This is a list of composers of the Classical music era, roughly from 1730 to 1820. Prominent classicist composers include Christoph Willibald Gluck, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, André Grétry, Joseph Haydn, Muzio Clementi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Luigi Boccherini, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Luigi Cherubini, Ludwig van Beethoven, Gioachino Rossini, and Franz Schubert.

As with the list of Romantic composers, this is a purely chronological catalogue and includes figures not usually thought of as Classical-period composers, such as Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel, as well as figures more often regarded as belonging to the early Romantic era, such as Carl Maria von Weber and Gaetano Donizetti.

Early Galante era composers – Transition from Baroque to Classical (born before 1710)

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:

Giacomo Antonio Perti (1661–1756) Nicolas Siret (1663–1754) Michele Mascitti (1664–1760) Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667–1752) Johann Nicolaus Bach (1669–1753) Giuseppe Avitrano (1670–1756) Louis de Caix d'Hervelois (1670–1760) Richard Leveridge (1670–1758) Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (1671–1751) Azzolino della Ciaja or della Ciaia or della Araja (1671–1755) Georg Caspar Schürmann (1672/1673–1751) Pierre Dumage (1674–1751) Jacques-Martin Hotteterre (1674–1763) Giovanni Porta (1675–1755) Giacomo Facco (1676–1753) Wolff Jakob Lauffensteiner (1676–1754) Giuseppe Maria Orlandini (1676–1760) Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari (1677–1754) (1678–1754) or Jean-Antoine Desplanes (1678–1760) Manuel de Zumaya (1678–1755) Jean-Baptiste Stuck (1680–1755) Johann Mattheson (1681–1764) Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767) Giuseppe Valentini (1681–1753) Paolo Benedetto Bellinzani (1682–1757) Giacobbe Cervetto (1682–1783) Pietro Baldassare (1683after 1768) Christoph Graupner (1683–1760) Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764) François d'Agincourt (1684–1758) François Bouvard (1684–1760) Francesco Durante (1684–1755) Francesco Manfredini (1684–1762) Johann Theodor Roemhildt (1684–1756) Giuseppe Matteo Alberti (1685–1751) Louis-Antoine Dornel (1685–1765) George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel (1685–1764) Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Nicola Porpora (1686–1768) Giovanni Battista Somis (1686–1763) Willem de Fesch (1687–1761) Francesco Geminiani (1687–1762) Johann Georg Pisendel (1687–1755) Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688–1758) Thomas Roseingrave (1688–1766) Jacques Aubert (1689–1753) Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689–1755) Pietro Gnocchi (1689–1775) Francesco Barsanti (1690–1775) Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello (1690–1758) Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin (1690–1768) Fortunato Chelleri (1690–1757) François Colin de Blamont (1690–1760) Giovanni Antonio Giai or Giay, Giaj (1690–1764) Johann Tobias Krebs (1690–1762) Gottlieb Muffat (1690–1770) Jacques-Christophe Naudot (1690–1762) Manuel José de Quirós (1690?