Some Opera Writers
Italian
Claudio Merulo (1533–1604) (Madrigal Play)
Vincenzo Galilei (1533–1591)
Giulio Caccini (1546–1618)
Emilio del Cavalieri (1550–1602)
Jacopo Perti (1561–1633)
Claudio Monteverde (1567–1643)
Francesco Manelli (1595–1670)
Benedetto Ferrari (1597–1681)
Francesco Cavalli (1602–1676)
Giacomo Carissimi (1604–1674)
Marc Antonio Cesti (1620–1669)
Giovanni Legrenzi (1625–1690)
Domenico Gabrieli (1640–1690)
Alessandro Stradella (1645–1681)
Alessandro Scarlatti (1659–1725)
Jacopo Antonio Perti (1661–1756)
Attilio Ariosti (1666–1740)
Antonio Lotti (1667–1740)
Giuseppe Porsile (1672–1750)
Marc Antonio Buononcini (1675?–1726)
Antonio Caldara (1678?–1736)
Niccolo Antonio Porpora (1686–1766)
Leonardo Vinci (1690–1730)
Leonardo Leo (1694–1744)
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736)
Nicola Jommelli (1714–1774)
Nicolo Piccinni (1728–1800)
Giuseppe Sarti (1729–1802)
Antonio Sacchini (1734–1786)
Giovanni Paisiello (1741–1816)
Domenico Cimarosa (1749–1801)
Antonio Salieri (1750–1825)
Niccolo Vaccai (1790–1848)
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (1792–1868)
G. Saverio Mercadante (1795–1870)
Giovanni Pacini (1796–1867)
Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848)
Vincenzo Bellini (1801–1835)
Errico Petrella (1813–1877)
Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901)
Carlo Perdrotti (1817–1893)
Alberto Randegger (1833–1911)
Amilcare Ponchielli (1834–1886)
Filippo Marchetti (1835–1902)
Arrigo Boito (1842–1918)
Luigi Mancinelli (1848–1921)
Niccolo Ravera (1851)
Alfredo Catalani (1854–1893)
Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924)
Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1858–1919)
Sylvio Lazzari (1858) (Living in Paris)
Alberto Franchetti (1860)
Pietro Mascagni (1863)
Franco Leoni (1864)
Crescenzo Buongiorno (1864–1903)
Giacomo Orefice (1865–1923)
Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924)
Francesco Cilèa (1866)
Umberto Giordano (1867)
Giovanni Gianetti (1869)
Antonio Luzzi (1873)
Italo Montemezzi (1875)
Domenico Monleone (1875)
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876)
Franco Alfano (1877)
Stefano Donaudy (1879)
Ottorino Respighi (1879)
Alberto Iginio Randegger (Austrian) (1880–1918)
Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880)
G. Francesco Malipiero (1882)
Giuseppe Gino Marinuzzi (1882)
Riccardo Zandonai (1883)
Francesco Santoliquido (1883)
Adriano Lualdi (1887)
Vincenzo Davico (1889)
Ettore Lucatello (?)
Victor de Sabata (1892)
Spanish
Salvador Giner (1832–1911)
Felipe Pedrell (1841–1922)
Tomas Breton y Hernandez (1850)
Amedeo Vives (?)
Costa Nogueras (?)
