Chronological list of Italian classical composers

For an alphabetical listing, see List of Italian composers.

Tableau of Italian composers, c. 1790, by Pietro Bettelini (1763–1829)

This is a chronological list of classical music composers from Italy, whose notability is established by reliable sources in other Wikipedia articles.

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Medieval

• Maestro Piero (before 1300 – c. 1350)
• Gherardello da Firenze (c. 1320/1325 – c. 1362)
• Jacopo da Bologna (fl. 1340 – 1360)
• Giovanni da Cascia (Giovanni da Firenze) (14th century)
• Vincenzo da Rimini (14th century)
• Lorenzo da Firenze (Lorenzo Masini) (died 1372/1373)
• Francesco Landini (c. 1325/1335 – 1397)
• Donato da Cascia (fl. c. 1350 – 1370)
• Bartolino da Padova (fl. c. 1365 – c. 1405)
• Niccolò da Perugia (later 14th century)
• Johannes Ciconia (c. 1370 – 1412)
• Antonello da Caserta (late 14th – early 15th century)
• Matteo da Perugia (fl. 1400–1416)

Renaissance

• Zacara da Teramo (c. 1350/1360 – c. 1413/1416)
• Paolo da Firenze (c. 1355 – c. 1436)
• Giovanni Mazzuoli (c. 1360 – 1426)
• Antonio da Cividale (fl. 1392–1421)
• Bartolomeo da Bologna (de Bononia) (fl. 1405–1427)
• Nicolaus Zacharie (c. 1400 – 1466)
• Johannes de Quadris (before 1410 – c. 1457)
• Franchinus Gaffurius (1451–1522)
• Marchetto Cara (c. 1465 – 1525)
• Giacomo Fogliano (1468–1548)
• Michele Pesenti (c. 1470 – after 1524)
• Bartolomeo Tromboncino (c. 1470 – c. 1535)
• Vincenzo Capirola (1474 – after 1548)
• Bartolomeo degli Organi (1474–1539)
• Filippo de Lurano (c. 1475–after 1520)
• Francesco Spinacino (late 15th century – after 1507)
• Costanzo Festa (c. 1485/1490 – 1545)
• Joan Ambrosio Dalza (fl. 1508)
• Gasparo Alberti (c. 1489 – c. 1560)
• Bernardo Pisano (1490–1548)
• Sebastiano Festa (c. 1490/1495 – 1524)
• Francesco de Layolle (dell'Aiolle) (1492 – c. 1540)
• Francesco da Milano (1497–1543)
• Matteo Rampollini (1497–1553)
• Francesco Corteccia (1502–1571)
• Alfonso dalla Viola (1508 – c. 1573)
• Vincenzo Ruffo (c. 1508 – 1587)
• Luigi Dentice (c. 1510 – 1566)
• Giovanni Domenico da Nola (c. 1510 – 1592)
• Claudio Veggio (born c. 1510)
• Domenico Ferrabosco (1513–1574)
• Nicolao Dorati (c. 1513 – 1593)
• Antonio Scandello (1517–1580)
• Gioseffo Zarlino (1517–1590)
• Francesco Cellavenia (fl. 1538–1563)
• Giovanni Animuccia (c. 1520 – 1571)
• Vincenzo Galilei (c. 1520 – 1591)
• Francesco Portinaro (c. 1520 – c. 1578)
• Hoste da Reggio (Bartolomeo Torresano) (c. 1520 – 1569)
• Girolamo Parabosco (c. 1524 – 1577)
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525 – 1594)
• Baldassare Donato (1525/1530 – 1603)
• Ippolito Ciera (fl. 1546 – 1561)
• Annibale Padovano (1527–1575)
• Costanzo Porta (c. 1529 – 1601)
• Giorgio Mainerio (c. 1530/40 – 1582)
• Giammateo Asola (c. 1532 – 1609)
• Andrea Gabrieli (1532/1533 – 1595)
• Claudio Merulo (1533–1604)
• Lodovico Agostini (1534–1590)
• Innocentio Alberti (c. 1535 – 1615)
• Marc'Antonio Ingegneri (c. 1535 – 1592)
• Rocco Rodio (c. 1535 – after 1615)
• Annibale Stabile (c. 1535 – 1595)
• Pietro Taglia (fl. c. 1555 – 1565)
• Filippo Azzaiolo (fl. 1557 – 1569)
• Antonio Valente (fl. 1565 – 1580)
• Alessandro Striggio (c. 1536/1537 – 1592)
• Fabrizio Dentice (c. 1539 – c. 1581)
• Vincenzo Bellavere (c. 1540/1541 – 1587)
• Giovanni Ferretti (c. 1540 – after 1609)
• Stefano Rossetto (fl. 1560–1580)
• Francesco Rovigo (1540/1541 – 1597)
• Gioseppe Caimo (c. 1545 – 1584)
• Luzzasco Luzzaschi (c. 1545 – 1607)
• Giovanni Giacomo de Antiquis (d. 1608)
• Girolamo Dalla Casa (fl. from 1568; died 1601)
• Francesco Soriano (c. 1548 – 1621)
• Orazio Vecchi (1550–1605)
• Benedetto Pallavicino (c. 1551 – 1601)
• Luca Marenzio (c. 1553 – 1599)
• Paolo Bellasio (1554–1594)
• Girolamo Diruta (c. 1554 – after 1610)
• Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi (c. 1554 – 1609)
• Carlo Gesualdo (1566–1613)