–1765) Francesco Maria Veracini (1690–1768) Giovanni Giorgi (1690–1762) Francesco Feo (1691–1761) Jan Francisci (1691–1758) Conrad Friedrich Hurlebusch (1691–1765) Antonio Palella (1692–1761) Giovanni Alberto Ristori (1692–1753) Giuseppe Tartini (1692–1770) Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer (1692–1766) Laurent Belissen (1693–1762) Gregor Joseph Werner (1693–1766) Louis-Claude Daquin (1694–1772) (1694–1762) Pierre-Claude Foucquet (1694–1772) Johan Helmich Roman (1694–1758) Johann Lorenz Bach (1695–1773) Pietro Locatelli (1695–1764) Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault (1695–1791) Ernst Gottlieb Baron (1696–1760) Pierre Février (1696–1760) Maurice Greene (1696–1755) Johann Melchior Molter (1696–1765) Johann Caspar Vogler (1696–1763) Andrea Zani (1696–1757) Josse Boutmy (1697–1779) Cornelius Heinrich Dretzel (1697–1775) Adam Falckenhagen (1697–1754) Johann Christian Hertel (1697/1699–1754) Jean-Marie Leclair l'aîné (1697–1764) Giuseppe de Majo (1697–1771) Giovanni Benedetto Platti (1697–1763) Johann Pfeiffer (1697–1761) Johann Joachim Quantz (1697–1773) Francesco Antonio Vallotti (1697–1780) Pietro Auletta (1698–1771) Riccardo Broschi (1698–1756) François Francoeur (1698–1787) František Jiránek (1698–1778) Nicola Bonifacio Logroscino (1698–1764) (1698–1754) Jean-Baptiste Forqueray le fils (1699–1782) Joseph Gibbs (1699–1788) Johann Adolf Hasse (1699–1783) Juan Francés de Iribarren (1699–1767) Jan Zach (1699–1773) Charles Dollé (fl. 1735–1755; d. after 1755) Mlle Guédon de Presles (c. 1700–1754) Louis Antoine Lefebvre (1700–1763) Michel Blavet (1700–1768) Sebastian Bodinus (1700–1759) Domenico Dall'Oglio (1700–1764) João Rodrigues Esteves (1700–1751) Nicola Fiorenza (after 1700–1764) Jean-Baptiste Masse (c. 1700c. 1756) Giovanni Battista Sammartini (1700–1775) Johan Agrell (1701–1765) François Rebel (1701–1775) Alessandro Besozzi (1702–1775) Johann Ernst Eberlin (1702–1762) José de Nebra (1702–1768) Francisco António de Almeida (1702–1755) John Frederick Lampe (1703–1751) Johann Gottlieb Graun (c. 1703–1771) Jean-Marie Leclair le cadet (the younger) (1703–1777) Carlo Zuccari (1703–1792) Carl Heinrich Graun (1704–1759) Giovanni Battista Pescetti (c. 1704c. 1766) František Tůma (1704–1774) Nicolas Chédeville (1705–1782) Henri-Jacques de Croes (1705–1786) Michael Christian Festing (1705–1752) Louis-Gabriel Guillemain (1705–1770) Johann Peter Kellner (1705–1772) Pancrace Royer (1705–1755) Andrea Bernasconi (c. 1706–1784) Carlo Cecere (1706–1761) Baldassare Galuppi (1706–1785) William Hayes (1706–1777) Giovanni Battista Martini or Padre Martini (1706–1784) Thomas Chilcot (1707–1766) Michel Corrette (1707–1795) Ignacio de Jerusalem (1707–1769) Johann Baptist Georg Neruda (c. 1707c. 1780) Domenico Paradies or Pietro Domenico Paradisi (1707–1791) António Teixeira (1707–1769) Bernard-Aimable Dupuy (1707–1789) Jacques-Philippe Lamoninary (1707–1802) Felix Benda (1708–1768) Egidio Duni (1708–1775) Johann Gottlieb Janitsch (1708–1763) Václav Jan Kopřiva known as Urtica (1708–1789) Georg Reutter (the younger) (1708–1772) Johann Adolph Scheibe (1708–1776) Francesco Araja (1709after 1762) Franz Benda (1709–1786) Jean-Noël Hamal (1709–1778) Franz Xaver Richter (1709–1789) Christoph Schaffrath (1709–1763) Princess Wilhelmine of Prussia (1709–1758) Charles Avison (1709–1770)

