List of German Composers

This is a list of German classical composers, both real and fictional. The fictional ones are intended to become a reality in a separate timeline or in revised history. However, the names of these composers inserted into this list are largely hypothetical. That is, they may or may not be named as such after history is changed. The names of these composers are highlighted in boldface.

The purpose of the presence of these composers is to make more compositional geniuses out of the people of Germany. European countries, particularly Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Austria, England, and Russia are to be abundant in genius composers since the Renaissance, and America since the Baroque era. These 8 nations are the nucleus of Western classical music and composition, and thus these are the nationalities I choose to focus on.

Renaissance (c1385-c1600)​

• Heinrich Becker (1353 – 1431)
• Johann Marburger (1355 – 1425)
• Ludwig Taubmann (1357 – 1435)
• Franz Bauer (1361 – 1444)
• Heinrich Suber (1363 – 1428)
• Johann Buhler (1366 – 1450)
• Bernhard Eismann (1370 – 1451)
• Peter Salzmann (1373 – 1437)
• Georg Muhlbach (1377 – 1445)
• Carl Hirschmann (1382 – 1453)
• Ludwig Reppert (1384 – 1452)
• Melchior Gleissner (1387 – 1463)
• Nikolaus Stratmann (1393 – 1466)
• Ignaz Krankheit (1395 – 1461)
• Heinrich Jurgens (1398 – 1470)
• Wilhelm Hackmann (1402 – 1473)
• Franz Schmelzer (1404 – 1458)
• Georg Sussmann (1407 – 1469)
• Carl Kreuger (1412 – 1485)
• Paul Tiefenbacher (1416 – 1487)
• Josef Neufeld (1419 – 1483)
• Johann Meuser (1421 – 1490)
• Melchior Heberling (1425 – 1493)
• Anton Hammer (1426 – 1499)
• Nikolaus Schaeffer (1431 – 1496)
• Josef Grossmann (1434 – 1500)
• Franz Wolffmann (1438 – 1495)
• Georg Waldschmidt (1441 – 1503)
• Hans Silber (1443 – 1509)
• Thomas Schissler (1447 – 1508)
• Bernhard Hartmann (1452 – 1514)
• Ludwig Ehrenberg (1455 – 1519)
• Johann Meyersohn (1457 – 1525)
• Friedrich Retzlaff (1460 – 1526)
• Wilhelm Tannenbaum (1463 – 1533)
• Heinrich Siefert (1467 – 1520)
• Carl Meinzer (1470 – 1530)
• Michael Hillenbrand (1472 – 1539)
• Matthias Schuster (1476 – 1547)
• Johann Zeigler (1481 – 1550)
• Samuel Mittelberg (1483 – 1555)
• Jakob Rottmann (1487 – 1561)
• Dietrich Munsch (1492 – 1565)
• Friedrich Krautheimer (1495 – 1563)
• Wilhelm Stoltenberg (1497 – 1573)
• Johann Hellwig (1500 – 1577)
• Carl Stammel (1503 – 1577)
• Ludwig Millhaus (1508 – 1580)
• Heinrich Katzenberg (1511 – 1586)
• Josef Freudenthal (1514 – 1584)
• Vinzenz Messner (1518 – 1592)
• Hermann Weismann (1523 – 1598)
• Georg Muntz (1524 – 1593)
• Wilhelm Vogelstein (1527 – 1599)
• Nikolaus Stumpff (1531 – 1604)
• Friedrich Pohlmann (1534 – 1614)
• Michael Westendorf (1538 – 1605)
• Paul Hartmeyer (1541 – 1615)
• Siegfried Liebermann (1544 – 1612)
• Gregor Schwein (1548 – 1617)
• Tobias Hartwig (1550 – 1622)
• Dietrich Heinen (1553 – 1624)
• Franz Schulmann (1558 – 1633)
• Heinrich Althaus (1560 – 1630)
• Wilhelm Nass (1562 – 1609)
• Hans Leo Hassler (1564–1612)
• Samuel Nebel (1566 – 1604)

