Learn About Composers from the Baroque Era through Contemporary
Here is a list of composers by era and period from Baroque era through the 20th century. Even though there are hundreds of composers we would like to list, we are limiting to only well-known composers here. Please note that some composers are transitioning to the next era. Some composers are overlapping with other eras and/or actual time periods. Also please click a link to learn more about an individual composer.
Baroque Era (1600 - 1750)
- Antonio Vivaldi
- Christian Petzold
- Claudio Monteverdi
- C. P. E. Bach (Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Also in the classical era)
- Domenico Scarlatti
- George Frideric Handel
- Georg Philipp Telemann
- Henry Purcell
- Jean-Baptiste Lully
- Jean Philippe Rameau
- Johann Pachelbel
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Tomaso Albinoni
Classical Era (1730 - 1820)
- Carl Czerny
- C. P. E. Bach (also in the Baroque era)
- Franz Schubert (also belongs to the Romantic era)
- Johann Christian Bach
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel (also belongs to the Romantic era)
- Joseph Haydn
- Leopold Mozart
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Muzio Clementi
- Niccolò Paganini
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Romantic Era (1780 - 1910)
- Alexander Borodin
- Antonín Leopold Dvořák
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- César Franck
- Charles-Louis Hanon
- Charles Gounod
- Clara Schumann
- Edvard Grieg
- Francisco Tárrega (Spanish guitar composer)
- Franz Schubert (also belongs to the Classical era)
- Frédéric Chopin
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Franz Liszt
- Gustav Mahler
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Giacomo Puccini
- Gioachino Antonio Rossini
- Georges Bizet
- Isaac Albéniz
- Jean Gabriel-Marie
- Jean Sibelius (also belongs to the early modern)
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel (also belongs to the Classical era)
- Johann Strauss, Jr.
- Johannes Brahms
- Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller
- Modest Mussorgsky
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- Pyotr Tchaikovsky
- Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Richard Wagner
- Richard Strauss
- The Five (5 Russian composers)
Impressionist Era (1875 - 1925)
Latin composers (Spanish, Spanish guitar, Tango, & etc.)
- Angel Villoldo (Tango composer)
- Francisco Tárrega (Spanish guitar composer. Also belongs to the Romantic era)
- Carlos Gardel (Tango composer)
- Enrique Granados
Old folk song composer
The 20th Century Era (1890 - 2000)
Contemporary (western music roots)
- Arnold Schoenberg
- Alan Menken
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Aaron Copland
- Bela Bartok
- Charles Ives
- Cole Porter
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Dmitry Kabalevsky
- Erik Satie (also minimalist era)
- Florence Price
- Franz Lehar
- Gabriel Faure
- Gustav Holst
- Igor Stravinsky
- Irving Berlin
- Julián Carrillo
- John Williams
- Leonard Bernstein
- Olivier Messiaen
- Paul Hindemith
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Toru Takemitsu
- William Grant Still
- Zoltán Kodály
Minimalism
- Erik Satie (also contemporary era)
- John Cage
- Philip Glass
- Steve Reich
- Toru Takemitsu (also in the Contemporary era)
Jazz composers, arrangers, and pianists
- Art Tatum
- Billy Strayhorn
- Bill Evans
- Count Basie
- Duke Ellington
- Erroll Garner
- Fats Waller
- George Gershwin
- Gil Evans
- James P. Johnson
- Jelly Roll Morton
- Mary Lou Williams
- Teddy Wilson
- and many others.....
Currently, we (Galaxy Music Notes) have the piano solo arrangements & originals at multiple levels by these composers below:
- Music by Bach, Johann Sebastien
- Music by Beethoven, Ludwig van
- Music by Bizet, Georges
- Music by Borodin, Alexander
- Music by Brahms, Johannes
- Music by Debussy, Claude
- Music by Foster, Stephen
- Music by Grieg, Edvard
- Music by Holst, Gustav
- Music by Liszt, Franz
- Music by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
- Music by Mussorgsky, Modest
- Music by Pachelbel, Johann
- Music by Petzold, Christian
- Music by Satie, Erik
- Music by Schubert, Franz
- Music by Scott Joplin
- Music by Tchaikovsky, Pyotr
- Music by Verdi, Giuseppe
- Music by other composers (besides these listed here)
- Music by Mizue Murakami