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NameNationalityBornDiedFlourishedEra(s)
Hermann of ReichenauHermannus Contractus German 1013 1054 Medieval
Berno of Reichenau German? before 1014 1048 Medieval
Hildegard of Bingen German 1098 1179 Medieval
Heinrich von Veldeke German 1140-1150 c.1190 Medieval
Friedrich von Hûsen (Friedrich von Hausen) German c.1150 1190 Medieval
Walther von der Vogelweide German c.1170 c.1230 Medieval
Albrecht von Johansdorf German c. 1180 c. 1209 Medieval
Neidhart von Reuental German c.1190 after 1236 Medieval
Reinmar von Zweter German c.1200 c.1260 Medieval
Konrad von Würzburg German c.1230 1287 Medieval
Hugo von Montfort German (Austrian) 1357 1423 Medieval, Renaissance
Oswald von Wolkenstein German c. 1377 1445 Medieval, Renaissance
Conrad Paumann German c. 1410 1473 Renaissance
Heinrich Finck German 1444/1445 1527 Renaissance
Adam von Fulda German c. 1445 1505 Renaissance
Arnolt Schlick German c. 1450 c. 1525 Renaissance
Hans Judenkünig German c. 1450 1526 Renaissance
Paul Hofhaimer German 1459 1537 Renaissance
Sebastian Virdung German c. 1465 Renaissance
Pierre Alamire German c. 1470 1536 Renaissance
Thomas Stoltzer German c. 1480 1526 Renaissance
Hans Buchner German 1483 1538 Renaissance
Martin Luther German 1483 1546 Renaissance
Hans Kotter German c. 1485 1541 Renaissance
Martin Agricola German 1486 1556 Renaissance
Georg Rhau German 1488 1548 Renaissance
Leonhard Kleber German c. 1495 1556 Renaissance
Leonhard Päminger German 1495 1567 Renaissance
Lorenz Lemlin German c. 1495 c. 1549 Renaissance
Johann Walter German 1496 1570 Renaissance
Hans Gerle German c. 1498 1570 Renaissance
Hans Neusiedler German 1508 1563 Renaissance
Georg Forster German c. 1510 1568 Renaissance
Caspar Othmayr German 1515 1553 Renaissance
Sigmund Hemmel German c. 1520 1565 Renaissance
Hermann Finck German 1527 1558 Renaissance
Elias Nikolaus Ammerbach German c. 1530 1597 Renaissance
Matthäus Waissel German c. 1540 1602 Baroque, Renaissance
Johannes Eccard German 1553 1611 Baroque, Renaissance
Leonhard Lechner German c. 1553 1606 Baroque, Renaissance
Johannes Nucius German c. 1556 1620 Baroque, Renaissance
August Nörmiger German c. 1560 1613 Baroque, Renaissance
Hieronymus Praetorius German 1560 1629 Baroque, Renaissance
Elias Mertel German c. 1561 1626 Baroque, Renaissance
Andreas Raselius German c. 1563 1602 Baroque, Renaissance
Hans Leo Hassler German 1564 1612 Baroque, Renaissance
Gregor Aichinger German 1565 1628 Baroque, Renaissance
Christoph Demantius German 1567 1643 Baroque, Renaissance
Christian Erbach German 1568 1635 Baroque, Renaissance
Paul Peuerl German 1570 1625 Baroque, Renaissance
Michael Praetorius German c. 1571 1621 Baroque, Renaissance
Erasmus Widmann German 1572 1634 Baroque, Renaissance
Moritz von Hessen-Kassel German 1572 1632 Baroque, Renaissance
Andreas Hakenberger German 1574 1627 Baroque, Renaissance
Melchior Franck German 1579 1639 Baroque, Renaissance
Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger German 1580 1651 Baroque, Renaissance
Johann Stobäus German 1580 1646 Baroque, Renaissance
Johannes Jeep German 1581/1582 1644 Baroque, Renaissance
Johann Staden German 1581 1634 Baroque, Renaissance
Johann Daniel Mylius German c. 1583 1642 Baroque, Renaissance
Daniel Friderici German 1584 1638 Baroque, Renaissance
Michael Altenburg German 1584 1640 Baroque, Renaissance
Heinrich Schütz German 1585 1672 Baroque, Renaissance
Johann Grabbe German 1585 1655 Baroque, Renaissance
Peter Hasse German 1585 1640 Baroque, Renaissance
Jacob Praetorius German 1586 1651 Baroque, Renaissance
Johann Hermann Schein German 1586 1630 Baroque, Renaissance
Paul Siefert German 1586 1666 Baroque, Renaissance
Samuel Scheidt German 1587 1654 Baroque, Renaissance
Johannes Thesselius German 1590 1643 Baroque, Renaissance
