There have been many outstanding composers of classical music. Three of them are Johann Sebastian Bach, George Friedrich Handel, and Joseph Haydn.

Bach was a German composer and organist from the Baroque Period. He composed numerous works of music, including organ music, concertos, cantatas, and a lot of choral music for the church. The Brandenburg Concertos, Jesus, Joy of Man’s Desiring, and St.Matthew Passion are some of his best-known works.

Handel was another German Baroque composer. However, Handel mostly lived in England and composed music with English lyrics. Handel is best known for his compositions based on stories from the Bible. The famous Messiah, which is performed by an orchestra and a chorus, is one of these pieces. It includes the Hallelujah Chorus, one of the most popular works in all classical music.

Haydn lived after Bach and Handel during the Classical Period. He is sometimes called the Father of the Symphony. He composed more than one hundred symphonies. The Surprise Symphony and The Creation are his best-known symphonies. People also remember him for being the teacher of Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the greatest of all classical composers.

歐洲孕育出不少傑出的古典音樂作曲家，像是約翰• 塞巴斯蒂安• 巴哈、格奧爾格• 弗里德里希• 韓德爾和約瑟夫•海頓。

巴哈是巴洛克時期的德國作曲家和風琴家，他創作過非常多種類型的音樂作品，包含管風琴曲、協奏曲、康塔塔和大量的教堂合唱曲。《布蘭登堡協奏曲》、《耶穌，人類渴求的喜樂》、《聖馬太受難曲》是巴哈最廣為人所知的音樂代表作。

韓德爾也是德國的巴洛克樂派作曲家，然而，韓德爾大多數的時間都住在英格蘭，並且使用英文創作歌詞。他最為人所知的，就是所作的曲子皆取材自聖經故事，著名的神劇《彌賽亞》即為其一，《彌賽亞》一劇是由管絃樂隊和合唱隊共同演出，其中的《哈利路亞合唱》，是所有古典音樂作品中，最著名的曲子之一。

在古典時期的作曲家中，海頓出現在巴哈和韓德爾之後，他被譽為交響樂之父，創作過百餘首交響樂曲，《驚愕》交響曲和《創世紀》是最著名的交響樂曲。除此之外，人們也因為他是路德維希• 范• 貝多芬的老師而紀念他。貝多芬是古典音樂史上最偉大的作曲家之一。