This is our official request or more classical music festivals! We wanted to create a poster with prominent composers throughout the classical music time periods, but with a modern music festival design. You saw it here first! We've chosen 20 prominent composers from each period: Baroque, Classical, Romantic, 20th Century and Contemporary periods. What a lineup!

Baroque Composers

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643)
Heinrich Schütz (1585–1672)
Barbara Strozzi (1619 - 1677)
Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)
Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1645–1704)
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
François Couperin (1668-1733)
Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751)
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
George Frideric Handel (1685 -1759)
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Giovanni Battista Sammartini (1700-1775)

Classical Composers

Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)
Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Johann Stamitz (1717-1757)
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782)
Anna Amalia (1737-1807)
Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805)
Marianna Martines (1744-1812)
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799)
Antonio Salieri (1750-1825)
Muzio Clementi (1752-1832)
Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755-1824)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840)
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
Carl Czerny (1791-1857)
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Romantic Composers

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847)
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-93)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
John Philip Sousa (1854-1932)
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Erik Satie (1866-1925)
Amy Beach (1867-1944)
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)

20th Century Composers

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Edgard Varèse (1883-1965)
Alban Berg (1885-1935)
Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
John Cage (1912-1992)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

Contemporary Composers

Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
Elliott Carter (1908-2012)
Witold Lutosławski (1913-1994)
Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001)
György Ligeti (1923-2006)
Luciano Berio (1925-2003)
Pierre Boulez (1925-2016)
Morton Feldman (1926-1987)
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007)
George Crumb (1929-present)
Sofia Gubaidulina (1931-present)
Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-2020)
Henryk Górecki (1933-2010)
Arvo Pärt (1935-present)
Steve Reich (1936-present)
Philip Glass (1937-present)
John Adams (1947-present)
Kaija Saariaho (1952-present)
Jennifer Higdon (1962-present)
Thomas Adès (1971-present)