Classical-period composers

Alessandro Rolla (Italian pronunciation: [alesˈsandro ˈrɔlla]; 22 April 1757 – 15 September 1841) was an Italian viola and violin virtuoso, composer, conductor and teacher.

Johann Gottfried Eckard (Eckhardt) (21 January 1735 – 24 July 1809) was a German pianist and composer.

Claude Balbastre (December 8, 1724 – May 9, 1799) was a French composer, organist, harpsichordist and fortepianist.

Hermann Friedrich Raupach (December 21, 1728 – December 12, 1778) was a German composer.

Ernst Dietrich Adolph Eichner [Ernesto Eichner] (born 15 February 1740 in Arolsen, died early 1777 in Potsdam) was a German bassoonist and composer.

Carl Heinrich Graun (7 May 1704 – 8 August 1759) was a German composer and tenor singer.

Johann Christian Kittel (18 February 1732 – 17 April 1809) was a German organist, composer, and teacher.

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (22 November 1710 – 1 July 1784), the second child and eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach, was a German composer and performer.

François Rebel (19 June 1701 – 7 November 1775) was a French composer of the Baroque era.

The First Viennese School is a name mostly used to refer to three composers of the Classical period in Western art music in late-18th-century Vienna: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven.

Juan Crisóstomo Jacobo Antonio de Arriaga y Balzola (January 27, 1806 – January 17, 1826) was a Spanish Basque composer.

Johann Friedrich Agricola (4 January 1720 – 2 December 1774) was a German composer, organist, singer, pedagogue, and writer on music.

Antoine Dauvergne (3 October 1713 – 11 February 1797) was a French composer and violinist.

José Eulalio Samayoa (1781–ca. 1866) was a Guatemalan classical composer.

Wenzel Raimund Johann Birck (also spelled "Pirck", "Birk", "Birckh", "Pirckh", "Pürk", and "Pürck") (1718–1763) was one of the early proponents of Symphonic music in Vienna, along with Georg Christoph Wagenseil and Georg Matthias Monn, and an early tutor for Mozart.

Friedrich Hartmann Graf (23 August 1727 – 19 August 1795) was a German flautist and composer.

Joseph-Barnabé Saint-Sevin dit L'Abbé le Fils (1727–1803) was a French composer and violinist.

Georg Adam Joseph Schmitt (baptised on 18 March 1734 in Gernsheim, Germany, died on 28 May 1791 in Amsterdam) was a German/Dutch composer, conductor, music director, publisher, music theorist and pedagogue.

Joseph Umstatt (5 February 1711 in Vienna - 24 May 1762 in Bamberg) was an Austrian composer of the early Classical era.

Ignazio Cirri or Giacomo Matteo Ignazio Cirri (20 September 1711 – 13 July 1787) was an Italian organist and composer in the 18th century.

Johann Friedrich Doles (23 April 1715 – 8 February 1797) was a German composer and pupil of J.

Georg Caspar Schürmann (1672 (or early 1673), Idensen bei Neustadt am Rübenberge – 25 February 1751, Wolfenbüttel) was a German Baroque composer.

Adelheid Maria Eichner (1762–1787) was a German composer, singer and pianist who was noted during her brief lifetime for her fine three-octave singing voice and vocal technique.

August (Fryderyk) Duranowski (originally Auguste Frédéric Durand) (c 1770–1834) was a Polish-born French violinist and composer.

John Foster (1762–1822) of Chapletown South Yorkshire was the composer of the tune set to While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night known as Old Foster, one of the more popular of the hundreds of tunes used with these words.

Josep Pla i Agustí (c. 1728 - 1762) was a Catalan composer, youngest of three composer-brothers: his older brother Joan Baptista Pla (1720-1773), was an oboist in Lisbon, and Manuel Pla (c.1725-1766), harpsichordist at the court of Madrid.

Paolo Girolamo Besozzi (17 April 1704 – 1778) was an Italian oboe virtuoso, bassoonist who devoted his life to the study of the bassoon and oboe.

Jean Balthasar Tricklir (1750 – 29 November 1813) was a French cellist and composer of German descent.

Giovanni Fouchetti (1757-1789) published one of the earliest method books for the mandolin, c.

Maria Theresia Ahlefeldt (born Princess Maria Theresia of Thurn and Taxis, [full German name: Maria Theresia, Prinzessin von Thurn und Taxis] 16 January 1755 in Regensburg, Free Imperial City of Regensburg, Holy Roman Empire – died 20 December 1810 in Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia, Austrian Empire) was a member of the House of Thurn and Taxis and a Princess of Thurn and Taxis by birth and a member of the Ahlefeldt Danish noble family and Countess of Ahlefeldt-Langeland through her marriage to Ferdinand, Count of Ahlefeldt-Langeland.

Fray José de Larrañaga (1728–1806) was a Franciscan monk, organist, maestro de capilla of the Sanctuary of Arantzazu, composer, and was active in the Basque musical and cultural movement of the 18th century.

Juan Sesé y Balaguer (1736–1801) was an Aragonese composer and organist born in Calanda in the Spanish comarca of Bajo Aragón.

Juliane Reichardt (14 May 1752 – 9 or 11 May 1783) was a Bohemian pianist, singer and composer.

Karl von Ordoñez (April 19, 1734–September 6? 1786) (also Carlo or Carl d'Ordonetz, Ordonnetz, d'Ordóñez, d'Ordonez, Ordoniz) was one of a number of composers working in Vienna during the second half of the Eighteenth century.

