This is a chronological list of classical music composers from Italy, whose notability is established by reliable sources in other Wikipedia articles.

Medieval

• Maestro Piero (before 1300 – c. 1350) • Gherardello da Firenze (c. 1320/1325 – c. 1362) • Jacopo da Bologna (fl. 1340 – 1360) • Giovanni da Cascia (Giovanni da Firenze) (14th century) • Vincenzo da Rimini (14th century) • Lorenzo da Firenze (Lorenzo Masini) (died 1372/1373) • Francesco Landini (c. 1325/1335 – 1397) • Donato da Cascia (fl. c. 1350 – 1370) • Bartolino da Padova (fl. c. 1365 – c. 1405) • Niccolò da Perugia (later 14th century) • Johannes Ciconia (c. 1370 – 1412) • Antonello da Caserta (late 14th – early 15th century) • Matteo da Perugia (fl. 1400–1416)

Renaissance

• Zacara da Teramo (c. 1350/1360 – c. 1413/1416) • Paolo da Firenze (c. 1355 – c. 1436) • Giovanni Mazzuoli (c. 1360 – 1426) • Antonio da Cividale (fl. 1392–1421) • Bartolomeo da Bologna (de Bononia) (fl. 1405–1427) • Nicolaus Zacharie (c. 1400 – 1466) • Johannes de Quadris (before 1410 – c. 1457) • Franchinus Gaffurius (1451–1522) • Marchetto Cara (c. 1465 – 1525) • Giacomo Fogliano (1468–1548) • Michele Pesenti (c. 1470 – after 1524) • Bartolomeo Tromboncino (c. 1470 – c. 1535) • Vincenzo Capirola (1474 – after 1548) • Bartolomeo degli Organi (1474–1539) • Filippo de Lurano (c. 1475–after 1520) • Francesco Spinacino (late 15th century – after 1507) • Costanzo Festa (c. 1485/1490 – 1545) • Joan Ambrosio Dalza (fl. 1508) • Gasparo Alberti (c. 1489 – c. 1560) • Bernardo Pisano (1490–1548) • Sebastiano Festa (c. 1490/1495 – 1524) • Francesco de Layolle (dell'Aiolle) (1492 – c. 1540) • Francesco da Milano (1497–1543) • Matteo Rampollini (1497–1553) • Francesco Corteccia (1502–1571) • Alfonso dalla Viola (1508 – c. 1573) • Vincenzo Ruffo (c. 1508 – 1587) • Luigi Dentice (c. 1510 – 1566) • Giovanni Domenico da Nola (c. 1510 – 1592) • Claudio Veggio (born c. 1510) • Domenico Ferrabosco (1513–1574) • Nicolao Dorati (c. 1513 – 1593) • Antonio Scandello (1517–1580) • Gioseffo Zarlino (1517–1590) • Francesco Cellavenia (fl. 1538–1563) • Giovanni Animuccia (c. 1520 – 1571) • Vincenzo Galilei (c. 1520 – 1591) • Francesco Portinaro (c. 1520 – c. 1578) • Hoste da Reggio (Bartolomeo Torresano) (c. 1520 – 1569) • Giovanni Maria de Rossi (c. 1522–1590) • Girolamo Parabosco (c. 1524 – 1577) • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525 – 1594) • Baldassare Donato (1525/1530 – 1603) • Ippolito Ciera (fl. 1546 – 1561) • Annibale Padovano (1527–1575) • Costanzo Porta (c. 1529 – 1601) • Giorgio Mainerio (c. 1530/40 – 1582) • Giammateo Asola (c. 1532 – 1609) • Andrea Gabrieli (1532/1533 – 1595) • Claudio Merulo (1533–1604) • Lodovico Agostini (1534–1590) • Innocentio Alberti (c. 1535 – 1615) • Marc'Antonio Ingegneri (c. 1535 – 1592) • Rocco Rodio (c. 1535 – after 1615) • Annibale Stabile (c. 1535 – 1595) • Pietro Taglia (fl. c. 1555 – 1565) • Filippo Azzaiolo (fl. 1557 – 1569) • Antonio Valente (fl. 1565 – 1580) • Alessandro Striggio (c. 1536/1537 – 1592) • Fabrizio Dentice (c. 1539 – c. 1581) • Vincenzo Bellavere (c. 1540/1541 – 1587) • Giovanni Ferretti (c. 1540 – after 1609) • Stefano Rossetto (fl. 1560–1580) • Francesco Rovigo (1540/1541 – 1597) • Gioseppe Caimo (c. 1545 – 1584) • Luzzasco Luzzaschi (c. 1545 – 1607) • Giovanni Giacomo de Antiquis (d. 1608) • Girolamo Dalla Casa (fl. from 1568; died 1601) • Francesco Soriano (c. 1548 – 1621) • Orazio Vecchi (1550–1605) • Benedetto Pallavicino (c. 1551 – 1601) • Luca Marenzio (c. 1553 – 1599) • Paolo Bellasio (1554–1594) • Girolamo Diruta (c. 1554 – after 1610) • Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi (c. 1554 – 1609) • Carlo Gesualdo (1566–1613)

