Periods
Romantic
c. 1800–1920
From the personal and poetic through the expanded orchestra to the late symphony.
Frédéric Chopin1810–1849 · Romantic
Ludwig van Beethoven1770–1827 · Early Romantic
Claude Debussy1862–1918 · Late Romantic
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky1840–1893 · Romantic
Camille Saint-Saëns1835–1921 · Romantic
Erik Satie1866–1925 · Late Romantic
Sergei Rachmaninoff1873–1943 · Late Romantic
Franz Liszt1811–1886 · Romantic
Johannes Brahms1833–1897 · Romantic
Robert Schumann1810–1856 · Romantic
Engelbert Humperdinck1854–1921 · Late Romantic
Gabriel Fauré1845–1924 · Late Romantic
Antonín Dvořák1841–1904 · Romantic
Franz Schubert1797–1828 · Early Romantic
Gustav Mahler1860–1911 · Late Romantic
Pietro Mascagni1863–1945 · Late Romantic
Edvard Grieg1843–1907 · Romantic
Felix Mendelssohn1809–1847 · Romantic
Giuseppe Verdi1813–1901 · Romantic
Giacomo Puccini1858–1924 · Late Romantic
Niccolò Paganini1782–1840 · Early Romantic
Maurice Ravel1875–1937 · Late Romantic
Gustav Holst1874–1934 · Late Romantic
Georges Bizet1838–1875 · Romantic
Richard Strauss1864–1949 · Late Romantic
Alexander Scriabin1872–1915 · Late Romantic
Edward Elgar1857–1934 · Late Romantic
John Field1782–1837 · Early Romantic
Gioachino Rossini1792–1868 · Early Romantic
Jean Sibelius1865–1957 · Late Romantic
Léo Delibes1836–1891 · Romantic
Isaac Albéniz1860–1909 · Late Romantic
Richard Wagner1813–1883 · Romantic
Alexander Borodin1833–1887 · Romantic
Jacques Offenbach1819–1880 · Romantic
Jules Massenet1842–1912 · Romantic
Max Bruch1838–1920 · Romantic
Charles Gounod1818–1893 · Romantic
Johann Strauss Jr1825–1899 · Romantic
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov1844–1908 · Romantic
Ralph Vaughan Williams1872–1958 · Late Romantic
Scott Joplin1868–1917 · Late Romantic
Vincenzo Bellini1801–1835 · Early Romantic
Modest Mussorgsky1839–1881 · Romantic
César Franck1822–1890 · Romantic
Ottorino Respighi1879–1936 · Late Romantic
Gaetano Donizetti1797–1848 · Early Romantic
Bedrich Smetana1824–1884 · Romantic
Ruggero Leoncavallo1857–1919 · Late Romantic
Ferruccio Busoni1866–1924 · Late Romantic
Frederick Delius1862–1934 · Late Romantic
Anton Bruckner1824–1896 · Romantic
Enrique Granados1867–1916 · Late Romantic
Alexander Glazunov1865–1936 · Late Romantic
Hector Berlioz1803–1869 · Romantic
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka1804–1857 · Romantic
Leoš Janáček1854–1928 · Late Romantic
Carl Maria von Weber1786–1826 · Early Romantic
Edouard Lalo1823–1892 · Romantic
Fernando Sor1778–1839 · Early Romantic
Luigi Cherubini1760–1842 · Early Romantic
Johann Nepomuk Hummel1778–1837 · Early Romantic
Paul Dukas1865–1935 · Late Romantic
Reinhold Glière1875–1956 · Late Romantic
Carl Nielsen1865–1931 · Late Romantic
Karol Szymanowski1882–1937 · Late Romantic
Wilhelm Stenhammar1871–1927 · Late Romantic
Charles-Marie Widor1844–1937 · Romantic
Eugene Ysaÿe1858–1931 · Late Romantic
Emmanuel Chabrier1841–1894 · Romantic
Louis Spohr1784–1859 · Early Romantic
Max Reger1873–1916 · Late Romantic
Josef Suk1874–1935 · Late Romantic
George Enescu1881–1955 · Late Romantic
Franz Berwald1796–1868 · Early Romantic
Victor Herbert1859–1924 · Late Romantic
Edward MacDowell1860–1908 · Late Romantic
Ernest Chausson1855–1899 · Romantic
Karl Goldmark1830–1915 · Romantic
Hugo Wolf1860–1903 · Romantic
Mily Balakirev1837–1910 · Romantic
Ernst von Dohnányi1877–1960 · Late Romantic
César Cui1835–1918 · Romantic
Alexander von Zemlinsky1871–1942 · Late Romantic
Franz Schmidt1874–1939 · Late Romantic
Albert Roussel1869–1937 · Late Romantic
Antonio Carlos Gomes1836–1896 · Romantic
Vincent d'Indy1851–1931 · Romantic