The list below is sorted by death dates and grouped by historical period.
The list is also available sorted by composer last names.

MEDIEVAL


• Hildegard von Bingen, (1098 - 1179), Germany
• Leonin, (c.1180 - 1220), France
• Perotin (c.1183 - 1238), France
• Franco of Cologne, (c.1250 - 1280), Germany
• Petrus de Cruce, (c.1270 - 1300), France
• Philippe de Vitry, (1291 - 1361), France
• Machaut, Guillaume de (c. 1300 - 1377), France
• Landini, Francesco (1325 - 1397), Italy
• Dunstable, John (c. 1390 - 1453), England
• Binchois, Gilles (c. 1400 - 1460), France
• Dufay, Guillaume (c. 1400 - 1474), France
• Ockeghem, Johannes (c. 1420 - 1496), Holland

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  RENAISSANCE
  

• Obrecht, Jacob (c. 1450 - 1505), Holland
• Josquin des Prez (c. 1440 - 1521), Holland
• Janequin, Clement (c.1485 - 1560), France
• Sermisy, Claudin de (c. 1490 - 1562), France
• Tallis, Thomas (c. 1505 - 1585), England
• Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (1525 - 1542), Italy
• Lassus, Orlando de (1532 - 1542), Germany
• Morley, Thomas (1557 - 1602), England
• Victoria, Tomas Luis de (1549 - 1611), Spain
• Gabrieli, Giovanni (c. 1558 - 1613), Italy
• Caccini, Giulio (1546 - 1618), Italy
• Byrd, William (1543 - 1623), England
• Gibbons, Orlando (1583 - 1625), England
• Dowland, John (1563 - 1626), England
• Peri, Jacopo (1561 - 1633), Italy

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  BAROQUE
  

• Monteverdi, Claudio (1567 - 1643), Italy
• Frescobaldi, Girolamo (1583 - 1643), Italy
• Allegri, Gregorio (1582 - 1652), Italy
• Schutz, Heinrich (1585 - 1672), Germany
• Lully, Jean-Baptiste (1632 - 1687), Italy
• Purcell, Henry (1659 - 1695), England
• Charpentier, Marc-Antoine (c. 1643 - 1704), France
• Buxtehude, Dietrich (c. 1637 - 1707), Germany
• Torelli, Giuseppe (1658 - 1709), Italy
• Corelli, Arcangelo (1653 - 1713), Italy
• Scarlatti, Alessandro (1660 - 1725), Italy
• Couperin, Francois (le grand) (1668 - 1733), France
• Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista (1710 - 1736), Italy
• Vivaldi, Antonio (1678 - 1741), Italy
• Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685 - 1750), Germany
• Johann Stamitz, (1717 - 1753), Germany
• Scarlatti, Domenico (1685 - 1757), Italy
• Handel, George Frideric (1685 - 1759), Germany/England
• Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683 - 1764), France
• Telemann, George Philipp (1681 - 1767), Germany
• Sammartini, Giovanni Battista (1701 - 1775), Italy

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  CLASSIC
  

• Bach, Johann Christian (1735 - 1782), Germany
• Gluck, Christoph Willibald von (1714 - 1787), Germany
• Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714 - 1788), Germany
• Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756 - 1791), Austria
• Haydn, Franz Joseph (1732 - 1809), Austria
• Weber, Carl Maria von (1786 - 1826), Germany
• Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770 - 1827), Germany/Austria
• Schubert, Franz (1797 - 1828), Austria

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  ROMANTIC
  

• Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770 - 1827), Germany/Austria
• Schubert, Franz (1797 - 1828), Austria
• Donizetti, Gaetano (1797 - 1848), Italy
• Bellini, Vincenzo (1801 - 1835), Italy
• Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix (1809 - 1847), Germany
• Chopin, Frederic (1810 - 1849), Poland/France
• Schumann, Robert (1810 - 1856), Germany
• Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich (1804 - 1857), Russia
• Spohr, Louis (1784 - 1859), Germany
• Meyerbeer, Giacomo (1791 - 1864), Germany/France
• Rossini, Gioacchino (1792 - 1868), Italy
• Berlioz, Hector (1803 - 1869), France
• Bizet, Georges (1838 - 1875), France
• Offenbach, Jacques (1819 - 1880), Germany/France
• Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich (1839 - 1881), Russia
• Wagner, Richard (1813 - 1883), Germany
• Smetana, Bedrich (1824 - 1884), Czechoslovakia
• Liszt, Franz (1811 - 1886), Hungary
• Borodin, Alexander Porfir'yevich (1833 - 1887), Russia
• Franck, CÅsar (1822 - 1890), Belgium
• Gounod, Charles (1818 - 1893), France
• Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich (1840 - 1893), Russia
• Bruckner, Anton (1824 - 1896), Austria
• Brahms, Johannes (1833 - 1897), Germany
• Strauss, Johann II (1825 - 1899), Austria
• Sullivan, Sir Arthur (1842 - 1900), England
• Verdi, Giuseppe (1813 - 1901), Italy
• Wolf, Hugo (1860 - 1903), Yugoslavia
• Dvorak, Antonin (1841 - 1904), Czechoslovakia
• Grieg, Edvard (1843 - 1907), Norway
• Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay Andreyevich (1844 - 1908), Russia
• Macdowell, Edward (1860 - 1908), United States of America
• Mahler, Gustav (1860 - 1911), Germany
• Scriabin, Alexander (1872 - 1915), Russia
• Granados, Enrique (1867 - 1916), Spain
• Debussy, Claude (1862 - 1918), France
• Faure, Gabriel (1845 - 1924), France
• Puccini, Giacomo (1858 - 1924), Italy

