Romantic Composers

A Larger List of Romantic Era Composers


Early Romantic-era composers (born 1770–1819)


Ludwig van Beethoven  (1770 - 1827)  German

Johann Nepomuk Hummel  (1778 - 1837) Austrian


Mauro Giuliani  (1781 - 1828)  Italian  -  Guitar music


John Field  (1782 - 1837)  Irish


Niccolò Paganini  (1782 - 1840)  Italian  - Violin virtuoso & Showman


Louis Spohr  (1784 - 1859)  German


Carl Maria von Weber  (1786 - 1826)  German -  First cousin of Mozart's wife, Constanze Weber


Giacomo Meyerbeer  (1791 - 1864)  German  -  Primarily opera



Jan Václav Voříšek  (1791 - 1825)  Czech

Gioachino Rossini  (1792 - 1868)  Italian  -  Primarily opera


Ignaz Moscheles  (1794 - 1870)  Czech


Gaetano Donizetti  (1797 - 1848)  Italian  -  Primarily opera


Franz Schubert  (1797 - 1828)  Austrian


Vincenzo Bellini  (1801 - 1835)  Italian  -  Primarily opera


Hector Berlioz  (1803 - 1869)  French


Mikhail Glinka  (1804  - 1857)  Russian


Johann Strauss I  (1804 - 1849)  Austrian



Fanny (Mendelssohn) Hansel  (1805 - 1847)  German -  sister of Felix Mendelssohn

Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga  (1806 - 1826)  Spanish composer who died at nineteen 



Felix Mendelssohn  (1809 - 1847)  German


Frédéric Chopin  (1810 - 1849)  Polish to France - Piano music


Robert Schumann  (1810 - 1856)  German - Piano music (1830s), then orchestra and chamber music

                                                                           Husband of pianist / composer Clara Schumann

 

Franz Liszt  (1811 - 1886)  Hungarian  -  Piano virtuoso, composer, inventor of the symphonic poem


Sigismond Thalberg  (1812  - 1871)



Richard Wagner  (1813 - 1883)  German  -  Primarily opera


Giuseppe Verdi  (1813 - 1901)  Italian  -  Primarily opera


Charles-Valentin Alkan  (1813 - 1888)  French composer and virtuoso pianist

William Sterndale Bennett  (1816 - 1875)  English composer, conductor and editor

Charles Gounod  (1818 - 1893)  French


Jacques Offenbach  (1819 - 1880)  French  -  Known for his 100 operettas



Middle Romantic-era composers (born 1820–39)


César Franck  (1822 - 1890)  Belgian-born, French


Édouard Lalo  (1823 - 1892)  French


Anton Bruckner  (1824 - 1896)  Austrian - Symphony composer


Bedřich Smetana  (1824 - 1884)  Czech


Johann Strauss II  (1825 - 1899)  Austrian



Louis Moreau Gottschalk  (1829 - 1869) American Pianist / Composer

Anton Rubinstein  (1829 - 1894)  Russian conductor, composer and pianist

Hans von Bülow  (1830 - 1894)  German conductor, composer and virtuoso pianist

Alexander Borodin  (1833 - 1887)  Russian, one of the Russian Five

Johannes Brahms  (1833 - 1897)  German


Camille Saint-Saëns  (1835 - 1921)  French


César Cui 1835 1918 Russian,  of the Russian Five



Mily Balakirev  (1837 - 1910)  Russian composer and the leader of the Russian Five


Georges Bizet  (1838 - 1875)  French  -  Known for the opera Carmen and one symphony 


Max Bruch  (1838 - 1920)  German


Modest Mussorgsky (1839 - 1881)  Russian, one of the Russian Five 



John Knowles Paine (1839 - 1906)  American 

Late Romantic-era composers (born 1840–59)


Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky  (1840 - 1893)  Russian


Emmanuel Chabrier  (1841 - 1894 French)


Antonín Dvořák (1841 - 1904)  Czech


Jules Massenet  (1842 - 1912)  French  -  Primarily opera


Arthur Sullivan  (1842 - 1900)  English  -  Comic opera, composer, Gilbert & Sullivan


Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907)  Norwegian


Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov  (1844 - 1908)  Russian, one of the Russian Five 



Gabriel Fauré  (1845 - 1924)  French


Vincent d'Indy  (1851 - 1931)  French


Engelbert Humperdinck  (1854 - 1921)  German - opera 

Leoš Janáček  (1854 - 1928 )  Czech 

George Whitefield Chadwick  (1854 - 1931) American 

Ernest Chausson  (1855 - 1899)  French



 Sergei Taneyev  (1856 - 1915)  Russian


Edward Elgar  (1857 - 1934)  English


Giacomo Puccini  (1858 - 1924)  Italian  - Opera



Post Romantic-era composers (born 1860–79)

Isaac Albéniz  (1860 - 1909)  Spanish


Gustav Mahler  (1860 - 1911)  Austrian  -  Symphonies and Lieder


Edward MacDowell  (1860 - 1908)  American


Hugo Wolf  (1860 - 1903)  Austrian


Anton Arensky  (1861 - 1906) Russian 

Claude Debussy  (1862 - 1918)  French  -  Early modernist


Frederick Delius  (1862 - 1934)  English


Horatio Parker  (1863 - 1919)  American


Gabriel Pierné  (1863 - 1937)  French 

Richard Strauss  (1864 - 1949)  German  -  Primarily opera and symphonic poems


Paul Dukas  (1865 - 1935)  French


Alexander Glazunov  (1865 - 1936)  Russian


Carl Nielsen  (1865 - 1931)  Danish


Jean Sibelius  (1865 - 1957)  Finnish  -  Symphonies & symphonic poems


Ferruccio Busoni  (1866 - 1924)  Italian


Erik Satie  (1866 - 1925)  French  -  Modernist


Amy Beach  (1867 - 1944)  American  -  First internatioanlly known American female composer



Enrique Granados  (1867 - 1916)  Spanish


Scott Joplin  (1868 - 1917)  American


Albert Roussel (1869 - 1937)  French


Alexander von Zemlinsky  (1871 - 1942)  Austrian


Alexander Scriabin  (1872 - 1915)  Russian


Ralph Vaughan Williams  (1872 - 1958)  English


Sergei Rachmaninoff  (1873 - 1943)  Russian  -  Composer / virtuoso pianist


Max Reger  (1873 - 1916) 

Gustav Holst  (1874 - 1934)  English


Charles Ives  (1874 - 1954)  American 


Arnold Schoenberg  (1874 - 1951)  Austrian-American  -   Modernist   


Josef Suk  (1874 - 1935)  Czech


Fritz Kreisler 1875 1962 Austrian composer and virtuoso violinist

Maurice Ravel  (1875 - 1937)  French  - mostly orchestra and piano music


Manuel de Falla  (1876 - 1946)  Spanish


Carl Ruggles  (1876 - 1971) American

Frank Bridge  (1879 - 1941)  English



Ottorino Respighi  (1879 - 1936)  Italian 

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