# Chronological list of German classical composers

The following is a chronological list of classical music composers who lived in, worked in, were German citizens, or who grew up and made their careers in Germany.

## Medieval

* Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179)

## Renaissance

* Caspar Othmayr (1515–1553)
* Valentin Haussmann (c. 1560 – c. 1613–14)
* Hans Leo Hassler (1564–1612)

## Baroque

* Michael Praetorius (1571–1621)
* Andreas Hakenberger (1574–1627)
* Heinrich Schütz (1585–1672)
* Samuel Scheidt (1587–1653)
* Johann Schop (1590–1667)
* Johann Jakob Froberger (1616–1667)
* Kaspar Förster (1616–1673)
* Heinrich Schwemmer (1621–1696)
* Johann Caspar Kerll (1627–1693)
* Georg Caspar Wecker (1632–1695)
* Adam Krieger (1634–1666)
* Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
* Johann Philipp Krieger (1649–1725)
* Johann Krieger (1651–1735)
* Johann Pachelbel (1653–1706)
* Johann Kuhnau (1660–1722)
* Christian Friedrich Witt (1660–1717)
* Giovanni Henrico Albicastro (1660–1730)
* Franz Xaver Murschhauser (1663–1738)
* Georg Caspar Schürmann (1672/1673–1751)
* Georg Friedrich Kauffmann (1679–1735)
* Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767)
* Johann David Heinichen (1683–1729)
* Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
* George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)
* Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687–1750)
* Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688–1758)
* Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (1690–1749)
* Johann Christian Hertel (1697–1754)
* Johann Joachim Quantz (1697–1773)
* Johann Gottlieb Graun (1703–1771)
* Carl Heinrich Graun (1704–1759)

## Classical era

* Johan Agrell (1701–1765)
* Johann Ernst Eberlin (1702–1762)
* Johann Gottlieb Janitsch (1708–c. 1763)
* Christoph Schaffrath (1709–1763)
* Wilhelm Friedmann Bach (1710–1784)
* Frederick II of Prussia (1712–1786)
* Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713–1780)
* Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788)
* Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787)
* Gottfried August Homilius (1714–1785)
* Johann Schobert (1720?–1767)
* Bernhard Joachim Hagen (1720–1787)
* Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht (1722–1794)
* Carl Friedrich Abel (1723–1787)
* Johann Wilhelm Hertel (1727–1789)
* Hermann Friedrich Raupach (1728–1778)
* Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729–1774)
* Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
* Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732–1795)
* Johann Christian Fischer (1733–1800)
* Johann Christian Bach (1735–1782)
* Anton Schweitzer (1735–1787)
* Johann Gottfried Eckhardt (1735–1809)
* Johann Michael Haydn (1737–1806)
* Johann Christoph Oley (1738–1789)
* Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel (1738–1822)
* Ernst Eichner (1740–1777)
* Anton Zimmermann (1741–1781)
* Roman Hoffstetter (1742–1815)
* Johann Peter Salomon (1745–1815)
* Johann Wilhelm Hässler (1747–1822)
* Joseph Schuster (1748–1812)
* Emanuel Aloys Förster (1748–1823)
* Theodor von Schacht (1748–1823)
* Johann Friedrich Edelmann (1749–1794)
* Peter Winter (1754–1825)
* Joseph Martin Kraus (1756–1792)
* Franz Johannes Gleißner (1759–1818)
* Franz Danzi (1763–1826)
* Simon Mayr (1763–1845)

## Romantic/Post-romantic

* Peter Anton Kreusser (1765–1831)
* Franz Xaver Kleinheinz (1765–1832)
* Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
* Peter Hänsel (1770–1831)
* Friedrich Jeremias Witt (1770–1836)
* Ferdinand Ries (1784–1838)
* Louis Spohr (1784–1859)
* Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner (1785–1849)
* Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826)
* Johann Peter Pixis (1788–1874)
* Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864)
* Heinrich Marschner (1795–1861)
* Johann Carl Gottfried Löwe (1796–1869)
* Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
* Fanny Mendelssohn (1805–1847)
* Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)
* Otto Nicolai (1810–1849)
* Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
* Ferdinand Hiller (1811–1885)
* Emilie Mayer (1812–1883)
* Julius Rietz (1812–1877)
* Richard Wagner (1813–1883)
* Friedrich Robert Volkmann (1815–1883)
* Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880)
* Clara Schumann (1819–1896)
* Peter Cornelius (1824–1874)
* Carl Reinecke (1824–1910)
* Albert Dietrich (1829–1908)
* Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
* Franz Wohlfahrt (1833–1884)
* Max Bruch (1838–1920)
* Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (1839–1901)
* August Friedrich Martin Klughardt (1847–1902)
* Philipp Scharwenka (1847–1917)
* Fritz Seitz (1848–1918)
* Engelbert Humperdinck (1854–1921)
* Paul Klengel (1854–1935)
* Max Wagenknecht (1857–1922)
* Julius Klengel (1859–1933)
* Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
* Paul Lincke (1866–1946)
* Ferdinand Küchler (1867–1937)
* Hans Pfitzner (1869–1949)
* Max Reger (1873–1916)

## Modern/Post-modern/Contemporary

* Richard Wetz (1875–1935)
* Eduard Künneke (1885–1953)
* Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886–1954)
* Rudi Stephan (1887–1915)
* Carl Orff (1895–1982)
* Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)
* Herbert Eimert (1897–1972)
* Kurt Weill (1900–1950)
* Werner Egk (1901–1983)
* Stefan Wolpe (1902–1972)
* Boris Blacher (1903–1975)
* Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1905–1963)
* Martin Scherber (1907–1974)
* Berthold Goldschmidt (1903–1996)
* Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918–1970)
* Fritz Geißler (1921–1984)
* Bertold Hummel (1925–2002)
* Hans Werner Henze (1926–2012)
* Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007)
* Helmut Lachenmann (born 1935)
* Aribert Reimann (1936–2024)
* Michael von Biel (born 1937)
* Hans-Joachim Hespos (1938–2022)
* Nicolaus A. Huber (born 1938)
* Johannes Fritsch (1941–2010)
* Wolfgang Rihm (1952–2024)
* Hans-Jürgen von Bose (born 1953)
* Alexander Schubert (born 1979)