Born in the 1500s

Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina, William Byrd, Claudio Monteverdi

Born in the 1600s

Henry Purcell, Antonio Vivaldi, Jean-Philippe Rameau, George Frideric Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach

Born in the 1700s

Christoph Willibald Gluck, Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Carl Maria von Weber, Gioachino Rossini, Franz Schubert, Gaetano Donizetti

Born in the 1800s

Vincenzo Bellini, Hector Berlioz, Felix Mendelssohn, Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, César Franck, Anton Bruckner, Bedřich Smetana, Johann Strauss II, Johannes Brahms, Camille Saint-Saëns, Georges Bizet, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Antonín Dvořák, Edvard Grieg, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Edward Elgar, Giacomo Puccini, Gustav Mahler, Claude Debussy, Richard Strauss, Jean Sibelius, Scott Joplin, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Arnold Schoenberg, Gustav Holst, Maurice Ravel, Béla Bartók, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev, George Gershwin

Born in the 1900s

Aram Khachaturian, Dmitri Shostakovich, Benjamin Britten, Philip Glass, Rory O’Connor