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NameNationalityBornDiedFlourishedEra(s)
Josquin Baston Dutch c. 1515 c. 1576 Renaissance
Maddalena Casulana Italian c. 1540 c. 1590 Renaissance
Gioseffo Guami Italian 1542 1611 Baroque, Renaissance
Riccardo Rognoni Italian c. 1550 c. 1620 Baroque, Renaissance
Dario Castello Italian c. 1560 c. 1658 Baroque, Renaissance
William Brade English 1560 1630 Baroque, Renaissance
Salamone Rossi Italian 1570 1630 Baroque, Renaissance
Giovanni Battista Fontana Italian 1571 1630 Baroque, Renaissance
Jacques Cordier c. 1580 before 1655 Baroque
Vincenzo Ugolini Italian 1580 1638 Baroque, Renaissance
Thomas Simpson English 1582 c. 1628 Baroque, Renaissance
Johann Andreas Herbst French 1588 1666 Baroque, Renaissance
Adam Jarzębski Polish 1590 1648 Baroque, Renaissance
Johann Schop German 1590 1667 Baroque, Renaissance
Biagio Marini 1594 1663 Baroque
Tarquinio Merula 1594/1595 1665 Baroque
Giovanni Battista Buonamente c. 1595 1642 Baroque
Marco Scacchi c. 1600 1662 Baroque
Michelangelo Rossi c. 1601 1656 Baroque
Marco Uccellini 1603/1610 1680 Baroque
Antonio Bertali 1605 1669 Baroque
Johann Vierdanck c. 1605 1646 Baroque
Carlo Caproli c. 1617 c. 1692 Baroque
Adam Drese c. 1620 1701 Baroque
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer c. 1620 1680 Baroque
Dietrich Becker c. 1623 c. 1679 Baroque
Jacopo Melani 1623 1676 Baroque
John Banister c. 1630 1679 Baroque
Thomas Baltzar c. 1631 1663 Baroque
Giovanni Battista Vitali 1632 1692 Baroque
Jean-Baptiste Lully 1632 1687 Baroque
Clamor Heinrich Abel 1634 1696 Baroque
Johann Wilhelm Furchheim c. 1635 1682 Baroque
Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani 1638 c. 1693 Baroque
Cristoforo Caresana c. 1640 1709 Baroque
Giovanni Maria Bononcini 1642 1678 Baroque
Alessandro Stradella 1643 1682 Baroque
Ignazio Albertini 1644 1685 Baroque
Carlo Ambrogio Lonati c. 1645 1710 Baroque
Johann Fischer 1646 1716 Baroque
Rupert Ignaz Mayr 1646 1712 Baroque
Poul Christian Schindler 1648 1740 Baroque
Giovanni Battista Bassani c. 1650 1716 Baroque
Theobaldo di Gatti 1650 1727 Baroque
David Petersen c. 1651 1737 Baroque
Arcangelo Corelli 1653 1713 Baroque
Johann Paul von Westhoff 1656 1705 Baroque
Giuseppe Torelli 1658 1709 Baroque
Antonio Veracini 1659 1745 Baroque
André Campra 1660 1744 Baroque
Henrico Albicastro c. 1660 after 1730 Baroque
Giacomo Antonio Perti 1661 1756 Baroque, Classical-era
Tomaso Antonio Vitali 1663 1745 Baroque
Michele Mascitti c. 1664 1760 Baroque, Classical-era
Jean-Féry Rebel 1666 1747 Baroque, Classical-era
Michel Pignolet de Montéclair 1667 1737 Baroque, Classical-era
François Couperin 1668 1733 Baroque
Antonio Caldara 1670 1736 Baroque
Giuseppe Avitrano c. 1670 1756 Baroque, Classical-era
Henry Eccles 1670 1742 Baroque
Jean-Baptiste Volumier 1670 1728 Baroque
Robert Valentine c. 1671 1747 Baroque
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni 1671 1751 Baroque, Classical-era
Francesco Antonio Bonporti 1672 1749 Baroque
Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco 1675 1742 Baroque
Francesco Venturini c. 1675 1745 Baroque
Obadiah Shuttleworth c. 1675? 1734 Baroque
Giacomo Facco 1676 1753 Baroque, Classical-era
Jean-Baptiste Anet 1676 1755 Baroque
Johann Ludwig Bach 1677 1731 Baroque
Antonio Vivaldi 1678 1741 Baroque, Classical-era
