List of Baroque composers

Composers of the Baroque era, ordered by date of birth:

Brief Timeline

Early Baroque era composers (born 1550–1600)

Composers of the Early Baroque era include the following figures listed by the probable or proven date of their birth:

* Giulio Caccini (c. 1545–1618)
* Paolo Quagliati (c. 1555–1628)
* Manuel Rodrigues Coelho (c. 1555–c. 1635)
* Jacques Champion (before 1555–1642)
* Johannes Nucius (c. 1556–1620)
* Alfonso Fontanelli (1557–1622)
* Adriano Banchieri (c. 1557–1634)
* Oratio Bassani (c. 1558–1617)?
* Giovanni Bassano (c. 1558–1617)
* Felice Anerio (c. 1560–1614)
* Giovanni Bernardino Nanino (c. 1560–1623)
* Peter Philips (c. 1560–1628)
* Hieronymus Praetorius (1560–1629)
* William Brade (1560–1630)
* Camillo Lambardi (c. 1560–1634)
* Dario Castello (c. 1560–c. 1640)
* Jacopo Peri (1561–1633)
* Mikołaj Zieleński (? - c. 1616)
* Hans Leo Hassler (1562–1612)
* Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562–1621)
* John Bull (c. 1562–1628)
* John Dowland (1563–1626)
* Jean Titelouze (1563–1633)
* Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (1564–1627)
* Sebastian Aguilera de Heredia (1565–1627)
* Ascanio Mayone (1565–1627)
* Giles Farnaby (1565–1640)
* Duarte Lobo (c. 1565–1647)
* Alessandro Piccinini (1566–1638)
* Manuel Cardoso (1566–1650)
* Lucia Quinciani (born c. 1566, "fl." 1611)
* Thomas Campion (1567–1620)
* Giovanni Francesco Anerio (1567–1630)
* Christoph Demantius (1567–1643)
* Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643)
* Bartolomeo Barbarino (c. 1568–1617 or later)
* Christian Erbach (1568/1573–1635)
* Joan Baptista Comes (1568–1643)
* Tobias Hume (1569–1645)
* Giovanni Paolo Cima (1570–1622)
* Alfonso Ferrabosco (II) (c. 1570–1628)
* Salamone Rossi (1570–c. 1630)
* Bartolme de Selma (1570–1638)
* Francis Pilkington (c. 1570–1638)
* Claudia Sessa (c. 1570–between 1613 and 1619)
* Michael Praetorius (c. 1571–1621)
* Thomas Lupo (1571–1627)
* John Ward (1571–1638)
* Giovanni Picchi (1571/1572–1643)
* Filipe de Magalhães (1571–1652)
* Daniel Bacheler (1572–1618)
* Thomas Tomkins (1572–1656)
* Cesarina Ricci (born c. 1573, "fl." 1597)
* Joan Pau Pujol (c. 1573–1626)
* Claudio Pari (1574–after 1619)
* John Wilbye (1574–1638)
* William Simmes (c. 1575–c. 1625)
* John Coprario (c. 1575–1626)
* Alessandro Grandi (c. 1575–1630)
* Esteban López Morago (c. 1575–after 1630)
* Ignazio Donati (c. 1575–1638)
* Estêvão de Brito (1575–1641)
