1 - 100 of 112 famous, important and notable composers ranked by their popularity on On This Day.
- 1. Dmitri Shostakovich
- 2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- 3. Ludwig van Beethoven
- 4. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- 5. George Frideric Handel
- 6. Billy Joel
- 7. Duke Ellington
- 8. Frédéric Chopin
- 9. Gioachino Rossini
- 10. Andrew Lloyd Webber
- 11. Frank Zappa
- 12. Giuseppe Verdi
- 13. Franz Schubert
- 14. Giacomo Puccini
- 15. Richard Wagner
- 16. Felix Mendelssohn
- 17. Steve Allen
- 18. Johann Sebastian Bach
- 19. George Gershwin
- 20. Gustav Mahler
- 21. Claude Debussy
- 22. Antonio Vivaldi
- 23. Leonard Bernstein
- 24. Richard Strauss
- 25. Irving Berlin
- 26. Arnold Schoenberg
- 27. Glenn Miller
- 28. Johannes Brahms
- 29. Georges Bizet
- 30. Anton Bruckner
- 31. Jules Massenet
- 32. Stephen Sondheim
- 33. Antonio Salieri
- 34. Benny Andersson
- 35. Béla Bartok
- 36. Richard Rodgers
- 37. Cole Porter
- 38. Scott Joplin
- 39. George M. Cohan
- 40. Arthur Sullivan
- 41. Anton Rubinstein
- 42. John Philip Sousa
- 43. Herbie Hancock
- 44. Franz Liszt
- 45. Maurice Ravel
- 46. Carl Maria von Weber
- 47. Benjamin Britten
- 48. Burt Bacharach
- 49. Arthur Honegger
- 50. Aaron Copland
- 51. Hildegard von Bingen
- 52. Charlie "Bird" Parker
- 53. Hector Berlioz
- 54. Jerome Kern
- 55. Quincy Jones Jr
- 56. Joseph Haydn
- 57. Robert Schumann
- 58. Charles Gounod
- 59. Howard Hanson
- 60. Fela Kuti
- 61. Edward Elgar
- 62. Igor Stravinsky
- 63. Melvin Van Peebles
- 64. Darius Milhaud
- 65. Isaac Hayes
- 66. Stephen Foster
- 67. Ignacy Jan Paderewski
- 68. Walter Piston
- 69. John Williams
- 70. Barbara Strozzi
- 71. Alexander Gretchaninov
- 72. Harold Arlen
- 73. Sergei Rachmaninoff
- 74. Jean Sibelius
- 75. John Kander
- 76. Maria Szymanowska
- 77. Jacques Brel
- 78. Henry Mancini
- 79. Charles Strouse
- 80. Johann Michael Bach
- 81. Sergei Prokofiev
- 82. Clara Schumann
- 83. Johann Pachelbel
- 84. Danny Elfman
- 85. Lin-Manuel Miranda
- 86. Caroline Shaw
- 87. Paul Hindemith
- 88. Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
- 89. Florence Price
- 90. Amy Beach
- 91. Roger Sessions
- 92. Samuel Barber
- 93. Charles Ives
- 94. Modest Mussorgsky
- 95. Alan Menken
- 96. Vincent d'Indy
- 97. Thomas Arne
- 98. Ornette Coleman
- 99. Grażyna Bacewicz
- 100. Morton Gould