Find out more about the greatest 19th Century Composers, including Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt, Jean Sibelius, Giuseppe Verdi and Camille Saint-Saëns
Ludwig van Beethoven16 December 1770, Austrian, German
Composer
Frédéric Chopin01 March 1810, Polish
Composer
Richard Wagner22 May 1813, German
Composer, conductor, theatre director
Claude Debussy22 August 1862, French
Composer
Franz Liszt22 October 1811, German, Hungarian
Composer, pianist, conductor and teacher
Johannes Brahms07 May 1833, German
Composer and pianist
Erik Satie17 May 1866, French
Musician
Giuseppe Garibaldi04 July 1807, Italian
Italian Nationalist
Giuseppe Verdi10 October 1813, Italian
Composer
Maurice Ravel07 March 1875, French
Composer
Giacomo Puccini22 December 1858, Belgian, Italian
Composer
Sergei Prokofiev23 April 1891, Ukrainian
Composer and pianist
Camille Saint-Saëns09 October 1835, French
Composer, Organist, Pianist
Edward Elgar02 June 1857, British
Composer
Jean Sibelius08 December 1865, Finnish
Composer
John Philip Sousa06 November 1854, American
Conductor, Composer
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov18 March 1844, Russian
Composer
Modest Mussorgsky21 March 1839, Russian
Composer
William Herschel15 November 1738, German, British
Astronomer, Composer
Georges Bizet25 October 1838, French
Composer
Arthur Sullivan13 May 1842, British
Composer
Carl Orff10 July 1895, German
Composer
Charles Ives20 October 1874, American
Composer
Anton Bruckner04 September 1824, Austrian
Composer
E. T. A. Hoffmann24 January 1776, Prussian
Author
Vincenzo Bellini03 November 1801, Italian
Opera Composer
Nadia Boulanger16 September 1887, French
Musician
Paul Hindemith16 November 1895, German
Composer
Mikhail Glinka01 June 1804, German, Russian
Composer
Alban Berg09 February 1885, Austrian
Composer
Max Bruch06 January 1838, German
Composer and Conductor
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Sigmund Romberg29 July 1887, American
Composer
Ferruccio Busoni01 April 1866, German, Italian
Composer
Hugo Wolf13 March 1860, Slovenian
Composer
Max Reger19 March 1873, German
Composer
Adolf von Henselt12 May 1814, German
Composer
Edgard Varese22 December 1883, American
Composer
Clara Wieck Schumann13 September 1819, German
Musician & Composer
Bedrich Smetana02 March 1824, Austrian, Czech
Composer
Isaac Albeniz29 May 1860, Spanish
Pianist
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky17 June 1882, American
Composer
Gustavus Theodore von Holst21 September 1874, British
Composer
Felix Mendelssohn03 February 1809, German
Composer
Irving Berlin11 May 1888, American, Russian
Street artist, Composer, Pianist, Songwriter,
Clara Schumann13 September 1819, German
Pianist, Composer, Music educator
Jack Frost25 November 1893, American
Composer
Arnold Bax08 November 1883, British
Composer
Fanny Crosby24 March 1820, American
Poet
Alexander Scriabin06 January 1872, Russian
Composer, Pianist, University teacher
Jelly Roll Morton20 October 1890, American
Pianist, Bandleader, Composer, Conductor, Jazz
Jacques Offenbach20 June 1819, German, French
Composer, Cellist, Conductor, Impresario
Alexander Borodin12 November 1833, Russian
Composer, Chemist
Jerome Kern27 January 1885, American
Composer, Songwriter, Film score composer, Coin
Ivor Novello15 January 1893, British
Actor, Playwright, Composer, Writer, Screenwriter,
Carl Maria von Weber18 November 1786, German
Composer
Sidney Bechet14 May 1897, American
Composer, Clarinetist, Saxophonist, Jazz musician
Houston Stewart Chamberlain09 September 1855, German, British
Racial theorist, Writer, Politician, Philosopher,
Fanny Mendelssohn14 November 1805, German
Composer, Pianist
Jules Massenet12 May 1842, French
Composer, Musicologist, Music educator, University
Max Steiner10 May 1888, Austrian, American
Conductor, Composer, Musician, Screenwriter, Film
Erich Wolfgang Korngold29 May 1897, Austrian, Czech, American
Composer, Pianist, Conductor, Film score composer
W. C. Handy16 November 1873, American
Trumpeter, Composer, Songwriter, Autobiographer,
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti22 December 1876, Italian
Poet, Writer, Playwright, Composer, Science
Paul Whiteman28 March 1890, American
Bandleader
Fritz Kreisler02 February 1875, Austrian, American
Composer, Violinist
Francisco Tárrega21 November 1852, Spanish
Guitarist, Composer, Classical guitarist, Pianist
Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy16 December 1847, French
Military personnel, Spy, Composer
Carl Czerny21 February 1791, Austrian
pianist, composer, musicologist, music theorist
Arthur Freed09 September 1894, American
Film producer, Composer, Screenwriter, Actor,
Tristan Tzara16 April 1896, French
Art collector, Poet, Writer, Diplomat, Film
Mack Sennett17 January 1880, Canadian, American
Actor
Ottorino Respighi09 July 1879, Italian
Composer, Conductor, Musicologist, Music educator,
Anton Rubinstein28 November 1829, Russian
Composer, Pianist, Conductor, Musicologist, Music
Cosima Wagner24 December 1837, German
Composer, Writer, Director
Lorenz Hart02 May 1895, American
Lyricist, Composer, Playwright, Songwriter,
Victor Herbert01 February 1859, Irish, American
Composer
Léo Delibes21 February 1836, French
Composer, Musicologist, University teacher
Darius Milhaud04 September 1892, French
Classical composer, Conductor, Autobiographer,
Eugène Ysaÿe16 July 1858, Belgian
Violinist
Henry Cowell11 March 1897, American
Composer, Musicologist, Music theorist, Pianist
Pablo de Sarasate10 March 1844, Spanish
Composer, Violinist
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor15 August 1875, British
Composer, Pianist, Conductor
Harry Partch24 June 1901, American
Composer
Lili Boulanger21 August 1893, French
Composer
Agustín Lara30 October 1897, Mexican
Composer, Singer, Actor, Songwriter
Giacomo Meyerbeer05 September 1791, German
composer, conductor, autobiographer,music director
Carl Nielsen09 June 1865, Danish
Conductor, Composer, Choreographer,
Mily Balakirev31 December 1836, Russian
composer, conductor, educationist, musicologist
Efrem Zimbalist21 April 1889, American
Composer, Conductor, Music educator, Violinist,
Charles-Valentin Alkan30 November 1813, French
Composer, Pianist, Linguist, Translator, Music
Alexander Glazunov10 August 1865, Russian
Composer
Giacomo Balla18 July 1871, Italian
Painter, Sculptor, Composer
Joseph Joachim28 June 1831, Hungarian
Composer, Conductor, Concertmaster, Musicologist,
Charles Villiers Stanford30 September 1852, Irish
Composer