Composers
- John Dunstable (1390–1453)
- Guillaume Dufay (1400–1474)
- Thomas Tallis (1505–1585)
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525–1594)
- Michael Praetorius (1571–1621)
- Henry Purcell (1659–1695)
- Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741)
- Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767)
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
- Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757)
- George Frederic Handel (1685–1759)
- Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
- Niccolò Paganini (1782–1840)
- Antonio Rossini (1792–1868)
- Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
- Hector Berlioz (1803–1869)
- Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)
- Frederic Chopin (1810–1849)
- Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
- Franz Liszt (1811–1886)
- Richard Wagner (1813–1883)
- Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1910)
- Anton Bruckner (1824–1896)
- Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
- George Bizet (1838–1875)
- Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
- Antonin Dvořák (1841–1904)
- Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900)
- Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)
- Edward William Elgar (1857–1934)
- Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924)
- Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)
- Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
- Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
- Jean Sibelius (1865–1957)
- Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)
- Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)
- Gustav Holst (1874–1934)
- Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951)
- Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
- Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936)
- Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
- Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953)
- Dimitri Shostakovich (1906–1975)
- Samuel Barber (1910–1981)
- Gian Carlo Menotti (1911–2007)
- John Cage (1912–1992)
- Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)
- Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990)
- Kenneth Leighton (1929–1988)