Baroque

• Emilio de' Cavalieri (1550–1602)
• Giulio Caccini (1551–1618)
• Paolo Quagliati (c. 1555 – 1628)
• Giovanni Croce (1557–1609)
• Alfonso Fontanelli (1557–1622)
• Giovanni Gabrieli (1557–1612)
• Giovanni Bassano (c. 1558 – 1617)
• Felice Anerio (1560–1614)
• Giulio Belli (c. 1560 – 1621 or later)
• Giovanni Bernardino Nanino (c. 1560 – 1623)
• Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (c. 1560 – 1627)
• Jacopo Peri (1561–1633)
• Ascanio Mayone (c. 1565 – 1627)
• Alessandro Piccinini (1566–1638)
• Giovanni Francesco Anerio (c. 1567 – 1630)
• Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643)
• Adriano Banchieri (1568–1634)
• Bartolomeo Barbarino (c. 1568 – 1617 or later)
• Giovanni Paolo Cima (c. 1570 – 1622)
• Salamone Rossi (c. 1570 – 1630)
• Claudia Sessa (c. 1570 – c. 1617/1619)
• Giovanni Battista Fontana (c. 1571 – c. 1630)
• Giovanni Picchi (1571/1572–1643)
• Cesarina Ricci de Tingoli (born c. 1573, fl. 1597)
• Claudio Pari (1574–after 1619)
• Francesco Rasi (1574–1621)
• Vittoria Aleotti (c. 1575 – after 1620)
• Ignazio Donati (c. 1575 – 1638)
• Michelagnolo Galilei (1575–1631)
• Giovanni Priuli (c. 1575 – 1626)
• Giovanni Maria Trabaci (c. 1575 – 1647)
• Antonio Brunelli (1577–1630)
• Agostino Agazzari (1578–1640)
• Vincenzo Ugolini (c. 1580 – 1638)
• Gregorio Allegri (1582–1652)
• Severo Bonini (1582–1663)
• Marco da Gagliano (1582–1643)
• Sigismondo d'India (c. 1582 – 1629)
• Giovanni Valentini (c. 1582 – 1649)
• Paolo Agostino (c. 1583 – 1629)
• Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643)
• Antonio Cifra (1584–1629)
• Andrea Falconieri (1585/1586–1656)
• Alessandro Grandi (1586–1630)
• Stefano Landi (c. 1586 – 1639)
• Claudio Saracini (1586–1630)
• Francesca Caccini (1587 – c. 1640)
• Francesco Turini (1589–1656)
• Dario Castello (c. 1590 – c. 1658)
• Giovanni Martino Cesare (c. 1590 – 1667)
• Carlo Milanuzzi (c. 1590 – c. 1647)
• Domenico Mazzocchi (1592–1665)
• Francesco Manelli (1594–1667)
• Biagio Marini (1594–1663)
• Tarquinio Merula (1594/1595–1665)
• Antonio Maria Abbatini (c. 1595 – 1680)
• Giovanni Battista Buonamente (c. 1595 – 1642)
• Giovanni Rovetta (c. 1596 – 1668)
• Virgilio Mazzocchi (1597–1646)
• Luigi Rossi (c. 1597 – 1653)
• Giovanni Battista Fasolo (c. 1598–c. 1664/1665)
• Giovanni Felice Sances (c. 1600 – 1679)
• Marco Scacchi (c. 1600 – 1681/1687)
• Michelangelo Rossi (c. 1601 – 1656)
• Francesco Cavalli (1602–1676)
• Marco Marazzoli (c. 1602 – 1662)
• Benedetto Ferrari (c. 1603 – 1681)
• Francesco Foggia (1603–1688)
• Marco Uccellini (1603/1610–1680)
• Orazio Benevoli (1605–1672)
• Antonio Bertali (1605–1669)
• Giacomo Carissimi (1605–1674)
• Francesco Sacrati (1605–1650)
• Giovanni Antonio Rigatti (c. 1613 – 1648)
• Angelo Michele Bartolotti (c. 1615 – 1696)
• Francesco Corbetta (c. 1615 – 1681)
• Maurizio Cazzati (1616–1678)
• Barbara Strozzi (1619–1677)
• Isabella Leonarda (1620–1704)
• Antonio Cesti (1623–1669)
• Bernardo Storace (1637–1707)
• Bernardo Pasquini (1637–1710)
• Jacopo Melani (1623–1676)
• Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli (1624–1687)
• Francesco Provenzale (1624–1704)
• Giovanni Legrenzi (1626–1690)
• Lelio Colista (1629–1680)
