This is a list of composers who have written symphonies, listed in chronological order by year of birth, alphabetical within year. It includes only composers of significant fame, notability or importance who have Wikipedia articles. For lists of music composers by other classifications, see Lists of composers.
1600–1699 Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (c. 1560-1627), Italian composer of 18 sinfonias scored for eight unspecified instruments which were published in 1610 in his opus 18 collection Sinfonie musicali. Leonora Duarte (1610-c. 1678), Flemish composer from a Portuguese Jewish family who composed 7 sinfonias scored for five viols sometime between 1625 and 1650 which survive in a manuscript held at the Christ Church College Library at Oxford University. Antonio Caldara (1670–1736), Italian composer of a dozen sinfonie. Tomaso Albinoni (1671–1751), Italian violinist, singer, and composer of eight sinfonie Giovanni Porta (c. 1675–1755), Italian composer of a sinfonia in D. Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741), Italian violinist, teacher, cleric, and composer of 21 string sinfonie Christoph Graupner (1683–1760), German composer of at least 113 symphonies Giuseppe Matteo Alberti (1684–1751), Italian composer of the Sinfonia Teatrale. Francesco Manfredini (1684–1762), Italian composer of numerous sinfonie. Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757), Italian composer famous for keyboard sonatas but also a writer of sinfonie for strings. Benedetto Marcello (1686–1739), Italian composer of 7 sinfonie Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688–1758), German violinist and composer of at least 19 symphonies for strings Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello (c. 1690–1758), Italian composer of at least 6 symphonies Giovanni Antonio Giay (1690–1764), Italian composer of 5 symphonies Leonardo Vinci (1690–1730), Italian composer known for opera, but writer of a sinfonia for strings. Giuseppe Tartini (1692–1770), Italian composer of a sinfonia in A. Christoph Förster (1693–1745), German composer of at least 15 symphonies Johan Helmich Roman (1694–1758), Swedish composer of at least 21 symphonies Johann Melchior Molter (1696–1765), German composer of more than 140 symphonies Andrea Zani (1696–1757), Italian violinist and composer of the earliest securely dated symphonies (part of his Op. 2, published in 1729) Johann Adolph Hasse (1699–1783), German singer, teacher, and composer of six symphonies
1700–1749 Giovanni Battista Sammartini (c. 1701–1775), Italian oboist, organist, choirmaster, teacher, and composer of at least 67 symphonies (often confused with his brother, Giuseppe Sammartini, who did not compose any symphonies) Johan Agrell (1701–1765), German-Swedish composer of at least 22 symphonies Johann Gottlieb Graun (1703–1771), German violinist and composer of about 100 symphonies Carl Heinrich Graun (1704–1759), German composer of 1 symphony Carlos Seixas (1704–1742), Portuguese composer of at least 3 symphonies Andrea Bernasconi (1706–1784), Italian composer of about 20 symphonies Antonio Brioschi (fl. c. 1725–1750), Italian composer of at least 26 symphonies Carl Höckh (1707–1773), German composer of 11 symphonies Giovanni Battista Martini (1707–1784), Italian composer of 24 symphonies Johann Gottlieb Janitsch (1708 – c. 1763), Silesian composer of at least 7 symphonies Johann Adolf Scheibe (1708–1760), German-Danish composer of more than 70 symphonies Franz Benda (1709–1786), Bohemian composer of 17 symphonies Franz Xaver Richter (1709–1789), Austro-Moravian singer, violinist, composer, conductor, music theoretician, and composer of at least 69 symphonies Christoph Schaffrath (1709–1763), German composer of at least 5 symphonies Thomas Arne (1710–1778), British composer of roughly a dozen symphonies originally written as overtures to stage works Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710–1784), Eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach, and a German composer of 8 symphonies Giuseppe Bonno (1711–1788), Austrian composer of at least 3 symphonies William Boyce (1711–1779), English