Ludwig van Beethoven16 December 1770, Austrian, German
Composer
Joseph Haydn31 March 1732, Austrian
Composer
George Frideric Handel23 February 1685, German, British
Composer
Niccolo Paganini27 October 1782, Italian
Violinist
Gioachino Rossini01 March 1792, Italian
Composer
William Herschel15 November 1738, German, British
Astronomer, Composer
E. T. A. Hoffmann24 January 1776, Prussian
Author
Gaetano Donizetti29 November 1797, Italian
Composer
William Mason24 January 1829, American
Composer, Pianist
Antonio Salieri18 August 1750, Italian
Composer, Conductor, Educationist, Musicologist,
Chevalier de Saint-Georges25 December 1745, French
Composer, Conductor, Fencer, Concertmaster,
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach08 March 1714, German
Composer, Pianist, Musicologist, Music theorist
Jean Philippe Rameau25 September 1683, French
Composer
Carl Maria von Weber18 November 1786, German
Composer
Luigi Boccherini19 February 1743, Italian
Composer, Cellist
Muzio Clementi23 January 1752, Italian
pianist, conductor, composer, musicologist, music
Carl Czerny21 February 1791, Austrian
pianist, composer, musicologist, music theorist
Johann van Beethoven14 November 1740, German
Musician, Conductor, Singer, Composer
Ignatius Sancho1729 AD, British
composer, author, writer, shopkeeper, domestic
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi04 January 1710, Italian
Composer, Organist
Johann Nepomuk Hummel14 September 1778, Austrian, German, Slovak
composer, conductor, pianist, concertmaster
François-André Danican Philidor07 September 1726, French
Composer
Giacomo Meyerbeer05 September 1791, German
composer, conductor, autobiographer,music director
Michael Haydn14 September 1737, Austrian
composer, organist, musician
Anna Magdalena Bach22 September 1701, German
Singer, Composer
Turlough O'Carolan1670 AD, Irish
Composer
Luigi Cherubini14 September 1760, French, Italian
Composer, Conductor, Musicologist, Music educator,
Fernando Sor14 February 1778, Spanish
guitarist, composer, classical guitarist
Dimitrie Cantemir26 October 1673, Romanian
Soldier
Louise Farrenc31 May 1804, French
Composer
Louis Spohr05 April 1784, German
Composer, Conductor, Musicologist, Music educator
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Thomas Arne12 March 1710, British
Composer
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach22 November 1710, German
Composer, Organist, Pianist
Anton Schindler13 June 1795, German
Conductor, Writer, Musicologist, Music historian,
Ignaz Moscheles23 May 1794
Pianist, Conductor, Composer, Educationist,
Friedrich Kuhlau11 September 1786, Danish
Pianist
Johann Stamitz19 June 1717, Czech
Composer
Mauro Giuliani27 July 1781, Italian
Composer, Guitarist, Classical guitarist
Franz Xaver Süssmayr22 July 1766, Austrian
Composer
Jan Dismas Zelenka16 October 1679, Czech
Composer
Carl Stamitz07 May 1745, German
Composer
Bettina von Arnim04 April 1785, German
Writer, Salon-holder, Composer, Novelist
Domenico Cimarosa17 December 1749, Italian
Composer
Joseph Martin Kraus20 June 1756, German
Composer
Marianna Martines04 May 1744, Austrian
Singer
Charlotte de Rothschild06 May 1825, French
Socialite
Ignaz Pleyel18 June 1757, French
Composer
Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel24 October 1739, German
Composer
Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria18 July 1724, German
Composer
Ferdinando Carulli09 February 1770, Italian
Composer, Guitarist, Musicologist, Classical
Jan Ladislav Dussek12 February 1760, Czech
Composer
Therese Malfatti01 January 1792, Austrian
Musician, Pianist, Composer
William Boyce11 September 1711, British
Composer
Pietro Locatelli03 September 1695, Italian
Musician
Franz Gruber25 November 1787, Austrian
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf02 November 1739, Austrian
Composer, Conductor
Jeremiah Clarke1674 AD, British
Composer
Lowell Mason08 January 1792, American
Composer
Jean-Marie Leclair10 May 1697, French
Violinist
William Billings07 October 1746, American
Composer
Charles Burney07 April 1726, British
Musical Composer
Daniel Auber29 January 1782, French
Composer
Sylvius Leopold Weiss12 October 1687, German
Composer
Rodolphe Kreutzer16 November 1766, French
Violinist
Leonardo Vinci1690 AD, Italian
Composer
Maria Theresia von Paradis15 May 1759, Austrian
Musician
Anton Diabelli05 September 1781, Austrian
Music Publisher
Francesco Geminiani05 December 1687, Italian
Violinist
François-Joseph Gossec17 January 1734, Belgian, French
Composer
Antonio Soler03 December 1729, Spanish
Composer, Organist, Musicologist, Music theorist,
Giovanni Battista Viotti12 May 1755, Italian
Violinist
Fromental Halévy27 May 1799, French
Composer
Joseph Mohr11 December 1792, Austrian
Composer, Writer
Karl Alois, Prince Lichnowsky21 June 1761, Austrian
Composer
Samuel Wesley24 February 1766, British
Organist
Carl Friedrich Abel22 December 1723, German
Composer
Jean-Joseph Mouret11 April 1682, French
Composer
Saverio Mercadante16 September 1795, Italian
Composer
Johann Mattheson28 September 1681, German
Composer
Christoph Graupner13 January 1683, German
Harpsichordist
Theobald Boehm09 April 1794, German
Inventor
Johann Baptist Cramer24 February 1771, German, British
Pianist
Johann Georg Albrechtsberger03 February 1736, Austrian
Composer
Friedrich Kalkbrenner07 November 1785, German
Musician
John Blow23 February 1649, British
Composer
Alexander Tcherepnin21 January 1899, Russian
Composer
Johann Kuhnau06 April 1660, German
Polymath
André Grétry08 February 1741, Belgian, French
Composer
Pierre-Jean de Béranger19 August 1780, French
Poet
Leopold Koželuch26 June 1747, Czech
Composer
Giovanni Bononcini18 July 1670, Italian
Composer
Giovanni Battista Martini24 April 1706, Italian
Musician
Niel Gow22 March 1727, Scottish
Violinist
Étienne Méhul22 June 1763, French
Composer