Medieval (500 - 1430)

• Hildegard von Bingen (1098 - 1179) [German]
• Philippe de Vitry (1291 - 1361) [French]
• Guillaume de Machaut (1300 - 1377) [French]
• Francesco Landini (1325 - 1397) [Italian]
• John Dunstable (1390 - 1453) [English]

Renaissance (1400 - 1600)

• William Byrd (???? - ????) [????]
• John Downland (???? - ????) [????]
• Giovanni Gabrieli (???? - ????) [????]
• Clement Janequin (???? - ????) [????]
• Orlando de Lassus (???? - ????) [????]
• Johannes Ockoghem (???? - ????) [????]

Baroque (1600 - 1750)

• Alessandro Scarlatti (1660 - 1725) [Italian]
• Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741) [Italian]
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) [German]
• Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (1685 - 1757) [Italian]
• George Handel (1685 - 1759) [German/British]

Classical (1730 - 1820)

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) [Austrian]
• Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809) [Austrian]
• Ludvig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) [German]
• Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828) [Austrian]
• Vincenzo Bellini (1801 - 1835) [Italian]
• Niccolò Paganini (1782 - 1840) [Italian]

Romantic (1815 - 1910)

• Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847) [German]
• Johann Strauss I (1804 - 1849) [Austrian]
• Frederic Chopin (1810 - 1849) [Polish]
• Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856) [German]
• Gioachino Rossini
• Louis-Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869) [French]
• Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875) [French]
• Modest Mussorgsky (1839 - 1881) [Russian]
• Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883) [German]
• Bedřich Smetana (1824 - 1884) [Czech]
• Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886) [Hungarian]
• Alexander Borodin (1833 - 1887) [Russian]
• Charles-François Gounod (1818 - 1893) [French]
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893) [Russian]
• Josef Bruckner (1824 - 1896) [Austrian]
• Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897) [German]
• Johann Strauss II (1825 – 1899) [Austrian]
• Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901) [Italian]
• Antonin Dvorak (1841 - 1904) [Czech]
• Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907) [Norwegian]
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908) [Russian]
• Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911) [Austro-Bohemian]
• Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912) [French]
• Enrique Granados Campiña (1867 - 1916) [Spanish]
• Max Bruch (1838 - 1920) [German]
• Camille Saint-Saens (1835 - 1921) [French]
• Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924) [French]
• Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924) [Italian]
• Sir Edward Elgar (1857 - 1934) [English]
• Gustav Holst (1874 - 1934) [English]
• Ottorino Respighi (1879 - 1936) [Italian]
• Joseph Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937) [French]
• Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943) [Russian]
• Béla Bartók (1881 - 1945) [Hungarian]
• Richard Georg Strauss (1864 - 1949) [German]
• Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957) [Finnish]
• Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958) [English]

Modernist

• Éric Satie (1866 - 1925) [French]
• Arnold Schoenberg (1874 - 1951) [Austrian]
• Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971) [Russian]
• Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953) [Russian]
• George Gershwin (1898 - 1937) [American]
• Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975) [Russian]

Post-modernist (????)

• Henryk Górecki (1933 - 2010) [Polish]

Medieval (500 - 1430)

Renaissance (1400 - 1600)

Baroque (1600 - 1750)

Classical (1730 - 1820)

Romantic (1815 - 1910)

Modernist

Post-modernist (????)