34 Top Composers

17th Century
1. Antonio Vivaldi
2. Johann Sebastian Bach
3. George Frederic Handel
4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
5. Joseph Haydn

18th Century
6. Ludwig von Beethoven
7. Franz Schubert
8. Felix Mendelssohn
9. Frederic Chopin
10. Robert Schumann
11. Richard Wagner
12. Franz Liszt
13. Alexander Borodin
14. Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky
15. Johannes Brahms
16. Johann Strauss

19th Century
17. Giuseppe Verdi
18. Antoni Dvorak
19. Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
20. Gustav Mahler
21. Claude Debussy
22. Giacomo Puccini
23. Maurice Ravel

20th Century
24. George Gershwin
25. Sergei Rachmaninoff
26. Bella Bartok
27. Arnold Schoenberg
28. Arthur Hoenegger
29. Igor Stravinsky
30. Irving Berlin
31. Aaron Copland
32. Leonard Bernstein
33. John Cage
34. Klheinz Stockhausen

Works Cited:
Aubuchon, Vaughn. “Most Famous Music Composers Summary.” http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com. 2004. 22 June 2009<>