List of Composers to Study (by era):

Renaissance- Oswald von Wolkerstein- Pierre de La Rue- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina- William Byrd- Giovanni Gabrieli- Thomas CampionBaroque- Claudio Monteverdi- Girolamo Frescobaldi- Francesco Cavalli- Jean-Baptiste Lully- Johann Pachelbel- Antonio Vivaldi- Johann Sebastian Bach- George Frederic HandelClassical- Domenico Scarlatti- Joseph Haydn- Luigi Boccherini- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart- Ludwig van Beethoven- Franz SchubertRomantic- Ludwig van Beethoven- Niccolo Paganini- Carl Maria von Weber- Franz Schubert- Johann Strauss I- Felix Mendelssohn- Frederic Chopin- Robert Schumann- Franz Liszt- Richard Vagner- Giuseppe Verdi- Jacques Offenbach- Johann Strauss II- Johannes Brahms- Camille Saint-Sens- Geoges Bizet- Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky- Antonin Dvorak- Edvard Greig- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov- Giacoma Puccini- Gustav Mahler- Jean Sibelius- Franz Lehar- Alexander Scriabin- Sergei Rachmaninoff20th Century- Gustav Mahler- Claude Debussy- Richard Strauss- Jean Sibelius- Arnold Schoenburg- Charles Ives- Maurice Ravel- Bela Bartok- Igor Stravinsky- Anton Webern- Edgar Varese- Alban Berg- Sergei Prokofiev- Arthur Honegger- George Gershwin- Aaron Copland- Dmitri Shostakovich- John Cage- Leonard Bernstein- Pierre Boulez- Karlheinz Stockhausen- Alfred Schnittke- Arvo Part- Philip Glass

Renaissance- Ballade- Carol- Chanson- Galliard- Intermedio- Laude- Madrigal- Madrigal Comedy- Madrigale spirituale- Mass (Cyclic, Parody, Paraphrase, Cantus firmus)- Motet- Motet-chanson- Opera- Pavane- Ricercar- Tiento- Toccata

Baroque- Allemande- Cantata- Chaconne- Concerto (grosse, solo)- Fugue- Gavotte- Gigue- Mass- Minuet- Opera (buffa, seria)- Oratorio- Partita- Passacaglia- Prelude- Sarabande- Sinfonia- Sonata (flute, trio)- Suite

Classical and Romantic- Bagatelle- Ballade- Ballet (classical)- Carol- Concerto- Etude- Impromptu- Intermezzo- Lied- Mass- Mazurka- March- Music hall- Nocturne- Opera (Ballad, buffa, comique, seria, operetta, overture, singpiel, zarzuela, concert aria)- Oratorio- Polonaise- Prelude- Quartet- Quintet