Baroque

• Emilio de' Cavalieri (1550–1602) • Giulio Caccini (1551–1618) • Paolo Quagliati (c. 1555 – 1628) • Giovanni Croce (1557–1609) • Alfonso Fontanelli (1557–1622) • Giovanni Gabrieli (1557–1612) • Giovanni Bassano (c. 1558 – 1617) • Felice Anerio (1560–1614) • Giulio Belli (c. 1560 – 1621 or later) • Giovanni Bernardino Nanino (c. 1560 – 1623) • Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (c. 1560 – 1627) • Jacopo Peri (1561–1633) • Ascanio Mayone (c. 1565 – 1627) • Alessandro Piccinini (1566–1638) • Giovanni Francesco Anerio (c. 1567 – 1630) • Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) • Adriano Banchieri (1568–1634) • Bartolomeo Barbarino (c. 1568 – 1617 or later) • Giovanni Matteo Faà di Bruno • Giovanni Paolo Cima (c. 1570 – 1622) • Salamone Rossi (c. 1570 – 1630) • Claudia Sessa (c. 1570 – c. 1617/1619) • Giovanni Battista Fontana (c. 1571 – c. 1630) • Giovanni Picchi (1571/1572–1643) • Cesarina Ricci de Tingoli (born c. 1573, fl. 1597) • Claudio Pari (1574–after 1619) • Francesco Rasi (1574–1621) • Vittoria Aleotti (c. 1575 – after 1620) • Ignazio Donati (c. 1575 – 1638) • Michelagnolo Galilei (1575–1631) • Giovanni Priuli (c. 1575 – 1626) • Giovanni Maria Trabaci (c. 1575 – 1647) • Antonio Brunelli (1577–1630) • Agostino Agazzari (1578–1640) • Vincenzo Ugolini (c. 1580 – 1638) • Gregorio Allegri (1582–1652) • Severo Bonini (1582–1663) • Marco da Gagliano (1582–1643) • Sigismondo d'India (c. 1582 – 1629) • Giovanni Valentini (c. 1582 – 1649) • Paolo Agostino (c. 1583 – 1629) • Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643) • Antonio Cifra (1584–1629) • Giovanni Battista Rossi • Andrea Falconieri (1585/1586–1656) • Alessandro Grandi (1586–1630) • Stefano Landi (c. 1586 – 1639) • Claudio Saracini (1586–1630) • Francesca Caccini (1587 – c. 1640) • Francesco Turini (1589–1656) • Dario Castello (c. 1590 – c. 1658) • Giovanni Martino Cesare (c. 1590 – 1667) • Carlo Milanuzzi (c. 1590 – c. 1647) • Domenico Mazzocchi (1592–1665) • Francesco Manelli (1594–1667) • Biagio Marini (1594–1663) • Tarquinio Merula (1594/1595–1665) • Antonio Maria Abbatini (c. 1595 – 1680) • Giovanni Battista Buonamente (c. 1595 – 1642) • Giovanni Rovetta (c. 1596 – 1668) • Virgilio Mazzocchi (1597–1646) • Luigi Rossi (c. 1597 – 1653) • Giuseppe Galli • Giovanni Battista Fasolo (c. 1598–c. 1664/1665) • Giovanni Felice Sances (c. 1600 – 1679) • Marco Scacchi (c. 1600 – 1681/1687) • Michelangelo Rossi (c. 1601 – 1656) • Francesco Cavalli (1602–1676) • Marco Marazzoli (c. 1602 – 1662) • Benedetto Ferrari (c. 1603 – 1681) • Francesco Foggia (1603–1688) • Giuseppe Allevi (1603 or 1604-1670) • Marco Uccellini (1603/1610–1680) • Orazio Benevoli (1605–1672) • Antonio Bertali (1605–1669) • Giacomo Carissimi (1605–1674) • Francesco Sacrati (1605–1650) • Giovanni Antonio Rigatti (c. 1613 – 1648) • Angelo Michele Bartolotti (c. 1615 – 1696) • Francesco Corbetta (c. 1615 – 1681) • Giovanni Bettini • Maurizio Cazzati (1616–1678) • Giuseppe Olivieri • Barbara Strozzi (1619–1677) • Isabella Leonarda (1620–1704) • Antonio Cesti (1623–1669) • Bernardo Storace (1637–1707) • Bernardo Pasquini (1637–1710) • Jacopo Melani (1623–1676) • Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli (1624–1687) • Francesco Provenzale (1624–1704) • Giovanni Maria Scorzuto • Giovanni