List of Austrian Composers

This is a list of Austrian composers.

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• Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (1736–1809) – Classical-era composer of preludes, fugues and sonatas for the piano
• Alban Berg (1885–1935) – 20th-century composer; student in the Second Viennese School
• Anton Bruckner (1824–1896) – composer of nine large-scale symphonies, sacred works and organ works; church organist
• Carl Czerny (1791–1857) – composer; student of Ludwig Beethoven; known for his piano exercises and pedagogy
• Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739–1799) – Classical-era composer and violinist
• Johann Fux (1660–1741) – composer, influential theorist on Renaissance counterpoint
• Heinz Karl Gruber (born 1943) – composer, bassist and singer
• Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) – Classical-era composer; composed 104 symphonies, as well as numerous string quartets and other chamber music, operas and sacred works
• Michael Haydn (1737–1806) – Classical-era composer; younger brother of Joseph Haydn
• Leopold Hoffman (1738–1793) – Classical-era composer
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837) – composer and pianist; music bridged the Classical and Romantic periods
• Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962) – 20th-century violinist and composer
• Joseph Franz Karl Lanner (1801–1843) – early-Romantic-era dance-music composer; one-time colleague of Johann Strauss I
• Bruno Liberda (born 1953) – composer; student of Roman Haubenstock-Ramati; contemporary classical music; first electronic music ever to be performed in the Vienna State Opera
• Gustav Mahler (1860–1911) – late-Romantic composer of large-scale and sometimes programmatic symphonies; born in Bohemia in a German-speaking community, a subject of the Habsburg Empire; music director in Vienna in the 1890s and 1900s
• Leopold Mozart (1719–1787) – Classical-era composer, violinist, author of influential treatise on playing the violin
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) – composer of operas, piano concertos, chamber music, symphonies and sacred works; son of Leopold Mozart
• Kurt Overhoff (1902–1986) – composer and conductor
• Maria Theresa von Paradis (1759–1824) – Classical-era composer; inspiration for the Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-flat major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Walter Rabl (1873–1940) – Viennese composer, conductor and teacher of vocal music
• Carl Georg Reutter (1708–1772) – Baroque-era court composer
• Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1623–1680) – composer and violinist; first German-speaking composer to publish solo violin and b.c. sonatas in the Italian style (Sonatae unarum fidium seu a violino solo, 1664)
• Franz Schmidt (1874–1939) – 20th-century composer of symphonies and operas, cellist and pianist
• Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) – 20th-century modernist composer; founder of the Second Viennese School; developer of the twelve-tone technique
• Franz Schubert (1797–1828) – Classical-/Romantic-era composer; regarded as the first significant lieder writer; composer of many instrumental works as well
• Robert Stolz (1880–1975) – conductor and composer of operettas, film music and songs
• Eduard Strauss (1835–1916) – dance-music composer; brother of Johann Strauss II
• Johann Strauss I (1804–1849) – early-Romantic-era dance-music composer
• Johann Strauss II (1825–1899) – Romantic-era composer of waltzes and polkas, wrote The Blue Danube waltz
• Josef Strauss (1827–1870) – dance-music composer; brother of Johann Strauss II
• Franz Xaver Süssmayr (1766–1803) – Classical-era composer; student of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Georg Christoph Wagenseil (1715–1777) – Classical-era composer, harpsichordist, and organist
• Anton Webern (1883–1945) – 20th-century composer, student in the Second Viennese School; used the twelve-tone technique in addition to the style known as serialism
• Egon Joseph Wellesz (1885–1974) – 20th-century composer, teacher, musicologist; pupil of Arnold Schoenberg and student of Byzantine music