Composers
Non-living composers represented on Irregular Pearl, grouped from Antiquity to the 20th century, then arranged alphabetically by surname within each era. Select a surname to explore the composer’s page.
Composers known by a single name or historical appellation are listed under that name.
Antiquity
Antiquity–5th c.Early Medieval
6th–9th c.Medieval & Romanesque
10th–12th c.Ars Antiqua
13th c.Ars Nova
14th c.Early Renaissance
15th c.High Renaissance
16th c.- William Byrd
- Orlando di Lasso
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
- Tomás Luis de Victoria
Early Baroque
c. 1600–1650- Arcangelo Corelli
- Claudio Monteverdi
- Heinrich Schütz
- Barbara Strozzi
Late Baroque
c. 1650–1750- Johann Sebastian Bach
- George Frideric Handel
- Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre
- Tomaso Antonio Vitali
- Antonio Vivaldi
Galant & Classical
18th c.Early Romanticism
c. 1800–1850Late Romanticism
c. 1850–191020th century
20th c.- Béla Bartók
- George Crumb
- Claude Debussy
- Gustav Holst
- Darius Milhaud
- Florence Price
- Maurice Ravel
- Kaija Saariaho
- Arnold Schoenberg
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Igor Stravinsky