* Matheo Romero (c. 1575–1647)
* Giovanni Maria Trabaci (c. 1575–1647)
* Ennemond Gaultier (1575–1651)
* Giovanni Priuli ((c. 1575–1626)
* Francisco Correa de Arauxo (c. 1575–1654)
* Vittoria Aleotti (c. 1575–after 1620)
* Michelagnolo Galilei (1575–1631)
* Thomas Weelkes (1576–1623)
* Agostino Agazzari (1578–1640)
* Melchior Franck (1579–1639)
* Michael East (1580–1648)
* Thomas Ford (c. 1580–1648)
* Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger (c. 1580–1651)
* Jacques Cordier (c. 1580–before 1655)
* Caterina Assandra (1580–1632)
* Adreana Basile (c. 1580–c. 1640)
* Thomas Simpson (1582–1628)
* Sigismondo d'India (c. 1582–1629)
* Marco da Gagliano (1582–1643)
* Giovanni Valentini (1582–1649)
* Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1582–1648)
* Gregorio Allegri (1582–1652)
* Severo Bonini (1582–1663)
* Orlando Gibbons (1583–1625)
* Paolo Agostino (Agostini) (c. 1583–1629)
* Robert Johnson (c. 1583–1633)
* Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643)
* Antonio Cifra (1584–1629)
* Nicolò Corradini (c. 1585–1646)
* Manuel Machado (c. 1585-1646)
* Andrea Falconieri (c. 1585–1656)
* Heinrich Schütz (1585–1672)
* Johann Schein (1586–1630)
* Stefano Landi (1586 or 1587–1639)
* Antoine Boësset (1586–1643)
* Claudio Saracini (1586–1649)
* Francesca Caccini (1587–c. 1640)
* Samuel Scheidt (1587–1654)
* Johann Andreas Herbst (1588–1666)
* Guillielmus Messaus (1589–1640)
* Francesco Turini (1589–1656)
* Thomas Robinson (c. 1560–after 1609)
* Adam Jarzębski (c. 1590 - c. 1648)
* Nicholas Strogers ("fl." c. 1590–1620)
* Juan Gutierrez de Padilla (c. 1590–1664)
* Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana (1590–1662)
* Settimia Caccini (1591–1638?)
* Richard Allison ("fl." 1592–1606)
* Jacques Gaultier (c. 1592–after 1652)
* John Jenkins (1592–1678)
* Claudia Rusca (1593–1676)
* Tarquinio Merula (c. 1594–1665)
* Giovanni Battista Buonamente (1595–1642)
* Heinrich Scheidemann (c. 1595–1663)
* Biagio Marini (c. 1595–1665)
* Henry Lawes (1596–1662)
* Giovanni Rovetta (c. 1596–1668)
* Luigi Rossi (1597–1653)
* Johann Crüger (1598–1662)
* Charles Racquet (1598–1664)
* Thomas Selle (1599–1663)
* Sulpitia Cesis ("fl." 1619)
* Marcantonio Negri (15??–1624)
* Abundio Antonelli (15??–1629)
* Giovanni Battista Fontana (15??–1630)
* Juan Aranés (15??–c. 1649)
* Daniel Farrant (????–before 1663)
* William Young (????–1672)
* August Verdufen (????–16??)
* Giuseppe Scarani (15??–16??)