Giovanni Mossi c. 1680? 1742 Baroque
Richard Jones 1680 1744 Baroque
William Corbett 1680 1748 Baroque
Carl Heinrich Biber 1681 1749 Baroque
Giuseppe Valentini 1681 1753 Baroque, Classical-era
Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 1764 Baroque, Classical-era
Francesco Manfredini 1684 1762 Baroque, Classical-era
Giuseppe Matteo Alberti 1685 1751 Baroque, Classical-era
Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 1750 Baroque, Classical-era
Roland Marais c. 1685 c. 1750 Baroque
Giovanni Battista Somis 1686 1763 Baroque, Classical-era
Francesco Geminiani 1687 1762 Baroque, Classical-era
Jean-Baptiste Semaillé 1687 1730 Baroque
Johann Adam Birkenstock 1687 1733 Baroque
Johann Georg Pisendel 1687 1755 Baroque, Classical-era
Willem de Fesch 1687 1761 Baroque, Classical-era
Johann Friedrich Fasch 1688 1758 Baroque, Classical-era
Jacques Aubert 1689 1753 Baroque, Classical-era
William Babell c. 1689 1723 Baroque
Carlo Tessarini 1690 1766 Baroque
Francesco Maria Veracini 1690 1768 Baroque, Classical-era
Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello c. 1690 1758 Baroque, Classical-era
Jean-Baptiste Quentin before 1690 c. 1742 Baroque
Giuseppe Tartini 1692 1770 Baroque, Classical-era
Pietro Locatelli 1695 1764 Baroque, Classical-era
Andrea Zani 1696 1757 Baroque, Classical-era
Giovanni Benedetto Platti 1697 1763 Baroque, Classical-era
Jean-Marie Leclair 1697 1764 Baroque, Classical-era
Johann Christian Hertel 1697/1699 1754 Baroque, Classical-era
François Francoeur 1698 1787 Baroque, Classical-era
František Jiránek 1698 1778 Baroque, Classical-era
Jan Zach 1699 1773 Baroque, Classical-era
Jean-Baptiste Forqueray 1699 1782 Baroque
Domenico Dall'Oglio c. 1700 1764 Baroque, Classical-era
Giovanni Battista Sammartini 1700 1775 Baroque, Classical-era
Nicola Fiorenza after 1700 1764 Baroque, Classical-era
Sebastian Bodinus c. 1700 1759 Baroque, Classical-era
François Rebel 1701 1775 Baroque, Classical-era
Jean-Pierre Guignon 1702 1774 Baroque
Jean-Marie Leclair 1703 1777 Baroque
Johann Gottlieb Graun 1703 1771 Baroque, Classical-era
Joseph-Hector Fiocco 1703 1741 Baroque
Henri-Jacques de Croes 1705 1786 Baroque, Classical-era
Louis-Gabriel Guillemain 1705 1770 Baroque, Classical-era
Michael Christian Festing 1705 1752 Baroque, Classical-era
Carlo Cecere 1706 1761 Baroque, Classical-era
Ignacio de Jerusalem c. 1707 1769 Baroque, Classical-era
Franz Benda 1709 1786 Baroque, Classical-era
Franz Xaver Richter 1709 1789 Classical-era
André-Joseph Exaudet 1710 1762 Baroque
Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville 1711 1772 Baroque, Classical-era
John Stanley 1712 1786 Baroque
Antoine Dauvergne 1713 1797 Baroque, Classical-era
Johan Henrik Freithoff 1713 1767 Baroque, Classical-era
Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz 1717 1757 Baroque, Classical-era
Leopold Mozart 1719 1787 Baroque, Classical-era
Bernhard Joachim Hagen 1720 1787 Classical-era
Pieter Hellendaal 1721 1799 Baroque, Classical-era
Pietro Nardini 1722 1793 Classical-era
Antonio Lolli 1725 1802 Classical-era
Santa della Pietà fl. 1725 after 1774 1725–? Baroque, Classical-era
Joseph Starzer c. 1726 1787 Classical-era
Pasquale Anfossi 1727 1797 Classical-era
Franz Asplmayr 1728 1786 Classical-era
František Xaver Pokorný 1729 1794 Classical-era
