| Name | Year of birth | Year of death | Nationality | Notable 20th-century works | Remarks |
|---|
| Charles Dancla | 1817 | 1907 | French | Solo de concours no. 7, Op. 224 | Romanticism |
| Luigi Arditi | 1822 | 1903 | Italian |
| Theodor Kirchner | 1823 | 1903 | German |
| Carl Reinecke | 1824 | 1910 | German | Trio for piano, clarinet and horn in B♭, Op. 274; String Quartet No. 5, Op. 287 | Romanticism |
| Richard Hol | 1825 | 1904 | Dutch | Organ music | Romanticism |
| Ludwig Minkus | 1826 | 1917 | Austrian |
| Morten Eskesen | 1826 | 1913 | Danish |
| François-Auguste Gevaert | 1828 | 1908 | Belgian | Romanticism |
| Clémence de Grandval | 1828 | 1907 | French |
| James Cutler Dunn Parker | 1828 | 1916 | American | Romanticism |
| Jacques Blumenthal | 1829 | 1908 | German | Romanticism |
| Karl Goldmark | 1830 | 1915 | Hungarian | Ein Wintermärchen; Aus Jugendtagen |
| Karl Klindworth | 1830 | 1916 | German |
| Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff | 1830 | 1913 | German |
| Jan Gerard Palm | 1831 | 1906 | Dutch Antillean |
| Benjamin Dwight Allen | 1831 | 1914 | German |
| Salomon Jadassohn | 1831 | 1902 | German | Romanticism |
| Joseph Joachim | 1831 | 1907 | Hungarian |
| Mathilde Hannah von Rothschild | 1832 | 1924 | German |
| Charles-Wilfrid de Bériot | 1833 | 1914 | French |
| Caspar Joseph Brambach | 1833 | 1902 | German |
| Josef Richard Rozkošný | 1833 | 1913 | Czech |
| George Becker | 1834 | 1928 | German-Swiss |
| Francesco Berger | 1834 | 1933 | English |
| Kārlis Baumanis | 1835 | 1905 | Latvian |
| Giuseppe Branzoli | 1835 | 1909 | Italian |
| César Cui | 1835 | 1918 | Russian |
| Felix Draeseke | 1835 | 1913 | German |
| Camille Saint-Saëns | 1835 | 1921 | French |
| Eduard Strauss | 1835 | 1916 | Austrian |
| Friedrich Baumfelder | 1836 | 1916 | German |
| Bertha Tammelin | 1836 | 1915 | Swedish |
| Susan McFarland Parkhurst | 1836 | 1918 | American |
| Mily Balakirev | 1837 | 1910 | Russian | Islamey |
| Théodore Dubois | 1837 | 1924 | French |
| Carlotta Ferrari | 1837 | 1907 | Italian |
| Alfred R. Gaul | 1837 | 1913 | English | The Prince of Peace (cantata) |
| Otto Winter-Hjelm | 1837 | 1931 | Norwegian |
| Paul Lacombe | 1837 | 1927 | French |
| Smith Newell Penfield | 1837 | 1920 | American |
| Émile Waldteufel | 1837 | 1915 | French |
| Max Bruch | 1838 | 1920 | German | Concerto for Clarinet, Viola, and Orchestra in E minor, Op. 88 | Romanticism |
| Joseph Callaerts | 1838 | 1901 | Belgian |
| Melesio Morales | 1838 | 1908 | Mexican |
| Friedrich Gernsheim | 1839 | 1916 | German |
| Eduard Nápravník | 1839 | 1916 | Czech | Francesca da Rimini (opera), Op. 71; Deux pièces russes, for orchestra, Op. 74 |
| Laura Netzel | 1839 | 1927 | Swedish |
| John Knowles Paine | 1839 | 1906 | American |
| Josef Rheinberger | 1839 | 1901 | German | Organ Sonata No. 20 in F Major (“Zur Friedensfeier”), Op. 196; Mass in A Minor, Op. 197 | historicist |
| Johan Svendsen | 1840 | 1911 | Norwegian |
| François Borne | 1840 | 1920 | French |
| Ingeborg Bronsart von Schellendorf | 1840 | 1913 | Swedish-German |
| Theodora Cormontan | 1840 | 1922 | Norwegian American |
| Oskar Rieding | 1840 | 1918 | German |
| Elfrida Andrée | 1841 | 1929 | Swedish | Swedish Masses Nos. 1 and 2 |
| Antonín Dvořák | 1841 | 1904 | Czech | Armida (opera), "Zpěv z Lešetínského kováře" (song) | Romanticism, folk-influenced |
| Henri Gobbi | 1841 | 1920 | Hungarian |
| Friedrich Hegar | 1841 | 1927 | Swiss |
| Louise Héritte-Viardot | 1841 | 1918 | French |
| Joseph Friedrich Hummel | 1841 | 1919 | Austrian |
| Felip Pedrell | 1841 | 1922 | Spanish |
| Giovanni Sgambati | 1841 | 1914 | Italian |
| Giuseppe Silvestri | 1841 | 1921 | Italian |
| Arrigo Boito | 1842 | 1918 | Italian | Nerone (opera) |
| Alphonse Duvernoy | 1842 | 1907 | French |
| Josef Labor | 1842 | 1924 | Czech |
| Jules Massenet | 1842 | 1912 | French | Piano Concerto; Le jongleur de Notre-Dame; Thérèse; Don Quichotte; Cigale |
| Felipe Pedrell | 1842 | 1922 | Spanish |
| Ján Levoslav Bella | 1843 | 1936 | Slovak |
| Émile Bernard | 1843 | 1902 | French | Nocturne, for piano and orchestra, Op. 51; String Quartet, Op. 52 |