Legrenzi (1626–1690) • Giuseppe Scarani (fl. 1628 - fl. 1642) • Lelio Colista (1629–1680) • Carlo Pallavicino (c. 1630 – 1688) • Giuseppe Caruso • Giovanni Paolo Colonna (1637–1695) • Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani (1638 – c. 1693) • Alessandro Melani (1639–1703) • Alessandro Stradella (1639–1682) • Cristoforo Caresana (c. 1640 – 1709) • Paolo Lorenzani (1640–1713) • Giovanni Maria Bononcini (1642–1678) • Michelangelo Falvetti (1642–1692) • Ignazio Albertini (1644–1685) • Cataldo Amodei (c. 1650 – c. 1695) • Giovanni Battista Bassani (c. 1650 – 1716) • Petronio Franceschini (1651–1680) • Domenico Gabrielli (1651–1690) • Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1713) • Carlo Francesco Pollarolo (c. 1653 – 1723) • Agostino Steffani (1653–1728) • Marc'Antonio Ziani (c. 1653 – 1715) • Pietro Antonio Fiocco (1654–1714) • Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni (1657–1743) • Giuseppe Torelli (1658–1709) • Francesco Antonio Pistocchi (1659–1726) • Antonio Veracini (1659–1745) • Rosa Giacinta Badalla (c. 1660 – c. 1710) • Giovanni Bianchi (c. 1660 – after 1720) • Alessandro Scarlatti (1660–1725) • Ignazio Pollice (fl. 1684–1705) • Francesco Gasparini (1661–1727) • Giacomo Antonio Perti (1661–1756) • Pirro Capacelli Albergati (1663–1735) • Tomaso Antonio Vitali (1663–1745) • Filippo Amadei (c. 1665 – c. 1725) • Giovanni Maria Ruggieri (c. 1665 – c. 1725) • Attilio Ariosti (1666–1729) • Francesco Scarlatti (1666 – c. 1741) • Antonio Lotti (c. 1667 – 1740) • Alessandro Marcello (1669–1747) • Giuseppe Avitrano (c. 1670 – 1756) • Giovanni Bononcini (1670–1747) • Antonio Caldara (1670–1736) • Tomaso Albinoni (1671–1751) • Giuseppe Aldrovandini (1671–1707) • Azzolino della Ciaja (1671–1755) • Teodorico Pedrini (1671–1746) • Carlo Agostino Badia (1672–1738) • Francesco Antonio Bonporti (1672–1749) • Francesco Mancini (1672–1737) • Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco (1675–1742) • Giovanni Porta (c. 1675 – 1755) • Giuseppe Maria Orlandini (1676–1760) • Antonio Maria Bononcini (1677–1726) • Francesco Nicola Fago (1677–1745) • Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) • Pietro Filippo Scarlatti (1679–1750) • Emanuele d'Astorga (1681–1736) • Francesco Bartolomeo Conti (1681–1732) • Giuseppe Valentini (1681–1753) • Francesco Manfredini (1684–1762) • Giuseppe Matteo Alberti (1685–1751) • Lodovico Giustini (1685–1743) • Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757) • Benedetto Marcello (1686–1739) • Nicola Porpora (1686–1768) • Giovanni Battista Somis (1686–1763) • Francesco Geminiani (1687–1762) • Domenico Zipoli (1688–1726) • Pietro Baldassare (before 1690 – after 1768) • Giovanni Antonio Giai (Giay, Giaj) (1690–1764) • Antonio Vandini (1690–1778) • Francesco Maria Veracini (1690–1768) • Leonardo Vinci (c. 1690 – 1730) • Francesco Feo (1691–1761) • Geminiano Giacomelli (1692–1740) • Giovanni Alberto Ristori (1692–1753) • Giuseppe Tartini (1692–1770) • Pietro Locatelli (1695–1764) • Giuseppe Sammartini (1695–1750) • Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori (1696–1787) • Pietro Auletta (c. 1698 – 1771) • Giovanni Giorgi (fl. from 1719; d. 1762) • Giovanni Zamboni (fl. early 18th century) • Matteo Zocarini (fl. 1740) • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736)