• Carlo Pallavicino (c. 1630 – 1688)
• Giovanni Paolo Colonna (1637–1695)
• Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani (1638 – c. 1693)
• Alessandro Melani (1639–1703)
• Alessandro Stradella (1639–1682)
• Cristoforo Caresana (c. 1640 – 1709)
• Paolo Lorenzani (1640–1713)
• Giovanni Maria Bononcini (1642–1678)
• Michelangelo Falvetti (1642–1692)
• Ignazio Albertini (1644–1685)
• Cataldo Amodei (c. 1650 – c. 1695)
• Giovanni Battista Bassani (c. 1650 – 1716)
• Petronio Franceschini (1651–1680)
• Domenico Gabrielli (1651–1690)
• Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1713)
• Carlo Francesco Pollarolo (c. 1653 – 1723)
• Agostino Steffani (1653–1728)
• Marc'Antonio Ziani (c. 1653 – 1715)
• Pietro Antonio Fiocco (1654–1714)
• Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni (1657–1743)
• Giuseppe Torelli (1658–1709)
• Francesco Antonio Pistocchi (1659–1726)
• Antonio Veracini (1659–1745)
• Rosa Giacinta Badalla (c. 1660 – c. 1710)
• Alessandro Scarlatti (1660–1725)
• Ignazio Pollice (fl. 1684–1705)
• Francesco Gasparini (1661–1727)
• Giacomo Antonio Perti (1661–1756)
• Pirro Capacelli Albergati (1663–1735)
• Tomaso Antonio Vitali (1663–1745)
• Filippo Amadei (c. 1665 – c. 1725)
• Giovanni Maria Ruggieri (c. 1665 – c. 1725)
• Attilio Ariosti (1666–1729)
• Francesco Scarlatti (1666 – c. 1741)
• Antonio Lotti (c. 1667 – 1740)
• Alessandro Marcello (1669–1747)
• Giuseppe Avitrano (c. 1670 – 1756)
• Giovanni Bononcini (1670–1747)
• Antonio Caldara (1670–1736)
• Tomaso Albinoni (1671–1751)
• Giuseppe Aldrovandini (1671–1707)
• Azzolino della Ciaja (1671–1755)
• Teodorico Pedrini (1671–1746)
• Carlo Agostino Badia (1672–1738)
• Francesco Antonio Bonporti (1672–1749)
• Francesco Mancini (1672–1737)
• Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco (1675–1742)
• Giovanni Porta (c. 1675 – 1755)
• Giuseppe Maria Orlandini (1676–1760)
• Antonio Maria Bononcini (1677–1726)
• Francesco Nicola Fago (1677–1745)
• Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741)
• Pietro Filippo Scarlatti (1679–1750)
• Emanuele d'Astorga (1681–1736)
• Francesco Bartolomeo Conti (1681–1732)
• Giuseppe Valentini (1681–1753)
• Francesco Manfredini (1684–1762)
• Giuseppe Matteo Alberti (1685–1751)
• Lodovico Giustini (1685–1743)
• Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757)
• Benedetto Marcello (1686–1739)
• Nicola Porpora (1686–1768)
• Giovanni Battista Somis (1686–1763)
• Francesco Geminiani (1687–1762)
• Domenico Zipoli (1688–1726)
• Pietro Baldassare (before 1690 – after 1768)
• Giovanni Antonio Giai (Giay, Giaj) (1690–1764)
• Antonio Vandini (1690–1778)
• Francesco Maria Veracini (1690–1768)
• Leonardo Vinci (c. 1690 – 1730)
• Francesco Feo (1691–1761)
• Geminiano Giacomelli (1692–1740)
• Giovanni Alberto Ristori (1692–1753)
• Giuseppe Tartini (1692–1770)
• Pietro Locatelli (1695–1764)
• Giuseppe Sammartini (1695–1750)
• Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori (1696–1787)
• Pietro Auletta (c. 1698 – 1771)
• Giovanni Giorgi (fl. from 1719; d. 1762)
• Giovanni Zamboni (fl. early 18th century)
• Matteo Zocarini (fl. 1740)
• Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736)