Middle Baroque era composers (born 1600–1650)

Composers of the Middle Baroque era include the following figures listed by the date of their birth:

* Martino Pesenti (c. 1600–c. 1648)
* Marcin Mielczewski (c. 1600–1651)
* Manuel Correia (c. 1600-1653)
* Simon Ives (1600–1662)
* John O'Keover (c. 1600–c. 1663)
* Giovanni Battista Fasolo (c. 1600–1664)
* Étienne Moulinié (1600–1669)
* Denis Gaultier (1600–1672)
* Nicolaus à Kempis‎ (c. 1600–1676)
* Jacques Champion de Chambonnières (1601 or 1602–1672)
* Girolamo Fantini (1602–?)
* William Lawes (1602–1645)
* Pietro Francesco Cavalli (1602–1676)
* Chiara Margarita Cozzolani (1602–1678)
* Alba Trissina ("fl." 1622)
* Caspar Kittel (1603–1639)
* John IV of Portugal (1603–1656)
* Marco Uccellini (1603–1680)
* François Du Fault (1604–1670)
* Francesco Foggia (1604–1688)
* Christopher Simpson (c. 1605–1669)
* Charles d'Assoucy (1605–1670)
* Giacomo Carissimi (1605–1674)
* Philipp Friedrich Boddecker (1607–1683)
* Giovanno Battista Riccio ("fl." 1609–1621)
* Joao Lourenco Rebelo (1610–1661)
* Nicolas Hotman (c. 1610–1663)
* Nicolas Métru (1610–after 1663)
* Luigi Battiferri (1610–1682)
* Henri Du Mont (1610–1684)
* Michel Lambert (1610–1696)
* Leonora Duarte (1610–1678)
* Andreas Hammerschmidt (1611 or 1612–1675)
* Pablo Bruna (1611–1679)
* Leonora Baroni (1611–1670)
* Francisco Lopez Capillas (1612–1673)
* Louis de Mollier (c. 1613–1688)
* Sophie Elisabeth, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1613–1676)
* Marc'Antonio Pasqualini (1614–1691)
* Nicolo Borboni (fl.1614–1641)
* Franz Tunder (1614–1667)
* Carlo Caproli (c. 1615–c. 1692)
* Angiolo Michele Bartolotti (c. 1615–1696)
* Johann Jakob Froberger (1616–1667)
* Matthias Weckmann (c. 1616–1674)
* Joan Cererols (1618–1680)
* José Marín (1618–1699)
* Barbara Strozzi (1619–1677)
* Juan García de Zéspedes (1619–1678)
* Johann Rosenmüller (1619–1683)
* Anthoni van Noordt (1620–1675)
* Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (c. 1620–1680)
* Francisco Martins (1620-1680)
* Filipe da Madre de Deus (c.1620-c.1690)
* Isabella Leonarda (1620–1704)
* Mlle Bocquet (early 17th century–after 1660)
* Matthew Locke (c. 1621–1677)
* Jean Lacquemant (c. 1622–1680)
* Antonio Cesti (1623–1669)
* Dietrich Becker (1623–1679)
* Jan Adam Reincken (1623–1722)
* François Roberday (1624–1680)
* Jacques Gallot (c. 1625–1696)
* Wolfgang Carl Briegel (1626-1712)
* Louis Couperin (c. 1626–1661)
* Charles Mouton (1626–1710)
* Robert Cambert (c. 1627–1677)
* Nicolas Gigault (1627–1680)
* Johann Caspar Kerll (1627–1693)
* Paul Hainlein (1628–1686)
* Christoph Bernhard (1628–1692)
* Lelio Colista (1629–1680)
* Jean-Henri d'Anglebert (1629–1691)
* Johann Michael Nicolai (1629–1685)
* Lady Mary Dering (1629–1704)
* Nicolas Antoine Lebègue (1630–1702)
* Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe (c. 1630–c. 1700)
* Francesca Campana (died 1665)
* Sebastian Anton Scherer (1631–1712)
* Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632–1687)
* Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers (1632–1714)
* Andres de Sola (1634–1696)
* Pietro Simone Agostini (c. 1635–1680)
* Jacek Różycki (c. 1635-1704)
* Johann Wilhelm Furchheim (c. 1635–1682)
* Esaias Reusner (1636–1679)
* Dieterich Buxtehude (1637–1707)
* Bernardo Pasquini (1637–1710)
* Diogo Dias Melgás (1638–1700)
* Johann Christoph Pezel (1639–1694)
* António Marques Lésbio (1639-1709)
* Pavel Josef Vejvanovský (1640–1693)
* Amalia Catharina (1640–1697)
* Carolus Hacquart (1640–1701)
* Giovanni Battista Draghi (1640–1708)
* Gaspar Sanz (1640–c. 1710)
* Paolo Lorenzani (1640–1713)
* André Raison (c. 1640–1719)
* Pedro de Araújo (1640-1705)
* Antonia Bembo (c. 1640–1720)
* Esther Elizabeth Velkiers (born 1640)
* Johann Christoph Bach (1642–1703)
* Marc-Antoine Charpentier (c. 1643–1704)
* Johann Anton Losy van Losymthal (c. 1643–1721)
* Alessandro Stradella (1644–1682)
* Ignazio Albertini (1644–1685)
* Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644–1704)
* Joan Baptista Cabanilles (1644–1712)
* Maria Cattarina Calegari (1644–1675)
* Johann Georg Conradi (1645-1699)
* August Kühnel (1645–c. 1700)
* Christian Ritter (c. 1645–c. 1725)
* Marieta Morosina Priuli ("fl." 1665)
* Juan de Araujo (1646–1712)
* Rupert Ignaz Mayr (1646-1712)
* René Pignon Descoteaux (c. 1646–1728)
* Giovanni Maria Capelli (1648–1726)
* John Blow (1649–1708)
* Pascal Collasse (1649–1709)
* Francisco Guerau (c. 1649–c. 1722)
* Bernardo Clavijo del Castillo ("fl." c. 1650–c. 1700)
* Bernardo Gianoncelli ("fl." c. 1650)
* Bernardo Storace (1637–1707)
* Gervise Gerrard (16??–16??)
* Friedrich Klingenberg (16??–17??)
* Bartholomäus Aich (17th century, "fl." 1648)
* Bartłomiej Pękiel (16?? - c. 1670)

