Most Famous Music Composers Summary

Music Composers

Most Famous Music Composers Summary

The table below lists the most famous music composers of all time, in chronological order.

The table lists the composer's first and last name, nationality, date of birth, date of death, and age at death.

34 Top Composers - In Chronological Birth Order
	Born	Died	Last Name	First Name	Nat.	Age
			17th Century Composers
1	1678	1741	Vivaldi	Antonio	Ital.	63
2	1685	1750	Bach	Johann Sebastian	Ger.	65
3	1685	1759	Händel	George Frederic	Ger.	74
4	1756	1791	Mozart	Wolfgang Amadeus	Aust.	35
5	1732	1809	Haydn	Joseph	Ger.	77
			18th Century Composers
6	1770	1827	Beethoven	Ludwig von	Ger.	57
7	1797	1828	Schubert	Franz	Ger.	31
8	1809	1847	Mendelssohn	Felix	Ger.	38
9	1810	1849	Chopin	Frederic	Pol.	39
10	1810	1856	Schumann	Robert	Ger.	46
11	1813	1883	Wagner	Richard	Ger.	70
12	1811	1886	Liszt	Franz	Hung.	75
13	1833	1887	Borodin	Alexander	Russ.	54
14	1840	1893	Tchaikovsky	Peter Ilyitch	Russ.	53
15	1833	1897	Brahms	Johannes	Ger.	64
16	1804	1849	Strauss	Johann	Ger.	45
			19th Century Composers
17	1813	1901	Verdi	Giuseppe	Ital.	88
18	1841	1904	Dvorák	Antoni	Czec.	63
19	1844	1908	Rimsky-Korsakov	Nikolay	Russ.	64
20	1860	1911	Mahler	Gustav	Ger.	51
21	1862	1918	Debussy	Claude	Fren.	56
22	1858	1924	Puccini	Giacomo	Ital.	66
23	1875	1937	Ravel	Maurice	Fren.	62
			20th Century Composers
24	1898	1937	Gershwin	George	US	39
25	1873	1943	Rachmaninoff	Sergei	Russ.	70
26	1881	1945	Bartók	Bella	Hung.	64
27	1874	1951	Schöenberg	Arnold	Ger.	77
28	1892	1955	Honegger	Arthur	Fren.	63
29	1882	1971	Stravinsky	Igor	Russ.	89
30	1888	1989	Berlin	Irving	US	101
31	1900	1990	Copland	Aaron	US	90
32	1918	1990	Bernstein	Leonard	US	72
33	1912	1992	Cage	John	US	80
34	1928	-	Stockhausen	Karlheinz	Ger.	-

30	50	50	135	140	70	50

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This Vaughns 1-Pagers Famous Music Composers Chart web page was updated on 2007-08-25.