composer whose Op. 2 is a set of 8 "symphonies", although they started life as overtures to other works Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville (1711–1772), French composer of 6 symphonies Ignaz Holzbauer (1711–1783), Austro-German composer of 69 symphonies Frederick the Great (1712–1786), King of Prussia, composer of 4 symphonies Antoine Dauvergne (1713–1797), French composer of 4 symphonies Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713–1780), German composer of 2 symphonies Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788), German composer of 17 symphonies, with several more being also attributed to him Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787), German opera reformer of at least several symphonies Georg Christoph Wagenseil (1715–1777), Austrian composer of several symphonies Georg Matthias Monn (1717–1750), composer of the first symphony (1740) with a minuet as the third movement Johann Stamitz (1717–1757), Czech composer of 58 symphonies, and the first composer to regularly include a minuet as the third movement Wenzel Raimund Birck (1718–1763), Austrian composer of pre-Classical "sinfonie", as well as a few symphonies of the evolved form Leopold Mozart (1719–1787), Austrian violinist and composer who wrote symphonies in which he included (natural) French horns Georg Benda (1722–1795), Czech composer of about 30 symphonies Carl Friedrich Abel (1723–1787), German viola da gamba virtuoso and composer, later active in London, wrote 43 symphonies, one of which was misattributed in the 19th century to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as his Symphony No. 3 Johann Hartmann (1726–1793), Danish composer of 4 symphonies, grandfather of Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann Johann Wilhelm Hertel (1727–1789), German composer of many symphonies Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729–1774), German-speaking Bohemian composer of 32 symphonies Pierre van Maldere (1729–1768), Belgian composer of about 45 symphonies František Xaver Pokorný (1729–1794), Bohemian composer of about 140 symphonies, 104 of which were deliberately misattributed to other composers in 1796 by Theodor von Schacht Jean-Baptiste Cardonne (1730–1792), French composer of at least 2 symphonies John Valentine (1730–1791), English composer of Eight Easy Symphonies (1782) Christian Cannabich (1731–1798), German composer of the Mannheim school, who wrote about 70 symphonies František Xaver Dušek (1731–1799), Czech composer of 37 symphonies Gaetano Pugnani (1731–1798), Italian violinist and composer of at least 12 symphonies Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732–1795), of German composer of 28 symphonies, most of which are lost. He was the fifth son of Johann Sebastian Bach. Joseph Haydn (1732–1809), Austrian composer, one of the best-known Classical composers of symphonies, he wrote 106 examples, combining wit and structural clarity (see the List of symphonies by Joseph Haydn and the Category of Haydn symphonies) Franz Ignaz von Beecke (1733–1803), German composer of at least 33 symphonies Anton Fils (1733–1760), German composer who wrote at least 40 symphonies for the Mannheim orchestra Franz Ignaz Beck (1734–1809), German composer of about 25 symphonies François-Joseph Gossec (1734–1829), French composer of over 60 symphonies Karl von Ordoñez (1734–1786), Austrian composer of some 73 symphonies Luka Sorkočević (1734–1789), Croatian composer of 8 symphonies Johann Christian Bach (1735–1782), German composer, son of Johann Sebastian Bach, wrote at least 28 symphonies John Collett, British composer of 6 symphonies (1767) Ernst Wilhelm Wolf (1735–1792), German composer of at least 12 symphonies Ignaz Fränzl (1736–1811), German composer of 2 symphonies Michael Haydn (1737–1806), Austrian composer of 41 symphonies (brother of the more famous Joseph Haydn). Josef Mysliveček (1737–1781), Czech composer of over 45 symphonies Antonio Boroni (1738–1792), Italian composer of 1 symphony William Herschel (1738–1822), German-born British astronomer, and composer of 18 symphonies for small orchestra and 6 symphonies for