Lista di compositori del periodo barocco (ca. 1600-1750), ordinati cronologicamente. Tra i compositori del primo Barocco alcuni sono da considerarsi di transizione col precedente periodo rinascimentale.
XVI secolo
Giulio Caccini (c. 1545–1618) Emilio de' Cavalieri (1550-1602) Paolo Quagliati (c. 1555–1628) Manuel Rodrigues Coelho (c. 1555–c. 1635) Francesco Mannelli (fine XVI sec. - 1667) Jacques Champion (prima del 1555–1642) Johannes Nucius (c. 1556–1620) Alfonso Fontanelli (1557–1622) Adriano Banchieri (c. 1568–1634) Oratio Bassani (c. 1558–1617)? Giovanni Bassano (c. 1558–1617) Thomas Robinson (c. 1560– dopo il 1609) Felice Anerio (c. 1560–1614) Giovanni Bernardino Nanino (c. 1560–1623) Leone Leoni (c. 1560-1627) Peter Philips (c. 1560–1628) Hieronymus Praetorius (1560–1629) William Brade (1560–1630) Camillo Lambardi (c. 1560–1634) Dario Castello (c. 1560–c. 1640) Jacopo Peri (1561–1633) Jacopo Corsi (1561 – 1602) Camillo Cortellini (1561-1630) Mikołaj Zieleński (? - c. 1616) Hans Leo Hassler (1562–1612) Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562–1621) John Bull (c. 1562–1628) John Dowland (1563–1626) Jean Titelouze (1563–1633) Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (1564–1627) Paolo Ferrarese (fl. 1565–1607) Sebastián Aguilera de Heredia (1565–1627) Ascanio Mayone (1565–1627) Serafino Cantone (c. 1565–1627) Giles Farnaby (1565–1640) Duarte Lobo (c. 1565–1647) Alessandro Piccinini (1566–1638) Manuel Cardoso (1566–1650) Agostino Guerrieri (1596-inizio XVII sec.) Lucia Quinciani (nata c. 1566, fl. 1611) Thomas Campion (1567–1620) Giovanni Francesco Anerio (1567–1630) Christoph Demantius (1567–1643) Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) Bartolomeo Barbarino (c. 1568–1617 o più tardi) Christian Erbach (1568/1573–1635) Tobias Hume (1569–1645) Giovanni Paolo Cima (1570–1622) Alfonso Ferrabosco (II) (c. 1570–1628) Salamone Rossi (1570–c. 1630) Bartolomeo de Selma y Salaverde (1570–1638) Claudia Sessa (c. 1591– fra 1613 e 1619) Ignazio Donati (c. 1570–1638) Francis Pilkington (c. 1570–1638) Michael Praetorius (c. 1571–1621) Thomas Lupo (1571–1627) Giovanni Battista Fontana (1571–1630) John Ward (1571–1638) Giovanni Picchi (1571/1572–1643) Filipe de Magalhães (1571–1652) Daniel Bacheler (1572–1618) Thomas Tomkins (1572–1656) Cesarina Ricci (c. 1573, fl. 1597) Joan Pau Pujol (c. 1573–1626) Sauvaire Intermet (c. 1573–1657) Claudio Pari (1574– dopo il 1619) John Wilbye (1574–1638) Vittoria Aleotti (c. 1575– dopo il 1620) William Simmes (c. 1575–c. 1625) John Coprario (c. 1575–1626) Alessandro Grandi (c. 1575–1630) Pietro