Isaac Albeniz (1861–1909)
Enrique Granados (1867–1916)
Manuel de Falla (1876)
Joan Manen (1883)
Maria Rodrigo (1888)
South America
Carlos Gomez (Brazilian) (1839–1896)
José Valle-Riestra (Peruvian) (1859)
Antonio Berutti (Argentine) (1862)
French
Robert Cambert (1628–1679) (Wrote with Perrin)
Jean Batiste Lully (Italian) (1632–1687)
Pascal Colasse (1649–1709)
Marin Marais (1656–1728)
André Campra (1660–1744)
André Destouches (1672–1749)
Jean Philippe Rameau (1683–1764)
Egidio Romualdo Duni (Italian) (1709–1775)
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
François André Danican Philidor (1726–1795)
Pierre Berton (1727–1780)
Pierre Alexandre Monsigny (1729–1817)
François Joseph Gossec (1743–1829)
André Ernest Modeste Grétry (1741–1813)
Luigi Cherubini (Italian) (1760–1842)
Jean François Lesueur (1760–1837)
Étienne Henri Méhul (1763–1822)
Gasparo Luigi Pacifico Spontini (Italian) (1774–1851)
François Adrien Boieldieu (1775–1834)
Nicolo Isouard (1775–1818)
Daniel François Esprit Auber (1782–1871)
Louis Joseph Ferdinand Hérold (1791–1833)
Jacques F. F. E. Halevy (1799–1862)
Adolphe Adam (1803–1856)
Hector Berlioz (1803–1869)
Napoleon Henri Reber (1807–1880)
Félicien C. David (1810–1876)
Ambroise Thomas (1811–1896)
Louis Lacombe (1818–1884)
Charles François Gounod (1818–1893)
Jacques Offenbach (German) (1819–1880)
Victor Massé (1822–1884)
Edouard Lalo (1823–1892)
Louis Ernest Reyer (1823–1909)
Florimond Ronger Hervé (1825–1892)
Alexandre Charles Lecocq (1832–1918)
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)
Ernest Guiraud (American) (1837–1892) (Born in New Orleans)
Théodore Dubois (1837–1924)
Georges Bizet (1838–1875)
Clément P. Léo Délibes (1839–1891)
Félix Victorin de Joncières (1839–1903)
Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–1894)
Jules Massenet (1842–1912)
Emile Paladilhe (1844)
Joseph Arthur Coquard (1846–1910)
Robert Planquette (1848–1903)
Benjamin Godard (1849–1895)
Augusta Holmès (British) (1849–1903)
François Thomé (1850–1905)
Alexandre Georges (1850)
Vincent d’Indy (1851)
Hillemacher Frères (Brothers) Paul (1852) Lucien (1860–1909)
Raoul Pugno (1852–1914)
Andre Messager (1853)
Samuel A. Rousseau (1853–1904)
Ernest Chausson (1855–1899)
Alfred Bruneau (1857)
Georges Hüe (1858)
Gustave Charpentier (1860)
Gabriella Ferrari (1860)
Pierre de Bréville (1861)
Claude Achille Debussy (1862–1918)
Xavier Leroux (1863–1919)
Camille Erlanger (1863–1919)
Gabriel Pierné (1863)
Paul Vidal (1863)
Alfred Bachelet (1864)
Alberic Magnard (1865–1914)
Paul Dukas (1865)
Albert Roussel (1869)
Florent Schmitt (1870)
Henri Büsser (1872)
Deodat de Sévérac (1873–1921)
Henri Rabaud (1873)
Reynaldo Hahn (Venezuelan) (1874)
Max d’Ollone (1875)
Antoine Mariotte (1875)
Maurice Ravel (1875)
Raoul Laparra (1876)
Jean Nouguès (1876)
Henri Février (1876)
Louis Aubert (1877)
Gabriel Dupont (1878–1914)
Félix Fourdrain (1880–1924)
Albert Wolf
Roland Manuel (1891)
Arthur Honegger (1892)
Darius Milhaud (1892)
Belgian
André Ernest Modeste Grétry (1741–1813) (Lived in Paris)
François Auguste Gevaert (1828–1908)
Pierre Benoit (1834–1901)
Jan Blockx (1851–1912)
Edgar Tinel (1854–1912)
Valentin Neuville (1863)
Paul Gilson (1865)
Alfred Kaiser (1872)
Charles Radoux (1877)
Albert Dupuis (1877)
Joseph van der Meulen (?)
Dutch
Anton Berlijn (1817–1870)
Johan Wagenaar (1862)
Jan Brandt-Buys (1868)
Cornelis Dopper (1870)
Charles Grelinger (?)
Swiss
Emile Jacques-Dalcroze (1865)
Gustave Doret (1866)
Othmar Schoeck (1886)
German
Heinrich Schütz (1585–1672)
Johann Thiele (1646)
Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667–1752) (Lived in London)
Johann Conradi (1670?–?)
