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page 1German opera composers
Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer (1770-1827)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a Classical composer and musician. He completed more than 800 works in his life—including outstanding examples of most of the genres of his time: symphonies, concertos, chamber music, opera, and choral music.
Richard Wagner
German composer (1813–1883)
George Frideric Handel
German-British Baroque composer (1685–1759)
Robert Schumann
German composer, pianist and critic (1810–1856)
Felix Mendelssohn
German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of Jewish descent (1809-1847)
Jacques Offenbach
German-born French composer (1819–1880)
Richard Strauss
German composer and orchestra director (1864–1949)
Carl Maria von Weber
German Romantic composer (1786–1826)
Georg Philipp Telemann
German composer
Johann Christian Bach
German composer (1735–1782)
Carl Orff
German composer (1895–1982)
Karlheinz Stockhausen
German composer (1928–2007)
Giacomo Meyerbeer
German-French composer
Paul Hindemith
German composer (1895–1963)
Heinrich Schütz
German composer and organist (1585–1672)
André Previn
German-American conductor, pianist, and composer (1929–2019)
Louis Spohr
German composer, violinist and conductor
Engelbert Humperdinck
German composer (1854–1921)
Johann Adolph Hasse
German composer, singer and teacher (1699-1783)
Eugen d'Albert
Scottish-born German pianist and composer (1864-1932)
Albert Lortzing
German opera composer (1801-1851)
Gaspare Spontini
Italian composer and conductor
Otto Nicolai
German composer and conductor (1810-1849)
Carl Reinecke
German composer, conductor and pianist (1824–1910)
Maria Antonia Walpurgis of Bavaria
German composer, opera singer and librettist (1724-1780)
Johann Mattheson
German composer and theorist (1681-1764)
Peter Cornelius
German composer (1824–1874)
Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
German prince (1818–1893)
Heinrich August Marschner
German composer (1795–1861)
Hans Werner Henze
German composer (1926–2012)
Ferdinand Hiller
German composer and conductor (1811–1885)
Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
German princess, composer, editor (1739-1807)
Carl Heinrich Graun
German composer and singer
Carl Stamitz
German composer of partial Czech ancestry
Friedrich von Flotow
German composer (1812–1883)
Siegfried Wagner
German opera producer and composer, son of Richard Wagner and Cosima Liszt (1869–1930)
Hans Pfitzner
German composer (1869–1949)
Christian Gottlob Neefe
German composer and conductor (1748–1789)
Friedrich Kuhlau
Danish composer
Conradin Kreutzer
German composer and conductor (1780-1849)
Wolfgang Rihm
German composer and teacher (1952–2024)
Joachim Raff
Swiss composer (1822-1882)
Ferdinand Ries
German composer
Georg Benda
Czech composer
Josef Rheinberger
Liechtensteiner organist and composer (1839-1901)
Johann Christoph Pepusch
German composer (1667–1752)
Franz Lachner
German composer and conductor (1803-1890)
Erwin Schulhoff
Czech composer and pianist (1894–1942)
Franz Abt
German composer and choral conductor (1819–1885)
Johann Gottlieb Naumann
German composer (1741–1801)
Reinhard Keiser
German opera composer (1674–1739)
Johann Simon Mayr
German composer (1763–1845)
Johann Friedrich Reichardt
German composer and writer (1752-1814)
Paul Dessau
German composer and conductor (1894-1979)
Eduard Künneke
German composer (b. 1885)
Christoph Graupner
German composer
Bernd Alois Zimmermann
German composer (1918–1970)
Werner Egk
German composer (1901–1983)
Johann Schobert
German composer