Lappi (c. 1575–c. 1630) Esteban López Morago (c. 1575– dopo il 1630) Estêvão de Brito (1575–1641) Matheo Romero (c. 1575–1647) Giovanni Maria Trabaci (c. 1575–1647) Johann Stadlmayr (c. 1575– 1648) Ennemond Gaultier (1575–1651) Francisco Correa de Arauxo (c. 1575–1654) Michelagnolo Galilei (1575–1631) Thomas Weelkes (1576–1623) Sulpitia Celsis (1577-1619) Agostino Agazzari (1578–1640) Melchior Franck (1579–1639) Giovanni Ghizzolo (c. 1580–1625) Michael East (1580–1648) Thomas Ford (c. 1580–1648) Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger (c. 1580–1651) Jacques Cordier (c. 1580– prima del 1655) Caterina Assandra (1580–1632) Adreana Basile (c. 1580–c. 1640) Thomas Simpson (1582–1628) Sigismondo d'India (c. 1582–1629) Juan Batista Comes (c. 1582-1643) Marco da Gagliano (1582–1643) Giovanni Valentini (1582–1649) Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1582–1648) Gregorio Allegri (1582–1652) Severo Bonini (1582–1663) Orlando Gibbons (1583–1625) Paolo Agostini (c. 1583–1629) Robert Johnson (c. 1583–1633) Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643) Antonio Cifra (1584–1629) Nicolò Corradini (c. 1585–1646) Manuel Machado (c. 1585-1646) Andrea Falconieri (c. 1585–1656) Heinrich Schütz (1585–1672) Johann Schein (1586–1630) Stefano Landi (1586 o 1587–1639) Antoine Boësset (1586–1643) Claudio Saracini (1586–1649) Francesca Caccini (1587–c. 1640) Guillaume Bouzignac (c. 1587–c. 1643) Samuel Scheidt (1587–1654) Charles d'Ambleville (1588–1637) Johann Andreas Herbst (1588–1666) Guillielmus Messaus (1589–1640) Francesco Turini (1589–1656) Adam Jarzębski (c. 1590 - c. 1648) Nicholas Strogers (c. 1590–1620) Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla (c. 1590–1664) Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana (1590–1662) Settimia Caccini (1591–1638?) Richard Allison (1592–1606) Jacques Gaultier (c. 1592– dopo il 1652) John Jenkins (1592–1678) Claudia Rusca (1593–1676) Tarquinio Merula (c. 1595–1665) Antonio Maria Abbatini, (c. 1595-1679) Giovanni Battista Buonamente (1595–1642) Heinrich Scheidemann (c. 1595–1663) Biagio Marini (c. 1595–1665) Henry Lawes (1596–1662) Giovanni Rovetta (c. 1596–1668) Luigi Rossi (1597–1653) Charles d'Helfer (1598–1661) Johann Crüger (1598–1662) Charles Racquet (1598–1664) Thomas Selle (1599–1663) Marcantonio Negri (15??–1624) Enrico Radesca (15??–1625) Abundio Antonelli (15??–1629) Giovanni Stefano Fontana Morello (15??–dopo il 1634) Juan Aranés (15??–c. 1649) Daniel Farrant (????–prima del 1663) William Young (????–1672) August Verdufen (????–16??) Giuseppe Scarani (15??–16??)