Reinhard Keiser (1674–1739)
Johann Mattheson (1681–1764)
George Frederick Handel (1685–1759)
Johann Adolph Hasse (1699–1783)
Karl Heinrich Graun (1701–1759)
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787)
Johann Adam Hiller (1728–1804)
Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739–1799)
Abt (Georg Joseph) Vogler (1749–1814)
Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752–1814)
Peter von Winter (1754–1825)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Joseph Weigl (1766–1846)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Christoph Ernst Friederich Weyse (Danish) (1774–1842)
Konradin Kreutzer (1780–1849)
Ludwig (Louis) Spohr (1784–1859)
Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826)
Peter Joseph von Lindpainter (1791–1856)
Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864) (Lived in Paris)
Heinrich Marschner (1795–1861)
Karl Gottlieb Reissiger (1798–1859)
Gustav Albert Lortzing (1801–1851)
Otto Nicolai (1810–1849)
Friedrich von Flotow (1812–1883)
Richard Wagner (1813–1883)
Franz von Suppé (Austrian) (1819–1895)
Peter Cornelius (1824–1874)
Felix Draeseke (1835–1913)
Max Zenger (1837–1911)
Hermann Goetz (1840–1876)
Victor Nessler (Alsatian) (1841–1890)
Heinrich Hofmann (1842–1902)
Ignaz Brüll (Austrian) (1846–1907)
August Bungert (1846–1915)
August Klughardt (1847–1902)
Cyril Kistler (1848–1907)
Ivan Knorr (1853–1916)
Engelbert Humperdinck (1854–1921)
Heinrich Zöllner (1854)
Paul Geisler (1856–1919)
Wilhelm Kienzl (1857)
Alexander von Fielitz (1860)
Maria Joseph Erb (Alsatian) (1860)
Emil Nikolaus Reznicek (Austrian) (1861)
Ludwig Thuille (1861–1907)
Hugo Kaun (1863)
Felix Weingartner (1863)
Richard Strauss (1864)
Waldemar von Bausznern (1866)
Max Schillings (1868)
Hans Pfitzner (1869)
Siegfried Wagner (1869)
Alexander von Zemlinsky (Austrian) (1872)
Leo Fall (Austrian) (1873–1925)
Paul Graner (1873)
Waldemar Wendland (1873)
Julius Bittner (1874)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874)
Joseph Gustav Mrazek (Austrian) (1878)
Franz Schreker (Austrian) (1878)
Edgar Istel (1880)
Walter Braunfels (1882)
Egon Wellesz (Austrian) (1885)
Alban Berg (Austrian) (1885)
Paul Hindemith (1895)
Erich Korngold (Austrian) (1897)
Karl Krafft-Lortzing (?–1923)
Ignatz Waghalter (20th Century)
Czecho-Slovakian
Bedrich (Friedrich) Smetana (1824–1884)
Eduard Napravnik (1839–1916)
Antonin Dvorak (1841–1904)
Zdenko Fibich (1850–1900)
Leos Janacek (1855–1928)
Hans Trnecek (1858–1914)
Josef Bohuslav Foerster (1859)
Emil Nikolaus Reznicek (1861)
Karl Kovarovic (1862–1920)
Karel Weis (1862)
Stanislaus Suda (1865)
Karl Navratil (1867)
Vitezslav Novak (1870)
Adolf Piskacek (1874)
Camillo Hildebrand (1876)
Otakar Ostrcil (1879)
Otakar Zich (1879)
Rudolf Karel (1881)
Bohuslav Martinu (1890)
Hungarian
Karl Goldmark (1830–1915)
Alphons Czibulka (1842–1894)
Jeno Hubay (1858)
Julius J. Major (1859)
Emanuel Moor (1862)
Georg Jarno (1868–1920)
Béla Bártok (1881)
Emil Abrányi (1882)
Scandinavian
Johan P. E. Hartmann (Danish) (1805–1900)
Ivar Hallstrom (Swedish) (1826–1901)
Eduard Lassen (Danish) (1830–1904)
Emil Hartmann (Danish) (1836–1898)
Anders Hallen (1846)
Peter Lange-Müller (Danish) (1850–1926)
Christian Sinding (Norwegian) (1856)
