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Total 236 composers, 10 129 tracks.

ComposerYearsCountryTagsTracksRank
Pérotin12th c.-13th c.FRAMedieval, Notre Dame school133
Guillaume de Machaut1300-1377FRAMedieval, Ars nova91
Guillaume Dufay1400-1474FRARenaissance, Burgundian School133
Josquin Desprezc.1450-1521FRA/FLMRenaissance, Franco-Flemish School III323
Thomas Tallisca. 1505-1585ENGRenaissance, 53
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrinaca. 1525-1594ITARenaissance, Roman School62
Orlande de Lassus1532-1594FLMRenaissance, Franco-Flemish School V263
William Byrd1543-1623ENGRenaissance, 263
Giovanni Gabrielica. 1554-1612ITABaroque, Venetian School243
Carlo Gesualdo1561-1613ITARenaissance293
John Dowland1563-1626ENGRenaissance143
Claudio Monteverdi1567-1643ITABaroque, Venetian School292
Michael Praetorius1571-1621DEUBaroque234
Orlando Gibbons1583-1625ENGBaroque103
Heinrich Schutz1585-1672DEUBaroque93
Jean-Baptiste Lully1632-1687FRABaroque263
Dietrich Buxtehudeca. 1637-1707DNK/DEUBaroque113
Arcangelo Corelli1653-1713ITABaroque283
Johann Pachelbel1653-1706DEUBaroque43
Henry Purcell1659-1695ENGBaroque213
François Couperin1668-1733FRABaroque, Rococo262
Tomaso Albinoni1671-1751ITABaroque254
Antonio Vivaldi1678-1741ITABaroque1202
Georg Philipp Telemann1681-1767DEUBaroque112
Jean-Philippe Rameau1683-1764FRABaroque, Rococo1312
Alessandro Marcello1684-1750ITABaroque14
Johann Sebastian Bach1685-1750DEUBaroque1611
George Frederick Handel1685-1759DEU/ENGBaroque2642
Domenico Scarlatti1685-1757ITABaroque443
Giuseppe Tartini1692-1770ITABaroque54
Thomas Arne1710-1778ENGClassical264
Giovanni Pergolesi1710-1736ITAClassical, Neapolitan School43
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach1714-1788DEUClassical, Rococo282
Christoph Willibald Gluck1714-1787DEUClassical812
Franz Joseph Haydn1732-1809AUTClassical, First Viennese School1372
Luigi Boccherini1743-1805ITAClassical124
Carl Stamitz1745-1801DEUClassical, Mannheim School134
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart1756-1791AUTClassical, First Viennese School1461
Ludwig van Beethoven1770-1827DEURomantic, First Viennese School1541
John Field1782-1837IRLRomantic134
Niccolò Paganini1782-1840ITARomantic, Virtuoso253
Carl Maria von Weber1786-1826DEURomantic952
Giacomo Meyerbeer1791-1864DEURomantic73
Gioachino Rossini1792-1868ITARomantic, Bravura232
Gaetano Donizetti1797-1848ITARomantic, Vulgar472
Franz Schubert1797-1828AUTRomantic, First Viennese School1002
Vincenzo Bellini1801-1835ITARomantic, Beautiful473
Hector Berlioz1803-1869FRARomantic, Pathos1102
Mikhail Glinka1804-1857RUSRomantic293
Felix Mendelssohn1809-1847DEURomantic, Conservative382
Frederic Chopin1810-1849POLRomantic, National801
Robert Schumann1810-1856DEURomantic862
Franz Liszt1811-1886HUNRomantic, New German School762
Giuseppe Verdi1813-1901ITALate- / Post-Romantic741
Richard Wagner1813-1883DEULate- / Post-Romantic, Neoromanticism, heroic361
Charles Gounod1818-1893FRALate- / Post-Romantic, Light183
Jacques Offenbach1819-1880DEU/FRALate- / Post-Romantic, Operetta133
Franz von Suppe1819-1895AUTRomantic34