Classical era

• Giovanni Battista Sammartini (c. 1700 – 1775) • Alessandro Besozzi (1702–1775) • Andrea Bernasconi (c. 1706 – 1784) • Baldassare Galuppi (1706–1785) • Giovanni Battista Martini (Padre Martini) (1706–1784) • Domenico Alberti (c. 1710 – 1740) • Giuseppe Bonno (1711–1788) • Niccolò Jommelli (1714–1774) • Pasquale Cafaro (1715/1716–1787) • Nicola Conforto (1718–1793) • Giuseppe Scarlatti (1718/1723–1777) • Girolamo Donnini ( - died 1752) • Carlo Antonio Campioni (1720–1788) • Gioacchino Cocchi (1720–1804) • Quirino Gasparini (1721–1778) • Pietro Nardini (1722–1793) • Giovanni Marco Rutini (1723–1797) • Francesco Uttini (1723–1795) • Giovanni Battista Cirri (1724–1724) • Domenico Fischietti (c. 1725 – c. 1810) • Antonio Lolli (1725–1802) • Pasquale Anfossi (1727–1797) • Tommaso Traetta (1727–1779) • Niccolò Piccinni (1728–1800) • Giuseppe Sarti (1729–1802) • Domenico Gallo (1730 – c. 1768) • Pasquale Errichelli (1730–1785) • Antonio Sacchini (1730–1786) • Gaetano Pugnani (1731–1798) • Giuseppe Colla (1731–1806) • Giuseppe Demachi (1732 – c. 1791) • Gian Francesco de Majo ("Ciccio") (1732–1770) • Giacomo Tritto (1733–1824) • Antonio Tozzi (1736–1812) • Tommaso Giordani (c. 1738 – 1806) • Anna Bon (di Venezia) (c. 1739 – after 1767) • Giovannini (composer) • Luigi Gatti (1740–1817) • Giovanni Paisiello (1740–1816) • Andrea Luchesi (1741–1801) • Luigi Tomasini (1741–1808) • Jean Paul Egide Martini (1741–1816) • Luigi Boccherini (1743–1805) • Carlo Franchi (c. 1743 – after 1779) • Giuseppe Gazzaniga (1743–1818) • Gaetano Brunetti (1744–1798) • Giuseppe Cambini (1746 – c. 1825) • Domenico Cimarosa (1749–1801) • Antonio Salieri (1750–1825) • Bartolomeo Campagnoli (1751–1827) • Giuseppe Giordani (Giordanello) (1751–1798) • Francesco Bianchi (1752–1810) • Muzio Clementi (1752–1832) • Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli (1752–1837) • Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi (1755–1818) • Giovanni Viotti (1755–1824) • Vincenzo Righini (1756–1812) • Alessandro Rolla (1757–1841) • Giuseppe Bertini (1759–1852) • Luigi Cherubini (1760–1842) • Angelo Tarchi (1760–1814) • Domenico Dragonetti (1763–1846) • Filippo Gragnani (1768–1820) • Giuseppe Farinelli (1769–1836) • Giovanni Battista Bianchi (flourished 1780–1782)

