IMPORTANT COMPOSERS By StyxJunk Period: 1505 to 1583 Tallis Period: 1525 to 1594 Giovanni Palestrina Period: 1543 to 1623 Byrd Period: 1567 to 1643 Claudio Monteverdi Period: 1637 to 1707 Buxtehude Period: 1653 to 1713 Corelli Period: 1659 to 1695 Purcell Period: 1668 to 1733 Francois Couperin Period: 1678 to 1741 Antonio Vivaldi Period: 1681 to 1767 Georg Telemann Period: 1683 to 1764 Jean-Philippe Rameau Period: 1685 to 1750 Johann Sebastian Bach Period: 1685 to 1759 Georg Freidrich Handel Period: 1685 to 1757 Scarlatti Period: 1714 to 1787 Christoph Gluck Period: 1714 to 1788 CPE Bach Period: 1732 to 1809 Joseph Haydn Period: 1735 to 1782 JC Bach Period: 1756 to 1791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Period: 1770 to 1827 Ludwig van Beethoven Period: 1778 to 1837 Hummel Period: 1782 to 1840 Paganini Period: 1786 to 1826 Carl Maria von Weber Period: 1792 to 1868 Gioacchino Rossini Period: 1797 to 1828 Franz Schubert Period: 1797 to 1848 Gaetano Donizetti Period: 1803 to 1869 Hector Berlioz Period: 1809 to 1847 Felix Mendelssohn Period: 1810 to 1856 Robert Schumann Period: 1810 to 1849 Frederic Chopin Period: 1811 to 1886 Franz Liszt Period: 1813 to 1883 Richard Wagner Period: 1813 to 1901 Guiseppe Verdi Period: 1819 to 1880 Offenbach Period: 1822 to 1890 Cesar Franck Period: 1823 to 1892 Lalo Period: 1824 to 1896 Anton Bruckner Period: 1824 to 1884 Bedrich Smetana Period: 1825 to 1899 Johann Strauss Jr Period: 1833 to 1897 Johannes Brahms Period: 1833 to 1887 Alexander Borodin Period: 1835 to 1921 Camille Saint-Saens Period: 1837 to 1910 Balakirev Period: 1838 to 1875 Georges Bizet Period: 1839 to 1881 Modest Mussorgsky Period: 1840 to 1893 Pyotr Illitch Tchaikovsky Period: 1841 to 1904 Antonin Dvorak Period: 1843 to 1907 Edvard Grieg Period: 1844 to 1908 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Period: 1845 to 1924 Gabriel Faure Period: 1854 to 1928 Leos Janacek Period: 1858 to 1924 Giacomo Puccini Period: 1860 to 1911 Gustav Mahler Period: 1862 to 1918 Claude Debussy Period: 1864 to 1949 Richard Strauss Period: 1865 to 1957 Jean Sibelius Period: 1865 to 1935 Dukas Period: 1865 to 1931 Nielsen Period: 1866 to 1925 Satie Period: 1872 to 1958 Ralph Vaughan Williams Period: 1872 to 1915 Scriabin Period: 1873 to 1943 Rachmaninoff Period: 1874 to 1934 Holst Period: 1874 to 1954 Ives Period: 1874 to 1951 Schoenberg Period: 1875 to 1937 Maurice Ravel Period: 1881 to 1945 Bela Bartok Period: 1882 to 1971 Igor Stravinsky Period: 1882 to 1967 Kodaly Period: 1885 to 1935 Berg Period: 1891 to 1953 Sergei Prokofev Period: 1895 to 1963 Paul Hindemith Period: 1898 to 1937 Gershwin Period: 1899 to 1963 Poulenc Period: 1900 to 1990 Copland Period: 1902 to 1983 Walton Period: 1904 to 1987 Kabalevsky Period: 1905 to 1998 Tippet Period: 1906 to 1975 Dmitri Shostakovich Period: 1908 to 1992 Messiaen Period: 1910 to 1980 Barber Period: 1913 to 1976 Britten Period: 1918 to 1990 Bernstein Period: 1923 to 2006 Ligeti Period: 1925 to 2016 Boulez