Baroque (c1600-c1760)​

• Johann Tischler (1567 – 1637)
• Michael Praetorius (1571–1621)
• Friedrich Heumann (1574 – 1638)
• Wilhelm Stauber (1576 – 1648)
• Jakob Kiel (1578 – 1643)
• Johann Bockelmann (1581 – 1658)
• Martin Ruckmann (1583 – 1653)
• Heinrich Schütz (1585–1672)
• Samuel Scheidt (1587–1653)
• Michael Ritterhaus (1592 – 1677)
• Carl Immel (1596 – 1669)
• Georg Nedel (1598 – 1687)
• Adolf Gravel (1600 – 1653)
• Hermann Stuber (1603 – 1686)
• Edmund Hauptmann (1607 – 1671)
• Robert Kunkel (1611 – 1694)
• Samuel Schlager (1613 – 1684)
• Philipp Niehaus (1618 – 1688)
• Georg Sassmann (1621 – 1694)
• Johann Adelberger (1624 – 1690)
• Jakob Moeller (1627 – 1701)
• Carl Heisler (1632 – 1698)
• Wilhelm Rheinhart (1635 – 1708)
• Michael Goehring (1638 – 1716)
• Georg Obermiller (1643 – 1711)
• Heinrich Gundlach (1646 – 1717)
• Johann Mickelberg (1649 – 1730)
• Johann Pachelbel (1653–1706)
• Wilhelm Gilsdorf (1656 – 1731)
• Thomas Herkel (1658 – 1729)
• Georg Wilhelm Rumpelmeier (1662 – 1744)
• Johann Paul Hirschberg (1665 – 1739)
• Heinrich Richard Dietz (1667 – 1743)
• Georg Caspar Schürmann (1672 – 1751)
• Dietrich Wilhelm Eisenberg (1675 – 1747)
• Anton Michael Voelker (1677 – 1754)
• Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767)
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
• George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)
• Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688-1758)
• Georg Nikolaus Albrecht (1692 – 1763)
• Heinrich Theodor Kaufmann (1695 – 1769)
• Johann Peter Rucker (1697 – 1772)
• Johann Gottlieb Graun (1703–1771)
• Carl Heinrich Graun (1704–1759)
• Georg Valentin Aufhauser (1707 – 1749)

Classical era (c1730-c1820)​

• Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713–1780)
• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788)
• Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787)
• Josef Dietrich Kenner (1716 – 1786)
• Wilhelm August Busse (1718 – 1794)
• Carl Friedrich Abel (1723–1787)
• Friedrich Jakob Dorfmann (1725 – 1789)
• Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729–1774)
• Josef Edmund Guttner (1731 – 1811)
• Johann Heinrich Berlin (1732 – 1795)
• Johann Christian Bach (1735–1782)
• Leopold Martin Wolgemuth (1738 – 1805)
• Richard Johann Wahlenberg (1741 – 1823)
• Josef Paul Steinberg (1743 – 1817)
• Christoph Bernhard Paschke (1748 – 1807)
• Paul Samuel Obermann (1751 – 1813)
• Wilhelm Robert Surber (1754 – 1797)
• Joseph Martin Kraus (1756–1792)
• Ludwig Adolf Goldstein (1762 – 1820)
• Franz Danzi (1763–1826)
• Michael Philipp Lohmann (1766 – 1810)