Classical era

• Giovanni Battista Sammartini (c. 1700 – 1775)
• Alessandro Besozzi (1702–1775)
• Andrea Bernasconi (c. 1706 – 1784)
• Baldassare Galuppi (1706–1785)
• Giovanni Battista Martini (Padre Martini) (1706–1784)
• Domenico Alberti (c. 1710 – 1740)
• Giuseppe Bonno (1711–1788)
• Niccolò Jommelli (1714–1774)
• Pasquale Cafaro (1715/1716–1787)
• Nicola Conforto (1718–1793)
• Giuseppe Scarlatti (1718/1723–1777)
• Carlo Antonio Campioni (1720–1788)
• Gioacchino Cocchi (1720–1804)
• Quirino Gasparini (1721–1778)
• Pietro Nardini (1722–1793)
• Giovanni Marco Rutini (1723–1797)
• Francesco Uttini (1723–1795)
• Giovanni Battista Cirri (1724–1724)
• Domenico Fischietti (c. 1725 – c. 1810)
• Antonio Lolli (1725–1802)
• Pasquale Anfossi (1727–1797)
• Tommaso Traetta (1727–1779)
• Niccolò Piccinni (1728–1800)
• Giuseppe Sarti (1729–1802)
• Domenico Gallo (1730 – c. 1768)
• Pasquale Errichelli (1730–1785)
• Antonio Sacchini (1730–1786)
• Gaetano Pugnani (1731–1798)
• Giuseppe Demachi (1732 – c. 1791)
• Gian Francesco de Majo ("Ciccio") (1732–1770)
• Giacomo Tritto (1733–1824)
• Antonio Tozzi (1736–1812)
• Tommaso Giordani (c. 1738 – 1806)
• Anna Bon (di Venezia) (c. 1739 – after 1767)
• Luigi Gatti (1740–1817)
• Giovanni Paisiello (1740–1816)
• Andrea Luchesi (1741–1801)
• Luigi Tomasini (1741–1808)
• Jean Paul Egide Martini (1741–1816)
• Luigi Boccherini (1743–1805)
• Carlo Franchi (c. 1743 – after 1779)
• Giuseppe Gazzaniga (1743–1818)
• Gaetano Brunetti (1744–1798)
• Giuseppe Cambini (1746 – c. 1825)
• Domenico Cimarosa (1749–1801)
• Antonio Salieri (1750–1825)
• Bartolomeo Campagnoli (1751–1827)
• Giuseppe Giordani (Giordanello) (1751–1798)
• Francesco Bianchi (1752–1810)
• Muzio Clementi (1752–1832)
• Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli (1752–1837)
• Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi (1755–1818)
• Giovanni Viotti (1755–1824)
• Vincenzo Righini (1756–1812)
• Alessandro Rolla (1757–1841)
• Luigi Cherubini (1760–1842)
• Angelo Tarchi (1760–1814)
• Domenico Dragonetti (1763–1846)
• Filippo Gragnani (1768–1820)
• Giuseppe Farinelli (1769–1836)

Romantic

• Ferdinando Carulli (1770–1841)
• Gaspare Spontini (1774–1851)
• Mauro Giuliani (1781–1829)
• Carlo Coccia (1782–1873)
• Niccolò Paganini (1782–1840)
• Francesco Morlacchi (1784–1841)
• Pietro Raimondi (1786–1853)
• Luigi Legnani (1790–1877)
• Nicola Vaccai (1790–1848)
• Padre Davide da Bergamo (Felice Moretti) (1791–1863)
• Carlo Evasio Soliva (1791–1853)
• Gioacchino Rossini (1792–1868)
• Saverio Mercadante (1795–1870)
• Giovanni Pacini (1796–1867)
• Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848)
• Antonio Rolla (1798–1837)
• Raimondo Boucheron (1800–1876)
• Vincenzo Bellini (1801–1835)
• Cesare Pugni (1802–1870)
• Alessandro Nini (1805–1880)
• Gaetano Gaspari (1807/1808–1881)
• Federico Ricci (1809–1877)
• Lauro Rossi (1810–1885)
• Errico Petrella (1813–1877)
• Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901)
• Giuseppe Lillo (1814–1863)
• Antonio Buzzolla (1815–1871)
• Temistocle Solera (1815–1878)
• Teodulo Mabellini (1817–1897)
• Carlo Pedrotti (1817–1893)
• Antonio Bazzini (1818–1897)
• Giulio Briccialdi (1818–1881)
• Cesare Ciardi (1818–1877)
• Giovanni Bottesini (1821–1889)
• Giuseppe Apolloni (1822–1889)
• Luigi Arditi (1822–1903)
• Carlo Alfredo Piatti (1822–1901)
• Giulio Regondi (1822–1872)
• Antonio Cagnoni (1828–1896)
• Pietro Platania (1828–1907)
• Gaetano Braga (1829–1907)
• Filippo Marchetti (1831–1902)
• Giuseppe Gariboldi (1833–1905)
• Amilcare Ponchielli (1834–1886)
• Giovanni Bolzoni (1841–1919)
• Arrigo Boito (1842–1918)
• Giovanni Sgambati (1843–1914)
• Luigi Denza (1846–1922)
• Paolo Tosti (1846–1916)
• Riccardo Drigo (1846–1930)
• Ernesto Köhler (1849–1907)
• Antonio Scontrino (1850–1922)
• Alfredo Catalani (1854–1893)
• Vincenzo Valente (1855–1921)
• Giuseppe Martucci (1856–1909)
• Achille Simonetti (1857–1928)
• Ruggero Leoncavallo (1858–1919)
• Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924)
• Pietro Floridia (1860–1932)
• Alberto Franchetti (1860–1942)