Late Baroque era composers (born 1650–1700)

Composers of the Late Baroque era include the following figures listed by the date of their birth:

* Petronio Franceschini (1650–1680)
* Cataldo Amodei (1650–1695)
* Christian Geist (c. 1650–1711)
* Antonio de Salazar (c. 1650–1715)
* Johann Jacob Walther (1650–1717)
* Robert de Visee (c. 1650–c. 1725)
* Pietro Torri (1650–1737)
* Domenico Gabrielli (1651–1690)
* Johann Krieger (1651–1735)
* Georg Muffat (1653–1704)
* Johann Pachelbel (1653–1706)
* Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1713)
* Carlo Francesco Pollarolo (c. 1653–1723)
* Pablo Nassarre (1654–1730)
* Vincent Lübeck (1654–1740)
* Sébastien de Brossard (1655–1730)
* Johann Paul von Westhoff (1656–1705)
* Marin Marais (1656–1728)
* Georg Reutter (1656–1738)
* Giovanni Battista Bassani (c. 1657–1716)
* Michel-Richard de Lalande (1657–1726)
* Gaetano Greco (c. 1657–c. 1728)
* Giuseppe Torelli (1658–1709)
* Maria Francesca Nascinbeni (born 1658, "fl." 1674)
* Henry Purcell (1659?–1695)
* Francesco Antonio Pistocchi (1659-1726)
* Antonio Veracini (1659–1745)
* Sainte-Colombe the younger (16??–17??)
* Sybrant Van Noordt, Jr. (1660–1705)
* Rosa Giacinta Badalla (1660–1710)
* Johann Schenck (1660–c. 1712)
* Damian Stachowicz (c. 1660 - 1699)
* Sebastian Duron (1660–1716)
* Christian Friedrich Witt (c. 1660–1716)
* Johann Kuhnau (1660–1722)
* Alessandro Scarlatti (1660–1725)
* Gottfried Finger (1660–1730)
* Johann Joseph Fux (1660–1741)
* André Campra (1660–1744)
* Francesco Gasparini (1661–1727)
* Georg Böhm (1661–1733)
* Giacomo Antonio Perti (1661–1756)
* Angiola Teresa Moratori Scanabecchi (1662–1708)
* Friedrich Wilhelm Zachau (1663–1712)
* Pirro Capacelli Albergati (1663–1735)
* Nicolas Siret (1663–1754)
* Johann Speth (1664–1after 1719)
* Louis Lully (sometimes de Lully) (1664–1734)
* Nicolaus Bruhns (1665–1697)
* Johann Nicolaus Hanff (1665–c. 1712)
* Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665–1729)
* Jean-Baptiste Lully (sometimes de Lully) (the younger) (1665–1743)
* Francesc Valls (1665–1747)
* Domenico Zanatta (c. 1665–1748)
* Johann Heinrich Buttstedt (1666–1727)
* Attilio Ariosti (1666–1729?)
* Jean-Féry Rebel (1666–1747)
* Bernardo Tonini (c. 1666–1after 1727)
* Jean-Louis Lully (sometimes de Lully) (1667–1688)
* Michel Pignolet de Montéclair (1667–1737)
* Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki (c. 1667-1734)
* Antonio Lotti (c. 1667–1740)
* François Couperin (1668–1733)
* Giorgio Gentili (c. 1668–1after 1731)
* Louis Marchand (1669–1732)
* Alessandro Marcello (1669–1747)
* Andreas Armsdorff (1670–1699)
* Antonio Caldara (1670–1736)
* Turlough Ó Carolan (1670–1738)
* Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (c. 1670–1746)
* Giovanni Bononcini (1670–1747)
* Richard Leveridge (c. 1670–1758)
* Louis de Caix d'Hervelois (1670–1759)
* Tomaso Albinoni (1671–1751) or (1674–1745)
* Antoine Forqueray (1671–1745)
* Nicolas de Grigny (1672–1703)
* Georg Caspar Schürmann (1672 or 1673-1751)
* Jeremiah Clarke (1674–1707)
* Reinhard Keiser (1674–1739)
* Pierre Dumage (1674–1751)
* Jacques-Martin Hotteterre (1674–1763)
* Domenico Dalla Bella ("fl." early 18th century, Venice)
* Michel de la Barre (1675–1743)
* Francesco Venturini (c. 1675–1745)
* Johann Bernhard Bach (1676–1749)
* Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676–1749)
