This Classical composers time-line presents in graphic form those people who are generally held [by whom?] to be the most important composers of Classical music since the middle of the 15th century. The labels used are the traditional ones, and in the case of "Modernist" and "Postmodernist" refer to the prevalent movements occuring in all the arts at the time rather than to the individual works of the composers so styled. Some composers were generally writing in earlier styles and are thus labelled with that style.

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John Adams (composer)Philip GlassSteve ReichArvo PärtKarlheinz StockhausenBenjamin BrittenWitold LutosławskiJohn CageOlivier MessiaenDmitri ShostakovichSergei ProkofievIgor StravinskyBéla BartókManuel de FallaMaurice RavelCharles IvesArnold SchoenbergSergei RachmaninoffRalph Vaughan WilliamsLouis VierneEnrique GranadosJean SibeliusRichard StraussClaude DebussyEugène YsaÿeGustav MahlerGiacomo PucciniGabriel FauréNikolai Rimsky-KorsakovEdvard GriegAntonín DvořákPyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyModest MussorgskyMax BruchGeorges BizetCamille Saint-SaënsJohannes BrahmsJan Gerard PalmAnton BrucknerBedrich SmetanaCésar FranckJacques OffenbachGiuseppe VerdiRichard WagnerFranz LisztRobert SchumannFrederic ChopinFelix MendelssohnHector BerliozGaetano DonizettiFranz SchubertGioacchino RossiniCarl CzernyCarl Maria von WeberNiccolo PaganiniJohn FieldLudwig van BeethovenWolfgang Amadeus MozartMuzio ClementiDmytro BortnianskyAntonio SalieriJohann Christian BachJoseph HaydnAntonio SolerCarl Philip Emmanuel BachChristoph Willibald GluckGiovanni Battista PergolesiGeorge Frideric HandelDomenico ScarlattiJohann Sebastian BachJean-Philippe RameauGeorg Philipp TelemannVivaldiFrançois CouperinTomaso AlbinoniAlessandro ScarlattiHenry PurcellGiuseppe TorelliArcangelo CorelliJohann PachelbelHeinrich Ignaz BiberDieterich BuxtehudeJean-Baptiste LullyHeinrich SchützOrlando GibbonsGirolamo FrescobaldiClaudio MonteverdiCarlo GesualdoKryštof HarantJan Pieterszoon SweelinckGiovanni GabrieliTomás Luis de VictoriaWilliam ByrdOrlande de LassusGiovanni Pierluigi da PalestrinaThomas TallisNicolas GombertAdrian WillaertJohn TavernerJacob ObrechtPierre de La RueHeinrich IsaacJosquin des PrezLoyset CompèreJohannes OckeghemGuillaume Dufay

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