César Franck1822-1890BEL/FRALate- / Post-Romantic52
Anton Bruckner1824-1896AUTLate- / Post-Romantic, Radical152
Bedrich Smetana1824-1884BOHLate- / Post-Romantic62
Johann Strauss II1825-1899AUTLate- / Post-Romantic, Waltz182
Louis Moreau Gottschalk1829-1869USARomantic44
Anton Rubinstein1829-1894RUSLate- / Post-Romantic134
Alexander Borodin1833-1887RUSLate- / Post-Romantic, Five392
Johannes Brahms1833-1897DEULate- / Post-Romantic, Conservative1102
Camille Saint-Saens1835-1921FRALate- / Post-Romantic, Progressive402
Léo Delibes1836-1891FRALate- / Post-Romantic, Light404
Georges Bizet1838-1875FRARomantic, Light292
Max Bruch1838-1920DEURomantic174
Modest Mussorgsky1839-1881RUSLate- / Post-Romantic, Five322
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky1840-1893RUSLate- / Post-Romantic2241
Emmanuel Chabrier1841-1894FRALate- / Post-Romantic193
Antonin Dvorák1841-1904CZELate- / Post-Romantic592
Jules Massenet1842-1912FRALate- / Post-Romantic, Elegant773
Arthur Sullivan1842-1900ENGLate- / Post-Romantic114
Edvard Grieg1843-1907NORLate- / Post-Romantic, National362
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov1844-1908RUSLate- / Post-Romantic, Five152
Pablo de Sarasate1844-1908ESPRomantic54
Gabriel Fauré1845-1924FRALate- / Post-Romantic, Light272
Engelbert Humperdinck1854-1921DEULate- / Post-Romantic24
Leos Janáček1854-1928CZELate- / Post-Romantic, Folk192
John Philip Sousa1854-1932USALate- / Post-Romantic, Martial723
Edward Elgar1857-1934ENGLate- / Post-Romantic, National313
Ruggero Leoncavallo1857-1919ITALate- / Post-Romantic113
Giacomo Puccini1858-1924ITALate- / Post-Romantic, Sensitive222
Isaac Albéniz1860-1909ESPLate- / Post-Romantic, National234
Edward MacDowell1860-1908USALate- / Post-Romantic, Boston Six74
Gustav Mahler1860-1911AUTLate- / Post-Romantic, Yearning582
Hugo Wolf1860-1903AUTLate- / Post-Romantic183
Claude Debussy1862-1918FRAImpressionist392
Frederick Delius1862-1934ENGLate- / Post-Romantic154
Pietro Mascagni1863-1945ITALate- / Post-Romantic754
Richard Strauss1864-1949DEU/AUTLate- / Post-Romantic, National612
Paul Dukas1865-1935FRAImpressionist64
Alexander Glazunov1865-1936RUSLate- / Post-Romantic543
Carl Nielsen1865-1931DNKLate- / Post-Romantic, Folk533
Jean Sibelius1865-1957FINLate- / Post-Romantic, Anti-modernism, National352
Ferruccio Busoni1866-1924ITALate- / Post-Romantic464
Erik Satie1866-1925FRAImpressionist, Avant-garde222
Enriqué Granados1867-1916ESPLate- / Post-Romantic, National64
Scott Joplinc.1868-1917USALate- / Post-Romantic284
Hans Pfitzner1869-1949DEUModern124
Franz Lehár1870-1948AUTLate- / Post-Romantic94
Alexander Scriabin1872-1915RUSLate- / Post-Romantic, Abstract353
Ralph Vaughan Williams1872-1958ENGLate- / Post-Romantic, National42
Sergey Rachmaninov1873-1943RUS/USALate- / Post-Romantic, Nostalgia291
Gustav Holst1874-1934ENGModern, National73
Charles Ives1874-1954USAModern, American Five, Microtonal, National, Aleatoric302
Arnold Schoenberg1874-1951AUT/USAModern, Second Viennese School, Neoclassicism381
Reinhold Glière1875-1956RUSModern44
Fritz Kreisler1875-1962AUT/USAModern184