* Johann Ludwig Bach (1677–1731)
* Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741)
* Ferdinando Antonio Lazzari (1678–1754)
* Manuel de Sumaya (1678-1755)
* Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679–1745)
* Pietro Filippo Scarlatti (1679–1750)
* Jean-Baptiste Loeillet (of London) (1680–1730)
* Giuseppe Fedeli aka Joseph Saggione (c. 1680–c. 1745)
* William Corbett (1680–1748)
* Louis-Antoine Dornel (c. 1680–1after 1756)
* Françoise-Charlotte de Senneterre Ménétou (born 1680, "fl." 1691)
* Michielina Della Pietà ("fl." c. 1701–1744)
* Johann Mattheson (1681–1764)
* Giovanni Reali (c. 1681–1after 1727)
* Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767)
* Giuseppe Valentini (1681–1753)
* Jean-Joseph Mouret (1682–1738)
* Giovanni Francesco di Caspará (1682-1777)
* Jean-François Dandrieu (1682–1738)
* Johann David Heinichen (1683–1729)
* Jean Philippe Rameau (1683–1764)
* Johann Gottfried Walther (1684–1748)
* François d'Agincourt (1684–1758)
* Peter Ludwig Biermann (also Pietro Ludovico Bermagno) (1684-1776)
* Lodovico Giustini (1685–1743)
* Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
* Giuseppi Matteo Alberti (1685–1751)
* Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757)
* George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)
* Jacques Loeillet (1685–1748)
* William Hieronymous Pachelbel (1685–1764)
* Benedetto Marcello (1686–1739)
* Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1686–1750)
* Nicola Porpora (1686–1768)
* Johann Georg Pisendel (1687–1755)
* Francesco Geminiani (1687–1762)
* Camilla de Rossi ("fl." 1707–1710)
* Fortunato Chelleri (1688–1757)
* Jean-Baptiste Loeillet de Ghent (or 'of Ghent') (1688–1720)
* Jacques Aubert (1689–1753)
* Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689–1755)
* Pietro Gnocchi (1689–1775)
* Robert Woodcock (1690–1728)
* Jacques-Christophe Naudot (c. 1690–1762)
* Pietro Baldassare (before 1690-after 1768)
* Pierre-Gabriel Buffardin (1690–1768)
* Francesco Maria Veracini (1690–1768)
* Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (1690–1749)
* Francesco Barsanti (1690–1772)
* Charles Theodore Pachelbel (1690–1750)
* Gottlieb Muffat (1690–1770)
* Julie Pinel ("fl." 1710–1737)
* Sieur de Machy (16??–1after 1692)
* Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer (1692–1766)
* Giuseppe Tartini (1692–1770)
* Pietro Locatelli (1693–1764)
* Johan Helmich Roman (1694–1758)
* Giuseppe Sammartini (1695–1750)
* Louis-Claude Daquin (1694–1772)
* Mrs Philarmonica ("fl." 1715)
* Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault (1695–1791)
* Maurice Greene (1696] –1755)
* Andrea Zani (1696–1757)
* Pierre Fevrier (1696–1764)
* Konrad Friedrich Hurlebusch (1696–1765)
* Johann Melchior Molter (1696–1765)
* Jean-Marie Leclair (1697–1764)
* Adam Falckenhagen (1697–1761)
* Jean-Marie Leclair the younger (1703-1777)
* Johann Joachim Quantz (1697–1773)
* Riccardo Broschi (1698–1756)
* François Francoeur (1698–1787)
* Joseph Gibbs (1698–1788)
* Johann Adolph Hasse (1699–1783)
* John Baston ("fl." c. 1700)
* Cesare Bendinelli ("fl." c. 1700)
* Gaspard Le Roux (?–1707)
* Nicola Matteis (?–1714)
* Pieter Bustijn (?–1729)
* Charles Dollé (16??–1after 1755)
* Benoit Guillemant (?–17??)
* Gottfried Lindemann (?–17??)
* Giovanni Zamboni ("fl." early 18th c.)
* Stanisław Sylwester Szarzyński (16??-17??)

