While making lists of artists whose work speaks to me, here’s my list of classical composers likewise.  Of course, I don’t necessarily like everything these composers wrote.

• Johann Adam Reincken (1643-1722)
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
• Johan Helmich Roman (1694-1758)
• Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
• Michael Haydn (1737-1806)
• Johann Baptist Vanhal (1739-1813)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
• Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842)
• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
• Johann Hummel (1778-1837)
• Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
• Louise Farrenc (1804-1875)
• Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847)
• Juan Chrisostomo Arriaga (1806-1826)
• Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
• Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
• William Sterndale Bennett (1816-1875)
• Neils Gade (1817-1890)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
• Antoni Stolpe (1851-1872)
• Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
• Alfred Hill (1869-1960)
• Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
• Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
• Colin McPhee (1900-1964)
• Aram Khachaturian (1903–1978)
• Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
• John Cage (1912-1992)
• Jim Penberthy (1917-1999)
• Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001)
• Gyorgy Ligeti (1923-2006)
• Morton Feldman (1926-1987)
• Peter Sculthorpe  (1929-2014)
• Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996)
• Richard Meale (1932-2009)
• Terry Riley (1935- )
• Steve Reich (1936- )
• Philip Glass (1937- )
• Louis Andriessen (1939- )
• Michael Nyman (1944- )
• Barry Conyngham (1944- )
• John Adams (1947- )
• Akira Nishimura (1953- )
• Cecilie Ore (1954- )
• Pascal Dusapin (1955- )
• Andrew McGuiness
• Christophe Bertrand (1981-2010).

The alert reader will notice the absence of Richard Wagner.   This is deliberate.