Johann Schop German 1590 1667 Baroque, Renaissance
Melchior Schildt German 1592/1593 1667 Baroque, Renaissance
Gottfried Scheidt German 1593 1661 Baroque, Renaissance
Johann Ulrich Steigleder German 1593 1635 Baroque, Renaissance
Heinrich Scheidemann German 1595 1663 Baroque, Renaissance
Johann Crüger German 1598 1662 Baroque, Renaissance
Thomas Selle German 1599 1663 Baroque, Renaissance
Delphin Strungk German 1600/1601 1694 Baroque, Renaissance
Christian Heinrich Rinck German 1770 1846 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Friedrich Witt German 1770 1836 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Ludwig van Beethoven German 1770 1827 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Peter Hänsel German-Austrian 1770 1831 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Johann Wilhelm Wilms Dutch-German 1772 1847 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Johann Anton André German 1775 1842 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Joseph Küffner German 1776 1856 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Philipp Jakob Riotte German 1776 1856 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Ludwig Berger German 1777 1839 Romantic-era
Louise Reichardt German 1779 1826 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Conradin Kreutzer German 1780 1849 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Sophie Lebrun German 1781 1863 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Friedrich Dotzauer German 1783 1860 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Ferdinand Ries German 1784 1838 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Louis Spohr German 1784 1859 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Bettina von Arnim German 1785 1859 Romantic-era
Carl Maria von Weber German 1786 1826 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Friedrich Kuhlau German-Danish 1786 1832 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Johann Peter Pixis German 1788 1874 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Friedrich Ernst Fesca German 1789 1826 Romantic-era
Giacomo Meyerbeer German 1791 1864 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Bernhard Klein German 1793 1832 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Princess Amalie of Saxony German 1794 1870 Romantic-era
Heinrich Marschner German 1795 1861 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Carl Loewe German 1796 1869 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Emilie Zumsteeg German 1796 1857 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Helene Liebmann German 1796 1835 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff German 1797 1848 Classical-era, Romantic-era
Franz Lachner German 1803 1890 Romantic-era
Fanny Mendelssohn German 1805 1847 Romantic-era
Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller German 1806 1874 Romantic-era
Ignaz Lachner German 1807 1895 Romantic-era
Felix Mendelssohn German 1809 1847 Romantic-era
Ferdinand David German 1810 1873 Romantic-era
Ludwig Schuncke German 1810 1834 Romantic-era
Norbert Burgmüller German 1810 1836 Romantic-era
Otto Nicolai German 1810 1849 Romantic-era
Robert Schumann German 1810 1856 Romantic-era
Ferdinand Hiller German 1811 1885 Romantic-era
Vinzenz Lachner German 1811 1893 Romantic-era
Wilhelm Taubert German 1811 1891 Romantic-era
Emilie Mayer German 1812 1883 Romantic-era
Friedrich von Flotow German 1812 1883 Romantic-era
Ernst Haberbier German 1813 1869 Romantic-era
Richard Wagner German 1813 1883 Romantic-era
Adolf von Henselt German 1814 1889 Romantic-era
Ferdinand Praeger German 1815 1891 Romantic-era
Josephine Lang German 1815 1880 Romantic-era
Robert Volkmann German 1815 1883 Romantic-era
Clara Schumann German 1819 1896 Romantic-era
