 | Ludwig
van Beethoven (1770-1827)
 | 9 Symphonies |
 | 32 piano sonatas |
 | 21 sets of variations for piano |
 | Pathétique Piano Sonata (1798) |
 | Piano Concerto No. 5 Emperor (1809) |
 | Christ on the Mount of Olives (1803) oratorio |
 | Fidelio (1804-1805) opera |
 | Symphony No. 3, "Eröica" (1805) transition into
romanticism |
 | Symphony No. 5 (1807) returns to a more classical style |
 | Symphony No. 6, "Pastoral" (1808) programmatic work |
 | Diabelli Variations (1819; 1823) 33 variations |
 | Symphony No. 9, "Choral" (1824) |
 | Missa solemnis in D (1824) |
|
 | Niccolo
Paganini (1782-1840) |
 | Carl
Maria von Weber (1786-1826) Der Freischutz (1821) opera |
 | Giacomo
Meyerbeer (1791-1864) Les Huguenots (1836) opera |
 | Gioacchino
Rossini (1792-1868)
 | Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816) opera |
 | Otello (1816) opera |
 | William Tell (1828-1829) opera |
|
 |
Franz
Schubert (1797-1828)
 | "Der Erlkönig" (1815) |
 | Winterreise (1828) song cycle |
 | Moments Musicaux - character pieces |
 | Symphony No. 8, Unfinished (1822) |
|
 |
Gaetano
Donizetti (1797-1848) Anna Bolena (1830) opera |
 | Vincenzo
Bellini (1801-1835) Norma (1831) opera |
 |
Hector
Berlioz (1803-1869)
 | L'Enfance du Christ (1854) oratorio |
 | La Damnation de Faust (1846) oratorio |
 | Grand messe des morts (1837) requiem |
 | Symphonie Fantastique (1830) uses idee fixe |
|
 | Mikhail
Glinka (1804-1857)
 | A Life for the Tsar (1836) opera |
 | Ruslan and Ludmila (1842) opera |
|
 | Felix
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847)
 | A Midsummer Night's Dream (1826) overture |
 | Elijah (1846) oratorio |
 | Violin Concerto in E minor (1846) |
 | Lieder ohné Worte (8 books, 1829-1830) |
|
 | Otto
Nicolai (1810-1849) |
 | Robert
Schumann (1810-1856)
 | Kinderscenen (1838) piano |
 | Dichterliebe (1840) song cycle |
 | Piano Concerto in A minor (1840) |
|
 | Frédéric
Chopin (1810-1849) Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 (1830) |
 | Franz
Liszt (1811-1886)
 | Les préludes (1848) |
 | Todentanz (1849) etude |
 | Episode from Lanau's Faust (1860-1861) character piece |
 | Orpheus (1854) symphonic poem |
 | Christus (1873) oratorio |
|
 |
Richard
Wagner (1813-1883)
 | Tannhäuser (1845) |
 | Lohengrin (1850) opera |
 | Tristan und Isolde (1865) music drama |
 | Der Ring des Nibelunger (1854-1876) |
|
 | Alexander Dargomitzhsky (1813-1869) Rusalka (1937) folk
opera |
 | Giuseppe
Verdi (1813-1901)
 | Aïda (1871) opera |
 | Requiem (1874) |
 | Otello (1887) opera |
 | Rigoletto (1851) opera |
|
 | Charles
Gounod (1818-1893)
 | Faust (1859) lyric opera |
 | La Rédemption (1882) |
 | St. Cecilia Mass |
|
 | Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) |
 | César
Franck (1822-1890) Le Béatitudes (1879) |
 |
Anton
Bruckner (1824-1896) |
 | Bedrich
Smetana (1824-1884) Má Vlast (1874) symphonic poem |
 | Johann Strauss Jr. (1825-1899) The Blue
Danube (1867) |
 | Alexander
Borodin (1833-1887)
 | In the Steppes of Central Asia (1880) tone poem |
 | Prince Igor (1869) opera |
|
 |
Johannes
Brahms (1833-1897)
 | Symphony No. 1 (1876) took him 20 years to complete |
 | Ein deutsches Requiem (1868) |
 | Variations on a Theme by Paganini (1862-1863) for piano |
 | Symphony No. 3 (1883) |
|
 | Charles
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
 | Christmas Oratorio (1858) |
 | Danse macabre (1875) tone poem |
