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50 Great Composers

These composers, given (more or less) in chronological order changed music forever. In my family, there is Bach -- and then there is everyone else. Most of these composers are pre-20th century -- and that is deliberate. The music of those listed here have stood the test of time.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach
1
Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina
2
William Byrd
William Byrd
3
Thomas Tallis
Thomas Tallis
4
Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi
5
Giovanni Gabrieli
Giovanni Gabrieli
6
George Frideric Handel
George Frideric Handel
7
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi
8
Domenico Scarlatti
Domenico Scarlatti
9
Georg Philipp Telemann
Georg Philipp Telemann
10
Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell
11
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
12
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
13
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
14
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Ludwig Van Beethoven
15
Carl Maria Von Weber
Carl Maria Von Weber
16
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
17
Gioacchino Rossini
Gioacchino Rossini
18
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann
19
Frederic Chopin
Frederic Chopin
20
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
21
Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
22
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
23
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt
24
Anton Bruckner
Anton Bruckner
25
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
26
Cesar Franck
Cesar Franck
27
Georges Bizet
Georges Bizet
28
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
29
Modest Mussorgsky
Modest Mussorgsky
30
Camille Saint-Saëns
Camille Saint-Saëns
31
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
32
Gabriel Fauré
Gabriel Fauré
33
Edvard Grieg
Edvard Grieg
34
Antonin Dvorak
Antonin Dvorak
35
Edward Elgar
Edward Elgar
36
Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini
37
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler
38
Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy
39
Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss
40
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