| Josefina Brdlíková | 1843 | 1910 | Czech |
| Louis Diémer | 1843 | 1919 | French |
| Edvard Grieg | 1843 | 1907 | Norwegian | Lyrische Stücke, Op. 71; Slåtter, Op. 73; Four Psalms, Op. 74 |
| Asger Hamerik | 1843 | 1923 | Danish | Variations on "Jeg gik mig ud en sommerdag" |
| Franz Xaver Neruda | 1843 | 1915 | Danish |
| Karl Michael Ziehrer | 1843 | 1922 | Austrian |
| David Popper | 1843 | 1913 | Czech |
| Oliveria Prescott | 1843 | 1919 | English |
| George Stephănescu | 1843 | 1925 | Romanian |
| Eugène Gigout | 1844 | 1925 | French |
| Hermann Graedener | 1844 | 1929 | German |
| Richard Hofmann | 1844 | 1918 | German |
| Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | 1844 | 1908 | Russian |
| Pablo de Sarasate | 1844 | 1908 | Spanish |
| Charles-Marie Widor | 1844 | 1937 | French |
| Anton Jörgen Andersen | 1845 | 1926 | Norwegian |
| August Bungert | 1845 | 1915 | German |
| Ion Ivanovici | 1845 | 1902 | Romanian |
| Gabriel Fauré | 1845 | 1924 | French | Prométhée; Pénélope; Masques et bergamasques |
| Alphonse Hasselmans | 1845 | 1912 | Belgian-born French |
| Ernst Perabo | 1845 | 1920 | German-born American |
| Ella Adayevskaya | 1846 | 1926 | Russian |
| Leopold Auer | 1846 | 1930 | Hungarian |
| Ignaz Brüll | 1846 | 1907 | Austrian |
| Luigi Denza | 1846 | 1922 | Italian |
| Zygmunt Noskowski | 1846 | 1909 | Polish |
| Riccardo Drigo | 1846 | 1930 | Italian |
| Andreas Hallén | 1846 | 1925 | Swedish | Valborgsmässa (opera) | Romanticism |
| Marie Jaëll | 1846 | 1925 | French |
| Albert Lavignac | 1846 | 1916 | French |
| Franz Ries | 1846 | 1932 | German |
| Paolo Tosti | 1846 | 1916 | Italian |
| Joachim Andersen | 1847 | 1909 | Danish |
| Agathe Backer Grøndahl | 1847 | 1907 | Norwegian |
| Ignacio Cervantes | 1847 | 1905 | Cuban |
| Francis Chassaigne | 1847 | 1922 | Belgian-born French |
| Constantin Dimitrescu | 1847 | 1928 | Romanian |
| Robert Fuchs | 1847 | 1927 | Austrian | Symphony No. 3 in E major, Op. 79; Clarinet Quintet in E♭ major, Op. 102 |
| Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka | 1847 | 1917 | German-Polish |
| Chiquinha Gonzaga | 1847 | 1935 | Brazilian |
| Alexander Mackenzie | 1847 | 1935 | Scottish | The Cricket on the Hearth | Romanticism |
| Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson | 1847 | 1927 | Icelandic |
| Rudolf Tillmetz | 1847 | 1915 | German |
| Agnes Zimmermann | 1847 | 1925 | German |
| Frances Allitsen | 1848 | 1912 | English |
| Henri Duparc | 1848 | 1933 | French |
| Richard Eilenberg | 1848 | 1927 | German |
| František Kmoch | 1848 | 1912 | Czech |
| Otto Malling | 1848 | 1915 | Danish |
| William J. McCoy | 1848 | 1926 | American |
| Hubert Parry | 1848 | 1918 | English | Jerusalem |
| Ludvig Schytte | 1848 | 1909 | Danish |
| Fritz Seitz | 1848 | 1918 | German |
| Johann Baptist Singenberger | 1848 | 1924 | Swiss-American | historicist |
| Catalina Berroa | 1849 | 1911 | Cuban |
| Roberta Geddes-Harvey | 1849 | 1930 | Canadian |
| Ernesto Köhler | 1849 | 1907 | Italian |
| Nanna Liebmann | 1849 | 1935 | Danish |
| Stephanie Wurmbrand-Stuppach | 1849 | 1919 | Hungarian |
| Richard Barth | 1850 | 1923 | German |
| Ludvig Birkedal-Barfod | 1850 | 1937 | Danish |
| Tomás Bretón | 1850 | 1923 | Spanish |
| Richard Heuberger | 1850 | 1914 | Austrian |
| Iver Holter | 1850 | 1941 | Norwegian |
| Alfredo Keil | 1850 | 1907 | Portuguese |
| Peter Lange-Müller | 1850 | 1926 | Danish |
| Alexandre Luigini | 1850 | 1906 | French |
| C. A. Bracco | 1850 | 1903 | Italian |
| Franz Xaver Scharwenka | 1850 | 1924 | German |
| Antonio Scontrino | 1850 | 1922 | Italian |
| Emilio Serrano y Ruiz | 1850 | 1939 | Spanish |
| Hans Sitt | 1850 | 1922 | Czech |
| Heinrich Reimann | 1850 | 1906 | German |
| Alexander Taneyev | 1850 | 1918 | Russian |
| Victor Bendix | 1851 | 1926 | Danish | Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 30 |
| Jan Blockx | 1851 | 1912 | Belgian |
| Mary Grant Carmichael | 1851 | 1935 | English |
| Emanuel Chvála | 1851 | 1924 | Czech |
| Gabrielle Ferrari | 1851 | 1921 | French-Italian |
