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Famous Music Composers

Music is a common and most popular form of art that is widely accepted throughout the world. This form of art consists of rhythmic sounds and use of instruments that includes various elements of music. Elements of music consist of pitches, melody, harmony, rhythm and related concepts such as tempo, meter, and articulation.

Every nation has its own style of music which helps in distinguishing the culture and heritage of a nation.It reflects the evolution and tradition of music.

There are various types of music practiced throughout the world. From ancient days to today, we have witnessed various music style. From classical to hip hop rock to hard rock, music has its own style and expressions. Throughout the world, there are a lot of famous music composers who have given music new heights with their innovative and creative style of music.

Famous music composers of the middle age:
  • Guido de Arezzo
  • Perotinus Magister
  • Hildegard von Bingen
  • Moniot D'Arras
  • Guillaume de Machaut
  • Leonel Power
  • John Dunstable
  • Gilles Binchois
Famous music composers of the renaissance age:
  • Guillaume Dufay
  • Johannes Ockeghem
  • Jacob Obrecht
  • Josquin Desprez
  • Clement Janequin
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
  • John Farmer
  • Claudio Monteverdi
  • Claudin de Sermisy
  • Adrian Willaert
  • Jacob Arcadelt
  • Orlando Lassus
  • Luca Marenzio
  • Carlo Gesualdo
  • Tomas Luis de Victoria
  • Giovanni Gabrielli
  • William Byrd
  • John Dowland
Famous classical music composers:
  • Antonin Dvorak
  • Johannes Brahms
  • Franz Joseph Haydn
  • Ludwig van.Beethoven
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Gaetano Donizetti
  • Francesco Cavalli
  • Gioachino Rossini
  • Dmitry Shostakovich
  • William Mason
  • Johann Pachelbel
  • Gustav Mahler
  • Richard Wagner
  • Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Jean Sibelius
  • Camille Saint -Saëns
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff
  • Giocomo Puccini
  • Edvard Grieg
  • Gabriel Faure
  • Edmond Dede
  • Max Bruch
  • Edward Elgar
  • Modest Mussorgsky
  • Franz Schubert
Famous romantic music composers:
  • Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
  • Louis-Hector Berlioz
  • Felix Mendelssohn
  • Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin
  • Robert Schumann
  • Franz Joseph Liszt
  • Richard Wagner
  • Giuseppe Verdi
  • Clara Wieck Schumann
  • Bedrich Smetana
  • Johannes Brahms
  • Georges Bizet
  • Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
  • Antonin Dvorák
  • Ruggero Leoncavallo
  • Claude Debussy
  • Richard Strauss
  • Amy Beach
  • Gustav Mahler
Famous music composers of 20th century
  • Buddy Bolden
  • John Coltrane
  • Stan Getz
  • Louis Armstrong Charlie "Bird" Parker
  • Gian Carlo Menotti
  • Karl Lawrence King
  • Fats Waller
  • Benny Goodman
  • Dizzy Gillespie
  • Heitor Villa-Lobos
  • John Cage
  • Benjamin Britten
  • Samuel Barber
  • Carl Orff
  • George Gershwin
  • Scott Joplin
  • Arnold Schoenberg
  • Charles Ives
  • Maurice Ravel
  • Igor Stravinsky
  • Béla Bartók
  • Anton Webern
  • Alban Berg
  • Sergey Prokofiev
  • Edward K. "Duke" Ellington
  • Aaron Copland
  • Richard Rodgers
  • Olivier Messiaen
  • Witold Lutoslawski
  • Leonard Bernstein
  • Gyorgy Ligeti
  • Pierre Boulez
  • George Crumb
  • Steve Reich
  • Chinary Ung
  • Paul Lansky
  • Libby Larsen
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