CLASSICAL COMPOSERS are those individuals who write/wrote music in the traditional forms, also known as classical music (not limited to the classical music era).
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- Agostino Steffani - (1654-1728).
- ALBAN BERG - (1885-1935).
- ALEXANDER BORODIN - (1833-1887).
- Alexander Scriabin - (1872-1915).
- AndrÉ GrÉtry - (1741-1813).
- ANTON BRUCKNER - (1824-1896).
- Anton Reicha - (1770-1836).
- ANTON WEBERN - (1883-1945).
- ANTONIN DVOŘÁK - (1841-1904).
- ANTONIO SALIERI - (1750-1825).
- ANTONIO VIVALDI - (1678-1741).
- Arcangelo Corelli - (1653-1713).
- ARNOLD SCHÖNBERG - (1874-1951).
- ARTURO TOSCANINI - (1867-1957).
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- BÉLA BARTÓK - (1881-1945).
- BENJAMIN BRITTEN - (1913-1976).
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- CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS - (1835-1921).
- CARL CZERNY - (1791-1857).
- CARL MARIA F. E. VON WEBER - (1786-1826).
- Carl Michael Bellman - (1740-1795).
- CARL NIELSEN - (1865-1931).
- CARL ORFF - (1895-1982).
- CÉSAR FRANCK - (1822-1890).
- Charles Gounod - (1818-1893).
- CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK - (1714-1787).
- CLAUDE DEBUSSY - (1862-1918).
- CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI - (1567-1643).
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- Daniel Auber - (1782-1871).
- Daniel Steibelt - (1765-1823).
- DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE - (1637-1707).
- Dmitri Shostakovich - (1906-1975).
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- EDVARD GRIEG - (1843-1907).
- EDWARD ELGAR - (1857-1934).
- Emanuel Aloys FÖrster - (1748-1823).
- ERIK SATIE - (1866-1925).
- Étienne MÉhul - (1763-1817).
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- FELIX MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY - (1809-1847).
- Ferdinand Ries - (1784-1838).
- FranÇois-Adrien Boieldieu - (1775-1834).
- FranÇois-Joseph Gossec - (1734-1829).
- FRÉDÉRIC / FRYDERYK CHOPIN - (1810-1849).
- Franz Anton Hoffmeister - (1754-1812).
- Franz Clement - (1780-1842).
- Franz LehÁr - (1870-1948).
- FRANZ LISZT - (1811-1886).
- FRANZ SCHUBERT - (1797-1828).
- Friedrich von Flotow - (1812-1883).
- FROMENTHAL HALÉVY - (1799-1862).
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- GABRIEL FAURÉ - (1845-1924).
- GAETANO DONIZETTI - (1797-1848).
- Gaspare Spontini - (1774-1851).
- GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN - (1681-1767).
- GEORGE FRIDERIC HÄNDEL - (1685-1759).
- Giacomo Meyerbeer - (1791-1864).
- GIACOMO PUCCINI - (1858-1924).
- Gian Carlo Menotti - (1911-2007).
- GIOACHINO A. ROSSINI - (1792-1868).
- Giovanni Battista Pergolesi - (1710-1736).
- Giovanni Battista Viotti - (1755-1824).
- Giovanni Maria Ruggieri - (1665-1725).
- Giovanni Paisiello - (1740-1816).
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - (c. 1525-1594).
- GIUSEPPE F. F.VERDI - (1813-1901).
- GUSTAV MAHLER - (1860-1911).
- GYÖRGY LIGETI - (1923-2006).
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- Hans Rott - (1858-1884). His music is little-known today, though he received high praise in his time from Gustav Mahler & Anton Bruckner.
- HECTOR BERLIOZ - (1803-1869).
- Hubert Parry - (1848-1918).
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- Ignaz von Seyfried - (1776-1841).
- IGNAZ PLEYEL - (1751-1831).
- Igor Stravinsky - (1882-1971).
- ILDEBRANDO PIZZETTI - (1880-1968).
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- JEAN SIBELIUS - (1865-1957).
- Johann Joseph Fux - (c. 1660-1741).
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel - (1778-1837).
- JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH - (1685-1750).
- JOHANN STRAUSS THE ELDER - (1804-1849).
- JOHANN STRAUSS THE YOUNGER - (1825-1899).
- JOHANNES BRAHMS - (1833-1897).
- Johannes Ockeghem - (1410/25-1497).
- JOHN PHILIP SOUSA - (1854-1932).
- JOSEPH HAYDN - (1732-1809).
- JOSEPH WEIGL - (1766-1846).
- Joseph WÖlfl - (1773-1812).
- JULES MASSENET - (1842-1912).
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- KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN - (1928-2007).
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- LÉo Delibes - (1836-1891).
- Les Six - name given to a group of six French composers who worked in Montparnasse. Their music is often seen as a reaction against the musical style of Richard Wagner and the impressionist music of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. The members were Georges Auric (1899–1983), Louis Durey (1888–1979), Arthur Honegger (1892–1955), Darius Milhaud (1892–1974), Francis Poulenc (1899–1963), and Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983).
- Louis Spohr - (1784-1859).
- LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN - (1770-1827).
- LUIGI CHERUBINI - (1760-1842).
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- Maurice DuruflÉ - (1902-1986).
- MAURICE RAVEL - (1875-1937).
- MODEST MUSSORGSKY - (1839-1881).
- Muzio Clementi - (1752-1832).
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- NICCOLÒ PAGANINI - (1782-1840).
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - (1844-1908).
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- PAUL HINDEMITH - (1895-1963).
- PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY - (1840-1893).
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- Reynaldo Hahn - (1874-1947).
- RICHARD STRAUSS - (1864-1949).
- RICHARD WAGNER - (1813-1883).
- ROBERT SCHUMANN - (1810-1856).
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- SERGEI PROKOFIEV - (1891-1953).
- SERGEI RACHMANINOFF - (1873-1943).
- SILVIUS LEOPOLD WEISS - (1687-1750).
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- The Five - (also known as The Mighty Handful & The New Russian School). Were five prominent, 19th-century Russian composers who worked together to create a distinctly Russian classical music. Mily Balakirev (the leader), César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Borodin all lived in Saint Petersburg, and collaborated from 1856 to 1870.
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- VINCENZO BELLINI - (1801-1835).
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- WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART - (1756-1791).
