Chronological list of German classical composers
The following is a chronological list of classical music composers who live in, work in, or are citizens of Germany.
Medieval
- Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179)
Renaissance
- Caspar Othmayr (1515–1553)
- Hans Leo Hassler (1564–1612)
Baroque
- Michael Praetorius (1571–1621)
- Andreas Hakenberger (1574–1627)
- Heinrich Schütz (1585–1672)
- Samuel Scheidt (1587–1653)
- Johann Schop (1590–1667)
- Johann Pachelbel (1653–1706)
- Georg Caspar Schürmann (1672 or 1673–1751)
- Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767)
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
- George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)
- Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688-1758)
- Johann Gottlieb Graun (1703–1771)
- Carl Heinrich Graun (1704–1759)
Classical era
- Johan Agrell (1701–1765)
- Johann Ernst Eberlin (1702–1762)
- Johann Gottlieb Janitsch (1708–c. 1763)
- Christoph Schaffrath (1709–1763)
- Frederick II of Prussia (1712–1786)
- Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713–1780)
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788)
- Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787)
- Gottfried August Homilius (1714–1785)
- Carl Friedrich Abel (1723–1787)
- Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729–1774)
- Johann Christian Bach (1735–1782)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel (1738–1822)
- Johann Peter Salomon (1745–1815)
- Joseph Martin Kraus (1756–1792)
- Franz Danzi (1763–1826)
- Simon Mayr (1763–1845)
Romantic/Post-romantic
- Peter Anton Kreusser (1765–1831)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
- Louis Spohr (1784–1859)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner (1785–1849)
- Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826)
- Johann Peter Pixis (1788–1874)
- Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864)
- Johann Carl Gottfried Löwe (1796–1869)
- Fanny Mendelssohn (1805–1847)
- Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)
. Otto Nicolai (1810-1849)
- Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
- Ferdinand Hiller (1811–1885)
- Emilie Mayer (1812–1883)
- Richard Wagner (1813–1883)
- Friedrich Robert Volkmann (1815–1883)
- Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880)
- Clara Schumann (1819–1896)
- Carl Reinecke (1824–1910)
- Albert Dietrich (1829–1908)
- Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
- Franz Wohlfahrt (1833–1884)
- Max Bruch (1838–1920)
- August Friedrich Martin Klughardt (1847–1902)
- Philipp Scharwenka (1847–1917)
- Fritz Seitz (1848–1918)
- Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921)
- Paul Klengel (1854–1935)
- Max Wagenknecht (1857–1922)
- Julius Klengel (1859–1933)
- Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
- Paul Lincke (1866-1946)
- Hans Pfitzner (1869–1949)
- Max Reger (1873–1916)
Modern/Post-modern/Contemporary
- Richard Wetz (1875–1935)
- Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886–1954)
- Rudi Stephan (1887–1915)
- Carl Orff (1895–1982)
- Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)
- Herbert Eimert (1897–1972)
- Kurt Weill (1900-1950)
- Werner Egk (1901–1983)
- Stefan Wolpe (1902–1972)
- Boris Blacher (1903–1975)
- Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1905–1963)
- Martin Scherber (1907–1974)
- Berthold Goldschmidt (1903–1996)
- Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918–1970)
- Fritz Geißler (1921–1984)
- Bertold Hummel (1925–2002)
- Hans Werner Henze (1926–2012)
- Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007)
- Helmut Lachenmann (born 1935)
- Aribert Reimann (born 1936)
- Michael von Biel (born 1937)
- Hans-Joachim Hespos (born 1938)
- Nicolaus A. Huber (born 1938)
- Johannes Fritsch (1941–2010)
- Wolfgang Rihm (born 1952)
- Hans-Jürgen von Bose (born 1953)
- Hans Zimmer (born 1957)
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