Baroque era/Classical era transition composers ( born 1700 and after)

Composers of the Baroque/Classical era transition include the following figures listed by the date of their birth:

* Caterina Benedicta Grazianini ("fl." early 18th century)
* Maria Margherita Grimani ("fl." early 18th century)
* Jean-Baptiste Masse (c. 1700 - c. 1756)
* Sebastian Bodinus (c. 1700 - 1759)
* Michel Blavet (1700 - 1768)
* Obadiah Shuttleworth ("fl." 1700 - d.1734)
* Johan Agrell (1701 - 1765)
* Jean-Fery Rebel (the younger) (1701 - 1775)
* Giovanni Battista Sammartini (1701 - 1775)
* Johann Ernst Eberlin (1702 - 1762)
* José de Nebra (1702-1768)
* Johann Gottlieb Graun (c. 1702 - 1771)
* Carl Heinrich Graun (c. 1703 - 1759)
* Rosanna Scalfi Marcello ("fl." 1723 – 1742)
* Carlos Seixas (1704 - 1742)
* Giovanni Battista Pescetti (c. 1704 - c. 1766)
* Louis-Gabriel Guillemain (1705-1770)
* Santa Della Pietà ("fl." c. 1725 – 1750, d. after 1774)
* Carlo Cecere (1706-1761)
* Baldassare Galuppi (1706 - 1785)
* Georg Reutter (1708 - 1772)
* Christoph Schaffrath (1709 - 1763)
* Charles Avison (1709 - 1770)
* Michel Corrette (1709 - 1795)
* Wilhelmina (1709–1758)
* Mlle Guédon de Presles (early 18th century–1754)
* Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710 - 1736)
* Domenico Alberti (1710 - 1740)
* Thomas Arne (1710 - 1778)
* Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710 – 1784)
* William Boyce (1711 - 1779)
* Barbara of Portugal (1711 – 1758)
* Frederick the Great (1712 - 1786)
* Elisabeth de Haulteterre ("fl." 1737 – 1768)

ee also

*List of Classical composers
*List of Renaissance composers, as there is considerable overlap near the beginning of the Baroque era