| Ludvig Hegner | 1851 | 1923 | Danish |
| Vincent d'Indy | 1851 | 1931 | French | String Quartet No. 3; Symphony No. 2 in B♭; Jour d'été à la montagne |
| W. H. Jude | 1851 | 1922 | English |
| André Wormser | 1851 | 1926 | French |
| Josef Bayer | 1852 | 1913 | Austrian | Das Damenduell | Romanticism |
| Frederick Corder | 1852 | 1932 | English | Romanticism |
| Frederic Hymen Cowen | 1852 | 1935 | British | Miniature Variations for orchestra | Romanticism |
| Alfred Grünfeld | 1852 | 1924 | Austrian | Romanticism |
| Francisco Tárrega | 1852 | 1909 | Spanish |
| Hans Huber | 1852 | 1921 | Swiss | Romanticism |
| Helena Munktell | 1852 | 1919 | Swedish | Romanticism |
| Henrique Oswald | 1852 | 1931 | Brazilian |
| Raoul Pugno | 1852 | 1914 | French |
| Émile Sauret | 1852 | 1920 | French | Romanticism |
| Charles Villiers Stanford | 1852 | 1924 | Irish | Six Irish Rhapsodies | Romanticism |
| Teresa Carreño | 1853 | 1917 | Venezuelan | Romanticism |
| Arthur Foote | 1853 | 1937 | American | Romanticism |
| Hugo Richard Jüngst | 1853 | 1923 | German | Romanticism |
| Iwan Knorr | 1853 | 1916 | German | Romanticism |
| Hans von Koessler | 1853 | 1926 | German | Romanticism |
| Charles Malherbe | 1853 | 1911 | French | Romanticism |
| Jean Louis Nicodé | 1853 | 1919 | Prussian | Romanticism |
| Emil Sjögren | 1853 | 1918 | Swedish | Romanticism |
| Arturo Buzzi-Peccia | 1854 | 1943 | Italian | songs and piano works[vague] |
| George Whitefield Chadwick | 1854 | 1931 | American |
| Oscar Fetrás | 1854 | 1931 | German |
| Gerónimo Giménez | 1854 | 1923 | Spanish |
| Pekka Hannikainen | 1854 | 1924 | Finnish |
| Engelbert Humperdinck | 1854 | 1921 | German |
| Leoš Janáček | 1854 | 1928 | Czech | Sinfonietta; Taras Bulba; Káťa Kabanová; The Cunning Little Vixen; The Makropoulos Affair; Glagolitic Mass, 2 string quartets | folk-influenced |
| Alexander Kopylov | 1854 | 1911 | Russian |
| Heinrich Köselitz | 1854 | 1918 | German |
| Moritz Moszkowski | 1854 | 1925 | German-Polish |
| Julie Rivé-King | 1854 | 1937 | American |
| Antonio Smareglia | 1854 | 1929 | Austro-Hungarian |
| John Philip Sousa | 1854 | 1932 | American |
| Bernard Zweers | 1854 | 1924 | Dutch |
| Károly Aggházy | 1855 | 1918 | Hungarian |
| Jørgen Ditleff Bondesen | 1855 | 1939 | Danish |
| Heinrich Grünfeld | 1855 | 1931 | Bohemian-Austrian |
| Nicolaj Hansen | 1855 | 1932 | Danish |
| Josef Klička | 1855 | 1937 | Czech |
| Jean Pietrapertosa | 1855 | 1940 | Italian-French |
| Anatoly Lyadov | 1855 | 1914 | Russian |
| Arnold Mendelssohn | 1855 | 1933 | German | Deutsche Messe, Op. 89; Geistliche Chormusik, Op. 90 |
| Julius Röntgen | 1855 | 1932 | German |
| Richard Sahla | 1855 | 1931 | German |
| Maude Valérie White | 1855 | 1937 | French-born English |
| Guglielmo Zuelli | 1859 | 1941 | Italian |
| Cecilia Arizti | 1856 | 1930 | Cuban |
| Eva Dell'Acqua | 1856 | 1930 | Belgian |
| Kateřina Emingerová | 1856 | 1934 | Czech |
| Robert Fischhof | 1856 | 1918 | Austrian |
| André Gedalge | 1856 | 1926 | French |
| Helen Hopekirk | 1856 | 1945 | Scottish-American |
| Natalia Janotha | 1856 | 1932 | Polish |
| Felix Mottl | 1856 | 1911 | Austrian |
| Gilda Ruta | 1856 | 1932 | Italian |
| Mary Elizabeth Turner Salter | 1856 | 1938 | American |
| Eduard Schütt | 1856 | 1933 | Russian |
| Christian Sinding | 1856 | 1941 | Norwegian | Romanticism |
| George Strong | 1856 | 1948 | American |
| Sergei Taneyev | 1856 | 1915 | Russian | String Quartet No. 6 in B♭ major; Piano Quartet in E major; Piano Quintet in G minor |
| Timothee Adamowski | 1857 | 1943 | Polish-born American |
| Berta Bock | 1857 | 1945 | Romanian |
| Alfred Bruneau | 1857 | 1934 | French |
| Cécile Chaminade | 1857 | 1944 | French | Concertino for Flute |
| Frederic Cliffe | 1857 | 1931 | English | Ode to the North-East Wind | Romanticism |
| Rudolf Dellinger | 1857 | 1910 | German |
| Árpád Doppler | 1857 | 1927 | Hungarian-German |
| Edward Elgar | 1857 | 1934 | English | Symphony No. 1; No. 2; Violin Concerto; Cello Concerto; The Dream of Gerontius; Pomp and Circumstance Marches | Romanticism |
| Ethel R. Harraden | 1857 | 1917 | English |
