Chronological list of Italian classical composers



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

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)