Here is a list (stolen from Wiki and edited) of some "Middle Period" classical composers. I would hope to discuss many of these, as there are a few that I've never heard music from, and maybe someone here has done. I will shortly post a list of later composers (born after 1750) who are also a major part of the scene.

Middle Classical era composers (born 1730-1750)
* Christian Cannabich (1731 - 1798)
* Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809)
* François-Joseph Gossec (1734 - 1829)
* Johann Gottfried Eckard (1735 - 1809)[3]
* Johann Christian Bach (1735 - 1782)
* Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (1736 - 1809)
* Michael Haydn (1737 - 1806)
* Josef Mysliveček (1737 - 1781)
* William Herschel (1738 - 1822)
* Leopold Hofmann (1738 - 1793)
* Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739 - 1799)
* Johann Baptist Vanhal (1739 - 1813)
* André Ernest Modeste Grétry (1741 - 1813)
* Andrea Luchesi (1741 - 1801)
* Giovanni Paisiello (1741 - 1816)
* Václav Pichl (1741 - 1804)
* Luigi Boccherini (1743 - 1805)
* Franz Nikolaus Novotny (1743 - 1773)
* Carl Stamitz (1745 - 1801)
* Maddalena Laura Sirmen (1745–1818)
* Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745 - 1799)
* Leopold Kozeluch (1747 - 1818)
* Johann Nikolaus Forkel (1749-1818)
* Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801)
* Jean-Frédéric Edelmann (1749-1794)
* Maria Barthélemon (c. 1749–1799)
* Antonín Kraft (c. 1749-1820)