| Gustav Helsted | 1857 | 1924 | Danish |
| Wilhelm Kienzl | 1857 | 1941 | Austrian |
| Ruggero Leoncavallo | 1857 | 1919 | Italian | Zingari (opera) | verismo |
| František Ondříček | 1857 | 1922 | Czech |
| Rosalind Ellicott | 1857 | 1924 | English |
| Henry Schoenfeld | 1857 | 1936 | American |
| Achille Simonetti | 1857 | 1928 | Italian and English |
| César Thomson | 1857 | 1931 | Belgian |
| Mary Knight Wood | 1857 | 1944 | American |
| Siegfried Alkan | 1858 | 1941 | German |
| Heinrich Berté | 1858 | 1924 | Austrian-Hungarian | Der Glücksnarr |
| Thomas Bidgood | 1858 | 1925 | English |
| Mélanie Bonis | 1858 | 1937 | French |
| Isidore de Lara | 1858 | 1935 | English |
| Catharinus Elling | 1858 | 1942 | Norwegian | Violin Concerto in D minor | Romanticism |
| Richard Franck | 1858 | 1938 | German |
| Guy d'Hardelot | 1858 | 1936 | French |
| Ludvig Holm | 1858 | 1928 | Danish |
| Jenő Hubay | 1858 | 1937 | Hungarian |
| Georges Hüe | 1858 | 1948 | French |
| Lucien-Léon Guillaume Lambert | 1858 | 1945 | French |
| Frank Lynes | 1858 | 1913 | American |
| Giacomo Puccini | 1858 | 1924 | Italian | La fanciulla del West; Turandot | Romanticism; post-romanticism; verismo |
| Catharina van Rennes | 1858 | 1940 | Dutch |
| Risto Savin | 1858 | 1948 | Slovenian |
| Ethel Smyth | 1858 | 1944 | English |
| Stella Stocker | 1858 | 1925 | American |
| Eugène Ysaÿe | 1858 | 1931 | Belgian |
| Gerard von Brucken Fock | 1859 | 1935 | Dutch | De wederkomst van Christus |
| Hedwige Chrétien | 1859 | 1944 | French |
| Laura Sedgwick Collins | 1859 | 1927 | American |
| Teresa Tanco Cordovez de Herrera | 1859 | 1946 | Colombian |
| August Enna | 1859 | 1939 | Danish |
| Josef Bohuslav Foerster | 1859 | 1951 | Czech |
| Narcisa Freixas | 1859 | 1926 | Spanish |
| Arthur Friedheim | 1859 | 1932 | Russian |
| Susie Frances Harrison | 1859 | 1935 | Canadian |
| Basil Harwood | 1859 | 1949 | English |
| Victor Herbert | 1859 | 1924 | Irish-American | The Magic Knight (opera); The Red Mill (musical comedy); A Suite of Serenades |
| Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov | 1859 | 1935 | Russian |
| Sergei Lyapunov | 1859 | 1924 | Russian |
| Ida Georgina Moberg | 1859 | 1947 | Finnish | Symphony |
| Vincenza Garelli della Morea | 1859 | 1924 | Italian |
| William Reed | 1859 | 1945 | Canadian |
| Hope Temple | 1859 | 1938 | Irish |
| Ellen Riley Wright | 1859 | 1904 | English |
| Isaac Albéniz | 1860 | 1909 | Spanish | Iberia | Romanticism |
| Valborg Aulin | 1860 | 1928 | Swedish |
| Gustave Charpentier | 1860 | 1956 | French | Julien |
| Victor Ewald | 1860 | 1935 | Russian |
| Bohumil Fidler | 1860 | 1944 | Czech |
| Pietro Floridia | 1860 | 1932 | Italian |
| Alberto Franchetti | 1860 | 1942 | Italian |
| Axel Gade | 1860 | 1921 | Danish |
| Raoul Gunsbourg | 1860 | 1955 | Romanian |
| Celeste de Longpré Heckscher | 1860 | 1928 | American |
| Edward MacDowell | 1860 | 1908 | American |
| Hugo Wolf | 1860 | 1903 | Austrian |
| Gustav Mahler | 1860 | 1911 | Austrian | No. 5, No. 6, No. 9, No. 10 in F; Das Lied von der Erde; Kindertotenlieder | Romanticism; modernism |
| Ignacy Jan Paderewski | 1860 | 1941 | Polish | Symphony in B minor, Op. 24 |
| Edouard Potjes | 1860 | 1931 | Dutch | At Dawn Eastermorning for orchestra |
| Emil von Reznicek | 1860 | 1945 | Austrian | two symphonies |
| William Wallace | 1860 | 1940 | Scottish |
| Felix Woyrsch | 1860 | 1944 | German |
| Anton Arensky | 1861 | 1906 | Russian | Piano Trio no. 2 in F minor, Op. 73 |
| Spyridon Samaras | 1861 | 1917 | Greek |
| Wilhelm Berger | 1861 | 1911 | German | Symphony No. 2 in B minor, Op. 80; Variations and Fugue on an Original Theme, Op. 97; Serenade for Twelve Winds, Op. 102 | Romanticism |
| Marco Enrico Bossi | 1861 | 1925 | Italian |
| Pierre de Bréville | 1861 | 1949 | French |
| Georgy Catoire | 1861 | 1926 | Russian |
| Florence Everilda Goodeve | 1861 | 1915 | English |
| Charles Martin Loeffler | 1861 | 1935 | French-born American |
| Rudolf Raimann | 1861 | 1913 | Hungarian | Unser Stammhalter (opera) | Romanticism |
