lassification of classical guitar composers in order of historic period

The Renaissance (1400-1600)
William Byrd(e)
Francis Cutting
John Dowland
King Henry VIII
Antony Holborne
Adrien Le Roy
Luis Milan
Alonso Mudarra
Luis de Narvaez
Melchior Neusidler
Thomas Robinson

The Baroque Period (1600-1750)
Tomaso Albinoni
Johann Sebastian Bach
François Couperin
Georg Friedrich Händel
William Lawes
Jan Antonin Losy
Johann Pachelbel
Santiago de Murcia
Domenico Pellegrini
Henry Purcell
Gaspar Sanz
Domenico Scarlatti
Robert de Visée
Antonio Vivaldi
Silvius Léopold Weiss

The Classicism (1750-1800)
Ludwig van Beethoven
Luigi Boccherini
Fernando Carulli
Mauro Giuliani
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Niccolo Paganini
Fernando Sor

The Romantic Period (1800-1910)
Dionisio Aguado
Isaac Albéniz
Albert Cano
Matteo Carcassi
Frédéric Chopin
Napoléon Coste
Claude Debussy
Anton Diabelli
Manuel de Falla
Charles Gounod
Enrique Granados
Edvard Grieg
Luigi Legnani
Miguel Llobet
Joaquin Malats
 ules Massenet
Felix Mendelssohn
Johann Kaspar Mertz
Francesco Molino
Ernesto Nazareth
Julio Salvador Sagreras
Érik Satie
Domenico Scarlatti
Franz Schubert
Robert Alexander Schumann
Francisco Tárrega
Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti

XXe century (1910-2000)
Octavio A. Agustín Aquino
José de Azpiazu
Dmitri Bachovich
Águstin Barrios Mangoré
Benjamin Britten
Leo Brouwer
Jorge Cardoso
Abel Carlevaro
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
François Castet
Jose Rafael Cisneros
Michel Dalle Ave
John W. Duarte
Roland Dyens
Garoto (A. Anibal Sardinha)
Radamés Gnattali
Antônio Carlos Jobim
Antonio Lauro
Norbert Leclercq
Gilles Louïse
David Lovell
Paco de Lucia
Celso Machado
Federico Moreno Torroba
Stanley Myers
Patrick Navarro
Julio César Oliva
João Pernambuco
Astor Piazzola
Manuel Ponce
Baden Powell
Emilio Pujol
Maximo D. Pujol
Dilermando Reiss
Sabicas (Campos, Agustin C.)
Andrés Segovia
Vincente E. Sojo
Alexander Tansman
Joaquin Turina
Heitor Villa-Lobos
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