Chronological list of Czech classical composers

List of selected composers born or trained in the Czech lands. The periods need to be taken with some reserve, because some composers, for example Jan Ladislav Dussek, composed music that was way ahead of their time and for example Antonín Dvořák himself was a romantic-classicist synthesist, so he does not have a perfect place in the list.

Renaissance

• Jan Blahoslav (1523–1571)
• Jan Simonides Montanus (1530-1540 to 1587)
• Simon Bar Jona Madelka (1530-1550 to ~1598)
• Jiří Rychnovský (1545–1616)
• Jan Trojan Turnovský (before 1550-1606)
• Pavel Spongopaeus Jistebnický (1560–1616)
• Kryštof Harantz Polžic a Bezdružic (1564–1621)

Baroque

• Jan Campanus Vodňanský (1572–1622)
• Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic (~1600-1676)
• Alberik Mazák (1609–1661)
• Pavel Josef Vejvanovský (~1640-1693)
• Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644–1704) (born Stráž pod Ralskem, 50 miles n. of Prague)
• Václav Karel Holan Rovenský (~1644-1718)
• Jan Ignác František Vojta (cca 1660-before 1725)
• Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679–1745)
• Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský (1684–1742)
• Jan Josef Ignác Brentner (1689–1742)
• Šimon Brixi (1693–1735)
• František Antonín Václav Míča (1694–1744)
• František Ignác Tůma (1704–1774)

Classical era

• Johann Baptist Georg Neruda (born Jan Křtitel Jiří Neruda; approx 1707-1780)
• František Benda (a.k.a. Franz Benda; 1709–1786)
• Franz Xaver Richter (born in Moravia, 1709–1789)
• Christoph Willibald Gluck (for whom Czech was the first language) (1714–1787)
• Jan Václav Antonín Stamic (generally known as Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz ; 1717–1757)
• Jiří Antonín Benda (a.k.a. George Benda; brother of Franz Benda; 1722–1795)
• Jiří Ignác Linek (1725–1791)
• František Xaver Pokorný (1729–1794)
• Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729–1774)
• František Kočvara (1730–1791)
• František Xaver Dušek (1731–1799)
• František Brixi (1732–1771)
• Josef Mysliveček (1737–1781)
• Johann Baptist Wanhal (1739–1813; born Jan Ignatius Vaňhal)
• Václav Pichl (1741–1805)
• Jiří Družecký (1745–1819)
• Karel Stamic (1745–1801)
• Jan Václav Stich (1746–1803)
• Josef Fiala (1748–1816)
• Antonín Kraft (1749–1820)
• Antonio Rosetti (born Anton Rössler) (circa 1750-1792)
• Václav Mašek (1755–1833)
• Pavel Vranický (1756–1808)
• Franz Krommer (1759–1831; born as František Kramář)
• Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760–1812)
• Antonín Vranický (1761–1820)
• Jakub Jan Ryba (1765–1815)

Romantic

• Antonín Rejcha (1770–1836)
• Wenzeslaus Matiegka (1773–1830)
• Václav Jan Tomášek (1774–1850)
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837)
• František Doubravský (1790–1867)
• Carl Czerny (for whom Czech was the first language) (1791–1857)
• Jan Václav Voříšek (1791–1825)
• František Škroup (1801–1862)
• Alexander Dreyschock (1818-1869)
• Pavel Křížkovský (1820–1885)
• Hans Hampel (1822–1884)
• Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884)
• Vilém Blodek (1834–1874)
• Karel Bendl (1838–1897)
• Zdeněk Fibich (1850–1900)
• Wilhelm Kuhe (1823–1912)
• Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904)

Modern/Contemporary

• Leoš Janáček (1854–1928)
• Bohumil Fidler (1860–1944)
• Josef Bohuslav Foerster (1859–1951)
• Gustav Mahler (1860–1911; born in Kaliště, Bohemia)
• Emil Votoček (1862–1950)
• František Drdla (1868–1944)
• Ludvík Čelanský (1870–1931)
• Vítězslav Novák (1870–1949)
• Julius Fučík (1872–1916)
• Josef Suk (1874–1935)
• Jan Kubelík (1880–1940)
• Ladislav Vycpálek (1882–1969)
• Václav Kaprál (1889–1947)
• Bohuslav Martinů (1890–1959)
• Otakar Jeremiáš (1892–1962)
• Alois Hába (1893–1973)
• Ervin Schulhoff (1894–1942)
• Pavel Bořkovec (1894–1972)
• Sláva Vorlová (1894–1973)
• František Brož (1896–1962)
• Jaromír Weinberger (1896–1967)
• Viktor Ullmann (1898–1944)
• Pavel Haas (1899–1944)
• Iša Krejčí (1904–1968)
• Theodor Schaefer (1904–1969)
• Jaroslav Ježek (1906–1942)
• Václav Trojan (1907–1983)
• Miloslav Kabeláč (1908–1979)
• Jan Zdeněk Bartoš (1908–1981)
• Klement Slavický (1910–1999)
• Rafael Kubelík (1914–1996)
• Jan Hanuš (1915–2004)
• Emil Hlobil (1901–1987)
• Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915–1940)
• Gideon Klein (1919–1945)
• Jiří Pauer (1919–2007)
• Ludvík Podéšť (1921–1968)
• Jan Novák (1921–1984)
• Zdeněk Liška (1922–1983)
• Radim Drejsl (1923–1953)
• Jiří Hudec (1923–1996)
• Lubor Bárta (1928–1972)
• Miloslav Ištvan (1928–1990)
• Luboš Fišer (1935–1999)
• Elena Petrová (1929–2002)
• Karel Husa (born 1921)
• Ilja Hurník (1922–2013)
• Viktor Kalabis (1923–2006)
• Zdeněk Lukáš (1928–2007)
• Antonín Tučapský (born 1928)
• Petr Eben (1929–2007)
• Marek Kopelent (born 1932)
• Jan Klusák (born 1934)
• Jiří Bárta (1935–2012)
• Jiří Teml (born 1935)
• Tomáš Svoboda (born 1939)
• Jaroslav Krček (born 1939)
• Ivana Loudová (born 1941)
• Otomar Kvěch (born 1950)