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, 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
Giuseppe Garibaldi04 July 1807, Italian
Italian Nationalist
Erik Satie17 May 1866, French
Musician
Maurice Ravel07 March 1875, French
Composer
Johannes Brahms07 May 1833, German
Composer and pianist
Sergei Prokofiev23 April 1891, Ukrainian
Composer and pianist
Giuseppe Verdi10 October 1813, Italian
Composer
Giacomo Puccini22 December 1858, Belgian, Italian
Composer
Edward Elgar02 June 1857, British
Composer
John Philip Sousa06 November 1854, American
Conductor, Composer
Jean Sibelius08 December 1865, Finnish
Composer
Camille Saint-Saëns09 October 1835, French
Composer, Organist, Pianist
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov18 March 1844, Russian
Composer
William Herschel15 November 1738, German, British
Astronomer, Composer
Georges Bizet25 October 1838, French
Composer
Carl Orff10 July 1895, German
Composer
Anton Bruckner04 September 1824, Austrian
Composer
Charles Ives20 October 1874, American
Composer
Arthur Sullivan13 May 1842, British
Composer
Vincenzo Bellini03 November 1801, Italian
Opera Composer
Nadia Boulanger16 September 1887, French
Musician
Paul Hindemith16 November 1895, German
Composer
Alban Berg09 February 1885, Austrian
Composer
Mikhail Glinka01 June 1804, German, Russian
Composer
Max Bruch06 January 1838, German
Composer and Conductor
Ferruccio Busoni01 April 1866, German, Italian
Composer
Hugo Wolf13 March 1860, Slovenian
Composer
Max Reger19 March 1873, German
Composer
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Sigmund Romberg29 July 1887, American
Composer
Clara Wieck Schumann13 September 1819, German
Musician & Composer
Edgard Varese22 December 1883, American
Composer
Isaac Albeniz29 May 1860, Spanish
Pianist
Adolf von Henselt12 May 1814, German
Composer
Bedrich Smetana02 March 1824, Austrian, Czech
Composer
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky17 June 1882, American
Composer
Gustavus Theodore von Holst21 September 1874, British
Composer
Franz Schubert31 January 1797, Austrian
Composer, Pianist
Richard Strauss11 June 1864, German
Composer, Conductor, Librettist, Writer
Irving Berlin11 May 1888, American, Russian
Street artist, Composer, Pianist, Songwriter,
Clara Schumann13 September 1819, German
Pianist, Composer, Music educator
Jacques Offenbach20 June 1819, German, French
Composer, Cellist, Conductor, Impresario
Jack Frost25 November 1893, American
Composer
Fanny Crosby24 March 1820, American
composer, poet, singer, writer, teacher,
Alexander Scriabin06 January 1872, Russian
Composer, Pianist, University teacher
Lorenz Hart02 May 1895, American
Lyricist, Composer, Playwright, Songwriter,
Jerome Kern27 January 1885, American
Composer, Songwriter, Film score composer, Coin
Ivor Novello15 January 1893, British
Actor, Playwright, Composer, Writer, Screenwriter,
Jelly Roll Morton20 October 1890, American
Pianist, Bandleader, Composer, Conductor, Jazz
Alexander Borodin12 November 1833, Russian
Composer, Chemist
W. C. Handy16 November 1873, American
Trumpeter, Composer, Songwriter, Autobiographer,
Houston Stewart Chamberlain09 September 1855, German, British
Racial theorist, Writer, Politician, Philosopher,
Sidney Bechet14 May 1897, American
Composer, Clarinetist, Saxophonist, Jazz musician
Erich Wolfgang Korngold29 May 1897, Austrian, Czech, American
Composer, Pianist, Conductor, Film score composer
Max Steiner10 May 1888, Austrian, American
Conductor, Composer, Musician, Screenwriter, Film
Carl Maria von Weber18 November 1786, German
Composer
Jules Massenet12 May 1842, French
Composer, Musicologist, Music educator, University
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti22 December 1876, Italian
Poet, Writer, Playwright, Composer, Science
Francisco Tárrega21 November 1852, Spanish
Guitarist, Composer, Classical guitarist, Pianist
Cosima Wagner24 December 1837, German
Composer, Writer, Director
Tristan Tzara16 April 1896, French
Art collector, Poet, Writer, Diplomat, Film
Fritz Kreisler02 February 1875, Austrian, American
Composer, Violinist
Fanny Mendelssohn14 November 1805, German
Composer, Pianist
Anton Rubinstein28 November 1829, Russian
Composer, Pianist, Conductor, Musicologist, Music
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor15 August 1875, British
Composer, Pianist, Conductor
Ottorino Respighi09 July 1879, Italian
Composer, Conductor, Musicologist, Music educator,
Agustín Lara30 October 1897, Mexican
Composer, Singer, Actor, Songwriter
Carl Czerny20 February 1791, Austrian
pianist, composer, musicologist, music theorist
Lili Boulanger21 August 1893, French
Composer
Max Brod27 May 1884, Czech, Israeli
Linguist, Composer, Pianist, Novelist, Translator,
Carl Nielsen09 June 1865, Danish
Conductor, Composer, Choreographer,
Charles-Valentin Alkan30 November 1813, French
Composer, Pianist, Linguist, Translator, Music
Louis Vierne08 October 1870, French
Composer, Organist, University teacher
Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy16 December 1847, French
Military personnel, Spy, Composer
Darius Milhaud04 September 1892, French
Classical composer, Conductor, Autobiographer,
Henry Cowell11 March 1897, American
Composer, Musicologist, Music theorist, Pianist
Giacomo Meyerbeer05 September 1791, German
composer, conductor, autobiographer,music director
Pablo de Sarasate10 March 1844, Spanish
Composer, Violinist
Herbert Howells17 October 1892, British
Composer
Joseph Joachim28 June 1831, Hungarian
Composer, Conductor, Concertmaster, Musicologist,
Mily Balakirev31 December 1836, Russian
composer, conductor, educationist, musicologist
Léo Delibes21 February 1836, French
Composer, Musicologist, University teacher
Alexander Glazunov10 August 1865, Russian
Composer, Choreographer, Conductor, Educationist,
Arthur Freed09 September 1894, American
Film producer, Composer, Screenwriter, Actor,
Efrem Zimbalist21 April 1889, American
Composer, Conductor, Music educator, Violinist,
Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov01 April 1883, Russian
composer, conductor, choir director, music
Bruno Walter15 September 1876, German
Conductor, Pianist, Composer, Autobiographer,
Arthur Honegger10 March 1892, Swiss, French
Composer, Musicologist, Music educator, Film score
Karol Szymanowski03 October 1882, Polish, Kosovar
Composer, Music educator, University teacher,
Engelbert Humperdinck01 September 1854, German, Indian
Composer
Arnold Bax08 November 1883, British
Composer, Poet, Writer, Pianist
Reynaldo Hahn09 August 1874, French, Venezuelan
Conductor, Composer, Choreographer, Music critic,
Henryk Wieniawski10 July 1835, Polish
Composer, Music educator