Romantic

c. 1800–1920

From the personal and poetic through the expanded orchestra to the late symphony.

Frédéric Chopin
1810–1849 · Romantic
Ludwig van Beethoven
1770–1827 · Early Romantic
Claude Debussy
1862–1918 · Late Romantic
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1840–1893 · Romantic
Camille Saint-Saëns
1835–1921 · Romantic
Erik Satie
1866–1925 · Late Romantic
Sergei Rachmaninoff
1873–1943 · Late Romantic
Franz Liszt
1811–1886 · Romantic
Johannes Brahms
1833–1897 · Romantic
Robert Schumann
1810–1856 · Romantic
Engelbert Humperdinck
1854–1921 · Late Romantic
Gabriel Fauré
1845–1924 · Late Romantic
Antonín Dvořák
1841–1904 · Romantic
Franz Schubert
1797–1828 · Early Romantic
Gustav Mahler
1860–1911 · Late Romantic
Pietro Mascagni
1863–1945 · Late Romantic
Edvard Grieg
1843–1907 · Romantic
Felix Mendelssohn
1809–1847 · Romantic
Giuseppe Verdi
1813–1901 · Romantic
Giacomo Puccini
1858–1924 · Late Romantic
Niccolò Paganini
1782–1840 · Early Romantic
Maurice Ravel
1875–1937 · Late Romantic
Gustav Holst
1874–1934 · Late Romantic
Georges Bizet
1838–1875 · Romantic
Richard Strauss
1864–1949 · Late Romantic
Alexander Scriabin
1872–1915 · Late Romantic
Edward Elgar
1857–1934 · Late Romantic
John Field
1782–1837 · Early Romantic
Gioachino Rossini
1792–1868 · Early Romantic
Jean Sibelius
1865–1957 · Late Romantic
Léo Delibes
1836–1891 · Romantic
Isaac Albéniz
1860–1909 · Late Romantic
Richard Wagner
1813–1883 · Romantic
Alexander Borodin
1833–1887 · Romantic
Jacques Offenbach
1819–1880 · Romantic
Jules Massenet
1842–1912 · Romantic
Max Bruch
1838–1920 · Romantic
Charles Gounod
1818–1893 · Romantic
Johann Strauss Jr
1825–1899 · Romantic
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
1844–1908 · Romantic
Ralph Vaughan Williams
1872–1958 · Late Romantic
Scott Joplin
1868–1917 · Late Romantic
Vincenzo Bellini
1801–1835 · Early Romantic
Modest Mussorgsky
1839–1881 · Romantic
César Franck
1822–1890 · Romantic
Ottorino Respighi
1879–1936 · Late Romantic
Gaetano Donizetti
1797–1848 · Early Romantic
Bedrich Smetana
1824–1884 · Romantic
Ruggero Leoncavallo
1857–1919 · Late Romantic
Ferruccio Busoni
1866–1924 · Late Romantic
Frederick Delius
1862–1934 · Late Romantic
Anton Bruckner
1824–1896 · Romantic
Enrique Granados
1867–1916 · Late Romantic
Alexander Glazunov
1865–1936 · Late Romantic
Hector Berlioz
1803–1869 · Romantic
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
1804–1857 · Romantic
Leoš Janáček
1854–1928 · Late Romantic
Carl Maria von Weber
1786–1826 · Early Romantic
Edouard Lalo
1823–1892 · Romantic
Fernando Sor
1778–1839 · Early Romantic
Luigi Cherubini
1760–1842 · Early Romantic
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
1778–1837 · Early Romantic
Paul Dukas
1865–1935 · Late Romantic
Reinhold Glière
1875–1956 · Late Romantic
Carl Nielsen
1865–1931 · Late Romantic
Karol Szymanowski
1882–1937 · Late Romantic
Wilhelm Stenhammar
1871–1927 · Late Romantic
Charles-Marie Widor
1844–1937 · Romantic
Eugene Ysaÿe
1858–1931 · Late Romantic
Emmanuel Chabrier
1841–1894 · Romantic
Louis Spohr
1784–1859 · Early Romantic
Max Reger
1873–1916 · Late Romantic
Josef Suk
1874–1935 · Late Romantic
George Enescu
1881–1955 · Late Romantic
Franz Berwald
1796–1868 · Early Romantic
Victor Herbert
1859–1924 · Late Romantic
Edward MacDowell
1860–1908 · Late Romantic
Ernest Chausson
1855–1899 · Romantic
Karl Goldmark
1830–1915 · Romantic
Hugo Wolf
1860–1903 · Romantic
Mily Balakirev
1837–1910 · Romantic
Ernst von Dohnányi
1877–1960 · Late Romantic
César Cui
1835–1918 · Romantic
Alexander von Zemlinsky
1871–1942 · Late Romantic
Franz Schmidt
1874–1939 · Late Romantic
Albert Roussel
1869–1937 · Late Romantic
Antonio Carlos Gomes
1836–1896 · Romantic
Vincent d'Indy
1851–1931 · Romantic