Maurice Ravel1875-1937FRAImpressionist, Folk, Neoclassicism292
Manuel de Falla1876-1946ESPImpressionist, Folk, Neoclassicism123
Carl Ruggles1876-1971USAModern, Ultramodern, American Five14
Franz Schreker1878-1934AUTModern, Expressionist104
Frank Bridge1879-1941ENGModern74
Ottorino Respighi1879-1936ITAModern93
Béla Bartók1881-1945HUNModern, Folk622
Percy Grainger1882-1961AUS/USAModern84
Igor Stravinsky1882-1971RUS/FRA/USAModern, Folk, Primitivism, Neoclassicism731
Karol Szymanowski1882-1937POLModern234
Emmerich Kalman1882-1953HUNModern194
Arnold Bax1883-1953ENGModern104
Edgard Varese1883-1965FRAModern, Ultramodern, Microtonal, sonorism253
Anton Webern1883-1945AUTModern, Second Viennese School, Neoclassicism1623
Alban Berg1885-1935AUTModern, Second Viennese School, Neoclassicism593
Jerome Kern1885-1945USAModern54
Heitor Villa-Lobos1887-1959BRAModern, Neoclassicism154
Max Steiner1888-1971DEUFilm, Film father764
Frank Martin1890-1974CHEModern14
Sergey Prokofiev1891-1953RUSModern, National712
Arthur Honegger1892-1955CHEModern, Les Six64
Darius Milhaud1892-1974FRAModern, Les Six, Neoclassicism273
Leo Ornstein1893-2002USAModern, Avant-garde pianist293
Dimitri Tiomkin1894-1979RUS/USAFilm, Film father1304
Paul Hindemith1895-1963DEU/USAModern, Neoclassicism222
Carl Orff1895-1982DEUModern, Carmina Burana (medieval)283
William Grant Still1895-1978USAContemporary, Pop14
Virgil Thomson1896-1989USAContemporary, Neoclassicism, Neoromanticism, Copland group54
Henry Cowell1897-1965USAModern, Ultramodern, American Five, aleatoric483
George Gershwin1898-1937USAModern, Jazz252
Roy Harris1898-1979USAContemporary, Neoclassicism, Copland group34
Francis Poulenc1899-1963FRAModern, Les Six, Neoromanticism173
George Antheil1900-1959USAModern, Ultramodern343
Aaron Copland1900-1990USAModern, Neoclassicism, National152
Kurt Weill1900-1950DEU/USAModern213
Ernst Krenek1900-1991USAContemporary, Neoclassicism, Zeitoper164
Isaak Dunayevsky1900-1955RUSFilm124
Joaquín Rodrigo1901-1999ESPModern54
Ruth Crawford Seeger1901-1953USAContemporary54
Harry Partch1901-1974USAContemporary, Microtonal, Instrument builder63
Alfred Newman1901-1970USAFilm, Film father744
William Walton1902-1983ENGModern, National163
Stefan Wolpe1902-1972DEU/USAContemporary54
Aram Khachaturian1903-1978ARMModern104
Giacinto Scelsi1905-1988ITAContemporary, Microtonal, sonorism134
Dmitry Shostakovich1906-1975RUSModern, National1672
Franz Waxman1906-1967DEU/USAFilm744
Miklos Rozsa1907-1995USA/HUNFilm184
Elliott Carterb 1908USAModern, Neoclassicism104
Olivier Messiaen1908-1992FRAModern, Darmstadt School, Total serialism1022
Samuel Barber1910-1981USAModern163
Pierre Schaeffer1910-1995FRAContemporary, Musique concrete, sonorism632
Bernard Herrmann1911-1975USAFilm234
Nino Rota1911-1979ITAFilm384
John Cage1912-1992USAContemporary, Darmstadt School, New York School, Aleatoric132
Conlon Nancarrow1912-1997MEXContemporary, Mechanical piano104
Benjamin Britten1913-1976ENGModern, Conservative1652
Witold Lutosławski1913-1994POLContemporary, Avant-garde, sonorism, aleatoric83
Georgy Sviridov1915-1998RUSModern214
