| Kompositörer i tidsordning | ||||
| Clement | Janequin | 1485 | 1558 | ca |
| Christoffer | Tye | 1505 | 1572 | ca |
| Giovanni P d | Palestrina | 1526 | 1594 | |
| Francisco | Guerrero | 1528 | 1599 | |
| Claude | Lejene | 1528 | 1600 | |
| Orlando d | Lassus | 1532 | 1594 | |
| William | Byrd | 1543 | 1623 | |
| Tomas L d | Victoria | 1548 | 1611 | |
| Luca | Marenzio | 1553 | 1599 | ca |
| Hieronymus | Praetorius | 1560 | 1629 | |
| Giles | Farnaby | 1563 | 1640 | ca |
| Claudio | Monteverdi | 1567 | 1643 | |
| Salamone | Rossi | 1570 | 1630 | ca |
| Giovanni G | Kapsberger | 1580 | 1651 | |
| Robert | Jones | 1597 | 1615 | |
| Thomas | Vautor | 1600 | 1620 | |
| Cataldo | Amodei | 1650 | 1695 | ca |
| Arcangelo | Corelli | 1653 | 1713 | |
| Henry | Purcell | 1659 | 1695 | |
| Nicola | Matteis | 1670 | 1695 | ca |
| Tomaso | Albinoni | 1671 | 1751 | |
| Antonio | Vivaldi | 1678 | 1743 | 1675? |
| Georg Fhilipp | Teleman | 1681 | 1767 | |
| Johan Sebastian | Bach | 1685 | 1750 | |
| George Frideric | Handel | 1685 | 1759 | |
| Francesco | Geminiani | 1687 | 1762 | |
| Giuseppe | Sammartini | 1695 | 1750 | |
| Jean-Marie | Leclar | 1697 | 1764 | |
| Giovanni | Verokai | 1700 | 1745 | ca |
| Carl Fhilipp E | Bach | 1714 | 1788 | |
| Friedrich H | Graf | 1727 | 1795 | |
| Giuseppe | Sarti | 1729 | 1802 | |
| Johan Christoph F | Bach | 1732 | 1795 | |
| Joseph | Haydn | 1732 | 1809 | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus | Mozart | 1756 | 1791 | |
| Ignaz | Pleyel | 1757 | 1831 | |
| Ludvig v | Beethoven | 1770 | 1827 | |
| Johannes | Brahms | 1833 | 1897 | |
| Simon | Whalley | 1968 | ||
| Notera den stora anhopningen av de stora från sent 1600 tal och framåt en bit | ||||