XVII secolo
Martino Pesenti (c. 1600–c. 1648) Marcin Mielczewski (c. 1600–1651) Manuel Correia (c. 1600-1653) Simon Ives (1600–1662) John O'Keover (c. 1600–c. 1663) Giovanni Battista Fasolo (c. 1600–1664) Étienne Moulinié (1600–1669) Denis Gaultier (1600–1672) Girolamo Fantini (1600–1675) Adam Václav Michna z Otradovic (1600–1675) Nicolaus à Kempis (c. 1600–1676) Giovanni Felice Sances (1600?–1679) Jacques Champion de Chambonnières (1601 o 1602–1672) William Lawes (1602–1645) Francesco Cavalli (1602–1676) Chiara Margarita Cozzolani (1602–1678) Marco Scacchi (1602–c. 1685) Alba Trissina (attestata nel 1622) Caspar Kittel (1603–1639) Giovanni IV del Portogallo (1603–1656) Marco Uccellini (1603–1680) François Du Fault (1604–1670) Francesco Foggia (1604–1688) Christopher Simpson (c. 1605–1669) Antonio Bertali (1605–1669) Charles d'Assoucy (1605–1670) Giacomo Carissimi (1605–1674) Philipp Friedrich Böddecker (1607–1683) Alberik Mazak (1609–1661) João Lourenço Rebelo (1610–1661) Nicolas Hotman (c. 1610–1663) Nicolas Métru (1610– dopo il 1663) Felice Antonio Arconati (c. 1610– dopo il 1679) Luigi Battiferri (1610–1682) Henri Du Mont (1610–1684) Michel Lambert (1610–1696) Leonora Duarte (1610–1678) Andreas Hammerschmidt (1611 o 1612–1675) Pablo Bruna (1611–1679) Leonora Baroni (1611–1670) Wolfgang Ebner (1612–1665) Francisco Lopez Capillas (1612–1673) Giovanni Antonio Rigatti (c. 1613–1648) Louis de Mollier (c. 1613–1688) Sophie Elisabeth, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1613–1676) Marc'Antonio Pasqualini (1614–1691) Nicolo Borboni (fl.1614–1641) Franz Tunder (1614–1667) Wendelin Hueber (1615–1679) Carlo Caproli (c. 1615–c. 1692) Angiolo Michele Bartolotti (c. 1615–1696) Johann Jakob Froberger (1616–1667) Kaspar Förster il Giovane (1616–1673) Matthias Weckmann (c. 1616–1674) Henry Cooke (1616 – 1672) Massimiliano Neri (c. 1618–dopo il 1670) Joan Cererols (1618–1680) José Marín (1618–1699) Barbara Strozzi (1619–1677) Juan García de Zéspedes (1619–1678) Johann Rosenmüller (1619–1683) Anthoni Van Noordt (1620–1675) Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (c. 1620–1680) Francisco Martins (1620-1680) Isabella Leonarda (1620–1704) Mlle Bocquet (inizio del XVII secolo–dopo il 1660) Matthew Locke (c. 1621–1677) Jean Lacquemant (c. 1622–1680) Sisto Reina (1623–dopo il 1664) Antonio Cesti (1623–1669) Dietrich Becker (1623–1679) François Roberday (1624–1680) René Ouvrard (1624–1694) Jacques Gallot (c. 1625–1696) Gasparo Sartorio (1625 o 1626-1680) Wolfgang Carl Briegel (1626-1712) Louis Couperin (c. 1626–1661) Charles Mouton (1626–1710) Robert Cambert (c. 1627–1677) Nicolas Gigault (1627–1680) Johann Caspar Kerll (1627–1693) Francesco Lucio (c. 1628–1658) Paul Hainlein (1628–1686) Christoph Bernhard (1628–1692) Lelio Colista (1629–1680) Jean-Henri d'Anglebert (1629–1691) Johann Michael Nicolai (1629–1685) Lady Mary Dering (1629–1704) Antonio Sartorio (1630-1680) Filipe da Madre de Deus (1630-1690) Nicolas Antoine Lebègue (1630–1702) Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe (c. 1630–c. 1700) Francesca Campana (morta nel 1665) Giuseppe Corsi da Celano (1631/1632 - 1691) Vincenzo Albrici (1631-1695) Sebastian Anton Scherer (1631–1712) Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632–1687) Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers (1632–1714) Louys de Moy (c. 1632–16??) Jean-Nicolas Geoffroy (1633–1694) Andres de Sola (1634–1696) Pietro Simone Agostini (c. 1635–1680) Johann Wilhelm Furchheim (c. 1635–1682) Daniel Daniélis (1635-1696) Jacek Różycki (c. 1635-1704) Pál Esterházy (1635-1713) Esaias Reusner (1636–1679) Giovanni Paolo Colonna (1637-1695) Daniel Speer (1636-1707) Dietrich Buxtehude (1637–1707) Bernardo Storace (1637–1707) Bernardo Pasquini (1637–1710) Diogo Dias Melgás (1638–1700) Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani (1638-1693) Johann Christoph Pezel (1639–1694) António Marques Lésbio (1639-1709) Bonaventura Aliotti (1640 ca. - 1690 ca.) Nicola Matteis (c. 1640– c. 1690) Pavel Josef Vejvanovský (1640–1693) Amalia Catharina (1640–1697) Carolus Hacquart (1640–1701) Giovanni Battista Draghi (1640–1708) Gaspar Sanz (1640–c. 1710) Paolo Lorenzani (1640–1713) André Raison (c. 1640–1719) Pedro de Araújo (1640-1705) Antonia Bembo (c. 1640–1720) Esther Elizabeth Velkiers (1640 - ...) Michelangelo Falvetti (1642-1697) Johann Christoph Bach (1642–1703) Marc-Antoine Charpentier (c. 1643–1704) Johann Anton Losy van Losymthal (c. 1643–1721) Johann Adam Reincken (1643-1722) Alessandro Stradella (1644–1682) Ignazio Albertini (1644–1685) Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644–1704) Joan Baptista Cabanilles (1644–1712) Václav Karel Holan Rovenský (1644–1718) Maria Cattarina Calegari (1644–1675) Andreas Werckmeister (1645–1706) Johann Georg Conradi (1645-1699) August Kühnel (1645–c. 1700) Christian Ritter (c. 1645–c. 1725) Marieta Morosina Priuli (attestata nel 1665) Sebastiano Cherici (c. 1647–1703) Juan de Araujo (1646–1712) Rupert Ignaz Mayr (1646-1712) René Pignon Descoteaux (c. 1646–1728) Giovanni Maria Capelli (1648–1726) John Blow (1649–1708) Pascal Collasse (1649–1709) Francisco Guerau (c. 1649–c. 1722) Bernardo Clavijo del Castillo (attestato c. 1650–c. 1700) Bernardo Gianoncelli (attestato c. 1650) Gervise Gerrard (16??–16??) Friedrich Klingenberg (16??–17??) Bartholomäus Aich (XVII secolo, attestato nel 1648) Bartłomiej Pękiel (16?? - c. 1670) Ippolito Ghezzi (Siena (o Sinalunga), intorno al 1650-luogo e data di morte ignoti) Petronio Franceschini (1650–1680) Cataldo Amodei (1649–1693) Christian Geist (c. 1650–1711) Antonio de Salazar (c. 1650–1715) Johann Jacob Walther (1650–1717) Robert de Visée (c. 1650–c. 1725) Pietro Torri (1650–1737) Domenico Gabrielli (1651–1690) Johann Krieger (1651–1735) Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) Georg Muffat (1653–1704) Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1713) Carlo Francesco Pollarolo (c. 1653–1723) Pablo Nassarre (1654–1730) Vincent Lübeck (1654–1740) Sébastien de Brossard (1655–1730) Johann Paul von Westhoff (1656–1705) Marin Marais (1656–1728) Jean-Baptiste Moreau (1656–1733) Georg Reutter (1656–1738) Martino Bitti (1656-1743) Philipp Heinrich Erlebach (1657–1714) Giovanni Battista Bassani (c. 1657–1716) Michel-Richard de Lalande (1657–1726) Gaetano Greco (c. 1657–c. 1728) Giuseppe Torelli (1658–1709) Maria Francesca Nascinbeni (nata nel 1658, vivente nel 1674) Henry Purcell (1659–1695) Francesco Antonio Pistocchi (1659-1726) Antonio Veracini (1659–1745) Sainte-Colombe il giovane (16??–17??) Sybrant Van Noordt, Jr. (1660–1705) Rosa Giacinta Badalla (1660–1710) Johann Schenck (1660–c. 1712) Damian Stachowicz (c. 1660 - 1699) Sebastian Duron (1660–1716) Christian Friedrich Witt (c. 1660–1716) Johann Kuhnau (1660–1722) Alessandro Scarlatti (1660–1725) Gottfried Finger (1660–1730)