Antonín Kammel 1730 1788 Classical-era
Antonio Sacchini 1730 1786 Classical-era
Christian Cannabich 1731 1798 Classical-era
Gaetano Pugnani 1731 1798 Classical-era
Pierre Vachon 1731 1803 Classical-era
Giuseppe Demachi 1732 c. 1791 Classical-era
François-Joseph Gossec 1734 1829 Classical-era
Franz Ignaz Beck 1734 1809 Classical-era
Gabriele Leone c. 1735 1790 Baroque
Ignaz Fränzl 1736 1811 Classical-era
Élisabeth de Haulteterre fl. 1737 1768 1737–? Baroque, Classical-era
William Herschel 1738 1822 Classical-era
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf 1739 1799 Classical-era
Johann Baptist Wanhal 1739 1813 Classical-era
François Hippolyte Barthélemon 1741 1808 Classical-era
Luigi Tomasini 1741 1808 Classical-era
Jean-Baptiste Davaux 1742 1822 Classical-era
Gaetano Brunetti 1744 1798 Classical-era
Carl Stamitz 1745 1801 Classical-era
Johann Peter Salomon 1745 1815 Classical-era
Maddalena Laura Sirmen 1745 1818 Classical-era
Giuseppe Cambini 1746 c. 1825 Classical-era
Ivan Khandoshkin 1747 1804 Classical-era
William Shield 1748 1829 Classical-era
Bartolomeo Campagnoli 1751 1827 Classical-era
Maria Anna Mozart 1751 1829 Classical-era
Fodor József Hungarian 1752 1828
Anton Stamitz 1754 1798 or 1809 Classical-era
Federigo Fiorillo 1755 c. 1823 Classical-era
Giovanni Battista Viotti 1755 1824 Classical-era
Thomas Linley the younger 1756 1778 Classical-era
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 1791 Classical-era
Alessandro Rolla 1757 1841 Classical-era
Franz Krommer 1759 1831 Classical-era
Franz Christoph Neubauer c. 1760 1795 Classical-era
Erik Tulindberg 1761 1814 Classical-era
Adalbert Gyrowetz 1763 1850 Classical-era
Bihari János Hungarian 1764 1827
Lavotta János Hungarian 1764 1820 Classical-era
Franz Xaver Süssmayr 1766 1803 Classical-era
Rodolphe Kreutzer 1766 1831 Classical-era
Andreas Romberg 1767 1821 Classical-era
Artemy Vedel 1767 1808 Classical-era
Ferdinand Fränzl 1767 1833 Classical-era
Józef Elsner 1769 1854 Classical-era
Édouard Du Puy Swiss 1770 1822 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Ludwig van Beethoven German 1770 1827 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Peter Hänsel German-Austrian 1770 1831 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Antonio Casimir Cartellieri 1772 1807 Classical-era
Csermák Antal György Hungarian c. 1774 1822
Gaspare Spontini Italian 1774 1851 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Pierre Rode French 1774 1830 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Johann Anton André German 1775 1842 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Joseph Küffner German 1776 1856 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Ruzitska Ignác Hungarian 1777 1833 Classical-era
Fernando Sor Spanish 1778 1839 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Anthony Heinrich American 1781 1861 Romantic-era
Niccolò Paganini Italian 1782 1840 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Louis Spohr German 1784 1859 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Menner Bernát Hungarian c. 1786 1846 Classical-era
Rózsavölgyi Márk Hungarian c. 1788 1848
Friedrich Ernst Fesca German 1789 1826 Romantic-era
Böhm József Hungarian 1795 1876
Franz Berwald Swedish 1796 1868 Classical-era, Romantic-era
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