Joachim Raff Swiss-born German 1822 1882 Romantic-era
Theodor Kirchner German 1823 1903 20th-century, Romantic-era
Carl Reinecke German 1824 1910 20th-century, Romantic-era
Eduard Rohde German 1828 1883 Romantic-era
Jacques Blumenthal German 1829 1908 20th-century, Romantic-era
Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff German 1830 1913 20th-century
Hans von Bülow German 1830 1894 Romantic-era
Karl Klindworth German 1830 1916 20th-century
Benjamin Dwight Allen German 1831 1914 20th-century
Salomon Jadassohn German 1831 1902 20th-century
Mathilde Hannah von Rothschild German 1832 1924 20th-century
Caspar Joseph Brambach German 1833 1902 20th-century
Johannes Brahms German 1833 1897 Romantic-era
George Becker German-Swiss 1834 1928 20th-century
Julius Reubke German 1834 1858 Romantic-era
Felix Draeseke German 1835 1913 20th-century, Romantic-era
Friedrich Baumfelder German 1836 1916 20th-century, Romantic-era
Julius Weissenborn German 1837 1888 Romantic-era
Max Bruch German 1838 1920 20th-century, Romantic-era
Friedrich Gernsheim German 1839 1916 20th-century
Josef Rheinberger German 1839 1901 20th-century, Romantic-era
Ingeborg Bronsart von Schellendorf Swedish-German 1840 1913 20th-century
Oskar Rieding German 1840 1918 20th-century
Friedrich Nietzsche German 1844 1900 Romantic-era
Hermann Graedener German 1844 1929 20th-century
Richard Hofmann German 1844 1918 20th-century
August Bungert German 1845 1915 20th-century
Ernst Perabo German-born American 1845 1920 20th-century
Franz Ries German 1846 1932 20th-century
Oscar Hammerstein I German-born American 1846 1919 Romantic-era
Agnes Zimmermann German 1847 1925 20th-century
Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka German-Polish 1847 1917 20th-century
Philipp Scharwenka German-Polish 1847 1917 Romantic-era
Rudolf Tillmetz German 1847 1915 20th-century
Fritz Seitz German 1848 1918 20th-century
Richard Eilenberg German 1848 1927 20th-century
Franz Xaver Scharwenka German 1850 1924 20th-century
Heinrich Reimann German 1850 1906 20th-century
Richard Barth German 1850 1923 20th-century
Xaver Scharwenka German-Polish 1850 1924 Romantic-era
Hans von Koessler German 1853 1926 20th-century
Hugo Richard Jüngst German 1853 1923 20th-century
Iwan Knorr German 1853 1916 20th-century
Engelbert Humperdinck German 1854 1921 20th-century, Romantic-era
Heinrich Köselitz German 1854 1918 20th-century
Moritz Moszkowski German 1854 1925 20th-century, Romantic-era
Oscar Fetrás German 1854 1931 20th-century
Arnold Mendelssohn German 1855 1933 20th-century, Romantic-era
Julius Röntgen German-Dutch 1855 1932 20th-century, Romantic-era
Richard Sahla German 1855 1931 20th-century
Árpád Doppler Hungarian-German 1857 1927 20th-century
Rudolf Dellinger German 1857 1910 20th-century
Richard Franck German 1858 1938 20th-century
Siegfried Alkan German 1858 1941 20th-century
Felix Woyrsch German 1860 1944 20th-century
Wilhelm Berger German 1861 1911 20th-century, Romantic-era
August Nölck German 1862 1928 20th-century
Conrad Ansorge German 1862 1930 20th-century
Emil von Sauer German 1862 1942 20th-century, Romantic-era
Ferdinand Pfohl German 1862 1949 20th-century
Walter Damrosch German-born American 1862 1950 20th-century
Alfred Reisenauer German 1863 1907 20th-century
Hugo Becker German 1863 1941 20th-century
Hugo Kaun German 1863 1932 20th-century
Eugen d'Albert German, Swiss; Scottish-born 1864 1932 20th-century
Peter Griesbacher German 1864 1933 20th-century
Richard Strauss German 1864 1949 20th-century, Romantic-era
Gustav Jenner German 1865 1920 20th-century
Robert Kahn German 1865 1951 20th-century
Ferdinand Küchler German 1867 1937 20th-century
Gustav Strube German 1867 1953 20th-century
Hermann Bischoff German 1868 1936 20th-century, Romantic-era
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