| Marie Emmanuel Augustin Savard | 1861 | 1942 | French |
| Václav Suk | 1861 | 1933 | Czech-born Russian |
| Ludwig Thuille | 1861 | 1907 | Austrian |
| Conrad Ansorge | 1862 | 1930 | German |
| Florence Aylward | 1862 | 1950 | English |
| Meliton Balanchivadze | 1862 | 1937 | Georgian |
| Dora Bright | 1862 | 1951 | English | Ballets The Dryad (1907), A Dancer's Adventure (1915) |
| Georgi Conus | 1862 | 1933 | Russian |
| Walter Damrosch | 1862 | 1950 | German-born American | Sonata for violin and piano |
| Arthur De Greef | 1862 | 1940 | Belgian | Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in C minor, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in B flat minor, Sonata in C minor for 2 Pianos |
| Claude Debussy | 1862 | 1918 | French | Clair de lune; Syrinx; La mer; Pelléas et Mélisande; Préludes | impressionism |
| Frederick Delius | 1862 | 1934 | English | A Village Romeo and Juliet; On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring | impressionism |
| Alphons Diepenbrock | 1862 | 1921 | Dutch |
| Stéphan Elmas | 1862 | 1937 | Armenian |
| Maurice Emmanuel | 1862 | 1938 | French |
| Edward German | 1862 | 1936 | English | Merrie England; A Princess of Kensington; Tom Jones |
| Henry Holden Huss | 1862 | 1953 | American |
| Carrie Jacobs-Bond | 1862 | 1946 | American | "I Love You Truly" |
| Mona McBurney | 1862 | 1932 | British |
| August Nölck | 1862 | 1928 | German |
| Ferdinand Pfohl | 1862 | 1949 | German |
| Emil von Sauer | 1862 | 1942 | German |
| Alberto Williams | 1862 | 1952 | Argentine | Poema del Iguazú, nine symphonies | folk-influenced, modernism, impressionism, nationalism, post-Wagnerian |
| Daniel Doura | 1957 | Argentine | Sinfonía argentina |
| Hugo Becker | 1863 | 1941 | German | Cello Concerto |
| Felix Blumenfeld | 1863 | 1931 | Russian |
| Charles Bordes | 1863 | 1909 | French |
| Maria Chefaliady-Taban | 1863 | 1932 | Romanian |
| Enrique Fernández Arbós | 1863 | 1939 | Spanish |
| Abbie Gerrish-Jones | 1863 | 1929 | American |
| Helen Francis Hood | 1863 | 1949 | American |
| Hugo Kaun | 1863 | 1932 | German | Symphony No. 3 in E minor, Op. 96 |
| Izabella Kuliffay | 1863 | 1945 | Hungarian | Magyar suite |
| Pietro Mascagni | 1863 | 1945 | Italian | Amica | verismo |
| Emánuel Moór | 1863 | 1931 | Hungarian |
| Cornélie van Oosterzee | 1863 | 1943 | Dutch |
| Horatio Parker | 1863 | 1919 | American |
| Gabriel Pierné | 1863 | 1937 | French | Cydalise et le Chèvre-pied; Ramuntcho |
| Alfred Reisenauer | 1863 | 1907 | German |
| Vladimir Sokalsky | 1863 | 1919 | Russian |
| Arthur Somervell | 1863 | 1937 | English |
| Jāzeps Vītols | 1863 | 1948 | Latvian |
| Eugen d'Albert | 1864 | 1932 | German, Swiss; Scottish-born | Tiefland | Romanticism |
| Hugh Blair | 1864 | 1932 | English | Magnificat; Nunc Dimittis for double choir |
| Hjalmar Borgstrøm | 1864 | 1925 | Norwegian | Piano Concerto in C, Op. 22, Violin Concerto in G major Op. 25, Piano Quintet in F Op. 31, |
| Ricardo Castro | 1864 | 1907 | Mexican |
| Harry Falkenau | 1864 | 1907 | American |
| Eleanor Everest Freer | 1864 | 1942 | American |
| Louis Glass | 1864 | 1936 | Danish |
| Alexander Gretchaninov | 1864 | 1956 | Russian |
| Peter Griesbacher | 1864 | 1933 | German | historicist |
| Johan Halvorsen | 1864 | 1935 | Norwegian | Norwegian rhapsodies, three symphonies | Romanticism, French influence |
| Sakunosuke Koyama | 1864 | 1927 | Japanese |
| Alessandro Longo | 1864 | 1945 | Italian |
| Alberto Nepomuceno | 1864 | 1920 | Brazilian |
| Guy Ropartz | 1864 | 1955 | French | Le Pays | impressionism |
| Richard Strauss | 1864 | 1949 | German | An Alpine Symphony; Der Rosenkavalier; Oboe Concerto; Salome; Metamorphosen | Romanticism |
| Giovanni Tebaldini | 1864 | 1952 | Italian | historicist |
| August de Boeck | 1865 | 1937 | Belgian | impressionism |
| Herbert Brewer | 1865 | 1928 | English |
| Eduardo di Capua | 1865 | 1917 | Italian |
| Paul Dukas | 1865 | 1935 | French | La Péri (ballet) |
| Herbert J. Ellis | 1865 | 1903 | English |
| Paul Gilson | 1865 | 1942 | Belgian | impressionism |