Modern/Contemporary

• Marco Enrico Bossi (1861–1925)
• Pietro Mascagni (1863–1945)
• Franco Leoni (1864–1949)
• Alessandro Longo (1864–1945)
• Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924)
• Francesco Cilea (1866–1950)
• Umberto Giordano (1867–1948)
• Vittorio Monti (1868–1922)
• Leone Sinigaglia (1868–1944)
• Lorenzo Perosi (1872–1956)
• Franco Alfano (1875–1954)
• Guido Alberto Fano (1875–1961)
• Italo Montemezzi (1875–1952)
• Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876–1948)
• Stefano Donaudy (1879–1925)
• Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936)
• Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880–1968)
• Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882–1973)
• Alfredo Casella (1883–1947)
• Luigi Russolo (1883–1947)
• Riccardo Zandonai (1883–1944)
• Franco Vittadini (1884–1948)
• Adriano Lualdi (1885–1971)
• Carlo Giorgio Garofalo (1886–1962)
• Pietro Yon (1886–1943)
• Giulia Recli (1890–1970)
• Giorgio Federico Ghedini (1892–1965)
• Elsa Respighi (née Olivieri-Sangiacomo) (1894–1996)
• Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895–1968)
• Aldo Finzi (1897–1945)
• Vittorio Rieti (1898–1994)
• Mario Pilati (1903–1938)
• Luigi Dallapiccola (1904–1975)
• Goffredo Petrassi (1904–2003)
• Giacinto Scelsi (1905–1988)
• Franco Margola (1908–1992)
• Gian Carlo Menotti (1911–2007)
• Nino Rota (1911–1979)
• Giulio Viozzi (1912–1984)
• Riccardo Malipiero (1914–2003)
• Roman Vlad (1919–2013)
• Bruno Maderna (1920–1973)
• Camillo Togni (1922–1993)
• Flavio Testi (1923–2014)
• Franco Mannino (1924–2005)
• Luigi Nono (1924–1990)
• Luciano Berio (1925–2003)
• Aldo Clementi (1925–2011)
• Franco Evangelisti (1926–1980)
• Franco Donatoni (1927–2000)
• Ennio Morricone (1928–2020)
• Antonio Braga (1929–2009)
• Sylvano Bussotti (1931–2021)
• Niccolò Castiglioni (1932–1996)
• Giacomo Manzoni (born 1932)
• Azio Corghi (1937–2022)
• Gian Paolo Chiti (born 1939)
• Salvatore Sciarrino (born 1947)
• Daniele Zanettovich (born 1950)
• Lorenzo Ferrero (born 1951)
• Giorgio Battistelli (born 1953)
• Elisabetta Brusa (born 1954)
• Marco Tutino (born 1954)
• Ludovico Einaudi (born 1955)
• Carlo Pedini (born 1956)
• Piero Niro (born 1957)
• Giulio Castagnoli (born 1958)
• Marco Stroppa (born 1959)
• Fausto Romitelli (1963–2004)
• Federico Maria Sardelli (born 1963)
• Marco Ambrosini (born 1964)
• Marco Betta (born 1964)
• Roberto Carnevale (born 1966)
• Paolo Longo (born 1967)
• Salvatore Di Vittorio (born 1967)
• Giovanni Allevi (born 1969)
• Carlo Forlivesi (born 1971)