- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
- George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
- Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704)
- Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
- Jeremiah Clarke (1674-1707)
- John Blow (1649-1708)
- William Boyce (1711-1779)
- Thomas Arne (1710-1778)
- Samuel Arnold (1740-1802)
- William Herschel (1738-1822)
- Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
- Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
- Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
- Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
- Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
- Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
- Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
- Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
- Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
- Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
- Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
- Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
- John Williams (1932-present)
- Hans Zimmer (1957-present)
- James Horner (1953-2015)