List of Classical era composers. This is a list of composers of the Classical music era, roughly from 1730 to 1820.
Prominent composers of the Classical era include Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Johann Stamitz, Joseph Haydn, Johann Christian Bach, Antonio Salieri, Muzio Clementi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Luigi Boccherini. Prominent composers of both the Classical and early Romantic eras include Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert. Early Galante era composers – Transition from Baroque to Classical (born before 1710)[edit] Composers in the Baroque/Classical transitional era, sometimes seen as the beginning of the Galante era, include the following listed by their date of birth: Classical period (music) The dates of the Classical period in Western music are generally accepted as being between about 1730 and 1820.
However, the term classical music is used in a colloquial sense to describe a variety of Western musical styles from the ninth century to the present, and especially from the sixteenth or seventeenth to the nineteenth. This article is about the specific period from 1750 to 1820.[1] The Classical period falls between the Baroque and the Romantic periods. Classical Music on Classical Archives: Home.