| Alexander Glazunov | 1865 | 1936 | Russian | Symphony No. 4 and No. 5; The Seasons (ballet); Violin Concerto; Saxophone Concerto | Romanticism |
| Alfred Hollins | 1865 | 1942 | English |
| Borghild Holmsen | 1865 | 1938 | Norwegian |
| Gustav Jenner | 1865 | 1920 | German |
| Robert Kahn | 1865 | 1951 | German |
| Emil Kauppi | 1865 | 1930 | Finnish |
| Albéric Magnard | 1865 | 1914 | French | Guercoeur |
| Enric Morera i Viura | 1865 | 1942 | Spanish |
| Carl Nielsen | 1865 | 1931 | Danish | Symphony No. 4; No. 5; Maskarade; Clarinet Concerto |
| Giacomo Orefice | 1865 | 1922 | Italian |
| Jean Sibelius | 1865 | 1957 | Finnish | Symphonies No. 2, No. 4, No. 5, No. 7; Violin Concerto; String Quartet in D minor, Voces intimae; Pelléas et Mélisande; Pohjola's Daughter; Luonnotar; The Oceanides; Tapiola; The Tempest |
| Amanda Christina Elizabeth Aldridge | 1866 | 1956 | British |
| Tor Aulin | 1866 | 1914 | Swedish |
| John Clare Billing | 1866 | 1955 | English |
| Ferruccio Busoni | 1866 | 1924 | Italian | Fantasia contrappuntistica; Turandot Suite; Piano Concerto |
| Francesco Cilea | 1866 | 1950 | Italian | L'arlesiana; Adriana Lecouvreur |
| Gustave Doret | 1866 | 1943 | Swiss |
| Vasily Kalinnikov | 1866 | 1901 | Russian |
| Clara Anna Korn | 1866 | 1941 | American | Piano Concerto |
| Laura Lemon | 1866 | 1924 | Canadian |
| Vladimir Rebikov | 1866 | 1920 | Russian | Yolka (opera), Basni v litzakh (9 dramatic fables for children) |
| Caro Roma | 1866 | 1937 | American |
| Erik Satie | 1866 | 1925 | French | Gymnopédies; Relâche; Socrate | minimalism, avant-garde, furniture music |
| Johann Strauss III | 1866 | 1939 | Austrian |
| Samuel Maykapar | 1867 | 1938 | Russian |
| Amy Beach | 1867 | 1944 | American |
| Margherita Galeotti | 1867 | 1912 | Italian | Piano Trio in D minor |
| Umberto Giordano | 1867 | 1948 | Italian | Siberia; Madame Sans-Gêne; La cena delle beffe | verismo |
| Enrique Granados | 1867 | 1916 | Spanish | Goyescas (piano suite); Goyescas |
| Fini Henriques | 1867 | 1940 | Danish |
| Amy Elsie Horrocks | 1867 | 1920 | English |
| Wilhelm Peterson-Berger | 1867 | 1942 | Swedish | Frösöblomster | Romantic nationalism |
| Charles Koechlin | 1867 | 1950 | French | Les Bandar-log; Les Heures persanes | eclectic, atonality, twelve-tone technique, serialism, polytonality, quartal and quintal harmony |
| Ferdinand Küchler | 1867 | 1937 | German |
| Margaret Ruthven Lang | 1867 | 1972 | American |
| Jules Mouquet | 1867 | 1946 | French |
| Karel Navrátil | 1867 | 1936 | Czech |
| Česlovas Sasnauskas | 1867 | 1916 | Lithuanian |
| Martinus Sieveking | 1867 | 1950 | Dutch |
| Gustav Strube | 1867 | 1953 | German |
| Georges Martin Witkowski | 1867 | 1943 | French |
| Granville Bantock | 1868 | 1946 | British | Omar Khayyám, Hebridean Symphony | Romanticism, often with an exotic flavour |
| Hermann Bischoff | 1868 | 1936 | German |
| František Drdla | 1868 | 1944 | Czech |
| Carl Frühling | 1868 | 1937 | Austrian | Suite in F major, Op. 36 |
| Alberto Jonás | 1868 | 1943 | Spanish |
| Scott Joplin | 1868 | 1917 | American | Treemonisha | ragtime |
| Frederic Lamond | 1868 | 1948 | Scottish |
| Signe Lund | 1868 | 1950 | Norwegian | Valse de Concert Op. 40 |
| Hamish MacCunn | 1868 | 1916 | Scottish |
| John Blackwood McEwen | 1868 | 1948 | Scottish |
| Oskar Merikanto | 1868 | 1924 | Finnish |
| Vittorio Monti | 1868 | 1922 | Italian | Csárdás |
| Jan Brandts Buys | 1868 | 1933 | Dutch-Austrian |
| Lodewijk Mortelmans | 1868 | 1952 | Belgian |
| José Vianna da Motta | 1868 | 1948 | Portuguese |
| Annie Patterson | 1868 | 1934 | Irish |
| Max von Schillings | 1868 | 1933 | German |
| Tokichi Setoguchi | 1868 | 1941 | Japanese |
| Leone Sinigaglia | 1868 | 1944 | Italian |
| Haldane Stewart | 1868 | 1942 | English |
| Joséphine Boulay | 1869 | 1925 | French |
| Vassily Brandt | 1869 | 1923 | Russian |
| Julius Conus | 1869 | 1942 | Russian |
| Walford Davies | 1869 | 1941 | British |
| Christian Geisler | 1869 | 1951 | Danish |
| Alfred Hill | 1869 | 1960 | Australian |
| Armas Järnefelt | 1869 | 1958 | Finnish |
| Vasily Kalafati | 1869 | 1942 | Russian |
| John N. Klohr | 1869 | 1956 | American | Billboard March |