Early Classical era/Later Galante era composers (born 1710–1730)

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736) Domenico Alberti (1710–1740) Joseph Abaco, or dall'Abaco (1710–1805) Thomas Arne (1710–1778) Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710–1784) Carlo Graziani (c. 1710–1787) Giuseppe Bonno (1711–1788) William Boyce (1711–1779) Gaetano Latilla (1711–1788) Ignaz Holzbauer (1711–1783) Davide Perez (1711–1778) Barbara of Portugal (1711–1758) Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville (1711–1772) Domènec Terradellas (c. 1711–1751) James Oswald (1711–1769) Frederick the Great (1712–1786) John Hebden (1712–1765) Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) John Christopher Smith (1712–1795) John Stanley (1712–1786) Antoine Dauvergne (1713–1797) Johan Henrik Freithoff (1713–1767) Jean-Baptiste Canavas l'aîné, or Giovanni Battista Canavasso (1713–1784) Luise Adelgunda Gottsched (1713–1762) Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713–1780) Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788) Johan Daniel Berlin (1714–1787) Per Brant (1714–1767) (:sv:Per Brant) Joseph Canavas, or Giuseppe Canavasso (1714–1776) () Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787) Gottfried August Homilius (1714–1785) Niccolò Jommelli (1714–1774) Girolamo Abos (1715–1760) Pasquale Cafaro (1715/1716–1787) Johann Friedrich Doles (1715–1797) John Alcock (1715–1806) Jacques Duphly (1715–1789) (1715–1790) James Nares (1715–1783) Antoine Dard (1715–1784) Georg Christoph Wagenseil (1715–1777) Josef Seger (1716–1782) Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia (1716–1801) Georg Matthias Monn (1717–1750) (1717–1779) Antonio Maria Mazzoni (1717–1785) Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz (1717–1757) Francesco Zappa (1717–1803) Richard Mudge (1718–1763) Wenzel Raimund Birck (1718–1763) (1718–1782) Nicola Conforto (1718–1793) Mlle Duval (1718after 1775) Giuseppe Scarlatti (1718/1723–1777) (c. 1719–1782) Jean Baur (1719–1773) Leopold Mozart (1719–1787) William Walond Sr. (1719–1768)[] Louis-François Joseph Patouart ([]1719 – 1793) Johann Friedrich Agricola (1720–1774) Johann Christoph Altnickol (1720–1759) Christophe Le Menu de Saint Philibert (1720–1774) Carlo Antonio Campioni (1720–1788) Gioacchino Cocchi (1720–1804) Pietro Denis (1720–1790) Bernhard Joachim Hagen (1720–1787) (1720–1781) Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini (1720–1795) Joan Baptista Pla (c. 1720–1773) Louis Aubert (1720–1800) Quirino Gasparini (1721–1778) Matthias Vanden Gheyn (1721–1785) Pieter Hellendaal (1721–1799) Johann Philipp Kirnberger (1721–1783) John Garth (1721–1810) (1722–1756) Johann Ernst Bach II (1722–1777) Georg Anton Benda (1722–1795) Pietro Nardini (1722–1793) Carl Friedrich Abel (1723–1787) Christian Ernst Graf (1723–1804) Anna Amalia Princess of Prussia (1723–1787) Giovanni Marco Rutini (1723–1797) Francesco Uttini (1723–1795) Claude Balbastre (1724–1799) Giovanni Battista Cirri (1724–1808) (1724–1773) Maria Antonia Walpurgis, Princess of Bavaria, Electress of Saxony (1724–1780) Santa della Pietà (fl. 1725–1750, d. after 1774) Rafael Antonio Castellanos (1725–1791) Domenico Fischietti (c. 1725c. 1810) Giovanni Battista Gervasio (c. 1725c. 1785) Antonio Lolli (1725–1802) Johann Becker (1726–1803) Miss Davis (c. 1726after 1755) Karl Kohaut (1726–1784) François-André Danican Philidor (1726–1795) Joseph Starzer (c. 1726–1787) Joseph Anton Steffan, or Josef Antonín Štěpán (1726–1797) Pasquale Anfossi (1727–1797) Pierre Montan Berton (1727–1780) Johann Gottlieb Goldberg (1727–1756) Friedrich Hartmann Graf (1727–1795) Henry Harington (1727–1816) () Johann Wilhelm Hertel (1727–1789) François Martin (1727–1757) Tommaso Traetta (1727–1779) Armand-Louis Couperin (1727–1789) Franz Asplmayr (1728–1786) Michele Stratico (1728–1783) Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi (1728–1804) Johann Adam Hiller (1728–1804) Niccolò Piccinni (1728–1800) Johann Gottfried Müthel (1728–1788) Hermann Raupach (1728–1778) Anton Cajetan Adlgasser (1729–1777) Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729–1774) Francesco Saverio Giai, or Giaj (1729–1801) (, ) Pierre van Maldere (1729–1768) Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny (1729–1817) František Xaver Pokorný (1729–1794) Giuseppe Sarti (1729–1802) Antonio Soler (1729–1783)

Middle Classical era composers (born 1730–1750)

Capel Bond (1730–1790) Pasquale Errichelli (1730–1785) Tommaso Giordani (c. 1730–1806) William Jackson (1730–1803) Antonín Kammel (1730–1784) Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti (1730–1795) (c. 1730–1794) Georg Pasterwitz (1730–1803) Antonio Sacchini (1730–1786) Christian Cannabich (1731–1798) František Xaver Dušek (1731–1799) Elisabetta de Gambarini (1731–1765) Gaetano Pugnani (1731–1798) Théodore-Jean Tarade (1731–1788) (1731–1788) Pierre Vachon (1731–1803) Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732–1795) František Xaver Brixi (1732–1771) Giuseppe Demachi (1732c. 1791) Thomas Erskine, Earl of Kellie (1732–1781) Johann Christian Kittel (1732–1809) Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) Gian Francesco de Majo, or "Ciccio" (1732–1770) Josina van Aerssen, or Josina van Boetzelaer (1733–1787) Thomas Sanders Dupuis (1733–1796) Anton Fils, or Filtz (1733–1760) Johann Christian Fischer (1733–1800) (1733–1778) Hungarian form of Benedek Istvánffy Thomas Linley the elder (1733–1795) Giacomo Tritto (1733–1824) Franz Ignaz Beck (1734–1809) Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet Charpentier (1734–1794) Benjamin Cooke (1734–1793) François-Joseph Gossec (1734–1829) Karl von Ordóñez (1734–1786) Jean-Baptiste Rey (1734–1810) Luka Sorkočević (1734–1789) (1734–1808) Johann Christian Bach (1735–1782) John Bennett (c. 1735–1784) (1735–1801) John Collett (c. 1735?–1775) () Johann Gottfried Eckard (1735–1809) Mme Papavoine (born c. 1735; fl. 1755–61) Anton Schweitzer (1735–1787) Johann Schobert (c. 1735–1767) Ernst Wilhelm Wolf (1735–1792) Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (1736–1809)