustav Mahler
1860–1911
4 works→

Avant-Garde

György Ligeti
1923–2006
1 work→

Nordic Contemporary

Hildur Guðnadóttir
1982–present
1 work→

Modernist/Neoclassical

Igor Stravinsky
1882–1971
2 works→

Late Romantic/Nationalist

Jean Sibelius
1865–1957
1 work→

Late Romantic (Classicizing)

Johannes Brahms
1833–1897
5 works→

Post-Minimalist

John Adams
1947–present
1 work→

Modernist (Czech)

Leoš Janáček
1854–1928
1 work→

Contemporary Minimalist

Ludovico Einaudi
1955–present
1 work→

Classical→Romantic

Ludwig van Beethoven
1770–1827
5 works→

Neo-Classical/Minimalist

Max Richter
1966–present
1 work→

Spiritual Modernist

Olivier Messiaen
1908–1992
2 works→

Minimalist

Philip Glass
1937–present
1 work→

Late Romantic (Russian)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1840–1893
2 works→
Sergei Rachmaninoff
1873–1943
4 works→

Pastoral Modernist

Ralph Vaughan Williams
1872–1958
2 works→

Late Romantic→Modernist

Richard Strauss
1864–1949
2 works→

High Romantic

Richard Wagner
1813–1883
1 work→

Neo-Romantic (American)

Samuel Barber
1910–1981
2 works→

Post-War Modernist

Tōru Takemitsu
1930–1996
2 works→

Neo-Romantic/Post-Romantic

Valentin Silvestrov
1937–present
1 work→

Neo-Classical/Electronic

Ólafur Arnalds
1986–present
1 work→