The composers of the month for August span the 19th century. They are as follows:
- Ferdinando Paer (1771-1839): Leonora (1804)
- Joseph Weigl (1766-1846): Die Schweizerfamilie (1809)
- Johann Simon Mayr (1763-1845): Medea in Corinto (1813)
- Louis Spohr (1784-1859): Faust (1816)
- Felix Mendelssohn (1813-1847): Die beide Neffen (1824), Die Hochzeit des Camacho (1827)
- Nicola Vaccai (1790-1848): Giulietta e Romeo (1825)
- Saverio Mercadante (1795-1870): Il giuramento (1837), La vestale (1840), Orazi e Curiazi (1846)
- Julius Benedict (1804-1885): The Lily of Killarney (1862)
- Antônio Carlos Gomes (1838-1896): Lo schiavo (1889)
- Alfred Bruneau (1857-1934): L'attaque du moulin (1893)
- Wilhelm Kienzl (1857-1941): Der Evangelimann (1895)