| Demetrios Lialios | 1869 | 1940 | Greek | chamber music[vague] |
| Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński | 1869 | 1928 | Polish |
| Hans Pfitzner | 1869 | 1949 | German | Palestrina | post-romanticism |
| Maria Antonietta Picconi | 1869 | 1926 | Italian |
| Albert Roussel | 1869 | 1937 | French | Symphony No. 3 and No. 4; Bacchus et Ariane (ballet) | neoclassicism |
| Patty Stair | 1869 | 1926 | American |
| Ludvík Čelanský | 1870 | 1931 | Czech |
| Cornelis Dopper | 1870 | 1939 | Dutch |
| Henry Eichheim | 1870 | 1942 | American |
| Leopold Godowsky | 1870 | 1938 | Polish | Studies on Chopin's Études; Passacaglia; Triakontameron |
| Viktor Kalinnikov | 1870 | 1927 | Russian |
| Nobu Kōda | 1870 | 1946 | Japanese | Violin Sonata in E-flat major; Violin Sonata in D minor |
| Arseny Koreshchenko | 1870 | 1921 | Russian |
| Zygmunt Stojowski | 1870 | 1946 | Polish |
| Franz Lehár | 1870 | 1948 | Hungarian | Der Graf von Luxemburg, Der Zarewitsch | operettas |
| Vítězslav Novák | 1870 | 1949 | Czech |
| Arthur Pryor | 1870 | 1942 | American |
| Joseph Ryelandt | 1870 | 1965 | Belgian |
| Rosario Scalero | 1870 | 1954 | Italian |
| Florent Schmitt | 1870 | 1958 | French | La Tragédie de Salomé |
| Mon Schjelderup | 1870 | 1934 | Norwegian | Sonata in B minor, Op. 12 |
| Oscar Straus | 1870 | 1954 | Austrian | Ein Walzertraum; The Chocolate Soldier |
| Charles Tournemire | 1870 | 1939 | French | L'Orgue Mystique |
| Louis Vierne | 1870 | 1937 | French |
| Ernest Walker | 1870 | 1949 | Indian-born English |
| Giacomo Balla | 1871 | 1958 | Italian |
| Henry Kimball Hadley | 1871 | 1937 | American |
| Adolphe Biarent | 1871 | 1916 | Belgian |
| Frederick Converse | 1871 | 1940 | American | The Mystic Trumpeter |
| Hélène-Frédérique de Faye-Jozin | 1871 | 1942 | French |
| Leon Jessel | 1871 | 1942 | German | The Parade of the Tin Soldiers |
| Ruben Liljefors | 1871 | 1936 | Swedish |
| Zakaria Paliashvili | 1871 | 1933 | Georgian | Operas Abesalom da Eteri, Daisi, Latavra |
| Oreste Ravanello | 1871 | 1938 | Italian |
| Daniel Alomía Robles | 1871 | 1942 | Peruvian |
| Alexander Spendiaryan | 1871 | 1936 | Armenian |
| Wilhelm Stenhammar | 1871 | 1927 | Swedish | Symphony No. 2 | Romanticism |
| Alexander von Zemlinsky | 1871 | 1942 | Austrian | Lyric Symphony; String Quartet No. 2; Der Zwerg | post-Romanticism, New Objectivity, neoclassicism |
| Hugo Alfvén | 1872 | 1960 | Swedish | Symphony No. 4: From the Outermost Skerries; Midsummer Vigil | Romanticism |
| Eyvind Alnæs | 1872 | 1932 | Norwegian | two symphonies, Piano Concerto |
| Frederic Austin | 1872 | 1952 | English | Symphony in E minor |
| Stanislav Binički | 1872 | 1942 | Serbian | Marš na Drinu |
| Henri Büsser | 1872 | 1973 | French |
| Julius Fučík | 1872 | 1916 | Czech | Entrance of the Gladiators |
| Rubin Goldmark | 1872 | 1936 | American |
| Siegmund von Hausegger | 1872 | 1948 | Austrian |
| Ezra Jenkinson | 1872 | 1947 | English |
| Paul Juon | 1872 | 1940 | Russian |
| Joan Lamote de Grignon | 1872 | 1949 | Spanish |
| Lorenzo Perosi | 1872 | 1956 | Italian | Il Giudizio Universale (oratorio) | historicist |
| William H. Potstock | 1872 | 1941 | American |
| Albert Seitz | 1872 | 1937 | French |
| Bernhard Sekles | 1872 | 1934 | German |
| Alexander Scriabin | 1872 | 1915 | Russian | The Poem of Ecstasy; Prometheus: The Poem of Fire; piano sonatas nos. 4–10 | mysticism |
| Sergei Vasilenko | 1872 | 1956 | Russian |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | 1872 | 1958 | English | A Sea Symphony; A London Symphony; Sinfonia antartica; Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; Fantasia on Greensleeves; The Lark Ascending | impressionism, folk-influenced |
| Salvator Léonardi | 1872 | 1938 | Italian |
| Emil Votoček | 1872 | 1950 | Czech |
| Modest Altschuler | 1873 | 1963 | Russian |
| Dimitri Arakishvili | 1873 | 1953 | Georgian |
| William Henry Bell | 1873 | 1946 | English |
| Blagoje Bersa | 1873 | 1934 | Croatian |
| André Bloch | 1873 | 1960 | French |
| Lucien Capet | 1873 | 1928 | French | Poème for violin and orchestra |