Milton Babbittb 1916USAModern, Total serialism44
Leonard Bernstein1918-1990USAContemporary, Boston School, Popular music452
Bernd Alois Zimmermann1918-1970DEUContemporary, Klangkomposition, Dark74
Malcolm Arnold1921-2006ENGModern334
Astor Piazzolla1921-1992ARGContemporary, Nuevo Tango53
Iannis Xenakis1922-2001GRC/FRAContemporary, Darmstadt School, sonorism202
Elmer Bernstein1922-2004USAFilm1504
György Ligeti1923-2006HUNContemporary, Avant-garde, sonorism, micropolyphony1812
Luigi Nono1924-1990ITAContemporary, Darmstadt School173
Maurice Jarre1924-FRAFilm414
Henry Mancini1924-1994USAFilm274
Luciano Berio1925-2003ITAContemporary, Darmstadt School504
Pierre Boulezb 1925FRAContemporary, Darmstadt School, Total serialism112
Morton Feldman1926-1987USAModern, New York School263
Karlheinz Stockhausen1928-2007DEUContemporary, Darmstadt School, Avant-garde1631
Ennio Morricone1928-ITAFilm342
Jerry Goldsmith1929-2004USAFilm1804
Sofia Gubaidulinab 1931RUSContemporary, Extended instruments and techniques263
Alvin Lucier1931-USAContemporary, Physics and recording technique experimenter94
Mauricio Kagel1931-ARGContemporary, Darmstadt School, Absurd124
John Williamsb 1932USAFilm4202
Rodion Shchedrinb 1932RUSModern194
Krzysztof Pendereckib 1933POLContemporary, Sonorism, national493
Morton Subotnick1933-USAContemporary, Electronic music243
John Barry1933-ENGFilm484
Harrison Birtwistleb 1934ENGContemporary, New Music Manchester224
Alfred Schnittke1934-1998RUSContemporary, New Simplicity, Polystylism933
Peter Maxwell Davies1934-ENG/SCOContemporary, New Music Manchester, Polystylism64
Arvo Pärtb 1935ESTContemporary, Holy minimalism182
Terry Riley1935-USAContemporary, Minimalism73
Helmut Lachenmann1935-DEUContemporary, Musique concrete instrumentale, new techniques384
La Monte Young1935-ESPContemporary, Drone minimalism92
Giya Kancheli1935-RUSFilm284
Steve Reichb 1936USAContemporary, Minimalism442
Philip Glassb 1937USAContemporary, Minimalism471
Angelo Badalamenti1937-USAFilm364
Eduard Artemyev1937-RUSFilm, Film electronic774
William Bolcomb 1938USAContemporary, Neoromanticism, Eclectism64
Brian Ferneyhough1943-ENGContemporary, New complexity24
Vangelis1943-GRCFilm, Film electronic884
Randy Newman1943-USAFilm413
Michael Nymanb 1944BRIContemporary, Minimalism, film273
Basil Poledouris1945-2006GRC/USAFilm484
Gerard Grisey1946-1998FRAContemporary, Spectral, sonorism84
Howard Shore1946-CANFilm723
John Adamsb 1947USAContemporary, Post-minimalism532
Tristan Murail1947-FRAContemporary, Spectral, sonorism34
John Carpenter1948-USAFilm434
Alan Menken1949-USAFilm714
Alan Silvestri1950-USAFilm814
Goran Bregovic1950-SRBFilm324
James Newton Howard1951-USAFilm823
James Horner1953-USAFilm933
Danny Elfman1953-USAFilm1794
Patrick Doyle1953-SCOFilm984
Thomas Newman1955-USAFilm1163
Zbigniew Preisner1955-POLFilm1074
Hans Zimmer1957-DEUFilm, Film electronic282
Osvaldo Golijov1960-ARGContemporary, Folk343
Alexandre Desplat1961-FRAFilm1794
Michael Giacchino1967-USAFilm2194
Yann Tiersenb 1970FRAContemporary, Pop114
Thomas Ades1971-ENGContemporary74

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