Find out more about the greatest 18th Century Composers, including Ludwig van Beethoven, Joseph Haydn, George Frideric Handel, Franz Schubert and Gioachino Rossini.
Ludwig van Beethoven16 December 1770, Austrian, German
Composer
George Frideric Handel23 February 1685, German, British
Composer
Joseph Haydn31 March 1732, Austrian
Composer
Gioachino Rossini01 March 1792, Italian
Composer
William Herschel15 November 1738, German, British
Astronomer, Composer
Gaetano Donizetti29 November 1797, Italian
Composer
E. T. A. Hoffmann24 January 1776, Prussian
Author
Niccolo Paganini27 October 1782, Italian
Violinist
William Mason24 January 1829, American
Composer, Pianist
Antonio Salieri18 August 1750, Italian
Composer, Conductor, Educationist, Musicologist,
Frederick William III of Prussia03 August 1770, German
Composer, Politician
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach08 March 1714, German
Composer, Pianist, Musicologist, Music theorist
Carl Maria von Weber18 November 1786, German
Composer
Luigi Boccherini19 February 1743, Italian
Composer, Cellist
Chevalier de Saint-Georges25 December 1745, French
Composer, Conductor, Fencer, Concertmaster,
Carl Czerny21 February 1791, Austrian
pianist, composer, musicologist, music theorist
Muzio Clementi23 January 1752, Italian
pianist, conductor, composer, musicologist, music
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi04 January 1710, Italian
Composer, Organist
Johann Nepomuk Hummel14 September 1778, Austrian, German, Slovak
composer, conductor, pianist, concertmaster
Johann van Beethoven14 November 1740, German
Musician, Conductor, Singer, Composer
Fernando Sor14 February 1778, Spanish
guitarist, composer, classical guitarist
Giacomo Meyerbeer05 September 1791, German
composer, conductor, autobiographer,music director
Luigi Cherubini14 September 1760, French, Italian
Composer, Conductor, Musicologist, Music educator,
Louis Spohr05 April 1784, German
Composer, Conductor, Musicologist, Music educator
Michael Haydn14 September 1737, Austrian
composer, organist, musician
Anna Magdalena Bach22 September 1701, German
Singer, Composer
Ignatius Sancho1729 AD, British
composer, author, writer, shopkeeper, domestic
Dimitrie Cantemir26 October 1673, Romanian
Soldier
Thomas Arne12 March 1710, British
Composer
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach22 November 1710, German
Composer, Organist, Pianist
Ignaz Moscheles23 May 1794
Pianist, Conductor, Composer, Educationist,
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Mauro Giuliani27 July 1781, Italian
Composer, Guitarist, Classical guitarist
Johann Stamitz19 June 1717, Czech
Composer
Bettina von Arnim04 April 1785, German
Writer, Salon-holder, Composer, Novelist
Samuel Wesley24 February 1766, British
Organist
Domenico Cimarosa17 December 1749, Italian
Composer
François-André Danican Philidor07 September 1726, French
Composer
Franz Xaver Süssmayr22 July 1766, Austrian
Composer
Daniel Auber29 January 1782, French
Composer
Carl Stamitz07 May 1745, German
Composer
Fromental Halévy27 May 1799, French
Composer
Ferdinando Carulli09 February 1770, Italian
Composer, Guitarist, Musicologist, Classical
William Billings07 October 1746, American
Composer
Ignaz Pleyel18 June 1757, French
Composer
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf02 November 1739, Austrian
Composer, Conductor
Therese Malfatti01 January 1792, Austrian
Musician, Pianist, Composer
Étienne Méhul22 June 1763, French
Composer
Anton Diabelli05 September 1781, Austrian
Music Publisher
Jeremiah Clarke1674 AD, British
Composer
Pietro Locatelli03 September 1695, Italian
Musician
Leonardo Vinci1690 AD, Italian
Composer
Lowell Mason08 January 1792, American
Composer
Francesco Geminiani05 December 1687, Italian
Violinist
Jan Ladislav Dussek12 February 1760, Czech
Composer
Charles Burney07 April 1726, British
Musical Composer
Rodolphe Kreutzer16 November 1766, French
Violinist
Carl Friedrich Abel22 December 1723, German
Composer
Friedrich Kalkbrenner07 November 1785, German
Musician
Antonio Soler03 December 1729, Spanish
Composer, Organist, Musicologist, Music theorist,
Giovanni Battista Viotti12 May 1755, Italian
Violinist
Anton Schindler13 June 1795, German
Conductor, Writer, Musicologist, Music historian,
Theobald Boehm09 April 1794, German
Inventor
John Blow23 February 1649, British
Composer
François-Joseph Gossec17 January 1734, Belgian, French
Composer
Johann Georg Albrechtsberger03 February 1736, Austrian
Composer
Alexander Tcherepnin21 January 1899, Russian
Composer
Saverio Mercadante16 September 1795, Italian
Composer
Christoph Graupner13 January 1683, German
Harpsichordist
Heinrich Marschner16 August 1795, German
Composer
Giovanni Bononcini18 July 1670, Italian
Composer
Pierre-Jean de Béranger19 August 1780, French
Poet
Giovanni Battista Martini24 April 1706, Italian
Musician
Johann Mattheson28 September 1681, German
Composer
Niel Gow22 March 1727, Scottish
Violinist
Johann Kuhnau06 April 1660, German
Polymath
Theodore Hook22 September 1788, British
Man of Letters
Joseph Mohr11 December 1792, Austrian
Composer, Writer
Georg Muffat01 June 1653, French
Composer
Johann Baptist Cramer24 February 1771, German, British
Pianist
Franz Danzi15 May 1763, German
Cellist
André Grétry08 February 1741, Belgian, French
Composer
François-Joseph Fétis25 March 1784, Belgian
Musicologist
Charles Avison16 February 1709, British
Composer
Georg Böhm02 September 1661, German
Organist
Michel Richard Delalande15 December 1657, French
Composer
Giovanni Pacini17 February 1796, Italian
Composer
Charles Dibdin04 March 1745, British
Composer
Carl Heinrich Graun07 May 1704, German
Composer
Louis-Claude Daquin04 July 1694, French
Composer
Francesco Durante31 March 1684, Italian
Composer
E.T.A. Hoffmann24 January 1776, Prussian
Prussian author
William Croft30 December 1678, British
Composer
Georg Matthias Monn09 April 1717, Austrian
Organist
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier23 December 1689, French
Composer