| Anna Cramer | 1873 | 1968 | Dutch |
| Leo Fall | 1873 | 1925 | Austrian | Madame Pompadour (operetta) | Romanticism |
| Joseph Jongen | 1873 | 1953 | Belgian | Symphonie Concertante for organ and orchestra |
| Emma Lomax | 1873 | 1963 | English |
| Celeste Jaguaribe de Matos Faria | 1873 | 1938 | Brazilian |
| María de las Mercedes Adam de Aróstegui | 1873 | 1957 | Cuban |
| Mary Carr Moore | 1873 | 1957 | American |
| Henri Rabaud | 1873 | 1949 | French |
| Walter Rabl | 1873 | 1940 | Austrian | Romanticism |
| Pascual Marquina Narro | 1873 | 1948 | Spanish |
| Sergei Rachmaninoff | 1873 | 1943 | Russian | Piano Concerto No. 2 and No. 3; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; Symphony No. 2; Prelude in C-sharp minor | Romanticism, post-romanticism |
| Max Reger | 1873 | 1916 | German | organ music, Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart, Hebbel Requiem | historicism, modernism |
| Jean Roger-Ducasse | 1873 | 1954 | French |
| Arnold Safroni-Middleton | 1873 | 1950 | British |
| Nikolai Tcherepnin | 1873 | 1945 | Russian |
| David Vaughan Thomas | 1873 | 1934 | Welsh |
| Pol Albrecht | 1874 | 1975 | Luxembourgish |
| Eugénie-Victorine-Jeanne Alombert | 1874 | 1964 | French | Menuet champêtre |
| Ernest Austin | 1874 | 1947 | English | Symphony | atonality, Romanticism, folk-influenced, impressionism |
| Edward Bairstow | 1874 | 1946 | English |
| Ethel Barns | 1874 | 1948 | English |
| Giulio Bas | 1874 | 1929 | Italian | Organ Sonata in F, XVI Preludi-Corali for organ |
| George Botsford | 1874 | 1949 | American | ragtime |
| Katharine Emily Eggar | 1874 | 1961 | English |
| Edmund Eysler | 1874 | 1949 | Austrian |
| Reynaldo Hahn | 1874 | 1947 | Venezuelan/French | Ciboulette (Opera) |
| Carl Cohn Haste | 1874 | 1939 | Danish |
| Gustav Holst | 1874 | 1934 | English | The Planets; Beni Mora; Egdon Heath |
| Charles Ives | 1874 | 1954 | American | The Unanswered Question; Central Park in the Dark; Variations on America; Three Places in New England; Concord Sonata | avant-garde, folk-influenced |
| Serge Koussevitzky | 1874 | 1951 | Russian |
| Henri Marteau | 1874 | 1934 | French |
| Oskar Nedbal | 1874 | 1930 | Czech |
| František Neumann | 1874 | 1929 | Czech |
| Arnold Schoenberg | 1874 | 1951 | Austrian | Gurre-Lieder; Verklärte Nacht; Variations for Orchestra; Pierrot Lunaire; Five Pieces for Orchestra; Violin Concerto | Romanticism, later expressionism and serialism; founder of the Second Viennese School |
| Josef Suk | 1874 | 1935 | Czech | Asrael Symphony; A Winter's Tale |
| Franz Schmidt | 1874 | 1939 | Austrian | The Book with Seven Seals |
| Franco Alfano | 1875 | 1954 | Italian |
| Julián Carrillo | 1875 | 1965 | Mexican | Preludio a Colón; Misa de la Restauración dedicada a Juan XXIII | microtonal music |
| Samuel Coleridge-Taylor | 1875 | 1912 | English | The Song of Hiawatha (cantata) |
| Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis | 1875 | 1911 | Lithuanian |
| Ernesto De Curtis | 1875 | 1937 | Italian |
| Reinhold Glière | 1875 | 1956 | Russian | Horn Concerto; The Red Poppy | Romanticism |
| Alexander Goldenweiser | 1875 | 1961 | Russian |
| Dobri Hristov | 1875 | 1941 | Bulgarian |
| Albert Ketelbey | 1875 | 1959 | English |
| Jenő Huszka | 1875 | 1960 | Hungarian |
| Fritz Kreisler | 1875 | 1962 | Austrian | Caprice Viennois; Liebesfreud; Liebesleid; Schön Rosmarin |
| Marcel Labey | 1875 | 1968 | French |
| Edgar Manas | 1875 | 1964 | Turkish |
| Erkki Melartin | 1875 | 1937 | Finnish |
| Adolf Mišek | 1875 | 1955 | Czech |
| Maurice Ravel | 1875 | 1937 | French | Daphnis et Chloé; Valses nobles et sentimentales; Rapsodie espagnole; Tzigane; Piano Concerto; Bolero; piano music | impressionism, neoclassicism |
| Henriette Renié | 1875 | 1956 | French |
| Cyril Rootham | 1875 | 1938 | English |
| Lucia Contini Anselmi | 1876 | 1913 | Italian |
| Hakon Børresen | 1876 | 1954 | Danish | The Royal Guest | romanticism |
| Havergal Brian | 1876 | 1972 | English | Gothic Symphony |
| Edgar Bara | 1876 | 1962 | French |
| John Alden Carpenter | 1876 | 1951 | American |
| Pablo Casals |