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Giovanni da Palestrina
1525 - 1594
Italy Renaissance
Claudio Monteverdi
1567 - 1643
Italy Baroque
Francois Couperin
1668 - 1733
France Baroque
Antonio Vivaldi
1678 - 1741
Georg Telemann
1681 - 1764
Germany Baroque
Jean-Philippe Rameau
1683 - 1764
George Frideric Handel
1685 - 1759
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685 - 1750
Christoph Gluck
1714 - 1787
Germany Post-Baroque/Classical
Franz Joseph Haydn
1732 - 1809
Germany Classical
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1756 - 1791
Austria Classical
Ludwig van Beethoven
1770 - 1827
Niccolo Paganini
1782 - 1840
Italy Classical
Gioacchino Rossini
1792 - 1868
Italy Romantic
Franz Schubert
1797 - 1828
Germany Classical/Romantic
Gaetano Donizetti
1797 - 1848
Hector Berlioz
1803 - 1869
France Romantic
Felix Mendelssohn
1809 - 1847
Germany Romantic
Frederic Chopin
1810 - 1849
Polish Romantic
Franz Liszt
1811 - 1886
Hungary Romantic
Richard Wagner
1813 - 1883
Giuseppe Verdi
1813 - 1901
Cesar Franck
1822 - 1890
Bedřich Smetana
1824 - 1884
Czech Romantic
Anton Bruckner
1824 - 1896
Johann Strauss
1825 - 1899
Johannes Brahms
1833 - 1897
Camille Saint-Saëns
1835 - 1921
Georges Bizet
1838 - 1875
Modest Mussorgsky
1839 - 1881
Russia Romantic
Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky
1840 - 1893
Antonín Dvořák
1841 - 1904
Edvard Grieg
1843 - 1907
Norway Romantic
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
1844 - 1908
Gabriel Fauré
1845 - 1924
Giacomo Puccini
1858 - 1924
Gustav Mahler
1860 - 1911
Richard Strauss
1864 - 1949
Leoš Janáček
1854 - 1928
Czech Modern
Claude Debussy
1862 - 1918
France Modern
Jean Sibelius
1865 - 1957
Finland Modern
Sergei Rachmaninoff
1873 - 1943
Russia Modern
Maurice Ravel
1875 - 1937
Béla Bartók
1881 - 1945
Hungary Modern
Igor Stravinsky
1882 - 1971
Sergei Prokofiev
1891 - 1953
Paul Hindemith
1895 - 1963
Germany Modern
George Gershwin
1898 - 1937
USA Modern
Dmitri Shostakovich
1906 - 1975