Václav Pichl (25 September 1741 – 23 January 1805; known in German as Wenzel Pichl) was a classical Czech composer of the 18th Century.

José Joaquim Emerico Lobo de Mesquita (12 October 1746 – April 1805) was a Brazilian composer, music teacher, conductor and organist.

Rafael Antonio Castellanos (c. 1725–1791) was a Guatemalan classical composer.

János Fusz (Johann Evangelist Fuss) (15 June, baptised on the 16th 1777 in Tolna, Hungary – 9 March 1819), aged 41, was a Hungarian composer.

Charles Avison (/ˈeɪvᵻsən/; 16 February 1709 (baptised) – 9 or 10 May 1770) was an English composer during the Baroque and Classical periods.

Pablo Esteve y Grimau (1730–1794) was a Spanish composer.

Giacomo Rust or Rusti (1741 in Rome, Italy – 1786 in Barcelona, Spain) was an Italian opera composer, probably of German ancestry.

Samuel Wesley (24 February 1766 – 11 October 1837) was an English organist and composer in the late Georgian period.

Henri-Joseph Rigel (9 February 1741 – 2 May 1799) was a German-born composer of the Classical era who spent most of his working life in France.

Ann Valentine (11 January 1762 – 13 October 1842 or 13 October 1845) was an English organist and composer, part of a talented family of Leicester musicians.

Daniel Read (November 16, 1757 – December 4, 1836) was an American composer of the First New England School, and one of the primary figures in early American classical music.

Johann Schobert (c. 1720, 1735 or 1740 – 28 August 1767) was a composer and harpsichordist.

John Antes (1740–1811) was the first American Moravian Missionary to travel and work in Egypt, one of the earliest American-born chamber music composers, and the maker of perhaps the earliest surviving bowed string instrument made in America.

Giuseppe Demachi (9 June 1732 – 1791) was a composer born in Alessandria, Italy.

Bartholomeus Ruloffs (October 1741 - 13 May 1801) was a Dutch conductor and composer.

Giovanni Cifolelli was an Italian mandolin virtuoso and dramatic composer whose date and place of birth are unknown.

Karl Stefan Aichelburg (22 February 1782 – 6 December 1817) (German: Karl Stefan freiherr von Aichelburg. Also Charles, Baron d'Aichelbourg) was a mandolin virtuoso and composer who lived at the beginning of the nineteenth century in Vienna and there wrote Opus 1, Potpourri for mandolin (or violin) and guitar, Opus 2, Variations for mandolin and guitar, Opus 3, Nocturne concertantes for mandolin and guitar and Opus 4, Variations concertantes for mandolin and guitar.

John Bennett (c. 1735 – London, September 1784) was an English organist and composer.

John Garth (1721 – 1810) was an English composer, born in Harperley, near Witton-le-Wear, Co.

William Crotch (5 July 1775 – 29 December 1847) was an English composer and organist.

João de Sousa Carvalho (22 February 1745 – c. 1798) was the foremost Portuguese composer of his generation.

Henry Hargrave (1720–1780) was an English composer, best known for his set of five concertos for bassoon or cello and strings (c. 1765).

Ferdinand Schubert (born October 18, 1794 in Vienna; died February 26, 1859) was an Austrian composer and brother of Franz Schubert.

František Krommer (Czech: František Vincenc Kramář; 27 November 1759 in Kamenice u Jihlavy – 8 January 1831 in Vienna) was a Czech composer of classical music, whose 71-year life span began half a year after the death of George Frideric Handel and ended nearly four years after that of Ludwig van Beethoven.

Joachim Nicolas Eggert (22 February 1779 – 14 April 1813) was a Swedish composer and musical director.

Karl Ignaz Augustin Kohaut (Carolus Ignatius Augustinus) (baptised August 26, 1726 – August 6, 1784) was an Austrian lutenist and composer of Czech descent.

Karl Christian Agthe (16 June 1762 – 27 November 1797) was a German organist and composer.

Richard Mudge (* 1718 in Bideford; † April 1763 in Bedworth) was an English clergyman and composer of the late baroque period.

Ignaz Fränzl, (3 June 1736 – 6 September 1811 (buried)) was a German violinist, composer and representative of the second generation of the so-called Mannheim School.

Lucile-Angélique-Dorothée-Louise Grétry (July 15, 1772 – March 1790) was a French composer.

Giovanni Antonio Giay (sometimes spelled Giaj; 11 June 1690 – 10 September 1764) was an Italian composer.

Ernst Wilhelm Wolf (baptised 25 February 1735 – 29 or 30 November 1792) was a German composer.

Johann Andreas Amon (1763 – March 29, 1825) was a German virtuoso guitarist, horn player, violist, conductor and composer.

Johann Ernst Altenburg (15 June 1734 – 14 May 1801) was a German composer, organist and trumpeter.

Esteban Salas y Castro (December 25, 1725 – July 14, 1803) was a Cuban composer of religious music.

Antonín Kraft (December 30, 1752, Rokycany – 28 August 1820, Vienna) was a Czech cellist and composer.

Antonio Brioschi (fl. c. 1725 – 1750) was an Italian symphony composer who wrote at least twenty six symphonies; most of which were preserved in the collection of Pierre Philibert de Blancheton.

Jeanne-Hippolyte Devismes (1765 – 1834?) (née Jeanne-Hippolyte Moyroud) was a French composer.