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  MODERN
  

• Satie, Erik (1866 - 1925), France
• Janacek, Leos (1854 - 1928), Czechoslovakia
• Elgar, Edward (1857 - 1934), England
• Delius, Frederick (1862 - 1934), England
• Holst, Gustav (1874 - 1934), England
• Berg, Alban (1885 - 1935), Austria
• Ravel, Maurice (1875 - 1937), France
• Gershwin, George (1898 - 1937), United States of America
• Zemlinsky, Alexander von (1871 - 1942)
• Rachmaninoff, Sergei (1873 - 1943), Russia
• Bartok, Bela (1881 - 1945), Hungary
• Webern, Anton von (1883 - 1945), Austria
• Falla, Manuel de (1876 - 1946), Spain
• Strauss, Richard (1864 - 1949), Germany
• Weill, Kurt (1900 - 1950), Germany
• Schoenberg, Arnold (1874 - 1951), Austria
• Prokofiev, Sergei (1891 - 1953), Russia
• Ives, Charles (1874 - 1954), United States of America
• Honegger, Arthur (1892 - 1955), Switzerland
• Sibelius, Jean (1865 - 1957), Finland
• Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872 - 1958), England
• Villa-Lobos, Heitor (1887 - 1959), Brazil
• Hindemith, Paul (1895 - 1963), Germany
• Poulenc, Francis (1899 - 1963), France
• Varese, Edgar (1883 - 1965), France
• Cowell, Henry (1897 - 1965), United States of America
• Labate, Bruno (1883 - 1968), Italy, United States of America
• Stravinsky, Igor (1882 - 1971), Russia
• Wolpe, Stefan (1902 - 1972), U.S.A./Germany
• Milhaud, Darius (1892 - 1974), France
• Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906 - 1975), Russia
• Britten, Benjamin (1913 - 1976), England
• Khachaturian, Aram Il'yich (1903 - 1978), Armenia
• Barber, Samuel (1910 - 1981), United States of America
• Walton, Sir William (1902 - 1983), England
• Mennin, Peter (1923 - 1983), United States of America
• Thompson, Randall (1899 - 1984), United States of America
• Sessions, Roger (1896 - 1985), United States of America
• Feldman, Morton (1926 - 1987), United States of America
• Copland, Aaron (1900 - 1990), United States of America
• Bernstein, Leonard (1918 - 1990), United States of America
• Warren, Elinor Remick (1900-1991), England
• Messiaen, Olivier (1908 - 1992), France
• Cage, John (1912 - 1992), United States of America
• Lloveras, Guillermo Venegas (1915 - 1993), Puetro Rico
• Lutoslawski, Witold (1913 - 1994), Poland
• Rodrigo, Joaquin (1901 - ), Spain
• Tippett, Michael (1905 - ), England
• Carter, Elliot (1908 - present), United States of America
• Schuman, William (1910 - present), United States of America
• Babbit, Milton (1916 - present), United States of America
• Foss, Lukas (1922 - present), Germany
• Xenakis, Iannis (1922 - present), Greece
• Ligeti, Gyorgy (1923 - present), Hungary/Austria
• Berio, Luciano (1925 - ), Italy
• Boulez, Pierre (1925 - present), France
• Schuller, Gunther (1925 - present), United States of America
• Henze, Hans-Werner (1926 - present), Germany
• Stockhausen, Karlheinz (1928 - present), Germany
• Gorecki, Henryk (1933 - )
• Penderecki, Krzysztof (1933 - ), Poland
• Davies, Sir Peter Maxwell (1934 - present), England
• Part, Arvo (1935 - present), Estonia/Austria
• Reich, Steve (1936 - present), United States of America
• Glass, Philip (1937 - present), United States of America
• Wright, Maurice (1949 - present), United States of America
• Tortiglione, Paolo (1965 - present), Italy