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
E. T. A. Hoffmann24 January 1776, Prussian
Author
Gaetano Donizetti29 November 1797, Italian
Composer
Niccolo Paganini27 October 1782, Italian
Violinist
William Mason24 January 1829, American
Composer, Pianist
Ignatius Sancho1729 AD, British
composer, author, writer, shopkeeper, domestic
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
Carl Maria von Weber18 November 1786, German
Composer
Johann van Beethoven14 November 1740, German
Musician, Conductor, Singer, Composer
Luigi Boccherini19 February 1743, Italian
Composer, Cellist
Carl Czerny21 February 1791, Austrian
pianist, composer, musicologist, music theorist
Muzio Clementi23 January 1752, Italian
pianist, conductor, composer, musicologist, music
Johann Nepomuk Hummel14 September 1778, Austrian, German, Slovak
composer, conductor, pianist, concertmaster
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi04 January 1710, Italian
Composer, Organist
Giacomo Meyerbeer05 September 1791, German
composer, conductor, autobiographer,music director
Thomas Arne12 March 1710, British
Composer
Michael Haydn14 September 1737, Austrian
composer, organist, musician
Fernando Sor14 February 1778, Spanish
guitarist, composer, classical guitarist
Bettina von Arnim04 April 1785, German
Writer, Salon-holder, Composer, Novelist
Anna Magdalena Bach22 September 1701, German
Singer, Composer
Louis Spohr05 April 1784, German
Composer, Conductor, Musicologist, Music educator
Luigi Cherubini14 September 1760, French, Italian
Composer, Conductor, Musicologist, Music educator,
Dimitrie Cantemir26 October 1673, Romanian
Soldier
François-André Danican Philidor07 September 1726, French
Composer
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach22 November 1710, German
Composer, Organist, Pianist
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Ignaz Moscheles23 May 1794
Pianist, Conductor, Composer, Educationist,
Franz Xaver Süssmayr22 July 1766, Austrian
Composer
Mauro Giuliani27 July 1781, Italian
Composer, Guitarist, Classical guitarist
Johann Stamitz19 June 1717, Czech
Composer
Daniel Auber29 January 1782, French
Composer
Domenico Cimarosa17 December 1749, Italian
Composer
Charles Avison16 February 1709, British
Composer
Jeremiah Clarke1674 AD, British
Composer
Carl Stamitz07 May 1745, German
Composer
Rodolphe Kreutzer16 November 1766, French
Violinist
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf02 November 1739, Austrian
Composer, Conductor
Jan Ladislav Dussek12 February 1760, Czech
Composer
Ignaz Pleyel18 June 1757, French
Composer
William Billings07 October 1746, American
Composer
Leonardo Vinci1690 AD, Italian
Composer
Therese Malfatti01 January 1792, Austrian
Musician, Pianist, Composer
Anton Diabelli05 September 1781, Austrian
Music Publisher
Fromental Halévy27 May 1799, French
Composer
Charles Burney07 April 1726, British
Musical Composer
Ferdinando Carulli09 February 1770, Italian
Composer, Guitarist, Musicologist, Classical
Jean-Marie Leclair10 May 1697, French
Violinist
Francesco Geminiani05 December 1687, Italian
Violinist
Antonio Soler03 December 1729, Spanish
Composer, Organist, Musicologist, Music theorist,
Lowell Mason08 January 1792, American
Composer
Pietro Locatelli03 September 1695, Italian
Musician
Anton Schindler13 June 1795, German
Conductor, Writer, Musicologist, Music historian,
François-Joseph Gossec17 January 1734, Belgian, French
Composer
Carl Friedrich Abel22 December 1723, German
Composer
Saverio Mercadante16 September 1795, Italian
Composer
Friedrich Kalkbrenner07 November 1785, German
Musician
Étienne Méhul22 June 1763, French
Composer
Giovanni Battista Viotti12 May 1755, Italian
Violinist
André Grétry08 February 1741, Belgian, French
Composer
Johann Baptist Cramer24 February 1771, German, British
Pianist
Christoph Graupner13 January 1683, German
Harpsichordist
Samuel Wesley24 February 1766, British
Organist
Pierre-Jean de Béranger19 August 1780, French
Poet
Theobald Boehm09 April 1794, German
Inventor
John Blow23 February 1649, British
Composer
Charles Dibdin04 March 1745, British
Composer
Johann Mattheson28 September 1681, German
Composer
Johann Kuhnau06 April 1660, German
Polymath
Niccolò Jommelli10 September 1714, Italian
Composer
Giovanni Battista Martini24 April 1706, Italian
Musician
Giovanni Bononcini18 July 1670, Italian
Composer
Alexander Tcherepnin21 January 1899, Russian
Composer
Joseph Mohr11 December 1792, Austrian
Composer, Writer
Johann Georg Albrechtsberger03 February 1736, Austrian
Composer
Niel Gow22 March 1727, Scottish
Violinist
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier23 December 1689, French
Composer
André Campra04 December 1660, French
Composer
Carl Jonas Love Almqvist28 November 1793, Swedish
Author
Carl Friedrich Zelter11 December 1758, German
Composer
Georg Muffat01 June 1653, French
Composer
Georg Böhm02 September 1661, German
Organist
Franz Danzi15 May 1763, German
Cellist
Carl Heinrich Graun07 May 1704, German
Composer
François-Joseph Fétis25 March 1784, Belgian
Musicologist
Louis-Claude Daquin04 July 1694, French
Composer
Johann Gottfried Walther18 September 1684, German
Composer
Georg Benda30 June 1722, Czech, German
Composer
Heinrich Marschner16 August 1795, German
Composer
Pierre Beauchamp30 October 1631, French
Choreographer