Gerhard Schjelderup (Norwegian) (1859)
August Enna (Danish) (1860)
Wilhelm Stenhammar (Swedish) (1871)
Hakon Boerresen (Danish) (1876)
Paul August von Klenau (Danish) (1883)
Ture Rangstrom (Swedish) (1884)
Finnish
Jan Sibelius (1865)
Selim Palmgren (1878)
Armas E. Launis (1884)
Russian
Michail I. Glinka (1804–1857)
Alexander S. Dargomyzsky (1813–1869)
Alexander Serov (1820–1871)
Anton Rubinstein (1830–1894)
Alexander P. Borodin (1834–1887)
César Cui (1835–1918)
Modest Moussorgsky (1839–1881)
Peter I. Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908)
Michail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859)
Anton Arensky (1861–1906)
Alexander Gretchaninov (1864)
Alexander Glazounov (1865)
Vladimir Rebikov (1866)
Arseni Korestchenko (1870)
Serge Rachmaninov (1873)
Igor Stravinsky (1882)
Serge Prokofiev (1891)
Polish
Ladislas Zelenski (1837–1921)
Sigismund Noskowski (1846–1909)
Ignace Jan Paderewski (1860)
Karol Szymanowski (1883)
Ludomir von Rozycki (1883)
Raoul Koczalski (1885)
Roumanian
Theodor Flondor (? 1908)
English
Thomas Campion (1575–1620)
John Coperario (1580)
William Lawes (1582–1645)
Henry Lawes (1596–1662)
John Banister (1630–1679)
Matthew Lock (1632?–1677)
Henry Purcell (1658–1695)
Thomas Arne (1710–1778)
William Shield (1748–1829)
Stephen Storace (1763–1796)
Henry R. Bishop (1786–1855)
John Barnett (1802–1890)
Julius Benedict (1804–1885)
Michael William Balfe (1808–1888)
George A. MacFarren (1813–1887)
William Vincent Wallace (1814–1865)
Frederic Clay (French) (1838–1889)
Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900)
Alfred Cellier (1844–1891)
Alexander Campbell Mackenzie (1847)
A. Goring Thomas (1851–1892)
Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924)
Frederick Corder (1852)
Frederic Hymen Cowen (Jamaica) (1852)
Ethel Mary Smyth (1858)
Isidore De Lara (1858)
Marie Wurm (1860) (Living in Germany)
Liza Lehmann (1862–1918)
Edward German (1862)
Frederick Delius (1863)
Eugene d’Albert (1863) (Living in Germany)
Edward Woodall Naylor (1867)
Gustav Holst (1874)
Josef Holbrooke (1878)
Albert Coates (Russian) (1882)
Hubert Bath (1883)
Lord Berners (1883)
American
William H. Fry (1813–1864)
George Bristow (1825–1898)
John Knowles Paine (1839–1906)
Frederic Grant Gleason (1848–1903)
William J. McCoy (1848)
Max Vogrich (Transylvanian) (1852–1916)
George W. Chadwick (1854)
Julian Edwards (English) (1855–1910)
Humphrey John Stewart (English) (1856)
Richard Henry Warren (1859)
Reginald De Koven (1859–1920)
Victor Herbert (Irish) (1859–1924)
Pietro Floridia (Italian) (1860)
Walter Damrosch (1862)
Horatio W. Parker (1863–1919)
Ernest Carter (1866)
N. Clifford Page (1866)
Paolo Gallico (Austrian) (1868)
Wallace A. Sabin (English) (1869)
Louis Adolphe Coerne (1870–1922)
Joseph C. Breil (1870–1926)
Henry K. Hadley (1871)
Frederick Converse (1871)
Arthur Nevin (1871)
Mary Carr Moore (1873)
Theodore Stearns (?)
Frank Patterson (?)
John Adam Hugo (1873)
Albert Mildenberg (1878–1918)
Ernest Bloch (Swiss) (1880)
Charles Wakefield Cadman (1881)
Simon Buchhalter (Russian) (1881)
Lazare Saminsky (Russian) (1883)
Louis Gruenberg (1884)
W. Frank Harling (?)
Isaac Van Grove (?)
Timothy Spelman (1891)
Eugene Bonner (?)