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
Franz Liszt22 October 1811, German, Hungarian
Composer, pianist, conductor and teacher
Claude Debussy22 August 1862, French
Composer
Erik Satie17 May 1866, French
Musician
Johannes Brahms07 May 1833, German
Composer and pianist
Giuseppe Garibaldi04 July 1807, Italian
Italian Nationalist
Giuseppe Verdi10 October 1813, Italian
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
Maurice Ravel07 March 1875, French
Composer
Edward Elgar02 June 1857, British
Composer
Jean Sibelius08 December 1865, Finnish
Composer
John Philip Sousa06 November 1854, American
Conductor, Composer
Georges Bizet25 October 1838, French
Composer
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov18 March 1844, Russian
Composer
William Herschel15 November 1738, German, British
Astronomer, Composer
Modest Mussorgsky21 March 1839, Russian
Composer
Carl Orff10 July 1895, German
Composer
Charles Ives20 October 1874, American
Composer
Anton Bruckner04 September 1824, Austrian
Composer
Alban Berg09 February 1885, Austrian
Composer
Vincenzo Bellini03 November 1801, Italian
Opera Composer
Paul Hindemith16 November 1895, German
Composer
Arthur Sullivan13 May 1842, British
Composer
E. T. A. Hoffmann24 January 1776, Prussian
Author
Nadia Boulanger16 September 1887, French
Musician
Mikhail Glinka01 June 1804, German, Russian
Composer
Max Bruch06 January 1838, German
Composer and Conductor
Ferruccio Busoni01 April 1866, German, Italian
Composer
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Hugo Wolf13 March 1860, Slovenian
Composer
Max Reger19 March 1873, German
Composer
Sigmund Romberg29 July 1887, American
Composer
Edgard Varese22 December 1883, American
Composer
Clara Wieck Schumann13 September 1819, German
Musician & Composer
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
Isaac Albeniz29 May 1860, Spanish
Pianist
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
Ivor Novello15 January 1893, British
Actor, Playwright, Composer, Writer, Screenwriter,
Alexander Scriabin06 January 1872, Russian
Composer, Pianist, University teacher
Fanny Crosby24 March 1820, American
composer, poet, singer, writer, teacher,
Jerome Kern27 January 1885, American
Composer, Songwriter, Film score composer, Coin
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
Carl Maria von Weber18 November 1786, German
Composer
Houston Stewart Chamberlain09 September 1855, German, British
Racial theorist, Writer, Politician, Philosopher,
W. C. Handy16 November 1873, American
Trumpeter, Composer, Songwriter, Autobiographer,
Sidney Bechet14 May 1897, American
Composer, Clarinetist, Saxophonist, Jazz musician
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti22 December 1876, Italian
Poet, Writer, Playwright, Composer, Science
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
Anton Rubinstein28 November 1829, Russian
Composer, Pianist, Conductor, Musicologist, Music
Jules Massenet12 May 1842, French
Composer, Musicologist, Music educator, University
Francisco Tárrega21 November 1852, Spanish
Guitarist, Composer, Classical guitarist, Pianist
Fanny Mendelssohn14 November 1805, German
Composer, Pianist
Fritz Kreisler02 February 1875, Austrian, American
Composer, Violinist
Mack Sennett17 January 1880, Canadian, American
Actor
Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy16 December 1847, French
Military personnel, Spy, Composer
Tristan Tzara16 April 1896, French
Art collector, Poet, Writer, Diplomat, Film
Paul Whiteman28 March 1890, American
Bandleader
Cosima Wagner24 December 1837, German
Composer, Writer, Director
Carl Czerny20 February 1791, Austrian
pianist, composer, musicologist, music theorist
Lorenz Hart02 May 1895, American
Lyricist, Composer, Playwright, Songwriter,
Ottorino Respighi09 July 1879, Italian
Composer, Conductor, Musicologist, Music educator,
Arthur Freed09 September 1894, American
Film producer, Composer, Screenwriter, Actor,
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor15 August 1875, British
Composer, Pianist, Conductor
Henry Cowell11 March 1897, American
Composer, Musicologist, Music theorist, Pianist
Giacomo Meyerbeer05 September 1791, German
composer, conductor, autobiographer,music director
Charles-Valentin Alkan30 November 1813, French
Composer, Pianist, Linguist, Translator, Music
Harry Partch24 June 1901, American
Composer
Léo Delibes21 February 1836, French
Composer, Musicologist, University teacher
Darius Milhaud04 September 1892, French
Classical composer, Conductor, Autobiographer,
Carl Nielsen09 June 1865, Danish
Conductor, Composer, Choreographer,
Lili Boulanger21 August 1893, French
Composer
Max Brod27 May 1884, Czech, Israeli
Linguist, Composer, Pianist, Novelist, Translator,
Mily Balakirev31 December 1836, Russian
composer, conductor, educationist, musicologist
Agustín Lara30 October 1897, Mexican
Composer, Singer, Actor, Songwriter
Louis Vierne08 October 1870, French
Composer, Organist, University teacher
Alexander Glazunov10 August 1865, Russian
Composer, Choreographer, Conductor, Educationist,
Pablo de Sarasate10 March 1844, Spanish
Composer, Violinist
Joseph Joachim28 June 1831, Hungarian
Composer, Conductor, Concertmaster, Musicologist,
Harry Warren24 December 1893, American
Composer
Eugène Ysaÿe16 July 1858, Belgian
Violinist
Giacomo Balla18 July 1871, Italian
Painter, Sculptor, Composer
Charles Villiers Stanford30 September 1852, Irish
Composer
Arthur Honegger10 March 1892, Swiss, French
Composer, Musicologist, Music educator, Film score
Engelbert Humperdinck01 September 1854, German, Indian
Composer
Bruno Walter15 September 1876, German
Conductor, Pianist, Composer, Autobiographer,