 | Samson et Dalila (1877) lyric opera |
|
 | César
Cui (1835-1918) Little Red Ridinghood - children's opera |
 | Theodore Dubois (1837-1934) Seven Last Words of Christ
(1867) |
 | Mily
Balakirev (1837-1910) Islamey: Fantasie Orientale (1869)
piano fantasy |
 | Georges
Bizet (1838-1875) Carmen (1875) opera |
 | John
Knowles Paine (1839-1906)
 | Mass in D (1867) |
 | In Spring (1880) first American symphony published in the
United States |
|
 | Modest
Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
 | Night on Bald Mountain (1866) tone poem |
 | Pictures at an Exhibition (1874) for piano |
 | Songs and Dances of Death (1875) song cycle |
|
 |
Piotr
Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
 | Swan Lake (1876) ballet |
 | Overture Solemnelle: 1812 (1880) |
 | Sleeping Beauty (1890) ballet |
 | Nutcracker (1892) ballet |
|
 |
Antonín
Dvořák (1841-1904)
 | Requiem (1890) |
 | Symphony No. 9, From the New World (1893) |
 | Rusalka (1900) opera |
|
 | Emmanuel
Chabrier (1841-1894)
 | España (1833) rhapsody for piano |
 | Marche française (1888) |
|
 |
Arthur
Sullivan (1842-1900)
 | The Pirates of Penzance (opera) |
 | H.M.S. Pinafore (opera) |
 | The Mikado (1885) opera |
|
 | Edvard
Grieg (1843-1907) Peer Gynt Suites (1876) |
 |
Charles
Widor (1844-1937) |
 | Nicolai
Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
 | Capriccio Espagnol (1887) extended tone poem |
 | Scheherazade (1888) symphonic suite |
 | Tsar Sultan Suite (1903) |
|
 | Gabriel
Fauré (1845-1924)
 | Requiem (1887) |
 | Pelléas et Mélisande (1898) |
|
 | Charles
Hubert Parry (1848-1918) Judith (1888) oratorio |
 | Vincent
d'Indy (1851-1931) Symphony on a French Mountain Air
(1887) orchestra and piano |
 | Charles
Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) |
 | John Philip
Sousa (1854-1932)
 | El Capitan (186) operetta |
 | "The Stars and Stripes Forever" |
 | "The Washington Post" |
|
 | Leos Janácek (1854-1928) Jenufa
(1904) |
 | Edward Elgar
(1857-1934)
 | "Enigma" Variations (1896) |
 | The Dream of Gerontius (1900) oratorio |
|
 | Giacomo
Puccini (1858-1924)
 | La Bohème (1896) |
 | Madama Butterfly (1907) |
|
 | Isaac
Albéniz (1860-1909) Iberia (4 volumes, 1906-1909)
keyboard |
 | Hugo
Wolf (1860-1903) Italienisches Liederbuch (1891) |
 | Gustav
Mahler (1860-1911)
 | "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" (1892-1901) song cycle |
 | "Kindertotenlieder" (1901-1904) song cycle |
 | The Song of the Earth (1908) |
 | Symphony No. 4 (1901) |
 | Symphony No. 9 (1910) |
|
 | Edward
MacDowell (1861-1908) |
 | Claude
Debussy (1862-1918)
 | Pelléas et Mélisande (1892-1902) opera using
impressionistic techniques |
 | Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (1894) tone poem |
 | La Mer (1905) |
|
 | Richard
Strauss (1864-1949)
 | Don Juan (1888) symphonic poem |
 | Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks (1895) |
 | Also Sprach Zarathustra (1896) tone poem |
 | Salome (1905) |
 | Der Rosenkavalier (1911) |
|
 | Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) |
 | Paul
Dukas (1865-1935) Sorcerer's Apprentice (1897) |
 |
Jean
Sibelius (1865-1957)
 | Finlandia (1900) |
 | Violin Concerto in D Minor (1903) |
 | Belshazzar's Feast (1906) incidental
and suite |
|
 | Erik Satie (1866-1925) Gymnopédies
(1888) |
 | Enrique
Granados (1867-1916) Goyescus (2 volumes, 1911-1916)
piano suite and opera |