List of Italian composers

Born 1450–1650

• Matteo Rampollini (1497–1553)
• Andrea Gabrieli (c.1510–1595), uncle of Giovanni
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525–1594)
• Giorgio Mainerio (c.1530/40 – 1582)
• Annibale Stabile (c.1535–1595), Roman School composer, pupil of Palestrina
• Florentio Maschera (1540–1584)
• Emilio de' Cavalieri (1550-1602)
• Giovanni Gabrieli (1557–1612), composer and organist
• Carlo Gesualdo (1566–1613) Chromatic madrigalist, nobleman, murderer
• Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643), member of the Florentine Camerata, who are generally credited with inventing the modern opera, best known for his Orfeo, also wrote several books of madrigals
• Vincentius Lilius (1570 -1636)
• Salamone Rossi (c.1570–1630) Jewish composer of the early Baroque
• Gregorio Allegri (1582–1652), composer of the famous Miserere, copied from memory on two hearings by the 14-year-old Mozart
• Girolamo Frescobaldi (bap.1583-1643)
• Stefano Landi (c.1586–1639)
• Domenico Mazzocchi (1592–1665)
• Virgilio Mazzocchi (1597–1646)
• Luigi Rossi (c.1597–1653)
• Franciscus Lilius (c. 1600 - 1657)
• Giacomo Carissimi (1605–1674)
• Marco Mazzazzoli (c.1605–1662)
• Antonio Cesti (1623–1669)
• Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632–1687)
• Bernardo Pasquini (1637–1710)
• Ignazio Albertini (1644–1685)

Born 1650–1750

• Domenico Gabrielli (1651–1690)
• Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1713), early Baroque violinist and composer
• Agostino Steffani (1653–1728)
• Giuseppe Torelli (1658–1709)
• Alessandro Scarlatti (1660–1725)
• Antonio Caldara (1670–1736)
• Tomaso Albinoni (1671–1751), Venetian composer of opera and instrumental music, the "Adagio in G minor" is based on his works
• Tommaso Redi (c.1675–1738)
• Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741), wrote over 600 concerti, known for The Four Seasons
• Giuseppe Valentini (1681–1753)
• Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757), influential in the development of the Classical style
• Giovanni Battista Somis (1686–1763), violinist and composer, one of a family ([1])
• Giuseppe Tartini (1692–1770), famous for the Devil's Trill Sonata
• Pietro Locatelli (1695–1764)
• Giuseppe Sammartini (1695–1750)
• Giovanni Battista Sammartini (c.1700–1775)
• Baldassare Galuppi (1706–1785)
• Domenico Alberti (c.1710–1740)
• Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736)
• Niccolò Jommelli (1714–1774)
• Pasquale Anfossi (1727–1797)
• Tommaso Traetta (1727–1779)
• Niccolò Piccinni (1728–1800)
• Antonio Sacchini (1730–1786)
• Gaetano Pugnani (1731–1798)
• Antonio Tozzi (1736-1812)
• Anna Bon (1740–?)
• Giovanni Paisiello (1740–1816)
• Andrea Luchesi (1741–1801)
• Luigi Boccherini (1743–1805), composed in the Galante style
• Domenico Cimarosa (1749–1801)

Born 1750-1900

• Antonio Salieri (1750 - 1825)
• Bartolomeo Capaglio (1751 - 1827)
• Muzio Clementi (1752 - 1832)
• Giovanni Viotti (1755 – 1824), Classical era violin teacher whose music was later praised by Brahms
• Luigi Cherubini (1760 - 1842)
• Gaspare Spontini (1774 - 1851)
• Mauro Giuliani (1781 - 1829), virtuoso guitarist and composer
• Niccolò Paganini (1782 - 1840), virtuoso violinist and composer, wrote the 24 Caprices for violin
• Gioachino Rossini (1792 - 1868), best known for The Barber of Seville and overtures to various other operas
• Saverio Mercadante (1795 - 1870)
• Giovanni Pacini (1796 - 1867)
• Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848), opera composer, known for Lucia di Lammermoor and L'Elisir d'Amore among others
• Vincenzo Bellini (1801 - 1835), opera composer, famous for his opera Norma
• Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901), opera composer best known for Rigoletto, Nabucco, Aida and La traviata
• Antonio Bakini (1818 - 1897)
• Giuseppe Allapana (1822 - 1889)
• Amilcare Ponchielli (1834–1886), Romantic opera composer known for La Gioconda
• Arrigo Boito (1842–1918)
• Giovanni Sgambati (1843–1914)
• Luigi Denza (1846–1922), Neapolitan song composer of Funiculì, Funiculà
• Ernesto Köhler(1849–1907)
• Alfredo Catalani (1854–1893)
• Giuseppe Martucci (1856–1909)
• Ruggero Leoncavallo (1858–1919), Composer of the tragic opera, Pagliacci
• Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924), late Romantic opera composer (La Bohème, Tosca, Madame Butterfly)
• Pietro Floridia (1860–1932)
• Alberto Franchetti (1860–1942)
• Pietro Mascagni (1863–1945), opera composer, known for Cavalleria Rusticana
• Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924)
• Francesco Cilea (1866–1950)
• Umberto Giordano (1867–1948)
• Vittorio Monti (1868–1922)
• Franco Alfano (1875–1954)
• Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876–1948)
• Andre Dolce Era (1877-1930)
• Stefano Donaudy (1879–1925)
• Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936), known for his symphonic poems The Fountains of Rome and The Pines of Rome
• Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880–1968), Italian opera composer best known for Fedra, Assassinio nella cattedrale' and Cagliostro
• Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882–1973)
• Alfredo Casella (1883–1947)
• Riccardo Zandonai (1883–1944)
• Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895–1968)
• Aldo Finzi (1897–1945)
• Vittorio Rieti (1898–1994), Italian composer of Barabau

Born 1900-

• Marco Ambrosini (born 1964)
• Luigi Dallapiccola (1904–1975), composer of Il Prigioniero
• Goffredo Petrassi (1904–2003)
• Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988)
• Nino Rota (1911–1979)
• Riccardo Malipiero (1914–2003)
• Roman Vlad (born 1919), is an Italian composer, pianist, and musicologist of Romanian birth.
• Bruno Maderna (1920-1973), composer of Satyricon, Venetian Journal
• Luigi Nono (1924-1990), composer of Prometeo, Canto Sospeso
• Luciano Berio (1925–2003), wrote Sinfonia, Un re in ascolto, and Passaggio
• Aldo Clementi (born 1925)
• Ennio Morricone (born 1928)
• Lorenzo Ferrero (born 1951)
• Luke Barbarino (born 1952)
• Ludovico Einaudi (born 1955), wrote Le Onde
• Giovanni Verrando (born 1965)
• Tiziano Bedetti (born 1976)
• Charlie Gracie (born 1936)

References

See also

• List of composers by nationality# Italy