Composers

108 composers across the classical piano canon

Baroque (13)

1685–1750 · German · 296 works

1710–1784 · German · 47 works

Dieterich Buxtehude

1637–1707 · Danish-German · 66 works

Francois Couperin

1668–1733 · French · 36 works

1626–1661 · French · 75 works

Girolamo Frescobaldi

1583–1643 · Italian · 93 works

Johann Jakob Froberger

1616–1667 · German · 64 works

George Frideric Handel

1685–1759 · German-British · 59 works

Johann Pachelbel

1653–1706 · German · 64 works

1659–1695 · English · 17 works

Jean-Philippe Rameau

1683–1764 · French · 63 works

Domenico Scarlatti

1685–1757 · Italian · 61 works

Georg Philipp Telemann

1681–1767 · German · 42 works

Classical (13)

1714–1788 · German · 58 works

Johann Christian Bach

1735–1782 · German · 31 works

Ludwig van Beethoven

1770–1827 · German · 150 works

1752–1832 · Italian-British · 58 works

1791–1857 · Austrian · 152 works

1781–1858 · Austrian · 121 works

Jan Ladislav Dussek

1760–1812 · Bohemian · 44 works

1732–1809 · Austrian · 54 works

Johann Nepomuk Hummel

1778–1837 · Austrian · 99 works

Friedrich Kuhlau

1786–1832 · German-Danish · 167 works

Ignaz Moscheles

1794–1870 · Bohemian-German · 45 works

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

1756–1791 · Austrian · 146 works

1773–1812 · Austrian · 55 works

Romantic (34)

1860–1909 · Spanish · 88 works

1837–1910 · Russian · 43 works

1867–1944 · American · 55 works

Johannes Brahms

1833–1897 · German · 105 works

Friedrich Burgmüller

1806–1874 · German · 88 works

Ferruccio Busoni

1866–1924 · Italian-German · 94 works

Emmanuel Chabrier

1841–1894 · French · 23 works

Frederic Chopin

1810–1849 · Polish · 188 works

Ernst von Dohnányi

1877–1960 · Hungarian · 47 works

Antonín Dvořák

1841–1904 · Czech · 137 works

1845–1924 · French · 58 works

1782–1837 · Irish · 30 works

1822–1890 · Belgian-French · 54 works

Leopold Godowsky

1870–1938 · Polish-American · 118 works

Louis Moreau Gottschalk

1829–1869 · American · 129 works

Enrique Granados

1867–1916 · Spanish · 94 works

1843–1907 · Norwegian · 136 works

1813–1888 · Hungarian-French · 104 works

1868–1917 · American · 43 works

1811–1886 · Hungarian · 128 works

Edward MacDowell

1860–1908 · American · 50 works

Nikolai Medtner

1880–1951 · Russian · 68 works

Felix Mendelssohn

1809–1847 · German · 69 works

Modest Mussorgsky

1839–1881 · Russian · 28 works

Sergei Rachmaninoff

1873–1943 · Russian · 131 works

Camille Saint-Saens

1835–1921 · French · 66 works

1797–1828 · Austrian · 115 works

1819–1896 · German · 34 works

Robert Schumann

1810–1856 · German · 167 works

1865–1957 · Finnish · 139 works

Bedřich Smetana

1824–1884 · Czech · 104 works

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

1840–1893 · Russian · 101 works

Sigismond Thalberg

1812–1871 · Swiss-Austrian · 94 works

Carl Maria von Weber

1786–1826 · German · 52 works

Impressionist (2)

1862–1918 · French · 82 works

1875–1937 · French · 44 works

Modern (28)

1910–1981 · American · 18 works

1881–1945 · Hungarian · 119 works

1885–1935 · Austrian · 23 works

1900–1990 · American · 24 works

Manuel de Falla

1876–1946 · Spanish · 11 works

George Gershwin

1898–1937 · American · 34 works

Alberto Ginastera

1916–1983 · Argentine · 35 works

1882–1961 · Australian · 9 works

1895–1963 · German · 49 works

Leoš Janáček

1854–1928 · Czech · 69 works

Dmitri Kabalevsky

1904–1987 · Russian · 33 works

Aram Khachaturian

1903–1978 · Armenian-Soviet · 33 works

Ernesto Lecuona

1895–1963 · Cuban · 46 works

Olivier Messiaen

1908–1992 · French · 54 works

1892–1974 · French · 37 works

Federico Mompou

1893–1987 · Spanish · 99 works

Francis Poulenc

1899–1963 · French · 39 works

1887–1953 · American · 102 works

Sergei Prokofiev

1891–1953 · Russian · 128 works

1866–1925 · French · 97 works

Arnold Schoenberg

1874–1951 · Austrian · 70 works

Alexander Scriabin

1872–1915 · Russian · 139 works

Dmitri Shostakovich

1906–1975 · Russian · 78 works

Igor Stravinsky

1882–1971 · Russian · 24 works

Germaine Tailleferre

1892–1983 · French · 26 works

Joaquín Turina

1882–1949 · Spanish · 18 works

Heitor Villa-Lobos

1887–1959 · Brazilian · 30 works

1883–1945 · Austrian · 9 works

Contemporary (18)

1947 · American · 11 works

1938 · American · 44 works

1925–2016 · French · 19 works

1929–2022 · American · 37 works

Henri Dutilleux

1916–2013 · French · 30 works

1937 · American · 34 works

Sofia Gubaidulina

1931 · Russian · 20 works

1949 · American · 12 works

Nikolai Kapustin

1937–2020 · Ukrainian · 18 works

1926 · Hungarian · 22 works

1923–2006 · Hungarian-Austrian · 35 works

Conlon Nancarrow

1912–1997 · American-Mexican · 60 works

1935 · Estonian · 11 works

Astor Piazzolla

1921–1992 · Argentine · 36 works

Frederic Rzewski

1938–2021 · American · 7 works

Alfred Schnittke

1934–1998 · Russian · 5 works

1930–1996 · Japanese · 13 works

Galina Ustvolskaya

1919–2006 · Russian · 19 works

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