Romantic (c1800-c1910)​

• Wilhelm Heinrich Hassinger (1770 – 1827)
• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1833)
• Valentin August Hochhalter (1775 – 1843)
• Louis Spohr (1784–1859)
• Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner (1785-1849)
• Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826)
• Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864)
• Dietrich Robert Tiedemann (1793 – 1850)
• Johann Carl Gottfried Löwe (1796–1869)
• Friedrich Reyer (1803 – 1875)
• Fanny Mendelssohn (1805–1847)
• Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)
• Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
• Ferdinand Hiller (1811–1885)
• Richard Wagner (1813–1883)
• Robert Volkmann (1815–1883)
• Clara Schumann (1819–1896)
• Johannes Hoerner (1822 – 1898)
• Carl Reinecke (1824–1910)
• Robert Zemke (1828 – 1903)
• Christoph Seibel (1831 – 1883)
• Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
• Georg Eppersohn (1835 – 1908)
• Max Bruch (1838–1920)
• Nikolaus Langenfeld (1841 – 1922)
• Friedrich Puhlmann (1845 – 1921)
• Friedrich “Fritz” Seitz (1848–1918)
• Johann Classen (1851 – 1915)
• Paul Klengel (1854–1935)
• Julius Klengel (1859–1933)
• Wilhelm Karbacher (1862 – 1939)
• Richard Strauss (1864–1949)

Modern and Contemporary (c1880-????)​

• Johann Wilhelm Waldmann (1863 – 1929)
• Heinrich Keehner (1867 – 1950)
• Hans Pfitzner (1869–1949)
• Kurt Messmer (1871 – 1941)
• Richard Krueger (1872 – 1937)
• Max Reger (1873-1916)
• Johannes Kiesel (1873 – 1947)
• Gerhard Sprenger (1874 – 1952)
• Wilhelm Ernsberger (1874 – 1958)
• Friedrich von Weymarn (1876 – 1955)
• Josef Schimmel (1876 – 1968)
• Martin Silberstein (1877 – 1967)
• Arnold Dohme (1878 – 1950)
• Valentin Senner (1878 – 1963)
• Peter Ruhlmann (1883 – 1975)
• Franz Koning (1884 – 1951)
• Dietrich Nebeker (1885 – 1971)
• Bernhard Salzberger (1887 – 1961)
• Carl Piller (1888 – 1981)
• Hans Kuehner (1890 – 1974)
• Josef Zimmermann (1892 – 1967)
• Friedrich Ledermann (1894 – 1979)
• Carl Orff (1895–1982)
• Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)
• Peter Grunewald (1897 – 1991)
• Max Frisch (1899 – 1988)
• Reuben Breitenstein (1900 – 2000)
• Robert Brehmer (1901 – 2006)
• Richard Preussler (1902 – 1995)
• Boris Blacher (1903 – 1975)
• Georg Silberschmidt (1903 – 2009)
• Wilhelm Becker (1904 – 2008)
• Samuel Eberhardt (1905 – 1982)
• Vinzenz Garmann (1905 – 2003)
• Robert Noffsinger (1906 – 2012)
• Friedrich Goldenberg (1907 – 1970)
• Jakob Longmeyer (1907 – 2008)
• Johann Glatz (1908 – 2000)
• Heinrich Stammer (1909 – 1993)
• Raimund Markus (1909 – 2017)
• Carl Fuhrmann (1910 – 2010)
• Thomas Roose (1912 – 1996)
• Nikolaus Rosenstein (1916 – 1987)
• Herbert Moorlach (1920 – 2019)
• Jakob Krause (1923 – 2011)
• Michael Wampler (born 1926)
• Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007)
• Johann Reiter (born 1930)
• Michael Bachmann (born 1933)
• Theodor Lehmann (born 1935)
• Wilhelm Hausel (born 1937)
• Carl Schilling (born 1938)
• Richard Schuessler (born 1940)
• Martin Boltz (born 1944)
• Robert Stecker (born 1946)
• Richard Fuchs (born 1949)
• Heinrich Kugler (born 1953)
• Albert Weinbrenner (born 1956)
• Carl Hinnenkamp (born 1962)
• Michael Enterlein (born 1965)

Notes​

• Ludwig van Beethoven is listed here as dying in 1833 instead of 1827 (the latter is the case with the current timeline or version of history). This is a deliberate move; having Beethoven live 6 more years serves to enhance Beethoven’s creativity to move further into Romanticism in music, and to make a more profound mark on the world with another cornucopia of Beethoven works (including a 10th symphony).
• Not only is this moderately expanded Beethoven lifetime intended for a greater impact on Western music, but a death year of 1833 would coincide with the birth year of another great German composer, Johannes Brahms, who is also listed here.