CORDA DB
Documented composer catalogue

Classical music composers

Browse classical music composers by chronology, historical period and geographical relationships in the documented CORDA DB catalogue.

Composers

220
  1. Léonin1135–1201 · Medieval0 dated works
  2. Pérotin1160–1236 · Medieval0 dated works
  3. Guillaume de Machaut1300–1377 · Medieval0 dated works
  4. Guillaume Dufay1400–1474 · Medieval0 dated works
  5. Johannes Ockeghem1420–1496 · Renaissance0 dated works
  6. Jacob Obrecht1450–1505 · Renaissance0 dated works
  7. Josquin Des Prez1450–1521 · Renaissance0 dated works
  8. Clément Janequin1485–1558 · Renaissance0 dated works
  9. John Taverner1490–1545 · Renaissance0 dated works
  10. Thomas Tallis1505–1585 · Renaissance0 dated works
  11. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina1525–1594 · Renaissance0 dated works
  12. Orlande de Lassus1532–1594 · Renaissance0 dated works
  13. William Byrd1540–1623 · Renaissance0 dated works
  14. Tomás Luis de Victoria1549–1611 · Renaissance0 dated works
  15. Carlo Gesualdo1561–1613 · Renaissance0 dated works
  16. Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck1562–1621 · Renaissance8 dated works
  17. John Dowland1563–1626 · Renaissance0 dated works
  18. Claudio Monteverdi1567–1643 · Renaissance10 dated works
  19. Michael Praetorius1571–1621 · Renaissance4 dated works
  20. Girolamo Frescobaldi1583–1643 · Baroque29 dated works
  21. Orlando Gibbons1583–1625 · Renaissance0 dated works
  22. Heinrich Schütz1585–1672 · Renaissance19 dated works
  23. Jean-Baptiste Lully1632–1687 · Baroque38 dated works
  24. Marc-Antoine Charpentier1636–1704 · Baroque0 dated works
  25. Dietrich Buxtehude1637–1707 · Baroque0 dated works
  26. Heinrich Franz von Biber1644–1704 · Baroque0 dated works
  27. Arcangelo Corelli1653–1713 · Baroque12 dated works
  28. Johann Pachelbel1653–1706 · Baroque20 dated works
  29. Marin Marais1656–1728 · Baroque7 dated works
  30. Henry Purcell1659–1695 · Baroque265 dated works
  31. Alessandro Scarlatti1660–1725 · Baroque102 dated works
  32. François Couperin1668–1733 · Baroque10 dated works
  33. Tomaso Albinoni1671–1751 · Baroque33 dated works
  34. Antonio Vivaldi1678–1741 · Baroque104 dated works
  35. Georg Philipp Telemann1681–1767 · Baroque207 dated works
  36. Jean-Philippe Rameau1683–1764 · Baroque35 dated works
  37. Alessandro Marcello1684–1750 · Baroque1 dated works
  38. Domenico Scarlatti1685–1757 · Baroque5 dated works
  39. George Frideric Handel1685–1759 · Baroque146 dated works
  40. Johann Sebastian Bach1685–1750 · Baroque295 dated works
  41. Benedetto Marcello1686–1739 · Baroque0 dated works
  42. Giuseppe Tartini1692–1770 · Baroque5 dated works
  43. Giovanni Battista Pergolesi1710–1736 · Baroque8 dated works
  44. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach1714–1788 · Classical104 dated works
  45. Christoph Willibald von Gluck1714–1787 · Classical0 dated works
  46. Franz Joseph Haydn1732–1809 · Classical0 dated works
  47. Johann Christian Bach1735–1782 · Classical24 dated works
  48. Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf1739–1799 · Classical0 dated works

How to use the composer index

The index orders canonical composer records chronologically and connects each identity to historical periods, dated works, life events, places and authority identifiers. Period labels are controlled CORDA DB classifications and may overlap when a composer belongs to more than one historical context.