large orchestra Leopold Hofmann (1738–1793), Austrian composer of several symphonies Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739–1799), Austrian composer of at least 120 symphonies Johann Baptist Wanhal (1739–1813), Bohemian composer of 51 published symphonies Ernst Eichner (1740–1777), German composer of 31 symphonies Andrea Luchesi (1741–1801), Italian composer of at least 8 surviving symphonies Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741–1801), German composer of 12 symphonies Wenzel Pichl (1741–1805), Austrian composer of about 89 symphonies Henri-Joseph Rigel (1741–1799), German–French composer of at least 15 symphonies Simon Le Duc (1742–1777), French composer of at least 4 surviving symphonies Anton Ferdinand Titz (1742–1811), German composer of symphonies Luigi Boccherini (1743–1805), Italian composer of about 30 symphonies Marianna Martines (1744-1812), Spanish-descended Austrian composer of a Sinfonia in C major in three movements (c. 1770) John Abraham Fisher (1744–1806), English composer of 6 symphonies (1772) Maxim Berezovsky (c. 1745–1777), Ukrainian composer of at least 1 symphony Gaetano Brunetti (1745–1798), Italian composer of at least 29 symphonies Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745–1799), French composer of 2 symphonies and 8 Symphonies concertantes Georg Druschetzky (1745–1819), Czech composer of at least 27 symphonies Carl Stamitz (1745–1801), composer of over 50 symphonies Josef Bárta (c. 1746–1787), Czech composer of 13 symphonies Giuseppe Cambini (1746–1825), Italian violinist and composer of about 90 symphonies Felice Alessandri (1747–1798), Italian composer of 6 symphonies Leopold Koželuch (1747–1818), Czech composer of about 30 symphonies Josef Fiala (1748–1816), Bohemian composer of several symphonies Theodor von Schacht (1748–1823), German composer of at least 33 symphonies Georg Joseph Vogler (1749–1814), German composer of 1 symphony
1750–1799 Antonio Rosetti (c. 1750–1792), Bohemian composer, wrote about 50 symphonies Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel (1750–1817), German composer of at least 24 symphonies William Smethergell (1751-c1836), English composer of two sets of six overture-symphonies (Op. 2, 1778 and Op. 5, 1880) Muzio Clementi (1752–1832), Italian-British composer of as many as twenty symphonies of which only six survive, 2 with opus numbers and 4 without. Justin Heinrich Knecht (1752–1817), German composer of 1 symphony John Marsh (1752–1828), English composer of at least 39 symphonies Ambrogio Minoja (1752–1825), Italian composer of 1 symphony Jean-Baptiste Bréval (1753–1823), French composer of at least 9 concertante symphonies (of which two are lost) for several instruments Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754–1812), German composer of over 50 symphonies Peter Winter (1754–1825), German composer of 3 symphonies Antoine-Frédéric Gresnick (1755–1799), Belgian composer of 1 symphony and 1 concertante symphony for clarinet, bassoon and orchestra Joseph Martin Kraus (1756–1792), German-Swedish composer of over 20 symphonies, not all of which survive Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), Austrian composer, one of the best-known Classical symphonists. Wrote around 50 symphonies, 41 of which are numbered (see the List of symphonies by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the Category of Mozart symphonies) Johann Vogel (1756–1788), German composer of 3 symphonies Pavel Vranický (1756–1808), Bohemian composer of about 50 symphonies Ignaz Pleyel (1757–1831), Austrian composer, publisher, and piano maker, wrote 41 symphonies Alessandro Rolla (1757–1841), Italian composer of symphonies António Leal Moreira (1758–1819), Portuguese composer of 3 orchestral symphonies and 1 for six organs François Devienne (1759–1803), French flautist and composer of 1 symphony and 8 concertante symphonies Franz Krommer (1759–1831), Czech composer of at least 10 symphonies Luigi Cherubini (1760–1842), Italian composer (active in France) of the Symphony in D major (1815). Friedrich Ludwig Aemilius Kunzen (1761–1817), German-born Danish composer of 1 symphony