Romantic

• Ferdinando Carulli (1770–1841) • Gaspare Spontini (1774–1851) • Mauro Giuliani (1781–1829) • Carlo Coccia (1782–1873) • Niccolò Paganini (1782–1840) • Francesco Morlacchi (1784–1841) • Pietro Raimondi (1786–1853) • Luigi Legnani (1790–1877) • Nicola Vaccai (1790–1848) • Padre Davide da Bergamo (Felice Moretti) (1791–1863) • Carlo Evasio Soliva (1791–1853) • Gioacchino Rossini (1792–1868) • Saverio Mercadante (1795–1870) • Giovanni Pacini (1796–1867) • Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848) • Antonio Rolla (1798–1837) • Raimondo Boucheron (1800–1876) • Vincenzo Bellini (1801–1835) • Giuseppe Concone (1801–1861) • Cesare Pugni (1802–1870) • Alessandro Nini (1805–1880) • Giuseppe Mazza (1806–1885) • Gaetano Gaspari (1807/1808–1881) • Federico Ricci (1809–1877) • Lauro Rossi (1810–1885) • Errico Petrella (1813–1877) • Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901) • Giuseppe Lillo (1814–1863) • Antonio Buzzolla (1815–1871) • Temistocle Solera (1815–1878) • Teodulo Mabellini (1817–1897) • Carlo Pedrotti (1817–1893) • Antonio Bazzini (1818–1897) • Giulio Briccialdi (1818–1881) • Cesare Ciardi (1818–1877) • Giovanni Bottesini (1821–1889) • Giuseppe Apolloni (1822–1889) • Luigi Arditi (1822–1903) • Carlo Alfredo Piatti (1822–1901) • Giulio Regondi (1822–1872) • Antonio Cagnoni (1828–1896) • Pietro Platania (1828–1907) • Giovanni Rossi (1828–1886) • Gaetano Braga (1829–1907) • Filippo Marchetti (1831–1902) • Giuseppe Gariboldi (1833–1905) • Amilcare Ponchielli (1834–1886) • Giovanni Bolzoni (1841–1919) • Arrigo Boito (1842–1918) • Giovanni Sgambati (1843–1914) • Luigi Denza (1846–1922) • Paolo Tosti (1846–1916) • Riccardo Drigo (1846–1930) • Ernesto Köhler (1849–1907) • Antonio Scontrino (1850–1922) • Alfredo Catalani (1854–1893) • Vincenzo Valente (1855–1921) • Giuseppe Martucci (1856–1909) • Achille Simonetti (1857–1928) • Ruggero Leoncavallo (1858–1919) • Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) • Pietro Floridia (1860–1932) • Alberto Franchetti (1860–1942)

Modern/Contemporary

• Marco Enrico Bossi (1861–1925) • Pietro Mascagni (1863–1945) • Franco Leoni (1864–1949) • Alessandro Longo (1864–1945) • Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924) • Francesco Cilea (1866–1950) • Umberto Giordano (1867–1948) • Vittorio Monti (1868–1922) • Leone Sinigaglia (1868–1944) • Lorenzo Perosi (1872–1956) • Franco Alfano (1875–1954) • Guido Alberto Fano (1875–1961) • Italo Montemezzi (1875–1952) • Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876–1948) • Stefano Donaudy (1879–1925) • Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936) • Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880–1968) • Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882–1973) • Alfredo Casella (1883–1947) • Luigi Russolo (1883–1947) • Riccardo Zandonai (1883–1944) • Franco Vittadini (1884–1948) • Adriano Lualdi (1885–1971) • Carlo Giorgio Garofalo (1886–1962) • Pietro Yon (1886–1943) • Giulia Recli (1890–1970) • Giorgio Federico Ghedini (1892–1965) • Elsa Respighi (née Olivieri-Sangiacomo) (1894–1996) • Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895–1968) • Aldo Finzi (1897–1945) • Vittorio Rieti (1898–1994) • Mario Pilati (1903–1938) • Luigi Dallapiccola (1904–1975) • Goffredo Petrassi (1904–2003) • Giacinto Scelsi (1905–1988) • Giulio Cesare Brero (1908-1973) • Franco Margola (1908–1992) • Gian Carlo Menotti (1911–2007) • Nino Rota (1911–1979) • Giulio Viozzi (1912–1984) • Riccardo Malipiero (1914–2003) • Roman Vlad (1919–2013) • Bruno Maderna (1920–1973) • Camillo Togni (1922–1993) • Flavio Testi (1923–2014) • Franco Mannino (1924–2005) • Luigi Nono (1924–1990) • Luciano Berio (1925–2003) • Aldo Clementi (1925–2011) • Franco Evangelisti (1926–1980) • Franco Donatoni (1927–2000) • Ennio Morricone (1928–2020) • Antonio Braga (1929–2009) • Sylvano Bussotti (1931–2021) • Niccolò Castiglioni (1932–1996) • Giacomo Manzoni (born 1932) • Azio Corghi (1937–2022) • Gian Paolo Chiti (born 1939) • Salvatore Sciarrino (born 1947) • Daniele Zanettovich (born 1950) • Lorenzo Ferrero (born 1951) • Giorgio Battistelli (born 1953) • Elisabetta Brusa (born 1954) • Marco Tutino (born 1954) • Ludovico Einaudi (born 1955) • Carlo Pedini (born 1956) • Piero Niro (born 1957) • Giulio Castagnoli (born 1958) • Marco Stroppa (born 1959) • Fausto Romitelli (1963–2004) • Federico Maria Sardelli (born 1963) • Marco Ambrosini (born 1964) • Marco Betta (born 1964) • Roberto Carnevale (born 1966) • Paolo Longo (born 1967) • Salvatore Di Vittorio (born 1967) • Giovanni Allevi (born 1969) • Carlo Forlivesi (born 1971)